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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "We Have An Awesome Culture" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: James. I then we talked to you a week or
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  Speaker 1: two ago.
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  Speaker 2: But how do feel like this campus.
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  Speaker 3: For scene for wrongs? It's been going great.
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  Speaker 4: Battling with the defense, it's always a challenge, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you're faced with challenge, you know, you grow a
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  Speaker 4: lot of good things, a lot of bad things. But
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  Speaker 4: we're just taking the opportunities that we have here day.
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  Speaker 4: I think tomorrow's like sixteen of practice and we're looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to getting better and that's what we've been doing.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see hard Knocks last sight of though? I did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you think of the kind of the
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  Speaker 2: scene with you in prisonon?
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  Speaker 3: And oh?
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  Speaker 4: It was good kind of relationship that we have. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate uh those words.
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  Speaker 5: And.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we just want to get better.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody you know in the receiver room on the offense
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  Speaker 4: and me included, want to get better each and every
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  Speaker 4: day and anytime we have the opportunity to do so,
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  Speaker 4: you know, take.
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  Speaker 3: Full full of the moment.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he just has a lot of great knowledge,
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  Speaker 4: of course, very hands on.
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  Speaker 3: He knows his stuff too.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I can trust, you know, I can trust
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  Speaker 4: his opinion and how he sees things. And he's meant
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  Speaker 4: a lot to you know, my development over these last
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  Speaker 4: two years.
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  Speaker 5: You alluded to it in that scene, But how much
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  Speaker 5: has the route tree change things daily?
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  Speaker 3: Basics of the route.
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  Speaker 4: Tree change, say one more time he alluded to it
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  Speaker 4: and seen last night of the route tree changing some
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  Speaker 4: what's different.
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  Speaker 3: Or how much of the difference.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna continue to grow in in the space of
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  Speaker 4: you know, putting plays down and routes. I think right
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  Speaker 4: now it's been kind of basic. Just want to get
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  Speaker 4: the fundamentals and basics of our offense down.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we've seen a lot.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, as we progress through camp, you see
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more and I'm excited about I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: to you know, run new routes, be creative and and
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  Speaker 4: brainstorm with you know, the great offensive minds that we have.
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  Speaker 3: It's simply a counter to the counter. You know, teams
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  Speaker 3: are going to study you and yeah, one thousand percent.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just having answers is key to being successful
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  Speaker 4: in this league. So just making sure we have answers
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  Speaker 4: for any look we might we might get.
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  Speaker 5: Last year, the most you had run routes out of
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  Speaker 5: the backfield.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, Yeah, it was it was what.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of adjustments. What do you learn from from that
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  Speaker 5: in terms of getting.
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  Speaker 3: Used to doing your more?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, uh, I think me being in a
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  Speaker 4: slot a lot of the years, and it's it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of just the same kind of the same mindset. You know,
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  Speaker 4: find the zone, understand who's really guarding you in that zone,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, you can take advantage of the defense
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  Speaker 4: having linebacker, safeties, nickels, you know, guarding you. So just
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  Speaker 4: taking advantage of that and you kind of get to
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  Speaker 4: see the play progress and see the play develop and
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  Speaker 4: then you know it's certainly a timing thing with the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: I did a little bit in college, but last year
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  Speaker 4: was the most I did.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Been around Mike McGall a couple of years now. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: hard knocks, he's getting a little more spotlight on him,
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  Speaker 1: then more of the countries getting to see it. Are
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  Speaker 1: you guys excited for people.
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  Speaker 4: To kind of get to know Michael a bit better
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  Speaker 4: the way you guys did. Yeah, I'm happy he you know,
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  Speaker 4: he can take that off our shoulders, you know, be
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  Speaker 4: the star that he is. You know, you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: very important to us in the building and the representative
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  Speaker 4: of the city. So you know, people want to hear
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  Speaker 4: what he has to say. And you know, how we
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  Speaker 4: you know, basically the leader you know, of our team
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  Speaker 4: in this facility get to where we're getting to, which
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  Speaker 4: is an awesome culture that everybody loves to be a
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  Speaker 4: part of. So I think spreading that and spreading who
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  Speaker 4: we are is amazing. He's done a great job with it.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone tried to do the sledgehammer contest after those guys are.
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  Speaker 4: Now no I think, you know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: well that'll come back at all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of it. I'm not a fan
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, A long day of practice, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: just want to kind of watch film.
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  Speaker 3: And how is daily life off the field change for
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  Speaker 3: you in last year?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Not too not too much, honestly, just keeping a simple
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  Speaker 4: you know, like I said last year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need too much.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of a lot of this, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of being here, you know, take up a lot
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  Speaker 4: of my time, and just really focused and when I
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  Speaker 4: get home, get the chill with family and then come
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  Speaker 4: here and get to work.
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  Speaker 3: So really really not that much more.
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  Speaker 5: Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Have you with him on his third year as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach, Do you send something different about him? Are
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of more comfortable in the role or
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  Speaker 1: is he the same guy?
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  Speaker 4: He's always like that, you know, I definitely think he's growing,
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  Speaker 4: and I think our relationship, you know, and the relationship
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  Speaker 4: with people that he has in the building is growing
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  Speaker 4: and just understanding each other.
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  Speaker 3: So I think he can dive.
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  Speaker 4: Further in depth with the conversations that we're having.
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  Speaker 3: So it's awesome. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we preach relationships are everything, So just in
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  Speaker 4: that aspect, it's been awesome, Like I said, to grow
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  Speaker 4: and to bring on new challenges together.
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  Speaker 5: People talk talk about quarterbacks getting used to different receivers
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  Speaker 5: and how they run routes. As a receiver, do you
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  Speaker 5: have to get used to different guys when you run
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  Speaker 5: route combinations with different speeds, different tight ends and versus receivers?
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  Speaker 3: In terms of.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, you sure your the way you run routes.
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  Speaker 5: Does it matter who you're next to when you're running
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  Speaker 5: those routes? You have to make any adjustments based on
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  Speaker 5: how they run their.
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  Speaker 4: Routes, Oh, I would say, you know, I would say
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  Speaker 4: not really, but you got to be able to adjust
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  Speaker 4: on the fly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you got Sheet next.
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  Speaker 4: To you, you know, he's a he can fly, so
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  Speaker 4: you know the windows might open up pretty a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more faster with him, and you know, toy horon
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  Speaker 4: and then when I'm next to Coop, you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: playing kind of like a pick and roll kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: So just understanding that, being more patient and understanding you know,
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  Speaker 4: what the defense is trying to do and taking advantage
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, usually when I line.
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  Speaker 4: Up next to to Coop, so it is different. It
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  Speaker 4: is a different mindset line next next to those guys,
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  Speaker 4: and I think us being versatile and being able to
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  Speaker 4: do a lot of things in our receiver room, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just you know, opens a lot of doors for this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Mike has talked about having a little bit different messaging
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  Speaker 2: this year as well, kind ready to get back, but
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  Speaker 2: running it forward and hard knocks. Kind of a scene
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  Speaker 2: last night where you were talking about how you can't
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  Speaker 2: totally change it because there's some new guys who still
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  Speaker 2: need to hear the old message in it. But how
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like he's kind of balancing that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's been great, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: pretty much we have a lot of guys that were
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  Speaker 4: here from last year, that's seen the start of the culture.
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  Speaker 3: But we have new guys, like you.
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  Speaker 4: Said, and they have to understand how we got to
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  Speaker 4: meet our goal, our ultimate you know, team goal, and
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  Speaker 4: so they have.
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  Speaker 3: To understand that.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, this is a new year and
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  Speaker 4: relationships for everything, like I said, so we get to
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  Speaker 4: expand and grow that message and you know who we're about.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the that's the fun part about this thing.
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  Speaker 6: There's been a number of plays in this camp where
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  Speaker 6: you've had like a deep throat coming your way and
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  Speaker 6: it looks like as the falls all the way down,
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  Speaker 6: you gear down slightly and then you speedback up to
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  Speaker 6: create what what was like the origin of that maneuver.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, really just just control, just just having enough control
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  Speaker 4: and calmness just to you know, put the dB where
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  Speaker 4: you want, you know, when the ball is flowing in
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  Speaker 4: the air sometimes you know you have to make something
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  Speaker 4: happen to create space for yourself to make a clean
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  Speaker 4: catch and then run with it. So really just that
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  Speaker 4: and I give that testament to you know, the drill
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  Speaker 4: work that we do, you know, every single day with
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  Speaker 4: you know, Friz and Ricky White. Actually just being comfortable
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  Speaker 4: and uncomfortable situations down the field.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something that we work on. Ricky White particularly
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  Speaker 3: good at that he is.
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  Speaker 4: He is, he definitely is has a great calmness, great
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  Speaker 4: knack for the ball, has great hands, and and that's
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  Speaker 4: something that you know, we both want to grow at
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  Speaker 4: and and I want to pick his brain on things.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent player that pushes pushes me. And I would say
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  Speaker 4: all the receivers you know, to be on their their game.
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  Speaker 3: Because he definitely is on it.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, just working with him and getting better him
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  Speaker 4: one percent.
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  Speaker 3: I learned.
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  Speaker 4: We have our room is our room is top of
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  Speaker 4: the league. We're looking to be the best in the league.
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  Speaker 4: And the people that we have in our room, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I greatly respect. You know, when y'all see Montory out
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  Speaker 4: there every single day, Cody White always making plays, Jake
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  Speaker 4: Bobo does his thing all the time. So there's room
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  Speaker 4: for improvement from for all of us. And to learn
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  Speaker 4: from those guys, it's it's a pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else. Guys