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Robbie Ouzts: "It Feels Like Home" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's a field to partake in running back drills? Is
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  Speaker 1: that something that you ever did at Alabama?
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  Speaker 2: No, it is a different world out there. But shout
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  Speaker 2: out to coach Paul Malough getting me right. He's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic coach. Love working with him.
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  Speaker 3: What are you try to soak in in these couple
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  Speaker 3: of days that you get on the fields?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, just not taking the moment for granted, it really
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  Speaker 2: didn't hit me when I got the phone call on
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  Speaker 2: draft day, but going out on that field yesterday it
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  Speaker 2: finally sunk in. So just taking it all in and
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  Speaker 2: just giving it everything I got and just trying to go.
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  Speaker 2: Want to know, every rep.
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  Speaker 3: What are you learning about playing fullback?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot, you know, coming from the tight end position,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of different leverage, so really changing my
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  Speaker 2: footwork up, kind of changing my attack angle on defenders
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  Speaker 2: and learning to make make decisions on the go instead
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  Speaker 2: of letting the defender come to me. So there's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There for your earlier pressions of the offense. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like the fullbacks kind of used a lot in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. I don't know if it's just
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  Speaker 2: the offense or Milroe feeding me. But yeah, I got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of looks there early on, so I just
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  Speaker 2: got to make the most of my opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you see your tight end background helping
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  Speaker 3: from that perspective being a pass catcher?
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  Speaker 1: I know you had two touchdown or sententions last year.
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  Speaker 1: Know you said that's not as important as blocking to you,
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  Speaker 1: but how does that tight end background?
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  Speaker 2: It definitely helps, just being more of a natural at
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  Speaker 2: tracking the ball, turning, getting up field, lowering my shoulder
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  Speaker 2: cause you know that can be a for foreign into
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fullbacks. But yeah, it kind of it
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  Speaker 2: kind of runs into receiving.
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  Speaker 1: What's your impression of the guys, the other guys you
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  Speaker 1: got to meet this last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: I love everybody here. It just it feels like home.
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  Speaker 2: Got a great group of guys in the running back
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  Speaker 2: room with Damien and all the rest of the boys,
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  Speaker 2: and it just kind of motivates you every day to
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  Speaker 2: come in and work for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I heard you might be making a cross country road
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  Speaker 1: trip on your way back here. Is that is that
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  Speaker 1: the plan?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, we'll have to figure that situation out later.
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  Speaker 2: But great to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I know when we covered Mike rob way way way
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  Speaker 3: back in the old days. He talked about needing to
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  Speaker 3: read to play like a running back and having to
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  Speaker 3: see that from the fullback spot. What is it going
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  Speaker 3: to be like for you trying to learn what those
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  Speaker 3: sitelines look like and care you know what the guy
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  Speaker 3: behind you.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to s. Yeah. So yeah, it's definitely a
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  Speaker 2: different world than what I'm used to from college. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I said earlier, coach paulam always been
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  Speaker 2: very fundamental in helping me kind of look at the
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  Speaker 2: play in a different perspective. So really just seeing what
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  Speaker 2: the running back is seeing and learning that he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: trust me and it's up to meet him to give
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  Speaker 2: him a little window of opening.
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  Speaker 1: Any difference in terms of what they're giving you, any
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  Speaker 1: instructions in terms of your body, they want you to
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  Speaker 1: train any differently than you've trained up till.
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  Speaker 2: Now, not in particular. They just want me to be
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  Speaker 2: strong and explosive at the same time. So definitely could
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  Speaker 2: work on my conditioning a little bit. Weight might drop
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  Speaker 2: five ten pounds, but just as long as I feel good,
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  Speaker 2: that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: How many years would you do competitive swimming?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe eight? Or ten Oa.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still swim at all ever?
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  Speaker 2: Or uh every now and then? Just Ricardia okay, yes sir,
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  Speaker 2: anything else, Thank you, good, Thank y'all,