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John Schneider & Mike Macdonald On The Draft: "It's The Pick That Everyone Wants" | Pre-Draft Press Conference · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So yeah, thanks for coming out.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting ready for seventeenth draft here, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Time flies, Mike and I want to thank everybody involved
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  Speaker 2: in the process, when the kitchen, e K's group obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the scouts, the coaches, Dave's.
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  Speaker 1: Group, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, everything that goes into it, the psychology
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  Speaker 2: of it, the medical group as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just huge thanks to everybody. We had a really
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  Speaker 2: cool process.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He's got done with the coaches on Saturday, and more
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  Speaker 2: meetings this morning. Yeah, so we'll have you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of getting a note, getting to feel what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Certain a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Calls this uh this week with our guys upstairs, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Noan and Trent, Willie, Matt Berry, Aaron and those guys.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, the process has been awesome obviously. Uh, we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of able to tweak some things with rookie free
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  Speaker 2: agency because uh it's be a big deal for us.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know Day's point earlier, just a couple
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  Speaker 2: of minutes ago. We do have a young football team
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  Speaker 2: and uh we had a lot of uh we had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of second year guy year players on our roster.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, with that, do you have any questions, What,
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  Speaker 1: if anything, do.
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  Speaker 3: You tweak about the process when you look at a
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  Speaker 3: number of draft picks that you have compared to past years,
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  Speaker 3: you mean.
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  Speaker 2: The lack thereof yes, uh yeah, we just we just
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  Speaker 2: uh we just attacked it. I don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 2: we did, but we just did some like extra meeting
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  Speaker 2: and feel like it's gonna help us in the.
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  Speaker 1: Future because we uh we kind of uh.
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  Speaker 2: Streamlined some things with the with the coaching staff and
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  Speaker 2: feel like we're just kind of out ahead a little
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  Speaker 2: bit uh better maybe than in the future or in
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  Speaker 2: the past. So uh, moving towards the future, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be an awesome part of our our process.
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  Speaker 2: Just the uh the time focused on freegency.
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  Speaker 1: What did you learn from the twenty twenty one draft.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it was a different year compared to
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  Speaker 2: the other fifteen that you've been in Seattle, taking eight
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  Speaker 2: at least eight picks and every other draft except for
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  Speaker 2: that one. Yeah, well that was I mean, shoot, that
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  Speaker 2: that was uh, that was kind of an interesting time, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we're getting ready for when you
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  Speaker 2: look at how we scouted and you know, using all
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  Speaker 2: the all the zoom calls, and you know, all the
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  Speaker 2: FaceTime stuff we do now, it was really we were
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  Speaker 2: just confronted with that, you know, and and it's really helped.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just really now it's just a part of
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  Speaker 1: our whole process. The coaches, the scouts and the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Do an awesome job with it. And so really the uh,
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  Speaker 2: the process of evaluating the guys, kind of getting to
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  Speaker 2: know them, spending more time with them on the zooms
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  Speaker 2: has really helped.
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  Speaker 4: Is your third draft now with Mike and the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 4: have you seen as you've gotten to know each other
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  Speaker 4: better in the coaching staff better just that process of
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  Speaker 4: all the preparing for a draft with this coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming around with their sense of humor. They're yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're no, it's it's, it's it's it's really the most
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  Speaker 2: fun part of the process is when we spend those
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  Speaker 2: days with the coaches.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of interaction throughout the whole process.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fun to kind of like get every together
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  Speaker 2: in that room and and UH and just go through
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  Speaker 2: everybody and hear everybody out and see what the vision is.
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  Speaker 1: For uh, for the coaches, for these players.
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  Speaker 5: There are some teams that are choosing to not meet
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  Speaker 5: with as many players and they.
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  Speaker 6: Wor it's gonna bias them by meeting the person.
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious why you guys choose to spend as much
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  Speaker 5: time as.
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  Speaker 6: You do with the players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think that that we totally don't
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  Speaker 2: know exactly who the person is, so you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: spend as much time as you possibly can. Even once
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  Speaker 2: once they're in the building, we think we want to
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  Speaker 2: have as great of a feel for them as we
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  Speaker 2: possibly can, but we're still learning them and how to
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  Speaker 2: help them succeed and uh reach their true potential.
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  Speaker 1: So that's every You know a lot of people do.
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  Speaker 2: Things differently, and you know, you just have to be
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  Speaker 2: pliable and keep learning.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's here too, if you guys got any questions.
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  Speaker 7: Extremely Mike, this is your third go around now in
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  Speaker 7: the pre draft process. What do you feel like you've
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  Speaker 7: grown the most now compared to when you were first
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  Speaker 7: year coach going through this and the way that you
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  Speaker 7: guys structure your process.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I just, uh, my appreciation for the like the
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  Speaker 8: amount of work that goes into I mean there's a
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  Speaker 8: lot of information being you know, you know, harvested over
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  Speaker 8: the over the course of you know, years of work,
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  Speaker 8: so kind of understanding how our process is now probably
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  Speaker 8: my role in the whole process is probably clear and
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  Speaker 8: you kind of dump jump in head first this first
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  Speaker 8: couple of years, but now you know, you kind of
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  Speaker 8: see where where my role kind of fits in, and
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  Speaker 8: so it's just just just clear, you know. But I'll
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  Speaker 8: tell you what, Like I just I really appreciate the
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  Speaker 8: amount of work that goes into it. I mean, even
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  Speaker 8: our coaches, like they come in at the eleventh hour,
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  Speaker 8: Like I think they have a great understanding of you know,
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  Speaker 8: what it takes to generate this information from our scouting
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  Speaker 8: department and how great they do, but you know, adding
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  Speaker 8: the vision for how we would probably you know, play
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  Speaker 8: each player, and there's a lot of time where they're
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  Speaker 8: spending individually with these guys to really just gain that
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  Speaker 8: extra you know, feeling for who they are, like John's
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  Speaker 8: talking about, and so just really appreciate everybody's effort up
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  Speaker 8: to this point in that process. Now probably less why
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  Speaker 8: just like I said, just like there's my my you know,
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  Speaker 8: I'm not my job's not to come in with the hint.
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  Speaker 1: My job is to.
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  Speaker 8: Work with the people throughout the process. So, and we
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  Speaker 8: got a lot of really smart people that are really
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  Speaker 8: good evaluators, and uh so I want to hear them
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  Speaker 8: out and then we can kind of work work what's
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  Speaker 8: best for us. As like each situation starts to unfold, John.
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  Speaker 9: The changes you think going from what is it ten
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  Speaker 9: minutes to eight minutes between picks in the first round,
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  Speaker 9: do you see that potentially impacting team's ability to pull
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  Speaker 9: off trades and does that require you to do anything
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  Speaker 9: differently in preparation.
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  Speaker 6: For the first round.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think that that you're usually ahead anyway, You're
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  Speaker 2: a couple of picks ahead, and so it's just that
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  Speaker 2: time that you know that extra two minutes is not
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  Speaker 2: gonna make a difference in terms of trading, moving around
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. Everybody you try to line stuff up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really, I mean you try to do it
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  Speaker 2: this week, but really people get serious, you know, like Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, just throughout the day talking on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about trading up and training down all that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, John, Historically, do you see that end of the
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  Speaker 4: first round pick being one that can be in play
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  Speaker 4: for a lot of teams because of you know, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's the fifth year option or just the.
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  Speaker 1: Last one of the day.
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  Speaker 4: You just didn't your observations.
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  Speaker 6: Over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, it's the pict that everybody wants.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's like a it's a a you're you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're blessed enough to win a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: right and then a fifth year option right there. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's no secret with us guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have four picks, so we'll be looking
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  Speaker 2: to we'll be looking to move back, and people are
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  Speaker 2: usually understanding that. You know, I think we tend to
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  Speaker 2: trend backwards, trade back, We've traded up, We've.
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  Speaker 1: Traded up for Tyler and our partner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick, Yeah, Yeah, So we do do that.
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  Speaker 8: It's not that we don't do that all four times.
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  Speaker 10: It's either the three the thirties or the combines.
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  Speaker 1: Or local day or yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Can you get an example of those that became decisive
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  Speaker 10: and you pick the guy based solely or what you
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  Speaker 10: learned fighting to get deeper those visits?
