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Pete Carroll: "It’s Time To Finish This Off On A Great Note" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: A little bet about Oh nah, you guys listen money about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot, a lot heading towards this game, uh,
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  Speaker 2: of of great importance to us. We wanna play really
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  Speaker 2: good football. We wanna finish the thing on a good
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  Speaker 2: note in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: And see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody always wants to talk about you know, you wh
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  Speaker 2: looking at the scores and all that.
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  Speaker 1: We're not.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even talking about that. It means nothing dost
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  Speaker 2: right now. Uh, we got a game we gotta play
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  Speaker 2: and we gotta get focused to do it right. We
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  Speaker 2: had a very good week.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: In in preparation, we worked on some stuff that we
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  Speaker 2: needed to work on.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out of last week. We got some guys.
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  Speaker 2: You you're gonna ask questions about it about who who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be up and down? But uh, all in all,
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  Speaker 2: we had a great work work week, and uh it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's time to finish this thing off on a
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  Speaker 2: in a on a great note.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, that's what everything's all about.
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  Speaker 2: From what you've seen, do do you feel like you
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  Speaker 2: you will be able to fix the tackling issues.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with I'm counting that we will. I'm counting that
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  Speaker 1: that's happening. What did you do in that regard? Every
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  Speaker 1: day we pr we tackle every day. Did you make
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  Speaker 1: decided to make any personnel changes with the way you
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  Speaker 1: guys are approaching things this week or is it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of a books on how guys.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're t We're just trying to get up the
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  Speaker 2: best guys on the field, you know, with you know,
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  Speaker 2: watching guys come back from and man and during the
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  Speaker 2: uh the week to see who's gonna be available.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not we're not going that direction. We're trying
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  Speaker 1: to just get everybody back up. How's Jordan Rustling?
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  Speaker 2: He practiced well. Today, we'd we'd Wednesday and Friday. We
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  Speaker 2: we took him out there and he he did fine.
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  Speaker 1: You've had a lot of guys with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games under their belt just over their career.
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  Speaker 2: Did any of them step up and be more vocal than.
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  Speaker 1: Were helping to deliver kind of messages going into the final?
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  Speaker 1: We did. We did it exactly the way we needed
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  Speaker 1: to do. Uh. Our guys were right on point. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the guys that you're talking about, we did. We didn't talk.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't talked to you since the Pro Bowl stuff
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  Speaker 1: came out. One day, just those three guys get sucked into. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really really uh rewarding for for the
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  Speaker 2: guys to you know, get recognized again. It's a great
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  Speaker 2: sign of respect, uh when that comes around, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not about the game anymore. It's not
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  Speaker 2: about all that kind of stuff. It's really it's about
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  Speaker 2: the respect and and uh, you know, for Bobby to
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to be recognized again in one on
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  Speaker 2: a year where he's gonna you know, get a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of tackles you know, in this game probably as well
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  Speaker 2: and maybe break one of his all time records, uh
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  Speaker 2: and continue to be noticed as as such a stellar
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  Speaker 2: part of this game. Great recognition for Julian who had
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic season, did so many positive things for us,
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  Speaker 2: to so many big plays throughout the year, and uh
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  Speaker 2: was really a great.
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  Speaker 1: Addition to our club. He was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a great recognition. He was really uh
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  Speaker 2: taken by it. It was it was m moving to
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  Speaker 2: uh for him to get recognized with all that's going
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  Speaker 2: on this year. It's just been an amazing season for him.
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  Speaker 2: And then uh, for Devin to get recognized, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible, uh. Statement by the people that you know
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  Speaker 2: that watch the game and all that, but they recognize
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  Speaker 2: a great football player, and so uh he was really
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  Speaker 2: really excited about it, and uh really thrilled for him.
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  Speaker 1: It's say anything about the old culture, your system, the
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  Speaker 1: young guy and the old guy get Yeah, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that, the ying and the ying of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I I I was well aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh just happy to see it happened.
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  Speaker 1: You said he did tackling every day. Was what did
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  Speaker 1: you do? Did you bring on the ground or great?
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  Speaker 2: We work on the on the fundamental stuff, is what
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  Speaker 2: we did. No, worked on the fundamental stuff. That the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that you can do. We you know, we'd we'd
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  Speaker 2: I'm uh, I'm happy with the progress and the focus,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I I s I'll tell you again
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  Speaker 2: that two weeks ago and three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: We practice, we tackled really well.
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  Speaker 2: We had a bad game and and so we just
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  Speaker 2: went back to the basics of it and to to
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  Speaker 2: get the focus that we need.
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  Speaker 1: How's how's Jared Reed doing?
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be all the way up to game time
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  Speaker 2: with which ah yeah, he's uh he he couldn't go today,
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  Speaker 2: and so uh we're gonna wait it out. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a nasty shot on his on his on his knee.
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  Speaker 2: That's uh, it's a big bruise and it's really it's
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  Speaker 2: hampering him something. So we'll see if we can get
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  Speaker 2: something done by game day.
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  Speaker 1: What happened with k Ken back in Hoss?
