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Mike Macdonald: "That Was A Great Showing By The 12s" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see everybody appreciate your patience.
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  Speaker 3: It's always a fun, always a fun day getting out
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  Speaker 3: to Loomen and got a lot of great work in
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  Speaker 3: And tell you what that was. That was a great,
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  Speaker 3: great show him by the twelves with with the Mariners
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  Speaker 3: game going at the same time and Seafair, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was last weekend, So I really appreciate the effort
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  Speaker 3: that everybody took to get out and having a lot
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  Speaker 3: of enthusiasm and I just really felt the love from
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  Speaker 3: the twelve today. So that was really great. And then
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  Speaker 3: in addition to that, I think we got some really
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  Speaker 3: good work in. It wasn't the longest practice of all time,
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  Speaker 3: but got some good stuff in and we'll be ready
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  Speaker 3: to go next next Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: So like we just talked to a film for him
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  Speaker 4: to a year ago, he's getting cart off this field
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  Speaker 4: in this practice for him to come with today and
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  Speaker 4: what would.
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  Speaker 3: Like to see that? Yeah, it was incredible, incredibly happy
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  Speaker 3: for him. Uh, he's worked incredibly hard. He's been a
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  Speaker 3: great teammate the whole process. At this time last year
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  Speaker 3: he was really battling for a great role. So he's
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  Speaker 3: put himself right back in the thick of things and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, broke the team.
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  Speaker 2: Down at the end, which I thought was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know, it's one of those things like
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  Speaker 3: how do you handle it as a coach, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do you like, do you bring it up?
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  Speaker 1: Do you not?
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  Speaker 3: Do you We're thinking about it, and I know Ad
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  Speaker 3: talked to him this morning, but we're all kind of
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  Speaker 3: thinking about him going to this. So that was that
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  Speaker 3: was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Here to rehab the whole time, you sity point of
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  Speaker 2: going out.
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  Speaker 1: In practice a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: We need to stay involved. Yeah did you notice that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and what is that? What is that?
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  Speaker 1: How?
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  Speaker 2: What are the points in his favorite when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, guys, guys have the uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have the liberty to rehab how they choose, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but anytime someone chooses us feels great.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, we have great people here to help them
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  Speaker 3: go through that process too. So obviously that's what we
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  Speaker 3: would would rather someone do and make that decision. But
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just as that just the spirit. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is a this is a tough situation.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's trying to carve a role out in a career.
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  Speaker 3: For himself and he's and then just shows you how
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  Speaker 3: fragile it is, you know, so excuse me, how do
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  Speaker 3: you not just be incredibly happy for the guy, like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: The players have name dropped Montrey Foster going in today
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  Speaker 4: and then he goes out and has a couple more
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns or what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mean from him up this point?
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  Speaker 3: You camp, I'm saying the same thing as you guys are.
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  Speaker 3: It's great, you know, he's he's doing a great job
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  Speaker 3: for himself. This really is, I mean, it's I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I don't have anything else add except he's doing
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  Speaker 3: a phenomenal job to form a position like that.
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  Speaker 1: And how much of the practices maybe even more important
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  Speaker 1: than the preseason game.
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  Speaker 4: Or as important because the reps in the preseason game
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  Speaker 4: might be limited in a crowded spot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. If
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, if we're end up weighing it and
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  Speaker 2: probably not weighing it.
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  Speaker 4: Just how do you wait aggregate the bulk of trading
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  Speaker 4: camp practices versus performance with the bits are on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I I think, uh, I think it's a probably
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  Speaker 3: like independent observations, you know, just on the situation of
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  Speaker 3: where what what's going on around with the player where
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  Speaker 3: they're going. Definitely don't want to discount work because they
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  Speaker 3: haven't done it, you know immediately, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: weigh everything, like because of what happened in the last
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  Speaker 3: preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't want people trending in the right directions
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  Speaker 3: and developing and things like that. I think that's important
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody like doing the one on ones where everybody can see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just that's a fun period, just guys getting excited.
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  Speaker 3: Told team today like this, this is an exercise in
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  Speaker 3: being us in a different environment, so trying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: trusting our training, doing the things that we know how
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  Speaker 3: to do. But now we layer it with being at
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  Speaker 3: our stadium in front of the twelves and being in
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  Speaker 3: front of more people, and so there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of things to learn from that, which
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  Speaker 3: is which is cool.
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  Speaker 1: You have practice, you have the FanFest here, you have
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  Speaker 1: preseason games, you have joint practices.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your.
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  Speaker 4: Different those different for you in terms of goals you
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  Speaker 4: have for those different settings.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're all opportunity. I think it's just what
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  Speaker 3: I said. It's they're like ways to layer how we
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  Speaker 3: want to build our team from the from the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of you know, O, T A. S. Two as we
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  Speaker 3: go into the season, of how we want to train
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  Speaker 3: our mindset and how we want to operate given different
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  Speaker 3: variables and different environments. That's how that's how I think
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  Speaker 3: of it, and hopefully we think of it as you know,
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  Speaker 3: And I think that was a common thread through last
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  Speaker 3: year's experience, you know, of how we want to handle
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  Speaker 3: these and these situations and these experiences that we initially
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  Speaker 3: haven't had before. What do you about your area of price?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think we're going with.
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  Speaker 3: A legs upper legs, horness set lower body, somewhere between
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  Speaker 3: the upper leg and lower body.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not I don't I'm not making light of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a it's a minor issue right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's we'll see, it's a it's a matter of days.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a little bit more of the manual seven
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  Speaker 1: plus a few days.
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  Speaker 2: What have you thought of today?
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  Speaker 3: The just the summary of the just he keeps stacking
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sound really cloiche right now, but he just
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  Speaker 3: keeps like stacking days from where he started to uh
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  Speaker 3: where he is now. But it seems like he keeps
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  Speaker 3: making plays. You know, he keeps being productive, you know
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  Speaker 3: in his style of ball, which is really really cool.
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  Speaker 3: What he brings to the table is it is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: There's a physicality, a heaviness to his game, which which.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun to have. On offense.
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  Speaker 4: He obviously came in and played a few games last year,
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  Speaker 4: but you guys have kind of played.
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  Speaker 2: Musical chair with running back receiver. But what have you
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  Speaker 2: seen with him handling all those roles where we need
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  Speaker 2: to throw him at her in his training camp?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when he when he's when he's been in there,
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  Speaker 3: you you you know, you realize that he's in there.
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  Speaker 2: Because he can he can move and.
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  Speaker 3: He's another guy's's you know, he's just keeps plugging away.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I think I think it.
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  Speaker 3: Deserves I think Thomas Hammick deserves a massive shout out
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  Speaker 3: for what he's doing with his room and how he's
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  Speaker 3: bringing all these guys along.
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  Speaker 2: It's an incredibly competitive group.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like guys make plays every day, which is
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  Speaker 3: really cool, and they're not satisfied and they just keep
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  Speaker 3: plugging away and keep chasing it, which which I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you guys and us.
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear any comments about how cool it was being.
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  Speaker 2: Field, Well, you could feel it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get it verbat him from those guys, but
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  Speaker 3: it was like even my guys like Dante Faller. I
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  Speaker 3: went up to the flurry after and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, this is pretty awesome in it. It's probably
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  Speaker 3: kind of weird for you, but no, and he was.
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  Speaker 3: He had a big smile on his face, so that
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  Speaker 3: was I know, it was shared. That experience is really
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  Speaker 3: everyone was excited about it, not just a rookies.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you did other day about the run game,
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  Speaker 4: it's seemed the last couple of practices there's been some
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  Speaker 4: lanes being blocked and the big runs.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see in the progress there?
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  Speaker 3: From I think our run game is on its way,
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  Speaker 3: and I actually think our run defense is getting better
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  Speaker 3: by the day, So I think both those.
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  Speaker 2: Things are good.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't see as many explosive runs as you
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  Speaker 3: did the last few days.
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  Speaker 2: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we're getting tagged off. You don't want too many
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  Speaker 3: explosive runs. That's not it's not good for business.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, but.
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  Speaker 3: Like the way our offense is communicating and our offensive
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  Speaker 3: line is targeting things, working with the three levels of
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  Speaker 3: our offense, handling the fronts, handling the movement. I think
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  Speaker 3: we are I'm just really again, like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: think got told Greg the other day like we're I'm
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  Speaker 3: really pleased with it. We just got to keep on,
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  Speaker 3: keep on grind away at it.
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  Speaker 1: I worked with before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you like about his coaching? He's the one.
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  Speaker 3: He's got like the best laugh ever, so when you
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  Speaker 3: get him going, you can hear them throughout the office.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, one, I just I mean we were close.
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  Speaker 3: He taught me a lot when we were together in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: He was his first year in the league. Was my
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  Speaker 3: first year as an intern coming in I think it
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  Speaker 3: is a Wisconsin before.
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  Speaker 2: He taught me a lot about protection, so.
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  Speaker 3: I was I was in his office all the time,
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  Speaker 3: just hey, what if we do that, what if we
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  Speaker 3: did this?
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  Speaker 2: How would affect it?
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  Speaker 3: And so we kind of bonded that way. And then
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  Speaker 3: he also told me to marry my wife, which was cool.
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  Speaker 3: So I got my head on straight for that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then just like we've stayed in touch since he's
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  Speaker 3: been at Northern illin No. I think what he's done,
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  Speaker 3: what he's done it as a head coach is pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: So having you know all those things, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: head coaching experience, the toughness, uh, the expertise, the ability
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  Speaker 3: to connect, like the mindset of how we want to
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  Speaker 3: I think all those things are aligned with with what
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  Speaker 3: we want. So he's he's been a tremendous asset so far.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: Like some repisode there, but just what have you guys
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  Speaker 4: seen from him over the last.
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  Speaker 3: Week And he's gotten yeah, keep on going, keep going,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but has a lot of ball production from college.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't seen that yet, you know, that's something that
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  Speaker 3: we'd like to get him going on. I think once
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  Speaker 3: the game starts to slow down for him and you
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  Speaker 3: can play a little bre anticipation.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it's a what am I doing? Let me
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  Speaker 2: go do it really well?
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  Speaker 3: And he's doing that and he's learning as he goes.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a process there. We're really enthusiastic about where
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  Speaker 3: it's going. But he's also in a competition right now
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  Speaker 3: with you know, with other guys. So but it's all positive,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's got a great spirit about him.
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  Speaker 2: Really smart guy.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, he's got he's got a bright future.
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  Speaker 2: I want I want to we want to get there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we want to go. Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Man in the house tonight, did he offer any neck reupts?
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  Speaker 4: And uh?
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  Speaker 1: What does his presence mean for the guy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great to see beast mode.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he did not surprise me on the sideline, so
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  Speaker 3: that was a positive. I saw him out there on
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  Speaker 3: the fifty yard line. He had a whole heck of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people with him. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: that was a Hard Knocks thing or like a Marshawn
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  Speaker 3: Lynch thing or a Madden thing. I forgot what we
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  Speaker 3: talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Just blacked out with Elijah.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously the entry slowed him down last year, but he
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  Speaker 4: was like catch over Julian tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a couple of strong kids.
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  Speaker 4: Practice heresently, what do you kind of steaming out of.
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  Speaker 1: Him as he's kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of back to full speed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when when Elijah's been out there, he's been productive
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  Speaker 3: for us. And it's not a fault of his own
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  Speaker 3: that sometimes he's got nicked up.
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  Speaker 2: But if he's got if he.
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  Speaker 3: Can continue this trend of having a routine, attacking the details,
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  Speaker 3: making those like marginal gains every day. Then I think
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  Speaker 3: this is the type of stuff that he's capable of
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  Speaker 3: and and.
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  Speaker 2: He can take it even further, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So the challenge is keep going, you know, let's not
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  Speaker 3: be let's not be complacent with two weeks into camp.
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  Speaker 2: You know of what your role is.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's kind of blow the top off, the blow
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  Speaker 3: the roof off, the expectations for what you can do,
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  Speaker 3: and and let's go get it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So that's uh so we expect from him, and he's
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  Speaker 3: doing all those things, but it's it's two weeks in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep it rolling, not being complacent.
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  Speaker 1: A J. Warner's staying in that room.
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  Speaker 2: Just what he seeing he over kably and Julie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just he seems to be taking back the next step. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: A J's he's uh to know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel about aj you know, I feel he's a
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  Speaker 3: he's one of us, like through and through his attitude,
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  Speaker 3: the physicality, how attacks his rehab, the mentality he gives
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  Speaker 3: our offense is just uh, it's really great, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And he's doing those things and he's worked his way
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  Speaker 3: back to it. I think it's a process. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: it's I don't think he's where he wants to be,
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  Speaker 3: but he's doing a lot of great things on the
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  Speaker 3: field and I expect that to keep growing over the
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  Speaker 3: next few weeks going into the season.
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  Speaker 2: Fullback or do you still need to have there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think you're going to look at
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  Speaker 3: like what happened last year. I think you can have
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  Speaker 3: an effective offense in different personnel. So whether Robbie is
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  Speaker 3: a part of that equation an now or later, it's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of we got to let that whole thing
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  Speaker 3: play out. But there's other ways, Like like Brian said,
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  Speaker 3: there's other ways to create extra gaps, and we have
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  Speaker 3: guys that.
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  Speaker 2: Can do that.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, not yet.
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  Speaker 3: There it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you all right, thank you for sual