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Chuck & Buck 2-3 Hour 3: Gene Steratore, Eric Saubert and the rookie sensation. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Checking Buck's weekly visit with former NFL
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  Speaker 1: here's Checking Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from Radio Row here at San
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  Speaker 3: Francisco as we are days away from Super Bowl sixty.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of radio stations all over the place. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this place is really filled up, and they got banners.
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  Speaker 3: They are blocking my view of Radio Row as I
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  Speaker 3: had it yesterday. There is one big difference between us
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  Speaker 3: and the rest of these radio stations that have come here.
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  Speaker 3: Their team's not in the Super Bowl. Oh man, it
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  Speaker 3: must stink to follow such losers. But our team will
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  Speaker 3: be taking on the New England Patriots on Sunday, Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl sixty, And in a moment we're gonna chat with
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  Speaker 3: Geene stare Tour about the excitement of that as we
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  Speaker 3: get ready for the big event. From an officials point
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  Speaker 3: of view, do want to let you know that our
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  Speaker 3: Joining us now on the program is CBS rules analysts
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  Speaker 3: and the greatest NFL official ever, Jeene Sterotur. Happy super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: Week, Gene, Happy super Bowl Week, Fellas. I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 4: great there. I'm looking forward to getting there soon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. When do you get here Friday? Did you tell us?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? I do land Friday, and I hope to see.
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  Speaker 4: If not, maybe we'll get a quick selfie in the
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  Speaker 4: airport or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, at least like to Yeah, at least like to
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  Speaker 3: you know, to face shake your hand and say hello.
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  Speaker 3: Even if it doesn't time out that you can pop
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  Speaker 3: on the.
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  Speaker 2: Air with us live.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean we don't have a little isolated plays
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  Speaker 3: to break down, but I feel like we got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things that we can discuss about this upcoming
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  Speaker 3: game from an officials perspective. And let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: start with the crew itself. Tell us about Sean Smith
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  Speaker 3: and his crew are they gonna screw this thing up
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. Sean is a really really
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  Speaker 4: good referee and has worked a lot of postseason stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and I know, I know we'll have the crew ready,
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  Speaker 4: ready to work. So it's not a normal week. You
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  Speaker 4: don't pretend it's a normal week, especially during the weekdays
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  Speaker 4: here leading up to it. But the more the crew
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  Speaker 4: will get together here and start into their pregame or
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  Speaker 4: pre week preparation, they'll be ready to go. Just get
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  Speaker 4: the big ones this week.
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  Speaker 3: What goes into that tell us about pregame preparation for
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  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl? What do you mean by that from
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  Speaker 3: an official standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean when you do get the phone call,
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  Speaker 4: it is a memorable call, right, I mean, it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those times that you forever remember when you get
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  Speaker 4: your Super Bowl call. And then it depends on how
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  Speaker 4: many family members you have. In my case, with all
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  Speaker 4: the Italian family in mind, it was the shock of
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  Speaker 4: getting tickets for twenty family members, which is very, very
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  Speaker 4: you know, depressing, but in all honesty, when you do
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  Speaker 4: get there, and they'll get in there midweek, you really
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  Speaker 4: dive into it and you do that through the most
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  Speaker 4: of the postseason. You should be doing it through the
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  Speaker 4: entire season and postseason specific. But it is team tendencies.
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  Speaker 4: It is team matchups. You know, the flavor of those teams,
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  Speaker 4: the play. You know, you're going through multiple playlists or
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  Speaker 4: games and looking for trends, tendencies, and then you go
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  Speaker 4: into the individual matchups and discussed as individual massups with
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  Speaker 4: each of the crew members that will be focused merrily
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  Speaker 4: in those areas. So there's a lot, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: to that and I think there, you know, that's where
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  Speaker 4: the comfort level uh starts to set in. You're starting
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  Speaker 4: to see those plays, discuss those matchups, and then when
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  Speaker 4: you get out there Sunday, hopefully those same and it's
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  Speaker 4: those same situations show themselves live, knowing that you had
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  Speaker 4: spoken through them and prep for those and then there's
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  Speaker 4: a level of comfort and confidence that goes with that. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's a great week. It's a great week for the families,
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  Speaker 4: it's a great week for the cruise and and there's
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  Speaker 4: a ton of pressure and you understand that you embrace it.
