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John Schneider On The Initial 53-Man Roster For The 2026 Season · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Bob, how was that trip to New York for your
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Speaker 1: big question?
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Speaker 2: Atlanta, actually. Oh, Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sorry. Yeah. I felt bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun.
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Speaker 2: I felt bad for you, man. Frequent flyer miles, though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pretty cool. Yeah, thanks for coming out.
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Speaker 1: Just shout out to the staff upstairs, all the personnel people,
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Speaker 1: all the coaches, everybody working through everything. as we work
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Speaker 1: to establish our 70. As you guys know, we don't
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Speaker 1: refer to it as our 53 or do you make
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Speaker 1: the team or do you not make the team, all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Armani and his staff and Willie
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Speaker 1: and Matt Berry and Aaron and everybody upstairs just.
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Speaker 2: Did a great job.
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Speaker 1: Special shout out to Carter and Tess, our interns that
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Speaker 1: have to go end up grabbing the guys and that
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Speaker 1: three-minute walk of silence that is like, I've been there,
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Speaker 1: it's not fun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three minutes full of anxiety and quietness.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just excited to continue this tonight as we get
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Speaker 1: into the waiver wire coming out this evening and establishing
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Speaker 1: our practice squad, our initial practice squad tomorrow and a
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Speaker 1: lot of moving parts, as you guys well know, over
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Speaker 1: the next especially I'd say two weeks as we kind
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Speaker 1: of figure out what the landscape looks like for our.
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Speaker 2: Team as well as the rest of the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: As we prepare for the 2026 regular season.
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Speaker 2: With that, I'll take your questions. You mentioned the 70.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, you're with me.
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Speaker 2: How's it going, John?
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Speaker 5: Good.
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Speaker 6: How much are some of these decisions.
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Speaker 1: You have to make today part of looking ahead to
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Speaker 1: tomorrow and, okay.
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Speaker 2: Maybe as a veteran you can bring back, things like that?
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Speaker 5: Totally.
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Speaker 1: It's very much having the six veterans on the practice
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Speaker 1: squad has enabled us to not expose certain players to
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Speaker 1: the waiver wire. And, yeah, it's a strategy for the
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Speaker 1: initial 53 cut and then as well as what we're
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Speaker 1: going to look like in the middle of October and
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Speaker 1: then trying to be as strong as we possibly can
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Speaker 1: and as deep as we possibly can, uh, with a
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Speaker 1: combination of older and younger players, uh, down the stretch,
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Speaker 1: you know, uh, uh, end of November, December, January, hopefully February.
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Speaker 4: How much do the like relationship with agents and prior
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Speaker 4: to like proof of doing that help you, you know,
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Speaker 4: negotiate those kinds of agreements.
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Speaker 2: With, with the vets? Yeah, definitely has to be a
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Speaker 2: level of trust. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And, uh, you know, we had to pick up some
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Speaker 1: of those relationships with Nolan and Trent taking off. So, yeah, no, but, yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely a relationship-based business, especially with the agents. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, they've been through this with us before, as
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Speaker 1: well as some of the players that you guys have seen,
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Speaker 1: you know, be elevated, practice squad, 53, whatever, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of moving around. I know that, I think, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, we have to be in the area of
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Speaker 1: leading the league in terms of transactions, whether it be, well,
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Speaker 1: I know in the preseason we had the third most tryouts,
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Speaker 1: but in terms of just transactions, whether that's practice squad, movement, elevations,
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Speaker 1: 53 movement, we've always been a high-volume personnel group, and
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Speaker 1: that's a tribute It's always been a tribute to our
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Speaker 1: coaching staff to be open-minded to that, to be able
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Speaker 1: to provide as much depth as we possibly can for them.
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Speaker 5: Trevon Diggs, is that kind of the plan with him
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Speaker 5: to try to get him back off it, obviously?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Does he already agree to practice squads, John?
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Speaker 2: He can't agree to practice squads until tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Is it an acclimation thing for him, only being with
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Speaker 3: the team?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he came in a little bit late,
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Speaker 1: and he's kind of just getting going. He's kind of
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Speaker 1: just getting ramped up, as you saw the other night.
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Speaker 1: just getting his legs under him and, but he feels he's,
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Speaker 1: he's confident and, and, um, we're excited to, you know,
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Speaker 1: get him going and see how far he can take
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Speaker 1: this thing. He's really bought into like the culture and
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Speaker 1: the guys and the staff and, you know, Carl and, and, and, uh.
