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Kenneth Walker III: "I'm Really Comfortable Now" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You like, how you feeling, how's camp, how that's taking reps?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going? It's good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's good to be back on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I hear today it was my first time
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  Speaker 2: with the pads on, so it's good to get the
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  Speaker 2: feel of it before we started, like the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of past that stage when you're thinking about
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe anything.
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  Speaker 2: You just ca yeah, I'm comfortable. Yeah, I'm comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: everything now. Uh yeah, I feel good. It's a big
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  Speaker 2: difference between year one and year two. I know they
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  Speaker 2: said that a lot, but I like I was like
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  Speaker 2: I kind of didn't believe it, but like, I'm real
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  Speaker 2: comfortable now. I don't have to think as much as
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  Speaker 2: like it's coming easier to me.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Where's your favors? Real that last year?
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  Speaker 2: What you mean like play was or like all the
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  Speaker 2: fee I feel like, just like I've just talked about,
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  Speaker 2: like playing comfortable. You know, I feel like I had
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  Speaker 2: to get in a lot of games to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But since I played in a lot of games, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I'm more comfortable now and I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's where little.
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  Speaker 1: Growths came in. How about all your casual long getting
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  Speaker 1: in a routine, the things, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, learning how to really take care of my body.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: I was taking care of my body, but really wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: But like now, talk to Bobby or you know, the
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  Speaker 2: strength staff, and they helped me out on like what
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  Speaker 2: to do like and they helped me find a routine
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  Speaker 2: or like how to.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of my body the right way. Do you
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  Speaker 1: not eat things under stood called nah nah nah nah
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 2: I used to eat syria all the time in college,
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  Speaker 2: but I had to cut that out. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: cut out a lot of things that I used to eat,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel much better.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Why did you doubt that there would be a
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  Speaker 3: big difference.
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  Speaker 2: Between year one and year two because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's like such a short time, Like well it felt
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  Speaker 2: like a short time, but I mean when we came
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  Speaker 2: back in OTA's and uh started training camp, everything was smooth.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm real comfortable now.
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  Speaker 3: I know you haven't been on the field as much
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  Speaker 3: with Drew, but what did you seem from Drew in
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  Speaker 3: the way that he's approached camp.
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  Speaker 1: In the games. He's been doing great. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great leader.
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  Speaker 2: He soak up everything you know that goes on in
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  Speaker 2: that QB room and he's smarter, and he knows he
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  Speaker 2: knows his plays, and he he knows ball.
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  Speaker 1: Last year obviously, like Rasad was here and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel sort of like the leader of the
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  Speaker 1: running back row now or like yeah, like I yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I feel like I kind of feel how
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  Speaker 1: Penny feel now about me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he always wanted to see me do good
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  Speaker 2: and so you know how Zach got here and k
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  Speaker 2: Mack got here. I always wanna see him do good
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  Speaker 2: and help him in the best way I can.
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  Speaker 1: Did tiny missed that?
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  Speaker 3: Duh?
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  Speaker 1: Practically? I mean, I guess it not batter at all?
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  Speaker 3: Orre you still able to get a lot of work
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  Speaker 3: that mightn't see him?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was able to get a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: I've been working since camp started, so I've been able
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot of work like behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, what and would have been your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Zach get a chance to watch him get up
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  Speaker 1: to speed the type of game he brings to the tablehood. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he came in and it seemed like he
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know, he's on top of everything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he knows his plays, he knows what to do and
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  Speaker 2: he runs hard, and that's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He get me excited when I see him run, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm excited. I'm excited for this. See he's
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  Speaker 2: going to see what he does?
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  Speaker 1: What about his style?
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  Speaker 3: What a mean w like when you watch h what
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  Speaker 3: is it about his style?
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  Speaker 1: He he runs physical and aggressive. You know, he runs mad.
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  Speaker 2: So it's exciting, you know, especially in that Vikings game
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  Speaker 2: you got to y'all got the chance to see, like
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  Speaker 2: what he was really about.
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  Speaker 3: How was that different than the way you could play?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel I run mad, but I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I mean I run mad. I I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know I got different. I just let other people
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  Speaker 2: say how I run. I don't know how it would
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  Speaker 2: explain myself.
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  Speaker 1: What's putting your impression of Bobo seo far? He's making plays.
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  Speaker 1: He's making plays. Everybody sees it. You know, we got
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  Speaker 1: this thing.
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  Speaker 3: We say more Bobo, you know, give him the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know he always gonna make her play.
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  Speaker 1: What are your expectations for the team this season? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I expect us to go far. Uh. We got a team,
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  Speaker 1: We got the people and the players to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we just gotta execute it and take
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  Speaker 1: on one game at a time. You see the differences,
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  Speaker 1: you know this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well he's consistent, he's a leader, he
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  Speaker 3: knows the game. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: Genos Geno, you know, he's like I said, he's a
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  Speaker 3: great leader.
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  Speaker 1: You ever thought at all on sort of the debate
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  Speaker 1: that there is the NFL, I'm sort of the value
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  Speaker 1: of running back so the way a contract situations, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, or you do have a thought?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel like we not appreciate it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but that's how it is. I mean I
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  Speaker 3: can't complain about it.
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  Speaker 1: I just gotta keep coming and doing my job.
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  Speaker 2: You have the growing thing early in camp.
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling in terms of eighties.
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  Speaker 3: And ninety a hundred percent?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm feeling good.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was out here today and I felt good.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been running, like I said, behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 3: So I've been feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: Are you enjoying yourself more? Cause you're you smile more.
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  Speaker 3: In this interview than last year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you kind of you don't wanna press in
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  Speaker 2: enjoy yourself and during this process. Yeah, yeah, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you like you know what's going on, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you got other stuff going on, Like if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: really I'm not gonna say I don't know what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 2: but like when it's a lot of things going on,
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  Speaker 2: when I my rookie year, and then like now I
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  Speaker 2: know everything, So yeah, I would say, don't.
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  Speaker 1: Expect you to be even more funny.
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  Speaker 3: You wonna tell jokes and that's not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I'm telling I ain't gonna tell no jokes anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank thanks you