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DK Metcalf: "This Is Going To Be A Good Test For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How good are you?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is the the biggest reason you
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  Speaker 2: guys have gone on this score.
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  Speaker 1: Game when the street Uh, I think one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest takeaways from uh this four game win street that
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  Speaker 1: we've uh been on is just the present mindset that
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  Speaker 1: we've been in. We've only just focused on, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one week at a time, not looking to you know,
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  Speaker 1: two three weeks down the line. All we focus on
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  Speaker 1: is uh, you know, each opponent and just taking it
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  Speaker 1: one day at a time, one step at a time.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's that has just honed in our
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  Speaker 1: mindset of you know, not taking anything for granted. Folks.
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  Speaker 3: UH focused a lot on what players do on the field, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: like what people do in the locker room, and and
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  Speaker 3: how like the culture setters how that helps or or
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  Speaker 3: hurts depending right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we do have uh a bunch of guys in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room that uh, you know, helped build the
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  Speaker 1: culture that we built here. You know, Mike has said it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when he first got here. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it's up to the players just to you know, hone
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  Speaker 1: in on it and just to build it to what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And you know, we treat each other like
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  Speaker 1: brothers in there. I know, we a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: preach it, but like I was just in there and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got d Hall and uh JP playing
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  Speaker 1: shuffleboard with each other, Guys sitting the recliner is just
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  Speaker 1: talking to each other. So I think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: brotherhood and a family mindset that we've built this year.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I think that's another thing that's helped us
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  Speaker 1: go on a win street. How was that compared to
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  Speaker 1: years past, where you know, when you walk in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, is it just.
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  Speaker 4: Not as common or as often?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe no, it's been common, but you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: new coach, new staff, you don't know, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna approach you, or how everybody's gonna approach the
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  Speaker 1: game or coaching or a culture. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mike said it, and I think with the players, you
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  Speaker 1: know that him and the staffs have brought in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: have helped build and maintain the same culture that you
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  Speaker 1: know that we've had in years past, I know, and
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  Speaker 1: just as as long as I've been here at least,
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  Speaker 1: Like we was just.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about how teams are really defending you a lot.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times you get the covers that open
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  Speaker 3: seams up for every somebody else. But obviously just you know,
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  Speaker 3: your numbers maybe aren't as high as they could be
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  Speaker 3: I had Does that ever?
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  Speaker 4: Did does that ever bother you at all?
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  Speaker 3: Or I mean from the from the standpoint of not
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  Speaker 3: seeing numbers as high that you know, you cause you're
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  Speaker 3: still doing your job right, but d you know maybe
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  Speaker 3: that maybe that stat liite is not there as much
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  Speaker 3: as which is what a lot of people just did.
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  Speaker 1: Everything. Yeah, I just look at it as uh a
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  Speaker 1: sign of respect that I've gained from uh other dcs,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just continue to do my job, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's blocking or being a decoy. Uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: ball is gonna find me, uh you know, one player
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  Speaker 1: or another. But if it doesn't, at least we get
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  Speaker 1: the dub and uh you know that's all that matters
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  Speaker 1: in this league is uh winning and to continue to win.
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  Speaker 1: And uh if you continue to win, you stay relevant.
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  Speaker 1: So uh you know, I'm just holding on them, just
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  Speaker 1: continuing to do my job. If the stats don't say so,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, so be it. At least we we
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  Speaker 1: get to win.
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  Speaker 2: Are those games? And that happens DK is what's the
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  Speaker 2: competitor you seeking to do that. If you're not, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the ball in your hands, what are
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  Speaker 2: you prioritizing to do next?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Trying to block my ass off and trying to
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  Speaker 1: get pancakes?