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Speaker 2: Nico and those guys. So it's been pretty cool to,
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Speaker 2: pretty cool to see. He's a great guy too.
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Speaker 6: What stood out about Avery Smith in your decision to
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Speaker 6: bring him in?
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Speaker 1: Uh, phenomenal preseason. I mean, uh, shoot outside. Nico, you know,
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Speaker 1: has played in our defense now. Um, Coming out, we
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Speaker 1: liked him as a smart, tough, reliable guy, very instinctive. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's just a, you know, they couldn't speak more highly
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Speaker 1: of him, and they had a really nice defensive backfield.
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Speaker 1: You know, they did a really nice job in the offseason,
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Speaker 1: and they felt like this was an opportunity.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad they were willing to do it.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, we'll be adding him and get him in
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Speaker 1: the mix, another young guy that, like I said, could
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Speaker 1: play some nickel on the outside, and we'll see.
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Speaker 2: What he can do on teams.
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Speaker 3: With Terry and Arnold, do you have any idea of
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Speaker 3: kind of the time frame for him or.
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Speaker 2: Now that he's on the example list?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: No, that's up to the commissioner.
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Speaker 3: With Arnold, how much was the fact that you couldn't
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Speaker 3: retain his rights next year as a restricted or exclusive
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Speaker 3: rights because of his tenure in the league a factor in.
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Speaker 2: Signing him now?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the whole, there's a ton of different
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Speaker 1: factors that went into it. Obviously, the legal stuff has
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Speaker 1: to take care of itself and we totally respect that.
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Speaker 1: There's like, you know, tons of different buckets to this situation. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, just the advocates that he had, you know,
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Speaker 1: we had traded for Leon Washington the first year we
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Speaker 1: were here and, and he's basically like his father. And so,
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Speaker 1: you know, Leon's always, he'll always be a legend here
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Speaker 1: and he has a great relationship with the, you know, with,
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Speaker 1: with the.
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Speaker 2: Organization and, and.
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Speaker 1: You know, the, the, the character just, you know, It
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Speaker 1: just didn't really fit with the allegations and everybody we've
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Speaker 1: talked to. But, yes, this is a long-term play. This
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Speaker 1: isn't like, let's see how quickly we can get this
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Speaker 1: done and, you know, let's get him in the building
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Speaker 1: and see how it goes.
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Speaker 6: Do you anticipate him being around you guys here starting
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Speaker 6: now and everything?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: He can't practice, but he can be in meetings and
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Speaker 1: train and, you know, consideration.
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Speaker 4: With Torrey Horton going on IR at all and any
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Speaker 4: consideration of taking Zach Charbonnet off PUP?
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Speaker 1: No and no. Torrey wasn't going on IR and Sharps
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Speaker 1: is always going to.
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Speaker 2: Go on PUP. Is that how you asked it?
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Speaker 4: Nick, Eamon Worre similarly, still feel like there's potential that
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Speaker 4: he might be available week one or is that still
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Speaker 4: just to be determined?
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Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes. See what kind of progress
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Speaker 1: he continues to make It's a good call, though. I
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Speaker 1: watch Mike's press conferences, too.
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Speaker 6: We didn't get to see much of Irv Charles during
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Speaker 6: camp because he was hurt and such, but you have
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Speaker 6: him designated to return to. What did you kind of
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Speaker 6: see out of him to want him to be a
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Speaker 6: part of this and keep.
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Speaker 1: Him on the ability to come back? Well, he's a
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Speaker 1: dominant gunner. I mean, he came in today and we talked,
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Speaker 1: and I forgot how big he was. I gave him
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Speaker 1: a hug, and I felt like I was at his waist.
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Speaker 1: And he's running 22 miles an hour, and he's just
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Speaker 1: a monster special teams player. So it's definitely... It's definitely
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Speaker 1: worth waiting for.
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Speaker 5: John, this time last year, Montori Foster, starting to substitute
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Speaker 5: teach because he was not out here, had the injury.
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Speaker 5: What does it say about him being able to come
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Speaker 5: back here, take advantage of the end of last season,
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Speaker 5: and then now earn himself a spot.
