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Byron Murphy II: "My Game Has Evolved" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: But the sacks and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: What what what gets you excited as.
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  Speaker 1: A player and it helps you know that you're.
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  Speaker 3: Playing the way you want say, Uh, it gives me
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  Speaker 3: a s a sighted as a player. Is you know,
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  Speaker 3: just seeing the results the results like uh, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: how I got the sacks and but just putting it
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  Speaker 3: in the work you know and practice and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Then seeing it relate to the game. That what excites me.
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  Speaker 3: And also just getting to win.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of confidence does that kind of put into
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  Speaker 4: you once you see the stats kind of show the work.
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  Speaker 2: That you been putting in.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it bring a lot, It bring a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know after that game, like it just triggered
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  Speaker 3: at my mind like okay, I can I can do it,
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  Speaker 3: like I can be I can be that guy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I can get hecks weekend week out.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But it's all about you know, my preparation and everything
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  Speaker 3: just high prepare. But uh, yeah, it it brought a
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  Speaker 3: lot of confidence in me.
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  Speaker 2: Though last year you guys came back uh after Troit
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  Speaker 2: and had you know, kind of a disappointing game against
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  Speaker 2: the Giants. This we can come back against the Saints
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  Speaker 2: after you know, going to against the fort and Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: How do you guys, you know, take an O to
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  Speaker 2: two team seriously enough to make sure you bring your best.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here, we don't take anybody lightly. You know, no
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  Speaker 3: matter what the record, it don't matter if they own team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we play everybody the same. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna treat every team with you know, with respect. You know,
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  Speaker 3: cause you can lose any any given day, you know
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  Speaker 3: that anybody, So, uh, the record don't really matter, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not it's not about them, it's about us.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we play hard, you know. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we do the things you know that we taught to do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, from from coaches, from my coaches coaching us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, player the player. So we don't take anybody likely.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you think your game has made its biggest strikes.
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  Speaker 1: From from last year this year?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? My game, I really say, uh just uh really knowing,
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  Speaker 3: knowing my opts, knowing my opportunities, you know where to
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  Speaker 3: take 'em. Really and also in PA pass rushing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was the biggest thing I focused on this off seas,
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  Speaker 3: so pass rushing and everything just getting stronger, faster. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like as a whole. My game has you know evolved.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just gotta keep working, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: take it to a higher level. What have you learned
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  Speaker 3: about pass rushing from Leo?
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  Speaker 1: Man? I?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I learned to lie as far as uh changing
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  Speaker 3: my stance on I see pass you know. Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: you know a variety of variety of moves to work
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  Speaker 3: on guys. You know, uh went outside how to win inside?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, So Leo has been a big hip and a
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  Speaker 3: big contribute to my pass rushing for sure.
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  Speaker 4: The amount of pressure that before you're getting up front
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  Speaker 4: without having to blitz all the time. What's the sort
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  Speaker 4: of pride that you take and the sort of downs?
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  Speaker 2: What's the sort of pride that you guys are taking
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  Speaker 2: in the front four generating the pressure you have so far?
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  Speaker 3: As we take a lot of pride, uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: and that you know, I'm out old. You know we
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  Speaker 3: can't be blocked. We won't allow nobody to block us.
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  Speaker 3: So uh just to do that, you know, we we
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  Speaker 3: out just to you know, keep rushing, keep putting pressure
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  Speaker 3: on the quarterback. You know, that's what we want to
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  Speaker 3: do and we want to continue to do that. So
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  Speaker 3: just really just having that mindset of you know, not
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  Speaker 3: being blocking.
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  Speaker 1: Also to everybody just being on one page. Russian is one.
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  Speaker 3: Leo and Jerry have kind of been your biggest advocate, saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Byron is good.
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  Speaker 4: What has your support meant to you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Man? That supportment a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the day I got drafted, you know, uh
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  Speaker 3: they've been supporting me, you know from day one. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they took me up under that wing, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm very thankful, you know, to have them guys in
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  Speaker 3: my room, you know, cause they've been doing it for
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  Speaker 3: so long. So just to have them, you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: a blessing for me. So uh man, I'm just trying
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  Speaker 3: to just every each and every day just soak up
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  Speaker 3: so to all of the knowledge I can from them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just be like a splin munch, you know. Man,
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  Speaker 3: they they they teach me a lot. And it's not
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  Speaker 3: just football either, you know, it's off the field things too,
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  Speaker 3: just on you know, how to be a man and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I appreciate them guys a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You said, you a lot. You've worked on pass rushing
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  Speaker 2: during the off season. What kind of things like, what
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  Speaker 2: what do you what are you trying to get better.
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  Speaker 3: At uh you know, just of r you know, just
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  Speaker 3: moves and also to just working on my path level.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm keen when I'm past rushing and
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  Speaker 3: I'm key in the god hands you know, uh, how
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting off the ball. I'm on man, keep ball key,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just things like that.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned that the model here is like rushing as one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: does that sort of apply to how you guys defend
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  Speaker 5: the run too, just to the chemistry that's required.
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  Speaker 3: I guess for sure. For sure, you know, everybody got
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  Speaker 3: a job. You know, everybody got a job, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know we don't play you know, individual football here.
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  Speaker 3: You know who play as a team, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what it takes a win. You know, that's what
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  Speaker 3: takes to stop a run or to pass as you know,
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  Speaker 3: do it, you know, do it all together, do it
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  Speaker 3: as one.
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  Speaker 5: Like That's what everyone buying into what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 5: the why the run defense has has been house looking
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  Speaker 5: to start the year, what you're talking about now buying
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  Speaker 5: into you know, playing the.
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  Speaker 1: Run as one.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that's why the run defense has been.
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  Speaker 1: Un your surface? Sure, sure are.
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  Speaker 2: On similar front.
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  Speaker 4: You can play walls and defensive lineland and.
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  Speaker 2: Not have the stats come with it just kind of
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  Speaker 2: a function of how the position can be.
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  Speaker 5: Does getting the stats still mean something like you know
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  Speaker 5: beyond that, like d.
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  Speaker 4: Do you need that kind of to reinforce like a
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  Speaker 4: confidence that you're doing the right thing or cad Do
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  Speaker 4: you kind of look at your own game and kind
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  Speaker 4: of be critical of.
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  Speaker 1: That, know what, stats may not be there and I
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  Speaker 1: know it's still playing well, but how do you kind
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  Speaker 1: of uh a lot?
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  Speaker 3: Well, me personally, I'm not too worried about stats. You know, uh, tackles,
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  Speaker 3: you know all that. You know that's gonna come you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna come with within the uh, within the game.
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  Speaker 3: But me O, my main focus is you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: doing my job and helping my team win and also
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  Speaker 3: to just helping guys around.
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  Speaker 1: Me make play.
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  Speaker 3: So when I see a guy make it play, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's you doing my job. You know it might
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  Speaker 3: not show up on the stat sheet, but you know
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  Speaker 3: who cares? You know, Uh, It's it's all about the team.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that's all I'm about.
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  Speaker 2: Like I heard you say that, you know, last game
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  Speaker 2: is starting to feel like you're last year in college
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  Speaker 2: of feeling like you're breaking out.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What what what what was that feeling like in college?
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  Speaker 2: Give you that impression and why is it this similar?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I say, my college, my my last year of college. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Week two, we play Alabama and I've done it. I
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  Speaker 3: dominated Alabama and everything like that. Uh you know, I
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  Speaker 3: just put in my mind like, uh like it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's time to roll, Like it's time to go, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And my main focus is just really just being consistent
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  Speaker 3: and being that dominant player. I know I can be
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  Speaker 3: week in week out, and you know that's what I
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  Speaker 3: did that.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, my last year of college.
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  Speaker 3: So just seeing myself have that, you know, that game
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  Speaker 3: against the stealers, I'm like, man, like, how do I
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  Speaker 3: build out this? You know, how can I keep going
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  Speaker 3: and uh keep having this type of success? And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: uh that was That's that was my main thing from
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  Speaker 3: the game. So just really trying to you know, stay consistent,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, each and every day and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just make straws. Continue to make them type of straws
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  Speaker 3: so I can have them type of games.
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  Speaker 4: Mindset. The key to be a good run blocker, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I mean being a good Uh, run ru run rush.
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  Speaker 1: Shirt if you will, Yeah, sir, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you gotta you must have a m you know,
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  Speaker 3: a killer, a killer mindset when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: run game, cause you know, it gets real.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it gets real.
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  Speaker 3: You know you got you know, three hundred pound guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, double teams, you know, all type of thing
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  Speaker 3: malers and get real. So you just you do gotta
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  Speaker 3: have a different type of mindset out there when it's
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  Speaker 3: time to stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: You know, really just a kill.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, killer mindset is just really uh telling
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  Speaker 3: yourself like I'm not you know, I'm not allowing nobody
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  Speaker 3: to run run the ball on this, not on my side,
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  Speaker 3: not in my gap or any anything, you know, things
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  Speaker 3: of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I said yesterday though you play the double
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  Speaker 4: team better than he does. What does that say when
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  Speaker 4: you get a compliment from obviously a mentoring somebody that's
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  Speaker 4: tells me the past.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, man, it feels really good, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, like I said, I just try, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just try to be consistent, you know, and everything
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  Speaker 3: I do. You know, I got a little technique while
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  Speaker 3: you know I play a double team in the run
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  Speaker 3: game differently, you know from everybody else. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody play everybody got a different type of body type, so
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  Speaker 3: everybody play double different. But you know I like to
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  Speaker 3: drop to the knee and everything and play play through
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  Speaker 3: a double. But uh, hearing that from Leo, uh it
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  Speaker 3: means a lot, you know. I mean, I'm doing something right.
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  Speaker 3: I just gotta keep keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Where'd you gonna pick Texas? Yeah? I like that. I
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  Speaker 1: like that. It takes us like, yeah, de lion coach,
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  Speaker 1: both Bo Davis, sir, what does that move work?
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  Speaker 4: And stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Two balkers like that?
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  Speaker 3: For one, Uh, I say, just cause I'm I'm strong,
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  Speaker 3: And then uh, secondly, it's really just uh like the technique,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just how you play it, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: being able to anchor into the ground, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: uh also too just uh you know when that double
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  Speaker 3: come off, you know that guard or that whoever w
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  Speaker 3: whichever olama come off, you know, just being able to
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  Speaker 3: pop up, pop up back, scrap in the gap and
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  Speaker 3: make it play.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's really just it's really just technique, that's all. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing it since college, so I pretty much
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  Speaker 3: kind of mastered it. The technique a bit so That's
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  Speaker 3: really why I'm really so good at it. Did also too,
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  Speaker 3: It's advantage for me cause I'm already I'm already you know,
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  Speaker 3: sh short short d lineman. So wh while some you know,
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  Speaker 3: w once I drop that knee and I'm in the ground,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not anchor. I'm so strong you can't move me.
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  Speaker 1: So you see other guys uh around the NFL doing that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I do.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like?
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  Speaker 1: Go? What do you kind of got to know about him? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Man Gray?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's fun going against You're a great player. Earlier,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I train to COUMP, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I try to go and get some my purpose, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just to you know, just to get him better, you know,
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  Speaker 3: uh he better. He better get me better as well.
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  Speaker 3: So uh Man, Gray's a good player. He's he's great man.
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  Speaker 3: He's smart. Uh he's a technician, fundamentally sounding and everything.
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  Speaker 3: Uh he got it all, Man got it all he
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  Speaker 3: got with the taste.
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  Speaker 2: Goodson.
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  Speaker 1: I like y'all