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Rashid Shaheed: "I'm Excited For What We Have Planned" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up, guys?
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  Speaker 2: How much did you like being in the backfield and
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  Speaker 2: getting those plays last week?
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  Speaker 1: I liked it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Something that we've been trying to key in on for
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  Speaker 3: a few weeks now and to get it ran and
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  Speaker 3: executed was really fun.
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  Speaker 2: As a receiver, how was it scoring a touchdown with
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  Speaker 2: two other receivers putting key blocks on that run?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge.
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  Speaker 3: All credit and shout out to those guys for their efforts.
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  Speaker 3: That play doesn't happen without Coop and Jax blocking their
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  Speaker 3: butt off, so a big shout-out to them.
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  Speaker 2: Jax is the highest-paid receiver in the game. He's the
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  Speaker 2: reigning player of the year, all that stuff. For him
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  Speaker 2: to be down there knocking a safety over at the
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  Speaker 2: end of a play, what does.
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  Speaker 1: That tell you about him?
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  Speaker 3: That's a testament to the type of player and person
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  Speaker 3: he is, to lay it on the line for his teammates,
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  Speaker 3: knowing that he doesn't necessarily have to put in that
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  Speaker 3: type of effort. But the fact that he goes out
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  Speaker 3: there and blocks and catches big patches for us shows
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  Speaker 3: the type of athlete and player he is.
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  Speaker 4: How much have you played in the backfield in the
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  Speaker 4: past in the NFL, and is this similar right now
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  Speaker 4: the way that Brian Fleury is using, or has there
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  Speaker 4: been a little bit more of a closer look at
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  Speaker 4: using that dating back to training camp in this offense?
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In this offense in particular, I feel like that's something
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  Speaker 3: he's envisioned for a while, and I feel like he's
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  Speaker 3: going to continue to kind of exploit throughout the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Not too much familiarity out the backfield in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: mostly like fly sweeps and stuff like that, but I
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  Speaker 3: grew up playing running back, so that helped in that
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  Speaker 3: situation last week.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time you were a tailback? High school
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  Speaker 1: and a little bit of college.
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  Speaker 2: When did you kind of go from mostly running.
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  Speaker 1: Back to receiver?
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  Speaker 3: I would say my sophomore year at Weber State.
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  Speaker 5: Was it harder going from running back to receiver or
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  Speaker 5: going from receiver back to running back?
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  Speaker 3: Running back to receiver, for sure. As a running back,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of can just get the ball and make
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  Speaker 3: something happen. As a receiver, there's so many other things
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  Speaker 3: that have to happen around the play for you to
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  Speaker 3: get the ball, but.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm still continuing to learn at the
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  Speaker 3: receiver position, knowing that I was kind of late to
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  Speaker 3: the party.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like the time that you've now had
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  Speaker 5: at receiver has given you some new abilities or bring
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  Speaker 5: new things to when you're in the backfield?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like just any chance I could get to
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  Speaker 3: have the ball in my hands, I feel like me
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  Speaker 3: growing up playing running back, it allows me to kind
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  Speaker 3: of have a different feel for the game.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Give that a lot of credit for.
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  Speaker 2: Was that your choice to move from running back to receiver,
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  Speaker 2: or how did that come about?
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  Speaker 3: Once I figured out I wasn't going to be a
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  Speaker 3: very big person, I definitely made that decision that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to get hit by linebackers and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Offenses are all about multiplicity in today's NFL. Just how
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  Speaker 4: much does that change things for defenses when they have
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  Speaker 4: you or Jackson Smith and Jigba back there in the backfield?
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  Speaker 4: How do you see that opening things up for everybody else?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just brings, for a defense, it just makes
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  Speaker 3: it a lot harder for, you know, guys to key
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  Speaker 3: on what we have planned. They see us in the
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  Speaker 3: backfield and, you know, automatically they think that something's up or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anything can happen when a guy's in the
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  Speaker 3: backfield like me or Jax or Coop. There's so many
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  Speaker 3: different routes that can be ran and that definitely helps
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  Speaker 3: out for the guys running down the field as we,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we can attach the linebackers, get their eyes
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  Speaker 3: on us and allow guys to run freely back there. So,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for what we have planned in the future.
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  Speaker 6: 49ers did that a lot with Debo Samuel while Fleury
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  Speaker 6: was there. Did that history ever come up as you
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  Speaker 6: guys were installing.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those plays? Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: He shows clips of Debo and stuff that he used
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  Speaker 3: to do in San Francisco. I feel like he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to show that so we can execute the same way
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  Speaker 3: that he did.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, he's a great player.
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  Speaker 3: We feel like we have guys that can do similar things.
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  Speaker 2: How have you felt about kind of the way the
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  Speaker 2: passing game has gone so far? Obviously, Jackson's gotten a
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  Speaker 2: lot of targets so far this year, and I guess
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  Speaker 2: kind of how many you've gotten, how many everybody else
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  Speaker 2: is getting.
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  Speaker 1: How have you kind of felt about that?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like everybody's doing a great job of just
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  Speaker 3: doing their job. You know, when the ball comes, it comes,
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  Speaker 3: and we just got to continue to stay prepared. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Jackson's doing an amazing job. He's going to get those targets.
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  Speaker 3: He's the best player on the field, so I'm not
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  Speaker 3: surprised by that, and he's obviously executing at a high level,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what we expect. But, yeah, no, just staying
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  Speaker 3: ready for the opportunity, all of us, and being ready
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  Speaker 3: when the time is right.
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  Speaker 1: How do you evaluate your own play?
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, it's obviously not as simple as, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're a true wide receiver, get next targets, X receptions,
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  Speaker 2: impact the game in so many different ways. So how
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  Speaker 2: do you evaluate it so far this season?
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  Speaker 3: That's just how I look at it, impacting, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the game as, you know, as the time comes. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: there are things that, you know, I look at on
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  Speaker 3: film and can say that I can do better or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just look at and, you know, things I
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  Speaker 3: can improve on. But, yeah, no, I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going out there and doing my best and competing
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  Speaker 3: at a high level, and that's, you know, my job,
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  Speaker 3: and my job is to also make plays. So I
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  Speaker 3: continue looking forward to doing that throughout the season.
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  Speaker 7: Rashid, you guys didn't do it on Sunday, but I
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  Speaker 7: imagine there was probably a past concept out of you
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  Speaker 7: in the backfield at.
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  Speaker 1: Some point or another.
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  Speaker 7: What changes for you as a receiving option when it's
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  Speaker 7: behind the quarterback in the backfield as opposed to out
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  Speaker 7: at receiver? Anything fundamentally different with the routes you run,
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  Speaker 7: the things you have to do?
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  Speaker 1: Pay attention to timing all that.
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  Speaker 3: Um yes i feel like the timing is a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different out the backfield um you know trying to
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  Speaker 3: get into more choice routes and stuff like that that
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  Speaker 3: i might not do when i'm you know split outside
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  Speaker 3: or in the slot but um just little things like
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  Speaker 3: that and i think brian is looking for ways to
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  Speaker 3: you know kind of mix us up in the backfield
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  Speaker 3: um knowing that we can have success and make a
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  Speaker 3: tough run defense is kind of key and what we
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  Speaker 3: have going on offensively.
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  Speaker 1: You've You've had a lot of big plays throughout your career.
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  Speaker 5: Where does the opening kickoff, last time you guys played
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  Speaker 5: this team, rank in your career as far as big moments?
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  Speaker 3: That honestly might be number one, just because that was
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  Speaker 3: my first playoff game and my first playoff touch as well.
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  Speaker 3: So that is probably number one in my book.
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  Speaker 1: At what point in a punt do you think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a fair catch? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the height? Is it how the gunner gets off the line?
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  Speaker 1: What's the key factor for that? A little bit of both.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes when the ball is in the air, I try
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  Speaker 3: to peek at what's going on in front of me
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  Speaker 3: just to get a feel, you know, if I have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time or not. That's kind of the
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  Speaker 3: determining factor. You know, if the gunners are, if I
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  Speaker 3: can feel them kind of near me, then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably going to fair catch it. But if I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I can get the ball and try to
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  Speaker 3: make a miss really quick, then I'll take the chances.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a lot of confidence in the guys
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  Speaker 3: that are blocking for me out there, so it makes
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  Speaker 3: it a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers, I think it's 11 fair catches and nine
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  Speaker 1: returns so far for you. Does that mean that the
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  Speaker 1: Gunners have been getting freer than previously? Is that the
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  Speaker 1: choice or is it a combination of that? A combination
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  Speaker 1: of both.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, our guys are doing a great
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  Speaker 3: job of going out there and competing. And there have
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  Speaker 3: been several opportunities that I've had to return the ball
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  Speaker 3: that would not have been possible without the guys blocking
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  Speaker 3: for me. So punters are putting the ball pretty high
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  Speaker 3: and getting kind of some unusual hang times, I'll say.
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  Speaker 3: and still getting a chance to get the return off.
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  Speaker 3: So the chances of those plays like that, getting a
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  Speaker 3: return started, it's kind of almost like a 0% chance,
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  Speaker 3: but we're still getting it done. So testament to them.
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  Speaker 6: When you're tracking the ball and you're not peeking, how
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  Speaker 6: much out of your peripheral vision can you see what's
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  Speaker 6: coming at you?
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  Speaker 1: Not a whole lot.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of just who's right in front of me,
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  Speaker 3: maybe to the right, a little bit to the right,
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  Speaker 3: to the left. Yeah, I try to see everything, but
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  Speaker 3: at the same time I'm trying to focus on the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So it's pretty tough, but just having the feel definitely
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  Speaker 3: in years of experience helps a lot.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think is the key to being able
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  Speaker 4: to develop that where you can have the ball way
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  Speaker 4: up in the sky like that and then you peek
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  Speaker 4: what's going on in front of you and then have
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  Speaker 4: to get right back to getting the football? That seems
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  Speaker 4: like a very specific skill that you have.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. You're not just born with. Correct, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've been trying to practice that for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: When I was younger in my career, my coach kind
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  Speaker 3: of harped on me about trying to focus on that,
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  Speaker 3: and that's going to help me determine if I need
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  Speaker 3: a fair catch or return the ball. So that's just
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  Speaker 3: something that I've been practicing for about five, six years.
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  Speaker 2: On his question on the return against the 49ers, when
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  Speaker 2: the kicker tried to trip you in real time, What
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  Speaker 2: were you kind of thinking there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, did you realize he's trying to do that there?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: At the time, I felt something hit my leg. I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't sure if it was a foot, a hand, or anything. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know he tried to slide tackle me. That
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  Speaker 3: was pretty funny. Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, guys.