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Riq Woolen: "We Know How Great Of A Secondary We Are" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That's so, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Can you RecA just ask the K if you guys
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  Speaker 2: switch sides you played offensive play defense to would win
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  Speaker 2: the rep?
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  Speaker 3: What was your interview?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Uh sh I think I'll win. I used to
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  Speaker 4: play with our receiver, uh DK, a big dude, though
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  Speaker 4: i'm'na have to give him like a double move or
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  Speaker 4: something since he fast, So uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll take 'em.
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  Speaker 3: You've gonna get Simon practice a number of types. But
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  Speaker 3: what was different.
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  Speaker 5: About those matchups in training camp this year?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Shoot, honestly, you just was competing for real.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't do training camp last year, so
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  Speaker 4: I mean this year, it just felt like y'all was
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  Speaker 4: just competing, you know, having fun out there. Uh. We
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  Speaker 4: just was sharpened each other's iron, and uh we just
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  Speaker 4: get each other better. So us being some of the
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  Speaker 4: best guys in our position, it helps you.
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  Speaker 6: Bet doing training camp busters. How much better of a
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  Speaker 6: place are you in physically than when you were trying
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  Speaker 6: to get on the field to start last season?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: A lot better just because Uh I actually got to
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  Speaker 4: work on my whole you know, I wasn't rehabbing before season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, usually guys trained before the season, they're don't rehabbing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, guys building their bodies. Well, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: had to rehab my knee and strengthen my legs, and
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  Speaker 4: you know I was I feel like I didn't focus on,
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  Speaker 4: you know, my whole body rather than this all season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, before a camp I got to you know,
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  Speaker 4: train and you know, have a healthy body, you know,
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  Speaker 4: work on my legs, my upper body and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like that's probably the biggest difference.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you think tackling was so much better Week
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  Speaker 5: one than a lot of games last season.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, we practiced it every day. We practiced tackling every day.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a big emphasis around here, and like you
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  Speaker 4: can just tell it's just natural to everybody, Like you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Everybody just going there and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we try to get guys down, and you know, on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday it reflected, you know, how much tackling practice we've
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  Speaker 4: had and we just gonna continue to build on It.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like you sort of downplayed your interception a little
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  Speaker 2: bit after the game, but when you went back on
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  Speaker 2: into the film, when you surprised it all.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, like how much ground you were able to
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  Speaker 6: kind of come around that player.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, just a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, I was out there having fun
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  Speaker 4: with the guys and just trying to make plays. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, the opportunity to present itself and I just
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  Speaker 4: try to take advantage for real.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, like I said.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like if if if I know I can
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  Speaker 4: make the play, then I consider myself to hold myself
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  Speaker 4: towards standard. And that's one of the those players I
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  Speaker 4: think I should make.
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  Speaker 6: Julian was coming downhill pretty fast on that. When you
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  Speaker 6: think you took one from him?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, uh, probably so, but I understand he got gotta
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit more quicker.
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  Speaker 1: Julian said that you guys with the spear, the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the spear the defensive.
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  Speaker 2: Backfield, can you just talk about how as a unit
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  Speaker 2: you guys embody that and as playmakers and you set
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  Speaker 2: the tone of the defense.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, we just try to feed off each other and
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  Speaker 4: we know how great of a second year we are,
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  Speaker 4: and we know if we played well, then you know
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  Speaker 4: they go hand in hand with the russier and when
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  Speaker 4: the rushers play well, then it gonna handing him with
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  Speaker 4: us because it helps her out. So you know, we
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  Speaker 4: just try to feed off each other and we a
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  Speaker 4: confident group and has to continue to make plays. You know,
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  Speaker 4: our confidence a rise and you know, we'll just keep
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  Speaker 4: being able to help our team on the defense.
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  Speaker 3: What changes this week being.
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  Speaker 5: Able to prepare for a quarterback that you actually have
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  Speaker 5: film on.
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  Speaker 6: You know, last last week was a.
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  Speaker 3: Rookie, this week should go. Bett has has plenty of
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  Speaker 3: film out there.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it makes it a little bit easier. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, uh, you know Brissette, he been the
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  Speaker 4: same system kind of you know, he he did come
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  Speaker 4: from Cleveland, so just you know, he got a good
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  Speaker 4: amount of film on him just because he has been
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  Speaker 4: the league way longer than bow Knicks. But also you
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  Speaker 4: just take the same approach for real as any other
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  Speaker 4: week and you just try to find different tennises and
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  Speaker 4: stuff so that way you can have an edge on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, like in the debriefing, you know, after the.
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  Speaker 4: Game for the defense, it was quick, like usually after
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  Speaker 4: a game, he says, you like to make stuff quick.
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  Speaker 4: So it was quick, and you know, the next day
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  Speaker 4: we just came in and we seen a lot of
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  Speaker 4: great plays and we've seen some plays where we got
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  Speaker 4: to clean up and uh we still played great, so
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  Speaker 4: we know we can be even.
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  Speaker 2: Better the defense, making the stops you guys think key moments,
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  Speaker 2: getting the turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: That you guys did on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: How can you build on that and make it a
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  Speaker 2: week to week progressing.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the week two?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, just taking that day out of time in each
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  Speaker 4: practice and honing in on some of the stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you mess up on. And you know, and practice you're
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  Speaker 4: supposed to make mistakes, you know, so that way in
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  Speaker 4: the game they don't really happen or we minimalize it. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: just throughout the week, we just get better each day
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  Speaker 4: and if we do make a mistake, we create it
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  Speaker 4: the next day, so that way, when it leads up
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  Speaker 4: to Sunday, those mistakes aren't the ones we made that
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  Speaker 4: practice was.
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  Speaker 3: Up here second too, saying he's been off social media
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  Speaker 3: I think since October and just how it's made his
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  Speaker 3: life a lot simpler. What's your experience been like with
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  Speaker 3: social media and it's effect on your mind, for better
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  Speaker 3: or for worse.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Honestly, I I just learned just not to care
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  Speaker 4: about what people say for real. I mean usually when
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  Speaker 4: I'm on social media, I like to look at funny
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  Speaker 4: Instagram reels or like tiktoks and I just send them
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  Speaker 4: to my homies, or we just got like a group chat.
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  Speaker 4: We were just saying hell of funny like reels and stuff. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, social media really don't play a part to me.
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  Speaker 4: I would have learned not to care because social media
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  Speaker 4: ain't real life, and most people on social media, you're
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  Speaker 4: never gonna meet them anyway, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So I just don't care, and I just going there,
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  Speaker 4: like watch funny stuff and see what my friends and
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  Speaker 4: family doing.
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  Speaker 3: Was there a time that you care and you got
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  Speaker 3: you at all?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like last season it is just a little
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  Speaker 4: bit like I still didn't care. But you know, I'll
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  Speaker 4: see what fans will say, I'll see what people in
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  Speaker 4: the news or the media will say. And as a
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  Speaker 4: young player, I'm like, damn, you know, y'all just was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, giving me hugs and now you're turning your
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  Speaker 4: back on me, which is funny. So I just learned
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  Speaker 4: how to care. I just learned that the only person
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  Speaker 4: you got at the end of this is yourself. So
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  Speaker 4: I just made sure that I just took care of
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  Speaker 4: myself and made sure my mental was straight.
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  Speaker 1: How much time would you say expect on.
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  Speaker 4: Instagramm Uh, shoot, probably since I pick my phone up,
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  Speaker 4: or if I'm just laying in bed or something like,
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  Speaker 4: it'd be like six thirty in the morning. I wake
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  Speaker 4: up and I'll just be chilling in bed. And so
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  Speaker 4: most of my friends, you know, they live in Texas
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  Speaker 4: or on the East Coast, so they'll already be up
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  Speaker 4: and going about their days. So I'll just be sitting
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  Speaker 4: reels and theybody what you're doing though, Really, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's part of what I do for real, So that's
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  Speaker 4: probably one of the fun thing I like to do
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  Speaker 4: with social media for real.
