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Julian Love: "We Have Some Of The Best Players In The League On Our Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're doing, We're not. You guys.
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  Speaker 2: Did the defense centered up leading the leading the league
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  Speaker 2: and fewest points allowed?
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  Speaker 1: What what does that mean to you guys? That's cool?
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  Speaker 1: You know, thank goodness for Riley Leonard uh Notre dame man.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: That's a cool thing to uh, to accomplish. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's some something we It's not something we like strive for.
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  Speaker 3: We start to play good football and to be to
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  Speaker 3: finish number one is pretty pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Send the gold any text?
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  Speaker 1: No I did, I did?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't playing with him. He's like a hashtag or
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  Speaker 3: not hashtag. He's like a slash domer. What was he
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  Speaker 3: a duke before that? But yeah, we didn't cross paths.
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  Speaker 1: How different is this week for you guys?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: To throttle it down you keep it somewhat intensity for
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  Speaker 1: next week? Definitely different.
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  Speaker 3: You know today everybody was kind of trying to get
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  Speaker 3: after it, kind of get into that mindset a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just kind of working good on good ones versus
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  Speaker 3: ones two theirs two.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we just know that there's things to accomplish, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think everybody came in, you know, pretty loose,
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  Speaker 3: pretty focused today and just this was a good good
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  Speaker 3: practice overall.
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  Speaker 4: About the connectedness of this team.
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  Speaker 1: How is that playing.
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  Speaker 4: Out right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would hope you could see it on
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  Speaker 3: the on the field for real. I mean we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about it a ton, but we're just we're just a
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  Speaker 3: close group.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you lookay, especially on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, that's just my point of view.
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  Speaker 3: You just see it's like nameless, uh, nameless people out
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  Speaker 3: there just all playing kind of the common good. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's easy to try to implement, it's easy to try
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  Speaker 3: to talk about it, but to really live that way
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  Speaker 3: is uh, it's pretty cool. And it takes a lot
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  Speaker 3: of just selfless leaders. And thankfully we have a lot
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  Speaker 3: in our room, a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of players that know the play that's coming ahead
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  Speaker 2: of time, to Marcus on run plays and e j U.
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  Speaker 1: Devin like all those guys.
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  Speaker 2: How much information sharing goes on ahead of games and
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  Speaker 2: during games and the defense a ton.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to my wife, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Uh two days ago, three days ago, she was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: talking about she was watching the game and somebody in
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  Speaker 3: the offense of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Another spouse asked her, h Hey, how do you know
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  Speaker 1: if they're in manner zone.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, And I've asked me, it's just like and she's like,
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  Speaker 3: I actually never know that.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew what to look for. Can you explain that?
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  Speaker 3: And then I was explaining kind of the I we
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  Speaker 3: see this, we call this, this and this, and she's like,
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  Speaker 3: you just say all of those things before the ball snap.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, it's like, wow, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of how it is. Everyone has their own
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  Speaker 3: you know, nugget of information they're just trying to share
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  Speaker 3: with each other. You know, d Law he's just really
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  Speaker 3: seeing if it's Runner pass, he has his key and
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  Speaker 3: he's trying to let everybody know as well as other
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  Speaker 3: guys on D line. EJ has communication, Drake and DB's
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  Speaker 3: we're all communicating on multiple levels. And so it's everyone
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  Speaker 3: had just has their own thing and then if you
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  Speaker 3: have you know something, we can.
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  Speaker 1: Share some knowledge across. If you know you're one thing,
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  Speaker 1: then everyone knows it in that vein?
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  Speaker 2: Is there somebody to be said that teams will try
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  Speaker 2: to furry up to shorten the amount of time pre snap.
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  Speaker 2: If you guys get the communication.
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  Speaker 1: Before you get your feet under down, Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's been one of the ways people try
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  Speaker 3: to come back. Kind of our style defense is tempo,
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting on the line, trying not to let
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  Speaker 3: us get in the perfect play. That's just been a tool.
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  Speaker 3: But we've gotten really good at handling tempo, especially this year.
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  Speaker 3: Just signals communication, alarning things pre snap, pre huddle, break
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  Speaker 3: damn near. And so there's a lot of the layers
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: How often are you actually changing things up as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to just hey, be on the lookout for this, like
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  Speaker 3: actually changing up coverage or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends on the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: But like you'se passed less, say, month of the season
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  Speaker 3: a good amount. We have certain keys, certain tells, certain
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  Speaker 3: things that I was like, Okay, we see that we're
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  Speaker 3: doing this and it could train drastically. And then off
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  Speaker 3: of that, you're making some world checks off of the
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  Speaker 3: new thing that you're in. And so it is a
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  Speaker 3: lot and like our leading up to the games, our
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  Speaker 3: Wednesdays Thursdays are it's like everyone is like in a
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  Speaker 3: in a brain kind of in a brain fog of
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  Speaker 3: just trying to get it right, trying to like sharpen
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  Speaker 3: it up. And by Friday we're rolling and by Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: We're super clean on it, but it takes like a
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  Speaker 3: it's a big effort on everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do that with.
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  Speaker 1: Hand signals or is there a risk that offense is
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  Speaker 1: going to pick up on that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hand singals. But it's also just like presamp alert.
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  Speaker 3: Like when we get the call in, it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: somebody's like firing off what we can possibly be doing
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  Speaker 3: the situation, what we can get. I think that's all
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  Speaker 3: Mike and the coaching staff. It's not just like all right,
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  Speaker 3: this week we have this, this and this up. Like
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  Speaker 3: behind every insult, he says why we have it up
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  Speaker 3: and kind of what we're looking for when.
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  Speaker 1: We call it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's married up to we hear a call,
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  Speaker 3: we understand, Okay, this is what he Mike's expecting. That's
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  Speaker 3: like the hugest or hugest. That's the biggest jump we've
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  Speaker 3: made this year from last year.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we're not just getting a call and playing ball.
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  Speaker 3: We understand why Mike's calling it and he's letting us
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  Speaker 3: in on all the information. Night before the game, we
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  Speaker 3: have a signal calling meeting and it started off as
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  Speaker 3: maybe five guys in.
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  Speaker 1: There, you know, the main kind of quarterbacks to the defense.
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  Speaker 3: And now it's pretty much like twenty guys twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five just sharing the well they sharing.
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  Speaker 2: How much of the success that you have on defense
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  Speaker 2: do you attribute to just athletic ability, great being great
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  Speaker 2: football players and how much do you attribute to that
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  Speaker 2: kind of preparation and in football.
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  Speaker 1: Acute football accuse a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean talent is also eighty percent of it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been on teams that have been talented
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  Speaker 3: just couldn't get it right. I was missing that last
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  Speaker 3: twenty percent. But I mean, you just look at the
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  Speaker 3: guys we have, and so everybody outside this room, probably
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  Speaker 3: not the biggest names in the league, but when you
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  Speaker 3: really watch film and watch kind of ball, we have
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  Speaker 3: some of the best players in the league on our defense,
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  Speaker 3: on our team.
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  Speaker 1: And so talent is you know.
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  Speaker 3: We were close, we're connected, we play and we're smart
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  Speaker 3: like guys are just and that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding what your coach's calls are.
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  Speaker 3: How much has that helped you in home games when
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  Speaker 3: the communication is harder, maybe in the Rams game when
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  Speaker 3: it was really loud an issue. Yeah, it's it's leveled
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  Speaker 3: up for sure. I think we know that our home
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  Speaker 3: crowd is a weapon. But on defense we have to like, yeah, defense,
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  Speaker 3: it affects our communication being so loud, and so we
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  Speaker 3: have this we find to in it. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you guys are out there practice when they have
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  Speaker 3: all seventeen speakers blasting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of that, but we just work
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  Speaker 1: it all week.
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  Speaker 3: We know that that's just an advantage, but we have
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  Speaker 3: to make an advantage.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just something that you can wake up and
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  Speaker 1: just do.
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  Speaker 3: It requires an extra effort defensively to be locked in.
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  Speaker 4: After the game, they were talking about some of the
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  Speaker 4: deep crosses were communication issues?
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  Speaker 1: Is that part of it? The crowd noises that game. No.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to be sharp on details.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of moving parts and moving pieces are presenting
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  Speaker 3: some some things that now looking back on, we just
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  Speaker 3: needed to be cleaner on.
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  Speaker 1: After the game that you guys kind of shared a moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's two guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've been in leg a while, haven't had
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  Speaker 1: a ton of success.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think maybe, but there's a lot of young
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  Speaker 2: guys who.
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  Speaker 1: Dissulting for it. Do you think guys like you and
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  Speaker 1: Leo appreciate this even more.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it was like week four where not
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  Speaker 3: even before, it was like training camp where I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: me and him are talking to a young nick uh,
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  Speaker 3: like we understand you know you're a rookie, but there's
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  Speaker 3: an urgency here. Like a lot of these guys, I
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  Speaker 3: guess myself included, it's like you go, you know, years
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  Speaker 3: in a career just trying to grind to make a
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  Speaker 3: playoff spot and now we have a shot to do
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  Speaker 3: something special. It's like you're gonna be a part of it,
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  Speaker 3: but we need to be a part of it this year.
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  Speaker 3: There is no weaning process and so that's just what
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  Speaker 3: it is. We definitely embraced and just said, man, thank
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  Speaker 3: goodness where we got here. John walked by and he
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  Speaker 3: just shouts out like you're welcome guys.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's a I know, me and him obviously
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  Speaker 3: we're close, and it's special to be in this moment
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  Speaker 3: for you guys to play the.
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  Speaker 4: Way you do and nickel as much as you are
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  Speaker 4: too high safeties as much as you are, How good
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  Speaker 4: does the line have to be to allow you guys to.
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  Speaker 1: Do all things? And what's kind of your.
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  Speaker 4: View from the back end seeing what Leo Byron and
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  Speaker 4: those guys up are doing to allow you guys to
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  Speaker 4: do that the show.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we got killers on our defensive front. This
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  Speaker 3: past game is a perfect example. I'm watching it all unfold,
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  Speaker 3: and nothing's even coming close to my you know, especially
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  Speaker 3: in the run game, getting close to where I'm at
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  Speaker 3: on the defense, and I think just the front is
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  Speaker 3: and it's not just our stars obviously, it's the depth
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  Speaker 3: we have. Guys are coming in and playing a big role.
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  Speaker 3: Then off of that, Drake and e j Are just
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  Speaker 3: are playing at a really really high level. And so
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  Speaker 3: then then you see you know, Spoon and and Nick
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  Speaker 3: also on the second level making plays, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: our front, it's pretty special to do that out of
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  Speaker 3: a you know, sub is is something super unique.
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  Speaker 4: Do not have a one hundred yard rusher in twenty
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  Speaker 4: six games?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speak to for you guys, that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean again, we don't, you know, We're not like
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  Speaker 3: we got a hold into one hundred. It's cool because
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  Speaker 3: we played a lot of good backs this year and
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna play you know more down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just a play my break. Something might happen.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff might hit the fan, but we just it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the next play focus, like, all right, they got
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  Speaker 3: to earn it still. I mean this passing game as
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  Speaker 3: a prime example, Like they might hit a player too,
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  Speaker 3: but they're still gonna have to earn everything they get.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not just like, yeah, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Got experience as a slot, a corner at times when
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  Speaker 2: you see a guy like Nick and Devin totally different
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  Speaker 2: ends of the physical spectrum playing that position, what does
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  Speaker 2: that look like for you to watch that happens.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun, you know, you can you're just around the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You can be involved in so many things when you're
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  Speaker 3: a slot. But it's it's daunting. It's it's a lot,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of space, it's a lot of communication
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  Speaker 3: on different levels. You're working with pretty much every area
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  Speaker 3: of the defense, and you're asked.
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  Speaker 1: Especially in this defense, do a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the biggest for Nick nick success has
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  Speaker 3: been seeing Spoon go go to work each day. Spoon
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  Speaker 3: is loud, Spoon is himself unapologetically, but he plays like no,
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  Speaker 3: his his motor is is crazy. And so to see
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  Speaker 3: that out of a guy that you know, you look
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  Speaker 3: up to. I know it's made next game, you know, developing.
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  Speaker 3: He has the talent, he's special, but the work has
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  Speaker 3: come from I think seeing Spoon he's played the Ravens
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three when Mike was the coordinator there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you're right worried about Lamar and the
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  Speaker 1: offense in that game.
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  Speaker 3: But did that defensive performance and that defense leave an
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  Speaker 3: impression on you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Well I feel like we were just talking
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was Leo's first game over and we
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  Speaker 3: were whatever, maybe something in one, maybe we lost the
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  Speaker 3: game or two. At that point, I'm like, Leo, we
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  Speaker 3: had something going, man, like, I'm so excited for you
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  Speaker 3: to get here. We're winning and we get the breaks
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  Speaker 3: be off of of like, oh hey, I'm sorry, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they obviously had a good game plan when
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  Speaker 3: we learned Mike's scheme. Seeing some of those clips from
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  Speaker 3: that game, like the other view because his defense, how
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  Speaker 3: like the common install was like against the Seahawks old
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  Speaker 3: offense back then, was definitely you know, it was eye opening.
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  Speaker 1: But we just we were excited. We've we've been excited
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  Speaker 1: just to keep leveling up.
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  Speaker 3: His defense allowed to play over twenty yards in the
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  Speaker 3: last two games.
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  Speaker 1: Like how much pride is it?
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  Speaker 2: Especially in safety, but just as a defense.
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  Speaker 1: The way you guys are controlling, you know, keep things
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  Speaker 1: in front of you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a big time, you know, to keeping
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  Speaker 3: things in front of us. But it's also tackling checkdowns.
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  Speaker 3: I think our tackling has been really, really at a
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  Speaker 3: high level these past few weeks. And then yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: just like getting to the ball, like you just want
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  Speaker 3: to be like this hungry dogs, just getting to the
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  Speaker 3: ball wherever it's at and just having your guys back
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  Speaker 3: so then you can shoot.
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  Speaker 1: And play confidently. Again, we just try a limb explosives.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. That's a cool.
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  Speaker 3: Stat But yeah, not but and it's kind of just
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  Speaker 3: part of the game explosives. Why do you think your
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  Speaker 3: tackling has been as good as it's.
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  Speaker 2: As it has long?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we just work on it every day,
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  Speaker 3: Like every day we're working on it every every coach,
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  Speaker 3: multiple multiple levels, and guys are saying after practice to
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  Speaker 3: work on it because if we could tackle efficiently, I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's part of it. If we take away the
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  Speaker 3: deep part and it's all checkdowns, we're at our best
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  Speaker 3: when we win, are flying to the checkdown, the tackling them.
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  Speaker 1: So we just working on it everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, oh