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Tyrel Dodson: "I'm Excited To Play Under Mike Macdonald" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We haven't got a chance to see on the field
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  Speaker 1: during that's So what'd you get out of the first
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  Speaker 1: four days of camp?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Man, there's a lot of trying to lay the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get my feedback under me. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel good. Uh it's good to have Bake out
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  Speaker 2: there with me too.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, just trying to you know, trying to be
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  Speaker 1: two peas in the pie, trying to figure out our
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  Speaker 1: relationship and and just everything else.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how is that with you too? And obviously
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  Speaker 2: your jaws are very interconnected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, along with that chemist. Yeah, I mean we're still
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. We're on day four, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've heard of him. He's heard of me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being the a f C. So we just
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  Speaker 1: we text a lot, We FaceTime alive.
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  Speaker 2: We just it is.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta keep building it and building it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be all right.
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  Speaker 2: You feel physically getting out there a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: under the beltment, Yeah, man, I feel good. It feels
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  Speaker 2: really good not being out there and O T A
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  Speaker 2: S and stuff like that. I man, I feel good. Man, especially,
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  Speaker 2: can't get any better.
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  Speaker 1: You're right here on the water, so I love it, man,
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  Speaker 1: Why Seattle Man?
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  Speaker 2: She was so many reasons. I mean I texted.
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  Speaker 1: I actually when Bobby Wagner, like like eight years ago,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in high school, I DMed him and
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  Speaker 1: he replied then and then when I signed here, he
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey, man, congrats, like you know, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just everything comes full circle.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is so surreal.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike McDonald and Leslie Fraser, you know, Mike turned
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  Speaker 1: that Ravens defense around. Uh, those guys were flying around
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  Speaker 1: just knocking people's heads off, and you know, I came here.
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  Speaker 2: To do that major as a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: Text man, I watched Bobby Wagner's film. Man, I just
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  Speaker 1: I just love Bobby Wagner. He's a good player, a
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  Speaker 1: good a good off the field guy too.
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  Speaker 2: So he's just he's just a good dude. Surprised he
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  Speaker 2: responded to you they not she made teenagers? Wh would
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  Speaker 2: expect the response from all pro Oh No, I mean I.
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  Speaker 1: Was just just I mean, you know, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: being a kid, you know, just being a kid.
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  Speaker 2: So what year was that? Do you remember?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember. Maybe if I go back and look
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  Speaker 2: at my phone, I tell y'all, guys. Next interview do
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  Speaker 2: you remember what you messaged in and what he wrote back?
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  Speaker 1: No, I just I think I was just like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I love your game, blah blah, basternaty. He's like thank you,
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  Speaker 1: and then I, you know, uh, when I got signed
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  Speaker 1: there as man, isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Everything's full circle?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, Seahawks are awesome, twelves are gonna go
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  Speaker 1: crazy and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah and original message on your phone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Did you graduate from high.
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  Speaker 1: School where you're to graduate from high school? Twenty sixteen?
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  Speaker 2: What was last year like being Buffalo, getting the chance
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  Speaker 2: to start as many times as you did for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in your career, the kind of year you
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  Speaker 2: put together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's just makes me actually want to cry
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  Speaker 1: because like everything that I put I put forward, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: coming in early and just waiting my turn, and just
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  Speaker 1: when I got my turn. You gotta maximize your opportunity
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  Speaker 1: when we get your turn. So I mean it felt
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  Speaker 1: good because you know, being an undrafted guy, you know
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  Speaker 1: those those opportunities are slim, so you gotta maximize when
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  Speaker 1: when you get those tunities.
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  Speaker 2: For the fans here that maybe haven't seen you play
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  Speaker 2: a ton, Yeah, you know how would you describe your
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  Speaker 2: game and what you bring to the table. I can
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  Speaker 2: do everything you know.
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  Speaker 1: I can you know, cover silin and sideline, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just a good I feel like I'm just a good teammate.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever uh coach asks for me, even in the offense side,
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  Speaker 1: grub comes and asks me. I just want to just
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  Speaker 1: want to help the team. Man, I'm I'm I'm a
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  Speaker 1: team first kind of dude.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Mike mcgond and the defense and now that
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  Speaker 2: you've been in it for a little bit of your
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  Speaker 2: questions of actually playing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Man, he's a man. I don't think my coach
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  Speaker 1: knows how smart he is. The stuff that he comes
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  Speaker 1: up with. I'm like, wow, I've just never heard of that,
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  Speaker 1: just and just seeing how he coaches and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just never seen a guy that just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people can be smart and you not understand him.
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  Speaker 1: He's smart and he understands it and he coaches it
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  Speaker 1: so well. So I'm excited to play under him.
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  Speaker 2: Specifically position.
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  Speaker 1: How does what he's asking you to do this coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff that you do compare contrast to what you've had
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  Speaker 1: with some of your former coaches and maybe having Leslie Fraser,
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  Speaker 1: And I mean it's kind of I mean, linebacker, you
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  Speaker 1: you cover, you tackle and you just command the huddle,
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  Speaker 1: and I think just that that's about the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's at a higher level, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Just consistency and getting every day in and out with
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  Speaker 1: just with the different Bliss packages and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: and not communications.
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  Speaker 2: On court is communication in that situation a and then
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  Speaker 2: your relationship with the coach to be able to convey
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  Speaker 2: what it is to your teams. Oh yeah, that's crazy me.
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  Speaker 1: Communication. I mean, communication is why you guys are are
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  Speaker 1: here right now. That's just why some of got some
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  Speaker 1: of y'all are married. You know what I'm saying. Communication
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  Speaker 1: is the first thing of everything. So I think communication
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  Speaker 1: is huge.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not only.
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  Speaker 1: Verbal communications, also physical communication too, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: body language and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going good with McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like you were saying he's really smart, but
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  Speaker 1: he expresses like he coaches in a way. It's that where, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: he's just he just comes up with stuff you never
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  Speaker 1: heard of, you know what I'm saying. Like, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just so crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And what was free agency? Like that was the first
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  Speaker 2: time you were afraid that It was pretty smooth. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I didn't have any It wasn't too I hear
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  Speaker 2: all the hectic stories. Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I wanted and what I wanted, and
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  Speaker 1: I just sign. You know, it's kind of like you'm
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  Speaker 1: into a college. Really, I thought, you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: all these offers, you know, just what is the right
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  Speaker 1: what is the best choice for you? And not only
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  Speaker 1: right now but down down the future.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else. How much have you done with green Dot before?
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  Speaker 2: I did in Green Yacht all the time ever since
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  Speaker 2: I've been to Buffalo, for sure. Thank