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, oh man, No, I think you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's that's a fair question. I think, uh, like having
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  Speaker 2: Frank Clark in here and spending time with him and
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  Speaker 2: going through that whole process with him, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it was somewhat controversial, and but being able to.
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  Speaker 1: Have him in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Nick and and Moory last year, what's the vision,
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  Speaker 2: what's it going to look like? But every year there's
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  Speaker 2: a there's a ton of them, so it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: but you know, the the also the thirty visits for
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  Speaker 2: you know, rookie free agency and and uh in the
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  Speaker 2: local day for for free rookie free agency as well,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of there's a lot of talented
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  Speaker 2: players out there that you know are not are not
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  Speaker 2: going to get drafted. You know, when when you preach,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're talking about you know, you're a strong
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty person.
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  Speaker 1: Like group throughout the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, from you know, we'll have about one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty guys through here every year, so one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty to ninety to you know, to our seventy.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting to know all these guys.
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  Speaker 2: So I think so Dave was saying, we've had thirty
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  Speaker 2: two undershert to guys make our opening day roster since
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  Speaker 2: twenty ten, and we've been we've been blessed to be
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  Speaker 2: able to work with staffs that are very open to
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not you know where you're, where you
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  Speaker 2: get acquired, or how you start. It's like how you
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  Speaker 2: buy into the program and the process and to all
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  Speaker 2: the tools that we provide in this building to help you.
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  Speaker 5: Like you guys aren't a static you know process for
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  Speaker 5: your team or scheme or how you do things. So
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  Speaker 5: you got a player like Nicki min worry last year
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  Speaker 5: in the draft ends up changing kind of what you
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  Speaker 5: can do, what's kind of.
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  Speaker 6: The order of operation?
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys come up with new things that you
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  Speaker 5: want that then help inform who you're looking to pick,
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  Speaker 5: or do you then react to who you get and
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  Speaker 5: maybe change some of what you're capable of based of that.
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  Speaker 8: I think we try to be probably more of the former,
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  Speaker 8: where you know, you're constantly evaluating where you are as
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  Speaker 8: a team, where you know each position group, the things
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  Speaker 8: that you're anticipating you're going to be able to have
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  Speaker 8: to do from like going into next year, where do
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  Speaker 8: we need to take our scheme? How do we kind
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  Speaker 8: of just kind of level up to the next you know,
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  Speaker 8: to the next stage and uh, and that's communicated through
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  Speaker 8: our process and so I think I think are our
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  Speaker 8: personnel folks do a great job of Like, I think
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  Speaker 8: that communication right now is at a great, great position
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  Speaker 8: of what we're looking for from each position. And then
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  Speaker 8: you know, there's there's guys that it happens all the
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  Speaker 8: time that you're going to get a really talented player
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  Speaker 8: that maybe you didn't have initially a great vision for him,
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  Speaker 8: and you just you know, you can't be denied. And
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  Speaker 8: and then that's when you know, that's our job as
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  Speaker 8: coaches to move and shake and make make that person's
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  Speaker 8: talents come to life. But you also, you know, there's
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  Speaker 8: only so many exceptions you can make that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 8: So that's that's always moving. But I think we tend
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  Speaker 8: towards the former.
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  Speaker 2: When there's alignment with the visions, it's when everything just
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  Speaker 2: you know comes together.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you guys don't really care about draft
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  Speaker 5: grades and what everyone else does.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm curious, from your perspective as a GM.
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  Speaker 5: How do you evaluate or like what earns your respect
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  Speaker 5: that another GM does through the draft process.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds corny, but it's basically like when
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  Speaker 2: you're you're going through a draft and the names just
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  Speaker 2: keep coming off, like with the specific teams where you're like,
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  Speaker 2: you know and not I think I've talked to you before.
