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Rylie Mills: "I Feel Better Than I Did In College" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Sure. Good. How are you good? Given what you went
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  Speaker 1: through last year at this time, what are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to prove in camp this year? Yeah? I mean for me,
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  Speaker 1: I always have a chip on my shoulder, So are
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  Speaker 1: think just coming out there and being the best version
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  Speaker 1: of myself? And I feel like it's been It's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm finally feeling myself and playing like
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  Speaker 1: how I did in college and just playing free. And
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  Speaker 1: really just a shout out to to coach hines an
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  Speaker 1: Ad because they work with me the most, and I
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  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be anywhere close to where I'm playing now,
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  Speaker 1: you know without their helps. They've been awesome. Are they
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  Speaker 1: pulling you aside to do extra things or is it
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  Speaker 1: just the coaching that you get during practice time? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all of it. Like me and Adal meet in the
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  Speaker 1: mornings and we'll watch film and he'll give me just
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  Speaker 1: little things to think about through the day, and then
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  Speaker 1: Coach Haines like we're on the field even pre practice,
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  Speaker 1: like we'll be working together on you know, technique or
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  Speaker 1: kind of anything, just you know, things that I need
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  Speaker 1: to work on. He's been super helpful and he's done
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  Speaker 1: a great job. So I'm pretty pumped to him in
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  Speaker 1: my corner.
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  Speaker 2: Right competitions on those one on one pass red strokes.
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  Speaker 1: What does that bring out in you? The guy came,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. I mean we got we've got a great
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  Speaker 1: old line, and we got great guys that go against
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  Speaker 1: like for me, Parton and I love going against uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know Ab and going against Gray. They're guys that
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  Speaker 1: are starters in the NFL, and they play really good football.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like, for me, I get a chance
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  Speaker 1: every day to go against you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: best offensive lines in the NFL. So I love the competition,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I love just to compete every day.
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  Speaker 2: You have to bury your moves day to day.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a regular opponent or do you just run
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  Speaker 1: with your pesto. I always go, I'm a big power guy,
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  Speaker 1: so I go, you know, if it's not broke, don't
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  Speaker 1: fix it. So I'm working on that.
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  Speaker 2: Really, you've got a pretty impressive your good vetter and
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  Speaker 2: in your petition group both outside linebacker and defensive line
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  Speaker 2: pint a bunch of guys with ten plus the league.
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  Speaker 1: What is that like a young player and have those
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  Speaker 1: guys around me, what do you learn from them? That's great?
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  Speaker 1: I think the coolest thing about having like you know,
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  Speaker 1: j Reed, Leo, like all those guys that take in
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  Speaker 1: all those snaps is I never feel like i'm alone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and if I make a mistake or if
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  Speaker 1: I see something, because I mean they've had like nine thousand,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen thousand snaps between the two of them, Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's been great. So any time I see something, if
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  Speaker 1: I have a question, like they've gone through it and
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  Speaker 1: they've dealt with it, and you know, it's been super
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  Speaker 1: helpful for me because I feel like they have all
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  Speaker 1: the answers. So I'm going to them just trying to
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  Speaker 1: learn as much as I can. Are they proactive where
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  Speaker 1: you don't even have to ask the question they are
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  Speaker 1: just willing to offer advice. Yeah, definitely. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: been cool because Leo, we're both tallready tackles, so he'll
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  Speaker 1: always kind of pull me aside, you know, tell me
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things about, like, you know, how to
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  Speaker 1: use my length and how to use my size to
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  Speaker 1: my advantage. So it's been super helpful and I just
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  Speaker 1: appreciate them taking the time to do that.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive time talking to a great table last year,
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  Speaker 2: helping the oppositive side. You talked to the offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Lineman at all. Yeah, you know, I definitely all the
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  Speaker 1: guys like Mason and then Gray and you know a
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  Speaker 1: b I talk with all of them like kind of
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  Speaker 1: what things are you seeing? And you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's great. I think out here it's like we compet
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  Speaker 1: our ass off and every day you're trying to win,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's always for the better of the team.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been super awesome. We've got a great culture
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  Speaker 1: and there's no what I'd rather be.
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  Speaker 2: What was that one d one like in front of
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  Speaker 2: the team a couple of days ago with Mason when
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  Speaker 2: you guys went back from back.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. It's I love to compete, So anytime you
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  Speaker 1: get competitive out there, you know, for me, I always,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got to find a good I always try
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  Speaker 1: to go on the edge, so I gotta find a
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  Speaker 1: good place to be. But it's great. It makes me better.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like Mason's a hell of a player,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gotten a ton better, you know, from this
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  Speaker 1: offseason and he's been bawing out. So it's great competition.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Finley, go back.
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  Speaker 2: You said, this is the first time you felt, Is
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  Speaker 2: this the first time since you were injured that.
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  Speaker 1: You felt good like you could go back to the
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl, like your health comparative now to them? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the super Bowl had a brave so I
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  Speaker 1: was a little you know, kind of hobbling out there.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like now I feel one hundred percently,
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  Speaker 1: I though I can bend off it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the way I'm moving, I feel, you know,
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  Speaker 1: honestly better than I did in college. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a shout out to the strength stuff. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the guys here like Sam and you know, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: and everybody that's kind of helped me along the way.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome you kind of feel like myself again and
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  Speaker 1: just feel like I haven't lost a step.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when you get team had you do a little
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  Speaker 2: grip test a while ago. Looked like you won that one,
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  Speaker 2: like you joked the guys not that at all into
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  Speaker 2: Does grip strength play into your position? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah on the first part. I don't know if a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people brought it out by every now and
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  Speaker 1: like me and Mark the strength coach, I mean, he'll
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  Speaker 1: come out and rip like you know, two thirty. So
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  Speaker 1: he's a beast, so I'm just chasing him. But definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I think in the D line room like you gotta
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  Speaker 1: play with your hands, and for me, I prodded myself
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  Speaker 1: on just having heavy hands and you know, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I think grip is definitely all. It's better
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  Speaker 1: to have it than not.
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  Speaker 2: Finished last season off the field getting injury and it
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  Speaker 2: was a long right back that to close out of
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  Speaker 2: your line, kid obviously have to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that moment for me, uh, that was
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  Speaker 1: really everything. Like the moment I got hurt. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing I thought it was like, all right after I
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  Speaker 1: got the news, was I can't wait for that next snap,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it's kind of fun. I got hurt
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  Speaker 1: on a sack and then I was always kind of like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm chasing that next one. And I think that was
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  Speaker 1: just for me. It felt like a storybook ending, like
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  Speaker 1: I got to go out there and you know, play
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, playing a Super Bowl and get a
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  Speaker 1: sack like I have. It really doesn't happen to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people to get that kind of closure, and
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  Speaker 1: felt like I just kind of put that chapter behind
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  Speaker 1: me and now I'm like, all right, cool, I can
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  Speaker 1: put my best foot forward literally