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DeMarcus Lawrence: "I'm Trying To Turn The Lights Off On Every Offense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: First, I wanna start off this conference with my condolencence
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  Speaker 1: for Marshawn Neeling's family, the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's tough to lose a brother.
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  Speaker 1: In a situation like this, so you know, I wanna
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  Speaker 1: send my cadolences, my love and my prayers.
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  Speaker 3: What did you uh learn about Marsham when you played
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  Speaker 3: with him last year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Man, I know he loved the game, man, he loved
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  Speaker 1: the smile, he loved interacting with his teammates, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to spend a lot of time with
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  Speaker 1: him mom last year. You know, about the fourth game,
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  Speaker 1: I got hurt, so that, you know, kind of messed
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  Speaker 1: up our relationship in time that we had to be
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  Speaker 1: together in the in the meetings and stuff. So but yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: he was a fun, you know, young guy man, and
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  Speaker 1: I love being around him, and he's gonna be missed
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  Speaker 1: very well.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think people maybe don't understand about it,
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  Speaker 3: like the challenges mental health wives, of being in the
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  Speaker 3: spotlight being a professional athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I feel like people don't understand that our
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  Speaker 1: words do have power, and we throw 'em around so loosely,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, with no care in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, our words can cut deep or you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know what anybody is going through. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's also wise to you know, build a community around you,
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  Speaker 1: to have people to talk to. Alright, But no more
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  Speaker 1: questions about that, you know situation. Let's get back to football.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to Sunday's game, how did you see the
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  Speaker 1: complimentary football come out?
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  Speaker 3: Either in the stats or on the sidelines or final score?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I think you you know, we lived through that moment
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  Speaker 1: of seeing it all, you know, come together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially after that turnover on special teams, you know when
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  Speaker 1: the offense went out Darren scored, you know on the
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  Speaker 1: first first touch of the ball. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing as a defense to see, you know, everything
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  Speaker 1: clicking on those levels.
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  Speaker 3: You look at Arizona, this is a different team with
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  Speaker 3: you cape people set than uh Kyler Worred at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 2: How much different.
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  Speaker 3: Are they actually on the fuse?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I mean it's it's more of the scheme and
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, things don't change. It's still the the
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  Speaker 1: same guys that was out there with Kyler Murray. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't wanna give you too much. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's really the same thing. You know, football is football.
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  Speaker 1: It's only certain personnels and certain formations. And you only
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  Speaker 1: could put five receivers on the field, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, So you only can have eleven guys on
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  Speaker 1: the field. So, I mean, it's just football.
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  Speaker 3: How often do you know before the play what they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do on the other side of the ball?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? How often? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I'm more of a situational guy, So I look
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  Speaker 1: at different situations.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of teams have certain plays or you know,
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  Speaker 1: they only you know, run the ball, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: certain personnels in certain situations or past. So I look
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  Speaker 1: at you know, just the situations and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: check me out, you know, at the logo.
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  Speaker 2: How about that.
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  Speaker 3: You've been here half season now, Just what do you
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  Speaker 3: like that? Just about the way you guys are playing
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  Speaker 3: on defense, kind of balling you guys have, just about
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  Speaker 3: being part of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I love the brotherhood, you know, the way
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  Speaker 1: we address practice, how we go about things here. The
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere here, it's starting to get dark outside, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I love it when it gets dark. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like everything is all coming together like it should
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like our head coach Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: is doing a good job of, you know, making sure
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  Speaker 1: us as a team, it's having enough con camaraderie that
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  Speaker 1: we're getting to know each and every individual on our team.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, it's going well.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you like it?
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  Speaker 2: When to get start?
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  Speaker 1: Cuz, uh that's the way I like to play defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to turn the lights off on
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  Speaker 1: every offense. You know, And now y'all got a living
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  Speaker 1: proof of how it is to be on the dark side.
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  Speaker 3: Jared Reed talked about He talked about brotherhood.
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  Speaker 2: He talked about the.
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  Speaker 3: Walking talks you guys would do during the offseason, and
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  Speaker 3: he went on one with Michael Dixon. Is there a guy
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  Speaker 3: that you went on a walk and talk with that
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  Speaker 3: is kind of memorable to you?
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  Speaker 1: Hm, put me on the spot there. We just we
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  Speaker 1: just did a walk and talk earlier today. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I was mentioning, you know, just that camaraderie. But uh no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I had no one on one on
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  Speaker 1: one walk and talk yet.
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  Speaker 3: I as the seasons evolved, this is your role basically,
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  Speaker 3: are what you doing here? Essentially what you've done about
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  Speaker 3: your career or is it different in.
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  Speaker 1: Any way or mm oh, it's definitely different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got more hitter hitters in my arsenal now than
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  Speaker 1: you know, previous years. I feel like, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: team is very special, and you know, I l I
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  Speaker 1: like that. You know, we're not in the spotlight and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we don't have to answer a lot of
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  Speaker 1: questions and stuff. We can just play the game of football.
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  Speaker 1: And but what we have here, like you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why it's so special because it hits everywhere, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on all eleven on offense, defense and special teams. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's really you're not pinpoint one person. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we do that j JSN. But you know still, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like everybody's playing that role. Well,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you.
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  Speaker 3: Mentioned special teams.
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  Speaker 1: How excited were you guys to see Brandon Peely out
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  Speaker 1: there on kickoff and then to make that play? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's specially and scary, you know, huh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little timid day and see three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty. Now I'm just playing p but you know,
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  Speaker 1: running down the field on kickoff. You know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: want to block a more double team hm. And you
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  Speaker 1: know I'm glad he's on our side.
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  Speaker 3: You've been getting to the quarterback a lot the last
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  Speaker 3: few games. You know what's been helping you know, unlock
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  Speaker 3: your pass rush?
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  Speaker 2: Uh lately? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I got a big cat, you know, Merge
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  Speaker 1: playing you know, great ball right now as a second
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  Speaker 1: year player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Like I said, like everything is clicking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, found the fountain of youth, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: out there are my young guys, and you know we
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  Speaker 1: having a blast. When football is fun, it's easy have
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  Speaker 1: fun like that.