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Ernest Jones IV: "We've Been Putting In The Work" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright, guys, I'd be out there in the ran on
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  Speaker 1: uh on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Feel great. I'm used to it.
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  Speaker 3: I've gotten used to it coming in since October last year,
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't nothing new for me.
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  Speaker 1: You got a chance last year that kind of a
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  Speaker 1: bene going against the Rams and division. What's it like
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  Speaker 1: now having Cooper here too, and both of you guys
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  Speaker 1: kind of trying to get back out on them and
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  Speaker 1: you go after, you know, divisional title against a.
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  Speaker 2: Team that won the division last year. Uh. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun having somebody.
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  Speaker 3: You know, of course, who's who is there longer you
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  Speaker 3: know than my tenure there? You know there's some there's
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  Speaker 3: some stuff to that game. We'll get to it. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what week eleven. So whenever we get there,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get there. But excited to get there so you
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  Speaker 3: can tell us about good further we don't know yet, grandmother.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, he's an open book. No for real. No.
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  Speaker 3: Everything you see about Coop, everything you hear, everything you
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  Speaker 3: see him doing the football field, that's him. Attention to detail.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing I love about Coop Man. Nothing goes
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  Speaker 3: by him. Every little detail is important for him. So
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  Speaker 3: I guess that's something. I'm sure y'all probably knew that already.
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  Speaker 2: But what's the biggest.
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  Speaker 3: Benefit to me in your app the beginning of the
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  Speaker 3: seats And as a question to turn, I think the
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  Speaker 3: connection I got my teammates just you know, us being
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  Speaker 3: able to know how you know we like to play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just being able to work off each other.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's been the biggest thing. Yeah, I'm excited,
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  Speaker 3: should be good.
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  Speaker 2: What surprised you most about the young kids? I would
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  Speaker 2: expect the veterans and the guys here to.
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  Speaker 1: In my system.
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  Speaker 2: You've had here, right, young kids arning the system.
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  Speaker 3: I said this one once before. I always feel like
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  Speaker 3: like my class of rookies were like some of the
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  Speaker 3: I don't wanna say dumb, but wasn't that smart? And
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  Speaker 3: you know I see the classes after and just speaking
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  Speaker 3: on this one, these guys are super smart, coming in
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  Speaker 3: picking up the playbook, the way they are coming in
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  Speaker 3: just attacking each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: They're different than my class.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that four or five years ago, we were
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  Speaker 3: a lot I guess hard headed.
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  Speaker 2: So these these guys are are good.
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  Speaker 1: Class South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: How's your h's your.
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  Speaker 1: Understudy there and the secondary doing in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing good. He's doing good. We're getting there. Nick's
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  Speaker 3: gonna Nick's gonna play a lot of football for us.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna help us, you know, make a lot of plays.
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  Speaker 2: But he's young.
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  Speaker 3: We're throwing them in a fire with a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: guys that we we we demand perfection.
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  Speaker 2: So he's coming along. We feel confident in what Nick rings.
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  Speaker 1: There Patrick O'Connell, while Tyres is at what do you
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  Speaker 1: see from Patrick?
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  Speaker 3: That's just a baller man, just a guy that you
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  Speaker 3: can just you know, smart, plug and play. Put him
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  Speaker 3: wherever you need to, and he's gonna get the job done.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about the benefits to the joint practices and
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  Speaker 3: like what you get out of it, maybe even more
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  Speaker 3: so than selected preseason games. Yeah, I think it's just
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  Speaker 3: more so focused on you know, like ones are getting
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  Speaker 3: really meaningful reps. I think you know, you get into
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  Speaker 3: preseason games and you know a lot of times you
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  Speaker 3: know you won't get enough reps of plays coming your way.
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  Speaker 3: I think in those joint this is you get a
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  Speaker 3: good look. You know a lot of things that are
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  Speaker 3: gonna come your way, but just get another feel for
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  Speaker 3: another team how they operate.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good just you know, go scheme for scheme
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  Speaker 2: and see what's better. How was your golf game yesterday? Straight?
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  Speaker 2: Just straight.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if they've always had this, but they
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  Speaker 3: had like a field goal post in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: top golf.
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  Speaker 2: I was right down the middle every time. What are
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  Speaker 2: your teen dates? Has the best? The worst?
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  Speaker 3: Tyree Knight, without a doubt, has the worst.
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  Speaker 2: The best?
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, mea me, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like today?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of getting the day off to go do that yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: We we needed it. I mean we we've been working
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  Speaker 3: hard here. Coach has definitely been We've been putting in
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  Speaker 3: the work. So to get a day off and to
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  Speaker 3: be able to relax, you know, get to know guys
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  Speaker 3: that you haven't had a chance to really always communicate with.
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  Speaker 2: It's been good.
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  Speaker 1: What daye is your little one at now you get
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  Speaker 1: to settle.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, yeah, I mean, what isn't he doing?
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  Speaker 2: He's doing everything.
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  Speaker 3: He's walking, he's running now, she's like, what thirteen months,
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  Speaker 3: So he's running cabinets everywhere, going up and down the
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  Speaker 3: stairs like he's doing a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And well, are the guys in front of you on
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  Speaker 2: the d life and to let more time watching film
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  Speaker 2: with them, especially.
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  Speaker 1: If you know you have guys who could get agressive
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  Speaker 1: and you might, you know, redo play differently and take
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  Speaker 1: shot the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say for me, it's been a little different one.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you I respect each and every one of
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  Speaker 3: you for you know, kind of keeping the things that
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  Speaker 3: I've been going through with my father kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: between us and not really bothering or not bothering, but
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  Speaker 3: asking so I don't keep bringing it up.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I've been just with these guys, and
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  Speaker 3: I say the group in front, it's the reps that matter,
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  Speaker 3: the reps getting out there with those guys. Yeah, we've
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  Speaker 3: been taking times, you know to watch run fits after practice,
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  Speaker 3: but being out there with those guys, seeing how they
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  Speaker 3: move like that, That's that's how I I gained the
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  Speaker 3: the feeling and everything I need to know to play
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  Speaker 3: behind those guys.
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  Speaker 1: You guys on defense have had a year together, uh
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  Speaker 1: and a little further along the offense pretty new was
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  Speaker 1: it was? It encouraging to see either way they've been
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  Speaker 1: playing the first couple of preseason games.
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  Speaker 3: I think encouraging would follow the lines that we didn't
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  Speaker 3: believe it.
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  Speaker 2: I I've I've kind of said this once before.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen them from the first day they they got
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  Speaker 3: in here started going over that that playbook. It was
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  Speaker 3: rocky those first couple weeks of OTA's where we go
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  Speaker 3: offense defense. But from that first day to the first
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  Speaker 3: day of training camp was a big difference. I knew
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  Speaker 3: they had it in them to get up there, attack
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  Speaker 3: the ball and just run off the ball. Let's run
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  Speaker 3: the rock, Let's create explosives after that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I knew they had it in him.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it wasn't a surprise at all. What is it
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  Speaker 2: about that offense and challenges the defense when the other
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  Speaker 2: side just to stematically? What what what stresses do they
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  Speaker 2: put them in?
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  Speaker 3: I think the movement, I think you know it s
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  Speaker 3: s specifically here, how they get up to the line,
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  Speaker 3: like they're super decisive from the moment it's the the
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  Speaker 3: huddle's broken, we're receivers, old line running backs, they're breaking out.
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  Speaker 3: Sam's walking up getting his reads, and you know, after
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  Speaker 3: emotion or two, the ball snaps.
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  Speaker 2: So I think they do a good job getting set
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  Speaker 2: and then when it's time to roll. They roll. What
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  Speaker 2: is that.
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  Speaker 3: Longer?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have to be quick.
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  Speaker 3: Uh anytime you move on the defense and you have
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  Speaker 3: to make somebody think or make somebody move to a
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  Speaker 3: different position that that that creates conflict. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they do that. You know pretty well. Everything his energy
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  Speaker 3: spoon is uh, spoons everything, bro, He's everything to this defense,
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  Speaker 3: everything to this team. Brings the juice, brings the energy.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, like when a guy like that's giving
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  Speaker 3: his all every play, you only want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do the same form.
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  Speaker 2: Good, Thank you,