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Grey Zabel: "We Love Going Against Competition And We Don't Stray Away From It" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, How are you good? O? Great?
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  Speaker 2: When you were a rookie last year, you guys went
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  Speaker 2: on the road for a joint practice.
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  Speaker 1: What did that kind of extra.
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  Speaker 2: Time on the road would the team do for in
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  Speaker 2: terms of.
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  Speaker 1: Bonding getting to know everybody as a newcomer to the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when we went to Green Bay last year,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of when we realized how special of the
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  Speaker 3: team that we had went there. I thought we had
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  Speaker 3: a fairly good joint practice them and then you obviously
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  Speaker 3: get to have their rookie talent show to kind of
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  Speaker 3: bring the team together and and have fun and have
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  Speaker 3: the joys of being a football team. And then uh
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  Speaker 3: just kind of brought us together and showed us kind
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  Speaker 3: of our first road trip together to kind of how
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  Speaker 3: things work and how to operate and what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: What's your best memory of the Rocky talent showing during
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  Speaker 1: day Man? I think Fed's Mariachi band has got to
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  Speaker 1: be up there.
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  Speaker 3: That was that was very impressive and brought the whole
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  Speaker 3: scene and everything with it.
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  Speaker 1: So probably that what did you do? Okay, just spit
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  Speaker 1: some bars. Thanks. The Future got after it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Day one install Future one of your favors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just KYP know your personnel and go out
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  Speaker 3: there and do your best.
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  Speaker 1: Blasting that on the tractor back home. Yeah. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you Where do you feel like your guys'
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  Speaker 2: running game is right now when you're out throw.
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  Speaker 1: On the field and the practices and everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously there's a lot to improve across
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  Speaker 3: the entire board, but I think it showed really good
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  Speaker 3: signs of how we're kind of projecting and and getting
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  Speaker 3: better every single day. And when you're going against the
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  Speaker 3: front like ours, it's a your find out your deficiencies
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  Speaker 3: and what you need to get better at a very
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  Speaker 3: rapid rate in practice, so at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: day you can always improve and never finish product.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think this.
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  Speaker 4: Joint practice will help you guys improve on that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think it just maybe a different scheme, different front,
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  Speaker 3: different type of defense, and how they play certain formations
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  Speaker 3: and certain run games and stuff, so it'll kind of
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  Speaker 3: give us a different view on things. And then obviously
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  Speaker 3: it just kind of shows you a little marker stick
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  Speaker 3: of where we're at and how we need to improve
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  Speaker 3: and and and give us a good kind of spotlight
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  Speaker 3: on what to expect come this season.
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  Speaker 2: I can say you guys obviously got you guys go
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  Speaker 2: against the best in the NFL all the time here,
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  Speaker 2: but Jeffrey Simmons is really good too, and he'll be
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  Speaker 2: going up against him too. Yeah, I just getting that
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  Speaker 2: kind of experience or something like this.
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  Speaker 1: How would that be? Yeah, I mean it'll be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's one of the best to ever play
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  Speaker 3: three techs, So he's a guy that It's one of
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  Speaker 3: those deals. We love going against competition. We don't straight
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  Speaker 3: away from it, and we want to be the best
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  Speaker 3: we can be. So you got to go and compete
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  Speaker 3: against the best. And I think it'll be awesome to
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  Speaker 3: go out there and compete Friday and possibly Sunday against him,
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  Speaker 3: and then going and kind of see what you're up
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  Speaker 3: against and and improve and get better and compete.
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  Speaker 4: A few of your linemates have talked about John Ben
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  Speaker 4: and having kind of that old school coach and approach,
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  Speaker 4: but away from the field, having some different ways of
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  Speaker 4: the e Regius players Google Earth in particular something to
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  Speaker 4: feel and mentioned like what have you learned about him
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  Speaker 4: over the course of the last year plus in terms
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  Speaker 4: of away from the field and how he is able
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  Speaker 4: to approach you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the best way to describe it is
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  Speaker 3: there's a method to his madness. The stuff we do
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  Speaker 3: to bond and get to know each other and take
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  Speaker 3: breaks from meetings and get back to learning and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff, and how he coaches is there's a method
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  Speaker 3: to everything that he does. I mean, he's one of
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  Speaker 3: the best offensive line coaches that I've been around and
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL to say the least. So he's done
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  Speaker 3: a super high level and taken us to places there
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  Speaker 3: we didn't even think were possible. So it's one of
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  Speaker 3: those deals where you just got to keep knows of
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  Speaker 3: the grindstone and just trust him and trust his process
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  Speaker 3: and understand that he's coaching you because he loves you
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  Speaker 3: and he wants the best out of you. And you
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  Speaker 3: got to understand that what did he.
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  Speaker 1: Do for your drip to have him as your coach
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  Speaker 1: in particularly Ripe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you would have saw me during ot as
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  Speaker 3: my rookie year and you you would have said, what
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  Speaker 3: is this guy doing at the Seattle Seahawks and then
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  Speaker 3: just him coaching me and helped me understand the game
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  Speaker 3: in a different lens and just staying on the process
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  Speaker 3: of of process over results and ended up being an
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  Speaker 3: okay rookie year. And but there's a lot to build
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  Speaker 3: on and he's understood that and he continues to coach
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  Speaker 3: me every single day. And you got to give where
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  Speaker 3: credit is due to to the unbelievable coach person leader,
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  Speaker 3: just he's the best.
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  Speaker 1: How were you a mess your written many Chara?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when you're going against some of the
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  Speaker 3: best and you're you're new to the the NFL, it's,
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  Speaker 3: uh you you get get taken to the woodshed quite oftenly,
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  Speaker 3: so that uh yeah, But at the end, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: what uh during the week doesn't have to look pretty.
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  Speaker 1: He's just got to be there on Sunday. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember when you.
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  Speaker 3: Win moment Mike talks about rookies in the fog last year,
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  Speaker 3: when that flog lifted at all, or was any certain
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  Speaker 3: game or it's just a continued improvement process for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think you said it perfectly, like just
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  Speaker 3: continue to improve day after day, a week after week,
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  Speaker 3: and then you get into the regular season and then
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  Speaker 3: the game every single week starts to slow down a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more and more, and then by the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, you're thinking you're out going out there
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday and playing some of your best ball because
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  Speaker 3: you've gotten every look throughout the week and you understand
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  Speaker 3: what the opponent's gonna do, the looks, the blitzes, the
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  Speaker 3: types of coverages that kind of show things, and then
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  Speaker 3: when you get there on Sunday, the fog kind of
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  Speaker 3: lifts and you can play fast and free because you
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  Speaker 3: know you've kind of put in the work and the
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  Speaker 3: preparation for it.
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  Speaker 2: What are you learning about Brian Fleury as a coach or.
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  Speaker 1: As a person.
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  Speaker 3: Just seems like theman dot com. It's a good dude,
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable coach. Love his run first mentality and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it. And he's doing an unbelieable job so far.
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  Speaker 3: And I know he kind of demands excellence and I
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  Speaker 3: love that out of a coach, and he's gonna hold
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  Speaker 3: us to a standard and not waiver.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the bond that you guys have, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: the fine system that you guys haven't plays.
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  Speaker 1: How have you seen that change this year?
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  Speaker 4: Being a year two, I saw Jalen Sundell was taking
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  Speaker 4: a video, so I'm wondering if that that may have
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  Speaker 4: been a part of your system there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yeah, it's it's one of these seals.
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  Speaker 3: It's, uh, we have a fine system, and obviously talking
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  Speaker 3: to you guys that would be a fine But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, it's it's something we do
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  Speaker 3: to have fun, keep it lighthearted in the old line
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  Speaker 3: room and kind of keep everything happy, go lucky. And
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  Speaker 3: then at the end of the year, you normally take
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  Speaker 3: an old line trip, but last year I think we
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  Speaker 3: just kind of donated throughout the staff, throughout the team
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  Speaker 3: and stuff because it was the middle of February and
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  Speaker 3: we weren't really looking to schedule an O line trip.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone want to go home after Super Bowl, So it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those deals. I'd gladly do that year after year.
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  Speaker 3: And this year I'm not getting fined as much, not
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  Speaker 3: being a rookie, but yeah, I was still yet, Yeah, poor.
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  Speaker 1: Bot, because he's the only rookie you're not doing no
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  Speaker 1: the Bow Show does not get a break grat out
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  Speaker 1: on his hype man.
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  Speaker 3: Lot to improve, But it's you gotta get through the storm,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta get through a fog in those duties, and
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  Speaker 3: and luckily there's I don't think there's any more fan practices,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, it's one of those deals. Just gotta wear
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  Speaker 3: it on the chin and it's never gonna be good enough.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't very promising the first
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  Speaker 3: one back in ot As, but try and give him
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  Speaker 3: pointers and help all that stuff and we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Did the old lineman put him up to the mc.
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  Speaker 4: Gig or is that you guys know?
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  Speaker 3: Last year it was JB's idea to do the rookie
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  Speaker 3: HP machine for the fans and stuff, and it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of one of those deals. That first day of
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  Speaker 3: fan practice he told us in meetings and we're all
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  Speaker 3: kind of looking around and then it was just one
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  Speaker 3: of those deals you just had to take it and
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  Speaker 3: run with it, and it was it was good.
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  Speaker 1: From there, there we go
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  Speaker 4: Mhm