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Tyler Lockett: "Always Will Be A Seahawk Through And Through" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright.
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  Speaker 2: First off, I just want to start off by saying,
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  Speaker 2: I think our equipment staff and our athletic training staff
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  Speaker 2: should definitely get a raise.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they did a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you see the things that they do
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out, our equipment staff literally has
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  Speaker 2: to stay overnight just to be able to put our
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  Speaker 2: stuff back where's supposed to be, to get us ready
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  Speaker 2: to be able to practice and stuff again. Literally they
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  Speaker 2: barely even sleep. We come back on Monday, we got
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  Speaker 2: seven eight hours in still pulling the all night or
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  Speaker 2: just to help us the.
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  Speaker 1: Athletic training staff.
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  Speaker 2: And I couldn't tell you one time one of the
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  Speaker 2: training athletic trainers went back with me right after the
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  Speaker 2: game so we can get some treatment going to get
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  Speaker 2: ready for the next game. So, I mean, it just
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  Speaker 2: speaks volumes the people that we have in this building
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  Speaker 2: and been blessed to be able to know them, some
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  Speaker 2: of them for ten years, some of them for six,
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  Speaker 2: some of them for one. But definitely got to get
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  Speaker 2: them a shout out.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh my bad, I miss somebody's stuff up. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 1: still recording.
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  Speaker 2: The other day, or you know. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was I think it was a good game. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like this last year. So obviously you never
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  Speaker 2: know when it's gonna be the end, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: I kind of plan on playing again. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: not the very very end. It'd be different if I
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  Speaker 2: was retiring, but yeah, I mean I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: always gonna be somewhat sensitive just because this that could
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  Speaker 2: have been the last time you put on a jersey.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad I ended with a catch, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just in case. Glad we ended up with a win.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, one of the cool things was, like
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  Speaker 2: in the in the beginning of my career, it started
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  Speaker 2: off first the Rams and maybe the last game of
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  Speaker 2: my Seas career possibly it ended versus the Rams, and
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  Speaker 2: we was able to win that game. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just truly incredible. I'm just glad we was able to win.
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  Speaker 2: Glad we was able to fight back, regardless if they
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  Speaker 2: had their players playing or not. And yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I went out there and you know, I just played,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, you might have some emotions and different thoughts
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  Speaker 2: that go through your head, but you gotta get all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff out or learn how to play through it
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  Speaker 2: when you're out there in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you after.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I always did that, and then when we got
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  Speaker 2: Mike as our head coach, I didn't know what I
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  Speaker 2: could and couldn't do. You know, I used to do
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  Speaker 2: it a lot when he was a coach, and so
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  Speaker 2: I kind of had to figure out his schedule and
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  Speaker 2: how we did certain things, and so I kind of
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  Speaker 2: picked back to doing it, I think after by week
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  Speaker 2: and then I hit it twice today, but it was
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  Speaker 2: because one of the games, I think when I got
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  Speaker 2: the Steve Largin Award, I didn't hit it, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm like, I gotta make sure I hit
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  Speaker 2: it twice. And so, yeah, pretty good, pretty good at
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  Speaker 2: throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Said they want you back, you come back, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: that's an agent. That's an agent question, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's gonna be a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 2: and I don't really know what's gonna be said or
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna you know, Like it's easy to say that
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  Speaker 2: we want you back, but I mean you still got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to have those conversations and figure out
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  Speaker 2: like what's gonna work, what's not gonna work, Like what's
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  Speaker 2: the role gonna be? Like all that different type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All I can really do is enjoy the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to have a girl and you know, learn
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  Speaker 2: how to take care of her and two dogs.
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  Speaker 1: And from there, I.
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  Speaker 2: Just let my agent kind of talk to them and
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  Speaker 2: kind of see what it is that they want to
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  Speaker 2: do and how they want to go about using me
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  Speaker 2: and how they want how they see me fitting with
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  Speaker 2: the team. But you know, regardless, man, ten years with
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  Speaker 2: the same team, I think the only people that's done
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  Speaker 2: it since I've been able to play on this team
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  Speaker 2: was kJ, Bobby and Russ And so I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think it just well, it makes it like it's easy
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  Speaker 2: to play for ten years for the same team when
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  Speaker 2: I played with three of them, but it's very difficult
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  Speaker 2: to do just being able to play in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, I don't take it lightly. I
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  Speaker 2: think I've had so many great relationships with not just
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  Speaker 2: the players, but everybody that's been inside of the building,
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  Speaker 2: from people on the second floor to people on the
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  Speaker 2: third floor, to our nutritionists to the strength and conditioning coaches.
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  Speaker 2: They need to get a raised too, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: both of them.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Think overall, man, like that's what makes coming into the
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  Speaker 2: building fun, we have relationships with people outside of football.
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  Speaker 2: It makes you excited to get up to be able
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  Speaker 2: to go and try to achieve this journey that we're
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  Speaker 2: all on, to try to get to the playoffs, to
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  Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl, or just create a team that
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  Speaker 2: wants to be able to play for their coaches, that
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  Speaker 2: wants to be able to play for the community in
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  Speaker 2: the city. And so I appreciate the city too, man,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: The city is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll always view Seattle as a college town and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this isn't the end. Maybe it is the end,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I always will be a Seahawk through
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  Speaker 2: and through. Is that something.
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  Speaker 1: We can call John and Joey up here right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think that'd be easy for everybody, right Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm sure they kind of
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  Speaker 2: have their time frame, people that they want to extend,
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  Speaker 2: people that they want to talk to, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that it's a lot of stuff they got to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'm gonna be patient kind of like
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  Speaker 2: talk to my agents, see what he thinks and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, and we'll just kind of go from there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I'll probably have a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: say tomorrow when we actuit meetings. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: just appreciate everybody, I really do. I don't really cry
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  Speaker 2: like that season ten wins only coach and Seayall's history
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  Speaker 2: to do it. I mean, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 2: says a lot. It's hard to get ten wins just
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL in general. The fact that we was
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  Speaker 2: able to get it on his first year, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's incredible. Yes, we missed the playoffs. The projections were
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  Speaker 2: what five wins in the season. I definitely would have
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  Speaker 2: made a lot of money. I put in on a
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  Speaker 2: parlay had I not played football this year, because I believe.
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  Speaker 1: That we would have win won way more than five games.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, it just says the type of culture
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  Speaker 2: that he's trying to bring. It says a lot about
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  Speaker 2: the people who believe in him, the coaches that he
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  Speaker 2: selected to be able to make this thing work. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just got to make sure, man, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't lose to these NFC teams, because those are
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  Speaker 2: the things that hurt you when it gets to all right,
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  Speaker 2: does the strength of schedule fit? What does the division
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  Speaker 2: look like? What does the conference wins look like? When
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the records, because that's the thing that
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  Speaker 2: hurts us because I think we tied with what maybe
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  Speaker 2: somebody else, I don't know, we tied with the Rams,
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  Speaker 2: but they beat us when you go all the way
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  Speaker 2: to like the fifth or the sixth thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so we can't just shoot ourselves in the foot.
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  Speaker 2: We got to be able to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: win games. And we won this game and it was close,
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  Speaker 2: but we got to be able to make sure we're
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  Speaker 2: winning more games when it's close, so that you want
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  Speaker 2: to go gus tired right next to each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, shout out to Jash for wanted me to
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  Speaker 2: still be right there beside them. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: I just found out that we tied when I was
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  Speaker 2: walking out to do another interview. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's dope, man, Like, at least I'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to share it with somebody. Sometimes it's lonely up there
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  Speaker 2: at the top, and so being able to have somebody
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  Speaker 2: that you know was able to come be a part
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  Speaker 2: of the team and took off in year two.
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  Speaker 1: It'll always be cool at this moment.
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  Speaker 2: Just to be able to talk about how great of
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  Speaker 2: a player JSN is. How I think he's going tontinue
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  Speaker 2: to thrive and continue to do a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: things as long as he continues to get the same
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that he's getting. And it's kind of cool to
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  Speaker 2: share that in a record book with him, for sure. Hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: I think Gino left it all out there on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, you know, people saw him limping and
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  Speaker 2: stuff out there, but I mean I think he was
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  Speaker 2: just incredible with just being able to lead us back
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  Speaker 2: to victory and just being able to steal the win.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully he was able to reach his incentives and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. We were definitely shotting out Lil because Lil
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  Speaker 2: hit his incentive.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, man, even.
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  Speaker 2: Besides all of that, man, it's just the fact that
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  Speaker 2: everybody on this team wanted to play for each other.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to go out there, and they wanted to win.
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  Speaker 2: And it makes football so much easier when you know
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  Speaker 2: the next man cares just as much as you care.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to be able to get that because in
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  Speaker 2: the league you get paid so much money and so
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  Speaker 2: many people could have tapped out and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready for free agency or I'm ready for the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: So I could get away from all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And the biggest thing that you always hope is to
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  Speaker 2: have a team that could be able to buy in.
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  Speaker 2: Not just when camp starts because everybody's ready to prove
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  Speaker 2: themselves right, but when you get to this part of
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  Speaker 2: the season, when it's November, December, but again in the January,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be surprised with how many people usually like are
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  Speaker 2: no longer bought in. And this team was bought in
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  Speaker 2: from the very jump, even when we were on that
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  Speaker 2: losing game streak and fans were going crazy, people were
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  Speaker 2: going crazy, it didn't matter. People still bought in. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it showed like who we were as a
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  Speaker 2: team and who were going to continue to be.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Appreciate y'all, man, I give God all the glory.
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 2: Your needs a raise too, and video crew and media,
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  Speaker 2: everybody else that I didn't name,