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Bobby Wagner: "I've Always Had A Deep Connection To This City" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Whatever the happy holidays.
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  Speaker 2: About Mike Holme and say you grow he grows old, gracefully,
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  Speaker 2: eyes thos in the right place.
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  Speaker 1: Just about how you playing with consistency? Is that film
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  Speaker 1: study experience or where have you been able to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you pick consistency that you don't see?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely film study. It's definitely just tryna be consistent.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing, is just trying to
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  Speaker 3: be consistent. Tryna do uh always constantly find ways to
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  Speaker 3: be better. There's still things I can work on, and
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  Speaker 3: there's still things that I can get better. And I
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  Speaker 3: think having that mindset puts you in a position of
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  Speaker 3: constantly trying to grow or elevate your game. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: to have somebody like that, uh, have that m respect
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  Speaker 3: for your game, It's it's definitely great Cause I watched
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  Speaker 3: him for a long time. I admired how he coaches
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  Speaker 3: of mind, how he you know, the messages, and how
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  Speaker 3: he cares about his his guys, and so it's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's mutual respect for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But what's how important is the way you guys have
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up the explosives is the past two weeks?
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  Speaker 1: How important has that been?
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  Speaker 3: To your defensive I think it's a bit big because
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's taking you know, points off the board.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's you know, allowed us to get off the
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  Speaker 3: field in some cases. But you know, ha, taking away
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  Speaker 3: those explosive and key moments has definitely allowed us to
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  Speaker 3: activate the pass for us a little bit and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, get after the office in different ways.
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  Speaker 4: Did did the way that that forty nine Ers game
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  Speaker 4: went kind of just lay it out there in that
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  Speaker 4: regard like these ten players killed us, like to kind
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  Speaker 4: of bring you guys back.
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  Speaker 1: And making sure you clean that area up. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was not just that game. It was you know, you can.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of games that you can pinpoint in
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  Speaker 3: and look at that, like, if you take a couple
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  Speaker 3: of these explosive plays away, it changes the whole trajectory
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  Speaker 3: of how the game goes. And so you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know the statistics on it, but you know, when
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  Speaker 3: the team gives up an explosive, it doesn't really sway
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  Speaker 3: in your favor. So I think it's just being mindful
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  Speaker 3: of it, whether it's in the run game or the
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  Speaker 3: past game, trying to eliminate those and and not let
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  Speaker 3: them happen.
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  Speaker 4: What respersons U about excuse me about dead and Bush?
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  Speaker 1: Uh. The opportunity that he's getting at this point in
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 2: And going up against his old team.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think his mindset?
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  Speaker 3: It's like great, I'm not sure you know what I mean. Like, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: when you play your own team, you definitely wanna play well. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but then you also don't wanna let it overshadow. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The preparation make you lose focus on the little things.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a balance. You gotta balance the emotions of
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  Speaker 3: you know, playing your former team, but also locking in
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  Speaker 3: and knowing you know what you have to do and
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  Speaker 3: what you have to get done. And I feel like
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  Speaker 3: he he'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: Last week, the Steelers did score on a couple of
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  Speaker 2: huge explosive plays, but you got nine do you hear us?
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  Speaker 2: That's in there still? How how do you allocate enough
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  Speaker 2: resources to stop.
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  Speaker 1: Both those explosives and the line.
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  Speaker 3: I think on some of those plays, the you know,
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  Speaker 3: he just got behind the corner or things like that,
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's the the first thing, is.
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  Speaker 1: Not letting the guy get behind you.
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  Speaker 3: But I think too just understanding like they have a
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  Speaker 3: good run game they're gonna mix it up really well,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Doing your job.
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  Speaker 3: Every player, uh, player has a job to do, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just really that simple. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we have to load the box to do anything different.
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  Speaker 3: It's just more so making sure you execute your assignment
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  Speaker 3: in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: Following up my mind too, I be with Devin Bush.
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't gotten a whole lot of playing time yet
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  Speaker 4: this year, but what do you think he or what
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  Speaker 4: have you noticed about the the skills he brings that
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  Speaker 4: kind of the the role.
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  Speaker 1: That he has on those teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he hasn't really got a lot of opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, you saw what he can do both
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  Speaker 3: on defense and special teams in the preseason. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: see that practice him his ability to kind of be
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  Speaker 3: able to fill in, you know, when Jordan went out,
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  Speaker 3: shows you the preparation that he does regardless of whether
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  Speaker 3: or not he's getting the opportunity or not. And so
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  Speaker 3: I think that's always of the biggest thing. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna hit, he's gonna come down hill, make plays,
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  Speaker 3: and he he's really he moves really well in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game. So I think that's what we expect to
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  Speaker 3: have him Pete.
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  Speaker 1: Pete described the run defense lately as kind of rop
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  Speaker 1: a dope, Uh, rope a dope. I guess would you
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  Speaker 1: agree with that? And why do you feel like the
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  Speaker 1: numbers have been what they were with teams being able
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  Speaker 1: to average.
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  Speaker 2: Five yards to carry and and over a hundred yards
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  Speaker 2: of game to year.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I would have to asks Pete what his
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  Speaker 3: definition of rope adope means and what was it?
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  Speaker 1: What would you take that as like Muhamad a lead
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  Speaker 1: and more with y'all hole the George Woman kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing on the ropes about the good knocked out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not koit knocked the So everybody just throws out Muhamad
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  Speaker 1: a lea quotes. So that's that's what we're doing. Nah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just, you know, it's an area that
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  Speaker 3: obviously we start off well well then haven't been as clean.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of the same thing with the
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's always it's either one or two guys
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  Speaker 3: or it's just one thing. I think all we gotta
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  Speaker 3: do is just you know, do your job, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's maybe just to trying too hard to try to
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  Speaker 3: you know, make a play or anything like that. So
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  Speaker 3: if we just kind of go back to the basics,
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  Speaker 3: I think it go back to how it was. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's anything crazy that they're doing or crazy
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  Speaker 3: that teams are doing. I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: things that are happening against us is us causing those things,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think if we just take that out
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  Speaker 3: of the game, I feel like it'll be fixed.
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  Speaker 4: Is anything that you're doing differently schematically to try to
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  Speaker 4: stop the explosive plays in the passing game, is that
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  Speaker 4: maybe negatively impacting the run defense, like you're committing more
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  Speaker 4: resources to one and it's hurting the other.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so per se, cause I think regardless
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  Speaker 3: of the situation, I think you should be able to
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  Speaker 3: stop the run. I think it's not like we're removing
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  Speaker 3: people or you know, like you said, like taking resources away.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just little things that we need to
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  Speaker 3: clean up. Whether it's fits, whether it's playing off one
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  Speaker 3: another that I feel it's all in our control. It's
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  Speaker 3: not really something that they're doing schematically or something that
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  Speaker 3: we've changed. It's just we need to be more disciplined
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  Speaker 3: and you know, executing when the runs happened. How impressive
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  Speaker 3: is what Julian Love was able to do last week
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  Speaker 3: being being away all week and think flying out there
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  Speaker 3: and letting hold damn man. Extremely impressive cause it's it's
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  Speaker 3: not just it's not just missing practice and and trying
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  Speaker 3: to learn the defense and learn it. It's you know,
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  Speaker 3: dealing with real life situation and then not being able
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  Speaker 3: to travel with the team, and then I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't getting that much sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of elements.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, he's a true professional, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a person that would be able to
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  Speaker 3: do something like that because of how you prepare, So
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  Speaker 3: you know, are you surprised when it happens?
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  Speaker 1: You're not.
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  Speaker 3: But it's still doesn't take away from how impressive it
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  Speaker 3: was for him to balance what was going on in
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  Speaker 3: real life and then come back and and still have
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  Speaker 3: impact plays in the game in which he didn't practice
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  Speaker 3: all week, So definitely was impressive.
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  Speaker 2: That's as someone who plays every snap, you know, every game,
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  Speaker 2: do you have maybe appreciation or just like how guys
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  Speaker 2: like Mike Jack or like Julian Love or handle being
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  Speaker 2: a starter in in and out rotating in this package
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  Speaker 2: in that packets, you know what I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean for sure, cause it's it's tough.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, I think anybody wants to play every snap,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, when you're coming in and coming out,
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  Speaker 3: it's very hard, uh for you to get into a rhythm,
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  Speaker 3: and so it takes a little bit more energy mentally
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  Speaker 3: to make sure you locked in and and study and
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  Speaker 3: not knowing when your your number's gonna be called. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, you have a appreciation for those guys that
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  Speaker 3: cause again, like they could handle it a different way.
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  Speaker 3: They can be upset, they can be not focused, they
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  Speaker 3: can be you know, take it the wrong way, but
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  Speaker 3: those guys being true professionals, and you know, whenever they
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  Speaker 3: get their opportunity, nothing, there's no fall off, there's there's
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  Speaker 3: just the same level of communication, the same level of
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  Speaker 3: execution and playmaking.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely from Marin and we appreciate it. With Julian
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  Speaker 1: would have.
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  Speaker 2: It be goot the way he's handled that this year, the
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  Speaker 2: in and out.
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  Speaker 1: When Jamal's heard they think safety pacts or whatever. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's been true professional.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think if you watch the way he prepared
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  Speaker 3: last week, it shows his ability to lock in and
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  Speaker 3: not let the circumstances around him or the the things
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  Speaker 3: that he's facing change the way that he prepares and
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  Speaker 3: how he plays. And so when he's out there, he
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  Speaker 3: has a l a standard and he opposed that standard.
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  Speaker 4: W what did j what did you know?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of show everybody?
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  Speaker 2: I guess saw a seuple of weeks with noow we
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  Speaker 2: gotta being heard and been you know kind of I
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  Speaker 2: guess the way he supported Drew you through all that
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  Speaker 2: and then come.
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  Speaker 3: Back last week, just how great of a teammate is.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's that's the biggest thing too. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's hard, you know, when you wanna go out
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  Speaker 3: there and you want to perform, but you can't physically.
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of guys might go and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, be alone, to be to themselves. But you
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  Speaker 3: know he wanted to still be a part and still
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  Speaker 3: help and still communicate with Drew. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: just speaks volumes of what type of leader he is
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  Speaker 3: and and you know what he means to our team.
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  Speaker 3: And then when he you know, it's health enough to
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  Speaker 3: get back out there, he goes back out there and
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  Speaker 3: you know, leads us to another win. So, uh, we
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  Speaker 3: have so much respect and so much love for the
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  Speaker 3: way he handled the last few weeks, cause we know
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  Speaker 3: it's hard any player when you get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody likes to be hurt. So you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 2: When you were doing stuff away from the field this year,
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  Speaker 2: or the shoppings for you, the stuff that's kids, schools
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  Speaker 2: and everything, could you do you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like you were missed?
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  Speaker 2: Like did you feel like the people had an appreciation
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 1: Then if you came back him about for you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I would have to say yes, because everywhere I went,
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  Speaker 3: I got the I'm so glad you're back type of
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  Speaker 3: comment multiple times wherever we went. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: always felt like I had a really deep connection to
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  Speaker 3: the city. Obviously I grew up. In my opinion, I'm
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  Speaker 3: matured out here because you know, on my twenties, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I did a lot of growing and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of grown as a man out here, and
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  Speaker 3: the city embraced me in a way that you know,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't have anticipated when you know, I came here
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  Speaker 3: at twenty one or twenty two, So definitely felt the
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  Speaker 3: energy even when I came back and I hadn't even
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  Speaker 3: been down in the city.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely felt the energy from them.
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  Speaker 2: Is any of those uh events or things that you
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  Speaker 2: could just hear any one of them stand out, or
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  Speaker 2: any interaction with.
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  Speaker 1: Any fans or kids or anything.
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  Speaker 3: I think anytime I go to the schools to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the the comic book, I think that's always dope.
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  Speaker 3: I think the last thing when we went to Target
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  Speaker 3: and took the kids shopping, just the little interactions of
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  Speaker 3: just you know, you kind of realized, like they world
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  Speaker 3: is so different than your world. There's no care, there's
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  Speaker 3: just I wanna have fun and be free. So it
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  Speaker 3: kind of reminds you of what kind of the meaning
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  Speaker 3: of life is, cause sometimes we get caught up in
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  Speaker 3: stressing and all about stuff that you know, at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day doesn't necessarily matter.
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  Speaker 1: There you else cool appreciate it.