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Aden Durde Discusses Leonard Williams' Dominant Play, Getting Ready For Week 4 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Coaching up guys who are taking over for starters, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking secondary, right? How do you coach up the
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  Speaker 1: mentality of I can't give up a big play to
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  Speaker 1: I'm going after that play to make the stop? Or
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  Speaker 1: do you need to with any of these guys?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a great question. I think you don't
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  Speaker 2: start in that place. That mentality is built through practice
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  Speaker 2: and preparation. I think as you go through it, you're
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  Speaker 2: building up through the week and all the work you've
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  Speaker 2: done in training camp and the off-season, it builds to
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  Speaker 2: these moments. The fundamental development, the system development, it builds
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  Speaker 2: to those moments. I think there is a part of
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  Speaker 2: it where DB, like Carl Scott and Jeff Howard, some
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  Speaker 2: of the coaches' job is to breathe belief into people
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  Speaker 2: at certain times and they do a great job of that.
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  Speaker 2: And then once you do make some plays, there is
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  Speaker 2: a switch in some guys' head. I think it happens,
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  Speaker 2: I see it with guys that come in and back
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  Speaker 2: up i also see it with undrafted free agents making
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  Speaker 2: the switch sometimes from knowing that they're not just an
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  Speaker 2: undrafted free agent they're an nfl player and that that's
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  Speaker 2: the separation sometimes between the two so um i can't
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  Speaker 2: give you a definite answer on how you do it
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  Speaker 2: but i think it is something i think all coaches
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  Speaker 2: have and think about You've been working.
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  Speaker 1: With Leo for a few years now.
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  Speaker 2: To do what he's doing, you're 12, 32 years old.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like he's getting better. What jumps out when
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  Speaker 1: you see how he's progressed over these three years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think right now, I feel like we laughed
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  Speaker 2: about it and called it vintage Leo, who was laughing
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  Speaker 2: the other day. He's just getting off the rock. The
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  Speaker 2: thing he does best is he plays when he's on
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  Speaker 2: a line, and he's getting off the rock going forwards,
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  Speaker 2: and he is playing dominant football. Me and Heinz were
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  Speaker 2: talking about it yesterday. I think he's playing at a
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  Speaker 2: very high level His ability to play in multiple spots
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  Speaker 2: is like giving him, I don't know if it's giving
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  Speaker 2: him a newfound energy. You have to talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: but he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Having an elite player, any portion of the defense can
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  Speaker 1: be impactful in different ways. But when it's right there,
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  Speaker 1: like right over the ball, like at the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the line, guys like Aaron Donald, how critical is that
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  Speaker 1: spot kind of being when it can really mess with things?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? It's funny you say that.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I coached D-line before. but I didn't as.
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  Speaker 2: Much have an appreciation for what that position could do
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  Speaker 2: until I was around Leo Byron and Jay Reid. I
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  Speaker 2: think we had great players in the teams I've been
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  Speaker 2: on before, but when you can dominate at that point
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  Speaker 2: of attack in a run and pass and you can
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  Speaker 2: push a pocket, it really makes it hard for offenses
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  Speaker 2: to operate at times when they're playing at a really
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  Speaker 2: high level. And it's just the consistency of play you
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  Speaker 2: have to keep working on and how different people will
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  Speaker 2: get attacked and what goes on. it's huge for the defense.
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  Speaker 3: The guys in that locker room and you have talked
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  Speaker 3: about how much they are excited about Dante Fowler and
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  Speaker 3: what he adds to the defense.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to take to start seeing some of that
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  Speaker 3: show up, you know, week in, week out? Or what
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  Speaker 3: are you seeing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think to Tay's credit, I think he's had
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  Speaker 2: a few games. I thought the Arizona game, you really
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  Speaker 2: felt him, you know, like, he played off Leo, he
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  Speaker 2: really could have had two sacks. He had the one
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  Speaker 2: where he jumped and Leo gets the sack and then
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  Speaker 2: the next one, the ball comes out and we get
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  Speaker 2: off the field on an incomplete pass. I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's more opportunities, you know, and opportunities are finite because
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  Speaker 2: you've got a lot of players rotating and then it's
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  Speaker 2: a question of, okay, Tay's been, when I've been with
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  Speaker 2: Tay before, he's been in this world where, okay, if
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  Speaker 2: you get 30 snaps, you get 25, you get 14,
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  Speaker 2: it's more about maximizing your snaps and going in and that,
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  Speaker 2: That takes a few weeks to get your feet underneath you,
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  Speaker 2: get your mentality, make sure you're warm at the right
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  Speaker 2: moments and ready to strike. And I feel he's getting there.
