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Cooper Kupp: "I've Been Ecstatic To Be A Part Of This" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It is cooking in here. You guys aren't hot. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, it is so hot, says the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sweating. It's it's incredibly hot.
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  Speaker 3: Take Bobo mentioned after the game, I did, how about
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  Speaker 3: Cooper cups run blocking school?
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  Speaker 2: What's that look like? This school look like? Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's scared.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a wet run, a trimester system. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, I mean, it's fun. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: part of the game. You guys heard me talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: I just I love this game. I love all parts
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  Speaker 1: of it. And a lot of guys in that room
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  Speaker 1: love it too, And so it's fun to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be around guys that I want to block, that
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  Speaker 1: want to be a part of the run game. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's obviously been part of a big part
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  Speaker 1: of why we've been successful this year is just being
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  Speaker 1: able to block for our running backs have done an
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  Speaker 1: awesome job. Just be a compliment to what those guys
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  Speaker 1: up front are doing, have the tight ends block and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and being able to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Your head just telling us that when you guys here
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  Speaker 4: the sea, the coaches had a plan for you that
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  Speaker 4: maybe earlier in your career. All that was asking your
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  Speaker 4: workload wise might have been to the detriment to help.
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  Speaker 5: Was how different was their plan? We did you resist
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  Speaker 5: that at all? Were you all for it? Were you
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  Speaker 5: on board?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I guess that one time.
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  Speaker 4: Reduce workloads earl the season and maybe off season practices.
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  Speaker 2: How much were you on board with that plan? It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of anti to your nature, if you've grown to
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  Speaker 2: know you.
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  Speaker 5: And how different was that any other.
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  Speaker 1: Time that that they had a plan for reducing the
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  Speaker 1: workload and stuff like that?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very different.
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  Speaker 1: I do a really good job here and just in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what their overarching plan is for for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys on this team, and so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of just trusting those guys and you know, our job
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  Speaker 1: as players have come come in here and and be
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  Speaker 1: heald to the middle. I'd rather be pulled back and
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  Speaker 1: pushed forward, and you know they I'm just trusting, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the staff and the guys here that have you know,
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  Speaker 1: put together those plans. And but yeah, definitely different, definitely different,
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  Speaker 1: but all with a with a you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: same goal in mind, and you know, it's a good,
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  Speaker 1: good thing to go through. And I'm feeling really good.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Has it gone as I expected for you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you're talking about You're talking about workload.
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  Speaker 5: And how it translated to actually to the game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, I mean, look, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out there next to you. What's asked
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can certainly have as as anyone would.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone wants to come in here and have fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards in a year. Everyone wants to score ten touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: It's just you know, you want the ball in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: But ultimately, my job is to do what that play
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  Speaker 1: call says to do and to execute that to the
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  Speaker 1: best of my possible ability. And you know, I've taken
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pride in that and and being an
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  Speaker 1: asset for for the coaches and being a tool when
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting in these chairs of these guys, being someone
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  Speaker 1: that when coaches want to get something done in the past, game,
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  Speaker 1: the run, game, screen, it, whatever it is, be able
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  Speaker 1: to excute your job. And so no, I would say, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It hasn't gone production. What you know, like
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  Speaker 1: everyone comes in and hopes that it's going to be,
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  Speaker 1: but it has been just for the success that we
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  Speaker 1: have had and what we've been able to do here,
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  Speaker 1: that has been the vision and so I'm I've been
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  Speaker 1: extact to be a part of it, to come in
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  Speaker 1: here every single day and be a part of working
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  Speaker 1: towards that goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's been exactly what I wanted to be signed here.
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  Speaker 6: Did you envision the potential of this game going against
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  Speaker 6: your former team?
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean you take things, you take things one
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  Speaker 1: day at a time. But you know, for my own
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've touched on this a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean we all have a story. All these
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  Speaker 1: guys here that are step on this field, they've all
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  Speaker 1: had a story to get them to this point. They've
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  Speaker 1: all had a journey of what this year has been,
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  Speaker 1: from what the last few years have been to come
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  Speaker 1: to this point. Mine is just one of fifty fifty
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  Speaker 1: three that are going to be on that field. And
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  Speaker 1: in my story, this is an unbelievable storyline. The chances
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  Speaker 1: that this ends up being what it is, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited about that. But this is the Seahawks going
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  Speaker 1: into a nasty championship game and trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: job done. And so that's the great thing about football.
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  Speaker 1: It's all these guys. All these guys have different stories
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  Speaker 1: and we all get to play for one another, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a powerful thing when all fifty
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  Speaker 1: guys are playing for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Playing for their purpose.
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  Speaker 1: But it's even more powerful when you're playing for the
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  Speaker 1: guys next to you, and you're playing for the people
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  Speaker 1: that are lining up alongside you. And and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about is the guys that are in this
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  Speaker 1: room that, man, you want to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: win for the coaches that have put so much time
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  Speaker 1: into this that you want to go and execute your
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  Speaker 1: job for. And you know, we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that that live that there about it, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes this a really exciting thing for me.
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  Speaker 6: You in Earnest and Cam like shared a moment of
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  Speaker 6: just like, you know, surprised about where this is.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, we haven't, No, we haven't. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: just been kind of the focus on, you know, what's
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  Speaker 1: ahead of us, and yeah, so that's kind of where
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  Speaker 1: we're at.
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  Speaker 3: But obviously play with Pooka and Akola for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, played with Jackson. Now stylistically they seem quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit different, but I don't know if if that's
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  Speaker 3: accurate or what you kind of how you kind of
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  Speaker 3: compare those guys a little bit in terms of what
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  Speaker 3: their styles are.
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  Speaker 2: And kind of how they are. Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got and there's gonna be certainly gonna
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  Speaker 1: be similarities. I've talked earlier this year about some of
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  Speaker 1: the similarities that they play with. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you know, football is and art form,
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  Speaker 1: and you got guys that you know, try to emulate
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  Speaker 1: and pull tools and things like that, but everyone does
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  Speaker 1: it in their own way, and and they both found
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  Speaker 1: ways to be successful and and be productive. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, in their own with with their own path,
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  Speaker 1: with their own tools, with the own their own talents
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  Speaker 1: and the and the gifts that they've got. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so's it's hard to compare. Comparing those guys just is tough,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously very good football players in their own right
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  Speaker 1: and doing some really good things.
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  Speaker 6: The Rams seem to be really aggressive in the secondary
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  Speaker 6: and jumping routes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, are there ways to kind of take advantage
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  Speaker 5: of their aggression.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's all I mean, it's all situational. It's all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Uh, there's time for it. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: times that they're soft. There's times that they know they
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  Speaker 1: want to be a little more aggressive on the back
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  Speaker 1: end there where it's pressure and you know, playing with
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  Speaker 1: a hot post player and things like that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: all about the scheme and how they're trying to do things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, having understand having an understanding of that's important.
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  Speaker 1: I think offensively, when they're gonna be more apps to
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  Speaker 1: jump routes and overlap with each other, and and when
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be a little bit softer, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that they do a good job mixing up
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  Speaker 1: and something that we've definitely got a planned for. You
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  Speaker 1: talk last week about the oddity of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: playoff game with nobody in the stands, and wonder can you.
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  Speaker 5: Compare what that experience was like with what you experienced
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  Speaker 5: on on Saturday playing in a full stadium like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was louder this time, Yeah, I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was it was buzzing love.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it. The electricity the fans brought it. It
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  Speaker 2: was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah, really cool to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm expecting even more this this week. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to be a part of It's a
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  Speaker 1: fun thing to be a part of when those guys
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  Speaker 1: are the fans that are in lumin or bringing it
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we're really really looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 4: Guys who have known you for a while, like cam Akers,
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  Speaker 4: team of yours for three or four years, comment that
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  Speaker 4: the same guy every day.
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  Speaker 2: How do you maintain that? What's the key that you've shown.
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  Speaker 5: Up and being the same guy every day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that your your process is part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: The reason that you play this game, I mean one,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I was God craved me with the passion
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  Speaker 1: for for for football.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love every part of coming into work each day,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the ask is. I love being around
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  Speaker 1: the guys that are here and working towards the common
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  Speaker 1: goal together. I love the adversity and the opportunity it
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  Speaker 1: presents to rise above you know, things that everyone else
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  Speaker 1: says should put you down and at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you know, going back to why I was
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  Speaker 1: great to play this game, I mean, my my my
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  Speaker 1: amazing wife reminded me this week. You know, we had
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  Speaker 1: this perspective that we do everything for a King to
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day say well done, good
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  Speaker 1: and faithful servant. And that's why I wake up in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. That's where my mind is. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be there. I want to live in that space an
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  Speaker 1: eternal perspective, being earthly good while I'm here and being
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  Speaker 1: an impactful person to people around me.
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  Speaker 2: And and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: So excited about the opportunity that we have to go
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  Speaker 1: out and have a great Thursday, you know. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's what keeps me coming back and really excited about
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  Speaker 1: just being able to be steady. You'll go through all
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  Speaker 1: the highs and lows the football presents and and.
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  Speaker 2: Be the same me through it all.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think has been the key to the
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  Speaker 1: coaches making division come to life and have player's body
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  Speaker 1: and trust and take what he just some of those things, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think above all of the I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a preschool adage, you know, like it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you see better than you're here if you if you
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  Speaker 1: want to have guys grab on to what you're speaking,
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  Speaker 1: you just show us live it out, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: from the very top of this organization all down you
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  Speaker 1: got people coming about coming into the building and living
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  Speaker 1: out the words that they're speaking to us.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not, you're gonna get held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: And and there's a guys are comfortable, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: players to coaches, coaches to players, guys are gonna hold
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  Speaker 1: each other accountable to the things that we speak about.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about mob ties and it being a thing
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we all bought into that no matter
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  Speaker 1: what if you come into this, come to this team,
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  Speaker 1: week sixteen, week seventeen, whenever it is, you're gonna know
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  Speaker 1: these are the principles we live by about the truth,
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  Speaker 1: about playing with violence, about protecting each other. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's principles that we're gonna live by that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see. And it's not going to be something
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  Speaker 1: that's just on the wall or on a T shirt.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be something that you see in the actions
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  Speaker 1: of guys walking down the halls and out in the
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  Speaker 1: football field. And that's what makes this kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: come come live.
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  Speaker 6: When you think back to you know, OT's training camp,
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  Speaker 6: when michaelmc toomb have you in his office and he
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  Speaker 6: was passing along like thoughts he had on defense and
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  Speaker 6: how to attack different schemes. How much of those conversations
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  Speaker 6: have then come to fru and during the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does. It's like it's little nuggets
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  Speaker 1: here and there, you know, like a little opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: see where you know, things that he's talked about of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, overlap and just pieces that you know stick
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  Speaker 1: with you. It's hard to go through a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Mike with all the intricacy and all the understanding he
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  Speaker 1: has defensively and try to grasp and absorb all of it,
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  Speaker 1: but grabbing, you know, grab little things here and there.
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  Speaker 1: That's like, man, this is I know that this is
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  Speaker 1: a this is a way to challenge this coverage match.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a way to challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Where are the depths that these rules change, you know
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  Speaker 1: for corners and safeties? When are they going to pass things?
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  Speaker 1: When are they gonna carry them? What can I do
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  Speaker 1: to put guys in conflict? Those are the things that
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  Speaker 1: stick with you and make the difference. Little details.
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  Speaker 4: It'll look past a super Bowl doing that. Have you
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  Speaker 4: ever seen a card back to it as effectively as
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  Speaker 4: he does? And how good is he doing it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I was pretty It's uncanny. It's it's it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously got an incredible ability to do it. He's
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  Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what, like this year, it seems like you watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape, I mean, he's getting a little aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: he's egregious how I mean these throws that he's got
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  Speaker 1: on tape, But it's it's impressive. He's he's a obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's I mean, in my book, he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best ever ever played the position. And everyone else can
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  Speaker 1: have their opinions on it, but as someone that was
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  Speaker 1: in the room with him, on the field with him,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to play at a higher level than than
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  Speaker 1: he's capable of playing at and it's shown to do
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. So obviously a great challenge anytime
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  Speaker 1: you're on the field playing against Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 3: You see Sam he had all last week after he
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  Speaker 3: had the injury on Thursday and then through the game
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  Speaker 3: and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: You guys always talk about how steady he is.
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  Speaker 4: Was he kind of just.
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  Speaker 3: Still the same?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy. I mean I think that's why I
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  Speaker 1: was so frustrating. I think for guys to be like, man,
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  Speaker 1: is he okay or not. You know, it was like
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  Speaker 1: you weren't able to practice. But then you get in
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  Speaker 1: there and it's like, seems like he's seems like he's fine,
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  Speaker 1: but he also seems kind of pissed, but he's fine, So.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what is it? What's the really happening?
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  Speaker 1: So that's well, it wasn't until like, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: get out there and see him really throwing around, ripping
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  Speaker 1: the ball. I guess really after that first touchdown throw
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  Speaker 1: at Jack's I figured they make that throw.
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  Speaker 2: Most other throws will be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: His one, his one to you there too, like to
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  Speaker 1: bounce back after the sack and rip that one.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you probably had to feel like he had
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  Speaker 4: everything he needed at that point, right, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and exactly and that one, that one is
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, just just over and over again making
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  Speaker 1: the throws they needed to be able to take Hits
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  Speaker 1: step in the pocket. So yeah, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: really cool to see that one of the only.
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  Speaker 6: People that have been with Sean McVay and.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald for the length.
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  Speaker 3: Of time that you have.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think people don't know about those two
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  Speaker 5: as play.
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  Speaker 2: Callers, as play colors. What don't people know I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty we're both pretty well documented in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what they bring, the challenges that they want
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  Speaker 1: to present to offenses and defenses alike.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think the I think the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably been touched.
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  Speaker 1: On, but just being able to show things and be
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  Speaker 1: able to do things and build off of it. Be
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  Speaker 1: uh talk about being amba and be something that's ever changing,
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  Speaker 1: ever growing, be a moving target. And I think they
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  Speaker 1: both live that same kind of principle, and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: makes it really tough. It makes it really challenging as uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're when you're presenting ideas to the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the ball, it's make things tough to
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  Speaker 1: kind of zero in everything else, you guys,