August 8, 2024 • 12 mins
New Seattle Seahawks Defensive Coordinator Aden Durde, who is from North London, sits down with Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain at the VMAC to talk about football in England, his life journey, learning from Dan Quinn, his coaching role and practice fights.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our nuts up coverage Jump Seahawks Training Camp continues from
the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, brought to you by Northwest
Handling Systems and the twenty twenty four Boeing Classic, gauga's
fifth through the eleven. Now back to Saftian Dick Gun
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Alright back here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, Day thirteen,
Seahawks Training Camp went and checked down those sault the
carmel cookies, Jackson bad news.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ay're all gone apologize. Oh we'll bear tomorrow though. We'll
see if we can grab some of the jump on
them early. Throw them in your back, you really do.
You gotta be here early, like way before the open.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's like you know, Black Friday, gotta get the best
buy at three am before the store doors.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No, they are amazing Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're gonna be by the way at the Boeing Classic
up at Snowkwamie Ridge for the annual tournament.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Big names coming out. You want to find out more.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Boeingclassic dot Com big sponsor as well for training camp,
and by our friends at Northwest Handling Systems, Mariners, Tigers,
tonight kind of a disappointing game one of that series.
Now you're gonna win the series. You gotta beat maybe
the cy young favorite tonight in schoobl Local Kids. So
we'll see what happens tonight and talk about all of
it tomorrow on the radio show. Brett Boone gonna join
(01:11):
us Jerry Brewer, Ashley Adamson as well tomorrow from me
now Big ten Network on tomorrow's show off starting at
three o'clock. Well, joining us right now on the radio show.
The brand new defensive coordinator for your Seattle Seahawks, Aden Dirdey,
is with us on the air, and I'm gonna be
honest with you. I'm just gonna call him a D
if that's cool with him, that worked for you. Coach
A D is with us. But well listen, first of all,
(01:33):
it's it's really great to see you. It's it's awesome
to have you on the air. But I gotta get
something out of the way real quick here. Our producer,
Jackson Pheltz back in the studio, just sent me a
note and his exact words, he's disgusted with you because
you're a Tottenham fan and no, you're a and not
a Tottenham fan.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's what he's pitched about.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So why do you talk to the soccer guy and
explain yourself a little bit gay?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You grew up aroun on Tottenham.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Why are you not a Tottenham.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Fanlongs to My brother was the west Ham family used
to take me? So that's why I'm west Down.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I got you, So your older brother kind of sucked
you in a little bit, he really did.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I got you well.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
First of all, tell us about this whole experience man
for you, and we got to know you a little
bit over the offseason, the press conferences, all that stuff,
and kind of got your story. But tell us about
this journey for you into the NFL and how this
whole thing began and kind of how this whole thing
maybe got going a little before.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, well it's a pretty long story.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I'll be honest with you, Bobby, as quick as possible,
really started playing football. So I played in England, then
ended up playing in NFL Europe, had some time on
practice squads, and then ended up kind of coming back
to England and doing normal life and starting a business.
And I wandered and I was coaching in London and
I realized it for something I wanted to do, got internship,
(02:47):
helped start up the IPP for the NFL and it
kind of flew from there. Met dequ and the rest
we was rolling, and then Atlanta, Dallas and then here.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Well it seems like the London Games have had great
six sas it seems like the league is pushing that way.
Talk about the buzz behind this league in the United
Kingdom now versus maybe where it was ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh, it's completely different. When I was playing in England.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
When I started, it was literally no one knew what
it was and it was just but it was on
national TV so you could watch it. That's how I
kind of started watching it. So there there was a
big fan base back then, but it wasn't necessarily it
was kind of like a niche thing. And then now
because of the Internet you can access it and everything's available,
(03:34):
and then the games. But there's three or four games
there every year now, so it's like, yeah, like the Jags.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Are a household name. All these different teams are household names,
so it's huge there now.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, I gotta be honest when you said you grew
up playing football for a second, I had to just
does he mean soccer, Like, what are.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
We talking about her? Which what are we talking about?