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  Speaker 3: That last series, the two-third downs they picked up, what
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  Speaker 3: did you see on those plays?
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  Speaker 2: It's just they got into a good call when we
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  Speaker 2: was in a zero pressure, caught the edge on us,
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  Speaker 2: and the ball got out. Very frustrating, but it's really,
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  Speaker 2: you can't say... it's on, it's on me more than anyone,
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  Speaker 2: I would say in that situation. And then, um, there
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  Speaker 2: was a situation when we thought they were kind of throwing, they,
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  Speaker 2: they ran in that situation. But I think those, those,
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  Speaker 2: those small, those small areas, we've just got to work
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  Speaker 2: execution and details and keep pushing those things. How would
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  Speaker 2: you characterize Josh Joe, his play as a player and
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  Speaker 2: then his mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Ability to read the play?
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  Speaker 2: Professional. Um, Every day he comes to work, you see
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  Speaker 2: him pre-practice, post-practice, working on his technique. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: a technician. He shows it when he's pressing all the
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  Speaker 2: time and playing at the line of scrimmage. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I just see him as a professional.
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  Speaker 3: You sometimes see offenses that can move the ball but
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  Speaker 3: then struggle in the red zone. Defensively, you guys have
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  Speaker 3: been really strong outside the red zone but not as
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  Speaker 3: strong inside. What do you see there? What's the reason?
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it is emphasizing being connected
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  Speaker 2: on the rushing cover. at times in the red zone
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  Speaker 2: when you get into pass downs it's making sure that
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  Speaker 2: the rush understand that they collapse the pocket with integrity
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  Speaker 2: and they have to get on the court back and
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  Speaker 2: where those where those rush lanes open up and then
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  Speaker 2: on the secondary how you're playing front line to back
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  Speaker 2: line and how you're denying at the front line and
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  Speaker 2: making it hard for them to put the ball in
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  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone and just i think
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  Speaker 2: at times we've been like clicking on one then we're
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  Speaker 2: clicking on the other and it's just once we get
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  Speaker 2: it together we get going they're they're their points of
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  Speaker 2: emphasis every week, I think, for us.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've asked you about him a couple times,
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  Speaker 1: but like Nehemiah, the way he's kind of held up
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  Speaker 1: and played through three games, it seems like he's super
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  Speaker 1: sharp over there, that he's really made strides in his game.
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  Speaker 1: How have you kind of seen him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see him holding up. I see him
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  Speaker 2: just playing and owning a spot. He's doing a great job,
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  Speaker 2: but I think he's a starting corner for us, and
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  Speaker 2: the standard is the standard, and he's taken that, what
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  Speaker 2: I've seen from him throughout the time that he's been
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  Speaker 2: in his third year is just constant and consistent progression
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  Speaker 2: like where he was in year one then he became
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  Speaker 2: a special team starter he dominated that role he's still
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  Speaker 2: working on special teams and now he's become a full-time
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  Speaker 2: starter that's a growth of development and he's um he's
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  Speaker 2: killing it.
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  Speaker 3: So massive be active on sunday yeah what is he
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  Speaker 3: i guess what has he sort of done to open
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  Speaker 3: your eyes um.
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  Speaker 2: His physicality plays with his speed We talk about decisive, shocking,
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  Speaker 2: and relentless. I think he embodies those three words, and
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  Speaker 2: it shows up in practice. It showed up in the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: and I was so glad he got his first NFL game.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.