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DeMarcus Lawrence: "I Have A Lot More In The Tank" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we doing good? You know, welcome to Seattle. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you a good well. How did this all come together? Huh?
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  Speaker 1: All through the graces of God?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I feel like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people thought, you know, I was on the verge of retirement,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, thanks for Seattle for believing in me
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  Speaker 2: and giving me this opportunity and now I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: And how did Dan? Was he a big big part
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  Speaker 1: of us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just being able to uh play under him,
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  Speaker 2: you know for a couple of years and see his
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff. It was huge in my decision making. And
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  Speaker 2: once the opportunity came across the table, had to take it.
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  Speaker 3: All players getting eleven years or one place. What's it
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  Speaker 3: gonna be like, you think, to to play somewhere new
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  Speaker 3: for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: And over a decade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's refreshing, you know, new life, familiar with
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the defense and the scheme. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just going to here and you know, playing my stylid
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  Speaker 2: football the right way. Wise, Oh great, you know, Uh shoot,
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  Speaker 2: I basically had a whole season to heal, you know,
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  Speaker 2: full now and you know.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to attack this season. It seemed like last.
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  Speaker 3: Year got off to a pretty strong start for you
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  Speaker 3: too before the injury. H How did you feel like
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  Speaker 3: you were playing leading up to that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I feel like I was in top form,
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  Speaker 2: being able to you know, reassess myself over the years
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  Speaker 2: and you know, work on my body and you know,
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  Speaker 2: go out there at a strong start. It was definitely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, something that I always knew I could do,
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  Speaker 2: but due to the injury, it made me like reassess
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  Speaker 2: and also look at you know, my future, like I
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  Speaker 2: also have a lot more in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it ain't no need to stop now.
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  Speaker 1: So you would you be ready to do a season workouts.
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  Speaker 2: And stuff like that or i'm'a be ready to do
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  Speaker 2: whatever the Seahawks need me to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, what's your press? You know what was said? Again?
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  Speaker 1: What your system? What you do over there?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: The offensive system, the defensive system. You know that he
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  Speaker 2: has dogs, you know, I mean that's the four first
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  Speaker 2: thing you need in your formula of making any defense
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  Speaker 2: or you know team is you gotta have dogs in place,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe he has dogs here at Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: You you know, it was a sad.
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  Speaker 1: P take another dollar. I don't know if i'm'a say
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  Speaker 1: it's pride. It's just my nature.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that I was taught, you know, since entering
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  Speaker 2: the league, and you know, something that you know, I
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  Speaker 2: carried with me throughout my career.
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  Speaker 1: Did a return to Dallas ever feel like it was
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  Speaker 1: in play set in returning to Dallas? Did it ever
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  Speaker 1: feel like that was in play?
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  Speaker 2: The situation in Dallas? I mean, everything really happened so fast,
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  Speaker 2: and the offers came across the table and Dallas the
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  Speaker 2: offer wasn't there. I had a decision to make, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned feeling like you have a lot of gas
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  Speaker 1: up in the tank. What did the injury last year?
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  Speaker 1: Was there ever a doubt about that or did you
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  Speaker 1: always know that there's more left injury? No? I always
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  Speaker 1: knew it was more left than me. You know, just.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking and you know, winning a Super Bowl, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't all come together if you know all.
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  Speaker 1: The pieces ain't there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, for me to have another opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go and chase my dream to win a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: with a good team, and you know the pieces are
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  Speaker 2: in place, I have to take my opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: What are the young talented guys in this defense. How
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  Speaker 3: much can you help some of those, especially younger guys,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say, learn the ropster, help them
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  Speaker 3: advance their careers as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just helping them, you know, throughout their
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  Speaker 2: career and just understanding the fundamentals of the game. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's the first thing that breaks down on
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  Speaker 2: the young players is fundamentals and technique if you're not
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  Speaker 2: consistently doing it. And you know nowadays with nil and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like, you know, they already are expected to you know,
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  Speaker 2: be that top player coming out of you know, college,
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  Speaker 2: and essentially that's not how it goes. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just being that voice m and just letting them
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  Speaker 2: know that I'm here to help him anyway I can.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of leadership field.
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  Speaker 2: Well all all honesty leadership off the field, that's not
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  Speaker 2: my role no more. I got too many kids at home,
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  Speaker 2: like I need to leave, you know, So off the field,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the house, you know, making sure I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: care of my family and and that duty. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: off the field, you know, just you know, just being
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  Speaker 2: able to you know, be respected, be respectful in your community,
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  Speaker 2: you know, show people that you care and just uplifting
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  Speaker 2: people like, you know, people in your corner, uplifting you.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna gets like being in one place for.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven years and what's up? Yeah, man, it's definitely surreal.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I woke up this morning like, holy crap, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: really in Seattle, you know, and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I still look at it as a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunities don't last forever, and you know, sometime you need
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  Speaker 2: people to write you off in order for you to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, know, how good you are.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think it's gonna be like playing with
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  Speaker 3: Mona Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's gonna be a exciting time up
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  Speaker 2: here in Seattle, you know, just to to see how
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  Speaker 2: he elevated his career last year, you know, here and
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  Speaker 2: under the system of you know, ad Like, I know,
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  Speaker 2: we gonna have a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay tuned. What's the wordest story? Tank? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Childhood nickname, you know, one of the guys from from
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  Speaker 2: my hometown. So my brother nickname is mank And like
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  Speaker 2: I'm about eight years old at the time, and he
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  Speaker 2: DDTV on my head. So he's running around the basketball
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  Speaker 2: court picking out my brother, Like, oh, mank I tanked
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  Speaker 2: him on his head. I'm'a just start calling them tank.
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  Speaker 2: So when I started playing football, it stuck with me
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  Speaker 2: and I've been tanking ever since.
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  Speaker 1: You mention your kids how many how many kids are? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I got five mm sinko.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, oldest girl, two boys in the middle, two youngest girls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to your time in Boise, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: Chris Peterson coached here for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the area.
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  Speaker 3: Did any bit of a draw for you in that
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  Speaker 3: regard to coming back to the Northwest, even if it's
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  Speaker 3: not quite Boissey?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: The atmosphere up in the Northwest is amazing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: definitely wanted to get back here. I got a place
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  Speaker 2: in Boise, so it's you know, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like right up my you know way. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like this is the perfect you know, opportunity for me.
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  Speaker 2: I got a coach up there that I know and
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  Speaker 2: I trust this system, and shot was ready to play ball.
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  Speaker 1: How is it the good das play?
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  Speaker 2: It's taxing, It's taxing, you know, uh it it It
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  Speaker 2: requires a lot of tension in detail. Uh, especially you
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  Speaker 2: know with the girls you know cause they're always fighting
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  Speaker 2: for dass time, so you know, just being mindful, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and also just just showing them how to be respectful
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  Speaker 2: and to share.
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  Speaker 1: That's the main thing. Share. Yeah. Did you always have
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  Speaker 1: a place in Boise for me? Get my ser that's
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  Speaker 1: something good. Uh not always. I wasn't always rich.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but uh yeah, over the couple of last years,
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  Speaker 2: I grabbed a place up there and so we go
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  Speaker 2: up there in the summer and spend time with the family.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anything else, thank youry, no problem, You'll have
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  Speaker 1: a go on, Okay,