I like this on your interview, all three new kids on your How has it changed your younger guys though, having their first You know, I don't know right now. I mean, obviously this week Jake and his wife had had a baby, and uh have great story with that, but it's it's it's I don't know. I do think I don't notice anything, you know, I really don't. I really don't see it. And they mature more, I don't
see it. They've all these guys are all pretty hard working, good guys, and and so I don't seem much change. And the guys and obviously we all know that it's a huge change, huge life change to have a baby and and all that they go with and the and there there you know, their commitment to things they need to do. But I think these guys have been good all along with it. So throughout the game, well, I
didn't even know until after the game. So I mean, I'm sure you guys heard the story, but it was, you know, seriously, we found out just he went and early in the morning and his wife wanted to April. They went to hospital, had the baby, and he was back over here dressing for the game, and nobody knew that they had a baby, and uh, pretty soon we're like, you know, somebody say, hey, Brenda and his wife, they just they had a baby, and we're like, well, what
are we gonna do first Center today? It was like, well, no, he's in the locker room changing, and so he went. They did it. Luckily that everything went smoothly and they were able to you know, she was able to deliver, stay there for about an hour or so. Came over, suited up and played the game, and I did. I didn't know the whole game. You I would have never noticed. And then after the game, I heard the story and I'm like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And he did
a great job. He hadn't take into account of fact that it's probably gonna board when your game. Yeah, I mean, it's The unfortunate thing is we've had some rain here obviously in Northern California lately, so we practiced it a lot. We had some rain games early. The first Seattle game had some rain, obviously not the extent that we're gonna get probably this weekend. And then obviously the Chicago game. The first day was the first game was great until
the end. It was fine, you know, you could manage, and we got we Everything was going along pretty smoothly till the end, and then it just became an absolute there was no way you could play. And I don't think we're going to see that, So I just think you just have to practice in it, which we're doing, which is really fortunate, and you just get used to dealing with a wet ball. I was noticing the quarterback
center exchanges today. We're you know, they were good knock on wood and uh and and then the guys did they do a good job with It's really good to be able to practidant. You get to deal with the weather and deal with the elements to wind, things like that. So there was a good practice day that way. Seem like the elements shake rock Pery either. Does it seem like he's just still even heeled throughout everything. Yeah, you know, you what they called mutters, You know they're good. They're
good in the mud right there. You have like running backs like Raheemos. Start was much more of a you know, like the fast track right and things like that, where Jeff Wilson was more of a guy that could sludge it out in the mud. That kind of I think brock Purty. Having played at Iowa State, we have to assume he played in bad weather there, and uh so he's probably gotten used to it through the years. And it is it's it is an adjustment. I mean, it
definitely is. You you play that weather. I mean, having coached in Tampa and having coached in Miami, Um, you go up in those cold weather games, you're just no matter how hard you try, it's hard to acclimate in that short period of time. UM reigns the same thing. But fortunately we've had enough of it. I think guys have had a chance. Four sacks allowed in this game seem like characteristically struggle of a game for the offensive.
