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Cooper Kupp: "The Sky Is The Limit" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You're running up still preseason you always to go, but
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  Speaker 1: just these two games, the way the offensive function to
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  Speaker 1: run in particular about what you've seen from.
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  Speaker 2: The development, Yeah, it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime you can run the ball like we have been
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  Speaker 3: mixed football, uh, much easier games. So it's been it's
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  Speaker 3: been great seeing that. I mean, the way the running
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  Speaker 3: backs are are, uh running behind those yays too. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's been really impressive. So yeah, hopefully you know something
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  Speaker 3: that we can continue to build on.
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  Speaker 4: I know it was just a few plans for you guys,
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  Speaker 4: but how impor was it to get at least a
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  Speaker 4: couple of game reps in the first game group therefore
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  Speaker 4: before you guys get going.
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  Speaker 2: From Yeah, I'm I I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That was my I think my second or third preseason
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  Speaker 3: game ever, so I'm biased against preseason games. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we did it. We got it, got in and out
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  Speaker 3: of there, and uh and it was where was score touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, you know, I've whatever it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you're doing it right, if you're practicing the right wa,
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  Speaker 3: if you're going about your business the right way, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure it makes a difference, but it was great
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  Speaker 3: to be out there and be able to go and do.
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  Speaker 2: What we did.
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  Speaker 5: I've taken part in joint crackses with the Rams quite
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  Speaker 5: a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Just what what do you like about that or what
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  Speaker 1: do you get out of that compared to just your
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  Speaker 1: normal training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just an opportunity to see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: different techniques, uh, different coverages.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the competitiveness, Uh is it's just different. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just different.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's more or less than
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we come out.
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  Speaker 3: Here every day with a very competitive mindset with how
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  Speaker 3: we handle our business, and but it's it's just a different, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, different body across the Lunde scrimmage from you.
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  Speaker 3: And it's good to have those opportunities and see some
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  Speaker 3: different things, try your stuff against some different looks and
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  Speaker 3: uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's a it's it will be a good
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  Speaker 2: competitive day.
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  Speaker 5: Do you do you prefer that as an evaluation games person?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm again, I've I've only done things, done things one
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  Speaker 3: way my entire career, So I'm not saying it's better
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  Speaker 3: or worse than anyone anywhere how anyone else does it.
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  Speaker 3: But I do enjoy being all, you know, take advantage
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  Speaker 3: of those joint practice days though, and you know, seeing
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  Speaker 3: some different people we're.
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  Speaker 2: Just see you.
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  Speaker 1: Is that weird?
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  Speaker 5: How cool is that to be, you know, teamed up
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  Speaker 5: with him again.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously going against your former two players you play
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  Speaker 3: until weak eleven, but.
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  Speaker 5: They're the defending champs in the in the n C.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the world of Ernest. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He was He's just uh was incredible at Spoon. You
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  Speaker 3: guys can hear that, but uh, you know, ern was incredible,
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  Speaker 3: uh his first few years when I was with him
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  Speaker 3: in l A as a young guy coming in, how
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  Speaker 3: quickly he picked it up and stepped into a leadership role,
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  Speaker 3: you know, commanding that defense. And and he's just grown.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought he was a phenomenal leader, uh
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  Speaker 3: by year two and three in the league, and he's
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  Speaker 3: continued to grow. And I send and call guys up
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  Speaker 3: to a great standard. And so it's really cool to be,
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  Speaker 3: uh be lining up here with them again training.
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  Speaker 5: But you're also transitioning to prep for the first.
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  Speaker 2: Game of the season.
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  Speaker 1: What changes for you?
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  Speaker 5: How do you approach practice now versus a.
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  Speaker 4: Couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it is kind of a challenge
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  Speaker 3: because I think you kind of see the light at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the tunnel in terms of getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to go and start preparing for an opponent, but we
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  Speaker 3: are still still have you know, at least, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have two weeks still of really good work, really
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  Speaker 3: good growthaking done before you're into like a standard you
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  Speaker 3: know time frame where you start game planning and things
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  Speaker 3: like that. So I think right now it's really about
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  Speaker 3: just being focused on what is important right now, and
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  Speaker 3: that's about you know, diving into our details, diving into
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  Speaker 3: our stuff and making sure that we're doing the best
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  Speaker 3: that we can to master our systems and be able
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and execute at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, that's where that's where our focus needs
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  Speaker 3: to be. And knowing that that that's going to present
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  Speaker 3: itself at the end of the day to be all
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and start, you know, scheming up
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  Speaker 3: against someone.
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  Speaker 5: As your coaches have taught you, guys, get so, are
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  Speaker 5: they teaching you like the why behind plays or are
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  Speaker 5: they just telling you this is your job?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely go into the why the intent of what
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to attack.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any other way to do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guys that we have here, the questions
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  Speaker 3: that asked you gotta have. You gotta be able to
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  Speaker 3: answer the question of why. And you know, we've got
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  Speaker 3: guys to ask those questions. And so if you if
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  Speaker 3: you don't give us a why, if they eventually you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna ask why we're doing something a certain way. And
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  Speaker 3: so I think the intent behind everything that we do
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  Speaker 3: is a pivotal piece.
