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Mike Macdonald: "This Is A Great Opportunity" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Another another really good day. You know, we have our
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  Speaker 1: family barbecue out, so it's gonna be great to hang
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  Speaker 1: out with all the families and stuff. Though. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they've been doing that throughout camp, which has been
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  Speaker 1: really cool. After practice, So this is I guess this
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  Speaker 1: is our official last you know, can't practice even though
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of we'll be rolling in the next week,
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  Speaker 1: so excited for the game and we're kind of in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City mode for the next two days at this point,
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  Speaker 1: can you tell us I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess when you're playing, would be with starters or who
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  Speaker 2: might play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh, same plan. I told you might
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  Speaker 1: be a couple of guys that will vary based on
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  Speaker 1: whether they get out there or not. We'll still kind
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  Speaker 1: of working through it right now, but yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our guys are gonna start the game out. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how long it goes.
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  Speaker 2: You want need to see Sam Darnold in.
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  Speaker 1: The offense you wanted one? I don't. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we need to, but I think it's the best thing
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  Speaker 1: for us. That's a little he's good, just progressing, but
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  Speaker 1: he's coming along this next week or trying of trying
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  Speaker 1: to pin me down. I don't I can't give you
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  Speaker 1: a day, but I think it's it should be soon.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the energy that Abonzo to Petula brings
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  Speaker 2: to your team.
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  Speaker 1: He's do a great job, you know, he's it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to come in here at this point in the install
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  Speaker 1: and h be effective, but he's got poised and it's
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  Speaker 1: excited to see him come along. But he's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job since he's walked in the door.
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  Speaker 2: What was it about him that attracted you guys to him?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's just had a briefous exposure with him and
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  Speaker 1: we had a we're a little light at linebacker right now,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got a great opportunity ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: That's a player kind of good thing to after they
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  Speaker 2: come back. How did you guys kind of figure out
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  Speaker 2: like how much the player gets to the side. Am
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  Speaker 2: I gonna play through this versus the staff thing?
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful question. Uh, But we never want to
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  Speaker 1: put the player in danger of aggravating an injury or
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  Speaker 1: putting him in danger, But we do want to be
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  Speaker 1: aggressive with eyes, getting opportunities and pushing through things. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a case by case basis, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a couple of guys come back today that
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  Speaker 1: just got nicked up a little bit and cleared them,
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  Speaker 1: or we go. We had we have one guy that
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish practice and needs to go get imaged, and
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  Speaker 1: that happens too. Mike is someone that.
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  Speaker 2: Jacks could come in and play.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't want to see a same stuff they're doing in practice.
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  Speaker 1: And again it's the same message we had last week
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  Speaker 1: of hey, look, this is a great opportunity. It's a
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  Speaker 1: different setting. Obviously there's more eyeballs on it, but we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go go play our style of football and
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  Speaker 1: it's just another you know, it's just it's cliche, but
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  Speaker 1: it's like, is this a I'm looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: our team go go rip it and then we can
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  Speaker 1: kind of move from there. So these guys have been
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  Speaker 1: working their tails off. It's hard for I mean talking
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  Speaker 1: to the guys on the sideline, it's hard for them
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  Speaker 1: to watch watch the game and not be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it. So they're I think they're excited to go
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  Speaker 1: out there pretty Russell he on being a specialty. We're
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  Speaker 1: being available kind of like everywhere on the team, But
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  Speaker 1: where do you stay in mission? Him on the offense
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  Speaker 1: outside of the teams. Well, how we how we train,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have we have several guys throughout the
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  Speaker 1: roster that you don't I mean, like Brady is technically
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  Speaker 1: a tight end right now, but he does a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fullback stuff. How do you do it? Do you
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  Speaker 1: you put him with KP, you know, for all the
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  Speaker 1: time and then you get the extra stuff with Mac?
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  Speaker 1: Do you put him with Mac? The extra stuff with KP?
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  Speaker 1: Those are just methods. Uh, but it just speaks to
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  Speaker 1: his ability. You know. We're doing the same thing with
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  Speaker 1: Nick on defense. Uh, Jamie Sheriff. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys on the team that you're just trying to allocate
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  Speaker 1: the time and what they need to be taught, uh,
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  Speaker 1: which makes the most sense for them. So, uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing with Brady. But respect the heck, Adam
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  Speaker 1: is a tremendous, tremendous football player.
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  Speaker 2: We talked yesterday about how you guys are collaborating on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive side of the curious, like, how do you
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  Speaker 2: see that collaboration. How is it different working on the
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  Speaker 2: offense this year than when you're just coming into coaching.
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  Speaker 2: I couch it on you.
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  Speaker 1: What's the question? How do we work together?
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  Speaker 2: How's your how's your time on offense change this year?
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  Speaker 2: Working with versus and person?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can't you can't can't be in two places
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  Speaker 1: at once, so you kind of start there. So but
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  Speaker 1: there's there's there's a lot of conversations that we're having
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  Speaker 1: popping in and out of I mean, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of situation stuff. It's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff after kind of debriefing when we go through situations.
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  Speaker 1: Just constant, constant communication, man like. It's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to work with. With our offensive staff,
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  Speaker 1: I think Clint showing a tremendous job how they coach
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  Speaker 1: the guys. I just really love it. I think you'd
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  Speaker 1: you'd really love to be in the offensive team room
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  Speaker 1: as they watch practice of understanding the whole team, understands
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  Speaker 1: how everything fits together. The detail is really really impressive
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  Speaker 1: and really clear, and it's uh, it mirrors how it's
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  Speaker 1: how we want to coach yours, how we coach them
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  Speaker 1: on defense, it's how we coach them on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's fun. It's fun to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of Richard Sherman out they're chatting the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what can have a guy that can ground with
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  Speaker 2: you for a young defensive back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean all of our all time greats anytime
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  Speaker 1: he's going. Look, come on, if you're listening, come back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like we love having them here, especially especially Shuram.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just look, he knows a lot more
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  Speaker 1: stuff about being a player than I do. And so
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  Speaker 1: go go do your thing, man, go talk to the guys.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got relationships a lot of our guys already,
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  Speaker 1: which is really cool. And of course, you know, welcome in.
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  Speaker 1: Let him spit some knowledge for us. Rich at the
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  Speaker 1: interception in the game and then like he was involved
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  Speaker 1: in one today. What do you see that? Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: playing with a playing with really high confidence right now,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is great, which is great to see.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch him play again. And it
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  Speaker 1: feels like a guy that through this offseason and just
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  Speaker 1: be kind of just stacked and it's paying off for him.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited for him. He's worked really hard. What
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  Speaker 1: are you seeing me?
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  Speaker 2: And how does he make your defense more versatile?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what do you see with him? He's
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  Speaker 1: six three's bigger everybody else out there. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: a d MD. I mean he runs fast. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: he's still a rookie. You know, we love him, but
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  Speaker 1: we have high expectations for him. So we're gonna coach
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  Speaker 1: him that way. We're gonna coach him hard, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got to do it all the time and most of
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  Speaker 1: the vast majority of time. That's what he's doing. And
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  Speaker 1: it's our job as coaches with our whole team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just told him after after practice as soon as
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  Speaker 1: we since Hey, just we're stepping off the gas at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's our job as coaches to to remind them of
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  Speaker 1: the team and the players that they want to be
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  Speaker 1: and and kind of have a fall back in line.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been awesome. It's been awesome, and do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff out there. Uh, your players take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of my grilled.
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  Speaker 2: Or saying antage here so far in the.
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  Speaker 1: Preseason players with my open door policy, what do you
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  Speaker 1: mean by that? Like my my actual open my actual
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  Speaker 1: office door. Yeah. Look, we talked about in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think the atmosphere that we try
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  Speaker 1: to create as our organizations, you know, it starts with
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  Speaker 1: Jody and her vision for for the franchise. Uh, John,
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  Speaker 1: what they've been able to build you know, the direction
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  Speaker 1: that we wanted to go, you know, hiring me and
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  Speaker 1: and kind of collaborating how we want to create. But
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  Speaker 1: like the spirit of of what we wanted to be here,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's an environment where people can be
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  Speaker 1: the best person themselves. So I felt like we did
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of Michigan we did. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got going right there in Baltimore in the second year
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  Speaker 1: of of this team connected environment and uh and we're
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  Speaker 1: in it together. So our guys are around, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and you see the guys there spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time together, which is great, you know, just for some
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's not that much downtime, but when there
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  Speaker 1: is there, you know there the phones aren't out, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a cool thing to see some
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  Speaker 1: foot off the gas. How often have you film Not
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  Speaker 1: not often? Not often, No, I mean, it happens every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while, but you're never going to bat
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  Speaker 1: a thousand. So our guys have been great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're telling them the jump, they ask how far.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's just been. It's been awesome. They've been
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  Speaker 1: They've been tremendous. From pretty sins game one to two.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any one thing that they're making the progress
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  Speaker 1: as you want?
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  Speaker 2: The stands out because they're starving overhall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. Normally you would say going from like
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  Speaker 1: game one to game two in season, you'd expect a
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  Speaker 1: pretty high jump of execution. I think with like different
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  Speaker 1: guys playing different amount of this game, I think it
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  Speaker 1: makes a little more unique. Uh. But I think going
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  Speaker 1: into the game again, I'm excited to see these guys
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate the you know, what they've been doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they've earned it. You know, they've earned that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to go let it rip out there and show what
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  Speaker 1: they can do to you know, the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: league and the rest of the world. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: I know we have about Jason a lot, but just
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  Speaker 2: him from going from game one to game two, assuming
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  Speaker 2: he gets.
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  Speaker 1: Some thing as well. Oh yeah. I mean, look, you
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff going through your mind, first
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  Speaker 1: first game going out there, and I think he just
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  Speaker 1: realized I just could go play quarterback the way that
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to play quarterback and uh and see and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. You know. But I think he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna he's he's only gonna get better, which is a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing. What have you thought about the camp He's
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  Speaker 1: I think Threek's had a tremendous camp. Uh, he's playing fast.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's playing his confident he's ever played. He's
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  Speaker 1: aggressive with the ball in the air. And I think
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  Speaker 1: you feel he felt him on special teams in the
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  Speaker 1: game as at gunner and and he can block as well,
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  Speaker 1: which is really cool. And then you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we felt him in the return game yet, but
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  Speaker 1: there's opportunities on kickoff return possibly down the line for
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  Speaker 1: him to retrying some kicks. I'm sorry, Sorry, Mike Ernest
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  Speaker 1: Jones since his return, we haven't talked himbout. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: got our Mike linebacker back. Man, it's great seeing thirteen
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. Uh, Look, we love him, you know
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  Speaker 1: how we feel about Ernest. I think there's a difference.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look when he when he walks in the huddles,
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  Speaker 1: just he's our guy and you feel it with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the team. And I'm just I'm glad he's
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  Speaker 1: with us, you know. I just I'm a that he's
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  Speaker 1: uh spending his time with us and and his family
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  Speaker 1: at home. We have sha He's coming on he's coming along.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming along. I mean he's I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 1: know Shack shoot better than I do. He's uh, just
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  Speaker 1: a just a great guy to have around. I think
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  Speaker 1: the guys love him. He's playing fast. Uh but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're still on a progression here for him coming back.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens the rest of this week,
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  Speaker 1: how much time he plays in the game, If he
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  Speaker 1: plays in the game, and in the Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Week Michael played this weekend, and would you like to
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  Speaker 2: see him? Okay, sorry, important play this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: And what would you what would you like to see
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  Speaker 1: from him? Keep? Yeah, you could ask me about anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the roster. I'm gonna give you the same answer
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  Speaker 1: because it really it's that's how I feel. Guys are
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  Speaker 1: doing things in practice and do you want to see
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  Speaker 1: them do it in the game. And that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: he's been doing. Many time he's asking to do something,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's knocked out of the park and keep stacking him. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's it's off to look you're
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  Speaker 1: off to a great start. But it's about doing it
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  Speaker 1: day in day out, which he which he will. That's
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  Speaker 1: he's the type of guy that will do it.
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  Speaker 2: He really got how much you feel like you've really
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  Speaker 2: felt important to see I mean four four one guy
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  Speaker 2: and you ran out, I think, but he was still
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  Speaker 2: not one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Really great, great for us, Great for us. He's probably
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  Speaker 1: faster than that, which is awesome. We're able to get him.
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  Speaker 1: But you feel, I mean, all our receivers are playing fast.
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  Speaker 1: Phil Quez out there, Uh, I felt like his best
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  Speaker 1: days have been in the last week or so. He's
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  Speaker 1: really playing fast. Uh. Got a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 1: can move out there, you know, but but towards one
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: When you're putting playing together for a preseason game, how
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  Speaker 2: much of it's about trying to you know, test execution
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  Speaker 2: and earn that versus evaluating players who.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you've got to be careful with the mix. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't. We don't want to be vanilla. It's just
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  Speaker 1: because that's not really our philosophy. But it is a
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  Speaker 1: balance of being able to handle scheme and adjustments and
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  Speaker 1: see how they kind of think on the fly in
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  Speaker 1: real time and against an offense they they haven't really
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time watching, you know, probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: show the guys Kansas City tape for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow and just to get him kind of
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  Speaker 1: prime for the game. But so that's interesting. But again,
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  Speaker 1: you want the guys to go play fast and wait goke,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go make sure they can put their best
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  Speaker 1: foot forward. So there's a balance there.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotten to see Basin Richmond play some center here
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  Speaker 2: in the last couple of days. What about his game
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  Speaker 2: do you see potentially translating there and could he be
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  Speaker 2: ready to get some.
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  Speaker 1: Snaps there on Friday night? Well, yeah, you know, short
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  Speaker 1: answer is yes, you know, but athleticism, intelligence, good football player,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Just so there's multiple reasons on why we're
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  Speaker 1: training him at center as well right now, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into those later. You've got a.
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  Speaker 2: Family they out here or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to see family and friends. Then, yeah, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: met all the players family, so it'll be great to
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  Speaker 1: meet them. And I know Stephen and Jack are here, Tommy,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll go chase Tommy around once he grabs a
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  Speaker 1: Jillian's glove. Again, is how close? Christal just talked to him,
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  Speaker 1: says he's getting he's feeling a lot better, but he's
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  Speaker 1: it's coming along. It's gonna it'll happen sooner than later, hopefully. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He dinged his hand today, so we'll we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Get him, get him into Brady, bring guys the ground
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  Speaker 1: out here. How was attacking the first game and how
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  Speaker 1: do you judge that? At the pre stats? We thought
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  Speaker 1: the attacking was really good. Uh. I think by our
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  Speaker 1: account we had five missed tackles, but the sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a lot. But you see, you think about the rack
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  Speaker 1: after those miss tackles, we limited those, which means we're
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  Speaker 1: taking good angles and it means that we're running anto
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So it's a great start. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: had the same conversation after the Denver game last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if that were the best tagging team of
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  Speaker 1: all time and then you know it's something you have
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  Speaker 1: to work on all the time and chase and it's
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  Speaker 1: a very critical part of the game to play great defense.
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  Speaker 1: So looking forward to doing it again.
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  Speaker 2: What do you thought about Charles cross Stage going back
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  Speaker 2: out as quickly as he has and surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we ended up with some great news coming out
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  Speaker 1: of surgery, which is awesome. And then Charles the type
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  Speaker 1: of guy that if you give him any opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: push the envelope for him to come back and safe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's all I don't know. It's all safe,
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  Speaker 1: I guess is what they tell me. It's all secure.
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  Speaker 1: But it's great to have him out there. He's getting
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  Speaker 1: to me like he gets mental reps behind and walked
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  Speaker 1: through his and he's locked in.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Okay, thanks guys, thank you