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Tyler Lockett: "I'm Blessed To Be A Part Of This Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Appreciated, appreciated.
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Speaker 2: You're actually on that point out to him, A couple
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Speaker 2: of sill was closing on your record, and you told
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Speaker 2: him you were kind of rid for me to get it.
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Speaker 2: Why do you take that apersion?
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Speaker 3: Uh? I mean, I think at the end of the day, man,
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Speaker 3: like you know, I've wanted to be able to support
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Speaker 3: him ever since that Jack became a part of the
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Speaker 3: team obviously, I think. You know, when you have records, yeah,
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Speaker 3: there's a part of you where you might not want
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Speaker 3: that record to be broken or whatever, but records are
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Speaker 3: meant to be broken. And you know, I kind of
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Speaker 3: learned that even in my dad situation when I got
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to beat my dad's records, and you start
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Speaker 3: to understand that just over the course of time, like
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Speaker 3: things change, the game changes, you see, opportunities start to change.
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Speaker 3: Like I remember when my dad told me when I
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Speaker 3: broke his record, he was like, yeah, but they added
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Speaker 3: playoff you know, the playoff games or the bowl games
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Speaker 3: didn't get added on to his stuff, right, But now
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Speaker 3: whenever I get older, the ball game get added on.
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Speaker 3: And then you know, like as you get to the league,
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Speaker 3: it's like okay, like you see we're starting to add
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Speaker 3: on games and do all of these things, and we
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Speaker 3: go from a running team and then we start passing the
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Speaker 3: ball a lot more. So you see, there's a lot
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Speaker 3: more opportunities for us as receivers and tight ends to
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Speaker 3: be able to get opportunities to go after these records
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Speaker 3: and be able to do a lot of great things.
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Speaker 3: And I think that Jackson has done an amazing job
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Speaker 3: with his opportunities day in and day out. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he's done well even at practice, being able to translate
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Speaker 3: everything that he does on the field to the games.
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Speaker 3: And so for me, like I just want to be
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Speaker 3: able to be in full support. I think for me
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing is if you can be able to
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Speaker 3: show love and support to the people coming up, then
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Speaker 3: they will be able to continue to do that like
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Speaker 3: through and through, and that's what creates a good atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: That's what creates a great team or a great position group.
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Speaker 3: If you are the person that's like I just want
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Speaker 3: mine and I don't want anybody to get theirs, then
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Speaker 3: it becomes Okay, is this next person going to follow
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Speaker 3: in that same protocol or are they going to try
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Speaker 3: to be able to change something and make it that
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Speaker 3: much more better. And so, you know, I just wanted
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Speaker 3: to take that approach to show love and show support
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Speaker 3: and just be there with people as they start to
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Speaker 3: reach their peak and start to perform at a high level.
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Speaker 4: Tyler, I know you talked about playing another year and
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Speaker 4: whenever you do hang them up, how'd you want to
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Speaker 4: be remembered as a player.
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Speaker 3: I never really cared about legacy, you know. I think
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Speaker 3: for me, ever since I kind of got into the
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Speaker 3: Bible a little bit, it was a story that talked
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Speaker 3: about when people wanted to build this huge tower so
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Speaker 3: they could be remembered, and that's when God changed the language.
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Speaker 3: And so for me, it was never about legacy. It
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Speaker 3: was just about being able to glorify God, just in
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Speaker 3: me being able to play this game of football. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of benefits that come through playing this
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Speaker 3: sport of football where you can do playing be and
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Speaker 3: playing c to be able to prepare. You can be
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Speaker 3: able to meet people and talk to people and gain
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Speaker 3: relationships and connections that you never thought that you would
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Speaker 3: be able to meet with or talk to if you
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Speaker 3: hadn't been in this position. And so obviously, like the
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Speaker 3: money is great, the money helps you with the financial
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Speaker 3: parts of life and stuff like that, but there's also
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Speaker 3: burdens and stuff that comes with the financial part as well.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, for me, man, I just wanted to
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Speaker 3: be able to play this game as long as I
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Speaker 3: can glorify God in it. And I've been able to
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Speaker 3: play ten years thus far, and it's really been amazing.
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Speaker 3: I saw Doug and Jermaine like a couple of weeks
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Speaker 3: ago at the at one of the awards things that
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Speaker 3: we had, and it was crazy to hear them say, like, man,
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Speaker 3: I've played with them, what seven to ten years ago,
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Speaker 3: And so you never know how long you've really been
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Speaker 3: in this game until you start to see older faces
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Speaker 3: and you start to be able to realize, like, man,
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Speaker 3: it's been six years with DK, and so I'm just
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Speaker 3: grateful to just be a part of one organization, just
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Speaker 3: to be able to make it through a decade.
