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Tyler Lockett: "We Have To Stay Poised" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So so low podium.
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  Speaker 2: What challenge does Detroit present this week? Maybe you haven't
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  Speaker 2: faced or seen in the first three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean, I think it's the same every single year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're going against a very tough,
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  Speaker 1: physical defense. They like to be able to hit, they
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  Speaker 1: like to make contact. You know, the DBS I think
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  Speaker 1: are really good. They understand the defensive scheme. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we've gone against them almost every single year, so we
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  Speaker 1: already know the fans are going to be super loud.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be super intense, especially with it being Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think we just got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to stay poised, understand that there's gonna be ups and
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  Speaker 1: downs throughout the game, but just being able to try
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  Speaker 1: to manage our emotions and just go out there and
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  Speaker 1: just try to play at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: You like that and Gino talking about earlier, But do
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  Speaker 3: you like that challenge of a real loud, kind of
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  Speaker 3: hostile place and you guys are trying to go set?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy playing this game. I mean, whenever we were
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  Speaker 1: in college, I mean, everywhere you went, it was always
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  Speaker 1: a crazy type of atmospheric game. And so for US,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Detroit is one of those places
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  Speaker 1: where you know, they begin to make a name for
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  Speaker 1: themselves within the last couple of years, and I think
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell has done a great job with that and
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  Speaker 1: the identity that they're looking to have as a team,
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  Speaker 1: and the fans are you know, behind them, and you
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  Speaker 1: could tell like they're they're really good at what they
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  Speaker 1: do with being able to have the noise super loud
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  Speaker 1: to where you could barely hear what's going on. And
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  Speaker 1: so we got to be great not only with the cadence,
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  Speaker 1: but also like the signals and stuff like that, to
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  Speaker 1: just being able to make sure we're all on the
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  Speaker 1: same page.
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  Speaker 2: Room stadium you've played in college or pro.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in college, I mean that means I got to
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  Speaker 1: look back at all the games that we played. But
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, at one point it was Oklahoma State,
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  Speaker 1: especially when they were really, really good, and when we
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  Speaker 1: were number one in the country. Baylor was rocking. That's
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  Speaker 1: the game that we lost. We should have played Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame and won in the championship, but we ended up
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  Speaker 1: losing a Baylor and then we played Oregon, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just off the top of my head, I think those two.
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  Speaker 1: One of the sleepers that actually was a crazy state
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  Speaker 1: in was Iowa State, And when I was there, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go play at Iowa State because it
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  Speaker 1: was like those were the games where it could almost
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  Speaker 1: end up a trap game.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think it is about? You know that
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  Speaker 3: he said some really good games on the road in
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  Speaker 3: Detroit particular. What about him do you think allows him
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  Speaker 3: to thrive in that set in?
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  Speaker 1: I think like sometimes when you play away sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: feels so much better because when you're growing up and
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  Speaker 1: you feel like everybody's against you just in general, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're trying to achieve your dreams and
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  Speaker 1: they say not too many people make it to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL because it's only this type of percentage, just like
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  Speaker 1: you feel like, you know, it's everybody against me. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that's whenever people rise up and play at their
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  Speaker 1: highest level and they're able to play to this ability
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people haven't been able to see before,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of get that same approach just when
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  Speaker 1: you go to an away game in general, there's really
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  Speaker 1: nobody there that's for you except the people that surround
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  Speaker 1: you and growing up you might only have some friends
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  Speaker 1: and some family that believe in your dream. And when
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  Speaker 1: you get on the road, you only have a team
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  Speaker 1: and you have some fans who's able to go there.
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  Speaker 1: You know that are Seattle fans that support you, but
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  Speaker 1: everybody else is there for the opposing team. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes you just get that feeling of all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm more focused, you know. Then sometimes it is for
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  Speaker 1: an home game, you're more aware, you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: understand what's at stake and what could be a possibility
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  Speaker 1: of happening. Because it's gonna be noise, it's gonna be loud,
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  Speaker 1: So it just the preparation is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 5: Tyler Detroit has drawn a lot of got called for
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  Speaker 5: a lot of passing interference penalties. You've had a lot
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  Speaker 5: of savage, had a lot of savage for your career
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  Speaker 5: in drawingness. That's something you always were able to do
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  Speaker 5: and or did you develop it as it something you've
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  Speaker 5: shared any tips with other players on your team about
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  Speaker 5: how to.
