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Cooper Kupp: "I'm Really Excited About What We're Doing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: M anyone else. Yeah, exactly what happened to bear fell off?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Just time, just time for that thing
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  Speaker 1: to uh restart. What has this been like?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've played with one team obviously, one team
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  Speaker 2: and one coach until you got here.
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  Speaker 1: So these past month they're so kind of adapting to
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  Speaker 1: a new team and everything. Uh yeah, definitely knew bit exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's been uh, it's been a long time
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  Speaker 3: since I learned a new offense, A long time since
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  Speaker 3: I you know, sat in a meeting and how to
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  Speaker 3: do the you know, to put the face up on
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  Speaker 3: the board, and like whose teammate? Who's this what's this
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  Speaker 3: guy's name? Like that's a stressful situation. That's high stress situation.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's good though, it's I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about what we're doing and it is fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's uh.
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  Speaker 3: I love to learn, and so you know, being in
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  Speaker 3: this place where we're all learning together, being able to
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  Speaker 3: step in and be a part of this whole offense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stepping in the same place as everyone else
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  Speaker 3: and will learn together.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a fun place to be.
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  Speaker 2: I just had some time to understand what's this offense
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: For you to do? What do you think it does?
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  Speaker 2: Essentially your skill set and when you're fit in it,
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  Speaker 2: and how it all's gonna kind of map out where
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  Speaker 2: you guys can get back here and gone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I think you know the uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: Clint's been in the lodgement places origins going all the
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  Speaker 3: way back to an offense that I'm very familiar with,
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  Speaker 3: and there's gonna be there, you know, the nuances here
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  Speaker 3: and there.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of similar stuff, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of similar ideas and how you're attacking a defense and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I believe in this offense and what what
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  Speaker 3: it takes to to make it successful and the detail
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  Speaker 3: us involved with it. So you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things that are that real similar to stuff I've
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  Speaker 3: done done in the past, and and there's some new
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  Speaker 3: stuff I'm excited to learn and try to step into.
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  Speaker 3: So uh it is, it's it's good and there's uh,
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  Speaker 3: there's definitely some stuff that that accentuates, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: things I've done the past.
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  Speaker 2: You like about the Collected Wide Receiver of Great BRETHENTS books.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you still set just the way that plays.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think uh, I think one of
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  Speaker 3: the coolest things is just the willingness for all the
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  Speaker 3: guys to say, there's nothing in this offense that you
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  Speaker 3: want to be kept from, Like everyone wants to be
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  Speaker 3: able to do everything, and that that that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: You've got guys that are willing to play every position,
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  Speaker 3: learn every position, understand the intent of the play, and
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  Speaker 3: then being able to say, no matter where I'm at,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be willing to block d in So i'mna
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  Speaker 3: be willing to block linebackers, willing to run, you know,
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  Speaker 3: every level of route makes the fun so long guys
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  Speaker 3: are moving us around, you know, Clint's you know, deep
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  Speaker 3: into his bag of you know, all the different formations
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  Speaker 3: and shifts and things that we can do.
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  Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: You've got guys that are willing to do everything, learn
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  Speaker 3: the offense as a whole, and go out there and
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  Speaker 3: bloom make plays.
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  Speaker 2: They're one of the huger wide receivers that's known or
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  Speaker 2: on auction routes, breaking against leverage or breaking leverage in general.
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  Speaker 1: Where did that start?
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  Speaker 2: Where did you start to learn how.
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  Speaker 3: To do that. Yeah, Well I've I mean just as
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  Speaker 3: a as a wee little lad run around grid iron,
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  Speaker 3: great kids football. I mean, I was very thankful for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of really good coaches I've been able to
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  Speaker 3: learn from, you know, starting with you know my great kids,
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  Speaker 3: coach Lamont right and you know the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing running back and growing up there. And then you
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  Speaker 3: know coach Dumas played receiver at Washington State. Actually it
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  Speaker 3: was a really good receiver Washington State, and he was
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  Speaker 3: my my receiver coach.
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  Speaker 1: All the way through high school.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean I've just had guys at every level
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  Speaker 3: has been like man, I've just learned from some really
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  Speaker 3: good guys, been able to play in some really good
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  Speaker 3: receiver rooms and every every level. Been thankful for the
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  Speaker 3: guys that come before me that have taught me how
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  Speaker 3: to do things. And so it's a it's been a
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  Speaker 3: you know, accumulation of just a lot of coaching, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teaching and very blessed, very thankful for so
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  Speaker 3: many people that poured into me when it comes to.
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  Speaker 1: The culture or the messaging and just skilled in what
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  Speaker 1: is stuff with your stay out to the motion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's that belief the belief in that
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  Speaker 3: that this is going to be done together for any
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  Speaker 3: of the stuff to work, for all the goals and
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  Speaker 3: all the things that we want SEUT to achieve. It's
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  Speaker 3: you understand that we're gonna ultimately achieve it together and
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be playing for each other. And it's something
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  Speaker 3: that you know, you I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: rooms talk about it, but really trying to be about
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  Speaker 3: that here in terms of how the days model, the
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  Speaker 3: guys that you're around, how the you know, how what
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  Speaker 3: guys are doing when they leave the field, the extra
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  Speaker 3: time that's being spent in the meeting rooms, in the
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  Speaker 3: recovery rooms and all different stuff. You're doing something, man,
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  Speaker 3: what can I do to be better for the guy
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  Speaker 3: next to me? And that this is a place of
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  Speaker 3: guys in body then but they believe it, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think that that makes it. Uh it
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  Speaker 3: makes a fun place to come into, a fun place
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  Speaker 3: to come work.
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  Speaker 1: Let you talk a little bit about the time you
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  Speaker 1: just pat that offense.
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  Speaker 2: They're talking football and turn offense defenses.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you like outside of the game, and
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  Speaker 1: just got to go on some bigger things that Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I mean. It might be my favorite thing.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite thing is just the x's and o's, the
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  Speaker 3: learning the chess match that you know that that football is,
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  Speaker 3: and the innovation of guys like Mike who's who are
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  Speaker 3: pushing the boundaries defensively that then challenge the offense like
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  Speaker 3: you got to have answers. You know, no no offensive
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  Speaker 3: corner wants to go out there and just say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: they got us. You know, there's always you got. Defenses
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  Speaker 3: are trying to find ways to beat you. And and
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  Speaker 3: those conversations, those things with Mike, with the guys, like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the guys in our coaching staff, it
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  Speaker 3: makes it a lot of fun to come in to work.
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  Speaker 3: If I said, I'm really enjoying being here and the
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  Speaker 3: challenge that it presents. How much my Mike's office, I'm
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  Speaker 3: out starting. I don't have like a stop clock in
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  Speaker 3: there or anything, but I mean quite a bit. I've
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  Speaker 3: picked up on some of his ten season he sits
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  Speaker 3: them of the baseball bat most of the time, like
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  Speaker 3: throwing the baseball bat around. He like sits Chris Cross
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  Speaker 3: apple sauce on his chair, his feet on the ground
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times. And so he's got some he's
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  Speaker 3: got some interesting habits, but uh yeah, so enough to
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  Speaker 3: learn some of that stuff in some of the.
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  Speaker 1: More competitive periods out there. I mean, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: trying to simulate Game Mike situations. Have you gotten the field?
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  Speaker 1: Uh for like the kind of competitor that Sam Darnold is, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's in the you know, he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: been in this offense a little bit, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: he's he's got a little bit of a leg up
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  Speaker 3: on all of the guys that are learning.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time.
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  Speaker 3: But you see, just like you know, there is there's
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  Speaker 3: an understanding of he knows what what what takes to
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  Speaker 3: make this offense go. It's the details, it's all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Guy's the precision execution. And you know we're gonna get there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're you know, wherever it is six practices
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  Speaker 3: in at this point, seven practices in, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get there. And there's because of the urgency of guys
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  Speaker 3: like Sam who see when it's not right and can say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is how it has to be to make this
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  Speaker 3: thing go against this look, and how we're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: able to attack this look, this defense.
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  Speaker 1: This is where I need guys to be and and
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love when our quarterbacks taking that urgency into things
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  Speaker 3: and understanding and mastery of these concepts. And so it's
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  Speaker 3: really fun to play with something like that and excited
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  Speaker 3: for the guys to be able to come alongside them
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  Speaker 3: and learn to make those things come to life.
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  Speaker 1: Does he get like fired up in good or bad moments?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he does, And I think it's it's good. It's
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  Speaker 3: always in a good way. You know, it's always it's
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  Speaker 3: challenging guys. You know, it's challenging guys, never the meaning,
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  Speaker 3: but it is. It's a good thing to have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that urgency that comes out in practice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the coach McDonald ads that you're early in the
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  Speaker 2: relationship building process with Sam. But when are there any
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  Speaker 2: things about Sam that have surprised you getting to know
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  Speaker 2: him during this process?
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  Speaker 1: Surprise me? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, quarterbacks are usually pretty good golfers. I heard
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  Speaker 3: he's having a he's in a little bit of slump
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  Speaker 3: right now on the golf course.
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  Speaker 1: You did, he that's nice for him to come up
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  Speaker 1: here and it's confident. It's confident. You like the confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, he kind
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  Speaker 3: of has a childish taste like palette. You know, like
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  Speaker 3: he we went out to dinner and he's talking.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I just I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't trust him yet with the food recommendations or
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  Speaker 3: things like that, which again quarterbacks, I would have expected
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  Speaker 3: a little bit differently. But you know, if everyone has
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  Speaker 3: their own.
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  Speaker 1: Thing, well, it sounds like there's a story there with
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  Speaker 1: a pile thing. Yeah, I mean he would say he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go to dinner.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, perfect, that's what, Like that sounds good
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  Speaker 3: and I mean it's just the recommendations are kind of
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  Speaker 3: the way it came off was like he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: go get some you know, fries and chicken strips, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, look, I have a six year old.
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  Speaker 1: I can bring you his food. We can go.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go. I can bring that and I'll go eat
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  Speaker 3: something good. So yeah, that was but we end up
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  Speaker 3: ended up being fine. Like he he he ventured out
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  Speaker 3: and was like, okay, he was at least willing to
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  Speaker 3: try some stuff. And it seems like maybe there's I
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  Speaker 3: may have misread them.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell if you talk about watching dog Doug
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  Speaker 2: Bald when you're growing up and he was named by
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  Speaker 2: the fifty Bucks Players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Christy, what made him a special receiver?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, if you want to put a
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  Speaker 3: word on it, I think competitiveness probably is one that
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  Speaker 3: would would get placed on him. A willingness to go
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  Speaker 3: out there and just make plays, make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just an incredibly talented football player. I
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  Speaker 3: think you know, the quickness, is ability to set guys up.
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about has come to balance release being one
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  Speaker 3: of the best that I've seen. And but he he competed.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he played throughout the game, throughout the snap.
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  Speaker 3: You knew that he was going to going to bring it,
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  Speaker 3: and he was in here talking to the guys you know,
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  Speaker 3: a week or two ago and it's like, man, he's
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  Speaker 3: still got that same juice, that same eagerness you need
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  Speaker 3: to see, Like, hey, he's someone that you want to
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  Speaker 3: be around because the energy he brings and the way
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  Speaker 3: he calls everyone up to a certain stard of just
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  Speaker 3: living life.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that about Doug Baldwin receiver, was that
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  Speaker 1: he talked to the receivers as the entire team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was talking to who he talked, He talked
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  Speaker 3: to When I saw him, he was talking to a
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  Speaker 3: group of a few different guys with offense Steven SiGe
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  Speaker 3: little mix with guys.
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  Speaker 1: How you feel physical, looks like you're feel good? Feel good?
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  Speaker 1: I'm uh, yeah, feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: I want to guess he said you maybe get the fields.
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  Speaker 3: But he's I guess, I don't know him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they talk a lot, a lot of talk, but
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  Speaker 1: they back they backed up. I mean I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean not just like talking track, they almost like
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  Speaker 3: the communication. You know, usually when I've been in playing
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  Speaker 3: against them, you can't hear anything anyways, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. But now like going out there hearing the communication,
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  Speaker 3: hearing the way that they're as the offense is moving,
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  Speaker 3: you know, formations and shifts as how they're getting in
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  Speaker 3: and out of their calls, and their mastery of what
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's really impressive. And that's what you need.
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  Speaker 3: You need guys there that are that are doing that
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  Speaker 3: and making sure that they're on their stuff. Defense playing
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  Speaker 3: is one and it's cool to see that and hear
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  Speaker 3: that from the defense side.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see in Jake Bobo?
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  Speaker 2: So it's as seeming to spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: working out with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jason Man, I mean incredibly gifted route runner. It's uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean ball skills and things like that. He's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of tangible skills as traces as
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  Speaker 3: a receiver.
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  Speaker 1: You say, this is something and you want that guy
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  Speaker 1: out in the field.
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  Speaker 3: Really smart, willing to go in there and block, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: does a lot of the dirty work, willing to go
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  Speaker 3: do all that off. And yeah, I mean he's just
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  Speaker 3: a really good football player. So satdy out there and
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  Speaker 3: play with him. Yeah for me, thank you, asking for