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Julian Love: "I Just Love Playing With These Guys" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How do you some of your feelings here, especially early
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  Speaker 1: in your career not even getting to play very many
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  Speaker 1: playoff games, and now that you need to play in
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, take it easy, all right. Uh it's surreal. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hugging we go after obviously, you know we've been through
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  Speaker 2: some ship but I would not be here, you know
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  Speaker 2: without this special unit top down obviously from John to
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  Speaker 2: Mike and then the guys on the field. I uh,
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  Speaker 2: I just love playing with these with these guys, what
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  Speaker 2: was the what was kind of the vibe when they
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  Speaker 2: moved down to sixth there and they had the second
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  Speaker 2: and second, you know, second and four they're right on
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  Speaker 2: the doorstep, but you guys get the three straight stops. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the offense is obviously good. They're making a
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  Speaker 2: lot of plays out there today, but just like anything,
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  Speaker 2: so all right, they gotta earn it. We knew that
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna make plays. You know, they're a good offense.
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  Speaker 2: But if we can be situationally good, then we can
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  Speaker 2: have our way in this game. And red zone we
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  Speaker 2: came down to it. It made some critical critical plays,
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  Speaker 2: uh spoon, we made a few of them. Yeah, mis
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  Speaker 2: man on man, we just needed to show up in
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  Speaker 2: that moment. It's been big for you guys, layers for
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  Speaker 2: him to come up with two pass breakups.
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  Speaker 1: In or on the third fourth down.
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  Speaker 2: What what? What do you take a Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: said earlier this season that he's just the heart of
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  Speaker 2: our defense.
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  Speaker 1: He just is the.
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  Speaker 2: Essence like Spoon is it? You know, he plays with
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  Speaker 2: us such a raw energy and we love him for it,
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  Speaker 2: and he plays.
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  Speaker 1: With it, he lives with it.
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  Speaker 2: He walks down the hallway at the facility. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you guys hear him Spoon and spoon and we feed
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  Speaker 2: off of that. And so, you know, him making those
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  Speaker 2: plays I think was pretty fitting that the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: It can be difficult in types for rookies, especially in
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stage.
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  Speaker 2: To see Nick even.
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  Speaker 1: Warr on that last drive in the first half come
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  Speaker 1: up with back to back pass perhaps to get them
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  Speaker 1: all back to the offense. And how have you seen
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  Speaker 1: him handle this situation playing in the playoffs the first
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  Speaker 1: time as a rookie and elevating his game and the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's approached all this with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of humility. I think he is constantly open to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: coaching feedback, any any any advice from me or any
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  Speaker 2: of the leaders. He carries a chip on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: He has slack. He's firing, he's for sure why in
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  Speaker 2: but he's he's a humble one. Uh and so in
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  Speaker 2: that moment, we uh, we're excited. I mean, he's making
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  Speaker 2: some good plays because he's been making place for us
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  Speaker 2: the entire season. How did you get you guys kind
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  Speaker 2: of get it back on track after the sequence where
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  Speaker 2: recot the penalty and they swore the touchdown and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. I mean, I just try to enforce the
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  Speaker 2: message that listen, obviously, don't do that. It's not smart,
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  Speaker 2: but it happened. We we're gonna do now. We have
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes left to punch our ticket, so let's bowl
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  Speaker 2: up here. And so that's what we did.
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  Speaker 1: Your quarterback has, you know, had some criticisms about his
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  Speaker 1: play against the Rams or in the posted or whatever else.
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  Speaker 1: For him to go out and do what he did
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  Speaker 1: in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Three touchdowns during seven yards and no turnovers plenty show
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  Speaker 2: he has Hey man, he probably just got lucky today. Again,
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  Speaker 2: that's what they like to say, right, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think I have a perspective on Sam because I
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  Speaker 2: started my career in New York work. He got a
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  Speaker 2: bad rap early, and I just think it's not fitting
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  Speaker 2: of who he is as a person. As a player.
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  Speaker 2: He shows up to work, he works hard, he's humble
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  Speaker 2: about it, he takes no shortcuts in the process. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: in the building loves him. He's just a good guy.
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  Speaker 2: You guys talk to him. He's just a guy, a
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  Speaker 2: guy you can enjoy playing golf with a guy you
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  Speaker 2: you know that, you take pride in him leading you
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  Speaker 2: on the field. And so I think all that that
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  Speaker 2: that criticism is not warranted. I mean that proves into
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  Speaker 2: putting this this whole year. He showed up when it
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  Speaker 2: mattered and uh he he won us the game today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that, you know that connection with Sam
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  Speaker 1: and Leo playing with him in New York and having
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  Speaker 1: several guys that were in the New York market, do
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  Speaker 1: you see there's kind of a part of the unity
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  Speaker 1: with this team that you guys can share. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: helped you guys get to.
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  Speaker 2: This point for sure. I mean, we're a young team,
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  Speaker 2: but we have a lot of different perspective and experience
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  Speaker 2: from all sorts of places. Have d law, you have
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  Speaker 2: Sam myself Leo he day has been around the Black
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  Speaker 2: Coop like it's you have. And then you have got
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  Speaker 2: you know, homegrown guys that that we were able to
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  Speaker 2: get in the draft and it just created a very
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  Speaker 2: cool environment to everyone's feeding off each other. Everyone has
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  Speaker 2: to say in the room and that that's it's not
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  Speaker 2: just talk, it's real. Uh. If somebody sees something, they
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  Speaker 2: say something. And uh, you guys are been in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room with us. I mean it's just it's all
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  Speaker 2: lad with love. Like we are very unseerious as a hunit.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We are constantly messing around, but when it's time to
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  Speaker 2: dial it in, we do. And so I just I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll put it to this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I just enjoy going to work every morning, every day,
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  Speaker 2: every morning, and I leave relatively happy. So that's good.
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  Speaker 1: What's that moment?
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  Speaker 2: Like in there, we saw everybody kind of posted for
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  Speaker 2: pictures to the trophy in there, the cigars. I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of what's that? Yeah, I mean those cigars. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I love a good cigar after a game, and it's
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  Speaker 2: good to get in this moment. I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 2: like I swear this is our vibe on Wednesday h
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  Speaker 2: before and after practice. Maybe less substances like the cigars,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know. We just we enjoy being around
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  Speaker 2: each other. It's very real. There's very little ego. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: had chip on their shoulder, but it's it's put to
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  Speaker 2: a good purpose and good cause. And that's that's why
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  Speaker 2: we created the whole mob thing. It's it's our mission
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  Speaker 2: over any bs.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that Rodery helped you guys?
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  Speaker 2: You know, after reexpounding, that could abasily put you guys
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  Speaker 2: back for instead, and you picked up.
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  Speaker 1: You pick him up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess as a team, Yeah, I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's my role. I mean, I'm pretty much the glue
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  Speaker 2: guy of the defense. Have decent emotional intelligence, and I
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  Speaker 2: just know in that moment, he understands what he did.
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  Speaker 2: It was a poor decision. Okay, whatever, we need him.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna win the game for us his fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: We had fifteen sixty minutes left to play. So I know,
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  Speaker 2: if people were gonna, you know, try to hold him
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  Speaker 2: accountable and in an aggressive way, we were gonna get
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  Speaker 2: nothing out of it. And so it's like, dude, don't
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  Speaker 2: do that, obviously, But I love you, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: make place for us, and so that's just that's how
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  Speaker 2: were that's how we approach things that I think that's
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  Speaker 2: something m