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  Speaker 2: Of how we operate.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the core of what makes plays good.
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  Speaker 3: If you're out there just running, you know, lines on
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  Speaker 3: a piece of paper, you're not gonna be very good.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be able to solve problems. And part of
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  Speaker 3: solving problems is understanding why you're doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 5: Is it not necessarily the good? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 5: this is one your second team, but is that not that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I'm not sure how other guys
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  Speaker 2: are doing things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you your little things, you know, with guys
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  Speaker 3: coming from other teams and go in and out.
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  Speaker 2: I've been around different places, and I will say it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say I at least think it's maybe not as
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  Speaker 3: much of a focus in some places, but I think
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  Speaker 3: in the places that are playing at a high level there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, high powered offenses, they have to live by that.
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  Speaker 4: Regular preparation to do the league.
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  Speaker 5: How much time have you spend with the quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 3: A lot, a lot of time, really as much time
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  Speaker 3: as I can outside of my scheduled stuff that have
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of TROBB, being as many of
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  Speaker 3: their meetings as I can, because it's just great to
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  Speaker 3: hear what the thinking is happening in that room.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the little details that.
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  Speaker 3: You might not think of, you know, might not get
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  Speaker 3: through all the you know, you're installing so much stuff,
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  Speaker 3: little details that you might miss, but that are nice
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  Speaker 3: to Bill pick up on in terms of you know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: based on our coverage, you know, might be where QB
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  Speaker 3: is progressing from him. We know he's going you know
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  Speaker 3: where one, two, three, four, but if this SASS coverage,
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  Speaker 3: it might just be one too. When he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: popping down, you know, might be moving on and give
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  Speaker 3: you the ability to man, how can I be in
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  Speaker 3: the right spots for the quarterback when he needs me
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  Speaker 3: there There's just there's next level stuff that can come
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  Speaker 3: out of you know, hear our quarterbacks thinking what he's
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  Speaker 3: being taught and how his mind works, and how that
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  Speaker 3: can translate to just like I said, you know, being
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  Speaker 3: a problem solver when it comes it comes down to
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  Speaker 3: it bigger. Well, I'm sorry, Yeah, it's it is. I've
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  Speaker 3: been doing it for as long as I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as I say, with a new a guy you
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  Speaker 1: I'm played with like Sam versus maybe with Stafford, you
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  Speaker 1: play it for years, Like do you need to lean
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  Speaker 1: more into that with a new quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's always It's always something. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to get you know, you get start getting
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  Speaker 3: complacent thinking that you've arrived in anyway, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's a dangerous thing to start thinking. So I
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  Speaker 3: take that same approach with Sam. Three or four years
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  Speaker 3: into playing with someone, I take this simars, like, how
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  Speaker 3: can I just be on the same page with you
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  Speaker 3: no matter what it is, no matter what we think,
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  Speaker 3: even like you know, I think you know the the
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  Speaker 3: camera the same something about you know, the worst thing
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  Speaker 3: about communication is thinking that it happened in the first place,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like like thinking that you're on the same page,
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  Speaker 3: but not really having the communication like, hey, are we
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  Speaker 3: on the same page here, and you know, going above
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  Speaker 3: and beyond to say I'm gonna be at the right
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  Speaker 3: place at the right time, and it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty special thing.
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  Speaker 2: We can make that come live.
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  Speaker 3: As much as I could, as much as I could.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough because then you you know, you've got classes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I took golf and that was really important.
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  Speaker 3: I had to get to that golf class.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I wasn't able to he those QB meetings.
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  Speaker 3: But no, Yeah, as much as I could be around
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  Speaker 3: the QBS, as much as the coaches allowed me to
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  Speaker 3: be around, I would try to be around lots of time.
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  Speaker 1: You with all the time you spend around Sam, what
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  Speaker 1: like what jumps out the most other I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: see the player on the field, but just getting to
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  Speaker 1: know him being around him, what stands out the most.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's he's seen a lot of football.
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  Speaker 3: He's uh a lot this stuff. I mean a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff that we've done. You know, he's seen in
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  Speaker 3: some capacities run he's been a part of it. He's
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  Speaker 3: kind of ahead of a lot of the guys because
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  Speaker 3: he's been a part of some of the things that
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  Speaker 3: we do in this system. And so it's been great
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  Speaker 3: just to be able to hear from him what are
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  Speaker 3: the things that he liked? Were the things that also like, Man,
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  Speaker 3: you might have been running this, but you didn't like
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  Speaker 3: how this worked, or you didn't like how this you know,
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  Speaker 3: play was, you know read out. It's like, man, we
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  Speaker 3: get to work through that now and make it ours
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  Speaker 3: and and the coach has been awesome about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being able to make this something that fits Sam what
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  Speaker 3: he wants to do, and you know, it accentuates the
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  Speaker 3: the skills and the talents and the you know, the
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  Speaker 3: ways that all these different players come together to make
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  Speaker 3: this team work and makes it a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people talk a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot about scheme with the coordinators, but you talk a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about play calling and sequencing and how important
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  Speaker 4: it is and what you've noticed so.