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  Speaker 2: I especially had with Mike that it happened with Ozzie
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  Speaker 2: all the time in Baltimore. And then you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Tacosta, and then there's you know, there's several other
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  Speaker 2: but Baltimore has always been, for some one reason or another,
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  Speaker 2: has always been a team that the names start coming
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  Speaker 2: off and you're like, dang, like it hurts, you know, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you know it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is ends up being the Seahawks draft board and
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  Speaker 2: the vision four Like are these players not necessarily the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League? So there are players that are a
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  Speaker 2: certain level that you know, on the board, it might
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit lower that you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: a we still really like, but maybe the vision is
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  Speaker 2: not quite as clear as as people are taken higher.
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  Speaker 2: But you're still like, man, you respect it. Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: a great pick, Like that's a you know, six' two
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  Speaker 2: corner run four three and stuff like.
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  Speaker 11: That how do.
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  Speaker 10: Both you feel about the running back situation you have right?
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, LIKE i, mean LIKE i, think you, know
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  Speaker 2: Signing wilson really helps us in this year's draft as,
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  Speaker 2: well kind of give us some freedom and we've talked
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  Speaker 2: About George sharp's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Great, YEAH i mean we.
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  Speaker 8: Well the guys are back in, today so we have
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  Speaker 8: to see. Everybody they're all. HERE i have a like on,
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  Speaker 8: RECORD i believe in our. Guys and then there's a
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  Speaker 8: process too that we're again we're not going to play
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  Speaker 8: for another thankfully we don't to play for anther five
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  Speaker 8: or so. Months you, know we got a lot of
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  Speaker 8: training to, do.
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  Speaker 10: Car, fitting been around the program been do you know
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  Speaker 10: him now a little? More how much maybe could he
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  Speaker 10: become a factor because of just.
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  Speaker 1: Familiar to these.
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  Speaker 8: Guys, yeah Like john says his second year. Guy BUT
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  Speaker 8: i mean to, me what a great opportunity has you,
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  Speaker 8: KNOW i think the great part about our team right
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  Speaker 8: now is we you can go position by a position
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  Speaker 8: AND i can you can rattle off the great competitions
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  Speaker 8: that we're gonna have really throughout the. Process it's not
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  Speaker 8: always that, case you. Know SO i think that speaks
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  Speaker 8: to like really the depth of our team right, now
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  Speaker 8: which is which is really. Exciting And jakarti is right.
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  Speaker 1: There like where's he at in his?
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  Speaker 8: Recover he's coming. Along it's tough to put a timetable on.
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  Speaker 8: It but he's trying his tail, off AND i THINK
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  Speaker 8: i think it's one of those deals where, like, hey
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  Speaker 8: let's just keep hitting those benchmarks until we, can you,
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  Speaker 8: know evaluate where what's gonna look like in the. Fall
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  Speaker 8: it's not here right.
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  Speaker 7: Now, no like you just, mentioned with the competitions across the,
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  Speaker 7: Roster john has mentioned from a lesson learned for the
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  Speaker 7: Last Super bowl, team wanting to make sure you're drafting
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  Speaker 7: guys that are not going to back down from competing
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  Speaker 7: against A Super bowl, Team betting all the young stars
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  Speaker 7: that you've. Got how do you assess that with a
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  Speaker 7: limited time that you have with these prospects though leading
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  Speaker 7: up to the, draft trying to make sure that you're
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  Speaker 7: finding the guys that check off that.
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  Speaker 8: Box, well you're working with a personnel department that's been
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  Speaker 8: together for a long time and they got a really
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  Speaker 8: clear understanding about what makes A seahawk A. Seahawks so
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  Speaker 8: this isn't their first, rodeo you, Know and that's constantly
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  Speaker 8: being discussed from the meetings That i'm, In and Like john,
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  Speaker 8: said there's clarity, there there's, alignment and, uh you, know
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  Speaker 8: whether we wanted The Super bowl or, not it would
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  Speaker 8: have been the same criteria the type of person that
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  Speaker 8: we're looking for to join our. Team so it's pretty pretty, consistent.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly like you, mentioned, offseason there are guys being back
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  Speaker 4: in The billings starting the officing program. Today how is
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  Speaker 4: it kind of getting that process rolling again?
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  Speaker 8: Already, yeah that's, great it's. Great, uh today's day one
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  Speaker 8: for us in uh in phase. One and we talked
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  Speaker 8: about this. Earlier we you, know we tiered our our
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  Speaker 8: off season program from having like a later finish this.
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  Speaker 8: Season BUT i was just, LIKE i was blown away
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  Speaker 8: by the, guys some of the guys that showed up
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  Speaker 8: today and that you, know we weren't asking to be,
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  Speaker 8: here you, know at this point in. Time and, uh
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  Speaker 8: just the energy is really. Great you, know there's still
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  Speaker 8: a great like sense of urgency and spirit to the,
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  Speaker 8: guys which which is. Exciting but it's mostly just strength
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  Speaker 8: conditioning at this point and some individual. Meetings but, yeah
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  Speaker 8: it's this is like that this is one of the
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  Speaker 8: best times of year to see the guys again after
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  Speaker 8: after the. BREAK i won't say, surprise this is like you, say, hey,
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  Speaker 8: look if you if you finished playing the whole, season you,
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  Speaker 8: know phase, one you, know we'd love for you to be, here,
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  Speaker 8: obviously but to get more time out of the building
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  Speaker 8: so you can come back as fresh as. Possible so
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  Speaker 8: guys Like, Spoon Jay, reid we're. Here guys that didn't you,
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  Speaker 8: know just want to be around the guys, again you,
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  Speaker 8: Know SO i thought that was really cool their.
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  Speaker 3: Call, Sorry, John what do you think about the continuity
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  Speaker 3: that your scouts have?
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  Speaker 9: Together how does that impact the mayhem that takes place
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  Speaker 9: with free agency after the draft has completed That saturday
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  Speaker 9: Night sunday side of the.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Part oh, yeah great.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Question it never goes as smoothly as you wanted to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: go because it's, just you, know guys are, Like.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I've never been on the floor to. Stock ACTUALLY i.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Have we did do that one, time but it's it's
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: like crazy like, that, Right it's just that there's guys are,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: signing they commit to, you and then they go to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: a different club and they're, they're you, know the ever
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: reason negotiating different signing. Bonuses but, uh you Know Matt,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: perry you, know and And Joey, lane those guys do
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a really good job of just you, know organizing it to, say,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: hey like everyone knows exactly what they role. Is this
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: with a specific coach and who's who's, negotiating who's recruiting
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: with that coach and uh, yeah and then you, know
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: just WHEN i was talking about the process of, IT
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: i was talking about basically the study of it this,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: year like we like the focus of, it like what
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: can we really bite, into like what are the redeeming
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: qualities here with this player and working with the coaches
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to have, that, uh that vision for that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Player John you've been open about how you've changed or you,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: know continually revisited your draft process over the years and
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: maybe pushing to eat up.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: EARLIER i think it was an example you.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Gave when you look at free agency and trades as
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the process there as.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Well which are those three processes do you feel like change.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: The most since you you, know became gm.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Ah the trades on on draft weekend and you have
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: to make sure you have to call her team and
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: make sure you're on the same page to figure Out
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: we all just used to use The Jimmy johnson. Sheet
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: it was actually much easier to to to work off
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: of negotiate with other.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Teams now he you, know has.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Different we've had a lot more analytics groups to it
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: and so it's you, know it's it's built off of like,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: analytics salary, cap previous you, know history with, trades and
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: because at the end of the, day if you want the,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: player you, know get the.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Player you.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Know but we also we we we all used to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: be a little bit more disciplined in terms of sticking
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: with the same points system because you can get in
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: situations now where you're, like, why you, know you don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: want to come off as, rude but you're, like, well.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Why WOULD i do? That we're getting our butt. Kicked like.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: A, guess unless there was a you, know six foot,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: five three hundred and thirty pounds defensive tackle run four to,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: three then maybe you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't get your butt kicked and just go get.
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: THEM i guess as there are as many fans that
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: are as into this draft as maybe if you were twenty.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Three the guys that you, know all those, Picks but how.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Important is it to really nail these, picks you, know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: In the draft white, face to keep the success?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Going and, yeah it's a great. QUESTION i, think you,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: KNOW i think either at the combine or maybe at
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: the owner's meeting just talking ABOUT i think there's a
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: lack of depth in this.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Draft AND i.
