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Nick Emmanwori: "I'm Just Trying To Evolve My Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I think you gotta see uh a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: with the edge guys here, especially today. How big of
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  Speaker 1: a priority is that for you now going into year two,
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  Speaker 1: adding more versatility to your game?
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm just trying to evolve my game, just
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  Speaker 2: like how the NFL game is evolving, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to just be the front runner and uh
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  Speaker 2: leading that way. So I'm working with you know, the
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  Speaker 2: edge edges and uh, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Seen laws out there giving me.
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  Speaker 2: Tips and just you know, trying to get me going
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  Speaker 2: in that in that uh lane that always you always hear,
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  Speaker 2: you know, talk about the pict league players can make
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  Speaker 2: the year one year year You're year one with aust
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  Speaker 2: year really good. Just what are you looking to.
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  Speaker 1: Group upon your m Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm looking to just be more of a
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  Speaker 2: complete player, like you know a lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Last year as a rook I was like.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe like after like week eight or nine,
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  Speaker 2: I started like noticing formations and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to you know, beag one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to notice stuff and be be ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the game so I can just play fast and uh
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  Speaker 2: make plays and uh just more, just finish more and
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  Speaker 2: just uh more impactful plays every draft much How much better.
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  Speaker 1: Equip do you feel to be able to handle all
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  Speaker 1: these different roles? Like last year coach Did Donald talked
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  Speaker 1: about how you're throwing so much at you during the league.
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  Speaker 1: How much better quip do you feel for that?
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  Speaker 2: I feel I feel really equipped, Uh, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the practices and the film and stuff. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: like ahead of the plays, and the coaches are coming
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  Speaker 2: to me like, yeah, you know you're ahead of that play.
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  Speaker 2: Keep going, uh, keep building on that track. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: I wanna say it's not and day. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: think I did a really good job last year, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely ahead of the curve now and starting to
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  Speaker 2: feel the game way more.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of teachers the Marcus warns? What's he teaching
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  Speaker 1: is uh just how to win?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, especially with my gifts and my ability,
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  Speaker 2: just how to win easy, not making it too complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Uh with a guy like him, Uh, he's done it
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  Speaker 2: for so long, so like you know, anything he says
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  Speaker 2: is kind of like green and and good to go.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just uh soaking up as much game as
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  Speaker 2: I can from him and uh learning.
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  Speaker 1: So he just he just giving me, what what what?
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  Speaker 1: What he got?
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  Speaker 2: So when you think think back up maybe where you
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  Speaker 2: were this time last year to now you're a super.
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion, played a key role in the super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: champion and all that does the team because it seemed like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would I kind of expected yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like oddly enough, Yeah, it kind of feels like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is how things were supposed to be. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not I don't never wake up surprised about what position
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  Speaker 2: I'm in or what we.
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  Speaker 1: Did as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Like it feels good like looking back on the past,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, we had a great season and it
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  Speaker 2: was fun, like you know, just great ball top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: But now I'm not surprised. I don't wake up surprise.
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  Speaker 1: At the Super Bowl, was it like playing in the
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  Speaker 1: eight Gold? Mm? It was. It was a little you know,
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  Speaker 1: my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of made my mind up about playing because
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  Speaker 2: it was like, you know, for me personally, probably would
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  Speaker 2: have sucked just to go throughout the whole season, all
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  Speaker 2: the ups and downs, uh, everything we donet been through
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  Speaker 2: just to not playing the Super Bowl. So I made
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  Speaker 2: my decision to play that night, and uh it felt
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  Speaker 2: good going out there and playing, like uh, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: had my teammate support and uh, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we dominated out there, so it's pretty pretty pretty
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  Speaker 2: easy for me to just to be out there and
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  Speaker 2: just do what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: Limited were you that night?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Honestly, I was full of go.
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  Speaker 2: So when I went out there, I did pregame warm
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  Speaker 2: ups and I want a little hard in pregame warm ups.
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  Speaker 2: I I think I went a little too hard and
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  Speaker 2: I was like really pushing my ankle and it was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was holding up.
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  Speaker 1: It was good, and uh, we're all We're all good. Nah.
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  Speaker 1: So so you were limited to put a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: or had to shut it down or anything. Nah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course after Super end, it just had
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  Speaker 2: to recover. Uh, you know, stayed in Seattle for a
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  Speaker 2: little bit while everybody left back to East Coast recovered,
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  Speaker 2: did what I had to do.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And the off season did did rehab a lot just
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  Speaker 2: to fortify my ankle, make sure there was no problems
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: So what did this off season look like for you?
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  Speaker 2: Like you had to draft prep when everything was crazy
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  Speaker 2: kind of way it is after the cold season and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you kind of do to try to set an
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  Speaker 2: off season playing for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And what would you kind of try to take care
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  Speaker 1: of us?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, Yeah, this first off season, you know, they kind
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  Speaker 2: of say, you have so much time in your hands,
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  Speaker 2: you don't really know what to do with it, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I kind of understood that, but since he
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  Speaker 2: went so far, it was kind of like the weeks
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  Speaker 2: were kind of like, just.
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  Speaker 1: Just get what you can from it.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, honestly, I know my next offseason I'd be
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  Speaker 2: way more better equipped and like move with better pace
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  Speaker 2: and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But this OBF season was a little not crazy. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good off season, but you know, just
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  Speaker 2: being my first off season, it.
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  Speaker 1: Was a little little little extra everything else. I appreciate it. Yeah,