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Tyrel Dodson: "The Sky Is The Limit For This Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone? What a y'all doing?
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  Speaker 2: Goodmate?
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  Speaker 3: He has a lot of hair like me. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's a he's a good dude. Watching film on him
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  Speaker 3: last actually last night.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He's long, he gets off of blocks, he covers well. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's a big run stopper. We need a big dude
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  Speaker 3: like that in the middle. I'm happy. I'm happy to
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  Speaker 3: he's here. I'm happy to have him.
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  Speaker 4: So might change your role a little bit?
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  Speaker 5: How do you, I guess, how do you do anticipate
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  Speaker 5: that it might? And how do you how do you
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  Speaker 5: like to?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we're still working on that. I just I
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  Speaker 1: told Mike, like, I just work here. You let me
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  Speaker 1: know what. Like, I'm a team guy.
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  Speaker 3: Like line up a d M might not go well,
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  Speaker 3: but I play it, you know. Uh yeah, so moving
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  Speaker 3: over to the will position. Yeah yeah, playing linebacker at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day.
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  Speaker 5: How much different is that really? Like it's not that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not it's not since I would still be
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  Speaker 3: having a green die. It's not that huge much different. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm excited get the play. Ain't space a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more? Yeah, I mean I'm still my second
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  Speaker 3: day doing it, so uh yeah, I'm excited and I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to get the get this ball rolling at
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  Speaker 3: this will position.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I played last year in Buffalo, though.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna how much did you do that? And
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  Speaker 4: how different does it seem the role here might be
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  Speaker 4: is a will person Buffalo?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're covering running backs at the backfield. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you're in space covering tight ends. I had my best
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  Speaker 3: year at this position last year in Buffalo, so hopefully
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  Speaker 3: have my best year again. So I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the film room looking at you know, will
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  Speaker 3: linebackers around the league, and you know what to expect.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the weak side, so I like you get
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  Speaker 3: to run a lot of stuff down on the front side,
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  Speaker 3: which I love to do.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: I know that, Uh, Ernest has some familiarity with terminology
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  Speaker 2: and kind of how this defense goes. But now that
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  Speaker 2: you've played it in in a few weeks, how much
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  Speaker 2: easier is it to communicate the.
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  Speaker 1: Newcomer what needs to have Yeah, man, I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm in it. Like we talked, That's why I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of late.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry for that, but we were talking at a locker
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  Speaker 3: about different terminology and stuff like that. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: comes from a similar system as you said with that
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  Speaker 3: DC over there, but he was like, it's kind of similar.
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  Speaker 3: So just getting him honed up on our seahawk talk
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  Speaker 3: like how we talk here in our terminology here. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's a fast learner. I'm excited to practice with him today.
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  Speaker 5: He talked about like asking jr Oum questions as a
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  Speaker 5: veteran here and now you got Ernest Jones, who's wanted
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl. What are you looking forward to learning from him?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm looking just to just to not
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  Speaker 3: even learn football stuff from him, like look, learn as
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  Speaker 3: a man, you know. Uh, I know he's married and
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  Speaker 3: he has kids and stuff like that. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: to learn the whole nine from him how and also
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  Speaker 3: how he sees stuff. But football is gonna be football
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  Speaker 3: because we're up here, we have to talk about football.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm excited to get to know him as a
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  Speaker 3: as a person as well, because I've her great things
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  Speaker 3: about him.
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  Speaker 1: He literally played Buffalo last week. Is there anything you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of glean off of him to kind of
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  Speaker 1: in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he just got here like twelve o'clock last night,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm gonna let him chill and let the coaches
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  Speaker 3: get him. Then I'm gonna be hammering them like tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: and like stuff like that. So we're gonna get together
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning and you know, watch film together.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of crazy. He's playing Buffalo back to
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  Speaker 1: back weeks.
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  Speaker 5: But you're playing Buffalo. Are you talking to any of
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  Speaker 5: your old teammates?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, being Dawson Knox and we've been texting and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that because he was we were roommates when we
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  Speaker 3: first got there. That's like one of my best friends.
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  Speaker 3: Excited to play against him. Everyone's asking for my jersey.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta talk to Ek about that to even get
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  Speaker 3: like ten jerseys spread it out.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: You know that that's a place where you know, I
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  Speaker 3: grew a lot, and you know, I have nothing but
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  Speaker 3: respect for that team and Sean and Durmot and Bobby
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  Speaker 3: Babbage and.
