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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of The NFC Championship · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Please don't because I don't. I don't know. If I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go to my notes here.
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  Speaker 2: Sure you're all eager and willing to know how Sam
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  Speaker 2: did this week?
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  Speaker 1: Did great?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, everything's going to plan, let's put it that way. So,
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  Speaker 2: but he's gonna play and take it day by day.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like he was throwing before practice today.
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  Speaker 3: Is that indication he's feeling better than he was last week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, without getting all the details, it's part of all
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  Speaker 2: part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: So it feels good, gets better every day. So how
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  Speaker 1: much closer to normal is here? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: honestly don't. I mean if I told you, i'd be lying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Like how Charles, Yeah, Charles, Uh, practice today and same thing.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting better, but he should, uh, he should be
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  Speaker 2: able to play.
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  Speaker 3: What about Josh Jones h in a while?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's how we listed him. You know the running
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  Speaker 1: back you may do it with George?
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  Speaker 4: Is that any case? George is the backup? Or kind?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I would love to tell you exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every player're gonna run and who's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: doing what for the whole entirety of the game. But
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  Speaker 2: this just is what it is right now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just h yeah, yeah, George great, Georgia the great.
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  Speaker 2: All those guys that you know, I've been practicing to
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  Speaker 2: get ready to come back have done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Had the players embrace the week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been They've been great. They've been great. We
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  Speaker 1: just do what we do.
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  Speaker 2: There's some things today in practice that were great. There's
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  Speaker 2: some things that we're gonna go back to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: back to it and make sure we get it cleaned up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's poor for the course on a Friday and
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  Speaker 2: go up a heck of a Saturday tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So, but the guys, the guy has been great.
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  Speaker 4: What happened with them happens that you kind of better
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  Speaker 4: just fright this week.
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  Speaker 1: That's just what happened. Happened.
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  Speaker 3: How have you been able to.
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  Speaker 4: Is it been a normal week for you?
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  Speaker 1: Have you've been able to keep it well?
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  Speaker 2: Outside of talking to you find people every day, everything
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  Speaker 2: else has been about to say, so you're really enjoying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 4: You joke about how you kind of like, oh, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: overthink things and like too much or whatever you going.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any extra.
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  Speaker 3: Element of that for you that you're trying to calm
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  Speaker 3: down this week.
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  Speaker 1: Or you feel like everyone's normal. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe me or not.
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  Speaker 2: This is just like, you know, once we get the
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  Speaker 2: stadium and there's an atmosphere, you know, like we're pretty insulated here.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just it's where we go to work and
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  Speaker 2: it's what we do, and you understand the like this.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely understand the stakes. You know, of course you
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: But what I like, just like we told the team,
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  Speaker 2: let's be great at and relentlessly and relentlessly chase like
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  Speaker 2: refocusing and coming back to center at when your mind
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  Speaker 2: and want it's okay, it's gonna happen. But but all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff is just out of your control.
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  Speaker 1: So just let's just do the stuff that we can control.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 3: This will be the first NFC Championship game at Limonfield
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  Speaker 3: in twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think that atmosphere is gonna feel like
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: Wow? That's that's pretty Hopefully it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Bob see if Bob fact checker, Bob
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawk a I bought over here. Uh it's awesome, man,
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  Speaker 2: place is gonna be rocking it's gonna be electric. Twilves
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be on on their stuff. It's gonna be awesome, man,
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  Speaker 2: gonna I mean last week was incredible, So I'm imagining
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be kicked up a notch. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's possible, but it's a Again.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, this is why we do what we do.
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  Speaker 2: It's for weeks like this, for our community, for our city,
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  Speaker 2: for our for the twelves, for our guys. To have
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  Speaker 2: this opportunity is like, don again, better than this. There's
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  Speaker 2: not a cloud in the sky out there. It's the
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  Speaker 2: middle of January. It's light out past four o'clock. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible in terms.
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  Speaker 3: Of getting the first round by and maybe you need
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  Speaker 3: to see this playoff over a longer period of time,
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  Speaker 3: But can you tell like the benefit of that in
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  Speaker 3: terms of fresh legs or everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I gave you something, I'd just be making
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  Speaker 2: it up. I probably got to think about it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we have time to kind of digest everything.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about.
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  Speaker 4: The importance of having various skill sets on the field
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  Speaker 4: of guys who can deal with plots of different things.
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  Speaker 4: What's the value with the different personalities that you have
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  Speaker 4: in the wackow.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it just bodes to people picking
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  Speaker 2: each other up when they need it. Certain days you
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  Speaker 2: need certain personalities to shine through, and you're right, we
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of great personalities, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: cool thing is they can be those personalities, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we love them for it. So we also have
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  Speaker 2: a common thread that like, we love our team and
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  Speaker 2: we care about our team, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have we have a high standard, but
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to create too, So it's kind of cool
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  Speaker 1: when it comes.
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  Speaker 4: To the things you were talking about keeping it the same,
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  Speaker 4: keeping this natural. Cooper Cup has been down this world
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  Speaker 4: before a couple of times, so well back in the
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  Speaker 4: day with the rams. How much is that applicable to
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  Speaker 4: to what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And think I am using like his experience, Yeah absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course you're going to lean into what
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  Speaker 2: Coop says and or you know, his experience and what
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  Speaker 2: he what he thinks. But we've really, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've consulted him every step of the way. So this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of keeping it that it's not any different,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: The same, you know. Part of the course on how
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  Speaker 1: we operate, but.
