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Elijah Arroyo: "It Was A Great Day Of Competition" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we doing it.
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  Speaker 2: That was from stiffer you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it was a great a great day of competition.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean just getting better over all, just learning
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  Speaker 3: to playbook.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a lot of work to be done.
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  Speaker 2: First time that you got to play with Jalen.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. How does it catching pass from him out there?
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  Speaker 3: On the day?
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  Speaker 1: Man? It was great. I love Jalen.
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  Speaker 3: I I love the way he plays and uh for like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're gonna have a good connection moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: At tight end. You get to be in the mix
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  Speaker 2: with uh, the offensive line, the kind of the receiving group,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterbacks. Uh, what's your impression of like this whole group.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta come in.
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  Speaker 1: Rookies, Man, we have a really good group.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like everybody's coming in here ready to work,
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  Speaker 3: ready to compete. Coaches out there he had to tell
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  Speaker 3: us to slow down today. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's how fired up everybody was to be here.
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  Speaker 1: What do you love about the way Jalen plays? Just?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I I can't really explain it. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a quarterback, but you know, just the way he
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  Speaker 3: throws the ball, the way he moves, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: has a chance to be you know, an elite quarterback
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  Speaker 3: at the highest level.
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  Speaker 2: What what did you think when they when they drafted
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  Speaker 2: Damian Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: After after, Hey, that's my guy right there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm so glad that they picked him. It's because
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's a he's a great person, great teammate,
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  Speaker 3: He's just yeah, he's somebody you want to have on
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  Speaker 3: your team overall.
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  Speaker 2: So how'd you pick eighteen?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: It was the closest to eight that they had.
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  Speaker 2: The knee troubles you had like before in the draft,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's behind you in this money.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I feel good.
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  Speaker 2: You made a catch to end practice that just looks
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  Speaker 2: easy to you, but maybe not easy to most people. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you're catch rad. Is that something that you take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pride end?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir, I'm a I'm a big target. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a tight end. But you know, when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the past game, I like to account myself a
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  Speaker 3: as a receiver tight end.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's a physicality to it, but also the past
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  Speaker 2: catching abillity.
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  Speaker 1: Were you always a.
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  Speaker 2: Tight end or what was kind of your football background
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  Speaker 2: like from position stad? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean pee wee football.
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  Speaker 3: Growing up, I always played you know, running back, I
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  Speaker 3: always had the battle in my hands. Once I started
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  Speaker 3: getting older, like middle school, high school, I started playing receiver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: by like my junior year of high school, I was
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  Speaker 3: really just a big receiver.
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  Speaker 1: I was really good at perimeter blocking.
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  Speaker 3: So they told me I was gonna play tight end,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, that's what That's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: So the blocking aspect, you know, wanting to have that
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  Speaker 2: part of your game, is that natural too?
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  Speaker 1: When you started to pick that.
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  Speaker 2: Up or what was that like to have that?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's natural, but uh, really for blocking,
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  Speaker 3: you just gotta want to do it. Uh, that's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing. You know, everything else will come with it,
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  Speaker 3: anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you,