October 1, 2022 • 16 mins
Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson joins Mike Silver to discuss the experience playing for his new team, how his performance has held up over his 11 years in the league, his Subway commercial and other videos that have become internet sensations, Tua Tagovailoa's brutal injury against the Bengals, and the emotional game against his former team, the Seattle Seahawks. #volume #herd
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We're back on open mic. Very very special guest, uh,
someone I've covered and known for a long time and
who I saw very recently on Sunday Night Football. I
covered a punt fest that at the end turned into
just another Russell Wilson magical moment. And I had a
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great talk with him after the game. And here he is, Russell,
how are you, man, Mike? What's going on? Brother? It
was a good game. We got we got it done
in the fourth quarter. Was crazy game. Yeah, you know,
it's funny. During the game, I was thinking, all right,
they've got their uh you know, the play cadence and
all the stuff that people were freaking out about. They've
got that under control. No problems with the clock. They
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just aren't gaining yards. But um, you know you told
me that you were very vocal on the sidelines during
the game to your teammates about what to expect. Yeah.
I mean, I think just when you're playing Fortnite defense,
and they've always been great, they've been great over the
past few years in particular. You know it's going to
be about then come down to the fourth quarter, and
just told the guys, you know, listen, I told the
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guys on Tuesday and our State of the Union meeting,
and I kind of run a meeting on Tuesday's. I
just told him, I said, listen, reality is about these
guys that play these guys over twenty plus times. It
always comes down the fourth quarter. Most of those games
always comes down to the last possession or two. So
just know, no matter how how the game's going, no
matter what's going on, just just stay the course. And
that's what we did. Meanwhile, the forty Nighters are probably
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doing their State of the Union on Tuesday, going it
always comes down to the fourth quarter and we're four
and seventeen going in against this guy. So, uh, you
you seem to have fouled the secret against a really
really good team. Uh in those moments, you know, I
just I love I love it when the games on
the line, you know, and all the pressures on you,
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everybody's booing you, everybody's cheering you on. Everybody. You play
on the road and they're booing you. You're playing at
home and it's the game on the line. All the
fans are are pumped up because the fourth quarter and
they're striking up the music and just, uh, you know,
in the games online, you gotta come up with Keith
third down, and that's what you live for, those kind
of moments, you know, and to be able to capitalize
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on him. And um, I always believe that no matter
what the circumstances are, we're always going to find a way.
And that's just the mentality. And so that's the mentally
I've always kind of taken my guys. You know, I'm
always I'm always a big believer in just overcoming obstacles.
You know, you know me, Mike, I, Uh, that's why
I've always loved you know. It's just those tough challenges
and times that people think, oh man, how they're gonna
pull this off? And sure enough, I got to go
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back and share a couple of stories. So I came
to training camp in when Russell was a rookie and
third round pick, not expected to start, at least to others.
I know you expected it, and uh, I started hearing
stories and then I met you, and you know you
kind of said, man, I know who you are. You
do a great job. And I'm thinking, either he's the
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most prepared guy for an interview ever and he's just
trying to be nice to be or he's really cool
but either way, I love him. So I was. I
was a believer from the start. You know, I think
the thing was for me, you know, getting prepared for intervie.
I don't really get prepared. I don't really like being
prepared for interviews, honest me. I think it's the ones
things that like for me. I just I just love,
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you know, uh, trying to trying to have communication, listen
to the question and just answer, you know. And so
that's all I've always believed, you know, in terms of
interviews and not. You know, so you find your way
as you get as you get more and more, um
one more opportunities to speak to the people like yourself.