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  Speaker 4: The chasing, chasing Josh around.
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  Speaker 1: He has a throw an interception this year. What's a challenge. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's a huge challenge.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta contain him, keep him in the pocket,
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  Speaker 3: and then you gotta plaster. Everyone has to have their
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  Speaker 3: man when he scrambles, because like, you can't lose your man.
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  Speaker 1: Or he's gonna bombie like he's on a bomb.
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  Speaker 3: Like, so everyone has to have very good eye discipline
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  Speaker 3: and have a great rush plan.
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  Speaker 1: See that practice, Like yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, like eyes and rush playing, like that's that's
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  Speaker 3: how we're gonna win this game.
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  Speaker 1: And be honest with you, you know.
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  Speaker 4: The jersey swapping is that usually you start that out
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  Speaker 4: ahead of time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I usually don't jersey swap because I like to keep
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  Speaker 3: all my jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you. I'll tell you about this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like the jersey swap because I like to
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  Speaker 3: keep all my jerseys because like I want to go
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  Speaker 3: after life, like I mean after football, like I want
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  Speaker 3: to you know, having a business deal in the golf course.
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  Speaker 3: You can have a jersey and I can get the
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  Speaker 3: business deal a little bit more so, Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's why I keep my jerseys, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you might I might make an exception for
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  Speaker 1: for the What do you.
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  Speaker 2: Think about the takeaways last week? It's been said the
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  Speaker 2: takeaways coming bunch? Just how much can that help turn
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  Speaker 2: the time? Because I think there's been one of the
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  Speaker 2: previous five games, and you guys have three last week.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me yeah, uh yeah, yeah three last week.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's just playing complimentary football. It helps with field position,
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  Speaker 3: as we know, and it's like and then when you score,
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  Speaker 3: I think we score a touchdown on defense, it's like
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  Speaker 3: you win the game like seventy eight percent of the
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  Speaker 3: time something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So that that that's that's always.
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  Speaker 3: Huge to get a you know, takeaways on defense will
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  Speaker 3: also get a score. But like, I'm so proud of
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  Speaker 3: guys how we came out, had a long flight, got
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  Speaker 3: there two days before. I'm still adjusting to that schedule
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  Speaker 3: being on the West coast time.
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  Speaker 1: And guys went to work this week. We had our
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  Speaker 1: best practice last.
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  Speaker 3: Week last Wednesday, and we had another great practice this
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  Speaker 3: yesterday too. So I mean, just that just goes to
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  Speaker 3: show like when you work, good things come to you.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta keep working and just gotta keep holding
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  Speaker 1: in on the details. What do you practice great? What'd
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  Speaker 1: you say?
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  Speaker 5: What makes a practice great?
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  Speaker 3: You can just feel it, you know, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you have a good day, you lay down at night
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  Speaker 3: like yeah I did that, Like you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like like you're just hearing like helmets, like just
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you hear helmet smash, and you hear
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  Speaker 3: the offense talking, you know, you hear the defense being
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  Speaker 3: obnoxious Like that means guys are out here like trying
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  Speaker 3: to be intentional and working Like that's like that that's
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  Speaker 3: all you ask for, you know, Like I always go
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  Speaker 3: back to relationships, like when you're intentional in a relationship,
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  Speaker 3: like it's just so much more smoother. You have open,
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  Speaker 3: open communication, open downlogue, and just like everything's going so smooth.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just so proud of guys how we keep responding.
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  Speaker 3: Things haven't been going our way, but guess what, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna keep responding, coming back knocking at that door with.
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  Speaker 1: The run defense.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you feel like you guys are out there
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  Speaker 4: relative to where you want to be?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, that's actually because I would.
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  Speaker 3: I have that in my notebook, and half of last
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  Speaker 3: week I was just so proud of how we responded
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  Speaker 3: and the adjustments that we made. And it's just like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not gonna say we're there because we
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  Speaker 3: haven't played a game yet, but like.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're almost there. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got what you got.
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  Speaker 3: It starts in practice, you know, starts in all those details,
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  Speaker 3: those hand placements and just playing golf of each other.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, chemistry takes.
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  Speaker 3: Time, and you know it's it's it's as you see,
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  Speaker 3: it's taking time.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something we need to approve on. We know
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  Speaker 1: that because.
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  Speaker 3: You can't win this league if people are running the
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  Speaker 3: ball down your throat.
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  Speaker 1: Just be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to how we're gonna respond Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, what did you see out that secondary last So
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  Speaker 5: you're missing three of your top guys back there, and
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  Speaker 5: those guys everybody filling in got.
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  Speaker 3: The drop down, Yeah, and no drop off. Kobe Bryant
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  Speaker 3: and Leslie. Fraser was huge on Kobe Bryant coming out
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  Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, so I knew Kobe could play. Joe that's
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  Speaker 3: my guy, my drafted brother, and im and Mighty Nea
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  Speaker 3: Mile I mean balling out Jay Love.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know what you does.
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  Speaker 3: You know those guys is no drop off and they
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  Speaker 3: have a great coaching staff like Jeff Howard, Case, Scott Hell,
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  Speaker 3: hell of the coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So that just goes to show.
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  Speaker 3: How much, you know, how much work they put in
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  Speaker 3: last week and those guys were meaning extra last week.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: My key, the emphasis of the word is like work,
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  Speaker 3: this work. It's like sky's a limit for this defense.
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  Speaker 4: The challenge of Josh Allen extending place. You talk about
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  Speaker 4: sticking with your guy. How difficult is it to not
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  Speaker 4: defend his run because of how he runs for yards too?
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  Speaker 4: And where's the discipline there of not leaving your man?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You just I mean you would rather have him run
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  Speaker 3: fifteen yards than an.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty yard bomb over your head.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's like, yeah, he's just that, That's
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  Speaker 3: why I'd rather have, you know. And then the defensive
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  Speaker 3: line and the front seven has to have a great
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  Speaker 3: plan of execution on the on the rush. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what we're working on today. And so let's
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  Speaker 3: see how good it is on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: How important is.
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  Speaker 4: It you got it last game this game to get
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  Speaker 4: pressure up front.
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  Speaker 1: You just talked about the front seven. How important is
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  Speaker 1: that in your defense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's the trenches. Like the trenches
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  Speaker 3: is the front seven. That's what we call the trenches.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't have a good trenches in this league,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get ran all over and you're gonna be disrespected.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean it's it's big to have a good
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  Speaker 3: front seven. As you see. You know, when you stopped
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  Speaker 3: the run, you make a team one dimensional. So you
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  Speaker 3: already know you stopped the stop the run on first down,
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  Speaker 3: second eight, but the offense gotta due, gotta pass the ball,
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  Speaker 3: so like it makes you ahead of the game.
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  Speaker 1: When you make an offense one dimensional.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, I just that's the nickname.
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  Speaker 2: Where did that come from?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The DBS called him that, so I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: calling you that too.
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  Speaker 5: This is the first time to Week one that Leonard Williams,
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  Speaker 5: Byron Murphy boy Dell started and finished the game and
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  Speaker 5: you had.
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  Speaker 1: Roy Robertson Harris.
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  Speaker 5: Could you feel that in the game in Atlanta?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can feel that, man, those guys. It goes
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  Speaker 3: back to work.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: That guy Leo, he's like I would say, he's the
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  Speaker 3: leader of that group, and man, he just has those
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  Speaker 3: guys ready to roll every week. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's one of the best d LIN groups in America.
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  Speaker 1: So when those.
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  Speaker 3: Guys play how they play and how they're supposed to play,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like the back seven like the d lion
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  Speaker 3: runs his runs his team, so when they play well,
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  Speaker 3: everything else takes care of itself.
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  Speaker 4: For those listening who've never been to Western New York,
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  Speaker 4: what are the fans and the Bills fans and the
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  Speaker 4: support for the team and what a big deal that is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Man, Western New York is like it's like good neighbors man.
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  Speaker 3: Like everyone's like everyone knows everyone, which is kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: Like everyone knows everyone. Everyone just likes to party and
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  Speaker 3: have fun. There's a lot of beer and eating wings
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  Speaker 3: going on in Western New York and this.
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  Speaker 1: They love their Bills.
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  Speaker 3: They bleed, They bleed red and blue, so I'm expecting
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  Speaker 3: to see a lot of them this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: In this dance, did you.
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  Speaker 5: Ever jump through a table?
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  Speaker 1: Jump through a table?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Huh no no, no, I need to save that back.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys.