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Pete Carroll: "Bobby Wagner Has Been Terrific" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It was a great break.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can maximize the opportunity coming out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned about that. We got to do a really
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  Speaker 2: good job about being on the details and the discipline
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  Speaker 2: that it takes to make sure that we get back
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  Speaker 2: on tracks. It's just not automatic that everything's exactly the
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  Speaker 2: same as when you left it. So we're gonna play
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  Speaker 2: a keen of focus to get that done. Saw a
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  Speaker 2: really exciting Cincinnati team played last week and they look
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  Speaker 2: like they're back and rolling.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback looked great, and the receivers looked great.
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  Speaker 2: They had a terrific, terrific ball game, so I know
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  Speaker 2: they'll be revved up to get this thing going too
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  Speaker 2: against us. So it's another here we go traveling take
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  Speaker 2: off on Friday, East Coast. Here we come, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so we get cranked up to do it again.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of young guys on this See what have you seen
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  Speaker 2: already in the way they have responded to that by week.
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  Speaker 1: And the focus. I needed a little more time. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that yet.
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  Speaker 2: They look cheerful and up beating all that, but they
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  Speaker 2: haven't practice full speed yet like we will today.
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  Speaker 1: Did uh jabal Gate player? Yes? Something next.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at Cincinnati, there's definitely a deep threat
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  Speaker 2: there with Burrow and and with.
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  Speaker 1: Chase But why is that, like what makes that such
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  Speaker 1: a such a weapon? Uh? Joe Burrow is a terrific quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's shown that over the years his college days proven,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he's he's the big time qb.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Their coach really loves to throw the football and utilize
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  Speaker 2: and trust him, and he's got terrific receivers, and Jami
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  Speaker 2: happens to be their top guy. You can't have a
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  Speaker 2: bigger game than three touchdowns and nineteen targets and all that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all the balls that he took to the
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  Speaker 2: house from phenomenal. So they're loaded. And but that's not
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  Speaker 2: all they you know, Joe Mixon is a great player too,
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  Speaker 2: and he makes their running game. So you know, they
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  Speaker 2: they just got everything that you need.
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  Speaker 1: It was only nine players.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you notice from Jamal Adams, Well, he was he
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  Speaker 2: got through the preparation of it, he got going, made
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plays out there and and got started.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had not intended to play him the
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  Speaker 2: whole game, you know, as it was, And uh So
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he came out earlier than we wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: and he's okay now for this week to go. He
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  Speaker 2: hasn't missed anything, you know, so so uh, I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited for him to, you know, to get back going again.
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  Speaker 2: He really had fun in the preparation and I know
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  Speaker 2: he was jacked about being out there and it just
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  Speaker 2: didn't last long enough.
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  Speaker 1: What what did you see in a little time you
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  Speaker 1: had the three safeties on the field, Where did they
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  Speaker 1: give you? Looked? Okay? That under wraps what kind of challenges?
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  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrick said, He's he's really fast.
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  Speaker 2: Takes full advantage of that in his pass rush. He's
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  Speaker 2: got six sacts already. He's been, you know, off to
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  Speaker 2: a huge start and take advantage. If you set, you
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  Speaker 2: set wrongly, you get off the ball late.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's going to take full advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: He's a real speed oriented.
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  Speaker 2: Guy that really he's scared the the daylight's out of
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  Speaker 2: anybody coming off the edge.
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  Speaker 1: Are philled and de lugan our practice today. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is.
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  Speaker 2: Which one we will Charles Cross be able to Charles
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  Speaker 2: was practicing today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to see him out there.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner coming back is obviously such a big story
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  Speaker 2: for lotteries and everything he meant to the team. It did,
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  Speaker 2: this did all of that almost has it almost overshadowed?
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  Speaker 1: How while he's playing through four games?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you guys answer that one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But he you know, seventeen tackles again. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: past week he's been terrific and so, uh, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know about so overshadowing it or not, because he's doing
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  Speaker 2: everything that he's always been able to do and he
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  Speaker 2: looks great doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So we're really fired up for him. And he fits
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  Speaker 1: so well.
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  Speaker 2: In the scheme and controlling everything too.
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  Speaker 1: It's just worked out great.
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  Speaker 2: Has this been what you were expecting when he got back?
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah?
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  Speaker 2: At least it may you know, made more so the
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  Speaker 2: numbers are more so and he's I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: he is you know, around the league tackles wise, but
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be doing pretty good to be beating
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  Speaker 2: him with his numbers already.
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  Speaker 1: What is what is BT brought to your coaching staff?
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  Speaker 1: And how are you seeing that?
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  Speaker 2: Sort of Yeah, he's he's he's added a ton and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've never really had the guy that specialized
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  Speaker 2: just in in past rush. So it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: new experience for us. But he's you know, he's got it.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a wealth of knowledge about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's he has a great way of connecting with the players.
