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Ernest Jones IV: "It's Going To Be Electric" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Okay, if you just doesn't describe your attitude about
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  Speaker 1: facing your former team, what work done?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you listen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited, excited for the opportunity for me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't say it's just something that I've
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  Speaker 3: just been thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, sit another opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I won't go out there and put myself in a
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  Speaker 3: position where I'm taking myself outside the guidelines of what
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to do and ultimately let's get a win.
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  Speaker 3: With it being a former team, of course, I would
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  Speaker 3: like to win, but you know, I want to go
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  Speaker 3: out there and execute and play well.
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  Speaker 2: How surprised were you by the trade?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you've played the Super Bowl for him, he
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  Speaker 4: came in the league with them, You're in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of their defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely surprised. Yeah, I surprises the word
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  Speaker 3: I use. Definitely was shocked about the decisions that you know,
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  Speaker 3: they they they made. But I you know, they taught
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  Speaker 3: me a lot in this in that process, me a
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  Speaker 3: lot about the business. You know, you're never You're never
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  Speaker 3: secure no matter what you've done. So that's that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of what I've learned in that position.
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  Speaker 1: What has just this last week been like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you flew in Wednesday night, practiced a couple times, play
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  Speaker 1: a game, and.
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  Speaker 3: Hell, these last three months have been crazy, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we had a three month old, got traded, got traded again,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's been crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's been. Honestly though, it's been fun.
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  Speaker 3: Me and my wife grown a lot closer through these
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  Speaker 3: hardship week We're just you know, we've always been closed,
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  Speaker 3: but this has has helped us learn that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what, we got each other's back. She's always
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  Speaker 3: rying for me. And yeah, I mean, I've been having
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  Speaker 3: to learn a lot of defense, new defenses, learning new
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  Speaker 3: nuances of both teams. Even though Tennessee and here they
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  Speaker 3: kind of run similar stuff, it's it's still a little different.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been it's been a whirlwind.
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  Speaker 1: How quickly have you started to feel comfortable to speak
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  Speaker 1: up about what you're seeing on the defense and where
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  Speaker 1: things can change?
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  Speaker 3: I think yesterday, I think this, this this organization, this team,
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  Speaker 3: these players, they give that comfortable comfortability.
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  Speaker 2: They want to win.
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  Speaker 3: They they they have high standards expectations, and so do
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  Speaker 3: I come in in here? You know, nothing change. I
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  Speaker 3: want to dominate the run. Wanna want to get out
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  Speaker 3: the ball, be physical, Russia passer, and you know, those
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  Speaker 3: are the things that you know I speak up on
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  Speaker 3: and that they've allowed me to just because they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're willing to listen.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of familiar faces. I know
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  Speaker 1: Cup hasn't played a lot and Kuka hasn't played a lot,
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  Speaker 1: But what do you know about Kyan in the way that.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Karen's gonna run tough, Karen's gonna be patient, Karen's
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  Speaker 3: gonna hit the hole, and when he sees something, he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna hit it. I've never seen him back down from
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  Speaker 3: a challenge when I was there, So I think it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be electric. It's gonna be fireworks. We meet each
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  Speaker 3: other in the hole and let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Or you want a lot when you go against in
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  Speaker 1: this situation, to go up against the former.
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  Speaker 3: Team like us I used to. At this point in
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  Speaker 3: my career, I'm like, let me just let my play
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  Speaker 3: do the talking. I probably say a few things to
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  Speaker 3: those guys, but they're all my guys.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I love each and every guy in that building, in
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  Speaker 3: that locker room, man, and you know, before the football thing,
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  Speaker 3: we we developed great relationships. So at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, they're they're still my friends. But on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: it won't be so so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember what Bobby Wagner was like in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two playing against Seattle when.
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  Speaker 3: Them Yes, he was locked in, he's ready to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby was. Bobby was Bobby he was. He was wired
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  Speaker 3: and fired up, just like I am. I'm excited about
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity for another week in his system to you know,
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  Speaker 3: get better and help this team win games. How much
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  Speaker 3: is the physicality part of your game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean is that part of your game?
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  Speaker 3: Playing physical?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, getting up there.
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  Speaker 3: And hit How much is that? Yeah, that's all of it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're not physical in this game, you
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  Speaker 3: won't You'll get ran over, rolled over. So gotta be
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  Speaker 3: physical in this league, and I take pride in doing
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  Speaker 3: that up up front.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like it's going to be a significant jump
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  Speaker 1: from her like game here last week and understanding what
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  Speaker 1: the defense is trying to do going into.
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  Speaker 3: This game versus Oh yeah, for sure. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'll be able to play a lot calmer, not trying
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  Speaker 3: to sit there and piece things together. As you know,
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  Speaker 3: moving bullets are happening. I'm I feel, you know, a lot,
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  Speaker 3: secure and knowing the job. The coaches have done a
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  Speaker 3: great job and get me prepared. So I'm excited, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to be able to go out there and play faster
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  Speaker 3: this week.
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  Speaker 1: You played for Sean, practiced against his offensives for what
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  Speaker 1: three years?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think separates him from some of his
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  Speaker 2: peers as like a play caller? You know, he's super smart.
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  Speaker 3: He's always looking for that advantage that edged those angles,
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  Speaker 3: wants to get your eyes going, wants to get you linebackers.
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  Speaker 3: DB's looking at everything just so they can get down
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  Speaker 3: to the nitty gritty of what they run. So it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a great task for us to early on
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  Speaker 3: in the game settling, eliminate the runs and you know,
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  Speaker 3: make it a passing game and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: How's your conversations with Tyrell Dotson going so far?
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  Speaker 2: Getting as my dog man. He's it's almost like we
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  Speaker 2: knew each other before.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's real cool, great guy.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of talks about football, but we
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of talks about life too, So he's
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  Speaker 3: a he's a friend in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: You said, these last three.
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  Speaker 3: Months have been pretty crazy overall, Wind, What have you
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  Speaker 3: learned about yourself throughout that process? Adam A tough son
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  Speaker 3: of gun. Mentally, man, I got a great support system
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  Speaker 3: because for me, for me, ma'am, a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to sit here and have a smile
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  Speaker 3: or go.
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  Speaker 2: Through their day to day.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of guys would, you know, let let getting
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  Speaker 3: traded in and letting that pressure get to him. But
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  Speaker 3: for me, I mean support system has been great, and mentally,
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  Speaker 3: I know that I'm capable of doing a lot. So
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  Speaker 3: that's that's I've learned that about myself. Your kid is
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  Speaker 3: now old or was when you first got well when
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  Speaker 3: I first he's three months now its about turn four
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  Speaker 3: months July eighth, I mean not July eighth, on the
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  Speaker 3: eighth of next month, but he's just been born. Then
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  Speaker 3: when I he was like a month old. Maybe when
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  Speaker 3: I got traded the first time, so packed him up,
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  Speaker 3: went back south, you could say. And then now we're
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  Speaker 3: back over here. So he's traveled way more than me
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  Speaker 3: in his four months, and I did about in my
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  Speaker 3: entire life. Oh, he's a great kid. He sleeps through
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  Speaker 3: the night. Oh yeah, yeah, my wife's a trooper. He'll
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  Speaker 3: cry in the middle of night, and if it's around
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  Speaker 3: the time that I'm about to get up, I'll just.
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  Speaker 4: Look over and go back to sleep. That might end
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  Speaker 4: in February, I'm sorry. That might end in the coming months.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's ending because he's yes. I know I'll have
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  Speaker 3: my hands full then for sure, And I know she's
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  Speaker 3: keeping a tab.
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  Speaker 2: They do good. Thank y'all.