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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Quenton Nelson Trade, Preparing For Week 8 · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, great to see everybody. Welcome to our football Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear any otherwise. But we've had
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Speaker 1: a couple good days here, and then it'll be exciting
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Speaker 1: for today's practice. I feel like we haven't been out
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Speaker 1: there in a minute, but a great opportunity. Really, the
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Speaker 1: message to the team is how fast we can evolve
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Speaker 1: and move forward and stack wins, and it starts with
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Speaker 1: today's practice. So obviously, we're Really excited to have the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to acquire Quentin Nelson. I think John and his
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Speaker 1: team did a great job of making that happen. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're excited for him to join our squad,
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Speaker 1: join the 12s. Also, I just felt like it's necessary saying,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think our offensive line probably played their
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Speaker 1: best game of the season this past Sunday night. And
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Speaker 1: I just want to be clear, this isn't like a
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Speaker 1: commentary on any of our personnel or anything like that. We're–
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Speaker 1: We love our guys. It's a situation where you understand
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Speaker 1: how it affects the guys that have been here and
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Speaker 1: working really hard and have earned a great role in
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Speaker 1: our team. Also, two things can be true at the
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Speaker 1: same time. It's an opportunity to bring along an all-time,
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Speaker 1: probably a surefire Hall of Fame guard with a great
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Speaker 1: track record and for our understanding about the type of
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Speaker 1: person he is to join our locker room. It was
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Speaker 1: just It's an opportunity that is going to make the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks better. So today's kind of, what is it, day
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Speaker 1: two with him in the building, and it's exciting to
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Speaker 1: be out there practicing today.
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Speaker 2: As a defensive coach who's seen plenty of his tape
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Speaker 2: over the years, preparing for them, what does he bring
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Speaker 2: to the game?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think the style of play is the first
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Speaker 1: thing you think of when you think of Quinton. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: he's got incredible ability, but the physicality, the relentless play,
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Speaker 1: We talk about decisive, shocking, relentless. I think that's probably
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Speaker 1: a good way to sum up what it looks like
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Speaker 1: on tape. Again, we've put a lot of time and
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Speaker 1: effort into the chemistry of our offensive line, and we've
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Speaker 1: got a couple things shaking up right now, but the
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Speaker 1: guys will do a great job of meshing and getting
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Speaker 1: on the same page, and I think we'll be better
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Speaker 1: for it.
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Speaker 3: What was your reaction like when you found out that
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Speaker 3: the trade went down?
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Speaker 1: I think the way I summed it up, Earlier is
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Speaker 1: the way to go. As the head coach, you wear
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Speaker 1: two hats. You understand how it's going to affect your
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Speaker 1: team in the short run, but you think in the
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Speaker 1: long run how great it is for the Seahawks. It's
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Speaker 1: really exciting. Call me crazy. I don't like to react
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Speaker 1: as things are happening in the wild because we like
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Speaker 1: to be active in a lot of things. Put your
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Speaker 1: eggs in all in one basket and then To me, emotionally,
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Speaker 1: it's just like, hey, let's just stay the course and
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Speaker 1: we'll coach the heck out of whoever ends up on
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Speaker 1: our team. So that's really how I choose to look
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Speaker 1: at it. But it's definitely an exciting opportunity for us.
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Speaker 4: What's the plan?
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Speaker 3: Does he play left guard?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to play left guard, and Gray's going
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Speaker 1: to slide to the right.
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Speaker 5: How does the.
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Speaker 6: Number of games that Quentin has played help with this
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Speaker 6: fairly quick transition as we would expect?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's definitely going to help. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's a really sharp guy. He's been working really hard
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Speaker 1: since he got here. He got caught up to speed.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things that we do
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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of carryover from what he's familiar with,
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Speaker 1: and there's some things that are different. So he'll do
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Speaker 1: a great job. Our coach has done a great job
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Speaker 1: of kind of getting him up to speed, but– he's
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Speaker 1: going to be, he's going to be fine. He's going
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Speaker 1: to be great.
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Speaker 7: It wasn't that long ago that like guard was considered
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Speaker 7: a pretty low value position in the NFL hierarchy. Uh,
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Speaker 7: why is someone like Quentin, uh, valuable?
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Speaker 1: Uh, why is he valuable? Well, he's a, he's a
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Speaker 1: great player. I think, I think when we're looking at
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Speaker 1: people to, to join our team, I think it's the
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Speaker 1: whole package too of, um, what they're like every day
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Speaker 1: in the building and how they approach what kind of
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Speaker 1: teammate they are. And then, um, I mean, it's going
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Speaker 1: to help us in the run game, the pass game.
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Speaker 1: It makes us better. You know, it's pretty simple.
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Speaker 3: Moving great to the right side. He's obviously played a
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Speaker 3: lot in his career. Does that kind of help with
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Speaker 3: the transition for him trying to do this now?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thought is that he's had a lot
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Speaker 1: of experience playing on the right side. So that'll help
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Speaker 1: with the learning curve. But, you know, I mean, these
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Speaker 1: things are, you know, there's just there's a process that
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Speaker 1: has to be had and. We got the right guys
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Speaker 1: for the job, but we understand it's a process as well,
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Speaker 1: and we got to attack the heck out of it.
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Speaker 3: Mike, how's Charles doing?
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Speaker 1: Charles has come along great. He's not going to practice today,
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Speaker 1: but he's doing great.
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Speaker 8: Do you expect.
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Speaker 7: Quentin to play all of Monday night?
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Speaker 1: We expect him to play, yeah. Have you ruled out
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Speaker 1: injured reserve for Charles? As of right now, he's not
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Speaker 1: going on injured reserve.
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Speaker 4: Mike, you guys weren't the only ones that are making
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Speaker 4: a trade involved in this game this week. When you
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Speaker 4: found out about the Jeffrey Simmons ad this week, what
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Speaker 4: did you think of that? And obviously you know him
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Speaker 4: from practicing against him and all of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeffrey's a great player. I feel like the two
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Speaker 1: practices with him has been a great experience. I think
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Speaker 1: you just got to understand how that's going to affect
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Speaker 1: what we do. He's on the team now. We got
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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him. They do a great
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Speaker 1: job on defense, so he's only going to make them better, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and we expect him to play and be out there,
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Speaker 1: so we have to have a plan for him.
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Speaker 5: Mike, you mentioned the two hats and you taking care
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Speaker 5: of the guys who've been here. What do you tell
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Speaker 5: Anthony Bradford? What's the message?
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Speaker 1: It's not an easy situation. I thought Anthony played really
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Speaker 1: good football for us, and he has, and he's earned
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Speaker 1: a significant role on our team, a starting level role,
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Speaker 1: and So it's one of those three on a round
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Speaker 1: type of things with AB that is not easy. So
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Speaker 1: we know where to sugarcoat it. And I think he
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Speaker 1: believes us when we say this is how much we
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Speaker 1: love him. His teammates, I mean, the guys love him
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Speaker 1: in the locker room. He's a fantastic teammate. We don't
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Speaker 1: expect him to be like jumping over joy in this
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Speaker 1: situation because that's not realistic. But he's going to be
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Speaker 1: a great teammate and he's going to stay ready and
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Speaker 1: We know how this league works. I mean, you're a
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Speaker 1: play away from him playing every play again. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not an easy situation, but he's a tough cookie
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Speaker 1: and the guys will have his back as well, you know,
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Speaker 1: and so we're behind him as well, but it's not easy.
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Speaker 5: And Josh Jones stays a left tackle for Cross while
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Speaker 5: he's out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh is our third tackle.
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Speaker 3: Rasheed Shahid, how is he doing?
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Speaker 1: Rasheed's doing well. Practice status today, I don't think he's
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Speaker 1: going to practice today. I've been wrong before, but I
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Speaker 1: don't believe he's going to be out there.
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Speaker 6: When you look at this Bears team, defensively they're among
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Speaker 6: top five in a lot of categories. Offensively, they look explosive.
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Speaker 6: How would you describe what they have done for the
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Speaker 6: first six, seven weeks?
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Speaker 1: As their team? As their team, yeah. I think probably
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Speaker 1: the best compliment we can give them is that they
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Speaker 1: have a clear identity on how they want to operate
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Speaker 1: in all three phases. And they do a great job
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Speaker 1: of backing it up. So it's going to be a
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Speaker 1: great challenge for us. And it really starts with today,
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Speaker 1: with how we prepare and how we practice. I think
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Speaker 1: we're off to a good start. But you're right, it's
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Speaker 1: very clear on what they're trying to get done in
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Speaker 1: all three phases. And that's a compliment to them.
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Speaker 3: What about their pass rush with they're getting Montez Sweat back?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a tremendous player. So he has him out
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Speaker 1: the whole season, obviously.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: Getting him back will help.
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Speaker 7: You and Ben Johnson have had background, obviously, back to
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Speaker 7: Baltimore where they came in in Detroit, and you guys
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Speaker 7: did pretty well against his offense, and then you guys
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Speaker 7: went into Detroit a couple years ago, and they did
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Speaker 7: pretty well against your defense. What makes Ben Johnson good
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Speaker 7: at what he does?
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Speaker 1: Well, we haven't had– I mean, playing once a year
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean we have a– or once, twice in
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Speaker 1: four years– Not like a rich history. But we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for their offense. Again, they have
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Speaker 1: an identity. I think he does a great job of
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Speaker 1: utilizing their personnel to the best of their ability. Their
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Speaker 1: offense has evolved over that amount of time, going back to,
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Speaker 1: what was that, 23? Which is a tip of the
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Speaker 1: cap to how they operate. They play decisive. And to
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Speaker 1: talk about play style, it's very clear. And it's a
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Speaker 1: style that we respect. I think the stats back that
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Speaker 1: up too. The tape backs it up as well.
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Speaker 3: One more on Nelson. You've obviously had to design defenses
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Speaker 3: going against him. What really stood out when you kind
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Speaker 3: of watched the film of him?
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Speaker 1: They run it left. I just made that up. I
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Speaker 1: actually don't know if they ran left or right. He's
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Speaker 1: a guy you want to run behind and all that.
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Speaker 1: He's a great puller. I remember him pulling out in
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Speaker 1: space and getting the alleys and stuff. He was a
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Speaker 1: great athlete. Get to the second level. Some of the
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Speaker 1: run schemes are a little bit more wide zone than
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Speaker 1: they've been, but we think that skill set's going to
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Speaker 1: transfer just fine.
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Speaker 5: He went to Notre Dame. He met his wife in Indiana.
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Speaker 5: He was a Colts for eight years. Who takes the
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Speaker 5: lead in indoctrinating him to the Seahawks culture, your culture?
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Speaker 5: Do you step in or do you let the.
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Speaker 1: Veterans do that? It's everybody. I think it'll just happen naturally.
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Speaker 1: I just had an opportunity to talk to him for
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Speaker 1: probably a little bit more than briefly, I would say,
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Speaker 1: and having a similar experience. of, you know, you're coming
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Speaker 1: out here and your wife's going to be back at
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Speaker 1: home and it's a transitional period. I think it's a
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Speaker 1: blessing in disguise right now where you can focus on
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Speaker 1: football 100%, but it's also going to be a process
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Speaker 1: that we understand is inevitable, but I think we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of great people in place to help them
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Speaker 1: through that, you know, between Mo and Soup and Connie
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Speaker 1: and as well as our teammates. It's actually a great
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Speaker 1: opportunity for us because I think you can deploy some
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Speaker 1: really great people to help them out. I think we'll
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Speaker 1: be better for it.
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Speaker 3: Jadarian, coming back to practice, I guess how realistic is
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Speaker 3: it he could play Monday if he just gets a
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Speaker 3: couple days of practice?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, realistic.
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Speaker 7: Ben Johnson is kind of known for a lot of
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Speaker 7: trick plays. What makes it effective when an offense corner
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Speaker 7: throws some of those unconventional plays in.
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Speaker 1: Versus, you know, just.
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Speaker 7: How do you get effective at mixing those in?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think you want to
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Speaker 1: see those plays in practice, but I think it's a
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Speaker 1: function of, like, Are you guys looking at the right stuff?
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Speaker 1: Are you disciplined defense? I'm not saying that trick plays
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Speaker 1: only work against undisciplined defenses. They obviously game plan them.
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Speaker 1: They work really hard at them to have the confidence
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Speaker 1: to have those things ready in some of those higher
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Speaker 1: leverage situations. It's definitely an awareness on our part to
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Speaker 1: know that things are on their menu that they can
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Speaker 1: get to. That's really the case anytime the ball snaps.
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Speaker 1: it's really a function of like how well we can
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Speaker 1: play our, our, our rules, our defense together, uh, whether
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Speaker 1: it's a trick play or if it's a dive play,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's really the same mentality, honestly.
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Speaker 6: When you look at these teams, both defenses are great
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Speaker 6: in third down opportunities. This might be a silly question,
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Speaker 6: but are there different ways to get to that mentality
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Speaker 6: or the execution needed on third down?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, um, you know, coach Allen
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Speaker 1: does a great job. They, uh, they operate a little
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Speaker 1: bit differently than we do. And I think, uh, I think, again,
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Speaker 1: it's another testament to how he's been able to evolve
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Speaker 1: their scheme and grow it over the years. He's always
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Speaker 1: been aggressive. They've always done a great job, but building
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Speaker 1: it around their scheme and their people is a challenge.
