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Mike Macdonald on Building a Seahawks Team Nobody Wants to Play, Hard Knocks & Sam Darnold | Richard Sherman · The Richard Sherman Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast.
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Speaker 2: And before we get to this Mike McDonald interview, I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about the Seahawks signing Terry on Arnold.
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Speaker 2: He worked out for them, as you saw on Hard Knocks.
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Speaker 2: He also worked out for the Texans, the Giants, and
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Speaker 2: the Saints over the past few weeks. But I think
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks are signing him just because, as always, they're
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Speaker 2: chasing edges. And if you see a former first round
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Speaker 2: pick who's played some good football, you know he's had
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Speaker 2: some up and down moments, but he's played some good
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Speaker 2: football for the Detroit Lions and a tough scheme where
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Speaker 2: they they kind of played him outside of.
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Speaker 1: His strengths is what I would say.
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Speaker 2: They played a lot of man coverage, and as I've
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Speaker 2: said before, it's such a it's such a lazy coordinator
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Speaker 2: coverage because all you're doing is saying, hey, coach, that's
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Speaker 2: on him, Hey, hey, hey, coach that he could cover
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Speaker 2: a guy. Not creating a plan to put guys in
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Speaker 2: good position, or to put pressure on a quarterback, or
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Speaker 2: to create a scheme where your players can make plays.
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Speaker 2: You're just saying, hey, this isn't on me. I told
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Speaker 2: them who they had and they didn't cover them. So
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Speaker 2: I think this is gonna be a good signing. I
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Speaker 2: And I think when Mike McDonald and John Snyder see
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Speaker 2: a guy on the market that they feel like can
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Speaker 2: help them, they take a shot. And I know there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of baggage and a lot of outside noise
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Speaker 2: and some legal issues that he has to navigate, but
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Speaker 2: clearly they've done their research, they've done their background, and
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Speaker 2: they feel really good about what.
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Speaker 1: Could possibly happen in the future.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they've talked to the commissioner and in the
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Speaker 2: league about potential discipline. You know, will the NFL put
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Speaker 2: him on the commissioner's list. I'm not sure, but clearly
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks felt like hey, in other teams, I mean
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Speaker 2: the Saints, the Giants, the Texans all felt like felt
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Speaker 2: comfortable with the information that they had gathered, and they
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Speaker 2: signed him.
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Speaker 1: And I think he can help this team.
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Speaker 2: Not that they don't feel great about the guys they have,
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Speaker 2: but again, always chasing edges, always getting better. It's a
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Speaker 2: low risk, high reward kind of deal for the Seattle Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: I think they have a strong enough locker room to
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Speaker 2: manage something like this. I think they have enough veterans
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Speaker 2: and a great coach and a great culture that this
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Speaker 2: isn't something that would rock the boat at all in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: It's not like the New York media. Seattle media is
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Speaker 1: not the same.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to sit here and attack the coach
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Speaker 2: every every week asking them about Terry on Arnold and
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Speaker 2: the potential legal issues or the potential discipline from the league.
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Speaker 2: I think this is a situation, a perfect situation for
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Speaker 2: Terry on where you could play championship football on a
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Speaker 2: really great defense. Give him to give himself a great
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Speaker 2: chance to showcase his abilities and a potential payday and
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Speaker 2: and and kind of getting himself back on track in
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Speaker 2: the future. I think he would be likely the third
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Speaker 2: corner in this in this scheme, come in on nickel
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Speaker 2: downs as it's written right now. I mean, obviously they
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Speaker 2: don't just give away spots, so he'd have to go
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Speaker 2: in there and prove that he could he could play
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Speaker 2: to the level that that they would expect. But right now,
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Speaker 2: I think the starters are are Josh Job and Devin
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Speaker 2: Witherspoon obviously, and uh neilma Preache.
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Speaker 1: It is the guy.
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Speaker 2: That comes in as the third corner right now, I think, Uh.
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Speaker 2: I think they got a couple of guys that they're
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out who who's best in that spot,
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Speaker 2: and I think if he comes in and shows that
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Speaker 2: he can play to the level that he's capable of,
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Speaker 2: I think that spot is his.
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Speaker 1: To lose.
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Speaker 2: I talked to the Sea Aws a little bit about it,
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Speaker 2: just about you know, the kind of guy he is.
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Speaker 2: I had a relationship with Terry on the things I knew.
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Speaker 2: I think they talked to the lions. Obviously, they've talked
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Speaker 2: to as many people as they could talk to. He
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Speaker 2: does have some things uh on his plate throughout the
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Speaker 2: season that he's gonna have to navigate. He has a
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Speaker 2: court appearance on October fifth. As it stands right now,
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Speaker 2: he faces some very serious charges. But if if the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks are signing him, then obviously they feel really good
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Speaker 2: about where he is and in terms of the legal
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Speaker 2: battle and and what could what they could see in
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Speaker 2: the foreseeable future. And obviously he's a he's a player
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Speaker 2: with a with an immense level of talent, uh, And
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Speaker 2: I would expect him to see him on the field
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Speaker 2: and and to see them kind of kick the tires
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Speaker 2: on him early on in this preseason to make sure
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Speaker 2: obviously that he's he's in shape, he fits this scheme.
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Speaker 2: He can he can understand the scheme, see where his
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Speaker 2: football IQ is, et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: But I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. I'm excited
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Speaker 2: you know that football is back, and I appreciate you
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Speaker 2: guys joining me. Stay tuned and stay here for this
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Speaker 2: Mike McDonald interview because it was a good welcome back
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Speaker 2: to the Richard Sherman Podcast. And today I have an
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Speaker 2: incredible guest head coach of the super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks,
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Speaker 2: one of the best coaches in the National Football League.
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Speaker 4: How do you feel, like, Yeah, it's going good. It's
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Speaker 4: going good. It's good to see you practice day, and
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Speaker 4: we had a good practice.