We did an interview on camera when I was at
NFL Network before NFC Championship game, and you looked me
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in the eye and you said, I just have a
feel like it's going to be one of those classic
games that everybody remembers, comes down to the very end,
maybe goes to overtime, and you know, I it looked
really bad for you guys, is for a bunch of
the day, and then sure enough magic started happening and
you guys beat the Packers in overtime and went back
to the Super Bowl, and I remember calling up my
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boss and from the press box and say, Hey, you
got to go back and find that clip because I
don't think it aired on game day. Warning, I'm like,
you've gotta You've got to get that out there, because
he pretty much told us exactly what was going to happen. Yeah, many,
I don't know if you've got discernment or what, but no,
I think that, you know you one of the things
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I believe about success and continual winning is visualization, you know,
and guys like Kobe Bryant us to use visualization, Guys
like Alan Iverson and Michael Jordan's um Tiger Woods, you know,
the premier athletes, they use visualization. They put themselves in scenarios,
good ones and bad ones and how are you gonna
overcome how are you gonna come out of it on
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the other side of it? And for me, I've always
put myself in scenarios. Remember my dad tell me that
a young at a young age, and so from the
from the spin moves to stepping up in the pocket
and sliding away, to the deep ball, to the to
the game on the line, the fourth quarter in the
last place, you know, in fourth down, you've got to
make a play, you get the touchdown, the two point conversion.
You know, I visualized loans. I speak life into every situation,
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and um, I think a lot of times, um it
plays out for whatever reason. And you know, you could
put yourself in so many different scenarios of your lifetime.
It allows you to be comfortable when it's chaotic. I've
heard so many stories about you in games that seemed lost,
telling your teammates on the sidelines, hey, stick with it,
it's okay, we're gonna do this. And and you know,
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believing it when you're on a new team that hasn't
been as used to winning in the last few years.
Is it a process to get them to to believe
you in those moments. I don't think to get to
necessarily believe me or anything like that. I think they
think they know seen me over the years, play you know,
in the game's close games and all that. But I
do think I think the process is actually and this is,
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this is and if you have won, you know, I
hate the process of reidentifying and recreating the culture, the energy,
the language, the winning language, the winning culture, the winning
energy that you want to be able to create every day,
and that obsession, that love for that, that passion for that,
that detail, that understanding of what it takes over and
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over again, and the philosophical belief that um winning is
a habit you have to be to teach that every day.
You have to become that every day. A lot of times,
a lot of people wonder, you know, how do you
become a champion, How do you become a winner? How
do you become successful? How do you become this? How
do you become that? Well, you have to visualize it.
You have to speak in its existence, and you get
to become it, and all your habits and decisions around
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that have to become that. I think also too, losing
the same way you can become you can become that
too by having negative thoughts, having things that say that
just aren't winning attitudes and winning thoughts and winning you know,
habits and so. But we've created here what we continue
to do, and these guys really want to do it.
You know, they've been they've been on it every day.
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It's been an amazing team. That defense is his offense,
and the special teams, the players that cultured the organization
all the way from the top down from the from
the Walton Penner family all the way to to George
Peyton and Coach Hackett too, myself and all those captains
and leaders of this team, you know, and you know
Justin Simmons, uh tub you know Randy Gregory. You know
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you think about guys like DJ Jones winner, you know,
you think about you think about like bowls who who
wants to be great every day? You know, these guys,
Cushion Barry, I mean these Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy.
This guys are stars, and you know, so they want,
they want to win, they want they want to do
everything they can, and they they're putting all the work
in and then all the habits and and the love
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is here for each other too. That's that's the great
part about it. You know, you guys had reason to
have negative thoughts creep in those first two weeks, you know,
high profile game ending didn't go well in Seattle, and
then the home fans are counting down the play clock.
Uh you know you did win the second game, by
the way. That's got to be really fun for a
quarterback when your home fans are are counting down the
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final seconds of the play clocks. Oh yeah, no worries
and it was helping. Wow. You know, it's just all
it's all love and it want us to win, just
like we want to win and do everything, you know
at the highest level. You obviously had Coach Hackets back
um after the first game. Um, you know, and he
really he showed some humility. I think you know he said, hey,
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I would boom me too, and and definitely wasn't didn't
try to come off like a defensive, condescending coach that
I think others might have. How was all that received
in the locker room? And and how was he with
you guys as all this was was happening. Coach Hacket's
amazing man is his care for the players, his passion
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for teaching, his love for this game, his love for
us and creating a winning culture. He is. He is
everything that you could ask or the coach and head coach.
