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Dee Eskridge: "That Was A Powerful Moment" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yah doing. We saw your teammates really celebrating that big
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  Speaker 1: with you. What did that mean you? I mean, you've
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  Speaker 1: obviously been through a lot in your career, injury wise
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  Speaker 1: and everything. What it mean you to have that moment?
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  Speaker 2: I man, it was a it was a powerful moment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to just to feel that embrace to
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  Speaker 2: the full team. You know, it's been a it's been
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  Speaker 2: a a rocky roll, you know, and God has allowed
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  Speaker 2: me to to still be here. So I just feeling
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  Speaker 2: that brace, especially being in Looming the last preseason game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was I was floating literally, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as they picked me up.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just nothing short of a blessing. What was
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  Speaker 1: your thinking going into this game as far as what
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  Speaker 1: the future might be? Really just leaving it all on
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  Speaker 1: the field, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm a farm believer in God, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: a thousand percent of my faith is in him. So
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  Speaker 2: I just came out here with the mentality of if
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  Speaker 2: it's my last time ever coming out here to play
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  Speaker 2: on this on this field, then so be it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: God has a bigger plan, but i'm'a go out here,
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  Speaker 2: have fun, keep joy, and then make plays like I
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  Speaker 2: did has it.
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  Speaker 1: Felt you like special teams is maybe they take it
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  Speaker 1: to a roster spot for you. Just give a stack.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are a receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime, anytime you in between the lines, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a time to where I can show
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  Speaker 2: show my strengths, show show why I should be here.
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  Speaker 2: So special teams offense anything, you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's always opportunity for me to show my greatness.
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  Speaker 1: Do you had some bad luck?
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  Speaker 2: Did you have any concern that flag was gonna call
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  Speaker 2: back the the.
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  Speaker 1: Return that you have?
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  Speaker 2: Man, regardless of running that far, you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: just happy to be with the guys man, regardless you
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  Speaker 2: got in the box, you know, and like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it was all guy. You know, he knew it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: on us. You know, it's that moment that we needed
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  Speaker 2: as a team, not just for myself. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: felt like that was a accelerator for two weeks from now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, regardless of what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Can you can you take it through the part return
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  Speaker 2: kind of what you saw as you got the ball
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  Speaker 2: and everything. You know, I'm just an aggressive returner, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, it could've could have been a fair kids
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  Speaker 2: type of type of situation. But you know I was
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  Speaker 2: ready to get out of there. And then you know
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  Speaker 2: I made the first cut, so everybody kind of streaming
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  Speaker 2: to the to the sidelines, so I s a lot
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  Speaker 2: of space and then you know, my God given talents
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  Speaker 2: just allowed me to get to the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Given. Now, why did you take a knee on the kick?
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  Speaker 1: Comfort You don't think you were coming out And.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a little communication between me and the off
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  Speaker 2: returner I saw. Nah, I wouldn't say that at all. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just we we all just tied into
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  Speaker 2: our job. So you know it was just a situation
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  Speaker 2: where you know, I trust him like you trust me.
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  Speaker 1: When you see that end zone. The goal line is
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  Speaker 1: to give you an extra turbo to to get there
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  Speaker 1: when you're making that cut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody in this world was gonna stop me. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting in that box today. You know I was
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  Speaker 2: determined to get I saw my eyes on the prize,
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  Speaker 2: and you know I just gave everything I had. How
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  Speaker 2: do you assess your whole preseason, you know, not just tonight, but.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of the whole thing. Say that again, how do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of assessed what you've done the entire preseason.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not just tonight, but what do you think
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  Speaker 1: you're showing my guests throughout all of us.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bit it's been a little adversity. Obviously last
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  Speaker 2: week got did n't play. The first preseason, the the
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  Speaker 2: times that I got in, I felt like I handled
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  Speaker 2: my opportunities. Will obviously tonight handle my opportunity as well, So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just becoming that consistent receiver, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I would love for it to be the Seahaws, but
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  Speaker 2: obviously we know this, We know this business, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: wherever I land or wherever I stay, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a blessing regardless.
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  Speaker 1: After you score, you you put the finger up to
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  Speaker 1: your lips. Howviously it's to the home crowd. You're but uh,
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  Speaker 1: was there a message behind that, silencing doubters or something
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  Speaker 1: like that? What was the.
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  Speaker 2: Message behind Yeah, I d I just felt like that
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  Speaker 2: was just a moment of taking all the talk out
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  Speaker 2: of it. You know, I don't I don't really get
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  Speaker 2: into too much of the social media's, but you know
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  Speaker 2: I can, you can, you can feel the energy, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, football players. It's hard for us to just
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  Speaker 2: be present, you know, because it's so many things there's
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  Speaker 2: this I and N and on it. So that message
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  Speaker 2: right there was just to quiet all the noise.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: There there was a time to where just sitting in
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  Speaker 2: your seat and watch.
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  Speaker 1: You just had a little injury or something last week?
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  Speaker 1: Was that? What did yours? Na I was just a
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  Speaker 1: little just being safe. I ain't gonna say a energy yup,
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Guess they incur. Yeah, appreciate y'all. Appreciate y'all.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Your