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Brian Fleury Talks Getting Ready For Upcoming Matchup vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you look at this defense, obviously, it's one
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  Speaker 3: you know a lot about. Do you see a lot
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  Speaker 3: of new things, or what is it, kind of scouting
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  Speaker 3: a defense that you were part of the team for
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  Speaker 3: all those years?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely some new things. I worked with Raheem
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  Speaker 1: for a week before I came here, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really get to see him implement his scheme. But you
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  Speaker 1: can see some familiarity just with the players. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: linebackers have been there for a while, the DBs. and
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  Speaker 1: then a lot of the techniques up front are similar,
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  Speaker 1: but they're doing definitely some different things just overall schematically,
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  Speaker 1: so it's been fun to dive into that and treat
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  Speaker 1: it as a brand new opponent.
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  Speaker 2: We know Fred Warner is good. Seeing up close, what
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  Speaker 2: makes him the extra little bit of special that he's been?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hold Fred in very high regard. His commitment
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  Speaker 1: to his craft is as high as anyone I've ever
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  Speaker 1: been around, and there's several players in that building that
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  Speaker 1: treat their business the same way, but he makes... Every
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  Speaker 1: single decision in his life is about what can make
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  Speaker 1: him a better football player. I mean, day in and
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  Speaker 1: day out, morning, noon, night, that's what makes him so different.
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  Speaker 4: What major challenges are presented trying to run the football
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  Speaker 4: when you have him and Dre Greenlaw both playing.
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  Speaker 3: Back there at the linebackers?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, they do a great
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  Speaker 1: job just disrupting the ball in general, so you want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you're adding emphasis on ball security, not
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  Speaker 1: that we always do that. And then, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: can cover a lot of ground, sideline to sideline, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, any open gap that they can overlap each
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  Speaker 1: other and make each other right. They allow each other
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  Speaker 1: to play fast. So they do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: What's been your first impression of Zach Charbonnet as he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of gotten up to speed in practice here?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's exciting to see him out there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's still getting up to speed. And, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: we don't have like a whole lot of reps to
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  Speaker 1: spare to give him if we know he's not playing.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just kind of been some basic stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting to have him out there.
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  Speaker 3: What about your first impression of Robert Henry?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just excited to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about using Rashid Shaheed.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the backfield? Anytime you can add a different
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  Speaker 1: element to the backfield with different players, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: just gives you a little bit more diversity and makes
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  Speaker 1: the defense prepare for different types of plays. It's something
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  Speaker 1: we actually have been doing since, I think, at least
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  Speaker 1: training camp, if not even the spring, in anticipation that
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  Speaker 1: a situation like this might come up. So he was
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  Speaker 1: ready for it. I mean, there was no concerns about
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  Speaker 1: the execution by the time we actually called it.
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  Speaker 2: Rashid said he had some running back in his background,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not completely new. place for him to line
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  Speaker 2: up but for receivers that you do move to the
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  Speaker 2: backfield and have them routes are different timings different what
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  Speaker 2: what what goes into the change for them and being
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  Speaker 2: good back there as opposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah so part of the reason we got into it
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  Speaker 1: early was just so i could evaluate what his general
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  Speaker 1: spatial awareness was how easily he was able to feel
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  Speaker 1: depth and like horizontal seams and then get into him
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly and once i could see that he had
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  Speaker 1: You assume that he has that because he's a great
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  Speaker 1: punt returner and a kick returner. But once you can
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  Speaker 1: see he can function in a little bit more combined space,
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  Speaker 1: like starting from the backfield, then it was easy to
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  Speaker 1: just kind of let it grow. There's one thing to
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  Speaker 1: put a receiver in the backfield in a passing situation,
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  Speaker 1: completely different to be under center. And so that's what
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for with him. And once we saw
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  Speaker 1: that he could do that, then there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: possibilities there.
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  Speaker 2: What did you like about what Emmanuel Wilson gave you
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  Speaker 2: last week?
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  Speaker 1: I just love, you know, the screen. how decisive he
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  Speaker 1: was in getting downhill. And like, he's starting to realize
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people aren't going to want to
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  Speaker 1: tackle him. And you saw the same thing in the
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  Speaker 1: very first run of that last drive against Arizona, where
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  Speaker 1: he just kind of like pressed it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's 30 yards downfield before contact.
