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Klint Kubiak On Adding Rashid Shaheed To The Offense and Getting Ready For Week 10 vs. Cardinals · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's as old as you you got a reciv working
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  Speaker 1: with last.
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  Speaker 2: Year since you be back with your reaction with that.
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  Speaker 3: Trade back to play, Yeah, it was exciting for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think adding a really good player and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know it's up to us to get him up
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  Speaker 3: to speed pretty quickly here. But I also can't say
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  Speaker 3: enough about the guys that we have and just got
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  Speaker 3: to keep getting everybody better all together.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly his jumps out when you think about it, but
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  Speaker 1: what else caught your attention.
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  Speaker 3: Last year when he learn from out? You know, Rashid's
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  Speaker 3: a hard worker. He's a really good kid. Football is
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  Speaker 3: important to him. He's a really good teammate. So when
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  Speaker 3: you're bringing somebody on, you want to make sure they
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  Speaker 3: gel with what coach is building around here. Coach McDonald
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  Speaker 3: and I know that he does.
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  Speaker 2: How much is the playbook and what you have last
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  Speaker 2: year in New Orleans and how much has it changed?
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  Speaker 2: How much is he gonna learn? Yeah, he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to learn a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, It's it's not easy, but he's a pro,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I think this is his worth year
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  Speaker 3: and we're gonna expect him to know a lot really fast.
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  Speaker 1: You've had to pick up and move before yourself and
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  Speaker 1: you know what the fact is on your family and
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  Speaker 1: other folks just talk about like that part of the life.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFL. Yeah, that's a great, awesome question, man. Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's brutal. It's brutal when you got to do
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  Speaker 3: that to your family. But it's also a huge blessing
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  Speaker 3: because you get to see so much of the world
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  Speaker 3: and different teams and how people do things. But it
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  Speaker 3: is hard on the moms and the and the kids.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's something that's really hits hits home
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  Speaker 3: to me because I'm so thankful for my wife and
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  Speaker 3: my kids and thankful for for them putting up with me,
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  Speaker 3: and thankful for Seattle for you know, welcoming them.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've talked about this a little bit, which
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  Speaker 1: break up idle It.
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  Speaker 2: Gets to the line of romis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's something that coach is always installing
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  Speaker 3: in our offense, Coach McDonald, and uh, I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something that we're always working on, always trying to improve.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our departures get to the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 3: and that comes from just having a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 3: in the game plan. And uh, it just comes from
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  Speaker 3: lots and lots of reps of.
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  Speaker 2: Practice what I did.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I wasn't intended to use that verbiage either,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of came out.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that important?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's important to get more time on the play
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  Speaker 3: clock obviously for the quarterback to see the defense and
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  Speaker 3: make any checks. And I think it's important to make
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  Speaker 3: you know whether you're going on the quick count, you're
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  Speaker 3: going on too or you're going on a hard three.
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  Speaker 3: If it can look all the same to the defense,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's how you break a huddle or or what
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  Speaker 3: you're running past, looks like we're always striving to make
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  Speaker 3: those things look the same.
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  Speaker 1: You run a lot of check with me stuff at
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  Speaker 1: the line and give Sam some of that control to
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  Speaker 1: make your decisions. Uh, you know, is that is that
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  Speaker 1: common or is that when you've done before, or is
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  Speaker 1: that something that Sam is particularly good at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just you know, playing to the strength
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  Speaker 3: of your players, and that's something that Sam has done
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  Speaker 3: a great job of as well as the teammates around them. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think Sam has has really been so
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  Speaker 3: inc able to work with this year and what he
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  Speaker 3: can handle. And we'll just keep building off the things
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  Speaker 3: that he does, well, you know, what she's.
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  Speaker 2: Seen makes at what else is about its savage fact.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously looking at the whole team, special teams. He affects
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  Speaker 3: the game as a returner and I think he's a
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  Speaker 3: really bright player. You know, he sees coverage, he can
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  Speaker 3: play a lot of spots and it's really important as
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  Speaker 3: a receivers.
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  Speaker 1: Tory Borden, just what do you've.
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  Speaker 3: Seen continuous to just continuous maturity from Tory since the
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  Speaker 3: minute he got in here. He's been a guy that
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  Speaker 3: is just just very mature for his age and what
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  Speaker 3: he can handle in a game plan, and uh, just
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  Speaker 3: the way that he practices and the type of teammate
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  Speaker 3: that he is. He's he's a professional and it's obviously
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  Speaker 3: a profile that John Snyder has attacked to bring in
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  Speaker 3: a quality individual who's also such a great player.