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  Speaker 5: Geene, We've talked to you at length about your feelings
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  Speaker 5: and your philosophy of you know, uh, getting the whales
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  Speaker 5: sketching the whales and not the minnows. Is when you
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  Speaker 5: get to the biggest game of them all, do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like your counter part or your your your your
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  Speaker 5: peers that they all have kind of a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of that as well, that they're not wanting to insert
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  Speaker 5: themselves in the game unless they need to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you do, Bucky. I mean, you definitely
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  Speaker 4: understand the moment. I mean, I know another one of
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  Speaker 4: those times in life that it froze that it is
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  Speaker 4: for all the viewers and everybody. It's right before that
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  Speaker 4: kickoff takes place and you see the sixty seventy thousand
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  Speaker 4: flash bulbs go off and you're kicking off the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: and I think your level of awareness, just your being
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  Speaker 4: in that moment, it elevates again. And that's just a
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  Speaker 4: human condition. I think it does for everyone that participates
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  Speaker 4: in games of this magnitude. And I think that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of what you trust is it's going to elevate me.
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  Speaker 4: The fouls will jump out at you, just relaxed free
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  Speaker 4: through them. Players are going to play right to the edge.
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  Speaker 4: They have to. They're playing for it all, and you
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  Speaker 4: understand that, So you want to elevate yourself to just
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  Speaker 4: digest this stuff. The fouls will jump out, they'll show
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  Speaker 4: themselves whenever they occur, and you just don't go seeking things.
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  Speaker 3: Gene Stare Torres when a CBS rules analysts and former official,
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  Speaker 3: how many Super Bowls?
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  Speaker 4: I was altering at the Super Bowl forty four when
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  Speaker 4: the Saints beat the Colts, and then I referred was
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  Speaker 4: in white hat in Super Bowl fifty two when the
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles and the Philly Special defeated the Patriots in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, no matter, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: really is, you don't really win. You can't win as
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  Speaker 3: an NFL official, I don't remember one Super Bowl where
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  Speaker 3: at the end of it they're like, you know who
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  Speaker 3: really had the best game? It was that Jeene Sterotor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and Jean's territor really did shine. I mean he was
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  Speaker 3: the real MVP, didn't blow a single call. But you
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  Speaker 3: do remember the ones, especially in Seattle, where the officials
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  Speaker 3: played a role in the game. I mean, you're probably
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  Speaker 3: friends with Bill Levy. That's the famous one here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Seahawk fans still to this day just don't
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  Speaker 3: trust the officials when they get ready to play in
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  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl because of Bill Levy. Does he still
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  Speaker 3: wear that to this day? Does he does it? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how much did it affect him that he got so
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  Speaker 3: harshly criticized after that game was played.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Beilieve has passed in the last year and
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  Speaker 4: a half or so and was a fantastic mentor to me.
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  Speaker 4: It also is somebody that that I think, you know
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  Speaker 4: as a young referee, as a young official, you always
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  Speaker 4: looked up to those those experienced officials when you got
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL didn't always have to be a referee.
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  Speaker 4: In my case, I kind of gravitated to them, and
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  Speaker 4: not just to how good I thought they weren't managing
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  Speaker 4: the games, the production of the games, the intensity, and
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  Speaker 4: you're focused and trying to learn as much as you can,
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  Speaker 4: But then you watch them go through pressurized situations where
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  Speaker 4: fraction of a reaction, a play that happens in a
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  Speaker 4: second or two can can basically define a good portion.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately in some cases, you know you're into career, so
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  Speaker 4: you do embrace. Again, when I talk about the pressure
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  Speaker 4: of it and the magnitude of these things, it kind
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  Speaker 4: of goes to that, right And I know that when
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  Speaker 4: Bill came around that following season to the training camps. Naturally,
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  Speaker 4: there were questions that were asking him, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was just a stand up individual. It
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  Speaker 4: was a close play, it was not an easy play
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  Speaker 4: to work on, a quick turnover or those situations. It's
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  Speaker 4: madness out there in real time when the field flips
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  Speaker 4: like that. But I think it's again it's another great
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  Speaker 4: lesson in life. You can work three hours of perfect
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  Speaker 4: football and as you said, would not be recognized whatsoever,
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  Speaker 4: and then as fate would have it, you can have
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  Speaker 4: a reaction that happens within seconds that lives maybe beyond
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  Speaker 4: your years. That's the pressure of this business. That's kind
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  Speaker 4: of why you do it in some ways. So he
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  Speaker 4: just was a great mentor and a great man as well.
