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Jarran Reed: "We're Hungrier This Year" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? What was all the excitement over there for? Oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: we got the little virus sensation, Bernard. He's known for saying,
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  Speaker 1: baptize that chicken. Little South Carolina guy, man, cool guy
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  Speaker 1: with some good chicken. Was it good? Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: really good. I only had one piece. I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: go shower up and get a whole plate. Who arranged
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  Speaker 1: for him to be out here? Me and D-Hall talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. I just told DeHoff it would be good
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  Speaker 1: to get him out here, you know, both of us
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  Speaker 1: being from the south. We just teamed up with Mo.
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  Speaker 1: DeHoff finished it off. Pause. I made a pause. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting him out here, man, and just treat
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  Speaker 1: the whole team to some chicken. Who don't love fried chicken?
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  Speaker 2: What makes a great chicken?
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  Speaker 1: What makes what?
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  Speaker 2: What makes it great? What's the best?
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  Speaker 1: Crispy. As long as it's crispy and fried. Whatever sauce
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  Speaker 1: you put on it, you know, can determine, too. But
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  Speaker 1: as long as you try it before, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You're going into year 11. You're Super Bowl champion now.
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  Speaker 3: Are you too caught up in the present to think
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  Speaker 3: about it? Do you allow yourself to reflect on where
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  Speaker 3: your career has been so far and what you've accomplished?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, anytime I talk to young guys, I'm
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  Speaker 1: always just reflecting back. It's not even Super Bowl, just
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  Speaker 1: from where I started to where I am now. Letting
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  Speaker 1: them know mistakes I've made, things to do. how you
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  Speaker 1: can further along your career early, how you can turn
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  Speaker 1: into a professional player early on the professional side. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I just try to let them always know, man, it's
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  Speaker 1: always room for growth. Even now, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I can still grow as a player being a year 11. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we joke about all the time, like coming out here,
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  Speaker 1: like me, uh, D law and Leah, we always break
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  Speaker 1: it down saying like, Oh, Oh guys, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: joking around. We just play around. But man, I feel
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  Speaker 1: really good. Um, being around these guys keeps me youthful, man. And, um, Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's just been a long road and just thankful where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at now. You know, definitely learned a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Joke about old guys, but what's it like having– you know,
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned Leo and D-Law and then Dante Fowler is
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  Speaker 3: a 10th-year guy. I think Chen is a 9th-year guy.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like having all these older veterans playing together?
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  Speaker 1: It's good. I mean, because– I mean, you really look
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  Speaker 1: at it as we all still look really young, though.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So, like, we're not like
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  Speaker 1: the old guys from back in the day. They look old,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm trying to just pass for, like, 25
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  Speaker 1: to 28 years. You know, but I mean it's good
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  Speaker 1: to have them around man, you know, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of experience that's in the room We know how to
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  Speaker 1: get to work and we can show the guys away
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  Speaker 1: how we get to work man You know how we
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  Speaker 1: attack the field how we attack film how we attack
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  Speaker 1: getting our body right getting our mental, right? You know
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for training camp practice meetings and games Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely about how to be a pro as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you said that of course the same two guys
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  Speaker 1: and come to my mind every time, man. I was
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  Speaker 1: very thankful to come to the situation I was in
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie. You know, having Mike Cliff, Ataba Rubin,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Brandon Hill. You know, he helped me
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  Speaker 1: definitely a lot, you know, when I first came in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just the coaches, you know, everybody we had,
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  Speaker 1: especially like he was, shout out to Clint Hurt. It
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  Speaker 1: was definitely, you know, how to take care of my body.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I was young, I could just get
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  Speaker 1: up and go. We weren't really on our phones that much,
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  Speaker 1: but I could just probably sit around and ping pong,
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  Speaker 1: table or something, then go practice. But now, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: got a whole game planned. I need at least a
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  Speaker 1: good hour, you know, just to feel good. But, no,
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  Speaker 1: you just feel better. You can move better. You just
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  Speaker 1: play better. I just carry that on throughout my practice,
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  Speaker 1: throughout my week. You know, it carries me on the
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  Speaker 1: game day. What's that routine look like? I'd rather keep
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  Speaker 1: that involved. But, no, seriously, you know, just a little,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little, Cold tub, hot tub, just working
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  Speaker 1: on anything that makes me feel good in the training room.
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  Speaker 1: I do a lot of massage work, acupuncture, massage, cupping, stretching,
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  Speaker 1: all the way down the line. You know, I got
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  Speaker 1: a whole little routine that I do.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel this team is right now compared
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  Speaker 2: to where you guys were a year ago at this time?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think just going into year three, we're
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  Speaker 1: just really more connected. I think we're more focused than ever.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people, you know, always try to bring
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  Speaker 1: up the Super Bowl and all that, but literally nobody
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  Speaker 1: talks about it, seriously. And, like, we don't bring it up.
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  Speaker 1: We just worry about the day that we're in, the
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  Speaker 1: present that we're in. And we just attack the day.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're more hungry this year, too, which is surprising.
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  Speaker 1: We know what we got to do. I think everybody
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  Speaker 1: wants to play good ball. Everybody wants the operation to
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  Speaker 1: be well. We want our alignments, our assignments, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how we take the ball to be good on defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how we play our style of defense. We
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  Speaker 1: just want to up everything we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Have you guys talked at all about how other teams
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  Speaker 2: are going to kind of test themselves against you differently
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  Speaker 2: now that you're the Super Bowl champs?
