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Transcript: Postgame Seattle Players

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October 5, 2008

LB Lofa Tatupu

What can you take away from this game?

We'll see what areas we can improve on. You name it, run, pass...we didn't do a very good job at stopping either one.

How tough was it going against Brandon Jacobs?

He's a load, but I mean it's just as tough going against Derrick Ward or Ahmad Bradshaw. I mean you've got to give him credit, but I think you guys have to start looking at what that offensive line is doing, rather than just giving him all the praise. He's a very good running back in terms of his size and his speed, but they are opening some pretty big holes for him. Look at Bradshaw, he broke like eight tackles on that one play.

Last year, the Giants had a pretty rough start to their season but they ended up as Super Bowl Champs. What can you take from their experience last season to help you with your current situation? It must feel good to know that it can be done.

Absolutely, that's our attitude, but it's going to have to be a team effort. When they made the commitment to turn it around, you could really tell the difference in their style of play and the way they executed. It can't be just like an every other week thing, they made it happen week after week and that's why they were able to be so successful. It's a choice that everyone has, each one of these guys in this locker room has to step it up and correct all of the little mistakes.

LB Julian Peterson

The common perception around the league is that teams usually play better when coming off of their bye week. It didn't seem like you played your best football today, having last week off, so would you say that this is a misconception?

I have no idea. I didn't feel like we were emotionally down or anything like that. We got some guys back and I felt like we were going on the right path, but things just didn't work out for us.

We're not used to seeing the Seahawks get beat like that? What was the attitude of the players on the sidelines?

They made more plays than us...we didn't wrap up and we let them get a lot of extra yards. We've got to make sure that we tighten up our techniques, just go back to the basics.

In the first half they had nine plays of 15+ yards.

Man they did a real good job at that. I know at one point I looked at the scoreboard and saw they were averaging like 11 yards per play. That's a lot of yards a play and it makes our defense look bad. We've just got to look at the film and try to work out everything we did wrong this game.

Is this just the case of a team playing really well against you?

Yeah, the Giants played a great game. I can't really say anything bad about them...we've just got to make more plays.

WR Bobby Engram

What went wrong for the offense?

Well we weren't able to sustain drives, because we couldn't convert on third down. It's unfortunate that it went down like that, because we have the guys that can make all the plays. It just didn't happen. I mean there are no real excuses. We just flat out didn't play well.

Was it more what they were doing or was it more of what you were not doing?