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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Day 1 Of OTAs · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, missing a couple of our our media members
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  Speaker 1: maybe could actually be asking you about who's missing and why. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was so much fun being back out there.
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  Speaker 1: Guys were in. I just really love our intent right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's been part of our our messaging so far this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: And we've had a really spirited off season program up
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  Speaker 1: to this point and gone through phase one, Phase two,
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  Speaker 1: started Phase three obviously today and uh, I thought we
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  Speaker 1: had a great practice, So we're off.
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  Speaker 2: We're off to a good start.
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  Speaker 1: But let's just focus on being us, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this uh this program and and.
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  Speaker 2: Go out the right way.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm really happy with where guys are mentally, and
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  Speaker 1: and we're just kind of all on a different different
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  Speaker 1: plan right now. So we got some guys that are
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  Speaker 1: taking some more reps than others. Some guys maybe not
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  Speaker 1: be here but right now. But overall, really positive day,
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  Speaker 1: really great Seattle day out there.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely overdressed. So it's what have you thought of
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  Speaker 2: the attendant so far? Too?
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  Speaker 3: Good?
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  Speaker 2: Guys have been great. Guys have been great.
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  Speaker 1: Guys haven't been here, they've communicated. Uh, So it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, why is intent so important?
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  Speaker 2: How does it show up well?
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  Speaker 1: Which we're trying to We're trying to create an atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: where our guys can go, you know, do the best
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  Speaker 1: they can prepare, you know, to the best of their ability,
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  Speaker 1: and then once we walk out on the field, go
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  Speaker 1: go rip it, you know, go put our best foot forward,
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  Speaker 1: not not be afraid to fail. And as long as
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  Speaker 1: the intent's there, so much just so much better process
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  Speaker 1: working with our guys to help train.
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  Speaker 2: Them and help them get in a position where they
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  Speaker 2: go play great football.
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  Speaker 1: But if they're coming out with the wrong intent, then
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of whole the whole process just gets roadblocked.
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  Speaker 4: Like you talk back in Marchbot being like intentional with
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  Speaker 4: the language and not talking about running it back and
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  Speaker 4: all that. Have you seen players kind of embrace that
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  Speaker 4: messaging now that you've been around.
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  Speaker 2: There, Uh, they've been great.
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  Speaker 1: We were using the term we want to run it forward,
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  Speaker 1: it meaning our process and who we are. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I think this is gonna be a conversation that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something that we're going to talk about consistently.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a one and done type of conversation. Really,
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  Speaker 1: it's just.
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  Speaker 2: How we talk about how we operate all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's something that we we're having conversations with
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  Speaker 1: our team and our units every day about who we
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  Speaker 1: want to be and how we want to do things,
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  Speaker 1: and this situation is no different. So it's really nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than or less than that forward. Uh, if you
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  Speaker 1: like it, I'll take credit for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not somebody else.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't talked to you since you guys signed Dante
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  Speaker 5: Faler I don't think, but just his signing and just
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  Speaker 5: kind of.
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  Speaker 1: How he gets Yeah, excited to sign Dante obviously been
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  Speaker 1: a really good player in the league for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like he's gonna fit in really well here in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just how we do things and his skill
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  Speaker 1: set plan on the edge for us, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it is his prior relationships with you know, with A
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  Speaker 1: D and D Law definitely help being coming in and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of know the expectations about how
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  Speaker 1: we're going to how we do things. So he's been
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  Speaker 1: great so far and look forward to having a great,
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  Speaker 1: great off season and training camp and that.
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  Speaker 4: Mentality how we're just trying to pick up just in
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  Speaker 4: general worsions top.
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  Speaker 3: Versus we're starting all over again front strange.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a really good question.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought a lot about that, and I think when
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  Speaker 1: you when you look at some of these like high
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  Speaker 1: high performing teams that have been able to do it
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  Speaker 1: over a long period of time, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: the common thread that you find is a standard that
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  Speaker 1: you feel responsible to uphold on a daily basis. And
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  Speaker 1: part of that standard here is, you know, is chasing
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  Speaker 1: edges is a spirit of evolution and a spirit of moving.
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  Speaker 2: Forward all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's where our minds are, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: giving us a freedom to move forward and have have
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  Speaker 1: the space to kind of make each each kind of
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  Speaker 1: new phase of the year our own and unique to us.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a balance there. But again, I've just.
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  Speaker 1: Been really pleased with every day's work and han't sensed
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  Speaker 1: an ounce of complacency, and that's been really positive.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned Marcus. We haven't seen him out there, but
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  Speaker 3: is he.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on his he's on his planes working through
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  Speaker 1: some things, but he's in great spirits and uh, he'll
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  Speaker 1: be here at some point.
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  Speaker 6: You last year, at this time were coming off your
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  Speaker 6: rookie year of being a head coach, and it made
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  Speaker 6: a bunch of changes from year one and year two
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  Speaker 6: or some changes year two.
