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Jadarian Price Discusses His NFL Debut vs. Patriots · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to watch any of your
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  Speaker 1: teammates play this weekend, like Malachi or Jeremiah?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I saw clips, uh, you know, we've, we had
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  Speaker 2: a long training camp and, um, long, long week preparing
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  Speaker 2: for new England. So I spent my Sunday, I watched
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games and then the rest, I was
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  Speaker 2: just chilling, watching movies to be honest, but I saw
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  Speaker 2: them make some plays and, and, um, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: go against Jeremiah this upcoming weekend.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that's going to be like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be special. We even talked about it, how
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  Speaker 2: we want to maybe swap jerseys or something if we
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  Speaker 2: can because it'll be a very special moment. I know
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of Notre Dame fans and Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: people look forward to that moment, so we'll definitely get
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  Speaker 2: a picture.
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  Speaker 3: Biggest takeaway from your debut was what?
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  Speaker 2: Biggest takeaway is... NFL games are unexpected. Like you can't,
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  Speaker 2: you can't ever, um, you just gotta, I mean, it's gonna,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably going to be a close game. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: cause it's so much talent and, and I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: the best, it's the most elite. So that was my
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  Speaker 2: first takeaway. Like, you know, the games on the line
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  Speaker 2: where we might go into overtime, the first game of
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  Speaker 2: the season, Wednesday night, who plays on a Wednesday night?
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  Speaker 2: Like it was all those things were, were, were swarming
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  Speaker 2: in my head.
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  Speaker 3: So. And having not played in the preseason, was it,
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  Speaker 3: Did it feel like a big adjustment with the speed
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  Speaker 3: of an actual game and all that?
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  Speaker 2: Not really. It was just a little bit more sore
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  Speaker 2: after the game because I finally got tackled. But that's
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  Speaker 2: good for my body to.
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  Speaker 3: Get used to.
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  Speaker 2: What did that do for you when you first played.
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  Speaker 3: The game?
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  Speaker 2: Major confidence. Major confidence. Because it's so unpredictable. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know what's going to happen. But I really, that play
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  Speaker 2: we ran, we had so much confidence in that play
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  Speaker 2: and how it was blocked. And I just trusted my
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  Speaker 2: coaching and trusted what I did in practice, and I
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  Speaker 2: got a 13-yard game. So that gives you major confidence
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  Speaker 2: going into the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like running behind this offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as you can see, my first three carries,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get touched until the safety. So that tells
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  Speaker 2: a lot about the way our offensive line gets off
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  Speaker 2: the ball and the way they run to the ball
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  Speaker 2: when the ball's in the air or when it's run
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  Speaker 2: down the field. So, yeah, I respect our offensive line
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get your feel for picking which gap to
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  Speaker 1: attack and when to cut back?
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  Speaker 2: Just trust in watching the film and just your natural
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  Speaker 2: instincts take over at the end of the day. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just trust in the coaching.
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  Speaker 1: You've alluded to it before with Jeremiah, but did you
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel that as a competition with him through
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  Speaker 1: those years? Or you guys were just kind of sharing
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  Speaker 1: that spot and you kind of accepted the roles that
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  Speaker 1: you guys each had?
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  Speaker 2: Or how did that kind of work out? I would
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  Speaker 2: say I The word I use is friendly competition because
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you accept the position you're in, you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get any better. So I competed. We
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  Speaker 2: competed together. We said, like, okay, going into this game,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to have more touchdowns? And sometimes we would
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  Speaker 2: try to match each other's touchdowns. It just worked out
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  Speaker 2: that way. But it was never like a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hope you don't do as good or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was never that way because if he didn't do
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  Speaker 2: well and all of a sudden I took the starting job, then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what good does that make me? Like, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to prove to myself that I'm just as good
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  Speaker 2: or better, so.
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  Speaker 3: You told us that you turned down some offers to
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  Speaker 3: go elsewhere. Did it ever, like, were you ever close
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  Speaker 3: to leaving, or was it ever, like, a real, like,
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  Speaker 3: much of a consideration for you?
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  Speaker 2: No, not really. I was really close when my mom
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  Speaker 2: heard about the, what those Texas Tech was offering, and I,
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  Speaker 2: I told her, just wait till the NFL money hits,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll be good, and I, she trusted me on that,
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  Speaker 2: and look what happened, so.
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  Speaker 1: Was it just Notre Dame and like, you know, the situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. The group of guys, the coaches, like it
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  Speaker 2: was the place I wanted to be. I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: finish my degree, all of that. I wanted to go back,
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  Speaker 2: compete for a national championship, have my name on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Did you call anyone or talk to anyone after your
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  Speaker 1: first game?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of my friends and family members back home
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  Speaker 2: texted me and was like, you know, congrats. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just talked to my mom, so. She's proud of me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just nervous on the first play as always,
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  Speaker 2: as she should be as a mom, but yeah, just proud.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to Notre Dame, how important was it for
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  Speaker 2: you to finish on your commitment that you were going
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  Speaker 2: to go there and then follow through on that? It
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  Speaker 2: was really important, and that's just to show who I
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  Speaker 2: am as a person, but also show people back home
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  Speaker 2: and everyone close to me, like, if you can miss something,
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  Speaker 2: just give it all you got, you know, and that
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  Speaker 2: you can still Don't shy away from competition or challenges.
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  Speaker 2: And that's pretty much what I showed. There was a
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  Speaker 2: challenge ahead of me in competition, and I still attacked it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you might have had a thought of what
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  Speaker 3: your first NFL game was going to feel like. Did
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  Speaker 3: anything kind of surprise you about it at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, about the atmosphere, the way guys move
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  Speaker 3: on an NFL field in a regular season game?
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  Speaker 1: Anything kind of stand out?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, because you go against top five defense in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL every day in practice, so... And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are special, so they prepared us well for
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  Speaker 2: what was to come in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Was it still good to see, like, when you had
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  Speaker 3: a couple runs of bounce back, you were able to
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  Speaker 3: slash your speed and the burst and everything, to know
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  Speaker 3: that it plays into the double just to kind of
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  Speaker 3: get that reinforced?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, like I said, the first run was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence for me for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the game and just trusting my abilities, like, even between
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  Speaker 2: the tackles. And to be honest, I like running in
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  Speaker 2: between the tackles more early on just to, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get the feel of it, get to the safeties quicker,
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  Speaker 2: and then Once you hit the edge, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: let your speed take over, and I just got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to use my offhand and make guys miss in space.
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  Speaker 2: Much is said about Lumen Field, 12th man.
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  Speaker 3: What was that experience like for you?
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  Speaker 2: It was real. Early on, I'm not going to lie,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, ah, this ain't nothing. And then it
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  Speaker 2: was like that first third down, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: holy shit. Yeah, it was crazy. Whatever, 112 decibels, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was, that was probably the loudest stadium I've ever
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  Speaker 2: been in.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.