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DK Metcalf: "It's Going To Be Fun On Monday Night" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up. I don't think you're one that looks back
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  Speaker 1: in the past.
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  Speaker 2: But when you think about last year's game in Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: what do you take away from either their silent play,
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  Speaker 2: their game plan, or.
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  Speaker 3: Or how you guys keep through a mean Uh? I
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  Speaker 3: think the one thing that sticks out even when watching
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  Speaker 3: film this year is uh just how hard they play. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's running to the ball. Their offense plays hard, They're
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  Speaker 3: always trying to get the ball in their playmakers' hands,
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  Speaker 3: and they are loaded with talent on both sides of
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  Speaker 3: the ball. So uh, I mean, just like us, it's
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  Speaker 3: just gonna come down to, uh, who plays the hardest.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, so, how does their toughness compared
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  Speaker 1: to what you know with your team in the.
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  Speaker 2: First three weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll take us ten out of ten days
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  Speaker 3: a week. I think we we are a very competitive team,
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  Speaker 3: a very tight knit team that uh, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: adversity hits, uh, it's gonna be very difficult to try
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  Speaker 3: to break us apart. But uh, I think we keep
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  Speaker 3: rallying together and uh, you know, stay together as a team.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, I think that's the all the toughness that
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  Speaker 3: we need.
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  Speaker 4: Alvin Johnson was obviously a great receiver there in Detroit
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  Speaker 4: for a number of years. You've been sometimes compared to
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  Speaker 4: him by some people. Did you watch him at all
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  Speaker 4: when he was in the league.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, watch Calvin Johnson, still watch his highlights today.
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  Speaker 3: But just to be compared to him is a big
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  Speaker 3: blessing and honor. So I just thank God that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's the one I'm being compared to, but still trying
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  Speaker 3: to live up to, you know, his uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: the type of career that he had in Detroit. But
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  Speaker 3: a great receiver, you know, great friend, great mentor to me.
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  Speaker 3: So uh yeah, just great to be compared to him.
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  Speaker 3: That seems like one of the louder more Rockets environments
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: I do do you like playing in that kind of thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. I mean anywhere in a hostile environment where
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  Speaker 3: you you are the underdog, or you know, the fans
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  Speaker 3: don't want you to be there, or you know they're
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  Speaker 3: cussing you out, or whatever the case may be. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's always a good environment because it separates the
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  Speaker 3: boys from the men, and you know, you're there to
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  Speaker 3: play football and they're to win your one on one matchup, So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean the stakes are just that much higher, but
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's still football.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, you in that game, both tackles got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Who four and a lot of people are thinking it
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  Speaker 2: was gonna be really dire for you guys. What do
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  Speaker 2: you remember about the way stone cause you're probably playing
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  Speaker 2: in this regard, So what do you remember about the
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  Speaker 2: way you stepped up in that game?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Detail wise, I can't remember back that far.
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  Speaker 2: Just the way like the office was. That will help
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  Speaker 2: you guys in that game, I guess, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we had a lot of passing yards from
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  Speaker 3: uh what I can remember, so uh, from that point
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  Speaker 3: of view, I think they did, you know, a very
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  Speaker 3: good job.
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  Speaker 2: How did Detroit's fans in the environment? How does that
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  Speaker 2: compare to some other.
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  Speaker 3: Stadiums that you played in? Oh ranked them probably top
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  Speaker 3: three loudest uh behind uh. I know Lincoln Field is uh,
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles UH stadium is is very uh hostile along
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  Speaker 3: with the forty nine ers and then Detroit UH will
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  Speaker 3: fall into that category as well. Just a fun environment
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  Speaker 3: to play in, dark looking stadium, but you know it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be fun. Monday night?
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  Speaker 2: Did general when you're on the road, can you hear
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  Speaker 2: the fans like, like, not just like the noise, but
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  Speaker 2: like specifically.
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  Speaker 3: I was about to say, Man, it's a hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: people in there. Yeah, I can hear 'em seific. Oh No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they don't want us to be there, so
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  Speaker 3: they're always talking stuff about me. G you know, lock Stone, Mike, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: So they they always gonna be talking smack.
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  Speaker 4: No, Yeah, what do you see from this corner?
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  Speaker 3: About to say, y'all quiet today?
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  Speaker 4: What do you see from this cornerback room for.
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  Speaker 3: The lines, they're very aggressive?
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Uh t A the the rookie from UH Alabama. He's
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  Speaker 3: a very good player. I know he's been targeted quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit these first few weeks, but I think he's
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  Speaker 3: uh a great player. Along with Carlton Davis going back
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  Speaker 3: to Auburn, UH, we have a history of playing each other.
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  Speaker 3: Kirby their safety very smart UH post safety UH and
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  Speaker 3: then Branch their second year guy Atabama. He's probably their
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  Speaker 3: best dB UH out there that can interchange, that's interchangeable
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  Speaker 3: from nickel to safety.
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  Speaker 1: UH.
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  Speaker 3: And he can do it all. He can run, he
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  Speaker 3: can hear, he can cover. So it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: good challenge for US uh week.
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  Speaker 4: Do you see some similarities between branches game and Witherspoon's game.
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  Speaker 3: No, there are two different people in my opinion, Whereaspoon
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  Speaker 3: I get to go against him every day. He's one
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  Speaker 3: of probably the best dbs that I've ever seen, like
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  Speaker 3: in person, day in and day out.
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  Speaker 2: You and Gina both kind of broke down the touchdown
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  Speaker 2: last week what you saw on the look and you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned the stuff you worked on all. You know, go
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  Speaker 2: back to summer. How much have you seen that chemistry
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  Speaker 2: between you two grow that you can be in that
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  Speaker 2: moment on the field and just know with a look, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what we're gonna do. I think it's just the
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  Speaker 3: cerebralness of just being in games or making quick adjustments
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  Speaker 3: on the sideline. We had one play called and we
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  Speaker 3: have ran that specific play during training camp. He told me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to read it out, and during training camp
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  Speaker 3: I did, and we haven't revisited it until Sunday, And
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  Speaker 3: just for it to work out that way just speaks
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  Speaker 3: to the level of trust that we have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with each other. Had to be in the right spot
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  Speaker 3: and he had to put the ball to where only
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  Speaker 3: I can get it. So the chemistry, I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: speaks for itself just by you know, the practice reps
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  Speaker 3: or just in film study or texting. Uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: when we're at home watching film. It just comes to life,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on Sundays, from all our hard work. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a testament to you know, both
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  Speaker 3: of our commitment to the game.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to Devin, what pushes him to that category
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  Speaker 4: for you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, just hearing him talk, even when we were at
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  Speaker 3: training camp. He's calling out, you know, my routes or
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  Speaker 3: or somebody else's routes just from stuff he's seen. And
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  Speaker 3: I even asked him like why did you say that?
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  Speaker 3: He was like, I saw by your alignment that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you weren't going out, so you only had to go in.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, that's just crazy that the second
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  Speaker 3: year dB is already thinking light years ahead of that.
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  Speaker 4: Is this the first year you've provided spreadsheets for Gina
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  Speaker 4: on defenses or.
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  Speaker 3: I provide a spridge? No, I mean I typed some
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  Speaker 3: quick stuff of my notes on my iPad, but it's
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  Speaker 3: about it. Yeah, note number crunching or spread none of that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get how does the how do your coach's
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  Speaker 2: emphasis focus on fundamentals show up day to day practicing
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  Speaker 2: or film?
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  Speaker 1: Or how do you notice.
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  Speaker 3: That when we whenever we go back and watch film,
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  Speaker 3: whether that be uh from practice or the previous game,
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  Speaker 3: they're always bringing up or back to basics. They they
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  Speaker 3: normally specialize Wednesday for a fundamental day. So I stuck
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  Speaker 3: or when you're in traffic, wrap the ball up. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I see Geno going through his progressions, uh QB Center exchanges.
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  Speaker 3: So so a lot of uh yeah, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fundamentals get nailed down today.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see.
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  Speaker 4: Is that something you you reach out to those guys?
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  Speaker 4: Uh help them out?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I think the best way cause I I don't
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  Speaker 3: play offensive line by any means, So I'm not trying
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  Speaker 3: to step on man. Y'all need to fix that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't try to step on anybody's toes, but uh, just
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  Speaker 3: trying to be an encouraging teammate.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know if they uh you know, miss a rep
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  Speaker 3: or the coaches talk about talk to 'em, you know
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  Speaker 3: about a rep just going over encouraging them and tell him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm here with you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a long season, So you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: just keep continuing to put our best foot forward. Uh
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm I'm just just uh just tell him
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  Speaker 3: that I'm always gonna be there beside 'em. So that's
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  Speaker 3: the only thing I could uh do for a old
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  Speaker 3: lineman or anybody in uh any position group.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a different said the benefit for you guys
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  Speaker 2: between like catching drugs, like catching actual football versus like
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  Speaker 2: doing tennis ball stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I think it works different forms of catching. So
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  Speaker 3: a tennis ball is very small, uh a smaller than
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  Speaker 3: a football, so just works on uh gripping the uh
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  Speaker 3: tennis balls so it doesn't bounce off of your hands.
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  Speaker 3: And then the football is I mean, you you play
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  Speaker 3: with the football, so you have to learn how to
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  Speaker 3: catch that. But just the tennis ball just works the
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  Speaker 3: smaller uh uh the finishing uh of the catch?
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  Speaker 1: Do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the trust with Gino, the catch that
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  Speaker 1: you had it he threw and you kind of over
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  Speaker 1: kendle pull or I think early in the game against
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins that trust too. Do you think that would
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  Speaker 1: have happened last year? Is that it felt like kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a a difference with Orgino's just going to
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  Speaker 1: you and you're willing to. I mean, you were blanketed,
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  Speaker 1: but you just rose up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think, Uh, probably last year I would have
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  Speaker 3: dropped the ball, but this year I just so happened
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  Speaker 3: to catch it. So I think it's just uh me
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  Speaker 3: taking the next step of uh making my contested catches
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  Speaker 3: whenever Gino trust me to, you know, put the ball
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  Speaker 3: up there like that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think you would have dropped it?
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  Speaker 3: Hm?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you say you would have dropped it last year?
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  Speaker 3: Cause I was in that position a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: last year and I dropped the ball.
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  Speaker 4: So is that been focus on catching balls and traffic?
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  Speaker 3: Is that one? Yeah? I mean that definitely was a
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  Speaker 3: focus for me. The soft season was uh contested catches
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  Speaker 3: or fifty to fifty balls, going up in attacking the
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  Speaker 3: ball instead of trying to let it come down to
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  Speaker 3: me and catch it over my shoulder. What were there
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  Speaker 3: drills you could do to practice on the offseason or Yeah? Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Gino came down, uh and we through during the off season,
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  Speaker 3: and I had my my trainer guard me uh face
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  Speaker 3: uh face up and had his arm up and I
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  Speaker 3: just had to jump up over him and catch the ball.
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  Speaker 3: How to was your trainer HM?
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  Speaker 2: How tall was your.
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  Speaker 3: Trainer tall enough your nor Thank you,