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Aden Durde On The Defense's Growth Heading Into The Season · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's it going? Long time.
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  Speaker 2: You have been here now a few years and the
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  Speaker 2: crowd noise has affected the way you guys call games
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  Speaker 2: and the way the guys communicate on the field. Do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like there's been changes to how you guys
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  Speaker 2: approach crowd noise at home?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: I think you just like, one of the things about
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  Speaker 3: these guys is the more intention you put behind something,
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  Speaker 3: the more like, and it's an obvious thing, but like
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  Speaker 3: you really do get what you emphasize. So I think
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  Speaker 3: going into these situations, we emphasize crowd noise. the ability
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  Speaker 3: to communicate, how we communicate, and, like, the timing of
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  Speaker 3: communication a lot more than we did in it.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see. No, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen Trebon Diggs kind of adjust to.
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  Speaker 1: Things the last week? Yeah, I think it's more than
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  Speaker 1: just the last week.
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  Speaker 3: Since he's got here, I think his intention and the
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  Speaker 3: way he approaches practice from the guy I know, he's
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  Speaker 3: pushing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to put his right foot forwards and everyone
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  Speaker 3: respects that. And he's working on the things he needs
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  Speaker 3: to work on daily. He's out, he was out there
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  Speaker 3: just after practice working with the guys. Like he's done
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  Speaker 3: a good job. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He knows, he knows enough of the defense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What about where he's like, where he's at from a
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  Speaker 2: physical standpoint and getting his legs underneath him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought like the last, I would say since the
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  Speaker 3: Kansas city game, I've really seen his legs get underneath him.
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  Speaker 3: Like I thought like he came in, he hit them
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  Speaker 3: two days running just before we played Kansas city.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Kansas city.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, he hadn't done a lot and you could
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  Speaker 3: see that, like got some weight on his legs, but
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  Speaker 3: then he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen him at his best.
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  Speaker 3: Like you mentioned some of the season being like the
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  Speaker 3: first one he's.
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  Speaker 1: Had in several years where he's been able to do
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  Speaker 1: full season training and everything. Are you seeing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a former self-made is still in there? Like
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  Speaker 1: with him and all that as he gets into things? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's still the player. Like he's still got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like this.
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  Speaker 3: He's hadn't played football in a long time and it's
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  Speaker 3: just gonna, it's a process of just getting everything back
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  Speaker 3: underneath you, having the daily routine of getting your body
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  Speaker 3: right and practice. And, um, he's doing that and he's
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  Speaker 3: going through the process of that.
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  Speaker 2: Three years in this system. What does that unlock with
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  Speaker 2: this defense?
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  Speaker 1: Seems like a lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: I think it allows you, it allows an understanding. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of continuity in the players that we have.
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  Speaker 3: So it allows like a kind of unspoken at times
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  Speaker 3: understanding of what we're doing and why we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: do something. I think first of all, you kind of,
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  Speaker 3: when you're learning a system, you learn how to operate
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  Speaker 3: it and you learn how to.
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  Speaker 1: Own your role in it.
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  Speaker 3: And it allows through this time, it's allowed people to
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  Speaker 3: kind of expand that and say, okay, can I have
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  Speaker 3: had a different role? Do I, do I truly understand
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  Speaker 3: like why we call this in what situation? So instead
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  Speaker 3: of just doing my job, I can make plays within that.
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  Speaker 3: And there's certain players doing that right now. And we
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  Speaker 3: just have to keep going through the process and, and
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  Speaker 3: execute when it's time to execute.
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  Speaker 2: Where does that show up the continuity with the players
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  Speaker 2: in terms of, Being able to get a game plan
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  Speaker 2: in faster in terms of them being able to make adjustments,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of you guys being able to put more
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  Speaker 2: on their plates, where does it show up the most?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's shown up in different phases throughout the
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  Speaker 3: timeline of us being here. I think last year you
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  Speaker 3: saw it in position groups. I think on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: the guys were way more connected. I think on the
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  Speaker 3: front end, the guys were way more connected. EJ, Drake,
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  Speaker 3: and T-Knight, Payo, those guys were way more connected. I've
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  Speaker 3: seen it this year, the whole defense.
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  Speaker 1: Is more connected.
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  Speaker 3: Like, they understand the whys behind why the other guys
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  Speaker 3: are doing something, and they can talk about it as
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  Speaker 3: a collective. So I see the growth as, like, it's
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  Speaker 3: not just, like, one thing that happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's just more stacking. What have you learned about Avery
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  Speaker 1: Smith over the last week since you guys got him?
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  Speaker 1: Great guy.
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  Speaker 3: He has an understanding of the defense because there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of concepts and charges that we have, and he's.
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  Speaker 1: Just pushing it.
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  Speaker 3: Runs the ball the right type of mentality, and I
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  Speaker 3: think time will show. I think we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: a great version of Dante. I think when I've seen
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  Speaker 3: guys play in this league and they don't bounce around,
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  Speaker 3: but they play at different teams and they play at
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  Speaker 3: a high level with different teams and they own a role.