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Speaker 5: You know, it was who spirited competitive. It should start a.
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Speaker 4: Little bit better, but uh, part of the process, you know,
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Speaker 4: so back at it, we'll go.
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Speaker 2: So coming off the Super Bowl and we talked about
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Speaker 2: it on the field, you kind of you and the
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Speaker 2: team were kind of like, Hey, what's next, what's the
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Speaker 2: next game?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? What do we get after it? How is this offseason? Ben?
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Speaker 1: Has it been everything you dreamed it be?
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Speaker 4: I think yeah, Like like life comes at you fast
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Speaker 4: after the season, Like you finished the parade, all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden, you don't have you know, half your officer
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Speaker 4: staff is is taken off, so you've got to hire
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Speaker 4: a new staff, find roles for people. You know, that
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Speaker 4: process is not an enjoyable one, frankly. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: like people deserve to get you know, promotions and different
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Speaker 4: roles and things like that, and you can't please everybody.
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Speaker 4: And so that took a while and then you kind
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Speaker 4: of take a step away and get a breather. And
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Speaker 4: then you're starting to recalibrate. Okay, well where are we going?
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Speaker 4: You know, this is something that I haven't spent a
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Speaker 4: lot of time thinking about. You know that the season
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Speaker 4: kind of goes comes at you fast. And so really
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Speaker 4: the exercise of like understanding what we're proud of, what
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Speaker 4: we feel like, actually makes us us you know why
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Speaker 4: we come to work.
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Speaker 5: Every day like that.
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Speaker 4: That that's a that's a sobering exercise, you know. And
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Speaker 4: so I think once we've want to really targeted and
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Speaker 4: said Okay, this is this is how we won't really
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Speaker 4: want to attack it. Then then that like that exercise started,
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Speaker 4: you know, and then of off season comes back, guys
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Speaker 4: are back, and then off we go.
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Speaker 2: I was about to say, how much time did you
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Speaker 2: you actually spend off being Mike McDonald the husband and dad?
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Speaker 5: Well, it really the way it's been. We've had We've
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Speaker 5: had like a great time.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Jack said a great point in his life
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Speaker 4: where like he's he's been up and up and at
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Speaker 4: him really since the end since like the latter part
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Speaker 4: of this maybe like started kind of walk like he started,
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Speaker 4: he's been mobile at least the entire offseason. And so
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Speaker 4: and you're you know, so he's in that face, which
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Speaker 4: is exciting, and so we've been We've had a lot
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Speaker 4: of fun. And then really throughout this camp, this camp
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Speaker 4: is like longer than our normal camps because we started earlier,
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Speaker 4: but like the preseason game is like the same time,
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Speaker 4: so it was longer on the front end. So we've
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Speaker 4: tried to maximize like the amount of rest days. Like
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Speaker 4: like today we got after it, but like you know,
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Speaker 4: we're gonna go after tomorrow and then we give rest days.
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Speaker 4: So it's just had more time even throughout the training
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Speaker 4: camp process. We're not just like a hiberni mode. So
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Speaker 4: it's been a lot of fun and they come to
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Speaker 4: every practice. So it's been great.
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Speaker 2: Winning the Super Bowl usually, I mean it creates, you know,
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Speaker 2: its own set of issues for individuals, for teams in general,
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Speaker 2: and most of the time teams are fighting complacency. But
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Speaker 2: I've talked to I've talked to Ernest, I talked to Rashid,
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Speaker 2: I'll talk to Leonard.
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Speaker 1: Then nobody feels that.
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Speaker 2: And as a as a spectator myself watching practice and
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Speaker 2: talking to guys, you don't feel that at all from
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Speaker 2: this team.
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Speaker 1: And I talked to you about.
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Speaker 2: It on the field, and I'm like, what did you
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Speaker 2: do to get these guys to come back so hungry,
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Speaker 2: so so so ready to go?
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Speaker 4: And you said, I've had some time to think about
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Speaker 4: it since you asked me. I think I think it's
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Speaker 4: I think it's a great example of everyone being like
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Speaker 4: on like aligned in how we think and how we
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Speaker 4: go about things. And I think it's it's that's like
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Speaker 4: a testament to what we've created in terms of just
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Speaker 4: like what it's like in the building every day where
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Speaker 4: the expectation is is like, Hey, we're gonna have a
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Speaker 4: hell of a day.
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Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna get after it.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna get better, We're gonna sharpen each other, we're
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Speaker 4: gonna have each other's backs. We're in a shadow box,
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Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna we're in, but we're gonna have fun.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna be like, you know, the feeling when you
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Speaker 4: show up to Like, what's the feeling you want when
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Speaker 4: someone drives into the vMac excited to get better, Like
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Speaker 4: they can't wait to be with their boys. You know,
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Speaker 4: they want them to come back from break. You know,
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Speaker 4: that's what we're trying to create. And so the fact
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Speaker 4: that people are back at it and determined about you know,
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Speaker 4: trying to become a great team again. I think that
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Speaker 4: shows you that we we've gotten a lot of things
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Speaker 4: right up to this point. But part of that process
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Speaker 4: is like moving forward, you know.
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Speaker 5: And so if we are.
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Speaker 4: Going to be bought into how we do business, part
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Speaker 4: of how we do business is you know, like the
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Speaker 4: chasing asset, you know, edges aspect of always trying to
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Speaker 4: get to like, hey, what's the next man?
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Speaker 5: How do we involve this saying how do we take
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Speaker 5: our game at the next level? Like how far can
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Speaker 5: we take this thing?
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Speaker 4: And so I think that's what's provided, like the excitement
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Speaker 4: and like the sense of urgency to grow and get going.
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Speaker 1: You know what.
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Speaker 2: What is something I really admire and appreciate about you.
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Speaker 2: I think you've you know, and we talked about it.
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Speaker 2: On the field, you were like, you know, trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out who you were as a coach, and you're
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Speaker 2: taking things from these coaches to try to figure.
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Speaker 1: Out what works for you.
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Speaker 2: And and that's what great players, coaches, great individuals at
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Speaker 2: any sport. I mean, the will wasn't invented today, you know,
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Speaker 2: and so to be great at anything, there's somebody who
12:16
Speaker 2: set the tone and set the example that you could
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Speaker 2: kind of figure out, Hey, if I could kind of
12:21
Speaker 2: take a little bit of this and a little bit
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Speaker 2: of that, I can create a really cool thing. But
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Speaker 2: the human element, your your transparency being genuine and organic.
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Speaker 2: I think that's something your players have a ton of
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Speaker 2: respect for and something that allows your players to really
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Speaker 2: follow you and trust that your word is your bond.
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Speaker 2: Where does that come from?
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Speaker 4: I think not having played helps because it's like, who
12:43
Speaker 4: am I? Who am I going to kid here? You know,
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Speaker 4: like I can't do what you guys do, and so
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Speaker 4: I think that's where it starts, and like and then
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Speaker 4: and then you're a young coach, so it's you're also
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Speaker 4: it's also an acknowledgement to say, hey, look I feel
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Speaker 4: very strong about some things.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of things I also acknowledge.
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Speaker 4: I don't know yet, you know, because we haven't experienced
13:02
Speaker 4: these things, and I don't have the I don't have
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Speaker 4: the kind of like the skins on the wall to
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Speaker 4: say like, look, I know what's going on here, I
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Speaker 4: know what it takes. It's like I believe, I think
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Speaker 4: I know what it takes, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: try to create like a compelling vision that we want
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Speaker 4: to create and a pathway and principles that we can
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Speaker 4: go by to like get there. But we also, you know,
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Speaker 4: if we really believe in this culture of like growth
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Speaker 4: and twelve is one, Well, I'm in this thing, and
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Speaker 4: our coaches are in this thing with our players. You know,
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Speaker 4: there's coaches in our league and the coaches in history
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Speaker 4: that and deservedly so that come in and say, hey,
13:39
Speaker 4: look like this is how we're gonna do business. You know,
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Speaker 4: like here's your book. We're gonna go to page you know,
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Speaker 4: July whatever, August whatever, and this is what we do today,
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Speaker 4: and this is how we do business and this is
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Speaker 4: what's gonna win.
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Speaker 5: And it's worked like that.
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Speaker 4: But like if I did that, I would be not
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be like authentic, right, So my thing is like.
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Speaker 5: Hey, look, I'm I'm learning with you guys in this journey.
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Speaker 5: And so.
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Speaker 4: It's more fun that way, you know, like and it's
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Speaker 4: like it takes the edge off. Hey, look, this is
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Speaker 4: we're going to give it everything we have because we
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Speaker 4: decided we're going to try to do it this way.
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Speaker 4: It didn't if we don't get the results we wanted. Well,
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Speaker 4: let's go back to see what we can improve on
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Speaker 4: process wise to yield better results. And you just kind
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Speaker 4: of just keep doing that. And that's an honest process,
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Speaker 4: you know. And but you got to keep it real
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Speaker 4: with them, you know, like you gotta if you we
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Speaker 4: fall short, which we've done plenty of times from the
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Speaker 4: coaching staff, or if there's things that we don't that
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Speaker 4: aren't up to the vision and the standard of how
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Speaker 4: we said we were going to be, and well we
14:34
Speaker 4: got to be the first ones to show that we're
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Speaker 4: willing to grow from that, because that's what you expect
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Speaker 4: from your players anyways. That's that's how we think think
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Speaker 4: about I love it.
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Speaker 2: I love it, and I think your perspective and how
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Speaker 2: you think the game. I mean it may you may
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Speaker 2: feel like it's a disadvantage because you didn't play, but
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Speaker 2: I almost feel like it's an advantage. It's almost like
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Speaker 2: you don't know what you don't know. And sometimes as
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Speaker 2: a player, you get stuck in certain lanes and certain
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Speaker 2: ways of thinking because it's conditioned over years and years
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Speaker 2: of condition playing this game like it can only be
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Speaker 2: done this way. Yeah, but it seems like You've really
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Speaker 2: found a way to manipulate the way a player can
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Speaker 2: think in a way a player and just the NFL
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Speaker 2: in general thinks about a scheme and how offenses have
15:18
Speaker 2: been running the same protections for years and no, not
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Speaker 2: many people have found out how to manipulate them in
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Speaker 2: the way you have. What like what went into that
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Speaker 2: line is thinking because people have been running five zero
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Speaker 2: and sliding left and sliding right and reading the mic
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Speaker 2: and playing two off the mic, et cetera, et cetera
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Speaker 2: for a long time, and nobody's really found the formula.
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Speaker 1: Like you have to really take advantage of that. Well.
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Speaker 4: John Harbaugh was someone that I really learned from, like
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Speaker 4: on how to think about these things, like we say
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Speaker 4: chasing edges. I mean, I feel like a brook record,
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Speaker 4: but we feel like it's our responsibility as coaches. We
15:51
Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in like what can we
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Speaker 4: possibly what does everything in our power as coaches to
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Speaker 4: help our player get in a position where they can
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Speaker 4: have success and feel like they have the on that play.
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Speaker 4: And that's something that like John just kind of like
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Speaker 4: pounded into our heads from our coaching staff, And you
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Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in that you know again,
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Speaker 4: if you're a guy that can't play, but you're telling
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Speaker 4: me that I can do something to help you as
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Speaker 4: a player, do that, and I can't go like, hey,
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Speaker 4: look when I was at the Pro Bowl in two
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Speaker 4: thousand and three, this is what I did.
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Speaker 5: When I went again.
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Speaker 4: So and so I can't do that, you know, but
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Speaker 4: I can say, hey, look this is the evidence, this
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Speaker 4: is what I think, this is what this coach says,
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Speaker 4: this is what I've watched on technic is what here's
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Speaker 4: the parallels.
