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Geno Smith: "We Moved The Ball Pretty Well" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: And do you how did you feel like it went
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  Speaker 1: out there today.
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  Speaker 2: For you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, uh, we started pretty fast, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I thought the guys were prepared, came out ready to go. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we can always be better and all fastest
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  Speaker 3: of our game. So you know, gotta go back and
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  Speaker 3: watch the film and see exactly you know, the details
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  Speaker 3: of what that is. But overall, man, we moved the
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  Speaker 3: ball pretty well. I thought one on ones went well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, guys were running fast, making great plays all
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  Speaker 3: across the field. So, you know, so far, so good.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like you get out of the
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  Speaker 1: dart practices.
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  Speaker 3: Or can't you get just the competition, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: being able to go against someone else, uh, another team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting that that good you know, fun competition
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  Speaker 3: out here on the field. Uh, you know, it's always
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  Speaker 3: great to you know, go against each other. You got
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  Speaker 3: you know de Re uh sorry, you got DK and
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  Speaker 3: and uh rieke willand who compete against each other almost
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  Speaker 3: every day. And then you come out here and you
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  Speaker 3: see the difference, you know, in cornerbacks and receivers and
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  Speaker 3: going up against different guys, seeing different looks, you know,
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  Speaker 3: different schemes, and I think just overall, man, just the
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  Speaker 3: competition that's the main thing. But seeing a little bit, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was fun.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Really missed those guys, you know, Caandre Jamal Uh good
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  Speaker 3: friends of mine and always rooting for those guys. You
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  Speaker 3: know they're in the wrong colors right now, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know those are our guys and uh we we
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  Speaker 3: love those guys. It was great to see me all
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  Speaker 3: back out there, knowing what he's been through, how much
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  Speaker 3: he's fought, and uh Quandre as well.
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  Speaker 2: So looking forward tomorrow as well. You were finding js
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  Speaker 2: a little bit today.
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  Speaker 1: Just have you seen that connection grow between the two
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  Speaker 1: and his second training camps?
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's continuing to grow. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I just love the way js N works. You know, Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: he he's prepared every single day. You know in the
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  Speaker 3: off season, man, like I said, he was hitting me up.
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  Speaker 3: Uh flew down to Miami. We got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: one on one work. So when this stuff happens out
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  Speaker 3: here on the field, it's just a result of all
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  Speaker 3: the work that we put in and all the hard
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  Speaker 3: work that he's done. So uh to see him continuing
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  Speaker 3: to grow and blossom, man, that's that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Man. I just love the work he's putting in. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think is the final period for the one offense.
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  Speaker 1: To move them all on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's important, man.
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  Speaker 3: We uh we gotta get those in, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: playing in preseason, obviously, you wanna get those drives in
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  Speaker 3: and you wanna feel what it's like to go through
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  Speaker 3: uh ten, you know, twelve fourteen play drive and as
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  Speaker 3: you can see, you know, once you get down there
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone, guys are gonna be a little tired,
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  Speaker 3: but you gotta finish and you wanna see what that
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  Speaker 3: feels like. And so it was great to have that
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  Speaker 3: out opportunity out here on the field. They count the
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  Speaker 3: DK however, Yeah, yeah, obviously you can't tackle guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if from my advantage point, it'd be hard to tackle
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  Speaker 3: DK after one.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So let's see, we haven't a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you since you missed those a couple of days that
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  Speaker 1: I just was that anything to to worry about it all?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously?
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  Speaker 3: He r No, nothing to worry about, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: good that I'm you know, pretty healthy and uh was
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  Speaker 3: able to figure some things out.
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  Speaker 2: How you felt some some back felt pretty good?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you think of about like third down taping place
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  Speaker 3: situation really and what do you think was one offensive?
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  Speaker 3: That's like I said, Man, I wanna watch the film
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  Speaker 3: so I can give you a complete answer. But overall,
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  Speaker 3: I thought we handled it well. I thought, Uh, if
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  Speaker 3: it was a game situation, uh, we would've converted uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a few a few of those. And obviously,
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  Speaker 3: uh last week in the game we were fifty five percent,
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  Speaker 3: which is really good. So those are areas that we
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  Speaker 3: obviously talked about improved and we're working towards that. And
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  Speaker 3: it seems like we're getting better in that area.
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  Speaker 1: With not playing in the last preseason game and coach
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  Speaker 1: that starts probably won't play much this game.
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  Speaker 2: How valuable are these raps against another team? For you guys?
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  Speaker 2: So valuable.
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  Speaker 3: It's important for us to, like I said, to get
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  Speaker 3: those drives in and to to get ourselves you know,
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  Speaker 3: fatigued and be able to to think out here.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: That's you know, that's when it really matters. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, those twelve play drives, long drives. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're playing you know, halves in a complete game, and
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  Speaker 3: the body's gonna wear down. So the more you can
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  Speaker 3: get to it out here and you can feel what
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  Speaker 3: that feels like. Uh, the the better you'll be and
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  Speaker 3: the more you can push through it and in the game.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously we wanna, you know, continue to work on
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  Speaker 3: our conditioning and that happens out here.
