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Bobby Wagner: "This Is A Community That Has Embraced Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: What's up? What's that got for me?
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Speaker 2: Proby, I got a cross up?
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Speaker 3: What does legacy need to you?
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Speaker 2: And I mean the backup of all.
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Speaker 4: The stuff that you do in and obviously denomination.
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Speaker 2: What does leg legacy need to you?
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Speaker 1: How does it play to what you do? Legacy?
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Speaker 4: I think it's something that you try not really to
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Speaker 4: think about it. You try to just move through your actions.
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Speaker 4: You try to be the best player, best person that
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Speaker 4: you could possibly be. And I think at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, you wanna walk away, uh, knowing that
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Speaker 4: you've made whatever situation you're in, whether it's with your family,
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Speaker 4: with it with a team, better than when it was
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Speaker 4: before you. So you know, if you can give a
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Speaker 4: y'all and put everything into whatever you're doing and then
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Speaker 4: walking away and make whatever that is better, Uh, that's
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Speaker 4: probably how we'll answer that question.
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Speaker 2: How does it tie.
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Speaker 1: Into you taking the kids on trips and financial literacy?
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Speaker 1: And that's.
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Speaker 4: I think a lot of that stuff is just things
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Speaker 4: that that come to my mind or things that come
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Speaker 4: to uh what it was that maybe I didn't have
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Speaker 4: or maybe I wasn't exposed to a lot of the
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Speaker 4: financial literary stuff was came out a result of I
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Speaker 4: didn't understand anything about finances until I got into the league,
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Speaker 4: and so I didn't even know how to write a
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Speaker 4: check until I got into the league. So it was
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Speaker 4: kind of like the idea of if that's me, then
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure there's more people like that, and then
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Speaker 4: kind of so on and so forth. So a lot
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Speaker 4: of the things that I kind of do, it's it's
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Speaker 4: more so from experience or something that I've been close
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Speaker 4: to that I I felt the need to help.
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Speaker 2: What what does the matter of the year on earth?
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Speaker 5: Me?
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Speaker 1: Field?
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Speaker 4: Uh, it means a lot. I mean, I think just
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Speaker 4: highlighting some of the stuff that you do off the field.
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Speaker 4: I think a lot of it was just like people
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Speaker 4: pushing me, cause I don't I didn't really like care
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Speaker 4: to to the I didn't really care that the work
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Speaker 4: was being seen per se. It was just more so
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Speaker 4: you had like friends, people from my team obviously teammates
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Speaker 4: saying that some of the stuff that I was doing
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Speaker 4: would be more magnified if I, you know, kind of
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Speaker 4: put more eyes on it. So it took a while
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Speaker 4: for me to kind of embrace that concept. But I
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Speaker 4: think it's it's special, especially this one because I'm assuming
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Speaker 4: a lot of it comes around UH the comic book,
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Speaker 4: which which means a lot to me and and a
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Speaker 4: lot to my mom.
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Speaker 1: And so I think it's cool.
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Speaker 6: What what did you learn.
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Speaker 7: About the platform you as an athlete to have the
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Speaker 7: maybe think, like you said, you were lucked at the
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Speaker 7: publicize it before, But what is the power of the
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Speaker 7: platform of the modern pro athlete?
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Speaker 4: Honestly, I I probably feel like a lot of that
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Speaker 4: came from sarn I probably just being able to use
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Speaker 4: your platform in the right way, and then people along
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Speaker 4: the way kind of putting into my mind that the
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Speaker 4: more people, the more eyes that that saw some of
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Speaker 4: the things that we can do, and they can actually
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Speaker 4: speed that process up. So if financial literacy was something
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Speaker 4: I wanted to kind of help, if I was to
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Speaker 4: instead of doing by myself in silence, if I was
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Speaker 4: to bring somebody with me or talk about it, maybe
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Speaker 4: that would get somebody to help. And I think that's
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Speaker 4: kind of what happened with the UH when we did
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Speaker 4: the the stuff for the kids with the lunch, you know, Tyler,
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Speaker 4: when I went to La Tyler reached out to me
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Speaker 4: to try to continue that cause he had read it.
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Speaker 4: And so it's something that we've kind of start doing
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Speaker 4: over and over and over again, and so I think
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Speaker 4: it's just that concept of just it doesn't it's okay
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Speaker 4: to kind of say it out loud because you can
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Speaker 4: bring people with you and they can help you move
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Speaker 4: the negal faster.
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Speaker 3: What would mom say to the man you can count.
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 1: I I hope she would be proud. I hope.
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Speaker 4: It would be a splimt split image of who she
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Speaker 4: is and who she was, and that's that's just me.
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Speaker 4: I'm just extension to her. So uh, hopefully she would
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Speaker 4: see that and and be proud of that.
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Speaker 2: Does it mean something you at all? I mean, obviously
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Speaker 2: you can't work here last year and you got to
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Speaker 2: come back and all that that you canna get this.
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Speaker 5: On her now? Totally bad?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 4: I mean cause it's it's a community that I've always
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Speaker 4: been a part of. It's a community that's embraced me
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Speaker 4: from the moment I stepped foot in here. And so
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Speaker 4: the way that they embraced me when I came back
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Speaker 4: and just kind of getting back into the flow of
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Speaker 4: a lot of stuff that we were doing in the community,
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Speaker 4: I think it was cool. And the even like having
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Speaker 4: like some teammates like seeing that and wanted to be
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Speaker 4: a part of some of the ste some of the
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Speaker 4: stuff we have coming up.
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's cool when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: game this week.
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Speaker 5: How much did the extra day's rest help, just whether
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Speaker 5: it's res physically or or mentally before another division of home.
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Speaker 4: Uh, I think combination of both. I think physically obviously,
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Speaker 4: you know, having some time off. We played a lot
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Speaker 4: of games and in a short time, and so being
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Speaker 4: able to have that rest I think is definitely gonna help.
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Speaker 4: And and mentally just being able to kind of step
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Speaker 4: away from a moment kind of reset and you know,
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Speaker 4: find a way to get back into w calling.
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Speaker 2: You haven't played much with Devin Bush before last week,
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Speaker 2: at least in the regular season, just had you feel like.
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Speaker 1: It went out there. I thought it went well.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, we you know communication, I he we practiced a
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Speaker 4: lot together. I think he just haven't had a chance
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Speaker 4: to get out there on the field. So I felt
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Speaker 4: like the communication was good, felt like he was flying
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Speaker 4: around making plays. He had a uh a big kind
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Speaker 4: of one on one tackle that really helped us. So
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Speaker 4: he he did it a good job.
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Speaker 5: He pointed out that having played the Niners just a
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago means that you don't have to study.
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Speaker 1: That t you already know what two weeks m Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I or it.
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Speaker 5: Let me rephrase it that it allows you guys to
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Speaker 5: jump into what you guys are doing a little bit earlier,
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Speaker 5: a little bit more than having to do the the
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Speaker 5: full and stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're good team, So I definitely feel
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Speaker 4: like you have to to study and you have to
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Speaker 4: do the things, especially the way the game you know
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Speaker 4: went the last time. I think it's important to make
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Speaker 4: sure that you you on it. But I think it
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Speaker 4: is nice that you've played them two weeks two weeks ago,
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Speaker 4: and so a lot of that stuff is fresh. You know,
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Speaker 4: if you would have played them week three and then
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Speaker 4: played them week thirteen, a lot could change personnel wise,
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Speaker 4: scheme wise.
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Speaker 1: On both sides.
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Speaker 4: And so I think it definitely helps playing them in
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Speaker 4: a short period of time, and you know, it's a
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Speaker 4: chance to do the things that we wanted to do
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Speaker 4: that game better.
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Speaker 2: What makes maccaffery so difficulties.
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Speaker 4: I think it's just his versatility, like his ability to
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Speaker 4: to run. I don't think he gets enough credit for
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Speaker 4: how physical he is and how physical he finished his runs,
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Speaker 4: but then also the ability to get out there. You know,
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Speaker 4: when he lines up outside at number three or by himself,
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Speaker 4: you almost have to treat him like a receiver. I
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Speaker 4: think his routes or just as Chris as any receiver
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Speaker 4: the quarterback is confident and throwing the ball up to
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Speaker 4: him and making plays. I think he has every route.
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Speaker 4: I think one of the routes he ran, he went
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Speaker 4: ran out, came back and they throwing the ball. So
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Speaker 4: you have to be ready for everything from a running perspective,
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Speaker 4: and you have to be ever ready for everything from
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Speaker 4: a uh route tree. So I think that's what makes
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Speaker 4: it tough.
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Speaker 6: Do you think he could be a full time slot receiver?
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Speaker 1: I think if he wanted to, Like why not.
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Speaker 4: I mean he kind of does it to an extent,
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Speaker 4: but you know, I think if you if you put
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Speaker 4: him full time out there, I think you just take
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Speaker 4: away from a lot of the stuff that he does
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Speaker 4: in the backfield. So I think they do a good
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Speaker 4: job of balancing having him out and and bringing him
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Speaker 4: back in. And then obviously you d throw Debo in
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Speaker 4: the mix as well, and so you know they're a
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Speaker 4: good group.
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Speaker 6: Did you watch their game why on Sunday?
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Speaker 4: Uh on Sunday, Yeah, cause it was like we playing
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Speaker 4: those are two opponents coming up next, so he kind
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Speaker 4: of killing two birds with one stone.
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Speaker 2: What what do you feel like the defenses?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: Obviously you played two really good offenses the last couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks, plit out off totally. You had a really
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Speaker 2: good stress just to statistically gets the.
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Speaker 1: Giants and the Bengals and stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: And and the.
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Speaker 2: Numbers obviously haven't been quite what you would one that
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Speaker 2: I'm sure in the last couple of weeks. But that
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess where do you feel like the
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Speaker 2: defense as a whole is right now?
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Speaker 4: I think we need to find a way to to
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Speaker 4: you know, kind of stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
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Speaker 4: Like you said, we're playing some some really good offenses,
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Speaker 4: and so some of the penalties that at these costly
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Speaker 4: times isn't helping us. I feel like we do uh
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Speaker 4: a better job with that. I think that kind of
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Speaker 4: cleans up everything else because we're finding ways on some
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Speaker 4: of the third downs to get off the field and
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Speaker 4: things of that nature. But a lot of the drives
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Speaker 4: that are extended comes from our penalties. And so I
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Speaker 4: think if we can calm that that that penalty aspect down.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of our game will clean up.
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Speaker 3: What's the challenge of San Francisco's pre snap motions to you?
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Speaker 3: In what you're trying to communicate.
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Speaker 6: To your guys.
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Speaker 4: A lot of it is just tryna figure out how
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Speaker 4: you wanna adjust to it. Cause some some formations you
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Speaker 4: wanna slide the line. Some formations you wanna keep them
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Speaker 4: the same. Some formations you gotta figure out who's moving
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Speaker 4: cause you know they come in with two tight ends.
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Speaker 4: Maybe you don't wanna move the line with that one.
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Speaker 4: I think that's the biggest thing. And then you treat
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Speaker 4: they treat the fullback like a tight end, and then
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Speaker 4: they come out in the word uh personnel, and then
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Speaker 4: McCaffrey's lined up at receiver. So I think it's understanding
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Speaker 4: what personnel they're in and at the end of the day,
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Speaker 4: trying to figure out what is the final picture look like.
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Speaker 4: And I think if you can do that, then you
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Speaker 4: figure out how they're trying to attack you. But I
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Speaker 4: think that's the biggest reason why they would do that
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Speaker 4: is they want to mess the picture up. So they
9:24
Speaker 4: want to show you a formation move around make you
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Speaker 4: think that they're in a different formation, but by the
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Speaker 4: time you get the next steel shot, it was the
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Speaker 4: same formation that they started in, but it doesn't look
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Speaker 4: that way.
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Speaker 1: So that's the thing.
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Speaker 4: Trying to have that quick and those starts quick helps
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Speaker 4: because a lot of it is just to create angles,
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Speaker 4: whether it's in their run game or past game that
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Speaker 4: benefits them.
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Speaker 3: Do you get that picture in game or are they
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Speaker 3: constantly switching their emotions and tells that you can't really
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Speaker 3: get You have to just rely on your preparation experience, And.
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Speaker 4: I think it's a combination of the two. But I
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Speaker 4: think you know, if you study well and and you
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Speaker 4: understand what they trying to do, you get a picture
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Speaker 4: of it. Obviously, I always believe they're first fifteen. Any
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Speaker 4: offense is first fifteen is made to throw you off,
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Speaker 4: and so once you get outside of that, then the
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Speaker 4: game kind of closed down.
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Speaker 1: So you think.
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Speaker 3: That that's more rudes than what their best attack is
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Speaker 3: those fifteen.
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Speaker 4: Player, Uh No think I think the fifteen most offenses
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Speaker 4: first fifteens is a combination between the new plays that
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Speaker 4: they've put in, the new plays that they put in
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Speaker 4: specifically for you, and then some special plays that they
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Speaker 4: just want to try out, and so sometimes offenses get
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Speaker 4: to those special players, sometimes they don't, depending on how
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Speaker 4: it is. I mean, I'm pretty sure if you watch
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Speaker 4: that uh Eagles game, they didn't expect to go three
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Speaker 4: and out the first two drives, and so they had
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Speaker 4: to switch it up and figure out what was gonna work.
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Speaker 4: And so sometimes that happens too. You have a plan,
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Speaker 4: you try to execute that plan. You have to be
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Speaker 4: able to adjust quick. So I think it's a combination.
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Speaker 4: But as a defender, you gotta be conscious of what
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Speaker 4: they're trying to do in those first fifteen players and
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Speaker 4: also understanding that could throw your the things that you
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Speaker 4: study off and that come second third quarter, that's when
11:08
Speaker 4: the things that you've been paying attention to kind of
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Speaker 4: comes back into play with.
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Speaker 6: Everything they're throwing at you offensively. How much of a
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Speaker 6: benefit is to be able to prepare for them on
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Speaker 6: a long week like this versus the short week like
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Speaker 6: you had last.
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Speaker 4: Time, I think it's it's uh, you know, those extra
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Speaker 4: days allow you to get a better feel for what
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Speaker 4: the final picture is, I think, but you know, short
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Speaker 4: week playing a division opponent makes it a little bit
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Speaker 4: easier because you've played them before. It's not like a
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Speaker 4: new team that you have to study all over again.
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Speaker 4: But these extra three days definitely help because, like you said,
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Speaker 4: they're throwing a lot of stuff at you. They have
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Speaker 4: so many different weapons, and all of the weapons that
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Speaker 4: they have line up in the same spot, so at
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Speaker 4: the end of the day you tryna figure out what
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Speaker 4: are they trying to do whenever they get to they
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Speaker 4: final formation.
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Speaker 2: You talked a little bit about the preparations for the
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Speaker 2: first game and particularly maybe the young players just maybe
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Speaker 2: it wasn't as intense as it need Tivy or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Did you said some any.
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Speaker 4: Of that kind of going into that game or uh,
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I don't really play into that. I mean,
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, rookie veteran, your professional
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Speaker 4: and you need to be ready to play. And so
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Speaker 4: as much as he might wanna take that on him,
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Speaker 4: it's just still on us to go out there and play.
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Speaker 4: He's not, you know, he's not playing as much as
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Speaker 4: he sprints up in practice.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're the ones out there.
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Speaker 2: Is there any bother fit to uh, being able to
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Speaker 2: watch your future upon it live like your stuff they
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Speaker 2: talk about on the broadcast.
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Speaker 5: Or anything like that.
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Speaker 4: Definitely, the the TV copies definitely help some some teams
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Speaker 4: more than than others, cause you can h sometimes the
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Speaker 4: the MIC's pick up on a lot of the checks
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Speaker 4: and things of that nature, so you could pay attention to that,
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Speaker 4: But a lot of it is just watching football and
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Speaker 4: see if you can figure out what they're doing while
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Speaker 4: knowing that you ain't gotta play them the next day.
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Speaker 5: Like sticking things up.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you got people telling you when Josh Allen
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Speaker 4: was sent.
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Speaker 2: Using Bobby Wagoner as a check or yeah, I got that.
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Speaker 1: Y do you know anything about like what?
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Speaker 4: I have no idea where that came from. Hopefully it's positive.
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Speaker 4: Hopefully doesn't come from something negative. And the plays that
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Speaker 4: he's called it they've done well, so I think they
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Speaker 4: should keep it.
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Speaker 2: When you're watching a like game like that, especially when
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Speaker 2: it's in the corners, you are you watch like are
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Speaker 2: you watching the pre staff movement and stuff and almost
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Speaker 2: in a way calling out the play and then seeing
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Speaker 2: if you're right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I don't think I watched as a
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Speaker 4: regular fan anymore. You just you look at the informations,
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Speaker 4: you're looking at the defense, you trying to see what
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Speaker 4: the defense and you trying to see what the offense is,
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Speaker 4: and then you try to see like how are they
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Speaker 4: attacking the defense, and then you kind of put yourself
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Speaker 4: in that situation like if that was you, you know, how
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Speaker 4: would they play you or how would they do that?
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Speaker 4: So I think it's it's more just fun to watch
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Speaker 4: the game that way and try to see if you
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Speaker 4: can figure it out.
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Speaker 5: Why were you?
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Speaker 8: We heard that DK has been taking sign language classes instead,
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Speaker 8: that he's kind of been using it to be able
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Speaker 8: to express himself on the field of getting panalized, So
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Speaker 8: I guess what, knowing him, what, what are your kind
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Speaker 8: of thoughts on on that strategy, and what do you
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Speaker 8: think kind of about that what.
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Speaker 1: He's been doing.
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Speaker 4: I think DK is a very smart individual, and I
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Speaker 4: think the original concept of this I don't know, And
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Speaker 4: this is me guessing. So he's gonna appy sure coming
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Speaker 4: after this, so you ask him yourself. But I'm pretty
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Speaker 4: sure that wasn't the original intent. I think it was
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Speaker 4: just him trying to learn something that he was interested in.
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Speaker 4: And then I think maybe because you know, the refs
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Speaker 4: were kind of had an eye on him, you know,
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Speaker 4: he turned into sign language cause not m not many
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Speaker 4: people could probably understand what he's saying. So regardless of
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Speaker 4: how you look at it, I think it's positive cause
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Speaker 4: it also sheds light on a language that people don't
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Speaker 4: often get to understand, people don't often get to see
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Speaker 4: and experience. And I'm pretty sure there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: people that that do sign language that find what he's
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Speaker 4: doing very cool, and and they they feel like they
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Speaker 4: he's embracing him a guy like that, seeing somebody that
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Speaker 4: knows sign language, I think it is extreme positive. So
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Speaker 4: whatever comes from it, whether it's trash talk or not,
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Speaker 4: it's to me, it's positive.
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Speaker 2: Is it you mentioned the penalties? Is there an art
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Speaker 2: at all to figure it out how the officials are
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Speaker 2: now calling the game? Cause obviously the other night it
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Speaker 2: seemed like they were calling a lot of stuff, maybe
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Speaker 2: more than an a a different crew might have and
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Speaker 2: then try to adjust to that Or is that is
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Speaker 2: that hard to do those games you're going on?
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Speaker 1: Or I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a art. I think it's just
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Speaker 4: a maybe a awareness. You know, I think you and
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Speaker 4: you know who the you know who's officiating the game,
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Speaker 4: and you know how they call a game. For the
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Speaker 4: most part, and so you have an idea of of
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Speaker 4: the things that they tend to call, but you just
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Speaker 4: don't know in that game where they gonna call it.
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Speaker 4: A lot a lot of it is dictated by the
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Speaker 4: the way the game is going. But y you never know, uh,
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Speaker 4: you never know how they gonna call it. I think
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you just try your
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Speaker 4: best to play clean and don't give them anything to
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Speaker 4: look at the.
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Speaker 6: PI that they called against you. When you uh went
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Speaker 6: back and looked at the what did you think of
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Speaker 6: the call?
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a bang bang play. I thought
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Speaker 1: the ball was right there.
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Speaker 4: The way I looked at it, I I I actually
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Speaker 4: thought that it was more in the area of him
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Speaker 4: catching it.
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Speaker 1: It was a little bit it.
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Speaker 4: Was thrown outside, but the timing of it, if the
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Speaker 4: ball would have been in his stomach, would have been
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Speaker 4: the same. But they called it differently, And like I said, I.
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Speaker 1: You gotta adjust.
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Speaker 4: If that's how they called it, you gotta figure out
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Speaker 4: how to do better in that play.
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Speaker 1: Then YELP, thank you, Coop.