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Speaker 1: You want to play next year?
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, I plan on playing next year. Like
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Speaker 3: I'm not the GM buddy, so I can't make that decision.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, like even when I got the chance
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Speaker 3: to come here, come back this year to start this
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Speaker 3: new regime and kind of build this new team that
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Speaker 3: Mike wants to be able to build. I got a
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Speaker 3: chance to be a part of that, and I got
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Speaker 3: a chance to be able to come back because I
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Speaker 3: didn't know if I was going to be able to
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Speaker 3: come back for this season. Because sometimes when a new
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Speaker 3: team comes a new culture, new atmosphere, new identity, like
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Speaker 3: new everything, and so the fact that they brought me back,
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Speaker 3: I think that spoke a lot of volumes and stuff
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Speaker 3: like that. And obviously, like there's things that happens within
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Speaker 3: the business where they have to be able to make
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Speaker 3: their decisions.
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Speaker 1: On what they want to do and how they want
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Speaker 1: to go about things.
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Speaker 3: I think, for me, like I've done what I've wanted
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Speaker 3: to be able to do as far as be that
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Speaker 3: player that wants to be able to stand on love
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Speaker 3: and stand on support, stand on being able to be
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Speaker 3: a team player. Obviously, is that stuff like there's consequences
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Speaker 3: that come with that.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's times that where.
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Speaker 3: Things like that backfires because during the season it's all
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Speaker 3: about team and then in the offseason it is about
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Speaker 3: individual stats and it is about individual performances and if
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Speaker 3: you lived up to the expectations or the things that
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Speaker 3: we wanted from you, and so sometimes there are cons
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Speaker 3: that comes with being that great player or being a
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Speaker 3: supportive teammate. But I've always just wanted things to happen
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Speaker 3: on his own. I never really wanted to be that
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Speaker 3: guy that had to always say like throw me the ball,
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Speaker 3: get me the ball. Like, yeah, there are times where
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Speaker 3: you might say, like you don't feel as involved in
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Speaker 3: stuff like yeah, absolutely, But you know, I do understand
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Speaker 3: why a lot of players, especially in our position at receivers,
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Speaker 3: do demand the ball or do say certain things to
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Speaker 3: be able to get the ball. Because again, in the offseason,
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Speaker 3: that's all that matters is what did you do as
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Speaker 3: an individual. But when it comes to building a team
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Speaker 3: and trying to build that championship or of a team,
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Speaker 3: it's all about team in the season, and so it's
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Speaker 3: hard to be able to balance out team as well
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Speaker 3: as individual because as a player, you know what happens
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Speaker 3: at the end of that season.
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Speaker 4: You think, if there's any team in the NFL that
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Speaker 4: would appreciate that it had been you would have to
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Speaker 4: be this one, right because they know you and you've
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Speaker 4: done it.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I mean yeah, absolutely, you know, like I mean,
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Speaker 3: being here for ten years, I mean there has to
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Speaker 3: be a lot done on my part as a player,
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Speaker 3: Like I feel like guys blessed me a lot to
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Speaker 3: be a part of this team and to play for
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Speaker 3: ten years. There has to be a lot up there
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Speaker 3: with the belief system in place to be able to
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Speaker 3: believe that somebody that's thirty two could still.
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Speaker 1: Go out there and perform.
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Speaker 3: And you know me personally, man, it's like even on
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Speaker 3: my stats and stuff may not tell the story like
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Speaker 3: I've done everything that they asked me to do, and
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Speaker 3: I've done it at a high level. And I'm not
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Speaker 3: just talking about the last nine years. I'm talking about
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Speaker 3: this year, like I've done everything that they asked if
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Speaker 3: not more. And so yeah, the stats may not line up,
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Speaker 3: but that's not my story to tell, Like I've done
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Speaker 3: exactly what was being asked to me. And so if
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Speaker 3: my stats don't line up to what people may say
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Speaker 3: I should have had in order to stay.
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Speaker 1: Here, I can't do anything about that.