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  Speaker 3: To year three.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I think you particularly are trying to grow.
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  Speaker 3: Or add to your repertoire.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, well, yeah, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: How how we can put our our spin a new
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  Speaker 1: our new spin on things every day. Uh, there's some
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  Speaker 1: things personally, like coaching wise, I want to I want
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  Speaker 1: to improve on how we structure our practices and some
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  Speaker 1: of the intent behind our periods and how we build
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  Speaker 1: them has been on the forefront of my mind lately,
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  Speaker 1: especially now that we're you know, designing o tas and
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  Speaker 1: training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But that, like how we how we think about how
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  Speaker 1: we approach like the the time of year and the
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  Speaker 1: challenges in front of us is a different It is
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  Speaker 1: a necessary op like necessary thought, you know, experiment to
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  Speaker 1: go through. I think that, you know, the more we
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  Speaker 1: can be aligned on how we approach these these you know,
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  Speaker 1: the new like horizons of where our team is going,
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  Speaker 1: I think that puts us in a really good position.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about play calling is maybe a little overrated.
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  Speaker 3: I think that what you said in the past, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: why why do you think a different?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a it's a it's a team effort. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about a little bit today in the team meeting.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if you want to be decisive in
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  Speaker 1: some of those situations, you got to do your homework.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have a lot of preparations. So do
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  Speaker 1: the necessary preparation to be in those situations. And it's
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  Speaker 1: and it's my responsibility to uh design periods and an
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  Speaker 1: off season in a training camp where we can have
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  Speaker 1: those type of exposures so we can get that experience
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  Speaker 1: and have those conversations much like we did like sure
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  Speaker 1: with Clint and uh so you can always.
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  Speaker 2: Put our best foot forward.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people that are contributing to
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  Speaker 1: designing calls and when and the feedback that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: got the feedback loop that happens from play to play.
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  Speaker 1: Brian will have his own twist on on how he
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  Speaker 1: calls it and as we expect him to, we want
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  Speaker 1: to make it unique to him.
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  Speaker 3: Eliza Royal seems like he had a really good practice
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  Speaker 3: today out there.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, I'd a great offseason, great opportunity to.
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  Speaker 2: Take his game to their level and he's he's attacking it.
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  Speaker 6: You guys, given a Seahawks award for the off season
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  Speaker 6: yet or is.
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  Speaker 2: That come later Top Hawk Award that comes later.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like last time we talked to you, rookies were
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  Speaker 4: doing mini camp, rookie rookie camp. Now you've seen them
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  Speaker 4: kind of starting to fit in with the bat turns.
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  Speaker 4: Just how are you seeing them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a learning curve there. The guys have done
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  Speaker 2: a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, the work and the intent is there,
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  Speaker 1: but how we do things is going to be just
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  Speaker 1: something that they just need to learn.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all positive. But it's a process too, and
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  Speaker 2: and it comes with the territory.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's there's rookie there's rookie songs we had
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  Speaker 1: and team dinners we had and some things that we
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  Speaker 1: want them just to understand about, you know, how we
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  Speaker 1: practice and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's they're also a good start back.
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  Speaker 3: To the idea of like, I can't remember run.
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  Speaker 2: It for what it really made a big impression.
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  Speaker 3: It was great, whatever it was.
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  Speaker 1: How do you guys, Like, do you guys talk about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you want to super mean, does it
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  Speaker 1: come up or do.
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  Speaker 3: You sort of pretend like it didn't happen? How does
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  Speaker 3: it any of you approach that.
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  Speaker 1: We don't avoid it, but it's it's not really the
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  Speaker 1: top of mind. You know, there's there's necessary times to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, like the ring ceremony. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be partying that night and having a great time and
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  Speaker 1: celebrating that team and those people, but it's not really
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  Speaker 1: on our focus right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The way I phrase it the team is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that like could be a once in a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime opportunity. Hopefully it's more than a once in a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime for our team, But that's like a thing that
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  Speaker 1: happened that we can cherish and we should be proud
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  Speaker 1: of because the amount of work that it took and
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  Speaker 1: all the things that go into winning a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: we should we should be really proud of that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the thing that we find the joy
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  Speaker 1: in is what we've created in like the way of
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  Speaker 1: life about what.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to do here on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think about last year's chain, I think
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  Speaker 1: you guys would agree, like the cool part about last
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  Speaker 1: year's team was the team and the process and the
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  Speaker 1: shadow boxing and the you know, all the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: goes with trying to become a great team every day
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  Speaker 1: and so kind of put in two different boxes where
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to be like enemies of one another.
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  Speaker 6: You know, the super Bowl gave you a lot of
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  Speaker 6: different opportunities this off season. They interact a lot of
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  Speaker 6: different people. Was there any conversation or interaction that was
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  Speaker 6: either memorable for you or just impactful that you had
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  Speaker 6: this offseason?
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  Speaker 2: Well, more people want to talk to me, which is unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: I've been blessed to meet some really cool people, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave those conversations in private. But again it again,
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  Speaker 1: i feel like I'm telling everything I told the team.
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  Speaker 1: But there's things that like doors are open because of
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  Speaker 1: what we did and like that, and again that's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're doing those things, you're like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is this is great. But what I really love doing
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  Speaker 2: is coming to work every day and doing football with
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  Speaker 2: our team. You know, That's that's what I really cherish.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's been a main message of like what
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  Speaker 1: we're actually you know, chasing and we're not looking.
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  Speaker 2: For like bells and whistles. We're looking to be be
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  Speaker 2: a great football.
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  Speaker 5: Team defensively with so much continuity both you know, personnel
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  Speaker 5: wise and coaching staff wise, basically, do you kind of
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  Speaker 5: still go back to like square wind of putting everything
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  Speaker 5: in this side.
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  Speaker 2: Of were we tweaked. You know, we have our process.
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  Speaker 1: We tweaked it a little bit on you know, some
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  Speaker 1: things that we change schematically and systematically. But we'll go
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  Speaker 1: back through the process and kind of let the defense
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  Speaker 1: evolve as we go. But we're going to adhere to
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  Speaker 1: our for the most part, you know, our installed schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So today today was day one, and we installed the
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  Speaker 1: system in phase one and two. Now we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back through it and try to execute it to the
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  Speaker 1: best we can, and then we'll go back through it
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  Speaker 1: in training camp.
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  Speaker 2: So stays consistent on that front. He's good, you know, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Had the things in the off season, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and he's but he's attacking it like a J. Barner
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  Speaker 1: does and as you would expect. And uh, he's itching
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  Speaker 1: to get out there. But we'll probably see.
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  Speaker 2: Him come training camp time.
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  Speaker 1: Zachar Yeah, Zach's doing a great job. Same thing with Zach.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these things, I think they're on their own timetable.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard to pin down right now, but we'll be
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  Speaker 1: probably having a better idea as.
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  Speaker 2: We circle back in July and Tory Horton.
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  Speaker 1: Manuel's got a personal thing going on right now, and
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  Speaker 1: Tory's made a lot of great strides. He's gonna seems
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  Speaker 1: like we've got some feedback that can really accelerate his
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  Speaker 1: uh recovery, which is great, and so he deserves some
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  Speaker 1: good news. He's been working really really hard, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things like you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: timetable until you do, you know, and and that just
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  Speaker 1: shows you got to just keep keep, you know, grinding
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  Speaker 1: away at it. And so some good news back on
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  Speaker 1: Tory's front, which is really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: And uh again we'll have a better better feel for
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  Speaker 2: Tori as we enter training camp.
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  Speaker 3: So do you do you think he'll do anything in
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  Speaker 3: any campers.
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  Speaker 2: And still there's a chance that he could do some
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  Speaker 2: stuff towards the end of the spring. We'll see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just to say how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know yet if you're going to do joint practices.
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  Speaker 1: At all or uh, they're the only one we could
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  Speaker 1: possibly do is with Tennessee. So we're good news for
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  Speaker 1: you guys. Uh, So we'll see it's getting I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say it's a done deal yet, but just trying to
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  Speaker 1: finalize some details.
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  Speaker 2: But that's we're hopeful that'll work out.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, we talked so.
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  Speaker 2: Much about how the attendance really buying and it was
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  Speaker 2: just great for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't down and running really worked out pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go running back to see everybody out there
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  Speaker 2: and I can't I know something to talk about and
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  Speaker 2: have the last ye But how special is in the
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  Speaker 2: Gore running it forward?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding. Uh we guy's been great. Guy's
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  Speaker 2: been great, being great spirits.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, some of the veterans are on a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the timetable that we worked through, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit is there, tenants is there, and it's great
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  Speaker 1: because when everybody's here, you can get more reps and
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  Speaker 1: uh so it just makes everything better.
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  Speaker 3: I think we were talking to Byron Murphy after this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: his I know we asked you the many.
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  Speaker 5: Times last year about his progression, but just what can
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  Speaker 5: be the next step for him now from here two year,
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  Speaker 5: three years?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know the three down pass rush plan for
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  Speaker 1: him being able to rush in different spots, taking his
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  Speaker 1: taking his pass rush to another level, which I actually
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  Speaker 1: thought was really good. Last year, but he talked about
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  Speaker 1: a guy that like has has a process that he
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  Speaker 1: believes in and just does the daily inputs. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's where he's probably made the most strides in his
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  Speaker 1: game and where he's at right now. So I know
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  Speaker 1: he had a great practice. Looks great. Just keep on,
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  Speaker 1: keep on doing his thing.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you take him bringing already? Trust what you play?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the real one? We get a final uh
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  Speaker 1: I for all intensive purposes, real and it did not
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  Speaker 1: get damaged.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was great. I thought it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Happy for him. He's seemed like a fun time. Everything
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  Speaker 2: else all right, Thank you, Thanks Race,