Seahawks 22, Cowboys 14
Q. How is your knee?
DREW LOCK: It's good. It's good. It will be all right. I think it was definitely just a precautionary thing. I still haven't seen the clip. Don't really know what happened.
I know immediately when you get hit on your front leg, as a Q, after you throw, it's locked out. Kind of scared me for a second. Get up. I don't know what happened. All right, next play. We'll figure it out on the sidelines.
Yeah, kind of a precautionary deal. Just going to listen to what the team tells me, get ready, get better for next week.
Q. It was on the roughing penalty?
DREW LOCK: Yeah.
Q. What do you think you've shown these two games?
DREW LOCK: Definitely a transition from game one to game two. Struggling a little bit early on those first couple drives in the Vikings game. Didn't put points up on the board. Feeling confident going back out there this time. I got some plays under my belt the week before. I'm confident I'm ready to roll.
I wanted to show that tonight to not only the coaches but the team that I'm going to be ready at all times, whenever that time comes, as a backup, you hope it never comes, you hope the head guy is playing every single snap throughout the year, unless we're beating somebody bad enough to get thrown in there.
No, just showing that I can show this next week as well, but that I'm just ready to go. I'm here for this team. If that time comes, the guys are confident when I walk out there to go take the huddle, try to help us win games.
Q. You change the way you prepare. Does that then get you when you're called upon, you're more ready?
DREW LOCK: That's the goal every game week as a backup. Just getting closer and closer and closer to feeling like you're the starter every time you get the opportunity to go out there.
I think last year, having 17 opportunities to try to feel that way and be ready to do it, then have it not happen, I've definitely logged a good amount of time of being ready when my number gets called.
We kind of tried to emphasize that this week. Geno is going to go out and play. Drew, you know you're going to play. Geno is down and you're going in. That's how we try to talk about it this week with me going in to play.
I like to think the offense when I was out there, guys blocked their butts off, guys made plays with the ball in their hands, we scored points. That's the number one goal.
Q. How good was it to see the explosives come in the passing game?
DREW LOCK: Yeah, we know what that room's capable of. That room is stacked with really good players right now. To be able to help our run game, get us a couple explosives in the pass. We knew our run game is going to be explosive. For us being able to add that second piece, big plays, big chunk plays, then come back to the run. It makes us a more well-rounded offense, to say the least.
Q. What did you see on the pass to Jaxon?
DREW LOCK: DB tried to kind of undercut it with him running across the field. Most of the time you can kind of line drive that throw to Jax. Had to put a little touch on him, being able to put it over the opposite shoulder. He did a great job of tracking that ball and making that catch.
I already talked to him. I saw him at Chipotle today. I tried to get some before the game.
I said, Jax, do you normally get some before the game?
He was, No. That's why he got stopped at the one because he had Chipotle today, instead of your normal pregame food. That was kind of the joke on the sideline between me and him.
Q. Other than that, what has he shown you?
DREW LOCK: He's been amazing. I think the biggest part about him is his composure. Not once have I felt like he was a rookie when he's out there. He's confident in himself. He knows what he's doing. When the ball is in the air, he's going to make a play on it, go get it, turn something into nothing when he gets the ball in his hands.
It's hard to do. That's hard to do in this league, especially as a rookie coming in. With him missing some time in the years previous, for him to come in and step in, make the plays that he's making right now, that's pretty impressive.
Q. Now that you're in your second year in this offense, quite a few snaps, what improvements are you seeing manifest on the field compared to a year ago?
DREW LOCK: I think it comes from being in the same offense for two years now, like you said, just quicker decisions with the ball. Knowing when on a play-action I turn my head around, knowing whether it's going to be good or bad. Just processing quicker.
When you get to that point and kind of feel the way I'm feeling right now, you feel like you can go out there every time, walk down the field. That's the feeling that every quarterback wants to have. Finally being able to be confident in a system with the guys around me, I know what's going on, it feels really good right now. I'm excited to get back out there again and keep showing it.
Q. You saw a couple highly drafted receivers come in with you in Denver. What impresses you about Jaxon and the struggle of making that to the NFL level as a rookie?
DREW LOCK: I definitely have been around some good rookie receivers, that's for sure. I think what kind of all of them entail, which is kind of what I mentioned earlier, just the fact that they can come in and be so levelheaded, make the plays when it comes to them.
A lot of guys can let the lights and this logo kind of, I don't know, might get too big for them sometimes, especially when you're drafted so high. There's expectations on you. Being able to drown out the noise of expectations of being a first round pick, Ohio State has put out a lot of good receivers right now. To be able to drown that out I think is what is really going to set Jax apart.
Doesn't seem like he cares about it. He wants to come out here, get better, learn from DK, Tyler, make the plays. I think if he keeps that mindset, keeps his head down, keeps working, he's going to be really, really good.
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