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Tyrel Dodson: "The Potential Is So High For This Group" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. Good, ain't good? How you guys doing good?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Good? Let's just see everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Does week one just feel different? Feels specially at this
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  Speaker 2: point in the career. Is it just another just another game?
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  Speaker 3: This is another week for me? You know. Uh, me
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  Speaker 3: and my mom talk about the all the time. You know. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: if you would have asked me that about three.
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  Speaker 1: Or four four years ago, I'm like, yeah, week one,
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  Speaker 1: But I just treat treated like practice.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Doesn't that a small go everywhere here? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I I had to put it out real quick.
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  Speaker 1: But like it's like my I have ADHD, so like
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it keeps me occupied, it keeps me
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  Speaker 1: you know fit.
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  Speaker 3: You know if people have the fidgets.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like my little fidget and I dropped the
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  Speaker 1: interception last week or in the game, so spoons on
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  Speaker 1: my butt about that.
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  Speaker 3: So hand our hand our coordination.
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  Speaker 2: You saying that this is.
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  Speaker 1: Just like any other week, But it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time we're gonna get to see a real.
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  Speaker 2: Defense, cause it's been so a preseason. So your level
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  Speaker 2: of I excitement you unveil his defense.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 1: I watched before I came here, right when I signed here,
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  Speaker 1: I watched every single I guess individual like rep from
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  Speaker 1: guys that were here previous year that's gonna be on
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  Speaker 1: this team, and like starting from Leo, even Ardi Burns
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  Speaker 1: and just like from spoon Jay Love and like even
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  Speaker 1: Big Hank when he was with the Cowboys. Like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just so excited to play with these guys. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we we have a wonderful group.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's freaking intelligent. Uh And I just can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: get to the rock with them on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Since nobody's seen this defense yet, call your shot in
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks, what are they gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 2: when they watched defense?
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  Speaker 3: This is just a consistent defense, you know.
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  Speaker 1: No, just just even Stevens all all across the board,
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  Speaker 1: from the D line to the linebackers to the safeties.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna play.
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  Speaker 1: Out a high level, We're gonna communicate at a high level,
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  Speaker 1: and just we're just gonna get their job done. You know,
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  Speaker 1: We're not here to be in the media or be the.
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  Speaker 3: Next who and who, and we just want to play
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  Speaker 3: ball and do it do it well together.
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  Speaker 2: Tarah, you said it didn't necessarily mean anything for your
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  Speaker 2: Week one, but it's the first time. I think you're
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  Speaker 2: going into a season as a starter in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, does that mean a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: for you? That it's taken the song? But now that
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  Speaker 2: you're you're here, You've got Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you might think I'm crazy, but each each year,
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  Speaker 1: going to Week one, I thought I was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was a starter then.
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  Speaker 3: So my mindset hasn't changed how I approach the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a starter, but you know, I still have
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  Speaker 1: to pay play out a high level. Even if you're
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  Speaker 1: on special teams or run down a kickoff plant, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta play out a high level.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I want to do. That's what I
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  Speaker 3: want to bring to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I just want to be a good
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  Speaker 1: teammate and just play out a high level and just
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  Speaker 1: do have fun while I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 2: What's impressed you most about Mike McDonald in a few
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  Speaker 2: months you've been around him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's smart. He doesn't know how smart he is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that guy is just so smart. I thought I was smart.
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  Speaker 1: He blows me out the water. But and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the way he coaches. You know, he's very hands on.
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  Speaker 1: He likes getting reps and reps and reps, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so he's very smart and he's very consistent.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I like consistent people.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying the work consistent because I mean you
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  Speaker 1: see the guys like you know, the Cam Chancellors and
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  Speaker 1: the Richard Shermans, they're so consistent. That's why their names
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  Speaker 1: keep getting mentioned because consistency.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything early on, just when you realize like,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, this guy is different.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of how smart he is.
