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Trevon Diggs: "This Feels Like Home" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Fucking Seattle. Think what's uh what made a skitch hit
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 2: The history, seeing what these young guy, what the UH
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  Speaker 2: team has been doing. Uh, Seeing a lot of young
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  Speaker 2: guys just coming together and just being a a great
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  Speaker 2: football team. I know a lot of familiar faces here, Uh, Josh,
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  Speaker 2: Joe d Law, just those guys. Talking to those guys,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying, it's a a great fit. You know, just
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  Speaker 2: everything that they have going here, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: would love to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: What did the coaches tell you about what they want
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  Speaker 3: you to to show or what.
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  Speaker 4: They think you're or would you Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I just come here to compete, you know. I just
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  Speaker 2: wanna come here, compete, you know, earn my keep, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just do everything I can just to you know, earn
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  Speaker 2: a spot here and you know, help this team win.
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  Speaker 5: When did just come together Yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Is the first time they show interested? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They been talking to my agent for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and then they s he told me they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: come down here, get me down for a workout.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I came down here, I worked out, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then the rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: You got a vision with Detroit as well?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, work with there some other kings that you too
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  Speaker 5: too or yeah, uh, I had a visit with Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: I was supposed to see a a couple of other teams,
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  Speaker 2: but you know it's I like to hear a lot
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  Speaker 2: like this feels like home, you know, m I got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of familiar faces, coach Scott uh Ad, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so just being a part of of those guys, those
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  Speaker 2: guys knowing me, knowing you know, where my heart is,
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  Speaker 2: knowing how how I wanna compete, so you know it
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  Speaker 2: it felt right.
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  Speaker 4: What are the biggest driving fact? But for you just
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  Speaker 4: need some of the guys you're particularly in the secondary.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you gotta have someone that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can relate to and talk to. You know, guys gonna
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  Speaker 2: help you out and you know, push you to to
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  Speaker 2: be your best, you know. And that's what I want
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  Speaker 2: for myself, and that's what I wanna do.
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  Speaker 5: Is the plan to start someone?
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  Speaker 4: Was your plan to be picky and and wait, could
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  Speaker 4: someone find a situation that you really liked or what
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  Speaker 4: was your plan?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Just finding somewhere that you know felt like home, you know,
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  Speaker 2: finding somewhere you know that I'll have opportunity to compete
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  Speaker 2: have a opportunity, you know, to play and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it felt right, you know, that's what I want
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  Speaker 2: to do more to make the right decision for me.
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  Speaker 6: What do you feel like your strengths are as a
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  Speaker 6: corner and where's the places that you're wanted to improved?
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  Speaker 2: My strengths is a corner. I got great ball skills,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a great knack for the ball. Just understanding
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  Speaker 2: you know, offenses, understanding routes, understanding you know what receivers
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  Speaker 2: want to do. You know, I think that's my abilities.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the defense that they play here?
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  Speaker 6: And you know, having familiarity with Carl and Josh from
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  Speaker 6: college and have them here, how does the translate for
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  Speaker 6: for what.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of similarities. Just talking to Josh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: earlier today he was telling us a lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he said, gonna help me out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get the playbook down. You know, I'm gonna be in
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  Speaker 2: my playbook every day, just to get the whole defense down.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just being able to give myself a chance,
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  Speaker 2: give myself an opportunity to come out here and compete.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, help And do you feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: fully healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: It's my first off season that I've been able to
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  Speaker 2: uh just not rehab and actually do off season trainings.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, a lot of trainers put the work in,
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  Speaker 2: help me put the work in to get to where
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  Speaker 2: I'm at today. You know, I'm truly thankful for that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, uh, it's a blessing for God and
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  Speaker 2: from God, honestly, just to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 2: come out here again, what.
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  Speaker 3: Are you looking at the show? Obviously you have a
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  Speaker 3: tough round injuries there. Now that you are healthy, Like
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  Speaker 3: you said, what are you looking at the show here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking to show that I'm still the best. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking to show that. Uh, I just wanna win,
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  Speaker 2: you know, be there for my teammates, to be a
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  Speaker 2: great teammate, you know, uh, be a great player.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's jump in d long? What's mean happening
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  Speaker 1: in those teammates.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's really good, you know, Like I said, just
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  Speaker 2: having someone that you're familiar with or that you can
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  Speaker 2: talk to, you know, ask questions with it helps out
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: It's less you're tough for you with the injuries and
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  Speaker 4: the concussions that you ever dealt with anything like that
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  Speaker 4: concussion related.
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  Speaker 5: Uh No, that was my first concussion ever.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it was different, you know, but just overcoming uh injuries,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just adversity. Overcoming adversity period is always tough.
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  Speaker 2: But you know if if you did it before, you
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  Speaker 2: know you can do it again.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just I just wanna be able to play healthy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this year the full season and help.
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  Speaker 4: What was it like trying to deal with teenageries coming
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  Speaker 4: one after another and just kind of feeling like you're
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  Speaker 4: repeatedly in the same spot trying to work back from
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  Speaker 4: How was that to handlementally and all that, and then
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  Speaker 4: what was the process of getting to the back point?
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  Speaker 4: You feel like it MEAs in that area you're you're backing.
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  Speaker 2: On'm saying, yeah, it was tough. It was tough, but
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  Speaker 2: just keeping good people around you. You know, my family was
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  Speaker 2: a great support system for me, keeping my mental straight
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  Speaker 2: and just keep going.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love football, you know, uh, I just
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  Speaker 2: love football. I love to play. So this being a
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  Speaker 2: part of football, you know, it's kind of like it's
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  Speaker 2: part of my job. It's a part of your job.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna get hurt You're gonna have things that happen.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna get traded, you gonna get cut. Things happen,
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  Speaker 2: but you just gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 6: Marcus Lawrence came here from Dallas, wanted the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 6: last year, and now you got Dante Fowler here and
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  Speaker 6: you here at Dirty's here. It's like Dallas. A lot
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  Speaker 6: of guys coming here from from that organization. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 6: are your thoughts on on the kind of that transition?
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  Speaker 1: And obviously at the different places you.
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  Speaker 2: Played, just being with those guys, you know, the things
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  Speaker 2: that that we were doing, the the.
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  Speaker 5: Family aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I I see a lot of similarities, just
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  Speaker 2: uh how close the guys are, you know, how how
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  Speaker 2: tight the group is. You know, uh that that's very
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  Speaker 2: important with a football team, just you know, being together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being one, making sure your locker room is straight,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I see a lot of similarities there.
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  Speaker 1: The concussion, what's it? It's true?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: You are mounting it television? Yeah, you fell on your
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  Speaker 1: face or your.
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  Speaker 3: Hap what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, fell in my head and.
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  Speaker 1: You were affected for a couple months or not?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 2: No, it was it was only I was out of
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  Speaker 2: percussion protocol in like a week, but I was dealing
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  Speaker 2: with some other injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, timing wise, do you like it you're joining the team,
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  Speaker 3: then you're gonna get on the road for extended trip
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  Speaker 3: to kind of start from that bond of team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just wanna get in with the guys, you know, vibe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get familiar with them, get familiar with new faces,
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  Speaker 2: and just go out there and help.
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  Speaker 4: What are you kind of admired about Mike McDonald's defense,
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  Speaker 4: watching it go afar and kind of amazing at what
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  Speaker 4: what they do and then uh jumping into it.
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  Speaker 1: How big of a factor is that bring?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it looks amazing. You know they get to
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback. You know, they get to create turnovers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they do all the right things. So you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to you know, hopefully be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Go out there, compete and just try to help his
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  Speaker 2: team win. That's all I wanna do.
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  Speaker 4: If you haven't played in a minute, could could you
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  Speaker 4: play by the final preseason game next Friday?
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  Speaker 1: You think you're being cheated group by.
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  Speaker 2: That, Well, possibly I gotta put in the work, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get practice reps.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe for all the things that go through the gin.
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  Speaker 1: You have this opportunity being the one who works with
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  Speaker 1: defending champions. Your position is a position of need for that,
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  Speaker 1: like I was like meant to be in a way, right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just it's been a long journey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I was just extremely thankful, you know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a blessing, you know, from God.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I thank him the most, you know. Uh.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just thinking for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: You've played something in the slot, is that right? Or
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  Speaker 1: have you mostly been on the outside.
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  Speaker 5: I've been on the outside. I I played in the
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  Speaker 5: slot too wherever.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, thank you everyone, Travon make it