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Sam Darnold: "We're Really Excited To Have Rashid Shaheed" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just start by saying, you know, obviously we
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  Speaker 2: got a great challenge this week going up against the
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals for the second time. Uh, they got great players,
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  Speaker 2: great scheme, you know, coach coach Gannon and that entire
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  Speaker 2: staff has those guys rolling. So I'm more excited about
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  Speaker 2: this this matchup, and uh, we'll be ready to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Already had a lot of weapons in the passing game
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  Speaker 3: to throw to this season, they.
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  Speaker 1: Had another big play Thret.
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  Speaker 3: Just what your thoughts on the trade?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, obviously, John and you know everybody that
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  Speaker 2: works upstairs in the front office is gonna do everything
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  Speaker 2: they can to put us in a great position to
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  Speaker 2: go out there succeed every single game day. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they did just that by Adam Rashid,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we're excited, really excited to have him.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, for me, you know, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: continue to try to get to know them as much
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  Speaker 2: as possible, throw as many routes without hurting my arm
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  Speaker 2: as possible to him, and uh, yeah, I just continue to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, gain trust and gain that confidence in him.
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  Speaker 3: What do you know about it game already?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody knows him as a burner. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he can run. You know, he he does so many
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  Speaker 2: different things, whether it's you know, speed sweeps, all those things.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even just studying you know, last year studying
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  Speaker 2: the New Orleans tape getting ready for this year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you saw a ton of him doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things on the field that normal receivers don't do. But again,
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  Speaker 2: just to to kind of see the way that he
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  Speaker 2: runs routes to not only just as a deep deep
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  Speaker 2: threat and you know speed sweep guy, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: does a lot of great things running routes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: changing direction, all those things. So we're excited to continue
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  Speaker 2: to get to know him in here.
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  Speaker 1: In the little tiny bit hein. He been with him,
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously he's been in Clint system and knows a lot
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  Speaker 3: of what you're doing already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's you can tell he's really smart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's obviously, like you said, he was in
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  Speaker 2: the system last year. So that helps a lot with
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  Speaker 2: formations and in different things. So again we're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: continue to get him up to speed as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: What is your role in how.
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  Speaker 3: Do you talk to him about that? About not trying
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  Speaker 3: to do too much. Here's what we expect to do
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  Speaker 3: that sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to be honest, the way that he
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  Speaker 2: is right now though, you know, just meeting him, he
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  Speaker 2: seems like he's got a really good head on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: He understands kind of what you know, what to expect
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the offense and all those things. So
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  Speaker 2: we're just gonna any questions. I feel like he's done
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  Speaker 2: a really good job already of asking questions and you know,
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  Speaker 2: being curious about kind of his role and what we're
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  Speaker 2: asking him to do.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's been really good that way.
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  Speaker 3: I just putting his speed on the field next to
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  Speaker 3: what Jackson's already doing, help you guys maybe dictate terms
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  Speaker 3: more on offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, anytime you got a guy that can
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  Speaker 2: roll like that, it helps in a bunch of different ways.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, you know, he's not just a
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  Speaker 2: speed guy. He's a route runner, a receiver who can
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of great things when when he catches
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  Speaker 2: the ball as well.
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  Speaker 4: You're a golfer and obviously you can lose your swing
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  Speaker 4: now and then that compare to uh being a thrower
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  Speaker 4: and keeping keeping that mechanics and check.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question. Shoot, I wouldn't even consider
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  Speaker 2: myself a golfer. I mean, I liked to golf, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a golfer per se. But yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: say it's very similar, I think, to be quite honest,
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  Speaker 2: I think you have a little bit more room mechanically
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  Speaker 2: to miss as a thrower, whereas golf it's very you know, specific,
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  Speaker 2: and very detailed in terms of I'm not saying quarterback
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  Speaker 2: isn't detailed, and someone's probably gonna chop that up make
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  Speaker 2: it seem like that, but.
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  Speaker 1: Golf is just so I mean, I could talk for
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  Speaker 1: hours about how.
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  Speaker 2: Hard it is to hit a golf ball, and even pros,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the way that pros go on slumps and
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  Speaker 2: the way that they bogie, you know, back to back,
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  Speaker 2: even you know, four or five holes in a row.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just a really, really tough sport mechanically,
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  Speaker 2: And I think as a quarterback you like to focus
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of things mechanically. You know, certain things
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  Speaker 2: in the off season that you focus on, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, a lot of things that I focus
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  Speaker 2: on during the season is very schemer and team related
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  Speaker 2: and what defense were going against. Monday and Tuesday are
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  Speaker 2: kind of my days to hone in on on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: watching tape and seeing myself fundamentally, fundamentally how I can.
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  Speaker 1: Improve along those lines.
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  Speaker 4: Are there days where you just feel like the ball
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  Speaker 4: has really come out of your hands better than.
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  Speaker 1: It is on other days?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I would say that, you know, some days
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  Speaker 2: are different than others.
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  Speaker 1: But again I think that's again.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's dictated a lot by the defensive scheme, our scheme.
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  Speaker 2: You know, It's just there's a lot more elements at
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  Speaker 2: play than just you know, lining up and hitting a
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  Speaker 2: golf ball. So but it's uh, yeah, it's a great
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  Speaker 2: question though.
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  Speaker 3: Did when you look at the tape of Sunday, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: did did that feel, know, completing your first seventeen passes?
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  Speaker 3: Did that seem like you're.
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  Speaker 1: Really in a rhythm? Or did or yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just the biggest word I think is control.
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like I was in control. I would
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  Speaker 2: say our entire up offense felt like that we had
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  Speaker 2: a really good grasp of the scheme and what we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do versus their scheme. So again, we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to try to continue to emulate that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as the weeks continue to stack here, and I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, already going into this third down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Thursday practice, we have a really good feel of kind
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  Speaker 2: of what we want to do this game.
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  Speaker 4: Did you feel like you had to go through the
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  Speaker 4: adversity you went through earlier in your career to become
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  Speaker 4: the player you are or if you were in this
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  Speaker 4: situation your rookie year, do you think you would have
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  Speaker 4: been able to, you know, become the player the same time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm very thankful about, you know, everything
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  Speaker 2: that I dealt with, you know, the good and the bad.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if there's a way to answer that,
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  Speaker 2: or if AI can somehow generate what I would have
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  Speaker 2: been like in that situation, But yeah, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I guess is the short answer. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm very happy. I'm very grateful about where I'm at
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: What's what's kind of a process you go through when
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  Speaker 3: a new player comes in, like Rashid trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out how to hit the ground, running with them and kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of building everything up from the ground level.
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  Speaker 3: How do you try to attack that and get get
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  Speaker 3: to know what guys but you can even be the
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  Speaker 3: honest season get to know.
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  Speaker 1: That those initial steps.
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  Speaker 3: To get get to where you want to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think just communicating, I think is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing. Get to know each other. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, there's not truly enough time to
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  Speaker 2: really get to know them. You know, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: to know each other on the field more so than
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  Speaker 2: off the field, but that'll come with with reps and
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  Speaker 2: being around each other, just getting to know one another
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  Speaker 2: and building that that trust in chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to the offensive line, I think a
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  Speaker 4: couple of your linemen talked about it on game days,
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  Speaker 4: kind of their approach at the line.
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  Speaker 2: As Perma Life mentioned, it was a great.
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  Speaker 4: Week of practice for the old line.
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  Speaker 2: How did they force.
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  Speaker 3: The issue up front?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the old line's been you know, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I say this every week, but they're just
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  Speaker 2: continuing to grow, not just as individuals, obviously they're going
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  Speaker 2: as individuals, but as a group.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: They're continuing to build that chemistry with each other and
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  Speaker 2: that cohesiveness. So, uh, you know, we're just gonna continue
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  Speaker 2: to to build off of that and continue to to
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think The biggest thing too, is just
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  Speaker 2: in and out, in and out of the huddle, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of the operation of everything that we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So as long as we continue to be good and
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  Speaker 2: and crisp with our operation, you know, we'll continue to
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  Speaker 2: move the ball, you know, down the field.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback skill of eye deception and looking off defenders.
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  Speaker 3: Who in your past really stress that.
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  Speaker 1: And what point in your career was that big? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, shoot, I think going back to you know,
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  Speaker 2: Pop Warner High school, like that's one of the first
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  Speaker 2: things that you learn as a quarterback, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot easier said than done. But I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with coach Chinoko, like we do such a
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  Speaker 2: good job here of kind of coaching that in the plays.
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  Speaker 2: Like even going back to Ota is like right when
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  Speaker 2: you teach it, it's all right here we go eyes
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  Speaker 2: away and then we're starting there, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's it's just the way that we teach it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's the best way to go about
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  Speaker 2: it in terms of being able to coach it up.
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  Speaker 1: So each play, Jinoko says, eyes here, then play here,
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  Speaker 1: not not you play not every play.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely certain concepts where you got to you know,
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  Speaker 2: start your eyes to see what they're doing. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're and again, you know, being in the
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  Speaker 2: league for you know, eight years now, I think there
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  Speaker 2: comes a little bit of savviness to it as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna you guys, saw that clip of Stafford,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh no, look in that twenty yard you know,
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  Speaker 2: in cut. So there's things like that that guys like
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  Speaker 2: him can do that that no one else can.
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  Speaker 1: But there's other ways.
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  Speaker 2: That you know, a lot of quarterbacks can affect the
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  Speaker 2: defense with their eyes and the way they're looking.
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  Speaker 4: You're starting to see defenses do kind of abnormal things
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  Speaker 4: to take away JSN and leave maybe some other things vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, a great, great
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  Speaker 2: example of that would have been Torri's second touchdown, just
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  Speaker 2: trying to double him, and you know, you leave other
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  Speaker 2: guys on an island with other great receivers that we have,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's that's kind of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you talk.
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  Speaker 4: About like getting in and out of the huddle, huddle crisply,
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  Speaker 4: is there a benefit to that beyond just the obvious
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  Speaker 4: of having more time at the.
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  Speaker 1: Line of scrimmage?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just always being on the attack, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the defense not knowing what cadence we're gonna use. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things that you know, it affects
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  Speaker 2: about you know, obviously our style and what we want
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  Speaker 2: to do as an offense, but what the defense is doing.
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  Speaker 3: In your experience, how about you guys are playing in Arizona
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  Speaker 3: for at the second time in five weeks or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: How much do teams try to change from one game
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  Speaker 3: to the next like that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, they do.
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  Speaker 2: They do a really good job of changing up their defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, bringing the same looks, bringing different looks from
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  Speaker 2: the same looks. So I mean they do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things defensively. And again, like I always say, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like they're their players make it go though, Like
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  Speaker 2: the the guys that they have are are very smart
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  Speaker 2: and intelligent, it seems like, and they're able to kind
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  Speaker 2: of make that system go with all the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: You've obviously started to get more attention with your play
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  Speaker 4: and the team's play, and you've seen both sides of
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  Speaker 4: it where it can turn on a dime and people
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  Speaker 4: say the worst thing. So what's been your experience that
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  Speaker 4: you you know you've learned from to kind of handle
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  Speaker 4: the attention that's built.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I think I said it twenty times during
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  Speaker 2: the offseason. But just taking it one day at a time,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the the easiest way to do it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it fits my personality the best anyways.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm not going to be someone who gets too
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  Speaker 2: high or too low. I'm just gonna take it one
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  Speaker 2: day at a time. And I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys in that locker room have the same mindset.
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  Speaker 3: On third down, you think for you guys, I guess
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  Speaker 3: the commanders.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things you know on
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  Speaker 2: third down that you know go right and wrong. I
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  Speaker 2: think for me personally, I think just being clean with
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  Speaker 2: you know, my progressions and understanding where to go with
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  Speaker 2: the football, understanding my protection issues and going from there.
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  Speaker 3: Grat disables off STA having great rookie hears what stood
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  Speaker 3: out the most about him, plainly.
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  Speaker 1: He is a rook Uh. Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I think Gray just being a great locker room guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it starts. Uh, He's a He's a great guy,
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  Speaker 2: someone you want to be around, you know first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know on the field, I know that
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's going to have my back, He's going
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  Speaker 2: to have every single one of his teammates back, and it's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible to play for a guy like that, play
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  Speaker 2: with a guy like that. But you know, as a rookie,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's got such great poise, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I could say that about you know, all five
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  Speaker 2: of our offensive linemen that have been playing this year, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: even Josh you know that comes in in certain situations
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  Speaker 2: down down near the goal line and short yardage stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, he's all of our all of our
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  Speaker 2: you know, entire offensive line room. I feel like they're
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  Speaker 2: very poised and they understand kind of certain situations and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, how to take advantage of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: certain techniques, all the all the fundamental things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: John Benton and you know Rico talk about all the time.
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  Speaker 2: But our offensive line has grown so much, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's because of you know, how they've grown together
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  Speaker 2: in that chemistry in that room.
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  Speaker 3: Do you take a change of throwing mechanics from college
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  Speaker 3: to the NFL?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've worked, I mean I've worked on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you're seeking when you did that? Health?
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  Speaker 2: I think is the biggest thing, you know, shoulder and
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  Speaker 2: elbow health and continuing to play a long time I
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  Speaker 2: think is the real reason behind it. And then obviously
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  Speaker 2: just you know, being more efficient. I think you can
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  Speaker 2: always be more efficient. You're throwing motion, and so working
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  Speaker 2: working from the ground up to get that accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: And it gets the ball quicker as somehow that it
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  Speaker 1: was previously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've I've always been working on that,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get the ball out fast. So yeah, good,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you guys. Thanks