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Aden Durde: "Aden Durde: "The Sky Is The Limit" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we were doing. Yeah, what was your favorite player?
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  Speaker 1: You got to show the team from the game last week? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: great question.
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  Speaker 2: I really like the let's the nick heads, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like Greek played back into a block, Bohanna really played
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  Speaker 2: strong across the.
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  Speaker 1: Face and just it was a team tackle.
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  Speaker 2: And saying that you can't run the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a mindset that the way you want to play.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good picture of it.
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  Speaker 3: You've coached Quentin and Dallas previously. How have you seen
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  Speaker 3: him transform his game here in Seattle? It looks like
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  Speaker 3: he's lighter, he's playing faster, play more positions.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of the way he was when he was
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  Speaker 2: drafted from Kentucky the first year. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, and he's way he's way quicker. When he's
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  Speaker 2: like that, he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I think like at times, this league's a funny league.
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  Speaker 2: I think at times, people mature at different times, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good time for ball.
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  Speaker 1: He's like maturing at the right time. He's doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. He's locked in, he's ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: How defense event, Oh you mean like a big d
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  Speaker 2: and he's doing like it's the first time he's played it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so when when we put him there first, he's really
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  Speaker 2: understanding the blocks.
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  Speaker 1: But when you really think about it.
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  Speaker 2: So he plays like a shade and a two hour
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  Speaker 2: a four eye is quite similar to a Tour's just
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  Speaker 2: like a reverse way of seeing it. So once you
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  Speaker 2: start understanding the blocks that come from there, he can
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  Speaker 2: he can get going. He's just he needs more and
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  Speaker 2: more reps and he's improving every day.
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  Speaker 3: How important is power and leverage on your D line
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  Speaker 3: because it seems like you've.
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  Speaker 1: Work, you're doing a lot of that. World's very important.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like there's time to take your shot and
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  Speaker 2: then there's times to build a wall, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: all both of those things you need pad level, you
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  Speaker 2: need explosions. So it's just like to me, when Hines
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  Speaker 2: is coaching those guys, he's building like ed ds just
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  Speaker 2: everyday things that the.
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  Speaker 1: Guys need to do. And it's such a repetition position.
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  Speaker 2: The closer you get from outside in when you get
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  Speaker 2: into it, it's like a repetition position. It's because the
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  Speaker 2: same things happen over and over again, so you just
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  Speaker 2: need to keep repingue and that's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Ivy seems like he's picking up Steve as there coming on.
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  Speaker 1: What are you see it from?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think all those young guys are to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you know, all those young guys were rolling today,
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  Speaker 2: I felt, and that's the that's one of the best
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  Speaker 2: practices they all had.
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  Speaker 1: I thought as a group.
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  Speaker 2: I really feel from one of them brand is that
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  Speaker 2: they're starting to learn how to play together. It's hard,
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  Speaker 2: you think when you come in as a front and
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  Speaker 2: you're coming into a group of players that have played
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  Speaker 2: together for like a year, some of them played longer.
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  Speaker 2: I just we just wasn't here before, so they know
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  Speaker 2: how to play off each other, and then you come
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  Speaker 2: in there's real big personalities in the room. Now they're
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  Speaker 2: starting to not getting comfortable, but they're starting to understand
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  Speaker 2: the expectations of that position and what's expected of them.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing them all grow. It's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like Justin and I just really cares other
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  Speaker 3: Thomas and like as the project developing them.
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  Speaker 2: What I feel, Yeah, I just you know, like, it's
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  Speaker 2: funny you asked me about the core, like the and
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  Speaker 2: we're all I feel like one of the best things
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  Speaker 2: about this stuff is like Mike Mike knows we all haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Got the answers, you know, And I feel like like
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  Speaker 1: Jay Hines is growing. Like what he's doing now with
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  Speaker 1: the front is like they're head and shoulders of where
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  Speaker 1: they were before. And it's cool to see him growing.
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  Speaker 1: He's developing the young guys. He's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: He mentioned that players mature at different times, and Tyrek Smith's.
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  Speaker 1: Had a really ARS two journey started here.
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  Speaker 3: There was an Arizona comes back with a different coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from him since.
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  Speaker 3: He came here in the last fall early in the
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  Speaker 3: season to now progressing.
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  Speaker 1: In this defense?
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  Speaker 3: He played a different defensive obviously, way more.
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  Speaker 1: Like the thing personally.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen his consistency, consistent edge play in the run
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  Speaker 2: on the pass game. He he has good technique and
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  Speaker 2: he plays it down after down. That that's what you
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  Speaker 2: ask from a player, you know, and then you mix
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  Speaker 2: it with his like sorry, you mix it with his
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  Speaker 2: like athletic ability, then you start to see the player
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  Speaker 2: kind of flourishing. So I'm sorry, what if you see.
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  Speaker 2: I think all those young guys have opportunity here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like they come into a.
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  Speaker 1: Room that's got.
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  Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time talking about the d
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  Speaker 2: LI so like I feel with that position group, but
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  Speaker 2: all position groups, the more competition you have in that.
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  Speaker 1: Room, the better the standard of players.
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  Speaker 2: When you play a rotational based defensive line, you're rolling
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  Speaker 2: people in rolling people.
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  Speaker 1: People have to learn to maximize plays.
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  Speaker 2: O'Connell, Gains, Ivy, all these guys. What I'm seeing is
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  Speaker 2: they're learning. When they go in they have these few moments,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how their career will go as they grow,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And if they take those moments, they have
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  Speaker 2: more opportunity. And he took an opportunity the other night,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so you now can he consistently do it?
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  Speaker 1: It's easy when you first jump out there and you're rolling.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing a great job. But now it's like this
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  Speaker 1: league is a out doing it every day. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Jared Ivy, Yeah, he has a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the guys have to be honest with you, like it's
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  Speaker 1: just yeah, it is. It's just like every day.
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  Speaker 2: It's like every play you want, there's things to coach up,
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  Speaker 2: there's things not to coach up. But as they as
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  Speaker 2: they go is it's more of not the flash plays,
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  Speaker 2: it's more of the consistent play that I think Haines
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  Speaker 2: and those guys are really striving with those guys to
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  Speaker 2: get and they're doing a good trouble.
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  Speaker 3: How would you assess yourself as a play caller on Thursday?
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of things to learn, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that went well. And it was the
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  Speaker 2: same as when I've done it against the Charges and
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  Speaker 2: when I've done it against the Titans. You come off,
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  Speaker 2: you watch the I watched the film with Mike, I
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  Speaker 2: watch the film with Les. We talk about it, We
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  Speaker 2: talk about the plays, the reasoning why communication. There's like
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  Speaker 2: when you're doing it, there's a lot of things going on,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like it's not just calling the player, it's
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  Speaker 2: managing everything.
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  Speaker 1: And as you go.
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  Speaker 2: Through it and you learn those experiences, they're like patterns
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  Speaker 2: they like playing. To be honest with you, it's very
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  Speaker 2: similar for me, and it's like as you learn it, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That just happened. I know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I know what to do And for me it was
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  Speaker 2: a great opportunity and I had a blast.
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  Speaker 1: Is that for you as a coach, just.
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  Speaker 2: To develop and get that game experiences and that's like
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  Speaker 2: might talk about chaotic, that is Yeah, it's hugely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like especially with mentors like Mac and Lesis And I'm lucky.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy my job. I love my job. Love the
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  Speaker 1: people are working.
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  Speaker 3: Are you calling it like you would in a regular
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  Speaker 3: season game or are you holding stuff back?
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  Speaker 1: Are you like you're trying to put different players in
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  Speaker 1: positions to see what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: When what what happens is like I won't go deep
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  Speaker 2: into it, but what happens is you kind of create
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  Speaker 2: a plan before you go in as a group. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to like patronize anyone. I'm just explaining
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  Speaker 2: that you create a plan, you kind of say, these
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  Speaker 2: are the things we want to use, these are the
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  Speaker 2: players we want to use, how to how we do
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  Speaker 2: all these things, and we create a small menu because ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: in these situations, you've got to give these young guys
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  Speaker 2: a chance to play fast and free, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: like having a menu that tight and compact allows them
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  Speaker 2: to do those things.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just working through those and when we when
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  Speaker 1: we've agreed that that's what we roll with. I think
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  Speaker 1: the chemistry camaraderie among the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously as the whole coaching staff, compared to where you
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  Speaker 3: were last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's like there's people like Matt Brown
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  Speaker 2: and Frizzed they've been here so like I'm real close
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  Speaker 2: with those Clint, I know his brother from Dallas, so
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  Speaker 2: I've always talked to him. To be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the whole team is a year onwards,
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  Speaker 2: is really gaining that connection, you know, like it's it's
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing growth and do you just keep having to
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  Speaker 2: push it, put into it and you have to be
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  Speaker 2: willing to make time to say those things important. Might
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  Speaker 2: just a really good job of that, And I think
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  Speaker 2: we can on that path and keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: This guys are limiting that world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the standard in the defense alone is
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  Speaker 2: established by all of us. I think we talk about
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  Speaker 2: it a lot, we try and live it, and I
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  Speaker 2: think all the coaches and the players do a really
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  Speaker 2: good job right now of calling.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't do it within the dB room part.
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  Speaker 2: Like I allow not, I but I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: that our coaches build their culture within the room.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like the defense is the defense.
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  Speaker 2: I want those units to believe they're the best on
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  Speaker 2: the team, you know, and they.
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  Speaker 1: Compete to be the best on the team.
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  Speaker 2: So the standard and that that's built with Case Scott, Spoon,
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  Speaker 2: Jay Love, Kobe, they're building that themselves and coming together
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  Speaker 2: and they didn't put that into the defense, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that's where we're flourished. I think they expect to
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  Speaker 2: be the best, I think, but then you have to
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  Speaker 2: understand what that means and how you how you attain it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like it's an ongoing day to day basis
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  Speaker 2: of work, consistency, understanding, communication, all the things you talk
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  Speaker 2: about in any group, excelling and Case Scott does, Kate,
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  Speaker 2: Scott and Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Do a really good job of pushing that on those
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  Speaker 1: every day. And to be honest with you, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: it too. You have a player caliber Richard Sherman just
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline talking of your defensive back to the
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  Speaker 1: group players. Yeah, I think that's it. I just think
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  Speaker 1: when when teams I've been on and the.
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  Speaker 2: Legend players come back and they share with the players,
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  Speaker 2: it's some of the most important things on football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because it's not just technique, it's experienced, it's understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the moment, it's understand how important little things are, and
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  Speaker 2: it reinforces everyone's message. You know, so, like you can't
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  Speaker 2: put a value on things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Mike's talks a lot about training balance that are pacing
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  Speaker 3: for Nicky and Warrior's f learn to play different positions.
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  Speaker 3: How have you felt about the way that that pacing
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  Speaker 3: is gone here at his first training camp and trying
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  Speaker 3: to bring.
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  Speaker 1: Him along at the race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like you're really under were really understand
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  Speaker 2: that when he's playing, But so far it is so good.
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  Speaker 2: I think Jeff Howard works with him a lot and
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  Speaker 2: does a good job of compartmentalizing all the different areas
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  Speaker 2: and how understanding how he works in different areas. Like
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  Speaker 2: I think when players play multi positions, they have to
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  Speaker 2: they have to have a way of learning that can
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  Speaker 2: put themselves in that space at that moment in time,
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  Speaker 2: because it's difficult. You don't want to become a jack
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  Speaker 2: of all trades and a master of none. You want
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  Speaker 2: him to like all his athleticism, all his skill, all
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  Speaker 2: his technique to come out, you know. So as it's
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing thing, and I think we'll see the end
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  Speaker 2: product or the kind of fruits of that as he plays.
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  Speaker 1: Where are things that with the third quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like job does kind of track of
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  Speaker 3: all of that spot and that still grabs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like it's all of it is an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing thing like you might talk about all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I think Job is competing, he's doing his best out there,
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  Speaker 2: and we just we'll just see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 2: Like like I said with the D line, Like I know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like I don't want to just keep saying the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, but it's like you can ask about.
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  Speaker 1: The D line. We've got d lord d hall Boy
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  Speaker 1: Churner's coming on in his rehab when he comes back
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  Speaker 1: one day. Like all these things, the.
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  Speaker 2: More players that you have that all start a caliber players,
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  Speaker 2: the competition of play goals and people understand to do
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  Speaker 2: that stuff like that's when you're playing your best football.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if you create the standard which you
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  Speaker 1: asked about.
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  Speaker 2: And you have all these things, then the people that
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  Speaker 2: play they play for a reason, and then other people
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  Speaker 2: will own a role and then they maximize that role
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  Speaker 2: and then their role might change. That's just how like
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  Speaker 2: to me, that's competitive football. And I think Mike agrees
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  Speaker 2: with that, and that's how we see it.
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  Speaker 3: Ability to be clear in this communication, setting the standards
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  Speaker 3: and that is a growth mentality that's competitive.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Because even Clinton talked about how it's competitive, but it's
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  Speaker 3: a growth mindset.
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  Speaker 1: With Mike's message, Yeah, yeah, because it's consistently premating to
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  Speaker 1: the whole Yeah. I think like, like, yeah, it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to answer that question because I work so
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  Speaker 2: closely with Mike and we just talk all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So like I see it with the team. I see that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's like Mike talks about chasing edges.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he's consistently pushing boundaries and he's always trying
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  Speaker 2: to push us. He's always pushing me to see what
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  Speaker 2: the next thing we can do. Are we doing it
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  Speaker 2: the right way? And you have to you have like
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  Speaker 2: for me, I respect that, I respect you pushing me
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  Speaker 2: saying we have I got a right logical answer for
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  Speaker 2: you are we doing because I suspect the same questions
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  Speaker 2: from the players, like are we doing it the right way?
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's really at the core of it, what
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  Speaker 1: he's asking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and I've had with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's how you get better. How do you think
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  Speaker 1: is going to do in the new league. I don't know.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not really a Wrecksham Fable.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson their elite quickness.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: Like, I think they both have elite quickness in and
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: out of breaks. Jackson has speed as well, his ball
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  Speaker 2: catch ability and his ability to run with the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper is just his understanding of the game is elite.
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  Speaker 2: You know, his understanding of leverage, how to move people,
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  Speaker 2: where he needs to move people, what you're playing, what
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  Speaker 2: your leverage is, Like he understands the answers to the
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: test before you've written the test.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, like, you see that.
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  Speaker 2: I see it in the player, I see it in
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  Speaker 2: the film, Like it's great for these guys to compete
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  Speaker 2: against them every day. Both Really, I think, yeah, thanks guys,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you guys.