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Dre'Mont Jones: The Defense Is "Giving Me A Lot Of Freedom" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's it been like working with with Michael Bennett these
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  Speaker 1: last couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. You know, I've been learning a lot
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  Speaker 2: by myself. Uh. He's pointing out things that I haven't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily notice uh in this recent past. And uh, there's
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  Speaker 2: been a blessed to have a Hall of Famer life
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  Speaker 2: that in your room, helping.
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  Speaker 1: You out a practician.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the very demanded. I can see him being in
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  Speaker 2: the coach one day when you know, when whatever he
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  Speaker 2: decides to is it definitely a natural addit? Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 2: he's yeah, he's he's good.
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  Speaker 1: Now the third paths you're on and you're doing scheme
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  Speaker 1: and see our own is really working life.
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  Speaker 2: It's allowing me to take off and go whenever it
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  Speaker 2: needs to be. Uh. There, they're giving me a lot
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  Speaker 2: of freedom to do what I need to do to
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  Speaker 2: help out his defense. Uh. You know, I I'm definitely
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  Speaker 2: appreciative of giving me that green light. And but there's
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  Speaker 2: definitely some things I gotta fix and make sure, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I do things with him defense still, Uh, creating separation
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  Speaker 2: of the lot of scrimmage, just getting off the ball,
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  Speaker 2: going being a penetrated necessarily regards I mean, yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. I mean not all over the field, but
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  Speaker 2: within the A and B gap.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Okay, you have to be lights to make the play,
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  Speaker 1: but you still got it.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be, you gotta be. You gotta have that
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  Speaker 2: awareness and be smart about it. You can't just do
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  Speaker 2: it all the time. You got no the time and place,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, third and one. You know, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be Russian hob of the field, but you know, just
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  Speaker 2: if it's first and ten, I can pick my poison
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  Speaker 2: a little bit based on the formation. Talk about Michael
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  Speaker 2: Bennett having that same type of freedom. That's something that
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  Speaker 2: you and Bennett have talked about. And oh yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Just having the good play recognition and just
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  Speaker 2: being very oard disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much Stargos will play. Are you
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  Speaker 1: hoping you get a few STAPs Thursday and kind of
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  Speaker 1: be the field of home crowd?
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  Speaker 2: Oh so, I definitely want to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: play a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would love to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: play the whole game, but that's not what they want
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  Speaker 2: for me right now. But do I do hope I
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  Speaker 2: can play in the past.
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  Speaker 1: What have you found a benefit? What do you get
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  Speaker 1: out of there siston games.
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  Speaker 2: Last year we didn't play any games, which isn't that
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  Speaker 2: necessarily bad thing, but it's good to get a feel.
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  Speaker 2: So your first game isn't like a new experience to
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  Speaker 2: how to play the game. I played a game before,
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  Speaker 2: but it's good to get your feet wet a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We saw you get hurt a little bit the other
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  Speaker 1: day that it looks like everything's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was some something very minor. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it hurt at the moment, but I'm okay. Now what
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  Speaker 2: have you seen out of Mike Morris and Kim Young
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  Speaker 2: and there a rookie is kind of from They're all different.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could like go on a tangent about
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  Speaker 2: hi individual player. They all do different things really well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're they're definitely have promising futures if they
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  Speaker 2: keep doing the right thing. There's things that cleaned up
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  Speaker 2: as rookies. They're not perfect, but they're doing good things
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  Speaker 2: out there to let us know that are you have
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  Speaker 2: a you have a chance in this league?
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  Speaker 1: What like has talked about like just because he's so tall,
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  Speaker 1: the pad levels sort of a thing for him as Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something that we all pointed out and.
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  Speaker 1: Noticed, is there a trick to that?
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  Speaker 2: Just not I mean there's no there's no trick or
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  Speaker 2: like magic peel. It just got to mind yourself what
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  Speaker 2: to do, just kind of like with anything, remember to
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  Speaker 2: get off ball. Like me, I gotta rememberind myself. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the heaviest he tackle, so I need to get
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  Speaker 2: off the ball to create penetration. Save Mike. Mike is
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  Speaker 2: six six three or five. He gotta make sure he
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  Speaker 2: has great length, but he has to make sure you
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  Speaker 2: got his pass down so he can be effective.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like Derek's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of got no one here at the five.
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  Speaker 1: Game, showing up a little man in a couple of sacks.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen him kind of progress since his confidences.