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  Speaker 2: Again, here's the exact plans.
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  Speaker 3: Our guys did a great job of excuten you know,
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  Speaker 3: Coach Jake Piece does a great job on our off
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  Speaker 3: staff of putting things together and the guys just executed.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time we've talked to you since
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  Speaker 1: Eric Sobert went on IR. He's obviously been an undersuing
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  Speaker 1: part of what you guys are doing talking about loss.
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  Speaker 2: For him and then also Nick cala Raff get his
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  Speaker 2: for snaps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get Sobby back eventually. But you know, Sabby
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  Speaker 3: from the minute he's got here has been so mature
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  Speaker 3: and just been a leader on our offense. And I
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  Speaker 3: think he's been a guy that Aj and Elijah can
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  Speaker 3: really look up to.
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  Speaker 2: What was the second part of your question.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick Caller of getting his first snaps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Nick came in here and earned it
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  Speaker 3: the hard way, you know, really excited for his opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Nick's a physical guy, he's a bright guy.
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  Speaker 3: Football is important to him. He's a great teammate. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you could say that about so many guys on our offense.
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  Speaker 3: And again it's just the type of guys our personnel
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  Speaker 3: brings in the type of people that.
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  Speaker 2: They are, you know, allows him to play faster.
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  Speaker 1: Some people outside the building have questioned, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: right guard spot, how Anthony Bradford should curious how you
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  Speaker 1: evaluate that position so far this year?
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  Speaker 3: Thou Yeah, you know, evaluate him all the same. It's
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  Speaker 3: a group of five, you kind of evaluate them together.
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  Speaker 3: I like the group's trajectory. I think I think A
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  Speaker 3: B has been been playing better. I think AB has
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  Speaker 3: come a long way and uh, and we're just gonna
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  Speaker 3: keep building off the things that he does best. I
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  Speaker 3: would you think.
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  Speaker 1: Getting samsass what stands out at a team play?
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  Speaker 2: Get to pull back unch because you get if.
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  Speaker 1: He's six, say seven teams game becausis starts pretty ugly.
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  Speaker 2: Think any better, but.
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  Speaker 3: Now everything given the kind of station, I just think
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  Speaker 3: the I think what stands out is his teammates are
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  Speaker 3: all playing really well too, And that doesn't get said enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, his protection is guys getting open, so when
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  Speaker 3: everyone around him plays well in addition to the defense
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  Speaker 3: and the special team's getting turnovers and that's a big part.
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  Speaker 3: It's a team thing. Sam's played really well, but I
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  Speaker 3: think the whole group played well.
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  Speaker 1: How much How much is his eye deception looking.
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  Speaker 2: Away part of how as much cups? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's something that's been really coached well
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  Speaker 3: into him for his years of service in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: and things that he's he's done really well. Since he's
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  Speaker 3: got he knows what he's trying to accomplish. He knows
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  Speaker 3: what coverags is he's attacking, and that's something that he's
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  Speaker 3: always working on with coach Andrew Ginoco, who does a
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  Speaker 3: great job of of you know, keeping those details going
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  Speaker 3: to we've heard about Cooper cut and now he'll give
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  Speaker 3: his input to the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: But what does that sound like?
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  Speaker 3: And is that common or uncommon for veteran players who
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  Speaker 3: are quarterbacks who doth Oh, it's it's not uncommon, but
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  Speaker 3: it's uh, he has an uncommon way of going about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, because we're listening. You know, he's got he's
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  Speaker 3: got real value and the things that he sees and hears,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the game the other night, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's standing with me on the sideline giving me great insight.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, you know he's got a Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 3: NFL mind. So he helps us in all facets of
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  Speaker 3: our game.
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  Speaker 2: The other ways that receet.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, he can carry the ball, you know he
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  Speaker 3: can you know, he can go block. So uh, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see he's been practicing well and.
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  Speaker 2: He'll get his opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, you know, until then, he just got to
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  Speaker 3: keep giving them lots of practice s reps to get
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  Speaker 3: him going.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, what about it?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, is his speed didn't will open up stuff?
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  Speaker 2: He right game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's that's a huge part of his game.
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  Speaker 3: But he better be be rated block to you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's got to run out those safeties and corners really
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  Speaker 3: fast and he knows that it's part of the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thank you.