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Jerome Baker: "It Was An Easy Choice To Come Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're not talking to Tyrrel about this, but you two
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  Speaker 1: obviously your jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Are very interconnected. How's that relationship with between Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: been going cool. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think we just both on each other, learning how
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  Speaker 3: we play and uh just going out there and just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Why was why was Seattle the choice for you? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I mean one, it was just the place. Uh, this
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  Speaker 3: is a beautiful place. When I walked in the building,
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  Speaker 3: I just felt like this was the right choice. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was that was a big reason for me. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to play in the MIC.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: This defense has always just been great, So it was
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  Speaker 3: the easy choice to come here and uh have some
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  Speaker 3: phone with.
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  Speaker 1: Him if you were if you were playing in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: how much attention do you play?
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  Speaker 2: Did you pay to.
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  Speaker 1: What was going on in Baltimore with the way they
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  Speaker 1: were playing defense? Like McDonald last couple of years, several
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  Speaker 1: of your teammates said they were watching Forttle far there
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  Speaker 1: and yeah lay into their decision, Like Jonathan Hankin said
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  Speaker 1: he came here because of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I was definitely playing attention. I mean
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  Speaker 3: you just look at the guys they were, uh the line,
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  Speaker 3: they was out there ball and having fun even when
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  Speaker 3: we plays them. Uh, just to see how they attacked
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  Speaker 3: our our offense there in Miami, and it was just
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  Speaker 3: cool to watch. So when I got the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: play in the mic, H, it's kind of no brainer.
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  Speaker 1: So how much of what you were experiencing on the
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  Speaker 1: field matches what you thought it was gonna be?
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  Speaker 3: Like working with the night Yeah, I definite knew it
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  Speaker 3: was gonna be a challenge as far as just uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just the things they did in you know, Baltimore, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: the different packages they had, the different blisses they had.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was gonna be a challenge in the aspect.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, when I got here and you just sitting
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  Speaker 2: the meetings and you start learning, you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like riding the bike. You just gotta get used
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  Speaker 2: to it. And you know, I'm just sitting there just
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  Speaker 2: learning and trying to get better.
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  Speaker 1: Has it a lot of different skill set for you?
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of the new skill set unlocked? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Is it tapping into something you haven't been asked to do?
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  Speaker 3: So, M I wouldn't say that. I think the cool
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  Speaker 3: thing is, you know, I've been around a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different defenses from my Miami days to house their days,
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  Speaker 3: So I got to play in a lot of different
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  Speaker 3: defenses and this defense is kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of like a collection of all of 'em to get other.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm out there. Uh, you never you truly never
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  Speaker 3: know I could do and my Max do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different things. So for me, it's kind of exciting.
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  Speaker 4: How does it helpe for you physically getting back on
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  Speaker 4: the field last couple of days and and where do
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  Speaker 4: you feel you're at and getting back out there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean physically it's camp. So uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things that every day you gotta bring it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a constant grind. You never truly know how good
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  Speaker 3: you're in shape until you put on the pads and
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  Speaker 3: you know, start hitting guys, start taking guys to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So right now it's I'd say it's still uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: still you know, touch football.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, the real the real days when you get the
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  Speaker 3: pads on and go out there and really play football and.
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  Speaker 4: Watch a lot of Miami footballist year's how how did
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  Speaker 4: you just got your headlines?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a smart player that hustled to the ball sideline
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  Speaker 3: the sideline and I just play football, how it's supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be played.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever a team asks me, I do it. Yeah, have
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  Speaker 2: to go out there and have fun. End of the day.
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  Speaker 2: It's football.
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  Speaker 3: Is the same game I played when I was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: six years old and just now is on the bigger stage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's been your impression that you're a new head coach.
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  Speaker 2: He's a smart guy. He's a very smart guy.
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  Speaker 3: I can say that anytime I just sitting with him,
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  Speaker 3: we're just talking ball and we're just you know, talking
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  Speaker 3: about life. He's just a guy that you know, he
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  Speaker 3: truly just has a lot of knowledge in him.
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  Speaker 2: So I can definitely say that he's a smart guy.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted his scene up to be tough, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we go out there, he truly, uh, he makes sure
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  Speaker 3: that's known that you guys gotta be tough. You guys
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  Speaker 3: gotta run to the ball, you gotta be in shape.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, it's kind of he's a man that
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  Speaker 3: he says what he says and his actions followed.
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  Speaker 4: With the linebackers, this team that's had for the last decade,
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Wagner and kJ Wright through serving, et cetera pretty
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  Speaker 4: a high standard for that position group. Here, what what
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  Speaker 4: does it mean for you and Tyrell to come in
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  Speaker 4: and try to take up that baton and try to
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  Speaker 4: keep the standard to play at that kind of level
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  Speaker 4: with the track carck at those.
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  Speaker 3: Guys that had Yeah, I mean, you definitely gotta know
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  Speaker 3: about the history of see have a linebacker. So I
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  Speaker 3: got a ton of respect for those guys. By the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day. My game is a little different
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  Speaker 3: from those. You know, those linebackers. Defense is a little different.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, it's kind of you know, getting together
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  Speaker 3: with t Dive, going out there and playing football the
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  Speaker 3: right way. How we know how to play sideline the
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  Speaker 3: sideline smart guys, physical guys, and that's what we have.
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  Speaker 3: We have respect for those, but you know, it's our
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  Speaker 3: time to make our own, our own uh legacy.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out to you about the staff and the
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  Speaker 1: the way that they coach and what they demand of
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  Speaker 1: you guys.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to be super smart.
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  Speaker 3: They aks players to know everything, not just what you know,
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  Speaker 3: but the safety is, uh, what.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing, the d line, what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: You can kind of be plugged in at any position
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  Speaker 3: and they expect you to know it and uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, do it the right way. So for me, that's
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  Speaker 2: just a cool.
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  Speaker 3: Thing that you know, I can go out there and
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  Speaker 3: play football at any position and go out there and
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  Speaker 3: make place.
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  Speaker 1: Is that different from the defense is you've played in
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  Speaker 1: in the past, or maybe you've just had to know your.
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  Speaker 2: Responsor nothing all that. I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: I think for me, I was fortunate enough that I
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  Speaker 3: was plugged in a lot of different positions. But a
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  Speaker 3: lot of coaches they say that you're gonna play a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different positions, they say they're gonna scheme up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, things and try to disguise things. But over
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  Speaker 3: time they don't do that. With this defense, you really
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  Speaker 3: have to do that. Mike gets on you, everybody just
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  Speaker 3: gets on you. So you really have to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really know your job.
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  Speaker 1: You've played in a lot of different defenses day back
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  Speaker 1: to college or what do you think from those experiences
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  Speaker 1: now learning a new defense or seattle from a linebacker perspective,
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  Speaker 1: what is the what's the toughest part to learn or
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  Speaker 1: what takes the most time to adapt when they're learning
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  Speaker 1: a new.
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  Speaker 3: Steam A new scheme is always just a language football football,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the actual football thing is not different. Just
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  Speaker 3: how you call things, how they're identify things is just
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  Speaker 3: called different.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really just the language is truly the biggest,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obstacle obstacle. Anything else asks your own appreciation