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Byron Murphy II: "It Felt Like Family Right Away" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, Byron, congratulations. From what you know of Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: and this team, why are you a good fit for
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  Speaker 1: this defense?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a good fit.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like, you know the reason why
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  Speaker 2: I'm a good PITI is because my play style, you know,
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  Speaker 2: very very aggressive, you know, just a very you know,
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  Speaker 2: just dominant player, you know, uh, you know, and I
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  Speaker 2: could also you know, stop the run, you know, what's
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  Speaker 2: the passa you know. I'm an all three down, you
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  Speaker 2: know type type of guy, you know, de Lorman. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why I feel like, you know, I feel perfect
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  Speaker 2: in their scheme and the defense and everything.
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  Speaker 4: There were reports biring that you had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: meet with the Seahawks during the pre draft process. What
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  Speaker 4: was that like and what stood out having the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to meet with Josh Schneier or those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Uh man, Uh, when I met with them as the
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  Speaker 2: come out, what still up to me was you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I walked in there, you know they uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they welcomed me up and on. They feel like family
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  Speaker 2: right away. When I met him at the comeboy and
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  Speaker 2: so man, it was just a you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: just a blissard for them. You know, for guys just
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  Speaker 2: to have me come in there and you know, interview
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  Speaker 2: me and everything. But you know they feel like family
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  Speaker 2: right away.
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  Speaker 5: You ever been in Seattle?
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't. I never been.
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  Speaker 5: What do you know about her? What are you looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to it?
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  Speaker 2: I really don't know nothing. Uh, I really don't know
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  Speaker 2: too much about Seattle. But I heard it. I heard
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  Speaker 2: it raining a lot though. That really about the only thing.
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  Speaker 3: Just what was your reaction when you got that call
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  Speaker 3: from Josh Schneider.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man? When I got that call, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was just I was happy, you know, excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, it was like a dream come true.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I really just blessed the other than
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  Speaker 2: to be a Seattle SEAHUK.
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  Speaker 6: Were they one of the teams you were thinking could
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  Speaker 6: be a real option for you to land with? Said again,
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  Speaker 6: were they one of the teams that you were thinking
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  Speaker 6: could be a real option for you to tomate be
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  Speaker 6: drafted by?
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man? I was thinking, uh, you know, Minnesota, because
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota was only hard, so you know, I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about them guys, you know, uh think in New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. But you know, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here now, so That's how I'm matters.
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  Speaker 7: What were you thinking as you watched the draft and
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  Speaker 7: saw fourteen straight offensive players to start? And what do
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  Speaker 7: I guess? What were you thinking? Is that happened and
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  Speaker 7: how that might impact you?
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen them and I've seen them dog get
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  Speaker 2: druged before me. You know, you know I didn't. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't too much when worried about it. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: was just focused on me, you know, my family, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just a joint, enjoying myself, my time, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: my draft party. So you know, I don't really worry
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  Speaker 2: about them. Guys. So you know how many have your party?
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  Speaker 5: Where are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in Dallas, sixtions. I'm having that at the Stevo Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Man that was having a great time, great parties, about
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  Speaker 2: about three four hundred people. WHOA, yeah, yeah, that is
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  Speaker 2: a party.
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  Speaker 3: Byron.
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  Speaker 8: You played most of your snaps as a three technique.
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  Speaker 8: The Seahawks have Leonard Williams who they recently signed re
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  Speaker 8: signed as a three technique. What have they told you
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  Speaker 8: about your alignment? And you're fit within the defensive personnel
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  Speaker 8: here or they.
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  Speaker 2: They told me? You know, I had as on me
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  Speaker 2: d Lion Couch he was telling me, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's why I'll be playing you know, from the zero
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  Speaker 2: you know, to three. But he seen me as a
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  Speaker 2: three take so you know, uh for young man to
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  Speaker 2: really really come in and work.
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  Speaker 1: Your numbers improved each year in college. Where did Where
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like you made the biggest jump in
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  Speaker 1: your game?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I feel like I got made the biggest stuff
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  Speaker 2: of my game really this past season, you know, really
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  Speaker 2: I tried this off season before this season came, I
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  Speaker 2: tried to focusing on you know, my technique more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: becoming stronger, you know, faster, you know, all these things
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, and I tied all them things together,
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  Speaker 2: and when the season started, you know, was what got
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  Speaker 2: me here. So it's hard work really.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things though, when people look at you,
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  Speaker 1: they might say that you are not the prototypical size.
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  Speaker 1: At what point did you know you had to focus
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  Speaker 1: on technique to maybe make up for.
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  Speaker 8: Some of that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I know I had the focus on take me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, right after especially, you know, right after I
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  Speaker 2: loved high schoolcause I knew guys are gonna be you know,
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  Speaker 2: way bigger at the collegiate level, you know, stronger, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, technique is everything. You know, played a great take,
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  Speaker 2: great fundaments. You know there's nobody can stop. You know,
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  Speaker 2: strength doesn't matter at that point.
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  Speaker 5: You played some nose tackle in college? Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? So I did.
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  Speaker 7: Do you still hope to carry the ball some.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope?
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  Speaker 2: So, I hope I can get the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hope so they You know, my job is they
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  Speaker 2: go out there, you know, create, turn out and get
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  Speaker 2: sex and stop they run.
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  Speaker 6: If people are pulling up the highlights from your college career,
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  Speaker 6: what what's the one play they.
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  Speaker 7: Should go look at to really.
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  Speaker 5: Find out what kind of player you are?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, really we got a lot a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I want you to. I want them
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  Speaker 2: to go to the play while all playing against Demo,
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  Speaker 2: when I got on, when I took the build a
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  Speaker 2: team took the knee, got on all fours, it came
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  Speaker 2: back up and made the play.
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  Speaker 7: What do you remember of the uh, the Sugar Bowl
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  Speaker 7: against Washington?
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  Speaker 2: Say any game?
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  Speaker 7: What do you remember the Sugar Bowl against Washington? Just here?
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  Speaker 7: I remember you playing in that game?
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  Speaker 2: You said, what I remember from that game?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I remember school first score my Tuesday. Now
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  Speaker 2: you know Uh, that's one thing I do remember, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, that's a memory that's just a sticking
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  Speaker 2: me forever. You know this and also to you know,
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  Speaker 2: just the opportunity to go out there, you know, into
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans you know, and play you know for a
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  Speaker 2: national championships. For now, everything is just abst byron.
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  Speaker 4: You you mentioned the technique aspect of being a little
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  Speaker 4: smaller for the defensive tackle position, But how much is
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  Speaker 4: that prior background of being able to carry the football?
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  Speaker 4: How does that help you offset some of those size
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  Speaker 4: limitations and how do you see that helping you at
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  Speaker 4: the next level?
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  Speaker 2: Well, are you talking said again my sage?
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  Speaker 4: You said, yeah, how does how does that running back
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  Speaker 4: background and the athleticism in general that you have from that,
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  Speaker 4: how does that help you upset that and where do
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  Speaker 4: you see that benefiting you the most coming to the
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  Speaker 4: next level.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, you know, you know you hlit me out a lot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, growing up just playing running meg a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: all the way up to ninth grade. You know, hit
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  Speaker 2: me out a lot. You know, that's where I get
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  Speaker 2: my my twitches from this. This is my cleopiness in
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  Speaker 2: my speed. So you know it's gonna hit me at
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  Speaker 2: a lot. The next level, you know, bringing our little
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  Speaker 2: bringing our little tools, you know, all that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my just my technique and everything. It's gonna hit me
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  Speaker 2: out a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a story mentioned you were a Seahawks fan
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  Speaker 3: as a kid. How'd that come about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, So how it came about was, uh No,
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  Speaker 2: I really loved the leasing the boom, just the defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Earl Tummas, Richard Shayne and Cam Chashley, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Benning, you know, all of them guys, and then
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  Speaker 2: and then just just how dominated they was. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know, you had the offense, the guys like Russell Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: Marshaw and Doug Bowing, you know, all of them guys, man,
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  Speaker 2: curse Marshaw and so man, just watching them go up,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, you know, and you know they
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  Speaker 2: also you know, they dominated the lead. You know, want
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl and everything, man, So just to you know,
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  Speaker 2: go up and watching.
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  Speaker 6: Them, you know, do that?
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  Speaker 2: Man, Man, that's all that's all I wanted was the
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl and to win games.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, with that in mind, what does it
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  Speaker 3: mean to you to be drafted by the Seahawks?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Ah, Man, it means a lot. Man. It's an
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  Speaker 2: honor really, you know, for them guys, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: come you know, people just you know, just believe in me,
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  Speaker 2: and you know they invested in me. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: i'm'a give them everything that got you know. I oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I owe you'm you know, I owe my all,
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  Speaker 2: you know everything, So you know again growing up, that
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  Speaker 2: was my fairy team, you know. Now the dejected about Seattle, Man,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's crazy, you know, Uh, I get about grow
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  Speaker 2: to God. Man, I feel like it's just God's form. Learn.
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  Speaker 9: While there's some set out things about your size, n
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  Speaker 9: the things that's coming out of here is about your
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  Speaker 9: dog mentality.
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  Speaker 5: Can you talk about that?
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  Speaker 9: And your ability to wanna dominate on the line?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, my dog mentality you know, uh, it comes
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  Speaker 2: from you know, just you know, having doubters, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I would. You know, I've been doubted, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all my life. So I feel like that's when started
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  Speaker 2: the dog intellen, you know. And my mentality when I'm
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  Speaker 2: out there on the field, you know, is just killed.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know whoever that's fun to me? Why
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who he is? You know, what what
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  Speaker 2: they say about you you know I believe it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta show me. So you know that's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: believe in. You know, that's what I preach, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And also to you know, part of my monster
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  Speaker 2: is you won't stop me. You must show me. You
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  Speaker 2: mana show me. You can stop me. Eve, even if
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm doing on this place, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: you still gotta shove me. So case I'm coming.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming hard every play.
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  Speaker 9: Sorry, we don't have time to go over a three
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  Speaker 9: hundred guest list. But who are some of the people
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  Speaker 9: that are there.
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  Speaker 2: With that? Again?
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  Speaker 9: Who are some of the people that are celebrating not
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  Speaker 9: all three hundred, but some of the people that I'm
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  Speaker 9: there with you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh man? Childhood friends you know, uh my mom, dad,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all my brothers, you know, my agents and everybody. Man,
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  Speaker 2: really just family and friends.
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  Speaker 5: How many siblings do you have? Fine?
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  Speaker 2: I have? I have three?
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  Speaker 5: Are you where are you among the four?
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  Speaker 2: I'm the third, third artist?
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  Speaker 5: And who's your hero growing up?
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  Speaker 2: Man? My hero growing up is my you know, my parents,
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  Speaker 2: especially uh yeah, man, my parents man them them up
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  Speaker 2: for my als, uh Man, you know, because they sacrificed
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  Speaker 2: so much for me, you know, as a kid, for
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  Speaker 2: me and my brothers. You know, they they may I
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  Speaker 2: always find a way to make ends meet, you know,
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  Speaker 2: without no you know, without any complaints. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: know what the point I want. So you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they the reason why I'm here today, not the reason
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  Speaker 2: I'm on this phone call right now, you know, And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I just order all again.
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  Speaker 4: Really you mentioned your Seahawks fandom Byron. Were there any
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  Speaker 4: defensive linemen from those Legion of Boom teams that you
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  Speaker 4: tried to emulate your game after a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You know Michael Dinny, you know, that was the
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  Speaker 2: guy you know on that D line back then. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I used to watch him a lot growing up.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, at the time, you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see myself as a D lineman, but now I am
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  Speaker 2: so Yeah, Man, I used to watch that guy a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Dinner, great.
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  Speaker 3: Player even though he was an A and M guy.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Man, I see, I ain't I ain't another.
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  Speaker 3: One more? What kind of on that front?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: POONA Ford is a defensive tackle used to play here
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  Speaker 6: and went to Texas as well.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any relationship with him?
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  Speaker 2: Set again.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Poona Ford played up here for the Seahawks and and
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  Speaker 6: played at Texas as well.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any relationship with Poona?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I got a you know, Uh, I got a
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  Speaker 2: little smaller laces with him.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We Uh we talked before.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he don't hit me up out of here or
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  Speaker 2: up so you know, I mean, Puma We cool, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: For while y all your parents did to you, did
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  Speaker 6: for you, Byron, What does this knight mean for them?
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  Speaker 5: For you and the moment you shared when you got
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  Speaker 5: the call?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? And it means a lot to them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cause they watched me grow up from a board to
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  Speaker 2: a name, you know, and they seen, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: seen their first hand. They watched me, you know, put
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  Speaker 2: the work in you know, you know, in each and
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  Speaker 2: every day. You know, they seen how dedicated and how
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  Speaker 2: motivated I was. You know, so they just proud, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're happy for me cause I made my dream come true.