Get football?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Football, name of Rome.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
There you go, Football's football, Soccer is soccer.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I mean, at some point, I think everybody is
going to move on from this, right from the London thing,
from the Great Britain thing, from the soccer thing, and
you're gonna get that behind the problem. For me it's
probably every stop you make, people want to know what
your story is. And I would think that for you,
there's got to be kind of a career path here
that now you're a defensive coordinator and you got to
(04:17):
think one day, hey, in the next five to ten
whatever head coach is something that you'd love to do
in this game or you kind of solely focused on today.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I'm really focused. That's basically the only thing that's
worked for me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I feel like if I focus on my job and
I'm as good as I can possibly be.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That that's when.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You mentioned DQ though you mentioned Dan and just the
role that he played.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So what what's because we saw DQ here for a
spell is our DC great guys, you know, phenomenal coordinator,
great coach, incredible scheme guy. What did you learn from
DQ that you still carry with you that may look
familiar to Seahawk fans on game day in.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The fall, he's talking about football wise or.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, football wise, yeah, or or or whatever.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I think these cues an elite teacher, and he's understanding
of how to give people the fundamentals so they can
play really, really fast and be their best player when
they're playing for him. I've learned and I've tried to
take on you know that that's something that I really
think about on a daily basis, and I learned that
from him and a few other guys that I've been around.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You know, talk about your role with this defense visa
ve what Mike McDonald's going to do with this defense.
Obviously he's a great defensive mind as well. So just
talk about your role and how you communicate with him,
maybe how it's going to be in game, and how
it is on the field.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Here at practice, regardless of day to day basis is
it's basically like I'm the defensive coordinator. I set things
up around meetings, then I bring him in to run meetings.
We work together like we work hand in hand basically,
and I'm here really to kind of help him be
the best head coach you can possibly be, whilst we're
creating a defense that we're both proud of, you know,
(05:50):
and running the system how it should be run.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What is the AD and dirday, whether it's AD defensive
coordinator for the ARK. What is the hallmark of a
Mike McDonald defense? And we saw little bit of it
last year when we went to Baltimore. Trying to get
that out of my brain, by the way, but what
for those that don't remember, what would be a couple
of hallmarks for you of a Mike McDonald add and
dirt a LED defense.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I think on all three levels that we have to
be communicating extremely high level, you know, like and we
talk about that on a daily basis, and then ultimately
we have to be running on here, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We have a seven second delay specifically for that reason.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, guess Jackson's asleep or watching Cycer back in the
other room.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
One day.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
One day we'll do a podcast. You can say whatever
you want, good continue and we.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Want to run through it, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And I think that's the process of this training camp
is like building that identity, making sure the players are
invested in It has to come from them. You know,
like we can only give them kind of the map
and the tools, and we have to together, we have
to have the connection and stuff to make it happen,
because one course of the wild lines is them.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not us.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You say you want to be running and hitting. You're
running and hitting today both prior to the whistle, and
you're running.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And hidden after the whistle.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
So what does Aden Derday think about skirmishes in practice?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You had numerous of them.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, I think that's just part of this time of camp.
You know, like you it gets to a point where
you need to see other people. You don't need to
play practice and play against your own team every days.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So that kind of wears on you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
And I think like at these times it's a good
time to kind of when you play like that and
you you push yourself to a place maybe you're not
always playing it, or you haven't been, or it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You've got to.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Learn to be poised in that moment, you know, And
these are to me, these are great teaching moments. They're like,
that's the greatest thing we can go and we can
talk about it and we can be like how can
we Because when you're playing the type of football we
want to play at the end of the year, when
you're playing for the real deal, Like that's when you
need to be most poised, you know. So there's lessons
and everything, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, you're totally right about this being that time
of camp where you're kind of getting sick and tired
of popping helmets with the same guy.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean coaching, I'll say, you and Grub going at it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, media people I start, Bob Condod and Michael
Sean Dugart were fighting on the sideline. It's getting everybody. Man,
Adam Dirty is with us. So who's caught your eye?
I mean, obviously there's a lot of young guys sho
a lot of new faces. Is there been a player
or two and just judging by tape from last year
or maybe a rookie or newcomer that's really caught your
life so far.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
There's a few. I think in this time is more
there's a few guys.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Obviously, there's guys that you guys would know, like I
think Lennard Jaren doing a great job, Julian Loves doing
a great job. New guy Rats coming in making plays,
Trey Brown spooning those guys are improving on the day
to day basis.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, to mismationed the whole secondary, but good secondary.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I think the way I kind of look at it
is like I'm try and step back and say, Okay,
it's about I think growth is about consistency, you know,
and it's like how we doing on a day to
day basis, what things we need to work on, How
can we improve? How does that individual need to improve.
So there's a lot of guys improving and we just
need to keep going in that direction.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You know. Tell us about the first round draft pick.
What are you see in Barron Murker.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I think sometimes I look at him and I think
it's like he's played in the NFL for a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And I'm not saying his ability.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I'm saying just his mindset in the way that he
approaches things. He's a professional, Like he goes in, he
does his business, he learns, he asks questions, he learns
from the vets.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
He's extremely humble.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, and then he works on the field, you know,
like he's he's not the finished product, but he's going
in the right direction and he's got an excellent mentality.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, I think he got paid more to Texas than
he did. Hear about the ways, not really a big
adjustment for him. But addm dirty with us Seayak defensive coordinator.
On the air, you mentioned Julian Love, and this is
a guy who you guys just committed a lot of
money to in a brand new contract before he takes
a snap in your system. Why was it obvious to
you guys that Julian Love was going to flourish in
(09:56):
this defense.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Just his ability to do multiple things, you know, like
his experience playing cornerback, his experience in the middle of
the field, his communication, his FBI and all those type
of things kind of and the person that he is.
You know, he's a professional who comes to work every day,
is a great leader. Like he's the guy when he
gets paid you're happy for him, you know, like you're
(10:19):
just happy that to see him flourishing.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I think a lot of Hawk fans are familiar with
the D line. They're pretty familiar with the secondary. It's
the guys in the middle. You know, we've had the
same linebackers here for a long long time and now.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Everything really good one.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, it's a really good one. So talk about Dodson,
who was out and now is back and Baker's still out.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So tell us.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
About the about the new guys and what you've seen
both from Baker on tape and then also Dots in
here on the field.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, I seen some really hungry guys.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You know, it's kind of you can't discount I said
to the media yesterday, you can't discount how much time
they did miss, you know, so they they didn't really
get much of the OTAs. So now coming into the
training camp, starting coming out on the field, there's a
lot to learn. You know. Like I could see before
Bait stop practicing, he was improving at a fast rate.
(11:05):
You know, he was starting to get the things that
we're asking him to do and how he needs to
communicate to the D line and where he needs to
line up in his depth and his understanding the game.
And I think in the last two days, Dot's taking
a big jump, you know, on the speed that you
can play with. You're seeing some of his speed on tape.
You're seeing the way he can play sidelines to sideline.
So I think I'm excited for what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
A d Before you go, give us a take on
the challenges of facing a Ryan grub offense. We've talked
to a lot of the offensive guys about facing your defense.
I want to get your thoughts on what opposing defenses
are in for when they see a Ryan grub Let offense.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'm going to leave that for the opposing defenses.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So there, your story is awesome thing. I mean, you're
a pioneer.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You are You're a You're I mean, I mean, at
some point somebody brought basketball to Russia and ping pong
to America, right, and you're you're a pioneer.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I mean, he was the person of pincong Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I can tell you his name, but then I'd have
to kill you because he's not much of a a secret.
But it's it does feel that way for me, that
that that that you're kind of laying some roots down.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You kind of feel like that a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, I feel like every year like it's a new
it's a new experience, but I feel kind of not comfortable.
