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Mike Macdonald: "Stacking Days Is The Message Right Now" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is that easy then, you know, just kick the plug open.
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  Speaker 2: Got a great day again. A little different vibe without the.
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  Speaker 1: Twelves out here, but yeah, just stacking days is the
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  Speaker 1: message right now. So guys practice a little faster. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're getting back to the you know, the tempo
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  Speaker 1: that we're expecting. But again, day two is still chasing it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think we made some strides.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the most obvious carryover from Mini Camp till.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the language expectations, how we operate. I mean, although
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  Speaker 1: so you're trying to kep him as consistent as possible,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think the guys appreciate that and just
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  Speaker 1: having a having a foundation that we've built that we
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  Speaker 1: can stand on, you know, so we can move forward.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't been coaching Julian Love very long again, but
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  Speaker 3: what what about his game?
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  Speaker 2: Do you like that? As excited about the contract, I
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  Speaker 2: like a lot about his game, Just really excited for him.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's a I think it's a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: him and the type of person that he is, a
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  Speaker 1: type of football player, definitely a type of guy that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we want here and just excited for him.
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  Speaker 1: He's just you know, he's worked his tail off and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he's found a home here in Seattle for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 2: What have you already leaned on him to do well?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's open communication.
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, Julian's the guy that will
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  Speaker 1: shoot you straight and hit you between the eyes on
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  Speaker 1: stuff and and you respect that and has a great
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  Speaker 1: perspective on you know, what he's been through, what he expects,
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  Speaker 1: you know, temperature from the from the locker room and
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  Speaker 1: translate some of the messaging.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I'd say that in addition.
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  Speaker 1: To being a great football player, So you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: We're excited that it's it's working out and it'll be here.
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  Speaker 1: Draymonds always was telling us he lost a little bit
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  Speaker 1: away in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that out here yet so far?
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  Speaker 1: All or I just say he looks he looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's in great shape, and he's and he's ready at all.
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  Speaker 2: He's moving great. Can't tell you his weight off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head. Mike, you're for your defensive accomplishments.
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  Speaker 2: You talk a little bit about what you care about
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  Speaker 2: on offense out of your head.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, Well, I think you go back to the identity
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  Speaker 1: of our football team. You know, we want to be physical,
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  Speaker 1: we want to dictate term.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be efficient.
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  Speaker 1: We want to we want to operate uh fast for
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and and keep it, keep it consistent for him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be able to get to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things like elegant, elegant, simplicity. We're not just gonna run,
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  Speaker 1: you know, inside zone seventy times a game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna have We're gonna try to add.
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  Speaker 1: Answers and and really attack what defenses.
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  Speaker 3: Dos food get training campaign did.
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  Speaker 2: Not already know, not yet, not after two days.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's a pretty consistent guy, same guy every day,
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  Speaker 1: which you which you appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: Give you off the edge, Oh yeah, d Hall. I
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  Speaker 2: think what we've seen the best. What d Hall does.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's hard to tell in this tempo, but a
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  Speaker 1: physical presence, but a guy that has some drop ability
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  Speaker 1: as well, you know, so you can use them in
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  Speaker 1: different boots packages and uh, very sharp, move him up.
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  Speaker 2: And down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Excited, just excited to feel him out there. And we
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  Speaker 1: have pads on, you know, especially when we're going against
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  Speaker 1: other teams. Uh, that's been around for a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it captures paints a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good picture about what we're trying to create.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned dictating terms offensively, which I'm sure everyone wants
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  Speaker 4: to do, but I'm curious, how how do you become
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  Speaker 4: an offense and a team that can kind of enforce
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  Speaker 4: your will that way?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first comes to the mindset and how you want
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  Speaker 1: to play and everyone deciding that, you know, the style
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  Speaker 1: of how you're gonna play, which some of those things
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  Speaker 1: that we're talking about, you know, it's that's those are
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  Speaker 1: kind of our that's our language that we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna speak in house. But you know, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: schematically having answers and being able to identify certain things
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  Speaker 1: what the defense is doing, and being able to get
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  Speaker 1: to those things simply and consistently, you know, so you're
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  Speaker 1: not just chasing your tail. And then also, you know
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be plenty of times where you're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to run your you know, your bread and butter stuff
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  Speaker 1: and be able to do that against you know, every
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  Speaker 1: defensive look they can give you. So defenses aren't making
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  Speaker 1: you get in and out of stuff based off of
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  Speaker 1: what they show, and you know, you're really flipping the.
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  Speaker 2: Page on them that in those terms.
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  Speaker 5: Jet and Tyler get all the attention, but Leviiscus Handal
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  Speaker 5: was the biggest is the receiver for this off season?
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  Speaker 5: What have you seen from him up to this point
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  Speaker 5: and how do you see his skill set complimenting those other.
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  Speaker 2: Three receivers that you have there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, this, I mean his physicality is the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that I think of, you know, catch and run,
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  Speaker 1: runs after catch, being able to block at the point
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  Speaker 1: of attack, flexibility and special teams in the return game
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  Speaker 1: is what you know we're expecting out of him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then his role on offense is really up to him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if he if he can consistently you know,
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  Speaker 1: execute at a high level, then you know it's really
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  Speaker 1: you know, the sky's of limit on what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: But he's got to go show that on a day
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  Speaker 2: to day basis.
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  Speaker 4: You got much pt walker.
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  Speaker 2: I know he signed really late in mini camp or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: but just what what have you got assess him from? Yeah? Again,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think he backs up.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you think about when you think about
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  Speaker 1: PJ in terms of a pro He's got He's got
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  Speaker 1: some lower body power. Man, he can really you can
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  Speaker 1: really deliver the football and any place smooth. I think
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  Speaker 1: you've seen how he's operated, is uh improved of the
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  Speaker 1: last you know, three days or so, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: because in mini camp he wasn't able to get any reps.
