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Cooper Kupp: "I'm Excited About Getting This Thing Rolling" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So do you look forward to the first day of
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  Speaker 1: the pads. Uh, yeah, I mean I think every it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the same thing since the beginning of time, since
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  Speaker 1: Pop Warner football. You do the first few days without
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  Speaker 1: pads on, and it's always the first day of the
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  Speaker 1: pads always gets you know, it's like the the butterflies
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit more. You know, the energy is
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit higher. So you know that doesn't change.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing it was back when I was
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  Speaker 1: nine years old as it is nine years in the league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's there's all there's always a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff picked up. You know, you're picking up
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  Speaker 1: the intensity, especially up front. It'll be fun to watch
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  Speaker 1: the film. There's like you're going against guys. You're trying
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  Speaker 1: to block guys without shoulder pads on and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just very difficult. So it's very It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's different when you get pads on and and guys
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  Speaker 1: are the intensity just picked up a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, guys will be different players, and you know that.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you play full with pads on. Is you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can play seven on seven to all stuff all
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  Speaker 1: you want, but I tell the pads get on then
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  Speaker 1: this real football.
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  Speaker 2: I asked your coach about your leadership, Jasi, and in
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  Speaker 2: the end he said, he's glad that you own that
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  Speaker 2: you're on his team. Just how must you pay attention
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  Speaker 2: now all these years about your leadership intentionality, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your practice attention to detense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something I think as the years have gone on,
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  Speaker 1: the shift that happens just natural. I mean, you come
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  Speaker 1: in as a rookie and you are just trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. You know, you're trying to get through camping,
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  Speaker 1: a new city and all the different things that come
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  Speaker 1: along with that, and you're trying to build yourself into
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  Speaker 1: being an impactful player for the organization. And as time's
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  Speaker 1: gone on, you kind of built this place like I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to just be an impactful player. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be an impactful person. And as you're in the
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  Speaker 1: in the building, how can you bring all the people
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  Speaker 1: along with you and go from you know, have that shift
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  Speaker 1: that goes from you know, being poured into by the
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  Speaker 1: vets and by the coaches and all these people, but
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  Speaker 1: also being able to share that back with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players and coaches. I mean the coaches here have
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  Speaker 1: been awesome about just being allowing there to be dialogue
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  Speaker 1: that goes both ways between the players and coaches and
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  Speaker 1: challenging each other in the right ways. So it is
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  Speaker 1: something that is very important and something Mike's in a
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  Speaker 1: great job of fostering here starting to get starting to
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  Speaker 1: get not all that, starting to get trying to get
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  Speaker 1: there though.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like to be a chemistry is growing with
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  Speaker 3: training a game lag.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. I mean, I think the as many
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  Speaker 1: reps as you can get are huge, but it's even
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  Speaker 1: more than That's just the conversations over and over talking football,
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  Speaker 1: watching film together and being able to just discuss what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's just as important as the reps you
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  Speaker 1: get out here on the practice field, and and those
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  Speaker 1: have been great. I mean I think, uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: Sam and the experiences that he's had and you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing in this offense before it goes a long way
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  Speaker 1: because I'm asking a lot of questions about what's worked
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  Speaker 1: for him, how how has he that seen this? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: certain concepts come to life, and it's been really fun
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  Speaker 1: to be able to kind of bounce ideas off of
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  Speaker 1: each other.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you have fisity. How do you feel going
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  Speaker 3: into this season overall?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel really good. Yeah, I feel feel great,
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  Speaker 1: really excited. It's been a it's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun and looking forward to just continue the same as
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  Speaker 1: first day in pads. Uh, but really excited about getting
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  Speaker 1: this sing rolling about yourself best.
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  Speaker 3: But when you didn't have the opportunity, you just to have.
