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Bobby Wagner: "There Is Definitely Stuff That We Can Build On" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everybody out for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Now, what did you like about the defensive performance last week?
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  Speaker 2: I think we cleaned up our third downs. I think
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  Speaker 2: we were like three for eleven or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was good.
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  Speaker 2: I think after the first two drives we kind of
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  Speaker 2: settled down and was able to do some good things. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely stuff that we can build him. Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like as a group, you guys have built some
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  Speaker 2: momentum over the last couple of games, getting things cleaned out,
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  Speaker 2: making some strives forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I think every every game we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten better.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, guys gotten healthier, we can get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: play more with one another, So definitely feel good about it.
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  Speaker 2: How how to feel different about Jamal out there?
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  Speaker 1: Just everything that brings Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's always the energy to passion and
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  Speaker 2: that tackle he made, you know, uh, one on one
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  Speaker 2: open space.
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  Speaker 1: Was was pretty pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen out of Boye Matfe first five
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  Speaker 3: weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 1: I know you weren't here last year to see his
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  Speaker 1: rookie year, but what do you see out of uh
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  Speaker 1: in this year so far? I see a guy that
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  Speaker 1: like he's been around the game a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So I think when you watched last year, you see
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  Speaker 2: like he was trying to figure it out. But then
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  Speaker 2: this year, you know, being able to kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: have another year on his bell, go through a uh
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  Speaker 2: full off season, he definitely understand stands the game a
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  Speaker 2: lot better. I think the angles that he take on
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  Speaker 2: some of the pass rushes has has been uh really
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  Speaker 2: cool to see. And he's just a guy that you
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  Speaker 2: just know what's gonna get out of him. You know
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be a playmaker and and be where he's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen that Herd is not afraid to be aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a blitz called maybe second or
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  Speaker 1: third play of the game. What what signal does that.
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  Speaker 3: Send to the entire defense.
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  Speaker 2: That I don't think of offense gonna dictate like what
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  Speaker 2: we do, and he's gonna be aggressive regardless of the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I think as as players, we we like that, we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to be aggressive, we'd like to try to get
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  Speaker 2: in the backfield, and it's not just one person or
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  Speaker 2: one uh group.
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  Speaker 1: He's not afraid to bliss whomever.
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  Speaker 2: But then also we have our moments where we trust
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  Speaker 2: our you know, the four guys up front, and they
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  Speaker 2: gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Did you look at Arizona, girl, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at Arizona, it's a team that you've
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  Speaker 2: played so many times during your career, But how do
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  Speaker 2: they look different with the different coaching staff. I think
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  Speaker 2: their their run game is a lot different. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, historically in the past, it was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of crunch, a lot of downhill runs, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: But when you watch them now, they have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pullers, a lot of confidence in their their quarterback
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  Speaker 2: to keep the ball and make plays with his fee.
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of running backs that can run
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  Speaker 2: pretty much similar plays that they have. They do it
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  Speaker 2: in all different personnels. They have thirteen, they have twelve,
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  Speaker 2: they have twenty one, twenty two. So you definitely have
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, on your run fast because they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna challenge them.
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  Speaker 3: And they is committed during involved in team you've seen
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  Speaker 3: so far because you think they've been.
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  Speaker 1: Running a lot, Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're definitely committed to and I think the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing is you know, the quarterback. Adding a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: into it and you know, his confidence if he's able
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  Speaker 2: to break a long run, the confidence they have and
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  Speaker 2: putting a ball in his hand a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: definitely gonna be different for us. Did you expect Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Brooks to play this much, this effectively this time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't here when he got hurt, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean historically, when you see that type of injury,
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  Speaker 2: you know it takes time for guys to come back.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, with his work ethic in the off season,
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  Speaker 2: I think him and Jamal worked out a lot this offseason,
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  Speaker 2: and just when I got back and I saw him
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  Speaker 2: and saw the progress that he was making, I knew
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  Speaker 2: that he was well ahead of schedule. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think anybody could have expected him to be playing at
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  Speaker 2: this level coming off of that injury, which is kind
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  Speaker 2: of why I always said, like, we can't just look
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  Speaker 2: over how amazing that is and what he's being able
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  Speaker 2: to do coming off an injury like that. It seemed like,
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  Speaker 2: from the outside at least, that the vibe after that
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  Speaker 2: loss on Sunday was maybe different than other losses.
