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Boye Mafe "The Game Has Slowed Down For Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Wait what Pee tells totals between your one of year
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  Speaker 1: two is one of the biggest quotes.
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  Speaker 2: Where is the biggest quoting? Honestly, for me, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing I've noticed myself is that the game has slowed
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  Speaker 2: down for me. I've been spent a lot of off
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  Speaker 2: season watching film, watching the ball, knowing situations, knowing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in the game, so that I could
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  Speaker 2: slow the game down for myself. I felt like that
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  Speaker 2: was the biggest thing for me last year is that
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  Speaker 2: I was playing a little frantic and now I'm starting
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  Speaker 2: to get the comfortability and understanding what I got to
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  Speaker 2: do out there, and you know, being comfortable my own skin.
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  Speaker 1: Does that help you more and run defense or past pressing.
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  Speaker 2: In one or the other. Yeah, I mean it makes it.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it the world a lot easier in those situations,
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially in the run, knowing what to expect
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  Speaker 2: and what situations you're going to get in the run
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  Speaker 2: and especially in the past, know what type of protections
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna see, uh know one, what to expect from
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  Speaker 2: the offense. So it definitely makes my job a lot
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  Speaker 2: easier and it makes me, you know, makes the game
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  Speaker 2: a lot slower for me.
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  Speaker 1: Way was it was there a time last year where
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  Speaker 1: it started to for you that you thought that you
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  Speaker 1: noticed it was slowing down for you, And did it
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  Speaker 1: kind of take reflecting them moment year to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get that kind of epiphany.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely moments in the last season. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely towards the end of the year, I started
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  Speaker 2: getting more comfortable, you know, l A, you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: towards in the playoffs and those type of games started
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  Speaker 2: getting a little easier. But especially after those two you know,
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  Speaker 2: going back reflecting on those, uh, you know, seeing what
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  Speaker 2: I did in last season and knowing where I needed
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  Speaker 2: to improve my game, and then you know, focusing on
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  Speaker 2: that in the off season and how tricky is.
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  Speaker 1: It trying to get a strip sack on the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And read that was an accident. I'll beld just saying
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  Speaker 2: that that was not meant that was not playing. I
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  Speaker 2: did not try to do. That was to touch the
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  Speaker 2: arm at all. You know, they're off Yeah, they're off limits.
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  Speaker 2: So that was just a little accident. Yeah, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: can check the film.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think in particular this offseason that you
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  Speaker 1: did differently or worked on to kind of prove, Like
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  Speaker 1: just during your own off season.
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  Speaker 2: Time, I found my routine. You know, the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 2: especially coming from as a rookie year, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: coming off of you know, combine training, all those things,
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  Speaker 2: coming into a new defense, coming into a new team,
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  Speaker 2: knowing I didn't really know what I was doing, and
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  Speaker 2: you know this year, I told myself this off season,
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna spend a lot of time understanding where
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  Speaker 2: my role is, Understanding how do this defense works for me,
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  Speaker 2: and understanding the grand scheme what we're trying to accomplish. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Spend a lot of time you know, in the film
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  Speaker 2: room with coach Hurt, spent a lot of time on
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  Speaker 2: the field and now having BT in there and understanding
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  Speaker 2: my concept of my pass rush and what I need
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  Speaker 2: to accomplish from my goals, you know, put it in
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  Speaker 2: together and not making a plan with it.
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  Speaker 1: Does BT like personalize a pass us kind of playing
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  Speaker 1: grand scheme for every guy this season or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, you know every guy's not the same, especially
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  Speaker 2: in this game. You can't have everybody rush to saying
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  Speaker 2: we would never work. So you got to understand what
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  Speaker 2: your abilities are, what your you know, specialties are and
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  Speaker 2: working with those and he does a great job to
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  Speaker 2: talking to everybody and coming up with a plan that
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  Speaker 2: works for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: What's the What are some of the strengths identified in
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  Speaker 1: your plan?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, there's a little bit of everything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's you know, power rush, understanding when it's time to
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  Speaker 2: fitess when it's time to you know, throttle it down,
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  Speaker 2: use a counter and just understanding the situation, seeing what
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  Speaker 2: you're getting versus what you know putting out there. When
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  Speaker 2: you say you're watching ball and stuff, but you just
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  Speaker 2: watch you or you watch an outside linebacker play in general,
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  Speaker 2: takeet a better field, a little bit of both. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta reflect on what you did. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: understand where your mistakes were, where you messed up, and
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  Speaker 2: you know what you honestly and you have that honest
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  Speaker 2: conversation with yourself and figure out what you can figure
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  Speaker 2: out and uh, have that honest conversation to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what you can do better, and then understanding how other
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  Speaker 2: people play it and understand what may be a better
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  Speaker 2: way to play it when the game slows down.
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  Speaker 1: How much is helping.
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  Speaker 2: Communication pre snap and everything knows with the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the defenders. It's night and day. I mean it's it's
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  Speaker 2: once you understand what you're seeing, you you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can almost predetermine when you have to communicate, when you
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  Speaker 2: need to communication, and it's you know, it helps a
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  Speaker 2: lot in that standpoint, because then that way you're not behind,
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  Speaker 2: you're not playing catch up before the snap and your
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  Speaker 2: frantic and looking around with what a you gotta do?
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  Speaker 2: That way, you doing it beforehand, and that way when
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  Speaker 2: a situation occurs, you're already prepared for it. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, guys,