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Cooper Kupp On The Offense Through Four Weeks "We Have A Lot Of Potential" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We've talked about the smaller sample sizes the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Is now the time where teams have declared who they
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  Speaker 1: are and you can trust? And I realize it's a
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  Speaker 1: division opponent. You know exactly what the 49ers are going
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  Speaker 1: to do, but how does it change game prep?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think there's a, you definitely have
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  Speaker 2: enough to look at, at least what people are trying
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  Speaker 2: to be through the first, you know, first quarter of
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  Speaker 2: the season. But, you know, it's a changing league. There's
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  Speaker 2: always going to be new stuff, new things here and there,
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  Speaker 2: but definitely nice to have a good chunk of film
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  Speaker 2: to go off of.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like preparing for an opponent that has a
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  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator that was a defensive coordinator for a team
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  Speaker 3: that you played on?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean, I love Raheem. Great dude. Great coach.
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  Speaker 4: He's got some, you know, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Got a little bit of his flavor in terms of
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  Speaker 2: what those guys are doing over there.
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  Speaker 4: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a really good team, really good team,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good players, good schemes on both sides
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  Speaker 2: of the ball, special teams as well, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a great challenge for us. So it'll be
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  Speaker 2: fun to see Rob, and then it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great game.
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  Speaker 4: They don't blitz very much, and they limit explosives. How
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  Speaker 4: do they do that while not getting pressure at the
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  Speaker 4: same time? Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in some ways, like, if you aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to pressure a ton, you're less, you got more guys
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  Speaker 2: in coverage. You know, you got, you know, so in
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  Speaker 2: some ways, you know, if you're going to play the,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to, blitz is a little more risky,
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  Speaker 2: a little more chance of some of the explosives coming alive,
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  Speaker 2: screen game can kind of come alive against some of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, and you get those things blocked up, you got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one less guy in coverage. So, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's one way that they do limit it is by
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  Speaker 2: being able to play coverage as much as they do,
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  Speaker 2: and then they do a good job, and the safeties
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  Speaker 2: play a good job keeping a shelf on top of defense,
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  Speaker 2: and Um, and guys just fly around. I think at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, there's just a level of
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  Speaker 2: hustle that you see on film. Um, and, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what goes. Guys have been like that for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. So, um, you know, they, they play
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  Speaker 2: hard and, and, and play together. So, uh, when you
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  Speaker 2: have a defense that does that, you're going to, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to play some, uh, some efficient defense.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Rasheed, get a couple of carries out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 5: Just when you have an athlete like that, how much
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  Speaker 5: do you like just find, seeing ways to get him
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  Speaker 5: the ball in his hands any way possible?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's explosive. He's got the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 4: He can, uh, he can go.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I think that's, that was a
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  Speaker 2: cool thing to see that come alive a little bit. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think you see it in the return game,
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  Speaker 2: what you can do. So just finding ways to get
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  Speaker 2: the ball in his hands, I think is a good
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  Speaker 2: thing for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the outside conversations are, it's easy to look
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  Speaker 1: at this point of the season compared to last year's team.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you guys have talked about it's a
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  Speaker 1: new year. Based on your experience, is this about the
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  Speaker 1: time where you have to go back to not making
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  Speaker 1: those comparisons and safeguarding against the conversations?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah. I mean, I think that's, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't, I don't know that anyone, you know, we,
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  Speaker 2: we get asked about it during our media sessions, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about last year, but in terms of our day-to-day life,
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  Speaker 2: like that's not what we talk about. And, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's whatever we doing on a day-to-day basis, what are
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  Speaker 2: we doing, um, week to week in terms of our,
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  Speaker 2: our process. And, um, you know, there's no comparison game
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  Speaker 2: going back. It's how can we be the best Seahawks today? And, um,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter at all what happened last year. Um,
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's about the guys that sit in this
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  Speaker 2: room in the mornings and putting a plan together to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and execute.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: What do guys like Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw do
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  Speaker 2: that nobody else can do in terms of limiting offensive options?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, shoot, both those guys. They fly around.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, the energy, the anticipation of some of
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  Speaker 2: those things, being able to pattern match a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff in the coverage. You know, Fred for a long
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  Speaker 2: time is– has patrolled the middle of the field for
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers, and he does a great job in coverage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he'll cancel a lot of routes that you
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  Speaker 2: think are there based on what the coverage is giving you,
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  Speaker 2: and he does a great job, you know, altering up
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  Speaker 2: where his drops are based on what he's seeing underneath. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's why he's one of the best in
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  Speaker 2: the game and has been doing it for.
