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Riq Woolen: "We Know How Great Of A Team We Can Be" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, you feel like this camp's going for you obviously
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  Speaker 1: out there in the last year at this.
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  Speaker 2: Time, or uh, honestly, it feel good because uh last
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  Speaker 2: year during camp, I didn't uh participate to the last
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  Speaker 2: wee could count like the week before the like first
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  Speaker 2: game for real.
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  Speaker 3: So it feels good to be.
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  Speaker 2: Back and actually make it through a full camp and
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  Speaker 2: also just uh be healthy and then enjoy it with
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  Speaker 2: uh my teammates and the new coaches.
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  Speaker 4: About the competitiveness of this camp, the offense, and then
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  Speaker 4: even within each unit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh honestly, just we just know what's at stake for real,
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  Speaker 2: and we know how great of a team we can be,
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  Speaker 2: and we are a great team, so we just be
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  Speaker 2: out there pushing each other. You know, we got great
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  Speaker 2: players on our team, and it.
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  Speaker 3: Helps both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you got great players on offense, and it helped
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  Speaker 2: the defense the same way defense and the offense. So
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  Speaker 2: uh so just us competing is gonna make us a
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  Speaker 2: greater team. And on week one it makes things easier
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  Speaker 2: because we already prepared because we competed so much and counting.
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  Speaker 1: How do you describe your season last year?
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  Speaker 2: Uh shit, Uh shoot, honestly, I have fun it was
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  Speaker 2: part of the journey for real. I mean I don't
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  Speaker 2: I'd have been ups and downs.
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  Speaker 3: I've been to Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I didnet been on the bench before, so it was
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  Speaker 2: just all part of the journey to me. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like as a young player, I had to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go through that just because it shows me that it's
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  Speaker 2: the places that I don't want to be and it's
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  Speaker 2: places where I do want to be, and that's to
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  Speaker 2: be in a pro bowler, that's to help my team
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  Speaker 2: get to the super Bowl and you know, just be
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  Speaker 2: a great player. So honestly, I just felt like last
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  Speaker 2: year was a great year for me. To some people,
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  Speaker 2: they may have their own opinions, but those the same
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  Speaker 2: people that are not playing the game. So it's okay
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  Speaker 2: with me. So I feel great and I feel like
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  Speaker 2: this year will be even better.
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  Speaker 3: Greek Does this step up the competition at all?
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  Speaker 5: When you guys step foot into women tomorrow and like
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  Speaker 5: a state game around you, that's okay? Does it rap
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  Speaker 5: up the competition at all? When you got step step
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  Speaker 5: field like into the stadium and have that around you,
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  Speaker 5: that atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: Like what you mean for tomorrow or just like for
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Honestly, I feel like it shouldn't change just
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  Speaker 2: because we just we've been competing so much uh here
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  Speaker 2: at practice, and tomorrow is just gonna feel like another
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  Speaker 2: practice to us. You know, it's just gonna be Hella
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  Speaker 2: fans out there and it's at Loominfield. That's the only difference.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, we're gonna still be having fun.
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  Speaker 2: We're still gonna compete, and we're still gonna put on
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  Speaker 2: the show for the crowd.
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  Speaker 4: How do you like the miss the mystery drill situation
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  Speaker 4: where you just kind of thrown into the situation little practice.
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  Speaker 3: I like, it's new to me.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't never done that before, but I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: just like the game. You never know what situation you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be in. So I feel like that's that's what
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  Speaker 2: I like. You know, practice is just like the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like that's part of the culture that
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  Speaker 2: coach Mike is in is putting into us, just because.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he want everything to be game like. You see,
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  Speaker 3: we got game jerseys on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we be fully padded when it's for practice.
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  Speaker 2: So just make everything game like has been a key
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  Speaker 2: thing for us.
