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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Love The Mentality Of Our Offense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I like a free spirit a day or you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're just kind of backing for Yeah, that was good
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, good day at practice that we competed
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  Speaker 1: hard and we got better today. What do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like your chemistry extent, sam Dal compared to saying those
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  Speaker 1: it's building, Yeah, it's building, it's growing. I'm excited for
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  Speaker 1: you know what what it could be? What's it like
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  Speaker 1: without beating? Yeah, I missed those guys. Those are just
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  Speaker 1: two great guys that you know that I call friends.
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  Speaker 1: So it sucks that they're not, you know, here with me.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I know they're gonna ball out where
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  Speaker 1: they're at. Yeah, here and there, here and there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're both all busy at camp right now. But uh
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  Speaker 1: talk to them before before camping. You know, excited for
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  Speaker 1: those guys and their new opportunities. You can tell your personally.
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  Speaker 1: I know they signed super Coffee. Two guys haven't been
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  Speaker 1: here at around years. What they tell you about what
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  Speaker 1: they think to you, you know, it's really just you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I know that they trust me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that you know they know I'm gonna work
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  Speaker 1: in and get the job done and put the work
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  Speaker 1: in so that that's all I really told me. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't really tell me too much of a reversal. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you guys be gone for your your third year. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've got before your work and you kept for like
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  Speaker 1: the third that game receivers and taking oh yeah, one
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent and uh talking to those guys you know
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  Speaker 1: that came before me, Like, you know, taking that next
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  Speaker 1: step is very important, and you know, those guys show
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  Speaker 1: me the way. So I always feel I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I need to give back and I love
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  Speaker 1: to do, love to do that, love to be in
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  Speaker 1: that position. So hopefully I can just take the standard
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  Speaker 1: and then push it forward with a few days of
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  Speaker 1: training camp under your belt, row with your fresh year
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  Speaker 1: of momro as a leader and other players. Man, he's
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal talent, you know, talented person, great persons. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's working his tail off. So I'm super happy that
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  Speaker 1: he's here, good young man and excited for his future.
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  Speaker 1: You Cooper Cup, what's that discussion been like? You and
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, what's that discussion being like? Yeah, he brings
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  Speaker 1: just a next level mindset, uh with Cooper Cup, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited to be with him in that receiver room,
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  Speaker 1: another stellar receiver, a great receiver, and I'm just blessed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be in a room with slot for
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  Speaker 1: you over him. Say that when we're talking figuring that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the best slot for you. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, we're mixing it up a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch and gonna give a lot of looks to the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever they need from me inside or outside, I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to do that. What's it like watching this offense
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  Speaker 1: kind of come together obviously new Cordy, new scheme, new players,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways. What's it like watching it and
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  Speaker 1: go together to fun? It's a process, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be good day. It's gonna be bad days, but
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  Speaker 1: every day, you know, we can learn. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like our mentality as an offense is is you know,
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  Speaker 1: is really good, and we're all excited to learn be
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  Speaker 1: under one roof and learn together and come out here
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  Speaker 1: and compete and do what we love to do and
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  Speaker 1: and take the next and take the step a step
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  Speaker 1: forward every single day. Jackson, can you talking about what
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  Speaker 1: it's like to go up against this secondary every day?
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  Speaker 1: It's tough. I love it though it's tough, they love
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  Speaker 1: to compete, they love to talk talk, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: mess and you know it brings it brings the best
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  Speaker 1: out of me. So you know, it's exciting playing great
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  Speaker 1: players every single day, you know, again in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I just have the utmost confidence. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not directly, but you know, we we gotta we got
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  Speaker 1: a group of receivers that you know, we're we're head
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  Speaker 1: down grinders and uh but we we might have to
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  Speaker 1: work on you know, let them, let them them know
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  Speaker 1: a little bit here. But it's just different for you
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  Speaker 1: and all going to the year, your rage, just your
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  Speaker 1: role here, voice for the younger guys, things like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is, and I'm excited excited about that role every
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  Speaker 1: every year that I played football, you know, high school, college,
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  Speaker 1: that year three is you know a role that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I get excited for because you know, I know, I
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  Speaker 1: know the offense, I know the DNA in the building,
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  Speaker 1: and I you know, I'm willing I can put that
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  Speaker 1: on the field and guys can follow it and I
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  Speaker 1: can you know, be a leader by example. So I love,
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  Speaker 1: I love that role and I'm just super excited about
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  Speaker 1: this year of this offense that just see that you
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  Speaker 1: really like or get last year, I really I just like,
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  Speaker 1: I love the mentality of our offense. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: grind and pound and you know, take some shots, mix
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  Speaker 1: it up. You know, it's very versatile offense. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited about that here. I know when he's the top priority.
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  Speaker 1: But are there things that you're looking at if you
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  Speaker 1: want to achieve individually? Right now, I'm in. I feel
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  Speaker 1: great in the position I am the role I am,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that if I help my team win,
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  Speaker 1: if I go out there and perform, you know, at
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  Speaker 1: my best and help my team win, all the accolades
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  Speaker 1: will come. And you know that's really my mindset. Really
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  Speaker 1: get deep, playoff front, you know, go win us a ring.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in January February playing playing winter football. Do
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  Speaker 1: you like they brought Drew Locke back? Yeah? I loved it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I love Drew Locke. He's going to be back there,
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  Speaker 1: slinging it. So excited, great dude, hard workers, So excited
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  Speaker 1: that he's back. What kind of leader is Sam? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What's this tepe off? Like? He's he's very cool, calm
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  Speaker 1: and collective. You know, he got some juice though as well,
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  Speaker 1: so you know he's one of the guys. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: people listen, you know when he talks, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a leader that you love to have about
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  Speaker 1: that que position, you know the Jews, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know some Jews you know like that that ship. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like he got some ship to him.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, happy we got him Jackson. We know you
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  Speaker 1: probably can't tell us too much about it, but we
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  Speaker 1: saw you gotta sneak speak of the Rivalry series. So
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  Speaker 1: what can you tell us? It doesn't give him away
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  Speaker 1: the state secrets, y'all gonna like the jerseys, y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: really like them. They look really clean. Even even the
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  Speaker 1: guys that have no swag gonna look good out there.
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  Speaker 1: So so it's a it's a good jersey, that's all
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  Speaker 1: I can say. Yeah, I don't want to point them out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to point them out. But and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of Michigan guys. I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: lie a lot of Michigan guys. Yeah, yeah, uh, just
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  Speaker 1: to build some chemistry, hang out with the guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: CALLI you know, I like Cali. I like the Cali Son,
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  Speaker 1: the Cali Weather out there and everything else, but just
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  Speaker 1: to hang out with the guys, get some chemistry on
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  Speaker 1: the field, be in a new setting, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it was good for us about Sam the teammates personal
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  Speaker 1: ve thousand yeah, one thousand percent, one thousand percent. I'll
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  Speaker 1: keep it personal, but yeah, definitely in those settings. What
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  Speaker 1: do you hope that your team has learned about Jackson
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  Speaker 1: the guy A Jackson the guy, he's you know, just
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  Speaker 1: like you know, he's a good teammate, which I'm a
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  Speaker 1: good friend. You know what I'm saying. Gonna be there
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  Speaker 1: and you know, willing can talk about anything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Thanks,