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Sam Darnold: "We're Continuing To Find Our Identity" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Like the we met up with the quarterbacks during special
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  Speaker 1: teams and before I could say, oh, it's hot out here,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, it's a beautiful day. You know you
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  Speaker 1: brought the cool weather with you. Like good God. So no,
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  Speaker 1: it was honestly really good for us to be able
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  Speaker 1: to come out here and you know, have different weather,
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  Speaker 1: have a different defense out here. I talked to some
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive guys like for them to see a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different offense. So it's just really
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  Speaker 1: good to go up against a different team. Unfortunately, sounds
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  Speaker 1: like Bobo's.
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  Speaker 2: Team probably haarn longer.
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  Speaker 1: Like what what are you lot, guys? It hurts man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Uh, he's just he's one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that just you know, he works, uh talks a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff and you know he's just one of the
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  Speaker 1: like kind of like spoon in a way offensively, like
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  Speaker 1: he just he brings the juice every single day and
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  Speaker 1: you know, he just does his job. So it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it sucks to lose Bobo, but you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna attack it and be better whenever he comes back.
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  Speaker 2: You get a chance of staying to him. What is
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  Speaker 2: both teams came over when that happened. What you know,
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  Speaker 2: the NFL game that what is that I'm a reminder
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  Speaker 2: of or that just how precious this might be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a just like any sport, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, injuries happen, but you know it's just a
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  Speaker 1: just puts everything in perspective, you know. Uh, you know, he's,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, he's gonna come back better than ever.
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  Speaker 1: But you just never know and stuff like that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you just every single play you just
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  Speaker 1: continue to push and and give it, give it all
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  Speaker 1: you can. And you know that's I know that's all
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  Speaker 1: he does. And you know that's why it's such a
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  Speaker 1: shame that it happened to him. But you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I know he'll be back.
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  Speaker 2: Touchdown to Halan Price earlier. In practice?
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  Speaker 3: What youre you saying the running backs off the false john?
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  Speaker 2: What do you see how that girl was past catch?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're doing a they're doing a great job out
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  Speaker 1: of the backfield, even when they're not out of the
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  Speaker 1: backfield in the slot, you know, being able to catch
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  Speaker 1: and do all the things that we ask them to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously in camps and things happen. Receivers go down,
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  Speaker 1: tight ends go down, full backs go down, and those
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  Speaker 1: running backs have been able to just step up in
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  Speaker 1: whatever position we ask them to play. So, uh, they've
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  Speaker 1: been They've been very versatile camp and and really really
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  Speaker 1: good catching the ball out of the backfield and even
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  Speaker 1: in the slought or out wide.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you feel like the offense is right now?
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  Speaker 2: Is sort of been adapting to the old Bran flurry, And.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're continuing to find our identity. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: just I think for us, like we got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to detail things up. It's exactly kind of where we
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  Speaker 1: were last year. Not exactly, but you know it's just
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  Speaker 1: during training camp, especially this point in training camp. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there can be some guys that think they haven't figured out.
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  Speaker 1: And you know you kind of myself included, like you
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  Speaker 1: kind of take your foot off the gas a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and you're like, all right, we have all the
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  Speaker 1: installs in we you know, I I feel like I've
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  Speaker 1: been executing at practice. It's like, no, you got to
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  Speaker 1: treat every single day like iess your last day out here.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really my mindset. And I know our offense
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  Speaker 1: is continuing to to push, push, tempo and and all
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  Speaker 1: those things that we need to do to you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue to have good practices and build all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the season, and then when we get in the season,
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  Speaker 1: it's the same thing. We just continue to build.
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  Speaker 3: What are you learning about Flurry? Just like personality wise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's you know, still continuing to figure him out
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  Speaker 1: and all those things. He's very stoic, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: right when, right when I met him, So just uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think for for us, it's a matter
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  Speaker 1: of like just being able to hang out together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's before practice, after practice in the building and
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  Speaker 1: continuing to talk get to know each other, because I
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  Speaker 1: think the better play callers and quarterbacks know each other,
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  Speaker 1: the stronger the relationship is on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Here, you told us.
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  Speaker 3: That Clint and Janoko were telling like listen to your
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  Speaker 3: feet was the thing that they hammered. And you what
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  Speaker 3: are some things that Brian and Jake Pete's are like
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  Speaker 3: really harping on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think they do a really good job of just
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  Speaker 1: reminding us it's kind of the similar thing, but just
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  Speaker 1: saying it a different way. Like progress, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to trust your eyes, trust your feet with your progressions,
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  Speaker 1: like if something's not there, move on and continue to
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  Speaker 1: go through your progressions and find the open guy. And
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  Speaker 1: if it's not there, play play fast, move around and
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  Speaker 1: if it's a throwaway, then that's the right play. And
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  Speaker 1: you always just got to make the right play and
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  Speaker 1: make fast decisions and you know and learn from things.