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  Speaker 1: Is that fair accurate? Like, how how did it feel
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  Speaker 1: after that game?
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  Speaker 2: It definitely felt like it was a game that we
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  Speaker 2: let slip away A game that we should have won,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you don't want to have like I think
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  Speaker 2: this was maybe one of those games you try to
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  Speaker 2: find a positive understanding that there's so much season left.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's probably the vibe. The vibe of
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  Speaker 2: just being frustrated and upset that you led a game
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  Speaker 2: that you probably should have won slip away, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: having the positives that you know, we kind of beat
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  Speaker 2: ourselves and if we put this together, we can be
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  Speaker 2: a really good team. Regard how much growth has the
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  Speaker 2: team had since the opening loss versus that compared to
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday's loss, I think it was I think it's
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  Speaker 2: I think it's different cause I think in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the season when we came in, there was so
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  Speaker 2: much hype, so much build up, so much talk about
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  Speaker 2: what the team was gonna be that it was almost
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  Speaker 2: like we were supposed to go seventeen to know and
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  Speaker 2: then we didn't go seventeen to O it was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, like what's the season now? And so it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different because you understand this is a
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  Speaker 2: very difficult league. No matter what the record is, no
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  Speaker 2: matter who the opponent is, they're gonna bring that a game,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a good team, Like this team
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  Speaker 2: is gonna come in if you watch the film, They've
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  Speaker 2: been close in a lot of their games. So the
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  Speaker 2: record could really be different than what it is right now.
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  Speaker 2: So having a young group and being able to explain
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  Speaker 2: them to that that you know you're gonna get the
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  Speaker 2: best regardless of the record, and understanding that they are
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  Speaker 2: these are paid professionals and they don't come out and
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  Speaker 2: make sure they do what they need to do to
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  Speaker 2: stay in this league.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, Loston, a football game is on one player.
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  Speaker 2: But when Gmail's up there saying, you know, put this
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  Speaker 2: mu sholders, that's all mean guys, what does that do
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  Speaker 2: for a team?
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  Speaker 1: When he's kind of trying to wear.
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  Speaker 2: It like that, I mean you definitely respect it because
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  Speaker 2: you know it's, you know, him trying to have accountability,
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  Speaker 2: and you know it's he plays a tough position. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when when you win the games, it's it's the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: When you lose, it's the quarterback. But you know, you
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't look at it that way. There's plays
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  Speaker 2: that we could have made from a defensive standpoint that
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  Speaker 2: didn't put them in a situation there's all across the board,
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  Speaker 2: like guys could have done something stuff better, and so
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  Speaker 2: you I never looked at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, you respect it, but that that loss was
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  Speaker 2: not on Geno. That was a group thing. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys could have done stuff different. We collectively, you know,
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  Speaker 2: take that loss. It's not gonna say uh in a
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  Speaker 2: lost coind of Gino. It's gonna say the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Same with the leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Will going back to the previous question where you're telling
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  Speaker 3: the young guys any team that you're going to play
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  Speaker 3: right in the medical record home poard, is it for
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  Speaker 3: you then as leaders to set that example play one
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  Speaker 3: that game starts.
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  Speaker 2: It's very important. I think it's it's not necessarily the play.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's more so how you're prepared during the
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  Speaker 2: week and you know a lot of times like you
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  Speaker 2: can when you have if you're coming in and you're
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  Speaker 2: playing a team only has one win or whatever case
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  Speaker 2: may be, maybe you don't have that same level of
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  Speaker 2: focus coming into the practice. And if you have as
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  Speaker 2: an older guy, if you have the younger guy see that,
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  Speaker 2: then that sets the president. So having the same focus
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  Speaker 2: and same intent and same energy into every team, whether
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  Speaker 2: they're five to zero team or one in five team.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's more important than leading into the game.
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  Speaker 2: Then obviously the start of the game is setting the
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  Speaker 2: tone on, like just applying what you've learned throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week into the game.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby of DK is obviously a tremendous haze to see
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  Speaker 1: you guys set serious receiver. But the pamilies are starting
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  Speaker 1: to add up the game. It's been the trend for
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  Speaker 1: years because a guy who's got a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: him blockery, want to get anything, and you say to him,
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  Speaker 1: let me see that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is just you just you
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  Speaker 2: have to remind him that because of the stuff that's
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  Speaker 2: happened over the course of his career. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they'll say it, but you know, refs know he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a target to an extent. They're paying attention to
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  Speaker 2: the things that he does. Even some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that other guys might get away with, he won't be
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  Speaker 2: that person because they're watching him. And I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: the teams that playing him are pointing that out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pre game, Hey, watch fourteen, Watch fourteen. So sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: gotta remind him that you know, when you have when
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  Speaker 2: you set that type of presidents, it takes a while
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  Speaker 2: for that to go away. And so that's the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing is just understanding that they watching him. They aren't
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  Speaker 2: gonna let him get away with stuff that maybe other
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  Speaker 2: guys get away with, and you know, being mindful of it.
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  Speaker 3: Watch for people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure out I'm guessing, but I'm s a
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  Speaker 2: good guess that receivers or not receivers. But DB's are
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  Speaker 2: trying to going up to the officials saying, hey, watch
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  Speaker 2: this guy, cause I'm pretty sure you know, linebackers do it,
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  Speaker 2: Safeties do it. If you have a dirty uh old
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  Speaker 2: lineman or you have somebody that does extra after the play,
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  Speaker 2: you go up to the reference, they watch 'em, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they they would do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have cruise that you know you can do
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  Speaker 2: that with and talk with and have a conversation with,
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  Speaker 2: versus cruise that you know you're not even touch those
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  Speaker 2: guys'm'a sound old, but I mean I've been around for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, so I'm pretty cool with everybody. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a crew that I'm like watch
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  Speaker 2: out for.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's respect on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't think of one that I I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have a conversation with.
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  Speaker 1: They've all been really good. Much do you talk before
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  Speaker 1: the game with the Cruise at all? Any interaction at all?
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  Speaker 1: That's any old judy today.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly, I don't know if it's like conversation, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: more so acknowledgement, you know, because I think sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: think people you only know the ref until they make
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  Speaker 2: a call you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Like, or things that nature.
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  Speaker 2: So my my thing is just kind of like understanding
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  Speaker 2: their contributions to the game and so saying what's up
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  Speaker 2: to them before the game, just acknowledging that they're there.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of my conversation with them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really talk to them about certain things unless
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  Speaker 2: like I'm doing something that I want to make sure,
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  Speaker 2: like but when I was like jumping over the thing,
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  Speaker 2: I alert them so they don't call it a flag.
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  Speaker 2: They know it's coming. So things of that nature. But
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  Speaker 2: it's little conversations like that, nothing too crazy, or like
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  Speaker 2: when we're playing like a team that does a lot
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  Speaker 2: of RPOs, letting them know like sometimes the linemen get
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  Speaker 2: downfield while they're still doing it, like they can't do that, so.
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  Speaker 1: Watch that and discussion differs. Yeah, just like, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is something that we've watched on a film and can
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  Speaker 1: you look out for that. How does chemistry show up
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  Speaker 1: on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's when when people are playing in the string,
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  Speaker 2: like when you see defensers moving and not looking to
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  Speaker 2: the left and right to wonder if the guy's there.
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  Speaker 2: You just trust and know that that guy's there. So
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  Speaker 2: if a route combination takes you over here, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to look over here to know that this guy
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  Speaker 2: is pushing with you. In the run games kind of
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, it's like like I know he's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to spill, I know he's supposed to turn it back
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  Speaker 2: to me, and not hesitating, just shooting my shot and
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  Speaker 2: knowing that the person in front of me or the
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  Speaker 2: person behind me is is gonna be where they're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be. And then just I think after you make
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  Speaker 2: a play and you're watching guys have fun and and
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  Speaker 2: celebrate one another, that's that kind of shows how much
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  Speaker 2: chemistry you have on.
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  Speaker 1: That the past few weeks, I definitely feel feel that
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  Speaker 1: for sure. And as we you know, add guys like
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Back and things of that nature. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: only grown anything else. Thanks