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  Speaker 4: As someone who was drafted in the late rounds. How
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  Speaker 4: important is training camp in preseason for making the names?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like you played a major part, especially
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  Speaker 2: with me being to the point I am now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as a rookie, you want to get reps, and I
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  Speaker 2: remember when I when I was a rookie. At first,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't getting a lot of reps at training to count.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, and the sport of football and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, people get banged up and people go down.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever I had my chance and I got the
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  Speaker 2: reps I did, I just make the best of them. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for all the rookies that's out here, we just make
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  Speaker 2: sure that they locked in. We make sure whenever they
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  Speaker 2: do get their reps, they do what's best with their reps,
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  Speaker 2: and whenever we get to the preseason games, they want
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  Speaker 2: to get.
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  Speaker 3: Better at each game two as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's what I did when I
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  Speaker 2: was a young guy, and that's why I try to
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  Speaker 2: do to health these other guys out here too, so
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  Speaker 2: that way you know they can make that they can
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  Speaker 2: make a name for themselves or even just get better
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  Speaker 2: as a player with those young guys.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you is a position grip like celebrating
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  Speaker 1: their success and one of them makes the players.
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  Speaker 3: They do make a play.
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  Speaker 1: How much you guys like celebrating their success.
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  Speaker 2: And we celebrate a lot just because in the dB room. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of our biggest things. Like we even look
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  Speaker 2: on the film when somebody celebrate or get a big
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  Speaker 2: play in the room and we watching the film, it's
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  Speaker 2: nobody celebrate. We you know, ching them up in the
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  Speaker 2: room just because we got to show passion out there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, even though we're competing for spots, we
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  Speaker 2: competing and have fun, uh and all that. It's just
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  Speaker 2: whenever somebody make a play, it's okay to cheer them
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  Speaker 2: on because you know that gives them a boosting confidence
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  Speaker 2: and it makes them want to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: do it again.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, just building that.
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  Speaker 2: Confidence into each other and pouring into each other, that's
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna help us be a great team.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty year doing that street How much more complete your game?
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  Speaker 3: What if you learned on the field about the league
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  Speaker 3: and playing that position. Sure, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I just felt like, uh, just getting better understanding
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  Speaker 2: the new scheme. I feel like we got new coaches,
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a fresh start for everybody, So just
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  Speaker 2: learning a new scheme, in the new plays and learn
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  Speaker 2: how I can fit well into the system. One of
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  Speaker 2: the major things I was trying to do is just
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  Speaker 2: get stronger. This all season, I did get stronger, and
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  Speaker 2: just being able to, you know, have faith in myself
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  Speaker 2: and have faith in what I can do, and with
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  Speaker 2: my reps and everything at camp, it has been showing
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  Speaker 2: that I put the work in and I do have
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  Speaker 2: the confidence to continue to make those plays, and I
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  Speaker 2: do have faith in myself to continue to build off
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: You get stronger, what did you do? What did you
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  Speaker 3: get stronger? Lift weights? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, probably so yeah, But I mean there's lifting ways
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  Speaker 2: and she was running doing all types of stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just the old fashioned way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe in all the extra stuff. I just
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  Speaker 3: go live for a Where do you think your game
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  Speaker 3: has gotten stronger?
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  Speaker 2: My off game just because I know that I'm a
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  Speaker 2: great press corner. But it's a difference when you can
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  Speaker 2: play off two and you can change your game up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's how I felt like I done got
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  Speaker 2: better at even at practice each day like I've been
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  Speaker 2: working it and somes like I've been doing some days
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  Speaker 2: while I be off in some days while I do
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  Speaker 2: be pressed up. And also just playing the left side,
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  Speaker 2: I always always on the right side, and now on
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  Speaker 2: this defense, I gotta move around and play different spots.
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  Speaker 2: So just learning how I can fit in the defense,
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  Speaker 2: and I just put it into my training this off
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  Speaker 2: season so that way I can fit well.
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  Speaker 3: Into the scheme. You like playing on the left and
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  Speaker 3: the right, Oh yeah, I feel like it.
