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Tyler Lockett: "We Have A Team That Fights To The Very End" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, well, we kind of ran that same play on
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  Speaker 1: the first drive on the last on our on the
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  Speaker 1: last drive, first play when we ended up throwing it
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  Speaker 1: to Kobe had a good idea to be able to
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  Speaker 1: get everybody open on the play, and it just was
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  Speaker 1: depending on how they guarded, you know, how they guarded
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of us.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: Run it again, and so we ran it again, but
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  Speaker 1: we kind of gave it a different look where I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as tight to Jacks and uh, you know, through
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  Speaker 1: a great ball where.
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  Speaker 2: Only I could get it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he didn't play the ball, He just played me,
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  Speaker 1: and so I was able to kind of do late
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  Speaker 1: hands to be able to catch the ball and score.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it sucks, man, It sucks not being able
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  Speaker 1: to make it to the playoffs. We was in the
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  Speaker 1: same situation last year, and you know, the team we
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  Speaker 1: needed to win ended up doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I mean, you know, we put ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: some tough situations.
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  Speaker 2: Some games we should have won, but we let slip away.
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  Speaker 1: But you know the thing that I love about this
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  Speaker 1: team is that you know, people didn't check out, people
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  Speaker 1: didn't give up, people didn't throw in the towel. You know,
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  Speaker 1: even when you're looking at the scoreboard and you see
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  Speaker 1: that the Bears lost, and it's like people could have
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  Speaker 1: easily said, well, I'm not gonna throw my body in
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  Speaker 1: here anymore. I'm gonna make sure I don't get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: But you still see guys fighting and putting their bodies
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  Speaker 1: on the line for a chance for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to win the game. And I think that's really
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  Speaker 1: all you can ask because you know, sometimes in life
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  Speaker 1: things don't go the way that you wanted to go,
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  Speaker 1: but you still got to be able to fight, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't let the circumstances dictate whether you.
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  Speaker 2: Go hard or not.
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  Speaker 1: So how many people do you know in real life
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  Speaker 1: that will still try when they know they lost, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? So for us, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest appreciation that I have for the players and
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff is that regardless of whatever happens, we
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  Speaker 1: stuck together and we fought, and it's always better to
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  Speaker 1: end the season with a win rather than a loss.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I figured we were going to go for
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  Speaker 1: two after we saw the Bears loss, and so I
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  Speaker 1: mean we was all for it. We wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: able to go for two, and Pete made the call,
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  Speaker 1: and Geno did a great job just going through his reads,
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  Speaker 1: his progressions, staying poisoned in the pocket, and then he
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  Speaker 1: made a great throw.
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  Speaker 2: And I just had to catch it. Man. I think
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  Speaker 2: I think he's put everything out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think he showed resilience, you know, throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of not getting a chance of playing in his last
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  Speaker 1: two years, being able to play, I mean, showing that
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  Speaker 1: he could come back and do it again, showing that
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  Speaker 1: even when people finally see that he's you know, he
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  Speaker 1: puts someone notice and you know they're like, well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just a one year thing. And he comes out
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  Speaker 1: here and he plays great again and he leads us
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  Speaker 1: to victory. He's a great leader. He does everything right.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, for us, man, we're thankful and happy
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  Speaker 1: to have him as our quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You see, even if it's some throws.
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  Speaker 1: That he wished he could have back, it doesn't stop
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  Speaker 1: him from the next play. It doesn't stop him from
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  Speaker 1: being able to make sure that the next pass is
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  Speaker 1: a better pass. And you know, for us, he puts
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us in great situations.
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  Speaker 2: He makes sure that we.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get knocked out, you know, when we're running across
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  Speaker 1: the middle, he does a great job protecting us, putting
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  Speaker 1: the ball only where we can be able to get it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when he needs the maneuver in the pocket,
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  Speaker 1: he does that. That was a great play. Even though
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  Speaker 1: they said it was incomplete. That was a great play
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  Speaker 1: being able to maneuver around with everything that was going on,
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  Speaker 1: throwing it to DK and.
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  Speaker 2: DK still being able to catch it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they said it was incomplete, but I mean still
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a great catch.
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  Speaker 2: And so just everything that he does, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he means a lot to.
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  Speaker 1: This organization, everything to this organization, and he put it
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: For us to be able to win this game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just think, you know, we do a
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  Speaker 1: great job practicing it, but sometimes I think we're just
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  Speaker 1: really good when our backs are against the wall, and
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  Speaker 1: it would be you know, it would be even more
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  Speaker 1: amazing if we were able to play like that early on
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  Speaker 1: and play like that as we just maintain drives and
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  Speaker 1: start the third quarter or whatever the case is, because
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  Speaker 1: anytime you know, we need a score, we go to
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  Speaker 1: two minute, we do a great job. And so now
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  Speaker 1: it's like, how great can we be in four minute
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  Speaker 1: offense when the team is trying to be able to
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  Speaker 1: stop us to get the ball back, but we won't
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  Speaker 1: even let them because we're running the ball great and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're running out the clock. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things that we can learn.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean we've done a really great job. We've
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  Speaker 1: i think won six games and lost four when it
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  Speaker 1: came to one score games. And like I said, we
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  Speaker 1: let some of those games slip away just at the
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  Speaker 1: end when we had a chance to win and we
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  Speaker 1: just almost had it. So I mean, again, man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just thankful, you know, for the team that we had,
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  Speaker 1: the players, the coaches, and you know, even though it
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  Speaker 1: didn't go how we wanted it to. We're know, in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, they had cigars. I didn't have a cigar.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, probably celebrating twenty twenty four and just
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  Speaker 1: celebrating even though it's disappointing for us not to go
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, it's still, you know, a win in
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different areas. Some guys finish their first
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  Speaker 1: rookie season. Some guys finish I think Bobby finishes what
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  Speaker 1: eleventh or twelfth season. You know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: some of us finished our ninth season, So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a lot of wins. Even though we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the ultimate goal that we wanted to. It's still
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  Speaker 1: a blessing to be able to put on the Seahawks uniform,
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  Speaker 1: to be in the NFL, to be able to make plays,
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  Speaker 1: for people to wear our jerseys, and you know, again
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  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we come out and we made it.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get injured, we didn't have to. You know,
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  Speaker 1: some of us might not have to get surgery. Some
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  Speaker 1: people might, but it's still a blessing to play this game.
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  Speaker 1: When they say every tackle was like car wrecks, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, people don't understand what people have to go
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  Speaker 1: through just to be able to literally play on some
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  Speaker 1: some people barely are able to walk on Monday, and
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  Speaker 1: then they somehow play and they play at a high
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  Speaker 1: level on Sunday. Some people, you know, they say don't play,
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  Speaker 1: and they put it all out there on the line
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  Speaker 1: and say, no, I'm gonna play no matter what. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta show love to the people who
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  Speaker 1: have resilience and the people who have that commitment and
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  Speaker 1: dedication just to be able to come out here and
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  Speaker 1: play regardless of what could possibly happen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, I mean
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  Speaker 2: a loss. I look at it like this.
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  Speaker 1: A loss to some people is a victory to others.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you gotta understand. Like I could sit
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  Speaker 1: here and say, oh, I sold the house and that's
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  Speaker 1: a victory. But to somebody else, they consider that like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a victory.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to do that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes you gotta be able to celebrate the little victories.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, everybody's gonna have something to
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  Speaker 1: say in the field, whatever they got to feel. But
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man, like, the only
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  Speaker 1: people that care are the people that's in this room
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  Speaker 1: because we know what each and every person had to
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  Speaker 1: go through. We wanted to be able to go out
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  Speaker 1: on top. We wanted to celebrate when we didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs that one year we had to play
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals when they were going we treated it like
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl game, and you know, we wanted and
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  Speaker 1: we celebrated like we won the super Bowl. So what
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna say, Oh, that looks dumb. They shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: did that. They're out the play. Well, if we always
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  Speaker 1: talk about every game is a super Bowl game, why
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  Speaker 1: can't we celebrate every game is if we want the
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl. Instead of waiting until you get to the
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl to celebrate, we have twenty four games to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate just to be able to get there. So, I mean, regardless,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has their own take about it. But again, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of people aren't in our position, and
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  Speaker 1: so we're just gonna be thankful in president and show
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  Speaker 1: gratitude and thankfulness as we continue to try to be
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  Speaker 1: the best that we can be in this league that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they you never know how much longer you got. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we were doing pretty good at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, for sure. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, we kind of slowed ourselves down,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think after the Dallas game, as we
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  Speaker 1: started the Dallas game, I think we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: better just with some of the things that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to clean up, some of the things that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see ourselves do better at. I think we were
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  Speaker 1: able to really start doing that, and we were able
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  Speaker 1: to score obviously, you want touchdowns not field goals, but
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  Speaker 1: we're still able to put points up. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to be able to do. As an offense.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to be more physical. I think we did that.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to run the ball, I think we did that.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to be able to be dominant in the
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  Speaker 1: past game.
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  Speaker 2: I think we started to do that, and so I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we wish we could.
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  Speaker 1: Have did that a lot earlier and stayed consistent throughout
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  Speaker 1: it all, but things happen.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like I said, I'm just glad that we
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  Speaker 2: don't play.
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  Speaker 1: On the team that gives up and says, hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: over weight, throwing the towel. We got a team that
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  Speaker 1: says we're going to fight to the very end, and
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't take you to the playoffs, it'll take
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  Speaker 1: you somewhere in life that you would always want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, we all got questions, but at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, all you can put your duds,
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  Speaker 1: put your best foot forward, putting in guys hands and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, try to have those conversations and kind
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  Speaker 1: of see what's going on and what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I'm thankful to be a seahawk, And
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  Speaker 2: of being here all right, y'all got, gets all the glory,