Hour 4: Mike Macdonald Speaks to the Media at the NFL Combine
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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They discuss Mike Macdonald’s press conference at the NFL combine and Bump talks about the position that is undervalued in the NFL, the importance of preseason football, and much more in Four Down Territory. They talk about why the conversation around Cal Raleigh and the power in the Mariners lineup is being misconstrued. And they round out the show by telling you What You Need to Know.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.5 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at Seattlesports.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:16.0 | Mike McDonald's speaking for reporters at the NFL Combine, the latest from Seattle's head coach. |
| 0:22.1 | We'll run through a couple here. First, in talking about the idea of copying things from other |
| 0:28.9 | teams. I've said this before. You can't copy anything. Like, don't copy Pete. Just have a vision of |
| 0:34.5 | what you're trying to create, the systems that you believe in. What are the principles that you want to hang your hat on as a football team |
| 0:40.1 | in each phase of the ball and then go attack it. |
| 0:42.4 | There's so many different ways to play schematically to play great defense. |
| 0:46.3 | What you can't sacrifice is how you play. |
| 0:48.9 | He doesn't like it when people cheat off papers, |
| 0:50.4 | but he also says he really dislikes when coaches just try to copy what they see from other teams. Michael, you copied. Where does your philosophy come from? Now, you've made it's your own, but at some point, you looked at someone that said, I like that. I want to be a variation of that. You know, you win a Super Bowl championship, man. You just start flexing on fools. You know what I'm saying? He's like, I don't want to copy. And he's made this thing his own. This is completely Mike McDonald. But at some point, someone taught him his ways and he ran with it. So, yeah, I agree with him when it comes to I don't, maybe defensively is different. |
| 1:29.3 | Offensively, when I was an O.C., if a team ran a play and it worked against you, oh, you're going to see it again. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm going to run it against you. |
| 1:36.3 | Maybe in my own way. |
| 1:39.3 | The saying it's a copycat lead, it means something. |
| 1:43.1 | People actually do that. |
| 1:46.8 | So that's speaking from the offensive side, he runs stuff that other people run, that he's seen other people run, but it's his |
| 1:53.2 | own. But he's a bowl champion, so I digress. Is there a wrong way to do it that might be irking |
| 1:58.8 | him? So like it's not just being inspired by something, |
| 2:01.3 | but like is there a wrong way for a coach or a coordinator to copy? If it doesn't fit what you do, |
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