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Zach Sieler – September 16, 2024 Download PDF version

Monday, September 16, 2024

DT Zach Sieler

(As a player who’s been with QB Tua Tagovailoa now for so many years, what were your immediate thoughts when you saw what transpired on Thursday?) – “I mean it doesn’t matter if it’s Tua or anybody, but what happened is horrible. You hate seeing that stuff. You immediately pray and wish the best for him and his family. I hope he’s doing good. He seems happy; I’m not going to speculate anything. I’m really excited to see where we go forward with this.”

(Emotionally there’s a lot going on concerning QB Tua Tagovailoa, but then you also lost a football game, you’ve got a tough game to go west. How do you kind of balance all of those emotions as you’ve got to prep right away for a new game?) – “Honestly, I think that’s the good thing about the NFL, where you’re on to the next thing. So it’s like you make the corrections quick and you move onto the next game. It gives you an opportunity to move on from what just happened, not that you want to forget it because you need to learn from it and you know it’s a copycat league and you can get a lot of those same plays over again next week and the following weeks after. But I think that’s kind of the bird of the beast where we’re able to move on and prove yourself the next week, ‘Hey, look – last week wasn’t good enough. This week is,’ and we can make those corrections and make it right.”

(Question about the run defense and where you think it is; both opponents rushed for over 100, but Buffalo with 108 with a 49-yard-run. Is the run defense in a good place? Did you guys make corrections and one got away from you last week? How do you view it?) – “I mean it’s still a run, they still went (49) yards. We can’t let that happen. Yeah, they went for 108 – you can do the math, take out the (49), whatever. It doesn’t matter, that was one of the runs and that was a big one. You can’t let that happen up front. That’s a direct impact of how we’re playing, and it’s let’s make the adjustments, let’s figure this out and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

(What role does veteran leadership play in after a loss like that?) – “Yeah, it’s huge. I think it’s – (Head Coach Mike) McDaniel preaches, it’s a player’s team. It’s the players’ locker room and when you have the veteran leadership there, some guys have been through situations like this, and some have been through worse. And you lean on that leadership and that experience to either guide young guys or steer the team in the right direction where you can make the corrections and not take it on the chin and not be soft if someone’s trying to make you corrections or call you out for something you didn’t do good enough, but ‘Hey, no. I need to make that better. I need to play better. We need to play better,’ whatever that is. When you have leadership and veterans like that, I think you can really kind of grow and build to something great.”

(You’ve been one of those young players who stepped up when opportunity presented itself; what advice do you give QB Skylar Thompson?) – “Man, I think Skylar (Thompson) has already done it. man. What was it? Three years ago in Buffalo, two years ago in Buffalo? I have no doubts in my mind that Skylar is going to go out there and do the best he can in Seattle. I’m super excited to see him play and work on this opportunity. Obviously, again we’re praying for and sad about Tua, but I have no hesitation with Skylar going out there as QB1 this week.”

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