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Geno Smith: "Great To Get A Win" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That's how'd that one feel?
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  Speaker 2: General? Uh, great to get a win, you know, great
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  Speaker 2: to get a win, especially at home in front of
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  Speaker 2: our fans. I thought the crowd was uh electric once again.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, it's always good to get a win.
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  Speaker 1: What was that chemistry like with DC and the final drive?
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  Speaker 1: You targeted three plans?
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  Speaker 2: I think great? Yeah, Uh you know DK and I
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  Speaker 2: you know he he's such a special player. Uh anych
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  Speaker 2: anytime we get a chance to get him the ball,
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  Speaker 2: especially when the game's on the line, he continues to
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  Speaker 2: show up and show you exactly who he is. I
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  Speaker 2: believe he's one of the better receivers in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, he played a tremendous game today,
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  Speaker 2: and uh we gotta keep that up. We gotta keep
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  Speaker 2: building on that. Right was for most to have both
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  Speaker 2: after the game and one. Yeah, you know, as you
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  Speaker 2: can see, decoordinators are trying just about everything to guard
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  Speaker 2: those guys, and uh it's really hard, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: him to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, either they're gonna you know, take away,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna double DK, or they're gonna double Tyler, and
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  Speaker 2: uh my job is to find a single Uh the
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  Speaker 2: guy who's matched up one on one. Typically typically those
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  Speaker 2: guys whin they're they're one on ones. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like Tyler had a great game, but it
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  Speaker 2: really started with protection, started with play calling. I felt like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all eleven played together today, no matter the circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: You know, started out a little rough, but we still
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  Speaker 2: got to you know, find find a way to get
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  Speaker 2: it done. You've always winning, love everything else, but you've
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  Speaker 2: also been a little hard on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You know, plays the way you want to. Plays come
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  Speaker 1: out today expador sixty seven yards know turned over how
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  Speaker 1: to how to day like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really doesn't matter to me personally. Like I
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  Speaker 2: always tell you guys, I know who I am as
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  Speaker 2: a player. I know exactly what I can do, and
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  Speaker 2: I always remain confident in that, you know. But I
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  Speaker 2: felt like just to get a win, you know, coming
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  Speaker 2: after coming back after last week, you know, felt like
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  Speaker 2: we did a lot of uncharacteristic things in that last game. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and it was important for us to kind of get
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  Speaker 2: back to who we are today.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt like we did that.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Like I said, I feel like Shane called
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  Speaker 2: an amazing game. I felt like the old line did
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they were supposed to do. They were great
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  Speaker 2: in the run game, great in the passing game. It
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  Speaker 2: allowed us to uh you know, really just dial ups
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  Speaker 2: and play and get some guys going. And even with that,
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  Speaker 2: I still feel like we left some stuff out there,
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of room for improvement. When you off
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  Speaker 2: and Ken game and then how did you see that
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  Speaker 2: sort of playoff? Yeah, anytime Ken gets the ball, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, a chance for a touchdown. And
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  Speaker 2: so when I yeah, when I whenever you dump it
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  Speaker 2: off to him three yard past sixty something yard touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll take them all like that. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, you know, Ken is such a great player,
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  Speaker 2: you just got to figure out ways to get him
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  Speaker 2: the ball in space. You know, we were trying to
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  Speaker 2: attack a different part of the field on that they
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  Speaker 2: took it away. You know, I felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I did something I was supposed to do, is check
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  Speaker 2: it down and was rewarded by you know, a great
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  Speaker 2: play by Ken.
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  Speaker 1: He said he told you to go into overtime before
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  Speaker 1: the series. Going to overtime is okay? Yeah, And do
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  Speaker 1: you have that? Did you change your approach in anyway because.
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  Speaker 2: Of that, not at all, not at all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I think that was Coach's way of reminding me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, don't have to do nothing nothing crazy with
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  Speaker 2: the football right there. But you know, you know when
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  Speaker 2: we're in that situation, we're we're right at home that
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  Speaker 2: every single day in the vMac H we knew exactly
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  Speaker 2: how much time we had, how many timeouts, Uh, just
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  Speaker 2: just about everything that we needed to do.
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  Speaker 1: We knew what to do.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, like I said, I feel like Shane called
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  Speaker 2: a great game down the stretch. DK made some tremendous plays,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just being exactly who he is. And then
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  Speaker 2: how about JM just going in there and finishing the
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  Speaker 2: game off, you know, really doing what he did, making
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  Speaker 2: five field goals.
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  Speaker 1: You know we needed every one of them. Any games
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  Speaker 1: like that. How important is level headed is? What does
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  Speaker 1: that provide you? Clarity wise in situation? It's everything, It's everything.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, Coach Carroll did a great job
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  Speaker 2: last night, uh talking to the team. He talked about
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  Speaker 2: quieting you know, the voice in the in the head, right,
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  Speaker 2: quieting the mind. And U for me and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: some other players, you know, I feel like I'm my
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  Speaker 2: own worst enemy. Sometimes, you know, I'm pushing myself to
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  Speaker 2: be the best I can be, and you know sometimes
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  Speaker 2: that gets to me. But uh, you know, coach did
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  Speaker 2: a great job and making sure that I was levelheaded
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  Speaker 2: and had a clear mind, and that allowed me to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and play the game I played.
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  Speaker 1: What do you remind yourself of in that moment? What
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  Speaker 1: what do you go back to? What is the deserve
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  Speaker 1: or something?
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  Speaker 2: Not really a cue, you know, just playing football, going
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  Speaker 2: out there and finishing the game, do the next right
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  Speaker 2: thing whatever that is. And uh, you know, making sure
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  Speaker 2: that I'm you know, always being in the right right
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  Speaker 2: friend of mind so that I can go out there
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  Speaker 2: and just play clear, level headed and make the right place.
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  Speaker 2: Not yet, there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Certain type of season you've let regard like what do
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  Speaker 1: you think? What do you think it just that allows
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  Speaker 1: you to be in the right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think yeah, like you said, poise, you
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  Speaker 2: know that's the key factor in it. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta be calm. You know, the guy's got to feel
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  Speaker 2: that calmness from you. Uh, you don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: you know, antie or anything in the huddle, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys get a little nervous, so being calm, but also
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  Speaker 2: just being in that position so many times throughout my
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  Speaker 2: lifetime playing football, knowing that, uh, you know, you're either
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  Speaker 2: gonna make the player you're not.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of ironic.
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  Speaker 2: I was like listening to Kobe Bryant, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of his interviews, and he was talking about missing the
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  Speaker 2: game winning shot, and he's like, you know, unpacking.
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  Speaker 1: What would what you know, what are you worried about?
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  Speaker 2: You know, if are you a failure if you miss it?
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  Speaker 2: And I truly leave there is no failure.
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  Speaker 1: You just learned.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you if you whether you win or
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  Speaker 2: you lose, you gotta continue to learn. And uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think today we got it done and that was all
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  Speaker 2: that mattered. What were you thinking at.
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  Speaker 1: Halftime, cause you guys put a lot of yards which
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  Speaker 1: only got the ninth ones and pick couple of fourth
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  Speaker 1: downs that after gone right and.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like that. Yeah, I felt like we were moving
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you know, I felt like we kind of
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  Speaker 2: moved the ball up and down the field and then
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  Speaker 2: just weren't able to finish in the red zone, something
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  Speaker 2: we talk about always, you know, just trying to finish
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, we knew that we get those opportunities to get
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  Speaker 2: in the second half, and we all collectively said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna finish when the time comes, We're gonna finish
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  Speaker 2: in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: And it felt like we did it. We did that
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  Speaker 1: when we needed to.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like you guys were protesting the grounding call
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the half there.
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  Speaker 1: What did officials tell you about that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I just called intentional grounding and you know I
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  Speaker 2: thought it wasn't, but they called it. So just some
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  Speaker 2: things I can correct on that, maybe get the ball
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  Speaker 2: out faster so that, uh, they don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Make that call. You just try to draw my site
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  Speaker 1: in that one fourth THEWN or yeah, yeah, truck, get
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  Speaker 1: my socks.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you learn?
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  Speaker 1: You said, some failures? We're what'd you want?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Shoot, man, that you gotta keep playing. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: keep on playing. The game's never over, which we know
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  Speaker 2: we've done this, you know, time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: But uh it's always a constant, you know, learning experience.
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  Speaker 1: That's just life in general.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So just trying to learn from every single uh test,
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  Speaker 2: every single opportunity. He does it a lot, but are
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  Speaker 2: used to like just wow sometimes with some of those
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  Speaker 2: tot tap catches that Tyler makes. Uh yeah, every time
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  Speaker 2: you see it, man, it's like a wi a wowing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler is uh again, he's got those small feet. Man,
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  Speaker 2: he just knows how to get him, get him in
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  Speaker 2: and you know, get him in bounds and uh you
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  Speaker 2: know he's gonna continue to make those plays.
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  Speaker 1: He practices that. Uh but he's he's really great at it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you also surprised to see sometimes how wide open
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  Speaker 2: you can hear? Yeah, Uh, not surprised, but uh very happy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, love love for him to get wide open
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  Speaker 2: every single time so make the throws easier. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's a great player. Uh, he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: we depend on and he comes through, you know, every
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  Speaker 2: single week.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, thank you, Thank you, guys,