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Devon Witherspoon: "I'm Ready To Be Back At Lumen" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Most anxious or excited to experience on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I think the most thing I'm excited about to
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  Speaker 2: see what we're gonna do far as team wise. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just ready to be back in Looming. I just
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  Speaker 2: know that fans be they go crazy when we back
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  Speaker 2: in Looming, So I just ready to experience that again.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a minute.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean you're you're interested to see what
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  Speaker 1: the team does? Don't you have a good feel for it?
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  Speaker 2: I do, but we you don't never know until you
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  Speaker 2: actually play. So I'm ready to see it. Us go
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  Speaker 2: play against another team and really so showcase what we
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  Speaker 2: could do.
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  Speaker 1: Devin, what do you think this defense is gonna do
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  Speaker 1: to accentuate your skill.
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  Speaker 3: Set and kind of allow you to shine a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I think it's gonna put me in the right
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  Speaker 2: positions that I need to be in, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: allow me to play free and you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: add a little little bit flavored to whatever we're doing,
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  Speaker 2: and then I could just play how I want to.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the defense give me the freedom to
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  Speaker 2: do that, but it also gives me disciplined to to
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  Speaker 2: play my responsibility and play off the people that's around
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  Speaker 2: me as well.
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  Speaker 3: So what kind of expectations do you have for yourself
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  Speaker 3: going into the season after the season that you had
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  Speaker 3: last year?
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  Speaker 2: Like I said before, I just trying to build on it.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen what I did last year, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I left a lot of players out there, and
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I really majory of it. Really, what
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do is make sure I play all
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  Speaker 2: the games. I'm trying to stay through the old season.
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  Speaker 4: You and Mike McDonald's had kind of a fun back
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  Speaker 4: and forth, you know, on the field, but also in
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  Speaker 4: press conferences, and I think he called him nerdy and
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  Speaker 4: he said some funny things about you. How much have
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  Speaker 4: you enjoyed that relationship? Have you gotten to know each other?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I've enjoyed it a lot. Me and Kobe
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  Speaker 3: we get along very well.
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  Speaker 2: I asked all the questions I need to He give
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  Speaker 2: me all the details and whatever I need.
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  Speaker 3: So, but like the relationship as men.
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  Speaker 2: As far as you can ask those questions the way
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  Speaker 2: he asked and he can explain it the way to
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  Speaker 2: me that I can understand it, I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: makes our bond special.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys then like go off with that and
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  Speaker 1: start skiing together and saying, oh, but what if I
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  Speaker 1: could do this? What about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we always think about different ways we can get
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  Speaker 2: to something, like say, if we've seen something on him
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  Speaker 2: and they might pick up on it, what we would
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  Speaker 2: say if they do this, we can switch it and
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  Speaker 2: like do it running this way and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we always come up with different schemes just the
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  Speaker 2: case a team get a tendency on us, so we
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  Speaker 2: could just switch it up.
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  Speaker 1: In your experience, is that is that rare though for
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  Speaker 1: a coach to kind of be that open minded or open.
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  Speaker 2: To Nah, my last year of college, we was doing
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. So that's why it's kind of easy
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  Speaker 2: for me to transition into this defense because it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can play like that.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the way he teaches it. How important for
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  Speaker 4: player is a type of coach that not only knows
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  Speaker 4: what he's talking about, but can translate to the players.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's very important because like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: players learn in specific ways, so everybody don't learn the same.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like you gotta be able to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: Your players one by one, like each differently, cause one
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  Speaker 2: may may be a visual learner or walk through learner.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody got their own flavor they'd like to do.
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  Speaker 2: So for him be able to, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: break it down in the meeting and then be able
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  Speaker 2: to go out and walk through just to show us
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  Speaker 2: both sides of it. It's I think that's very dope,
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  Speaker 2: and then that's easy for us cause we can learn better.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what well and player on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: you kind of how have you seen him?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: You guys kind of working together and everything. But he's
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  Speaker 1: been healthy this year obviously, where he wasn't last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it seems like you guys have gotten a
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  Speaker 1: lot more work together the entire secondary of this year
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  Speaker 1: than you did last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what was the question was asked? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the question is just just read how
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  Speaker 1: have you kind of seen him progress in this CAMPI?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he been progressing. Like like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: think I said it before. I Red got a point
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  Speaker 2: to prove, not to nobody else but to hisself, like
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  Speaker 2: he he he is who he say he is, and
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  Speaker 2: he just got to go out there and prove it
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  Speaker 2: to himself. So what I've seen for Reid this year
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like is gonna be very assigned for
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  Speaker 2: what he gonna do this year.
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  Speaker 3: So anything else?
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  Speaker 1: What's something on this Broncos office? Because we asked to
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  Speaker 1: I asked to Julian about it. Who about this Broncos office?
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  Speaker 1: Do you got a rookie quarterback that's really shined and
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  Speaker 1: the preseason they've got some weapons?
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  Speaker 4: Just how you guys prepare for that? Who stands out
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  Speaker 4: on that offense?
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  Speaker 1: Then you guys gotta pantry extra close attention to uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think their runner backs do a great job running
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  Speaker 2: the ball. They they played well in space and then
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  Speaker 2: like for them, they throw a lot of checkdowns, but
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  Speaker 2: that's just to get their bot. They're getting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys the ball in space, so and let him do
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  Speaker 2: their thing. So I think the bats is very featured
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  Speaker 2: in this offense and the tight ends as well because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them can pass, catch and they also
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  Speaker 2: can block and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, been around him for two years or what
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  Speaker 4: have you seen from g O Smith going into this
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  Speaker 4: season and the way he's played in camp?
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  Speaker 2: And Gino been on one end camp though, Hey alright,
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  Speaker 2: uh nah, Gino, he definitely been on top of his game.
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  Speaker 2: So this year is just gonna be like who knows man,
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  Speaker 2: Like who knows what he's capable of? Like I don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna say Scott's limit because I don't place no limit
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  Speaker 2: on it. So it's like we all we always watching
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  Speaker 2: and waiting just like everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: What's he been good at in camp?
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  Speaker 2: What han't he been good at in camp is a question?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he been he been able to pick us apart.
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  Speaker 2: He's going through all his reads. He's switching the play
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  Speaker 2: when he needs to switch and play. If he sees something,
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  Speaker 2: he go out there and audible with it, like he
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  Speaker 2: doing everything the NFL quarterbacks would do so, but the
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  Speaker 2: way he's doing it this year, like it is different,
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  Speaker 2: especially with this offense.
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  Speaker 3: So on defense, we saw.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of guys making plays during training camp from
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  Speaker 1: the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: But who do you expect big things from on defense
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  Speaker 4: this year?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I spend big things from everybody because we
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  Speaker 2: all play as one. Like I said earlier, we play
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  Speaker 2: off each other. So it's like everybody gonna do they
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  Speaker 2: own thing, but we all doing it as together as one.
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  Speaker 3: So I spend big things from everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like it's gonna take a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: or three weeks or four weeks for the defense to
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  Speaker 1: come together.
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  Speaker 3: It might it might not. I don't know. That's why
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  Speaker 3: I say on White No Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But you saw what you've seen out of this offense.
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  Speaker 3: What do you feel like it's gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: do best? I can't really speak on that, So what what?
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  Speaker 1: What would you say it's been the toughest part to defend.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know. I think it liberated everything. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I really can't go in too much
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  Speaker 2: d detail.