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Geno Smith: "DK Is One Of The Best Receivers In The League" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good after noon.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know you've been the third fastest time to
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  Speaker 2: throw a quarterback in the NFL this year. It's a
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  Speaker 2: big improvement over where you were in the past. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about when that became something you're focusing on and
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  Speaker 2: and what does that do in terms of affecting the
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  Speaker 2: kinds of routes that you can attack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it just comes down to being decisive,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with your reads and uh, you know, really
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  Speaker 3: just trusting what you're seeing out there on the field. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you always want to as a quarterback, you want to
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  Speaker 3: get the ball out fast. You know, you get the
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  Speaker 3: faster we can get into the hands of the playmakers,
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  Speaker 3: the better off we are. And so yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: just it's only been two games, so you know, stats
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  Speaker 3: are stats, but uh, the key thing is always to
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  Speaker 3: get the ball out, you know, as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 3: And there's still room for improvement in that area, still
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  Speaker 3: chasing that, So just want to keep getting better at that.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at this defense, how familiar as it
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  Speaker 4: compared to what you've been seeing in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's only been games of film that
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  Speaker 3: we can watch on these guys, but you know we've
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  Speaker 3: practiced against a similar style defense for a while, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can expect them to have some of
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  Speaker 3: the same things that you know gave us problems in
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  Speaker 3: camp and would give any team problems in their protection.
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  Speaker 3: But also you know they're gonna have some things that
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  Speaker 3: we haven't seen yet, and so the key thing is
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  Speaker 3: for us to all be on the same page to
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  Speaker 3: know what we're seeing obviously to uh, you know, get
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  Speaker 3: the right you know, mic points and get the right
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  Speaker 3: protection calls, and then you know, go out there and
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  Speaker 3: execute and try to beat whatever defense we're seeing on
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  Speaker 3: on game day.
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  Speaker 5: When you looked at the film, what did you see
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  Speaker 5: as maybe some of the challenges in getting the game
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  Speaker 5: going Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's you know, it just was a
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  Speaker 3: little bit slow. You know, I thought we obviously could
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  Speaker 3: have executed a little bit better, but I thought, you know, overall,
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  Speaker 3: I thought our runners, you know, our backs did a
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  Speaker 3: great job. You know, sharps did a great job throughout
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  Speaker 3: the game. Might not have showed up in the stat
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  Speaker 3: sheet as far as like yards per carry, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: picked up some really really critical third downs for us.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 3: And past protection, I had had some he catches as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you know, when y whenever you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at the score box, you know, it can it can
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  Speaker 3: seem as though our run game wasn't as effective as
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  Speaker 3: it usually is. But you know, there's room for improvement.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought we, you know, did a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: job of what we were facing that day.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know you have nine game winning drives the
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  Speaker 6: last few years.
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  Speaker 1: No other quarterback in.
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  Speaker 2: The league has more than you do.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're still getting slept on by
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  Speaker 6: certain people out there?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really worried about that, Like I said, Man,
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  Speaker 3: my my my goal is to keep being better every day,
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  Speaker 3: not really worried about you know, who's sleeping on me
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  Speaker 3: per se. I think the main thing is that I'm
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  Speaker 3: here with the guys who believe in me, and those
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  Speaker 3: are the guys inside this locker room, inside this building.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, everything else to me doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just focused on getting better, you know, tryna
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  Speaker 3: perfect my craft in any way I can, and uh
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  Speaker 3: continue to leave these guys. Like I said, we're two
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  Speaker 3: games in, so far, so good. But shoot, man, we
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of room for improvement. You know, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of areas that we can grow in and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's a positive sign for us, and so, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta focus on that more than any any outside
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  Speaker 3: noise in.
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  Speaker 6: Terms of like Mike points and stuff. Does that start
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  Speaker 6: with you and then Connor like a breeze or can
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  Speaker 6: veto or is the inverse? We're sorry?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say it's the opposite, you know, Like
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  Speaker 3: we do a lot of film study throughout the week together,
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  Speaker 3: Connor and I. Today we study, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the third downs, and then we'll go over it
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  Speaker 3: again tomorrow, and so we're always thinking the same things.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: He'll go out there and he'll make the initial point
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  Speaker 3: not to give up too much, and then I'll you know,
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  Speaker 3: see what the defense is doing, and uh, if it's good,
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  Speaker 3: it's good, we'll leave it. If I need to adjust something,
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  Speaker 3: then you know, obviously I'll make that adjustment so that
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  Speaker 3: we can be in the right protection.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know you've been an elite play action passer
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle. You guys aren't doing as much play action
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  Speaker 2: so far. Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's been two games, man.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, we're still learning a lot about
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  Speaker 3: ourselves on offense, and like I said, man, it's great
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  Speaker 3: to be too and one at this point, but like
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  Speaker 3: like you said, man, we're great at so many other
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  Speaker 3: things that we haven't explored yet, and so, uh, those
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  Speaker 3: those times will come. You know, it's a game by
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  Speaker 3: game basis, and you got to go out there and
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  Speaker 3: attack the defense you're seeing on that day. But as
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  Speaker 3: we continue to run the ball and be more effective
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  Speaker 3: than that in that area, uh, the play actions will
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  Speaker 3: come and all the other things that you know come
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  Speaker 3: off of that. So I just think, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: past two games, we ran the ball well in the
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  Speaker 3: first one, uh, the last one, you know, we're pretty
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  Speaker 3: effective and just the drop back game. But there are
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  Speaker 3: some more things that we can explore and we can
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  Speaker 3: get to that we just haven't you know yet.