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  Speaker 2: Makes it better just because you get to go against
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  Speaker 2: the best receiver. You know, whenever you get to go
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  Speaker 2: against the best receiver, they play on the right end
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  Speaker 2: on the left side. So I feel like that can
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  Speaker 2: be a great help to this team, and that could
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  Speaker 2: be a great thing for me just because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: competitor and it shows that my teammates can trust in
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  Speaker 2: me to do the right thing, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things on the outside because.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I remember you only played on the right
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  Speaker 4: side for your first two years.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like going back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: It's really just a muscle memory thing. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: it's really not bad. When I was in college, I
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  Speaker 2: played the boundary corner, so and the boundary is it
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  Speaker 2: can literally be left or the right side.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll just get in the muscle memory.
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  Speaker 2: And so so far, each day I've been getting reps
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  Speaker 2: at both sides, and I feel like when I get
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  Speaker 2: to the left side, I just gotta keep getting those
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  Speaker 2: reps saying, and the muscle memories just will build up.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, it's been going well.
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  Speaker 4: I remember Pete saying one time a few years ago
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  Speaker 4: that the reason he didn't flip flop corners was because
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  Speaker 4: it felt like the technique it would be hard to
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  Speaker 4: kind of master the technique both ways. Is that Is
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  Speaker 4: there anything to that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's hard at all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when it comes down to it's just football,
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  Speaker 2: for real, and whenever you're a great player like I am,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do certain things. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I want to do. I want to play both sides,
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  Speaker 2: I want to travel, I want to do stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think it's hard at all. I'm an athlete.
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  Speaker 2: I trust myself and I'm confident in what I do.
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  Speaker 2: So so far has been the breeze and I'm just
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  Speaker 2: getting better every day.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see this new scheme traveling you game?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you know it ain't even regular season yet. We're
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  Speaker 2: still installing plays, and I feel like that's something a
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  Speaker 2: game plan thing will do maybe, and that's something that
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  Speaker 2: if the coaches want me to do it, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, I'm gonna play left and right side.
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  Speaker 1: What do you get kind of going up against DK
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  Speaker 1: Metcalf as often as you do, with his combination of size, speed, power,
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it makes it. It makes it easier when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to game day. We got DK, we got JSN,
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  Speaker 2: we got t Lock. You get a real good combination
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  Speaker 2: of different things from all of them. So I like
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  Speaker 2: going against all three because whenever you go against certain
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  Speaker 2: receivers on game day, they're not gonna be exactly like DK,
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  Speaker 2: but they may have certain things from DK, they may
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  Speaker 2: have certain things from t LOCK, they may have certain
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  Speaker 2: things from JASN. But just being able to get those
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  Speaker 2: res versus all of them, that's what make you a
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  Speaker 2: great player. And I feel like when they go against me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm helping them become a better player because I consider
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  Speaker 2: myself one of the best and they consider themselves some
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  Speaker 2: of the best as well in the league, and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like they are. So whenever we out there competing
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  Speaker 2: and having fun. It's just us making each other better
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  Speaker 2: and becoming a greater team.
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  Speaker 1: Look like you're disagree with the holding or the DPI
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that they caught, But I know those are
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  Speaker 1: real NFL reps out here right now. I guess is
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  Speaker 1: it helpful to being able to talk to them and
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  Speaker 1: know what they saw or play like that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I mean one that throw the flag, it ain't
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  Speaker 2: much you can do for real, and it's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just practice anyway, But I mean, I'll just take
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  Speaker 2: it with a green and uh go with the next
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  Speaker 2: play for real. I mean, it's practice and that's what
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  Speaker 2: it's for. You make mistakes and practice or whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: certain calls you may not agree with 'em, but once
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  Speaker 2: that flag throwing ain't much you can do for real.
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  Speaker 4: I apologize if you were ancests already, But how did
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  Speaker 4: when you evaluate your season last year, how do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like.
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  Speaker 3: It went that?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I already asked that question. All I said was I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like it was part of the journey. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I am still the same player. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I had a great year last year, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what people will say about it.
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  Speaker 3: And basically that's it. Thank you, thank you,