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Beau Stephens: "I Feel Like I've Gotten A Great Starting Point" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Walking out through today and what it's like. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty surreal.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Like before practice, I'm just literally walking around
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  Speaker 2: in circles because i was like the first one out
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  Speaker 2: there and I'm just looking around. I'm like, Wow, this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be where I'm at for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully for a very long time. But it's
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  Speaker 2: really eye opening to see your number, to see a
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  Speaker 2: jersey with your number on it, with your name on
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  Speaker 2: the back. There's no really a better feeling than that
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  Speaker 2: would have been winning games, you know. So yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just really happy the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: That have a jersey out here.
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  Speaker 2: Journey, it's just a show where you're at and as
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  Speaker 2: a starting point, you know, because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time before the season starts, just to show how good
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  Speaker 2: and shape you are, show what kind of fundamentals that
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  Speaker 2: I've been taught over the last couple of years and
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  Speaker 2: see how well that's going to translate. And then just
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  Speaker 2: taking whatever coach Britton has for me and just trying
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  Speaker 2: to tweak my play style and it's an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: just get it better as a as a player and
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  Speaker 2: a person. You know, important is the communication aspect right
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  Speaker 2: now this time of year, specially when you guys are
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  Speaker 2: have pads on and being able to get used to
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  Speaker 2: your coaches and what they're.
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  Speaker 1: Asking for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's it's what's the word paramount, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: having guys next to you, having the center makers call
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  Speaker 2: listen to it, putting two and two from the meeting
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  Speaker 2: to the practice field, you know, that's all you can
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  Speaker 2: really ask for. That's what your what the whole goal
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  Speaker 2: is when you go out there and practice to get
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  Speaker 2: better at that, and then your fundamentals and so it's
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  Speaker 2: just putting those together right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're obviously throwing a lot at you here early, but
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  Speaker 3: the first impression of the playbook, the offense, and how
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  Speaker 3: that kind of fits with the stuff you weren't running before.
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  Speaker 1: What you're kind of on. You know, I'm really thankful
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  Speaker 1: for coach Lester.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at Iowa, a lot of it's the same,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it's similar, a lot of the same words.
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  Speaker 1: There's definitely some differences. There's definitely more like complexity.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like I've gotten a great starting point
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  Speaker 2: and it's very helpful, you know, because I'm sure some
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  Speaker 2: of these guys that have never heard anything like how
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  Speaker 2: we did at Iowa or here. Coming in for that
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  Speaker 2: first meeting. You hearing it, they're kind of like mind blown,
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  Speaker 2: like how different it is. And I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: have I'm gonna have a handle on it in the meantime.
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  Speaker 3: So how much and how much to kind of have
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  Speaker 3: you talk to Mason over the last week kind of
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  Speaker 3: prep people coming in and what.
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  Speaker 2: To expect them. I texted him right before I came down.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you can't be around during Ricky Whinnie camp. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: he just wished me the best and he said if
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  Speaker 2: you need anything, just text me. He's like, it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: much same playbook. So I was like, nice, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: They had you on the right side today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think you're going to be you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: too early to tell. You know, they obviously have a
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  Speaker 2: really good left guard, so I'm assuming. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: depth charts never mean anything at this time of year,
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  Speaker 2: so it's something you just got to keep working for.
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  Speaker 1: Communications.
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  Speaker 3: You have communications up to this point with some of
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  Speaker 3: the other alignment from the team here, like great.
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  Speaker 2: I saw when I walked inside for the first time
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  Speaker 2: after getting to client thrown down, but we just said
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  Speaker 2: what's up? And it's like, good luck, have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna love it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's about all the communication I've had so far. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he seems very similar to my officive line
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  Speaker 2: coach at IOWA, and I can appreciate that. He's something
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  Speaker 2: that I can definitely relate with the way he teaches. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's been what twenty four hours that I've been with him,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know everything, but for right now, what
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  Speaker 2: I've said is it's it's it's very I'm very appreciative
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  Speaker 2: of how he's gone about it, and it seems like
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  Speaker 2: he's got a plan for me. He hasn't told me
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  Speaker 2: it yet, but I have a feeling I can trust him.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Thanks, thanks, well, you appreciate it. Henderson