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  Speaker 2: Far from Clinton in terms of how he.
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  Speaker 5: Finds plays together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a that's a I think it's
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  Speaker 3: one of my favorite things about watching offenses really across
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  Speaker 3: the league.
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  Speaker 2: As the season goes.
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  Speaker 3: On, right, like you have the first four weeks of
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  Speaker 3: the season, this is what we did in training campus
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  Speaker 3: who we are?
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  Speaker 5: Are?
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  Speaker 3: You put those four weeks together, it's like, well, now
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  Speaker 3: we got you know, now they've got they've seen four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Now we gotta kind of start building off of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you just keep.
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  Speaker 3: Stacking layers upon layers, and by the end of it's
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  Speaker 3: morphed and like, man, these are the things that are
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  Speaker 3: working for these are the things that we're doing well.
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  Speaker 3: And there's these you know, these counters and you know
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  Speaker 3: counters back that just it makes it a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun to see that kind of growth. And it is
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  Speaker 3: about the sequencing and how you're gonna like what are
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  Speaker 3: the things that you're putting out there, what what runs
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  Speaker 3: are working well? What play actions are you gonna build
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  Speaker 3: off of that? And what screens are you gonna build
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  Speaker 3: off of those? It just it just continues to stack
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  Speaker 3: and build. And I think we've seen a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the way that we do things here, just
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  Speaker 3: being able to compete against each other and in some
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  Speaker 3: ways it's like, man, Clint just wants to beat the
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  Speaker 3: crap out of Mic and Mike wants to beat the
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  Speaker 3: crap out of Clint, and it makes it makes it
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  Speaker 3: really fun.
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  Speaker 4: What are the characteristics of this offensive speed in your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Like what's standing out to you about the way you
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  Speaker 4: guys are gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Try to do things?
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  Speaker 3: All those suff you snuck in here trying to steal
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  Speaker 3: our secrets. I saw you come in here from San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: Suit you up here.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know, I don't want to get in
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say more than I should,
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  Speaker 3: so I honestly, I'm just gonna pass on that one.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of competitive you played against Spoon as an
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  Speaker 1: opponent and now in practice?
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  Speaker 5: What kind of competitors here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's uh, he's great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you heard of the energy and
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  Speaker 3: all all everyone's gonna talk about the energy that he brings,
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  Speaker 3: the competitiveness, it's uh. And I think this is the
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  Speaker 3: communications love for the game, and that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: He just loves being out there, loves playing football. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like, man, as good as one play
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  Speaker 3: might be, or as bad as a play might be,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, man, he's just up there the next play
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  Speaker 3: as if nothing had happened to play before. It's just
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  Speaker 3: that same energy coming right back at you. And it's
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  Speaker 3: relentless in a way, and it can wear people down.
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  Speaker 2: So and it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: It's uh, I've seen it from the other side and
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  Speaker 3: happy to build go against it every single day and practice.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if you played him, how a good brand?
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  Speaker 5: How did you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Approach him with seeing you spend a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one and what was what we do with him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think you know often so I think
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  Speaker 3: you game plan a lot more around the front than
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  Speaker 3: you do around.
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  Speaker 2: Coverage guys because you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can move those guys, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: exactly how they're going to do that, little things here
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  Speaker 3: or there in terms of motions and shifts and try
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  Speaker 3: to set people where you want to set them. But
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  Speaker 3: you knew that he was gonna be a part of
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  Speaker 3: things regardless. And there's a few guys in this league
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  Speaker 3: that's like, Man, it doesn't matter where where you're where
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  Speaker 3: you're running the ball to, He's gonna find a way
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  Speaker 3: to be around it. And you just knew that when
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  Speaker 3: you came in we're gonna play the seahawksy, your energy
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  Speaker 3: had to match his, if not exceed it, because he
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  Speaker 3: was gonna be a he was gonna be bringing it
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  Speaker 3: every snap.
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  Speaker 2: You never want to read too much.
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  Speaker 5: Into a preseason game. But I'm encouraged, are you guys
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  Speaker 5: by that opening drive? Ten plays eighty one yards? Guys
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  Speaker 5: go down the field and really running game was on
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  Speaker 5: point too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great. If you're gonna go out there
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, be out there on the field,
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  Speaker 3: you want Bill to go down there to score.
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  Speaker 2: So it was great. I mean, I.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, if I handle business on the first play of
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  Speaker 3: the game and get up onto a post safety, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Sharves might break that thing for a touchdown right of
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  Speaker 3: the gate, which has been pretty cool. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like they're all these good things, all these poses
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  Speaker 3: you take out of out of that that drive, and
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  Speaker 3: then so many things that we're looking at critically and saying,
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  Speaker 3: if we can do this, if these are the things
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  Speaker 3: we can do so much better, that would you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's the sky's the limit. You can just handle your business,
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  Speaker 3: snap in, snap out, so fast football.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,