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  Speaker 1: Playbook how much it was, you know, like gosh, a
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  Speaker 1: guy can come up with all these terms and all
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  Speaker 1: these different plays.
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  Speaker 3: So I knew when you see a guy's playbook.
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  Speaker 1: You can you can really determine like, Okay, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is very intellectual.
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  Speaker 3: What was the process like in learning this defense compared
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  Speaker 3: to other defenses you learned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a difficult time, like my first two
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  Speaker 1: days learning it because I tried to compare it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the league for a while, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say everything's universal, but this defense from what I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming from, is not universal. So I really had to
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  Speaker 1: throw out five years of what I've learned and just
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  Speaker 1: look have a clean slate. So just I started with
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  Speaker 1: my technique first, my fundamentals, then I my third My
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  Speaker 1: third list was my keys, where's my eyes going to be?
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  Speaker 1: And then my fourth was getting everyone lined up?
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge going to be for you guys as
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  Speaker 3: a defense? Crowd noise?
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  Speaker 2: People think like it's great for the defense because it's
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  Speaker 2: hard on the offense.
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  Speaker 3: But you guys communicate a lot out there.
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  Speaker 2: What's that going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I told Mike to make it as hard
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  Speaker 1: as possible, just and enduring practice on me, Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear music low.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to crank.
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  Speaker 1: Their music up like as loud as because if you
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  Speaker 1: make the practice easy, the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you make practice.
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  Speaker 1: Easy, game is going to be not necessarily easy, but
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  Speaker 1: more simple, you know, just on the communication cues and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Would you said, how'd you deal with that in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 3: How did you find the tricks of community?
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  Speaker 1: Just meeting with guys, so getting early with guys, staying
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  Speaker 1: late with guys, and just kind of kind of having
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  Speaker 1: the same brain in a sense, like if a team
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  Speaker 1: is going no hold on you and they come out
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  Speaker 1: of a certain information, Hey, how do you see this?
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  Speaker 3: How do you see that? Asking j Love.
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  Speaker 1: How does he see blah blah blahs and that, and
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  Speaker 1: and then we're on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: The challenges the Broncos offense. Yeah, they have a I
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  Speaker 3: know they have a new quarterback. He's a rookie. I
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  Speaker 3: was a boat I think I played against boat Nicks.
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  Speaker 1: No, not for sure, but I like boat Knicks, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like an underdog story all been people didn't
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  Speaker 1: really think much of them. But he went with the Organ.
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  Speaker 1: He went to Organ, improved everyone wrong. He gets the
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  Speaker 1: ball out quick. I like the running back number thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, he's physical number thirty eight, he's fast. And
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  Speaker 1: then I got to give a shout out to my
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  Speaker 1: former teammate Josh Reynolds to take the top off and
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  Speaker 1: he does all the little nasty ride receiver work that
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  Speaker 1: that a team would like from a ride receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't been able to be out there all that much.
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  Speaker 2: Treaty camp, how is how much do you expect to
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  Speaker 2: have to still work on communication for you guys kind
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  Speaker 2: of knowing what to expect from each other because you
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  Speaker 2: haven't had reps of it so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we actually when he knew what his
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  Speaker 1: situation was we actually sat down and came up with
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  Speaker 1: a plan to Hey, bro, like, we got to hang
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit more outside of the field, just
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  Speaker 1: so I can get a sense of who you are
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  Speaker 1: as a person. How you like to read things, you
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  Speaker 1: like shooting stuff, you like playing stuff slow. So I
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  Speaker 1: think I think that the sword is never as sharpened
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  Speaker 1: as you want it so, but it's pretty sharp right now.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to play with him. I know he's
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  Speaker 1: had a successful career in Miami, and I just can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to learn, learn from him and lean on him.
