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Bobby Wagner: "I Think We Can Take This Thing Very, Very Far" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How you doing all that? I'm doing great? How are
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  Speaker 1: you great? Good?
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  Speaker 2: Ib youn know I know that.
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  Speaker 1: Experience coutor grades capital.
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  Speaker 3: What does that do to it?
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  Speaker 4: To simple yourself that I mean, I gotta cut a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago technically, but just say, uh nah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a it's always a tough day. Cause like when
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  Speaker 4: you come into building, the process is is different. So
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  Speaker 4: you don't know if you're saying what's up to guys,
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  Speaker 4: or you don't know if you're saying good body guys.
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  Speaker 1: And so a lot of guys work so hard for
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  Speaker 1: this moment, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, in that moment when your dream seems like
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  Speaker 4: it's b it's over, it's it's tough, but you try
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  Speaker 4: to offer as much encouraging words and you know, some
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  Speaker 4: guys will come back on the practice squad, some guys
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  Speaker 4: get the opportunity to uh go play for another team,
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  Speaker 4: and you just try to find a way to extend
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  Speaker 4: your career as long as you can. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of my my to guys, how do you
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  Speaker 4: feel just.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of coming together? Obviously if you haven't seen all
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  Speaker 2: of you guys kind of starters and everything out there,
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  Speaker 2: but from you know, when you've been out here out
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  Speaker 2: you guys kind of like I talking to.
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  Speaker 4: Together, I felt just coming together really really well. I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot of it is just communication. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of it is getting out there and making checks and
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  Speaker 4: things of the nature. And so now it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: nice to kind of change gears and focus on preparing
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  Speaker 4: for a certain team and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I feel feel very very confident about
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  Speaker 4: our guys and we're rapped.
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  Speaker 1: What do you get out of what Jordan's got back
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  Speaker 1: from this career, Uh, it's been amazing. I mean to
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  Speaker 1: have an injury like that towards the.
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  Speaker 4: Later part of the season and be able to you know,
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  Speaker 4: work your butt off and and make it and you know,
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  Speaker 4: be in a position that he's in, it's been amazing.
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  Speaker 4: It shows how hard he's wanting to work, and you
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  Speaker 4: know what this means to him. I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to play with him again, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna make the most of it.
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  Speaker 1: But when we're talking at the.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning of the want of like getting back there and
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  Speaker 2: you know, right now you've got out there on campus forces.
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  Speaker 3: Experience that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, at first it was an adjustment cause obviously
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  Speaker 4: you left for a minute, and you know you kind
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  Speaker 4: of wanted to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't wanna.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't wanna treat it like it was when I left, because,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, that, a lot of guys became leaders
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of guys you know, got put in
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  Speaker 4: certain roles and so you know, for me, I just
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  Speaker 4: wanted to you know, add to that and add to
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  Speaker 4: you know, where the guys were at.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously the fans.
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  Speaker 4: Have been amazing, and you know, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: to finally getting out there and playing the game.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you.
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  Speaker 3: Was at your back then, but the guys just got Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: cause at the end of the day, like you still
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  Speaker 3: been in the league for twelve years.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of I guess, bumps and bruises.
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  Speaker 4: You can share a lot of things that you know
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  Speaker 4: I've gone through that can maybe help speed up the process,
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  Speaker 4: you know, make sure you don't make the mistakes that maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We made, you know, when we were young in the
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  Speaker 1: game and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, definitely feel confident when I'm mad as
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  Speaker 4: a leader and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, looking for areas to grow too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that guys make impacts on the skeeping and started
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  Speaker 4: with dark boil. Is that you're to see what Jake Clobos'
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  Speaker 4: rock camp and kind of carve out a spalling as
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  Speaker 4: froster and be a part of what what does that kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of speak to and the doing and do that and
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  Speaker 1: you guys, uh.
