Bengals Linebacker Germaine Pratt on Seahawks Offense

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00:00 to start with stopping the run. You know we we have to get start stopping the

00:03 running backs from getting over 100 yards so that's the one thing that we

00:06 have to do. We have to tackle well much better than we doing in previous weeks.

00:09 We got to do our job and then you stop the run and eliminate it the run game

00:15 then Gino has to throw the ball. So we'll rather have Gino throw the ball.

00:20 So you're gonna make him throw it quite a bit then? Yeah that's the goal like

00:24 limit it be one-dimensional you know you want a team to be one-dimensional. So

00:28 once you get the pass the run game stopped then make it a drop back game

00:33 then get opportunity for us to tee off let Trey do what he do best and let guys

00:38 up front eat. Well I noticed that you guys your defense specifically is one of

00:43 the best at not allowing a team to score touchdowns in the first quarter. What

00:47 allows you guys to play like that? I'm just playing free you know starting

00:52 fast is what we need to keep on continuing doing and it's like just

00:56 doing our job. Just competing, just playing with swagger and playing for

01:00 one another. How do you review film like when you're when you know you're facing

01:04 the Seahawks do you go back to the one loss? Do you look at all four games as a

01:08 whole or do you I don't know hone in on anything? I mean when you watch a film

01:13 you just see what they what they do well and see how we can stop them slow them

01:17 down and then like we didn't see I played against Seahawks I believe

01:23 against when Russell was there so it's totally different you know then what

01:27 they used to do but they balance more but when Russell was there's like they

01:31 ran the ball ahead Marshawn they always had a dominant running back back then so

01:35 it's always good like to stop them. They try to stop them. They like to be run

01:42 heavy when Russell Wilson was with them and I noticed last week they averaged I

01:46 think 5.3 yards per carry as a team they like to run it a lot. Is it

01:52 is it more exhausting trying to combat a team who likes to run that much I

01:56 believe it was 23 times? No it's not as often you just got to just stop them

02:01 from getting 5.5 whatever you said you know eliminate the run you know we got

02:06 to do good on first down the second down and get them like backed up get them off

02:10 schedule you know if you keep on getting them like much yards and stuff then

02:14 they'll keep on following a strip you know just get them off page and then

02:18 better let our front rush. You guys been talking about wanting to play

02:22 complementary football for a few weeks now what was it like for you guys as a

02:26 defense to see the offense finally fire up? I mean you know it's huge you know

02:30 baby to play good in every phase offense defense and special

02:36 teams you know that's huge that's that's that's where you be able to win games

02:39 everybody has to play well you know we have to feed off each other have to

02:42 bring the energy as a as a team but you know baby to finally see nine do good

02:47 and get his guy the ball that's huge you know just showing how close my offense

02:52 can be you know we missed T out there but and then you got Joe Mitzen you got

02:57 TB you got all the guys that can go off at any moment so it's huge to finally

03:02 see the offense getting rhythm you know so it's huge.