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Speaker 1: So we have to do a great job of really
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Speaker 1: studying and understanding the things that they're capable of doing
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Speaker 1: and understanding how we're going to protect everything and be
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Speaker 1: able to get the ball out on time and have
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Speaker 1: a great plan for third down as well. But, I mean...
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of great, it's the same process every week.
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Speaker 1: It's understanding what makes them go and then how that
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Speaker 1: fits into the things that we like to be able
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Speaker 1: to get to and working through our process through the
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Speaker 1: lens of what makes them go as well.
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Speaker 8: Mike, what's been the key to you guys understanding how
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Speaker 8: to set the edge and how important has that been
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Speaker 8: to the success of your defense?
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we play a lot of four down,
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Speaker 1: we play a lot of shells, so those guys have
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Speaker 1: a lot of burden on them. You have to take
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Speaker 1: it A lot of times you have to take more
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Speaker 1: than one gap. A lot of times that's through constricting space.
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Speaker 1: And you have to be really decisive and violent to
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Speaker 1: be able to play on the edge for our defense.
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Speaker 1: And we've got the guys that have that type of
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Speaker 1: mentality and that type of unselfish attitude to be able
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Speaker 1: to throw their bodies in there like that at a
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Speaker 1: consistent basis. So not a lot of people can do that.
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Speaker 1: That's what allows us to do the things that we
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Speaker 1: were able to do.
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Speaker 7: Caleb Williams has excelled against too high shells and you
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Speaker 7: guys play a lot of too high. You typically stick
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Speaker 7: with what you do. How'd you come to that philosophy
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Speaker 7: versus kind of adapting to some of the opponents that.
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Speaker 1: You see? I think it's, I think we, I think
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Speaker 1: our over overarching philosophy in terms of how we game
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Speaker 1: plan is we have to have a really strong, clear
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Speaker 1: identity about what our wheelhouse is. and where we can
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Speaker 1: operate our best, and then how can we live within
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Speaker 1: that wheelhouse that targets what we feel like can best
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Speaker 1: attack what our opponent is doing. So we're really never
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Speaker 1: leaving our wheelhouse. Otherwise, you're playing a, I've lived that
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Speaker 1: life before, and you're playing literally a different defense every week,
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Speaker 1: and you never get good at anything. Got some scars
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Speaker 1: on that front, obviously.
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Speaker 3: Murphy, a couple of his pressures in the game, if
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Speaker 3: I remember correctly, he was standing up.
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Speaker 1: What's the idea behind standing him up? I feel like
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Speaker 1: it can be effective. I don't think we would stand
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Speaker 1: people up if we didn't feel like there was an
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Speaker 1: added benefit of what we're asking them to do from
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Speaker 1: why we're standing him up.
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Speaker 4: I suppose you don't want to tell me.
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Speaker 1: To be as general as possible. I mean, I'm not, like, hiding, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, secret codes or whatever, but it's probably TMI
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Speaker 1: if I told you exactly why we did it.
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Speaker 5: Back to Nelson and Dr. Nate, getting them used to that,
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Speaker 5: being out here. How much of that did you not
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Speaker 5: know until you became a head coach? How important were
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Speaker 5: all the things that go into that, the people, the process,
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Speaker 5: and how long did it take you to perfect that process?
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Speaker 1: In terms of, like, getting people schooled up on how
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Speaker 1: we do things and stuff?
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Speaker 5: And getting them settled and housing and the external and
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Speaker 5: all the factors that go into an eight-year veteran coming
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Speaker 5: to a new place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. I think even going back to being in Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: having some acquisitions in the middle of the year that
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Speaker 1: really helped us, you realize that you can do it.
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Speaker 1: And I think being here and understanding what has to
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Speaker 1: go into making that come to life is it's kind
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Speaker 1: of a 12 is one thing, like understanding, Hey, it
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Speaker 1: takes a lot of people to make this, make this
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Speaker 1: transition happen. You know, it's not just ball, you know, it's,
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Speaker 1: it's life as well. And so for us, and we
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Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in players playing their best
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Speaker 1: football for us. And if that's good, and we believe
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Speaker 1: that can happen with Nelson, you know, like with Quentin,
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Speaker 1: it's like, it's if you, if you don't believe that
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't, you wouldn't try to make those types of
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Speaker 1: types of, you know, moves. So yeah, It's going to
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Speaker 1: take everybody to work that. We understand it's not going
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Speaker 1: to happen overnight, but I think if he feels the
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Speaker 1: kind of the weight and the power of the program
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Speaker 1: and the people and the staff behind him, I think
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Speaker 1: that'll help him play his best football. Mike, John's out.
