Tyler Lockett: Seahawks Have More Structured Culture Now vs Pete Carroll Era | The Rich Eisen Show

how are things different uh with the new head coach Mike McDonald there Tyler I think things are a little bit different just when you look at the structure of you know the philosophy of how each of um how Pete and how Mike kind of go when when it comes to coaching I mean the thing that I loved about Pete is Pete gave so much freedom and I love that aspect of his approach because when you give somebody Freedom they can't hide who they are sometimes you see who people really are when when they have a number of Freedom that they could be able to utilize to where you could say okay I see what this person needs to work on Etc with Mike I like the fact that he's bringing structure because it's like hey this is who we are this is how we're going to be and you got to be able to tap into that and you got to be able to buy in and if you're not going to buy in then you're pretty much not going to be here and so I love that type of structure because it almost like magnifies that college structure again so um give me an example of the freedom that Pete gave you that uh might not ordinarily now be there anymore uh well I mean when I say freedom I mean like you know I come from Kansas State um you know where Bill Snider kind of had like a military style and now all of a sudden I go to Seattle and it's more of like hey like I want you to be who you are if you don't talk you don't have to talk you know I just want you to be able to be at your best if you're going to joke around all day you can can joke around all day we're not going to hold you to a standard of where we think every single guy should be we want you to show us who you are on the field off the field and we want to give you enough space and enough Grace to be able to be that player so if you talk trash go talk trash we're not going to stop you that's kind of what I mean by that type of freedom and what it did was it made people who come in who comes in on our team they they think oh because we got this much Freedom it's going to be like this but then they not on the team why because you got to have that self motivation and you got to be able to like push yourself and you got to do all these different types of things and if you're not strong as an individual and have that mentality that I got that grit Within Myself I don't need anybody to help me then it's going to be tough for you to be here so and again I know asking this might come across as you saying one thing's freedom and the that that's not there anymore might come across as uh potential being critical of the new Administration in the same way that when I'm asking you give me an example of structure that's there that wasn't there before might be critical of the previous one I'm not doing this to be critical at all I'm just trying to hit on the head here what Seahawk fans are probably wondering is how things are going to be different or how things are different and how it might wind up during the season so you understand where I'm coming from when I'm asking these questions if can you give me an example of structure on that front of what's Happening Now yeah well I mean we're not in Camp and we're not you know in the season yet so obviously it's hard to see what's going to stay the same and what's going to change but um you know when I go back to structure it goes back to like you know that military basis like that military style you know like Mike talks to us and tells us stories about the military and stuff like that and he you know I've talked to him and he's even like talked to me about certain movies so when you kind of understand and look at kind of like how the military functions and how they go that's kind of how our team is so I mean when we're talking about structure it's like hey man like rather be early than be on time like if you on time then you late you know when you go out there it's it's no breaks it's no all right we on field goal everybody that's not on field goal is chilling until the next series it's like no every single person is going to do something however much time that we're out here whether it's two hours two and a half it doesn't matter like everybody's going to be doing something for that amount of time we're never going miss a minute or 30 seconds so that's why I said it's always somebody's always doing something so we're not missing out on anything so it it's a really cool structure that he has going I mean obviously it's hard to differentiate between the two because we've only had OTAs and this is our second day of mini camp and then one last for you on the on the new regime here and then we can move on a little bit Tyler Lockett on the Rich Eisen show from this chair um I I uh was scratching my head over the news that in your facility a lot of photographs of the old times since you're the old head as we've established on this program were taken down and I was wondering like what what was the purpose of something like that and I got a lot of push back from the Pacific Northwest saying I was overreacting to that what what's your sense of all that Tyler well I mean it's it's not a lot of the stuff that got that got taken out so I mean you would kind of have to be in the building to see what exactly got taken out and what didn't get taken out but I mean we still have a lot of the pitchers that have um really like telling stories just throughout the history of the Seahawks when you know Sher made the big play um they still got other pictures where it shows everybody that's Man of the Year you still got other stuff when you look at people that are in the Ring of Honor so there's still there's still pictures in there outside of the other things I said that are that are having like really great telling stories that shows you like Super Bowl moments when they beat the Denver Broncos I think a lot of people was just talking about more of like you know the the little paintings that they had that was on the wall like the little art that was on the wall that we ended up creating but I mean at the end of the day you know um that's what happens when you have a new coach like there's going to be some things that are going to be different than everybody else and you just kind of got to accept that you know so you can't it's like if you're dating a girl and you move on to another girl you can't expect that girl to do everything that your ex did you know so there's going to be things that are different and you just got to be able to like renew your mind and just kind of like learn how to adapt to what's new catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku channel 12: to 3 Eastern for free