Speaker 1: One of you guys. Um injuries. Jimmy Garoppolo will not practice,
Speaker 1: Ambree Thomas ankle, won't practice planning again, foul's um. The
Speaker 1: rest of these guys will be limited planning again. Foul's neck,
Speaker 1: Aaron Bank's ankle, knee, Green Law back, Armstead foot ankle,
Speaker 1: ken Law knee, McCaffrey knee, Um, Kevin Gibbons will be
Speaker 1: full today. Um, Thomas had irritated the ankle yesterday? Was
Speaker 1: that recently or was that last week which led to
Speaker 1: him being out for he had done it some time ago,
Speaker 1: but then re irritated it in practice last week and
Speaker 1: your first offensive play jack over the middle? Um? Second? Sorry, Um,
Speaker 1: so you shift to mccamperd shift and I took it
Speaker 1: for But I mean, was that exactly how you would
Speaker 1: have I guess trying it up in the middle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: busts of coverages are awesome. But yeah, we weren't expecting
Speaker 1: to get him totally alone, but they just brought too
Speaker 1: many and we have scattered everybody out and so he
Speaker 1: just had to get rid of it because they had
Speaker 1: more than one you could block, but we got more
Speaker 1: out than they could cover. Le Tremon, who's makes left
Speaker 1: tackle looks so easy. You can go an entire game
Speaker 1: almost without noticing him As a late person. I know
Speaker 1: this is a tough ask, but for a late person
Speaker 1: who's not understanding of the nuances of offensive line, what
Speaker 1: makes him so good? What makes him one of the
Speaker 1: best to do it in recent memory? Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's the most talented I've ever seen, and so that
Speaker 1: definitely helps UM. But he's one of the smarter players
Speaker 1: I've been around. UM, and he's been playing a long time,
Speaker 1: and he likes football. So he I mean he watches
Speaker 1: it with UM, not just to get through it. He
Speaker 1: enjoys watching it. He studies rushers, he studies who he's
Speaker 1: going against, he studies other people. Uh, he understands what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do and just his assignment. But the
Speaker 1: big picture of it, so UM, when you have aware
Speaker 1: players with experience who are more talented than everyone usually
Speaker 1: that's a good combination. Also, set after the game that
Speaker 1: he talked to you earlier in the week, much you
Speaker 1: know that, you know, winning the league sack title is
Speaker 1: more important than franchise. How would you described as his
Speaker 1: whole outlook on this season in terms of that picture now?
Speaker 1: Is it's just the ultimate getting of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and winning it. Very business like kind of everything he does.
Speaker 1: I mean, he thinks about whether he wants to go
Speaker 1: out to dinner and how much inflammation that will cause
Speaker 1: to walking there and how that will affect his explosion
Speaker 1: on clip sixty two in the game. Um, that guy
Speaker 1: obsesses over every little detail. And that's why he's as
Speaker 1: prepared as anyone I've been around. And to me, I've
Speaker 1: I've said a lot. I feel like he's been preparing
Speaker 1: for what his job in life has to do since
Speaker 1: he was three years old. So it's, Um, it's a
Speaker 1: combination of all those things that makes him one of
Speaker 1: the best. At this point, with Rock having played six
Speaker 1: games and going into the postseason, is there anything different
Speaker 1: that you do with him, just in the preparation standpoint
Speaker 1: to get ready for a playoff game and with what
Speaker 1: you would do for a veteran and you know, a
Speaker 1: guy like Jimmy who's been there before. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: we do the same thing for the playoff game that
Speaker 1: we do for every other game. You know, it's seven
Speaker 1: days prepare for a team, sometimes six, Um, and it's
Speaker 1: just one game. So I mean that you don't the
Speaker 1: rules change a little this year if you get to overtime? Um,
Speaker 1: But besides that, there's absolutely nothing different. So, um, you
Speaker 1: know compared maybe other sports where I think maybe a
Speaker 1: seven game series and stuff could be a little bit
Speaker 1: different how you go about that, But it all comes
Speaker 1: down to one game, three and a half hours, and
Speaker 1: each team has the same amount of time to prepare
Speaker 1: and you do. It's your same schedule, same routine. Nothing
Speaker 1: is different than any other game. My question would be
Speaker 1: more just from a temperament standpoint, or managing his emotions
Speaker 1: or just kind of gauging how he's feeling having not
Speaker 1: been in this kind of a show before. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that you kind of keep an eye on just
Speaker 1: to make sure that yeah, that he keeps Yeah. Keep
Speaker 1: not making it more like those questions and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: still the same thing I just said. Um, I know,
Speaker 1: if we lose the games, our season is over. I
Speaker 1: mean that's the only difference. But um, you feel like
Speaker 1: that almost every week in an NFL game. I think
Speaker 1: that's what's so cool about the NFL, because all seventeen
Speaker 1: games usually do matter. I mean I feel like that
Speaker 1: every week, and I look back to our last loss,
Speaker 1: and you know, going back to versus Kansas City, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that cost us home field advantage. But
Speaker 1: at the time you feel like that's that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the game that keeps you out of the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: then the next week it's It's always like that. So
Speaker 1: I feel like we've our mentality. We've been playing playoff
Speaker 1: games for a long time and the pressure is always on,
Speaker 1: and I think Brock takes it into every game and
Speaker 1: this game. If you want to sit and think about
Speaker 1: all the outside stuff, I'm sure you could psych yourself
Speaker 1: out out. But that's the only thing I would say
Speaker 1: through experience of it is once you get on the field,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing different. So whether it's a playoff, whether
Speaker 1: it's a super Bowl, and all you can do is
Speaker 1: control the athletic sporting event that you're involved in. Don't
Speaker 1: make it more than that. What if anything has evolved
Speaker 1: or changed about the way the Seahawks are playing now
Speaker 1: versus first time he placed from this season, UM, I
Speaker 1: mean just you know, we we faced him a month
Speaker 1: ago and UM, you know their defense over the last month.
Speaker 1: You know that I think there's seventh ring defense over
Speaker 1: the last four games. Um, so they've been keeping people
Speaker 1: out of the end zone. And I think they're six
Speaker 1: on third down, so if they've been getting off the
Speaker 1: field too. Um, their offense, UM has been running the
Speaker 1: ball better here in this last month. You know. I
Speaker 1: think they're ranked six and running the ball over four games,
Speaker 1: this four game stretch, So they're playing pretty good right now,
Speaker 1: as good as they have been all year. And UM,
Speaker 1: turning on the tape, they're they're better team than they
Speaker 1: were four weeks ago. And UM, it's not surprised me
Speaker 1: that they're in this position. People say it's hard to
Speaker 1: be the same time team at three times in a row.
Speaker 1: Is there anything to that or is that just kind
Speaker 1: of one of those phrases that is meaningless. Um, I
Speaker 1: mean maybe we had to do it three days in
Speaker 1: a row, but I look, as we won, we have
Speaker 1: to beat him once because there's no more in a row.
Speaker 1: Everything behind us doesn't matter. And it's a one game
Speaker 1: season right now, So we gotta beat him this week
Speaker 1: one time, and then I allow to move them next week.
Speaker 1: Described by his teammates is when he first got here
Speaker 1: so quiet it was almost hard to hear him, and
Speaker 1: I can you just kind of talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about how he's grown since he's got here and been
Speaker 1: such a vital part of what you're doing, especially when
Speaker 1: Depot was out. Um, very leads league of mumbles, so
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta get him to not mumble. UM. But
Speaker 1: now Ray Ray has been great. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: he's been awesome for our team. Um the way he
Speaker 1: plays just so fearlessly, and UM, the way he has
Speaker 1: fun out there. I mean that's how he is in person.
Speaker 1: He's you never know what you're gonna get. He's an
Speaker 1: interesting dude, UM that everyone enjoys. But football is so
Speaker 1: important to him. He goes about it his way, which
Speaker 1: he's going to get there, maybe a different way than um,
Speaker 1: you're used to. But by the time his assignments come
Speaker 1: by the same time the game comes, he's a dude
Speaker 1: that you can out on because it's important to him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to let anyone down. And UM been
Speaker 1: really pumped that he's on our team this year. Examples
Speaker 1: him how he gets they're a different way than what
Speaker 1: you're used to. UM. I mean he carries his own
Speaker 1: ball out there that I didn't realize his own ball
Speaker 1: until he threw it to me and It almost pulled
Speaker 1: my arms off because the way he's like thirty pounds,
Speaker 1: so he tricked me with that ties things to his
Speaker 1: hamstrings all the time. I still can't figure out what
Speaker 1: they are. Um. He's just he's got his own little
Speaker 1: routine um that he does and now that we've been
Speaker 1: around him, it works for him, and I just know
Speaker 1: we can count on him when we eventually get there.
Speaker 1: The other the other night, after the game, boast I
Speaker 1: was saying that he pretty quickly turned the page to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's like getting the second second wind. I
Speaker 1: guess after a long season. Do you sense that in
Speaker 1: the team that they quickly kind of turned the page,
Speaker 1: especially the guys that have been through it? Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I mean this was the first time that I had
Speaker 1: been in this position, and our team, UM, I think
Speaker 1: most of the people. UM. But just to clinch the
Speaker 1: division as early as we did was just just know
Speaker 1: when you're going to be in the playoffs, which just different. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, your goals allay is to get there and
Speaker 1: then you deal with whatever and once you do get there,
Speaker 1: you try to make it the best you can. But
Speaker 1: to know we won the division that long ago, it's
Speaker 1: been a challenge, and every week you got to get
Speaker 1: up because you know you're still UM. You've got a
Speaker 1: lot to play for, and we've been able to do that. UM.
Speaker 1: Last week was the biggest challenge because we knew how
Speaker 1: important that game was to win. We were expecting Philly
Speaker 1: to win and stuff, but we knew if we lost
Speaker 1: that game, we were expecting Minnesota win too, So we
Speaker 1: felt we had a lot to lose UM if we
Speaker 1: lost it. UM and also the risk of guys getting injured. Two,
Speaker 1: because guys want to get to the playoffs so bad
Speaker 1: and do their best there. But it's it's not like
Speaker 1: you're just guaranteed to get in there and have all
Speaker 1: these ops. You're guaranteed to have one OP. UM, So
Speaker 1: you gotta make sure that opts the best. And we've
Speaker 1: been working on that the last month. And I could
Speaker 1: tell right win, we could tell the game was out
Speaker 1: of hand versus Arizona. I think everybody was like that,
Speaker 1: We're like, all right, finally we made it. We took
Speaker 1: care of business. UM, we did as good as we
Speaker 1: can in the situation we had, and UM for the
Speaker 1: most part, we stayed pretty healthy doing it. So I
Speaker 1: think once we got to that fourth quarter. Everyone was
Speaker 1: thinking about it. We got home as fast as we
Speaker 1: can and UM just started waiting and find out who
Speaker 1: we'd play. And very quickly we found out and realized
Speaker 1: we had lost today because we're playing Saturday and we're
Speaker 1: ready to go. Let you have so many weapons on
Speaker 1: offense that it's almost a challenge to get um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean it's definitely a you can't get everyone involved.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to see how the game plays out, UM,
Speaker 1: but you try to balance it out that way. And UM,
Speaker 1: when you can balance it out that way and you
Speaker 1: have solid people and better than solid people at every
Speaker 1: single position, usually it takes care of itself. And you
Speaker 1: got to see how the game goes. If you end
Speaker 1: up getting one dimensional, or you don't move the chains
Speaker 1: on third down and you can't stay out there, then
Speaker 1: things can get skewed. But if you're playing the right way,
Speaker 1: you're moving the chains, UM and the defense usually adjust. UM.
Speaker 1: Then I feel usually balances out and everyone has an impact.
Speaker 1: As far as playing a team three times in a season,
Speaker 1: do you remember from last year that third game against
Speaker 1: the RAM to day, you know, bringing something a lot
Speaker 1: different to that game than if we get two meetings
Speaker 1: and you have to kind of strike a balance with
Speaker 1: this game, and you don't want to anticipate to too
Speaker 1: big of a difference. But there might be some differences
Speaker 1: between the two previous seahawk. There's always a little. But
Speaker 1: once you know each other, that well usually just gets UM.
Speaker 1: The game becomes more simpler. UM. Each thing, you don't
Speaker 1: trick each other. After that, you just and usually teams
Speaker 1: are playing at a higher level by that third time. UM.
Speaker 1: So it's very sound both ways, and it becomes a
Speaker 1: much more physical game. UM. Usually it's based off of turnovers. UM.
Speaker 1: But each team gets better at playing each other, and
Speaker 1: that's why it gets harder. George is what he's doing
Speaker 1: on Special Teams what you envisioned or I mean it's
Speaker 1: what we it's what we envisioned, and now being around
Speaker 1: it in person, I'd say it's better. I mean, we
Speaker 1: were trying to get a Pro Bowl Special Teams player.
Speaker 1: I believe we did. He's another guy left out who
Speaker 1: I think God um didn't have the right voting for him. UM,
Speaker 1: but he was a Pro Bowl player. But I think
Speaker 1: before he got here we're expecting to get one. He's
Speaker 1: played like that to me all year, I think he's
Speaker 1: leading the league in tackles. Um, he is the same
Speaker 1: every single day. Um. I'm so happy when he doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt someone out there because he only knows one way
Speaker 1: and he's always walking that fine line and practice. But
Speaker 1: he's so intense and he works so hard um at
Speaker 1: everything that it's so obvious why it carries over to
Speaker 1: special teams in this type of player, he is go ahead.
Speaker 1: Ever had or another coach talk to him about its practice? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I talked to a lot of guys about that. Um.
Speaker 1: But he's a he's a repeat offender. Kalia Davis from
Speaker 1: from practice. If you don't activate him as that when
Speaker 1: the only three weeks long, yes, yeah he'll be he'll
Speaker 1: be shut down to day. Mike Clark made the catch.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's a play that sticks out to
Speaker 1: you in your childhood that's you remember where you were
Speaker 1: when that happened. There's a lot of manor fans know
Speaker 1: exactly where they were. I was too young to remember that,
Speaker 1: I mean and where I was. Um, what were your
Speaker 1: eighty one eighty two? All right? I was your child
Speaker 1: that you remember? Oh? Um, I remember my mom giving
Speaker 1: me so much crap that I didn't remember that. When
Speaker 1: we moved here in sixth grade, I was like, Mom,
Speaker 1: it was two years and one month. UM, it's your
Speaker 1: guy's fault for not showing me. UM. But now the
Speaker 1: place from my life I remember. I mean Elway helicopter
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. UM, that one was as good
Speaker 1: as it gets. UM. I remember Eric Davis returning that
Speaker 1: pick six and the opening drive of UM the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game or the Niners finally beat the Dallas UM
Speaker 1: and the third the third try. UM. I remember James
Speaker 1: Harrison's pick six in the Super Bowl, which I thought
Speaker 1: was such a cool play. UM, same place, Antonio Holmes,
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone, and I think
Speaker 1: it was one of the best plays. UM. I got
Speaker 1: a lot, but those are the first ones that come. Alright,
Speaker 1: guess thanks