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Tyler Lockett: "There's Definitely An Excitement" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That's not what you're going It's been a long couple months.
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  Speaker 1: Then what's the level of excitement in the teammates that
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  Speaker 1: you've had a chance.
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  Speaker 2: To be around this week?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's always cool because for some reason, once
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  Speaker 1: the season's over, everybody kind of goes around and does
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  Speaker 1: their own thing, and you know, you kind of talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit when you're texting or talking on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: but then it's like when you see them, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like coming back to school for the first day again,
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  Speaker 1: and you remember, like just the person that I grind with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking about blood, sweating, tears and
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  Speaker 1: just trying to be able to put into work to
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  Speaker 1: achieve this goal that everybody sets themselves out to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do. So it's kind of cool, and you
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  Speaker 1: know you get to like see hey, man, like what's
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  Speaker 1: been up with you? Like what's been going on, And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people have, you know, different endeavors and
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they've been getting themselves into, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of pretty good to hear about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, was the gist of Mike McDonald's first message to
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  Speaker 2: you guys in your first meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think the biggest thing that Mike was just
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  Speaker 1: talking to us about was visualizing, like being able to
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  Speaker 1: understand the type of dominant team that he wants us
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we got new coaches.
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  Speaker 1: And just being able to give grace to the coaches
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  Speaker 1: as everybody kind of learns like this new position that
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  Speaker 1: everybody's in, and just being able to understand that we
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  Speaker 1: want to go out here, we want to be physical.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, dominance is very very important, and not
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  Speaker 1: really letting stuff slip under the rug.
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  Speaker 2: Here a long time?
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  Speaker 3: What was it like here in Maga seem like I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: No, that meant you've heard, you know, a different coach
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  Speaker 1: at the front of the podium for the room for
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  Speaker 1: so many years.
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  Speaker 3: What was it like hearing a different voice?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's different, but I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing that you got to do is you
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  Speaker 1: got to renew your mind. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that you learn growing up as a kid is you know,
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  Speaker 1: when people are talking, you you know, take the meeting,
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  Speaker 1: you leave the bones palls, and so it's like what
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  Speaker 1: you end up doing is you listen to what people say,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you absorb that information and you say
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  Speaker 1: like okay, like I'm gonna take this like I'm learning that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning that. And so for me, when you have
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  Speaker 1: that mindset of learning, and it really doesn't matter who's
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  Speaker 1: up here or who's coaching or who's talking, you always
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  Speaker 1: got something to be able to learn and always something
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  Speaker 1: that can be able to help you to get to
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  Speaker 1: the best part that you want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: get to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you already, but why did you rediate
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  Speaker 2: your contract?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think for me, like you know, Seattle's home, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's a business, and so you gotta, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of look and see what's good for them, you see
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  Speaker 1: what's good for yourself as well. And with everything that
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  Speaker 1: I've you know, had a chance to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do and become, it's really cool that you hear that
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  Speaker 1: the staff wants you to be on the team as well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's cool to hear stuff
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  Speaker 1: about John whenever he's talking to my agent and kind
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  Speaker 1: of see how they see me, how they still view me,
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  Speaker 1: like all that different type of stuff, because I think
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like every player just
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  Speaker 1: wants to feel appreciated and they want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to feel like They're still a part of the team,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, people still feel like they got stuff
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  Speaker 1: to give and all that different type of stuff, and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Like as you get older, like sometimes things change and
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  Speaker 1: people might view you different. But you know, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: able to view me any differently. He still saw me
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  Speaker 1: as the same player that I've been and still believes
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  Speaker 1: in me that I could still do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great things. And so, you know, still gave me this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to come in here and still be able to play.
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  Speaker 1: And so obviously there's things that you restructure, there's things
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  Speaker 1: that you work out to where it still works out
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  Speaker 1: on both accords. I try not to get too much
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  Speaker 1: into the contract because you know, I'm still kind of
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  Speaker 1: in a blessed situation, and so everybody kind of talks
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  Speaker 1: about the contract and talk about the money or say
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  Speaker 1: that's a pay cut or whatever it is. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's enough for us to still be here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: enough for them to still want me.
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  Speaker 2: What was your initially actually get heard that he was
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  Speaker 2: not gonna be to go tonyone.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I was shocked. I mean I think everybody
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  Speaker 3: was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you know, if you're here long enough,
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  Speaker 1: you see it coming. You know, Like I've seen so
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  Speaker 1: many tweets and stuff about people saying it was time
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  Speaker 1: for me to go, And you know, I think Sharm
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  Speaker 1: has said it a long time ago, like the longer
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  Speaker 1: you stay, the longer you become a villain.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's like when you.
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  Speaker 1: Hear so early, you're so loved and everybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: see more of you, all that different type of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think, you know, when Pete was let go,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was real shocking because when
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  Speaker 1: I looked out through the course of my life, like
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  Speaker 1: I've literally almost had the same coaches my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: Like you go to college, I had Bill Snyder my
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  Speaker 1: whole career. You come here to the NFL. I was
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  Speaker 1: with Pete for nine straight years high school. I literally
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  Speaker 1: almost had my same coach the whole four years. Some
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  Speaker 1: stuff happened after year three, so we got a new coach.
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  Speaker 1: But I've literally had like three or four coaches my
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  Speaker 1: whole you know, life, from high school to now, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's just kind of weird. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: like it's a new experience. There's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that you could be able to learn from him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great defensive mind, you know, as Pete was
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  Speaker 1: as well. And even though there's some philosoph fees that
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  Speaker 1: may be the same or something that's different, Like this
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  Speaker 1: is a young cat that you can be able to
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  Speaker 1: learn from and you could be able to like understand
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  Speaker 1: his mentality, like what made them so great out there
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore, Like what made him pick the coaches to
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  Speaker 1: be able to come here to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the team. And also it's kind of like that thing
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  Speaker 1: of like for me, I haven't got to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, when you transfer and you go somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, everything is new. The cool part for
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  Speaker 1: me is like the familiarity is still the same, Like
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  Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning coaches are the same, the athletic
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  Speaker 1: training staff like mo' kelly e k, the equipment staff,
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  Speaker 1: like the third floor, a lot of stuff is still
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  Speaker 1: the same.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the coaches are kind of new.
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  Speaker 1: And so what you got to do is establish a
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  Speaker 1: relationship and understand like how do you coach? How do
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  Speaker 1: you see the game? This is how I see the game,
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  Speaker 1: this is how I play. And now you're just working
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  Speaker 1: to recreate that chemistry. So when you go out there,
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  Speaker 1: like we all are speaking the same language.
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  Speaker 3: That far, what if you noticed it's different. I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's been three days. You know. The biggest difference is
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  Speaker 3: no basketball goal. So but we still got one in
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  Speaker 3: the indoor unless they take it out. Since I just
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  Speaker 3: said that, so let's tyl. You guys played his defense
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  Speaker 3: last year in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: What stood out to you about how he put a
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  Speaker 1: defense together, The way they tried to shut you guys down,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of hallmarks of what his scheme did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think their defense was really good. I
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  Speaker 1: think that they had they had a bunch of vets
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  Speaker 1: that was there, a bunch of people that understood the game.
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  Speaker 1: I think they had a bunch of selfless people on
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  Speaker 1: their team who understood their assignments, understood the importance of
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  Speaker 1: where they needed to be and why it was so important,
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  Speaker 1: and just being able to jail together.
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  Speaker 3: And they went out there and played.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't really care who got the credit, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: as long as one got the credit, everybody got the
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  Speaker 1: credit because they balled together inside. So it didn't create
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  Speaker 1: any animosity, it didn't create anything to where it was
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  Speaker 1: like it's all about me. It wasn't me driven, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was team driven. And so I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing that you see when you watch them. They
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  Speaker 1: did a great job even all the way up until
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  Speaker 1: when they lost in the AFC Championship. And so I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm super cool, Like I said that he's here, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm with the talent and stuff that we have. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of great things that he
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  Speaker 1: could be able to do, a lot of great schemes
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  Speaker 1: that he can get the defenses into. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have Grubs that's an offensive mind coach, and I can
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  Speaker 1: only imagine them going at it each and every day
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  Speaker 1: at practice where it's one of those iron sharpens iron.
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  Speaker 1: So if we lose, I'm sure Grubs is gonna be like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, what made you think that? Like was it
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  Speaker 1: something that we ticked off to the defense to make
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  Speaker 1: them understand are splits or where we lined up at?
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  Speaker 1: And so I think it's just gonna be like a
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  Speaker 1: little rivalry within the team.
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  Speaker 2: What have you committed to do as a leader to
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  Speaker 2: making sure that people are on the same page, that
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  Speaker 2: you're speaking the same language that maybe you are bridging out.
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  Speaker 3: Of the gap of some of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think for me, like the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing that I have to do is just continue to
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  Speaker 1: meet people where they're at, especially with this new transition,
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  Speaker 1: understanding that not every transition is the same and not
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  Speaker 1: every transition is always normal.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know, I've been here for nine.
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  Speaker 1: Years, and so it's weird in a sense being here
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  Speaker 1: for nine years. But there's a lot of stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: different about being in the same place, and so you
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to help people along when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to different type of coaching, the different styles of coaching,
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  Speaker 1: the different ways that coaches may talk to players, the
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  Speaker 1: different ways that they might teach the game, the different
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  Speaker 1: names that they call the routes, Like, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things change, and so sometimes you got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to carry players with you. Sometimes you need players to
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  Speaker 1: carry you. And so it's kind of like whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is that they need me to do, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: try to find ways to do it to where you
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  Speaker 1: don't lose yourself, but you're still yourself while.
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  Speaker 3: You're helping each and every person.
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  Speaker 2: So it's only three days, but what stands out about
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  Speaker 2: Ryan as long and supply.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think when you talk about Ryan, like,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's like a real secure person, like he
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  Speaker 1: understands who he is. Like the composure I think is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: He's standing up here, he's talking about an offense. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's his, but you know you could tell like he
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  Speaker 1: respects and.
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  Speaker 3: He appreciates it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's an offense to where like you really have
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  Speaker 1: to study and you got to be intellectual to be
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  Speaker 1: able to understand it and to be able to learn
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  Speaker 1: it because it just it's a lot of memorization. And
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  Speaker 1: so I do think it's really cool. I do think
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  Speaker 1: it's unique. I do think he has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: creative ways. When you listen to him talk, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you see the game the same way as
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  Speaker 1: he sees it. And so I'm super excited just to
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  Speaker 1: be able to kind of like learn from him and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of see what he brings to this team in.
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  Speaker 2: Terms of the diversity of the offense. With what he brings,
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  Speaker 2: does it feel exciting to be in that room, Not
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  Speaker 2: like it wasn't last year, but just with all that
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  Speaker 2: he can bring, maybe if you watched any of what
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  Speaker 2: the Huskies did last.
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  Speaker 1: Year, Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, there's definitely
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  Speaker 1: an excitement, you know, and stuff like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I've played, since I've been here ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I've had a coordinator every three years, and
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  Speaker 1: so I mean, the pretty cool part of having a
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  Speaker 1: new coordinator is like you learn different schemes, different tactics,
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  Speaker 1: different coaches, different levels of thinking, different parts of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like really cool to just be able to
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  Speaker 1: like pick people's brains. And so just for my nine
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  Speaker 1: years of just learning from each coordinator, it's like, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing that you can do as a player
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  Speaker 1: in my position is to think that you know everything.
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  Speaker 1: And so with Grubs coming in, it's like I want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to listen to him and learn from
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  Speaker 1: him and see how he sees the game, because, like
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  Speaker 1: he said, he was just a high school coach at
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  Speaker 1: one point. Then I think he said he went to Fresno,
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  Speaker 1: and then he talked about how he went maybe somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: and then you dub and then before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: he's up here. And so he obviously knows something about
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  Speaker 1: the game that a lot of these coaches respect and
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  Speaker 1: they love about him because he got to the NFL
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  Speaker 1: even after being able to take a team to the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA Championship.
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  Speaker 2: What are your expectations for the team season?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I haven't thought that far honestly. Is
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  Speaker 1: just at this point, we gotta learn the playbook. Like
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that we could be able
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, obviously we got the talent, but
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  Speaker 1: at this point, it's just you gotta sit in the classroom,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We gotta learn because the
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  Speaker 1: things that we might have brought previously, like you don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you can still bring that because it's based
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  Speaker 1: off of the intellectual assignments, it's based off of the
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  Speaker 1: way that we're trying to talk about the defense and
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  Speaker 1: talk about the offense.
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  Speaker 3: So like right now, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's goal is always a super Bowl, but like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting to a point where it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: that's like two hundred days out, Like we gotta win today,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta be in today. We got to focus today.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta do whatever we can to be one step
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  Speaker 1: better today, because you know, if we just focus on
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  Speaker 1: so far, it's like that's the distance.
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  Speaker 3: But like, let's focus on the.
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  Speaker 1: Steps to be able to get to where we need
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  Speaker 1: to be so we could be successful.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling physically?
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  Speaker 1: Feeling physically, I mean I'm feeling like any other thirty
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  Speaker 1: one year old, I feel great.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you feel at thirty one? I don't you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: To answer that. I mean, I feel great, man. I
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  Speaker 1: also want to just say, you know, rest in peace
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  Speaker 1: to Allen too. You know, I think sometimes when you
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  Speaker 1: know people pass away, it does bring back this thing
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  Speaker 1: in life where you realize life is so short and
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  Speaker 1: we just got to be able to be grateful and
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  Speaker 1: we just got to be able to enjoy life, man,
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  Speaker 1: because we just never know, you know, what's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to happen, and so we appreciate him and
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  Speaker 1: everything that he's done, everything that he brought to us,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just made his legacy and everything continue
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  Speaker 1: to live on.
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  Speaker 2: What would your off season like even two months? Business wise?
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  Speaker 2: And Dan Sudeo, I just a good one. Will get
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  Speaker 2: ready for next season.
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  Speaker 3: How was my off season?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, so I studied sixty hours to renew my
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  Speaker 1: license in Washington. I studied ninety eight to renew my
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  Speaker 1: hours and techs. So I finished the Washington in January.
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  Speaker 1: I finished the Texas in February. Then I just studied
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty hours for Oregon and I just
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  Speaker 1: passed the national exam. Then I passed the state exam.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm waiting to get my license in Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: So I did all that. Now I could go play golf,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Now I can go do all the football stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a lot of cool stuff, man, But
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  Speaker 1: the real estate party is going great. The cool part
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  Speaker 1: is now that I'm kind of finishing up year two.
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  Speaker 1: In a sense out here, a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: even ask the questions of do you know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I could say, hey, man, we listed this house,
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  Speaker 1: it went pending in two days, one hundred k over.
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  Speaker 1: Hey you know, we listed this house and went twenty
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  Speaker 1: five over in two days. So now it's like when
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  Speaker 1: you're having these conversations, people are like, oh wow, Like
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  Speaker 1: we literally see like what you're doing, and we literally
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  Speaker 1: see what you're bringing, and so I think it's really cool, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity. I encourage like every single player.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard when you come into the league because you
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  Speaker 1: automatically think from day one like, that's not gonna be me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be playing like I'm gonna be done
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  Speaker 1: when I say that I'm done, and that's not the
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  Speaker 1: case for a lot of players. And like I would
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  Speaker 1: just encourage every player, like, whatever it is that you
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  Speaker 1: want to do in your life, like do it as
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  Speaker 1: you're playing football. You don't have to let the world
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  Speaker 1: know what you're doing because sometimes coaches will say, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't playing to his like to how we think
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  Speaker 1: he's played, probably because he's doing this.
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  Speaker 3: So you're gonna deal with stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But like for me, it's gonna be so much easier
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: for me because I'm trying to make it easy for me.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: The day that I choose to retire, I already have
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: everything lined up to where it's an easier transition rather
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: than just being done. Now I'm sitting at home, like
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: what do I want to do now? Oh, I want
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: to do real estate, but now I gotta study. So
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: nobody wants to go back to class after you graduate.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: That's the hardest thing to do. And so it's like
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: for me to set it all up. Now, Well, now
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: you got fans that want to be a part of
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Like what you're doing. You got fans asking, hey, can
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: you sell my house? Can you co list this with
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: somebody else? Like now you're getting all these opportunities that
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: you might not have gotten if you retired, because when
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: you retired, Like think about guys that's retired and think
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: about like would you still want to do things with
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: them after they retired or would you want to do
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: things with them now?
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Like for some people it stays the same.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: For other people, they want to do it while your
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: name is hot, and so why not take advantage of
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: those opportunities to do a lot of great things while
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: you're still playing, And so that way when you're done playing,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: like the standard is already here, Like the standard isn't
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: like I want to sell two house now you're like
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I want to sell forty because you've already got to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: like ten, you already got the fifteen, you already got
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the twenties. So like for me, I'd encourage everybody like
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: whatever it is you want to do, man, like go
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: as hard as it as you do in football, But
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: just no balance, that's all you got to do.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: No time management.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Understand what's more important at the time, Like all right,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: we in the season, focus on football, you know, but
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: when we're in the off season, like it's the off season,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: like you know, how to grind in, how to art
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: whatever endeavor that it is that you want to do
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: next along those go ahead?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Wait, did you step it up for yourself? Have there
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: been any thoughts about it? You know what? Let me
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: just do this? Have you known for a while that
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: you want to keep going with football this season, next season,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: into the future or were there every thoughts about, you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: let me just pursue as an adventure?
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Have you thought it all about just doing real estate?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Do you know that you want to continue to play
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: like beyond this season? There is that been a thought
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: at all for you?
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, I just focused on one year at
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a time because like, honestly, man, things change, Like man,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I got married, Like things change. You got to learn
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: how to be a husband and depend on other people
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: and talk and you know, providing and support of other people.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not all about you anymore.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: So things change.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Like I think for me, I'm grateful to be on
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the same team for nine years going into year ten.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Like did I every think I would play for ten years?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: No?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Like, but I say that because it's like not that yeah,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: eight was my goal, but like also it's like it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: crazy to me to think that you're even on the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: same team for going into ten years.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Like usually everybody moves around, it has.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: To go to one team or two teams, and I've
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: been fortunate to be on the same team and so
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: like every year, man, I just try to challenge myself,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: like let's go out there and let's be great. Obviously
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the position that I play sometimes like it's unfortunate because
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: all people ever care about the stats and they don't
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: think about like what you bring to the team. They
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: don't think about, you know what I'm saying, how you
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: help each and every player to try to get to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: where they're.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Supposed to be.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Like they don't understand the term and what it means
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to be a captain, how you got to sacrifice things
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: at times, Like they don't understand how you got to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: be a decoy at times to be able to help
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: other people out.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Like it's so much stuff that people don't think about.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: They just think about stats, contract whatever, and they don't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: understand the importance of having people on a team that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: can be able to help you in the logist of
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: not just being.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: A captain, but you got to be a counselor too.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: When you're a captain, like you gotta be able to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: counsel players and like sit there with them and cry
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: with them and weep with them and like mope with them.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: You gotta do all that different type of stuff. It's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: more than just being able to play football.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Like a lot of people don't understand that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And so like for me, I love doing that because
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a part of my purpose, like
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: meet people where they're at, love on people, showing the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: love of God, like all that different type of stuff.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: And so like I mean, one day, I know I'll
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: be done. And when I'm done, I'm not gonna regret it,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: cause I know that I've played as much as I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: wanted to play, as long as I wanted to play,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and all that different.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Type of stuff.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: But I also know, like if you leave earlier than
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you want to, then you gonna regret it because you're
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be like, dang, I want to come back. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: we all know when when you're in your thirties, they
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: see you as old, so it's gonna be hard to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: come back. And so for me, it's like, man, just
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: play as long as you want to play, and when
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: it's time to put them up, then you just put
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: them up.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: So Washington State will look to sanctioned girls life football.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: To you, what's the important of having that sport or
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: in high school for girls to be able to participate in?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: First off, I think it's dope and I think it's
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: cool that they be able to do that. I'm thinking
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I want to say
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that there's ten other states that's already done that, right,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: so it would be eleven for Washington, And.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I think it's just like a really cool opportunity.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: But I also do think that it should be a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: sport because as you look at even what's happening in
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl with flag football becoming a thing, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I think that it is going to continue to be
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: something that's gonna be really big down the line. And
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I think it's a way that women can be able
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to be a part of football and play football and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, and like we're gonna win a championship
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: out here, So I mean, I encourage them to be
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: able to do it, like they should be able to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: have some of us as coaches, like we love to
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: be able to go out there and coach and support,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: so I definitely think that should do that, like right now.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: All right, appreciate y'all.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Please don't put no more trade requests out there for
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: me because I see y'all's articles about me getting traded
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: like no Kaya