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Speaker 5: You can draw conclusions that way.
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Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to the pressures, you know,
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Speaker 4: the Ravens Playbook had you know, a really like diverse,
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Speaker 4: exhaustive pressure pressure package that you know, like it was
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Speaker 4: just so cool for me to like be a part
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Speaker 4: of that whole process. Like, man, like you're telling me,
16:45
Speaker 4: I have access to the Ravens Playbook, you know, and
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Speaker 4: I showed up and there's all these sweet pressures and
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Speaker 4: like we had film that went back to like the
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Speaker 4: early Rex Ryan days and you can watch and see
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Speaker 4: you know, when he was and package them all together.
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Speaker 4: But then it was like, well, why why do all
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Speaker 4: these pressures exist?
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Speaker 1: Know?
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Speaker 5: What are they?
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Speaker 1: How are what?
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Speaker 4: What are they trying to do, and so you know,
17:05
Speaker 4: why would you not want to dive in and understand
17:07
Speaker 4: how to like the spirit of calls and what you're
17:10
Speaker 4: trying to achieve and things like that.
17:11
Speaker 5: So, yeah, it was a lot of fun, a lot
17:14
Speaker 5: of fun. That was a fun process.
17:16
Speaker 2: It's it seems like you're still having fun and you're
17:17
Speaker 2: still like reinventing those pressures and really focusing them to
17:23
Speaker 2: applying to your defense and your personnel. But how is
17:27
Speaker 2: it having hard knocks in a building? I know, after
17:29
Speaker 2: you want a super Bowl, the last thing you thought
17:30
Speaker 2: you were going to be doing as a team was doing.
17:32
Speaker 4: Hard That's probably accurate. Yeah, that's probably accurate. Yeah, that's right.
17:39
Speaker 1: How has it been?
17:40
Speaker 2: You know, I think your your first at least the
17:42
Speaker 2: first clip they showed a Hugh saying, just yourselves. You know,
17:45
Speaker 2: you can't be any characters or pretend. I think you
17:47
Speaker 2: being yourself is the best version.
17:49
Speaker 5: Yeah.
17:49
Speaker 1: How has it been for a team?
17:51
Speaker 2: Has have you felt like it's been a distraction or
17:53
Speaker 2: has you have you felt like it's just been business?
17:57
Speaker 4: I think it's been pretty seemless frankly, like I like,
18:03
Speaker 4: I think you kind of go through like a I
18:06
Speaker 4: don't know, like a like a phase of getting used
18:08
Speaker 4: to like you get the news, okay, well my initial
18:10
Speaker 4: reaction is what it used to be when I was
18:12
Speaker 4: a younger coach of like well, shoot, now now I'm
18:15
Speaker 4: gonna be exposed or now I'm gonna say something dumb
18:17
Speaker 4: or I'm gonna look bad or whatever. And then you
18:19
Speaker 4: start like talking to Dave, you start talking to John,
18:22
Speaker 4: talking to other folks in the building, like people that
18:23
Speaker 4: have had it, and like it's all about how you
18:26
Speaker 4: frame and how you like that experience, what you want
18:28
Speaker 4: out of that experience. And it's like, well, shoot, like
18:30
Speaker 4: if they're going to be here and capture us, like
18:32
Speaker 4: are we kind of proud of like what we do
18:33
Speaker 4: and who we are? Like why don't we just focus
18:35
Speaker 4: on being us and having them capture us? And maybe
18:38
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity now for the best version of us
18:41
Speaker 4: to get out there and and we're proud of that,
18:43
Speaker 4: you know, and maybe that's a way to bring people together,
18:45
Speaker 4: and there's an opportunity there to sell ourselves to possible
18:48
Speaker 4: free you know. It's just there's so many like little
18:51
Speaker 4: cool opportunities to to capture, you know, And so that
18:55
Speaker 4: that's been our focus of like, okay, well, in order
18:57
Speaker 4: for all those things happen, we just got to focus
18:59
Speaker 4: on our process and who we are. Trust that they're
19:02
Speaker 4: going to capture that. And I think so far we're
19:05
Speaker 4: proud of of what's how's it or how it's gone down,
19:09
Speaker 4: and we're still going through it, you know, like I'm
19:11
Speaker 4: still miked up right now. It's just but I'm used
19:13
Speaker 4: to it, you know, It's just you kind of get
19:14
Speaker 4: used to all these having cameras around just becomes part
19:17
Speaker 4: of your party, daily, a way life.
19:19
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about this arrow and everything
19:22
Speaker 1: our graphic.
19:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, heck yeah, because like you already mentioned chasing
19:27
Speaker 2: edges and what that means, the throom not around. I
19:30
Speaker 2: think people can pretty much get the gust of that.
19:32
Speaker 2: But I stound no one wants to play.
19:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, very old school.
19:36
Speaker 2: Line of things, and I think I understand it. You
19:38
Speaker 2: know that they used to say take them to the
19:39
Speaker 2: deep water. Nobody wants to go out there? Yes, what
19:42
Speaker 2: does it mean to you?
19:44
Speaker 5: Uh? It's it started from where we used.
19:48
Speaker 4: To joke of like if people all of a sudden,
19:50
Speaker 4: you know, had an illness, you know, all of a sudden,
19:53
Speaker 4: they couldn't strap it up that week against our defense from.
19:56
Speaker 5: Either here prior lives.
19:58
Speaker 4: And you take pride to that, you know that you
20:00
Speaker 4: put certain way on tape that people like dreaded playing.
20:03
Speaker 4: And it's one of those things where it's like, well,
20:05
Speaker 4: how do you how do you describe that?
20:06
Speaker 1: Like is it?
20:07
Speaker 4: Everyone says physical, everybody says fast, everybody says aggressive, you know,
20:10
Speaker 4: and then like you're and then that there's a process
20:13
Speaker 4: you interview maybe eight thousand coaches during when you first
20:16
Speaker 4: get hired, and like everyone's saying like, well, our play
20:18
Speaker 4: style is this, and our play style is at It's
20:20
Speaker 4: like not only just a play style that just nobody
20:23
Speaker 4: wants to play, you know, And so part of the
20:26
Speaker 4: pro so I thought, like, man, it's cool in it,
20:27
Speaker 4: like it in it, want to capture your attention to
20:30
Speaker 4: I think it's very clear on what we're trying to create,
20:34
Speaker 4: but it's also like a result, So what are the
20:38
Speaker 4: things that we can do on a play to play basis?
20:42
Speaker 5: And like a like an observation.
20:44
Speaker 4: Biops like either it's a mental rep or a meeting
20:46
Speaker 4: or a just any like it's a walkthrough, it's a
20:50
Speaker 4: it's a game, you know, what's this cycle of things
20:53
Speaker 4: that we can control that will ultimately end up creating
20:58
Speaker 4: that style. And like that's made a big difference for
21:01
Speaker 4: us to like tangibly be able to say, look, that's
21:04
Speaker 4: decisive right there. That's that's shocking. The level of detail
21:08
Speaker 4: that you put into that rep is shocking. That's our style.
21:12
Speaker 4: And then or hey, Andrea, like the way that the
21:15
Speaker 4: way that you nailed our nutrition menu and like handled
21:18
Speaker 4: like how we hydrateed the eyes, that's shocking.
21:20
Speaker 5: So like it spreads throughout the building. Oh, that's relentless.
21:23
Speaker 1: You know.
21:23
Speaker 5: Hey, we had a two and a half hour practice.
21:25
Speaker 4: Today and we did an act at the end and
21:28
Speaker 4: you guys locked in on you know whatever, that's relentless. Hey,
21:31
Speaker 4: the way we chase the pile, that's relentless. So you
21:33
Speaker 4: tally all these things up that are within our control
21:37
Speaker 4: and then you get and then that's the style that
21:38
Speaker 4: we ultimately think that we're gonna be able to create.
21:40
Speaker 5: If that makes sense. That's where it came from.
21:44
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
21:46
Speaker 2: Ernest Jones said something that that really stuck with me,
21:49
Speaker 2: and he talked about the relationship that you guys.
21:52
Speaker 1: Have have and how it's grown.
21:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, since he's been here a lot more freedom and
21:57
Speaker 2: you know you kind of he kind of understand what
21:59
Speaker 2: you're under stands what you're looking for. How do you
22:02
Speaker 2: balance given the players that kind of freedom with keeping
22:06
Speaker 2: the structure to make sure, you know, they don't go
22:08
Speaker 2: too far away from what you build if not holes, Oh.
22:12
Speaker 4: I think I think you have to go through that process,
22:14
Speaker 4: you know, of there's sometimes where you have to trust
22:19
Speaker 4: to put your players to go go do it, you know,
22:22
Speaker 4: and they're the ones that have to make those decisions
22:25
Speaker 4: like in real time. And and so again, I think
22:27
Speaker 4: it's kind of goes to our conversation earlier, like you
22:29
Speaker 4: have to realize when it's when you're kind of like
22:32
Speaker 4: when my end isn't is jacked up to a certain extent,
22:35
Speaker 4: or what we're asking him to do isn't necessarily realistic.
22:37
Speaker 4: It sounds sweet, it looks gool on the board, but
22:39
Speaker 4: to go out there and do it is another conversation.
22:42
Speaker 4: So to have a guy like earn Us who's like
22:44
Speaker 4: a great you know, you can kind of take the
22:46
Speaker 4: temperature really quickly, you know, and and we kind of
22:48
Speaker 4: feed off one another. Like there's sometimes where I feel
22:50
Speaker 4: like I bring him back and refocus him. And then
22:53
Speaker 4: sometimes the way he sees the game, like we needed
22:55
Speaker 4: to kick it up or notch or maybe he's the
22:57
Speaker 4: one that needs to calm it down.
22:58
Speaker 5: Like he's got a great feel for what.
23:00
Speaker 4: The team needs in terms of mentality, poise, those type
23:04
Speaker 4: of things.
23:04
Speaker 5: Let alone.
23:05
Speaker 4: I mean, man, it's the entire middle of our defense.
23:08
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, you want to go crazy with calls
23:10
Speaker 4: or you know, and and try to always be in
23:13
Speaker 4: the right thing and then and sometimes there's a time
23:16
Speaker 4: for that. Sometimes it's not, you know, and I think
23:18
Speaker 4: I think EJ has a great feel for just like
23:22
Speaker 4: what we can like do we need that or.
23:25
Speaker 5: We can handle it on the field, you know.
23:27
Speaker 4: And it's just like it's this constant conversation that goes
23:30
Speaker 4: back and forth, kind of like a quarterback talking about
23:32
Speaker 4: a coordinator or a quarterback coach.
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Speaker 2: You guys seem to have the perfect balance on this
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Speaker 2: defensive veteran players at each level. You got Julian in
25:01
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25:03
Speaker 2: got the big Cat in the middle of the D line,
25:05
Speaker 2: but you also got.
25:06
Speaker 1: Uh law and Jay Reid.
25:09
Speaker 2: Doesn't make your job a little easier playing with guys
25:12
Speaker 2: who just have had a lot.
25:13
Speaker 4: Of Yeah for sure, heck yeah, heck yeah. And those
25:16
Speaker 4: guys they settle, They settle a lot of things they
25:20
Speaker 4: need to be settled. Like they handle their business. You know,
25:22
Speaker 4: they know what they want it to look like. So
25:28
Speaker 4: let them do that, you know, let them handle it
25:29
Speaker 4: like empower those guys to go go make that stuff
25:31
Speaker 4: come to life, they know.