Why would you see in the breakdowns here? Yeah, the breakdown was we had uh this is not pointing fingers. We didn't execute our plan well enough. You know, we had two of the j J's two sacks. We actually had a chance to double team him, and we we missed the opportunities. We did just didn't quite do what we should do on it. And and the guy and he's a good player, and he made place and you know his last game, Gosh, if you're gonna say he got us on two, we still won the game. He
got two sacks for his last game. Good for him. We tried not to give it to him, but he still got us in and it wasn't the one on one matchups that he won. It was the it was it was chances that we had to kind of neutralize him and we didn't take advantage of him, and he was still able to get to the quarterback. The other
two sacks, um, I'm trying to think. I know, the one uh was just uh they ran a good stunt on it, and then the other the other one, Brock scrambled backwards and probably could have thrown the ball away on that one where it didn't need to. So yeah, but you know, those those things are always you know, there's a bunch of games this year, Rob Bitch and Jimmy,
even Brock or or even Trade. The first game avoided some and then this one you think you've got it locked down, and next thing you know, you give up for sacks and it just it's the ebb and flow of the whole thing. So obviously it's a big point of emphasis this week. You don't want that to start being a factor because those sacks can take they take you out of drives, especially first and second down sacks. You've gotta be sure you can you can tighten up
and make sure it was good. It was a good lesson for us to say, let's get this detailed up when we when we say this, it means this, and we weren't quite on the details and we missed those ops. You don't want to take your quarterback to take a seventeen year at sack. Kyle said, he probably knew exactly what happened when he hit the ground, And Kyle, is it easier? What is Kyle like in the headset when
he's talking to Rock after a play like that? This is PG here, right, this is a PG thirteen audience. You know it's he's he's uh Kyle. Obviously we all get animated on games. You know, he's he's great. He just uh um. He'll always, you know, tell the guy what he should have done. And he's just very straightforward with guys. The one thing about Kyle is very honest
with the players and straightforward on game days. All it's a little bit of emotion behind it, but man, dude, you gotta get rid of the the ball, you know, dude, we can't take us We can't take that kind of sack. That's a lot of field position that we're giving away that we possibly could back them up inside the five or ten yard line, and uh, we lose those seventeen yards on a third on a sack, and it's really hard to overcome. I don't I'm not. I think he's
pretty good. You know, you guys see bros demeanor. He's uh, you know, he's a pretty serious minded guy. So sometimes you can't really tell what he's thinking. You can't feel if he's mad, or if he's happy or what he is. UM, so he seems to take it well. I think he's a pretty tough minded kid and uh and and can handle tough coaching. Um. But you know, there's a lot and no matter how tough you are, you're going through a lot every single day at that position. You're learning
a lot. A lot falls on your shoulders. So sometimes it's it's you know, it's hard, but these are lessons he has to learn. And we've talked about before. These these these are invaluable lessons when you go out on game day and you get to experience these things. Playing a lot for Pete Carroll's defense challenging or unique about against him in particular. Well, they're they're just very, very very sound, and they're well coached, so there are gonna
be where they're supposed to be. And then even when you are know where they are and you go block them, you have a good play, you still gotta block them. You still gotta you still gotta break Italian guys gotta break a tackle, or you gotta you gotta finish them so they don't come off and make a play. I mean, they they're well coached, not just in the scheme itself, but and then playing their techniques and fundamentals, and they're very very good at doing it, and they're they've been
through the years. Pete has always been always his defenses from back I remember back when he was in New England. I mean it's always been sound. Came from like the he and Monty Kiffen came from the now. The defense is how they put the defense together is changed through the years as to what they're running, but the base fundamentals of how you stop the run and the gap control and the fits and how they do things has been so consistent through the years, and it's a challenge.
It's a real challenge. You have to be on point with how you block them. It's not just enough to say, Okay, we got a guy from a guy from a guy from It's not just having a guy from it's how you're gonna get them blocked. Because they got some challenging guys. Without Wood's back, he wasn't there the first game. Uh, they lost ninety in our game, but ninety seven's back. I'm back and playing well. Ninety three the inside linebacker
really lost their their leading tackler. Those other two guys are really good special team have been good special teams players. They're two inside linebackers now, and they are good in space. They're hard to block. Special teams right there in open areas are used to dealing with things, and so you have to get on them and you have to work to finish or it might look like, oh, there's a play it's gonna break out in it's five yards, it's four yards, and then when you get through it, the
whole thing is six at free safety. That guy makes sure he's gonna to make sure that you know that that nothing gets through the big run. At the end of our last game, six I'm sorry six was that's my first time at them, Podium six was blitzing, and so they had a different guy in the middle of the field. So when our runner broke through Mace, he was able to make that guy miss Worth was six. I don't know if he would have or not. I hope he would have and we had a big run
dice the game. Either way, it was the first down. But uh, but it is that that That's what that defense is. And so you can imagine even though the style of defense has changed, imagine back when was the Legion of what whatever they call it, Boom Doom whatever they are boom, Yeah, they were, they were there. Then you have all these great players in every single position, and so they've gone through a little bit of transition. But these guys still play very, very sound. The fundamentals
are there. Long answer, but I'm telling you have a ton of respect for Pete and the defenses that they've run through the years, and it just really makes you locked down and say, guys, I'm telling you, it's not it's not just the normal dis block or that block. You better be on on your details. Kind of attacking Rock up the middle to chase him because he's a shorter quarterback. You want to take away that cleanness and the front of you know. Uh, they really, they really did.
I mean that's how that's what they did. It's what happened. But it was more just what there was normal rushes. It wasn't like they had a scheme to attack Brock a certain way because they weren't doing a lot. It was just that what came free, what we didn't pick up, who got beat It happened to be in that area that It wasn't around the corner. It was up the middle. But it wasn't like by design they were pouring three up the it all or all that. There wasn't a
lot of pressure. Actually, there was a single backer, dogs and a couple of little things that they did in there that created some of it. But I don't think it was trying to force him to do one where the other. The pressures came every other way or differently. Nope, No, it's been because there's just I think there's a lot more right now with um I don't know. I'm not I'm not on the other side of the ball, but at the defense, but I think there's a lot more
with who you gotta cover and things like that. So I think there's a little bit more of I don't know, we're seeing I don't know how to say it. I don't know. It's just there's there's not as much of that right now. I think they're more concerned about, you know, just they run their five man rushes. They do what they do to come free when they pressure. It's well thought out, hoping to get a guy free. But they
have issues with covering our guys as well. So I think that comes it's a little bit harder to just say we're gonna sell out to make sure party can't step up in the pocket, or if he do, you think because he's shorter he can't see or whatever that might be. There's I think there's more to it with the coverage of our players and making sure that it won't matter what you're doing in the middle. If you can't cover, the ball is gonna come out and a
play is gonna be made. So but it could be that we might see some of that at some point. He's outstanding his he goes through his progressions really really fast. He gets the ball out of Stanley and does a good job. And like everybody, he could be a little better on some and some of me. It is just it's amazing how he gets the ball out. The play he made against Miami to Kittle his first game when he came in for for Jimmy on a hot throw
was unbelievable. It really turned the game for us. It was one of the better throws of the season that we've had this year from any quarterback. And uh, he's got that in him. But he's still got to go through this still the same thing. You know, maybe a little late to this one. Literally this one. Didn't see this scrambles when he should, all those things season. How to have him back for this game. I love Elijah.
You know, Elijah is just such a physical runner. He just you know, the touchdown running had where were you know, Randy guy over at the goal line or whatever it was. And he just does a great job with un the football is nice to have he and Christian. As we've talked about it here before, it's always nice to have two backs, and then you have twenty four as well to get in there. Thirty two gets in a little bit. We've got it nice. So now there's a rotation. You
don't have to wear a guy out. A guy doesn't have to have twenty eight years now, he might because he's got the hot hand at day. But it's nice to have guys to roll through there. It's a different style. You're gearing up to tackle Elijah and then next time it's Christian to the whole is not going to attack you the same way as Elijah does. And they all have a different skill set, so it's nice for us to be able to utilize them in different ways and
also just in certain parts of the field. There's just a lot that goes into it. But um, it's nice to have those two guys, really nice to have them back. Those guys work together, so sort of counteract the old saying of a running back needs a certain number of carriers in a rhythm. It seems like you're able to put guys in. They are sharp right from our initial carry the thing. Yeah, they're not having to feel their
way through the that's pretty accurate. Yeah, I think that with with our system, and again Kyle has done such a great job through the years of how we coach the runners. So it's not a yes, there's a little bit of a field, but it is not one game stre within another game. Our run games are run game and how we read it, how we key it, what
we do. Yeah, there might be a field to how a defense is playing at that day a little bit, but for the most part, they've seen that at some point during the year because everybody, even though the defensive structure may change, the techniques, how they play it, how they fit the runs, it's kind of consistent or they've seen it somewhere, right Miami doesn't like, Chicago doesn't like this team, and then there's another group of teams that
kind of fit it the same way. So once you've seen it a few times, Yeah, the backs may tell you that I'm not a runner. Hey, I need a rhythm, I need this and that, But at the end of the day, the way we coach them, I think the guy can kind of rotate through and and kind of pick right up where they left off. Hey, thanks, guys, appreciate it.