{"id":786491,"date":"2026-07-27T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:03:09","slug":"mike-macdonald-on-hard-knocks-we-are-proud-of-who-we-are-and-how-we-do-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786491\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Macdonald on Hard Knocks: &#8220;We are proud of who we are and how we do things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks will defend their second Super Bowl championship by welcoming Hard Knocks cameras and microphones into practice for the first time. Coach Mike Macdonald has no reservations about doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Saturday whether he has noticed the NFL Films crew, Macdonald said this: \u201cA little bit, yeah, a little bit. I\u2019m mic\u2019d up right now. I\u2019ve got to get used to that. I told the guys they are going to capture what we do, and they do a great job of doing that. Let\u2019s be us. We want them to capture us. We are proud of who we are and how we do things, so there is really no reason to try and change anything or try to be something we are not. Probably by tomorrow, the next day, probably won\u2019t notice it, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the right attitude, mainly because there\u2019s no way around it. Their ticket had been pulled; they\u2019re this year\u2019s Hard Knocks guinea pig. Why fight it?<\/p>\n<p>But, yes, Macdonald will need to get used to wearing a microphone. And he\u2019ll need to remember to turn it off <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vxA1nkAPA6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">before going to the bathroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Knocks debuts earlier than usual, with the first episode landing on Tuesday, August 4 \u2014 before the Hall of Fame game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks will defend their second Super Bowl championship by welcoming Hard Knocks cameras and microphones into practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-786491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}