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  Speaker 2: So but but you see the curve.
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  Speaker 1: You know, right now in my case is Ryan Greb's
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  Speaker 1: first training camp, and it's pretty normal to have hiccups,
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  Speaker 1: but there's been a really clean operation.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk about how you feel like the offense
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  Speaker 2: is executing not really in camp?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think it's indicative of the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 1: But we talk about Grubb, it's it's a poise, it's
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  Speaker 1: clarity and what he expects and what he's looking for
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  Speaker 1: with his coaches, and I think the players appreciate that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know they'll be and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: add stressors in practice as we go.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's for myself included as a.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach, you know, talking about situations, him identifying situations
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  Speaker 1: and getting get called on time.
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  Speaker 2: So so far, so good. But you know, we're pretty
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  Speaker 2: vanilla at this point.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like there's a ton of communication pre stabbed
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  Speaker 5: among the defense.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about the scheme that requires that, Well.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be allowed defense, and I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good defenses in this league that are
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  Speaker 1: that don't say anything, you know, so we want to
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  Speaker 1: We talk about having obnoxious communication and just calling every
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  Speaker 1: thing we talk, we see and you just never know
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  Speaker 1: what you're gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to click in a guy that you're playing
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  Speaker 2: with to let them play faster?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we talk about pre snap alerts, post
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  Speaker 1: snap alerts, signing and co signing, but if you have
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  Speaker 1: a team that's playing on one accord, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a powerful thing. I think good guys to be more
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  Speaker 1: communicative in that way is just like, hey, you're a
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  Speaker 1: pro football player. If you want to play, talk or.
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  Speaker 2: Is there something else that you can kind of bring. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: People say, hey, you got to communicate, Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as coaches, we have to teach them how to communicate
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  Speaker 1: and what to say.
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  Speaker 2: What they're looking for? What are the words?
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  Speaker 1: Make it clear, make it have some elegant simplicity behind it,
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  Speaker 1: those you know, and that that's something you're always going
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  Speaker 1: to chase, you know. As the offensive install starts to
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  Speaker 1: you know, starts to build over time, then they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give us some more things that we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: respond to, and which is which is great practice, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and every team operates in their own way throughout the league,
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  Speaker 1: so being able to anticipate those things and have confidence
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  Speaker 1: in the scheme and what they're supposed to do in
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  Speaker 1: the expectations, and you know, I think you start to
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  Speaker 1: hear it on the field.
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  Speaker 3: But you also talked about this a few weeks ago, Well,
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  Speaker 3: you're here for a definitely, withers supposed to other players
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  Speaker 3: out there the way that they are vocal, and how
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  Speaker 3: much does that play into this where you guys have
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  Speaker 3: to pass Hey, this is what we're looking for, and
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  Speaker 3: then I have a full of players have to be
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  Speaker 3: the ones that really take that torch and pass on it.
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  Speaker 2: Play. Yeah, it's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great points that you have to have the
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  Speaker 1: right type of guys and the guys that love to
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  Speaker 1: talk have a lot of confidence. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: that's correlated to guys loving football and just having passion
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  Speaker 1: for what they do and calling things out and you
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Man, they're just chasing it, you know, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's it's fun, like you you want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to create a defense where you can close
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  Speaker 1: your eyes as a coach and you can envision the
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  Speaker 1: play happening based off of, you know, how we communicate.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're chasing. A pretty on the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line and a lot of spots.
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  Speaker 4: What is when you have that youth?
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  Speaker 5: What does happened to better?
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  Speaker 2: Like like the line?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it can give them poise and some
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  Speaker 1: wisdom on some things that are going on and then
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  Speaker 1: stay in the moment on some things so things don't
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  Speaker 1: get out of control. So I think, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming you're the firm to laken because he's talking. But
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  Speaker 1: he done a great job of that, and he's just
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  Speaker 1: a pro. He's steady, and we're just you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: tough to tell right now on where offensive line is
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  Speaker 1: at without the pads on, but we're excited to see
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  Speaker 1: what he brings to the to the to the unit.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine playing that position for nine years and
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  Speaker 1: only missing one game and just a handful of snaps
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  Speaker 1: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: No, I can't. It's impressive. I mean it's not.
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  Speaker 1: There's not many that have done it, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to him.
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  Speaker 4: Mentioned the communication like, who do you feel like are
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  Speaker 4: your most natural communicators? Just stepping in that you saw
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  Speaker 4: that right away that these guys know how to be
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  Speaker 4: clear and decisive their communication.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think Coach Howard and coach and Carl Scott
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  Speaker 1: have done a great job with the DBS. We put
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  Speaker 1: a lot on the safety's plate so that I'd say
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  Speaker 1: the safety unit right now is is kind of carrying
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  Speaker 1: the torch as expected.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty consistent for for most most schemes.
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  Speaker 1: Like you got your first time off in the Northwest
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago to do anything fun.
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  Speaker 2: Any impressions of Seattle. Yeah, it was awesome, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh we went to Poop Poop Point a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: which there's a joke that like twelve year old me
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  Speaker 1: named that place.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, now it's been hot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've just been out, been on Lake Washington
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times, took a got out, got out
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  Speaker 1: of state and kind of got away for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, I mean, you can't beat this weather and
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  Speaker 2: the beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Like you could you could take a different height once
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  Speaker 1: a day and just you know, find a new place
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  Speaker 1: for I don't know, into it into eternity, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're blessed to have that.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunity anything else. Thank you, all right, thanks guys,