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Sam Darnold Discusses Recovering From His Injury, Drew Lock's Performance · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Feeling good. Yeah, just I think for me, especially during
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  Speaker 2: this week, just taking it day by day, continuing to
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  Speaker 2: balance the reps and do everything I need to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: When we saw you leave the field in week one,
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  Speaker 1: we did not anticipate talking to you so quickly after that.
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  Speaker 2: What was the wave of emotions you went through in.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to process what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, a lot of different emotions, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of possibilities, like in terms of how long I would
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  Speaker 2: be out and possibilities of like different injuries so just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of emotions and a lot of thoughts but
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  Speaker 2: you know very very happy to be here and standing
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  Speaker 2: in front of you guys today. How quickly did they
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  Speaker 2: give you the assurance that most of those worst case
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  Speaker 2: scenario that those worst case scenarios weren't on the table?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was it was kind of after the after
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  Speaker 2: I got the CT scan and you can take a
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  Speaker 2: better look at at the the anatomy of the of
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  Speaker 2: the bone the hip hip bone so that was kind
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  Speaker 2: of when the doc brought the good news to me.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think you'll be able to play Sunday? I'm
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  Speaker 2: really striving for that, but again, like I said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just taking it day by day. I also don't want
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  Speaker 2: to jinx anything.
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  Speaker 1: How did your body and the injury area react to
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  Speaker 1: practicing yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt good. Just obviously a little bit of soreness,
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  Speaker 2: but it felt really good. If I remember correctly, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't go into the medical tent right away. It was,
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  Speaker 2: I think, a couple minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think that You were okay at first?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's some things that happen on the
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  Speaker 2: field that, you know, you get banged up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and something feels a little weird and feel weird
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  Speaker 2: coming off to the sideline, and then you're able to
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  Speaker 2: shake it off after a couple minutes on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: but it wasn't that way. You know, the pain just
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  Speaker 2: kind of lingered and wasn't really able to throw, and
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  Speaker 2: that was the main concern. Sam, you've been in Drew's
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  Speaker 2: position in your career. What's it been like to see
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  Speaker 2: what he's been able to do stepping up for you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable, man. Just, you know, and again, like none
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  Speaker 2: of us in this building are surprised at what happened.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a baller. Went out there, played really well. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just very happy for him. And just, it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Just cool to see his process throughout the week and
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  Speaker 2: how he attacked it and to go out there and,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, perform the way that he did. It
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  Speaker 2: was no surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had an injury like that before or in
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  Speaker 1: that area before?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-mm.
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  Speaker 1: How close is it to the oblique injury you had
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  Speaker 1: last year in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the same area? No, no, it's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different. A little bit different. What was the hospital
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  Speaker 2: experience like? Were you able to watch the game? I
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  Speaker 2: was able to watch the last, like, eight minutes on
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  Speaker 2: my phone. But, yeah, it was different, really different at Harborview.
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  Speaker 2: But it was, you know, just– I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: just the perspective on life that I got while going
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  Speaker 2: into the hospital, seeing some of the people and what
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  Speaker 2: they're dealing with, that was eye-opening, especially in the position
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  Speaker 2: that I was in, worrying about the injury and how
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  Speaker 2: long I was going to be out. It was good
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  Speaker 2: to get that perspective, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: There were some people speculating that depending on what kind
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  Speaker 1: of injury, it might not just affect the season, it
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  Speaker 1: might affect your career. Was that in your mind at all?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was... Again, like I said, there
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  Speaker 2: was so many different things that were running through my mind,
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  Speaker 2: and that was one of them. Do you expect to
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  Speaker 2: increase your reps today and tomorrow over what you did yesterday? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think the plan is to just continually increase the reps. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: as long as I just keep feeling good and progressing
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  Speaker 2: the way that I have been, continue to up the
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  Speaker 2: reps throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: This perspective you said you saw in the hospital, did
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  Speaker 1: you talk to anyone? No, no, just.
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  Speaker 2: Again, like I said, just seeing some of the people
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  Speaker 2: and the pain that they're in and what different people
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  Speaker 2: are dealing with when they're in the hospital. It was just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because it's a trauma hospital, so there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of crazy stuff going on in there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you come in through the emergency room?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, I didn't come in through the emergency room.
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  Speaker 2: They took me in a little side alley. What was
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  Speaker 2: it like seeing the end of the game?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you started a game, and then you're watching
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  Speaker 1: the end of it on your phone.
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  Speaker 2: What's that like? It's not fun. Um, I'll be straight
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  Speaker 2: up with you guys. Um, you know, it's, it's tough to,
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  Speaker 2: to get hurt, but to see the way that, again,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, Drew came in and, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how well he played and really just protected the football. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I was very happy to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Mike said it really took a drastic turn kind of
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  Speaker 1: upward last week or, you know, the positive direction. Did
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  Speaker 1: you kind of feel that as last week went on?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. Just, uh, yeah, throughout the week, really after
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  Speaker 2: the injury, like every single day, just the way that
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  Speaker 2: I've been improving and getting better, um, has been great.
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  Speaker 1: What's that mindset been like when obviously, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: there's the perspective and going to the hospital and you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking all the worst thoughts and then to hear that
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  Speaker 1: it's not that, and you're going to be back. How
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  Speaker 1: has that kind of affected your mindset and your enthusiasm as.
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  Speaker 2: You came back into the building? Yeah. You know that
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  Speaker 2: it obviously, you know, had a huge impact of like
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  Speaker 2: potentially being out for the year to, okay, it might
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  Speaker 2: be like, you know, it might only be a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks or a couple of weeks, you know, that changes
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  Speaker 2: your mindset drastically. So it was, uh, you know, good
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  Speaker 2: little boost, I guess, that I needed while, while I
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  Speaker 2: was in there.
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  Speaker 1: How did it feel to be back out on the
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  Speaker 1: field after all that and just letting it loose?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt great just to, to get back out
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  Speaker 2: there with my teammates, man. That's like the greatest joy.
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  Speaker 2: I think, like I said, like getting that perspective and
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  Speaker 2: being able to actually like come back, go back out
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  Speaker 2: on the field and be able to play football with
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  Speaker 2: my teammates, be able to play football in general. Like that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Being on the sideline against Arizona, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it was great to see Drew have success and our
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  Speaker 2: team have success. But when I was out there on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline, I missed playing a ton. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: good to get back out on the practice field this
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  Speaker 2: week and get out there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you need to feel or think today, tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: To know you can play Sunday? Yeah, I think just
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  Speaker 2: mentally having confidence, having confidence in my body, being able
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  Speaker 2: to go out there. And if I need to take off,
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  Speaker 2: feeling good about sliding and just doing all the football things,
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  Speaker 2: worrying about playing football, not worrying about the hip at all,
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  Speaker 2: just going out there playing football, playing fast.
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  Speaker 1: Will you try to take off running in practice to
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  Speaker 1: test that or not until game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just play every play as its own, and
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  Speaker 2: if I have to take off running, just take off
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  Speaker 2: and play ball. What's the rehab look like on your
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  Speaker 2: end in terms of what are you addressing? Is it muscular?
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  Speaker 2: Is it tightness? What are you trying to get at? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's really the whole hip. You know, when you have
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  Speaker 2: an injury to your hip or anywhere, all the muscles
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  Speaker 2: around that area tighten up a little bit. So just
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  Speaker 2: really continuing to keep it loose and strong, making sure
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  Speaker 2: that I'm good coming back.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have people on defense that play all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of different positions. And, you know, it used to be
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of count a nickel as a nickel.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like for you as a quarterback now to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for teams when they've got guys that kind of
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  Speaker 1: play unique roles?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. You know, Washington is a great example.
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  Speaker 2: Their coordinator, DJ, over there, I was with him in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a great football mind. They've got a really
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  Speaker 2: good scheme over there with really good players and, again,
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  Speaker 2: some guys that can play different positions. It makes it tough.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it challenging. But I think for us as
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  Speaker 2: an offense, being able to have a clear mind of
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  Speaker 2: IDing those looks and getting really good reps in practice
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  Speaker 2: and in walkthroughs really helped with that prep.
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  Speaker 1: Drew mentioned that he was kind of swimming a little
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  Speaker 1: bit this time last week and he came up after
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  Speaker 1: this press conference and met with you and you helped
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  Speaker 1: him kind of get back to center. What was that
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  Speaker 1: conversation like and what did you see from him there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it can be tough, right? Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to figure out, you know, with all, again,
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  Speaker 2: like going back to the last question, like all the
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  Speaker 2: different looks that a defense can bring and present to us, like,
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  Speaker 2: really just understanding our problems as a quarterback and when
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  Speaker 2: we might be hot, when we might have to get
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  Speaker 2: the ball out. And so I think for us, like
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  Speaker 2: we just got to go play fast and keep it
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  Speaker 2: really simple. And so that's, that's kind of all I
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  Speaker 2: told him was, you know, when we, this is when
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  Speaker 2: we have a problem, this is when we don't. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, what are our solutions when we do have
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  Speaker 2: a problem and just going from there. What was it
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  Speaker 2: like to experience the JSN show last week as more
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  Speaker 2: of like an outside observer?
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  Speaker 1: What was your perspective on his day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good at football. You know, JSN, he's
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a player, man, and obviously we have
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  Speaker 2: a ton of really good players everywhere, but, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jackson does a really good job for us.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thanks, guys.