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Head Coach Raheem Morris
Opening Statement:
"Obviously didn't play as well. Came out flat. For whatever reason, they didn't play well. Those guys got the win today. Hats off to the Seattle Seahawks and what they were able to. We've got to play better next week."
On not being able to slow Seattle down in the second half:
"Turnover for a touchdown. A big play by [D.K.] Metcalf at the end of the half. A penalty or two penalties to keep drives alive on third down. That's what I remember right now off the top of my head."
On whether he feels the team was able to attack Seattle through the air today:
"No. We did not get it accomplished. Clearly, not today. The success you need in order to win games in this league and we were not able to do that today. We didn't play well as a unit across the board: special teams, offense or defense. We've got to go to the lab and put it together and find a way to go get a win next week."
On the plan to fix penalties:
"We've been pretty good most of the year. We've been a pretty disciplined team. We've been doing the right things. So today was kind of an anomaly. We've got to go back to fix those things, look at it on tape, correct what we've got to get corrected. I've got a lot of confidence in the guys that we can do that."
On how surprised he was at the team starting off the game flat:
"You know, you can't really put a finger on it right now. You've got to go back and look at it, what you've got to get done and how you want to do it, but we did not come out with the energy that was required to win a football game today. We need to be better. Like, come out, get that stop. I don't know whether it was the penalties that kept their drives going. Right off the bat, I think it was three penalties in that first drive. Those are the things that kind of slap the air out of you, and you can't allow those things to happen."
On whether the ability to win three games in a row and not come out flat for a fourth game is part of building something as a team:
"There is no doubt. It is hard to win a game in the National Football League, let alone three. So, to be able to go out there to go out and win four, it's definitely something good teams do, and we've got to figure out how to do it."
On how he feels RB Bijan Robinson is progressing through the season:
"I think everybody knows what I'm going to say about the stats, 'They're there for losers,' and we lost today. But Bijan came out and was really running the football well. He was able to catch the ball in the back field pretty well. You've got to put it all together as a team. I will never glorify individual stats over team wins. That's just not my makeup."
On whether he has any concerns about the pass rush:
"Yes. We've got to get the quarterback at a timely fashion. We've got to get him on the ground when we send people. Can't let him scramble around [and] do some of those things. We've got to go back and find ways to fix them. We did hit the quarterback I think once today. Had an opportunity to get a throw-away in the pocket. We got an illegal hit low [penalty]. We've got to fix some of those things, see what we can do to correct that. We're looking at it on tape."
On the decision to have QB Michael Penix Jr. make his NFL debut at the end of the game: "At that point, the game was out of hand. It was gone. So, we were able to sub all those guys and get them out. Made the mistake of putting Bijan [Robinson] in one play. Got him out of there and made sure we can substitute as many people as we could at that moment."
On how the team can fix the false starts:
"That's what we talked about. Those are all the same things we talked about with penalties. You've got to go back and look at that and see why that happened. And they hadn't been happening all year. We had a small little segment there where we had a couple of opportunities that we didn't like. We were able to fix those things. But penalties are based on concentration, and we've got to go fix those things on concentration level."
On having struggles in all three phases today:
"You know, you always look for somebody to pick you up in this team effort game, and it didn't happen today. It felt like we got something going on offense, big play by those guys, not good on defense. We get a stop on defense, [and] they go right back out and turn the ball over and give them a walk-off touchdown. We've got to put all those things together. We've got to be able to go out there and find ways to win together, and we did not do it today. Tough day."
Opening statement:
"I'll get started and then [I] can take any questions you have. Tough day at the office, certainly. Pro football has a way of testing you like that, and now we have to kind of -- we talk about having resolve, having grit, responding, getting back to work tomorrow, being candid about how each one of us has to do certain things better. I've got to play better and just kind of looking at how do we play better, how do we improve and put together a good week of practice and then try to play your best football you can play next Sunday. But tough day. Felt like we were there. We were hanging around. We had four possessions in the first half and the first one had the penalties that kind of set us backwards, and then the second one, had that throw to Ray-Ray, I felt if we had hit that, maybe he scores. Didn't get any points from that drive, which that play, missed op, loomed large. And then the third drive scored, and then the fourth drive, the two- minute drive, we weren't able to sustain that drive. So much of offensive success is being able to sustain and not have that penalty or have that play or that negative play that sets you back and is hard to overcome, and today we did things at times but weren't able to sustain play in and play out enough to score enough points to win."
