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DK Metcalf: "We Converted 3rd Downs Against A Very Good Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up? How you doing good? How you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: What was it me by, sir? How was your little
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  Speaker 1: time off?
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  Speaker 2: Oh it was good. Yeah, I just didn't uh hear you,
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  Speaker 2: but it was. Uh it was a good time off.
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  Speaker 2: Just got the relaxed and just chill out and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, chill around Seattle for a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Second early by week this season, how important is this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: This past weekend, do you guys just kind of refresh
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  Speaker 1: a little?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I think it was very important cause uh we
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  Speaker 2: had two Thursday back to back games, and uh, I
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  Speaker 2: know I needed the time off to you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of reset my body, reset my mind, and now I'm
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  Speaker 2: ready to come to work and I just you know,
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  Speaker 2: gotta come to work and so just a little switch
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  Speaker 2: my mindset.
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  Speaker 3: You're not gonna make it as an excuse, but do
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  Speaker 3: you still feel the ribs from that trick game?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? No, sir? Oh mmmm no, I'll tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I will. I don't feel.
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  Speaker 2: You talked last week a little about taking some ASL classes,
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  Speaker 2: whether to be able to get away with expressing yourself on.
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  Speaker 3: The field or just kind of kind of something to
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  Speaker 3: get your mind up football. Can you talk a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about.
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  Speaker 1: Like how long you've been taking kind of what what
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  Speaker 1: uh what.
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  Speaker 3: That's been like for you, and whether you've heard from
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  Speaker 3: anybody about uh what you been doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well, I took it uh one course in
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  Speaker 2: uh college uh during the uh summer, a summer course.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: My ASL teacher Ms. Brian was uh very cool and
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the class. So I always try to exercise
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  Speaker 2: my mind or try to learn something new. So I've
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  Speaker 2: in the past I was taking acting classes. So now
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  Speaker 2: I figured, you know, let's take it a step further.
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  Speaker 2: So I tried to learn the ASL, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to learn how to play the guitar uh right now
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  Speaker 2: as well. So I started week one. My teacher, uh
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  Speaker 2: we uh talk over zoom once a week, uh every Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: His name's DARRYL Utley from Tennessee. So met him his wife.
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  Speaker 2: He's told me he has two daughters. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: been you know, very fun just to see you know,
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  Speaker 2: him smiling every time we interact or anytime I I
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  Speaker 2: know something that uh, you know, he signs to me,
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  Speaker 2: I can see just his smile uh light up. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just great that, you know, I get
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  Speaker 2: to learn something new. I get to challenge myself to
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  Speaker 2: learn something new and also just to you know, bring
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  Speaker 2: light to a community who I didn't know uh felt
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  Speaker 2: unseen or uh felt like they were being you know,
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  Speaker 2: forgot about. So uh, you know, just shedding light on
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  Speaker 2: the ASL community, the the deaf community to where you know,
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  Speaker 2: more people are starting to learn ASL and starting to
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  Speaker 2: you know, take heat to light what is he gonna
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  Speaker 2: to sign next? Or what is he signing? Or you
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  Speaker 2: know is the curiosity uh factor comes in to where
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's bringing attention to you know, the language
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  Speaker 2: of ASL, which many people did not know about. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it started out as me trying to learn
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  Speaker 2: something uh new, and then the reffing thing kind of
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  Speaker 2: got thrown into uh the mix to where it kind
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  Speaker 2: of turned in the trash talk, but you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to learn new language. Simply put, how you reacted
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  Speaker 2: with uh dyryl uh my agency ca UH connect me
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  Speaker 2: with him? Have you had people reach out to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: exper express their gratitude for your shutting out with uh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: A few people uh have reached out uh to me
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  Speaker 2: saying thank you for learning ASL or thank you for
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  Speaker 2: just you know, signing uh on national television. Were you
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  Speaker 2: able to pick it back up for what you've learned
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  Speaker 2: in college or were you kind of stu.
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  Speaker 1: Starting back at square mainly?
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  Speaker 2: I would say starting back at square one it was
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  Speaker 2: like one, two or three MA signs that I kind
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  Speaker 2: of knew, but mainly starting back from uh from square one.
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  Speaker 3: Have you been able to use it with anybody who
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  Speaker 3: is uh deaf or heard of hearing?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: His Uh darryl Utley, Uh, My teacher is actually uh deaf,
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  Speaker 2: him and his wife. So I've had conversations with them,
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  Speaker 2: and Boyer is probably the only other person, but he
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  Speaker 2: he can hear, obviously, but no, uh, nobody in.
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  Speaker 1: The deaf community.
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  Speaker 2: I've actually had a one on one conversation with is
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  Speaker 2: it boy he knows something?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he knows uh al Yeah. What do you learn
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  Speaker 1: on guitar? Just how to play the guitar?
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  Speaker 2: I've started out learning seventh Army Army, Uh white the
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  Speaker 2: white stripe, seventh Army Uh, seven Nation Army.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's on.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of difficult, uh with the chorus, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get my fingers to act right. They don't they don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to act. So yeah, it's just another challenge for.
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  Speaker 1: Me though we be Parkinson plays guitar too, right or uh?
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  Speaker 1: I know abe uh abe does Yeah? Are you still
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  Speaker 1: on the electric? Yes, sir? Yeah? Interesting boy A two.
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  Speaker 3: I know he does the thing for his mother occasionally,
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  Speaker 3: meaning what did have you learned anything from him?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you give you any pointers? When it came
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  Speaker 1: to asl uh actually standing on business?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Boyer did that when he was walking out of the
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  Speaker 2: meeting on Wednesday night. And he did it one time
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  Speaker 2: and I was like one more time, I said again
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  Speaker 2: he said standing on business.
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, I'm using.
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  Speaker 2: That uh tomorrow when I score, so everybody can give
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  Speaker 2: credit to Boyer fit that on.
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  Speaker 1: Do you typically go into a game with with one
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  Speaker 1: in mind that you're gonna do? Uh? No, it usually
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  Speaker 1: just happens on on the spot.
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  Speaker 3: Is it's you mentioned the refereeing issue. Is it something
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  Speaker 3: of a safe haven for you that the referees don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you're doing?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Actually a ref came up to me and was like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: are you good? I was like yes, sir. He was like, alright,
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  Speaker 2: just don't sign anything today, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: got you from when it comes.
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  Speaker 3: To the offense.
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  Speaker 1: The last game, y uh, there was lots of passing yards,
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  Speaker 1: lots of total yards, but w what do you look
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  Speaker 1: at as the most positive fit from that performance?
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  Speaker 2: In doubt? We convert on third downs against a very
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  Speaker 2: good defense, so we could take that and start to
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  Speaker 2: build on it. But the biggest takeaway is we did
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  Speaker 2: not win the game. So the offense definitely could you know,
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  Speaker 2: put up more points or uh convert or execute better
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  Speaker 2: in certain situations, given that that was.
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  Speaker 1: Your highest output of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything personal that you take away from either
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  Speaker 3: how you play or or how that played out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh? No, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, just try to continue to build on it. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, next game, I may have one catch for
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  Speaker 2: ten yards, but if we win, you know, that's all
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for.
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  Speaker 1: Where you else?
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  Speaker 3: Is it all?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry? Is it all?
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  Speaker 2: The sign language would be confluent?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, How difficult is it now that you're doing it
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  Speaker 3: to see to pick.
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  Speaker 1: Up How difficult are you finding it? No, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that difficult.
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  Speaker 2: When I learned my ABC's and that kind of everything
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  Speaker 2: kind of branches off of that, cause this is this
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  Speaker 2: is f So when you.
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  Speaker 1: Go friend this his friend or this is man.
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  Speaker 2: So everything jalous like builds off of each other, uh
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  Speaker 2: to where you know, you kind of pick up stuff
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  Speaker 2: along the way.
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  Speaker 3: You said that your teacher is beaming when he teaches you. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: what relationship do you have with him now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I've just known him for I've had seven lessons now,
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  Speaker 2: so seven zoom calls is all I know him from.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a great dude. No, never met him a
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  Speaker 2: person you like?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: The goal Uh is yes, cause we go to Nashville
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  Speaker 2: in two weeks so uh, yeah, he's he's from Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: So I was gonna try to invite him to the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think Trabarius has mentioned that he likes shadowing you
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  Speaker 2: or he enjoys that that match up against you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have like some mutual respect to enjoy that? Ye? Else?
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  Speaker 2: I mean any corner who can travel with me for
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  Speaker 2: you know, a whole duration of a game, is I
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  Speaker 2: have mad respect for? Is there a way that is
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  Speaker 2: there something that stands out about his game versus many
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  Speaker 2: other corners.
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  Speaker 1: That are shadowed you before.
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  Speaker 2: No, cause a lot of the corners who tend to
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  Speaker 2: shadow me are often have the same makeup cause they're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna back down from a fight, and they're pretty
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  Speaker 2: good in man and man coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, thank you, thank you, thank you.