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Geno Smith: "Iron Sharpens Iron" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How you guys doing you know this week? Yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: little warmer. It's been great. It's been great. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're out here working hard. Everybody's getting better. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I feel really really good about it. He had another
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  Speaker 2: good day today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're just stacking days. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's been a lot of fun and we're all
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  Speaker 2: getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Compared to you because I've got new players.
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  Speaker 3: But just adding on how you feeling about it and
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  Speaker 3: came in to the pace and that you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think uh, like I said, we're all growing.
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  Speaker 2: Just everybody's learning. You know, there's always new scenarios, new
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  Speaker 2: situations every day. Coach always challenges us every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I think that's where we're at. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're still a growing offense. Still got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: young guys who are, you know, figuring some things out
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  Speaker 2: as well as some old guys figuring.
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  Speaker 1: Some things out.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, we just gotta keep working and keep uh
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  Speaker 2: keep going out young guys. What Uh, I'm very impressed
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  Speaker 2: with Jake Man Bobo has been Uh you know, I
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  Speaker 2: I think back to like many camp ot as when
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  Speaker 2: he was making plays and no one really knew who
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  Speaker 2: he was and now you know there's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a mantra gone more bobo and everybody wants to
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  Speaker 2: see him make plays.
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  Speaker 1: But every day he comes out, he's consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he gets open, he catches the ball, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: right now we just got to continue to push him
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  Speaker 2: and try and make him better.
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  Speaker 1: But he's doing all the things he needs to do.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you had confidence in your tackles last year.
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  Speaker 4: They're out there starting for reasons one. Have you seen
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  Speaker 4: now those two in year two? And just as a
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  Speaker 4: quarterback when you know what those guys can do in
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  Speaker 4: their song, how good does he make you feel in
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  Speaker 4: the hockey?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Like I said, man, they've grown. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: gotten better. Uh you can tell that, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they were always kind of ready for it, but you
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  Speaker 2: can tell, uh with their second year, they're just even
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  Speaker 2: more confident.
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  Speaker 1: So I trust those guys.
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  Speaker 2: We've played a lot of games together now and they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna continue to lead this offense. That offensive line is uh,
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  Speaker 2: it is really what pushes this offense to be what
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  Speaker 2: it can be.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know.
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  Speaker 2: They're the leaders and you know, we we need those
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  Speaker 2: guys to continue to step up and be great and
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  Speaker 2: it's the everyday processing.
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  Speaker 1: So they're working at it and getting better. More events
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  Speaker 1: he's got. How is the costry you've got. Yeah, Evan's
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  Speaker 1: been you know, been doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know as of lately, yeah, we've we've
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  Speaker 2: been working together a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: I think Evan is you know, he's been around it.
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  Speaker 2: He understands the game, you know, our our game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: working together is is only getting better with time, and so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate the way that he comes to work every day.
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  Speaker 2: He's prepared, he understands the assignment, and he's getting his
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  Speaker 2: job done and and he's leading that group. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great guys on our front line and and
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  Speaker 2: all those guys are working together as a unit.
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  Speaker 1: But it starts with Evan and his communication. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he's done a great job his life to communicators.
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  Speaker 2: Compared to that, he's very similar in many ways, and
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  Speaker 2: he's also very different in many ways.
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  Speaker 1: But I think one thing that he has is uh,
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  Speaker 1: this sternness about himself.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, he's he's got great leadership skills, great
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  Speaker 2: communication skills, and it's been pretty seamless.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Austin was great for us, and uh, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: get Evan in and for him to step up the
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  Speaker 2: way that he has and continue to leave the group.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna, you know, continue to get better
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  Speaker 2: and better as the weeks go by.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can think back last later in the
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  Speaker 4: seas and that's started from get what are you the better?
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  Speaker 2: Pat?
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  Speaker 1: What are you best at that time? To that what's
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  Speaker 1: the mat you wrapp away from you? I think every
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  Speaker 1: part of my game's improved, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously I've gotten older and more experience and you know,
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  Speaker 2: developed more and so just everything, you know, everything has improved, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna continue to improve. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I take that approach every day and I look forward
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  Speaker 2: to every every new situation and every new learning experience,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, I just want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I would like to. I would love to play.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, any time I get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go out there with my guys, it's always a great,
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity. And uh, I love the game. I love
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  Speaker 2: to play, and so you know, I'm looking forward to it. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: You ever had that before?