But sometimes I feel like these places are they become
a bit more like home, you know, and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So love my family like it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hey, best of luck this year. Go get him and
appreciate it coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
That's thirdy defensive coordinator from Seahawks with us on the
radio show We're Gonna Break. Petro Spopadoka is gonna join
next on ninety three three kJ r f M
Our nuts up coverage Jump Seahawks Training Camp continues from
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Alright back here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, Day thirteen,
Seahawks Training Camp went and checked down those sault the
carmel cookies, Jackson bad news.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ay're all gone apologize. Oh we'll bear tomorrow though. We'll
see if we can grab some of the jump on
them early. Throw them in your back, you really do.
You gotta be here early, like way before the open.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's like you know, Black Friday, gotta get the best
buy at three am before the store doors.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No, they are amazing Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're gonna be by the way at the Boeing Classic
up at Snowkwamie Ridge for the annual tournament.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Big names coming out. You want to find out more.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Boeingclassic dot Com big sponsor as well for training camp,
and by our friends at Northwest Handling Systems, Mariners, Tigers,
tonight kind of a disappointing game one of that series.
Now you're gonna win the series. You gotta beat maybe
the cy young favorite tonight in schoobl Local Kids. So
we'll see what happens tonight and talk about all of
it tomorrow on the radio show. Brett Boone gonna join
(01:11):
us Jerry Brewer, Ashley Adamson as well tomorrow from me
now Big ten Network on tomorrow's show off starting at
three o'clock. Well, joining us right now on the radio show.
The brand new defensive coordinator for your Seattle Seahawks, Aden Dirdey,
is with us on the air, and I'm gonna be
honest with you. I'm just gonna call him a D
if that's cool with him, that worked for you. Coach
A D is with us. But well listen, first of all,
(01:33):
it's it's really great to see you. It's it's awesome
to have you on the air. But I gotta get
something out of the way real quick here. Our producer,
Jackson Pheltz back in the studio, just sent me a
note and his exact words, he's disgusted with you because
you're a Tottenham fan and no, you're a and not
a Tottenham fan.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's what he's pitched about.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So why do you talk to the soccer guy and
explain yourself a little bit gay?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You grew up aroun on Tottenham.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Why are you not a Tottenham.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Fanlongs to My brother was the west Ham family used
to take me? So that's why I'm west Down.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I got you, So your older brother kind of sucked
you in a little bit, he really did.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I got you well.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
First of all, tell us about this whole experience man
for you, and we got to know you a little
bit over the offseason, the press conferences, all that stuff,
and kind of got your story. But tell us about
this journey for you into the NFL and how this
whole thing began and kind of how this whole thing
maybe got going a little before.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, well it's a pretty long story.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I'll be honest with you, Bobby, as quick as possible,
really started playing football. So I played in England, then
ended up playing in NFL Europe, had some time on
practice squads, and then ended up kind of coming back
to England and doing normal life and starting a business.
And I wandered and I was coaching in London and
I realized it for something I wanted to do, got internship,
(02:47):
helped start up the IPP for the NFL and it
kind of flew from there. Met dequ and the rest
we was rolling, and then Atlanta, Dallas and then here.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Well it seems like the London Games have had great
six sas it seems like the league is pushing that way.
Talk about the buzz behind this league in the United
Kingdom now versus maybe where it was ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh, it's completely different. When I was playing in England.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
When I started, it was literally no one knew what
it was and it was just but it was on
national TV so you could watch it. That's how I
kind of started watching it. So there there was a
big fan base back then, but it wasn't necessarily it
was kind of like a niche thing. And then now
because of the Internet you can access it and everything's available,
(03:34):
and then the games. But there's three or four games
there every year now, so it's like, yeah, like the Jags.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Are a household name. All these different teams are household names,
so it's huge there now.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, I gotta be honest when you said you grew
up playing football for a second, I had to just
does he mean soccer, Like, what are.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
We talking about her? Which what are we talking about?
