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Mike Macdonald: "This Is A Big Week For Us As A Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Great to see everybody. As you know, first day in pads.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great practice, a little bit shorter practice,
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  Speaker 2: but really good. A lot of good situational work both
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  Speaker 2: sides making play. It's the same, same, same thing we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about. Uh Yeah, excited to watch the tape
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  Speaker 2: and and kind of move forward. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: big week force as a team, and I believe we're
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  Speaker 2: off to a great start. So what do you got
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  Speaker 2: when when God's first come on?
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  Speaker 1: What are your priority? Your eyes and what are you watching?
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  Speaker 1: I think it. I don't think it changes for me, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh depends on each play kind of what's going on
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  Speaker 2: or kind of like you were asking about what makes
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  Speaker 2: you excited about like a good player or bad play.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of know that when I get the script,
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  Speaker 2: I both both plays on there, which is nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice little perk of the.
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  Speaker 2: Job, you know, so I kind of know what's going
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  Speaker 2: on before the play happens.
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  Speaker 1: Which do you think I think you had the Oriza
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  Speaker 1: it was a great play. WHI should put the ball
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  Speaker 1: away when he caught it? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, just I was asking me like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: like you have a find here? What like great atmosphere, competing.
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  Speaker 2: We're asking a lot out of him. It's playing hard,
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  Speaker 2: learning a lot, but good to see him make a.
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  Speaker 3: Play up so quickly that you keep giving him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think he's earning what we what
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  Speaker 2: we give him. I don't think we're trying to intentionally
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  Speaker 2: overload him. I think we're just going at the pace
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  Speaker 2: that he's able to pick up. So it's uh, shout
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  Speaker 2: out to him and and you know, our coaches about
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  Speaker 2: getting him ready and you know, and we'll see I
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  Speaker 2: mean today's you know, not necessarily live yet, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: as we get into preseason games, you know how he
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  Speaker 2: retains it.
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  Speaker 1: But we feel like we do well, We're have to
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  Speaker 1: start making those decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Uh later on in camp because we you know, look
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  Speaker 2: to start to start the season.
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  Speaker 1: About mcsh and, like his situation.
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  Speaker 2: Is, uh yeah, it's obviously really unfortunate. We love Kenny,
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  Speaker 2: but it's an a c L. I mean, what he
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  Speaker 2: needs from us is.
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  Speaker 1: Our support, our prayers.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a tough road,
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  Speaker 2: but he's the man for the job and you know,
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  Speaker 2: our thoughts and prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Are with him.
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  Speaker 2: But he's gonna need our help, and he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: surgery here pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll how you feel about her. You're already back dead
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  Speaker 1: behind him. I mean, like Damian, like George and.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like that. Well, we love the guys we have,
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  Speaker 2: and so that's that's a positive. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you're always saying we're It's hard to say you're
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  Speaker 2: always deep in.
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  Speaker 1: Any position at any given point because you know how
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  Speaker 1: fast these things can happen. So uh, but Damien had
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  Speaker 1: a good day today.
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  Speaker 2: George has been doing a great job, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: just we're excited about those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Demi and Martinez.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of stands out for you.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think today was his best days had
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  Speaker 2: staying off the ground seeing the runs, I had a
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  Speaker 2: feeling that you would show up.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit more on the pads. So hopefully that
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  Speaker 1: that trend continues. Waves look like.
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  Speaker 2: They're a little bit more self folk sport.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a fair assumption. They looked a little faster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We we started to practice the right way today, which
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  Speaker 2: was good. We haven't done that every day on defense,
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  Speaker 2: so that was nice. So offense needs to respond tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't start fast enough today.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Mike Bors had had a big play earlier there
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  Speaker 1: that we saw on what just in general, have you
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  Speaker 1: seen it?
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  Speaker 2: Have You's kind of his role this is this is
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  Speaker 2: where he needs to you know, prove his prove his
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  Speaker 2: worth is when we're in pads and there's a big
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  Speaker 2: role for him that that we expect out of him.
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  Speaker 2: We got a vision for him and uh, he's on
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  Speaker 2: his way to make it come to life.
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  Speaker 1: But he's in a battle too.
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  Speaker 2: The team kinda TASA coach and talking about that they
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  Speaker 2: use data measurement out there to have a standard.
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  Speaker 1: That they're looking for for their players and they tell
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  Speaker 1: players about it.
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  Speaker 2: You guys use data in that way and reflective back
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  Speaker 2: to players out in practice. I find sometimes the top
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  Speaker 2: speeds are a little misleading. I mean some you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a mic backer he's making every play
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  Speaker 2: between the paint, his top speeds aren't gonna be very good.
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  Speaker 2: So it's you know, different for like some skill guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we're tracking like player load management all
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  Speaker 2: the time and that has a huge part of how
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  Speaker 2: we designed practice and how he managed reps and things
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  Speaker 2: like that, But not necessarily a standard criteria whether or
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  Speaker 2: not they meet it or not.
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  Speaker 3: With the preseas of game approaching, what's something that you
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  Speaker 3: focus on and aspects of the game this week?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get the team right before that first game
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  Speaker 1: off preseason? I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
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  Speaker 3: What are some aspects of the offense or the deecause
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  Speaker 3: that you need to kind of focus on before the
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  Speaker 3: first game off preseason as as that approaches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not thinking in terms of a timetable before
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  Speaker 2: the preseason game. We're really thinking through a lens of
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  Speaker 2: this is a big week. Pads are finally on. We've
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  Speaker 2: just gone the last I don't know, four months of saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: when the pads come on, When the pads come on,
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  Speaker 2: When the pads come on?
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  Speaker 1: So now they're on, So now it's time to go. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can see like when we're playing real football,
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  Speaker 2: like who can hold up? When?
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  Speaker 1: When uh, you know, we're physically challenging each other. There's
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  Speaker 1: a moment of.
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  Speaker 2: What you want a grades able on the sign coaching
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  Speaker 2: about John in a couple of years, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you what do you see or what do you
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  Speaker 1: expect from guy? Like if that's something common when you
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  Speaker 1: see a defender working with it rookie out after the.
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  Speaker 2: Fine Well, I mean it shows you who Leo is.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't over there to see it, but I
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  Speaker 2: have seen it up to this point. You know, even
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  Speaker 2: on tape, you can kind of see behind of the
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  Speaker 2: Vets talking to the rookies on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I think the guys are really conscious about you know,
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  Speaker 2: twelve is one they were. You know, we're we're sharper
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  Speaker 2: in each other. We're gonna compete the heck out of
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  Speaker 2: each other when we're going, but we're also gonna support
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  Speaker 2: each other and hold each other to a certain standard.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great to see the Vets set the example
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  Speaker 2: telling us.
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  Speaker 1: About the Marcus Lawrence's practice and drillings, just group strength
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  Speaker 1: to throw up pushing guys back here.
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  Speaker 2: This is the probably the best compment I have. Like
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  Speaker 2: I was, he looks like a giant on film.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully that paints a picture for you. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what his actual measure. I think he's like six
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  Speaker 2: three and something to fifty and something, but.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he plays everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Just how do you move?
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  Speaker 1: Uh man? I thought our guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think our guys are practicing their tails off right now.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of great stuff on tape. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of competition kind of after you know, without
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  Speaker 2: Chinna being up right now, you know, after the three guys.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: How that kind of shakes out on how you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's different skill sets too, so we kind of special
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  Speaker 2: team is gonna be a big part of it. But
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  Speaker 2: we do have some flexibility on d line too, Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, we played Leo at d end and so
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  Speaker 2: we've been able to kind of get through with that
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  Speaker 2: necessarily having a ton of edge guys. Yeah, EJ another
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  Speaker 2: personal matter, another another person just for him and his
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  Speaker 2: family could use all of our prayers right now. He's okay,
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  Speaker 2: everything's everything's good, okay, but uh but we love him
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  Speaker 2: and he's with his family right now. Going off that
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  Speaker 2: you were able to bring bring back Smith who was
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  Speaker 2: who was here for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Then was an Arizona briefly and then brought him back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tyre, he brought him back and the his signs
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  Speaker 3: back for another contractor what have.
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  Speaker 2: You seen since you've been here from him in terms
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  Speaker 2: of progress and where he fits and we thankfully, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's confident in the scheme, what we're asking
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  Speaker 2: him to do. It's tough to come in kind of
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  Speaker 2: after camp when all the install's done and you know
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  Speaker 2: we're in game mode and you're kind of playing catch
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  Speaker 2: up on how we do things all the time. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, going through the whole off season program playing
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  Speaker 2: way more decisive than we saw. I mean, he's done
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  Speaker 2: a lot. He's physically gifted guy, really talented, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing within the scheme and making those decisions has been
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  Speaker 2: vascinly improved.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's encouraging. He's the guy you seem to
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy talking about last year, so you kind of
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  Speaker 1: made them progression the well have you seen him this
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  Speaker 1: year before? He's comedy and kind of warning the savage player.