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  Speaker 4: I guess think you didn't new York where if you
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  Speaker 4: were the starter and didn't play in a preseason game,
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  Speaker 4: games and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I feel like my entire career,
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  Speaker 2: I've been you know, out there and a game is
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  Speaker 2: a game to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's all the same.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's out there competing and like I said, any chance
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  Speaker 2: I get to play with my teammates and go out
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  Speaker 2: there and try to score points with the guys. Man,
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  Speaker 2: it's that's that's a part of my job and I
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  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 3: You can ahead to twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like best about this team?
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  Speaker 3: What trade?
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  Speaker 1: What more about?
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  Speaker 2: I would say all togetherness. I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're competing our butts off. It's been a lot, as
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  Speaker 2: you guys can see. Man, guys are going after one
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  Speaker 2: another every single day, offense versus defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coach puts it in position to compete.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a brotherhood and the love for one another
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball, and we're all working
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  Speaker 2: together and that's something that you know, I really I
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  Speaker 2: really enjoy. You know, everyone enjoys coming to work and
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  Speaker 2: enjoys having fun with the guy next to him, and
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  Speaker 2: it makes for you know, a really good environment. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the thing I look look forward to
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  Speaker 2: the most of you day.
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  Speaker 3: Since this training camp fount any more intense than in recent.
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  Speaker 1: Your I would say, yeah, it's pretty intense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you guys look at it out there,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: We got great guys on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of depth on all positions and all
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  Speaker 2: position groups. And the competition is there the highlights of
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  Speaker 2: being made every single day. Some days defense win more,
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  Speaker 2: some days offense win more. It's a battle and that's
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  Speaker 2: what you want. And I think Iron Sharpen's iron and
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  Speaker 2: that's where we're at right now in camp.
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  Speaker 1: A quarter back, what see is out like the deef match?
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's changed in a positive direction right now
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  Speaker 3: compared to you.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't compare it, but I will say one thing
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  Speaker 2: that you know I love seeing is like I said,
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  Speaker 2: the depth and just the multiple playmakers.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You got guys like you know, Nino Diggs and you
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  Speaker 2: got Julian Love back there. You know veteran safeties who
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  Speaker 2: can communicate, who understands and who see who's seen ball.
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  Speaker 2: You got Tarique wool and you got Mike Jack, you know, Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can.
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  Speaker 2: You can goes on and on just a list of
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  Speaker 2: names with guys who can make plays, and they're all
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  Speaker 2: out there competing as if they haven't done anything. So
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  Speaker 2: when you got guys like that, you know it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not hard to get better. So I enjoyed just watching
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  Speaker 2: the way they fly around and make plays. They made
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  Speaker 2: it hard on me every single day, and it's got
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  Speaker 2: It's made me get better as well.
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  Speaker 3: You have been able to approach camp somewhat differently this
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  Speaker 3: year because you are entrenched just the start, meaning like,
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  Speaker 3: can you try, experiment, test things a little bit differently
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  Speaker 3: instead of trying to make the right play every time
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  Speaker 3: because you're in a computie battle with somebody, or is
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  Speaker 3: there anything like that that's making you all.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, man, I was doing the same thing last year.
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  Speaker 2: My job is to go out there and get the
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  Speaker 2: ball into the hands of the playmakers, and that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of where I focus on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not out here trying things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out here trying to get better, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: step by step process. It starts with my fundamentals and
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  Speaker 2: my reads obviously, my accuracy, my leadership, the way that
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  Speaker 2: I prepare myself every day. So no, I'm not trying things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out here, you know, working as hard as I
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  Speaker 2: was last year, maybe if not harder. So I want
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  Speaker 2: to be the best I can be, and I've got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to push myself every day.
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  Speaker 1: Today. The first time you see swift and jack.
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  Speaker 2: And drop the past, it might have been, it might
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  Speaker 2: have been, but I don't expect that to happen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for a long long time.
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  Speaker 1: So you know it happens every now and then for
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  Speaker 1: all those just with his assignments and understanding what to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you come in as a as a young
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  Speaker 2: player and you're picking up the playbook. You're learning new things,
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  Speaker 2: a new way to run routes and a new way
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  Speaker 2: to you know, schematically beat defenses.