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Speaker 1: On this team? Yeah, really proud of him and proud
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Speaker 1: of his teammates, obviously his position coaches. I've never seen
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Speaker 1: a player, I don't know how to say that, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to remember a player that at the receiver position
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Speaker 1: that's improved as quickly as he has. I told Jax,
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Speaker 1: I felt like he like just took his film and
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Speaker 1: just completely studied it or, you know, just followed him
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Speaker 1: around for, you know, all spring or something. But, and
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Speaker 1: then his special team stuff's been really nice too. So
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Speaker 1: he's done a great job. It was pretty funny that
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Speaker 1: we were, we had the Kansas city, like the local
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Speaker 1: TV on there, like, you know, voluntary fosters back there to,
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Speaker 1: return the punt, and this guy's a dangerous pumper turner.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, he literally doesn't do that. He's just starting,
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Speaker 2: but good shot.
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Speaker 1: But if he can do that, great, you know, as
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Speaker 1: a safety pumper turner and gunner and hold-up guy and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, too, it would be fantastic.
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Speaker 5: Bigger picture, you were talking with Ray Bull on the
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Speaker 5: pregame show, I think, before the second game, about how, like,
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Speaker 5: you've learned you can't make emotional decisions. when you're coming
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Speaker 5: off a Super Bowl. How hard is that, though, when
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Speaker 5: you just saw the team that you had collected win
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Speaker 5: the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's very hard. You know, we saw
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Speaker 1: Cam the other night. You know, it's tough. Like, we
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Speaker 1: were around him for, you know, four years. I mean, competitor,
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Speaker 1: hell of a player. You know, Reek and Boye and,
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Speaker 1: you know, Kobe. Unfortunately, Kobe was injured. You just miss
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Speaker 1: those guys, you know, but you have to keep going,
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Speaker 1: you have to be able to budget yourself to be
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Speaker 1: able to make, uh, smart decisions moving forward. And so
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Speaker 1: they're just kind of like, now we did, we did
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Speaker 1: keep a lot of guys. We actually kept, you know,
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Speaker 1: a number of, I forget what the number of snaps,
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Speaker 1: like the total was or whatever, but it was, it
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Speaker 1: was more than I had anticipated looking back.
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Speaker 2: Uh, and so I think that's a credit.
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Speaker 1: To, you know, the coaches and Joey Lane and, and, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, our personnel staff and in terms of just like,
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Speaker 1: you know, guys wanting to be here and, yeah, just
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Speaker 1: keeping as many guys as we possibly can.
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Speaker 2: It's hard not to.
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Speaker 1: And Joey, sorry, Jason Light kind of reminded me of that.
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Speaker 2: At the combine.
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Speaker 1: We got together and grabbed some dinner really late one night,
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Speaker 1: and he was talking to me about, like, hey, man, remember, like,
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Speaker 1: heads up, like, you know, what's this like?
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Speaker 2: So it was a great reminder from a good friend.
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Speaker 4: We didn't see Julian Neal do much in the preseason,
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Speaker 4: but he's on the 53 right now.
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Speaker 3: What have you kind of seen from him maybe.
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Speaker 2: Behind the scenes? Yeah, we're not into releasing third round
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Speaker 2: draft picks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, he had a quad and,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's like, let's go and not nothing that
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Speaker 1: he did that was his fault. He had like some
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Speaker 1: sort of slight setback and, you know, I think he's
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Speaker 1: out there today and I was out there in the
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Speaker 1: pregame the other day. It looks great in uniform. It
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Speaker 1: looks good in Seahawks uniform. So if you're into six,
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Speaker 1: two guys that run fast and have good ball skills
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Speaker 1: and will tackle.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. I wasn't implying you'd release it. I
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Speaker 2: might have said no, because it's healthy enough. It's been
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Speaker 2: a long couple days, buddy. I'm just being a smartass.
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Speaker 6: John, fans might look at you. Signing Terry and Arnold,
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Speaker 6: Javon Diggs making the trade for the corner today and
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Speaker 6: not seeing Julian in the preseason, I wonder about your
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Speaker 6: depth at corner. How do you feel about it right
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Speaker 6: now and how that outlook is for the position overall?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, great question.
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Speaker 1: I feel solid about it, but that position is like
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Speaker 1: you can never have enough guys all the way through,
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Speaker 1: and we've been in spots before where we've been stuck
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Speaker 1: where we're signing a guy, practice squad, two weeks here, elevating.
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Speaker 1: We want to be able to have guys that are
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Speaker 1: in the system for a long time that the coaches
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Speaker 1: feel comfortable about playing in games.
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Speaker 2: With Avery, again, he's a system fit.
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Speaker 1: He's been in the same system now for the whole
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Speaker 1: spring and everything. Talking to those guys, it's a comfortable guy.
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Speaker 2: But to your point, yes. How do we keep.
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Speaker 1: Ted Thompson would say, you've got to have one in
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Speaker 1: the chamber. You always have a guy in the chamber
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Speaker 1: all the time ready to go.
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Speaker 4: Are you going to have any sort of, like, closing
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Speaker 4: conversation with Jody and Bert at dinner or anything just
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Speaker 4: as part of this transition?
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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't know. This has been nuts.
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Speaker 1: We had the ring ceremony, and then, you know, we
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Speaker 1: kind of went on vacation, and, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: obviously in contact with her about the Tarion stuff, but
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Speaker 1: other than that, now we've just.
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Speaker 2: Been going along, you know, to her.
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Speaker 1: Deal was like, hey, business as usual, but it's incredible
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Speaker 1: how fast it came, and, like, now it's like, all right,
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Speaker 1: now we're you know, now I'm in communication with new ownership.
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Speaker 1: So it's pretty, it's pretty wild.
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Speaker 4: And with the Leonard Williams extension, was that something that
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Speaker 4: you talked about with them or with the new ownership
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Speaker 4: or how.
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Speaker 2: Did that work? That one was kind of in limbo. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was kind of like right, right in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the, you know, it took a minute, um, with that, but,
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Speaker 1: you know, Joey did a great job of, of just
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Speaker 1: sticking with it and, and, um, really like working, like
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Speaker 1: just work it.
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Speaker 2: Cause yeah, there's, it's, you know, I stopped myself there.
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Speaker 1: But, uh, Joey lane did a great job of continuing
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Speaker 1: the conversations. And then finally, like we were able to
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Speaker 1: get to a spot or a week and a half
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Speaker 1: ago where we felt pretty close. So, um, but you know,
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Speaker 1: regardless of the ownership group, like Leonard Williams is like
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Speaker 1: game changer.
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Speaker 2: It was like a no brainer.
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Speaker 6: John, big picture on, on the signings of sauce season
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Speaker 6: to get Jackson, Devin Leonard, all kind of done knowing
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Speaker 6: you got Byron coming next year too. Like, How do
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Speaker 6: you feel that does for the big picture.
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Speaker 2: Of Greg about that? He was pumping them up the
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Speaker 2: other day already. It's like, I don't really care where
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Speaker 2: that one coming down.
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Speaker 6: Your thoughts on how that's allowed you guys to set
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Speaker 6: things up for the future, keep the guys that you've wanted,
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Speaker 6: the big pieces of your roster and kind of all
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Speaker 6: of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, identifying foundational core players, right, and then
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Speaker 1: being able to reward them appropriately is huge. And so
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Speaker 1: now you just have to keep continuing to– you know,
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Speaker 1: build around those guys. And, uh, you know, unfortunately you can't,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's like, you can have, at some point
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Speaker 1: you can have the haves and the have nots. You
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Speaker 1: have to be, there has to be a balance in
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Speaker 1: there too. So, uh, but again, I give, I just
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Speaker 1: give Joey Lane a ton of credit. There's, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of, I mean, let's go to Abe, starting with
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Speaker 1: Abe and cross. And like, those were, you know, our
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Speaker 1: two tackles and then Jack's, well, sorry, Rashid, um, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: Josh Jones was a big one for us, our third tech.
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Speaker 1: So going all the way through, he just did a
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Speaker 1: great job.
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Speaker 2: He would hate me for saying this, but he just
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Speaker 2: crushed it. And he's got a great personality. He's easy
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Speaker 2: to work with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not always going to like what you hear,
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Speaker 1: but he's just going to be there and continue the conversations.
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Speaker 3: John, how much are you going to look forward to
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Speaker 3: the new ownership's AI expertise and incorporating that in everything
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Speaker 3: you guys do?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've discussed it with them several times.
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Speaker 1: When they came in, when the groups were coming through,
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Speaker 1: obviously we did our research on the different groups and
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Speaker 1: it was just really exciting to figure out if we
15:20
Speaker 1: want to be the franchise of the future, where can
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Speaker 1: we take this thing? We have really smart people that
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Speaker 1: are able to, we have the bandwidth to be foundational
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Speaker 1: with it, but then to have them come in and
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Speaker 1: be able to help us just take it to another level,
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Speaker 1: whether it's in the medical field and scouting and coaching, wherever.
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Speaker 1: We're going to do whatever we possibly can to just
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Speaker 1: crush it with these people. We've talked to them several
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Speaker 1: times about it, and I think it's a really exciting thing.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel behind the rest of the league in
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Speaker 2: that regard? No. I was reassured Like I always feel behind.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of what drives us.
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Speaker 1: So that level of anxiety, but no, like we're doing,
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Speaker 1: we're doing a, we're doing a good job with it,
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Speaker 1: but we can go way, you know, like we could
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Speaker 1: take this to another level and in a pretty quick manner,
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Speaker 1: I believe.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned you've had some contact with them maybe since
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Speaker 3: the last few days. Just, just what is that like
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Speaker 3: with kind of getting that working relationship?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just, you know, understanding what's important to them and to
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Speaker 1: the family and, they're excited, you know, it's, it's, they're,
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Speaker 1: they're very, you know, they want to, they want to support,
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Speaker 1: they want to learn.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be, it's just going to be very different,
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Speaker 2: you know?
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Speaker 1: And so we're all, we're all going to be learning
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Speaker 1: each other as we go through here and, you know,
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Speaker 1: figuring out what our cadences are and, and, but yeah, they,
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Speaker 1: you know, we want to, they want to support and help.
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Speaker 2: In any way they can. They just, they, they want
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Speaker 2: to win. They want to dominate. It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: As you understand it, are they going to be based
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Speaker 3: here or moving here or operating?
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Speaker 2: I don't know that yet.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been some discussion with Neil a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how that's going to.
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Speaker 2: And the.
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Speaker 3: Culture piece that you guys built last year, how hard
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Speaker 3: or successful were you in the people you signed, the
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Speaker 3: people you retained, bringing that back, and how hard is
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Speaker 3: that to replicate.
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Speaker 2: What you had last year? Well, I would say, you know,
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Speaker 2: I give.
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Speaker 1: mike a ton of credit you know post 25 season
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Speaker 1: where he was like i you know we we have
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Speaker 1: so much further to go into building a cohesive team
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Speaker 1: like how do we build the relationships and and like
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Speaker 1: the the football uh connectedness and he really he really
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Speaker 1: went for it and you know spent a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of time with with uh mike gervais and house good
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Speaker 2: and um.
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Speaker 1: Just bought into like the, the, what, what they were,
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Speaker 1: what they were talking about and, and understanding how much
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Speaker 1: further we can, we can grow as a team. And,
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Speaker 1: and like the ultimate team sports of playing for each other.
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Speaker 1: And like, no matter how much money this guy's making
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Speaker 1: or that guy's money, you know, like, like how do
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Speaker 1: we just try to, you know, avoid that noise and
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Speaker 1: just be the best team we possibly can as a,
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Speaker 1: as a unit.
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Speaker 2: And that's where we talk at.
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Speaker 1: Like, I mean, you guys are, I'm talking about this
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Speaker 1: a lot this weekend with the guys we're talking to,
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Speaker 1: but like, again, this is like, 70 you know like
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Speaker 1: this whole group of people it's really like it'll probably
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Speaker 1: end up being like as you guys well know like
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Speaker 1: 85 maybe getting back to 90 92 we'll probably have
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Speaker 1: 100 and some guys through the building this year and
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Speaker 1: it's like it's not just like the players it's the
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Speaker 1: foundational people like Dave and EK and Mo and Soup
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Speaker 1: and Strick and Sam Ramsden and all these people that
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Speaker 1: have been here that are always have their hands on
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Speaker 1: the on the players and are trying to help them
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Speaker 1: be the best they possibly be as well as the
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Speaker 1: coaches and everybody that's just touching the players Last question.
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Speaker 5: Uh, Sam, what do you thought of the summer that
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Speaker 5: he's had and how big do you think it is
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Speaker 5: for him to be, you know, in the same position,
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Speaker 5: you know, not like, you know, I think it's been
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Speaker 5: since 2020 that with the same team and not competing
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Speaker 5: for a job.
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Speaker 2: Or learning the offense. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We were very impressed last season, the way he came
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Speaker 1: in and was a leader right away.
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Speaker 2: And in the way, the way he does it, you know,
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Speaker 2: that's being a guy like being a real, um, authentic leader. Um,
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Speaker 2: And I would say that's much stronger.
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Speaker 1: And then I think the level of play is further
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Speaker 1: along than it was at this point last year as well.
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, everyone.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 3: Have a great evening.