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  Speaker 4: I think it speaks to the type of person he
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  Speaker 4: is the competitor is h. I think it was funny
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  Speaker 4: because you know, the the more bubbo thing kind of
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  Speaker 4: start happening in Okas and you know, guys were like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: wait till the past come on. And then it started
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  Speaker 4: happening when the past came on, and then oh it's
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  Speaker 4: wait to the game. And then you know, uh, each
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  Speaker 4: each moment or each challenge he got faced with, he
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  Speaker 4: just stepped up to the play more and more and
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  Speaker 4: did a really really good job. So you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: happy for him, excited for him. Uh, Like you said,
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  Speaker 4: you've seen a lot of people come and do this,
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  Speaker 4: and it's you know, pretty awesome because again I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that experience, but you know, you think you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get drafted, you don't get drafted. Do you come in
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  Speaker 4: here not knowing whether or not you're gonna be on
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  Speaker 4: the team, but you work as hard as you can
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  Speaker 4: and and you make it. And so you know, now
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, what do you do with the opportunity?
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  Speaker 1: I remember you when you call that ball? I sleep too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh last week I was practice, wasn't that man initially
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  Speaker 1: coined the term for foto chat for chat.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to your leadership, Uh, you mentioned in twelve years,
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  Speaker 3: so you will act now to offer advice?
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  Speaker 4: But not or are you just really enough to see it?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of the same? I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've always been in a place in trying to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, offer advice. Uh, you know, I think sometimes
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  Speaker 4: too you have the people that are that you're talking
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  Speaker 4: to have to want the advice, and so sometimes you
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  Speaker 4: you kind of wait and see who who wants to
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  Speaker 4: advice or not. But you also when you see something
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  Speaker 4: that you've seen before and you know what route that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna go good or bad, Uh, you speak up and
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  Speaker 4: you say something.
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  Speaker 1: You try to uh do your best to lead them
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  Speaker 1: in a positive direction.
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  Speaker 2: ALT draft picks made it and eight of the nine
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  Speaker 2: PM last year are still on eighteen person or second
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  Speaker 2: year guys. Basically a lot of people kind of compared
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  Speaker 2: that to like when you guys all came in and
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  Speaker 2: you see that comparison or analogy kind of at all,
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  Speaker 2: kind of kind of fitting.
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  Speaker 4: Or I'm not really a comparison question type of guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think every everything is different. You know, you got
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  Speaker 4: you know, back back then it was linebackers, you know
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  Speaker 4: before like right now, it's more corner and secondary. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you have different mentalities. Nobody's gonna be cam
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  Speaker 4: you know, nobody's gonna be sharmed. So for me too,
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  Speaker 4: I think that comparison comes so often. If we get
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  Speaker 4: some good dbs in here, the first thing they say
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  Speaker 4: is leisure boom two point zero, and you that's just
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  Speaker 4: something that you can't, you know, live up to. You
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  Speaker 4: gotta make your own mark, do your own things. So
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  Speaker 4: that's what I preached. I don't ap preach comparison. I
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  Speaker 4: could preach like, you know, how can you take it
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  Speaker 4: further than we did at our age?
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  Speaker 1: Some players talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Camp a kind of extra competitive and you've got to
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  Speaker 2: battle and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: You felt out that it's a pretty good camping that way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a great camp. I think all across
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  Speaker 4: the border, you got guys that's wanting to prove things.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's you know, older guys that want to prove
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  Speaker 4: they still got it or younger guys want to prove
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  Speaker 4: that they belong here. So it's it's been a very
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  Speaker 4: very competitive camp. It's been fun to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm excited to kind of get back
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  Speaker 1: out there and and you know, get these live bullets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you excited for this. SE's different all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm very excited. You know, Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm one of those guys that, uh want to prove
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  Speaker 4: that you still got it. Also, you know, my last
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  Speaker 4: play in a see our uniform wasn't that positive, and
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  Speaker 4: so you know, God blessed me to have an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to write that, and I'm excited to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like people don't think you got it anymore?
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  Speaker 4: I can care less what people say. I know what
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  Speaker 4: I have and i know what I'm capable of. And
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  Speaker 4: you know you're here to talk, but you know, you
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  Speaker 4: you just wait for that moment to prove yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Right. What do you feel like? You guys been the conference?
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  Speaker 1: Just here offen you great practical.
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  Speaker 4: I think we could take this thing very very far.
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  Speaker 4: I think we have talent at every position. I think
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  Speaker 4: we have talent on offense, we have depth on offense,
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  Speaker 4: we have talent on defense, we have depth on defense,
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  Speaker 4: and now it's just putting everything together. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's a cliche, but you're taking one
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  Speaker 4: game of the time, but you know, we are strong
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of areas, and you know it hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been that way for a minute. And you know, I
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  Speaker 4: feel very very confident where we're at, where we can go.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of it is just you know, putting
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  Speaker 4: your best foot forward and understanding there's gonna be highs
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  Speaker 4: and lows, but trying to remain balance in the process
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  Speaker 4: and be your best version yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You may have an idea of what the kamp's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be ending into the certain seasons. How many games in
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  Speaker 1: the year do you think it takes for you to
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  Speaker 1: actually know what you have but to keep it kind
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  Speaker 1: of settling the identity to kind of emerging in all
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 4: I think it kind of depends. Every year is different.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, some years it's the four games,
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  Speaker 4: some years it doesn't take to the you know, after
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  Speaker 4: the buy wherever that is. It could be an early buy,
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  Speaker 4: it could be a late by. I think it's the
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  Speaker 4: challenges that you get. You know, Uh, there's been teams
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  Speaker 4: that have started eight to oh and never really found
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  Speaker 4: their identity. They just you know, play well, then they
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  Speaker 4: fall off at the end of the season. But there's
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  Speaker 4: been teams that you know, start off one and four
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  Speaker 4: or whatever the case may be, but found their identity
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  Speaker 4: and go on to be you know, twelve win team
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. So a lot of it is just going
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  Speaker 4: out there creating. You know, it's my my first time
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  Speaker 4: playing with a couple of a lot of those guys
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  Speaker 4: and their first time playing with me, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: figuring out how you feed off one another during the game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, figuring out how how you handle challenges during
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  Speaker 4: the game. You know, we haven't been on a you know,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we don't have them, but like fourteen play driving
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  Speaker 4: the series that's really you know, challenging and you learn
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  Speaker 4: that through the course of the season. It's a team
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  Speaker 4: that can capture that and hone that in. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't know when that's gonna be, but hopefully it's it's
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  Speaker 4: early and at the right time, because there's teams that
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  Speaker 4: that find that early on and lose it late and
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  Speaker 4: vice versa. So you know, you wanna be the team
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  Speaker 4: that's hot when when it counts and headed into the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: is it never.
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  Speaker 1: A trip out like seeing he go, he get coached
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  Speaker 1: and he shd on the coaching staff Niko.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's funny, uh you know watching him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: put plays in and things of that nature. Shad is
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  Speaker 4: funny because Shad likes to uh put his own plays
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  Speaker 4: when he's watching films, so he'll put old plays of
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  Speaker 4: him doing doing well and so it's it's funny watching that.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, Shad's funny because Chef wants to remind
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  Speaker 4: the guys that he played very well when he was here,
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  Speaker 4: so he he finds every moment.
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  Speaker 1: To do that. Have you got a chance about Shan
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  Speaker 1: wont can he get? Yeah? I think it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: Like who would have thought that Shan was gonna be
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  Speaker 4: on TV with uh Skip. That's a very funny situation.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, he's done a great job. And it's
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  Speaker 4: funny cause they all of them kind of out talking him,
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  Speaker 4: so Skip don't really talk.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, he's a a podcast for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Both that's a great answer on this end, though, because
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  Speaker 4: you know I'd be invited to talk back to both
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, th appreciate
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.