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DK Metcalf: "We're Going To Lean On Each Other All Season" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So you want what was your biggest take away from
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  Speaker 1: League one?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we got a pretty good defense. They held us
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  Speaker 2: the well the whole game, and we got a tight
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  Speaker 2: knit uh team. Uh in my opinion. Uh, the offense
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  Speaker 2: stuttered uh in the first half. Everybody saw it. But
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  Speaker 2: the way our defense kept responding every time they had
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  Speaker 2: to go out there on the field and get a
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  Speaker 2: big stop, Uh, they did it. So you know, we
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna lean on each other this whole season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to start out the season like we did
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  Speaker 2: on offense, but we gonna learn from it. And like
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  Speaker 2: I said, man, our defense had a had our back,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we gonna continue to lean on each
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  Speaker 2: other throughout the whole season. How can you tell it
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  Speaker 2: to take that team? Nobody was getting flustered on the
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  Speaker 2: sideline when uh after the pick.
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  Speaker 3: Or after the two safeties.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the defense just said, all right, we know what
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  Speaker 2: we gotta do and then they went out there and
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  Speaker 2: got to stop.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for you.
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  Speaker 4: Guys confidence wise? When Okay, we're not going grand offense,
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  Speaker 4: but the defense keeps getting our back.
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  Speaker 3: What does that def it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it just builds a confidence and continuity for
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  Speaker 2: down the road. Like I said, Man, we start out
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  Speaker 2: Week one like that, So, I mean we found out
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  Speaker 2: a lot about who we are as a team in
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  Speaker 2: Week one, but just hopefully we can build on that
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  Speaker 2: and you know, not taking any steps back from it.
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  Speaker 1: Both Tyler and Mike talked about your role on that
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  Speaker 1: last play that Tyler capped the third down to kind
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  Speaker 1: of seal the game. Just what's what's sort of the
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  Speaker 1: key to key to what you have to do on
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  Speaker 1: that play.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I ain't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen Gino through a perfect ball and Tyler caught
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  Speaker 2: it with one hand. I mean, you know, Tyler's always
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  Speaker 2: going to show up in the big time moments or
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  Speaker 2: whenever you need a first down or a big play.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that got our I think our touchdown
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  Speaker 2: or field goal drive started. So you know you can
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  Speaker 2: always lean on lock in those situations because you know
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  Speaker 2: he's a vet VET in the league and has been
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  Speaker 2: making play since he, you know, first stepped foot on
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  Speaker 2: a football field.
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  Speaker 4: Will that show you about Lock at the And he
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  Speaker 4: missed a lot of time in camp and didn't play
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  Speaker 4: the preseason, then did to go out and have the
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  Speaker 4: game he had Just Uh, I.
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  Speaker 2: Just call it the greatest athlete on planet Earth because
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have to do anything, but still showed up
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  Speaker 2: and was round. People love catching, you know, crazy catches
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  Speaker 2: throughout the whole game. But that just speaks to his
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  Speaker 2: work ethic, you know, off the field, Uh studied his
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  Speaker 2: butt off. He was here for treatment every morning, So
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  Speaker 2: just speaks to the kind of person. He is always
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  Speaker 2: team first and it's gonna do whatever it takes. So
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  Speaker 2: he's on the field, you know, so he can make
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  Speaker 2: those type of plays. It's easy to look at a
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  Speaker 2: coach and say that he's got a defensive background.
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  Speaker 3: Right, You've got two of those coaches this week.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell when you're in the game or do
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  Speaker 4: we tend to make too much of that kind of
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  Speaker 4: as you look at matchups and previews.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I definitely look at that stuff way too much.
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  Speaker 1: You can't tell.
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  Speaker 3: You can't tell if you're going up against the defensive
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  Speaker 3: minded coach.
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  Speaker 1: Versus anything else.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, cause both teams are trying to win everybody,
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  Speaker 2: the offense trying to score as many points and then
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  Speaker 2: the defense trying to stop you. So, I mean this football,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, take the you know,
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  Speaker 2: scheme out of it. It's exits and those everybody tries
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  Speaker 2: to score and the defense tries to stop you. But
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  Speaker 2: I think this week it's gonna be you know who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna play for four quarters with uh minimal to no mistakes?
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  Speaker 5: Do you tam, Sure you like catching the ball the most,
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  Speaker 5: but uh do you enjoy turn the tables and getting
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  Speaker 5: hit your hands on the defensive player at a block
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  Speaker 5: and some of.
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  Speaker 2: The run players for Ken, Yes, sir, Uh, mainly because
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  Speaker 2: if it's a run to the right, he may end
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  Speaker 2: up on the left, So you never know where Ken
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  Speaker 2: is gonna end up or you know what hole he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna choose. But like I said, man, you saw how
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  Speaker 2: great of a back he was uh Sunday because we
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  Speaker 2: leaned on him a lot. Uh congratulations to you know,
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  Speaker 2: his first of many uh you know, one hundred yard
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  Speaker 2: games of the season. But uh, I mean they still
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen Zach Sharvina yet, Uh Kenny McIntosh. So I
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  Speaker 2: think we got a stable of backs who you know,
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  Speaker 2: have the same effect that Ken has.
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  Speaker 4: Partner had a nice block on a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Run by Ken.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see from him in that regard?
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  Speaker 2: Just his attention to detail. Uh he's always asking questions,
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  Speaker 2: very curious about you know, how he can get better.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He has a a great uh you know leader and
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  Speaker 2: Noah and uh Ferrell in the room with him, so
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  Speaker 2: he just leans on them for guidance and uh you
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  Speaker 2: know he he's gonna come into his own later on,
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  Speaker 2: uh during the season.
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  Speaker 1: The look, I think he just put certain on you
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  Speaker 1: the whole game. What I guess what did you think
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  Speaker 1: of that matchup?
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  Speaker 3: And how that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's always good to just go against one
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  Speaker 2: dB uh for the whole game, cause you know, you
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  Speaker 2: get to study each other. But I mean, Patrick Taine's
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  Speaker 2: one of the best corners uh in this league. Uh
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  Speaker 2: as y'all have seen. Uh, it was a good match up.
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  Speaker 2: He's a you know, a smart, uh, very patient corner.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, just glad to get to go up
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  Speaker 2: against one guy and not have to switch techniques against
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  Speaker 2: uh multiple corners during the whole game. But uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was a good matchup.
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  Speaker 4: Probably see a lot of Christians all this week based
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  Speaker 4: on what they did with him last week.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen in his game?
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  Speaker 2: When you study he's a very physical corner uh in
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  Speaker 2: press coverage and uh when he's off covers. Try to
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  Speaker 2: keep everything in front of him. I think it's just
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  Speaker 2: his fifth game, uh in the NFL, so uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we gonna see how how he holds up for four quarters.
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  Speaker 3: But you know he's a very good young player.
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  Speaker 2: You're a bel air cameo.
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  Speaker 1: How did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: How'd that come about? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? How did that happen? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I was at a production studio called Empire Hid an
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  Speaker 2: Empire down in LA and he had a connection to
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  Speaker 2: one of the producers of the show, and he was
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  Speaker 2: at a table reader that I was at. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he saw what I did at the table read and
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  Speaker 2: asked me if I wanted to be in the show,
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  Speaker 2: and I couldn't say no. So it was just a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity. Just appreciate Deon Taylor for you know, coordinate,
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  Speaker 2: coordinating all of that for me.
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  Speaker 3: But he was just a good experience for me.
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  Speaker 1: Did a table read for another project?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, man, you want to know too much.
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  Speaker 2: No, it ain't no, not yet, not yet.
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  Speaker 4: Mike and all of your teammates were raving about the
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  Speaker 4: Pickreek Major. The way he came across the field. I'm
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  Speaker 4: guessing maybe someone who goes against him and practice that
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  Speaker 4: surprise you less than most people that he can pull
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  Speaker 4: that off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think Reacan Spoon are gonna have
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  Speaker 2: two great years this year just from going against him
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  Speaker 2: in the OTA's in training camp. I think they are
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  Speaker 2: two of the best corners in the league, especially that
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  Speaker 2: I get to go against against them every day of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Iron sharpens iron. I mean, They're gonna make me a
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  Speaker 2: better player throughout the whole season. But no, it does
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  Speaker 2: not surprise me that Reek is making those type of plays. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know on the defensive end.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like for your men's health cover turned out? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, But I'm kind of low key all social
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  Speaker 2: media right now, so I haven't been able to, uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, tap into all of it. But uh I
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  Speaker 2: heard it turned out great. My mama told me that,
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  Speaker 2: Uh it looked good.
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  Speaker 3: So that was good social media right now? Right?
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  Speaker 5: You wanna go, I g guesst each other a lot.
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  Speaker 5: You guys switch to sides? Who would win the rep?
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  Speaker 3: You said, what if you and.
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  Speaker 1: R Rike switch sides?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: You played defense, he played offense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh who would win the REP?
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  Speaker 2: I tell Reek all the time, I can cover him
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  Speaker 2: if he was uh a receiver. Uh he played receiver
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  Speaker 2: in in college, so he he got a uh A
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  Speaker 2: good receiver background to him.
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  Speaker 1: What what defensive position did you play in high school?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, corner in safety. I wasn't this big though, I
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  Speaker 3: was not just it was Ah, it was your first
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  Speaker 3: time after uh A doing like a post game meeting
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  Speaker 3: with Mike after.
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  Speaker 1: A regular season game. What was that like for meks
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  Speaker 1: as compared to maybe years past?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I think they pretty much uh did the same. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know they both uh debrief us, give us their opinions,
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  Speaker 2: let the coordinators talk, and then uh, you know we
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  Speaker 2: break off insive position means and uh that's where we
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  Speaker 2: really get the details of earning out. Uh you know
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  Speaker 2: what we could have did better, what we did good?
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  Speaker 2: But uh, it's pretty much standard procedure.
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  Speaker 3: You know. It's the following years.
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  Speaker 1: I was grub for the and when you guys did
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  Speaker 1: a offensive debrief for the.
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  Speaker 2: Game, Uh, he was very honest with us. Uh In
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, I thought we all needed it. We
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  Speaker 2: just got a block better uh as a offense and
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  Speaker 2: just eliminate uh the stupid penalties where you know, we
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  Speaker 2: killed drives on our own and not the defense. Doing
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  Speaker 2: anything to hurt us. But uh, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, it's all in our hands and uh we
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  Speaker 2: can We're the only team or only people that can
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  Speaker 2: stop ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just here to so I won't get
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  Speaker 2: fine as more. I ain't gotta comment on that.
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  Speaker 3: I show a little bit more and a second half
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  Speaker 3: broke out, but some of the explosiveness. Do it feel
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  Speaker 3: like you guys had a little bit you held back
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  Speaker 3: because of some of those mistakes. Uh, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it was us being held back.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The run game was was working.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Kim was churning, and you know we just kept
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  Speaker 2: going ba back to the well and uh it j
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  Speaker 2: he just kept r uh producing for us and we
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to throw the ball. Uh in a sense,
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  Speaker 2: so when we need to throw the ball and needed
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  Speaker 2: explosives down the field, I think Global dollar it up
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  Speaker 2: for us. But uh, I mean I if run the
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  Speaker 2: ball is is what we need to win games. And
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  Speaker 2: you know why not what steered y'all social media for
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  Speaker 2: the time? You said, what what steered.
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  Speaker 3: Your way from social media for the time? Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: a different perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Just being off of it, seeing you know, how long
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  Speaker 2: I can go uh without it, and you know, one
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  Speaker 2: week turned in a couple months and you know, look
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  Speaker 2: back at it. Really don't need to be on it,
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  Speaker 2: do you like? Yeah, I mean simple life, don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about anything.
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  Speaker 1: What did you s after last season or something or
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  Speaker 1: what do.
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  Speaker 3: You uh it was October of last season. Yeah, anything
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  Speaker 3: else like that.