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Ricky White III: "This Was One Of The Best Weekends Of My Life" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So with the team. Oh man, it was a blessing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get here to work with these guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: great coaching staff here, and I'm I'm super blessed. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the best weekends of my life for me.
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  Speaker 1: So it is white family here. I do, yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I have brought out my mother, uh father,
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  Speaker 1: and my two sisters and my girlfriend. They probably don't
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  Speaker 1: typically give a chance to watch you practice. They do not.
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  Speaker 1: They were super happy about it. You know, you this
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  Speaker 1: is Seattle, great city, and I'm thankful that they hear. Also,
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  Speaker 1: why would it one of your best weekends of your
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  Speaker 1: life just being in the NFL you know club Uh,
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  Speaker 1: getting to practice in uh facity like this. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: a blessing really, uh being out there competing, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: learning new plays, me new guys. Uh. Yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a great feeling from yesterday to today. There's
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  Speaker 1: a day one and day two in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: you practiced or anything like that. This h I would
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  Speaker 1: definitely say now it was really you know, just going
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  Speaker 1: out practicing EXEQ the things that I was being taught.
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  Speaker 1: What was your your all the block punch you had
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  Speaker 1: in college. What was kind of the key that had
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  Speaker 1: h really saw I had a my special team corner
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  Speaker 1: was James Cheves, great special teams coordinator. Gave me some
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  Speaker 1: so much knowledge about punk blocking and just being a
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  Speaker 1: great special teams player. Really, I learned so much technique
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  Speaker 1: and detailed from him that comes with like chasing the
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  Speaker 1: hip of the uh in man line of scrimmas defender
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  Speaker 1: and that really just that get off, like pay more
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  Speaker 1: attention to you, for sure. Any of the guys that
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  Speaker 1: you got to know a little bit in the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, who's talking about own on the like
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  Speaker 1: on the team already? Yeah, uh, not really much of
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the rookie class for sure. Man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty much. I mean I got to meet everybody
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  Speaker 1: in my class, but Horton of course, Toy Horton. We
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  Speaker 1: all just you know, came together as a good rookie class. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel catching passes from Jail and Phil the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. It's good. He's a great quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're in the same boat right now, learning the offense,
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  Speaker 1: getting our installs together. We're just trying to get that
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  Speaker 1: chemistry together. Really when it comes to special teams in college,
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  Speaker 1: did they approach you first or did you approach them
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  Speaker 1: and say, I want to be on a team. I
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  Speaker 1: told my special teams coordinator that I need to be
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  Speaker 1: on the field special teams. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I was on the field that gave my team
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  Speaker 1: and advantage to win. And I gave him a hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent on every special team that I was on. How
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  Speaker 1: special is it to be out here with Jackson when
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  Speaker 1: the two of you guys were catalysts to getting ULV
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  Speaker 1: to being a top team. It's really crazy how God works.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he works some mysterious ways, and I'll give
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  Speaker 1: him all the glue. Or just being able to be here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with my former teammate, we feeding off each
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  Speaker 1: other's energy. Seeing him make plays today and yesterday, it
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  Speaker 1: was just, you know, a great feeling. Anyone else, Thank you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you ver