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Devon Witherspoon: "We're Surrounded By A Lot Of Alphas" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What are questions of last year?
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  Speaker 2: He got a lot of talent. You know, he come in,
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  Speaker 2: he worked hard every day, he believed in itself. So
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  Speaker 2: like just with time and a little bit of experience, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna have a good year. So yeah, how far
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  Speaker 2: do you think that the work has the concept?
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  Speaker 1: Your first got a chance to see it, get back
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  Speaker 1: in the sperience that they came a long way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they still got a lot to learn.
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  Speaker 2: You just gotta get a little bit more comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: the defense and the play calling and stuff. But we
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  Speaker 2: all had to go through that phase. Well, coach Mike
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  Speaker 2: got first got here, so they got a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: They just gonna continue to grow.
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  Speaker 1: So there's always an emphasis on communication in this defense.
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  Speaker 1: Has it gone up of love over already?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta, We got a lot of We just
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  Speaker 2: gotta do it a lot better and more consistent. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, just early, were just not getting back. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, if we want to be
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  Speaker 2: the team we want to be and the defense we
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  Speaker 2: want to be, we gotta take it up or not
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  Speaker 2: so you may get better.
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  Speaker 1: Is it getting the right towards it?
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  Speaker 2: Doing it for a little bit of both it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of emotions and stuff. We just gotta communicate pre
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  Speaker 2: snap and posting up as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we just gotta get more comfortable with it. So
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  Speaker 1: what good communication due to this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Will help us play faster than you know, be alert
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  Speaker 2: for a certain routes that's coming or certain play uh
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  Speaker 2: concepts that's gonna coming. And then once we play ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the snap. Can't nobody really do nothing with us so.
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  Speaker 1: Different this offseason to get ready for this season. O G.
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  Speaker 2: So I just consistent of what I do. Man, Whatever
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  Speaker 2: what I was doing was working, So I'm just continue with.
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  Speaker 1: That I was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't change.
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  Speaker 2: He's still gonna beat cole might ven Donald. Man, that's
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  Speaker 2: the best thing about him. So he's still himself.
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  Speaker 1: Are you stilling a progress from the offenses? They're getting
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  Speaker 1: used stick like Kubiak at each other.
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  Speaker 2: Uh started, Yeah, of course, And like I said, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of guys they was working with each other in
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  Speaker 2: the off seasons just getting better at what they was doing.
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  Speaker 2: So coach cub had been doing a great job with
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  Speaker 2: those guys, and man, they just buying into the offense.
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  Speaker 1: So once they get a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit a little bit more comfortable with it they gonna have,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be hard to stop.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you knew Shaquill Griffin at all before,
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  Speaker 3: but I've been having him kind of joined the uh
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  Speaker 3: you know, what's your I guess the different presser kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting.
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  Speaker 1: Know the little you have a og savy vet in
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  Speaker 1: the room.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Like I said, he's played here, he's what it
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  Speaker 2: takes to win, and then we just taking a just
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  Speaker 2: learning a lot from him, especially you've been playing a
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  Speaker 2: long time in cornering in this league, so we just
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of information as.
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  Speaker 1: We can from Yeah, adf both referred to you as
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's taken all leadership wrong with together. What
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  Speaker 1: if leadership look like to you? You know, just being
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  Speaker 1: consistent with who.
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  Speaker 2: I am, being a guy that they can go trust
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  Speaker 2: and like. And the guys around they put their faith
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  Speaker 2: in me to do what I do. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to go out there and be the
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  Speaker 2: alpha male man. But we surround a while a lot
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  Speaker 2: of alpha, so it's really all of us leaders on defense.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes it easy to play in this defense.
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  Speaker 1: Wool, what do you see? It's early, but what do
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  Speaker 1: he seems for he seems like he's locked in.
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  Speaker 2: The business, like locked in this year like he you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, We just continue to be better,
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  Speaker 2: but we got we got a lot of stuff you
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  Speaker 2: ready to show a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: So we just just time. We just gotta wait, just
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  Speaker 1: wait on it.
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  Speaker 3: A top ten list possession NFL content by physician's, voted
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  Speaker 3: on by executives, coaches, and you came in and number.
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  Speaker 1: Ten from about quarterbacks. I'm wondering if you saw that
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  Speaker 1: the NFL the reactions to no, I ain't see it,
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  Speaker 1: but appreciated though all ready intention to be there like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you evern't seem like there's a lot more juice
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  Speaker 1: out there today?
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  Speaker 3: How ready are you to put on time?
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  Speaker 2: We ready, though we just take time with it, but
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  Speaker 2: were ready, were ready to get out there it man,
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  Speaker 2: season right around the corner is coming up fast.
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  Speaker 3: So ready to go to work and you know all
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  Speaker 3: this dv's house, like get into the ball, running to
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  Speaker 3: the ball and kind of getting the right for.
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  Speaker 2: It's important to press practice the way you play. So
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well you do that over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: By the time game they come, is it's easy, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, We've been doing this for the longest,
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  Speaker 2: so we just got to do it consistent, over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get bored with it.
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  Speaker 3: So right, you want something about his game or the
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  Speaker 3: way you could learned that we wouldn't necessarily that was
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  Speaker 3: just from washing to the outside.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Kobe, he consistent with what he do every day.
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  Speaker 2: He he Kobe, man, he just if you got to
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  Speaker 2: know him, to.
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  Speaker 1: Really know him.
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  Speaker 2: But like he come out there, he communicate, he study,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. He he do everything well, bro.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like having him behind you. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, he gonna make all the right calls and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And then bro, he just he just himself. So I
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  Speaker 2: shot out the a ball. Man, he just real comfortable
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  Speaker 2: when you know he got him behind And then I think.
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  Speaker 3: He came he liking them the Jordan and the documentary.
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  Speaker 1: Where so he takes certain personal like but.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of ex does we have there?
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  Speaker 2: And Kobe got a lot of 's man, because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people think he couldn't do what he do
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  Speaker 2: even though he changed position. So it's like, man, he
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  Speaker 2: really don't buy to what everybody else be saying though,
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  Speaker 2: but he just I feel like it's more he got
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  Speaker 2: a point to pool himself.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like it's it's really much that though, Either
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  Speaker 1: what are your expectations of this defense, whether it's stats.
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  Speaker 2: Or I mean, we just gotta build on what we
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  Speaker 2: did last year. We seeing later on in the season
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  Speaker 2: how when we started to click. Man, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teams had trouble, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying being us, So we're just trying to build on
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  Speaker 2: that and we're just trying to be the best defense
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  Speaker 2: in the league this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nick, Kevin Mourriy playing the film gonna be great. Man.
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  Speaker 2: He got he big, he got a lot of size,
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  Speaker 2: He can run, he physical, he can do everything you
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  Speaker 2: want him to do. So once he get comfortable with this,
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  Speaker 2: and once he gets a little bit more experienced, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be hard to you know what I'm saying, block
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  Speaker 2: that cat.
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  Speaker 1: Right, What do you mentioning him on? What are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to struggle? Just the defense itself and being in
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  Speaker 1: that nickel role, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he got a lot to learn, but just
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  Speaker 2: you're just trying to coach him up and see how
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  Speaker 2: I did it and then like, but I want him
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  Speaker 2: to do his own way, you know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 2: once he get comfortable with doing it and learn the
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  Speaker 2: defense stuff, I just want him to do his own way.
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  Speaker 3: So said, he might need to have the door closed
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  Speaker 3: because then you're coming up there and ask your questions.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever go up to coach office? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I go out down and talk to him sometimes, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm already locked in where we already got
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  Speaker 2: our relationship wrong going up there where you guys talking now, huh.
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  Speaker 1: What we're gonna do for today? You know? And then
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  Speaker 1: I come. We just go in there and make jokes
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  Speaker 1: with each other for real. Man, So we got a
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  Speaker 1: good relationship. You're blitzing. You got a sense on how
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna use you, but it might be different about him.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got no sense. But whatever he needs me
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  Speaker 1: to do, I'm gonna do it. That's all. That's one
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  Speaker 1: thing I tell him.
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  Speaker 2: Favorite part of maybe what how he uses.
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  Speaker 1: You a little bit? But I like to do it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's nothing. I feel like it's nothing I can't do.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever he need me to do, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: it done.
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  Speaker 1: The NTHFL had to pick today, and you really thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on him, right, he can't work with hey Debil? Can
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  Speaker 1: he come and prove itself?
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  Speaker 2: And he coming out here he making play so side
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  Speaker 2: the bail, well, you're gonna have a good year.
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  Speaker 3: The edge rushers often talk about studying the feed on
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  Speaker 3: tackles and as a corner. Are there things when you're
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  Speaker 3: sizing up a receiver like some of the new guys
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  Speaker 3: that you're going up against, or when you're game planning,
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  Speaker 3: are there things that you look at first trying to
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  Speaker 3: size up opponents as far as trying to prepare game
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  Speaker 3: planning wise for going up against those guys.
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  Speaker 1: You just gotta study tape. Once you get tennessees.
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  Speaker 2: On what they like to do, you just try to
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  Speaker 2: You work at it throughout the week, and then once
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  Speaker 2: you get to the game, you kind of know what
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna do when you get it to them.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you just gotta study the film everything else. Thanks. Thanks,