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Ernest Jones IV: "I'm A Dog. That's What You're Getting" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Up.
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  Speaker 2: We heard yesterday from coach that you have been on
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks radar for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever pictured yourself any Seahawks uniform on the defense?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. I I really haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Funny stories talking to Coach earlier, and you know, being
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  Speaker 3: in LA, a lot of those guys don't like the Niners.
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  Speaker 3: That's their big ribbery for me. Every time we played Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: that was my that was my robbery. But it's good
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  Speaker 3: to finally be on the other side, be on the
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  Speaker 3: on the good side. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Is there one thing that made it your rivalry thing?
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  Speaker 1: Just cause they it's always just tough.
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  Speaker 3: It was just it's just real competitive between those teams,
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  Speaker 3: and you know those games were always pretty close. So
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  Speaker 3: it it got really, really really excited in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So now what do.
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  Speaker 2: You appreciate about being on this defense?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Everything, the guys up front, the guy I'm uh y,
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  Speaker 3: the guys I'm playing next to. I'm excited about w
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  Speaker 3: you know, just adding you know what I bring to
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  Speaker 3: this game and to this defense, and you know, seeing
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  Speaker 3: where we go from here. So yeah, just just looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to getting it, getting to go out there against
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo this week.
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  Speaker 1: How'd you find out about the trade and what was
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  Speaker 1: your reaction?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Yesterday they after meetings, they brought me into the room.
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  Speaker 3: GM told me, you know that I was getting traded
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle. For me being traded twice, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: was a little shocker at first, but honestly, I'm thankful
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  Speaker 3: for the opportunity that God has given me. I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: to come to an organization that wants to win, loves
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  Speaker 3: to win. They got the pieces right now to wins,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm excited to just add my talents to that
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  Speaker 3: whatever is lost.
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  Speaker 4: Like three bunchs been like for you from you know,
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  Speaker 4: starting the camp with the Rams and getting traded in
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee and now you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Has been a world wind. You know, we had we
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  Speaker 3: just typical what it's like. I guess to get traded
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  Speaker 3: but once, but you get traded twice.
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  Speaker 1: So just been a little a little WorldWind.
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to you know, piece everything together whatever team
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  Speaker 3: of my own, making sure I'm ahead of the playbook
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  Speaker 3: and doing my job. So yeah, that's what it's been
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  Speaker 3: like for me, just working constantly.
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  Speaker 4: Give him the similarities between what Tennessee does and what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing here.
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  Speaker 5: Is it gonna be a pretty quick transition play?
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty it's it's it's gonna be really quick. We
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  Speaker 3: get out there on the field today, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: run run around, mess up a couple of things, and
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  Speaker 3: then correct it later and see what they want to
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  Speaker 3: how they want to see it versus what we had
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  Speaker 3: in Tennessee, and then you know, we'll go out there
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  Speaker 3: play a game Sunday and you know, figure things out
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  Speaker 3: from there.
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  Speaker 2: It's unusual you would be playing the same team back
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  Speaker 2: to that. Is that also maybe help with the transitioner?
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  Speaker 2: Is it boring to watch film again?
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  Speaker 3: I think it definitely helps with the transition. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you got a good idea, a great idea of what
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna come out there and do. You You just
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  Speaker 3: played them a couple of days ago, so you're you're
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  Speaker 3: familiar with them. They're also familiar with you, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: correct some wrongs that I you know, had in that
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  Speaker 3: game and then go out there and you know, help
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  Speaker 3: this team win.
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  Speaker 1: The time you played the same team two weeks in a.
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  Speaker 3: Row, never never played Christian McCaffrey two weeks in the
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  Speaker 3: world in two weeks in it row, though when he
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  Speaker 3: was with Carolina and then he got traded to Saint France.
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  Speaker 1: So I've seen it, just didn't know it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be me.
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  Speaker 5: You played with Bobby Wagner a year down in LA
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  Speaker 5: He talked to him at all about in contact with him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, him and him and Quandre Man, they they
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  Speaker 3: love this place. This is their forever home. Talking with Bobby,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's excited. He know, he says, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna love it here and I and I and I
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  Speaker 3: feel just that way. And Coandre was super excited for me.
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  Speaker 3: Hated to, you know, see us go because we started
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  Speaker 3: building a great relationship, but he was excited to know
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  Speaker 3: this is a great place.
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  Speaker 4: Because of Bobby just coming in here playing middle linebacker
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  Speaker 4: for this team, I feel like a pretty special spot.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely definitely Bobby's.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby's one of the greatest in my books, walking gold
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  Speaker 3: jacket right now. So you know, I want to come
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  Speaker 3: in I want to live up to that hatse to
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  Speaker 3: that high in surpass it Ernest.
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  Speaker 4: What is it like when this your life gets uprooted
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  Speaker 4: and you got to go from one place to another.
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  Speaker 3: Mentally, it's just a mental battle. Just for me, we
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  Speaker 3: have a three month old son. So the whole time,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about my son and my wife, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sitting on that plane.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Put them through this again. So even though you know
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  Speaker 3: getting traded, you know it wasn't always on me. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm ready to go play football. So I
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  Speaker 3: can go out here and show not only the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 3: but show.
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  Speaker 1: That I am what I say I am. What are
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  Speaker 1: they coming with you? My dog? My dog?
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  Speaker 3: That's what you're getting, getting a dog, getting somebody that's
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  Speaker 3: a leader, true leader. I'm gonna go out there each
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  Speaker 3: and every week, put my body on the line for
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  Speaker 3: my teammates, for this organization, and my family, so not
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  Speaker 3: to look at heavy.
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  Speaker 4: Then you get the Rams the week after. Yes, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you noticed that already here.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I did.
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  Speaker 3: That's first thing I noticed. I noticed that y'all didn't
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  Speaker 3: play them. So I get them twice too, So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: No bad feelings, no hard feelings there. I just want
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and play play really good.
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  Speaker 1: Though. What is your son's name, Ernest? He's the fifth?
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  Speaker 1: Are they joining you? They're staying back? And they came
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  Speaker 1: up with me yesterday. So got in last night.
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  Speaker 3: Around twelve, and I've been up studying that play book,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get myself ready for today and go out
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  Speaker 3: there practice get some rest.
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  Speaker 1: When when when when I crashed Tennessee using you similarly
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  Speaker 1: to the rams in the middle, and it was different.
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  Speaker 3: It was different a lot of those sets. You know
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  Speaker 3: in the Rams, they do a lot of stuff where
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  Speaker 3: they load one side. I'd get the running back one on ones.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't too much of that there, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was used to blitz, used to you know, take up
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  Speaker 3: you know, spaces, take up guards or whatever the case
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  Speaker 3: may be.
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  Speaker 4: What was it like your rookie year kind of starting
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  Speaker 4: at the end and the Super Bowl and all that.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's insane. I still to this day can't even
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  Speaker 3: put that in words. You know, to come in, work
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  Speaker 3: your way into a start and row get injured, then
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  Speaker 3: come back for the NFC championship in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: and to win it. It's it's insane. I to this day,
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  Speaker 3: I still don't. I can't even watch the game anymore
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  Speaker 3: because it's like, did we win this game or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: So Aaron Donald's said that the Ams your defense now
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  Speaker 5: and he retired and your two teams later. Now like
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  Speaker 5: you want, you want this to be your.
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  Speaker 1: Team, and I do. I do. I love to be
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. My my my wife's happy.
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  Speaker 3: She's she's back into where's there's a little city vibe,
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  Speaker 3: so she's happy. I'm good and you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: do whatever I can to to you know, be on
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  Speaker 3: this team for the long half. That's where you know
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  Speaker 3: they see me and fitting in From there, we you know,
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  Speaker 3: we work out everything else.
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  Speaker 5: You notice about the defensive You a chance to look
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  Speaker 5: at the players or do you know any of the
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  Speaker 5: players you played with?
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  Speaker 1: Any of them before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing them in the conference. You know, they're always
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  Speaker 3: a tough group. You know you're gonna get their best.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be well coached. And I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of of a of another good team,
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  Speaker 3: one that's well coached. A lot of players on this
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  Speaker 3: team they want to go hunt. So I fit in well,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Thank you, thank you, thank