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Mike Macdonald: "DK Metcalf Is Ready To Go" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's a ham radio that you're carrying around now. Since Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, security blanket. All right, good, good week of work,
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  Speaker 1: so excited to get on the plane. We got.
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  Speaker 2: June sells this week that you that the entire staff
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  Speaker 2: is ramp who's trying to maintain intensity of this streek
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  Speaker 2: because that been a focus after the weeks you've had already.
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  Speaker 1: Got we said, our staff trying to maintain the.
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  Speaker 2: Overall air is to try to maintain consistency and intensity
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  Speaker 2: of preparing the street. Is that Has that been a focus.
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  Speaker 1: For you guys? I mean, that's just that's who we are.
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  Speaker 1: That's we're gonna do that every week. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we've done. I feel like I mean, the season is
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  Speaker 1: this long roller coaster of all the things, so you
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  Speaker 1: gotta stay on it and you gotta be consistent in
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  Speaker 1: your approach and tweak win necessary. But our mentality it's
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  Speaker 1: the same, you know, same every week.
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  Speaker 2: The reason we ask because seems like a classic traff
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  Speaker 2: week opponent. This record's not great, intense division games between Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling you don't think that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not change We're not changing anything. He's good,
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  Speaker 1: he's ready to go. Yeah, you're just gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: chat back. Uh, it's great to see him out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting great spirits. I know he's I mean, put
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  Speaker 1: yourself in his shoes on the things that he's he's Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone through and persevered through. So great to have
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  Speaker 1: him out there. It looks good. It's on schedule. Have
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  Speaker 1: the t Rookie channel, the Guard competition you want to
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  Speaker 1: you know, Uh, both these guys deserve a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they practice their tails off this week. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the planets we're gonna starts the towel at guard and uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's some tremendous jow. These guys have been competing in
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  Speaker 1: the whole way. And and Christian, I mean if and
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  Speaker 1: when he gets his opportunity, he's I mean he had
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  Speaker 1: a great week of practice as well. So we're excited
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  Speaker 1: about these guys and we're got all the confidence in
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  Speaker 1: the world in him. But tal will start the game out.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do this week to hurt that job? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just what we said. It's just he
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  Speaker 1: earned it, you know, just play in play out and
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  Speaker 1: uh am where we go. It's a it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's something that we have confidence in and and
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  Speaker 1: like obviously we want continuity at our offensive line, but
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  Speaker 1: this isn't the end of it. And and Christian has
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  Speaker 1: done a tremendous job as well. So it's I just
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  Speaker 1: want to be really clear that like this is something
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  Speaker 1: that Christian lost or anything like that. This is something
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  Speaker 1: that Tao has earned. The opportunity has been more imagine,
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  Speaker 1: it's been more than just the process. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this, he just keeps coming on and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the whole off time, it's been a competition since we've
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  Speaker 1: been got everybody's competing all the time, which is the
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  Speaker 1: way you want it, and that's how you get to
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  Speaker 1: be your best self. And uh, to his credit, just
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  Speaker 1: keeps continuing to get better and he deserves the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And this isn't This won't be a rotation.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see in the game. We kind of
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  Speaker 1: leave that see how the game plays out. We have
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  Speaker 1: a plan, so but we'll what's that kind of play
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  Speaker 1: out with how we want to do. It's what's the
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  Speaker 1: next step for TRENTA.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go in the next time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing. There's a progression. So how long that
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  Speaker 1: takes is how long it takes, but he feels good,
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  Speaker 1: he looks good, He's doing everything we ask and excited
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  Speaker 1: for him. Leonard popularly is big about sort of the
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  Speaker 1: challenges of when he's limited, what he can do practice
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  Speaker 1: for then he thinkt already Obviously he had a great
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  Speaker 1: game last week, but what about him as a better
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  Speaker 1: player allows given that, well, the thing you have to
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  Speaker 1: guard against is h We get all the trust in
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  Speaker 1: the world with guys like Leo, and you want to
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  Speaker 1: get him to the game as best you can. So
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  Speaker 1: those are things that we'll work through. But making sure
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  Speaker 1: he's keeping his wind and you know, now you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at it for a multiple you know, a week deals,
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  Speaker 1: so you got to make sure you're ready to go
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  Speaker 1: the long haul in the game, which he will be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's I haven't and the guys who have
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  Speaker 1: done a great job with him off the field, but
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  Speaker 1: he'll be ready to go with with Ernest.
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  Speaker 2: He's only been here about the whole part of the
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  Speaker 2: fens to do that coming into a team that season.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you kind of think it a la you
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  Speaker 2: could able to do back A yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably the best company I can give him is
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it feel like a lot longer than a month.
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  Speaker 1: So but again, it's the type of guy we've spoken
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  Speaker 1: to about since, uh you know, since we traded for him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's that guy every day and that's all you
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  Speaker 1: can ask. Yeah, that was good.
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  Speaker 2: The rotating captains each week.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do you have like aanket instructions for
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  Speaker 1: coin toss to sir kick whatever, take the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Or talk to each time?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's that's evolved on. Well, the strategy on what
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  Speaker 1: we want to do each week. Yeah, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: our our philosophy's pretty consistent, but you're always gonna let
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  Speaker 1: kind of your game strategy and and there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that goes into it, whether you want the
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  Speaker 1: ball or deferring or what side you want to kick from.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just a week to week how we want
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But uh, I feel like I can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about it because it's like a baseball thing right
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  Speaker 1: now with a certain somebody. If that makes sense. On
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  Speaker 1: the coin toss, we'll fill you in. Uh you know, Marge,
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  Speaker 1: I can't talk. I can't talk about it. You can't.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you be playing her?
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  Speaker 2: Playing through stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't call it her he's just just
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  Speaker 1: it's that time of year, so guys are guys are battling.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's nobody fills one hundred percent out there. But he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a tough son of a gun.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Thank you, guys,