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Bobby Wagner: "This Is Going To Be A Big Challenge For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Why did a couple of weeks leading into that fits
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  Speaker 1: forgetting it? It looked like tackling.
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  Speaker 2: At the I don't solved the better.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little bit between your why did it
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  Speaker 1: appearance that step at last week?
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  Speaker 2: We just didn't execute. To be honest, there's really not
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  Speaker 2: much you can say about it. We didn't uh wrap up,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't drive. You know, we knew they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: come in, they were hungry, and uh, we didn't do
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  Speaker 2: what we needed to get done, uh to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's a mentality thing. How about you that
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  Speaker 1: is potentially youth and where you were in the season
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  Speaker 1: as far as me, do you with some of the
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  Speaker 1: new guys or just young players not not knowing how
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  Speaker 1: to flaish?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I'm not sure exactly answered that, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, what you learned is
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  Speaker 2: your professional and whether you're a older player, younger player, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: when you go out there, you have a a job
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  Speaker 2: to do and you're always gonna be greater on whether
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  Speaker 2: you did that or not.
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  Speaker 1: You guys talked all the time about putting the game
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  Speaker 1: behind you, focusing on the task at hand. It is
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  Speaker 1: a week like that's the biggest challenge of that where
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  Speaker 1: you have the disappointment of Sunday and then so much
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  Speaker 1: you play for others coming year. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a challenge cause it is next week.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, It's one of those situations where you
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  Speaker 2: can't let what happened last week come into this week
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  Speaker 2: because it's a important game. You know, obviously we need
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  Speaker 2: other things to play in our favor, but none of
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  Speaker 2: that means anything if we don't do our job. And
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  Speaker 2: so our job is to make sure we go out there, uh, perform, better,
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  Speaker 2: win and see what see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: So how it's fine, gay Day's that hard to do
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  Speaker 1: it all though, and you know there's God be playing
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  Speaker 1: at the same time and not paying attention to what
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  Speaker 1: else is going on or Sure, it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm sure you know human nature, Uh you
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  Speaker 2: wanna look up and see what the thing is, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully they don't show us too much.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it just let us do our thing.
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  Speaker 2: But the end of the day, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: you know on the older guys to kind of make
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  Speaker 2: sure everybody stay locked in and not worry about that
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  Speaker 2: because the moment you look at that score. You forget
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  Speaker 2: there's a score right in front of you that UH
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  Speaker 2: could change easily if you lose focus.
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  Speaker 1: This is a different style of UH for the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: to uh what's gonna see? What? What does you do
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  Speaker 1: have to get before the girls in a lot.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a really good back. I mean the way
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  Speaker 2: he finishes runs, the way he reads the defense, and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. He's he's really good. Like he's somebody's
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  Speaker 2: always tryna fall forward. You know when he gets on
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  Speaker 2: the outside, knows when to you know, use his speed
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  Speaker 2: versus use a stiff arm. He does a really really
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  Speaker 2: good job for them, and he adds another uh dynamic
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  Speaker 2: to that. You know, you have to honor him in
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  Speaker 2: the moment you pay too much, too close a con
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  Speaker 2: attention to him, then that's when Kyler comes into the mix.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's gonna be a big challenge for us,
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  Speaker 2: and we just need to make sure that we we
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  Speaker 2: are ready for it and we.
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  Speaker 1: Tackles the defensive side. Lady or one chapter is good
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  Speaker 1: at forcing broken taps regards of their contact and like
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  Speaker 1: that word the simpl characterists one more time, if you
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  Speaker 1: take UH looking defenses out and you just look your
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  Speaker 1: money back when you go like at forcing this tackles
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  Speaker 1: and rok saples, what's the similar characteristic for those trumpects.
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  Speaker 2: I I'll answer from a defense perspective, like what I
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  Speaker 2: feel like sometimes guys do wrong is you gotta know
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  Speaker 2: when to uh try to attack the ball and when
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  Speaker 2: not to to attack the ball. You know, you got
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  Speaker 2: guys that have good stiff arms, and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's not the best time to when it's one on
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  Speaker 2: one it's just you by yourself, maybe that's not the
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  Speaker 2: best time to go for the ball because of how
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  Speaker 2: good the stiff arm is.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of the characteristics just them like
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  Speaker 2: driving their legs when they get contact. I think he
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  Speaker 2: does a really good job that maybe people don't give
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  Speaker 2: him enough credit for it is I think he understands
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  Speaker 2: the balance and the momentum of of the defenders. And
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  Speaker 2: so you'll be closing down from an angle and think
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  Speaker 2: you about to get a shot on him, and then
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  Speaker 2: he'll spin out of the tackle. And so some of
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  Speaker 2: the tackles is him just understanding the leverage of which
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  Speaker 2: the the defender is coming. And so it's either spin move,
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  Speaker 2: it's a stiff arm, it's you know, setting up his
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  Speaker 2: blocks when there's powers or pullers and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what I would say, like, good backs
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  Speaker 2: are really good at at understanding when to use their
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  Speaker 2: tools and when to use the leverage of the defender
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  Speaker 2: against the defender. Well, we've seen with her Spoon and
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  Speaker 2: JSI and kind of form this bond as rookies both.
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  Speaker 1: First round picks. Do you do you remember coming as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie that happening with guys in your class fathers
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  Speaker 1: Russ or Turbine or guys on defense. You're too mentioned
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  Speaker 1: with it. You sort of got this adude like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna help this team out in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I think it was everybody in that group, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, because what I remember, all the guys had
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  Speaker 2: very similar feelings. You know, this is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: big moment in your life. You finally get drafted and
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  Speaker 2: you know you're going to a team. You're really really excited.
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  Speaker 2: And as you're watching, as you're watching them talk about
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  Speaker 2: you on the pick they're telling they're basically talking about
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  Speaker 2: why this isn't a good pick, or why the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: should have did this, or he's too small, he's this,
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  Speaker 2: he's that, and you go down the list of guys
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  Speaker 2: that got drafted that year, everybody had that particular topic.
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  Speaker 2: And then at the end of it, I believe that
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  Speaker 2: gave us an f and so I think the bond
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  Speaker 2: started to form easily because of that, like feeling like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you had doubts before you even got into
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  Speaker 2: the league, and so I think a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: was just using that as motivation to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the groups that changes or helps this organization. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 2: as you like, I trained with Russ and at img
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  Speaker 2: UH Bruce went to UH Mountsac was down street from
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  Speaker 2: UH where I was at URB. Obviously we went to
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  Speaker 2: the same school, UH tomb Uh was my roommate UH
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  Speaker 2: in the dorms or not the dorms, but in the
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  Speaker 2: UH training camp. And so we just had a group
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  Speaker 2: of guys. We just all bonded and and got close
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  Speaker 2: over time. And there was a combination between the UH,
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  Speaker 2: the doubt and just us being kind of locked away.
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  Speaker 1: And being rookies. And I wanted to do something special party.
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  Speaker 1: What's uh? How did the season stop for you? An?
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  Speaker 1: What's it? What would you about?
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  Speaker 2: What you might do?
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  Speaker 1: Huh? What is the season? What will be about what
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  Speaker 1: you can do might want the next year? I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's no mic.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here, so I never thought anything else outside.
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  Speaker 1: Of that, there's no mic. Do you wanna play the
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  Speaker 1: honest year? A hundred percent? What do you be?
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  Speaker 2: Signed here?
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  Speaker 1: Did you think you was here? You sure? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think about that. I didn't think too far. I just was.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to be president in the moment that I had
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, try to make the most out of
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  Speaker 2: that and let the cars for all what they make.
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  Speaker 1: You do you think you've reproved things to anybody? You
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  Speaker 1: disserving the questions? I guess any of that, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like as you get older, you you realize
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the opinions of others doesn't necessarily matter.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of the opinion of yourself. Cause, uh, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you can get lost in that. Sometimes you get lost
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  Speaker 2: in and I think that's kind of what happens with
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  Speaker 2: younger players. You know, it wasn't as prevalent when I
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  Speaker 2: first got into the league. Just how much you pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to social media or pay attention to UH, ESPN
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  Speaker 2: and all those different things that have so many different takes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a roller coaster feelings. You know, when you
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  Speaker 2: have a good game, they're talking like you're the best
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  Speaker 2: in the world, and when you have bad game, they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about you the worst in the world. And if
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  Speaker 2: you listen to those things, your opinion of yourself can
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  Speaker 2: go up and down. And so uh, I try my
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  Speaker 2: best to not worry about the opinions of it of
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  Speaker 2: others and focus on myself and just keep finding ways
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  Speaker 2: to improve. And I feel like if I try to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to improve my game approve as a leader, everything.
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  Speaker 1: Tends to work out most more times than not. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel physically? Mean you played every game almost
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  Speaker 1: you have. How do you feel like physically I feel good?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I I have a great
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  Speaker 2: team that helps me, you know, stay in shape and
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  Speaker 2: stay ready. I got great examples of guys that've played
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  Speaker 2: a long time that you know are not selfish with
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  Speaker 2: information on how to to last, and so I just
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  Speaker 2: try to do my best to do that and I
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  Speaker 2: feel fun.
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  Speaker 1: Do you look at examples of other guys you've played
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  Speaker 1: as long as you know?
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  Speaker 2: Who are I guess you're your age right now and
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep playing or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Or uh, one more time? Well, th do you do
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  Speaker 1: you look? Do you look at examples of other guys,
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  Speaker 1: like especially like bappers. I guess you who who played
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  Speaker 1: as long as d I mean that many? I guess
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  Speaker 1: see who has played in the age thirty four Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Don't correct I mean you correct me, but I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure it's Levante. I I love watching Levante play. Always
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  Speaker 2: watch him. Uh the Mario Davis is saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I love watching him play. There's guys like that that
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  Speaker 2: I like, we kind of stay connected with one another
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  Speaker 2: because we understand like as you get older, they start
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  Speaker 2: calling you old all these different things. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you watch those guys. Those guys are playing at an
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  Speaker 2: extremely high level, and it's really cool to watch what
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  Speaker 2: they been able to do in their careers and what
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  Speaker 2: they been able to do just this year. And so
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  Speaker 2: you know, I I pay attention to those guys and
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  Speaker 2: they always have my my love 'em or my respect.
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  Speaker 1: Did you a leadership in anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Team? I think yeah, because uh, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a language thing. You gotta be able to speak they language,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the language that the older guys said when
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  Speaker 2: I was younger, different than even when I was twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: and it's different than you know now being thirty plus,
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  Speaker 2: like the like, I always feel like great leaders have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to adapt in their communication and they're able
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  Speaker 2: to relate to different people no matter what their age
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  Speaker 2: interests things that nature. So I feel like, naturally you
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  Speaker 2: have to adapt because the things that I was into
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  Speaker 2: when I was their age is not the things that
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  Speaker 2: they're into. And so if I try to relate to
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  Speaker 2: them from things that they might not even know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it could not be connected. So for me, it's always
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  Speaker 2: constantly trying to learn the things that motivate them and
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  Speaker 2: the things that they're interested in or even like the
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  Speaker 2: things that they want, you know, out of this game
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  Speaker 2: and see if you can find a connection.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a connection, you just gotta find it. Cool