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DeMarcus Lawrence: "We Have Everything We Need In This Room" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's it going?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? All is well.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus, I guess just where you guys are at right
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  Speaker 3: now as a defense, obviously there's been a lot of good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's things you want to get better. How
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  Speaker 2: do you sort of assess where you guys are at
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  Speaker 2: eight games in? I mean, we're mid-season. We're four and four.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, us as a defense, we
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  Speaker 4: write what we need to be, you know, all honesty.
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just really, you know, the game of
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  Speaker 4: football and what I see. I think, you know, us
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  Speaker 4: as a team, Coach McDonald, you know, see it all
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  Speaker 4: the same. And it's, you know, just one play at
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  Speaker 4: a time, you know, complimentary football, you know, and that's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, our style. So, you know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: hard to, you know, just sit up here and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just focus on, you know, just one unit.
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  Speaker 2: When we are collective.
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  Speaker 1: What gives you the confidence that you're right where you
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  Speaker 1: need to be? What do you see?
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  Speaker 2: I see the fundamentals are there.
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  Speaker 4: Our technique, you know, our speed, you know, our tenacity,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and then it's just, you know, we have
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  Speaker 4: everything that we need in this room. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: just all about, you know, us sticking together, you know,
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  Speaker 4: playing complimentary football and, you know, stacking one play at
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  Speaker 4: a time.
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  Speaker 3: What's going to be the key to that, sticking together
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  Speaker 3: and getting that done?
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  Speaker 4: The key to it is not turning over the ball,
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  Speaker 4: takeaways on defense, giving our offenses multiple opportunities to score
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  Speaker 4: the ball, complimentary football.
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  Speaker 2: When our special teams.
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  Speaker 4: Is on the field, kickoff is the first play of defense,
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  Speaker 4: good field position, so we can keep them down there.
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  Speaker 2: Just the small things. I think when you know, situations like.
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  Speaker 4: On the kickoff with the flag happening, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: the early fourth quarter, you know, those little situations like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, last weekend, you know, put more stress on
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  Speaker 4: your team. So, you know, like I said, complimentary football,
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  Speaker 4: you know, taking advantage of, you know, the situation that
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  Speaker 4: we're in.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you.
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  Speaker 4: Take on your shoulders in those situations to have the
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  Speaker 4: conversation to say that was a mistake that can't happen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, that's the special thing about this team.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're pretty quick to identify, you know, our mistakes, understanding,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a whole, like, you know, how we
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  Speaker 4: have to play our style of football. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we just, you know, stick to what we know. You know,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 4: playing this game, you should never look for the light
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the tunnel. No matter, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what's your position, if you're the best team in the
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  Speaker 4: league or the worst team in the league.
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  Speaker 2: The worst player or the best player.
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  Speaker 4: You should always keep your head down, trying to continue
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  Speaker 4: to work to get better each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: That's the whole process of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, the one area defensively that seems to be a
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  Speaker 1: problem is the red zone. What do you see down there? Theoretically,
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  Speaker 1: it should play in your favor when there's less grass
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  Speaker 1: to cover, but what do you see as being the
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  Speaker 1: little bit of difference that happens down there?
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  Speaker 2: I see they're attacking my C-gap. I have the.
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  Speaker 4: I aim my awareness and play better football down there
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  Speaker 4: in the red zone to, you know, I'm man enough to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sit up here and, you know, tell the world, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I understand what's going on. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: see what's going on, but also it's my responsibility, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to make sure it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Conventionalism is, you know, quarterback goes down and the team
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  Speaker 1: can be in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have already played at Drew Locks here and
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of success.
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  Speaker 4: As a team, how much confidence do you have knowing that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he can step in and do the job?
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  Speaker 4: So I was actually thinking about this the other night,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and what was it, 2022, when Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 4: went down and Nick Foles had to come in for
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  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl or whatever. You know, and, you know, sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's how the game, you know, plays out.