25:32
Speaker 2: But I think that's the hardest thing sometimes for coaches
25:35
Speaker 2: to get some veteran players and then to try to
25:38
Speaker 2: mold them to the vision you want. And then some
25:40
Speaker 2: coaches are like, hey, to a degree, you know, hey,
25:43
Speaker 2: I know you've played eleven years, Like this is how
25:46
Speaker 2: I want it.
25:46
Speaker 1: Let's find a middle ground.
25:47
Speaker 4: Has that been Yeah, yeah, that happens all the time.
25:50
Speaker 4: But I think, I think, I think, I mean, and
25:54
Speaker 4: it's not just me like, hey, I'm gonna have all
25:55
Speaker 4: the conversations. I mean, like eighty is a guy driving
25:58
Speaker 4: the train on defense on a daily basis, and he's
26:01
Speaker 4: got he's got his finger on the pulse of the
26:04
Speaker 4: you know, and he's having a ton of those conversations
26:06
Speaker 4: and our position coaches do a phenomenal job.
26:08
Speaker 5: So I think it's like there's an alignment there.
26:10
Speaker 4: But when you come at it with it's through the
26:12
Speaker 4: spirit of like, hey, we're trying to we're trying to
26:14
Speaker 4: solve this thing for the betterment of us and you.
26:18
Speaker 4: And so that's like the spirit of how we have
26:20
Speaker 4: these conversations, right, like, hey, you know I said that
26:23
Speaker 4: we need to do X. It's like, well, yeah, I
26:25
Speaker 4: mean there's principles there that like we're not going to
26:27
Speaker 4: budge on, but how we get there there's some there's
26:30
Speaker 4: some wiggle room, and you're working with a guy like
26:33
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Lawrence, like I don't know, why would you why
26:36
Speaker 4: would you change this guy's game? And it'd be crazy
26:38
Speaker 4: to do that, you know, I think Leonard's game. We
26:42
Speaker 4: saw that like, hey, there's another there's like more levels
26:45
Speaker 4: to this thing. So those are the type of conversations
26:47
Speaker 4: here with Leonard and he sees he felt the same way,
26:49
Speaker 4: and so it's like, Okay, well, how do we get
26:51
Speaker 4: there together?
26:51
Speaker 2: You know.
26:52
Speaker 5: So that's that's kind of what the process looks like.
26:55
Speaker 2: I remember watching I mean it might have been the
26:56
Speaker 2: first uh Niners game, and I saw a d law just.
27:00
Speaker 1: Like he'd rush.
27:01
Speaker 2: He'd noticed either they slid to him or they chipped
27:04
Speaker 2: him in the back tried to get out, and he'd
27:06
Speaker 2: like shove the back to eliminate the back of the
27:08
Speaker 2: read and the progression and then end up helping blow
27:11
Speaker 2: up the play.
27:11
Speaker 1: It was like, this is just being a event.
27:14
Speaker 5: It's law logic, So I call it it's logic.
27:17
Speaker 1: I love that.
27:18
Speaker 2: I love that this division has three of the top
27:21
Speaker 2: five coaches in the National Football League. They can you
27:23
Speaker 2: can argue with somebody else, how how much of a
27:26
Speaker 2: challenge is that each and every week. And I know
27:30
Speaker 2: it's never about them and it's always about you guys,
27:32
Speaker 2: but to ignore the fact that three of the best
27:35
Speaker 2: minds in football are in the same division.
27:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, the experience has been really interesting being in our
27:42
Speaker 4: division for two years. It's like the like the life
27:46
Speaker 4: cycle of each game is like the like the speed
27:52
Speaker 4: of like evolution is like significantly faster from my prior
27:57
Speaker 4: experience and so like.
27:58
Speaker 5: And Mike's gonna be like that in Zona two.
28:00
Speaker 1: I mean.
28:02
Speaker 4: The way that we played his his offense when we
28:05
Speaker 4: were in Baltimore, when he was in New York, to
28:07
Speaker 4: like when he called it for Sean at the end
28:09
Speaker 4: of the twenty four season to what the Rams offense
28:12
Speaker 4: evolved to last year, Like it's gonna be really fascinating
28:14
Speaker 4: to see, you know, what their identity is going to
28:16
Speaker 4: look like too.
28:17
Speaker 5: But it's a true I think it's a truth.
28:19
Speaker 4: Well, obviously the head coaches are driving the driving the bus,
28:22
Speaker 4: but the coaching staffs, like, you know, I understand what
28:26
Speaker 4: it takes. It takes a lot of people to get
28:27
Speaker 4: this thing like in the same like working in the
28:30
Speaker 4: same direction.
28:30
Speaker 5: So it's a lot of fun. You got to be
28:33
Speaker 5: on your p's and.
28:33
Speaker 4: Q's going to a game, Like the way you start
28:35
Speaker 4: a game is probably not how you're going to finish
28:37
Speaker 4: the game.
28:38
Speaker 5: You know.
28:38
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know you're forcing into running things that you
28:41
Speaker 4: might not have practiced that week, you know, because of
28:44
Speaker 4: you know, everyone has this like understanding of how everybody's wired,
28:48
Speaker 4: and you know, we're not going to change the way
28:49
Speaker 4: we're wired that would that would make any sense, and
28:52
Speaker 4: they shouldn't either, you know, but there's there's change ups
28:55
Speaker 4: and you know, twists that you can do to you know,
28:57
Speaker 4: to try to you know, take advantage of kind of
29:00
Speaker 4: the latest and greatest of where their evolution is too.
29:02
Speaker 4: So it's it's it's a massive challenge. It's fun to
29:05
Speaker 4: be a part of. And yeah, I mean we had
29:08
Speaker 4: nothing but respect for earlier by our division get some
29:11
Speaker 4: great teams.
29:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's funny because if you look at the
29:13
Speaker 2: latest and the greatest from around the league, it's usually
29:16
Speaker 2: some variation of what you guys are doing, you know,
29:20
Speaker 2: it's what you're doing on defense or what McVeigh or
29:23
Speaker 2: Shanna Ann is doing on offense, sprinkled in with a
29:25
Speaker 2: couple of wrinkles from a couple other places. But it's
29:29
Speaker 2: really really crazy how how much you guys have the league,
29:32
Speaker 2: you know, and in the choke hold, but as you know,
29:35
Speaker 2: it evolves and everybody's trying to beat whatever the top
29:38
Speaker 2: scheme is. But it's really cool to see every Super
29:42
Speaker 2: Bowl and championship team has like a real moment of
29:45
Speaker 2: adversity that they feel like catapulted them to where they
29:48
Speaker 2: wanted to be that season. What was that moment for
29:50
Speaker 2: you last year?
29:53
Speaker 5: I think.
29:56
Speaker 4: The Lolling fruit ones is the first Rams game, but
29:58
Speaker 4: I really think it's probably the Tampa.
30:00
Speaker 5: Game because we we felt like.
30:05
Speaker 4: We got to like we we we kind of we
30:09
Speaker 4: said we're going to be a certain way and operate
30:11
Speaker 4: a certain way. And when we got to that game
30:14
Speaker 4: and had to I saw Baker at the golf term
30:16
Speaker 4: this year in another respect by respected that as a
30:19
Speaker 4: heck of a player and they let us up, you know,
30:22
Speaker 4: and like we but it felt like we got off
30:27
Speaker 4: our way of life for that game and how we
30:30
Speaker 4: call the game, how we game planned it, how we practiced,
30:33
Speaker 4: how we set the week up, like that's.
30:35
Speaker 5: All my under my purview, you know. And so I
30:38
Speaker 5: think I think that was like a hey, look, we
30:40
Speaker 5: said we're going to be a certain way. We diverted.
30:43
Speaker 5: Really when we diverted, it was me that diverted.
30:45
Speaker 4: So like it's like I don't take this one on
30:46
Speaker 4: the chin, and we're going to double down on what
30:48
Speaker 4: we said we're going to be about, you know. And
30:51
Speaker 4: I think everyone had that type of like thought process
30:54
Speaker 4: on how we were going to move forward, you know,
30:57
Speaker 4: and we could have easily said, you know what, like
31:00
Speaker 4: we can't do that, or you know, we were missing
31:02
Speaker 4: guy or whatever, but like there was no it wasn't
31:04
Speaker 4: an excuse type of thing, and the offense could have
31:06
Speaker 4: been like hey, look defense. You guys are tripping. You
31:07
Speaker 4: got we need to stop at the end, you know,
31:09
Speaker 4: they put up a tump.
31:10
Speaker 5: Just it's like the.
31:12
Speaker 4: Temperature of the team wasn't that we came together in
31:14
Speaker 4: that moment, we decided to move forward together a certain
31:16
Speaker 4: way and then to our you know, to everybody's credit,
31:19
Speaker 4: we stuck to that process, you know, and trusted that
31:22
Speaker 4: was the way we were going to do it. So, yeah,
31:25
Speaker 4: that was that was cool.
31:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really cool. And last last time, about
31:28
Speaker 2: the same time last year, we were talking about the
31:31
Speaker 2: expectations from the team. You know that the season was
31:35
Speaker 2: really good, but you know it wasn't up to your standard.
31:39
Speaker 2: And now you're coming back to Super Bowl champions the favorites,
31:42
Speaker 2: I mean, depending on who you ask. You know, nowadays
31:44
Speaker 2: you know and I know you love this more than anybody. Yeah,
31:47
Speaker 2: you come from the hardball tree that loves to just
31:49
Speaker 2: you know, you need something to chip on the shoulder,
31:51
Speaker 2: to have uh and them talking about the Rams all
31:53
Speaker 2: off season gives you perfect AMMO. But how has, if
31:57
Speaker 2: anything has changed for you about your mindset or approach.
32:01
Speaker 1: I mean, that's supple champion.
32:03
Speaker 4: Well, I remember our conversation last year I said, I
32:05
Speaker 4: think I said something on the line. It is like
32:06
Speaker 4: ten wins is going isn't going to cut it or something.
32:09
Speaker 4: And I think one thing we've learned is like that's
32:12
Speaker 4: that's a result thing.
32:14
Speaker 5: You know, we weren't the team that like that.
32:22
Speaker 4: We didn't have a clear vision of who we really
32:24
Speaker 4: were trying to be our first year. It wasn't clear enough,
32:27
Speaker 4: and I didn't do a good enough job of getting
32:29
Speaker 4: everybody aligned to become that team. We're doing the things,
32:32
Speaker 4: like the mechanisms to build the team to become the
32:35
Speaker 4: team that we wanted to become. You thought you knew,
32:37
Speaker 4: but like first year, you don't know, you know, and
32:39
Speaker 4: you realize that you screw them things up and do
32:42
Speaker 4: things differently, and you try to learn from that year two.
32:44
Speaker 5: And so.
32:46
Speaker 4: I think to you, like, if I were to answer
32:49
Speaker 4: that question now, like compared to like last year, we'd
32:52
Speaker 4: been like, look, we need to focus on becoming the
32:55
Speaker 4: best twenty twenty six version of see how it possibly
32:58
Speaker 4: can't every day we go out there and then let's
33:01
Speaker 4: go and then let's rip it from there and really
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Speaker 4: stick to that process because those are the things that
33:06
Speaker 4: we can do every day, you know, like we can't
33:07
Speaker 4: control how many games we're gonna win, you know, It's
33:10
Speaker 4: just there's things that happen.
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Speaker 5: So that's really the focus. And it just makes it
33:14
Speaker 5: so much simpler.
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Speaker 4: And I think for our players, like you probably feel
33:17
Speaker 4: the same way, like and that's such like a clear
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Speaker 4: directive rather than hey, we have to go do X,
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Speaker 4: Y and Z.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean we have to?
