Defensive backs coach Jim Mora said the play Kelly Jennings made against the Miami Dolphins last week was a huge confidence-booster for a player who has been killed by big plays this season. Jennings will have to play a big role in tomorrow’s game against Arizona. Here is Mora discussing Jennings and his season:

“It’s a very physically challenging position at the corner, but it’s also a very mentally challenging position. And there is a level of maturity that you have to get into when negative things happen to you, as they absolutely are going to if you play

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Kelly Jennings

How do you rebound from this and get ready for next week?

“We just really have to go back out there and study the film and see what happened. I think we made too many penalties on defense and at critical times, and those are things we can’t do. So we just have to get corrected.”

They made some big plays against you guys. What do you need to do in order to rectify that?

"We really have to go back and study that to see what we did wrong and why they got the big plays. We know that we have a great defense and we try not to allow that. So we’ve got to go back and find what exactly was happening, and see if it’s fixable or not, but I think we definitely can get it corrected."

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LB JULIAN PETERSON

On losing to a three-win team:
"I take my hat off to the Falcons, but it’s not going to change our momentum. We don’t enter the postseason on a positive note, but we will do what we’ve got to do. Listen, we were ready to play today. They were ready to play too. You know they get paid just like we get paid. They’ve got pride just like we do. They came out to play in their last game before a home crowd. They executed, and made more plays than we did. I’ll tell you, I thought Chris Redman did a good job for them. He scrambled away from pressure a few times. He was faster than I thought he was."

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Merry Christmas. The Seahawks are off both today and tomorrow, with no availability. With that in mind, I interviewed Patrick Kerney on Sunday night about him returning to Atlanta for the first time since signing with Seattle as a free agent. Here is that interview:

On choosing to come to Seattle as a free agent: "The recent history was a big draw. Every year I played in Atlanta, I expected to win the Super Bowl. Certain teams you target as the best and knowing you have to go through. The past few years it has been Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle. And so when the chance came to jump on one of those three teams, it was an easy sell.

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The Ravens linebacker may have been the most humorous opposing player we interviewed this season. Chad Johnson was pretty good, but Scott was very animated. Here are a few examples:

On the flag he threw into the stands against New England…) "That’s the best question you can come up with? That was four weeks ago man, what do you do read a column and recycle questions? The reason I through the flag, it was just a combination of emotions. Feeling like you had won the game four times in a row, the calls didn’t go your way, at that point it just felt like what we had worked for so hard, and something that we could have grabbed onto to maybe have salvaged some type of respect and dignity, from the league and for ourselves, was all taken in 1:40 seconds. I never could have done what I did as a role model. You always have to keep your cool no matter what your circumstances, that’s what I preach to the kids. Is that mature enough for you?”

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This was Mike Holmgren after practice discussing the three-game losing streak that the Seahawks incurred at this exact same time:

"I know that we had San Francisco and Arizona. Those were the two games. San Diego was the third game and I thought we played a great football game and I thought we had a chance to win that and they threw a home run over the head. The other two games were bothersome. I didn’t think we played very smart. I thought we made a lot of mistakes and I think the week before we started that little

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Of the Seahawks’ plays on Sunday, 34 were passes and 29 were runs, more of the balance that Mike Holmgren used at the beginning of the season. This was Holmgren’s explanation about why it ended up that way:

"I think a little bit of both. It was because I had Shaun (Alexander) back and the weather, I’d say that was the reason. Now, honest to goodness, I do not go in with numbers in my mind, about how I want that to go. But over my history, if I have a back like Shaun, at the end of the

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