Speaker 1: Seemingly loud. How does that affect your ability to call
Speaker 1: plays and play we're back. Yeah. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is just you need to communicate a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to overcommunicate. I mean, you need to work
Speaker 1: on hand signals, you know, both with the old lineman,
Speaker 1: with the receivers. You know, you got to work through
Speaker 1: a lot of those things. Um, but those are things
Speaker 1: we've done already. You know, we've done those in Chicago,
Speaker 1: we've done those in Washington. Um, obviously it'll be louder,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, as long as you kind
Speaker 1: of have that kind of already set in stone. UM,
Speaker 1: I don't think it should be too big of effect.
Speaker 1: You know, we got to be ready for it, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Um. But yeah, I've played there in that stadium.
Speaker 1: From what you've heard and seen O TV and stuff,
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like they have such a It's
Speaker 1: almost like they have games once sometimes before the team
Speaker 1: even hits the field, that mental edge. How do you
Speaker 1: come combat that as a team. It's just got to
Speaker 1: go in there with the confidence that you need. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you, like you just said, you know, you just
Speaker 1: go in there confidently, you don't you don't worry about
Speaker 1: the extra outside noise, you know, um, and all those things.
Speaker 1: You just go in there and play ball, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's the biggest thing. Um. You can't worry about
Speaker 1: the circumstances. You know, it might be raining, it might
Speaker 1: be cold, it might be loud. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: worry about those things. You just go take care of business.
Speaker 1: You guys are playing really well at home, but especially
Speaker 1: the last three games on the road, you guys have
Speaker 1: build a whole early slow start. Doug Peterson said, maybe
Speaker 1: on the road early on guys press, I want to
Speaker 1: do too much instead of just commed down doing the job.
Speaker 1: What do you think are the issues and how do
Speaker 1: you clean it up? Um? I think it's really hard
Speaker 1: to say, you know. I think every week is kind
Speaker 1: of different. Some weeks it's penally. Some weeks it's turned over.
Speaker 1: Some weeks we just start off slow, you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of a week by week thing. Obviously
Speaker 1: at home we have been very hot, and you know
Speaker 1: we've come out firing most of these games as well.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is that that we
Speaker 1: finished last week. You know, we finished late in the game,
Speaker 1: and that's something we're definitely gonna build on. So as
Speaker 1: far as the early early in game struggles on the road,
Speaker 1: I think they're all kind of week by week, but
Speaker 1: hopefully we're getting over that. Homes they're fast, you know,
Speaker 1: they're fast. They fly around, you know. Obviously, Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: is a great lockdown corner. Earl Thomas. You know, that
Speaker 1: guy can cover ground. If any of you want to
Speaker 1: go watch tape, Um, it's impressive, you know, he covers
Speaker 1: some ground. Um Chancellor down there in the box, you know,
Speaker 1: he does some really good things. And they just got
Speaker 1: just a combination of a lot of good guys that
Speaker 1: can make play. So we got to be really sharp.
Speaker 1: The importance of I don't obviously, but light ends the
Speaker 1: backs out of back field slot receives, not the outside guys.
Speaker 1: But it's huge, you know, I think especially with a
Speaker 1: guy like zach Ertz and Sprowls. You know, Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: work in the middle, he works outside. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a little bit everywhere. But Um with with Art with
Speaker 1: a big body like that, Um and then Sprowls, you know,
Speaker 1: they just create mismatches. I think that's the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: is they create mismatches. Um, they're tough to cover, and
Speaker 1: you know, they can make plays with the ball in
Speaker 1: their hands. Quarterbacks want to Super Bowl. How much have
Speaker 1: you watched his game? Yeah? You know, I've actually been
Speaker 1: a big fan of his, uh since I was younger.