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  Speaker 2: I love the way you put that.
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  Speaker 5: That's why you do it, is the pressure, because then
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  Speaker 5: you feel good when you do well under the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: We even have nobody acknowledges that, Yeah, you're.
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  Speaker 5: Definitely not going to get a trophy at the end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you just kind of hope that is the.
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  Speaker 4: Best official buy. You know that that's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of the beauty of the profession, to be
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  Speaker 4: perfectly honest. A lot too deep this morning, but it
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  Speaker 4: is that that ever wanting to be putting yourself into
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  Speaker 4: an extremely uncomfortable situation, and truly the goal was to
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  Speaker 4: manage that situation and then not be recognized. And as
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  Speaker 4: we move through this life and this, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 4: wants to be click baited and seen on social spaces
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  Speaker 4: and things. I lived through the evolution of that as
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  Speaker 4: an official, but then the philosophy of putting yourself in
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  Speaker 4: that situation to not be recognized, it was like the
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  Speaker 4: ultimate goal. Those are the labels that officials kind of
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  Speaker 4: truly do wear, right. I mean that it is kind
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  Speaker 4: of what this is, and it's a deeper moment and
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  Speaker 4: it should be because it is that. Uh. And then
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  Speaker 4: you let the you let the uh, the entertainers entertain, right,
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  Speaker 4: but you just keep the thing on the track and
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  Speaker 4: let the game evolve. And guess what if you have
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  Speaker 4: to interject yourself, uh, then you do because that's what's
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  Speaker 4: right for the game. So it does become a real
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  Speaker 4: big thing. Those are the conversations that I know I'll
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  Speaker 4: be having with the officials prepping into this week and
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  Speaker 4: uh and just in life, because it's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: this is and you've got to embrace it and take
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  Speaker 4: a head on. You know, you never hear the.
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  Speaker 3: Tom tom Bray step aside, Bill Belicher step aside. It's
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  Speaker 3: time to rule the envy. Most valuable official, come on
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  Speaker 3: up here, let's interview you give.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I imagine many big moment for anyone in
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  Speaker 5: any walk of life. There's some bigger moments and not
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  Speaker 5: so big and so nerves come along with that. You've
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  Speaker 5: discussed that a little bit. Was there ever a time
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  Speaker 5: that you were especially nervous, whether it's walking out in
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  Speaker 5: the tunnel or the crunch time of the game when
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  Speaker 5: it's coming down to the wire. Was there ever a
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  Speaker 5: time that you can remember and what was that situation?
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  Speaker 4: Like? One thousand percent and perfectly honest, I had close
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  Speaker 4: to anxiety panic attack going through the simulation and then
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  Speaker 4: the coin toss itself. When you live in an officials world,
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  Speaker 4: it's a very unscripted life. I speak at dinners and
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  Speaker 4: don't write anything on paper. I want to feel the room.
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  Speaker 4: You want to react to the situation. That's what you're
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  Speaker 4: kind of your DNA strand kind of put me in
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  Speaker 4: at least. But then I had this scripted Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: presentation to do in front of one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: million people. In my case, I had a gentleman who
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  Speaker 4: was a World War One veteran who was the honorary captain.
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  Speaker 4: I think I mispronounced his name five times. I believe
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  Speaker 4: it was Willie Williams. I think I called him Woodrow Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: used three different names to announce him. Right before Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl fifty two's coin toss, I forgot to ask the
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  Speaker 4: Eagles initially what they wanted to choose, heads or tails
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  Speaker 4: and handed the coin to the honorary captain. Who's thank
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  Speaker 4: gosh for Perry Paganelli, my back judge. He stepped in
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  Speaker 4: and went, whoa hold on a minute, we need to
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  Speaker 4: ask the Eagles heads or tails before we go through
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  Speaker 4: the rest of this, so that moment will forever live
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  Speaker 4: with me and I can see myself like yesterday showering
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  Speaker 4: going Willie Williams, Willy Williams, not Woodrow Wilson. You know,
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  Speaker 4: all those things, and then it hits you, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So once we got through with the coin toss, it
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  Speaker 4: was all downhill from there.
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  Speaker 2: Is a tough part, that's awesome, Yes, yes, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, there is a lot of talk about Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 3: not making the Hall of Fame and Robert Kraft, and
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  Speaker 3: I won't ask you to weigh in on that, but
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  Speaker 3: there's only one NFL official in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like, I mean, I'm not gonna put
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  Speaker 3: you in the uncomfortable position talk about yourself, but do
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  Speaker 3: you feel like since the officials are such a big
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  Speaker 3: part of the game that they, you guys, should be
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  Speaker 3: more represented in the NFL Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for the question. Yes I do, uh, And
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  Speaker 4: I think if you look at the other major league
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  Speaker 4: sports baseball and basketball, they do have their percentage of
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  Speaker 4: those individuals male and female that were great contributors to
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  Speaker 4: this game through their life's journey through that portion of time.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, I do really firmly believe now, as you mentioned, Art,
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  Speaker 4: the late Art McNally, who was the first supervisor to
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  Speaker 4: put together the NFL when the Super Bowl was formed, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and then build that staff and go through that entire process,
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  Speaker 4: is the only official that is recognized right now in
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  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame. But you know what, in our house,
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  Speaker 4: there's a wall of Fame of officials that you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a gentleman Jim Tunney, who just passed the first
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  Speaker 4: referee really to have on TV and to be that bridge.
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  Speaker 4: And then you had the great Terry Mark Bright, who
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  Speaker 4: was an amazing referee red cash and in his imfamous
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  Speaker 4: first down signals and announcements. But yeah, we have our
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. I really wish that the National Football
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  Speaker 4: League would embrace that it's the thirty thirteen in this
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  Speaker 4: day and age, and it should be treated as such
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  Speaker 4: a more humble opinion. And these individuals, male and female,
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  Speaker 4: have done an awful lot for this game in multiple ways.
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  Speaker 4: And I think if you did again, you talked about
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  Speaker 4: coach Bilichick. Look, I was really fortunate to be on
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  Speaker 4: the field during their tenure and their reign, right, so
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  Speaker 4: I was in great football games and their football people
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  Speaker 4: and the officials are too in that real integral sense,
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  Speaker 4: you know. That was the respect factor that you wanted,
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  Speaker 4: was to be recognized and appreciated by the players, the coaches,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it would be fitting that that then
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  Speaker 4: would culminate at some point when there was a small
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  Speaker 4: section in Canton, very small percentage, but understandably so.
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  Speaker 5: Gene, I mean, everybody being human, I'm sure that you
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  Speaker 5: guys don't want to take any preconceived notions or previous
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  Speaker 5: interactions with a coach, and you'd be that weighs into
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  Speaker 5: how you're going to go about a game. But I
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  Speaker 5: am just kind of curious if you've heard from where,
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  Speaker 5: if your what your opinion would be based on just
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  Speaker 5: the two years that we've got to watch the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: head coach Mike McDonald interact with referees. Is it is
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  Speaker 5: it positive? Is there would do you remember times where
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  Speaker 5: it was like, oh, like calling this guy's game again,
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  Speaker 5: and he's always on me about stuff and it makes
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  Speaker 5: me kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of want to throw more flags on him.
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  Speaker 4: Never want of the crowd wore flags. And I think
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  Speaker 4: my basketball background and having those eighty hoop games every
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  Speaker 4: year and coaches that were way more animated right in
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  Speaker 4: the college basketball intimate space of those arena has allowed
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  Speaker 4: me to become somewhat of a psychologist for all of them.
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  Speaker 4: So what I really tried to do? And yes, like
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  Speaker 4: quite honestly, there were definitely those Knights driving to a
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  Speaker 4: game or arriving in the city thinking I've got two
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  Speaker 4: hours of this tonight. You know, I've got to try
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  Speaker 4: to manage some of this too. But I think it's
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  Speaker 4: very wise to understand the makeup. Some coaches like to
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  Speaker 4: be talked to. Some coaches don't want to be bothered.
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  Speaker 4: Some coaches want to be informed on some of the detail.
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  Speaker 4: Some don't want to be bothered whatsoever with that right,
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  Speaker 4: But I think you do do those profiles. You want
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  Speaker 4: to make that coach as comfortable as possible with that
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  Speaker 4: percentage of the game where you're going to be directly
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  Speaker 4: involved with him. So I do. I did do that,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it's wise to do. And a coach
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  Speaker 4: McDonald's team's like a business guy. He looks like he
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  Speaker 4: wants the information when it's pertinent to him, give him,
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  Speaker 4: you know, give him the result, right or give him
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  Speaker 4: the options. And I think that's how you navigate it, right.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to go over to a coach and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we have fifteen yard following the defense in a five
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  Speaker 4: year following the offense. If you do this, then this
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  Speaker 4: you go to them and say, coach, you want second
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  Speaker 4: to two or first a five, right of things of
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  Speaker 4: that nature. You get to them, you get out. And
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  Speaker 4: I also think by watching coach and I haven't didn't
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  Speaker 4: have the pleasure to have him when he was a
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  Speaker 4: head coach in the league. If there's issues, but you
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  Speaker 4: address those right. You want to let the coach know.
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  Speaker 4: There's that little window during a game where you may
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  Speaker 4: look at that coach during a TV timeout and say, listen,
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven is close to the edge here. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to, you know, we don't want to interject ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: I want to give you my information from what I'm
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  Speaker 4: feeling out there. I'm passing it on to you, you know,
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  Speaker 4: tell them to just tone it to the little one
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: click lower and we're good to go. Right. That's where
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I think you start now becoming that person that's managing
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: this not to help teams information. It's processing, it's it's
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: getting me what I need to do to do my
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: best and disseminating it back. And I think that's where
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: you go. And coach seems like very very engaged in
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: that regard, and as most are.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: So are you gonna hang out with this weekend?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Then I'm a rep I'm going to go right to
• 18:07
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• 18:09
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• 18:13
  Speaker 4: we're still like twenty five inches underground here. In snow,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: so I'm not really sure yet. You know, we've got
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: some things to do. I'm gonna be with Kevin, Harlan,
• 18:22
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• 18:25
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• 18:28
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• 18:32
  Speaker 4: and then quite honestly, you know, it's just to get
• 18:35
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• 18:37
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• 18:39
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• 18:43
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• 18:46
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• 18:48
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• 18:53
  Speaker 4: so I'm just looking forward to hopefully another memorable weekend.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:56
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• 19:00
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• 20:46
  Speaker 3: how's it going in the morning. How are you doing?
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling? You're you're a super Bowl week,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: You're a few days away from the super Bowl? I mean,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: has that soaked in at all?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: The welcome event was pretty surreal today, just like the
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: sheer size of you know, what's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Going on here kind of hit me. I was wondering
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: when it was.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Gonna hit me, But yeah, it's it's awesome.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: How is this team different, man?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I mean it feels different from the outside, but obviously
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: not being in that locker room, you know, you can't
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: really tell you've been around. I mean you've you've been
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: in multiple different organizations. What is it that makes this
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: team special and has gotten you guys at this point?
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously we have a great roster of players,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: really talented individuals, but I think one of our biggest
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: edges is how close we are in the locker room
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: outside outside the the building. You know, guys you I'll
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: hang out with each other constantly talking to each other,
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: just like a group of best friends that are also
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: really good athletes. So I think it's kind of an
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: edge when you care about the guys you're playing for.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I think, how much has a J. Barner's trash talk
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: help this team win this year? What kind of impact
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: has that had on your success this season?
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Man Aj is just mentality overall, is uh for the
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: offense especially He's a tone setter and uh, like I
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: think a voice in the huddle.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you know, we got a lot of guys that
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: are like cool, calm under under pressure, like not not
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: as vocal as he is, and then Aj will just
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: pop in the huddle and and you know get us
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: fired up for the drive. It's it's a nice thing
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: to have and you need a guy like that on
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: your team that is a tone setter. And uh, you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: when I see a J setting the edge so you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: violently and aggressively, it's inspiring to me, uh to to
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: you know, play at the same level. So uh, shout
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: out to him for you know, taking on that role.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Well that's just that's just.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Really who he is.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: He's a tone cetter on our offense, and uh, he's
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: a he's a great player man.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard he's he's got quite the game. Trash
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: talk game as well. They talk about that quite a bit.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: But I know you like him. It's clearly you respect him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I love him as a teammate in that tight end room.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: But have you ever just tap McDonald on the shoulder
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and said, hey, I can run that barnyard play, give
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: me a give me a quarterback sneak. Have you seen
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the guns that I've got, Let me get a shot
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: at that.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: No, he does a great job.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: I worked it just in case, you know, something would
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: happened to him. Oh, but but he does a great
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: job with it. And uh, you know, he's just such
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: a huge, strong individual man, Like, uh, that's his play.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Regarding the trash talks. Sometimes it's like it's kind of funny.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: In my past, I've been like, you know, I try
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: to love up the defensive ends the edge.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Of guys a little bit, you know.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: So there, you know, because those are some of the
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: best athletes in the world, you know, and my job
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: is to take care of them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: It has no.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Regard for that, So I just kind of embraced it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: And like it is what it is.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: We're rolling.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Funny.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Take me inside, man, I mean, you're getting to experience
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: a super Bowl, you know. I mean I grew up
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I played baseball, and so yeah, I always had the
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: dream of playing in the World Series and you kind
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: of go through that, and yet even when you get
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to the professional level, you don't necessarily expect or or
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: know that you're going to get the opportunity to play
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: in the big game.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: So take me inside.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: What's it like, I mean, is there a little Eric
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Sobert in there that's kind of looking around going, oh
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: my gosh.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: This is a super mhm.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I'm just trying to stay you know, present in the
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: moment and taking like the little things, you know, because
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I feel like, if you're you know, just focus on Sunday,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: you're gonna miss a lot. So trying to treat it,
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: you know, like a normal game prep week, but also
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: you know, enjoy the moments that make this week special.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: There's definitely, you know, a part of me inside of
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: me and it's like, man, this this is the super Bowl,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: this is this is awesome. But at the same time,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Trying to get ready.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: So it's it's kind of balancing that and I think
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: the team has done a really good job giving us
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: resources to to manage it effectively.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Were you ever little though?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Were?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: No?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Definitely not.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I was. I was a late bloomer. Late bloomer in.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Uh in college is when I started putting on size.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So okay, Yeah, Drake known for its NFL talent that
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: it's cranked out there at Drake. Yeah, you're a Chicago,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Illinois guy. He's another Illinois guy. See see the connection.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: You could probably tell the connection that he and I
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: had from the jump. Eric Salbert is with us right
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: here on the Chuck and Buck in the morning. Do
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: you really regret that year in San Francisco? I mean,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: doesn't it seem silly now that you were a forty
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: nine er at one point?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Uh? You know, I never regret any of the years.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: You know, maybe made some good memories on our team.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: One thing I will say, you know, regarding this this
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: power station next to their building, Oh, I've never I've
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: never missed. I've never really missed time before, uh in
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: a season and you know, I come from San Francisco
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: to Seattle and I'm missing six games this year. It's
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: just you know, it's it's a little interesting.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a little interesting. More investigation needs to take
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: place there, no question about it. You were also a
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: New England Patriot for a little while. What are your
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: memories of being on the wrong side of this matchup?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Man? I was.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: I was traded there in twenty nineteen and it was just,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: you know, a whirlwind. Honestly at that point, I was
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: still kind of in my formative years as an NFL
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: player and uh really just trying to stay afloat in
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: the league. You know, also some some good memories there,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: you know, getting to you know, meet and play under
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, Like it's pretty cool as a
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: as a young player, but like you know, no ill
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: will towards them for that experience. It's you know, all
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: these all these stops I've had, are you know, places
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: you can learn from.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, obviously you're getting in.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: That's one of the beauties of the kind of jump
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: and around as you get a whole bunch of people
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: to learn from one guy that this you know is
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: probably going to be you and the rest of the Seahawks.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Last time getting to learn from his Clinton Kubiak, it
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: seems like he may be getting a big opportunity at
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: the end of the season. What is he meant to
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: you personally and what he could learn from him?
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Man, he's been everything as as offensive coordinator, He's been, uh,
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: you know, such a leader for us, and he speaks
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: so much positivity and life into our unit. And on
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: top of that, just a ton of gratitude. And you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: the gratitude is uh, you know, it's reciprocal, It's goes
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: both ways. You know, we're all so grateful for him
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: and super happy for him and his opportunity to you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: he's on top of being a you know, a great
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: offensive mind. You know, he's he's a great person and
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: he deserves uh, you know, uh, the next thing, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: next steps coming.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: In and give us the same kind of sky report
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: for your quarterback, Sam Donald. Your year with him this year.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's had to dispel a lot of the
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: critics out there. Give us Eric Sauburn's sixty second breakdown
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: of Sam Donald.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Man, you know, I've been I've been talking Sam up
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: all weekend.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Or yesterday or whatever. Sam as the man.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: He's one of my closest friends on team. It's the
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: guy you love playing with. He's a leader, he's a
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: you know, a good good person, someone you can talk
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: to and you know kind of you know, just he's
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: a he's a Seahawks, he's what we are. And uh,
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: you know, on top of that, you know a great
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: player that's that led us as far and you know
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: he's our guy.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: All right. How about this scenario super Bowl sixty on
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Sunday goes into overtime and we just do that little
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: slippery thing that you and Sam did, uh to close
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: out the that one. How about closing out a super
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Bowl that way?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: What do you say?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: That would be uh a cherry on top of the
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: amazed already amazing season. You know, it might get some
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: of the the twelves, you know fired up.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: You think they should run the ball.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: We gotta be careful with our game running play.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: You know, that's a great point.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You bring up.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Shame on me, all right, man, Well, hey, have the
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: time of your life and best of luck on Sunday.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: We appreciate a few minutes of your time this morning.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I appreciate it, all right.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Eric Saubert joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: in the mornings as he's getting ready for the Super Bowl. Yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: you gotta be careful with those plate decisions if you're
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: a Seahawk with the game on the line from the
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: one yard line. Yeah, yeah, you got to make sure
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: that you know, we've thought of everything. Let's think of
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: everything all right. Coming up next here on the radio program,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: we do have Mike Sando and Humil and joining us
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: in the nine o'clock hour. We're going to combine those
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: two forces together today. But I did mention earlier based
• 31:14
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• 31:17
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  Speaker 3: Ah, I'm gonna get yeah, yep, live with it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, live with it later, rivor yep. Anyway, we've got
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  Speaker 3: Mike Sando and Hugh Millon. Look at those two over there.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: That's like thirteen feet of football analysis just talking over there,
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• 33:39
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  Speaker 2: Just talking ball a gatorade.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See if they zip it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to making you make seeing you
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  Speaker 3: make them zip.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We'll see how that works out.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: But you know, we had Jessmin was interviewing nick Eman
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Warror earlier in the show, and obviously nick Eman Warr's
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: taken Seattle by storm. I mean, he's the best defensive
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: player arguably on the team and inarguably the best defensive
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: rookie in the National Football League this year, and it
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: looks like he's just scratching the surface. But in that conversation,
• 34:34
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• 34:38
  Speaker 3: are gonna replay the same conversation between jess And and Nick.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm sitting there listening to it, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: certainly fabulous interviewing technique, yeah oh yeah by McIntyre, for sure.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: But in terms of Nick, I mean he just checks
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: every box. I mean there is this element of him
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: of having this swagger like no, I belong here that
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: he he had all the way back to training camp
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: when we interviewed him at training camp, Like there wasn't
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: any star struck I don't belong here moment. I don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: think in Nick emon Wore's entire process. And yet there
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: was the recognition of all these guys I need.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: To learn from.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to learn in a hurry because
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to wait. I don't want some rookie
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  Speaker 3: year before I don't want two three years down the
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  Speaker 3: road before it clicks with me. I want to be
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  Speaker 3: as great as possible as soon as possible, and yet
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  Speaker 3: he didn't come in here with that idea that I'm
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  Speaker 3: already there. He came in wanting to learn, and yet
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  Speaker 3: still had this swagger of no, I'm going to get there.
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  Speaker 3: This confidence about him, he has this I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: was just listening to the interview. I remember how difficult
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  Speaker 3: Jaron Reid is a vibrant personality, but when he was
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  Speaker 3: a rookie man, it was it was difficult to talk
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  Speaker 3: to Jaron Reed, like he was so nervous and so
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  Speaker 3: Nick never has really displayed that. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 3: it's this perfect combination of confidence bordering on swagger without
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  Speaker 3: being overconfident. And I just I think that that's not
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  Speaker 3: a fluke that he's been sensational this year because not
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  Speaker 3: only does he have the extraordinary athletic ability, which we
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  Speaker 3: know about, we knew that through the draft process, but
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  Speaker 3: I just think his entire approach to being a professional
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  Speaker 3: athlete is just spot on, and to already have that
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  Speaker 3: at age twenty one twenty two, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's the not having what you're talking about and
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  Speaker 5: and praising him for is one of my bigger frustrations
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  Speaker 5: with professional athletes. But maybe I need to step back
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  Speaker 5: and realize it's not as easy for everyone to be confident,
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  Speaker 5: borderline cocky on the field, to have that swagger you
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  Speaker 5: speak of, and also be humble enough to recognize, well,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not as good as I need to be. Eventually,
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  Speaker 5: I'm most certainly at twenty years old or twenty two
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  Speaker 5: years old, I most certainly have things I can learn
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  Speaker 5: from those that play my position or don't even play
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  Speaker 5: my position, but have been in this league for a
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  Speaker 5: long time. I'm going to I'm going to recognize that
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  Speaker 5: I don't know everything and yet. So it's a really
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  Speaker 5: frustrating thing for me when I see athletes burst on
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  Speaker 5: the scene and all of a sudden, they got the confidence,
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  Speaker 5: they got the swagger, and they don't have any humility
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  Speaker 5: to recognize I still have work to do. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: still have growth that needs to happen. He doesn't seem
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  Speaker 5: to have an issue with that. He has the perfect combo.
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  Speaker 5: There's no ifans or butts when number three is on
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  Speaker 5: the football field. He's not thinking, oh, I'm a rookie.
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  Speaker 5: I hope I don't make a mistake. He's reading, reacting,
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  Speaker 5: and going and making plays that quite frankly, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people physically just can't make. But then off of
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  Speaker 5: the field, it seems as if he's got enough confidence
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  Speaker 5: in swagger, probably even more than confidence enough swagger to
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  Speaker 5: where he can kick it and hang with the other
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  Speaker 5: guys on the team that he is peers with. As
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  Speaker 5: far as I'm a starter, you're a starter. We're trying
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  Speaker 5: to win a super Bowl. He has enough swagger to
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  Speaker 5: kind of still fit in there, and it's not like
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  Speaker 5: he has to be all right, rookie whatever, but then
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  Speaker 5: enough humility to recognize I am a rookie. Yeah, I'm
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: going to have my ears open. There's a reason God
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  Speaker 5: give us two years in one mouth, because you need
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: to have your ears open as much as you have
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  Speaker 5: your mouth. And he seems to be a guy that
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: kind of gets that as well. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 5: they it's not a diamond in the rough. I mean,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: they picked him what thirty fifth or thirty sixth overall,
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  Speaker 5: so it's not like but the fact that they worked
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  Speaker 5: that draft to be able to get him also was
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  Speaker 5: masterful by John Schneider, and I think it's gonna pay
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  Speaker 5: off in the long run for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a great it's just a great structure. I
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: don't know how well he was coaching all of his parenting.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened along the way or if
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: it just is an eight in him he was born
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  Speaker 3: with it. But it's just combination of all the things.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, you played minor league baseball. Every year there
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: was the bonus baby, and then there was the guy
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: that didn't work hard, and the guy with all the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: talent in the world that didn't understand it. And then
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: there was the guy that didn't work hard enough, he
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: wasn't hungry enough. And then there was the guy that
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the rudy rudiger who hustled too much and everybody was
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: annoyed by. I mean, you played probably with twenty three
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  Speaker 3: different type of personalities and they had a couple good
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: attributes and like five flaws, and this guy's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I take all. I have all the good things that
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: you're looking for, and really none of the flaws. From
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: a mental I'm not even talking about his physical that's
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  Speaker 3: off the charts. I'm just talking about from like his
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: mental approach to his rookie season this year. And because
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: of that, it's no it's no fluke that seventeen games
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  Speaker 3: into his career, he might be the best defensive player
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: on the Super Bowl champion, right, I mean, think about that.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: We certainly didn't think Nick even where he was capable
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  Speaker 3: of that, but we didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Know him all that well when we first met. Personality wise,
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: that's an innate quality. There's definitely a team of people. Again,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know his I'm like you, I don't know
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: his family history, I don't know how he was brought up,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: but whoever was in his corner and helping kind of
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: mold him well done, because he there's some of that
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: you can't just be born with. You have to learn
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  Speaker 5: this is how you act as a professional, and he obviously,
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: coming out of college, had a far more professional mindset
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  Speaker 5: than a lot of people do.
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