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Leonard Williams: "The Level Of Competition Continues To Rise" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: I mean as a whole just amazing. I think we've
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  Speaker 2: been just stacking days, getting better and better each day.
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  Speaker 2: Just the level of competition just keeps on continuing to rise. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And that's like the best thing I can see as
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  Speaker 2: far as like not just defense, but as a whole team,
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  Speaker 2: just the level of competition rising each day.
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  Speaker 1: With the Hall talfee during some of those past rushing drills,
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  Speaker 1: guys free so get him a chance to play off.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's huge. I mean we got
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  Speaker 2: d Hall coming off of a great season last year,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our guys coming off of some good seasons,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I think overall we want to take that
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  Speaker 2: next step as a defensive front. And a huge part
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  Speaker 2: of that is just communicated communication knowing each other. And
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  Speaker 2: uh that's part of like why me and d Hall
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  Speaker 2: are communicating out there during us you know, two minute
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  Speaker 2: period and stuff like that. And that's gonna take our
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  Speaker 2: pass rush to the next level. The level of competitions. Really,
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  Speaker 2: what do you see to make you see I mean
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  Speaker 2: just a lot of talking back and forth. You know,
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  Speaker 2: from a fan, they might think that's a bad thing
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  Speaker 2: when you know, you see the offense and defense talking
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  Speaker 2: crap to each other, but like right after we're giving
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  Speaker 2: each other dafts and hugs and stuff like that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're all brothers. Onces we go back in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: But just to see that level of competition is only
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  Speaker 2: going to get us better. So when you're competing that hard,
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the bar are gonna get good.
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  Speaker 1: Let you help.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, especially with Mike's defense, it's pretty complicated sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a lot of moving parts, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the offense is shifting and motion and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we need like a high level of communication on
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  Speaker 2: defense to get the job doneposed to do that, it's
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  Speaker 2: all levels. I mean, it starts with EJ getting the
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  Speaker 2: call out to the guys. Then you hear the secondary
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  Speaker 2: and making all their coverage calls and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then upfront, you know, we're reading, you know, run past,
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  Speaker 2: letting each other know what we see. Like if I
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  Speaker 2: see past, I'm letting the rest of the guy next
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  Speaker 2: to me know that it's passed. So like now we're
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  Speaker 2: changing our stands a little bit so that we can
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  Speaker 2: pass rush. And it's like those small things are going
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  Speaker 2: to give us an edge. You type of there's something
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  Speaker 2: that one like you're kind of a leader getting everybody
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  Speaker 2: together after the doing that, that's something kind of builds
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  Speaker 2: important to du Yeah. I think it's important because again,
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  Speaker 2: we're out here competing and sometimes you know, we're always
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  Speaker 2: in a white jersey. They're always in a blue jersey.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy during camp to like sometimes feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: two separate parts, you know, two separate uh entities, And
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  Speaker 2: I think in those moments when we're having one on ones,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it gets real fired up competition wise against
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  Speaker 2: each other. I think it's important for us to like
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  Speaker 2: realize we're all one in the end of the day
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  Speaker 2: and like come together after the competition and be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're a unit. You know what I mean, everybody everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I just brought it up and just saying
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  Speaker 2: let's keep competing, let's keep each other safe, and but
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  Speaker 2: let's let's keep going hard. And then I just said
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  Speaker 2: trenches on three trenches. Uh. They are definitely running the ball,
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  Speaker 2: which I like to see. H we got some great
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  Speaker 2: running backs. And then also they're like an outside zone
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  Speaker 2: like stretch type of team. So it's pretty hard for
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  Speaker 2: me sometimes, uh, you know, getting in my stance and
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  Speaker 2: you don't know whether the guard and tackle are gonna
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  Speaker 2: like completely run that way or this way. Uh, so
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  Speaker 2: you kind of have to like get adjusted to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes it's easy for me to read like when
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  Speaker 2: the ball's coming my way. But they're they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job of like we we're even using fullback, which
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  Speaker 2: is like pretty rare nowadays, and uh, they're shifting them
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  Speaker 2: from out like lined up at like a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 2: They'll shift them all the way back to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: behind the ball, and it just tricks the defense a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Really like limited to the outside zone over the horse
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  Speaker 1: of the game because that kind of takeing.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine you're covering more crown is intens have a wearing
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  Speaker 2: out effect of Yeah for sure. I mean I remember
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  Speaker 2: we played the Falcons last year and they kind of
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  Speaker 2: had a similar scheme and uh, you know b Jon Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, able to just stretch the ball, cut
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  Speaker 2: back and find holes and stuff like that. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: definitely hard on the defense because you're stretching the ball
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  Speaker 2: for so long and everyone has to have their gap
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  Speaker 2: integrity the whole time, So sometimes it's hard to stay
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  Speaker 2: in my gap running sideway for like five or six yards.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, what you've seen a fire
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  Speaker 2: Murphy Cuddy year two coming back, and he's gonna get
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  Speaker 2: into a little bit more a little bit more so,
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  Speaker 2: I would say the biggest thing I've seen is just
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  Speaker 2: a mindset shift. You know, last year he came in
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  Speaker 2: not quite sure what to expect. You know, he's just
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  Speaker 2: trying to learn from what he's seeing and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas this year I heard him say from himself that
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  Speaker 2: he just wasn't satisfied with his rookie season. I think
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  Speaker 2: we think he did a great job. We know that
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  Speaker 2: there's like growing in this league, but the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he's not satisfied with it shows that, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: motivated to work hard.
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  Speaker 1: Think saving.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good question. I mean, I think just following
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  Speaker 2: the process, you know, it's just like just keep working hard,
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  Speaker 2: keep his head down. I think he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: great player in this league, but it's not gonna happen
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  Speaker 2: over day overnight. And I think as long as he
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  Speaker 2: just keeps his mindset focused on getting better and never
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  Speaker 2: being satisfied, like whether he had a good season or
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  Speaker 2: a bad season, that would just continue to be great.
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  Speaker 2: Might be different here too, is I would just say
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  Speaker 2: it just more like control of the team. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: he did a good job taking control, But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's hard on anyone coming from you know, his it's
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  Speaker 2: his first time being a head coach. And then also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Pete Kerr was here for so long. It's
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  Speaker 2: like it's hard for some half the team was here
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  Speaker 2: with Pete Carroll almost their whole career, so they have
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  Speaker 2: to shift from a certain type of style to Mike style,
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  Speaker 2: and I think like guys are just more bought into
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  Speaker 2: Mike style now. Yeah, for sure, I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had a ten win season last year where you know,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately didn't go to the playoffs. But overall, I think
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  Speaker 2: we have a belief in the staff, belief in our players,
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  Speaker 2: belief in you know, this whole building, and you know
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  Speaker 2: we're just out here competing and growing. I would just
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  Speaker 2: say player recognition. Last year, he had a great season,
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  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of it was just playing
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  Speaker 2: off of his athleticism and his natural ability. Whereas now
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a shift from you know, being a young
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  Speaker 2: guy into a vet where he's like calling stuff out
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  Speaker 2: pre snap and I think that's going to take his
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  Speaker 2: game to the next level for sure. Our second, I mean, overall,
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  Speaker 2: the number one thing I like about him is how
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  Speaker 2: much they talk, like they communicate well back there, They're
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  Speaker 2: like they get me fired up and I'm playing in
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  Speaker 2: the trenches and they're behind me. So like usually for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's like I hear linebackers and d Line talking like that,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't really hear like small guys like talking
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  Speaker 2: crap like that, And I just love to They have
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  Speaker 2: great energy, they fly around, and we just got a great,
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  Speaker 2: great secondary. It feels like, yeah, we joke around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: saying that d Law has the little brother he never
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  Speaker 2: had and d Hall has the big brother he never had,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they're competing and talking smack with each
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  Speaker 2: other all the time, but then they're also giving each
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  Speaker 2: other tips. I think D Law is just a great
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  Speaker 2: veteran for him to have. Right now, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think like d Hall is like one of those
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  Speaker 2: like aggressive mentality type of guys, and like sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't say bully, but like, for lack of better terms,
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  Speaker 2: I would just use that word. Sometimes he's like the
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  Speaker 2: bully that likes to walk around and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But then when he runs into the d law, like
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  Speaker 2: he's like doesn't take that type of stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So he finally like met somebody that can clash back
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  Speaker 2: with him. Thankfully, thank