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Cooper Kupp: "That Was Complementary Football At Its Finest" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone, cool as what was this week like with
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird dog your quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Lately we got injured court and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Uncertainly there was What was the process like for you
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  Speaker 1: guys as an offense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was definitely weird. But I mean you just
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  Speaker 2: gotta you roll the punches. I mean, that's that's how
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  Speaker 2: things go in this league. And Drew did a great
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  Speaker 2: job stepping into that practice and he just kept things
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  Speaker 2: from moving, kept things rolling. Process doesn't changed. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sam did a great job of being able to give
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  Speaker 2: himself free to go and battle through that today. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the show goes on you.
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  Speaker 1: Now your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Did you think he was going?
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  Speaker 1: Was there any doubt that he was gonna play in
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  Speaker 1: your mind when you lead him up to it?
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  Speaker 2: I figured he was gonna find a way to get
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  Speaker 2: out there. It's hard to tell, you know, you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: guys without him throwing or anything. But I mean he
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  Speaker 2: was out there at the walk through on Saturday, like
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  Speaker 2: he was told not to throw, and he's out there
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  Speaker 2: on pump faking. Everyone's like, dude, stop, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: his we just please don't do anything stupid. So I
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  Speaker 2: figure with him pump faking as much as he was.
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  Speaker 2: He had to be feeling okay.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but what did you know, like for a
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  Speaker 1: certain that he was absolutely going We ran out there
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Throw we made to you on that
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  Speaker 1: first Touchdownder. Probably one of the better throats made a game,
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  Speaker 1: was that sort of it. So it's like, okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: fine if you firs from that one. Yeah, I mean that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was, there was.
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  Speaker 2: There were quite a few throws I thought he made
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  Speaker 2: h that were like, man, he's he's letting it, letting
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  Speaker 2: it rip. And a little concern on one of those too,
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  Speaker 2: took a sack one of those keepers and got up
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  Speaker 2: a little slowly. But man, just fought through. He was
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  Speaker 2: he was consistent. He was the same same Sam that
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  Speaker 2: he's he's always been, just leading the huddle, being a steady, steady,
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  Speaker 2: leading force for us. And he made some unbelievable throws,
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  Speaker 2: the one going up to the left. They threw the
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  Speaker 2: jacks and the and so like that. Those are unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: throws that he was making today. When you're playing in
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  Speaker 2: that kind of environment and it's hitting like that in
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  Speaker 2: every phase, what does that feel like to be a part.
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  Speaker 1: Of that Oh, it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's uh, that's complimentary football AT's finest.
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  Speaker 1: You know, open the game with a kickoff return.
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  Speaker 2: Defense goes out there is doing a great job getting stops,
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  Speaker 2: gives us a field position. Offense goes down. You'd love
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  Speaker 2: to be able finished in the red zone that in
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  Speaker 2: that situation. But just being able to play off each other, man,
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  Speaker 2: just keep the energy moving forward, keep the ball moving
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  Speaker 2: forward on the offense side of the back.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like we did a great job of that.
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  Speaker 2: There were the only times that we got into bad
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  Speaker 2: situations is then we had to play that we moved backwards,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't very able to recover from some of those.
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  Speaker 2: And but man, when you got you know, offense, defense
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  Speaker 2: and special teams playing off of each other like that,
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  Speaker 2: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: It's very dangerous, and we're able to capitalize on some
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  Speaker 1: of that. Today. Is the big guy guy like you
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  Speaker 1: if you ever know, he just kind of glides when
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  Speaker 1: he runs. It doesn't look like he's running that hard,
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  Speaker 1: but he goes. I mean, it's it's just different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's cheek code. I'm I'm so angry at him
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  Speaker 2: for being so fast. It drives me crazy. Just jealous.
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  Speaker 2: I guess at the end of the day because he's
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  Speaker 2: it's special. I remember the first day he got uh
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  Speaker 2: got to the Sidember asking him like, is it cool
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  Speaker 2: lining up and knowing that you can run past anyone
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  Speaker 2: that lines up across me.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: You played in the empty stadium playoff game here and
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  Speaker 2: now to play in.
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  Speaker 1: This atmospheres and what relive the tells brought it.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cool, really cool to see that, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad we were put on a show for him
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  Speaker 2: and man looking forward to what they can do next week.
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  Speaker 1: For personally, go back to the ANC Championship. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you don't take these things for granted.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is uh, this is a testament to
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  Speaker 2: the amount of the process that takes to get here,
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  Speaker 2: the amount of work that goes into it, and this
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  Speaker 2: league is this is the guys will be the best
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  Speaker 2: in the world that you're going up against each and
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  Speaker 2: every day and to get to this place talks testament
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  Speaker 2: to the coaches, testing to the guys and in the
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  Speaker 2: process that they have taking through this this time and
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be really cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure we'll talk about this week.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, everyone's gonna everyone's gonna want to say
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  Speaker 2: you know that everything's sweet. You know that you can
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  Speaker 2: get the results that happen today somehow impact what's gonna
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  Speaker 2: happen next week, you know, and it's gonna be great
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  Speaker 2: because the same the way that we've gone about this
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  Speaker 2: week after week and game after game is what's sweet
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  Speaker 2: isn't what happens out there. What's sweet is what we
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  Speaker 2: know the amount of work that happens during the week.
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  Speaker 2: And as long as we can do that, as long
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  Speaker 2: as we can keep following that process, you know, weren't
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  Speaker 2: be so confident, so excited about whoever is across from
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  Speaker 2: Lass next week.
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  Speaker 1: This is your first go around with Sam. What do
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  Speaker 1: you what do you make off of the way he
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  Speaker 1: handles himself and he seems to be aligned and the
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  Speaker 1: you know in.
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  Speaker 2: The outside world, and you know about not winning a
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  Speaker 2: playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: Yet till today, what's your what's your on him? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just I just don't think he cares about any
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  Speaker 1: of that. I mean, he's just he's he he's there
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  Speaker 1: for the guys.
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  Speaker 2: He's there to play football and play the game that
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  Speaker 2: he loves and.
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  Speaker 1: Lead us and I think he takes that approach.
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  Speaker 2: You see in his how it just goes about his
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  Speaker 2: business when he's in the film room, when he's going
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  Speaker 2: about his preparation with the coaches, the questions he's asking,
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  Speaker 2: the things that he's pushing, you know, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: just Okay, this is what they said to do, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to do it. You know, Hey, how how can
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  Speaker 2: we make this better? Some things here that you know
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  Speaker 2: in the conversation. It's easy to communicate, you know, from
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  Speaker 2: coaches to players, but when players are communicating the coaches,
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  Speaker 2: you can take things to the next level. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's done a great job of that and we'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: We've played a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of seasons over the years, deep into playoffs, some
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  Speaker 2: of those.
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  Speaker 1: When your usage was extreme. I mean you were getting
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yar Twitter targets. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel right now compared to late night or seasons? And
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  Speaker 1: is it a little bit better because you're in an
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  Speaker 1: offense where hey, you guys are running it and you're involved,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not just getting worn out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it is, it.
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  Speaker 1: Is. It is different.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not used to I'm not used to the amount
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  Speaker 2: of personnel changes and things.
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  Speaker 1: Like that that we do. But it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It does it keeps guys fresh, and it gives us
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different looks, makes the defense practice a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different looks as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm feeling really good for.
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  Speaker 2: The Niners have been lighting up, you know pretty much
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  Speaker 2: in the past few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have a lot of any of the straight words.
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  Speaker 1: What's that they're like watching those guys.
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  Speaker 2: On the outside of the point, Yeah, that's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: unreal the way those guys are playing right now, the
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  Speaker 2: camaraderie they have, the the violence that they play with,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just like it's fun to watch. It's fun
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  Speaker 2: to see it happen during the week, and their preparation,
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  Speaker 2: the way that they play off of each other and
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  Speaker 2: communicate with each other, and the loose and focused nature
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  Speaker 2: of practice. I mean, they're like when they're on the field,
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  Speaker 2: they are locked in and then they they're talking to
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  Speaker 2: each other and they're making sure that they're that they're
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  Speaker 2: doing things the right way and not just not just
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  Speaker 2: you know, do what the coach says, but do what
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  Speaker 2: the coach coach says, and understand what the offense is doing.
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  Speaker 1: And how they can make things better.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they're on the sidelines there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just enjoying being around each other. So it's a really
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  Speaker 2: close group over there, and it's a ton of fun
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  Speaker 2: to see them do what they do each week.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper, You've talked this season about kind of everything that
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  Speaker 1: goes on Monday through Saturday. You're ready for games and
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  Speaker 1: all the work he do, and I know Jackson been
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  Speaker 1: in all the targras. Is it rewarding in a game
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  Speaker 1: like this where the ball does find you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more and you're getting to kind of turn it
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  Speaker 1: back and put those numbers. Yeah, I mean everyone wants
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Every wants the ball at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's no I mean, some guys are more
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  Speaker 2: vocal about than others, but I can promise you everyone
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  Speaker 2: wants to ball the exact same And so yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Great when it finds you. But you know, I've said.
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  Speaker 2: I've said it before, like you just you're ready for
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity when it comes, and you got prepared to
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  Speaker 2: the as if that's going to be there. And glad
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  Speaker 2: that I was able to get my hands on the
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  Speaker 2: ball a few times. But also it's really excited about
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  Speaker 2: how the guys played in the run game as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean K nine going for for what you did
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  Speaker 2: and being able to do that and the and the
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  Speaker 2: run game makes the past game. All that stuff just
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  Speaker 2: becomes you know, it becomes a lot easier when you
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  Speaker 2: can run the ball the way way we have been
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  Speaker 2: and we got to Bill keep that up. Ken said
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  Speaker 2: that when you guys are running the ball the way
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  Speaker 2: we're so physically, it's wildly it's demoralizing to the other
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  Speaker 2: the defense. Can you feel it out there, like when
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  Speaker 2: they you know that they know you're going to run
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  Speaker 2: it and you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Can mack up your arts anyway. Yeah, I think that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's less so about feeling them being demoralized
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  Speaker 2: and more and just like our confidence that the ball
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  Speaker 2: is going to move down the field, It's going to
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  Speaker 2: matriculate its way down the field somehow. It's like you're
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  Speaker 2: just you're a cog in that machine, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. You're you're responsible for one guy on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of the ball, and all you can do
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  Speaker 2: is your job and you know, take care of that spot.
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  Speaker 2: But so much fun when you you know, play finishes
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  Speaker 2: up and we're eight to ten yards down the field,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that your one eleventh was part of
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  Speaker 2: everyone getting their job done to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: that ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very rewarding thing and and it just continues
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  Speaker 2: to build confidence in the guys like man, We just
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  Speaker 2: we love that. We love being able to play off
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  Speaker 2: of each other like that and and and move bodies
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  Speaker 2: down the field.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a pretty special thing. Thanks you up,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks like people over the house for