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Bobby Wagner: "There Is A Lot Of Season Left" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Are you good.
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  Speaker 2: In your experience?
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  Speaker 3: Bobby?
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  Speaker 4: I know you didn't go through too many losses like that,
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  Speaker 4: haven't gone through too any like that.
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  Speaker 3: But how do you best turn the page from something
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is you learn from it
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  Speaker 1: and you gotta move on. I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of season left, there's a lot of stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: have to get better at an accomplish. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is understanding that. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: reminder that if you don't come with your a game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good teams will beat you. So yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: move on.
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  Speaker 5: You said after the game that you're in a decent spot,
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  Speaker 5: but it doesn't mean anything if we don't make the
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  Speaker 5: changes that need to be made.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what changes were you talking now?
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  Speaker 1: Changes? Just like focusing on the little things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you know, when you win or you're you're having
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  Speaker 1: some success, the details of the game might get away
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  Speaker 1: from you and the winning might disguise that. So sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, having a loss like that or having loss
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  Speaker 1: in general, reminds you, you know, how important those things
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  Speaker 1: are throughout the season, especially as you get later and
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  Speaker 1: later into the season, because those are the teams that
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of blossom to the top is the
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  Speaker 1: ones that are able to do the little things right consistently,
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again. So those are the things,
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  Speaker 1: just being like reminding yourself that you know, you may
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  Speaker 1: have a big player do all these things, these things
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the little things that that propel those good teams to
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  Speaker 1: where people want to be at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Last week obviously, really excuse the numbers, the rush you
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  Speaker 2: can get, the yards they got. But when you look
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  Speaker 2: at kind of where you guys are mid season in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the run defense and everything, do you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're you're at a good spot still overall or
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like we have some some good moments,
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  Speaker 1: some not so good moments. I think we have the
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  Speaker 1: capability of being a really good, uh you know, run defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think again it goes back to, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: the little things right, making sure you know you don't
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  Speaker 1: get too you know, wanting to make plays a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, you know, it's a lot of just guys
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  Speaker 1: want to try hard and get make those plays. And again,
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  Speaker 1: just reminder that you might get bored with the doing
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  Speaker 1: the little things, but those things, you know, helped change
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  Speaker 1: your season and win for your season.
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  Speaker 4: You have a moment where that clicked as a younger
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  Speaker 4: player or anything, to just always do the fundamentals, particularly
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  Speaker 4: maybe with tackling instead of trying to like do too much,
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  Speaker 4: make a play strip of guy stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh hmm. There might have been a game in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: We played in San Diego. It was hot. It's like
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  Speaker 1: maybe won something that probably was a game where it
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  Speaker 1: tested your not on your will, you know, physically, but
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  Speaker 1: mentally because it was so hot you had to do
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  Speaker 1: things right. I feel like a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 1: game was cramping. I think it might have been my
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  Speaker 1: second year. I can't remember, but something like that second
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  Speaker 1: or third year. But I feel like that was a
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  Speaker 1: game that always stands out to me as like one
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  Speaker 1: of those games where you know, the fundamental to fundamentals
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  Speaker 1: was very important that in real time or is it
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  Speaker 1: you look back on that game and you realize that
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  Speaker 1: a combination of both. I'd say a combination of both.
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  Speaker 2: What was made after the opener about you getting the
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  Speaker 2: team together kind of for that speech before practice and
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  Speaker 2: you said you just kind of felt they needed it
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  Speaker 2: in your experience, When can you get that sense after
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  Speaker 2: tough game, these guys you know will pick me up
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  Speaker 2: or they're fine, they're they put it in the right
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  Speaker 2: place and they've moved on.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a field thing, to be honest. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a feel thing in understanding the people that
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  Speaker 1: you play with. I think that's the biggest thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you have relationships with everybody, you can feel when
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  Speaker 1: guys are locked in. You feel with guys are like
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  Speaker 1: maybe thinking about what happened to play before the week
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  Speaker 1: before a little bit too much, and so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is just feel relationships and being able to
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  Speaker 1: read the moment this week then that was ready to
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  Speaker 1: move on.
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  Speaker 2: Were you able to get a sense of what Leonard
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  Speaker 2: will bring to this defense based around what you saw
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  Speaker 2: and stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Kind of it was a little tough, just because
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  Speaker 1: the way they were running. You know their zone runs
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  Speaker 1: and you have the quarterback aspect, so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of perimeter stuff and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, you watch the film. You
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  Speaker 1: see how strong he is, You see how you control gaps,
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  Speaker 1: you see if you get how he gets off blocks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think again, this is his first week.
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  Speaker 1: They're throwing you know, they were throwing a lot at him.
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to memorize all the plays, and so
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  Speaker 1: I think the more and more, you know, he's getting
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  Speaker 1: another week in practice, gonna get another game, he'll get
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  Speaker 1: comfortable and be the player we know. Yes, it's been
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  Speaker 1: a while.
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  Speaker 4: Since the Commanders have come to loom And Field, but
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  Speaker 4: with the enemy is the offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 5: Do you go back and look at film from Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: City in the last year or this season, or is
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  Speaker 2: it just just from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can kind of look at it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from a concept wise, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: like they had totally different you know, packages, like they
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  Speaker 1: had totally different people, obviously different quarterback. The years that
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  Speaker 1: they've put in together, it's a lot different that this
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  Speaker 1: is his you know, first year or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you might go look to see if
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  Speaker 1: they run the same concepts, But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, like they have different players, different strengths, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of more focused on this team
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  Speaker 1: than Casey when you look.
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  Speaker 4: At s him how he's been able to get the
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  Speaker 4: ball out and rack a lot of yards but it
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  Speaker 4: also seems like there might be some opportunity hass rushing.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen with the way he handles pressure
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  Speaker 2: or maybe the way the old line handles pressure.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously like I think they've you know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams have been able to get after him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, been able to sack them a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: kind of like what you said for every maybe sack
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, he's able to escape some plays. There was
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  Speaker 1: a play that he I think he got a third
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  Speaker 1: and twenty three like by using his legs, and so
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to be mindful of that. None
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  Speaker 1: stand you know, he they know that, you know, they've
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  Speaker 1: been getting pressured a lot, but he's also getting comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with it, being able to trust his legs a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more and escape. And you know, again, we just
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  Speaker 1: need to be on our job, make sure we make
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  Speaker 1: the plays that we're supposed to make.
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  Speaker 5: So now that you're talking about halfway through, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of talk about how impressive
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  Speaker 5: it was that Jordan Brooks came back so quickly from surgery,
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  Speaker 5: but it aims in what have you thought about what
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  Speaker 5: you've seen from him on the field and the I
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  Speaker 5: guess considering that.
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  Speaker 1: He bounced back that fast. I mean, again, it's been
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  Speaker 1: an amazing journey. I think where he's at right now
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  Speaker 1: is pretty remarkable if you ask me, because like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's you know, most people don't come back from
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  Speaker 1: injury like that, especially playing at a high level, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think it was almost as if he didn't
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  Speaker 1: get hurt, as just he grew as a football player
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  Speaker 1: and you know, use that time to understand the game
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, and it's allowing him to play faster.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing really really fast, making a lot of splash plays,
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  Speaker 1: making a lot of impact plays, and you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a great linebacker.
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  Speaker 5: Having played with him before too, before you left for
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  Speaker 5: a year, and you see a lot of difference from
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  Speaker 5: what he was the first time you played with him
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  Speaker 5: to to now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cause I you know, I I saw him from
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  Speaker 1: you know, rookie to now, so you know, I see
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  Speaker 1: the growth every year. Obviously I went wa went away
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  Speaker 1: for a year. You know, he has a new you know,
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  Speaker 1: new system, so he's learning that new system and then
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, this year is a combination of
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  Speaker 1: just being comfortable with the new system as well as
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  Speaker 1: just trusting himself, trusting his speed, trusting the football that
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  Speaker 1: he's seen, and it's it's been really cool to watch.
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  Speaker 1: What if you made a boy in moth face run
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  Speaker 1: here in the last six plus games or so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his second year coming up that successfully with his past
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  Speaker 1: rush game and everything that he's kind of doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Ah man, it's been fun to watch. Cause again I
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  Speaker 1: watched him from Afar obviously, but seeing it up up
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  Speaker 1: close and personal, watching how how hard he works at practice,
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  Speaker 1: how hard he he works at his pass russ moves,
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  Speaker 1: and then being able to not get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: you know, the records or all these different things, just
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  Speaker 1: understanding that it's him doing what he normally does every
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  Speaker 1: single game that's making all of this happen, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of ignoring the noise. That's been the most oppressive
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  Speaker 1: thing is because you know, sometimes people get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in you know, what they hear outside and then they
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  Speaker 1: try to force sacks. But he's doing what he's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do, and the sacks are coming to him.