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Speaker 3: You know, as a player, you want to have some
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Speaker 3: type of say in it within your play to say
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Speaker 3: I could still play this game, I could still make
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Speaker 3: these plays, I could still do a lot of that
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Speaker 3: type of stuff. But there's one ball and not everybody
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Speaker 3: can get the same amount of targets. And so again,
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Speaker 3: like for me, I try to find a gratitude in
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Speaker 3: this game and just the things to be appreciative of
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Speaker 3: in this game, because you don't want this game to
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Speaker 3: divide everything that you've ever achieved, in everything that you've
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Speaker 3: ever had within the relationships and the people, because sometimes
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Speaker 3: the game can tear you apart. Because look at it
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Speaker 3: from my perspective, I went from the targets I got
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Speaker 3: this year are the same like in my first three years, right,
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Speaker 3: but then I started getting more opportunities which allow me
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Speaker 3: to be able to have better stats. But as you
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Speaker 3: get older, a lot of people get to that place
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Speaker 3: where the target share goes down. And now people say
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Speaker 3: you're having a slump year or you're having all these
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Speaker 3: different types of things, but they're not in those rooms
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Speaker 3: of what you're being asked to do. Not in those rooms,
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Speaker 3: they still compare you to that same receiver that you
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Speaker 3: were within the volume of targets, but they don't look
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Speaker 3: at the stuff that's going on. It's everything in between.
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Speaker 3: And so again, like with building this new team and
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Speaker 3: this new regime, I wanted to be able to buy
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Speaker 3: in and do whatever it is that they asked me
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Speaker 3: to do.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 3: If Mike wanted me to speak to the team, I
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Speaker 3: spoke to the team. If they wanted me to lead
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Speaker 3: by example, I led by example. Like if I needed
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Speaker 3: to take a back seat at times, I've chose to
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Speaker 3: take a back seat at times to be able to
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Speaker 3: let other people lead.
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Speaker 1: But I felt like I did what I needed to do.
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Speaker 3: Because with the new regime of a team, others have
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Speaker 3: to be able to step up and speak.
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Speaker 1: I can't just be able to.
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Speaker 3: Try to take power away from other people who's coming
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Speaker 3: into leadership roles or more of a leadership role than before.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, I had to kind of pick
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Speaker 3: and choose my battles and pick and choose what I
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Speaker 3: wanted to do and what I didn't want to do.
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Speaker 1: And I felt like I've done that at a high level.
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Speaker 1: What do you think is your biggest contribution this season
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Speaker 1: or what do you count is your biggest contribution?
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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think my biggest contribution to this team has
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Speaker 3: just been sacrificed. I think the whole season has been sacrificed,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And it's sacrifice for the
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Speaker 3: betterment of the team. It's sacrifice for the betterment of
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Speaker 3: other players. It's sacrifice for a lot of different stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: I think that's really been the whole portion of myself.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, it sucks for me as a player when
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Speaker 3: you hear people say, oh, he's too old, or he's washed,
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Speaker 3: or he's not the same type of player. I promise
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Speaker 3: you if you go watch the film, that's not the case.
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, that's just the truth.
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Speaker 3: But I understand that what sacrifice does come those conversations,
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Speaker 3: it does come those opinions in those different types of theories.
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Speaker 3: And so I'm cool with being able to stand on
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Speaker 3: that because a lot of people in this organization and
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Speaker 3: a lot of people, whether it's the players or the coaches,
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Speaker 3: understand the sacrifice that I made to try to make
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Speaker 3: this team be the best team possible that they could be.
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Speaker 4: Will that go through your very much?
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Speaker 1: Say all of it could be your last game with
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it went through my mind that the
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Speaker 3: Vikings could have been my last home game here. It
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Speaker 3: went through my mind that maybe this could be my
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Speaker 3: last Thursday practice or my last Friday practice, you know,
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Speaker 3: with being a part of the team, but again, like
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Speaker 3: those conversations are going to be had at the end
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Speaker 3: of the season. As of right now, you know, I
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Speaker 3: continue to keep on playing no matter what. So again,
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Speaker 3: like you know, I always tell John how thankful I
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Speaker 3: am that, you know he was able to find ways
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Speaker 3: to keep me here. You know, when Pete was here
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Speaker 3: last year, I told him the same thing. I met
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Speaker 3: with both of them and told them I appreciate everything
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Speaker 3: that they've done for me, because again last year, I
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Speaker 3: thought that may have been the last ride with being
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Speaker 3: able to be here on the team. And so again
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Speaker 3: like to me, there's no hostility, there's no like nothing.
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Speaker 3: It's always love on my side of things. And even
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Speaker 3: though things may have not worked out with me on
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Speaker 3: the field, I've won in so many other things in
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Speaker 3: life that I really thank God for for even putting
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Speaker 3: me in a place to win like this.
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Speaker 2: You've maybe played like one or two games or entire
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Speaker 2: NFL career that didn't have to playoff potential implications. How
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Speaker 2: do you kind of approach this week where again you.
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Speaker 1: Haven't really had a lot of these games.
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Speaker 3: It's very weird obviously like a lot of our games
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Speaker 3: were the implications was based on the last game of
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Speaker 3: the season, and so it was like even last year
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Speaker 3: when we played Arizona, it was like when we need
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Speaker 3: Chicago to beat Green Bay, and then the year before
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Speaker 3: that we needed Detroit to beat Green Bay. And so
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Speaker 3: I think it wasn't until what twenty twenty one where
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Speaker 3: it was like, you know, you're not going to the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I think even before that my third year we played Arizona,
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Speaker 3: we needed the Falcons to lose, and so everything has
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Speaker 3: been almost riding on the last game of the year.
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Speaker 3: So obviously it's different, but at the same time, like
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Speaker 3: to me, it still has to be something that you're
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Speaker 3: playing for. Everybody wants to play for that Super Bowl,
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Speaker 3: but there's also something else that has to be able
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Speaker 3: to keep you going when that can't be in reach,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And so for me, that's.
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Speaker 3: Why I say it's always my faith, because without my faith,
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Speaker 3: I feel like I wouldn't have been here for ten years.
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Speaker 3: I feel like my career would have been cut short.
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Speaker 3: In all these different types of things. Yes, I might
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Speaker 3: have had motivation, but there's times that I've learned you
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Speaker 3: had to learn how to play without that motivation. You
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Speaker 3: had to learn how to play without that same commitment.
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Speaker 3: And so for me, what keeps me going is my
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Speaker 3: faith in God, and so I'm really appreciative that I
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Speaker 3: was able to find him, more so at a younger
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Speaker 3: age where I was more committed.
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Speaker 1: Tyler, give you your faith.
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Speaker 4: How important with sacrifice to others and also the community
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Speaker 4: that you've done for other ten years.
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Speaker 1: That you've been here.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I think sacrifice is a big deal. But I
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Speaker 3: will say this, in the community, it's easier to sacrifice
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Speaker 3: than it is to sacrifice on a football team, because
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Speaker 3: in a community, you're willing to do whatever it takes
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Speaker 3: to be able to give people a chance to win
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Speaker 3: at life, to be able to shine like my foundation
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Speaker 3: to Light It Up Foundation. Every kid deserves a chance
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Speaker 3: to shine, and so you're willing to do whatever it
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Speaker 3: takes to be able to give kids or give people
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Speaker 3: a chance to realize that their life matters just as
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Speaker 3: much as anybody else's.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I might be up here doing what a lot of
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Speaker 3: people love to do and see, which is entertainment. But
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Speaker 3: you are also important, whether it's in your family, whether
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Speaker 3: it's at school, whether it's being that teacher, whether it's
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Speaker 3: being that firefighter or whoever, it is like you're just
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Speaker 3: as important because we all have a role to play
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Speaker 3: in this life to be able to make everything better.
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Speaker 3: So when you're talking about doing things on the field,
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Speaker 3: to me, there's not really a loss with that. It's
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Speaker 3: just okay, maybe I give money or something, but like
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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I'm giving money to
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Speaker 3: something that I know is going to grow. Like everything
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Speaker 3: to me is considered an investment. When you invest in somebody,
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Speaker 3: you invest in their future, you invest in their present,
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Speaker 3: you invest because of even how you've seen their past.
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Speaker 3: And what you're saying is I'm banking on you. Maybe
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Speaker 3: you don't win in year one or year two, but
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Speaker 3: I promise you that in year five or year ten,
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Speaker 3: if somebody keeps investing in you, you will succeed. And
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Speaker 3: so when it comes to that sacrifice on the football field, again,
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Speaker 3: the reason why there's consequences is because there's not a
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Speaker 3: business in giving, but in a team there is a
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Speaker 3: business that comes with sacrifice, and so you have to
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Speaker 3: be able to accept what comes with that sacrifice, the consequences,
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Speaker 3: because that sacrifice does put you in a position where
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Speaker 3: now you may not be on that team no more.
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Speaker 3: Now your journey may start to look different, like you
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Speaker 3: may not see the same people anymore, you may not
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Speaker 3: be able to do the same things. Yes, you may
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Speaker 3: be talked about, Yes you may be remembered for however long.
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Speaker 3: But that sacrifice did come with Now it didn't work
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Speaker 3: out for you the way that it would have on
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Speaker 3: the field given outside, you're not worried about what happens
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Speaker 3: to you because there's no consequences of giving and sacrificing.
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Speaker 1: You've been part of.
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Speaker 4: So many offenses here with the Seahawks, and curious, like,
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Speaker 4: what do you think the next step is for this
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Speaker 4: offense to kind of grow?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest thing is just it's
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Speaker 3: always hard when you get into your first year because
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Speaker 3: you got to get everybody to buy in. And I
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Speaker 3: think also, like in regards to just how much football
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Speaker 3: that I've learned and what I've seen over time, is
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Speaker 3: that every coach is different, and so when every coach
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Speaker 3: comes in, they want to be able to build their team.
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Speaker 3: But it's hard to build your team when you're still
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Speaker 3: starting with a team that was maybe a team that.
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Speaker 1: You never built before.
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Speaker 3: And so you got to come in and you got
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Speaker 3: to learn the ins and outs of the different players
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Speaker 3: that are here. You got to learn the ins and
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Speaker 3: outs of the new coaches that you have. And you
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Speaker 3: can't just be maybe the head coach that was the
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Speaker 3: head coach for five, six, seven years that already knows
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Speaker 3: their teams, like the forty nine ers or like the Rams.
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Speaker 3: It's like, you got to come here and you got
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Speaker 3: to study your coaches. You got to study your players.
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Speaker 3: You got to see if which player has the mindset
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Speaker 3: that you like, which one doesn't. What other people do
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Speaker 3: you need to come in and fit like the or
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Speaker 3: of the team that you want, or which player do
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Speaker 3: you need to get rid of? Like there's so many
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Speaker 3: different things that I think has to be done for
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Speaker 3: a head coach and for a DC and for an
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator to where they don't really get a true
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Speaker 3: understanding of the people that they really need or how
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Speaker 3: they need.
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Speaker 1: To build it until they get that year.
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Speaker 3: And once they get that year, they're like, Okay, I
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Speaker 3: know the players that I want, I know the positions
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Speaker 3: that I need to work on, I know how I
16:17
Speaker 3: need to coach these coaches. I know how I need
16:19
Speaker 3: to talk to them now because now you got that
16:21
Speaker 3: year under your belt.
16:22
Speaker 1: For a player. What is buying into an offense look like?
16:25
Speaker 1: And what does it look like when there isn't that
16:27
Speaker 1: buy in?
16:28
Speaker 3: I think buying in as a receiver is more so
16:32
Speaker 3: like there's gonna be times where you're gonna be the
16:35
Speaker 3: guy that week, and there's gonna be other times where
16:37
Speaker 3: you're gonna be a supporting cast. There's gonna be other
16:40
Speaker 3: times where you got to be able to go out
16:41
Speaker 3: there and you got to be a decoy. There's gonna
16:43
Speaker 3: be other times where you got to go out there
16:45
Speaker 3: and you got to be able to block. There's gonna
16:47
Speaker 3: be other times when you got to go out there
16:49
Speaker 3: and you got to go be a cheerleader. But that's
16:51
Speaker 3: what it means to be a team player, is that
16:53
Speaker 3: you're willing to do whichever role it is that that
16:56
Speaker 3: team gives you each and every week, being able to
16:59
Speaker 3: buy into and make the best out of it, regardless
17:03
Speaker 3: of what you may want for yourself as a player.
17:05
Speaker 3: So I truly believe that. You know, when I talked
17:08
Speaker 3: about sacrifice, it means dying to yourself. They say a
17:11
Speaker 3: lot about that stuff within our faith, But you got
17:14
Speaker 3: to be able to die to yourself in order for
17:16
Speaker 3: something greater to happen or to come your way. You
17:20
Speaker 3: talked about the sacrifice and always have you seen either
17:23
Speaker 3: maybe DK or Jackson's leadership grow from you being able to.
17:26
Speaker 4: Take a back seat.
17:27
Speaker 1: Well, I think that in general, Like you.
17:29
Speaker 3: Know, DK's had a lot of success within his years,
17:32
Speaker 3: and Jackson had a lot of success even coming in.
17:35
Speaker 1: I heard a lot about him even.