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  Speaker 1: I think is also a huge thing when when you're
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  Speaker 1: not sure you throw the ball away, you know, move
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  Speaker 1: on to the next play and we'll correct it when
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  Speaker 1: we get back to our meetings.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen Sala's defense is when he was in San France.
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  Speaker 2: Can you it's so early.
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  Speaker 3: Can you see a Sola imprint on that Titans defense yet?
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  Speaker 1: For sure? For sure? I think you see the aggression.
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  Speaker 1: You see kind of the pressure that they put on
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. Like their their four man rushes are really
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  Speaker 1: really good, and when they bring five or six man rushes,
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  Speaker 1: and even when they bring fire zones like they're really
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  Speaker 1: really good. You know, they're really the back ends really
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  Speaker 1: good at disguising. Right now, they're you know, showing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different things defensively without getting too far into
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  Speaker 1: the weeds, but they're doing a lot of great things,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that defense is gonna be really good
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned JD area of the catching. They just haven't hit back.
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  Speaker 1: You he his last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: And how does it change the offense? I guess?
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  Speaker 1: Or what do you notice? Yeah, he's a special player.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really special player. He he brings a he
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  Speaker 1: brings a different facet to the offense that only only
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  Speaker 1: a guy like him can bring. You know, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: catching passes out of the backfield, catching screens, you know,
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  Speaker 1: running in between the tackles, outside the tackles. He can
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  Speaker 1: really do it all. And I know he's he's just
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  Speaker 1: gonna continue to get better and learn.
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  Speaker 2: He chose the toughness ever kind of hit over the mantle.
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  Speaker 1: He hit him a couple of plays later.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like see a player kind of respond like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I would like to not
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  Speaker 1: put a receiver in a situation like that, But I
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  Speaker 1: also would have thought the dB wouldn't have hit him.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I tried to give him a shot and
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  Speaker 1: the dB made a really good play on it. So
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  Speaker 1: but the way that she'd it's not funny, but it's
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  Speaker 1: funny in the moment now that he's good. But I
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  Speaker 1: went up to him as he was on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, she'd oh. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you get the win knocked out of He's like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, you're good. I thought it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it would have been something different, but it looked
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  Speaker 1: like he just got the wind knocked out of him.
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  Speaker 1: So when he confirmed that, I was felt a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I want to continue to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, he uh, he showed a lot of toughness.
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  Speaker 1: But by getting up and also the way that not
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  Speaker 1: only him but our entire receiver group man Like we
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  Speaker 1: had some obviously Bobo go down, some guys cramp up, Like,
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of receivers getting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reps today in this heat that we're not used to
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. Those guys stepped up in a huge way
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  Speaker 1: and they were playing really really tired and showed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of grit today. I'm sorry their DB's had tough
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  Speaker 1: time last week against forty nine, really looking to bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: What did you thin that gupa And how much had
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  Speaker 1: you look at maybe Flaw and Taylor coming into this.
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  Speaker 2: Or not at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I've you know, I've known that they've been
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  Speaker 1: really good players. In the league. And shoot, Taylor made
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  Speaker 1: a really good play at me in the two minute drill,
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  Speaker 1: So kudos of them. Many they have really good defensive players,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the back end. So yeah, we just got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to you know, for us as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: like we just got to continue to do what we do.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, defensively, you guys look really good.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel like you guys have dealt with
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  Speaker 3: all the stuff that comes with being Super Bowl champions
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  Speaker 3: and the extra attention and all the all the just
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that comes with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think our guys have been good. We got
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  Speaker 1: really good leadership to be able to handle stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that in every single position room. So and then again,
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  Speaker 1: like I think coach Mike, his message to the team
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  Speaker 1: has been very very good and just the way that
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  Speaker 1: we're attacking the whole thing. But you know, again to
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  Speaker 1: what we say with Mike is like we want to
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  Speaker 1: run it forward, and so that's kind of been our
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  Speaker 1: mindset and obviously learned from last year. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to live live in last year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of work to do to continue
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  Speaker 1: to put in the work that we need to to
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  Speaker 1: have a good season. This season. Thanks guys, thank you,