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Geno Smith: "I'm Very excited For The Direction We Are Heading In" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Watching the day that Pete you know that happened, and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of gave us what was your reaction that day?
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  Speaker 1: And all that.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, man, y'all took me back a good question. You
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  Speaker 2: know that that day, you know, is a day I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably remember forever just because of how things happened for
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  Speaker 2: me here obviously, you know, Coach Carroll a big influence
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  Speaker 2: on my career, helped me out a bunch when I
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  Speaker 2: came to this organization and you know, really you know,
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  Speaker 2: helped me thrust me into the spotlight that I'm in now.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, it was kind of a you know,
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  Speaker 2: just a terrible moment, you know, to see someone that
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  Speaker 2: I love so much, you know, having to part ways
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  Speaker 2: with him, But you know that's the way of the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: that's the way things go. And very excited, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for for what we have here now and uh just
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  Speaker 2: the direction we're heading in.
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  Speaker 3: Your impressions are Ryan Grubb And I have to ask
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  Speaker 3: you just showed me.
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  Speaker 2: Watching I've been watching a lot of Husky film and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those boys they were lighting it up. But Coach grub Man,
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  Speaker 2: he you know, he knows his stuff, he knows the system,
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  Speaker 2: knows how he wants it done.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell he's very confident in it's play calling. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: in the way that he's gonna get us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to do things as an offense. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: right now we're just in the beginning stages of learning
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  Speaker 2: this offense. And you know, every guy is studying their
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  Speaker 2: butts off. You know, I was with the receivers just
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes ago going over some some of the
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  Speaker 2: passing concepts, and you know, we're trying to learn this
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  Speaker 2: thing as fast as we can.
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  Speaker 4: So that when we hit the field, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: a smooth.
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  Speaker 2: Transition and we're just you know, going to full speed
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, just getting these things together.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, does red means blue and one mean too? Now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everything's brand new.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's all new terminology. There's gonna be new protections,
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  Speaker 2: everything's gonna be new. It's a fresh start, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as far as learning, learning and the offense for all
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  Speaker 2: of us. So, uh, you know, things are new, but
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  Speaker 2: you know it's football, it's terminology.
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  Speaker 4: We're picking it up. I think guys are doing a
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  Speaker 4: great job.
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  Speaker 2: Sam and I have been going over these things and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so far.
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  Speaker 3: So good.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know?
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  Speaker 5: I know, we know you uh developed a relationship with
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  Speaker 5: Michael Paox here a little bit over the lots of while.
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  Speaker 5: Have you touch base with him about what are you
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  Speaker 5: what are you getting into it, ran, and what you
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  Speaker 5: expect for with him from a quarterback that's played under him.
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  Speaker 3: For as long as he has.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, I wouldn't do that to mic Man.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, you know, he's got a big day coming
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  Speaker 2: up with the draft and uh, you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: his thing. He's got to focus on that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: my job is to learn this offense. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: at some point, you know, I'll be able to uh
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  Speaker 2: get in contact with him and touch bases. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: for right now, it's just watching film. It's uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: studying the playbook. It's you know, writing notes and doing
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  Speaker 2: as I've always done, you know, real really just diving
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  Speaker 2: into it and uh, you know, trying to figure it
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  Speaker 2: out the best I can.
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  Speaker 3: The last couple of years, you and Drew have been
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  Speaker 3: able to lean on each other.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see in Sam and how are you
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  Speaker 1: guys already building that relationship together?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, you know, I'm I'm you know, very impressed,
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  Speaker 2: with Sam. Uh, even from our game last year. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he made some some really really good throws, made some
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  Speaker 2: incredible plays.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was on the sideline, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: made a little sold arm throw for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling Drew Man I was pretty sweet, and uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just just to get to know him for
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  Speaker 2: the first couple of days, you can tell he's a
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  Speaker 2: hard worker.
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  Speaker 4: You can tell he's competitor. You know, he wants to learn.
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  Speaker 2: He asked the right questions in the meeting room. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's a guy who's he's played games in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL and he's done well. So you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: we're still learning each other and still figuring this thing
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  Speaker 2: out together.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, so far, so good with Sam.
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  Speaker 3: How much if you had a chance to get to
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  Speaker 3: know Mike so.
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  Speaker 4: Far Phoenix, Oh, Mike Donald's a lot of mics. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've you know, had a few phone conversations
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  Speaker 2: with him from the very first time he was hired.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were on the phone talking and texting
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  Speaker 2: and you know, in great communication. I think that's something
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  Speaker 2: that he wants and I think we'll do a great
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  Speaker 2: job at that is just always.