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  Speaker 4: Would you play action plays? The thought has always been
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  Speaker 4: like when teams run the ball to set up play action,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's maybe numbers that indicate that you don't
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  Speaker 4: really have to run the ball effectively to run effective
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  Speaker 4: play action. But as a defender, is there a big
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  Speaker 4: difference in the effectiveness of the fake when a team
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  Speaker 4: is really running the ball, Well.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, you gotta believe it. You know, if a
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  Speaker 1: team is trying to play action you or do boots
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, and they don't really run the ball,
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  Speaker 1: then you rather kind of error on the side of like,
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  Speaker 1: prove to me that you're gonna run the ball before
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  Speaker 1: you know, I fall for it. But when you have
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  Speaker 1: two really good backs like they have, you have to
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  Speaker 1: honor that because if you do it that way, they
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  Speaker 1: are out of the gate. And so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is the personnel, a lot of it is the coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: like do you believe that that's their true intent? Do
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  Speaker 1: they really want to run the ball or is it
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  Speaker 1: just something they're doing to set up something else. So
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  Speaker 1: that is just film study, just watching all the games
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  Speaker 1: over and over and getting a feel for how they
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  Speaker 1: call plays, when they call the play action where they
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  Speaker 1: like to run them towards, because a lot of all
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  Speaker 1: of that is just making a throw comfortable for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And so the more and more you understand what the
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  Speaker 1: coordinator is trying to do or what the quarterback likes,
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  Speaker 1: you understand when are the moments that they really actually
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  Speaker 1: use that and one of the moments that they really
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  Speaker 1: want to run the ball. And as you get into film,
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  Speaker 1: you understand pretty quick. To be honest, Washington or Baltimore anything.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was just speaking generally, but yeah, Washington
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  Speaker 1: as well. They fallow in that line, like they have
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  Speaker 1: two really good running backs and you know they're going
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  Speaker 1: to use the and if I'm them, you watch you know,
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  Speaker 1: the last few games, why not try to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So it's on us to make them wanna mental.
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  Speaker 4: Are there quarterbacks who are better at play fakes than others?
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  Speaker 1: For sure? You know it's you know, quarterbacks that are
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  Speaker 1: able to hold the fake a little bit longer. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it too, is like the the angle
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  Speaker 1: of the running back. You know, like sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you do a wide zone or things that nature,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback really has to run with the quarter run
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  Speaker 1: with the running back. But some of them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they get lazy and they don't really do it, or
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  Speaker 1: the running back is not even looking for the ball
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  Speaker 1: as they're doing the play action, so we see all
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  Speaker 1: of that, we pay attention to all of that. Or
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you'll have a running back do a
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  Speaker 1: fake way up here, like he never gets the ball
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  Speaker 1: with his arms just high in the air, like we
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  Speaker 1: definished play attention all of that. So quarterbacks, running backs,
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  Speaker 1: even the line, it all marries together because you see
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  Speaker 1: a you know, you see a lineman on a run,
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  Speaker 1: he's super heavy on his hands or super heavy in
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  Speaker 1: his stance. He's coming off the rock because that's a run.
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  Speaker 1: But if he's really light, you don't believe it. So
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  Speaker 1: you looking at all of those things in a split second.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking at the lineman to the running back, to
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, and all of those help you read something.
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  Speaker 5: How long did it take you to pick up on
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  Speaker 5: tells like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think maybe my second or third year,
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  Speaker 1: give a take. I think trusting it took like maybe
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  Speaker 1: my second or third year. I feel like I was
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  Speaker 1: picking up on it in my first year, but you
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  Speaker 1: didn't trust it. Somebody help you with that, or do
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of naturally just got better at it
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  Speaker 1: on your own or watching the film. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: it's a combination of both, because I did seek the
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  Speaker 1: help of like other linebackers, and a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: like you had to find out what works for you
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  Speaker 1: because what works for them may not work for you,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I even remember having a conversation with Mike Singletary.
