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Uchenna Nwosu: "I Kept My Mind To The Grind" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I heard your teammate say nice things about you. What
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  Speaker 1: it is for you? What was that like to go
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  Speaker 1: out there. I know you've been back for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. Just to get out there and get those.
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  Speaker 2: Sacks for a while, it means a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows my role. You know, it hasn't been easy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, dealt with you know everything. So but I know,
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  Speaker 2: I kept my mind to the grind, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: just stayed down, always told myself, you know, things could
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  Speaker 2: be worse. You know, I'm blessed to be in this position,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, make the most of it. I know
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back. Uh, just kept preparing the way I
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  Speaker 2: usually did, and attacked my rehab really hard, studied, you know,
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  Speaker 2: leaned up my brothers, all my my brothers in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, kept staying positive with me, The trainers, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they all it was all a whole organization effort,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to get me back on that field. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm very appreciative. And you know, I don't take none
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  Speaker 2: of these moments for granted.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like you beat some of the timelines
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  Speaker 1: to get back. Did that surprise you or whatever?
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  Speaker 2: All glory to God. You know I put in the work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I put a lot of work this offseason,
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  Speaker 2: every day, every single day, even when I didn't want to,
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  Speaker 2: like rehabbing, doing something, whether that's icing or you know
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  Speaker 2: Norman tech boots or you know, red light therapy or
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  Speaker 2: you know, any anything you could think of, I was
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  Speaker 2: doing it. So you know, I put a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time and effort into this. And I feel good, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a blessing. I'm able to come back early
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  Speaker 2: and you know, play the level I've been and play today,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I'm used to playing. So it ain't
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  Speaker 2: nothing new.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't get to go through training camp or played
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  Speaker 1: pre season. Uh, how are you feeling like in terms
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  Speaker 1: of your game, legs or you feel like you're back
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  Speaker 1: to or where you want to use whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't gonna lot. I was gassed. I was
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  Speaker 2: gassed out there, man. But that just means when I
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  Speaker 2: get back to the facility, you know, get on that incline,
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  Speaker 2: trade me or walk something, stare mass or something, get
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  Speaker 2: my get my wind up. But now I feel good,
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  Speaker 2: you know. When it when it came down to it,
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  Speaker 2: I did. I didn't care how tired I was. I
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  Speaker 2: was out there just trying to make plays, you know, so,
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  Speaker 2: but definitely gotta get some more out of running the conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, with going on what was up.
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  Speaker 1: There, some more reps than planned. With d Lock getting hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't even know he had got hurt until
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  Speaker 2: you know later. But you know, we'll see how it is.
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  Speaker 2: He's a he's a warrior, you know. He he's played
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  Speaker 2: through the anything. So we'll see if, uh, how it
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  Speaker 2: goes next week, and we'll see what the coaches decide.
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  Speaker 1: Nate came to the spring said they were willing to
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  Speaker 1: work with you to different contract number rather than just
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  Speaker 1: cut you with cause some guys were get cut after
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  Speaker 1: not playing him so much the last few years. What
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  Speaker 1: did that tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Was there a level of commitment there that reinforced it
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  Speaker 2: all this work play off here? Yeah, I mean that
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  Speaker 2: just shows how much the organization cares about me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: John's the one that brought me here, you know, from
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  Speaker 2: when I'm free agent coming from the Chargers. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: John didn't lose faith in me, didn't lose hoping me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm forever grati uh grateful for it, you know, y,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not too worried about the money. You know, like
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  Speaker 2: money's always gonna you know, be there. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm always gonna you know, I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 2: the money. I'm just wanna be out there playing football again.
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  Speaker 2: He gave me opportunity to do that. So m he
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  Speaker 2: always just talking about the connection he's seen on this team.
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  Speaker 2: You've been here a few years now that I GA,
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  Speaker 2: have you sent something a different about this group? Yeah, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's it's connected. I feel like last
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  Speaker 2: year we were connected, but this year's even more connected. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are spending a lot more time with each other
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  Speaker 2: off the field, which is very important. That's how you
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  Speaker 2: build the bond that we have. We play a lot
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  Speaker 2: of games in the in the locker room. You know,
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  Speaker 2: every time we see each other, everybody's laughing, hugging it up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, chat it up, offense, defense, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: different position groups. You know, this team is very connected.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something Mike's built and that's something we've built
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna continue to grow.
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  Speaker 1: There's been games where you, guys, your offense is taking
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  Speaker 1: the ball either behind or tie the late and both
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  Speaker 1: times to move it all down the field. This time
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  Speaker 1: ended up winning it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Like, how much confidence do you guys have on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side and what that side is gonna start to do?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we have a lot of confidence in our defense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we take a lot of pride over there. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We we practice very hard. You know, it's a standard
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  Speaker 2: that we set for ourselves. We hold ourselves to a
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  Speaker 2: higher standard. But we know, you know, give the offense
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  Speaker 2: a chance and they gonna they gonna win. This's the game,
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  Speaker 2: like they just show tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So it it.
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  Speaker 2: It's what we've always prepared for. We always knew anything
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  Speaker 2: else than thanks, thank you, thank you.