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Laken Tomlinson: "I'm Excited To See Where The Offense Can Go" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How y'all doing today? Good? It's great. I'm doing doing great,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful day man out here with the team.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How do you sure you.
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  Speaker 2: Can't differently now than you did when you were a
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  Speaker 2: rookie or your first couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when I was a rookie, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what I didn't know. So I came in when I
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  Speaker 1: was young, I asked a bunch of questions, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I find myself answering a lot of questions, uh at
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  Speaker 1: this point in my career. No, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just different. The preparation, you know, uh, the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of what to expect, the experience you know, from all
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  Speaker 1: of it. You know, he definitely plays a role when
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  Speaker 1: they're coming out a training camp this year.
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  Speaker 2: For me, here the previous line coaches that you've had
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, I mean, being a first time NFL head.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, Scott's Scott Scott's great. I mean just the way
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  Speaker 1: he talked to the players. He's been He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic job with the guys in you know, having
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  Speaker 1: me having me Georgian there, you know, we got new Dre,
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  Speaker 1: got Q. There's a great room guys are super respectful
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  Speaker 1: and we're learning together and growing together. Man. So that's
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  Speaker 1: been great.
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  Speaker 2: How was it working with Charles Cross this year? Man?
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  Speaker 1: He's awesome? Man. Uh, he's a he's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: specimen man, a ton of talent. I'm so excited for
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  Speaker 1: this kid, man, especially working the way we're working right now. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see go out there put them pass
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  Speaker 1: On talked.
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  Speaker 2: About Temple fifteen. How do we seeing that play out
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  Speaker 2: of the Temple of practices now?
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  Speaker 1: Coach talks about the temple obviously having that as a
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  Speaker 1: weapon his offense. You know, Uh, when you know obviously
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  Speaker 1: you wanna have good temple coming in out of huddle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, beat Chris. Uh, pay attention to details. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but it's extremely important, especially for the offense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting what we need to get done. What's impressed you
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  Speaker 1: about Olu etc? Alright? Man? Just uh, just his knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the the installs obviously with the new installation of
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  Speaker 1: the plays. Uh, him coming out there communicating with everybody,
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  Speaker 1: he's been great. Uh, talking to me, talking to ab
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  Speaker 1: uh everybody. So I've been impressing them coming out of
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  Speaker 1: your busting his tail too. So I've been impressed.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the guys have told us or talk
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  Speaker 2: to us anyway about uh, the new staff, installing his
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  Speaker 2: culture and what they expect from all of you guys.
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  Speaker 2: What's that been like? I noticed a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: in the camp, but from that aspect, what's it been
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  Speaker 2: like at these first couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's been great. I mean that kind of rolled
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  Speaker 1: over from you know ot as you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: here in o Ta's and going through minicamp is kind
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  Speaker 1: of rolled over. That's that expectation you know that we
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  Speaker 1: have for our work. You know, it took take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pride in our work and you know when
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  Speaker 1: coach goes out there and talk, man, but we listen.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been it's been awesome. What did you play
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously getting to know Gino in kind of his leadership style, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you thought to ask Gino? Is awesome? Man. I've
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  Speaker 1: had the pleasure of training with Gino in the past.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I was younger, I think I was
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  Speaker 1: a rookie actually, and just getting to know him as
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  Speaker 1: a person, just having that prior knowledge, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was obviously easy for me and him to get to connect.
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  Speaker 1: But just seeing him how he operates here, how he
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  Speaker 1: talks to his guys, how he takes ownership and leadership
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  Speaker 1: of the offense, it's been phenomenal. So I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: super excited him for him, He's super talented. Man, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for him tear it up.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned being the one that has to answer questions now,
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  Speaker 2: but playing multiple positions in the offensive line is extremely tricky.
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  Speaker 2: But clinic Curtis, we've seen him playing tackle here and
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  Speaker 2: guarded OTAs. What have you seen from him up to
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  Speaker 2: this point as one of those guys that can't play.
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  Speaker 1: Many differentsition, Man, that's that's that's so so valuable for
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  Speaker 1: offensive line obviously, you know, just being able to play
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  Speaker 1: either tackle, guard or going from right tackle left tackle. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you just never know. Man, I've been in you know,
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  Speaker 1: a ton offensive lines where you never know, somebody goes
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  Speaker 1: down and someone needs to step up, having that next
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  Speaker 1: man up, And honestly, man, if you have someone like
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  Speaker 1: that in the line, you just come in, you won't
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  Speaker 1: skip a beat. As in operation offensive, in the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line and in offense. It's fantastic. So I super appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that from him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Too. How aft your ability to do your job when
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback gets the ball out of there pretty quickly?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterbacks throwing it quick instead of holding on to it
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  Speaker 2: for a while, How does that affect your ability to
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  Speaker 2: complete your task?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'm blocking regardless, So no, but obviously you know,
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen love that. But we we we're not even
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  Speaker 1: thinking about that. We're thinking about blocking for as long
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  Speaker 1: as we can.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned training with Gina eight or nine years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious when you come back after all this time
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  Speaker 1: for other things where you thought, Okay, he's a different
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  Speaker 1: player this way or a different leader.
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  Speaker 2: Just what were your what did you notice?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, obviously just watching him, you know play, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I watched him play last year as well, uh two
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  Speaker 1: years ago as well, and just seeing what he's done
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  Speaker 1: on the field and everything he's been through, and then
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  Speaker 1: knowing him personally, you can tell what kind of person
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  Speaker 1: he is, what kind of warrior he is. So that's
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  Speaker 1: for me, like knowing him personally, that's just awesome. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's very easy for me to click onto that McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: So the offense is still vanilla right now early in
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  Speaker 1: training camp, but can you see the creativity and where.
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  Speaker 2: It can go.
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  Speaker 1: Ride you Robbe specially, Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you have a ton of weapons, a ton of weapons,
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  Speaker 1: and just obviously going through the first two days training
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  Speaker 1: camp with the installs and installing all the plays, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see where it can go anything else. Guys. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, guys. I appreciate you. Yeah,