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  Speaker 2: They really you know, they hover around him to try
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  Speaker 2: to find out what he's gonna tell him next. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's a nice it's it's a nice part of
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  Speaker 2: our scheme. And it's nice to see that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've really picked up in the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: become pretty effective rush in the pastor. And if we
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  Speaker 2: can keep that going, then his imprint will be really obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Does he work with the interior guys too, or just.
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  Speaker 1: The edge guys? He works all of them. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: made you want to add that position to your coaching stent?
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  Speaker 2: We want to rest Pastor a little better, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get better. So, I mean, he was he's
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  Speaker 2: a unique has a unique skill set.
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  Speaker 1: Very many guys like him.
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  Speaker 2: So and we just heard a lot of good stuff
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  Speaker 2: about him from players that had worked with him, that
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  Speaker 2: really relied on him and all them. And we just
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  Speaker 2: did our homework and had a little inside information on
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  Speaker 2: him and we're fortunate to get it done. What goes
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  Speaker 2: into being good at calling the games.
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  Speaker 1: The way Jay Reid is, most of it is experience
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  Speaker 1: and feel. You know.
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  Speaker 2: He the experience to have the awareness that he can
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  Speaker 2: separate from the action and get into the mental part
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  Speaker 2: of it, you know, what's going on with what he's
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  Speaker 2: looking at, the formations that sets all that kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff so that he can take.
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  Speaker 1: Advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: But he needs the background of knowledge, you know, So
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  Speaker 2: that's where the experience is. So it's like some guys
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  Speaker 2: are just getting to the next play, He's already thinking
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  Speaker 2: of what, you know, what we could do. He strategized
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a plan, he's got a feel for
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  Speaker 2: it that they work out during the week and then
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  Speaker 2: he tries to execute it during the game. So there's
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  Speaker 2: it's the experience in the field. And there's a poise
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  Speaker 2: to that too, you know, because there's not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time there, you know, when he gets his information
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  Speaker 2: that he has to communicate. And the part that I
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  Speaker 2: think is really obviously he he commands their respect. They'll
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  Speaker 2: they'll do what he tells him at the last second,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll take advantage of as best they can you
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  Speaker 2: know of the games and the and the stunts that
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  Speaker 2: we're using.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot to it. So does he have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of latitude up there? Then Uh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's a plan. Yeah, we we trust him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's uh, Clint's got a great relationship with him,
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  Speaker 2: and they feel like they're really communicating well. And and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes the players see stuff better than we
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  Speaker 2: can see it. They're right there, they can feel it,
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  Speaker 2: they can look at the guy they're going against. And
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  Speaker 2: so fortunately we have a guy that can can help
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  Speaker 2: us with that. You know, if you just call him
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  Speaker 2: from up up top or on the sidelines, you know
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  Speaker 2: there's there. You're missing some of the variables. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's most valuable if a guy really has you know,
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  Speaker 2: has an awareness for it, which he does. He with
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  Speaker 2: with Devin, his ability to jump into that Nicolas spot
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  Speaker 2: last week, given already goes down in practice.
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  Speaker 1: For you comes unavailable for him to step in having
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  Speaker 1: not been there a ton since.
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  Speaker 2: He got just.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the way he kind of handled that and.
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  Speaker 2: The yeah, well he had been working there for some time.
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  Speaker 2: We started it way back. You know, we had a
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  Speaker 2: plan for this. So he's been kind of waiting for
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  Speaker 2: us to you know, cut him loose really and so
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  Speaker 2: so he was ready, you know, he was backing up
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  Speaker 2: at the spot, and so he was. It was just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of time before that we would check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he had hit it with a big splash and
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  Speaker 2: looked great and and uh, there's so much future for
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  Speaker 2: him there to continue to figure stuff out and use
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  Speaker 2: his awareness and all that. So so it's but it is,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a notable accomplishment for a first year guy,
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  Speaker 2: limited opportunities, limited in the springtime as well, to be
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  Speaker 2: able to be this comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's he's a unique player.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean he's been playing outside too, so I
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  Speaker 2: mean being able to do both of those I mean
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  Speaker 2: as to it really, yeah, it's it's a it's an
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  Speaker 2: obvious statement, and it's why you're bringing it up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: not many guys can do that and and do it
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  Speaker 2: effectively and be in command of it. I was noting
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  Speaker 2: today just in the walk some of the subtle things
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  Speaker 2: that he's aware of. It's it's surprising, you know that
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  Speaker 2: that he has that much awareness. So and he's just
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  Speaker 2: got so much room to grow so it'd be great
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  Speaker 2: to see stick with him there, you stick with him
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  Speaker 2: and doing the dual role outside. So on draft day
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  Speaker 2: you made the comparison between Devon and sort of Troy.
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  Speaker 1: Paula Malo had come to.
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  Speaker 2: Mind was the physics, the physicality that he brings to
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  Speaker 2: the two because obviously he's not a safety.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing Nicole back here.
