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Julian Love: "Everyone Is Appreciated Here For Who They Are" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, man.
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  Speaker 2: All good. How are we doing? Doing all right.
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge in Trey McBride?
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  Speaker 4: He's obviously put a big number against everybody, but he's
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  Speaker 4: done it against you guys a couple times, too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, McBride's a complete tight end. One of the
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  Speaker 4: best in the league for a reason. At the point
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  Speaker 4: of attack, blocking, he's strong. When he has a ball
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  Speaker 4: in his hands, he's elusive.
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  Speaker 2: He can jump. He can break tackles. He can do
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  Speaker 2: all the things.
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  Speaker 4: And then his route tree's expanded, and so he's just
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  Speaker 4: a go-to guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's a real threat for real.
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  Speaker 3: The role of Brian Ayers has been more publicized in
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  Speaker 3: the last six months or so.
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  Speaker 5: Can you quantify the, the impact of some of those
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  Speaker 5: situations that he draws up or the unpredictability that you
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  Speaker 5: guys practice?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: First off, it's hilarious that he got that, uh, the
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  Speaker 4: ad spot. I don't know what his NIL deal is,
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  Speaker 4: but it must be good.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and then I don't know. It's funny.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, uh, Brian Ayers, he, uh, would show these
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  Speaker 4: very nuanced situations in our.
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  Speaker 2: Team meeting every Friday or every Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: And it'd be like, OK, he's teaching maybe a concept,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a penalty play, something that's impactful but small. And
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  Speaker 4: it was a bunch of weeks in a row that
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  Speaker 4: that same exact situation, very nuanced, very little, would happen
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  Speaker 4: in a game. And we would be on the right
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  Speaker 4: side of things. And so it just goes to show.
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  Speaker 4: And just, like, going over, like, those small details, Ryan Ayers, man,
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  Speaker 4: he's been a game changer for us.
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  Speaker 2: What's an example of a situation he would show you guys?
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  Speaker 4: So a great example is the week later in the season,
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  Speaker 4: and he was showing a bunch of plays, a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of clips of how you got to pick up the
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  Speaker 4: ball when it's on the ground. You don't know what
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  Speaker 4: the situation is. You see a loose ball, offense, defense,
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  Speaker 4: go and pick it up. We show that you do it,
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  Speaker 4: you know. if it's immediate, that it can go your way.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know what happens, but it doesn't hurt not to.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we all know in here how that
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  Speaker 4: showed up for us.
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  Speaker 2: So that was before the Rams game? That was before, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When you get into a two-minute situation, right, and anything
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  Speaker 5: can happen, whether it's one of those nuanced plays or not,
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  Speaker 5: what's the value of just practicing unpredictability?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's cool because you can control in your favor.
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  Speaker 4: You have to understand what situations are coming without hearing
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  Speaker 4: it from the sideline. And so he's teaching us all
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  Speaker 4: to be quarterbacks on the field. Usually that's Mike's job,
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  Speaker 4: that's Fleury's job, but as quarterbacks, it's Sam, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: It's me on defense.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's like, okay, we're putting the power in
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  Speaker 4: everyone's hands to no situation. If they have a timeout,
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  Speaker 4: if it's 40 seconds left, what are they trying to accomplish?
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  Speaker 4: Just so we can be cerebral football players. He's just
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  Speaker 4: helping us be better football players. Stuff like that is
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  Speaker 4: in every weekly meeting for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a special guy. Back to the Rams play.
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  Speaker 1: Did Ayers show you examples of balls just laying in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the field in the games?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because you see a lot, you know, kind of quarterback stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know what happens, especially in coverage. You don't
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  Speaker 4: know kind of what led to a ball coming out,
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  Speaker 4: if it was a hit, if it was a throw, incompletion, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And he was just saying that, like, basically it helps
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  Speaker 4: to pick up the ball. And it was funny that
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  Speaker 4: when all that happened, obviously there was a lot of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, narrative around that play. But it's like that's
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  Speaker 4: just kind of what we do. A guy like Zach Charbonnet,
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  Speaker 4: that's just what he does. He does, we just, we
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  Speaker 4: coach it up and we execute it when we're on
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  Speaker 4: the field.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of, obviously, players that look at film
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  Speaker 3: for every game.
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  Speaker 2: What about analytics?
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever like look at numbers to identify tendencies?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think numbers, that's just the way sports, the way
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  Speaker 4: the world is going.
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  Speaker 2: I think analytics are important in sports.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're also, they can be dangerous if you
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  Speaker 4: don't look at them the right way. I think all
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  Speaker 4: numbers have a story and you can bend that narrative
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  Speaker 4: to fit any sort of story you want. And so
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  Speaker 4: while I think it's important, I think what makes us special,
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  Speaker 4: I think what makes Mike special is how he interprets data.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the numbers could say, you know, fourth down
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  Speaker 4: percentage or third down percentage or whatever, but it's how
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  Speaker 4: you enact it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of what makes it special.
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  Speaker 4: Like the art of data storytelling is what make people
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  Speaker 4: in leadership positions here, like really unique and special. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm with it, but I think it could be a
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  Speaker 4: dangerous game to look purely at numbers. The Charbonnet play,
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  Speaker 4: this may have been what you were referring to when
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  Speaker 4: you were sitting there. There were some people who tried
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  Speaker 4: to dismiss it as like this totally fluky play and
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  Speaker 4: said that he was handing the ball to the official.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys get a kick out of that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just everything. Obviously, he's always out there. Everything's a fluke.
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  Speaker 4: What's that line that Kevin said from the office about flukes?
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  Speaker 2: Most common fish in the ocean. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: They play like that.
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  Speaker 4: Sharves is doing what he does. Brian talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just all of us in here were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're doing things the right way.
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  Speaker 2: But nobody jumped on it right away. Sharveny just kind of, oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, walked over there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in practice, maybe not be like, oh, the ball's out.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't know what was happening.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like it becomes second nature to you to
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  Speaker 4: go up there and grab it.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about some Cardinals. Speaking of analytics. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, over the last year and a half, you've
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  Speaker 3: limited yards per outrun six best of any coverage player, safety,
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  Speaker 3: or corner in the NFL. Do you think people realize,
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  Speaker 3: like appreciate, what kind of safety and what kind of
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  Speaker 3: coverage player you are?
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  Speaker 4: I think the ego in me will always say I
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  Speaker 4: don't get appreciated enough. That's like every competitor ever. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. I think I do a good job. I
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  Speaker 4: think I work within the scheme well. Whatever they tell
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  Speaker 4: me to do, I try to do the best of
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  Speaker 4: my abilities. I think what's not in those numbers is
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  Speaker 4: what our front did on the play. Did the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: feel rushed?
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  Speaker 2: Did he feel pressured?
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  Speaker 4: That's just a way of you can paint a picture
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  Speaker 4: that's not really clear of what the context of the
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  Speaker 4: situation is. I'll take the great stats for sure. I
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  Speaker 4: just know it's not attributed to me just strictly covering somebody.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's maybe the pressure that happened in the
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  Speaker 4: previous situation in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: That gets a quarterback feeling a certain way.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it's Leonard Williams getting a quick win that allow
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  Speaker 4: me to just play ball and play cleanly.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's a lot that goes into it. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that. Yeah, I'm decent in man coverage.
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  Speaker 3: Was there much of an adjustment last week when Rodney
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  Speaker 3: had to start at the other safety spot?
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  Speaker 2: No, not really.
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  Speaker 4: I know kind of like the initial 53 was kind
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  Speaker 4: of weird to look at, especially when you have some
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  Speaker 4: guys down. But the confidence in the building of like
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  Speaker 4: the ready squad and like the full 70, was like,
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to miss a beat with Rod. Like,
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  Speaker 4: he's an experienced guy. He's been in this league for
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of years. And he's going to play good ball.
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  Speaker 4: And the moments that he's, you know, had, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: in the preseason games or whatever, you could just see, like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, he knows what he's doing. And he came
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  Speaker 4: out there with such confidence that it was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: no one's even sweating.
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  Speaker 2: No one's batting an eye. And so, yeah, he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job. Good game for him.
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  Speaker 1: On a similar note, two of the guys who made
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  Speaker 1: the biggest– Two of the biggest plays, Nehemiah Pritchett, Josh Jobe,
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  Speaker 1: are guys who at one point in their career were backup.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, special team guys.
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  Speaker 1: You've had Ty Okada step into a starting role, Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: What about the way Mike develops guys, gets guys ready,
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  Speaker 1: has allowed special and defense guys to come in and
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  Speaker 1: do what they've done?
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  Speaker 2: It's cool. It's cool to see all those guys and
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  Speaker 2: their stories.
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  Speaker 4: I've been able to have Nehemiah since a rookie to
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  Speaker 4: see the steps that he's taken. And then Josh Jobe,
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  Speaker 4: from the moment he got here, it was on P-Squad
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  Speaker 4: at first. And it's like, man, that guy needs to
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  Speaker 4: be on the field for us. Um, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just like in the building is not the same
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  Speaker 4: as it is outside of this building. Like there's so
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  Speaker 4: much uncertainty for some guys on our, on our team playing.
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  Speaker 4: And there's such confidence in Nehemiah and Job. Like, no,
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  Speaker 4: those are starters for us. They're not backups. Uh, you
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  Speaker 4: heard a few times mentioned like they were all backups
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  Speaker 4: stepping in. Like, no, like who, you know, we put
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  Speaker 4: them in this position cause he can make plays. They've
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  Speaker 4: been playing good ball. There's people haven't been watching. Um,
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  Speaker 4: and so, I'm really happy for them to get their
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  Speaker 4: shine in such a big stage, and they will continue
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  Speaker 4: to play well.
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  Speaker 6: Julian, there's all these advanced metrics for safety that some
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  Speaker 6: of these places like PFF have come out with, but
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  Speaker 6: I guess I'm curious your thoughts. Do you feel like
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  Speaker 6: safety is one of the more misunderstood positions, especially like
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  Speaker 6: people that watch TV copy can't even see where you
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  Speaker 6: guys are at to start off?
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  Speaker 2: I guess what are your thoughts on that? I love
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  Speaker 2: that question. I don't want to get on a tangent.
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  Speaker 4: I think the game of football is so nuanced and
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  Speaker 4: complex that until somebody from every metric company or whatever
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  Speaker 4: is in our meeting room saying, or knowing what leverage
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  Speaker 4: we had, knowing what help we should have had, until
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  Speaker 4: that happens, then it's tough to fully buy into those.
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  Speaker 4: Some stuff's like, yeah, catch rate, drop rate, whatever. Stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that, it's a little simple. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: On defense, we're all connected. We're all playing off of
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  Speaker 4: each other. It's very rare when we're all operating in
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  Speaker 4: a vacuum by ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we just gotta be careful with all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff out there. It's cool, it's cool to have
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  Speaker 4: numbers and data points for sure, but you gotta be
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  Speaker 4: correct in them.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, sports, this game's like an art.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to be objective.
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  Speaker 5: When the Notre Dame photo op takes place on the
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  Speaker 5: field on Sunday, are you photobombing? Are you between the
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  Speaker 5: running backs? Are you part of the picture? Are you
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  Speaker 5: taking the picture?
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  Speaker 2: I'm the old head of the Notre Dame guys now,
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm going to let them have their moment,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to get off the field. There's not
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  Speaker 4: much love between division opponents, and so I will be
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  Speaker 4: headed to the locker room no matter what happens in
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 6: Julian, how has this defense become so connected?
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  Speaker 1: You said it's important.
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  Speaker 6: Is it outside the field?
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, no.
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  Speaker 4: Like, we get together sometimes out of this building. I
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  Speaker 4: think just our moments in this building aren't like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: clocking in for the day or I'm clocking out for
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  Speaker 4: the day. It's like guys are kind of hanging around,
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  Speaker 4: just hanging out with each other.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen it.
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  Speaker 4: You guys see it firsthand for the most part. Everyone's
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  Speaker 4: appreciated in here for who they are. And it leads
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  Speaker 4: into who we are in the field. I think we
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  Speaker 4: show love, but we also hold accountability when it needs
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  Speaker 4: to be shown. And so like that creates a level
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  Speaker 4: of trust with each other. That's pretty special.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that's kind of leads to all
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  Speaker 2: of us being kind of the whole 12 is one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But how has Mike been able to, make it come
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  Speaker 6: alive with the players in the roles, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean, to fit each specific talented player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Mike, you guys know, is a great coach.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's great because he understands scheme, but he
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  Speaker 4: also understands how to make players just step into roles
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  Speaker 4: and maximize them. Like, it's hard to do what we
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  Speaker 4: do without a guy like Leonard Williams, without a guy
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  Speaker 4: like Byron Murphy, without a guy like Ernest Jones, Spoon,
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  Speaker 4: Eman Worry, a ton of people. So, like, he knows
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  Speaker 4: who we have in the building. That's the personnel side
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  Speaker 4: of it. to where he's like, okay, I know scheme,
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  Speaker 4: everyone wants the same stuff, but how can we maximize
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  Speaker 4: our stuff versus the talent that we have? And so
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  Speaker 4: that's what makes Mike special. I think that's how he
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  Speaker 4: empowers us, just by letting us be ourselves to the
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  Speaker 4: fullest of what we could be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Would you notice all the points scored in the first
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  Speaker 3: week of the NFL? And what do you guys think
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  Speaker 3: in the defensive room about how you guys stand out
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  Speaker 3: from what's going on in the rest of the league?
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  Speaker 4: I'm really happy with week one because I thought we
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  Speaker 4: played pretty clean.
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  Speaker 2: I think week one is just chaos.
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  Speaker 4: If you look back at week one for the past
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  Speaker 4: ten years, I feel like I've noticed this since I've
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  Speaker 4: been in the league, it's super sloppy. Everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting off that off-season kind of jet lag almost, missed tackles,
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  Speaker 4: breakdown of communication, effort, guys are winded. I think for
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  Speaker 4: the most part we just ramped up and were prepared
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  Speaker 4: to play a full.
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  Speaker 2: Battle of a game.
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  Speaker 4: We were relatively clean. We relatively tackled well. And so
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  Speaker 4: it was cool just to see that. Man, that tough
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  Speaker 4: training camp we had put us in a position to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we just got to keep going. Let's go. Thanks, folks.