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  Speaker 1: No, we just worry about us, you know, focus on
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  Speaker 1: being the best us that we can be. You know,
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  Speaker 1: one day at a time, I'm going to play at
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  Speaker 1: a time, we'll meet at a time, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: really just focus on being the best that we can
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  Speaker 1: in the present day.
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  Speaker 3: How does that feeling of being more hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of show up? Just the way we attack practice.
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  Speaker 1: I think the way the guys attack the field, It's
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  Speaker 1: the want to that every guy has versus how we
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  Speaker 1: get in the meeting rooms and how we're critical of
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in meeting rooms and how we're in our individual,
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  Speaker 1: how detailed we are, you know, making sure that we
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  Speaker 1: coach up the young guys like hard, but still making sure,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look, we're here for you. This is the
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  Speaker 1: way we do it. Show them the way. I think
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  Speaker 1: just the little details, the little details that we do
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  Speaker 1: every day, you know, guys are just hungry and we
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  Speaker 1: want it. Even to the way we work out, man,
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  Speaker 1: like all of us work out really hard. We're not
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  Speaker 1: skipping any reps. We're doing extra. And that's on our own.
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  Speaker 1: That's just because, you know, I think everybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: be great in their own way.
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  Speaker 3: Darren, Hard Knocks showed us, you know, the leadership council
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  Speaker 3: you guys have meeting with Mike. What do you like
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  Speaker 3: about the way Mike does that and the chance to
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  Speaker 3: kind of have an open dialogue with your head coach
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  Speaker 3: or the leaders?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's always good for us to get in there, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get in with the guys that call the
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  Speaker 1: leadership council. You know, we go in there, we just brainstorm,
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  Speaker 1: put our minds together. He asks us questions about the schedule,
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  Speaker 1: see how we feel about it. see if we want
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  Speaker 1: to add something on ourselves, if there's something that we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we need to do, especially as O-line, D-line,
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  Speaker 1: just to make sure we stay in shape. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just little stuff like that, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just good because, you know, he gets our opinion, he
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  Speaker 1: listens to us, and he takes that on and intertwines
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  Speaker 1: that with what he thinks and we come together and
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  Speaker 1: then we take it to the team.
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  Speaker 4: Mike told us that after the Super Bowl, he told
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  Speaker 4: you guys, hey, you can, you know, do it remotely
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  Speaker 4: for the first couple weeks to make up for how
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  Speaker 4: long a season it was and it looked like Most
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  Speaker 4: of the team showed up anyways for the start of it.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think that said about how you guys
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  Speaker 4: were going to handle being champions and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Comes with that? First and foremost, I think we miss
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  Speaker 1: each other a lot. You know, but that shows that
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  Speaker 1: the guys are ready to get back to work. It
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  Speaker 1: took some time off. And I think, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was over, we all went to the
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  Speaker 1: locker room like, man, this is it. I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: we worked so hard and we're just used to working hard.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like we could play a couple more weeks. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the guys was ready to get back to
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  Speaker 1: work hungry. You know, I think they were excited to
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  Speaker 1: see what this new season was going to bring, the
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  Speaker 1: new faces that we could bring in, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: it was going to attack. Jared, obviously, staying with the
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  Speaker 1: team on 3-3, what does it mean to you that
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  Speaker 1: the culture of everything that here.
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  Speaker 4: Is so strong, something you want to spend half of
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  Speaker 4: the money to be the new owner of this team,
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  Speaker 4: and it's really.
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  Speaker 1: Built on you and some of your teammates have really
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  Speaker 1: kind of forged your last few years? Yeah, I've been
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field, so I really didn't know much
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  Speaker 1: about that. I've seen it earlier, but, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's good. That just speaks to the culture that
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  Speaker 1: we're building here. We have a great staff. We have
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  Speaker 1: a great, you know, GM, president. You know, from top
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  Speaker 1: to bottom, man, it's top tier. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like nothing like a Seahawks organization. It's great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we get to meet them, you know, bring them
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  Speaker 1: along and get them in the 12 of the Seahawks way.
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  Speaker 4: Going against Sam every day, what stands out about the
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  Speaker 4: kind of camp he's had?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Sam's elite, man. I think he's at the top
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  Speaker 1: of his game right now. Definitely one of the best,
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  Speaker 1: if the best quarterback in the league, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love my quarterback, man, the way he, he,
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  Speaker 1: he keeps his head down. He attacks every day. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really say much. Shout out to Ginger Cub. You
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  Speaker 1: feel me? You know, man, Sam was a great guy, man.
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  Speaker 1: Another guy who's just been through something who has, who's
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of obstacles to overcome during his career,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to see where he's at now. I've actually
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  Speaker 1: caught the ball from Sam one time before he throws
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  Speaker 1: the ball really hard. You know, it, it, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: thing spins, man. But, um, He definitely gives us a
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  Speaker 1: hard test, you know, between him, Jax, Coop, Shahid, you know, Torrey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Elijah, you know, all the guys that go
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  Speaker 1: out there and run and catch and stuff. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely tough. I feel like, you know, it's good on
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  Speaker 1: good every day for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.