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  Speaker 4: You know, communicating with one another.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, from what I've seen so far, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a vision, he's got a plan. Uh, he
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  Speaker 2: already laid it out for us as a team, and
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  Speaker 2: it's our job to help him and his job to
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  Speaker 2: help us get there. And so right now we're just
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  Speaker 2: like I said in the beginning stages of all this.
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  Speaker 2: But you know he's you know, when we play him
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  Speaker 2: last year with the Ravens, man you could tell how
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  Speaker 2: his scheme worked and just how good they were as
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  Speaker 2: a defense last year and how.
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  Speaker 4: They excelled as a defense.
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  Speaker 2: And so we know the type of scheme that he has,
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  Speaker 2: but also the type of leadership that he brings, the
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  Speaker 2: type of man that he is, and overall just you know,
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  Speaker 2: being a great coach.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's something we look forward to.
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  Speaker 6: What sense have you gotten about what he wants this
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  Speaker 6: team to be about, what he wants the program to
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  Speaker 6: be like and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, physical, you know, hard hitting. He wants us to
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  Speaker 2: come out there and be confident, be dominant, know our assignments,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go out there and play, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: there's thirteen thirteen people on the field, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: we want to get our crowd involved, to get the
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  Speaker 2: fans involved, get the community involved, and really allow this
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  Speaker 2: thing to just grow and just take shape.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as the season comes along, you know, with.
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  Speaker 3: Other different dates and that trigger different amounts of money
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  Speaker 3: in your contract and the offseason. Was there ever you
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  Speaker 3: thought maybe you wouldn't be here?
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  Speaker 4: Nah? No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, what did you I mean, they did kind of
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  Speaker 1: redeve your contract a little bit. What did you I
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  Speaker 1: guess what went into that? What your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a way to clear up some cap space
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  Speaker 2: so we can get some more guys. Obviously guaranteed me money,
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  Speaker 2: so that's good too. But obviously it was just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something that teams do. A lot of guys have done it.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't really much of a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when you think back to the game against
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  Speaker 5: Baltimore last year, how would you describe the defense you
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  Speaker 5: faced that day? What kind of scheme Mike ran out there,
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  Speaker 5: and what he tried to do against you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say, you know, there were some
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  Speaker 2: wrinkles that we hadn't seen on tape. There were some
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  Speaker 2: things that they did that were really good that countered
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that we did and then overall
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  Speaker 2: you could just tell just the way that they they
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  Speaker 2: fired off the ball, you know, the way they played hard,
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  Speaker 2: they were prepared.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, I feel still feel like we should have executed
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  Speaker 4: it better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never gonna not say that, but I just felt
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  Speaker 2: like they had a really good scheme and they played hard,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you can tell they were well coached.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of comparing you know, all the way back
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  Speaker 3: to West Virginia days. How complex is this offense?
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  Speaker 2: It always say, you know, it's pretty complex. There's a
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of volume. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you know, verbage, a lot of different plays, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different concepts, protections and all those things. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's the good that's a good thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we want. You know, you want to
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  Speaker 2: continue to press the issue, and you want to continue to.
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  Speaker 4: Add concepts and keep building.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think, man, you know, we're just diving
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  Speaker 2: into it, and so far, I've seen a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: stuff and I'm you know, writing as many notes as
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  Speaker 2: I can and trying to remember all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I'm doing a pretty good job at that.
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  Speaker 2: And so we want to continue to be complex, though
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to be uh, you know, just simple.
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  Speaker 4: We want to be complex, do you know.
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  Speaker 3: You see, college and program are different.
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  Speaker 5: But when you see what that offense did across the
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  Speaker 5: way with Ryan and the type of offense they were
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  Speaker 5: to be able to put up with Mike and Rome
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  Speaker 5: and Jail and all those guys, what kind of excitement
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  Speaker 5: do you have for that thinking about what you guys
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  Speaker 5: might be able to do with this.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's extremely exciting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We we got a chance to watch those guys last
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  Speaker 2: year and they're very similar. They were very similar to
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  Speaker 2: what we are in terms of personnel, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: great receivers, having great backs, tight ends, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: great quarterbacks. And so we look at that and we say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we got to execute to the level that those guys
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  Speaker 2: executed at.
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  Speaker 4: In college here in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And so again it's about learning the offense, learning the schematics,
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  Speaker 2: learning how you know we're going to attack defenses. And
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  Speaker 2: then once we get on the field, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: always execution.