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  Speaker 1: And then as the week's gone.
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  Speaker 2: By, you can tell he's just getting more and more
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with his position, understanding all the positions, all the concepts,
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  Speaker 2: and then he's playing faster. You know, he's making quick decisions.
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  Speaker 2: We got option routes where he's making decisions. He's seeing
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  Speaker 2: the same things that we're seeing as quarterbacks, and he's
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  Speaker 2: getting to the right spots and then after that he's
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  Speaker 2: just being himself. And so that's, you know, something that's
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to.
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  Speaker 1: Grow for him.
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  Speaker 4: You think when it's ninety plus degrees and you're seventy
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  Speaker 4: on your own head coaches running hundred yard sprints before practice.
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  Speaker 1: That's Pete. That's Pete, man. He's the agent's wonder man.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of those guys that when you look at him,
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  Speaker 2: he motivates you every single day. Right, you see your
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  Speaker 2: head coach out there running experience. Does that matter how
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  Speaker 2: old he is. You know, he's out there, he's getting
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  Speaker 2: it just hot out here, and he's working as hard
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  Speaker 2: as we're working. And so when you got a head
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  Speaker 2: coach like that, man, I mean, it's it's not it's
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  Speaker 2: not hard to come to work and give it you all.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think about holding the sex sound? It
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  Speaker 1: was sweet? It was it was it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I was I was standing right there and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for Holding to get his first touchdown in that manner
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes that's how it happens. And I was excited
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  Speaker 2: for him. Matt Landers making that great play. Uh, that's
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  Speaker 2: a special moment for those guys. Uh, I know, what
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  Speaker 2: that feels like. And so I was just excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: I know he was excited and it was a great play.
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  Speaker 1: You're you'rely okay. So you told us during last season
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  Speaker 1: that was you're concerned. You to take care of it
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  Speaker 1: till that way out? It all?
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  Speaker 3: Was that just a blank and how long man went out?
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  Speaker 2: Or oh no, I didn't worry about it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that was that process I wasn't in control of at
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  Speaker 2: any time, So I wasn't worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: This is an off topic, but who do you think
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  Speaker 1: is the best trash talker?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would have to go with someone on
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  Speaker 2: our team, and it's probably a Quandre's.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's never ending. He talked.
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  Speaker 2: He's talked trash all day. You know, he doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 2: So he's always talking trash. He'd be seven in the
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  Speaker 2: morning and six in the morning, he's talking trash.
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  Speaker 1: Midnight.
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  Speaker 2: He's talking trash every day all day.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yes, sir, you know Carrie is Uh he's helped
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  Speaker 2: me so much with my fundamentals and just being being
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  Speaker 2: on me about it and just watching, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, very meticulously every single drop that I make.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. The timing and rhythm of the plays in which
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  Speaker 2: the ball comes out, and we talk over those things
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  Speaker 2: in the meeting room. I want to be consistent with
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  Speaker 2: my footwork, I want to be consistent with my reads,
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  Speaker 2: and I want the plays to be efficient. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's always studying that, making sure that my feet are in,
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  Speaker 2: my eyes are and my feet are in the right place,
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  Speaker 2: that I'm properly coordinated, and that I'm getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: out on time.
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  Speaker 1: The other players. He stands out way like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I I think with the young players, it's just about
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  Speaker 2: uh note taking just how prepared they are every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and then just how their approach to the game. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: This is uh, you know, a professional business here, and
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  Speaker 2: uh it's not nothing like college, nothing like high school.
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  Speaker 1: You know, y, it's a it's a pros pros game.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I really appreciate the young players who come
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  Speaker 2: in with the right mindset, and I think we have
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  Speaker 2: those guys. He's been outstanding. He's been outstanding. He's uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's only getting better. I could see. I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I could tell after that first game he's like there
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  Speaker 2: were things that he wor wanted to get better at.
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  Speaker 2: And I came in after the game and he was
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  Speaker 2: on the Judgs machine and you know he was working
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  Speaker 2: on his routes.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the top of his routes.
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  Speaker 2: And when you see guys doing little things to get better,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking about, being a PROD. Morning were uh,
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  Speaker 2: pretty early anything else