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Julian Love: "We Have To Try To Level Up In Certain Ways" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Real long. How are we going?
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised to hear how much Pookakua doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: you at all?
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  Speaker 3: Or uh surprised and maybe a little bit but expected
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  Speaker 3: division rival. We've obviously had some tough games, play hard,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, definitely funny that he'll he'll name it up me.
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  Speaker 4: Would you say that that's something maybe that's.
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  Speaker 2: Going on with your haircut right I'm not looking at
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  Speaker 2: it right now. When you don't have hair on the
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  Speaker 2: top of your head, you got to get creative, man. No. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: would you say that's something that maybe you bring to.
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  Speaker 4: The field that that fans maybe don't know about that
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  Speaker 4: maybe there's a little more edge to your game than advertised.
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  Speaker 3: Uh for sure. I mean I don't know. I try
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  Speaker 3: to carry myself a certain way off the field and
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  Speaker 3: on the field. I'm a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: I try to play as tough.
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  Speaker 3: As I can, and so yeah, I guess the average
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  Speaker 3: fan probably doesn't know that side of me.
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  Speaker 1: These guys in locker group know that side of me.
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  Speaker 3: They know I don't like to lose, Uh, I know
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  Speaker 3: I like to compete, So yeah, it might come out.
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  Speaker 1: On game news a little bit more than you guys
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  Speaker 1: are used to But yeah, that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Given that you guys are going to a joint practice
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  Speaker 2: against the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: What makes a joint practice valuable that you can't replicate
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  Speaker 3: in a normal practice. Yeah, it's a lot of like
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  Speaker 3: intentional repss. You know, you're not just going through kind
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  Speaker 3: of a game setting. You're you know, doing one on
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  Speaker 3: ones against these guys. You're doing you know, third down
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  Speaker 3: period like certain like concept periods against them, but you're
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  Speaker 3: going full goal. So it's kind of cool where you
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  Speaker 3: get like intentional work. And it's always good to see
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  Speaker 3: other you know ones, so so you can reader react
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  Speaker 3: as me as a dB. It's nice when you can
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  Speaker 3: just like play ball in a different kind of setting
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  Speaker 3: against different people, give some different tendencies. And so we
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  Speaker 3: we're in a value we're the ones and the whole
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  Speaker 3: team is gonna really take advantage of these reps because
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  Speaker 3: they're important. You like the one offs versus two you
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  Speaker 3: have to the last time you're in national guys two Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I would I like all the practices that are joint uh.
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  Speaker 3: If they can stay in control and we can get
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  Speaker 3: some good can give some good reps. One practice is cool,
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  Speaker 3: I know, travel wise for us, it's it's always kind
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  Speaker 3: of a beast. But I'm two three doesn't matter. I
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  Speaker 3: think I really value these joint practice reps.
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  Speaker 4: What do you guys get to have it off the
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  Speaker 4: field in terms of the team bonding, that extra time
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  Speaker 4: in the road together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you guys know, these these these past
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  Speaker 3: few years kind of with Mike, uh, have been really
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  Speaker 3: like a pivotal point in kind of our our season,
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  Speaker 3: our journey two years ago in Tennessee, last year in
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  Speaker 3: Green Bay, it was kind of the first time everyone
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  Speaker 3: kind of, you know, I don't know, let their hair
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  Speaker 3: down and kind of just enjoy hanging out with each other.
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  Speaker 3: Traveling with the team is always fun. We love traveling
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  Speaker 3: with each other just because it's a it's a time
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  Speaker 3: we can just get a break and just be with
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  Speaker 3: each other. And yeah, just playing against another team like
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  Speaker 3: in that kind of competitive space is like is fun.
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  Speaker 3: I think going out to dinner and doing the Rickie Show,
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff is uh. I don't know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun. I know a lot of guys are
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  Speaker 3: really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: What's the first thing you're gonna be asking Spoon to
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  Speaker 2: help pay.