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  Speaker 2: Think OUR i thought our scouts did a great job
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: in the fall of identifying that and letting that allowed
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: us to be a little bit more willing to give
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: up the fourth and the fifth round draft. Pick but
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: no matter what draft you're, in what, year it's it's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: it's our responsibility of the organization to be able to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: find True seahawks all the way through. It and so
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that means if we did have that fourth and the,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: fifth that we're moving around and we acquire more draft, picks,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: like we're still gonna be focused on making those guys True.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and you know when when when you say nailing it,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it it no matter if you have you, know the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: three and.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Was that twenty? One was that was that the year
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: we had three? Picks? Yeah?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Uh or you know last year having a bunch of draft,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Picks it doesn't. Matter you still feel that same level
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: of pressure to be able to.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Bring the best people you can in for the you,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: know for the organization and for the coaching.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: Staff john of the like perceived abnormalities in this.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Draft you were just talking about the lack of.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Depth there's you, know some positions it seems like in,
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: years they're easier to.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Find but thank you is?
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: Here what do you make of? That do you think
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: that's still like the maybe the final effect of THE
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: covid year or is it? Nil what do you what do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You make of?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That, yeah there's a couple there's a couple of guys
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: in here WHO'S i think this is supposed to be
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the last year of.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: It but there's still a couple of guys.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: In here that are we finished in their first contract
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: at twenty nine years, old you know? So but, yeah
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: it's my understanding this is gonna be the Last it
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: should be like the last year of it are trickling
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: down pretty. Quick we've had some guys that you, know
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: have been in school for six, years you know, So,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: uh they're called.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Doctors.
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: John when you say your board is for your, guys
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: not The National Football league in terms of, yours are
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: used to saying like it's suggested for your.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Needs or a.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Combination, yeah it's adjusted for you, know comparing somebody to you,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: know comparing a corner to spoon Or Josh. Job you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: what look at? That how do how do they how
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: they can compete with those? Guys what's the fit and
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: then obviously you know need need if you're doing it,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: correctly need just should pop in there.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Naturally so more so roster make up the.
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: Need, john when you look back to the drafts coming
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: out of the Last Super bowl twenty thirteen and what
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: you kind of went, through what did you learn about
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: trying to maintain the drafts you made then things you
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: went through at the, time and how do you try
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: to adjust that now to try to do it this time,
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: around to stay.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Stay where you're.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: At, yeah we'll getting to the point earlier here about you,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: know finding those players that are gonna come, in you
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: want to come in and compete at a high, level
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: not being amored by the guys that just saw playing
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: in the in The Super bowl or or whether they you,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: know played It I'm madden like four years older earlier
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: or something like. That but also not necessarily just like,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: ah just kind of like throwing darts a little, bit, like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: hey like we might as well take a shot at
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: a guy that you, know looks Like Richard sherman or
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: runs Like Earl, thomas you, know or we think could
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: be the next Cam chancellor or something like. That you,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: know so be really really careful about comparisons that never goes. Real,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: WELL i understand the entertainment of, it AND i find
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: myself doing it once in a while, too like, oh
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: this guy reminds me of this player you know from the,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: past Or i'm starting to get to the point now
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: where these guys are looking at me like like who's? That,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah leslie AND i are the only ones that know
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: who these. Guys and With Todd bruner, too It's todd
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: played with a leather helmet and.
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: When both of you are digging into tangibles and trying
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: to add to the. Culture, here what value in place
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: on a few relatively few collegiates.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Who stay at one entire college.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: Career is that a gold star on your?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Board, yeah it's it's come up as from a loyalty. Standpoint,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: absolutely there's several guys that have turned down a lot of.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Money yeah to. Believe, yeah it's hard to put it
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: like in a hardened steadfast case because there's different reasons
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: for guys transferring or you, know you don't want to
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: just discount for. That but it's definitely something THAT i
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: kind of it opens right. NOW i. Did now it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: that's the abnormality rather than you know the.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Rule, john you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Talk about how you, know draft day you want things
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: calm figured, out harmonious in the draft. Room, uh what
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: part earlier in the draft process are there you, know
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: disharmony or like.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Real active debates about what to. Do at what point
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: does that come? Up and what are those? About is
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: it about a? Player is it about? Position like how
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: do those?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Work you mean like the knockdown drag outs or.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Like, yeah, yeah when there's non agreement you have before
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: you've reached that point of consensus and.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Alignment what are the points in the process.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Where, yeah we'll have like a we'll have like a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: reset like you, know if we if we're seeing it
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: differently than a specific scout or.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You, know a you, know a position, coach.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: We'll kind of have a reset like, hey let's just
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: take a deep, breath sit down and start from, scratch
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: kind of represent the player to the coach or the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: scout or, whatever.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And and just start.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: That just have those direct lines of communication where it's not,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: like you, know it's got you, know it's just this
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: the scout doesn't know what he's, doing or that coach
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: canaval you, know.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: We don't we don't we don't have a lot of.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: THAT i think we don't have a lot of that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: because we have.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You were meeting on the. Weekends we're kind of going
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: through it a. Lot there's like there's a lot of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: these like perceived.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Arguments are set up with you, know the last WHAT
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: i don't know what three, months you, know just constantly
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: talking about, things and then you, know we'll have like
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: a every year you're gonna have like you, know some
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: guys at certain positions that you, know we're just off
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on a little, bit and we just continue to communication
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: until we narrow that gap to the trade.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Conversation maybe this isn't a thing and all.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: That did you get the.
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: Sense a decade ago after you guys won The Super
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: bowl or have you sensed it with other teams coming
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: Off Super bowl wins that other teams may not want
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: to like trade with that team out of a sense of, like,
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: well why would we help the.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Defending champions get any?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Better, no nobody's everybody has their own, plan AND i
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: don't think you, know teams are concerned about whether they're
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: gonna help another team team or not help a, team
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: or you, know we've talked within our division that was
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: kind of frowned upon for a, while like you don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: trade with your. Division everybody in your division we would trade,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: with and you, know we have good relationships with with
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: all three of those. Teams and you're, not you, know
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you're you're you're maneuvering. Around you're maneuvering around the board
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to try to help your team no matter. What and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: so when you look at it through that, lens then
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you're you, know you're you're basically just like not concerned
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: about what does happen after is like you, know when
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you get through the, draft you can't sit down and look,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: at you, know specific teams and be, like, oh you
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: got a kidding, me they got.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That, guy that, guy that, guy that, Guy because when.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You're in, it you, know you're kind of like just
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: constantly moving and shaking and strategizing and communicate with each
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: other and and so like when you take a you,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: know take a step back afterwards and you, know grab
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: a beer and like look at the or a coke or,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: something and you're just like looking, at, uh you, know the,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: draft and you're looking at those, teams especially like in your,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: division you're kind of, like, ah that's when.
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: You get the division if you thought they were going
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: to take a.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Quarterback, Yeah, mike you've now been through a couple of
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Draft you've been through a couple of.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Drafts, yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It looks Like, YEAH i thought you're, like, YEAH i got,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: him professor.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: There the original was more like a settler's like a tank.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: Question you, know if there's a leader gonna gonna stop trading.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: With, Him, like having dump been through a couple of drafts,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: together what what stands out Watching john and all the
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: personnel guys operate through the actual, draft like the maneuver
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: in the, trade like everything going.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: On, yeah it's.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: AWESOME i mean IT'S i think the great thing about
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: the way we do it here is it's the way
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: that we do it. Here you, know it's the way
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: THAT i know That john believes, in and it's our.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Style AND i think that's what gets the best out of.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Everybody but everybody's i, mean everybody's, clicking you, know they're
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: all they all have like their rolls in the whole
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: process and the whole cog from my, perspective and And
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: john does a great job of like just kind of
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: coordinating and orchestraight and the whole. Thing and, yeah it's,
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: exciting it's a it's a it's a great room to
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: be A music choices, sometimes you, know sometimes they. Hit
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: sometimes we gotta change it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: Up what would you?
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Change don't ask. Me i'm not the music.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: GUY i think we should probably.
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: Have cali do, it you, know for we Those thursdays
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: would be like classic Rock thursdays what we ended up
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: doing in, season so we'll see everything.
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: Else thank you for everyone thanking