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  Speaker 2: That's how he seeses it the same way. So I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: I always I was phrased it this way. But if
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  Speaker 2: you did, if you said, okay, if you put yourself
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  Speaker 2: in the shoes of us, wouldn't you want it to
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  Speaker 2: operate like that?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And I think I think that's just takes pressure off
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  Speaker 2: the guys so we can go, folks on doing what's
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  Speaker 2: best for us.
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  Speaker 4: You guys need to be an asset regard at a resource.
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  Speaker 1: Did that surprise you at all or no? Yeah? Suggestions?
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  Speaker 1: Second we signed it was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You guys didn't have three weeks at home all season,
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  Speaker 3: and the only time you had back to back was
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  Speaker 3: a Thursday night against the Rams. Have you felt like
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  Speaker 3: the benefit of just being in one place for three
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  Speaker 3: with three weeks?
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of it's just really is just like
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  Speaker 2: today's a Friday, you know, So this is our cadence.
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  Speaker 1: This is what we do. It's nice not to pop.
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  Speaker 2: On a plane and fly across the country, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which sometimes we do on Fridays. But you those trips
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  Speaker 2: aren't so bad either, you know, you get to spend
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  Speaker 2: a buch of time with the guys, and everything has
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  Speaker 2: its kind of trade offs. But yeah, it's been great
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  Speaker 2: to be at home. But I really don't really thought
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting Elijah back because people could you kind of
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  Speaker 1: head back into.
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  Speaker 4: The next few you guys have to being out.
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  Speaker 2: Here one Well, I thought, you know, with Elijah, the
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  Speaker 2: things that he's done throughout the season is what he
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  Speaker 2: brings to the table. So it's exciting that he's put
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  Speaker 2: himself in this position.
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  Speaker 1: Told us Marcus Thorrence has transformed the defense in what
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  Speaker 1: ways do you think that's true? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there's a lot of aspects, man, like like how
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  Speaker 2: I think I think how that really that that room
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  Speaker 2: and the relationship of that room that they've decided to
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  Speaker 2: play this way is like set it a great example
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  Speaker 2: for really the rest of our team, you know. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: d line has really driven you know, a lot majority
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  Speaker 2: of time off production.
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  Speaker 1: And stats and sack.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and that drives prices and guys
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  Speaker 2: get paid off a lot of type of stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: so for guys to make that collect decision like hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna play this way, rising tide raises all ships.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best for the team. It's the best for us.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna sharpen each other this way. D Laws right
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  Speaker 2: there leading the charge. So definitely a game cheer. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, plays great football too.
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  Speaker 3: So you said that you maybe you're playing defense differently
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  Speaker 3: than you thought you was some of that because of.
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  Speaker 2: That, Yeah, I don't know, but definitely contributes to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jesse Minter, which is taking him and getting the
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  Speaker 1: head coach on what kind of coach do you think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of it's like Twilight Zone Iman Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Harps is in New York and Jesse's in Baltimore. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the NFL for it. But really happy
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  Speaker 2: for Jess. Very deserving, great great coach, phenomenal coach, a
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  Speaker 2: great person obviously, is a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: So really really happy for him. Great crazy abel his
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  Speaker 1: qualities as a leader. Because that surprised you at all
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  Speaker 1: bringing him in as a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really play like the surprise game. But
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  Speaker 2: you just you trust, you trust the decisions of our
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  Speaker 2: personnel folks, and they felt strongly about it about just
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  Speaker 2: who he was as a person. And then, uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of all gravy to that, and so there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of gravy. You know, he's been he's been
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal practicing outside.
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  Speaker 4: It's not easy that maintain a grass fields.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, shout out.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to the fields guys, man, they I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think way anybody slipped. And when it rains,
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  Speaker 2: like we're out there, guys do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to those guys. Appreciate bringing that up.
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  Speaker 4: Robbe.
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  Speaker 1: You did like a three game players expecting how are
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  Speaker 1: we listening question? Yeah, I'm questionable. When we actually done.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned different question.
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  Speaker 1: Adams questioned part of the value of that.
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  Speaker 4: These guys kicked each of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is any big Oh yeah, man? Player wise? Shoot
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  Speaker 1: you name it? Spoon E J Leslie A D John Dave.
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  Speaker 2: I think look, I think I think it goes back
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  Speaker 2: to like, hey, we didn't have I have a hymn
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  Speaker 2: book on Hey it's March twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Go to page five, paragraph three. This is what we're
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  Speaker 1: doing today.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, now we're all in this experience together of
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  Speaker 2: where we're trying to go. And so if you do that,
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  Speaker 2: then like we're in it together.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of all of our jobs to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we're all kind of pushing in the same direction.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been great. Love those guys, man, we got
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  Speaker 1: a great team. I loved all that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's just you think about, like, who do
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  Speaker 2: you love on the team. We love everybody. They're just
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal A player forty years ago and all that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how much did you give to have the
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  Speaker 4: resources he aice?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's tremendous. He's critical part of how we operate.
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  Speaker 2: He's more right than I want him to be. It's
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  Speaker 2: just like, dang, it turns out you're right.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he's awesome, loveless anything else, Thank you, alright,
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  Speaker 1: nice guy,