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  Speaker 2: Trey Brown said this offseason, the secondary group really tried
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  Speaker 2: to have fun together outside of the facility, going full
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  Speaker 2: and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: How's that showing up on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Honestly, it just shows up in little ways for real,
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  Speaker 4: Like just because you're so used to being around on
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  Speaker 4: each other and you know each other's chemistry and energy
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  Speaker 4: and you feel comfortable around being one of each other
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  Speaker 4: one another, and I feel like in order to be
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  Speaker 4: able to play off each other, you gotta learn how
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  Speaker 4: to be comfortable with the guy next to you. And
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  Speaker 4: whenever you do go bowling, or you go out to
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  Speaker 4: e or you just do certain stuff with your teammates,
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  Speaker 4: that's how you get a feel for each other and
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  Speaker 4: you be able to become more closer than ever just
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  Speaker 4: because it's outside of the football and everything ain't so
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  Speaker 4: much business, cause this is a business. So whenever you
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  Speaker 4: outside of football, it makes it feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you actually building a real relationship and it is.
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  Speaker 5: Mc McDonald was sort of known in Baltimore for bringing
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  Speaker 5: the best out of players that you haven't really heard
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  Speaker 5: of yet. Kind of saw that with Keavion Wallace, especially
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  Speaker 5: a guy who was on the two teams last year.
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything specific that you think stands out about
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  Speaker 5: his coaching style that you know makes players play their best?
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  Speaker 1: It ain't no drop off.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, uh, even when in preseason, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the guys when we still have the most of the
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  Speaker 4: team together, those guys are still making plays. And I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that's how the it shows that the culture
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  Speaker 4: that he brung your works. And whenever we did go
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  Speaker 4: through camping, we still going through prices. You know, every
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  Speaker 4: guy got a turn to you get a shot, and
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  Speaker 4: every guy got to use their reps to their way
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, and I felt like it shows,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on the film, just because there wasn't no
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  Speaker 4: drop off from a starter to the the third or
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  Speaker 4: four guy. You know, we all still played the same
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  Speaker 4: So uh, I felt like, uh, his culture is one
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  Speaker 4: of the great the greatest ones in the NFL right now.
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  Speaker 2: Kaserick Jaldes said, you showed up in the run game
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  Speaker 2: as well. A lot of focus on your past defense.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel like he did against the.
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  Speaker 1: Run in this game?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I felt like, uh did a great job.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, uh, minimalized yards, nothing was really too leaky,
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  Speaker 4: nothing was explosive for real. Uh, nobody felt like a panic.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everything just felt second nature. Everything felt real
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  Speaker 4: smooth out there. So uh, this week we got another
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  Speaker 4: team that likes to run the ball, and we gonna
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  Speaker 4: uh see what this test has were you and you.
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  Speaker 3: Said everything kind of felt Smoothie surprise that one of
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  Speaker 3: the seasons and felt that cohesive coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Of the gates.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, not necessarily surprised, cause I mean we still had
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  Speaker 4: a little bumps throughout the game, but we just knew
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  Speaker 4: that we've been working so hard. I mean, when you
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  Speaker 4: work hard, you you know, something as great is going
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  Speaker 4: to happen. You know, when you work hard, you have
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  Speaker 4: the ability to go out there and have that confidence
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  Speaker 4: and stuff like that. So it wasn't necessarily surprise. We
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  Speaker 4: just knew that we were capable of of what we
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  Speaker 4: went out and did. But at the same time, we
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  Speaker 4: know it's still you know, better things for us.
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  Speaker 6: You seen Julian kind of step up more as a
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  Speaker 6: leader this year with you know, guys leaving in safety
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  Speaker 6: and he's got more of a role there.
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  Speaker 1: You repeat the game, my bad.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen Julian step up more as a leader
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  Speaker 6: this year?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I used to pick with Julian because last year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he was about to have a kid, so everybody was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh you got to have a kid. As soon as
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  Speaker 4: he had to care about it was like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's the reason why you going extra crazy. But that man,
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  Speaker 4: Julian is just a dog man, like a smart player.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoy you know, coming every day cause I know
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  Speaker 4: Jay Love gonna get us.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the secondary man.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, he's been you know, like embracing his role,
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  Speaker 4: which is a leader on the team, and he does
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  Speaker 4: amazing job at it. And as we continue to grow
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  Speaker 4: out the season. You know you will see him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: be even greater than when he showed on you know,
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  Speaker 4: last Sunday,