1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Well, I guess first of all, she said, welcome back 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: to Seattle. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm really really 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: glad to be back. You know, I know that you're close. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: You stay in touch with Bobby Wagner, a couple of guys. 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: You know who recruited you more was Peter Bobby to 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: get back here. Well, it was all of them, my family, 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: and we had a great time while we're here. Uh. 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: Coach Carroll has been amazing. I've been with him a 9 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: long time and go Bay way back to the nineties obviously, 10 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: Bobby and kJ, a lot of the veterans who were 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: here before Maxwell and all those guys, so we've we've 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: all kept in touch. Anytime you have success, and as 13 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: close as this team has been over the years, you 14 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: have these bonded relationships that that you never forget a 15 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: lot of new faces here though, do you know many 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: guys in that locker room when you walked in besides Bobby, 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know there were a lot of new faces 18 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: from from the faces that I left, which is fine. 19 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: When we first got came here from from California and 20 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: USC there were all new faces. So that's that's kind 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: of part of it. But it's a matter of them 22 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: buying in, and that's being really good teachers and really 23 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: enjoying what we do for you as a coach. Is 24 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 1: it better to have all new faces so they maybe 25 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: haven't heard all the speeches before, or would you rather 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: have guys who know you and know your routine? Neither 27 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: one of those matters. We want good football players who 28 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: cares if they're new or old. If they can play football, 29 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: if they can run and hit, and they can think 30 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: and athletic, we can make some good players out of them. 31 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: You'll get to know them and they'll get to know 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: exactly you know. You mentioned you went down to Oakland 33 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: and you're a defensive coordinear there. That was the first 34 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: time you've been away from Pete as a as a 35 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: coach in either college of the pros. Was it a 36 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: good experience for you? I mean, like as far as 37 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: personal growth, Oh my god, amazing experience. One of the 38 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: best three years of my life. Going down there, working 39 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: with a new staff, going out on my own game 40 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: plan and doing a lot of things and solving problems 41 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: on my own was very good. I'm a much better 42 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: coach coming back than I was when I left. The 43 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: experience was awesome. Oakloo hadn't been to the playoffs since 44 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: two thousand and two. They were irrelevant that we made 45 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: them relevant again and we made the playoffs and some 46 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: people were in some conversations for the Super Bowl until 47 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: we had some injuries. But we did some really good 48 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: things with that team. UH and UH I'm a much 49 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: better coach than I was before I left, There's no 50 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: question about that. What you learn about yourself away leading men, 51 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: being up and ready to go every day, organized UH 52 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: planning big stadiums on your own and just game planning, 53 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: UH selling and UH selling your defense to new staff 54 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: men who members who don't know your defense and things 55 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: like that, working well with people that you don't know, 56 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: trying to pull people in and UH and make them 57 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: organized to to your thoughts. So so many different things 58 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: that you have to do on your own that you 59 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: don't have to do when you're around people that you know. 60 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: It's just a brand new UH form of people who 61 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: don't don't really know what you what you believe in. 62 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: So you got to get to believe what you believe in. 63 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: And that was a challenge at the same time very 64 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: rewarding for me. That's kind of training for a lot 65 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: of the new faces you have here. Absolutely, you know 66 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: you got to get them to believe in what you 67 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: believe in. The guys that don't know, Absolutely, you know 68 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: you got to let go there. During the season last year, 69 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: I was thinking, I was like, well, you actually had 70 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Christmas free. What was the last time that happened? 71 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: So many great things happened, and my Thanksgiving, Christmas, my 72 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: son graduated college, one of my daughters had a baby. 73 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: I mean, all these things happened at the perfect time 74 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: for me to be home at that time. Was it 75 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: was perfect time. You got to spend time with the 76 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: family at the time I haven't spend with him in 77 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: since the nineties, being like a normal person Christmas, having lunch, Thanksgiving, 78 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: Christmas like normal people do. It was. It was an experience. 79 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: Do you think that being out of it for a 80 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: little bit, I mean, I don't think there's any doubt 81 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: you're gonna get back at it, But to be able 82 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: to get back at it as a coordinator, that that 83 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: kind of fuel the fire a little bit. Maybe, Well, 84 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: I always have a fire. If your fire has already 85 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: already's led, you don't have to refuel it. But it 86 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: was a matter of just reflecting, improving, finding differ and 87 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: ways to uh make yourself better and make yourself a 88 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: better leader and a better coach for you know, for others. 89 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: But I think that it was something that you you 90 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: have to have things happen. For me that was that 91 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: was very good for me, and the experience was outstanding. 92 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: I met a lot of great people in Oakland and 93 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: they made me better for the Seahawks. So it had 94 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: it had to happen for me to be better and 95 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: come back home and sit here in front of you. Well, 96 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: you're back here. It's weird though, because you know, looking around, 97 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: I think it was in January, I saw, Okay, you're 98 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: gonna go to San Francisco and be the assistant head coach. 99 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: For a week later, you're coming here. Did you even 100 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: get a parking spot in San Francisco office? It came 101 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: really close. But you know, Pete always as a way 102 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: of talking you into things, and he's very close to 103 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: me and take that job. No, not officially, no. So 104 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: when Pete came, you're ready. Well, we had a good 105 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: conversation and I think that we had some unfinished business 106 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: that we felt like that we felt like we had 107 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: to do. You know, when you take a look at 108 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: the guys on this team, they're so young. Do you, 109 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: at this stage of your career as a coach, do 110 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: you bring up your playing career when you you know 111 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: they don't really know a lot of them weren't even born. 112 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: I talked to us. Some guys are born in the 113 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: nineties and things like that. But but it's not or 114 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: it's not my career, it's my experience. It's the things 115 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: that I've been able to the scars I've been able 116 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: to have to so they don't have to go through them. 117 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: But they understand and they respect where I've been, the 118 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: journey I've taken. And I think that, you know, the 119 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: way I talk to them, I understand and I can't 120 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: tell them to do things that I know cannot be done. 121 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: So if they say, coach, I can't do that, so yes, 122 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: you can, I've done it, you know. So I really 123 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: understand the player's mind because I spend so much time 124 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: as a player, so we don't have a problem with relating. 125 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: It's just a matter of, you know, just teaching them 126 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: how to grind, how to be consistent, how to stay 127 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: focused every day because the young people today have so 128 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: many distractions. But being young is it's a young man's game, 129 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: So they are going to be young. That's not a problem. 130 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: Just get him the focus and really understand that the 131 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: job at hand. Every now and then, do you drop 132 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: the I was the first to win three straight Super 133 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: Bowls on him? No, I don't have to. They find out, 134 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: you know, but I think that the way I carry 135 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: myself and the experience that I have and the things 136 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: that I've been able to accomplish. Uh, they can tell 137 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: when a guy walks a certain way and he talks 138 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: a certain way, they understand that he has he's been 139 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 1: through some things.