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  Speaker 3: You know. With how loud it gets at Liwinfield, do
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  Speaker 3: you guys have to switch up some of the pre
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  Speaker 3: staffed communication to like hand signals or do you expect
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do all that verbally? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's everything, as much as communication as
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  Speaker 1: I can do if it's physical hand signals, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to still figure that out because it's the
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  Speaker 1: first air of practice.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to figure out today. And if I
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  Speaker 3: haven't done interview, I'll let you know. I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: About how many weeks Tuesday will be will it take
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  Speaker 1: for the identity of this defense to be evident the
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  Speaker 1: identity I expected game one. I mean, you gotta set
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  Speaker 1: a tone, like we're going out there, We're trying to
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  Speaker 1: set a tone being as good as we can be.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get better each week. The potential is so
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  Speaker 1: high for this group that I'm expecting, like people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna laugh laugh at my expectations. That's how like how
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  Speaker 1: much I expect from everyone in myself. So from answer
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  Speaker 1: your question, yes, I expect the identity to be set
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  Speaker 1: week one, but we gotta keep getting better each week
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  Speaker 1: because that's week one, seventeen weeks. As everyone knows, like
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  Speaker 1: it's a long season.
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  Speaker 3: Extra practices a mobile quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Require Oh yeah, it requires a lot. It requires a
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  Speaker 1: lot on the back end, in the front end. So
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  Speaker 1: the front end is the d line figuring out what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do, how they're going to execute it.
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  Speaker 3: DB's just being on the same on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Communication wise, guys, just getting like someone asked me about communications, like,
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  Speaker 1: just get in the film room together, because he's going
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  Speaker 1: to extend plays. That's what he does best about Nicks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we we gotta get in the film
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  Speaker 1: room and stop that.
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  Speaker 3: You said people would laugh at your expectations. I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: what those expectations are. I would tell you at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: The actions that how we play, you're going to see
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  Speaker 1: the expectations.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of like a lead by action kind of guy,
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  Speaker 1: So I have the expectations in my brain and I
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  Speaker 1: haven't verbally set the expectations to anyone. That's just my thing, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what I have for this team and hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: well hopefully it'll be pretty hot because it depends on
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  Speaker 1: how whon't we going to season because defense is gonna
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  Speaker 1: run this run this team.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned wanting to spend more time with Jerome outside.
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  Speaker 3: The field because that was part was limited.
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  Speaker 1: What would you guys actually do that's talking about film
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  Speaker 1: or meals or just what do you guys do to
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  Speaker 1: actually need to take that just doing everything, because like
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  Speaker 1: I still like I didn't I heard of him, but
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't know him. So if it's if it's
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  Speaker 1: picking on the rookie, telling him what snacks we need,
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  Speaker 1: you know, texting, you know, telling Tyrese to get these snacks,
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  Speaker 1: or getting meals, getting sushi in Seattle, good sushi, or
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  Speaker 1: just you know, staying staying later up here in the
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  Speaker 1: film room just you know, just just hanging out, being
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  Speaker 1: being guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, it's being guys.
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  Speaker 2: How far have you seen.
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  Speaker 3: Him come since training?
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  Speaker 1: Tyres Man A specially when he's came so far his
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  Speaker 1: he you would think he's a forty year forty year old.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he seems like he's just uh, he gets
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  Speaker 1: stuffed very quick. He doesn't panic, he's very smooth. He's
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  Speaker 1: a very quiet guy. So you really don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're what you're thinking, what you're getting from him. But like,
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  Speaker 1: he surprises me every day even you know, a guy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really play a lot of special teams in college
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  Speaker 1: if you're a starting linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: But he's killing it those special teams and that's where
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna need him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And then being that third linebacker or fourth wherever he
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  Speaker 1: wherever he's at, you guys, seeing the preseason, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's ready and the sky is a limit for that guy.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about so many new things we seem and
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  Speaker 1: obviously this franchise is a proud history. What does it
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  Speaker 1: mean for you to, for lack of from kick off,
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  Speaker 1: this new era, be a part of whatever.
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  Speaker 3: This new era?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm excited to kick out a new era,
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  Speaker 1: but you still have to respect the culture that has
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  Speaker 1: been built, you know, with a respect the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of you know, Bobby.
