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Cooper Kupp On The Addition Of Cam Akers, Jaxon Smith-Njigba's Performance This Season · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's good. I heard you. Guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's someone who just played his former team.
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  Speaker 1: Do you give any tips to Sam Darnold about this.
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  Speaker 2: Week or you think he's got a cover.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's got a great demeanor about him. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's got got pre lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: What can you tell us about camp Makers? Camp Makers?
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  Speaker 1: I mean in my time with him in.
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  Speaker 3: LA, I mean, he he was, uh, he was a
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  Speaker 3: dangerous finisher of of runs.
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  Speaker 1: I know that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's just violent, violent runner and so tough
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  Speaker 3: to bring down. And I'm really strong dude. So I've
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  Speaker 3: been through obviously, been through a lot of stuff, gone
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  Speaker 3: through some tough entry stuff and fought through things and
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  Speaker 3: and so pretty cool to see how some of that
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  Speaker 3: stuff that he's done and be able to experience that firsthand.
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  Speaker 1: And but yeah, he's here.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the Vikings defense and the way
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  Speaker 2: that they create loss of yards, what do you have
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  Speaker 2: to be especially aware of?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you just know you're gonna get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different looks, a lot of different pressures and things
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  Speaker 3: like that. Guys are gonna be, you know, blitzing from
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  Speaker 3: all different parts of the field. They got the internals,
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  Speaker 3: the externals and a lot of different stuff that they
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  Speaker 3: throw out. You they're just being on our stuff and
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  Speaker 3: knowing that that's part of the identity of that defense
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  Speaker 3: and be able to anticipate some of that stuff and
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  Speaker 3: then be able to react and know that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna anticipate some things. It's gonna look one way,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get something else, and you just gotta be
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  Speaker 3: able to react to it, and you know, have a plan,
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  Speaker 3: have a counter, and you know, there's, uh, there's a
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  Speaker 3: few different things that could happen.
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  Speaker 2: What's the first thing you go for on the Thanksgiving table?
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  Speaker 3: First thing I go from the Thanksgiving table? Well, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, probably something boring like turkey.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably like the most boring possible answers, So I guess.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, you have to have your protein before
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  Speaker 3: you start having all the other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, with that, you look at the percentage
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  Speaker 2: of J said in the offense and the receiving yards.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of different ways to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: What else has to go right for him to have
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  Speaker 2: the success that he has happened.
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  Speaker 1: What else has to go right for him.
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  Speaker 2: To these plays? What does this say about the offense
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  Speaker 2: in Jen right, Yeah, it's not just run of the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but he's making the most of those opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing a really good job, you know, coming alive
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  Speaker 3: in every part of the field. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: it is it's it's uh, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 3: best offenses, you know, can can do it a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different ways, but it's on the ground in the
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  Speaker 3: screen game, in the past game, and uh, and he's
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  Speaker 3: he's doing a great job, great job of you know,
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  Speaker 3: making most of like you said, making most of his opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't have I don't have much else
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  Speaker 1: to say about that. Can you tell us, like what
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  Speaker 1: Klint Kubiak is like behind the scenes When we.
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  Speaker 2: Talked to him, he's always seems very low key and understated.
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  Speaker 1: What's he like behind the scenes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd say, like pretty low key and understated. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's just that's how is he. I mean, he says
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  Speaker 3: what needs to be said and as monotonous and low
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  Speaker 3: tone as he can possibly say it. And yeah, if
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  Speaker 3: you just if you just took a rancher out of
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  Speaker 3: Texas and said, like just go install some some plays
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  Speaker 3: for us, like that's that's Clint Kubiak.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever see him.
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  Speaker 3: Get fired up?
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  Speaker 1: Does he does? He have like an intense side to him? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he does, I mean he does. He gets fired up.
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  Speaker 3: He can like for a very short amount of time,
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  Speaker 3: and he snaps right back into that same character you
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  Speaker 3: know afterwards. So but he does, he gets fired up,
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  Speaker 3: and he doesn't like he doesn't like bad football, and
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, he's not doesn't isn't gonna be okay with
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  Speaker 3: those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: Hold guys, holds guys to a high standard.
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  Speaker 3: But the Clint Kuback you see up here for you guys,
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  Speaker 3: is the same exact guy that we see.
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  Speaker 1: What's his sense of humor? Like dry?
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference in playing for a coach that maybe
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  Speaker 2: is more animated versus.
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  Speaker 1: One that's less I'm sorry say it one time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference or is there a difference between playing
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  Speaker 2: with a coordinator a coach and it's more animated versus
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  Speaker 2: one that's more dry?
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  Speaker 3: I guess you know, like, uh, sometimes you're navigating uh,
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  Speaker 3: a more animated coaches like emotions, you know, like it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: it can be a good thing, it can also be
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  Speaker 3: a bad thing or you're you're, you know, navigating the
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  Speaker 3: waves of a football game, but you're also having to
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  Speaker 3: navigate the waves of you know, whoever's communicating to you
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  Speaker 3: the play and things like that, and you can feel
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  Speaker 3: that energy and now the huddle. So it's just another
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  Speaker 3: thing that you got, you know, be able to traverse through.
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  Speaker 3: But in the same way, like sometimes those guys bring
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  Speaker 3: energy when there needs to be energy. And so I
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  Speaker 3: think the difference is, you know, the emphasis now is
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  Speaker 3: you know, with Clint, you gotta bring your own energy.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be on you.
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  Speaker 3: Because he'll get on you when when you mess up.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't want to get to that point. And
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  Speaker 3: so from the from the jump, you gotta bring your
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  Speaker 3: own stuff. And and we've done I think we've done
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  Speaker 3: a great job of that though offensive with the guys
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  Speaker 3: we have and eights how many times if you've seen
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  Speaker 3: him smile laugh, smiler, laugh, Oh, he smiles and laughs,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a little you have to look at the
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  Speaker 3: corner of his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It's of the side side smile thing.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper, what would you advice to a young receiver in
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  Speaker 3: terms of dealing with the highs in the nose of
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  Speaker 3: the NFL? Yeah, I mean, I think, uh, I think
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  Speaker 3: part of it is just the understanding of the way
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  Speaker 3: that this league works, and similar to what a dB
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  Speaker 3: goes through, Like DB's like there's an expectation of failure
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  Speaker 3: for defensive backs and knowing that there's gonna be like
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna do everything right and the receiver's gonna catch
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  Speaker 3: the ball, and that's just part of it. And so
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  Speaker 3: a receiver, you got to understand that, hey, there's many
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  Speaker 3: times that coverage is gonna take take you away.
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  Speaker 1: There's many times that the coverage is just not right.
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  Speaker 3: There's many times that you do everything right and it
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  Speaker 3: was the right coverage and something else went wrong somewhere
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  Speaker 3: else and you weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Able to get the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And and so it just comes down to you know,
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  Speaker 3: dialing in your process, be be about winning as much
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  Speaker 3: as you possibly can, so when the opportunity does present itself,
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  Speaker 3: you've done everything you can to be in the right
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  Speaker 3: place at the right time and in a place where
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  Speaker 3: you can make the play.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: You know that the guys in this league are too good,
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  Speaker 3: the guys do good, the de coordinators are too good.
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  Speaker 3: That all you can control is your job control and
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  Speaker 3: be where you are execute what you're asked to do,
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  Speaker 3: and those opportunities will continue to multiply one.
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  Speaker 2: More like clip. But I've heard people say he's really
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  Speaker 2: detail oriented. It seems like every football goes has to.
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  Speaker 1: Be detailed orient there's so much going on.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess what makes the coach more one might
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  Speaker 2: be more detail oriented than another.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's uh, I mean, I guess that kind
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  Speaker 1: of comes down to like.
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  Speaker 3: A willingness to have answers for guys, Like it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just it's not good enough to come up
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  Speaker 3: here and just make a make a play and drop
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  Speaker 3: play and say we're gonna do this.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, what if X, Y and Z happens?
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  Speaker 1: What then? What do you wants to do?
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  Speaker 3: And So I think that's things being allowed us and
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  Speaker 3: that in those chairs to be able to make decisions
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  Speaker 3: because we've been addressed like hey, this is these are
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  Speaker 3: my rules, this is what I need to get done,
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  Speaker 3: and based on whatever's presented, whatever look we get I
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  Speaker 3: know what needs to happen. I think sometimes you can
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  Speaker 3: get into a place if you're not being detail oriented.
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  Speaker 1: You get up there and it's like, hey, look this
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  Speaker 1: is local. I haven't seen yet.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm supposed to do, and you
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  Speaker 3: run things into bad looks and things like that, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's something that Clinton, you know, tries to minimize.
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  Speaker 2: Cooperson's obviously playing at a high level right now. You
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  Speaker 2: were playing at a very high level during that Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl season with the Rams. How did you stay there
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  Speaker 2: and what have you shared with Jasn to kind of
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  Speaker 2: help him staying out love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of goes back to the way I'd
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  Speaker 3: said before about just being the process, Like there's a
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  Speaker 3: process to this whole thing. And you know there were
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  Speaker 3: games earlier this year, earlier this year where you know,
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  Speaker 3: things weren't going for him early, like there wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot of production early on in a game, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like, hey man, just stay in it because the
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  Speaker 3: opportunities coming, Like, don't allow yourself to check out of
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  Speaker 3: the game just because the opportunity is not there yet.
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  Speaker 3: And he did a great job because you know, third
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter, those opportunities present themselves and he's making he's
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  Speaker 3: making those dagger plays that you know in games for us,
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  Speaker 3: and and he's he's done great job. I just continue
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  Speaker 3: to be in that space and know there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be some lows that come up. There's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be some places some times where defenses are doing everything
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  Speaker 3: you can to take you away, and you just gotta
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  Speaker 3: be engaged. You'll continue to be engaged, and and that
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  Speaker 3: allows you also to find ways to get through fight
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  Speaker 3: through some really tough downs as well. Hey, if you're
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  Speaker 3: a primary here and the coverage you know, maybe just
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  Speaker 3: trying to take you away, like you can find ways
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  Speaker 3: to win in those places still too. And and so
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  Speaker 3: there's not being discouraged in that regard and just being
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  Speaker 3: able to, like he's done, make make most of his
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  Speaker 3: opportunities awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Think you guys,