Speaker 1: You know, he was any State NC State guy, and
Speaker 1: I was an NC State fan as a kid, so
Speaker 1: watched him and followed him for a while, you know,
Speaker 1: been a big fan of his and a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for him, you know, with the way he came
Speaker 1: into the league right away and kind of took it
Speaker 1: by storm as a as a late pick um, it
Speaker 1: was impressive, you know, and I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for him, and I'm looking forward to going up
Speaker 1: against him. Elements of his game that I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's just really he's really calm back there. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got really calm feet and just very uh, very poised.
Speaker 1: You know. I think it's impressive the way he's really poised.
Speaker 1: You know, he still scrambles and makes plays and improvises,
Speaker 1: which are things I think a lot of quarterbacks respect. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he never looks rattled, you know,
Speaker 1: he always just looks very poised with it what have
Speaker 1: you seen from the front side. They do a really
Speaker 1: good job. You know, they're they're very aggressive. You know,
Speaker 1: those linebackers do a great job. You know, those linebackers
Speaker 1: fill gaps. Um, they fly around. You know, this whole
Speaker 1: defense is impressive. You know, without a doubt. Um they
Speaker 1: play fast. You know, they're very similar schematically, uh to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But they they fly around, They're they're a little more aggressive.
Speaker 1: They do a little bit more. Um. But but like
Speaker 1: I said, they fly around TETs two weeks in the runs,
Speaker 1: um possibly. You know, there's a lot of carry over
Speaker 1: as far as um, how how we're seeing things, you know,
Speaker 1: from protection standpoint, from route concepts, A lot of the
Speaker 1: carry over in that regard from a from play calling standpoint. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, they still kind of play
Speaker 1: things differently, So you still got to go in and
Speaker 1: watch the tape and learn. Carrols kind of gave Russell
Speaker 1: the green light right from his rookie season. Courson, as
Speaker 1: far as running, I mean, he had ninety four carries
Speaker 1: thirty rushing first downs his first year. They seem to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more careful here with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: right now, you've got six rushing first downs. Um, how
Speaker 1: much of that is by design? How much is is
Speaker 1: you wanting to be preferring to look down field and
Speaker 1: and and not take Yeah, Um, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: a combination. You know, a lot of it is for
Speaker 1: me personally, Like I want to be a passer first,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to throw first. Um when the
Speaker 1: pocket breaks down, you know, I might try and improvise,
Speaker 1: but I'm still trying to throw. Um. I think Russell's
Speaker 1: also a little faster than I am, So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be around the bush about that one. But I
Speaker 1: think it's it's kind of just the personality that's that
Speaker 1: I have, And so I don't think it's so much
Speaker 1: the play calling as much as just the type of
Speaker 1: players we are. Zack's had two pretty productive games in
Speaker 1: a row. Here. He talked after he touched on a
Speaker 1: step to the game, but during that stretch where you
Speaker 1: know he came off the injury, he wasn't getting the
Speaker 1: ball a lot. Uh. He talked about how you guys
Speaker 1: kind of worked through that. We're communicating all the time,
Speaker 1: practicing extra What was that process like between the two
Speaker 1: of you and did you were you confident it was
Speaker 1: good it was gonna happen. We were very confident in him,
Speaker 1: you know, the second he came back obviously against Cleveland
Speaker 1: right away, you know, I thought he had a pretty
Speaker 1: good game. Um, got him some touches, and then he
Speaker 1: got hurt, like you said, and UM, we just had
Speaker 1: to work through some things. You know. Obviously I hadn't
Speaker 1: got a ton of work you know before that, you know,
Speaker 1: with with the ones and everything, so we just had
Speaker 1: to work through some things. And UM, a lot of
Speaker 1: it was just kind of the way the teams were
Speaker 1: playing us as well, So I didn't want to put
Speaker 1: too much stock into it, really, but we've definitely worked
Speaker 1: through that and we've been on the same page the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Fourth quarterback the way you did
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, a very good team. Does it give you
Speaker 1: a little more confidence for the entire team this week
Speaker 1: going into a game like Seattle. I think it gives
Speaker 1: us confidence for the rest of the season. You know,
Speaker 1: We've always been a confident team. You know, we always
Speaker 1: believe that we can get the job done no matter
Speaker 1: the circumstances. Granted the four losses, we didn't get the
Speaker 1: job done, so it's good for us to all just
Speaker 1: kind of show that we can do it, you know,
Speaker 1: and to kind of get over that hump like I
Speaker 1: talked about on Sunday after the game. But yes, it
Speaker 1: definitely gives us confidence going forward that you know, we
Speaker 1: can finish ball games and we are a good football team.
