Perhaps nobody got more out of the week, football wise, than rookie linebacker Tyrice Knight, who got all the first-team work with the starters in practice, but who, unlike the rest of the starters, started Saturday night and played an entire three quarters. And he too felt like there was a lot of benefit to come out of the experience the team had in Nashville.
“For one thing, the team just got better just taking this whole trip down here for a few days,” Knight said. “Everybody bonding more. But I will say for the joint practices, it felt good going against someone else other than yourself. I feel like everybody tried to see where everybody was at. I’d say it was a pretty successful trip for us.”
The Seahawks last held some semblance of joint practices in 1991 when the team went to Portland to practice with Atlanta, but based on the experiences had on and off the field, it’s a safe bet that the wait for the next occurrence of joint practices will be a lot shorter.
“I think it was really beneficial for us as a club,” said second-year outside linebacker Derick Hall. ‘Especially with a lot of guys, even some third and fourth-year guys, we’ve never had a joint practice. It was big for me to be able to see a different color all week and not practice against each other. I think it took the edge off on that piece a little bit, but I think it was very productive for us to go up against someone else all week long. Then, use that preparation for the game today. I think it was really, really big.”
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