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  Speaker 4: A long time now. So it's great to see him
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  Speaker 4: back out there.
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  Speaker 2: But those guys, I mean, you know, Dre's been Fred's
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  Speaker 2: buddy for a long time. And, you know, Dre plays
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  Speaker 2: extremely hard. He's a physical football player. You know, in
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  Speaker 2: some of the same ways that Fred plays the game,
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  Speaker 2: Dre's right there with him. So those two guys, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be a great challenge. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: one of those games you bring your hard hat, get
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: As a receiver, when you're playing a defense that is
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  Speaker 3: consistently dropping seven or eight back in coverage, what What
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  Speaker 3: do you have to emphasize more as a receiver to
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  Speaker 3: be able to get open when they're having more.
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  Speaker 4: Guys back there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's more about just executing your job.
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  Speaker 2: You know, understanding where the space is. There's not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's some teams that try to do it. They try
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  Speaker 2: to trick you and show you a bunch of different
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's happening. And, you know, the Niners historically haven't
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  Speaker 2: been that way. You can kind of have a feel
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  Speaker 2: as the play starts. You have a good feel for
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  Speaker 2: where things.
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  Speaker 4: Are going to be.
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  Speaker 2: And then understanding that and distributing the field the right
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  Speaker 2: way and And then just being able to react and
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  Speaker 2: you got to play football because, you know, they get
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  Speaker 2: a say in things too.
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  Speaker 4: And they have a feel for where we're going.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, all those guys underneath and even
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  Speaker 2: the safeties and stuff, they do a really good job
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  Speaker 2: in terms of pattern match stuff and altering drops based
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  Speaker 2: on the routes that we're running. And so get to
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  Speaker 2: your spots and then be able to, you know, read
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  Speaker 2: and react and go play ball.
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  Speaker 4: Four games in, what is the Seahawks offense? How would
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  Speaker 4: you describe it?
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  Speaker 2: What is our Seahawks offense after four weeks in? You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd say, you know, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of potential. We haven't done a good enough job string
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  Speaker 2: drives together. We've, you know, left a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: on the table. We've made a lot of mistakes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's a very hungry offense. The guys
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  Speaker 2: that want to find a way to get better, and
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  Speaker 2: the expectation is to score every time we get on
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  Speaker 2: the field. And, you know, there's, you know, when you've
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  Speaker 2: got the right mentality, you've got the right guys, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to find a way to make these things come alive.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the guys just chomping at the bit to
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  Speaker 2: make that happen.
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  Speaker 6: Your weekly Brian Fleury question. What do you remember about
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  Speaker 6: the first meeting you guys had as an offense in
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  Speaker 6: the offseason?
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  Speaker 4: What do I remember?
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  Speaker 2: The first meeting we had? I couldn't even tell you
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  Speaker 2: what my first meeting was. So I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: That was in April. First offensive meeting. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure it was something about what our identity is going
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  Speaker 2: to be like And in terms of getting our, you know,
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  Speaker 2: physicality and things that we want to be about. And
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  Speaker 2: he probably got quickly into the install. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to sit up there and talk too much. He just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's about his business.
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  Speaker 4: What was your first impression of him? Brian?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a very intelligent coach. He has a
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  Speaker 2: lot of knowledge about the game of football. And that
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  Speaker 2: was very clear from the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: We saw you on.
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  Speaker 6: Hard Knocks, like you're in Mike McDonald's office watching film
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  Speaker 6: with him. Do you kind of have that same, like
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  Speaker 6: do you do the same thing with Brian?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, here and there, it's just, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: mixed bag, you know. I, you know, I try to
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  Speaker 2: contribute everywhere I can, try to be an asset wherever
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  Speaker 2: I can. And, yeah, we got a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: in this office that play a lot of football, so
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  Speaker 2: wherever we can, you know, feel like we can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: share an opinion here or there, you know, guys are
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  Speaker 2: willing to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Is it that way for you in Los Angeles too,
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  Speaker 4: like bouncing meeting to meeting?
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  Speaker 6: It's not just the wide receiver rooms or McDonald's, but
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  Speaker 6: we saw you in all sorts of rooms.
