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Drew Lock On Preparing To Start Week 10 vs. Raiders · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right. How are you feeling? Good. Feeling good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: feeling good. Kind of like I talked about after the game,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we did a great job handling the
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  Speaker 1: week last week, and here we are. We just got
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  Speaker 1: a little something added to it, and I think we're
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  Speaker 1: doing the same. We're doing a great job getting ready,
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  Speaker 1: good stuff in the morning before meetings, nice and warmed up,
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  Speaker 1: heading into practice today, and we'll go out there and
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  Speaker 1: roll it. How much are you feeling the oblique injury
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  Speaker 1: while you throw? Not too much. Honestly, talked about it
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  Speaker 1: being on the backside, which is way better for a
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  Speaker 1: thrower than on the front side, so grateful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever had an oblique injury before?
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  Speaker 1: I have when I was in New York.
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  Speaker 2: And what was that like as a quarterback to go through?
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  Speaker 1: That was on the front side. So, yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: not fun for a couple weeks. Took a couple weeks off.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the preseason, though, so missed the last
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  Speaker 1: two preseason games. Had the little, like, three- or four-day
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  Speaker 1: weekend before the first week. And then I was back
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  Speaker 1: to be in the backup for that first week.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a better position for the challenge? You've
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  Speaker 2: got two injuries now mentally.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does that really matter? No, no. When you
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  Speaker 1: get out there, they've done all the prep work pregame
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  Speaker 1: that's necessary. When you get out there, your adrenaline starts rolling.
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  Speaker 1: You're playing for more than just yourself. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: just goes away.
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  Speaker 3: With it being on the backside, how does that, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: when you're going through your throwing motion, how does that
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  Speaker 3: feel different than when.
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  Speaker 1: You dealt with it when it was on the front side?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, mechanic-wise, like, yeah, you've got to use a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the backside, but when you're rotating and
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  Speaker 1: pulling through, it's all this. And that's really when the
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  Speaker 1: torque happens, the speed of the arm comes through with that.
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  Speaker 1: So allowing it to be back here, mechanically speaking, it
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  Speaker 1: is a little better.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like when you have those disruptions to
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  Speaker 2: your routine and that kind of stuff through a week,
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  Speaker 2: are you better prepared to be able.
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  Speaker 1: To move through those things as a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit more of a veteran player than when you were younger?
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  Speaker 2: Just having that kind of midweek adversity.
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  Speaker 3: How are you better prepared to shoulder that than maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Five years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's always a weird thing. I feel like maybe
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  Speaker 1: not every player, but most players can attest to playing
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  Speaker 1: through something playing through an injury, it takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of focus during the week or like extra thoughts throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week. They're just not there. You're thinking about getting better,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about getting out of practice, doing the best you
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  Speaker 1: can at practice and getting ready for Sunday. There's just
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  Speaker 1: that extra thing to think about and it kind of
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  Speaker 1: takes your brain away from all the nonsense that may
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  Speaker 1: try to drag you in. But as far as like
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  Speaker 1: being a little older, yeah, I feel like it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have had too big of a difference from a young
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  Speaker 1: me to now go out and attack every Sunday with
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  Speaker 1: the same, you know, ferociousness, so to say, and go
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  Speaker 1: out there and play every snap like it's my last.
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  Speaker 2: I assume that the defenses are probably trying to give
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  Speaker 2: you looks pre-snap to discourage you from going to JSN,
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  Speaker 2: given all the things he's done. Do you guys have
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  Speaker 2: kind of different rules for him about, like, if he's
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  Speaker 2: getting this look, we'll still potentially go there versus maybe
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  Speaker 2: other guys we wouldn't?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Jax would love that. Jax would tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: If he's doubled, he's still open. That's kind of been
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  Speaker 1: the funny line this year. But no, for me personally,
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  Speaker 1: and I think for everybody involved, a read is our read.
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  Speaker 1: If Jax is number one, he's covered, we go to
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  Speaker 1: number two. If number one's covered and it's not Jax,
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  Speaker 1: we go to two. And Jax is, for some reason, three.
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  Speaker 1: And Jax is open, we'll throw him the ball. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I'll play back there. That's how I'm thinking. and
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  Speaker 1: just go through reads, go through progressions, know when you're hot,
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  Speaker 1: and play good football.
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  Speaker 3: I think you might have touched on this after the game,
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  Speaker 3: but is it easier in a way to prepare in
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  Speaker 3: a week that you're not physically doing everything because you've
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  Speaker 3: been a backup and you know that is to prepare
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  Speaker 3: when you're not getting all the reps?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's definitely a good blend of both. You want
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  Speaker 1: to be out there. You want to get every single rep.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, if I'm not, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're deciding today or yesterday, like, hey, let's pull
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  Speaker 1: this back a little bit, give you another day to rest,
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  Speaker 1: then I don't feel like I'm missing too much in
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  Speaker 1: prep because of the fact that for the last couple years,
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  Speaker 1: that's how I've been able to get ready for games.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only way I've been able to get ready
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  Speaker 1: for games. It allows us to be, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: a little more fluid as to how I'm feeling day
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  Speaker 1: by day. Last week it was, I think, 50% third
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  Speaker 1: down conversions.
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  Speaker 3: What did you like about what you guys were able
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  Speaker 3: to accomplish today on early downs.
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  Speaker 1: And what still needs to get better. Yeah. Critical for
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  Speaker 1: us being good on first and second down, like speaking
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  Speaker 1: towards our, our third down last, last week, just guys
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  Speaker 1: making plays with the ball in their hand, mixing in
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  Speaker 1: where there was a run, a quick pass, a deep
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  Speaker 1: drop back, like having all aspects of our offense available
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  Speaker 1: on third down was, was big for us and it
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  Speaker 1: keeps defenses on our toes. And, but mostly yeah, Let's
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  Speaker 1: keep being efficient on first and second down and giving
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  Speaker 1: us advantageous situations on third.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a thing you've found that forces teams out
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  Speaker 2: of certain coverages where they're really trying to concentrate on jacks?
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  Speaker 2: Is it amount of production by other guys?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a specific route that if you hit this, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to force them to respect it? What forces defenses
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  Speaker 2: to maybe change?
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be a good question for the defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator whenever you get in front of them. They're still humans.
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  Speaker 1: They still feel games. They're on the sideline. They feel
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  Speaker 1: momentum shifting. They feel a guy getting the ball. They
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  Speaker 1: want to double jacks, they'll double jacks. They want to
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  Speaker 1: take him away from a game. And we have other
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  Speaker 1: players that are going to get the ball and make
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  Speaker 1: it work. It's really on them how they want to
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  Speaker 1: attack us that week. And it's our job to respond
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  Speaker 1: and find ways to convert thirds and be great on
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  Speaker 1: first and second.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you find the run game actually affects
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  Speaker 2: what kind of coverages that they can play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's That's the classic, right? Run
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  Speaker 1: the ball to be able to throw it. Run the ball,
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  Speaker 1: run the ball, force them to get in single high coverages,
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  Speaker 1: three or man, and that opens up the pass game.
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  Speaker 1: Then you start hitting the pass game, they've got to
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  Speaker 1: play shell, and then you come back to the run.
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  Speaker 1: It's the classic, you know, complementary football between run game
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  Speaker 1: and pass game.
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  Speaker 3: Zarian in the passing game obviously made some guys miss,
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  Speaker 3: made some big plays. I guess when you have a
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  Speaker 3: player who's able to do that in the open field,
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  Speaker 3: is there a sense like, just let's get the ball
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  Speaker 3: in his hands and To.
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  Speaker 1: Be honest with you, that's how I feel about just
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  Speaker 1: about everybody on this team. Let's get the ball in
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  Speaker 1: these guys' hands. Keep it in our hands. Do what
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  Speaker 1: they do with it. In my opinion, there's not a
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  Speaker 1: guy on our offensive side of the ball that I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable doing that to. J.D. was fantastic at
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  Speaker 1: it last week. Moving forward, he can continue to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see who it is this week. I have
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  Speaker 1: full confidence that it could be any one of our
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  Speaker 1: skilled players. Zach and J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Looked different last week, which makes sense, right?
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  Speaker 3: They had their week to kind of come back and
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  Speaker 3: get their feet wet.
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  Speaker 1: You always have faith in the guys. But was there
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  Speaker 1: something that looked or felt different being around them? A
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  Speaker 1: look in their eye where you just kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: that it was different? Yeah. I think when Sharves does
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  Speaker 1: his classic, like, you can't tackle me thing and, like,
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  Speaker 1: shoves people to the ground, it's pretty fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of like, oh, there's– that's Zach. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we know him. The Carolina clip from years ago
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  Speaker 1: was like kind of one of his first big ones. Man,
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  Speaker 1: when you see more and more of that happening, including
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  Speaker 1: the look in his eye when you come back to
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  Speaker 1: the huddle, yeah, there's definitely a feel.
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  Speaker 2: You said after the last game that the combination of
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  Speaker 2: maybe the coaching staff and the building and all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff allows you to feel as confident as.
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  Speaker 3: You've ever been.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just wondering if you could break down more
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  Speaker 2: what is giving you that certainty?
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  Speaker 1: What is it about the coaching staff?
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  Speaker 2: Building or the preparation? What is allowing you to go
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  Speaker 2: in and feel as confident as you've ever felt?
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  Speaker 1: Ironically, it goes back to when I get traded here.
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  Speaker 1: The first couple talks that I had with Pete and
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  Speaker 1: John about how much confidence they had in me and
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  Speaker 1: the deal moving forward with being traded, about how excited
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  Speaker 1: they were to get me here. So to get set
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  Speaker 1: up on that foot right as I get here. I
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  Speaker 1: know we've had different coaches in the quarterback room, offensive coaches,
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  Speaker 1: head coaches. It's all been the same. It's all felt
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  Speaker 1: that way. We want you to go be you. We
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  Speaker 1: believe in you. Go out and execute and don't ever
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  Speaker 1: think anything. Just go be yourself. And when you keep
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  Speaker 1: getting that pressed upon you, whether it's me or Jaron
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  Speaker 1: Price or Torrey Horton, that builds a confidence. And this
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  Speaker 1: building has done a phenomenal job from what I've seen
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  Speaker 1: for myself and other players that sit in those chairs
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be confident going into Sundays because
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  Speaker 1: they get preached that to them.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy it when defenders are talkative out there, when
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  Speaker 2: they're talking a little bit, or do you just prefer.
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  Speaker 1: Just to play? Yeah, no, I do have fun with that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say earlier in my career, I had more fun
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  Speaker 1: with it. I told Joey Bosa he was tired once
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  Speaker 1: when I was playing for the Broncos. Then he proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to swim a tight end and tackle us in the
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  Speaker 1: backfield for a three-yard loss and kind of get in
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  Speaker 1: my face. That was the last time I've ever really
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  Speaker 1: talked to a defensive lineman during a game But it
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  Speaker 1: is fun. I love seeing A.B. get a little riled up.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool. Playing through the injuries, is there any um,
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  Speaker 1: part of that that like makes it easier to play
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  Speaker 1: within yourself as a quarterback? Like there's the, the saying
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  Speaker 1: in golf, you know, like, yeah, you've heard, I get
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. It does. Um, no, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: can mentally get into a point where like, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to, I'm going to stay, like you said, stay
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  Speaker 1: within myself, you know, not play hero football, so to say,
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  Speaker 1: but we're always trying to avoid playing hero football because
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  Speaker 1: that's when bad things happen. But, um, As far as
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  Speaker 1: my situation this week, I'm not looking at it as
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  Speaker 1: staying in whatever we said beneath myself here. This injury
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's going to be ready to
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  Speaker 1: go by Sunday. I'm going to go out and play normal.
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  Speaker 1: How did everything, once the adrenaline wore off, how did
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  Speaker 1: everything feel Sunday and Monday? Pretty good Sunday. Pretty good Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Then by about 5 or 6 o'clock, you start feeling
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  Speaker 1: some things. Really, I thought I was getting a sore
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  Speaker 1: throat or something, but it was really just the neck.
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  Speaker 1: head going back and I used to the hits. So
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  Speaker 1: just classic football feelings after a game, nothing too crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Drew, you've got your.
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  Speaker 2: Family posted some really wonderful news on social media. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: that's always going to be great, but it comes at
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  Speaker 2: this awesome time in your career right now this week too.
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  Speaker 1: Like how special putting all that together. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun. This said before, but this place is special
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  Speaker 1: to us. You know, two children here, married here, being
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  Speaker 1: able to, you know, hopes and the dreams of the
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  Speaker 1: third you know god willing being with us here soon
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  Speaker 1: soonish it's in may but we'll see if that one's
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  Speaker 1: still here um just excited love this place always good
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  Speaker 1: feelings good vibes and uh excited to play on sunday
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  Speaker 3: Thanks drew