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  Speaker 1: That, yeah, you know, I think, uh it really you
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  Speaker 1: know came. It forced me to bring to life all
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  Speaker 1: the things that I've spoken about in terms of just
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  Speaker 1: the the journey, enjoying what the journey is and not
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  Speaker 1: being so reliant on it being the end result. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Scottie Scheffler had that great I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, you know, if you've got to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the journey, like the ends are gonna take care of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And those are very fleeting moments and everyone is working
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  Speaker 1: and wants to go win it all. Everyone wants to
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  Speaker 1: go out on Sunday and play well and walk off
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  Speaker 1: that field with the wind. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you just in this game. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: control of that. You do everything you can to say
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  Speaker 1: yourself up for it, but you just don't have control
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  Speaker 1: of it. And so if you get lost and just
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  Speaker 1: all of your joy and fulfillment being found in that,
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  Speaker 1: it's just you're never gonna find it. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for these last few years and things haven't gone my
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  Speaker 1: way and there's been injuries or you know, things just
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  Speaker 1: haven't worked out, I forced myself to say, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about that. It's it's about being waking up in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and being excited about going out and doing
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is that that day holds and going after
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  Speaker 1: it and bringing a joy and a spirit to it
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  Speaker 1: that is positively impacting the people around me. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you take that mindset,
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  Speaker 1: you take that attitude, I'll need it to fulfillment that
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  Speaker 1: you feel yourself. You know, that's where that's where I
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  Speaker 1: found a lot of my joy and being able to
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  Speaker 1: say it, I'm gonna be the same person regards of
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in football. I'mna be that same person. I
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  Speaker 1: go home to my kids and I go home to
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  Speaker 1: my wife. I'mna be the father that I need to
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  Speaker 1: be for them and the husband I need you need
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  Speaker 1: to be for my wife. And that's gonna be ultimately
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  Speaker 1: more important is it about that time that fat self
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  Speaker 1: realization with trigger or no, I think it was. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I talked about that a lot early in my career
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  Speaker 1: and until that stuff is you know, laid out there
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  Speaker 1: for you. Honest, shoot, here you go. You gotten it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can either be about it or you can
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  Speaker 1: shut up. And you know, I was like, Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is it. These are the moments. These are the moments
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  Speaker 1: like from the outside looking in are not fun. But
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  Speaker 1: I get to go into it with a with a mindset.
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  Speaker 1: How I get to enjoy this journey. This is this
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  Speaker 1: is my life. And I am incredibly blessed to be
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by the people that I've been surrounded by at
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  Speaker 1: home and you know, through football, the mentors that I've
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  Speaker 1: been around, the friends that I've you know, have the
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  Speaker 1: relationships that I've been built over the years of just
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  Speaker 1: playing playing ball. And I'm very thankful for it. And and
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  Speaker 1: I don't take that stuff for granted.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot made when you signed about you
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  Speaker 3: and Jacksony that you just played this Lael lot and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Now that you're kind of seeing that
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  Speaker 3: come come to life or you obviously it's working out
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  Speaker 3: that way, but deserble changing much at all in any
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  Speaker 3: of that. So their land any want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well obviously you guys know where on
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  Speaker 1: the wing teeth, So like multiple running backs back there,
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  Speaker 1: we're crossing all over the place, you know, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson's been doing some good stuff up there. When I
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  Speaker 1: get at full back is when I really feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm at my best. We just go capital tea when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about but if.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what did you do to earn that patch?
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, actually I was. I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at this earlier and I was like, I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: what we talked about it at one point, Like this
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  Speaker 1: little blue thing here. I'm not sure what this little
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  Speaker 1: blue patches. So we're gonna I'm gonna ask some questions
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  Speaker 1: and I'll report back next time.
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  Speaker 3: What are your early impressions that he was, like Tyron
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  Speaker 3: Bruden Andrey Wharton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys, man, they've been great. They've they've been
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  Speaker 1: really good, great people. Just being able to be around
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  Speaker 1: him has been awesome. And man, really good football players
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  Speaker 1: you know on torri uh as well. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: just they've they've been doing some really good stuff and
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  Speaker 1: it's been fun just seeing them go out there and compete,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the rookie, like I said, every rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: like you're just trying to figure it out. You get
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  Speaker 1: in training camp and guys are swimming, but the intent
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  Speaker 1: and the you know, the they all want to do
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  Speaker 1: it right. Everyone wants to do it right and that's
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  Speaker 1: the important thing. And then they're gonna get there and
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  Speaker 1: it's been fun to see them compete though.
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  Speaker 3: For you, like earlier in your career, what do you
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  Speaker 3: think you figured it out here? Just like what were
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  Speaker 3: the biggest differences? Maybe specific position that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to Yeah, I think the I'm the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing. I think getting you know, play with your
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  Speaker 1: eyes up and going from the mindset of being like
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  Speaker 1: like what do I have to you know, what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? You know? I think that the there's a
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  Speaker 1: change that happens, like there's there's there's on paper this
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  Speaker 1: route that you have to run. But overall, there's a scheme,
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  Speaker 1: there's a concept that's happening that we're trying to get done.
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  Speaker 1: There's an intent behind what we're trying to get done.
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  Speaker 1: And if everyone's on it, you can super charge every
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  Speaker 1: play by putting yourselves in great positions, whether that's pre
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  Speaker 1: snap with just your alignments and or it could be
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  Speaker 1: you know, with your anticipation, or it could be post
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  Speaker 1: snapp with how you're reacting to things. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the biggest change that happens, just that being able
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  Speaker 1: to supercharge plays by just being on the details, understanding
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  Speaker 1: the intent and knowing where the lines are drawn between
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  Speaker 1: the line that's on the playbook and the line that's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be done out in the play Is it.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of supposed to be able to see that big.
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  Speaker 1: Pictures or just so much you know there is there
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  Speaker 1: is And I think a lot of that comes down
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  Speaker 1: to the coaches and vets to be able to pull
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  Speaker 1: guys alongside and be able to you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put enough on guys plates to continue to challenge them
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  Speaker 1: without slowing them down. You know, the worst thing you
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  Speaker 1: can do is go out there and you can start
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  Speaker 1: thinking so much that you just aren't able to play fast.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of good football players, really smart
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  Speaker 1: football players on this team, and it's about that continually
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  Speaker 1: putting a little more on their plate and seeing how
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  Speaker 1: much can you digest and be able to understand to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go out there and continue to play fast.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we've got the guys that can do that, rookies.
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  Speaker 3: There's rookies on their end. Since you've been through this
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  Speaker 3: and yet you've experienced that, and like what kind of
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  Speaker 3: advice would you give guys that aren't coming into Druggies
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  Speaker 3: right now, but independent.
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  Speaker 2: From what the coaches you're doing, like how they can.
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  Speaker 3: Try to get to that point faster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a big part of it is trying
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  Speaker 1: to prevent scarring from happening. Like what happens you go
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  Speaker 1: out there, you make a mistake, You're you're thinking about something,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying something, it doesn't work, You get yelled at
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  Speaker 1: from messing it up or lying up front whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: and you say, I'm never doing that again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like you get scarred from this moment, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like just telling us, hey, this is all like fluid,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're gonna make mistakes. These things are gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: but this is where it has to happen. It has
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  Speaker 1: to happen out here. Unfortunately in friend campig it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen from a bunch of fans and all this different stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all your emotions. All this sment stuff is happening, but
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  Speaker 1: the practice feels where you got. You gotta feel safe
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  Speaker 1: to do this stuff and and let it go, Like,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about holding back it all in practice because
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  Speaker 1: you're scared of messing up. Let it go. Be open
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  Speaker 1: to being coached, and don't let you know, jade you
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  Speaker 1: from continuing to challenge yourself and do those things.
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  Speaker 2: In the future.
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  Speaker 3: Things going on in his office like coordinator, give coaches
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  Speaker 3: new offense.
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  Speaker 1: In general, players, what are you looking for to gain
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  Speaker 1: confidence that you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Are edge of the right direction?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I do think that's It's something that
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  Speaker 1: is gonna build as training camp goes on. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there's gonna be a point when all the playbook's
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  Speaker 1: in right and and there's gonna be a plant point
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  Speaker 1: where it's all down and you're like, hey, we've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this for a while now, and now plays are recycling.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, hey, I've seen this play before, I've done this,
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  Speaker 1: I've run this a couple of times now against different looks,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, this is when things start to
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  Speaker 1: get real comfortable, because now you're hearing plays in the
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  Speaker 1: huddle and you're not thinking about where you're lining up,
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking about leaving the huddle. Say amount, I hope
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  Speaker 1: we have covered four because I know exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: want to get done on this, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where you want to get to and and well, all
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  Speaker 1: these guys, we're gonna get there. It's it's about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue to challenge yourself, continue to think that way, and
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  Speaker 1: push yourself to try to get there as quick as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna get there very soon. And you've seen,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's glimpses of stuff that's that's really fun
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  Speaker 1: to see when we're watching the film because you got
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  Speaker 1: guys that want to do that. Thank you, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: guys man