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  Speaker 1: And so I just love seeing that element of his
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  Speaker 1: game continue to evolve. It's just like, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I'd love to see him
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  Speaker 1: gain momentum and continue to feel like his role on
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  Speaker 1: this team grow and just give us more runs like that.
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  Speaker 5: I know we haven't asked you this for a while,
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  Speaker 5: but you and John Bednar used to go back. How
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  Speaker 5: has that helped the continuity.
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  Speaker 1: Of, Yeah, it's been outstanding. Obviously having history with him
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  Speaker 1: and getting to know each other. We have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of common interests off the field too, so that relationship
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  Speaker 1: is pretty strong and it just makes it easy for
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  Speaker 1: us to handle. Anytime we have a disagreement or we
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  Speaker 1: see something differently, the history there and just the like-mindedness
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  Speaker 1: makes it easy to get to a solution.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is key to being a good
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  Speaker 2: screen team? It seems like it's something you actually have
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  Speaker 2: to work at quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. You have to invest time and energy
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  Speaker 1: in it. You have to invest detail or try to
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  Speaker 1: hone in on the details. It's really just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of dedicating practice time to it. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: people don't want to dedicate a lot of practice time
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  Speaker 1: to something that should be easy for the quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the back to execute, but it takes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work to get the rest of it synced up down
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 5: Just going back to you and John, the importance of
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  Speaker 5: the offensive linemen, and then also the running backs, and
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  Speaker 5: they're able to stress the defense.
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  Speaker 1: How important is that? Yeah, it's really important. They're all
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  Speaker 1: tied together on a string. Coach Hammock does a great
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  Speaker 1: job emphasizing that as well. We've had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: detailed conversations about how it all has to work together,
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  Speaker 1: and when it's working properly, you can see three different
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  Speaker 1: levels of offense all in a straight line, in sync,
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  Speaker 1: flowing at the same time until the seam creates itself
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  Speaker 1: and then the backs get downhill.
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  Speaker 3: I think we ask every week about the right guard spot,
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  Speaker 3: but just that rotation there, how have you liked that
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  Speaker 3: the last few weeks as that's kind of continued?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've liked it. I think we're accomplishing what we
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish in terms of Bo's development. Obviously, there's
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  Speaker 1: some plays where he could be better. There's some plays
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  Speaker 1: where Christian can be better, and that's part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason we're doing it early in the season, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of making sure that we have the best possible combination
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  Speaker 1: of offensive linemen that are available for games down the
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  Speaker 1: road when we need it.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you think it has helped Christian? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's helped that he's played, but, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: hadn't played a whole lot his first couple years here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, honestly, you can talk about practice
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  Speaker 1: and drills. Really the only way to get better at
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  Speaker 1: playing football is by playing football. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all these reps are really, really valuable for him especially
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  Speaker 1: and also for Bo.
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  Speaker 2: What's the balance between maximizing, like, everything that he can
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  Speaker 2: do and not, like, overloading him too much?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always, you know– You don't want to put
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  Speaker 1: him in a situation where his durability becomes an issue.
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  Speaker 1: There is a little bit more of a collision aspect
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  Speaker 1: to playing in the backfield as opposed to playing out wide.
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  Speaker 1: You try and select plays that would minimize the risk
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  Speaker 1: of that, which I think we've done a good job of.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't want to overload him mentally. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just a learning curve like with anything else. You give
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  Speaker 1: him something new, you can tell he starts to feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with it. He doesn't have to think about it
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  Speaker 1: as much anymore. And once he's got that, then you
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  Speaker 1: just keep adding, keep adding. And that package will continue
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  Speaker 1: to increase.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're going to look at this week as,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just another game, but getting the chance
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  Speaker 4: to coach against Kyle, what does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really– Mike's coaching against Kyle. I'm coaching
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  Speaker 1: against Raheem. And, you know, Mike's doing all the game
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  Speaker 1: management stuff. So it's not just Kyle. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people there that I have a lot of, like,
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable shared experiences with that I'll be happy to see. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, it's just
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  Speaker 1: another opponent. That's how I'm looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Brock's obviously off to a pretty good start to
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  Speaker 2: the season for them as well. What kind of impression
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  Speaker 2: did he make on you, Coach, in the last game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Brock's a great player, a great person. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to see him, for his sake, playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously not happy to see that on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the field this time around, but he's worked really
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  Speaker 1: hard to get to where he's at, so I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to see that pay off for him.