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Geno Smith: "We Are Continuing To Grow" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How you were doing. What was it like seeing Jackson out.
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  Speaker 2: There at the other day, Uh, it was it was great,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Uh to see Jackson out there, got some
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  Speaker 2: reps in today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He's a tough kid man, and uh, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: remarkable what he's doing. But we love having him out there.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have to good just so sort you
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of weeks here for the next game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he he has a plan.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he has a plan and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you know, strict and all the doctors
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  Speaker 2: are working with him, so uh, I have no say
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  Speaker 2: so and that whatever they decide it's best for him,
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  Speaker 2: is you know what he'll do.
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  Speaker 1: But I I trust this plan the ball or how
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a little different. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a you know, a big, uh big little
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  Speaker 2: thing on his hand that uh obviously restricts him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. But it looked fine to me, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I I'd love to see how he progresses and how
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  Speaker 2: things go as uh, you know, the coming weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: How how happy were you guys to see Jake may
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  Speaker 1: it after the off scenes in the training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, I was so excited for Jake, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just seeing I mean think about back in OTA's in
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  Speaker 2: mini camp when he was making all those plays and
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  Speaker 2: everyone was like, Okay, what is he gonna do? You
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  Speaker 2: know when we put the pads on, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: everything we've seen from Bobo is you know what he is, man,
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  Speaker 2: He's been making plays. Uh, he he gets separation, he
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  Speaker 2: gets open, catches the ball. Uh and he's just been
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  Speaker 2: a great player for us, and so I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: I know it was a big moment for him, and
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  Speaker 2: uh looking forward to you know, him growing and getting better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's had some fifte marcass something out focused
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  Speaker 2: that you've got to ponent to look forward to moving
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  Speaker 2: forward now. Yeah, Uh, you know, it's always about ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: about you know, continuing to get better every single day.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, we're we're studying the rams. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've already been studying those guys and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting together a playing with Shane and all the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, we just gotta continue to work day by day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the game's gonna come, you know, on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: and we'll get a chance to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: play those guys. But for right now, we gotta focus
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  Speaker 2: on how we can get better every single day. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of where we're at still with we all.
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  Speaker 1: Make the big deal out of the four nine nine
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  Speaker 1: what team do to get a wag stuff?
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  Speaker 2: I mean with Bobo, he just understands, you know, himself.
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  Speaker 2: He understands what he's working with. He knows how to
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  Speaker 2: set guys up and how to get open, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and that's just something that he's I'm pretty sure he's
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  Speaker 2: had that speed his entire life, but that hasn't stopped him.
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  Speaker 1: From being a great playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: And so, uh, we we don't look at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the numbers when it comes to that. If a
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  Speaker 2: guy's getting open and making plays, then that's his job.
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  Speaker 2: So he's he's been showing us he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: really good receiver, and we got to continue to help
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  Speaker 2: him get.
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  Speaker 1: Better studying the rams, you know, the take last year.
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  Speaker 1: He's been here for a while. What's it been like
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  Speaker 1: having back out of here in camp?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in my opinion, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 2: best middle linebackers in football, one of the best linebackers
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  Speaker 2: in football, And anytime you get a chance to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go head to head and compete against a guy like
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  Speaker 2: that every day. Uh, it makes you a better quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And so I've appreciated it. You know, in those two
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  Speaker 2: games we played against them, Uh, he made it tough
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  Speaker 2: on us and you know, made a ton of great plays.
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  Speaker 2: So it's happy to have him back on our side.
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  Speaker 2: And Uh, it's just been it's just been great to
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  Speaker 2: have his leadership in the locker room as well as
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  Speaker 2: everything else he brings to the table.
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  Speaker 1: What is your leadership of facts? But how do the
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  Speaker 1: young guys respond to him? What does he so tective field? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just you know, his consistency. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You look at a guy who's you know, got all
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  Speaker 2: the accolades you can name as at the linebacker position,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been overall just consistent the way that he
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  Speaker 2: works every day. I think if you're you're looking for
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  Speaker 2: a template up of what it looks like to be
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  Speaker 2: consistent and to be a great leader on a daily basis. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: then a young guy can look directly at him and
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  Speaker 2: and kind of follow what he's done and what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: We uh, we only saw you and the starters a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times to a couple of series. Is in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason. How do you feel like the offense as
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  Speaker 1: a role with Key you're starting to just come together
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  Speaker 1: with your camp. Yeah, I think it's. Uh, it's always growing.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The season is such a long journey, and for us
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  Speaker 2: as an offense, we don't want to be the best
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  Speaker 2: version of ourselves week one, you know, we want to
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  Speaker 2: you know, save that for down the line.
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  Speaker 1: So we're continuing to grow. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of guys who are second year
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  Speaker 2: of players now, a couple of rookies out there on
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  Speaker 2: their offense, so everyone's gotta get better. And so what
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  Speaker 2: I see from us as an offense is just we're multiple.
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  Speaker 2: We can do just about anything. Man, There's there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: that we can't do out there. I got faith in
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  Speaker 2: my guys and I know they got faith in me,
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  Speaker 2: and so we just gotta work together as one unit.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty first, you're second year guys on this roster right now.
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of bring a different area over who
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  Speaker 1: that am? Yeah, it's it's it's a great vibe. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think with the amount of veteran leadership that we
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  Speaker 2: have as well as with the amount of young guys
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  Speaker 2: that we have, there's a great mixture, and so I
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  Speaker 2: think that creates a very fun locker room. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you got you know, a bunch of guys that are younger,
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  Speaker 2: they're just you know, kind of wild and crazy. Man,
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  Speaker 2: they're having fun hairs on fire. And then you got
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  Speaker 2: you know, older vets like myself, who's a little more mellow.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you get both sides of it in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room and with the team. But overall, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's been fun. All these guys are preparing hard, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what their age is, and we're just looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to September ten.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction lat week don ketch Bobo four
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  Speaker 1: laid out to catch up at old music on home in. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's made so many great catches, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: we expect him to make those plays. So when he
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  Speaker 2: goes out there and he does it, uh, it's just
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  Speaker 2: you know, on to the next play.
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  Speaker 1: But he he's such a dynamic player.
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  Speaker 2: He makes so many just great, difficult catches that it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of just like the next one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just the next one on his list.
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  Speaker 1: You know, does an offense need identity? Talking to Bobby
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  Speaker 1: and they're talking about defense, and does an offense need
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  Speaker 1: an identity or is it just we can do it all?
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  Speaker 2: Uh I I I definitely think you need an identity.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have somewhere to start, something that you
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  Speaker 2: can lean on, something you can fall back on if
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  Speaker 2: times get hard. And for us being that we're like
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  Speaker 2: I said, so you know well rounded. Uh it could
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  Speaker 2: be our past game or our run game, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that makes for the offense that that much more
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  Speaker 2: difficult for the defense to scheme up or to t.
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  Speaker 1: Try to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: So for us, we just gotta be multiple and do
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  Speaker 2: whatever it takes to win, whether that's passing or running.
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  Speaker 2: But our our d our identity is to score points,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's our that's our main identity, to score points.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you your chemists fiens with that? And at
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  Speaker 1: this point, uh yeah, Evan's been doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And the past couple of weeks, you know, he's gotten
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  Speaker 2: a lot more reps with the Ones and it's been
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  Speaker 2: it's been great. Uh. He he is a veteran you
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  Speaker 2: know player. He understands how to lead the group.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He understands his assignment how to get things going. And
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  Speaker 2: he's helping us out with with our tempo and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Like that.
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  Speaker 2: So Evan's been great for us, and I expect him
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  Speaker 2: to have a really good year.
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  Speaker 1: After the season. When you guys had last year last year,
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  Speaker 1: how it ended us. It's like, yeah, unfinished business entering
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it felt like that at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season. But you know, going into this season, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a fresh start. You know, it's a new season.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing we did last year is gonna matter. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not focusing on our past accolades or any of
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  Speaker 2: the score points we scored or the yards we gained. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta go earn it this year, every single game,
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  Speaker 2: every single week.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta go earn it.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what we're looking forward to, is the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity how to run the book in the English Nator. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: why I'd love to read, love to write, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: those are the main two reasons I love to read.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right now, write notes on the rams.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, in my spare time, just journal and
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of playing out my day and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you read? What do you read? Defenses, studying,
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  Speaker 1: studying the rams else, Thank you