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  Speaker 2: Uh at the on DBS and you know you were
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  Speaker 2: block was up there for you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I know it looked like uh pancaking. But
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  Speaker 1: Zach helped me. He he kind of you know, threw
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder in there along with Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know my blocking has that always been a big
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  Speaker 4: part of your I mean that's not what you always
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  Speaker 4: think of a receivers. That always part of games. That's
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  Speaker 4: something you learned later on that that was an important part.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: What what is that blocking?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Well, my dad played O line, so I I kind
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  Speaker 1: of watched him growing up and kind of admired, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the blocking aspect of the game. And you know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't don't take blocking serious, and you
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  Speaker 1: know I try to do it, you know, just to
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  Speaker 1: try to set myself apart from other receivers in the elite.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about the culture in the locker room. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: you've been around for a while now do are you
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  Speaker 3: kind of more involved in that? Trying to set the
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  Speaker 3: culture and the leadership.
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  Speaker 4: And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: They need used to be yes, sir, because we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, younger players coming in and
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  Speaker 1: they're starting to call me O G and and Vet
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  Speaker 1: and you know own too much like that. So uh
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  Speaker 1: but they they you know, come to me asking questions
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  Speaker 1: about you know, the body or recovery process or what
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  Speaker 1: do I do on off days. And I just take
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  Speaker 1: it as a sign of like another sign of respect no.
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  Speaker 1: Number one that they come up to me asking me
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  Speaker 1: questions or they trust me enough to ask me those questions.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, you know that I have to continue
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  Speaker 1: to give them valuable information to help them make it
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  Speaker 1: to their second third contract or as long as they
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  Speaker 1: want to play in this league, and you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to help them feed their families.
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  Speaker 4: You've been telling us about Jackson going back to like
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  Speaker 4: training campany even last years. What's it been like seeing
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  Speaker 4: this run he's on the last five six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's been great, you know. I know Locke saw me
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  Speaker 1: make the transition, you know, to you know, getting the
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  Speaker 1: numbers that he's getting down. But just to see it
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  Speaker 1: from the other side, from you know, the VET side
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  Speaker 1: of the O. G.
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  Speaker 4: Side.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of great because last year, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have any idea of what was going on
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  Speaker 1: or you know, how to you know, take it sixteen games,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen games in a season. But now just to see
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  Speaker 1: him put everything together, I mean, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a proud parent or a big brother moment just to
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  Speaker 1: see him have the success. And I know he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: continue to have to have major success in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about the OG piece and obviously you're still in
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  Speaker 3: your prime.
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  Speaker 4: Are there parts of your.
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  Speaker 1: Game that you're kind of thinking ahead that you're.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to refine when you know, inevitably time.
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  Speaker 1: Catches up a little bit, No, sir, because I think
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  Speaker 1: I came in and I was ahead of the curve
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We're having vets like Locke and Bobby
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  Speaker 1: and Russ, you know in my ear telling me, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you should start getting massages, or you should start taking
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  Speaker 1: care of your body, or you start working out more.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I took heed to that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though they've left, I still, you know, continue some
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  Speaker 1: of our routines that me and Bobby and Russ have
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  Speaker 1: had in the past. Mentioned that Mike has came in
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  Speaker 1: and set the culture. What are some of the things
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  Speaker 1: that stand at to you about the ways that he
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  Speaker 1: has set that. Well, he's a defensive minded coach, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's always gonna be the tough coach telling
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  Speaker 1: you to finish blocks or telling you to have that
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  Speaker 1: mean streak, you know, and as an offensive player, you
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  Speaker 1: don't find many guys like that. So him establishing that
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  Speaker 1: that mentality on defense and offense, I'm in plus special teams.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be you know, tough for teams to come
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  Speaker 1: in here and beat us or try to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of us physically, you know, when we have
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  Speaker 1: that mindset with him. So that's just one thing that
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  Speaker 1: that stood out to me. You played, you haven't played
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  Speaker 1: a prime time Sunday night football game here since twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't even in front of fans. Twenty nineteens
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  Speaker 1: last time in front of fans.
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  Speaker 5: So what does it mean to play a good.
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  Speaker 3: Packers team in front of the twelves?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're a great team, uh in this league
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  Speaker 1: right now, and you know they've they've won some tough games,
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  Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a great, you know, a great
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  Speaker 1: game for us they're they're a competitive team. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a good test for us in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion Sunday to have a team that caliber coming
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  Speaker 1: here and try to beat us. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking us ten days out of ten, so it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a good game in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you guys have like a present day focused
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  Speaker 4: What do you specifically do you see from guys that
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  Speaker 4: you know they are locked in and not looking ahead?
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  Speaker 1: I think just the tension of detail they're they're more
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  Speaker 1: honed in on the plays. Uh, they're not focused on
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  Speaker 1: third down. Uh, they're focused on the base game plan today,
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  Speaker 1: the the base run game plan, and we're nailing down
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  Speaker 1: all the details and then we'll move on tomorrow and
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  Speaker 1: we'll nail down the details tomorrow, you know, along with
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  Speaker 1: building on today. So it's just taking it one day
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  Speaker 1: at a time, one step at a time, one brick
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  Speaker 1: at a time, so you know, at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week we'll have something to go to war with
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  Speaker 1: that you know that that should be unstoppable. Er do
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  Speaker 1: you remember who was.
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  Speaker 5: First person to call you og that kind of since slidify.
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  Speaker 1: That you were in that role in this lickroom. No,
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  Speaker 1: I I told them that, don't call me that again,
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  Speaker 1: and I quickly turned my head.
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  Speaker 5: Ernist Jones told us that you guys have been sort
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  Speaker 5: of living in like playoff mode for a while, and
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  Speaker 5: I think he called it the death zone. When did
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  Speaker 5: you first start feeling that like kind of sense of
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  Speaker 5: urgency or when did that start to be preached to
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  Speaker 5: you guys?
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  Speaker 1: After about week Uh was when that mindset uh crept
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  Speaker 1: in And that was the first time we've heard it,
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  Speaker 1: and we just had that mindset since by week? Is
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  Speaker 1: that a mike Mike has says, well, No, the depth
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  Speaker 1: zone is that's the defensive side of the pall. We
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  Speaker 1: don't say that on the offense. He's just say play
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  Speaker 1: off mindset. But the defense, you know, they like to
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  Speaker 1: take stuff a step further than are Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, when you guys were Action Green, is that a
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  Speaker 4: jersey that other f players want to get in exchange
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  Speaker 4: from you? Or is that one that.
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  Speaker 1: I would say to this about the Action Green. I
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  Speaker 1: love 'em personally in my opinion, but the big guys
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  Speaker 1: hate 'em. I don't know why. Don't ask me, but
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  Speaker 1: uh no, the opponents, Uh, I think I think the
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  Speaker 1: our opponents. Uh really Uh admire the l the action
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  Speaker 1: green jerseys. Uh. Hopefully the Packers were all white so
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  Speaker 1: it'd be a a fun looking game.
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  Speaker 5: What's your favorite uniform combination for uh?
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  Speaker 1: The action green. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a flattering color for the big guys.
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  Speaker 1: Is that to look at? You try to put words
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  Speaker 1: in my mouth? No, Going back to Mike o'donald coach
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  Speaker 1: as a leader, what can you say about not what
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  Speaker 1: he says, but what he does. What he does well,
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  Speaker 1: I will say one thing he does is he turns
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  Speaker 1: team meetings into defensive meetings, So it usually leads to
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  Speaker 1: the offense learning more about the defense that they should
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  Speaker 1: So that leads to us, you know, learning more calls
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  Speaker 1: on defense and learning more you know, defensive schemes, which
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  Speaker 1: I think in turn helps us on offense because like
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  Speaker 1: he's a defensive minded coach, came from Baltimore, but he
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  Speaker 1: studies defenses all the time. So we're sitting here on
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  Speaker 1: uh in team meetings and the way that he coaches
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  Speaker 1: and the way that he talks, I think helps us
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  Speaker 1: on offense. So I think that's just one thing that
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  Speaker 1: he does, you know, that sets hisself apart from Pete
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, does he Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Has he helped?
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  Speaker 2: Has that helped you understand cornerbacks a little bit more?
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  Speaker 2: I study that mentality that helped.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it helps me understand more defenses. So it helps
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  Speaker 1: me understand what they're trying to take away and you
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  Speaker 1: know the structure of the defense and why they why
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  Speaker 1: they line up a certain way, or why they line
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  Speaker 1: up in a certain alignment, and that just helps me
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  Speaker 1: attack them. Uh, you know on the offense, does.
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  Speaker 2: He nail the the calls on game day that the
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  Speaker 2: defense's calls? What you mean, is he coaching the defense
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  Speaker 2: has called? You actually hear during the games? Is he nail?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Like it it literally turned yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it literally turns into a defensive meeting. Yeah. So we
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  Speaker 1: have to sit there and listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: But but in the games, does it come out to
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  Speaker 2: where what he told you practice is the same calls as.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah nine times understanding that it usually uh
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  Speaker 1: plays out that way? Yes?
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  Speaker 6: What about Ryan Grub?
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  Speaker 5: What's it been like playing for Ryan Grub.
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  Speaker 1: For his first year in the UH in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I want to just congratulate him for all the success
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  Speaker 1: he's had. He's handled it this you know, this offense, uh,
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  Speaker 1: very well. And just with the success that me Jack's
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  Speaker 1: Zach Sarmony had last game, the old line has grown
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  Speaker 1: a lot, so Uh, I think he We've had our valleys,
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  Speaker 1: but you know the peaks uh during the season, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's handled well. He's also coming here and motivated
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  Speaker 1: us h with a you know, a quote each week
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  Speaker 1: that we have to live by or listen to. And
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  Speaker 1: I think I've take taken heed to about thirteen out
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  Speaker 1: of fourteen of those quotes. It was one I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: very sure of because the wording was a little messed
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  Speaker 1: up in my opinion. But you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: like I like Coach Grub as a OCI. He's done
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a job in my opinion, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he can continue to bring U success.
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  Speaker 2: Did you put your favorite one? Can you share the
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  Speaker 2: favorite one?
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  Speaker 1: Quote? Favorite? My favorite quote? No? No, what about the
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  Speaker 1: least favorite one? Yeah? See, y'all gonna get me in
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  Speaker 1: trouble because I had to pause him because it was
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  Speaker 1: something about banging eh, And I said, no, I can't,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take that one. So I'm gonna lead that
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  Speaker 1: one out.
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  Speaker 2: But when they when they hired him. Were you wondering
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  Speaker 2: how it might work a college guy in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The first year, No, sir, because you know they they
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  Speaker 1: hired him for a specific reason, because he had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of success, and you know, you see that success
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  Speaker 1: translate to the NFL. So I wasn't questioning his play
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  Speaker 1: calling ability at all.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the kind of the ups and downs or
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  Speaker 3: whatever that you guys have had and how he handled it.
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  Speaker 1: What was this temper? What has this temper moment? Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he came in in here after bout week and lit
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  Speaker 1: a fire under us, like, hey, guys, we gotta fix
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  Speaker 1: you know, our mistakes. We're shooting ourselves on the foot
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  Speaker 1: on offense, first with the offensive holding penalties and then
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  Speaker 1: with the false starts, and then just making us get
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  Speaker 1: in more into our details in the run game, in
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  Speaker 1: the past game, to where the coaches, the players and
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  Speaker 1: you know me Gino, everybody's on the same page. So
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  Speaker 1: after a bout week, we started meeting as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: even after practice, watching film together, making sure everybody's on
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  Speaker 1: the same page instead of more individual meetings.
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  Speaker 6: Stylistically, I mean, obviously you guys are running the same offense,
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  Speaker 6: but have you noticed like adjustments that maybe were made
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  Speaker 6: over the by after the staff had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: self scout and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's more more free him in the offense.
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  Speaker 1: So the communication, like I said, we've been meeting after
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  Speaker 1: practice together, so the communication is more open. So we
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  Speaker 1: get to make more adjustments on the fly because I
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  Speaker 1: hear what Gino's thinking inside the meeting with Grubb right
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  Speaker 1: here coaching him, and we could just ask more questions
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  Speaker 1: to wear on my routes or in the run game
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  Speaker 1: with the old line sending here as well. The running
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  Speaker 1: backs know how to hit the whole a specific way,
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  Speaker 1: or Geno knows how to hand the ball off a
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  Speaker 1: specific way, So just the communication aspect has been different.
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  Speaker 1: You