And he's really built an amazing staff as well around
him that that support that as well. So I really
believe in Coach Hacket, believe in what he's doing and
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where we're going, how we're gonna get there, and uh,
you know, every day, you know, we get to meet
me and him and just spend time together and just
talk every day and just he's not just about the game,
He's about life, he's about people. He's about you know, um,
allowing us to be the best version of ourselves as
men as well. And that's that's worth a whole lot.
How would you compare his normal energy level to like
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your wife's on stage performance caliber energy level? Uh? I
don't know even know the answered that one, um, but
I think, Um, you know, when you think about coach
hack you know, I'll speak about coachack it, but I
think about when I think about Coach Hackett, Um, you know,
his his passion with his game and his interviewing the
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locker room, I'll use a great example. And we won
the game and i'st the foreignity and we just came in.
We just crazy in the locker and all the energy
all to do so all you up and down, I mean,
we just we're all celebrating each other, you know, and
doing it together. And what what what what? What a
great moment that was. I know you're hard on yourself
as you guys were going through these issues with you know,
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play cadence and getting placed in all that, did you
feel like, hey, maybe I'm doing too much at the
line pre snap. Maybe I need to try to streamline
my part in it. Well, I think I think when
whenever you're you know, you have put you play the quarterback,
but you always want to put everything on your shoulders
because at the end of the day, you know, you
want to be able to you know, uh, get people
in and out, you know. And so I think the
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best thing about it is is that you know, we
all we're all in this thing together. You're all, you know,
and so I'm excited about where we're going. And I
don't even worry about the first you know, you know,
you go out there. You football is a game of
tons of amazing moments, and all these amazing moments together
and then you're gonna have a couple of tough ones
you gotta fix and get right. And if you have
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the passion and the diligence to do that, how much
better is that? I feel like that pass you put
on the back shoulder to Courtland that's set up the
winning touchdown on Saturday, I was like, Okay, that's the
rustle I'm used to seeing, especially in those moments. Um
have you changed as a quarterback as you've you know,
gotten into your second decade, are you less prone to
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running or scrambling? Are you slower? Like? Is there any
difference in in your opinion and what you've you know,
and what your game is? No, man, I you know
I feel better. I feel more efficient in terms of
you know, my reads and everything else. So you know,
I think that you know, we're building this amazing chemistry here.
We're all trying to work on it together, but it's
it's really coming together nice. You know, I'm excited about
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you know, this week. You're excited about the weeks to come.
You know, we're just always working to be great and everything.
Every day you wake up, you worked, you get better,
and so I feel amazing my body and all that
stuff and mind spirit, all the energy. Obviously, I think
you saw me move around the other night. You know,
I still got the I still got the I still
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got the shakes and and all that extra stuff and
the spinouts and the big big play you know, mentality,
so um, you know, and so yeah, man, it's been fun.
You think you'd beat Chad Powers in a forty based
on video studies, I beat him, and I've beat him.
I've beat him running backwards all right, so let's hit
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all the subjects you're getting good natured grief for on
the internet at other places. Um, are you getting more
grief for the subway? Add with the danger? Which? How
does that compare to like the Mr Unlimited video that
surfaced and the Broncos Country Let's Ride out takes? I
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think I think that what you're trying to tell me
is that you know all the things Mr Unlimited, Broncos Country,
Let's Ride to even the Danger which at Subway. All
those things are trending right now, baby, They've been trending
for a while. So I'm just saying it's called Brandon perfect. Um.
You know, the first game in Seattle was really emotional. Um,
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you know you did so many great things there. Um,
you know I saw you and d K what you
wrote on each other's jerseys. Every you know you have
a lot of close relationships. There were a lot of
former players there and and afterwards, Pete Carroll, your former coach,
said that he thought it was a chance to make
a big statement. The game is not about an individual
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player here or there. It's about team. Um did you
feel any anything about the former players being there? Did that?
You know, did that affect you or after the fact
one way or the other. No, not at all, they think.
