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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The First Padded Practice Of Training Camp · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it gets much better than
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful weather training camp pads on playing football. We
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  Speaker 1: got bald eagles flying, we got the blue angels in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. It's pretty awesome. So we're very blessed. Awesome day,
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  Speaker 1: great practice. Guys are after it. You know, ten am
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  Speaker 1: practice coming off and off day guys were in it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just all around really great day. So really
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  Speaker 1: really pleased practice.
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  Speaker 2: Second, we makes any great practice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just like the intent was there, there's the physicality
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  Speaker 1: both sides making plays, just incremental games. Operation wise. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of guys on the ground, which
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  Speaker 1: is great, just back and forth. So just noticed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great things like individually and in each.
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  Speaker 2: Unit, go on what are you what are you really
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  Speaker 2: looking for?
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't change, I mean the circumstances changed on
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  Speaker 1: like you know the physicality of the game and you
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  Speaker 1: know you can feel guys a little bit more, which
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  Speaker 1: is nice. But we've got plenty of ops with our
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  Speaker 1: pads here and then you know going against the Titans
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  Speaker 1: and then playing in some of these preseason games. So
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  Speaker 1: this I think is his first about eight or nine
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  Speaker 1: padded practices we have for ust. The rest of the
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  Speaker 1: way we.
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  Speaker 3: Get to see Andre full Er, Michael Daan's we get
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  Speaker 3: their hands on the football point a bit today.
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  Speaker 4: How to be seen them handle their first training camps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was exciting to see, you know today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when when you do put pads on, it is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's more playing football again, you know. So to see
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  Speaker 1: them make plays playing football is is is great, but
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  Speaker 1: those are it's an indication of the work they put in.
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  Speaker 1: They've done a great job up to this point. And
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  Speaker 1: they're rookie, so they're swimming a little bit uh schematically,
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  Speaker 1: but that's as expected. And then you just got to
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  Speaker 1: kind of work through the fog until start making plays
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  Speaker 1: like today, you know, they gain more confidence and so
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  Speaker 1: just keep rolling.
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  Speaker 2: You see a run play succeed out there, are you
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  Speaker 2: thinking that was well blocked?
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  Speaker 1: During them defended both both. Sometimes it's man, that was
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  Speaker 1: a great play. Sometimes it was we screwed up on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a combination of both. There's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: plays today that I think might be it was great
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  Speaker 1: by our offense also simply of things that we need
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  Speaker 1: to address defensively on structurally and how we're playing some things.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good. You know, it's good work.
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  Speaker 2: What have you thought of playing?
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  Speaker 1: Job?
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  Speaker 2: Fun?
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to watching his practice, Probably his best practice
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  Speaker 1: so far, the last practice, so we'll see what we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what it looked like today. But great spirit, executing well,
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  Speaker 1: communicating well, he's put a lot of work in so uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: We got to see the running backs get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities in the passing game. As a defensive play caller,
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  Speaker 3: how does how does that potentially strain you when you're
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  Speaker 3: facing a team that really utilize their running backs and
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  Speaker 3: adds another thing for you to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's another matchup that you have to consider. So
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  Speaker 1: if they're not going to be on the route, then
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  Speaker 1: you're not really worried about it. But if they're constantly
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  Speaker 1: on the route, that you have to account for that matchup.
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  Speaker 2: By Murphy and those one of us, the combinations keep power.
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  Speaker 2: I know you've been around on but does that just
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  Speaker 2: thought are kind of wow? You would have.
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  Speaker 1: He want I'm again, I didn't watch that drill today.
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  Speaker 1: I was I was on seven on seven, But really
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  Speaker 1: expect Murph to have a spike in productivity rush in
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  Speaker 1: the passer. He's earned it, but he does it every day,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's great work for our offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. He's in a great he's in a great spot.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of the guys we saw see not practice,
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  Speaker 2: Rob Julian and.
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  Speaker 1: That the long term, just a couple of things are
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  Speaker 1: working through camp type of stuff. So it's a bummer,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll get him back soon.
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  Speaker 2: I goober cut, I asking you today, if he owned
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  Speaker 2: the team, what's the first thing he would do? And
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  Speaker 2: he said, if he'd asked the coach, he asked, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: what do you need to get a match? What would
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  Speaker 2: you what would you what would you answer me?
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  Speaker 1: Probably keep that between me and our bosses, but we
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  Speaker 1: gotta I'll tell you. Probably the first thing I'd say
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  Speaker 1: is we have a lot of things that are really
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  Speaker 1: really great and uh, some things that I think that
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  Speaker 1: we can never but how could you be? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we were, we have we have great ownership and we're
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  Speaker 1: in leadership right now. So but it's exciting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting to just have an opportunity to keep pushing
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  Speaker 1: is what we've been what we've been trying to do
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  Speaker 1: since we got here. And now you're working with a
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  Speaker 1: different group. But but we had a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: things here. Man. It's I mean, it's pretty awesome. We're
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  Speaker 1: in good shape.
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  Speaker 2: Mike going back to buyer moof and just how have
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  Speaker 2: you seen him grow in the movie? Is consistently as
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  Speaker 2: a leader of just becoming consman professional.
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  Speaker 1: Thing, has been very intentional on on his own development
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  Speaker 1: and then how he's like invested his time, how he's
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  Speaker 1: how he's handled his body, where he's trained, who he
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  Speaker 1: surrounds himself with. There's this no wasted like, there's no
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  Speaker 1: wasted time, you know, It's just he's very he's very
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  Speaker 1: deliberate on on how he goes about his business. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a great example for the guys on how like
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  Speaker 1: you know, nothing's gonna change overnight, but having that deliberate
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  Speaker 1: process and we talk about stacking winds moment moment moment
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  Speaker 1: by moment mindset. I mean those things come to life
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  Speaker 1: with Byron, Like, what.
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  Speaker 2: Have you told your guys about just handling the camera?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I said, they're really good at capturing, uh and
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  Speaker 1: doing what they do. Let's let's make sure we're us
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  Speaker 1: and then and then trust that what's displayed is is us.
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  Speaker 1: You know so well you can't control what they capture,
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  Speaker 1: what they you know, all those things. What you can't
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  Speaker 1: control is how we go about our business. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we had an episode the other day that that I
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't we weren't us, and I was really the
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  Speaker 1: I was the culprit, I was responsible for it. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: when you notice, you just got to go make it right,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But that's that's what we do.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We if we mess up, or if we go across
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  Speaker 1: the line, or we chase an edge and we and
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  Speaker 1: we miss, we gotta you know, be smart enough and
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  Speaker 1: and have the humility to come back, come back over
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  Speaker 1: to the to the other side and go move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So the guys have been great, feel like I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've been us the whole time. We had a
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  Speaker 1: great spirit today. So I think, Uh, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'll watch it, but I'll be I'll be looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing what they come up with.
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  Speaker 2: That was a moment in practice you're talking about now.
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  Speaker 1: This is just something to how we operate in the building.
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  Speaker 4: When or not you watch it, Like who on the
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  Speaker 4: team whose persons already give me most excited account? The
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  Speaker 4: thing about like they don't know about.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys, anybody in mine. Brady Russell, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Bradie would be great. I hope they feature Brady. He
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  Speaker 1: would be awesome. He's he's interesting, dude, talented guy too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like in in life, how much how much from.
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  Speaker 2: A football sents do you have a power power what
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  Speaker 2: they actually air for the rest of the world, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we respect the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: have to. They have a show to put on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't I can't just watch paint dry for
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  Speaker 1: an hour or however long it goes, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's interesting. I hope there's storylines. I hope
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  Speaker 1: there's some sort of hopefully not too much conflict, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I think with that in mind. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, they they've done a great job of saying
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  Speaker 1: that we're, you know, we're working together on this thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just kind of simple. But you don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: started making all these things of what I watch and
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  Speaker 1: I don't watch, and all of a sudden, something you
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  Speaker 1: hold me to.
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  Speaker 2: SOA and the past seasons, you've made space where Kobe
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  Speaker 2: Bryant other players to find their round the fielding when
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  Speaker 2: they were already starters. There its Tyree Snyder, guy that
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  Speaker 2: might be looking for great one.
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  Speaker 1: Tyres has had a great camp, he really has. He's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job and there's ways to get him
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know. So it's that's a great example
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  Speaker 1: of like you don't need to be counting like the
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  Speaker 1: people ahead of you and where do I stand and
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  Speaker 1: step chart and all this, like just put my best
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  Speaker 1: foot forward and all the things, and let's let's let
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  Speaker 1: us figure out how to get you on the field,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put that burden on the coaches to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we got the best guys out there. And
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  Speaker 1: he's definitely he's definitely applying pressure right now, which is
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  Speaker 1: which is really great.
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  Speaker 2: Like somebody on the roster would look like with you
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  Speaker 2: another Vegan tight end and pick them matter You're like,
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  Speaker 2: what was the purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Of being well? Nick can do kind of all the
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  Speaker 1: things at tight end and that's what we're looking for
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  Speaker 1: for our guys. And so he had a great workout.
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  Speaker 1: This guy has been tracking for for a while, so
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  Speaker 1: we have great We have a great relationship with him
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  Speaker 1: over the years, So just made sense to him in
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  Speaker 1: and he's really he's done a great jobs he's been here,
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  Speaker 1: so we're excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Sam kind of grow and you know, this time last
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  Speaker 2: year he's new. Everything's new. Now he's had a whole
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  Speaker 2: year and he's opening camp to kind of hit the
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  Speaker 2: ground writing.
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  Speaker 4: How much different does it feels?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I mean, we're all growing, so it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: like it's kind of like you're with him every day.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you don't see your uncle for like
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  Speaker 1: a year or two. Oh you've changed, you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you see Sam every day. So it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the same guy. But I'll tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: he's being really decisive with the ball. He's taking care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. He's making great decisions, he's playing fast,
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  Speaker 1: he's being aggressive when he needs to be. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great things, great great command. His process
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  Speaker 1: is really cool. I think I appreciate about Sam's and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of court. I mean, but you can't speak
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. But it's just every rep is a rep.
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  Speaker 1: So if it's like if it's in the quarterback room
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  Speaker 1: and they're going over the script, like he treats that
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  Speaker 1: rep the same as he does here. If it's practice
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  Speaker 1: online or you know, we're in a game. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's all the same. And that's the that's the that's
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  Speaker 1: like the mental approach that we want to we want
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  Speaker 1: all of our guys to.
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  Speaker 4: Take Anthony kind of.
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  Speaker 1: He's not he's in he's in an adverse situation and
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  Speaker 1: and he's attacking it and that's all you can ask
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  Speaker 1: him to do. He's made a lot of progress, which
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  Speaker 1: is exciting. And so you know, it's one of these
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  Speaker 1: things where you know, you don't want to put a
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  Speaker 1: timetable on it because you don't want to limit him
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  Speaker 1: or you don't want to you know, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to put him best, but just go rip it every day,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And we got great people surrounded by him,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, let's go see where we get. But
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  Speaker 1: return so far, he's done a great job and it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be easy, but but he's just the man
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  Speaker 1: for the job.
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  Speaker 4: With winerstood, it seems like I think you may have
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  Speaker 4: mentioned the same today. It's like the day or tea
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  Speaker 4: ascus he has.
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  Speaker 2: Is the same every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on in the contract? What can you say? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's Uh, I'm really impressed by it. Honestly, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just one of those things where it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: something that you're not used to dealing with as a player,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And so to be able to kind of
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  Speaker 1: take that, you know, whatever's going on in that front
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  Speaker 1: and compartmentalize that, uh, shows you his maturity and like
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  Speaker 1: his commitment to the team and really his own personal
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  Speaker 1: development too, like you know, and just how much he
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  Speaker 1: loves football and how he wants to be out here
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  Speaker 1: and try to get better. So merely respect his approach
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  Speaker 1: so far. He's been great, ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: The first few years in the league, really took big
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  Speaker 4: strides last year and worked with too many weather this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: How have you seen him develop it and mature here
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  Speaker 4: since you first arrived?
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  Speaker 1: Give me with the development question when we're with him
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  Speaker 1: every day. Uh, he aby, he has done a great
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just there's like all of our players,
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  Speaker 1: there's parts of his game that we want to attack
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  Speaker 1: and we want to try to take it to another level.
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  Speaker 1: And but what you can respect is his work ethic
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  Speaker 1: and I mean his attitude is just is really great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's really great. And I think our offsive
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  Speaker 1: line coaches have done a tremendous job coaching them all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and it's it's it's nice to have some
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  Speaker 1: continuity at the offensive line, like taking all these reps
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  Speaker 1: and you're building this chemistry with the guys that you're
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  Speaker 1: playing next to. I think that that helps her whole unit,
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  Speaker 1: including Anthony, while they're dealing with some things and they're
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  Speaker 1: not very uh yeah, some training camp thinks, but they'll
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  Speaker 1: be back. Short yeah, some training camp thinks they'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing nothing crazy going on right now, guys, just training
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  Speaker 1: camp stuff. Thank you, Okay, all right, thank you.