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  Speaker 2: He always had a little dog in him, but his
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  Speaker 2: confidence is growing and his player recognitions is going and
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  Speaker 2: going to. He has a lot of work to do, though,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm glad he's doing on the field
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  Speaker 2: like he's supposed to, But I mean, I'm not gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give him too much a pedal back because
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  Speaker 2: he has a lot of work to do. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember being in the same shoes where I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing everything. I feel like I'm on top of
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  Speaker 2: the world, but you don't know until you're out there
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  Speaker 2: that game speed a little different.
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  Speaker 1: You're probously playing next to Jaron a lot, just how
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of chemistry coming and working with each other and.
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  Speaker 2: We're just learning off each other. Jay reed, he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get enough recognition for how smart of a player he is. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's he was a part of those great defenses,
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  Speaker 2: so whenever he took from back then, he's bringing it
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  Speaker 2: to now and reminded us of what it text to
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  Speaker 2: be a good defensive a line. I can't remember we
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  Speaker 2: asked you this when you signed, but were you aware
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  Speaker 2: at the time of like how big of a departure
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  Speaker 2: your deal.
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  Speaker 1: Was for this team in terms of like they hadn't
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  Speaker 1: really spent that.
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  Speaker 2: Much money for agency in this regime on like one player,
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  Speaker 2: when you're aware of how big your deal was compared
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  Speaker 2: to the type of deals they signed up. No, I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really aware. It was just kind of one of
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  Speaker 2: those things where you know it was a blessing to
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  Speaker 2: get and I was kind of just thinking more so
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  Speaker 2: about how it affects me. I didn't realize how much
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  Speaker 2: it's changed the dynamic of the history of the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and I'm very It's very humbling, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm very appreciative to be a part of something different.
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  Speaker 2: I know they don't normally do that, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: they chose me. Did you think Seattle would be in
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  Speaker 2: play for you to quote into free agency? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Or no?
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to loborate too much, but yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned that Denver. They didn't play there, any of
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the preseason last year. I do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like that mattered at all?
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  Speaker 2: I mean a little bit, a little bit. It's pros
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  Speaker 2: and cons when you do anything in preseason, whether you play,
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  Speaker 2: whether you don't play. You know, preseason, did you play
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  Speaker 2: risking injury? You don't play, your risk of not being ready?
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  Speaker 1: How many times said you got a mistake in the
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  Speaker 1: first ball?
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  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy about that? I got that a
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  Speaker 2: lot more when I when I didn't play here like
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  Speaker 2: we we came here. I think back in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: one in the preseason and I was out to eat
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  Speaker 2: with my old teammates in Denver, and the whole restaurant
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was Jamal. The entire restaurant was the
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  Speaker 2: craziest thing ever. My team isn't laughing because I've been
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  Speaker 2: getting there for a couple of days now and then
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  Speaker 2: they they just slid the fire. I like Jamal apparently
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  Speaker 2: or No, I'm never signed somebody grabbing another man's name. No,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't told me that. I don't know how he
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  Speaker 2: did that. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna take a Paige from his book. That's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: You got that, you I mean, I know people have
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  Speaker 1: compared to you guys a little bit. Was that just
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  Speaker 1: when you looked at in the past.
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  Speaker 2: And second, oh yeah, definitely he was one of those
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  Speaker 2: past players that I looked at because I got compared
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  Speaker 2: to him back when I was like younger from like teammates,
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  Speaker 2: and Denver said, I kind of like resemble his game style.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'll be on YouTube looking up his
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  Speaker 2: highlightnse seeing some of his moves and you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: the main the main man, you know, a d and
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  Speaker 2: like Grady Jared along those lines, what what Mario join
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  Speaker 2: you guys leadership and experience? I mean, Mario is a
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  Speaker 2: is that little player too? You know, he's somebody who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't also get a lot of attention for his player
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  Speaker 2: recognition and how smartest player he is. He does the
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  Speaker 2: right things, and I'm glad to have Mario.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you wear those sides of bats? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Ursus small, fair, What's what's the best style?
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually getting a little smaller so I can get
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  Speaker 2: a little more range. Yeah, then the ones that have
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  Speaker 2: right now a little bit too big. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: him too too big because feel like I can't move.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm just like restricted a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll probably doll him down a little bit. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a balance. You gotta you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna protect yourself at the same time, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: be able to move. I'm not I'm not going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much did those Uh, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what they were. They were like, it was basically
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  Speaker 2: a bra I don't know what it was doing. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: If anything else has happened, they get the change though,