You know, I was fortunate to play for an amazing
organization in Seattle for ten plus years, give my all
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every day. I gave everything every play, you know, everything,
every practice, every day, every play. And that's all I've
ever known, you know. So that's all I'll ever know
is give every I got. So you know, it's a
you know, it was. It was great to go back
and play and see guys like d K and Tyler
and the guys um you know, and guys like Quandary
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Digs and Jamal those guys playing on the same field
with those guys know so much love and you know
for those guys and such great friends. You know. So
you think your ex teammates were just there as a
you know, Seahawks solidarity moment. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
these guys, let's show up. A lot of those guys
live in Seattle and they go to the games, you
know all that stuff. So it's all good. Yeah, totally
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the last one I got for you because you've been amazing. Um.
You know, we all watched you know, last Sunday and
then again Thursday night. To a tongue of voloa promising
young quarterback. Uh, you know suffering. It's certainly the second
time a really scary looking head injury. UM. You know
what what goes through your mind when you see a
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situation like that, Well, you worry about him and it's
family in his career and to take that kind of
hit and injury and see the reaction his his his
his natural body reaction to that and how long he
was in that state. Um is scary. This game is. Um.
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It's a very tough, very very violent game. UM. And
we you know we we we we sacrifice, put ourselves
out there and try to do everything to perform for
everyone and win and all that stuff. But you know
we have we have wives, kids, family members, loved ones,
so we can't take this for granted, you know. And
just praying for to to to to heal and to
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be better man and just praying that he heals fast. Yeah,
I mean you you know you mentioned family. I mean,
have have you and your wife had those hard conversations
because I know how competitive you are and it would
be hard to get you off the field normally, but
if you guys had to talk about that, like hey,
let's you know, let's not do anything crazy. No, not really,
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you know I think we we we just we you know,
when we swim were watching the game, we just started
praying for too right away, no doubt. Well, it is
good to see you doing your thing, and I have
a feeling that you've got some winning in your future
in a new an unfamiliar uniform, but a new chapter.
So thank you so much for taking the time. Thank you,
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Mike Man. It's always great to talk to you, and
uh super grateful thanks for the time, and just great,
grateful to uh grateful to always you know, you've always
been first class in every way and just you're great,
great at what you do. So this is why I
love talking to Russell. You can, by the way, you
can keep going once we're off the air, you can
keep saying that baby, I'll see you. Thanks for Russell,
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for
We're back on open mic. Very very special guest, uh,
someone I've covered and known for a long time and
who I saw very recently on Sunday Night Football. I
covered a punt fest that at the end turned into
just another Russell Wilson magical moment. And I had a
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great talk with him after the game. And here he is, Russell,
how are you, man, Mike? What's going on? Brother? It
was a good game. We got we got it done
in the fourth quarter. Was crazy game. Yeah, you know,
it's funny. During the game, I was thinking, all right,
they've got their uh you know, the play cadence and
all the stuff that people were freaking out about. They've
got that under control. No problems with the clock. They
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just aren't gaining yards. But um, you know you told
me that you were very vocal on the sidelines during
the game to your teammates about what to expect. Yeah.
I mean, I think just when you're playing Fortnite defense,
and they've always been great, they've been great over the
past few years in particular. You know it's going to
be about then come down to the fourth quarter, and
just told the guys, you know, listen, I told the
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guys on Tuesday and our State of the Union meeting,
and I kind of run a meeting on Tuesday's. I
just told him, I said, listen, reality is about these
guys that play these guys over twenty plus times. It
always comes down the fourth quarter. Most of those games
always comes down to the last possession or two. So
just know, no matter how how the game's going, no
matter what's going on, just just stay the course. And
that's what we did. Meanwhile, the forty Nighters are probably
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doing their State of the Union on Tuesday, going it
always comes down to the fourth quarter and we're four
and seventeen going in against this guy. So, uh, you
you seem to have fouled the secret against a really
really good team. Uh in those moments, you know, I
just I love I love it when the games on
the line, you know, and all the pressures on you,
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everybody's booing you, everybody's cheering you on. Everybody. You play
on the road and they're booing you. You're playing at
home and it's the game on the line. All the
fans are are pumped up because the fourth quarter and
they're striking up the music and just, uh, you know,
in the games online, you gotta come up with Keith
third down, and that's what you live for, those kind
of moments, you know, and to be able to capitalize
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on him. And um, I always believe that no matter
what the circumstances are, we're always going to find a way.
And that's just the mentality. And so that's the mentally
I've always kind of taken my guys. You know, I'm
always I'm always a big believer in just overcoming obstacles.
You know, you know me, Mike, I, Uh, that's why
I've always loved you know. It's just those tough challenges
and times that people think, oh man, how they're gonna
pull this off? And sure enough, I got to go
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back and share a couple of stories. So I came
to training camp in when Russell was a rookie and
third round pick, not expected to start, at least to others.
I know you expected it, and uh, I started hearing
stories and then I met you, and you know you
kind of said, man, I know who you are. You
do a great job. And I'm thinking, either he's the
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most prepared guy for an interview ever and he's just
trying to be nice to be or he's really cool
but either way, I love him. So I was. I
was a believer from the start. You know, I think
the thing was for me, you know, getting prepared for intervie.
I don't really get prepared. I don't really like being
prepared for interviews, honest me. I think it's the ones
things that like for me. I just I just love,
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you know, uh, trying to trying to have communication, listen
to the question and just answer, you know. And so
that's all I've always believed, you know, in terms of
interviews and not. You know, so you find your way
as you get as you get more and more, um
one more opportunities to speak to the people like yourself.
We did an interview on camera when I was at
NFL Network before NFC Championship game, and you looked me
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in the eye and you said, I just have a
feel like it's going to be one of those classic
games that everybody remembers, comes down to the very end,
maybe goes to overtime, and you know, I it looked
really bad for you guys, is for a bunch of
the day, and then sure enough magic started happening and
you guys beat the Packers in overtime and went back
to the Super Bowl, and I remember calling up my
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boss and from the press box and say, Hey, you
got to go back and find that clip because I
don't think it aired on game day. Warning, I'm like,
you've gotta You've got to get that out there, because
he pretty much told us exactly what was going to happen. Yeah, many,
I don't know if you've got discernment or what, but no,
I think that, you know you one of the things
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I believe about success and continual winning is visualization, you know,
and guys like Kobe Bryant us to use visualization, Guys
like Alan Iverson and Michael Jordan's um Tiger Woods, you know,
the premier athletes, they use visualization. They put themselves in scenarios,
good ones and bad ones and how are you gonna
overcome how are you gonna come out of it on
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the other side of it? And for me, I've always
put myself in scenarios. Remember my dad tell me that
a young at a young age, and so from the
from the spin moves to stepping up in the pocket
and sliding away, to the deep ball, to the to
the game on the line, the fourth quarter in the
last place, you know, in fourth down, you've got to
make a play, you get the touchdown, the two point conversion.
You know, I visualized loans. I speak life into every situation,
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and um, I think a lot of times, um it
plays out for whatever reason. And you know, you could
put yourself in so many different scenarios of your lifetime.
It allows you to be comfortable when it's chaotic. I've
heard so many stories about you in games that seemed lost,
telling your teammates on the sidelines, hey, stick with it,
it's okay, we're gonna do this. And and you know,
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believing it when you're on a new team that hasn't
been as used to winning in the last few years.
Is it a process to get them to to believe
you in those moments. I don't think to get to
necessarily believe me or anything like that. I think they
think they know seen me over the years, play you know,
in the game's close games and all that. But I
do think I think the process is actually and this is,
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this is and if you have won, you know, I
hate the process of reidentifying and recreating the culture, the energy,
the language, the winning language, the winning culture, the winning
energy that you want to be able to create every day,
and that obsession, that love for that, that passion for that,
that detail, that understanding of what it takes over and
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over again, and the philosophical belief that um winning is
a habit you have to be to teach that every day.
You have to become that every day. A lot of times,
a lot of people wonder, you know, how do you
become a champion, How do you become a winner? How
do you become successful? How do you become this? How
do you become that? Well, you have to visualize it.
You have to speak in its existence, and you get
to become it, and all your habits and decisions around
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that have to become that. I think also too, losing
the same way you can become you can become that
too by having negative thoughts, having things that say that
just aren't winning attitudes and winning thoughts and winning you know,
habits and so. But we've created here what we continue
to do, and these guys really want to do it.
You know, they've been they've been on it every day.
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It's been an amazing team. That defense is his offense,
and the special teams, the players that cultured the organization
all the way from the top down from the from
the Walton Penner family all the way to to George
Peyton and Coach Hackett too, myself and all those captains
and leaders of this team, you know, and you know
Justin Simmons, uh tub you know Randy Gregory. You know
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you think about guys like DJ Jones winner, you know,
you think about you think about like bowls who who
wants to be great every day? You know, these guys,
Cushion Barry, I mean these Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy.
This guys are stars, and you know, so they want,
they want to win, they want they want to do
everything they can, and they they're putting all the work
in and then all the habits and and the love
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is here for each other too. That's that's the great
part about it. You know, you guys had reason to
have negative thoughts creep in those first two weeks, you know,
high profile game ending didn't go well in Seattle, and
then the home fans are counting down the play clock.
Uh you know you did win the second game, by
the way. That's got to be really fun for a
quarterback when your home fans are are counting down the
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final seconds of the play clocks. Oh yeah, no worries
and it was helping. Wow. You know, it's just all
it's all love and it want us to win, just
like we want to win and do everything, you know
at the highest level. You obviously had Coach Hackets back
um after the first game. Um, you know, and he
really he showed some humility. I think you know he said, hey,
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I would boom me too, and and definitely wasn't didn't
try to come off like a defensive, condescending coach that
I think others might have. How was all that received
in the locker room? And and how was he with
you guys as all this was was happening. Coach Hacket's
amazing man is his care for the players, his passion
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for teaching, his love for this game, his love for
us and creating a winning culture. He is. He is
everything that you could ask or the coach and head coach.
And he's really built an amazing staff as well around
him that that support that as well. So I really
believe in Coach Hacket, believe in what he's doing and
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where we're going, how we're gonna get there, and uh,
you know, every day, you know, we get to meet
me and him and just spend time together and just
talk every day and just he's not just about the game,
He's about life, he's about people. He's about you know, um,
allowing us to be the best version of ourselves as
men as well. And that's that's worth a whole lot.
How would you compare his normal energy level to like
(09:34):
your wife's on stage performance caliber energy level? Uh? I
don't know even know the answered that one, um, but
I think, Um, you know, when you think about coach
hack you know, I'll speak about coachack it, but I
think about when I think about Coach Hackett, Um, you know,
his his passion with his game and his interviewing the
(09:55):
locker room, I'll use a great example. And we won
the game and i'st the foreignity and we just came in.
We just crazy in the locker and all the energy
all to do so all you up and down, I mean,
we just we're all celebrating each other, you know, and
doing it together. And what what what what? What a
great moment that was. I know you're hard on yourself
as you guys were going through these issues with you know,
(10:17):
play cadence and getting placed in all that, did you
feel like, hey, maybe I'm doing too much at the
line pre snap. Maybe I need to try to streamline
my part in it. Well, I think I think when
whenever you're you know, you have put you play the quarterback,
but you always want to put everything on your shoulders
because at the end of the day, you know, you
want to be able to you know, uh, get people
in and out, you know. And so I think the
(10:38):
best thing about it is is that you know, we
all we're all in this thing together. You're all, you know,
and so I'm excited about where we're going. And I
don't even worry about the first you know, you know,
you go out there. You football is a game of
tons of amazing moments, and all these amazing moments together
and then you're gonna have a couple of tough ones
you gotta fix and get right. And if you have
(11:00):
the passion and the diligence to do that, how much
better is that? I feel like that pass you put
on the back shoulder to Courtland that's set up the
winning touchdown on Saturday, I was like, Okay, that's the
rustle I'm used to seeing, especially in those moments. Um
have you changed as a quarterback as you've you know,
gotten into your second decade, are you less prone to
(11:21):
running or scrambling? Are you slower? Like? Is there any
difference in in your opinion and what you've you know,
and what your game is? No, man, I you know
I feel better. I feel more efficient in terms of
you know, my reads and everything else. So you know,
I think that you know, we're building this amazing chemistry here.
We're all trying to work on it together, but it's
it's really coming together nice. You know, I'm excited about
(11:43):
you know, this week. You're excited about the weeks to come.
You know, we're just always working to be great and everything.
Every day you wake up, you worked, you get better,
and so I feel amazing my body and all that
stuff and mind spirit, all the energy. Obviously, I think
you saw me move around the other night. You know,
I still got the I still got the I still
(12:04):
got the shakes and and all that extra stuff and
the spinouts and the big big play you know, mentality,
so um, you know, and so yeah, man, it's been fun.
You think you'd beat Chad Powers in a forty based
on video studies, I beat him, and I've beat him.
I've beat him running backwards all right, so let's hit
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all the subjects you're getting good natured grief for on
the internet at other places. Um, are you getting more
grief for the subway? Add with the danger? Which? How
does that compare to like the Mr Unlimited video that
surfaced and the Broncos Country Let's Ride out takes? I
(12:45):
think I think that what you're trying to tell me
is that you know all the things Mr Unlimited, Broncos Country,
Let's Ride to even the Danger which at Subway. All
those things are trending right now, baby, They've been trending
for a while. So I'm just saying it's called Brandon perfect. Um.
You know, the first game in Seattle was really emotional. Um,
(13:08):
you know you did so many great things there. Um,
you know I saw you and d K what you
wrote on each other's jerseys. Every you know you have
a lot of close relationships. There were a lot of
former players there and and afterwards, Pete Carroll, your former coach,
said that he thought it was a chance to make
a big statement. The game is not about an individual
(13:29):
player here or there. It's about team. Um did you
feel any anything about the former players being there? Did that?
You know, did that affect you or after the fact
one way or the other. No, not at all, they think.
You know, I was fortunate to play for an amazing
organization in Seattle for ten plus years, give my all
(13:50):
every day. I gave everything every play, you know, everything,
every practice, every day, every play. And that's all I've
ever known, you know. So that's all I'll ever know
is give every I got. So you know, it's a
you know, it was. It was great to go back
and play and see guys like d K and Tyler
and the guys um you know, and guys like Quandary
(14:10):
Digs and Jamal those guys playing on the same field
with those guys know so much love and you know
for those guys and such great friends. You know. So
you think your ex teammates were just there as a
you know, Seahawks solidarity moment. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
these guys, let's show up. A lot of those guys
live in Seattle and they go to the games, you
know all that stuff. So it's all good. Yeah, totally
(14:34):
the last one I got for you because you've been amazing. Um.
You know, we all watched you know, last Sunday and
then again Thursday night. To a tongue of voloa promising
young quarterback. Uh, you know suffering. It's certainly the second
time a really scary looking head injury. UM. You know
what what goes through your mind when you see a
(14:55):
situation like that, Well, you worry about him and it's
family in his career and to take that kind of
hit and injury and see the reaction his his his
his natural body reaction to that and how long he
was in that state. Um is scary. This game is. Um.
(15:15):
It's a very tough, very very violent game. UM. And
we you know we we we we sacrifice, put ourselves
out there and try to do everything to perform for
everyone and win and all that stuff. But you know
we have we have wives, kids, family members, loved ones,
so we can't take this for granted, you know. And
just praying for to to to to heal and to
(15:37):
be better man and just praying that he heals fast. Yeah,
I mean you you know you mentioned family. I mean,
have have you and your wife had those hard conversations
because I know how competitive you are and it would
be hard to get you off the field normally, but
if you guys had to talk about that, like hey,
let's you know, let's not do anything crazy. No, not really,
(15:57):
you know I think we we we just we you know,
when we swim were watching the game, we just started
praying for too right away, no doubt. Well, it is
good to see you doing your thing, and I have
a feeling that you've got some winning in your future
in a new an unfamiliar uniform, but a new chapter.
So thank you so much for taking the time. Thank you,
(16:20):
Mike Man. It's always great to talk to you, and
uh super grateful thanks for the time, and just great,
grateful to uh grateful to always you know, you've always
been first class in every way and just you're great,
great at what you do. So this is why I
love talking to Russell. You can, by the way, you
can keep going once we're off the air, you can
keep saying that baby, I'll see you. Thanks for Russell,
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