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Speaker 1: Back here on Seahawks Saturday night, Michelle ledco alongside head

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Speaker 1: coach Pete Carroll. Coach, thanks for the time as always,

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Speaker 1: and congratulations. You're officially in the second half of the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter of this regular season. There you go, there

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Speaker 1: you go, right, we've got two games left finished time.

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Speaker 1: You have ingrained finishing into this program since you got

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Speaker 1: here ten seasons ago. But what is it about hitting

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Speaker 1: this specific marker that it means kind of so much

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Speaker 1: to this specific group of players? Well, I get the

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Speaker 1: simple thought is that it isn't how it starts, how

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Speaker 1: you finish, you know, And so we always want to

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Speaker 1: work hard at understanding that we are in the finished mode,

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Speaker 1: and we have some ways that we really kick into.

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Speaker 1: Part of that's doing right longer than the other guys.

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Speaker 1: Now last you know, that's that's the that's the whole idea.

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Speaker 1: And so it's about execution and the recognition that that

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Speaker 1: you're in the mode. I think that's important to us.

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Speaker 1: It is a long season for all players in this league,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what team you're playing for, but for your

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Speaker 1: guys specifically, based off of your philosophy, what is it

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Speaker 1: with the messaging or how do you rain that into

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Speaker 1: them to really battle it out to the end and

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Speaker 1: not get I don't know, lazy or slow and really

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Speaker 1: drive it through. Well, it's it's to really learn how

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Speaker 1: to focus on what's right in front of you, right

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Speaker 1: that which is a right at hand you know, the

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Speaker 1: next day, the next play. You know that that's so

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Speaker 1: important for us. So we work at developing that discipline

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Speaker 1: throughout the year by connecting with that. So each game

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Speaker 1: is the only game we got, it's championship match, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll crank it all the start all over again.

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Speaker 1: That's that's coaches to speak, but I think there are

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Speaker 1: guys it means something. They understand what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: and we really have, you know, our stage gams along

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Speaker 1: the way to make sure that they're focusing in that

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Speaker 1: menage the way. You guys are closing out to season

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Speaker 1: this year with the two games at home, this will

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Speaker 1: only give you fourth time in your ten seasons with

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks that you will have two home games to

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Speaker 1: end the year, but it will be the first time

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Speaker 1: that you will get to host the Cardinals and the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Knowing that seeing that, how exciting is

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Speaker 1: it that you can get what is going to get

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Speaker 1: done in the next two weeks at home. And the

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Speaker 1: way it's kind of all playing out. A few years

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Speaker 1: back when the league decided to really set it up

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Speaker 1: so that teams were finishing with the other opponents in

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Speaker 1: the division, I thought it's a really good idea then,

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Speaker 1: and look at look at what happened here. This is great. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we're going to try to take full

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Speaker 1: advantage of it by playing really well this week and

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Speaker 1: that's all we can really do. And so if we

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Speaker 1: can take our business there then then we will. But

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Speaker 1: it is exciting. It is it's good for the fans,

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Speaker 1: it's good in all ways, and so I like the

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Speaker 1: way this comes down Cardinals tomorrow. You've seen this team before,

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Speaker 1: but what has impressed you most about how they have

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Speaker 1: evolved since you saw him. Yeah, they've just continued. It's

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Speaker 1: a new staff, you know, new team, new program. All

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Speaker 1: that they've They've improved tremendously during the year. They've expanded

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. It made themselves more difficult to deal

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Speaker 1: with in many ways. Uh. You know, Kenyan Drake has

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Speaker 1: really been a big factor for them. He's a fantastic

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Speaker 1: football player, and their system and they know it. They're

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Speaker 1: using him. So they've played their best, maybe their best

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Speaker 1: football all season last week, and so we see them

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Speaker 1: at their best, and we prepared in anticipation for that.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Kenyan Drake. I mean this is a new player.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't there and before he was with Miami. Still,

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Speaker 1: how has that changed your preparations preparing for a back

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Speaker 1: like that. Well, you know, David Johnson is a great player,

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Speaker 1: He's just Kennan's just different. You know, they play him,

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Speaker 1: we see more per in them of stuff from him

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Speaker 1: and try to use his speed and try to get

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Speaker 1: him in good situations. And they're this offense and the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff they know exactly what they're doing. They do

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Speaker 1: a good job over that. I don't know the other

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Speaker 1: side of the ball. You've got Chamber Jones. It's just

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Speaker 1: heating enough. It's doing more great. How do you slow

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Speaker 1: him down? Well, you're not going to be able to.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been able to rush on him. He's

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Speaker 1: the best rushing we've seen all your best single individual

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Speaker 1: guy that we've had to deal with. And so we've

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Speaker 1: got to, you know, hopefull our tackles to do a

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Speaker 1: really nice job. In general, We've got to do the

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Speaker 1: things that you do to take care of stay away

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Speaker 1: from as much as possible. Arizona is ranked last and

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Speaker 1: past defense in the league right now? Does that change

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Speaker 1: anything with you guys kind of run first game plan

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Speaker 1: going into this one. No, not really. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: deep into it right now. We're going to play the

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Speaker 1: way we play. We'll try to take advantage and try

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Speaker 1: to create some explosives. We're always you know, in that mode,

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Speaker 1: so that that will be important to this game. But

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Speaker 1: not much, not going to change as much now. Football aside,

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Speaker 1: we're needy up in the holiday season. Christmas is just

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Speaker 1: next week. Obviously your team is given it. They're all

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Speaker 1: on the field during games, everything, they're training, weight room.

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Speaker 1: But outside of that, every other day it seems like

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Speaker 1: we're hearing something wonderful that your players are doing in

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Speaker 1: the community. What does that mean to you that they

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Speaker 1: that they embrace kind of the bigger picture that comes

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Speaker 1: along with football. Yeah, it is. It is a characteristic

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Speaker 1: of our guys that we've really, you know, really loved it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think if you build an atmosphere,

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Speaker 1: if we if we do anything at all, we may

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Speaker 1: enhance their mentality a bit. So we care so much

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Speaker 1: about the players here and we want them to care

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Speaker 1: about their teammates. And that's kind of like the whole

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Speaker 1: feeling that we have here in this program. And so

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Speaker 1: that's respecting those that you know that are around you,

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Speaker 1: that you can help out at all times. And our

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Speaker 1: guys have done a marvelous job of it, with so

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Speaker 1: many guys that it could be singled out. So we're

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Speaker 1: really thrilled about that. And we can't talk about the

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Speaker 1: holidays without getting really deep here. Okay, toughest question, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to ask you all day? What is your favorite

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Speaker 1: Christmas carol? Well, my favorite Christmas song? Yeah, it would

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Speaker 1: be Otis Redding's version of Merry Christmas Baby. Can't beat it.

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Speaker 1: It's all time. Yeah, Okay, most people haven't heard it,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's all time. They'll love it, so go

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Speaker 1: look it up if you haven't heard that. And can

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Speaker 1: we expect maybe some Seahawks carollers or something in the

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Speaker 1: future team bonding. No, No, we don't sing well in

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Speaker 1: that moment at all, but we'll be joyful. Merry Christmas

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Speaker 1: to everybody. And before I let you go, coach, we've

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Speaker 1: got our Twitter question of the Week. It comes from

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Speaker 1: at Seahawks Dave two one three. Who was your favorite

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Speaker 1: football player that you looked up to as a kid. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gail Stairs was my guy when he came out out

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Speaker 1: of Kansas and went through the Chicago Bears. Um, I

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Speaker 1: just fell in love with the way the guys played

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Speaker 1: the game and the style. And he's always been so unique.

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Speaker 1: And I hadn't the big blow up picture on the

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Speaker 1: wall of my bed, you know, and so he's always

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Speaker 1: been my guest. I love it well, coach as always,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time and the insights. Yes,

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Speaker 1: happy holidays. If you have a question for Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: you can submit it on Twitter using the hashtag ask

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Speaker 1: coach pe. We'll use one or two on the air

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Speaker 1: every week. Again, that's hashtag ask coach pe. The offense

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Speaker 1: scored touchdowns on their first three sessions. Up next on

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Speaker 1: Seahawks Saturday Night, David Moore takes us on the field.

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Speaker 1: He's miked up, merried Bristol Babban. He should in treatment.

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