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  Speaker 1: He basically told me I just got to watch the
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  Speaker 1: film because you know, what he seed or what he
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  Speaker 1: saw is different than what I'm looking for. And he
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  Speaker 1: could teach me. He could teach me what he was seeing,
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  Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be natural to what I was, you know, seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a combination. Obviously, I had coach
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  Speaker 1: Norton in my first couple of years, and he sat
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  Speaker 1: me down and did a lot for me. So a
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  Speaker 1: combination is just getting a feel for it and just
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  Speaker 1: having some really good coach and mentors that took the
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  Speaker 1: time to share their knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Remember any other linebackers reached.
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  Speaker 1: Out to I reached out to all of them, I
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  Speaker 1: mean to be honest, I obviously I reached out to
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  Speaker 1: Ray Patrick Willis helped me out a lot in to
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  Speaker 1: borrow London, Fletcher, Brian urlacker Man, pretty much all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting somebody, So I apologize. If
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  Speaker 1: there's no offense, it's great. Is there a different setting
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  Speaker 1: field from college once you get up to the pro?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get the speed and then you can
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  Speaker 1: see in the NFL game, But is there another skills
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  Speaker 1: that you need to learn to study at the pro
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  Speaker 1: level as opposed to the college level. College is kind
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  Speaker 1: of more comical, to be honest, I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't watching film, like I should have watched the film
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like college they just run the same
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  Speaker 1: play like three times in a row. They just flip it.
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  Speaker 1: And watching the college game, I don't watch it that
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  Speaker 1: much anymore, but like when I did watch it, it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of comical that all I did was just
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  Speaker 1: flip the play. And the league is just more so
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  Speaker 1: trusting what you watch and understanding that they knock on
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  Speaker 1: lineup in the same thing. Like they'll run a play
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  Speaker 1: out of trips and then they'll run that same play.
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  Speaker 1: They'll start in doubles and then they'll motion a guy
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  Speaker 1: and they're ending trips, but it won't begin in that way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's more chess. I would say college is.
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  Speaker 2: More checkers, dams, all these linebackers that helped you when
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  Speaker 2: you were young, at it's a little strange now.
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  Speaker 1: That you're that guy to a lot of young guys
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  Speaker 1: come in the league. It's not strange at all. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I was blessed cause, like I don't there wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker that ever turned me away when I ask for knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And so when I was hoping that my career go
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  Speaker 1: the way that there's theirs did, I was making sure
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  Speaker 1: that I did the same, and I didn't turn away anybody.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't turn away nobody for help, because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do that with me.
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  Speaker 3: You cold caught on those guys. You didn't know them
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  Speaker 3: or have a relationship with him. You're just a high
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: bobby whackman.
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  Speaker 1: Basically produce yourself. I always introduced myself. This is a
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  Speaker 1: respecting I don't assume people know who I am. I
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  Speaker 1: just find a way to get the number, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: through friends, through agents, through whatever, and then I just
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  Speaker 1: try to pick their brain.
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  Speaker 3: Were they that first or second year guy was calling
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  Speaker 3: them from the West coast and asking those questions? You
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  Speaker 3: were asking did you think you got an entry.
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  Speaker 1: Just because of that? Oh, I don't know how hown't
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  Speaker 1: pruss they were. I didn't really look at it as
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  Speaker 1: like an impressive thing. I just wanted to be good
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  Speaker 1: at football. So but again too a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just them like sharm help me out a lot
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  Speaker 1: getting in contact with certain people, nor help me out
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  Speaker 1: a lot get in contact with certain people. So I
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  Speaker 1: also use like the people that had been in the
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: league to have respect throughout the league to get in
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  Speaker 1: contact with some of these people.
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  Speaker 3: Is that part of the reason you say you're so
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  Speaker 3: impressed with her spil because he's that kind of guy
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  Speaker 3: who gets out and to ask and is inquisitive like
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  Speaker 3: he is for sure.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I mean that's always a sign of a great player,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: being able to put your ego aside and be uh,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: have some humility to understand you don't know everything, and
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: not afraid to ask questions. In line backer timing, understanding
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: where the protection is going, whether it's coming to you
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: or away from you, and then being able to beat
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: the block. To beat the block, whether it's the tight
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: end running back or the guard. Most times it's the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: guard for us appreciate it.