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Tyler Lockett: "I'm Excited To Get Year 10 Underway" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Suffer. Everybody doing all right, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: I feel pretty good, you know, just kind of getting
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  Speaker 2: back into it and trying to do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's trying to learn the offense like it's the
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  Speaker 2: back of my hand, or whether it's just being able
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  Speaker 2: to stay out a little bit later catching jugs, or
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  Speaker 2: just kind of getting back into my rhythm. But feeling
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  Speaker 2: pretty good, running pretty good, and excited to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get your tank underway.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you just we didn't see a whole lot obviously.
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  Speaker 1: It was that just kind of a maintenance thing to
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  Speaker 1: try to get hear this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just some some things that I needed
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  Speaker 2: to kind of get worked on and get fixed, and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't want me to kind of go out there
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  Speaker 2: and make things worse or you know, kind of put
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  Speaker 2: me out to where I'm in jeopardy and not being
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  Speaker 2: able to play in the season. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think Mike did a great job. The athletic training staff
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  Speaker 2: did a great job just being able to kind of
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  Speaker 2: kind of work with me and give me some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I felt like I needed to be
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  Speaker 2: able to get back out here. And I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what you want. You know you want as
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  Speaker 2: a team, you want ton a you know, a plus
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  Speaker 2: strength and conditioning staff, a plus athletic training staff.
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  Speaker 1: And so everybody did their job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, unless you know something, I don't let
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  Speaker 2: everybody gets.
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  Speaker 1: To the year of ten. Just yeah, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking to Lacing about that.
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  Speaker 2: So me and Laking are in the same agency, got
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  Speaker 2: the same agent, and we're just talking about, like, man,
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  Speaker 2: what's the percentage of guys that getting to your teen
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  Speaker 2: And we were like, it's probably one percent. And so
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  Speaker 2: I mean you think that's accurate. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a blessing to me still be a
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  Speaker 2: year ten. I mean there's still a good amount of
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  Speaker 2: guys that I came in draft class that still being
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  Speaker 2: able to play, and they're still playing at a high
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  Speaker 2: level or still being able to be on the team
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, and so I think it's a blessing all around.
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  Speaker 2: We always say it's three and a half as the average,
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  Speaker 2: and so I mean, basically beat that day there three times.
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  Speaker 1: I figure it is.
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  Speaker 2: Get a U offensive coorter to come to a U offense,
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  Speaker 2: it's got a little pep in your step a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean sometimes you know new is good, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, I mean, it's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 2: if you were in the same offense for ten straight years,
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  Speaker 2: like if there will be any excitement you know for
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  Speaker 2: you coming in like meetings will be a lot more
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  Speaker 2: difficult because you know everything left and right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you've been a part of something for so long.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for me it's been interesting because I
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  Speaker 2: think every three years I've had a new offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: and so it's allowed me to approach the game different
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  Speaker 2: and it's allowed me to see the game different and
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  Speaker 2: learn different ways and unique abilities to be able to
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  Speaker 2: use my skills to go out there and still try
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  Speaker 2: to do the same thing that I've been doing. So
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  Speaker 2: it's fun learning from each offensive coordinator that I've been under, been.
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  Speaker 3: A different offenses.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about this term?
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  Speaker 2: Ah? Well, I mean I think we all saw U
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  Speaker 2: dub play last year, so I think it was very exciting,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, you know, so many of us get
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  Speaker 2: so caught up in man they were able to throw
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  Speaker 2: the ball. They threw the ball forty or fifty times.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, I think it's incredible that you even
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  Speaker 2: have a running back that rushed for a thousand yards,
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  Speaker 2: you know, while doing that, And so what that showed
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  Speaker 2: me was, regardless of whatever a team decided to do,
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  Speaker 2: if they wanted to take away the pass, we had dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: They had dynamic running backs to be able to make plays.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at if they wanted to take away
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  Speaker 2: some of the run, they was able to throw the
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  Speaker 2: ball downfield be explosive. If they took away explosive, they
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  Speaker 2: just deconduct all the way down the field. So I
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  Speaker 2: think I think it's very creative the way that Grub is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with the little amount of time that I've
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  Speaker 2: been around him, I think like he's super sophisticated and
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  Speaker 2: I think he sees the game a lot different than
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  Speaker 2: how I've kind of seen it in the past. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, definitely looking forward to being able to learn
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  Speaker 2: and grow because as I kind of learned kind of
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  Speaker 2: like his his scheme and how he does things. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a really cool idea.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler, You've had explosive play throughout your career, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit less last year. Do you think this scheme is
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  Speaker 3: going to give your chance to get back to kind
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  Speaker 3: of your explosive ways.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it just depends on how they decide to
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  Speaker 2: utilize me. I mean last year, Yeah, like some of
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  Speaker 2: the explosives and stuff went away, But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't asked to do a lot of explosive things.
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  Speaker 2: So of course, like on paper, it looks bad, but
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  Speaker 2: like for me, I'm just being a teammate that they
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  Speaker 2: asked me to be. Sometimes I got to be the
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  Speaker 2: decoy and I got to be able to run and
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  Speaker 2: get other people open. Sometimes, you know, I had to
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  Speaker 2: beat a defender and me and Geno just weren't able
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  Speaker 2: to connect. Sometimes I didn't get into my draw phase
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  Speaker 2: a lot more so there's a lot of scenarios. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I make a player it's a flag on the play,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So there was a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: may have happened or where things didn't work out. But
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  Speaker 2: I think the one thing for me was just to
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  Speaker 2: just be able to keep fighting, keep playing at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day. Sometimes you need a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things to work out. As a receiver, you need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure it's not a flag. You need to make
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  Speaker 2: sure the line blocks, make sure the throwers right there,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you catch the ball, make sure the defense
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  Speaker 2: is doing what you want them to do, and so
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  Speaker 2: I mean going into this year obviously, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: you learn each week how they decide to utilize you.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if they want me to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and be a decoy, that's what I gotta do.
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  Speaker 2: It's my job, right If they want me to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and I'm getting however many targets, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do the best that I can to be able
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  Speaker 2: to make those targets work. But for me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going into year ten, I want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be the best version of myself, whether that's blocking because
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  Speaker 2: I could do a way better job of blocking, whether
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  Speaker 2: that's being a better decoy, whether that's getting myself open.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm at the point now where I want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to take my game to another level, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of age, regardless of years.
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  Speaker 1: So I get that camp with the bass.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of tough to give an example
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  Speaker 2: on the spot, but I just think, like I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I play college football, right, Like I'm not really an
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  Speaker 2: air raid person, you know what I mean, Like I
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  Speaker 2: do RPOs, I run the ball, like I got certain
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  Speaker 2: pass plays that I know is gonna work. But like
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  Speaker 2: when you watch his offense and you see some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that they do. Some things mix in with
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  Speaker 2: what I've been a part of, whether I was at
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State or whether I was with other coordinators. But
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  Speaker 2: there's just one thing that makes its slightly different to
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  Speaker 2: where you're like that makes a lot of sense, Like
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why you know we didn't learn this like
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  Speaker 2: you know, back in the day, or learn this in college,
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  Speaker 2: or see this route differently. Like so I can't really
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  Speaker 2: give certain things because then I'm giving away plays, right,
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  Speaker 2: But just like certain routes that come with concepts, it's
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  Speaker 2: easy for defenses to look at concepts and say, we
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  Speaker 2: know what's coming. You know, if two, if inside goes
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  Speaker 2: out out, outside is probably going in. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: always true, now you know what I mean, if outside
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  Speaker 2: go So it's just stuff like that to where what
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  Speaker 2: you see is not what you get. So as a dB,
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  Speaker 2: you might be taught if a receiver runs an inside release,
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  Speaker 2: that means that nine times out of ten he's going inside.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not always the case, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not always a case if he takes an outside release,
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  Speaker 2: then he's gonna break outside. So when you do things
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  Speaker 2: that's different than what the defense is accustomed to, seeing
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  Speaker 2: it makes them have to play more honest, which allows
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  Speaker 2: you to go back to schematic plays that they're used to,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't play it the same because they don't
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  Speaker 2: know what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of your teen, what do you remember of your
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  Speaker 1: first game?
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  Speaker 3: That first game in Saint Louis?
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of I guess how you felt about.
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  Speaker 2: Into that man that was out the four preseasons, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was looking forward to it. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what to expect, but being in Saint Louis, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it was close to home, like easy drive, easy
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  Speaker 2: flight for anybody in my family that wanted to come
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  Speaker 2: out there. You know, I was around a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great guys, a lot of vent It was a vent
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  Speaker 2: oriented team, so it made it a lot easier for
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  Speaker 2: me because really I just had to do my part.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to do too much, I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do too little.
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  Speaker 2: I just had to go out there and beat me
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  Speaker 2: And it felt great because in preseason, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was blessed to be able to establish myself in a
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  Speaker 2: way to where a lot of those guys believed in me.
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  Speaker 2: At returner, you know, they gave me the chance to
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  Speaker 2: be number three. But I also understand some injuries had
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  Speaker 2: occurred in preseason which allowed me to be that, But
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  Speaker 2: just catching that first punt return and taking it to
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  Speaker 2: the house, it was like I had guys like arm
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  Speaker 2: that wanted to be out there, you know, like Doug
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be out there, Shit wanted to be out
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  Speaker 2: there like and when you saw a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: vents that played Jermaine Curse wanted to be out there.
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  Speaker 2: It made it easier on me because I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: they would rather get a flag before they let me
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  Speaker 2: get smacked. So, you know, that stuff kind of really
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  Speaker 2: helped me out a lot, just with knowing like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in myself, but now they believe in me
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  Speaker 2: even more to where they're willing to go extra play
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  Speaker 2: and not even sit on the bench.
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  Speaker 1: And so it made it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Easier for me after I scored the first time Attesta
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  Speaker 2: Ball Tyler.
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  Speaker 3: Every receiver room has a different identity. With Laviska added
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  Speaker 3: and Dreek healthy this year, what do you think the
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  Speaker 3: identity of the receiver room is going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be this year?
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  Speaker 2: I have no clue. I have no clue. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 2: think this has been like the best receiving corp. I've
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  Speaker 2: been a part of just from camp to OTA's to
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  Speaker 2: seeing what everybody's done, Like I think literally, like we've
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  Speaker 2: even let guys go that had a chance to really
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  Speaker 2: really be on the team, and so it sucked because
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  Speaker 2: it's like, man, you wish all ninety could be on
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  Speaker 2: the team, right, but it doesn't work out that way
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  Speaker 2: in the league that we play. But I just think
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  Speaker 2: this receiving corp is dynamic and all of us do
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  Speaker 2: so many amazing things. And because a lot of us
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  Speaker 2: have been on the same team with one another, it's
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  Speaker 2: easy to be able to play off of one another.
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  Speaker 2: And now our game is starting to correlate with the
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  Speaker 2: way that we play or where you could be able
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  Speaker 2: to see that there's been some level of like rhythm
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  Speaker 2: and chemistry. As we're going out there and playing. We understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from past systems, the ability for us to
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  Speaker 2: run through our route because it gets somebody else open
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  Speaker 2: to where now we get into this grub system, we
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  Speaker 2: understand the importance of being able to finish our routes
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  Speaker 2: and finish the plays and understanding how we can make
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  Speaker 2: the blocks look the same. As it passes, everything opens
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  Speaker 2: up and so for us I mean, I'm excited, man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to be too excited, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, you want to have some
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  Speaker 2: type of excitement where you're still had that level of
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  Speaker 2: composure to go play.
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  Speaker 1: Well making what your hypert you know.
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  Speaker 2: At the camp now, I think he's been phenomenal. I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people have said, like this
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  Speaker 2: is probably the best that they've seen him and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. I think he's had the best camp that
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him have. And you know, his mindset, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think he still has that mindset of like that
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  Speaker 2: dog mentality. I gotta go out there and grind. I
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  Speaker 2: got to go out there and get it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: For him, I think, you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reasons why he plays the game. But I'm just excited
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  Speaker 2: to still be able to be here playing with him
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  Speaker 2: and just being able to go out here and try
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  Speaker 2: to do what we can to make this team better.
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  Speaker 1: Mike is different, but it's a cool different. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fun different. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I got a chance to be able to talk with
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  Speaker 2: him a lot, and he's a really cool guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about war movies, we talk about a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different things, but it's really cool being able to
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  Speaker 2: pick his brain. The fun part is being able to
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  Speaker 2: try to dissect this defense and tell them what you
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  Speaker 2: think you see and how they're going to do this,
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  Speaker 2: this and this, and he's like, yeah, no, you don't
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  Speaker 2: get it yet, you don't got it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, he's a really cool dude.
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  Speaker 2: Man. It's crazy to think that, like he's only what
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  Speaker 2: six years older than me, Like that's wild to me anyway,
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  Speaker 2: But again, shoot, blessings to him being able to be
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  Speaker 2: one of the youngest head coaches to ever be able
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  Speaker 2: to coach in the league right now. So yeah, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to be able to be on this team.
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  Speaker 3: What sits out the most about for this quotion?
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  Speaker 1: What depression was?
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  Speaker 2: You know? I think he's a guy that plays by
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  Speaker 2: the book, you know, so I think, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: I think the best part about him is obviously he
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  Speaker 2: goes by the book, but he's really really great at
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  Speaker 2: adaptee and sometimes, like his players, one of the hardest
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  Speaker 2: things for us to do is to adapt when things
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  Speaker 2: don't happen the way that we want it to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But for him, it's like, I remember, he told a
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  Speaker 2: story he called this thing on defense. It didn't work,
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  Speaker 2: and it literally ate him up the whole weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: he was like, never again. When I put myself in
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  Speaker 2: that situation, I'm gonna prepare, I'm gonna do this this
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  Speaker 2: and then. And so when you when you hear that,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost you almost rather win doing it his way,
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  Speaker 2: because if you don't win in the defense, he calls
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, he's gonna come back and that defense is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be way more better the next week because he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna make sure he cleans up every single era and
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna make sure that he's like two or three
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  Speaker 2: times better than what it was the last time.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully that makes sense. It made sense to me, Tyler.
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  Speaker 3: Week one tends to be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: grind for offenses.
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  Speaker 1: One.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 1: In two?
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  Speaker 3: Is that something that you guys think you're preparing for
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  Speaker 3: this time?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's just a grind because it
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  Speaker 2: depends how long you played in a preseason, but also
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  Speaker 2: like you're going into a game and sometimes you just
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  Speaker 2: don't know what to expect. A lot of ones didn't
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  Speaker 2: go against other ones. You're going out there, you're nervous,
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  Speaker 2: you know the crowd is gonna be crazy. I think
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  Speaker 2: the hardest part is just getting that first first down. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think once you kind of get that first first
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  Speaker 2: down or you're able to touch the ball one time,
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  Speaker 2: the nerves kind of go away.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of goes back to it being football.
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  Speaker 2: But until then, it's kind of like that imagination starts
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  Speaker 2: to run a little bit wild, and you kind of
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  Speaker 2: see the game a lot more bigger than you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to really see it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we just got to be able to get back
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  Speaker 2: to that place where you're able to just understand that
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  Speaker 2: it's a game and that the atmosphere doesn't look as
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  Speaker 2: different as it's always been. But if we think get
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  Speaker 2: to be different than we start acting outside of ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: you have a reason.
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  Speaker 3: Or two while you lasted ten years in later.
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  Speaker 2: My faith, I mean, and then they decide to keep me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I think for me, man. The
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing that I tell a lot of people is
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  Speaker 2: you got to put down how many numbers, how many
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  Speaker 2: number of years you want to play, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: control what team it is. So if you say I
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  Speaker 2: want to play eight years, you got to focus on
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  Speaker 2: giving it you're off of those eight years. You can't
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  Speaker 2: get so caught up and emotional to be attached to
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  Speaker 2: a team, because the team is gonna do what's best
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  Speaker 2: for the team at all times. And so for me,
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  Speaker 2: like every time that I decide to play, I'm like
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  Speaker 2: number one, I'm gonna go hard for God. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it all I got, and we just
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  Speaker 2: gonna see where the chips fall. But regardless of what happens,
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna come back swing in the next play.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: And so for me, I always want to give it
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: all I got. I want to see how far I
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: could take this game, regardless of however many years I
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: got left. I want to be able to really be
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: the best that I could be because I know when
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: I choose to be done playing, I'm not gonna miss
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: the game because I made sure that I used every
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: amount every route that I could possible. I made sure
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: I use every amount of energy possible to play this game.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: I don't want to leave too early to where I
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: want to come back and then it's like, ah, it's
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: hard to get back in once you leave. I want
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: to play to the point to where I feel like
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: I did what I wanted to do, and then when
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I choose to be done, I'm good.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I always tell y'all every time it was eight, But
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: I mean I never thought about eight.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Eight just looked like a good number.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Plus my dad played seven, and so when I got drafted, yeah,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: when I had beat his records at k State, he
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: was like, but you didn't get drafted in front of me,
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: And so it was like, well, I'm like, let me.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Try to play eight. Then I play eight.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: It wasn't no level of competition, but now I could
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: at least be like, you play seven, you know, so you.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Kick off any chance turn? Was that a you know?
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: With the new rule, if they ask me, I'll do
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: it for sure, because I mean there's there's times where
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: you miss it, but there's a lot that goes into it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: You just can't put people back there and be like,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: all right, you got it, you know what I mean.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: It's a lot that plays into it.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: And sometimes you get to that place where you've been
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: out of it for so long. I can I can
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: get myself rewired to get back into it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: But again, like I'm kind of on the.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Place where it's like, hey man, if you need somebody,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I'll go do it. If you need me a part return,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I'll go do it. You need me a kick return,
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I'll go do it. If whatever you need me to do,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I'll go do it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Really just one of the what do you think of
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the moves now?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I think I mean, I think it's different, but I mean,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: you hear so much stuff. The NFL has to protect
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: this image and they have to protect themselves because what
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: happens if people start getting hurt a little bit too
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: much and then the game starts to get in the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: hands of people outside to where they start to dictate
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: how the game is really being played. So I feel
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: like the NFL has to do their part and being
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: at to take care of players regardless of whether we
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: like it or not. And they got to be able
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: to find a middle ground to protect not only their image,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: but protect the players because I think if you don't
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: protect the players, it only gets worse. Right, Like we
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: talk about health benefits and we talk about all these
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: things within our CBA, but there's some things that we're
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: still fighting for that people might not have or like
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I got to get to year ten just to get
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: the max out all my benefits. Well, that's very rare
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: for people to get to year ten, right, So I
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: think you got to try to find ways to be
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: able to allow people to maximize their time and their
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: potential in the NFL, as well as their benefits with
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the health and stuff, as well as the NFL finding ways.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: To take care of their players. As a former returnerle's watch.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: What do you see d Williams game as.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: A return Oh? Man, I think he's gonna be really great. Man.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I think you know, we saw small glimpses of what
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: he can be able to do. I mean, he can
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: make a person miss and then he can hit the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: He can literally hit his speed right then and there.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be fun to see what he could
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: do when everybody's out there being able to block for them,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: when we're actually able to scheme a team and able
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: to understand where they punt, why they punt, how they
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: punt it, and so yeah, I mean, you know, he
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: the biggest job is just to catch him, and I
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: think he's done a great job being able to do
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: that to where the coaches trust him and now the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: players are going to be able to go out there
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: and make things happen for him.