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Drew Lock: "It Was A Complete Game From Both Sides Of The Ball" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're back.
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  Speaker 2: How'd that feel?
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Felt really good. Um, yeah, it was, it was
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  Speaker 1: a complete game. I'd say from both sides of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: special teams as well. Um, our defense is, is very good. Um,
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  Speaker 1: giving us the ball on some advantageous situations. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that first quarter playing out so weird. I think there
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  Speaker 1: was like five plays on offense. Um, them stopping them,
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  Speaker 1: us getting the ball, us scoring quick, them having to
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  Speaker 1: go back out there, then us going three and out,
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  Speaker 1: then them having to go back out there and just
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  Speaker 1: kept chugging away. Hats off to them for the way
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  Speaker 1: they played. Talk about the O-line for a sec. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome playing behind those guys. They're an awesome group,
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  Speaker 1: an awesome unit. Picked me up all week. Talked through
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  Speaker 1: everything all week. Man, they were so fun to work
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  Speaker 1: with and To be able to go on that drive
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  Speaker 1: that they did where all I had to do was say,
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  Speaker 1: set hut, and hand it off to E-Man, who did
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal job on that drive, too. That was just awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Just awesome football by those guys.
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  Speaker 2: To close a game out like that, just like you said,
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  Speaker 2: just hand the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Off, pound it, just how satisfying is that.
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  Speaker 1: As a team? Oh, it's awesome. I mean, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's something Mike talks about often. We talk about
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  Speaker 1: pushing piles often. Finishing, going forward, never backwards. I honestly
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  Speaker 1: feel like you could look at every play in that
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  Speaker 1: drive and say that we were trying to do all
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  Speaker 1: of those and probably succeeding almost. Now, pile pushes don't
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  Speaker 1: always happen, but they were going to try, and I
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  Speaker 1: know they were. Awesome job. Even Jax on that play,
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  Speaker 1: the little screen to the right, making a guy miss,
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  Speaker 1: getting vertical and stretching for the first down to continue
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  Speaker 1: that drive was huge.
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  Speaker 3: The first touchdown, did you notice how quickly he shook
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  Speaker 3: that defender with the fake? How surprised were you?
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  Speaker 1: I was a little surprised. How I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: going to do it didn't happen. That's the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: playing with him. He's going to find ways to get open.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be the most conventional, but that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes him a ball player and that's what makes him
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  Speaker 1: one of the best receivers offensive player of the year
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  Speaker 1: last year. That's just what he is, what he does.
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  Speaker 1: It's so fun to play with, which is why I
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  Speaker 1: think I probably could have gotten it out a step sooner,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you got to, sometimes you got to see
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  Speaker 1: how he comes out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Was that supposed to be a go route the whole time,
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  Speaker 3: or he shook him so much it became one?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was not a go route the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: but he managed to make it one.
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  Speaker 3: How did you think he was going to, you thought
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  Speaker 3: he was going to take longer on?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd never expect him to inside, inside release the corner.
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  Speaker 1: That's just not, it's not a typical thing, but man,
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to play that far outside and, You
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  Speaker 1: want to get vertical on them, go ahead. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was cool.
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  Speaker 3: Walk us through the other two touchdowns. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is a fun day for you. Let's go through touchdown
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  Speaker 3: number two to Jackson. What are you thinking at the
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  Speaker 3: line scrimmage? And then you snap the ball. Walk us
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  Speaker 3: through all that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shoot. We had the motion, pushing a guy out
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  Speaker 1: wide to the right. They were showing me shell, which is, like,
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  Speaker 1: disappointing because, like, I wanted to go to the route
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  Speaker 1: that I ended up doing. But, man, I lift my leg.
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  Speaker 1: Both safeties kind of started creeping down Ended up bringing
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  Speaker 1: zero on us with a couple poppers. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's my job to get the ball out on zero, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: because we just don't have enough to block. But when
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  Speaker 1: they pop, it then becomes my job to avoid the poppers.
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  Speaker 1: Jacks ran a fantastic route. We're through. The poppers. Try
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  Speaker 1: to go over, maybe to the side. But Jacks ran
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  Speaker 1: a great route. And they ended up giving us the
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  Speaker 1: look that I was personally hoping for, and.
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  Speaker 4: It worked out. When you have worked to get to
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  Speaker 4: this moment and you're thrown to the Offense Player of
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  Speaker 4: the Year and you have this defense, all those circumstances, just.
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  Speaker 3: Like how much joy are you playing with?
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  Speaker 2: It looked like you had a fun time today.
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  Speaker 4: How much fun was this and how does that compare
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  Speaker 4: to maybe some previous stops in your career?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, today was a whole lot of fun. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was just accumulation of obviously the work put in
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week, everybody adjusting. Myself adjusting, coaches adjusting, the
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  Speaker 1: line adjusting to my cadence, receivers to football. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a fantastic job by everybody to move on quickly
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  Speaker 1: and be ready for this week. Coach Fleury and Coach
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  Speaker 1: Pete's getting me ready for this game. Jay and Sam
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  Speaker 1: helping me out all week. It was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun working with everybody in that building. I talk about
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  Speaker 1: how much I love the building and the reason I
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  Speaker 1: come back. It kind of just played out all week.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling love from everybody. how skilled, you know, the skilled
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  Speaker 1: guys are, how awesome the O-line is up front. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a great group of guys and just got to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing good football.
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  Speaker 4: When you know at the start of the week that
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  Speaker 4: you're going to start, obviously you're getting the reps and
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  Speaker 4: practice that you didn't get last week, but do you
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  Speaker 4: have to find any sort of human nature to like
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  Speaker 4: overthink things and get in your head and put too
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  Speaker 4: much pressure, like knowing the whole week you're going to start?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think you can definitely step out
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  Speaker 1: of like normal routines, look for a couple extra things and,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely did that this week. I watched a little
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  Speaker 1: more film, studied a little bit, looked at a couple
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  Speaker 1: things that maybe I wouldn't look at during the week,
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  Speaker 1: but I just felt like it was necessary. It was
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  Speaker 1: things that I needed a little clarity on. It was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun going through that process. It really was.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was a negative thing. It's just
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  Speaker 1: mandatory things that you have to do when you're ready
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  Speaker 1: to step into the spot and try to go lead
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  Speaker 1: a team for four quarters. It's just It's necessary, and
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  Speaker 1: it needed to be done.
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  Speaker 2: What were you thinking when Rasheed fumbled the kickoff and
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  Speaker 2: then Chas picks it up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of was one of those turn and
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  Speaker 1: walk the other way, and then our sideline kind of
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  Speaker 1: gets excited. I'm like, oh, my gosh, Chas picked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Great field position, capitalized on it, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a play by him, former quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Drew, guys with backups who have clearly starter traits like yourself,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it takes a while to, whether it's an emotional
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  Speaker 3: maturity or you learn something about the game, how to
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  Speaker 3: play the game, whatever. Now you're in year eight. What
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  Speaker 3: do you know now that you maybe didn't know in
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  Speaker 3: year two, three, four, and what have you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's, I think you hit the nail
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  Speaker 1: on the head with just emotional maturity mixed with like
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  Speaker 1: learning a lot of football. And the longer you're in it,
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  Speaker 1: the more you learn. I'd like to say the better
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  Speaker 1: you get to go out and play. But, Having the
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  Speaker 1: emotional maturity from where I was those three years in
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  Speaker 1: Denver to where we are now, I'm absolutely a different person. Husband,
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  Speaker 1: father to two babies, lost my father in the last year.
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  Speaker 1: You just feel like you feel yourself grow up off
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  Speaker 1: the field, and me personally can feel myself grow on
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  Speaker 1: the football field from it and just become a man,
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  Speaker 1: so to say.
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  Speaker 3: You said Sam helped you.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, anything that he helped you with? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: had an ACT walkthrough. This was Thursday. And it was
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  Speaker 1: third down days, pressure days, heating us up in these walkthroughs,
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  Speaker 1: trying to pick up these blitzes, flip protections, throw hots.
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  Speaker 1: And I was swimming a little bit, and I just
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  Speaker 1: went up to him after, and I'm like, Sam, can
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  Speaker 1: you meet me upstairs and talk me through some of
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  Speaker 1: these protections some more? I came to the media with
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  Speaker 1: you all, ran from the stand up there as he's waiting,
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  Speaker 1: and went through it, and it drastically helped. Hearing it
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  Speaker 1: from Coach, hearing it from Sam, hearing it from Jay,
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  Speaker 1: me going home, studying it, wrapping their whole head around it,
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  Speaker 1: and being able to come out and play well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Sam's willingness to do that, is that every
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL would.
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  Speaker 1: Do that, or is Sam.
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  Speaker 2: rare that he.
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  Speaker 1: Would want to you would like to think that all
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  Speaker 1: quarterback rooms would do that but sam is a special
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  Speaker 1: breed of guy um i feel like it's been fun
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  Speaker 1: being with him if he would have asked me that
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  Speaker 1: i would have went up there and done the same
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  Speaker 1: thing and then now flipping it allowing him to like
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  Speaker 1: kind of return that favor to me it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been awesome i really appreciate him for everything he's done
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  Speaker 1: do you think because he's been a backup in his
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  Speaker 1: career he maybe appreciates what you go through and yeah
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  Speaker 1: i think he i think he definitely understands um Standing
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  Speaker 1: back there watching, learning, being ready for whenever that happens
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go play again. I definitely think
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  Speaker 1: he appreciates it and knows the life of it.
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  Speaker 4: The things that they were throwing at you in practice
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  Speaker 4: when those came up in this game, how do you.
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  Speaker 1: Feel you can handle them?
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the week, not so great. By Sunday, not
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  Speaker 1: too bad. That's the progression you want to make every week.
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  Speaker 1: Make the mistakes early. have them right by game day,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like this group did that this Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Those times where you got JSN at X and they're
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  Speaker 3: clouding him, and you're like, okay, it's great he's taking two,
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  Speaker 3: but are we wasting him at X? Do we want
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  Speaker 3: to put him inside somewhere where we can get more
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  Speaker 3: of the single? How does that go for you, particularly in.
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  Speaker 1: The first half? Yeah, I don't think too much about it.
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  Speaker 1: except for, like, when we're up on the line of
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage and I know when it's a three-by-one, he's the X,
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  Speaker 1: and they're clouding him. I will see that and feel that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think our coaches have done a good job
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  Speaker 1: of moving him around, getting him in different places, different motions,
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  Speaker 1: different shifts. They've just done a fantastic job. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we don't come out and play as well as we
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  Speaker 1: did without a great plan in place, so.
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  Speaker 2: Your last TD, it seemed like you had kind of
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  Speaker 2: a pretty emphatic celebration there, kind of looking to the
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  Speaker 2: sidelines and everything. I don't know, was there something going
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  Speaker 2: on there with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just, you know, that one felt really good.
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  Speaker 1: It was, in my opinion, a pivotal time. Get us to,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was 24 at that time. make it
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  Speaker 1: a three-score instead of a two-score. It was just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of emotion from getting that drive done and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being upset about the first one that, you know, didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up in points and then not allowing that to
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  Speaker 1: happen the rest of the game. Anything else? Thanks, Drew.