Get football?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Football, name of Rome.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
There you go, Football's football, Soccer is soccer.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I mean, at some point, I think everybody is
going to move on from this, right from the London thing,
from the Great Britain thing, from the soccer thing, and
you're gonna get that behind the problem. For me it's
probably every stop you make, people want to know what
your story is. And I would think that for you,
there's got to be kind of a career path here
that now you're a defensive coordinator and you got to
(04:17):
think one day, hey, in the next five to ten
whatever head coach is something that you'd love to do
in this game or you kind of solely focused on today.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I'm really focused. That's basically the only thing that's
worked for me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I feel like if I focus on my job and
I'm as good as I can possibly be.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That that's when.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You mentioned DQ though you mentioned Dan and just the
role that he played.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So what what's because we saw DQ here for a
spell is our DC great guys, you know, phenomenal coordinator,
great coach, incredible scheme guy. What did you learn from
DQ that you still carry with you that may look
familiar to Seahawk fans on game day in.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The fall, he's talking about football wise or.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, football wise, yeah, or or or whatever.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I think these cues an elite teacher, and he's understanding
of how to give people the fundamentals so they can
play really, really fast and be their best player when
they're playing for him. I've learned and I've tried to
take on you know that that's something that I really
think about on a daily basis, and I learned that
from him and a few other guys that I've been around.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You know, talk about your role with this defense visa
ve what Mike McDonald's going to do with this defense.
Obviously he's a great defensive mind as well. So just
talk about your role and how you communicate with him,
maybe how it's going to be in game, and how
it is on the field.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Here at practice, regardless of day to day basis is
it's basically like I'm the defensive coordinator. I set things
up around meetings, then I bring him in to run meetings.
We work together like we work hand in hand basically,
and I'm here really to kind of help him be
the best head coach you can possibly be, whilst we're
creating a defense that we're both proud of, you know,
(05:50):
and running the system how it should be run.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What is the AD and dirday, whether it's AD defensive
coordinator for the ARK. What is the hallmark of a
Mike McDonald defense? And we saw little bit of it
last year when we went to Baltimore. Trying to get
that out of my brain, by the way, but what
for those that don't remember, what would be a couple
of hallmarks for you of a Mike McDonald add and
dirt a LED defense.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I think on all three levels that we have to
be communicating extremely high level, you know, like and we
talk about that on a daily basis, and then ultimately
we have to be running on here, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We have a seven second delay specifically for that reason.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, guess Jackson's asleep or watching Cycer back in the
other room.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
One day.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
One day we'll do a podcast. You can say whatever
you want, good continue and we.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Want to run through it, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And I think that's the process of this training camp
is like building that identity, making sure the players are
invested in It has to come from them. You know,
like we can only give them kind of the map
and the tools, and we have to together, we have
to have the connection and stuff to make it happen,
because one course of the wild lines is them.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
It's not us.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You say you want to be running and hitting. You're
running and hitting today both prior to the whistle, and
you're running.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And hidden after the whistle.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
So what does Aden Derday think about skirmishes in practice?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You had numerous of them.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, I think that's just part of this time of camp.
You know, like you it gets to a point where
you need to see other people. You don't need to
play practice and play against your own team every days.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So that kind of wears on you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
And I think like at these times it's a good
time to kind of when you play like that and
you you push yourself to a place maybe you're not
always playing it, or you haven't been, or it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You've got to.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Learn to be poised in that moment, you know, And
these are to me, these are great teaching moments. They're like,
that's the greatest thing we can go and we can
talk about it and we can be like how can
we Because when you're playing the type of football we
want to play at the end of the year, when
you're playing for the real deal, Like that's when you
need to be most poised, you know. So there's lessons
and everything, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, you're totally right about this being that time
of camp where you're kind of getting sick and tired
of popping helmets with the same guy.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean coaching, I'll say, you and Grub going at it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, media people I start, Bob Condod and Michael
Sean Dugart were fighting on the sideline. It's getting everybody. Man,
Adam Dirty is with us. So who's caught your eye?
I mean, obviously there's a lot of young guys sho
a lot of new faces. Is there been a player
or two and just judging by tape from last year
or maybe a rookie or newcomer that's really caught your
life so far.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
There's a few. I think in this time is more
there's a few guys.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Obviously, there's guys that you guys would know, like I
think Lennard Jaren doing a great job, Julian Loves doing
a great job. New guy Rats coming in making plays,
Trey Brown spooning those guys are improving on the day
to day basis.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, to mismationed the whole secondary, but good secondary.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I think the way I kind of look at it
is like I'm try and step back and say, Okay,
it's about I think growth is about consistency, you know,
and it's like how we doing on a day to
day basis, what things we need to work on, How
can we improve? How does that individual need to improve.
So there's a lot of guys improving and we just
need to keep going in that direction.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You know. Tell us about the first round draft pick.
What are you see in Barron Murker.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I think sometimes I look at him and I think
it's like he's played in the NFL for a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And I'm not saying his ability.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I'm saying just his mindset in the way that he
approaches things. He's a professional, Like he goes in, he
does his business, he learns, he asks questions, he learns
from the vets.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
He's extremely humble.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, and then he works on the field, you know,
like he's he's not the finished product, but he's going
in the right direction and he's got an excellent mentality.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, I think he got paid more to Texas than
he did. Hear about the ways, not really a big
adjustment for him. But addm dirty with us Seayak defensive coordinator.
On the air, you mentioned Julian Love, and this is
a guy who you guys just committed a lot of
money to in a brand new contract before he takes
a snap in your system. Why was it obvious to
you guys that Julian Love was going to flourish in
(09:56):
this defense.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Just his ability to do multiple things, you know, like
his experience playing cornerback, his experience in the middle of
the field, his communication, his FBI and all those type
of things kind of and the person that he is.
You know, he's a professional who comes to work every day,
is a great leader. Like he's the guy when he
gets paid you're happy for him, you know, like you're
(10:19):
just happy that to see him flourishing.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I think a lot of Hawk fans are familiar with
the D line. They're pretty familiar with the secondary. It's
the guys in the middle. You know, we've had the
same linebackers here for a long long time and now.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Everything really good one.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, it's a really good one. So talk about Dodson,
who was out and now is back and Baker's still out.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So tell us.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
About the about the new guys and what you've seen
both from Baker on tape and then also Dots in
here on the field.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, I seen some really hungry guys.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You know, it's kind of you can't discount I said
to the media yesterday, you can't discount how much time
they did miss, you know, so they they didn't really
get much of the OTAs. So now coming into the
training camp, starting coming out on the field, there's a
lot to learn. You know. Like I could see before
Bait stop practicing, he was improving at a fast rate.
(11:05):
You know, he was starting to get the things that
we're asking him to do and how he needs to
communicate to the D line and where he needs to
line up in his depth and his understanding the game.
And I think in the last two days, Dot's taking
a big jump, you know, on the speed that you
can play with. You're seeing some of his speed on tape.
You're seeing the way he can play sidelines to sideline.
So I think I'm excited for what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
A d Before you go, give us a take on
the challenges of facing a Ryan grub offense. We've talked
to a lot of the offensive guys about facing your defense.
I want to get your thoughts on what opposing defenses
are in for when they see a Ryan grub Let offense.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'm going to leave that for the opposing defenses.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So there, your story is awesome thing. I mean, you're
a pioneer.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You are You're a You're I mean, I mean, at
some point somebody brought basketball to Russia and ping pong
to America, right, and you're you're a pioneer.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I mean, he was the person of pincong Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I can tell you his name, but then I'd have
to kill you because he's not much of a a secret.
But it's it does feel that way for me, that
that that that you're kind of laying some roots down.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You kind of feel like that a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, I feel like every year like it's a new
it's a new experience, but I feel kind of not comfortable.
But sometimes I feel like these places are they become
a bit more like home, you know, and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So love my family like it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hey, best of luck this year. Go get him and
appreciate it coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
That's thirdy defensive coordinator from Seahawks with us on the
radio show We're Gonna Break. Petro Spopadoka is gonna join
next on ninety three three kJ r f M
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