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Uchenna Nwosu: "We're On the Path Of Greatness" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you again, good, getting the path on,
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  Speaker 2: getting enough battles going.
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  Speaker 1: On the treasures. Yeah, it feels good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I missed a good portion of the season
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  Speaker 2: last season, so it feels good to put pass on
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  Speaker 2: again and be out there.
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  Speaker 1: You feel as well. It's the way the defense is
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  Speaker 1: played these first two days in paths. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: still kind of getting adjusted. I wouldn't say it's perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but it's looking good.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I'm proud of the way everybody's performing out there competing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's only gonna make us better. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I expect us to get a lot better as training
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  Speaker 2: camp goes on and knock off the rest. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're on the path of the of the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm proud to see everybody keep working hard.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of the important communications. Tell you feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: put a long suffar so you know the important communication
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  Speaker 1: that Yeah, communication is defense is very important.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of different things going on, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different moving parts, so the communication is definitely getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. The guys are starting to.
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  Speaker 2: Trust each other a lot more and talk out there,
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  Speaker 2: and you guys, you can see it's making us better
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  Speaker 2: and we're on the path of you know, greatness.
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  Speaker 1: So to do that, you have to learn multiple positions.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of that. What's the defensive playbook? Like, not
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  Speaker 1: not tell us, but how you have to learn each
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  Speaker 1: other positions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at any given point, anybody could be anywhere. So
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  Speaker 2: and you can't be on the field if you don't
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  Speaker 2: know what you're doing. So you better learn what you're
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  Speaker 2: doing out there and learn every position and do it
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  Speaker 2: at a high level. So, and that's what everybody's been doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everybody's been putting different spots. Everybody's been challenging.
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  Speaker 2: Coach has been challenging US players to be better, myself
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  Speaker 2: included of course. So and everybody's taking the initiative of
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  Speaker 2: being great and learning the defense completely. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be special when we put it all together.
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  Speaker 1: How do cynagy? Then?
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  Speaker 2: With that? Does that come with the communication and the
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  Speaker 2: playing together, the synergy you need for to move the
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  Speaker 2: pieces around?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, definitely. You go get to Charles a lot.
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  Speaker 1: How have you had u see again progressed if you've.
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  Speaker 2: Gotten your guy to know, Oh yeah, Charles is getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot better. He's getting a lot better. He's getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot stronger, His fee's gotten better. His everything's gotten better,
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  Speaker 2: is discipline, his eye level, his his finish, everything about
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  Speaker 2: Charles is getting better.
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  Speaker 1: He's developing into an.
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  Speaker 2: All pro left tackle and can't wait to see what
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  Speaker 2: he does on the field for us this year.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see?
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  Speaker 2: You get it? You won't get it down.
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  Speaker 1: What makes his different special? You need different? Say it again,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, finally get all the steam down. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: change and do everything that just happen. What makes his
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  Speaker 1: defense different for special?
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  Speaker 2: Just the versatility, you know, just the different ways we
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  Speaker 2: can affect offenses. You know, that's that's what the league
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  Speaker 2: is now, is the matchups and you can't do the
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  Speaker 2: same thing over and over because all these quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 2: coordinators are getting better and better every year. So you
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  Speaker 2: gotta have answers and that's what that's what this defense provides.
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  Speaker 1: You see for Derek Hall going in to the year
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  Speaker 1: two compared to last season, his count that he's mad
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  Speaker 1: this off He's hungry.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's ready to go out there and prove
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  Speaker 2: what he can do from the offseason training that he's
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  Speaker 2: put in so now you can see it out there.
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  Speaker 2: He's committed more than ever, you know, last year being
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  Speaker 2: a rookie for him, he's just kind of going with
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  Speaker 2: the flow, listening, taking the coaching. But now he's taking
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  Speaker 2: the next step, leading, showing the younger guys how it's done,
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  Speaker 2: and impressing these coaches more and more.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to period there we just stopping everyone, just
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  Speaker 1: one on ones in front of the whole teams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I liked it. It was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I wish I was out there, but it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to see everybody out there working. Provides a level of competition,
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  Speaker 2: gets everybody going offense versus defense. And that's what we're
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  Speaker 2: all about, is a year at the Seahawks is competing.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have it before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely have one on ones individually. You see
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  Speaker 2: one on ones going out here, but yeah, I've I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen that before. Actually know, Pete did it actually
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  Speaker 2: last year. Pete did that last year at the end
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  Speaker 2: of practice he would have guys go up against each other.
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  Speaker 1: So but it's good to see you like that mystery situation,
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  Speaker 1: so that you guys did yoh, the mystery situation is great.
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  Speaker 2: Put you in in situations that you know you gotta
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  Speaker 2: think on the fly, you know, which is good because
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be times like that in games.
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  Speaker 1: So I like it. I love the way coach is
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  Speaker 1: coaching us and the preparing us for real games. McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: football mind. A lot of players have talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you speak to that? Yeah, His mine's very very advanced.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a very smart dude, very young dude.
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  Speaker 2: Understands things really well, understands offenses, and like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: he provides a lot of answers, and he's very smart,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a lot of smart players on this team,
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  Speaker 2: so why not, you know, use the whole entire playbook.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the way he's coaching us. Defense, loves it.
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  Speaker 2: We're just getting better every day.
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  Speaker 1: I'll expansive.
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  Speaker 2: Over the past.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mentioned earlier, the versatility.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys playing a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: positions in past defenses that I played as guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty much all in the same You know where they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be at with this defense is it's more complicated
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  Speaker 2: than that. You gotta you gotta know what's coming at
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  Speaker 2: you from all angles. And that's what makes his defense special.
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  Speaker 1: Derek kind of where's he improved.
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  Speaker 2: Emotion when you're one to Now is his his focus,
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, and his leadership Derek, like I said, his
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  Speaker 2: rookie year, you know, he was just trying to like
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  Speaker 2: take coaching as it goes, and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: soaking information for myself and the older guys. And now
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  Speaker 2: he's taking the initiative to lead, be more of a
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  Speaker 2: leader on teams and make he's making players out there.
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  Speaker 2: As you can see, he's pass rushing hard, he's stopping
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  Speaker 2: the run, which you're gonna need him for, and he's
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  Speaker 2: playing really aggressive and we need we need that on
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  Speaker 2: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thanks guys,