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Leonard Williams: "The Defense Is Really Coming To Life" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What was your kind of overall take on the day
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  Speaker 1: to day and now you guys, Uh, I'm go'na have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape to to know for sure. But
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  Speaker 1: I think we started off a little bit sluggish. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to get used to traveling and starting fast.
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  Speaker 1: I think we picked it up towards the end and
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  Speaker 1: finished pretty strong though, so that you didn't appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: guys that I mean I didn't appreciate in general, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: them coming to our sideline while we were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: practices over. We've already broke the huddle practice. You know,
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  Speaker 1: our guys are on our side, their guys are on
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  Speaker 1: their side, and people were coming over. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to It's hard, you know, with these joint practices,
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  Speaker 1: cause it's like stuff like that always happens. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want it to happen, but it just happens, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we try to avoid it as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I didn't appreciate it. Stuff. What's that? Can
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  Speaker 1: you tell? What sip service there? No? I couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: what happened. I was actually on the sideline when it happened. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I just try to run out there and just break
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  Speaker 1: it up a little bit, not just.
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  Speaker 2: The damage overall with this that's how do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you guys are progressive?
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  Speaker 1: Get I think overall, just through camp, through OTAs and
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  Speaker 1: up until this point, I think we've been progressing a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I think with personnel, we're starting to understand each other
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, Uh, knowing certain communication with different guys,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I think the defense is just really coming to.
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  Speaker 2: Life now you've been at for a while. What what
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  Speaker 2: have you learned about him and what do you appreciate
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  Speaker 2: about his game?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of my favorite editions actually just
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  Speaker 1: having another VET presence in the room, which you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm year eleven and I'm still striving to get better
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  Speaker 1: every year. And uh, he's somebody that I've actually been
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  Speaker 1: able to learn a lot from. He understands the game
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  Speaker 1: in a different way. He has a very pass rush mindset,
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  Speaker 1: which I appreciate because he's calling Delta and you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving me a lot of hand signals and communication while
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  Speaker 1: we're down, Uh, stuff that I can't see because he's
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  Speaker 1: standing up, and uh, just how having him out there,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna it's gonna help elevate my game as well.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think should I think just having the
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  Speaker 1: travel also just a different pace of practice because we're
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  Speaker 1: not having like our our own practice back at home
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, which you know we wanted. We
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about that, uh pre practice. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about it during practice of like you know, keeping it
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  Speaker 1: out our pace. But I think after those like first
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  Speaker 1: two or three periods, we turned it over. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: a card. Yeah, I didn't trust the wheels to support me.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a really cool tradition. It's cool
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  Speaker 1: to see all the kids involved in, all the fans
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, feel like they're like a part
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  Speaker 1: of it, you know, helping out the guys get the
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  Speaker 1: practice and stuff like that. I've seen Julian walking with
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't actually on one of the bikes,
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  Speaker 1: but he was just walking it because the girl had
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  Speaker 1: like a little tricycle type of bike and he was
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  Speaker 1: just walking with her. I thought that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You understand each other.
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  Speaker 2: But how was that showing un talking about.
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  Speaker 1: To For me, it's just through communication, and we all
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  Speaker 1: know different people communicate differently. You know, I'll communicate with
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  Speaker 1: d Law just like nonverbally, just with my hands and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, versus you know, a guy like MafA,
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  Speaker 1: I can just communicate with him, you know, verbally and
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  Speaker 1: just understanding like who's on the field, different personnels all
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  Speaker 1: the time and stuff like that. And I think you
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  Speaker 1: could just starting to see it jail together communications to
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  Speaker 1: start up player.
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  Speaker 2: Having artist can versus showing up be a treat earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, like, I think he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job last year coming in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and you know that's a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff on his plate to like coming in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the season and take over and lead
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  Speaker 1: the defense. But you know, we embraced it. But having
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  Speaker 1: them from the start of OTA is the start of camp.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that he's our guy, he's gonna be with us
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  Speaker 1: for a few years. There's just a different level of trust,
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  Speaker 1: a different level of communication. By the fact watching practice film, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just getting to the ball. I think an important thing
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  Speaker 1: in this defense is taking the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we try to practice like punch outs every
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  Speaker 1: chance we get. I think in that two minute drive
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  Speaker 1: without watching film, uh that two minutes, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a two minute period towards the end of practice.
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  Speaker 1: I think they didn't catch a ball for like the
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  Speaker 1: first five or six plays, and uh, you know that
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  Speaker 1: was all secondary and I'm gonna I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: see what else they did on film today.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you're going in some Packers one better practice. You've
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  Speaker 2: seen your offensive line a lot just where we see
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  Speaker 2: that group girl, especially the run game of Mark Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean to me, it's definitely the run game.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a you know, they they definitely progress
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  Speaker 1: this year and you're starting to see it in preseason
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  Speaker 1: and there's times where the holes opening up and it's
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  Speaker 1: like eight yards wide. And one of the biggest people
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to to get more understanding of
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  Speaker 1: how it's working as the running backs. And when I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to K nine and Zach and those guys, you
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  Speaker 1: can just tell they're so excited about the offense. And
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  Speaker 1: as a running back, if you're excited about the offense
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  Speaker 1: and you must be running the ball pretty well. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I joke with him all the time. We actually
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  Speaker 1: had a similar coach. I mean we had the same
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  Speaker 1: coach at different times, Coach Kenoto Hudson. Uh, he was
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  Speaker 1: with me at USC and then he was with him
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  Speaker 1: at Illinois, so as soon as I got traded here,
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  Speaker 1: that's something that we kind of connected over. And one
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  Speaker 1: thing I love about Spoon is that he just plays
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  Speaker 1: with so much passion, and you know that for a
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  Speaker 1: little guy, he tackles big. He plays big, And I
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  Speaker 1: tell him all the time that he acts like a
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  Speaker 1: d lineman pretty much. So I have a connection with
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  Speaker 1: him because of that physicality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like in telliged Tox Friends coming out
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  Speaker 2: that you see.
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  Speaker 1: That show just how fast the ball. It's the offense
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  Speaker 1: like a tax the ball like pre snap. I think
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  Speaker 1: all the pre snap stuff that the offense is doing
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  Speaker 1: right now goes to show that, you know, he's really
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  Speaker 1: in control of the offense. Uh, he's year eight now,
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  Speaker 1: he's older, he's you know, he's been on a few
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  Speaker 1: different teams, He's played in a few different schemes, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you could just tell he has a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of comfortability and maturity when he's a lead in
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  Speaker 1: the offense right now. Do you like peace joint practice?
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  Speaker 1: I do, Actually, I remember at one point when I
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  Speaker 1: was young, I didn't like it. It's like sometimes hard
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  Speaker 1: to like travel and like be in a hotel and
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  Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. But for me, it's sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to get a different look. It's nice to
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  Speaker 1: see where you're at as a team, you know, see
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  Speaker 1: how we practice differently from another team. And for myself,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like sometimes after a while, if I'm practicing
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  Speaker 1: against the same guy, I start to know certain tales
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  Speaker 1: about that guy. That makes it easy for me in
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  Speaker 1: practice where you know, I could play like super fast
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  Speaker 1: and practice because I'm seeing all these little small tails
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  Speaker 1: because I've been practicing against a guy every day. So
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's like this kind of gets me like
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  Speaker 1: more game time ready, more season ready. When i'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: get to go against the guy for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: I need element to it also when you're on their
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  Speaker 2: oad for more long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I'm looking forward to our Rookie Talent
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  Speaker 1: show tonight because if it's anything like last year, it
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  Speaker 1: was like a lot of fun. I think last year
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee that like really brought us closer together as
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  Speaker 1: a team, and I think a lot of guys felt
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  Speaker 1: that last year and they're looking forward to that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: It being at the end of the preseason and I
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  Speaker 1: know you starters. You're basically done now seeing somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: You like that better than last year when you did
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the camp. Yeah, Like it's better
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the camp for sure, because it's
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  Speaker 1: just slowly kept progressing, you know, and then you know
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  Speaker 1: we're going against a different team right now, and then
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  Speaker 1: after this was gonna be go time. So perfect timing.
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  Speaker 2: But to have these point practice to be a single
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  Speaker 2: day now instead of two days, like or do you
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  Speaker 2: have any preference?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I still prefer the single day. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I think two days just felt a little bit too
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  Speaker 1: long last year when we went to Tennessee. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thanks er, thanks, thank you, appreciate you.