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  Speaker 2: Gina, What do you seem from Keim Rocker right now?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's preseason that stuff. What if you seen
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  Speaker 2: so far?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Shoot, He's he's getting better and he's already been explosive.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's already had all the skills set and
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  Speaker 3: everything like that. But the thing that I've seen the
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  Speaker 3: most from him is his growth off the field. The
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  Speaker 3: way he's taking care of his body, his training, his regiment.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that you know, the best ones have and
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  Speaker 3: I think he's taking that to the next level. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's gonna help him, you know, throughout the season.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, h his leadership has grown. He's taking
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  Speaker 3: charge in that running back room and and just all
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  Speaker 3: the things that he's doing I think is really good.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a level of chest match between you and
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  Speaker 3: a better in like Quantrid.
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  Speaker 2: That's a switch he did always always.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've been doing that since you know,
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  Speaker 3: his days at Texas. You know, gotta know where he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's a extremely smart player. Uh you know, he reads
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I try to look him off. He's not
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's not always gonna go for it. So
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  Speaker 3: when you got veteran guys like that, uh it, it
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  Speaker 3: only makes me better and makes our offense better. The
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  Speaker 3: more I can go up against, uh, great players like
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  Speaker 3: Quandra is today.
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  Speaker 2: What you thrift them? Is that more sensitive than what
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  Speaker 2: has showed in the preseason. I think I'll say it's
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  Speaker 2: about the same. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we we're just you know, working through our installs. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Grubs got a plan of how he wants
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  Speaker 3: things to be done and how he wants to install
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  Speaker 3: these plays, and so we're just kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: taking it as it goes.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I think it was pretty much
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  Speaker 2: the same. Though.
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  Speaker 1: The TUA is that you play sequence where they called
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  Speaker 1: the sack on Simmons on you, and then you came
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  Speaker 1: back the next play and then to your sam for
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  Speaker 1: about forty yards downfield or whatever. J just th I
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  Speaker 1: guess that that that sequence and kind of being without.
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  Speaker 2: Back from that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's football, you know, always playing
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  Speaker 3: the next play. There's always gonna be situations that you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be in and you don't wanna have any negative plays.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing we try to eliminate. But if you
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  Speaker 3: do right, it's a it's always good to respond in
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  Speaker 3: a big way. And I thought JSN ran a great route. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: the line did a great job protecting grub called a
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  Speaker 3: great play and then obviously we're able to make make
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  Speaker 3: that big play that connection.
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  Speaker 2: And uh get to get the change movie big picture
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  Speaker 2: NFL question, what kind of attention.
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  Speaker 1: Do you pay to the other quarterbacks who get those
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  Speaker 1: big potbacks that could.
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  Speaker 3: Up in several of them as all, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: hard not to see it. I mean, we all see it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm I'm really happy for those guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, whatever they get, they d they
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  Speaker 3: deserve and so you know, you you pay attention to it,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, you try to stay focused on what
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  Speaker 3: you have to stay focused on, which is my job
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  Speaker 3: here uh with the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Yah yah, yeah, sorry, I just put just ran up.
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  Speaker 1: How proud are you just for not getting into the
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  Speaker 1: extra spirit get what is just kicking into mart?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm really proud of both teams because there
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of great competition out there and guys
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  Speaker 3: were you know, really competing and you know, trying to
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  Speaker 3: trying to get better, and uh sometimes you know that
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  Speaker 3: thing gets edgy out there. It's football and h you
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  Speaker 3: got you know, big grown men, you know, pushing and
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  Speaker 3: shoving on each other all day.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna it's bound to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought the coaches did a great job pre
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  Speaker 3: practiced that just kind of talking about how we wanna practice.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought the guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, even if it did get a little
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  Speaker 3: chippy out there, uh of just you know pulling back
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  Speaker 3: and and not you know, getting into a fight or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that. Sorry if you're said Mike mcgonald said,
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  Speaker 3: in this situation, you can play more of your scheme.
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  Speaker 2: Than you would on a game to a hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: can watch did that happen today? And how did you
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  Speaker 2: guys did the offense game? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, as I said earlier, I I really
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  Speaker 3: think we were just going through our instaults. I think
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  Speaker 3: Grub has a plan of how he wants to install plays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we wanna make sure that we're good at
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  Speaker 3: the you know, our base plays, and we're good at
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  Speaker 3: the things that we're working on now before we you know,
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  Speaker 3: try to move on and install anymore. So we're just
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  Speaker 3: kind of going week by week, day by day, that
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  Speaker 3: type of thing, and uh, you know, whether it's more
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  Speaker 3: or less.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't know. We got to figure it out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as the games go along. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thanks