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Seahawks Draft Press Conference: "Byron Murphy II Plays Our Style Of Football" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Bira Murphy. Obviously, everybody's very excited.
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  Speaker 2: Uh we had him, you know, greater as the best
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  Speaker 2: defensive player in the draft, which you know obviously you
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  Speaker 2: guys saw the everyone saw the all the offensive players.
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  Speaker 1: Going rare to see that very rare year.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, high motor, high effort, great individual, three years,
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  Speaker 2: twenty one years old, you know, guys, degree in three years. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: just up and down line of scrimmage, pass rusher, TFLs,
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  Speaker 2: you name it. A lot of utility, a lot of variety,
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  Speaker 2: and uh yeah, I mean to sit here and think
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  Speaker 2: then when we started it that we'd be able to
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  Speaker 2: acquire him, was we'd be lying to.
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  Speaker 3: I was surprised. I want to see that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the law projection.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've never ever we've never ever seen that. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, six quarterbacks, all the offensive linemen.
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  Speaker 1: Every kid.
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  Speaker 2: We had a good feeling about the offensive lineman and
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  Speaker 2: then you know the quarterbacks. We kind of mocked it
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  Speaker 2: out that way really obviously, I mean not obviously we
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  Speaker 2: mocked it out that way. Yeah, but yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: that was that was pretty rare. And then a lot
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  Speaker 2: too went right before Byron and it was it was
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  Speaker 2: just coming down there, and it was we had we
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  Speaker 2: had four opportunities and we were ready, but he just
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  Speaker 2: kept coming.
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  Speaker 1: So we were we were super blessed and we just
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  Speaker 1: stayed and picked.
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  Speaker 2: Evaluating him.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot I just uh just plays our style football, really,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and he's so talented, versatility along the front.
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  Speaker 4: Uh plays such an aggressive player, plays violently heavy hands
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  Speaker 4: for a guy like shorter, stature, flexible, pass rush, flexibility.
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  Speaker 1: You name it. But yeah, just really excited to have him.
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  Speaker 5: And what does that position do for maybe setting the
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  Speaker 5: tone or helping to establish kind of the scheme that
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  Speaker 5: we're going to see on des Well.
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  Speaker 4: I told the guys, they said, hey, this is just
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  Speaker 4: a great opportunity for our team to get better, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So he's gonna provide great competition, and he's our type
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  Speaker 4: of guy. So he's a Seahawk through and through, and
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  Speaker 4: we're just I mean, wherever position he's gonna play, whoever
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  Speaker 4: we were going to take.
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  Speaker 1: That was that was really cool.
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  Speaker 4: To get that have that opportunity to bring in a
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  Speaker 4: guy that we, you know, were really really sold on
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  Speaker 4: and uh really have consensus on too.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 6: With your background Mike and and what you're trying to accomplish.
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  Speaker 6: How great was the draft ball even you every want?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it is a great scenario because we we
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  Speaker 4: we love Byron and we're excited to get him.
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  Speaker 1: But we were open minded.
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  Speaker 4: We're you know, looking for what was best for our
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  Speaker 4: team and it just shook out that way. But we
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  Speaker 4: weren't looking just necessarily defense from the get go.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe not fourteen straight offensive players, but were you
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  Speaker 6: thinking it was gonna be pretty heavily offensive focused and
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  Speaker 6: the other part of the draft on what you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Were thinking, Yeah, especially after getting done with all the
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  Speaker 2: all the phone calls that you know, what we were
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  Speaker 2: hearing was gonna be pretty legit. And you know, once
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  Speaker 2: it started, they just they just kept coming. And so
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  Speaker 2: it was, but not like not.
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  Speaker 1: Until today really like okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is you know, by the time, maybe like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, this afternoon, like maybe like around three, when
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of done like making calls or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, really the stuff sounds true, so man,
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  Speaker 2: and it stayed true.
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  Speaker 4: Up.
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  Speaker 2: We did think there's gonna be a lot more trades.
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  Speaker 2: It sounded like people were gonna be moving around more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were kind of nervous that people were
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  Speaker 2: gonna trade for Byron, and you know, thankfully it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: So both of you.
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  Speaker 6: Leonard Williams played the vast majority of his snaps obviously
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  Speaker 6: at three technique, as did Byron Murphy at Texas mostly
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  Speaker 6: three technique.
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  Speaker 7: How do you see that play out in terms of
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  Speaker 7: is there some someone who might move if they're both
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  Speaker 7: on the field at the same time, Just kind of
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  Speaker 7: talk about that aspect.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think both guys have positioned flexibility. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Leonard can play all across the line, so can Byron.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of guys. I that's that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the reasons I'm so excited about it is you're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna know where guys necessarily are going to be
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  Speaker 4: all the time, and we have we'll have some really
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  Speaker 4: really sweet ways to move guys around and have them
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  Speaker 4: in different spots and based on the teams we're going
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  Speaker 4: to play, So a lot of flexibility going in, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of pass rush opportunities, matchups, things we can manipulate.
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  Speaker 4: So all that's on the table, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be fun to see how it shakes out with.
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  Speaker 2: Totally different body types too, completely.
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  Speaker 7: With that versatility that he that Byron Murphy offers, he
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  Speaker 7: played some nose tackle last year under three.
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  Speaker 5: How how rare is to see a guy be.
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  Speaker 7: Able to do that take on double teams and where
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  Speaker 7: do you see that running back background that he had.
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  Speaker 1: A penetrat Yeah, you do, you do see that. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a great point.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a it's it's there's only so many
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  Speaker 4: people in the world that can do these types of things,
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  Speaker 4: and we're fortunate enough now we have a few guys
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  Speaker 4: on our team that can do it. So he just
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  Speaker 4: you know, adds that versatility to us. Like I keep saying,
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  Speaker 4: but uh yeah, for him to be able to play
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  Speaker 4: a nose at his size and his flexibility and his
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  Speaker 4: anchor and his strength is really impressive.
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  Speaker 5: John, you mentioned that he got his degree in three years.
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  Speaker 5: What else and away from football kind of stood out
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 2: That indicated he is a set Well, Ryan Florence, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Berry, everybody in that room really that you know,
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  Speaker 2: studied them. I mean everybody loved him. And uh he
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  Speaker 2: went to the combine, had a great combine. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's just his whole, the whole fall, the makeup, the background. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it just it just I've never even I've
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  Speaker 2: never talked to him like you know, I've totally tried
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  Speaker 2: staying away from him. You know, I didn't think he'd
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  Speaker 2: be available, but still like not not to so much
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  Speaker 2: and trying to show much interest, you know. But our
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  Speaker 2: guys were, Our guys were.
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  Speaker 1: All over them.
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  Speaker 2: The defensive staff loved him.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like Mike, Mike said, it was just
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  Speaker 2: complete buying John was. It was a tempting to want
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  Speaker 2: to try to trade down because of the gap they're
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  Speaker 2: going to have now between you know, until picking to
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  Speaker 2: eighty one.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna wait all the way to eighty one, come
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  Speaker 2: on by with uh uh. I'd be lying to you
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  Speaker 2: if I said, you know, we didn't think about it.
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  Speaker 2: But the the the the player was you know too,
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  Speaker 2: he was just he was just too good. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just too too. He influences the game like a lot,
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  Speaker 2: So how trade off do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Good ones too?
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  Speaker 3: Does he reminded if anybody, I mean, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, people, it's not Aaron Donald, but he tested
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  Speaker 3: like that, you know, I mean he's he's got that
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  Speaker 3: compact style about him, but he can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like slow down Johnny's he's the Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 2: I get like you're asking for Like it's just the
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  Speaker 2: body the body type, you know what I mean, Like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean and you know, getting off the ball, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean his like you know, all these statistics we
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  Speaker 2: have now all this analytics stuff like his explosive rate,
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  Speaker 2: Like he gets to the quarterback quicker than anybody. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got like that ability, like that jump off the
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  Speaker 2: ball and get up feel, and he can play edges,
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  Speaker 2: he can play square. You know, he can rush the
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  Speaker 2: passer inside, he can he gets up and down last scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: But the body type is that's you know, that's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the body type. Comparison obviously Aaron Donalds and Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Famer in the first ballot, Lawrence Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I didn't get a step on you, but speak.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I could just roll into the attitude because
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  Speaker 7: he talked about.
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  Speaker 5: His doll attitude.
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  Speaker 4: He said all his life is really doubted.
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  Speaker 5: And then he's like, it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter who's in front of me, it's mapped out.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very cool.
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  Speaker 3: You just talked about its toughness, his ability just to guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Ryan Florence would and I hope you
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  Speaker 2: guys get a chance to speak with Ryan. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: just exactly what you said, like always up against it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, overcome the whatever the doubts people had about him,
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  Speaker 2: and when guys play hard like that every like throughout.
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  Speaker 1: A game, and his play times high to right.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, he's you know, it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: very important to him.
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  Speaker 5: Jo.
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  Speaker 7: This was your first time running the war room without Pete.
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  Speaker 6: Was there anything as.
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  Speaker 4: A war room? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, respect, but was any.
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  Speaker 6: Different in any way? And Mike, for you first time
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  Speaker 6: as in this seat on that, what was the experience
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  Speaker 6: like for.
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  Speaker 2: Each of you? I mean, I'd be lying to you
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  Speaker 2: if I said it wasn't different, you know, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: How uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna get into that. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just different. It's just a different I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to describe it. But the communication, everything was exactly the
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  Speaker 2: same and the process right, So we started this several
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  Speaker 2: months ago. Mike and his staff had to get like
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  Speaker 2: really caught up pretty quick, and they had to work
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  Speaker 2: their tails off for it. You know, with Pete, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing it for fourteen After fourteen years, you
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  Speaker 2: get you know, you can get in a groove and
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  Speaker 2: know exactly, you know what's going to happen. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would say we didn't have the music as loud. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably that's probably the biggest thing. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'd get the music cranking pretty pretty loud in there, so.
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  Speaker 7: You might try to gather as much information on the
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  Speaker 7: possible all of these guys.
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  Speaker 6: Was it hard then, Like was there a big temptation
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  Speaker 6: to want to talk to him just to get a deal?
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  Speaker 2: Horm No, yet, well, yes to a certain extent. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have a great working relationship with his agent, and
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  Speaker 2: I felt like I knew the person through the agent
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  Speaker 2: because I've just known his agent for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he can describe you know, players and
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  Speaker 2: people he's recruiting real well until you get a really
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  Speaker 2: good background on the guy. And then just the the
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  Speaker 2: the information we got from everybody was so consistent, all
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  Speaker 2: the different sources.
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  Speaker 6: John he was just the one year starter there in Texas,
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  Speaker 6: But what what league did he make last year? In
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  Speaker 6: specifics in his game.
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  Speaker 1: Just more playtime, really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they for one reason or another, they just
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  Speaker 2: played more of a rotation. They had more people and
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  Speaker 2: this year, you know, with Sweat they were on the field.
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  Speaker 2: With time, he was just on the field.
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  Speaker 6: Boar like for you guys with death there to just.
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  Speaker 4: Be could you say it again, Yeah, it's it's incredibly important.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I wouldn't say that was a driving you know,
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  Speaker 4: fourth round the decision is just an opportunity to add
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  Speaker 4: a awesome guy and a great player, so but absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know in two minutes you're gonna want
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  Speaker 4: to have guys fresh and ready to rock. And then
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  Speaker 4: you know it's not it's not a short season. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you need guys that can get after in the trenches
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 7: So second ago, I know it, you have to do this.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, first round versus program, what was it
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  Speaker 6: like for you go through the process.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was a it was an awesome process.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think, you know, getting into it and
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things you're trying to do to
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  Speaker 4: build a team and the staff. So getting into the
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  Speaker 4: into the process a little bit later than we would
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  Speaker 4: be ready, you know, maybe next year, so uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you get in it and you dive in head first.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the thing that I liked everybody to
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  Speaker 4: know is how awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Our processes and we got.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we've assembled an incredible personnel staff. Being able
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  Speaker 4: to create alignment in such a short amount of time,
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  Speaker 4: I think was was really neat. And there's just like
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  Speaker 4: I felt a lot of trust, you know about the
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  Speaker 4: information that we're getting and the type of people are
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  Speaker 4: in that room and the and the culture that we
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  Speaker 4: have in our draft room, you know. And I just
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  Speaker 4: told John like coming into this week as like, look
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  Speaker 4: like like I trust our guy, like we trust we
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  Speaker 4: trust each other man, and I think that's really important.
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  Speaker 4: So today I was I was you know, the music
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  Speaker 4: wasn't as loud, but I was calm like and then
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  Speaker 4: as the pieces started to fall in place, like it was.
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  Speaker 1: Just a really cool experience.
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  Speaker 4: And John was as cool as hell and just talking
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  Speaker 4: and making calls and talking to people and it just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whatever decision we ended up at sixteen, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it would be it would be the right
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  Speaker 4: for for our team. And it was a really awesome experience.
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  Speaker 4: So is UH is a team effort?
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  Speaker 1: For sure?
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  Speaker 4: Johnny obviously he was gonna losing effort.
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  Speaker 7: But Byron Murphy playing in the College Fool playoff against Washington,
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  Speaker 7: who now got two coaching the coaches on your staff
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  Speaker 7: that's played in that game, did either Ryan Grobb or
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  Speaker 7: Scott Hoff have any insight on obviously playing against Byron
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  Speaker 7: Murphy and where that game maybe fits some the.
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  Speaker 1: Value I can take that one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Huff Huff said he had a lot of respect
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  Speaker 4: for those guys, especially Byron, So yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to him about it, but he thought he
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  Speaker 1: was a heck of a player.
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  Speaker 6: Six quarterbacks plays the team the whole draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just moves that whole group of you know,
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  Speaker 2: different areas down. I mean, the two corners that weren't
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  Speaker 2: those are those guys are damnly players for Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 2: Detroit to get those two guys. I mean, good football
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  Speaker 2: teams get really good corners. And if the offensive you know,
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  Speaker 2: if the quarterbacks don't go in all the offensive linemen,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are usually like mid round picks.
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  Speaker 6: Mike, you've had a chance to get around the players
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  Speaker 6: here a little bit last week and change it. So
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  Speaker 6: what have you learned about this group since you've had
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  Speaker 6: a chance. I could seem in person, get around them
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  Speaker 6: a little bit over the stread.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, three weeks now, so we're rolling. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 4: told the guys I love our spirit, and it's a
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  Speaker 4: shout out to how we've done things here in the past,
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  Speaker 4: what we've been able to build. And uh, you feel
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  Speaker 4: like a hunger, you know, so in a sense of
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  Speaker 4: urgency from them too. So I think that's just what
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  Speaker 4: we were attacking every day, you know, just trying to
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  Speaker 4: make the best of each day and stack them.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we've we've.
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  Speaker 4: Made some strides even in practice just running you know,
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  Speaker 4: plays on air, and but you can feel it from
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  Speaker 4: the guys that you know that it's almost like we're
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  Speaker 4: they want it more and faster systematically, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: what we're trying to build it, you know, slow as
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  Speaker 4: smooth and smooth as fast systematically, culture wise, building a.
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  Speaker 1: Foundation, all those types of things.
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  Speaker 4: So PHIL really feel the excitement from the guys and
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  Speaker 4: hopefully they're as excited as as I am and our
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  Speaker 4: coaches are.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're off to a good start. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: good guys, Thank you guys.