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  Speaker 3: Wagner, Kim Chancellor, all those guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that set that foundation, because like, when
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  Speaker 1: you think of this, you think of those guys, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I'm trying to turn that around,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm trying to when people
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  Speaker 1: think of this, I'm trying to be like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking of guys like uh Spoon or you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jerome Baker's and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I want for this team in this
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  Speaker 3: new culture.
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  Speaker 2: You spend all this time with drum Baker, name one
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  Speaker 2: thing you learned about him?
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm. He doesn't say a lot, but he says a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, even if he's quiet, his mind is going
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  Speaker 1: like a thousand miles per hour. And then when he
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  Speaker 1: gets on the field, he's a different monster. Like he's talking,
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  Speaker 1: he's communicating, and he's just he just plays like angry.
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  Speaker 1: He's just always angry. I'm like, yo, okay, a little bit, Bubba,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, we're gonna we're gonna get this. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get this, you know. But he's very He's very passionate.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word that Jerome is. And I'm so excited
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  Speaker 1: to lean on him because he's done it at a
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  Speaker 1: high level for so long and just technically my first time.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to lean on him and learn a
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  Speaker 1: lot from him.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of leader would you say you are? And
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  Speaker 3: what kind of a leader? Oh? Man, I'm a.
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  Speaker 1: I'm that leader that when he walks into the room,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't matter. He doesn't care if you're the janitor
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  Speaker 1: or you're the geno smith or you're the freaking g a.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to uh leave an impact on everyone. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that's a positive impact, you know. Try to leave
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  Speaker 1: as much positive impact as I can. And I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a dude, man. I just love my guys,
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  Speaker 1: dude like like anything. I mean, they give me crap.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, you call me at.
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  Speaker 3: Two a m.
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  Speaker 1: I might you might have to call him a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times, but I'm gonna pick up and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there for you. So that's a kind of leader
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  Speaker 1: I am. And that's the leader I want to be
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: What are you going against Gino Smith every day and practice?
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  Speaker 3: What do you kind of learn learn from him?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean looking from Afar, I saw, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, gosh, they d him being the rest
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  Speaker 1: Virginia I never I've always wanted to meet him, and
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  Speaker 1: I meet him. He's very passionate, he's consistent as a player.
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  Speaker 1: He's very precise on what he wants. And he commands
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  Speaker 1: a huddle.
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  Speaker 3: I hear him, I even't even if we're practice against
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  Speaker 3: each other. I hear him commanding the huddle. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what you want out of quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You want him commanding because not everything is going to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect, but you want you want something confident. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're confident, you believe, and when you believe, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's a limit.
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  Speaker 3: What does that sound like? Is that beyond just calling
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  Speaker 3: the play and doing it? Like, what what does that
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  Speaker 3: sound like? When somebody actually commands the huddles? It's beyond
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  Speaker 3: a call him play. It's like how can I how
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  Speaker 3: can I name it?
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  Speaker 1: It's like very precise, it's very intentional, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: he knows what he wants to say.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's very intentional and precise.
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  Speaker 1: So you have kids, right, but you don't have Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well sorry hopefully. But it's like it's like it's like
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  Speaker 1: if your kids are in trouble or something like that
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  Speaker 1: and you say like their full name, Like like.
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  Speaker 3: I get, I'm just talking speaking from my mom Tyro
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  Speaker 3: D'Angelo Datson. I know. I hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, like I got to straighten up. So like
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  Speaker 1: that's when I hear GENO like command a huddle.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I hear. So he's motive. He's like saying
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  Speaker 3: motivational things beyond just calling the play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's saying motivational thing but like he's very intentional.
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  Speaker 1: He's still staying the play call. But like it's different
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  Speaker 1: between saying like other than saying like no, no, no no,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's like a sense of urgency to the play
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  Speaker 1: call in very passionate way.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, thank you guys, have a good day.