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  Speaker 3: Days.
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  Speaker 7: But there is a lot of newness to this and
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  Speaker 7: players might be coming back into the building looking for
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  Speaker 7: something that's remained constant and that's like a veteran player
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  Speaker 7: like you. What has been your message, if any, to
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  Speaker 7: any of your teammates.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, as players, we set the tone. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We we have the coaches, we got the organization. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna put us in position to do great things. But
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  Speaker 2: it ultimately comes down to what we want to do
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  Speaker 2: and how we want to do it. And so we
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  Speaker 2: set the tone with our work ethic. We set the
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  Speaker 2: tone with our attitude, We set the tone with you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we prepare in the weight room, in
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  Speaker 2: the classroom. And then once we take the field, from
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  Speaker 2: the time we you know, break the huddle and we
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  Speaker 2: take take the ball, we gotta take the ball with
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  Speaker 2: the with the mindset of dominance, and the defense has
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  Speaker 2: got to feel that. The crowd's got to feel that,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's got to feel that that we're you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: coming this year and so we're gonna we're gonna set
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  Speaker 2: the tone.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna work hard. We've been working hard.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have been getting after it, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be ready, you know.
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  Speaker 4: When the time comes.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get to throw with anybody that's off teammates?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, we've been uh we've been throwing Jackson, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, DK, all of us, Tyler, We've been throwing
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  Speaker 2: in Florida. Oh here out here. Yeah, we don't record it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know everyone likes to put stuff on social media,
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  Speaker 2: but we just like to work. You know, we're not
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  Speaker 2: about the cameras.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say the passing. What else did you work on
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  Speaker 3: in the off season going to be through? What else
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  Speaker 3: did you work on?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's getting stronger, getting faster.
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  Speaker 2: I finally got a six pack again, So I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: about that. Uh, I'm just you know, in that growth mindset,
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  Speaker 2: everything's got to improve.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta be a better player, better leader. I gotta
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  Speaker 4: do everything better.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm never gonna look at it and say
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  Speaker 2: I'm a finished product.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still getting.
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  Speaker 2: Better at thirty three, about to be thirty four, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've never been better, and so I
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  Speaker 2: just got to.
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  Speaker 4: Keep working, keep pushing myself and see where I end up.
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  Speaker 3: Which one? Do you feel young with your mount of
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  Speaker 3: years you played in the NFL? All thirty three years?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, I just feel like I'm a maybe
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  Speaker 2: genetics or something, but I might I just feel like
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  Speaker 2: a young thirty three.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I feel like I'm full of energy. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm out here.
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  Speaker 2: Running around with these young twenty one year olds and
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  Speaker 2: they can't catch up.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I'm feeling good.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is your sixth year in Seattle. Know
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  Speaker 6: what was it like hearing from a different head coach
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  Speaker 6: up at the front of the room for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I thought about that just my whole
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  Speaker 2: time away. It was like, you know, it's gonna be different.
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  Speaker 2: As you can see, there's no basketball hoop in here.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the signs are different. And but this
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  Speaker 2: isn't the first time I've been through this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been on different teams. I've you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: with the Jets when we had a coaching turnover, and
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  Speaker 2: so I kind of know what to expect when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to this. And the real thing is, you got
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  Speaker 2: to buy in, no matter who the coach is, no
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  Speaker 2: matter you know who's leading this thing. You got to
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  Speaker 2: buy in. And all the guys got to buy in.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's the key message. And so right now
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's what's happening. I feel like the
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  Speaker 2: guys are really a tentative and and just buying in
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  Speaker 2: and just trying to figure things out and learn as
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  Speaker 2: much as they can. Be coachable, allow these coaches to
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  Speaker 2: coach you and critique you, and and that's really it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the weirdest thing because I really walked over
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  Speaker 2: there to grab a basketball.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, not even there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, at this one in your career, is it refreshing?
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  Speaker 3: Is it challenging? Or give a head coach that's three
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  Speaker 3: years older than you are, it's it's different.
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  Speaker 4: It's different. I would say I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't didn't expect that. You know, that's something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you you don't really expect. But coach McDonald, he's the guy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's the guy. He uh, he knows what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing. He's prepared, he's prepared himself for this moment,
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  Speaker 2: and he's gonna leave this thing. And I'm I'm you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the player. He's the coach, no matter the age.
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  Speaker 2: And so his job is to coach meet coach Grubbs.
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  Speaker 2: Their job is to coach meet coach London. And my
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  Speaker 2: job is to be receptive, to learn and to take
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  Speaker 2: heat to it and then and then to apply it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when you think back on last year. Now,
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  Speaker 5: why do you think you guys didn't get to where
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  Speaker 5: you wanted to be when all of a.
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  Speaker 2: Sudden, now, uh, just looking at it, I mean, third down,
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  Speaker 2: red zones. That was the main thing for us as
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  Speaker 2: an offense. We're a nine nine win team back to
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  Speaker 2: back years. A lot of those games were close games,
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  Speaker 2: one score games.
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  Speaker 4: Had we done a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: In those areas, we could have been a twelve thirteen
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  Speaker 2: win team. But you got the record that you earned.
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  Speaker 2: And so the reality is is that it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to me, third down the red zones where we could
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  Speaker 2: have executed better.
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  Speaker 1: When they traded for Sam, they made clear you're the starter,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to backup and all that. But with a
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  Speaker 1: new coaching staff and everything, I mean, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you have to reprove anything to those guys at all?
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  Speaker 4: New coaching staff, old coaching staff. I got everything to prove.
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  Speaker 4: That said, every day, that's the way I wake up
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  Speaker 4: every day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm competing with Sam hopefully you know, I know he's
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  Speaker 2: compete with me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna compete my butt off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm compete with everybody in this in this building to
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  Speaker 2: be the best that I can be. And so I
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  Speaker 2: really don't approach it any other way.
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  Speaker 5: Can a coaching staff change like lead to an increased
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  Speaker 5: edge from players with guys across the roster needing to
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  Speaker 5: try to show things for new coaches that they haven't
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  Speaker 5: worked with for years, and everybody kind of needing to
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  Speaker 5: have a different mindset about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's up to the individual because
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  Speaker 2: every player is different. You know, some guys want to
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  Speaker 2: play with an edge, some guys like to play relaxed,
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  Speaker 2: And it's really up to the individual. As long as
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  Speaker 2: you get your work done, as long as you come
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  Speaker 2: in with the right mindset and you know you're not
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  Speaker 2: missing the assignments and you know you're playing at the
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  Speaker 2: top of your game. However you get there, it really
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. But for me, I'm always gonna have that edge.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know my story, So I'm always gonna keep
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  Speaker 2: that chip on my shoulder. But you know, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was a new coach or an old coach that was
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  Speaker 2: never gonna change.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a thought of that They kind of
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  Speaker 1: out allowed the hip dropped TAPO And when at the
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: NFL meetings they showed the play you got heard on
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: last year, it's one of the examples what they're trying
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: to get rid of. Well, I guess what were your
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: thoughts on them kind of taking that step and doing that.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: I mean what I said after the game, you know,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: I just felt like that was an unnecessary way to
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: tackle people, especially you know that one was out of bounds,
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: so that was was a little bit more egregious. But
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: you know, I just feel like there may be safer
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: ways to tackle guys. I know it's hard on defenders,
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: and I know they're trying to get us down any
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: way that they can. I'm not a part of the
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: rules committee, so I don't get to make those decisions,
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: but I mean it is what it is, whether they
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: did or didn't outlaw it, you know, it's I just
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: think there's a better way to tackle.
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: Was it important for you to see Noah resigned so
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: that you're not completely turning over a tight end room,
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: that there's some familiarity that you have there.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was happy to see Noah, you know, resign.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I know how hard he's worked since he's
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: gotten here, and uh, you know, that's something I think
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: he really deserved. Obviously, hate to see, you know, Disley
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: go and hate to see Kobe Go. Those are two
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: guys that you know, I really enjoyed playing with.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: But again, we'll see those guys down the line. That's
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: the way of the NFL. You know, it's always going
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: to be turnover, no matter you know, what team you're on,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: no matter what year you're at. So you know, we
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: love those guys. But you know, it's actually great to
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: see Noah. And you know, I think him having you know,
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: the leadership role now in that tight end room, I
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be great for him.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: It's an important thing you learned. Compete.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Always compete, you know, always compete, you know, always go
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: for it, never back down.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you get the respect you deserve
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: as a quarterback?
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I mean I think in one case, I think you
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: can say yeah, I do get it. The other ways
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I think you say no. But again, my job is
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: to fight for that respect. And that's the thing I
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: enjoy about it, you know, the compete competing part about
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: you know, just continue to fight for my respect in
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: this league.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Why do you think it for the disc you don't get?
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is?
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you honestly, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: I don't have a good answer to that, and yas,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, guys,