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Nehemiah Pritchett: "I Can Play In Any Type Of Scheme" - Seahawks Draft Conference Call · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Congratulations me and Maya.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how would you describe your game and your style
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  Speaker 1: of play?
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  Speaker 2: Can you repeat the question I couldn't hear for real?
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  Speaker 1: How would you describe that your game and your style
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  Speaker 1: of play?
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  Speaker 2: All right? I think I'm a really smart, smart corner
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  Speaker 2: or I'm a really long, fast corner that can play
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  Speaker 2: in any type of scheme. I think I'm really really
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  Speaker 2: good at press and I've been versatile. I can play
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  Speaker 2: inside and outside, so I think that's the best way
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  Speaker 2: I can describe it.
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  Speaker 1: You, Mike, did you have any contact with the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: during the pre draft process?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did, doing with them a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: before the before my pro They I talked to them
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  Speaker 2: at the Senior Bowl, and I talked to them like
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  Speaker 2: three days ago when they were doing like background background
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  Speaker 2: with Which coaches have you had correspondence with? Who have
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  Speaker 2: you talked to? They need me? Cooke Dot.
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  Speaker 1: You've played so many different spots on the field. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have a favorite or one that you think is
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  Speaker 1: your strongest?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say outside, outside corner. Why is that is that?
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  Speaker 2: Some I feel like most black see I really can
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  Speaker 2: play It's both, but that's why I feel most comfort black.
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  Speaker 2: How much would you say Auburn had you impressed? Am
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  Speaker 2: I was that most of the time, all the time?
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  Speaker 2: A lot, a lot? What if? What what about your
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  Speaker 2: game that helps you impress? Is it your long arms?
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  Speaker 2: Your length? What do you find an advantage when you're
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  Speaker 2: press coverage my length? My length?
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  Speaker 1: And face the conversations that you've had with his staff?
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  Speaker 1: Why is your style a good fit for what the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Want to do? I think they got a really a
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  Speaker 2: really good defense from a really good second day, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll just be an amazing piece of add to it.
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  Speaker 2: And I got my teammate, Uh did my teammate that
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  Speaker 2: dead hall? And I know players like that that's ready
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  Speaker 2: to win, So I can't wait. Sounds like a good
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  Speaker 2: time in the background there who you's celebrating with? My family?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you speaking to us? From sir? Back in Alabama?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? What do you know about Reek Wollen? And
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  Speaker 2: have you ever heard of a guy named Richard Sherman? Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I have. What do you know about that Richard? I
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  Speaker 2: remember I remember him playing in the Super Bowl a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. I know he was a really
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  Speaker 2: smart corner came from Stamford, I think, And yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: just remember them playing the Super Bowls and getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of interceptions, especially the one on I forgot his
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  Speaker 2: name to receive it from San France. Oh yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was a bunch of great moments. I near mind.
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  Speaker 1: Did they talk to you at all about your experiences
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  Speaker 1: at your control and possibly filing here?
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  Speaker 2: Not as much. But I'm definitely one of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that I don't mind playing any special team or gunner
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  Speaker 2: damn kickoff return. So how much returning.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get at Auburn?
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  Speaker 2: I did a lot in twenty twenty one my junior year.
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  Speaker 2: I was the primary equip a sign of day with
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  Speaker 2: What kind of schemes did you regularly play there at Auburn?
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  Speaker 2: How they kind of use you on special team? Uh? No,
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  Speaker 2: in coverage? Secondary wise, we mostly played. We played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of man because so that and I mean wherever
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  Speaker 2: they needed me. To be honest, how much did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like your forty times? But the combine helped you
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  Speaker 2: in the drift process? I think it helped a lot because, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that many that many corners that I ought
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  Speaker 2: could run, to be honest, but I was I knew
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  Speaker 2: that I could run. Uh, it's been in my blood.
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  Speaker 2: I've been fast at my life, so I was ready
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  Speaker 2: for that moment, and I to be honest, I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to run lower, but I was it was cool with
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  Speaker 2: the four three kid. What's the lowest time you've ever
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  Speaker 2: had in the forties? Uh? When I was training, I
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  Speaker 2: ran apostad. Did you run tracks in your background? No, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I was, well, I come from Jason jas In High School,
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  Speaker 2: so it's it's a really small town. Uh, really small school.
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  Speaker 2: So our school didn't even have a track at the time.
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  Speaker 2: How small is it? But how small is the school?
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  Speaker 2: Like how many graduating class or whatever? How big was it?
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't even remember. How much did
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  Speaker 2: you play inside in the slot? I played a lot
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  Speaker 2: of snaps down my junior year, so that was my
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  Speaker 2: primary flot, so I played a good amount of plot.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: When you were on the outside, did you mostly stick
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  Speaker 1: to one side or did you.
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  Speaker 2: Move around the field? I moved around me and my
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  Speaker 2: me and the other corner. We have what pretty much?
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  Speaker 2: We too whatever thought we wanted to go on at
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  Speaker 2: the time. What kind of hit are you? What kind
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  Speaker 2: of hope hitter. Are you in tackler? Are you? You
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  Speaker 2: talked a little bit about diligion and moom, but that
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  Speaker 2: ability to head and tackle, all right, I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: really intent when they come to git it. I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna shot always from contact. If you turn
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  Speaker 2: on the field, you can see like I'm I'm super
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  Speaker 2: I'm super brother, But most of sometimes just try to
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  Speaker 2: come up, come up with a bitypart at corner. What
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  Speaker 2: do you know about Seattle, sir? If anything, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that. I don't know that much. To be right,
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  Speaker 2: this to be my first time I thet