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Jamie Sheriff: "This Scheme Allows Me To Be Who I Truly Am" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I was big a couple of weeks for you. Just
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  Speaker 1: what's it been like going for being a guy signing
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  Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago to getting three sacks last
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  Speaker 1: two games.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's a blessing because three weeks go, IU didn't
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  Speaker 2: know where I was gonna be. I was at home
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  Speaker 2: delivering beers for a beer company. And when I got
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  Speaker 2: the car to make the most of my opportunity. What
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  Speaker 2: company we're doing for Southern Bearages? That Southern Beverages? Where
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  Speaker 2: was that in Mississippi? What the Mississippi?
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  Speaker 1: What they say? When you were telling me how to
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  Speaker 1: quit to come play for Foo?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I quit? Actually I quit two days before
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  Speaker 2: and then two days after I ended up getting a call.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, look at God, were you working
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  Speaker 2: at at all trying to keep I was. I was
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  Speaker 2: training every day after practice, you know, being prepared for
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  Speaker 2: the moment when they came. And I was ready when
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  Speaker 2: they came.
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  Speaker 1: So this was in the training time when you were
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  Speaker 1: at the offer he camp. It doesn't try out that between.
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  Speaker 2: What they called you bring you back and what early
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  Speaker 2: are yes it was. I got hired beginning of July
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  Speaker 2: and made the toy in and that's when I got
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  Speaker 2: the college seat in August.
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  Speaker 3: Were you surprised, I guess to not have any know
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  Speaker 3: you were here and they didn't sign yet, and nobody
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  Speaker 3: else signed either. What were you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I was surprised because I do I do think
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  Speaker 2: that I have the talent to plan the league. So
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  Speaker 2: but I just stayed ready to for the moment. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't give up. I didn't let that discourage me. I
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  Speaker 2: kept trying, my agent telling me to keep better. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be on the team this far, and I just
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  Speaker 2: trusting them, and I stayed prefer for the moment.
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  Speaker 3: When you say you didn't give up, You've had a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a crazy path going to community college and
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  Speaker 3: then you had some injuries in South Alabama. Just how
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  Speaker 3: did all that stuff kind of help you be able
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  Speaker 3: to move through reversity?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? It made me who I am today. I walked
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  Speaker 2: on to the community college, so that gave me that
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  Speaker 2: fire to drive motivation to get better each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: And I just never said I'm never getting complacent. I'm
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  Speaker 2: always working each and every day to get better and
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  Speaker 2: trying to improve myself. I mean, it seems like you're
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  Speaker 2: more productive in pro games preseason games than you even
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  Speaker 2: were in college.
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  Speaker 3: Is something about the scheme, something about the fifth that's
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  Speaker 3: working for you're here.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a different scheme. This game is a
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  Speaker 2: lot more fun. It helpens up for me to be
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  Speaker 2: able to pass with me who I truely limb a
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  Speaker 2: pass rushing. So I think that this game allows me
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  Speaker 2: be who I true limb.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you were listened like to sixty five in college,
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  Speaker 1: but they got they got your two fifty four. Have
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  Speaker 1: you have you lost some weight and stuff like that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I actually I did lose what I lost
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  Speaker 2: weight for prode to be able to get my forty
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  Speaker 2: time down to run what I wanted to run. And
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  Speaker 2: I lost weight then and I've been to maintained the
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  Speaker 2: same weight now.
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  Speaker 1: So is that like, do you think that's helped?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it has, it has.
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  Speaker 2: It has increased my speed.
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  Speaker 1: The penalty, what else can you do?
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  Speaker 2: You make a great play to get to the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and you used to get cold in penalty. I tried
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  Speaker 2: my best to hold up on the ground when I
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  Speaker 2: when I was following, I tried to embrace for it,
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  Speaker 2: and I honestly don't know how it got caught. I
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  Speaker 2: tried my best embrace.
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  Speaker 1: Did anyone you've been ecstatic about that? Or was that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean the head coach came in and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he did his job. You know, they telling us we
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  Speaker 2: got to hit the quarterback properly and you got to
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  Speaker 2: learn and grow from it.
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  Speaker 1: Give me you were with the Seahawks in the mini
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  Speaker 1: came am obviously didn't sign And then what what did
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  Speaker 1: they tell you about like your chances to come back?
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  Speaker 2: And uh, they told me I was on the shortlist.
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  Speaker 2: They told me I had a great recommended camp. They
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  Speaker 2: told me that for a guy because I my flight
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  Speaker 2: was delayed, so I came in a day later. They
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  Speaker 2: told me for a guy that came in a day
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  Speaker 2: later that they was impressed how well I picked up
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  Speaker 2: the players and how fast I can go XQT them.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just they told me I was on waitlist,
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  Speaker 2: and I and I when I once I heard that,
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  Speaker 2: I just stayed prepared for the moments, just kept working
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 1: Did you believe them?
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  Speaker 2: I did believe him. I trusted him and I held
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  Speaker 2: on to it.
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  Speaker 1: So did you get to the facility like the day
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  Speaker 1: of the first practice or did you miss the first
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  Speaker 1: day of the niemp raft?
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  Speaker 2: I think I came in. I think that exact day
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  Speaker 2: was August six, so I came in on the first
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  Speaker 2: week of preseason that Tuesday, Oh, first preseason game
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  Speaker 1: Actually anything else, Thank you, James appreciation Yes, Di