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Devon Witherspoon: "I Have A Lot Of Fun Playing Football" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, we just got a new podium. Uh. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that it's been smooth so far. Just everybody trying to
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  Speaker 1: get to know each other, figure each other out, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, create that chemistry. Soar Ah, he's different.
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  Speaker 1: He's different than Pete what we've been around, what what
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  Speaker 1: I've been around since I've been here. So but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice little change though. So how different as
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  Speaker 1: far as the way he run things around here? The
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  Speaker 1: way he talks terminology when we speaking about football, and
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  Speaker 1: then just the way he teaches us about the stuff
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  Speaker 1: we're learning right now. So most up the way he
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  Speaker 1: was able to scheme and then give different looks and
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  Speaker 1: different coverages that stuff that they was running. I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see how we gonna relate to us when
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  Speaker 1: we do that.
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  Speaker 2: So do you want.
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  Speaker 1: I do? I think you gonna use me in a
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  Speaker 1: way that I should be used, Uh and then just
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  Speaker 1: gonna play out perfectly for us. So I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, year, you get a champion.
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  Speaker 2: This year? And what was that about?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I look back over the uh year and
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  Speaker 1: see the stuff that I can improve on the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I did well, the stuff I didn't do well.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look back at uh over the year,
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting because I had a good year, but it
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  Speaker 1: could be a lot better. And then that's what coach
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  Speaker 1: UH keeps telling me every day. He was like, you
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  Speaker 1: had a good year, but you got so much more
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  Speaker 1: potential and I can't wait to exploit that. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you do prepare? Uh? Same routine that I have
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  Speaker 1: coming in. So whatever worked for me then is working
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Now you a few weeks ago that he'd be open
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  Speaker 2: the avenue. The quarterbacks travel with different receivers as opposed to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, staying on one side like they did for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. What what's your thought on that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? It's dope. Uh that before we can play match
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  Speaker 1: ups when we want to, and if we don't got to,
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  Speaker 1: we don't.
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  Speaker 2: So did you do much of that in college?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I traveled in college?
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  Speaker 2: He said, they really fall formally.
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  Speaker 1: What did you come out of the drive.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember meeting with them at all in the
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  Speaker 2: pre process?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I meet when I was on my FICI. Uh
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  Speaker 1: what's it that I I don't think it's a f's
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  Speaker 1: thirty visit. I'm tripping. Uh. Yeah, when I was on
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  Speaker 1: my thirty visit, I met with him and he was
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  Speaker 1: a cool dude. But he told me, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why you're here, but we ain't gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: pick you. So what was the Pro Bowl experience like
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  Speaker 1: for you? Pro Bowl experiences were cool? First time being
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  Speaker 1: out there in Orlando, Uh, it was pretty dope. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty dope. Almost spend spending years since you were a
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  Speaker 1: drafted year.
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  Speaker 2: Just think about what whether it's past years or life
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  Speaker 2: from get drafted in the first round to always through
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  Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl, just.
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  Speaker 1: Everything we've been through. When you watch so much, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I look back at it, I really don't harp on
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  Speaker 1: too much. I live in a moment, so those moments
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  Speaker 1: are gone, but it's good to have the memories of 'em.
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  Speaker 2: When we were watching out there last year, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it just looks like you're gonna last. I think kind
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  Speaker 2: of a big play for how much fun was that?
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  Speaker 1: I ha, I have. It's a lot of fun. I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun out there playing football. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really try to harp on a game too much,
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  Speaker 1: try to make it more ceris than what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But when I go out there and I make players,
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  Speaker 1: I just let them know like I'm having fun out
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: So you said your rookie year could have been a
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  Speaker 2: lot there or what areas you need to live there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, a lot more production to start though, me coulda
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  Speaker 1: played all in all seventeen games, eighteen games that I
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  Speaker 1: missed a couple of games, So we start there. Me
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  Speaker 1: being available throughout the whole season. It's gonna be big
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  Speaker 1: for me this year. So that's something I'm really trying
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  Speaker 1: to prepare my body for and my mentality for us.
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  Speaker 2: So was it help to have an actual off season
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  Speaker 2: for you this year without a training for a draft
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  Speaker 2: and all that process. You get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a breather to.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of recover before from the back of the Nah, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: but uh it's also a point where I say where
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  Speaker 1: you just need to work though. You just gotta grind
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  Speaker 1: to get back into that mode. So but having all
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  Speaker 1: seasons definitely definitely was good. Having time off, be having
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  Speaker 1: to join myself.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm remembering this right, but I think John
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  Speaker 2: Shander said your weight back down part of it for
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  Speaker 2: the end of.
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  Speaker 1: Last season, the bed fluctuating. Yeah, okay, what what what
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  Speaker 1: were you at? What do you feel like you wanna
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  Speaker 1: be at I don't remember the number what it was,
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  Speaker 1: but it it got it ain't get too low. It
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  Speaker 1: just got a little lower than what they expected. And
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  Speaker 1: then now my goal is the beliefs be lot around
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  Speaker 1: one ninety, just see if I can hold that through
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: And it was storally and getting to know everything with
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  Speaker 2: what he wants to do. How different do you think
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  Speaker 2: the the scheme is? What's gonna be asked to you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Defensive play from the way you guys are gonna tru play.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We really ain't go over that yet,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't really know how the scheme you're really
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  Speaker 1: gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the cause you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Like I said, it was just terminology, the way
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  Speaker 1: how he speaks ball, how we communicate with this and
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  Speaker 1: with that, it's just gonna be different in general.
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  Speaker 2: So cause then were the defensive very Uh if they
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  Speaker 2: is exactly happy?
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  Speaker 1: Uh nah, I don't think nobody imitated it yet, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just funny. When he talked of shore, I yup,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sure, thank