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  Speaker 3: For Oh my gosh, well, am I not gonna ask
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  Speaker 3: him to pay for You know, Spoon is incredibly frugal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys knew that. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: pay for anything. If it's free for it's for him,
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  Speaker 3: that's sock shorts, anything that's free. Spoon will rock and
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  Speaker 3: not buy a single thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so he already said I got you.
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  Speaker 3: I gotchall this year, you know with the dB dinners
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  Speaker 3: of course, Uh, you know, Christmas time is a big time.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of all the big money earners do something special,
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  Speaker 3: and so he's gonna he's a lookout. He's uh, he's
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  Speaker 3: well loved and he shows love more than anyone in
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  Speaker 3: the buildings.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sure he canna reciprocate that we.
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  Speaker 4: Saw the Hard Knocks clip and come to the locker
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  Speaker 4: room after the deal guy, then like, how much do
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  Speaker 4: you guys all appreciate that for each other when one
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  Speaker 4: of you gets that big moment and kind of that
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  Speaker 4: big reward.
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  Speaker 3: It's, uh, it's really cool. It's I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 3: really cool when somebody like you know, has earned it,
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  Speaker 3: like Spoon as much as much as he's on ten
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  Speaker 3: off the field, and how much you know, how loud
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  Speaker 3: he is kind of how he talks. He's on ten
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  Speaker 3: with being a pro. He's accountable, he shows up on time,
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  Speaker 3: he shows love to It doesn't matter who the young guys,
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  Speaker 3: the old guys, offensive guys, the huntive guys, like Spoon
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  Speaker 3: is the most well rounded person in our building. And
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  Speaker 3: so when he gets you know, when this deal gets done, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like, man, like, that's it's cool to see it. You've
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  Speaker 1: earned it, Like we we love you, care about you,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: And same thing with Derek call Early this kind of
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  Speaker 3: year when he got his deal, everyone was just so
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  Speaker 3: happy for him because it was no cloud, no any
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  Speaker 3: other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was all earned.
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  Speaker 3: And so Spoon, I mean, he's probably the number one
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  Speaker 3: guy that everyone's like, man, that guy works, Judy, and.
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  Speaker 5: What role do you see yourself playing as a leader
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  Speaker 5: in terms of the run it Forward concept.
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  Speaker 3: Just understand that we're kind of at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the mountain again, that's the idea.
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  Speaker 1: We're not starting at the top anymore.
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  Speaker 3: This twenty twenty sixth season is all a new start,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're gonna face adversity and that's okay, that's
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  Speaker 3: part of the journey we had to face.
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  Speaker 1: We had to go through some tough stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Last year to get to where we wanted to go to,
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  Speaker 3: and that's gonna happen again. Like that's kind of a
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  Speaker 3: new season. We have new people, the new circumstances, everyone
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  Speaker 3: has to target on our back, and so my role
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  Speaker 3: is just to keep the ship steady. That's kind of
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  Speaker 3: always been my role, just kind of be that level
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  Speaker 3: for us, for us and just I don't go out
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  Speaker 3: there to have fun, make plays and compete.
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  Speaker 2: For you derective, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It feels good, uh crazy, I mean talk to the
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  Speaker 3: young guy. Talking to young Bud, it just goes by
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  Speaker 3: so fast, Like I tell him all the time, like
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  Speaker 3: some of the stuff that he might be getting coached
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  Speaker 3: on as a rook Like I feel like it was
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  Speaker 3: yesterday I was getting coached on the same stuff and
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  Speaker 3: just letting him know that this stuff goes by quick.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun, and I've been really blessed
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  Speaker 3: to be out here in Seattle and just be around
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  Speaker 3: the guys that just make these years just fly by
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  Speaker 3: because you're having a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: What's been your viewpoints so far, like how the team
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  Speaker 2: is handled, the stuff that comes with being a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl champion and like the potential whatever you want to
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  Speaker 2: call him, distractions or yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think we're in a good spot.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in a good spot because you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of other people have done a lot of
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  Speaker 3: off season stuff and so you know, I know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys know like Seattle, we don't. We don't get the
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  Speaker 3: most love over here, which is perfect. That's kind of
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  Speaker 3: how we want it. That's how you know last year
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  Speaker 3: it was. And with all the you know, the target
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  Speaker 3: on our back, we embrace the challenge. I think more
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  Speaker 3: than anything. You know, we love winning, but we love competing.
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  Speaker 3: We want everyone's better. We want everyone we play against
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  Speaker 3: to be fully healthy so we can match up best
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  Speaker 3: for best.
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  Speaker 1: That's just kind of how we're built.
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  Speaker 3: I tell Mike has kind of shaped this thing, and
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  Speaker 3: just from top to bottom, I tew the guys operate,
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  Speaker 3: they want that challenge and so that's how we're embracing
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Then oh yeah, sorry, oh you're good.
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  Speaker 5: So we've got a lot of the guys that speak,
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  Speaker 5: said Harry carry on coming forward. The way the culture
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  Speaker 5: here will help so much with that just kind of
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  Speaker 5: a two part question. Number one, what specifically will help
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  Speaker 5: him succeed here? But also, what is that sort of
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  Speaker 5: pride like what you guys have worst here? But it's like,
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  Speaker 5: oh yeah, no, brain of this will be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that as long as he just comes in
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  Speaker 3: to be is himself, everything's gona be just fine. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what's cool about here. Everyone can be themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You could be a guy like me, you could be
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  Speaker 3: a guy like Spoon. As long as you're one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent of you and don't try to be anything else
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  Speaker 3: and just breathe life into a room that you're in,
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  Speaker 3: show lead with love.
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  Speaker 1: You'll fit in just fine.
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  Speaker 3: And he'll do just fine if you know, if that
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  Speaker 3: stuff goes that way. And the second part is, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: it's tough to join a culture like this or a
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  Speaker 3: fresh off of championship. Everyone is is it seems like
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  Speaker 3: speaking of language that people from the outside may not
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  Speaker 3: be accustomed to.
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  Speaker 1: And so I know it's intimidating maybe for a young
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  Speaker 1: guy or for a new guy. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it's my job, it's a lot of leader's job
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  Speaker 3: to just embrace open arms and just kind of get
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  Speaker 3: him rolling along into how we roll, which we're excited.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's a heck of a player and so we're
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  Speaker 3: interested to know about more about history. I'm not too
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  Speaker 3: familiar with him, but more about history and more about
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  Speaker 3: who he is as a player.
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  Speaker 2: Players players union perspective, Yes, to play the exempt list if.
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  Speaker 1: The Commission is probably gonna put Arnold.
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  Speaker 2: On, Yeah, you can't practice.
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  Speaker 1: But the union, what's the union's perspective stance on that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I'm too low level to know the stance
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  Speaker 3: the union.
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  Speaker 1: I will ask though practice of play.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not too familiar with the example lists, to be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you. If that's the case, then at least
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  Speaker 3: he could be part of the culture and then if
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  Speaker 3: as things shake out, hopefully he can take the field
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  Speaker 3: with us.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously there are those those policies in place for a reason.
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  Speaker 2: The idea again running it forward, What does that mean
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  Speaker 2: to you?
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  Speaker 1: I answer that what you say of running.
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  Speaker 2: It for and like, what does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a it's a spin on, all right,
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  Speaker 3: We're not running it back like it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: ours to go get.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a growth mindset thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like ours to defend, it's ours to go
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  Speaker 3: challenge whoever lines be across from us. That's the kind
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  Speaker 3: of idea of we have to progress, Like we can't
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  Speaker 3: be the same team we were last year. We have
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  Speaker 3: to try to level up in certain ways, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: on the field, whether it's off the field, and so
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  Speaker 3: that's I think the whole mindset of it. It's just
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  Speaker 3: kind of like it leaves air for growth, and that's
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  Speaker 3: I think Mike how Mike puts it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys, Thank you, thank you.