Speaker 1: Camp chance are real quick. He missed a stretch of
Speaker 1: games that comes back makes a huge impact on Sunday.
Speaker 1: What do you see from that defense with him off
Speaker 1: the field when he lived in film and then the
Speaker 1: defense with him particularly on I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: is just his physical presence, you know, I mean down
Speaker 1: in the box. I mean that guy's as harder hitting
Speaker 1: safety as there is, you know, and I think he
Speaker 1: just kind of brings a little more attitude, brings a
Speaker 1: little more physical presence in there that definitely can definitely
Speaker 1: shows up. Do you become an NC State fit? I
Speaker 1: was actually born in Ralli born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: My family lived there, I moved there, moved away um
Speaker 1: to North Dakota, and I was just about four. So
Speaker 1: my family and I we're all just kind of grew
Speaker 1: up wolf pipe fans when you were three. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It seems like a simple in terms of in terms
Speaker 1: of winning one. What's it going to play to be
Speaker 1: there with? You know, I think for us it's I
Speaker 1: think we established the run game early last week. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that was huge for us, you know, to
Speaker 1: get the big boys up front going like that. UM,
Speaker 1: to get Ryan going again. UM, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: take an effort like that. You know, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to win in the trenches again and be
Speaker 1: sharp in the passing game. Take what's there? Be smart? Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we got to protect the football. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to limit our penalties. I think we still
Speaker 1: had too many last game. UM that we got to
Speaker 1: clean up. But you know, we just got to play
Speaker 1: a very sound football game. Of course, and given that
Speaker 1: this is a trip that comes around every couple of years.
Speaker 1: Ago then the Russell Wilson, how excited are you for
Speaker 1: this trip? I mean, personally, I'm excited for every ball game.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited to travel. UM obviously, UM going
Speaker 1: to Seattle. It's a new place. I haven't been to. UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, you hear a lot about this the
Speaker 1: Seahawks team and in the stadium. UM, So I think
Speaker 1: it will be it will be a fun one. It
Speaker 1: will be a fun atmosphere. It'll be loud, but I
Speaker 1: think we're all pretty excited about it. You mentioned Dad
Speaker 1: Quinn in Atlanta obviously came from Seattle, so they're very
Speaker 1: very similar. Uh what are the main differences? What Seattle
Speaker 1: able to do that? Yeah? I think they just have
Speaker 1: guys that have played in the system longer. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they understand it a little better. They they
Speaker 1: mix it up a little more, um, and they're just
Speaker 1: more aggressive with it. You know. I think, Um, you
Speaker 1: had a lot of young guys with Atlanta's defense that
Speaker 1: you know, we're just played a lot of softer coverage.
Speaker 1: You know, we're more tentative, so to speak, just as
Speaker 1: far as in the passing game. And these guys are
Speaker 1: just a little more aggressive and they fly around a
Speaker 1: little faster games. It's Tom Brady which breezy as as
Speaker 1: watch the film, what jumps out about those guys against
Speaker 1: those defense? Um, I think it's the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: just that I kind of keep hitting on, is just
Speaker 1: you just take what they give you. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't force things, you know, because they're big play defense,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, they still get their turnovers and things,
Speaker 1: but you just gotta take what they give you and
Speaker 1: be smart with the football, um and protect the ball
Speaker 1: because even those guys, you know, they turn it over
Speaker 1: against them because they fly around, So he's gotta be smart.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody,