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Quandre Diggs: "We Fought To The End" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously it sucks, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: You get to win, but you don't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So so one of those things that you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Last year we got in and I mean
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  Speaker 1: we had to depend on somebody else, and we put
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in a position this year to do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean it just didn't work out in our favor.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean we fall to the end, which is cool,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I wish we would have been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing another week. Hm. I mean it's something I have
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  Speaker 1: to learn when I got here, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how to be a winner, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's important. You know how to how to win, and
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  Speaker 1: you know how to be decisive in what you do,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, it's just steps of staying locked
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  Speaker 1: in and stand focused all game. I mean I was
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  Speaker 1: able to learn that from Wags and you know kJ
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  Speaker 1: and you know, even j Reed. When I got here,
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  Speaker 1: these guys were used to winning, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean that's our standards used to winning around here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we haven't won enough for you know
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  Speaker 1: that as we won when we first got here. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody has something to work on and you
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  Speaker 1: know it'll be cool to see the growth.
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  Speaker 2: What the viewer, what.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta think, you know, I mean, me
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  Speaker 1: and Bobby, we've been around a long time, so our
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  Speaker 1: expectations are you know, playoffs, and you know that's not
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  Speaker 1: what happened. But you know, those guys just finished their
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  Speaker 1: first you know, regular season in the NFL. So you
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  Speaker 1: have to get those guys credit for you know, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: weeks a long season. Those guys have been prepping for
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  Speaker 1: this year since last December, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so they haven't had a break. It's always a blessing
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  Speaker 1: and the honor, you know what I mean, to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play a full season, and you know, for
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  Speaker 1: those guys to get their first year in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: that first taste the NFL football. You know, I can't
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  Speaker 1: blame them, you know what I mean I mean, But
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the days, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just older guys, you know, we expect.
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  Speaker 2: More, right.
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  Speaker 1: I really, you know what I mean. I just just
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  Speaker 1: want guys to be careful over the all season and
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they have families that they don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: take care of themselves, come back ready to go, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the day, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, everybody there has grown men and they
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  Speaker 1: have business and stuff that they have to handle. So
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  Speaker 1: I just want everybody to stay healthy over the off
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  Speaker 1: season and just know, you know, you finish your first
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  Speaker 1: year in the league whatever, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but it is you gotta grow, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You can't stay stagnant in what you do. You can't
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  Speaker 1: stay stagnant and what you accomplish your first year in
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  Speaker 1: the league. So I'll be excited to see those guys grow.
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  Speaker 1: You say what I mean. I mean, he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that you know, he just loves ball, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. He loves ball, He takes it serious, he listens,
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  Speaker 1: he has a great i Q. So he's he's the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate you know rookie that you want for a guy
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  Speaker 1: like me to take under my wing and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to teach him the game. You know, tell
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  Speaker 1: him what I'm seeing and you know he listens. That's
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  Speaker 1: so so important. So it's it's just great to see
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  Speaker 1: the growth, you know what i mean. Starting off the season,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't able to play, and you can see when
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  Speaker 1: he got in you know, he definitely made a difference
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I don't see how he wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: defensive Defensive Rookie of the Year. So he's been been tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: So excited to see his growth, Excited to see him
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  Speaker 1: grow as a man and as a person. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: always be locking, yeah,