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  Speaker 4: It's unconventional sometimes. You know, you'll get a year where
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  Speaker 4: you have, you know, all the backup quarterbacks playing, you know, but,
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just really about, you know, being able
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  Speaker 4: to adjust. I feel like the best teams, you know,
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  Speaker 4: are the teams that's, you know, able to adjust, especially in,
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  Speaker 4: you know, situations like this when you don't have so
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  Speaker 4: much film on, you know, these quarterbacks. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being able to adjust on the fly, understanding, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the game of football, you know, it's simple. Coaches come
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  Speaker 4: in with their first 15. So, you know, get the
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  Speaker 4: understanding of that and then you attack.
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  Speaker 3: You've obviously been part of a bunch of teams in
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  Speaker 3: your NFL career.
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  Speaker 2: I've only been a part of two.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of individual seasons, I guess, and every team
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  Speaker 3: kind of has its own personality. Where is this team
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  Speaker 3: 4-4 into this season? How do you characterize it relative
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  Speaker 3: to some of the other teams you've been part of?
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  Speaker 2: Who do I care?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, man, it's kind of hard to look
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  Speaker 4: up when you're in the heat of the moment. I
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  Speaker 4: know at the end of the day, the type of
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  Speaker 4: man that we have in this room is not going
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  Speaker 4: to shy away from anything tough in life.
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  Speaker 2: So just their demeanor.
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  Speaker 4: How they come to work each and every day, but
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  Speaker 4: also just putting one foot in front of the other
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  Speaker 4: and continue to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to the.
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  Speaker 1: Red zone defense, is there anything that gives you confidence
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  Speaker 1: this won't be an issue? The red zone defense, is
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  Speaker 1: there anything about it in particular that gives you confidence
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  Speaker 1: this won't be an issue for the rest of the season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's me.
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  Speaker 4: I need to make sure I control my gap, make
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  Speaker 4: sure the running back can not run through the C
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  Speaker 4: gap and finish the tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you taking that on as yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Because I watch film and I see what gap they're
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  Speaker 4: hitting and I see what runs, you know, that are
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  Speaker 4: running on us. It's a lot of mid-zone. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot of wide zone cutting back to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Seagate.
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  Speaker 2: So, that's why.
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  Speaker 3: How close were you to knocking down that lateral pass
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  Speaker 3: on third and nine the other night?
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't close at all.
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  Speaker 4: And those small things, you know, are the details of
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  Speaker 4: the game that, you know, especially in situations like that can,
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  Speaker 4: you know, change it. You know, just the simple, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Me not jumping and sticking my foot in the ground,
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  Speaker 4: changing direction. I mean, no kid in 14 was fast,
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  Speaker 4: you know. Like, he got out of there. But at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, those small little, you know,
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  Speaker 4: changes could have, you know, helped the defense.
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  Speaker 3: You're saying instead of jumping, sticking your foot in the
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  Speaker 3: ground and turning around?
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Okay. Marcus, can you talk about, or let me
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  Speaker 2: ask you, the importance of each person taking ownership in
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  Speaker 2: their play like you did, but yet staying within the system?
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  Speaker 2: All right. How important is that line right there for
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  Speaker 2: this team?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the accountability is huge, man. You know, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: through all our success, you know, you know, I feel
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of us, you know, were able to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, look at ourselves in the mirror and hold
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  Speaker 4: ourselves accountable, you know, throughout the whole season last year.
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  Speaker 4: So now, you know, that, you know, we're in this
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  Speaker 4: position that we're 4-4, you know, now this is a
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  Speaker 4: situation where we have to, you know, be able to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, look at each other as brothers and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: let somebody know when their shit stinks, you know. But
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, still stay
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  Speaker 4: a man about it, you know, be able to respect it,
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  Speaker 4: but go to work.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that, you know, stood out about
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  Speaker 3: the team last year was how connected you guys were,
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  Speaker 3: all the shadow boxing, all that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: How is that connection this year, you know, going through
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more adversity?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the connection is still there. It's just cleaning up
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  Speaker 4: the details, like I said. You know, the game of football,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, shoot, in my eyes, it's simple, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is about brotherhood. It's about connection. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the more closer you get with your teammates, the better,
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  Speaker 4: you know, communication y'all can have on the field, the
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  Speaker 4: faster y'all can be. And, you know, I mean, like
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  Speaker 4: it's living proof out there, you know, but it has
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  Speaker 4: to be on a consistent basis, and that's what.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for. Last question? Appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thanks.