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  Speaker 4: When did that all kind of start for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's kind of been that way. Just
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  Speaker 2: trying to be around. I think at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, like I said, you just.
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  Speaker 4: You want to try to find a way to affect games.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be a part of something that allows
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  Speaker 2: guys to play to their best ability. You want to
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  Speaker 2: see plays come alive and It's why you play this game.
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  Speaker 2: It's why I play this game is to have a
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  Speaker 2: hand in us walking off that field on Sunday with
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  Speaker 2: a W, and it doesn't have to be because the
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  Speaker 2: ball was in my hands. It can be because I
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  Speaker 2: had something to say to someone that helped them come
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  Speaker 2: alive on a play, and it helps the Seahawks. I'm
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  Speaker 2: always going to be that way, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys in this building that out that way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever they can do to help move things forward is
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  Speaker 2: what we're about.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever this ride is over, is coaching on the horizon
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  Speaker 1: for you? And is this something you've ever really thought of?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really thinking about it right now.
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  Speaker 5: There was obviously a lot of penalties in your game
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  Speaker 5: last week, but there's penalties are up around the league
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of a pretty, pretty, pretty high over the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of decades as play.
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  Speaker 5: Have you noticed that as players, like they're calling certain
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  Speaker 5: things differently or tight or anything tighter or anything like that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know. It's hard to tell.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a, I think in some ways you
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  Speaker 2: get to a point where the rules have become, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot those refs are out there looking at.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot that they have to see.
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  Speaker 2: And the amount of rules and verbiage that's going through
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  Speaker 2: their heads at the snap of fingers, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think in some ways you get to
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  Speaker 2: the point where people have been playing football for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, watching football for a long time. You see
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  Speaker 2: it and you're like, oh, I know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're on the field in the moment, having
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  Speaker 2: to see it in real time and decipher through all
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  Speaker 2: of the verbiage of the NFL rulebook can be a
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  Speaker 2: little tough. Those guys are in a tough spot. They're
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  Speaker 2: in a really tough position. We all get the courtesy
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  Speaker 2: of being able to see things in slow motion after
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  Speaker 2: the fact and things like that. I think they're doing
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  Speaker 2: the best job they can. I know they come in
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  Speaker 2: here during training camp. We get a good few days
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk to them. You know, they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be the ones that the camera's on. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they want to see good football being played the right way.
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  Speaker 2: So I know a lot of stuff is going to
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  Speaker 2: get worked out.
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  Speaker 5: Two long touchdowns in this game, both finished with a
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  Speaker 5: receiver blocking. At the end of the play, you on
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  Speaker 5: the screen pass, Jax on Rasheed's run. Is that something
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  Speaker 5: when coaches are showing film Monday that they highlight, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Jax is down there? taking a safety out, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's something that we talk about all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, the things that coaches emphasize are
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  Speaker 2: the things that, you know, we try to make sure
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  Speaker 2: we bring those things alive. And, yeah, when guys do that, when,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you see Jacks running across the field
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  Speaker 2: and making a touchdown saving block on the opposite corner, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see it on tape on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Teams that you've been on throughout your career that excelled
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  Speaker 4: in third down.
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  Speaker 5: What are some common traits there and what are some
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  Speaker 5: of the most important factors.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to executing on third down?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's one clarity of clarity of your,
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  Speaker 2: of your job, I think is the first thing. So
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  Speaker 2: you got to be able to play and react to
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  Speaker 2: knowing that on third down, you're going to get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of historically against, you know, NFL teams, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of mixed up stuff. You're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: some weird looks, you know, you're getting some exotic pressures
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. And so, you know, as a,
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  Speaker 2: As an offense, you want to make sure there's clarity
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  Speaker 2: of what you need to get done so you can
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  Speaker 2: execute what needs to happen as all these things are
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  Speaker 2: moving and shifting. Clarity of rules so you can solve
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  Speaker 2: the problems out there because the coach isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: be in your ear telling you what you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: do on this look.
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  Speaker 4: Having the clarity of what you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To get done, those rules to problem solve, and then
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  Speaker 2: just being able to play decisive, react to zone, anticipate
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  Speaker 2: things you're supposed to. There's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: go into it, but Third downs, I think, are a
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  Speaker 2: lot about the preparation you have during the week and
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  Speaker 2: being able to have answers for whatever it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be and then allowing these guys to play decisively on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome. Thank you, guys.