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  Speaker 3: When they get around guys that want to do things
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  Speaker 3: together and want to do things the right way, it
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  Speaker 3: energizes them, and I see that in Dante. I see
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  Speaker 3: these go around like Lorigan, Leo, J. Reid, Chenna, D.
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  Speaker 1: Hall, all these guys, and they go for it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they compete for snaps.
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  Speaker 3: But they respect each other's play enough to say, like,
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  Speaker 3: you can go, like, your run, I'm going to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: your success. And that kind of grows you. It allows
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  Speaker 3: you to be the best version of yourself, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: seeing that in Dante.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's their mentality.
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  Speaker 1: I think they want to be a dominant unit.
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  Speaker 3: You have to ask them as well, but they do
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  Speaker 3: talk about it and we talk about it as a defense.
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  Speaker 3: I think in their room, Justin and Josh and CP
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  Speaker 3: and those guys, They're trying to create a dominant unit
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  Speaker 3: up front, and that takes like a four-as-one rush.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about a 12-as-one mentality, and that's every day.
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  Speaker 3: And there's an unselfish part to that, but you've still
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  Speaker 3: got to have a mentality that you're going to dominate
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  Speaker 3: the game, which allows the whole group to dominate the game,
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  Speaker 3: and they do that on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Jones was talking about the three linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: What does that give you?
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  Speaker 2: What advantages or maybe even.
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  Speaker 1: Some cons when you go to that? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's cons.
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  Speaker 3: I think The more you have depth in a team
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  Speaker 3: and the guys, John and the guys, just you can
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  Speaker 3: see the depth they've put in this.
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  Speaker 1: Team is it raises the level of competition.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when you've got the right type of
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  Speaker 3: people and the right mentality and the culture that Mike
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  Speaker 3: has set, competition is good.
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  Speaker 1: Competition is what you want.
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  Speaker 3: And like I just said with the front, it brings
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  Speaker 3: the best out of people because you're fighting for snaps.
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  Speaker 3: You're fighting to get on the field. And then what
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  Speaker 3: happens is when you get your reps, it's like, I've
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  Speaker 3: been around guys, it's like, oh, I can't get in
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  Speaker 3: the flow.
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  Speaker 1: You have to get in the flow.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have the right mindset at the right
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  Speaker 3: moment when you touch the grass that I know what
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  Speaker 3: the call is.
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  Speaker 1: I know my job. Oh, I know the look. I
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  Speaker 1: can operate. I could make a play. Drake done that.
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  Speaker 1: Jobs done that. Ty's done that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like when you take the field, it's like
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  Speaker 3: make use of the opportunity that you have. And then
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  Speaker 3: what happens is normally you get more opportunity. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the whole defense grows into that.
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  Speaker 1: How about Tyrese Knight in that particular? I think he's
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  Speaker 1: at a.
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  Speaker 3: Great camp, and I think you see the production he
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  Speaker 3: puts on when he steps on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Ty. This is the first time he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of entering a season as a starter and all that.
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  Speaker 1: How did you see him really kind of embrace that opportunity? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons why you love coaching. When
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  Speaker 3: you see, it's not just Ty, it's Drake, it's Job,
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  Speaker 3: it's the guys I just spoke about. And I think
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  Speaker 3: when you get those guys, you see the shift in
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  Speaker 3: their confidence and the shift in the way, not just
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  Speaker 3: the way they take the field, but just the way
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  Speaker 3: they operate around the building.
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  Speaker 1: The great thing about Ty is I see.
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  Speaker 3: Him doing what Julian and Colby and those guys have
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  Speaker 3: done for him. He's breathing life into guys like Rodney,
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  Speaker 3: like AJ, like when Bud was healthy, and he's paying
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  Speaker 3: it forwards.
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  Speaker 1: That's this team, and that's what's great about it. Some
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, you only have.
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  Speaker 2: Three safeties on the 53 right now, and Nick's obviously
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  Speaker 2: still trying to come back.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen out of AJ.
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  Speaker 3: Rodney, Max?
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  Speaker 1: Readiness. If you need to go to them, what can
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  Speaker 1: they kind of add to you? Readiness.
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  Speaker 3: They breathe confidence into us as coaches, play callers, head
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  Speaker 3: coaches on our team. I think everyone sees the work
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  Speaker 3: they put in, and they're ready to take, just like
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  Speaker 3: we've been speaking about with everyone, take the opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: arises when it comes up.
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  Speaker 1: Rodney in particular, what kind of summer has he had?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think he does best, Rodney Thomas? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you see his athleticism in space.
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  Speaker 3: I think his ability to play basically red line to
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  Speaker 3: red line on those deep balls. I think he's made
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  Speaker 3: huge strides in his ability to play down on the
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  Speaker 3: second level, and I'm excited to see him play.
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  Speaker 1: Was it getting the Anthony back? Obviously, was that something
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  Speaker 1: you guys wanted to get done?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. B-Bell's got so much versatility, and it allows us
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  Speaker 3: to do things and put him in spaces at times
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  Speaker 3: and he can do multiple jobs and it's not like
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  Speaker 3: he's a jack of all trades master of none no
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  Speaker 3: he's a good safety too but it allows you to
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  Speaker 3: like move him around in a box and stuff like
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  Speaker 3: that
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys