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Cooper Kupp: "It’s Been Such An Incredible Journey" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You guys. Great, it was good.
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  Speaker 2: It was a it was a good win. Well, uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was uh super cool. I mean I was it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome being able to share with U, with the
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  Speaker 2: guys and having the families down the field and everything.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it was super cool this.
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  Speaker 3: Year for you with one team.
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  Speaker 1: Forever you get a coming.
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  Speaker 4: To help you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't really I was asked about that same
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  Speaker 2: thing last night. I still don't really have words for
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  Speaker 2: it. It was it's just been such an incredible it's been
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  Speaker 2: incredible journey, and and just to see the excitement around here,
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  Speaker 2: like being a part of this team, it's organizations, seeing
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  Speaker 2: the excitement that there is just around Seattle, how many
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  Speaker 2: people are just bought into it and all in on
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  Speaker 2: what we've created in this like in this building and
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  Speaker 2: how it's permeated out and.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's just it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool to be part of and you know,
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to going out there in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks and you know the opportunity to steal the deal
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  Speaker 2: and and so yeah, it's just, uh, it's been really cool.
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  Speaker 4: What did that video and when Matthews saff that came over.
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  Speaker 3: They showed that play foot wid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's Matthew, I mean, just an unbelievable competitor, unbelievable football player.
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  Speaker 2: I mean's just he's one of the best, one of
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  Speaker 2: the best to play the position.
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  Speaker 1: It's just what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, uh, it's really hard to be on the
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  Speaker 2: sidelines watching him with the football. I just it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's disheartening because you just know he's what he's capable of.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously just so much love for him as a
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  Speaker 2: as a friend, and so for him in that moment's
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  Speaker 2: bill like just you know, linger out there on the
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  Speaker 2: field and come find me. It means a lot. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was a pretty cool moment.
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  Speaker 1: How good was the quarterback it was? It was Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what those guys were doing, the all those
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  Speaker 2: guys were putting on it was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I mean I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Just from the game's overall, I mean there was real
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  Speaker 2: good defensive play, there was really good offensive play. It's
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  Speaker 2: just uh, you know, guys making plays all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, really cool getting to.
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  Speaker 4: Be a part of these games. How do you Is
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  Speaker 4: there anything you do.
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  Speaker 1: To remember them?
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  Speaker 4: To grab a handful of confetti?
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  Speaker 1: What's your customer? I don't, I don't really, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think, uh, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it is and like the little you know, even enough
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  Speaker 2: family and stuff, taking photos and videos and share those
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  Speaker 2: around and you know, it's a fun thing to look
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  Speaker 2: back on. And but really, I mean for me, it's
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  Speaker 2: just being in that in those moments, uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: being down there with uh and and my boys, and
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  Speaker 2: my dad was on the was able to come down
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  Speaker 2: and be on the field as well, and but to
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  Speaker 2: be like, to be able to celebrate with my wife
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  Speaker 2: and my boys was a really special It was a
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  Speaker 2: really special thing. And so it's things like that. It's
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  Speaker 2: the you know, little moments throughout the game, little the
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  Speaker 2: conversation is the little things as like man, the detail
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  Speaker 2: of this small little thing that we got to share
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  Speaker 2: in together and make players come alive. All those things,
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  Speaker 2: those things they stick with you and make these kinds
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  Speaker 2: of moments pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: Over against the brands, Yeah, it was. It was. It
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  Speaker 1: was cool.
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  Speaker 2: That was for that story for the story to be
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  Speaker 2: what it was like, that had to be through the
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  Speaker 2: rams to be able to get to where we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go in the NFC Championship. In that moment, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah. The scriptwriters did a great job with that one.
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  Speaker 1: I say, tell you what, when you.
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  Speaker 4: Reached for the first last first down, did you first
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  Speaker 4: realize that you have it?