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Speaker 4: Like, why can't I just go try to do my
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Speaker 4: job the best I can yourself? Yeah, And they I
33:31
Speaker 4: don't know.
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Speaker 5: I just I can't.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's just so much It's makes so much
33:34
Speaker 4: more sense now in terms of what you're asking for.
33:35
Speaker 5: Your players on a day to day basis.
33:38
Speaker 4: And if I was a player, I mean to me,
33:40
Speaker 4: it's just that's that's how I want to That's that's
33:43
Speaker 4: why I would prefer my coach to ask me, you know,
33:45
Speaker 4: on how on what their expectations are, you know, and
33:47
Speaker 4: then we fall short of that, hold me accountable and
33:50
Speaker 4: let's move forward, you know.
33:51
Speaker 1: So all right, I got to talk to you about
33:53
Speaker 1: the dophin.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hurtis is telling me that they're having quite
33:58
Speaker 2: the time, and I think that probably was the expectations
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Speaker 2: with an offensive player of the year. But the loss
34:03
Speaker 2: of Kenneth Walker was obviously a big topic of conversation.
34:07
Speaker 2: Is offseason, but very impractically just looks fantastic every practice
34:12
Speaker 2: I've been here. But Sam Darnold and his growth just
34:15
Speaker 2: from the regular season through the playoffs, I mean I
34:18
Speaker 2: thought playoffs he played magnificent football. You can correct me
34:21
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, because I'm looking at it from a fan,
34:23
Speaker 2: not as a coach and analyzing his you know, playing
34:26
Speaker 2: playout performance. But it looked like he just took another
34:30
Speaker 2: step of growth and his command of the game and
34:33
Speaker 2: his poise and in the moment and reading defenses and
34:36
Speaker 2: his feel for the game. And to win fourteen games
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Speaker 2: twice in a row, I mean, it says something about
34:41
Speaker 2: who you are as a player. But what have you
34:43
Speaker 2: seen this offseason from him?
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Speaker 5: Man? I think he's had a tremendous offseason. I mean,
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Speaker 5: and he's having a heck of a camp.
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Speaker 4: I think with Sam you're looking at first of all,
34:54
Speaker 4: this is like really the most continuity I think he's
34:56
Speaker 4: had from in a two year span. I can't think
35:00
Speaker 4: of the maybe since he was in New York, right,
35:02
Speaker 4: you know, like even then, I think the different play
35:05
Speaker 4: callers and different schemes and stuff. So I think that's
35:09
Speaker 4: that's a great opportunity for him. You know, different you know,
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Speaker 4: different quarterback coach, different coordinator, but similar language, same guys
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Speaker 4: around him. You know that the supporting cast is dang,
35:18
Speaker 4: you're the same at least you know, past catcher wise,
35:24
Speaker 4: So I think that's playing a huge part of it.
35:27
Speaker 4: But I think, like I think of Sam, I just
35:30
Speaker 4: think of like a steady inputs, you know, of just
35:35
Speaker 4: like the daily deposits that it takes to play quarterback
35:38
Speaker 4: in our league and not be affected by all the
35:41
Speaker 4: crap not crap, you know, like the noise and like
35:45
Speaker 4: the opinion that meant all that stuff. It's like what
35:48
Speaker 4: makes the league great because people care and like it's awesome,
35:51
Speaker 4: you know, and it just makes it exciting.
35:53
Speaker 5: But like that stuff, like it just it's just noise
35:55
Speaker 5: to him. He doesn't.
35:56
Speaker 4: He just focuses on what he needs to do and
35:58
Speaker 4: what type of teammate, as you said, win fourteen games
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Speaker 4: in a row. Like there's a lot of really talented
36:03
Speaker 4: quarterbacks out there, not a lot have done that at
36:06
Speaker 4: two different spots. Well, that tells me the type of
36:08
Speaker 4: teammate you are. Because those are two really good football teams.
36:11
Speaker 4: You know, in order to do that, like you got
36:13
Speaker 4: to bring people together, you know, and that starts at
36:15
Speaker 4: the quarterback position. So that's what I think about with Sam.
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm really excited for him.
36:20
Speaker 4: He's really he's earned this opportunity to have like this
36:22
Speaker 4: much control and command over an offense. And you know,
36:28
Speaker 4: it's just been a really fun process going.
36:31
Speaker 5: To work with them every day.
36:32
Speaker 4: You know, I just look forward to It's one of
36:33
Speaker 4: those guys you like look forward to seeing, you know,
36:36
Speaker 4: like I jack to see Sam at like the front
36:38
Speaker 4: of the team, meeting every day, pop in the quarterback room,
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Speaker 4: see him kind of you know, it's really cool.
36:43
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, Coach. I appreciate all
36:45
Speaker 2: the time you gave me today. It means a lot.
36:48
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to watching another great season. This team
36:51
Speaker 2: has been fantastic. It's it's I appreciate you allow me
36:54
Speaker 2: in the building and allow me to be around the team,
36:56
Speaker 2: and I'll make sure to where by Seahawks happening.
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Speaker 5: Yeah heck yeah, man, we got plenty. We got plenty unlimited.
37:02
Speaker 5: You get unlimited.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, you got anything else?
37:06
Speaker 4: You want to say no, But dude, like we just
37:08
Speaker 4: you're welcome all at any time, any point here, opeing up,
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Speaker 4: hopefully get in the whole fame this year.
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Speaker 1: Brother.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're praying for you. Yeah you deserve it, you
37:18
Speaker 5: deserve it.
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Speaker 4: But but yeah, bro, we got some young corners that
37:22
Speaker 4: need some need some advice.
37:23
Speaker 5: So look, as much as you want me to enter,
37:25
Speaker 5: enter Richard Sherman, let's get it.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna help. I'm going to go in that room
37:29
Speaker 1: and and input what I love it.
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Speaker 5: Thanks brother, good to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks