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Quandre Diggs "Our Depth In the DB Room Is Great" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Into what's going on. Bill's good. It's good to be
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  Speaker 1: back at work, you know, putting consecutive days together. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got another one tomorrow, so take care
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  Speaker 1: of our bodies, be ready to go tomorrow. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, just enjoy the process, speak the depth,
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  Speaker 1: the cornerback and you got reekal Winston's not here and
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  Speaker 1: you've still got Mike Jackson Trick Brown Company out there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's impressive. I think this is probably
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  Speaker 1: the best depth that we've had since I've been here.
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  Speaker 1: Where you know, we got two guys out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with spooning Reek, so we got just throw Trey in
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna do do his job. Mike Jack's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do his job. We got a little cold. The young
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  Speaker 1: boys are getting great reps. So at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you know, it's the next man up mentality
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  Speaker 1: right now, and we'll be happy when those guys get
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  Speaker 1: back out there. They just give us more of of
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  Speaker 1: our bodies so we can all work together and get
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  Speaker 1: that chemistry going. Jackson Jack just walking start during it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, it was twenty twenty two last year,
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  Speaker 1: so twenty twenty one, I remember literally when he got here,
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  Speaker 1: he got off the plane and he had to do
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  Speaker 1: our competition period. He had like six one on one.
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  Speaker 1: He's just dead tired, and we were like, bro, you
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  Speaker 1: you gassed. Huh. He was like, nah, I don't get tired.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, alright, you know what I mean. And
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  Speaker 1: he came in. He was just on practice squad and
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  Speaker 1: he worked his way up and we had some guys
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  Speaker 1: out with COVID and you know, he stepped in the
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  Speaker 1: game when he had to. So he's always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: been steady and been that rock. And I think last
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  Speaker 1: year he just got that confidence and his confidence just
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  Speaker 1: continued to rise and throughout OTA's and Mini Camp he
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  Speaker 1: had a great OTA's in Mini camp. So he's ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, you know what I mean. So nothing like
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  Speaker 1: having guys that you that you can trust, uh on
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  Speaker 1: that perimeter, because you know, teams are paying these receivers
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  Speaker 1: big money to go make big plays. And when you
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  Speaker 1: got a good stable corners that we got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we in a pretty good position. I probably have seen
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  Speaker 1: it like everything this year. I mean, he's good. He's
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  Speaker 1: in a good spot mentally, so you know when he's
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  Speaker 1: out there, he'll be out there. So I just told
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  Speaker 1: him to take his time, and you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a process. You know, every day you take a step
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  Speaker 1: by step and he knows what he's doing when you
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  Speaker 1: get out there. So when you get out there, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be time to go so and to be exciting,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when it's his time, it's his time.
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  Speaker 1: You got smart football players. It's easy to get along
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  Speaker 1: with them, and you know, you see the game in
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  Speaker 1: the same way. So you know, I'm sure some things
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  Speaker 1: that he's probably not familiar with here that we've done
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  Speaker 1: in the past and he's trying to get used to that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's easy to talk through it with him because
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  Speaker 1: he understands those things and it's not hard to communicate
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  Speaker 1: with him at all. What are you really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing a great job. They're learning. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: only day two, so those guys are gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: get better and they're continue to grow. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: running around, they're flying around, and I keep telling them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you make a mistake, just run fast and
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  Speaker 1: it'll cover up a little bit of it. So they'll
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  Speaker 1: be alright. They're they're going to continue to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: Sutherlands in playing Nickel j Reed. Also, so this guy's
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  Speaker 1: been impressive his own business whatever I mean, y you say,
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  Speaker 1: But for me, you know, you let him handle his business,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I wouldn't want anybody
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  Speaker 1: in my business, you know what I mean. When I
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  Speaker 1: had my incident two years ago, it wasn't like Bobby
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  Speaker 1: was running around telling me, Hey, get out on the
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  Speaker 1: get out there and do this, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He give me advice and you know, you just explain
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  Speaker 1: it to him. Man, that's all you can do. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I it's not like I don't think Spoon
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  Speaker 1: wants to be here. He wants to be here, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You see the competitive nature when he was here in
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  Speaker 1: OTA's and uh in in Mini camp. So at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you know it'll get handled, it'll
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  Speaker 1: get worked out, and he'll be out here and you
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  Speaker 1: know it'll be water under the bridge you're coming up?
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  Speaker 1: Did you wrap your head around? Well? When I get
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  Speaker 1: my exciting FIP ten years ago, when I was drafted,
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  Speaker 1: I was six round draft picks that my money ain't
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  Speaker 1: nothing like Spoon Finna get. I think I got like
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  Speaker 1: seventy thousand after taxis So for me. They're like, I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be rich. I was gonna be a normal civilian,
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  Speaker 1: So just give me my money when you get it
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  Speaker 1: to me. But you know, everybody's situation is different, and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I just give him the best advice
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  Speaker 1: I can give him, and you know, if he needed
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  Speaker 1: if he need anything, I'm always here. I'm down the street.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I think it'll work out. It'll be fine,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's out fifth pick. We
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  Speaker 1: drafted him for a reason. They want him here. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to be here, so it'll be all good. What
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  Speaker 1: was never ever got therese though, you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to see BBKH, just knowing the road that he's been
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  Speaker 1: through the last two years and being able to stay
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  Speaker 1: in touch with him over all of this time. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been cool, you know what I mean. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for him, being able to just see him out there
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  Speaker 1: and tell the guys, you know what I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: this guy's a minute on special teams. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of these guys that's here, these younger guys, these
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  Speaker 1: younger linebackers that you know, they think, oh I've arrived. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Bbk's back, so be alert
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  Speaker 1: for him being out there, going out there taking people's reps.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they asked me to do it, and I
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  Speaker 1: did it, you know what I mean. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: it was some big negotiation. Is do us best for
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  Speaker 1: the team? For me is the best thing for me too.
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  Speaker 1: I get my money up front, and you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can do what I want my money
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have to wait until May. So so
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  Speaker 1: win win for both sides. And at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you know what I mean. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: me as a veteran player, you know, you know the
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  Speaker 1: the the pros and the cons. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, I do my job. Well it's all
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  Speaker 1: gonna work out anyways. So at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I get my money and I'm I'm cool. They get
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  Speaker 1: cap space. We cool. So let's go, you know, let's
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  Speaker 1: go ask somebody if that's the thing we're gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: then cool. If not, you know what I mean, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be all right. What do you think I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think they should be paid. I mean, it's certain running
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  Speaker 1: backs that you see on the you see on the
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  Speaker 1: on the list of players that you're getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: play for the week, and you like, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this God, this is the team. This is what This
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  Speaker 1: is the team. You look at the Derrick Henry's, the
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's, the you know, Joe Mixon even have to
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  Speaker 1: take a pay cut, like you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You see these players and the Saquons come on bruh,
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  Speaker 1: like is the Giants, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's just it, it's bafful It baffles me.
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  Speaker 1: But you gotta look at it from both sides. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I see you know, GMS, and I see
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  Speaker 1: their proba, but also see it from a player's standpoint of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to maximize my earners and get all
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  Speaker 1: I can, and you know, it sucks that it's going down,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it got to be a way that you can figure
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  Speaker 1: that out, because there's no way that everybody else's franchise tag.
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  Speaker 1: You know, numbers has risen and there's his drop, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully they can figure something out. And you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Josh Jacobs me personally, I was telling somebody yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: if I was Josh Jacobs, I literally would take the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders versus Seahawksville and just go throw it at the
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  Speaker 1: GM and be like you need me, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Like, that's what I would do. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just to god honest truth, because I'm an honest person
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I feel about it. He's a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a player and I told him that at the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, like, you're a heck of a player. You
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  Speaker 1: probably the best in the league. So it just sucks
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  Speaker 1: what's going on for those guys like he's thinking of
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  Speaker 1: that something achievement your I mean, when we gotta set edges,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta set edges. We gotta tackle guys. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: tackle guys. And I think it's I it's a mixture
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  Speaker 1: of everything. It's not just you know, corners, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just safeties, it's not just linebackers. It's not just d
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  Speaker 1: line's everybody. So at the end of the day, when
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  Speaker 1: I have my ops to get 'em down, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get 'em down with Reek and Mike Jack and Spoon
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Jamal Jay Love and we all have
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  Speaker 1: our ops to get 'em down. We gotta get 'em down,
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  Speaker 1: and we gotta set edges. We gotta set edges. So
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's not a blame
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  Speaker 1: of just the D line. I think it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's everybody, you know what I mean, And the
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  Speaker 1: same with them. You know the past game, we wasn't
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  Speaker 1: good in the past game just because of the DB's
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  Speaker 1: you know, those guys up front were were pressuring the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and doing things like that. So it all works
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  Speaker 1: hand in hand, and you know, I think that's something
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  Speaker 1: that we all working on down I think. So you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm I mean, I think he's he's he
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  Speaker 1: has his confidence back, he has his mojo back. So
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  Speaker 1: you guys seen what he was able to do on
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  Speaker 1: uh one leg really when he played those games in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So for him to be able to
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  Speaker 1: be explosive and run as fast as he can and
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  Speaker 1: being sticky as he is, like, like I say, our
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  Speaker 1: depth and in that room is is great. So he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job. You know, I'm sure he's a
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  Speaker 1: little rusty. He hasn't played no while, But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, we all rusty. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't played since January, So he's not he's not far behind.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's doing the heck of a job. It's loving
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  Speaker 1: out put. I don't put anything past that guy. So
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't even on Twitter that day. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what I was doing was that Monday, Yeah, Monday,
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  Speaker 1: I was hanging out with my daughter all day, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that until until later. I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to bout it either. How did you find out fast
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  Speaker 1: in that game? But oh no, I woke up and
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  Speaker 1: I look at it. You feel me like I got ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: So shit, I'm gonna get up. I'm gonna look. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen that the Safeties was coming out that day, so
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see. I wanted to be curious.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy because I told somebody today before
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  Speaker 1: they was like, yeah, you will be on there, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I see it. When I see it,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. But end of the day, bron as
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  Speaker 1: long as I got the respect of my teammates and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the coaches and other coaches around the league,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know what executives they're talking to, because
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  Speaker 1: every coach and executive I talk to always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: give me my prop so Jeremy Fowler, he probably need
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  Speaker 1: to get some new sources in that in that job.
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  Speaker 1: Sick of it? Bro, I'm thirty years old. Like, how
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  Speaker 1: long am I gonna be underrated? You know what I mean? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Same with Locke? Like how long he gonna be underrated?
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  Speaker 1: We've been in the league nine years, bro, Like, can't
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  Speaker 1: be underrated forever? You talk about a second or third
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  Speaker 1: year guy underrated? You know what I mean? Maybe when
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  Speaker 1: I first moved in safety, But you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the players that I made, the stats that I have, Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not underrated. That's a that's a great player. So
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  Speaker 1: what he think to truly understand the in his possibility?
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  Speaker 1: So that I mean, I guess they understand everybody else
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  Speaker 1: at safety besides me. So who knows, bro, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: stats speak for theyself. I love all the other guys
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  Speaker 1: on the list, trust me. I talk to 'em. We
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  Speaker 1: all talking, trust me. They all tell me differently. So
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  Speaker 1: the people that they got one and two and three,
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  Speaker 1: they all like, well, I think he should be on
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  Speaker 1: the list. I think he's one of the best in
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  Speaker 1: the league. So long as I got those guys respect,
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  Speaker 1: I'm cool out. Make sure y'all read Sean uh Michael
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  Speaker 1: Shane's story too. He did a good job