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  Speaker 1: I got put that one he did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Might I think his platform is a little different, But
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  Speaker 2: he's always been a really confident guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's an ultra competitor.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, his communication skills are on point, just like he
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  Speaker 2: just takes so much pride in in in his work
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  Speaker 2: how we communicated.
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  Speaker 1: As a defense, it's really important.
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  Speaker 2: For him and Julian on On kind of being on
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  Speaker 2: the same page and so and you know, Spoons part
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  Speaker 2: of that you know, kind of the whole thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: And the backup safeties are doing a trend's job. But
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  Speaker 2: when they when they take so much pride just how
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  Speaker 2: we get things right, How how how we can manipulate
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  Speaker 2: and work within the system to you know, put ourselves
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  Speaker 2: position to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: And they share the same excitement as the coaches, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, the enthusiasm day in day out sets the example
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the defense, rest of the team.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, he's doing a great job, the right game.
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  Speaker 1: For the path. I gotta watch tape, but right now, no,
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  Speaker 1: just sating example.
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  Speaker 2: But we didn't run ball very well today, so we
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  Speaker 2: gotta do we gotta be better.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of setting an example of competition, how are
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  Speaker 3: you seeing Cooper Cup And let's say j s N
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  Speaker 3: Jakebobo set the tone for people at Cody White in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how they're practice, seeing and being professional stacking plays.
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  Speaker 2: As you've said, well, it's tribute to to co But
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't need I mean, this guy is a tremendous
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  Speaker 2: practice players get a tremendous work ethic. Uh, but those
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  Speaker 2: veteran guys, I mean, Coop is just I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just I'm happy he's on our team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't be happier to have him as a Seahawk. All
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  Speaker 2: the things he does on the field, the attention to detail,
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  Speaker 2: the work ethic, uh, the attitude, the enthusiasm just as
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  Speaker 2: a leader of your program too that you can like
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  Speaker 2: he's seen a lot of a lot of great things,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a lot of great ideas, and he's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that you kind of lean on when when
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  Speaker 2: making decisions.
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  Speaker 1: About what we want to do as a team as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you know he's he's definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the one of the top leaders on our
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  Speaker 2: football team.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of tight ends.
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  Speaker 3: What is it that you've seen and how you've seen
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  Speaker 3: Elijah rojel progress?
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  Speaker 1: I love a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: I think you saw him come alive in that last
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  Speaker 2: Shells practice on Saturday, Uh, making plays down the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got to keep around, just keep attacking
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  Speaker 2: all the all the details that he needs to do.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rookie doing a lot of great things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you see, you see what he's capable of doing. But
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be counting on him and we're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: asking a lot of them too, So he's got some
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  Speaker 2: room to grow, especially in the run game. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: but the attitude's there, you know, the efforts there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the day and day out, the attention to details.
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  Speaker 2: Just you know, you're gonna make it come to life
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  Speaker 2: now that we're you know, we're in pads and we're.
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  Speaker 1: Competing to see the run game. If I just gave
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  Speaker 1: you something, I'd just be making something up.
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  Speaker 2: We just defensively, I thought, I thought we we played
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  Speaker 2: well today in the run game. So but that's that's
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  Speaker 2: how these things work. You know, offense is going to
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  Speaker 2: come back. You know there's any things on defense we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be you know, itching, itching to fix and that's
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  Speaker 2: how you become a better football team. Griffin.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, his should be back earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: It's it.
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  Speaker 1: We're in pads tomorrow. Yes, that hankin's a thing new
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  Speaker 1: there and nothing nothing with hank doing a good job
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  Speaker 1: coming away.
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  Speaker 3: What do we kind of seem.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, a man his size, you think maybe
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  Speaker 2: he's just limited to the A gap, but you know
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  Speaker 2: we can actually move.
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  Speaker 1: Him across the line.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, he's a pretty dang good athlete too, So
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  Speaker 2: that's that shows up normally you're not able to play
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  Speaker 2: out in the sea gap over the tackle. But he's
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  Speaker 2: doing a good job on that front. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a great opportunity in front of him. I mean
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of reps to be had on the
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  Speaker 2: interior D lines and he's making the bust of him
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  Speaker 2: right now. But practice are getting longer, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: D Lion is going to be a stress point for
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  Speaker 2: those guys to you know, bring it throughout the course
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  Speaker 2: of you know, each practice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I I love the program. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a d has got a big part of
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  Speaker 2: it as well. Uh, Federico's doing a great job. We're
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  Speaker 2: really excited about him.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's got a good future. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know his plays be made out there as well.
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  Speaker 2: So uh but the really sharp makes calls quickly, he's decisive.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The athleticism you can feel getting to the second level
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  Speaker 2: so promising, start getting out thanking h