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Grey Zabel: "We're Going To Have To Be On Our A Game On Sunday" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Goodgiving. I can't say turkey. We don't do turkey.
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  Speaker 1: We're eat beef family in the Middlewest, so we do
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  Speaker 1: primaryb over thanksgivings. That's got to be got to be
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  Speaker 1: day one install right there.
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  Speaker 2: You've recently got up against guys like Simmons plays campbelly.
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  Speaker 1: What is a rookie?
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  Speaker 2: What what can play a veterans? You have really skilled
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  Speaker 2: talented veterans do for you? Is in your development?
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  Speaker 1: Well, guys like you just mentioned they're extremely talented, So
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  Speaker 1: any weaknesses that you do have, it's kind of under
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  Speaker 1: a microscope and they're able to expose that. So just
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  Speaker 1: learning the deficiencies of my game going against guys like
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  Speaker 1: that just really important, and it understands what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to go up against and do good against guys like that.
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  Speaker 2: You were miked up with players and there's kind of
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  Speaker 2: some fun back forth, but he was also kind of
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  Speaker 2: talking strategy. Is that a normal thing or is that
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  Speaker 2: something you try to decide to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes and no. Sometimes you try and give a few
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  Speaker 1: wrong tips out there to try and play into your
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  Speaker 1: hand a little bit, maybe bluff a little bit here
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  Speaker 1: and there. But guy like the hat has gone up
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  Speaker 1: against a lot of guys throughout the league and has
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  Speaker 1: been playing a really high level, so when he points
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  Speaker 1: something out, it's kind of tends to be right, a
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  Speaker 1: great going back to La when when that play happens
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  Speaker 1: and you go down late and it.
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  Speaker 2: Like initial thought, what was kind of going through you
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  Speaker 2: seemed like you thought it was pretty bad in the moment,
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  Speaker 2: kind of how were you processing that? And quickly did
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  Speaker 2: you kind of realized maybe you could get through that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean right when it happened, the amount of
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  Speaker 1: pain down on the knee, it's like all the bad
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  Speaker 1: things start going through your head. And initially it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: chalk it up, it's a great rookie season. And then
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  Speaker 1: as you kind of start learning what actually happened and
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  Speaker 1: all that, you start realizing maybe they happened because of
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  Speaker 1: this blah blah blah, and then sometimes you forget that
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  Speaker 1: maybe a three hundred and twenty pounder falls on you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna feel great right away. So shout out
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  Speaker 1: Chuck for that, And I mean kudos to our doctors,
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  Speaker 1: our athletic training staff having a plan, kind of understanding
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  Speaker 1: the expectations and just going throughout the week knowing that
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of day by day and then
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday it's gonna be a game time decision.
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  Speaker 2: So you thought you thought it might be season ending
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  Speaker 2: when happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the amount of pain I experience, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of fans outside of the observers might say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: even if he's probably okay, he should take a week
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  Speaker 2: off just to make sure, you know, get all the
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  Speaker 2: way healthy. Why is that mindset not really apply to
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  Speaker 2: NFL players?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, I
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  Speaker 1: love what I believe it was Kobe said back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, like maybe somebody's showing up to that game
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  Speaker 1: to watch you, and if there's a chance that you're
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  Speaker 1: able to play, go do it. I mean, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you can only play this game
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  Speaker 1: for a short amount of time, So why would you
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  Speaker 1: sit on the sidelines and watch your team go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play. And then at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: there's people that depend on you and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: anytime you get a chance to put on a uniform,
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  Speaker 1: especially the Seahawk's uniform, like to it, no questions asked.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good player. Yeah, he got me a few
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  Speaker 1: times and got to learn from those and keep attacking.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of challenges does Manso's defense present it for
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  Speaker 2: a line Just the different things they do, the pressures
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  Speaker 2: they bring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how detailed do you want me to get? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they they do extremely well hiding certain blitzes and pressure protections.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the end of the day, they got
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  Speaker 1: really an athletic and extremely quick players up front, so
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  Speaker 1: they're able to stick and do a lot of line
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  Speaker 1: movements that cause you to get off balance. And then
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  Speaker 1: I think they're linebackers and sech gonna have to do
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  Speaker 1: a really good job of playing downhill and getting themselves
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  Speaker 1: into the runs fits. So it's gonna be a really
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  Speaker 1: good challenge. Miss. It is really good defense, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to be on our a game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Jack, Thanks j m HM.