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Riq Woolen: The Cornerbacks Have Been "Ballin' This Whole Camp" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh shoot, I'm anxious about the same time. Been taking
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  Speaker 1: it patient. I know when the time comes, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: time for me to be out there. But so far
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  Speaker 1: I've been taking all the mental risks I can and
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  Speaker 1: she was just doing whatever the coaching staff and the
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  Speaker 1: training staff have been telling me to do, so that
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  Speaker 1: way you can follow up planning til I can come
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  Speaker 1: back healthy and come back at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the value of getting to work in
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  Speaker 2: the walk throughs, What do you get out of that
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  Speaker 2: even if you're maybe not false speed out here yet
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  Speaker 2: that you can take part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, honestly, today I went through Walthroughs and it
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  Speaker 1: felt good, just uh cause I feel like when you're
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  Speaker 1: out there, you actually get real reps, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: just being out there to being on the right side
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  Speaker 1: and then getting the call and then seeing with the
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  Speaker 1: offense line up in and then making your adjustments throughout
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  Speaker 1: that call and the different tools will use with those calls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they felt good to be out there because
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  Speaker 1: you really can't get that whenever you working out by
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  Speaker 1: yourself or working out with the shining conditioning staff, Cause mo,
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  Speaker 1: it's just mostly running in the Routrea one of the things.
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  Speaker 3: Pete's talked about is the jump that all of you
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  Speaker 3: set that your guys have made from last year. I
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  Speaker 3: know you haven't been at full but can you tell
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  Speaker 3: that the game is slowed down?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, a lot. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this year it'll be more mental for me,
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  Speaker 1: just because of one, I was banged up, and while
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  Speaker 1: I was banged up, I got to learn, you know,
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  Speaker 1: new things mentally, and uh, also just getting more into
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  Speaker 1: the playbook. And I feel like the more I got
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  Speaker 1: into the playbook, the slower the game gets to me.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, drink, drink.
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  Speaker 2: Would you rather fight one horse sized duck.
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  Speaker 4: Or fifty duck sized horches? Y? Uh? One horse sized duck?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Go check it out. Man took out? How how did
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  Speaker 4: you rich?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Soon just doing OTA's And I was walking back after
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  Speaker 1: a play and I have.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, was not my bad. Well, I was walking back out.
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  Speaker 1: The play and then uh, I didn't feel like a
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  Speaker 1: pop in my knee and I looked down at my
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  Speaker 1: knee and I've seen something, something sticking out to the side,
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  Speaker 1: And it was just a piece of my miniscus sticking
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  Speaker 1: out to the side.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Sorry, you know it was getting kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of loud, but uh so, yeah, I was looking down
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  Speaker 1: a piece of my miniscus and sticking out to the side,
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  Speaker 1: and I bent my knee a little bit, popped it
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  Speaker 1: back in, tried to do another play, and then after
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  Speaker 1: that play, I fell back to the ground and it
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  Speaker 1: was poking out again. So basically the reason it was
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  Speaker 1: like kind of poking out my leg it went through
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  Speaker 1: like a pocket on the side of my knee.
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  Speaker 4: So I had to get two stitches.
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  Speaker 1: To the pocket that it went out of, and then
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  Speaker 1: they just took a little bit of my moniscus out.
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  Speaker 4: Its feel good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm still working back to normal, but I
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  Speaker 1: felt amazing. You know, I feel like myself again. I
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  Speaker 1: just been working on getting my legs stronger.
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  Speaker 3: So it was sticking out and just just had to
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  Speaker 3: be a doctor and popping back.
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  Speaker 4: In a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to bend my knee a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like a weird feeling. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, Hey, I don't know, maybe it was just
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  Speaker 1: a sign God that, you know, I got to slow
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit and just get more into the playbook.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that.
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  Speaker 3: We're watching is how that battle plays out at corner
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  Speaker 3: Do you see that in your battle there? How are
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  Speaker 3: you watching?
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  Speaker 4: Can't you repeat it again? Sorry it was kind of loud.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of just want to get a time out right.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things we're watching is that battle at cornerback?
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  Speaker 3: Do you see it as a battle? How are you
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  Speaker 3: watching your teammates out there?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, you know, just being out there and watching them,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool because I get to learn things from them.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: You most of the time when guys look at film
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  Speaker 1: or something, or I know I look at myself sometimes
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  Speaker 1: just to see what I gotta work on. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a difference when you get to see the other cornerbacks
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  Speaker 1: and other dbs going out there practice and see what
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  Speaker 1: they do, and then like the mistakes or the right
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  Speaker 1: things they did. Just learn something from those and that
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  Speaker 1: way I can apply to my game too.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought just the way that group is playing,
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  Speaker 2: all the different.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, Oh yeah, no, as you see today, them boys
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  Speaker 1: was balling.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm happy to see him out there balling
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like in this league and with this team,
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  Speaker 1: there shouldn't be there shouldn't be a drop off. Even
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  Speaker 1: though if I got hurt or not. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like this there shouldn't be a drop off and
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  Speaker 1: it shows today and it's been showing all through counts
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  Speaker 1: that these guys been doing a great job and they've
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  Speaker 1: been balling this whole count this year, like last.
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  Speaker 2: Year, trying to just make the team make an impression
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  Speaker 2: and out here you are being patient after me.
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  Speaker 4: But it just how different level miners.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I feel like last year people didn't think I
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  Speaker 1: could play in this league or they would a douught
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  Speaker 1: I was a special teams guy, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I had proved that to them. But also this season,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to prove to myself that I'm the
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  Speaker 1: best corner in the NFL, and I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: am one of the best of cornerbacks in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: What's the next step for you? You think as a player,
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  Speaker 2: is a cornerback just tent through? What do you want
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  Speaker 2: to get better.
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  Speaker 4: At this year?
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, just the playbook and just swing the
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  Speaker 1: game down more. You know, I'm a fast person, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a difference when you can save all your he
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  Speaker 1: and just play with your mental abilities. And then I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's what Sharan did. You know searm wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the fastest guy, but he knew football in and out,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like that's something I want to do,
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  Speaker 1: learn football in and out that way. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: of those players do come and it's just do come,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only time I want to run.
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  Speaker 4: You know, say that he wasn't the fastest something to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, at the same time, he know
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  Speaker 1: his filf. I mean, he wasn't really the fastest, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean his game speaks for himself. You know, his endstincts,
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  Speaker 1: his ability to know the plays, the routes and all that.
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  Speaker 4: It just sold for himself. To be close with that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know. Uh he he had a new
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  Speaker 1: cat on the team and he a young fuck. You
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  Speaker 1: know I can say that now cause I feel I
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  Speaker 1: ain't a rookie no more. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: there's the way he approached the game, his attitude about
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  Speaker 1: the game. You know, he he don't he didn't, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't care about, uh, the the whole new level. He
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  Speaker 1: just come in and he like approached himself like he's
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  Speaker 1: the big dog. And I like that because you need
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  Speaker 1: a guy like that on your team, especially a young guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he he just been balling through camp and his
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  Speaker 1: d his confidence been showing out there.
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  Speaker 4: That's about his skill setting, his ability. Just said, the
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  Speaker 4: acceptance of jumping into the nickel and stuff shoo.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big step, you know at the nickel, Especially
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, a lot of teams want to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball to the nickel. So uh, he been approaching
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  Speaker 1: it like a linebacker. Actually, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's going there and stick his nose in there and
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  Speaker 1: get dirty, and he make plays and he liked to hit.
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  Speaker 2: What's it been like Drick Kaling with all the extra
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  Speaker 2: attention that comes with the.
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  Speaker 4: See exact last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, that just calm with playing football. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I never really looked at it as, oh, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be like a person with a Hello status or
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  Speaker 1: like whatever. I just wanted to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: play football. Whenever you go out there and play football
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  Speaker 1: and play good, that just would come with it. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: come into the NFL's guys saying you know, oh uh
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  Speaker 1: they we was just talking about me, like in a
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  Speaker 1: good way. But you see, when you start making plays
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  Speaker 1: and you start dominating, all these different fans start bringing
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  Speaker 1: different things into the equation. Now it's people talking about, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy not better than this guy, this guy, this
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  Speaker 1: all this guy. So like, honestly, I don't really care
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  Speaker 1: about it. I just want to be better than I was,
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  Speaker 1: and I just care about competing with myself.
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  Speaker 2: What did you just study go by Reek instead of Tariq.
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  Speaker 1: Because all my friends come Mereek and it was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool. So I was just like, Okay, So.
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  Speaker 2: What does it take to be the best player in
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  Speaker 2: the league.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, honestly, it just tastes about playing your game, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like I just play my game and
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  Speaker 1: I make plays and I'm pretty sure my teammates appreciate
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  Speaker 1: me making those plays. But honestly, just playing my game. Really,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what really takes to be the best corner.
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  Speaker 1: I just keep doing myself, and honestly, I keep doing myself.
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  Speaker 1: I can never be wrong. And it's been showing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they paid off last year, and I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: if I just keep working, it'll pay off this year too.
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  Speaker 4: Get oh yeah, was Crispy? I like?
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  Speaker 1: I like I like how the Jackson play a great
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  Speaker 1: addition to our team, and even when I see him
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  Speaker 1: get drafted. I was happy because he was another Texas
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  Speaker 1: guy on our team and just seeing him out there,
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  Speaker 1: he runs with Chris Browse. He's a smart player, gets
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  Speaker 1: in and out of cuts, you know, and it seems
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  Speaker 1: like if you if you were to watch him, you
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  Speaker 1: like kind of peat that like he a pro, like
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  Speaker 1: he went to Ohio State last year. But do it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like he's like he was on the Seahawks last year.
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  Speaker 1: Was just with us man, I like, throw his approach
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  Speaker 1: to the game, and I feel like this year it's
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  Speaker 1: a show on the field.
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  Speaker 4: What does it seem like that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I said it seemed like that because he
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  Speaker 1: a pro. Like he out there running routes like a pro.
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  Speaker 1: He approached the game like a pro. He looked like
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  Speaker 1: an NFL receiver, which he is. And I mean we
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  Speaker 1: dropped it in the first round and it shows that
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  Speaker 1: that was a great pick for us.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean you just see him.
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  Speaker 1: You see him out there, he run routes like an
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  Speaker 1: NFL receiver, like he been in the NFL already. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I said, it seems like he'd been out there
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  Speaker 1: already with us. Your mama came, oh yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: she called me. She called me Ricky. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: what my family called me, my friends called me that,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean she don't really trip, you know. She
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  Speaker 1: she know the whole meeting behind it, and it's cool
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  Speaker 1: with me, I know anything else, thanksman, of course,