On the Seahawks pass rush and how things felt in the pocket after being clean for a few games:
"They had a good rush plan. It's hard to answer quite well yet because my eyes are kind of down field. But at times they were getting home. But at times we were in a drop-back game where you're kind of inviting that pass rush as well. So when you get behind, that's sometimes what happens. And so it's important that we start fast enough to where we can kind of stay in our mold and not have to turn into that kind of two-minute mode as the game goes on."
On how the team fixes the false start penalties:
"It's kind of unique, I think, to this week. Some of them was just trying to make a check, trying to get out of a play with a blitz. And so sometimes it's just unfortunate. And we'll have to be on the screws about that this week and be better up ahead."
On Raheem Morris saying the team came out flat in all three phases and whether he sensed that as well:
"I think we didn't go down and score on the first possession. Would have loved to have started faster. Did have the penalties that hurt that specific drive. Converted a first down, converted and moved the football the second drive as well. But then just missed that play to Ray-Ray that I felt loomed large when you had an opportunity there to get behind the defense and we weren't able to connect, that was one that I wanted back.
On how you the team can put this game behind them but also learn from it:
"Well, it's both, right? I mean you definitely go in tomorrow, and we have to be hard on ourselves, coach one another hard, be candid about what we each can do better. You have to kind of start with yourself and raise your hand and say, I've got to do this better. So that's part of what good teams do, but then certainly you have to move forward as well, and that's what Wednesday is all about. And there's a phrase they use in the league that you can't let your previous opponent beat you twice, and I think that's kind of what he's trying to say. At some point you do turn the page, and you move forward. Many times, a performance that you don't like can galvanize you and sharpen your edge a little bit, and that's certainly what you want a performance like this to do."
On whether he would tell teammates to forget about this game or not:
"I think it's everything. I think, whether it's meetings, whether it's your own conversations, whether it's out on the practice field, I just think that everybody understands that you have to go back to work. You have to improve, you've got to fix things that weren't good enough, and you've got to understand that win or lose, each game is its own entity. The next Sunday is coming, and you have another fresh start there and try to stack a much better performance."
On whether it is easier to throw this game and look at it as an aberration or a fluke because the team has won in different ways:
"Well, I think it's an opportunity to learn from it. I don't know about throw it away. I think as Bijan was saying, at some point you do throw it away and move forward, but not until you've talked about, hey, I need to be better here, why didn't this work better, where were we deficient?
Where can we be better? You ask those questions. You're candid about it. You take the coaching. You tell the truth to one another and then you certainly have to move forward. And that rebound is really true in pro football after a tough loss, but also after a win. You have to be able to learn from a game and then move forward regardless."
On what stood out to him as frustrating aside from the penalties and missing Ray-Ray McCloud early in the game:
"Turnovers always loom large. Certainly, the sack fumble was a tough play. That was my fault. I felt like on a third down I was probably trying a little too hard to try to convert and not turn into a fourth and long or having to punt. At some point, you probably just need to throw it away or maybe get backside to Bijan there as a check-down. If it's not a first down, it's not a first down. You kind of learn your lesson there in a hard way. So those two plays loom large for me, and I think that's kind of the ones that stick out right now."
On whether he feels like he needs to be more vocal now that the team had a game like today off the back of a three-game winning streak:
"I think I should really be the same person. You've got to be yourself, and in my case as a quarterback, I do think it is probably being relatively vocal. But you don't change who you are. I think players can see fake from a mile away. You've got to be authentic. But who I've been ought to be who I'll be, and just have good communication, have productive meetings tomorrow and we all just have to learn from what took place and how to improve."
RB Bijan Robinson
On what went wrong for the team today:
"First off, I just had to give honor to God, to the Son of Jesus, for getting us all healthy. We just continue to play for Him and play for the Lord, and we didn't get the best results for Him. But to your question, it was definitely a tough one. Obviously, you know, we needed to execute earlier in the offense, and I think penalties and things like that definitely hurt us. I think we had like nine or something like that. For us, it's just a matter of staying physical throughout the game and not letting mental mistakes and not letting bad things that might have happened throughout the game affect us. For us we got to do our part and put the ball in the end zone, especially when the defense gives us opportunities to do it, we have to do it. We didn't execute enough to go out there and get the win."
On what is working for him to have over 100 rushing yards this game:
"We trust the O-line, all five of those guys. The tight ends, Charlie [Woerner], Kyle [Pitts], and Drake [London], [Darnell] Mooney, Ray-Ray [McCloud III]. They're doing a really good job blocking. So it's me and Tyler [Allgeier]'s job to set them up the right way and to find the open gaps and explode and make people miss in the second level. Even in the pass game, I'd be available for Kirk [Cousins] as well. When we do those things right it's going to be hard to stop. But for us, it's just continuing to run the football the right way so we can open up everything else in the pass, and then we'll be balanced."
On what the team needs to work on:
"Just continue to just trust each other, play our hearts out. We wanted this fourth win, but we understand that sometimes it just doesn't happen that way. I think this is a big learning lesson for us because, you know, we have a really big game next week in Tampa Bay and, you know, we got to let this one just go. I think the really good teams, if they do lose the game, I think they're really good at putting that game away immediately. We'll probably watch the film tonight, but then put it away, focus on this next team, and execute as much as you can for that game right there."
RB Tyler Allgeier
On how he would describe the loss today:
"It was just a tough loss. Just execution. The penalties hurt, and just the execution all the way around. We just didn't play our best."
On what he feels leads to the lack of execution:
"I feel like the energy was there, maybe a little flat. I feel like we all had good intentions. It just wasn't our day."
On whether he was surprised at the run and pass game struggles today:
"Oh for sure, especially when you want to build upon what we've been working on and just not having any lulls. I think today was just a lull day. But the good thing is we can watch film and watch what we did that we can correct and move on to the next one."
On OL Matt Hennessy and OL Kyle Hinton stepping in after injuries:
"I thought that they did really well just stepping up. I think whoever dresses are the best 48 on the field. So, just having the best 48 on the field and them being able to step in and handle business as they did, it was really good."
On how RB Bijan Robinson played today:
"He was going crazy. Like you said, it's a whole video game on Madden or NCAA with how elusive he is. But I thought he did really well. Just got to keep building on it. There were a lot of blitzes that we all picked up, so it was a good day for us."
S Jessie Bates III
On not overreacting to one game:
"I think that's a great point – 17 games, 4-3, 3-0 in our division, going to Tampa Bay next week. So, if you want to overreact – there's going to be a lot of people talking and all – we got beat, but we'll be fine."
On if having the ability to extend winning streaks separates good vs great teams:
"I guess you could say that. I think a good team just goes 1-0 each week. It doesn't matter if you're on a streak or not. The goal, it doesn't matter. If we're trying to go on a five-game win streak, that doesn't matter. It's to go 1-0 every single week. This week we didn't, so next week we've got to move on. Like I said, huge divisional game to remain undefeated in our division."
On what Seattle did well:
"I think some of their tempo, some of the stuff that they did hurt us a little bit. I think the trick play, the 20-yard play, and then right before halftime, the 35-yard pass. It's not anything that's out of the ordinary. There are just certain details we have to tighten up."
S Justin Simmons
On how he describes the loss:
"That's not good enough, unacceptable. There were a lot of things that didn't go well, and just speaking defensively we didn't play nearly well enough today to even give us a chance to win the game, regardless of what happened around the offense and special teams. I already talked about especially situational ball at the end of the half, on me giving up that score. That can't happen. So, if we want to be where we want to be and there's no panic mode button, but you can't do stuff like that."
On the Seahawk's score at the end of the half:
"It was a miscommunication on my end, and making sure that, obviously no timeouts, knowing to protect the sideline, also knowing you could get a shot play. They took the shot play. I blocked it up well, and they ran a little sting and it's unacceptable. Like I said, that's on me. That can't happen as a guy, then a safety, last line of defense. I got to make sure I get that down."
On Head Coach Raheem Morris describing the game as 'flat':
"Yeah, I think that's accurate. Again, from a defensive standpoint, you just felt on our heels a little bit. In those moments, you rely on guys to make their plays, not go chase plays. I felt like a lot of the times we were trying to chase plays, but do your job, trust the guy next to you and make the plays that come to you. They made a lot more plays than we did today. Like I said, there is no panic button, but if we want to be where we want to be, we need to fix that."
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Seahawks players at the Week 7 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, October 20, 2024.
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Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet (26) at the Week 7 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, October 20, 2024.
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Seahawks players at the Week 7 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, October 20, 2024.
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Seahawks players at the Week 7 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, October 20, 2024.
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