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Montorie Foster Jr.: "Every Time I Play, I Play To A Standard" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That touch show.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know when you turn around, the ball's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be right on you like that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I did actually, Uh you know it was kind of
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  Speaker 4: tight coverage a little bit so, and it was a
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  Speaker 4: tight window to uh shout out to Drew. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: on that plant, I knew the ball was gonna be
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  Speaker 4: right there, So I was just ready for it.
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  Speaker 3: Is the linebacker tipped it to the change direction all
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  Speaker 3: you almost tipped it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was super close, but you know I was just
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  Speaker 4: ready for the moment and then made the play.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely you've had a.
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  Speaker 2: Good camp up to this point. How like rewarding ism
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  Speaker 2: to that have a carry over in the game match
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  Speaker 2: and and show what you can do in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, Man, it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I play, I played to a standard and
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  Speaker 4: it don't matter if I'm you know, playing good or bad.
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  Speaker 3: Like my standard is my standard.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go out there every day and just try to
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  Speaker 4: put my best for forward every day and put forth
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  Speaker 4: to effort, go block, do the little things and you
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  Speaker 4: know it, let everything else take care of itself.
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  Speaker 3: How close we you to that second one that Drew
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  Speaker 3: just over three? You done the sudder? Yeah, I w
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  Speaker 3: I was close.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, watching the tape on the
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  Speaker 4: sideline and I could have did a better part of
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  Speaker 4: just digging out my route.
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  Speaker 3: I looked a little bit too early.
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  Speaker 4: So you know that's something that I can clean up
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  Speaker 4: in my game, which I will do next game.
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  Speaker 3: How much over these.
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  Speaker 2: Guys a couple of weeks, you feel like special teams
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  Speaker 2: will be big for you to try to get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to show you to.
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  Speaker 3: Be there as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, man Like every time I go out on
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  Speaker 4: that field, like whatever's on my plate, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just gonna take care of whatever I gotta do. So
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to get more opportunities and special teams
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  Speaker 4: to show that I can do that too as well.
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  Speaker 1: Until you you get dropped in here late last year,
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  Speaker 1: joining the practice squad.
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  Speaker 3: And follow for the run and everything, I know you.
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  Speaker 1: Have the social media stuff kind of fallowing your journey
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  Speaker 1: was everything to now all of a sudden be out
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  Speaker 1: there contributing a little bit. What does that kind of
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  Speaker 1: mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it means everything, man. You know, I was back
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  Speaker 3: at home shoot for sixteen weeks, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was it was tough, man, It was
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  Speaker 4: times where. You know, I wanted to give up and
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  Speaker 4: just you know, get a regular job, but I stayed
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  Speaker 4: at it. My dad told me cream always rise to
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  Speaker 4: the top and just to stay faithful, and I just
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  Speaker 4: kept working, and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm now, I'm I'm here today. You were
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  Speaker 3: teaching back home?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I was doing a lot of things. Man.
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  Speaker 4: I was teaching substitute teaching at my high school. I
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  Speaker 4: actually got my real estate license too while I was
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  Speaker 4: back at home. And then I was training little kids
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  Speaker 4: in football too as well, just to get back to
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's a an you know, undrafted guys coming in, it's
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  Speaker 2: a tough rug to go when you got hurt in
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  Speaker 2: camp and kind of in your plus like, did you
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  Speaker 2: wonder was that your only opportunity?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I had no idea. Man. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I know I had some teams you know
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  Speaker 4: in the past that you know, before the pre draft
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  Speaker 4: process called me and stuff. But you know, you never
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  Speaker 4: know in this business because you know it's the one
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  Speaker 4: percent of the one percent, So you know, it's all
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  Speaker 4: about faith and timing, and you know, luckily I was
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  Speaker 4: on God's timing. What did uh?
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  Speaker 1: What were you teaching and doing?
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  Speaker 3: Real estate.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, when I went back home, so I would say
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  Speaker 4: probably in like s September.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well yeah September of last year. And what
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  Speaker 3: were you teaching?
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  Speaker 4: So I was just a substitute teacher, just filling in. Really,
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  Speaker 4: I had, I want to say, freshman's and juniors in
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  Speaker 4: high school, so that's what I was dealing with. So
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  Speaker 4: I had a Latin class, so I went to say that,
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  Speaker 4: so we I didn't I don't know any Latin.
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  Speaker 3: So at all.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I was just like, man, do y'all
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  Speaker 4: homework and I'll just be here and watching y'all. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, they was all good from there. Yeah, no
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  Speaker 4: lesson plan, not at all. Yo, thanks all right, thank
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  Speaker 4: you yep