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Speaker 4: Since you've been here, he's done.
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Speaker 2: Mid-season trades for Ernest, for Rasheed. The year before, he
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Speaker 2: added Leo and obviously now Quentin Nelson.
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Speaker 1: What about the way John operates? Yeah, it's almost a
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Speaker 1: prerequisite at this point.
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Speaker 2: What about him do you think makes him so good
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Speaker 2: at getting, you know, making these kind of deals to
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Speaker 2: help the team in the middle of the year?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can just speak for, like, the type
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Speaker 1: of guy that he is and, like, how he does
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Speaker 1: business every day. And I think he's always just looking
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Speaker 1: at it through, like, a positive lens of, like, how
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Speaker 1: can we, like, it's cool to feel like the general
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Speaker 1: manager is in your corner throughout the season, too, that they're,
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you can feel like, hey, it's in season, okay,
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Speaker 1: it's coach's time, hey, it's draft season, okay, it's GM's time,
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Speaker 1: you know, we kind of pass the baton around the
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Speaker 1: combine and then off we go. It's like, now you just,
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Speaker 1: you feel like everybody's kind of in this thing together
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Speaker 1: and we're always, even like how we manage the 70
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Speaker 1: and the ready squad and that they're in it with us,
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Speaker 1: you know, and so that's a cool feeling that he's
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Speaker 1: able to do what he does. How he gets it done,
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Speaker 1: I think that's, I think that's the, some of the
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Speaker 1: things that make John such a great general manager.
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Speaker 4: They're the leading rushing offense in the league. What makes
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Speaker 4: them good as a unit on that front?
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Speaker 1: Well, it was funny. We told the team this morning,
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Speaker 1: we're like, hey, well, last week was the best. It
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Speaker 1: was a single best rusher. This week is the, like
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Speaker 1: every week we're telling you we're facing the best offense,
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Speaker 1: best rushing offense. At some point we're lying. We weren't
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Speaker 1: lying this week or last week. Got to be accurate
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Speaker 1: on how you report the stats, I guess. It's a
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Speaker 1: team effort on their front. It really feels like whoever's
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Speaker 1: carrying the ball is decisive and runs physically and square
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. They obviously have a really good
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Speaker 1: offensive line. Tight ends have done a phenomenal job. The
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Speaker 1: receivers block really well. They scheme it up well. They're
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Speaker 1: not afraid to call it often and frequently, and they're
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Speaker 1: committed to it. So kind of a pretty good recipe
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Speaker 1: for a good run game.
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Speaker 3: Do you expect Drake to practice this week?
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Speaker 1: Drake will be out there today, I believe.
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Speaker 8: What about Zach and his status for this week?
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Speaker 1: What are your expectations? Zach's going to practice today.
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Speaker 3: And Vilas Jones.
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Speaker 1: What's his status? Vilas is not going to practice today.
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Speaker 7: I know you said you don't react that much, but
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Speaker 7: when you heard Quentin Nelson might be available, were you
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Speaker 7: surprised a player like that might be available?
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Speaker 1: I know I didn't really have a reaction. It's just Okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's other names that, I mean, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of conversations that are happening. And so you just,
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Speaker 1: I think from my mind, it's like, okay, you kind
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Speaker 1: of go through the steps of what would it look like?
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Speaker 1: How would it get done? What would we do? It's
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Speaker 1: more of like a procedural psycho mentality that I have
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Speaker 1: rather than an unemotional guy. So, a blast to be around.
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Speaker 1: You have emotional reactions when other kids make trades? What
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Speaker 1: do you think?
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Speaker 4: Last question.
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Speaker 1: He's going downhill. He's losing steam quickly.
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Speaker 5: Mars will save it.
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Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 6: Pressure.
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Speaker 8: But going back to Brian's question, since you don't have
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Speaker 8: a reaction, emotionally, once you know the name of that player,
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Speaker 8: do you go just right to like, okay, how is
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Speaker 8: that individual X going to help our team?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, those are the conversations you're having, right? It's just,
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Speaker 1: what's the impact? How does it affect us now in
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Speaker 1: the future? That's, that's, that's the responsibility I have, right?
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Speaker 1: It's to the team of, of does it make, does it,
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Speaker 1: does it move the needle or not? You know, it's
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Speaker 1: not just my, it's not just me. It's not like they're,
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Speaker 1: I'm the, one-all be-all guy that they're asking, but, you know,
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Speaker 1: just be a part of that conversation. And as a team,
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Speaker 1: we decide to move forward.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right. Thank you.