Seahawks 26, Vikings 0
MAX BROSMER: Tough day today. It was tough. Give credit to Seattle's defense. Got some great play-makers over there, great scheme. Thought they had a great plan for us. We didn't make the plays where we should have. I thought our defense did a good job of holding us in the game for the majority of the game there.
We didn't capitalize where we should have. It's tough to go and try and win games and we can't keep the ball in our hands. Ultimately I take credit for. We got to get better.
So questions...
Q. Can you take us through the pick-six.
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, it's tough. I love the play call. I thought he put us in the best situation to let our play-makers make plays. Ultimately the defense did a good job of getting in quick.
Ultimately the 10 or 12 yards, it's fourth and one, either make a play or eat it. They get the 12 yards that I give up on the run back. They get back on offense if I threw the ball out, start 12 yards back from where the ball was.
Ultimately I made a bad decision with the football. It cost us heavy. Early in the game like that, giving energy to a team like that, it's tough. We have to do a better job, me specifically, of keeping the ball in our hands.
Q. What are your options in theory in terms of who to throw it to?
MAX BROSMER: Typical boot play. You have your flat, your over, your high part, your high component of your boot play. That's typical for most of your boots and nakeds. Did a good job of covering it.
Again, that's my responsibility to take care of the football, not my responsibility to try to make something happen when it's not there. I got to do a better job of keeping the ball in our hands, get ready for the next drive.
Q. From a speed-of-the-game perspective, did you feel like you were going through you're reads too fast?
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, I'll go back and watch the film a little bit. I feel like I was maybe half a click fast to the reads. I feel like feeling the flow of the game, the flow of the pocket, feeling the flow of conceptually what's happening down the field.
I got to a couple routes too quickly today. We could have had bigger hits on those completions. Throwing the ball half a second too early sometimes. Sometimes you can make those throws if you anticipate well. There is a very small gap where if you throw too early, there's no chance to complete it.
That's a learning moment for me. Use it as experience for the next time.
Q. On the pick-six, it looked like C.J. was coming in front of you there. Did you have an option out there?
MAX BROSMER: No handoff. It's a typical like power pass in the NFL. Full slide, cut the end and go.
Again, it's a tough play. It happens. You have to eat it, move on from it, but learn it from most importantly. Next time the situation comes up, don't put the ball in harm's way, take what they give you.
In that moment it was take a sack and don't risk the ball.
Q. Your defensive teammates were saying that despite the fact when you turned it over the first time, you still came back. That resilience in this environment against one of the really good teams this year, what have they said to you after this about how you conducted yourself in your first start?
MAX BROSMER: I mean, I just would credit the entire locker room here. I think our locker room here is very, very special. The ability to stay together after a tough loss and tough plays, tough drives, is really hard to do in the NFL. It's hard to do in college, but in the NFL it's really hard to do. That's one of our team's superpowers. I felt their love. I felt their support.
They don't have to do that. Like, they could just let me be and move on with their next drive or after the game for the next game. They don't do that. Our team doesn't do that. You feel the support here. Whether you played well or had a tough day, you're going to get the same support and same love from the rest of the team.
Q. When you're going through it and feel like you are sped up in the reads, what's the key to getting back in the timing?
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, it's difficult to make that adjustment. Maybe it's a really focused second half or focused second quarter adjustment you make through it.
I think honestly it comes from experience. I think that I could have done a better job maybe of through the rest of the game noticing that quicker maybe and trying to slow myself down a little more.
I pride myself on trying to get the ball out in a timely fashion. Sometimes when it's too fast, the rest of the concept doesn't develop the way it's supposed to. Schematically speaking we had some great concepts today that ended up opening up pretty well. Whether it's a tick too fast getting there, moving to a spot to try to get it there quicker, it's something you have to learn and go through.
I'll definitely use today as an experience and learning moment to get better from there. I'll be able to look back on some of the plays today and be like I know I was too fast here and I'll slow myself down maybe half a click slower next time to get that completion.
Q. Easier to learn how to slow down than to speed up?
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, I mean, I would argue that I think. I think it just depends on how you're processing through the reads.
When you have some really talented play-makers here with Justin and Jay and Jalen, who seem like the fastest guys in the entire world, you feel sped up maybe, have to get this ball out fast to these guys because they are going to make the play.
In reality you can take a breath for a second because they're going to get to the right spot at the right time, trusting they know the times just as well as you do.
Again, that's something that I'll learn from this moment and some of these plays today and I'll go watch the film. We'll get better from today.
Q. What was your feeling with Kevin throughout the game?
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, that's one thing that I think he does a really good job of. Whether it's a tough day or a really solid day for the offense and the team in general, he's the same guy the entire game.
Maybe he comes after a tough play that I had, coaches me up right away. I'm all ears, too, because I just want to get better. Him giving those coaching lessons and those points of emphasis throughout the game are really important.
He's the same guy with the same intonation, the same vocal tone the whole game, which is really great for a quarterback to keep everybody even keel.
Q. Anything he said today or a moment you had with him that's going to stick with you?
MAX BROSMER: Yeah, I think we had a good conversation after the game. That's something that I'll keep between us.
Again, we talk about how this team stays together. That doesn't happen unless it's top down. From Kwesi, from K0, the rest of the team, that's an emphasis from the top down. I felt that talking with him after the game.
I'm always open to getting coached. I want hard coaching. He does that well. He also loves up on you and supports you when you need it. There's a good balance of both. He's a really good example of what that looks like, of tough coaching and support. Really appreciate that from him, what he's done for the team from that regard.
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