17:36
Speaker 3: In high school, Like one of my best friends doing
17:38
Speaker 3: to You'll be like, hey man, this kid at Rockwall
17:40
Speaker 3: he's a baller, and so it was crazy, like that's
17:43
Speaker 3: how old I am, Right, Like this kid I heard
17:46
Speaker 3: about in high school is now the receiver. But I
17:49
Speaker 3: think like regardless of whether I've taken a back seat
17:52
Speaker 3: or not, I think that Jackson has taken advantage of
17:54
Speaker 3: every opportunity, whether there was me taking a back seat
17:57
Speaker 3: or not.
17:58
Speaker 1: I think that you know.
17:59
Speaker 3: He's made amazing, incredible plays where the ball is thrown
18:02
Speaker 3: over the middle versus the vikings and he's able to
18:04
Speaker 3: catch it like that, expecting to be able to get
18:06
Speaker 3: tackled right then and there. I think he understands how
18:10
Speaker 3: to be able to set people up when he runs routes,
18:12
Speaker 3: how to be able to get open And I do
18:14
Speaker 3: think that with DK coming on the team and with
18:17
Speaker 3: us being able to show that same love and support
18:19
Speaker 3: with each other. I do think it makes it easier
18:21
Speaker 3: for anybody to come in our room and to be
18:24
Speaker 3: able to feel like they're not being attacked or they
18:27
Speaker 3: can't step on anybody's toes in order to be successful,
18:30
Speaker 3: because we truly believe that anybody can be successful based
18:34
Speaker 3: off of the opportunities that they give. And so I
18:36
Speaker 3: think we're always working on trying to be better. We
18:39
Speaker 3: all have like a great relationship. We all play the
18:41
Speaker 3: video game with each other. You think that we get
18:43
Speaker 3: tired of each other from being here so long, and
18:45
Speaker 3: we go home and we hop right on the game.
18:47
Speaker 3: And that's the connections that we all have, is being
18:50
Speaker 3: able to talk outside of the field, being able to
18:53
Speaker 3: connect and talk on the field, And I think a
18:55
Speaker 3: lot of that does help us when we get out
18:58
Speaker 3: there and play, because now I know don't have to
19:00
Speaker 3: do too much. DK knows he doesn't have to do
19:03
Speaker 3: too much. Jacks knows he doesn't have to do too much.
19:05
Speaker 3: Like we all just know that we just need to
19:07
Speaker 3: focus on doing our part because we know it makes
19:10
Speaker 3: it harder on the defenses to scout and to figure
19:13
Speaker 3: out what's going on, and then you add no one
19:15
Speaker 3: there and now all of a sudden we become a
19:18
Speaker 3: team that's hard to be stopped.
19:21
Speaker 1: Stars word again, I mean, I.
19:22
Speaker 3: Think it's incredible because you know, I think this year
19:26
Speaker 3: it might have been a little bit more meaningful to
19:27
Speaker 3: me just because, like I said, I know the sacrifices
19:30
Speaker 3: that I've made and the things that I've had to
19:32
Speaker 3: accept in order to make this season work for me,
19:34
Speaker 3: and so I think it was always incredible. Again, It's
19:37
Speaker 3: weird to me how we got the same birthdays and
19:40
Speaker 3: we're from the same city. Like that's just so weird
19:42
Speaker 3: to me, Like you would never think that. And then
19:44
Speaker 3: we both have been with the Seahawks and drafted by
19:46
Speaker 3: the Seahawks, but always being able to see him there
19:49
Speaker 3: and talk with him. I think that's pretty dope always
19:52
Speaker 3: because you know, he's literally like the best receiver to
19:55
Speaker 3: come out of the Seattle Seahawks. So yeah, again, and
20:00
Speaker 3: like the fact that it's voted on by the team
20:02
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, Like it makes me feel great
20:04
Speaker 3: because the team sees the sacrifices and the things that
20:06
Speaker 3: I've made to try to make this team go, and yeah,
20:09
Speaker 3: it's unfortunate that it didn't end in a playoff run
20:13
Speaker 3: or even trying to get to the super Bowl, but
20:15
Speaker 3: the fact that it was something that was started with
20:17
Speaker 3: the foundation that's left to be built. I hope that,
20:21
Speaker 3: you know, if they do keep me here, then I'll
20:23
Speaker 3: continue to be able to build off of that. If
20:25
Speaker 3: they don't, then I hope that that at least set
20:27
Speaker 3: helped set the foundations and the structures for the next
20:31
Speaker 3: group to.
20:32
Speaker 1: Come in and continue to know what it means to
20:34
Speaker 1: be a great teammate.
20:37
Speaker 3: Everything else.
20:38
Speaker 1: Thank you, Appreciate it. Appreciate it.