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  Speaker 5: Connor, how that relationship with him obviously it's not not
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  Speaker 5: normal that probably that the center joins the team in
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  Speaker 5: mid August and stuff like that, and you got to
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  Speaker 5: hit the ground run and like that.
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  Speaker 1: How how is that kind of coming about?
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  Speaker 3: Giving Yeah, I would say, man, hats off to Connor,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just for the way that he's come right
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  Speaker 3: in and picked up the offense. You know, I know
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  Speaker 3: that's not an easy thing, but he's making it look
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  Speaker 3: easy and uh, you know, just you know, he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy who's a veteran guy who's played a ton of football.
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  Speaker 3: He understands defenses, he understands what it takes to be prepared.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's one of the more.
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  Speaker 3: Diligent workers I've been around, and so you know, has
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  Speaker 3: done a great job. Like I said, it's not an
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  Speaker 3: easy thing what he's doing here. There's still so much
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  Speaker 3: room for him to improve and for him to grow,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to get more comfortable, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: with more reps in the offense. But you know he's
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  Speaker 3: been he's been right at the forefront of what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing and he's leading the charge and you know, really
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  Speaker 3: appreciate having him.
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  Speaker 5: You know, what can you say about like the physical
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  Speaker 5: feat that he's pulled off, and you know, coming back
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  Speaker 5: from a to I believe you torrir racer in their career,
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  Speaker 5: like he did that in December and he was back
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  Speaker 5: for week one.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I think, uh, you know, hats off to him
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  Speaker 3: and taking care of his rehab. If you ever get
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  Speaker 3: to know the guy, be around him, you know that's
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  Speaker 3: not a surprise. He's like I said, he's a super
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  Speaker 3: hard worker. Uh, this guy's in the weight room pretty
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  Speaker 3: much all day long, just you know, taking care of
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  Speaker 3: his body. And you know, nowadays at a cl isn't
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  Speaker 3: what it was you know, ten years ago. So we
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  Speaker 3: got a lot more sports science that will help you
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  Speaker 3: get back faster. But you still got to put the
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  Speaker 3: work in. And I think that's something that he's done
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  Speaker 3: and continuing to do, and I think that's allowed him to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously be able to you know, come back
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  Speaker 3: as fast as he has in terms of.
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  Speaker 1: Some of that line of scrimmage stuff. When you were
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  Speaker 1: like learning that as a young quarterback, was there a.
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  Speaker 3: Coach or a a older quarterback that helped you kind
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  Speaker 3: of get good at.
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  Speaker 6: That part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, there's a lot of coaches and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: I studied under a lot of great quarterbacks as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think all of them helped me, uh get to
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  Speaker 3: to a point where, uh, I have a level of
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  Speaker 3: understanding of of the game and uh what I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 3: And so I would say all of 'em. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think there's one in particular. I don't think there's one year.
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  Speaker 3: But I think as a you know, as a twelve
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  Speaker 3: year veteran. I mean, you know, you see a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of looks. A lot of the overload pressures that we
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  Speaker 3: see are the same pressures I was seeing in camp
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  Speaker 3: against Rex Ryan as a rookie. You know, so just
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  Speaker 3: oh years and years of experience in film study, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's helped me.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, any of them been better than
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  Speaker 1: the others. But was there anything in particular about the
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  Speaker 1: way Philip that's like, did some of the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you picked the Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know the thing about Philly, Uh, Philly cheese man.
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  Speaker 3: He's uh, he's always been like a super cerebral quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Like one of the things that I learned from him
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  Speaker 3: was just how a breakdown tape and film study and
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  Speaker 3: how to study tendencies of defensive coordinators and then ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when I'm on the field, I'll say one
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  Speaker 3: of the things I learned from him is just I
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  Speaker 3: listen to the defense and listen to them talk when
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  Speaker 3: I'm out there, and uh, listen to their communication, watch
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  Speaker 3: their signals and you know, see what they're doing, and
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  Speaker 3: that'll give you a lot of tips and tails.
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  Speaker 1: And so phil was great at that.
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  Speaker 3: He was great at recognizing cover zero he would throw
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown on cover zero and then go yell at
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  Speaker 3: the decordinator for calling it against them. So I haven't
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  Speaker 3: gotten to that point yet, but you know, he and
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  Speaker 3: I still talking.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. He's a guy who I think has always.
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  Speaker 3: Been a consummate professional, but one of the best, you know,
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  Speaker 3: more cerebral quarterbacks I've ever been around.
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  Speaker 2: Are you given more or less of the same amount
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  Speaker 2: of freedom at the line and the Ryan Grubb than
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  Speaker 2: you were previously?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know in getting the ball out fast? You've
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  Speaker 6: got three different men, probably four or five different quarterback
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  Speaker 6: wide receivers. Just how does this familiarity play into that?
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  Speaker 6: And then just in terms of New England did break
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  Speaker 6: because they all break different?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a lot of repetition. Uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 3: why we put in all the reps in OTAs, you know,
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  Speaker 3: training camp, even all the stuff we do you know
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  Speaker 3: on our own, a lot of repetition, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: to know these guys, them understanding what I'm seeing in
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  Speaker 3: my mindset in certain situations, and then you know, me
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  Speaker 3: studying their body language and knowing how to throw to
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  Speaker 3: each type of receiver. You know, you got DK who's taller,
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  Speaker 3: So you try to throw the ball, you know, anywhere
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  Speaker 3: upward in his frame and he usually can come down
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  Speaker 3: with those tyler a little bit, you know, shorter, smaller guys.
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  Speaker 3: So you want to put the ball in areas where
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  Speaker 3: he can you know, maybe catch and fall if he
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  Speaker 3: has to, or you know, just leading them on on on,
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  Speaker 3: leading the passes so he can catch and run. You know,
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  Speaker 3: same with Jackson, just giving them passes that are you know,
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  Speaker 3: catchable that they can catch and.
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  Speaker 1: Make plays with.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's there's really a lot of repetition that
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  Speaker 3: goes into it, and I think that's the main thing.
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  Speaker 6: Now, DK, he spoke about your leadership and you've both
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  Speaker 6: know each other six years. I'm running. Can we flip
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  Speaker 6: the script and you talk about his leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's matured, man, DK has been, and that's been
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  Speaker 3: since he's gotten here. He's just been grown every single year.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the things that he's doing this
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  Speaker 3: year that's so impressive is just the way he's studying
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  Speaker 3: the opponent. He's sending me, you know, spreadsheets of tendencies
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  Speaker 3: and uh, he's you know, he's sending me you know,
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  Speaker 3: clips of the cornerback and just different ways that he
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  Speaker 3: wants to attack. And you know, we're collective in our
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  Speaker 3: efforts and figuring out how to put together a game plan, uh,
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  Speaker 3: so that we can attack the defense in the best
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  Speaker 3: way possible. And he's leading that charge, uh, studying his
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  Speaker 3: butt off, leading leading that receiver room. Those guys are
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  Speaker 3: doing the extra reps, a lot of things that you
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  Speaker 3: guys don't see, but you know, just getting the extra
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  Speaker 3: work in.
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  Speaker 1: And then his demeanor on the field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he knows that he's he's got a big
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  Speaker 3: target on his back, but he's not letting that get
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  Speaker 3: to him. You know, he's going out there, he's playing physical,
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  Speaker 3: he's playing fast, but he's not letting you know, guys
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  Speaker 3: getting his head or you can see the respect that
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  Speaker 3: he has on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Guys really respect DK and he's one of the best
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  Speaker 3: receivers in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep saying that.
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  Speaker 3: But just overall, every every part of his game has grown,
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  Speaker 3: and mentally, I think he's as sharp as he's ever been.
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  Speaker 4: There's always something of a chess match between a quarterback
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  Speaker 4: and the inside linebackers doing all things they do. Is
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  Speaker 4: it out of fundalmental When it's somebody that you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that you practice against a bunch like that with
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  Speaker 4: Bobby a couple of years ago, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's, uh, it's gonna be fun. Man.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, we we always appreciated Jordan around here.
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  Speaker 3: He's always been a great player. We know what he
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  Speaker 3: brings to the table. You know, he's a fast, you know,
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  Speaker 3: running hit type of linebacker. You know, graton coverage, He
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  Speaker 3: understands offenses. So we gotta have some ways to attack
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, really to eliminate him. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan's he's gonna go out there and he's gonna do
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  Speaker 3: his thing. And our job is to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and score points no matter who's on the field. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I said, we always appreciate him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we love him here, but got to do what we
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  Speaker 3: gotta do.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Thank you guys,