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  Speaker 2: He he he n stumbled on the turf and and
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  Speaker 2: and caught his caught his thumb on the ground going
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  Speaker 2: going to the ground and if you hit hit it
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  Speaker 2: pretty hard and and just caught it in the really
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  Speaker 2: nasty way.
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  Speaker 1: And so he uh, you know, he hurt his thumb.
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  Speaker 1: What you always haven't seen him play mice this year, But.
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  Speaker 2: What does he kind of show through, I guess really
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  Speaker 2: positive stuff. We just never got the chance to get
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  Speaker 2: him over the hump where we got the play time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had him up a couple of times
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  Speaker 2: and all that he missed so much time. It just
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  Speaker 2: he just fell fell behind, just the competitive part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But when he's out here, he's flashy and he's quick,
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  Speaker 2: and he can catch the football and he knows what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. He looks natural. He got a good spirit
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  Speaker 2: about him. So it's just unfortunate he didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to go this year to.
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  Speaker 1: Tell or talk to him about that. And I get
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming he used discourage. He put him discourage at
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him too, you know, and when through
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  Speaker 2: his injury and when he got back into action all that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just stayed together.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, nothing specific, you know, about anything in particular,
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  Speaker 2: other than just hanging in there and keep battling.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Very good week.
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  Speaker 2: This is Yeah, this is the best week he's had
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  Speaker 2: probably in three weeks, you know, and in practice he's
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  Speaker 2: played well in the games, but it's it was great
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  Speaker 2: to see him really be able to to scoot and
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  Speaker 2: and uh uh he looks quick and ready and and
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  Speaker 2: he he's he'll he'll be well.
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  Speaker 1: Prepared for this week. Jason Peters, how's he doing.
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  Speaker 2: He's not making it around very well. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: uh something happens that maybe he could get back up. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have to wait a couple more days and
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  Speaker 2: we'll just take every day, you know, as we're going here.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate, you know that he hasn't been able to
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  Speaker 2: finish better than uh than this, But we really like
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  Speaker 2: the guy he's and he's been a real positive factor.
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  Speaker 2: But I it's gonna be hard for him to get
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  Speaker 2: get in there. But I think we were listening him
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  Speaker 2: as questionable right now, see what happens on game day.
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  Speaker 2: Stone in line to start were candle on Stone.
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  Speaker 1: And with Brooks. Do you do you like his chances
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  Speaker 1: of it he's playing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you brought up, uh, Patrick McConnell last week that
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  Speaker 2: you got the game a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So what's it that kind of movie you see you
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  Speaker 1: guy like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it is, it's it's a it's an
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  Speaker 2: exciting opportunity for those guys. And he he had a
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  Speaker 2: good hit on the Kicking Game, which would everybody was
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  Speaker 2: kind of celebrating, going crazy about uh because you know
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  Speaker 2: how special it is to get that that first opportunity
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  Speaker 2: uh uh time Okata, you know, getting in there a
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  Speaker 2: little bit too in the Kicking Game particular. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: such a big deal to these guys. It's real. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great reward for them for all the hard work
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  Speaker 2: because they've they've been wanting to play the whole time too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's like everybody else, and so when they
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  Speaker 2: get their chance, it's that first shot. It's very special
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  Speaker 2: and memorable for them. You know, Leonard Williams can become
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  Speaker 2: the first person since nineteen thirty to play eighteen regular
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  Speaker 2: season games.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I do like that a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: trivia right there. Good, thank you? Yes, Yeah, he made
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  Speaker 1: it through the protocol and was able to go. How's
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  Speaker 1: Greek Young got through the last few weeks since he's
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  Speaker 1: been able to get back and get off the fature, Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 2: We we continue to find ways to get him involved,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and he's it took him. It was such
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  Speaker 2: a long injury. But once he got back here and
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  Speaker 2: he got his legs underneath him and got going, we
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  Speaker 2: just started spotting him into things.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He's really a particularly affective special teams guy and one
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  Speaker 2: one everybody else does some other good things too for
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  Speaker 2: us on offense that we're excited about. And he's in
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  Speaker 2: the last two weeks he's been really full go and
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  Speaker 2: it It's taken him a long time to get get back,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, it's got a really good prospects for the future.
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  Speaker 1: When Julian Love.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't playing as much as few games yet he's still
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  Speaker 2: leading the league person leading You guys have special teams
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  Speaker 2: tackles would it beout to.
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  Speaker 1: Show me you. Yeah, well you know it.
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  Speaker 2: It was something great that we recognized coming out of
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  Speaker 2: last year. You know where he remember I told you
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  Speaker 2: had over a thousand plays because of the Special Team's plays.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I don't know what his count is this year,
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  Speaker 2: but shoot, he played a ton and and uh the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he continues to make places wherever you put
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  Speaker 2: him is is a real statement that he's a very
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  Speaker 2: very good football player, very bright handles all of the information.
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  Speaker 2: Uh I mean, he's a signal caller, force on upon team.
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  Speaker 2: It it's just uh I, he's a fantastic teammate. And
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  Speaker 2: uh so that's why way everybody was really excited about
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  Speaker 2: him geting recognized because it's you can't deny it. He's
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  Speaker 2: he's the real deal.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, thank you, Okays,