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Clint Hurtt: "Our Cohesion Has Improved Tremendously" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Did a nice job, you know, for the first time out.
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  Speaker 1: He did a nice job of playing out on the edge.
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  Speaker 2: What have you learned of Leonard since he's got here
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  Speaker 2: getting to know him last few weeks and.
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  Speaker 1: Such awesome guy, great human being first and foremost, and
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  Speaker 1: then uh as a football players' stud, big strong guy,
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  Speaker 1: excellent in the run game, really is. Even if he's
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  Speaker 1: not making the plays getting sacks, he can be a
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  Speaker 1: disruptor because his ability to collapse the pocket and his
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  Speaker 1: length of getting his hands up and being and throwing
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  Speaker 1: lanes and windows. So doing really really well. Good football player.
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  Speaker 2: Before you guys put started using whether the slot, did
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  Speaker 2: you have a good idea that you wouldn't be that offective.
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  Speaker 3: To look into her?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, you just kind of you get a feel
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  Speaker 1: for things that you see it and and generally guys
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  Speaker 1: that have a natural feel in the game and you
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  Speaker 1: watch stuff as you call things a practice. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: can call it blitz and a guy shows a thing
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  Speaker 1: well ahead of time and he doesn't understand the indicators
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  Speaker 1: of when you can kind of start to walk into
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  Speaker 1: the blitz and show things. But he just had a
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  Speaker 1: innate feel and very instinctual guy. I know You guys
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  Speaker 1: have heard me say that numerous times, but generally, when
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  Speaker 1: you see a guy that has a high level of
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  Speaker 1: football awareness, they can kind of be good in those areas.
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  Speaker 3: And he does that the first I think it was
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  Speaker 3: the first play of the game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Where he got the example of that absolutely, because it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to tell when he's coming and when he's not,
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  Speaker 1: cause he just he understands when to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to show it earlier. Now the quarterback can
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  Speaker 1: get out of the call and he can get to
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  Speaker 1: a better play call versus that call. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: credit to the kid to be able to help us
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  Speaker 1: with that. How have you seen kind of handle the six?
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  Speaker 1: We were talking to him earlier today and he was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this year hasn't been as smoothness last year
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  Speaker 1: when I was with the injury, and you know, he
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  Speaker 1: kind of had four receptions this first four games last
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  Speaker 1: year and all that. This year hasn't a season, think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you gotta kind of give a guy
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  Speaker 1: some grace when he's coming back from an injury, when
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  Speaker 1: you miss time. He's still a young player. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the huge steps that my phase made is because he
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  Speaker 1: has a missed time. It's hard to get better playing
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  Speaker 1: football when you don't play football, you know, So when
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  Speaker 1: you miss a consider amount of time, you gotta give
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  Speaker 1: some guys some time to kind of work through some
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  Speaker 1: of russ get back into the groove of things and
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  Speaker 1: get their feelback.
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  Speaker 3: So I think this is why you're starting to see
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  Speaker 3: him come along.
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  Speaker 2: A similar subject, how do you feel jamal As at
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  Speaker 2: this point as he's working back into things, getting a
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  Speaker 2: few games under his belt now, trying.
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  Speaker 3: To get comfortable with what he is now coming back
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  Speaker 3: from the game. Same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think each game he's making strides and getting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming along better and better and better.
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  Speaker 3: But same thing.
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  Speaker 1: When you miss a lot of time, it takes time
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  Speaker 1: for guys to get back in the groove of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a it's been great for us to have
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  Speaker 1: him back out there, but each game he's getting better.
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  Speaker 3: When you guys signed back.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner, Clint, do you plan on him playing one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of snaw?
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  Speaker 3: No, we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't part of the plan. We we spoke, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I told him, I said, hey, you know, you may
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  Speaker 1: not like it. From his competitive standpoint. You never want
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  Speaker 1: to imply with a person and the character, the football
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  Speaker 1: character of everything with him, they imply that he's not
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  Speaker 1: capable of something. Bobby's capable of everything. He's still obviously
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  Speaker 1: playing at a super super high level. But obviously the
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  Speaker 1: thought is is taking care of him. But his I
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  Speaker 1: trust his communication. You know, he'll come to me and
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  Speaker 1: say things if he, you know, needs a break care
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  Speaker 1: of there, usually during the week to get him ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, then we do that and take care of him.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. Obviously so, but he's.
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  Speaker 1: Been playing his tail off and he's looking good when
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  Speaker 1: he's out there. So everything's been rolling fine.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you've seen it, Is that sustainable you think
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  Speaker 2: the rest of.
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  Speaker 1: These absolutely, there's I don't put anything past him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the way he takes care of himself, his professionalism, uh,
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  Speaker 1: his preparation for the game, and again taking care of
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  Speaker 1: his body.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby's gonna be fine. Looking back at the Commanders game,
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  Speaker 3: what was the issue there there?
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  Speaker 1: There final the two drives just uh just uh, we
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  Speaker 1: wanna finish that game better. It was just it was sloppy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give credit to them. I'm never gonna make an
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  Speaker 1: excuse didn't defend the run game and that second to
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  Speaker 1: last drive very well, kind of gave him some life
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  Speaker 1: getting back into the game and obviously not finishing the
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  Speaker 1: game in the manner that we want to. Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: rather finish it on defense and and didn't let our
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  Speaker 1: offense getting victory formation.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't get that done. So that's the area that
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  Speaker 3: we gotta look to improve with all.
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  Speaker 2: The crossers that Nifay does in Stafford. But what's the
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  Speaker 2: challenge the what's the biggest thing you have to do
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  Speaker 2: to start with defensive?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Obviously the biggest thing is when you if you
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  Speaker 1: do play man, it's obviously not getting picked up because
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  Speaker 1: that's usually the reasons why they do that. But when
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  Speaker 1: you do play zones against it, whether it's the young kid,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I don't want to kill his name, but
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  Speaker 1: pacunakula pacun, let's I apologize. I'm not trying to screw
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  Speaker 1: that up on purpose, all respect to him. And then
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  Speaker 1: obviously with Cooper Cup, when you play zones, you find
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  Speaker 1: the dead area in the zones, so they do a
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  Speaker 1: good job of sitting down and Stafford finding it. So
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  Speaker 1: you just gotta continue to change up your looks and
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  Speaker 1: where you put people in the zones and whatnot, what
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  Speaker 1: they may not expect, but that's a great part of
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: On third down, you emphasize on your past srushures to
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  Speaker 2: leap more against guys like Stafford the lepe jump in
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  Speaker 2: passing lanes.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't want guys leaving their feet. We've actually
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  Speaker 1: done that way too much. That's we don't coach that.
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  Speaker 1: We want guys staying on the ground and get their
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  Speaker 1: hands up is what we prefer. Just to be and
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  Speaker 1: throw lanes and windows. And you'd like to be able
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  Speaker 1: to collapse the pocket around a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Like that, just to be in his face. Yeah, anything else,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you, I guess take care.