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  Speaker 2: But that point, it's different. Really, what I was referring
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  Speaker 2: to is different than that. However, they do share the
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  Speaker 2: same sense of going for it, and Tory was phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: player at seeing stuff analyzing, and he's already halfway there,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And you know Devin, he's got a real
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  Speaker 2: sense too, and they have both of them have the
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  Speaker 2: confidence from wherever that comes from, from their history of
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  Speaker 2: always having a sense, and then the plays that they've
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  Speaker 2: made since their little kids. You know, that gives them
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  Speaker 2: the confidence to go ahead and take off and take
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  Speaker 2: their shots. You know, you saw a really good when
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  Speaker 2: they did a had a double pass. You know that
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  Speaker 2: they threw, and a guy could analyze that in either way.
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  Speaker 2: If he sensed the past, he might have felt the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to drop, but he saw it as a past
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  Speaker 2: that he thought he could get to the guy and
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  Speaker 2: he went for it and then you know, and he
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  Speaker 2: wrecks the play forms. So that's just stuff that guys
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  Speaker 2: either they kind of have it or they don't. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we try to always increase their awareness and stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: that's why the unique player.
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  Speaker 1: Well more with Bobby being back.
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  Speaker 2: At I didn't good enough last time, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more the run defense obviously, the improvement has been a
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  Speaker 2: big story.
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  Speaker 1: So us here.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot involved, a lot of players scheme,
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  Speaker 2: but his presence alone, what has that done for the run.
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  Speaker 1: Defense to get better?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's it's a factor, you know, like Jay Reid
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  Speaker 2: seeing things and analyzing things and making the proper call,
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  Speaker 2: the adjustment maybe, or just the awareness or just to
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  Speaker 2: tap on the guys but to tell them what you know,
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  Speaker 2: what's coming or whatever. All of those little subtleties are
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  Speaker 2: they they just make you a little bit better, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, you know, app to make the play
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  Speaker 2: that's that's coming at you. So it's there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of subtlety to that too. It's just like it was
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  Speaker 2: with with with Jay Reid and sensing when too and
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  Speaker 2: how to take advantage of the opportunities Bobby's done that.
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  Speaker 2: But I know that he's helping He's helping guys around him.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have more experience than he has. And he
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  Speaker 2: is a good communicator and you know, and he does
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  Speaker 2: he does have the awareness to go ahead and share
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  Speaker 2: it with guys.
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  Speaker 1: Has been good. Yeah, I was thinking that as I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's helped him even more so than before.
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  Speaker 2: Now Jordan's game has slowed down so much. You can
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  Speaker 2: see things so much better than he did, you know,
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  Speaker 2: his first year and all that that. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure that in the two men, Jordan's helping Bobby too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they both share a great awareness. They Jordan
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like it anything he can he can see it
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  Speaker 2: all and he can feel it and all that. So
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  Speaker 2: but the two of them together to use each other,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for you know, one might see something the
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  Speaker 2: other one doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty it's a good team. You've got teams
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  Speaker 1: that are this close and turnover differential and takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: What does that tell you about the style of play
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  Speaker 2: you can expect on Sunday? Yeah, Well, these these guys
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  Speaker 2: are just a really good club. They're they're you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had a couple of games that got away from
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  Speaker 2: but they're they have all of the experience and all
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  Speaker 2: of it, and they're coached really well.
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  Speaker 1: They're really good.
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  Speaker 2: On teams and defense, and I mean in all aspects
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  Speaker 2: of their games. So it's a it's a great matchup
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  Speaker 2: for us. You know, we have a lot to regard
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  Speaker 2: for these guys and we're gonna have to play really
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  Speaker 2: well to have a chance to get him at their place.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, hopefully we can match match wits and
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  Speaker 2: and uh and match the hits and on on game
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  Speaker 2: day and see, you know, see if we can't get
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  Speaker 2: ourselves a win something going there.
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  Speaker 1: I could have I could have kept going back Kobe
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  Speaker 1: and Ardie Burns.
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  Speaker 2: How are they doing? Yeah, they're they're both trying to
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  Speaker 2: get back the best I can say. They're they're not
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  Speaker 2: back yet, but they're they're trying to get their way
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  Speaker 2: back and they're not far off.
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  Speaker 1: Though.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anybody who would return to practice this week,
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  Speaker 2: like like Kenny or those guys who were bet on?
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  Speaker 1: No, not Kenny, not yet.
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  Speaker 2: Be he talked, he's talked about off, said he would film,
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  Speaker 2: he would slow down and how that's improved from game
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  Speaker 2: one and now.
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  Speaker 1: Taking that next step.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, in in normal fashion, his confidence is up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's he's realizing he's I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: just talk to him about it, guys, ask him the
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  Speaker 2: question and he'll tell you. He'll exude different awareness of
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  Speaker 2: different confidence than he's had. And that's only helps and
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  Speaker 2: it just help helps him play a little bit faster.
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  Speaker 2: We have a little bit more edge, more a little
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  Speaker 2: more physical. All of those things are showing up. So
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  Speaker 2: we've been making him aware of how much better he
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  Speaker 2: looks and how much more he knows, and to try
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  Speaker 2: to support him on that so that he can take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's doing a nice job right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're really excited about him.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.