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Julian Love: "I'm Entering The Prime Of My Career" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up? Thank you. Did that touchdown they scored down
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  Speaker 1: there on the fourth down, that kind of fire you
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  Speaker 1: guys up as a defense? After that, they basically had
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  Speaker 1: nothing the whole game. Yeah, I mean, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: them to score at all, of course, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I think what is great about our defense,
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  Speaker 1: especially early in the season, it's like, all right, how
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  Speaker 1: do we battle back? Things aren't going to be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: What does it look like now? I think that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what we're chasing. and trying to figure out who
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  Speaker 1: we are for this year. I'm happy, obviously, with how
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  Speaker 1: we responded. Just got to be cleaner now, early. I
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  Speaker 1: think we know that. We're going to try to focus
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  Speaker 1: on that. The pick, being able to slide your hand
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  Speaker 1: underneath it. Did you know that you had that in
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  Speaker 1: real time? How confident were you? I was pretty confident.
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  Speaker 1: I felt good. I played little leagues on our field
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. I don't know. I just felt good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think. You try not to kid yourself
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have the ball, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I got under that one pretty good. Yeah, so good catch.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't throw many interceptions. Did you guys sort of
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling that if he gives you a chance,
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  Speaker 1: you really have to take advantage of it? Yes. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you get a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: advantage as a team and you make, especially for our defense,
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  Speaker 1: make a quarterback feel like they're in chase mode, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got to go make a play now. I think
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  Speaker 1: it turns into our favor a little bit. Our front
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  Speaker 1: gets kind of like blood in the water for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And then off of them playing ball, I think he
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  Speaker 1: had to throw off his back foot on that throw.
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  Speaker 1: That's when the secondary can come alive. And so it
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  Speaker 1: all feeds into itself. If you start early, if you
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  Speaker 1: start a game faster, you get more of those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, it was the second half. They're down.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to make a play, trying to drive the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Third down, I think. Everything just snowballs into the ball
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  Speaker 1: might be in the air. Go make a play. You
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  Speaker 1: said that you needed to clean things up after the
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  Speaker 1: first drive or two. Explain what that means to you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to get settled. There's a little, like,
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  Speaker 1: of a lethargic feeling early in this game. And so
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  Speaker 1: we got to, like, shake back and just, like, start faster.
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  Speaker 1: I think scheme was great. I think just getting our
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  Speaker 1: feet in the ground, knowing what they were trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of quick game, a lot of quick action,
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  Speaker 1: going to their go-to guys. McBride's a great player. He
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  Speaker 1: made a few catches early. And just, like, okay, understanding,
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  Speaker 1: know what time it is. Let's get our feet set
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  Speaker 1: and bring the attack to them. I know we didn't
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  Speaker 1: see a ton of Nick Imanwari today, but how were
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  Speaker 1: you guys to the secondary to him back on the field?
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  Speaker 1: It's cool, man. That's our guy. Nick is a character
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  Speaker 1: if you know him. He's a funny dude, and he
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  Speaker 1: is a problem on the field. He's strong. He can run.
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  Speaker 1: He can do all the things. So seeing him get
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  Speaker 1: into some action this year for us is going to
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  Speaker 1: unlock us in a lot of ways. He's a special dude.
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  Speaker 1: So seeing him get a few good plays too, get
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  Speaker 1: his pads popping a little bit, that's all you need.
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  Speaker 1: So going forward, he's going to be electric for us.
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  Speaker 1: You made a play on McBride, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: is that in the hook zone? Was it third down?
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  Speaker 1: That was third down. Yeah. But talk about how the
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  Speaker 1: huddle and your communication, like, hey, 85 is the dude.
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  Speaker 1: You knew that going into the game. But just talk
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  Speaker 1: about the in-game, like, 85. Yeah, yeah. Well, 85 is
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  Speaker 1: their go-to guy. There's a few teams in the league
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  Speaker 1: that they feature, and really their first threat is a
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  Speaker 1: tight end. And this is one of them. And so
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  Speaker 1: we know where he is. And that, it's a tray set.
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  Speaker 1: It's third and probably, I think it was maybe medium.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, third and short, third
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  Speaker 1: and medium. Yeah, I'm rotated down on the hook. They
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  Speaker 1: try to clear it out and just bring kind of
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  Speaker 1: McBride from the backside and just be aligned at the sticks,
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  Speaker 1: read off the quarterback on the hook, knowing that I
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  Speaker 1: can pass one back to my guys. Let's make a play. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what that was. Just knowing who they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to go to, but also just playing within
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  Speaker 1: our scheme. Mike put us in a good call, put
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  Speaker 1: me in a good call space to make a play.
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  Speaker 1: As someone who's practiced against Drew a bunch, how satisfying
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  Speaker 1: is it to see other people learn what you probably
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  Speaker 1: have known for a while and just what's your vantage
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  Speaker 1: point for that? Man, Drew's a gunslinger. Everybody in this
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  Speaker 1: building just rocks with Drew so heavy. We know what
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  Speaker 1: he brought to the table. He's shown it for years,
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  Speaker 1: not obviously in the limelight of being a starter, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: every day in practice, you know he can make every throw.
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  Speaker 1: He's smart, and he has a swagger to him that's
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  Speaker 1: just fun to see. So, I mean, the week was
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  Speaker 1: such a normal week of practice. I'm sure the narrative
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  Speaker 1: might have been a little different because he was up,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. We ride with Drew, and I
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  Speaker 1: think his game today shows why we feel that way.
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  Speaker 1: He can make the plays and win us games. Just
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  Speaker 1: what kind of confidence does that give you coming in?
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  Speaker 1: It's like a lot of teams, quarterback goes down, you
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  Speaker 1: might be like, oh, no, whatever. Yeah, my career, I've
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  Speaker 1: been in those shoes before. But nothing is missed. There's
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  Speaker 1: no step that you feel like, Oh man, like how
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  Speaker 1: are we going to do more on defense? Like, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, let's just play our game. Drew, they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: We got, we got killers on the offense. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just, it's how we're built. I think guys will
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  Speaker 1: step up for us throughout the course of the season
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully we just don't break stride. And so Drew,
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  Speaker 1: I know quarterback's a big position, but it's no different
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  Speaker 1: for that one. Do you physically feel like you're in
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  Speaker 1: a better spot than you were last year? Obviously limited
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  Speaker 1: with injury. Just curious how your body feels. I feel good.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a grind of an off season. I, don't
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  Speaker 1: want to feel like how I felt last year on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline watching games that hasn't been in my past
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  Speaker 1: in my career up until last year so yeah I
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  Speaker 1: put in a lot of work starting early this offseason
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  Speaker 1: the training staff here the training staff have we've been
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  Speaker 1: on constant communication all offseason and just my body feels
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  Speaker 1: great I've been I'm entering the prime of my career
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  Speaker 1: and so I feel physically good and mentally that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what my that's what I do so yeah everything's
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  Speaker 1: aligning Thank you. Appreciate it.