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  Speaker 3: Best do that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, I just play football, man, Like okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not about to get me in trouble. I played football
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  Speaker 1: and I try to make every single play, and I
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  Speaker 1: can't control whether a ref call a flag or not.
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  Speaker 1: Like I try to make the play as if I can.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes, you know, it's obvious to a ref if
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  Speaker 1: somebody's grabbing you or holding you. Sometimes it's not. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when the refs are in here, we ask them questions like, hey, like,
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  Speaker 1: do y'all watch film over? Players? Are y'all able to
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on, like, you know, stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: So they watch film just like we do, just like
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  Speaker 1: you guys do. And so there's things that the NFL
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  Speaker 1: might say, this is what the focus is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on this week, and so again, like I can't
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  Speaker 1: control it. There might have been times I felt like
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  Speaker 1: things were a flag and it wasn't called. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm training and whenever I'm going through my approaches,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, like you gotta learn how like
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  Speaker 1: in basketball you gotta get an A and one. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just always rely on certain things to take place.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta still make that catch, you know. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to make every single catch that I possibly can,
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  Speaker 1: and if I can't, sometimes it may be a flag
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not. But even if it is, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still telling myself like, hey man, you got to catch that.
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  Speaker 5: We're talking about Geno's ability to lean through positivity and encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: Do you enjoy that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's easy just for you know,
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  Speaker 1: any player, but also understanding Like as this generation starts
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  Speaker 1: to change, is the coaching mechanisms and the way that
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  Speaker 1: players talk to themselves or to each other are different.
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  Speaker 1: With the new generation, it's more of being able to
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  Speaker 1: have player coaches. It's more of being able to meet
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  Speaker 1: them where they're at kind of like talk to them,
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  Speaker 1: build them up in a sense to where they feel
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  Speaker 1: good about theyself like rather than in the old times.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you know, you might hear a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things to where you know you have to tell
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  Speaker 1: people like hey man, like take the message, not the
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  Speaker 1: tone right, and you got to be able to help
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  Speaker 1: them understand like all right, Like I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 1: all that, but you just learn over time, like all right,
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  Speaker 1: like the coach wants the best for me, and you
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  Speaker 1: tell them, hey, when he stops trying to help you,
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  Speaker 1: that's when he doesn't care. And you know, now you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of like seeing a lot of that fizzle out,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people are just kind of like
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  Speaker 1: talking in a way to where they're like, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: it's good, you're gonna make the next one. Like if
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  Speaker 1: you need to focus on catching after practice, focus on
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  Speaker 1: catching jugs, whatever you need, we right here for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot different than in the past. So I
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  Speaker 1: do think it helps with this new generation coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Does G. L.
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  Speaker 5: Smith's positivity and messaging show up during games between series bubbles.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think it shows up because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you can still get your point across and still be positive, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like you don't have to say amen, like we suck
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  Speaker 1: out here, what's going on? Like you can bring everybody
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  Speaker 1: together and still talk to everybody in a way that
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  Speaker 1: we understand that we need to focus on our assignment,
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  Speaker 1: because if everybody does their assignment, everybody can be able
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  Speaker 1: to collectively get what it is that we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get across. So, I mean, I think he does a
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  Speaker 1: great job when he brings us together or when he's
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  Speaker 1: talking to us whenever before we end up going out
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  Speaker 1: there to the game. I think he does a great
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  Speaker 1: job and when to talk and when not to talk,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes you know, you don't want to overly talk
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  Speaker 1: to where people are like, oh we heard this before,
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's been doing a tremendous job and
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  Speaker 1: just being a leader of this team.
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  Speaker 4: What'd he say, Resonates, It seems to work.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's hard to say what worse
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  Speaker 1: and what doesn't, but I think just no matter what
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  Speaker 1: it is that he says, he always made sure that
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  Speaker 1: he's the one that takes the approach to go make
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  Speaker 1: things happen. So you know, if he's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: everybody on board, if you see he's going out there
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  Speaker 1: and he's willing to go to war by itself, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it makes you, as a teammate want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to make sure that you're right there down the
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  Speaker 1: line to be at war with them.
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  Speaker 4: Dyla, what would you say about the efficiency of this offense?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you get seventeen in the first quarter, zero zero,
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  Speaker 4: second and third you're three four eleven and third down,
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  Speaker 4: yet you get eleven play ninety eight drive the kind
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  Speaker 4: of sense the game? What would you say about that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of it is just resilience. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we understand that we've been hurting ourselves just with the penalties.
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  Speaker 1: The penalty aspect has been putting us behind the sticks,
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  Speaker 1: which makes the game of football a lot more harder
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  Speaker 1: for anybody that's an offense. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is when you look at the positives,
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  Speaker 1: it's helped us learn how to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: back and try to get those first downs when you're
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  Speaker 1: first and twenty and then second and whatever, and then
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  Speaker 1: third and whatever. We're able to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: those type of practices because a lot of times when
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  Speaker 1: you're great at all that stuff and you never have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with first in twenty or second and twenty,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows how to deal with it, right. So at
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  Speaker 1: least we got the experience of knowing how to deal
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of that stuff. But we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to put ourselves behind the markers like that. So I
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  Speaker 1: think for us we've been learning just going back to
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  Speaker 1: the fundamentals, making sure that we know how to block,
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  Speaker 1: like especially with us as receivers blocking around a perimeter,
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  Speaker 1: making sure that we're able to just focus more of
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  Speaker 1: the intangibles and not just being able to be lazy
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  Speaker 1: to where we start making mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: What is this offense?
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  Speaker 4: I's so many different dynamics or what is about the
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  Speaker 4: offense that maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 2: It's coach Grub screen whatever that makes it so difficult
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  Speaker 2: for others defense is to try to defend.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just, you know, I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: a super sophisticated offense to where you know, in practice,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to learn so many things, and
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  Speaker 1: it's always feeling like you're back at school because it's
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  Speaker 1: so many different things that you know, you get put
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  Speaker 1: into the game plan or things might be added at
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  Speaker 1: the end. But the more and more that you study,
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  Speaker 1: the better it makes you guys on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: then the harder it makes teams to be able to
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  Speaker 1: guard you whenever you're out there playing, because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different things that we can be able to
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  Speaker 1: do in a lot of variety and things that we
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  Speaker 1: can exploit to where, you know, right now, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're still getting to the point of where
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  Speaker 1: we really want to be as an offense, and so
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we can do to
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  Speaker 1: make things scary for defense, and I think we have
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  Speaker 1: to be able to be in sync with everything that
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  Speaker 1: it is that Grub is trying to get across to
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  Speaker 1: us making sure that we're in sync when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the signals and the levels of communication. But I
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  Speaker 1: think you can slowly see everything and how it's starting
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  Speaker 1: to build together. And just efficiency. I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: making sure that you know the pass catchers we catch
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  Speaker 1: the ball. The quarterbacks they throw the ball and they
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  Speaker 1: trust that we're going to be at the right spot
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  Speaker 1: at the right time.
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  Speaker 5: The lines played a lot of press coverage. You've been
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  Speaker 5: one of the best receivers of getting off the press.
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  Speaker 5: What are the keys to being a good receiver against
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  Speaker 5: press coverage?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's no your opponent. I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: watch the games and see what they do, and then
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  Speaker 1: develop a plan and whatever your playing is, go out
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  Speaker 1: there and don't don't run away from that plan. It's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why you created this game planning in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. I mean, I mean, we've been playing football
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  Speaker 1: our whole lives, so we know how people press, We
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  Speaker 1: know the different things that they do, the varieties, like
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  Speaker 1: certain techniques that they may change at the last minute.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's there's so many games and so many
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  Speaker 1: players to where you can watch and see what players
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  Speaker 1: are going to do or what they're really good at.
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  Speaker 5: Three two.
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  Speaker 2: No. Oh, yeah, so de Lineman kind of talked about
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  Speaker 2: how they have to stop the run so they can
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  Speaker 2: have fun, you know, so they can rest the passer
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  Speaker 2: on offense. Is there's something similar for the receivers, like
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  Speaker 2: we got to block in the run game so that
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  Speaker 2: we can start getting the rock in the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that's definitely something because the
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  Speaker 1: more that you're able to block, the more that play
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  Speaker 1: actions open up, right, and the more that sometimes those
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  Speaker 1: deep shots open up to where you can be able
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  Speaker 1: to throw the ball behind the safeties and behind the cornerbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, for us, it's just being able
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  Speaker 1: to try to make sure that we don't start doing
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  Speaker 1: things the words. It's easier tails for defenses to know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we're doing. So the better that we are
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  Speaker 1: able to block, like the better I'm able to block,
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  Speaker 1: the more that we can be able to use that
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  Speaker 1: as an advantage to be able to take the offense
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  Speaker 1: to another level.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah,