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Cooper Kupp: "We're Just Going To Keep Getting Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So everyone fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Similar yesterday, But how much different does this feel for you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys all being together for a full year versus last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I M I can't speak for everyone, but I
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  Speaker 3: know for me personally, coming in knowing people, knowing how
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  Speaker 3: to get around the facility, knowing how to get to
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  Speaker 3: the facility, like all those things like having a house,
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  Speaker 3: having a home, all those things. Is it's uh, that
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  Speaker 3: felt very different this year. And obviously knowing a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about the guys, how you know, how things are
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  Speaker 3: run here, how Mike operates, how we operate as a
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  Speaker 3: team and all that, so all the stuff that goes
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  Speaker 3: into functioning at a high level, just being a little
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  Speaker 3: bit ahead definitely helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get any thoughts that maybe going out on top?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, never for a second.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm loving playing this game too much, and I just, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I love play football, and so I'm I'm enjoying it
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, so that was never a thought.
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  Speaker 1: Messages running forward.
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  Speaker 2: But the second time you plain to the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room, what do you guys take away
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  Speaker 2: from the knowledge that you've you've gotten to the amount of
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  Speaker 2: times before you want that's a different.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's always like, like, no matter what happens
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  Speaker 3: from one year to the next, there's gonna be good
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  Speaker 3: and there's gonna be bad. And I think that what
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  Speaker 3: you what you don't want to fall into is this
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  Speaker 3: idea of thinking that just because something worked, that it
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  Speaker 3: was the best way of doing things. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, there's the balance of knowing that if something
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  Speaker 3: did work, sometimes it's best not to fix something that
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  Speaker 3: was working. So all that being said, it's like, you
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  Speaker 3: treat this just like any other year. You you look
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  Speaker 3: at the things that you look at your film, you
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  Speaker 3: look at the process, you look at you know, your
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  Speaker 3: what you put on tape and what you uh, what
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  Speaker 3: your year was the year before. You identify things that
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  Speaker 3: can get better. You scrutinize, and then you know, you
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  Speaker 3: build on those things all off season and you try
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  Speaker 3: to attack the weaknesses. You know, like regard that you
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  Speaker 3: don't look at the results at all. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of the that's the best way to do
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  Speaker 3: it because that's what you've done. All these guys there
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  Speaker 3: in this building have done that year after year, if
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  Speaker 3: their entire lives. That's why you're playing in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: right now. It is because you've continually found ways to
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  Speaker 3: get better and you know, take that same approach.
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  Speaker 1: Regard regardless of what the result was.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, hey, we can get better, we can scrutinize,
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  Speaker 3: we can be we can dive into things, and just
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  Speaker 3: because something worked, it doesn't mean that we can't still
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  Speaker 3: find ways to improve on it. Say, how do you
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  Speaker 3: maintain that consistency when you have a new offensive.
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  Speaker 4: Coordinator this year from last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you know there's a certain standard of operation
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  Speaker 3: that we you know, live by and a mentality that
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  Speaker 3: you haveving you step in this building, and so part
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  Speaker 3: is just you know, carrying through that like that that
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  Speaker 3: needs to stay the same and being in a headspace,
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  Speaker 3: being a bringing the energy to allow the work to
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  Speaker 3: get done. That's going to allow you to get better.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Brian's an unbelievable job of himself meeting
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  Speaker 3: that standard, coming in with an ability to challenge people
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  Speaker 3: and push people, find ways to tinker and find the
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  Speaker 3: ways to get the best out of people and and
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  Speaker 3: recognizing personnel what the strengths and weaknesses are here. And
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  Speaker 3: he's been he's been awesome in terms of just how
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  Speaker 3: he's installing things in the detail of all that. So
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  Speaker 3: we're just gonna keep getting better, and there is a
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  Speaker 3: The way that you keep continuity is by continuing to
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  Speaker 3: keep that same energy, that the same process and uh coming
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  Speaker 3: ready to work.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, if I remember correctly, I think you described
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak as someone who was pulled off a ranch
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  Speaker 2: in Texas to be an NFL coordinator. That I think, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't hope I'm not misquoting you. But how would
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  Speaker 2: you describe Brian Flurry?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, I mean he's I thought Clint was so uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, calm, soft spoken, how he like went about
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  Speaker 3: like there's times like there's gonna be fiery moments and.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought he was so calm and collecting all
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  Speaker 3: of this stuff, and like Brian's given clean to run
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  Speaker 3: for the money in terms of that same demeanor of
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  Speaker 3: just like, hey, there's gonna be a there's just a
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  Speaker 3: clear understanding and so there's not a there's no jittery energy,
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  Speaker 3: there's no like false energy. It's just hey, this is
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  Speaker 3: is what I know to be true. This is how
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna you know, execute it. These are my expectations.
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  Speaker 3: Then we go out there and make it happen. Then
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  Speaker 3: we'll make corrections and move forward.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: He allows guys to I think you allow a lot
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  Speaker 3: of freedom in that, a lot of guys to just
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  Speaker 3: play free and let it go because you know there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be someone that knows what they're talking about and
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  Speaker 3: is ready to coach you in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been awesome in that way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a geographical location for you from where
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  Speaker 3: he came from, but but he's been great.
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  Speaker 2: How do you how do you put last year kind
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  Speaker 2: of a perspective when you just think about it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of do a new team and all the two
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  Speaker 2: went to the found that ended up at the super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a it was it was
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  Speaker 3: a really cool journey, incredible looking back on and all
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  Speaker 3: the highs and lows and things like that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's just it's like all that being said,
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's great being here now, being here with
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  Speaker 3: the guys, understanding that there's a relationship. There's just there
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  Speaker 3: is a lot of continuity going into this year, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of built trust.
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  Speaker 1: And and camaraderie.
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  Speaker 3: That's I think has carried in and made you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming here this year, you know, some really good feeling
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  Speaker 3: heading into O Tas and the work that we put
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  Speaker 3: in Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Teams work, and guys get paid in the league.
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  Speaker 2: And are you surprised at how much continuity they work
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  Speaker 2: able to retain ups there for this year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about surprising. I mean I have like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think we I think it's a fun place fim work.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun, fun organization to be a part of.
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  Speaker 3: And got a lot of really good people here, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you come to work and you have got
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  Speaker 3: if you want to be about the right stuff, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be around a lot of the right people here.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that you know, breachs like exaidt Man,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that's it's not like that everywhere, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've heard I've only been two places, but I've heard
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  Speaker 3: horror stories. Thankfully never had to live in those places.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a there's a few places I know that
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  Speaker 3: around the league that are are unique in that way.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we've got a little bit of an
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  Speaker 3: uncommon thing here.
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  Speaker 2: What goes through your mind when you walk in here
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  Speaker 2: and you see the banner up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, I mean it was, uh, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's like there's there's moments of reflection, right, there's moments
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  Speaker 3: of understanding that.
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  Speaker 1: We show these banners that's helping the up here.
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  Speaker 3: Is like there's a story and uh a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you know, blood, sweat and tears behind each of them,
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  Speaker 3: and so there's a there's like the the respect for
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  Speaker 3: what went into those things and what those stand for
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  Speaker 3: and the journey that they stand for, the hardships that
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  Speaker 3: were overcoming the shows things. But it's also like at
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  Speaker 3: the end of that moment of reflection is like the
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  Speaker 3: the period at the end, and that says like, well,
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  Speaker 3: like like now what you know, It's like this is like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it took.
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  Speaker 3: This is what like that that was, and now you're
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  Speaker 3: in it and you're moving forward and there's an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to go and be a part of another one experience
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  Speaker 3: what it's like to go and chase after something really
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  Speaker 3: special like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: What the biggest challenge was when you went through this
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  Speaker 2: with the right now.
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  Speaker 1: When they went a Super Bowl from one year to
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  Speaker 1: the next.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean those are they're so unique, right, Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's so unique we uh, you know, back
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  Speaker 3: in twenty two, like the the injuries and things that
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  Speaker 3: were going on, and we weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Able, like we were out here. You know, we've been out.
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  Speaker 3: Here for however I can I don't want to see the
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  Speaker 3: amount of time we've been out here for the max
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  Speaker 3: allotted amount of time for OTAs and like and competing
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  Speaker 3: the whole time, you know, and we weren't even like
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  Speaker 3: we weren't capable of doing that in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 3: in LA because we had just tuned the injuries we
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  Speaker 3: got like we couldn't do it. So it's very different,
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  Speaker 3: right in terms of how like what's your approach in
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  Speaker 3: that regard And what's been great is just being able
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  Speaker 3: come out here and guys are healthy, guys are competing,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been like it's been some really good work,
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  Speaker 3: you know, moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, being able to chase them especially.
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  Speaker 3: Are the importance of having honest discussion when you're building
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  Speaker 3: a challenge of environment that continues to build and talk
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  Speaker 3: about that. Yeah, well, I mean, shoot, just like anything
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  Speaker 3: that's worth going through is gonna be difficult if it's
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  Speaker 3: easy you're gonna get to the end of the at
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  Speaker 3: the end of that journey, and whatever you're holding at
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  Speaker 3: the end of that it's not gonna hold much weight.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just that's just how life seems to be.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like my wife and I take that same
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  Speaker 3: approach in our marriage in terms of having hard conversations
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  Speaker 3: and not running away from difficult things and being able
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  Speaker 3: to face them head on.
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  Speaker 1: Together and in the same way.
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  Speaker 3: And I want my marriage to be great the same
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  Speaker 3: way you want an organization to be great. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: be able to tell the truth to each other, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta be able to have hard conversations. You've got to
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  Speaker 3: be able to model those things and be accepting of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that, like there's gonnay times that you do
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  Speaker 3: fall short, and when you do get called on it,
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  Speaker 3: be looking through yourself in the mirror and say like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was that was wrong, and and we're gonna find
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  Speaker 3: a way to you know, get through it and find
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  Speaker 3: the way we want to operate. And so regardless of
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  Speaker 3: whatever successes have happened, regardless of whatever I said, whatever results.
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  Speaker 1: Is, we can win a game.
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  Speaker 3: Just because you win a game doesn't mean there aren't
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  Speaker 3: some good, hard conversations that need to happen on that
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning about things that we need to do Betterause,
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  Speaker 3: guys that are gonna get coached hard because the result
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  Speaker 3: doesn't change what the process was, right, Like, we want
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  Speaker 3: to be about the processing, about be about challenging ourselves
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  Speaker 3: to be the best day in and day out, to
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  Speaker 3: give ourselves the best chance at a positive outcome. That
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  Speaker 3: only happens by you know, constantly scrutinizing that process and
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  Speaker 3: how we operate. And that takes hard conversations and some
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  Speaker 3: good like people are willing to be challenged.
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  Speaker 2: You guys were the best two tight end team in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL last year at the Rams were the best
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  Speaker 2: three tight a lot of tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: Getting added to your offensive. What do you see with
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  Speaker 1: how tight ends and the relations to the slot receiver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's cool that the three tight end offense is called
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  Speaker 3: the modern offense. Right like two years ago that wasn't
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  Speaker 3: the case. And so it's just it's cool. I'm seeing it.
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  Speaker 3: Like the cycle, it's all like everyone's just chasing each other.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dog chasing a tail, right, Like who's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have the upper hand Defenses moved into the cover four stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Offense has moved into heavier, tight end sets and like pay,
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  Speaker 3: where's gonna run the ball? Make you get your Saty's
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  Speaker 3: going have to get back in the box. So it'll
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  Speaker 3: be interesting to see what happens. You know, what's what's
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  Speaker 3: the next move gonna be? I think it's the defensive
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  Speaker 3: turned this year to figure out what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see if they answer the bell for us.
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  Speaker 4: You've talked about the balancing act of you know, not
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  Speaker 4: we're inventing the wheel, but also being able to evolve
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  Speaker 4: from coach flurry standpoint, How are you seeing him handle
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  Speaker 4: back coming in with a similar system but trying to
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  Speaker 4: put his own stamp on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the like you can't there's no
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  Speaker 3: coffee and paste right like where he's coming from Bed
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  Speaker 3: that had certain you know, characteristics, certain strengths, certain weaknesses,
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  Speaker 3: and your jobs to take a lot of those same
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  Speaker 3: concepts and he's gonna take it like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the things that he believes in.
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  Speaker 1: And how do.
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  Speaker 3: You formulate that and how do you tweak it and
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  Speaker 3: how do you make it your own to fit who
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks are This year and how do we make
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  Speaker 3: that come to life? And so there's a there's a
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  Speaker 3: balancing act there. And that's the great thing about I
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  Speaker 3: think coaching in general is you've got this opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: always grow and build and change and adapt because if
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  Speaker 3: you don't, you die. And so like that's uh, they've
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  Speaker 3: done a great job of that, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: really cool to see as it continues. Like you get
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  Speaker 3: so many of these reps here in OTAs. Now they
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  Speaker 3: get an opportunity to you know, have six after this
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  Speaker 3: mini camp, it gets you know, five or six weeks
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  Speaker 3: to be able to like build on these things. So
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  Speaker 3: when we come back for a training camp, there's answers
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  Speaker 3: for the things that maybe there were questions about before.
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  Speaker 3: There's new things that we're gonna be able to get
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  Speaker 3: challenged on. And yeah, it's a it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: really cool thing. We got the right people doing it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of being on hard knocks? That's good, great,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. It's gonna suck, it'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've I've done it before and it's like
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  Speaker 3: it alsto like you you kind of like dread it
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  Speaker 3: because you're like gosh, dang it. The like cameras being
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  Speaker 3: everywhere is challenging, but it does kind of just fade
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  Speaker 3: into the background eventually, So it'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: I've told uh, I've told I ask him some really
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  Speaker 3: challenging questions as soon as like every time he walks
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  Speaker 3: in the room, like as soon as the cameras are on,
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  Speaker 3: really challenging, just like test some things, you know, put
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  Speaker 3: me in some uncomfortable situations. We'll see how he handles it.
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  Speaker 3: Soccer fans, soccer fan watch the World Cups. I'll I
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  Speaker 3: will inevitably, inevitably watch the World Cup. I like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't watch a ton of stuff right I'm out on
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  Speaker 3: the TV. I watch the TV a ton. I watch
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  Speaker 3: the French Open. I love tennis, Like when the major
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  Speaker 3: like like major tennis tournaments are on, I'm watching, like
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  Speaker 3: when it's like like NBA finals are on, I'm watching hockey,
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  Speaker 3: like when the hockey will get to the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year, stole the.
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  Speaker 1: Cup I'm watching.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm kind of like I kind of nitpicked to
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  Speaker 3: choose the more intense times.
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  Speaker 1: So your prediction on who wins is what, Yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Sure I'm gonna say something that's just outrageous for whoever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's ever been done before, but it
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  Speaker 3: would be from what i've what i've I've gathered, it
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  Speaker 3: would be an outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: Underdog story.
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  Speaker 3: But like if the US were to pull something together,
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  Speaker 3: it would be like it would be crazy, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: has that ever been done before the United States? No?
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  Speaker 1: At them men?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But and then it's like they haven't exactly built
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  Speaker 3: confidence in the early stages. So we'll see though they're
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  Speaker 3: saving up, they're saving it, they've gone through the trials,
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  Speaker 3: pardoned by fire.
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  Speaker 1: They're ready to go. Thank you,