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  Speaker 3: Did you fear overview or out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean that's the cardinal sin. Don't do that
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  Speaker 2: on third down. But I felt good about I felt
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  Speaker 2: good about how where I was at being able to
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  Speaker 2: hold the ball. And I also felt like, based on
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  Speaker 2: how my momentum was going, where the dB was, and
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  Speaker 2: how my body position was, the only chance I had
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  Speaker 2: was to try to reach that thing out. And I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't concerned about the ball. Come, I knew the ball
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  Speaker 2: had you know, forced it out or the grounded forced
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  Speaker 2: the ball out. So I wasn't concerned about that. But
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  Speaker 2: the spot a little bit, I was. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was close, but yeah, no, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even look.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't look.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was that's I think it's tough with
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  Speaker 2: you know, ball spot. I mean, it's it's hard. In
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  Speaker 2: those reviews, it's gotta be a pretty good like clear
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  Speaker 2: significant difference with the refs, and I felt like it
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  Speaker 2: was it was super close, and so I wasn't too
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  Speaker 2: too concerned about it. And you know, for if it
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  Speaker 2: was short, I don't know, but I have a feeling
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  Speaker 2: Mike's going for it there and you know we're sneaking
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  Speaker 2: that thing across. Yeah, so there, Yeah, Cardinals on third down, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you never You never reached on third down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because fourth down end of game's last play the game
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  Speaker 2: where it's fourth down, that's when you can reach. But
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  Speaker 2: on third down, it's because of that, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I if it was close and you know, you
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  Speaker 2: get tackled and you're short, you have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go for it still, but you reach for on third down,
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  Speaker 2: you fumble. The opportunity has gone. Now you've eliminated the
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  Speaker 2: chance for anything on fourth down. And and so that's
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  Speaker 2: why you don't do it on third But it worked
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  Speaker 2: out process over is also you don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it. I don't know if you.
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  Speaker 3: Thought it would take it to the conference title game,
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  Speaker 3: pick your first touchdown in that stadium.
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  Speaker 4: This season but ends up being the winning points. To say,
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  Speaker 4: if the back of the Super.
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  Speaker 1: Bowl kind of what is that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I didn't even thought about that, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was, like I said, it
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  Speaker 2: was a very cool s a really cool thing to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of. And there's just there was a
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  Speaker 2: small part of me that knew that at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the game it was gonna come down to it, like, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna come down to me having to make a
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  Speaker 2: play in some way.
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  Speaker 1: I just I know it is.
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  Speaker 2: And so to be in that place and be able
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  Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to make that play, it meant
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really cool thing to be a part of.
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  Speaker 3: Superpool was a home game as covid or can you
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  Speaker 3: refort on that one? And maybe what are you looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to on this one full blown experience?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean I did twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't playing in the game, but twenty eighteen went
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  Speaker 2: to Atlanta for a Super Bowl trip, so I have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a feel for.
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  Speaker 1: What the rhythm of that is.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one we did get to stay way, We
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  Speaker 2: stayed in our facility, we practiced in our facility, We
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  Speaker 2: were to sleep in our own beds and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: So a little bit different in that regard. But it'll
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  Speaker 2: be fun. It'll be We're gonna be a new journeys,
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  Speaker 2: be a new team. It's gonna be a new a
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  Speaker 2: new experience and excited about.
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  Speaker 1: These next two weeks. It's gonna be really funk it too.
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  Speaker 3: He can you can talk about him last night thro
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  Speaker 3: a conflict in your mind. Obviously you want to beat
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  Speaker 3: the ram and just watching a guy that you bested
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's just he's had an unbelievable game.
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  Speaker 2: It is the year that he had was unreal and
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  Speaker 2: just yeah, and that's just been.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's those most is hard because you're like and those guys,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those guys that were across the field
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  Speaker 2: last night, a lot of those guys are are my
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  Speaker 2: best friends, you know, got be lifelong friends of mine.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always it's just a weird it's a weird conflict,
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  Speaker 2: the weird thing to work through. Yeah, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal player and there's some there's some unbelievable things
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  Speaker 2: this year and last night, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There was it was stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It was great to see him, and it was another
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  Speaker 2: guy that came up and say, will have a little
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  Speaker 2: work with them after the game. And so yeah, every
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  Speaker 2: first time coach that goes through a Super Bowl seemed
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  Speaker 2: to come back the next time.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a lot of lessons about what they would
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  Speaker 4: do differently. For your experience, What have you learned that
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  Speaker 4: you maybe didn't know the first time?
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  Speaker 1: You make some super good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's a lot of things. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you just try to keep this. You try
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  Speaker 2: to everyone's gonna tell you that this is that this
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  Speaker 2: game is different. Everything about it is telling you this
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  Speaker 2: is a different for some reason that this you know,
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  Speaker 2: week twenty one game or whatever it is, is different
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  Speaker 2: than all the other ones. But but it's not. The
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  Speaker 2: game's gonna start. It's gonna take a little bit longer
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  Speaker 2: to get there, but the game is gonna start, and
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  Speaker 2: when the game's going, it's the game. And I think
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  Speaker 2: keeping that, keeping that and let that be kind of
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  Speaker 2: the theme for how you want to go about your
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  Speaker 2: process over the next two weeks is the way to
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  Speaker 2: do it, no one, And you don't need to reinvent anything,
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  Speaker 2: just uh handle your process this week business of times,
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  Speaker 2: because this week you kind of have to yourselves before
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  Speaker 2: you stand up following Yeah, well, yeah, there's there's a
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  Speaker 2: there's a great there's a great balance, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: the coach ant a great plan for us. But as
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  Speaker 2: much as you like, there's gonna be mere media stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just part of the Super Bowl stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that's you know whatever, it's I think
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  Speaker 2: it's an hour and a half obligation you stay or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. It's an hour and a half of
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  Speaker 2: the day, like we can, we can, You take care
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  Speaker 2: of it and then you get ready to play football.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's just it's just a part of your
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  Speaker 2: inserting it into the part of your day. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: like they around that stuff, you still gotta go out
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  Speaker 2: there and you just gotta you know, be present, be
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  Speaker 2: where your feet are when it's time to do the
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  Speaker 2: media thing. Do the media thing, handle your business, protect
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  Speaker 2: the team. Then you're gonna move into football stuff and
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  Speaker 2: be where if we are in that regard, be ready
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  Speaker 2: to prepare to be a really good football team and
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  Speaker 2: go out there and compete for a world title.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Sam's coming to you all the way on that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I'm actually I'm I think I'm third, third,
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  Speaker 2: third or fourth in the progression there. So Samta does
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  Speaker 2: a great job being able to get through it, clicking
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  Speaker 2: through it and throwing a you know, a ball into
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  Speaker 2: my front front pad when he's got someone in his face.
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  Speaker 2: And so I had no idea it was coming, but
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  Speaker 2: it all worked out.
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  Speaker 4: Like you decide to sign here, How far did you
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  Speaker 4: assess their work for the Superbowl?
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  Speaker 1: What factor was that? Yeah? Actually EJ texted me last night.
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  Speaker 2: He sent me the message that he had sent me
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  Speaker 2: originally when I'd reach out to him, and in his
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  Speaker 2: in his reply back to it, I was just asking
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  Speaker 2: you about what the what it was like with the
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: team was like, and he said, you said, we are
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: on the cusp of competing for a Super Bowl, Like
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  Speaker 2: we're right there, and and he's like he sent that
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  Speaker 2: to me, and he's like, I told you right there.
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  Speaker 2: But that was that's a that's a what we're all
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  Speaker 2: striving for. You try to go out there and and
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  Speaker 2: and win a world title. And it's crazy because my
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  Speaker 2: wife and I've talked about like this, the playoff picture
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  Speaker 2: in general. I mean there was a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the teams that are in the playoff
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  Speaker 2: picture where teams that like, you know, we had talked
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  Speaker 2: to in some capacity or been like, man, this these
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  Speaker 2: were teams we thought maybe we would be with during
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  Speaker 2: that process and really cool to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: this one and we will to build what what this
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  Speaker 2: has become here and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just been an incredible blessing us.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to his comments about Sam after the game
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  Speaker 4: down there, how much was that like a kind of
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  Speaker 4: a dominizing moment for you guys, So you have a
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  Speaker 4: los set Sam like for to kind of back back
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  Speaker 4: Sam after his tough this game and kind of have
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  Speaker 4: allows around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think one of the coolest things, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Ernest has been a He's been a mouthpiece for the
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  Speaker 2: heartbeat of what this team is and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the best things he's done as the leaders
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  Speaker 2: just is be able to put words to how guys feel.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he spoke for everyone was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: whatever happened out there, whatever the result was or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: Like we we trusted Sam and what his processes and
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  Speaker 2: who he is as a player, who he is as
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  Speaker 2: a person, that that's gonna ultimately that that process and
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  Speaker 2: who he is that's gonna get us where we want
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  Speaker 2: to go. And you know, Ernest standing up on you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the podium and putting that to words, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the team.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the team speaking, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's just been it's been really cool to see how Sam,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, without I don't think Sam didn't need that
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  Speaker 2: from us, but because I think he would have been
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  Speaker 2: the same guy regardless. He would have continued to come
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  Speaker 2: out and and ball out for us and get us
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  Speaker 2: into the right stuff and and and command the huddle,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, I think that was that was
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  Speaker 2: a really cool thing for Ernest being able to do
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  Speaker 2: that and and the way that he you know, stood
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  Speaker 2: up for Sam and that in that moment when a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people outside of the building maybe wanted to
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  Speaker 2: think differently about it.
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  Speaker 1: For last night, Jack said Davilod.
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  Speaker 3: He say, from the process said that.
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  Speaker 1: Changed his life. Person. I have the player pretty seed
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  Speaker 1: or and the thein this season probably three years you yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson's Jackson is a great football player before I got here.
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  Speaker 2: He was an unbelievable football player before I got here,
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  Speaker 2: So just start there. But you know, I think of
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  Speaker 2: the coolest things to see through this year, whether I
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: mean not saying it was anyone's anyone's handed except for
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  Speaker 2: just Jax being Jacks. But his ability to stay present
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  Speaker 2: in the moment when you know teams are gonna try
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  Speaker 2: to take them away. There's gonna be times that he's
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: on a dry spell, and again there's points in the
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: game where you're not getting the ball thrown your way.
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  Speaker 2: But his ability to stay in the process and just
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  Speaker 2: trust that, hey, this is gonna be something. You just
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  Speaker 2: stay engaged he mentally in this thing, like the ball
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  Speaker 2: is gonna come your way and you make a huge
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  Speaker 2: play for us. That's just a small micro moment, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in in in games, but through this through week by week,
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  Speaker 2: it's like man coming out here and be engaged and
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: walk through is being engaged in practice. You know'll ask
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  Speaker 2: questions and it's not gonna be perfect. There's gonna be
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: days that you're hurting and days that you're tired and
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  Speaker 2: mentally maybe you're not there. But to be able to
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  Speaker 2: continually come back and like, hey, there's own your own
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes, be accountable to those things, and when it
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  Speaker 2: comes time on Sunday, because you've been accountable and you've
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  Speaker 2: been consistent in those things, and he shows up, He
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: shows up on Sunday, ready to go. And and so
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  Speaker 2: that's been that's been super cool to see. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that'sament to player that he is.
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  Speaker 4: The Super Bowl MVP Trophy pristal, Where do you display that?
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  Speaker 1: And how I'm to do? What kind of who? Last second,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's down in l A. So who knows
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  Speaker 1: you guys,