Interim head coach Mike Kafka speaks to the media Friday from the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.
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So you guys know for practice, So THEO p's a
little sickness, we're holding him out today. DJ nubn at
those guys are all out. Everyone else we'll get some
work today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So bo bows left tackle then.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Uh, if if, if he can't go for the game.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
He's out today.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, what have you seen the game at this point?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Absolutely, Yeah, and Andrew Thomas, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well we'll see, we'll see how it feels to it
in value with the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What have you seen from bow in whatever? Practice this week,
the game the other day, just really all season as
a guy who's kind of been thrust into the situation.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He's he's had a couple of stars already and he's
done a really nice job and just stepping in. He's
always dialed into his his opportunities and uh, you know
the game plan, so I expect nothing different. You have
to step up.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
When you were scouting him, did you see him or
like pre draft did you see there was always talk
like is he a tackle? Is he a guard? Did
you see him as both? Like what did you see
his future as?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? I think the vision informal was always to be
a tackle, but he has the athletic ability to kind
of do both, and he's done both for us, just
you know, throughout training camp and OTAs and stuff and
working it. So, you know, I think the vision was
always for tackle.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Though, real Nacho, how's he doing? Look like he had
some sort of sea He went inside a little early
the other day in practice yesterday. Where's he at.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, he's gonna give it a go again today, get
some work again. Just just working through the comfortability of it.
You know, those are some things that you don't want
to want to mess around with. So if he felt it,
we just kind of toned it back. But he had
a couple of days to kind of get back and
get the swelling and you know, get something that sorn
us out. So he'll give it a go again today.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In regards to the design runs, people who look at
it from the outside this year numbers is you're not
using his manive design runs postconcussion with Jackson. What do
you say to that or what do you make of that?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, I'd say we we We've been carrying the same
amount of design runs Run Game QB run game that
we have really all season with Jackson, So it's just
it's just a really depends on how the game declares itself.
We want to use it certain situations that we want
to use them, you know, So I would say, like
the game, how the game is going to roll will
kind of determine when and where we want to use
those things. But they're always kind of a part of
(02:08):
the game plan.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Mm hmm. Record is the world record guy?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What do you what do you see with Ashton genty
and what kind of challenge do you see him presenting?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh man, he's he's he's he's one of those backs
that you really got to understand where he's at and
he doesn't take many plays off, but where they have
him located is heat the backfield is where's he at
in the backfield and dot offset. He has ability to
kind of break it from anywhere on the field as
a running back or as a receiver out in in flat.
So we got to make sure we, you know, rally
to him, get him down. He's's not gonna take one.
(02:45):
It's gonna have to be a gang tackle type mentality
where we can get this guy down because he can
bounce off. He's got great run through contact, great strength,
great speed, He's he's a special.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Player relationship with Pete Carroll. Have you ever crossed path?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I have not, have not, but I've always respected him
from AFAR watching. You know how he's operated and the
success he's had over his career. I know he's put
out some, you know, really cool books about you know,
the competition and competing and stuff like that. You know
that's a big thing for him, and you know, it's
been really cool and obviously Russ's relationship with him, he's
always spoke very highly of them, the stories he's told me.
(03:21):
So nothing but respect for coach Carl.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
What do you I forgot?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I was gonna say, is there a desperate element to
when you have when you have two teams that I
think are on nine game losing streaks, Like, is there a.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Desperation element to this game? You expect like them to
come out desperate, you guys to come out to anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I does expect our guys to play our game, play
our game plan, go and execute our game plan. I
think they're on the right friend of mind, and you know,
having the meetings today, being the bounce around those meetings,
I think they're in the right firm of mind. So
it's about today, just putting together a good day of
work so we can go out to Vegas and have a.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Good day such the building. People you know want whatever
you know, and they look at the game as different
maybe perspective obviously that the players do. What do you
look at where you guys are at as what the
player's motivation as at this point?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, we're all We're all in this thing together. So
I think we all have the same vision and all
the same mindset in terms of putting together a great
game plan, going executing that game plan, mastering it all,
and then going out to Vegas with the right friend
of mine to go find a way to win. Whatever
that takes, you know, whatever that takes offensively, defensively or
special teams, you know, having to find a way to
get a win at the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What is it though, that motivates players at this point
of a season. What do you use as a coach?
Is a personal pride? Is it individual? Do you look
at it? I think you try to use all of it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I know as a former player and being in those
locker rooms like we are a bunch of competitors. The
coaching staff that we have here is a bunch of
competitors and so we want to win and I think
our mentality is not going to change from that. Our
mentality is to go in there and find a way
to win. And I mean when you talk about what
the guys, you see them in their in their bucks,
(05:01):
you see them in the hallways, and you're talking to
those guys like that's that's really where they're at, and
that's where their mentality is at, not the outside or
any anything else but focusing on this game and final
way to win.
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