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Aden Durde Discusses Preparing For Upcoming Matchup vs. Raiders · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are you all doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever expect to see Clint Kubiak running off
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  Speaker 3: the field and jumping up to high five?
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Fans in the tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: He does show a little emotion sometimes, just not always
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  Speaker 2: outwardly all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, it was a cool thing to see. I
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  Speaker 1: was happy for him.
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  Speaker 3: I guess what can you take away from your experiences
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  Speaker 3: in practice, training camps, things like that, that could potentially
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  Speaker 3: help you just knowing– who he is, what he likes
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  Speaker 3: to call his system, stuff like that this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we all evolve.
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  Speaker 2: I think we just have to let the tape speak
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  Speaker 2: to us, let our process speak to us, and then
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  Speaker 2: we move forwards from there. But from him, I think
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  Speaker 2: you know you're going to have good operation pre-snap, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have people executing all over the field post-snap,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to play really hard.
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  Speaker 4: When you're getting ready for a quarterback who has almost
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  Speaker 4: no regular season tape.
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge there?
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  Speaker 1: Is the staff to get ready for.
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  Speaker 4: That when they make it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a lot of unknowns, and I think
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  Speaker 2: you have to, again, look at the tape, understand how
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  Speaker 2: they operate and how they go.
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  Speaker 1: And then be ready to adjust from there. But, like,
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  Speaker 1: we're facing a– it looks like a really good player.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, there's not much film of him there, but the
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  Speaker 2: film there is.
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  Speaker 1: He's accurate.
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  Speaker 2: He can get the ball out of his hand. He's
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  Speaker 2: got arm strength. It's going to be exciting.
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  Speaker 5: You had to rotate a couple of guys in the
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  Speaker 5: last few weeks with injuries. What have you seen from
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  Speaker 5: guys like Connor O'Toole or Riley Mills.
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  Speaker 4: Getting a few more of those?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you see the same thing, like two
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  Speaker 1: different players.
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  Speaker 2: I think Riley has quite a bit more experience playing
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  Speaker 2: on defense than Connor. I think Riley's making strides all
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  Speaker 2: the time. I think some of the biggest strides are
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  Speaker 2: in the run game. I think Riley's a really good
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  Speaker 2: pass rusher. And in the run game, he's starting to
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  Speaker 2: understand how, some of the techniques we played, they weren't
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  Speaker 2: the same as the techniques he played in college. And
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  Speaker 2: then I think Connor's made huge. I think Connor is,
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  Speaker 2: he's pushing to play in the rotation. He's pushing to
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  Speaker 2: get snaps because when he's out, I felt him on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had like 12 snaps in the game
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  Speaker 2: and he was getting, he was getting on edges of
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  Speaker 2: players and he was doing a good job.
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  Speaker 4: And he did that with no practice. I believe like for,
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  Speaker 4: for a young guy, I haven't played much to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Like what's that show you?
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  Speaker 2: He's just, I feel like Connor, you, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: when players get to a place where they have a process,
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  Speaker 2: they understand their role, they understand what they have to do,
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  Speaker 2: I think they can play fast.
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  Speaker 1: And Connor has that already. He has a process throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week.
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  Speaker 2: He prepares.
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  Speaker 1: He knows his job. He doesn't have to work outside
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  Speaker 1: of the box.
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  Speaker 2: He just knows exactly what he has to do and
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  Speaker 2: he has a plan when it comes to how he's
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  Speaker 2: rushing and understands how he fits into the picture.
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  Speaker 1: And then he operates. He does a good job.
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  Speaker 4: How fast is.
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  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy processing the game and how fast is he
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  Speaker 1: playing right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Byron's doing a great job. I still think there's
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  Speaker 2: a whole other place he can go to. I think
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  Speaker 2: in the run game, I think he does his job
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  Speaker 2: at an extremely high level. I think he's got to
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  Speaker 2: keep pushing to make more disruptive plays. I think he
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  Speaker 2: is an extremely disruptive player.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you put a post in the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: it's very hard to move that post in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's places for him, opportunities. He's got one
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday at the TFL. When he moves, the more
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  Speaker 2: ups of those come up for him, I think he
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  Speaker 2: can go to another place. And I think his pass rushing,
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  Speaker 2: he's doing at a high level.
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  Speaker 6: Offenses in their first scripted plays, sometimes they're trying to
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  Speaker 6: get a specific result and sometimes they're trying to learn
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  Speaker 6: something about how a defense can play. How does it
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  Speaker 6: work on defense? Are you guys showing looks intentionally to
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  Speaker 6: set up future plays or are you just reacting.
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  Speaker 4: To what you're seeing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at times you go in with plans
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  Speaker 2: where I think every time in every play you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to gain information. Sometimes you're attacking as a defense. At
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  Speaker 2: times you're defending. And I know that sounds like, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you are defending because you're playing a standard defense
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  Speaker 2: and you're trying to understand it because you're adapting mid-game.
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  Speaker 2: But I think every play you come back, you reassess,
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  Speaker 2: you understand what's going on and what they're giving you
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  Speaker 2: and then how you operate from there.
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  Speaker 5: We talk so much about, or you talk so much
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  Speaker 5: about rushing as one. When you're evaluating, bringing somebody into
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  Speaker 5: that rotation or bringing somebody into the game, How do
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  Speaker 5: you make that determination that they are going to be
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  Speaker 5: an unselfish player and willing to buy it on that?
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  Speaker 1: I think they prove it on their day.
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  Speaker 2: Like, are you talking as you're evaluating someone from outside?
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's different with free agents and draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: I think draft picks, you get to, or undrafted free agents,
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  Speaker 2: you get to see them and know them and understand them.
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  Speaker 2: And you can lean the experience. I think when you're
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  Speaker 2: working with guys that are coming in as free agents
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  Speaker 2: from other teams, you have to let the tape speak
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about Nick on tight ends when,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he was on, McBride a lot last week
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  Speaker 4: I assume yeah some of ours at least like what
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  Speaker 4: do you like about that matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Um I think with Nick he has like he's got
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  Speaker 2: long levers he has long arms he's athlete gets in
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  Speaker 2: and out of breaks like a small player his man
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  Speaker 2: skills I think don't just um they don't just go
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  Speaker 2: to that situation where he can play tight ends I've
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  Speaker 2: seen him do it with big receivers too he has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to play man stay sticky on players and
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  Speaker 2: then I think his arm length, he showed up in
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  Speaker 2: the last play of the Arizona game to play through
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  Speaker 2: the hands and play the ball.
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  Speaker 1: With Bowers, I mean, what kind of match? It's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a big player that can move fast
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  Speaker 2: in and out of breaks. So at times when you're
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  Speaker 2: playing against big players, they push off, they create leverage,
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  Speaker 2: they understand how to operate at the top of the route.
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  Speaker 2: I think Bowers does a great job of separating in
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  Speaker 2: those spaces. His catch radius is good, so you can
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  Speaker 2: put the ball while he's in contact with you.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick, I think Julian does a good job of
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  Speaker 1: that too. What's the next level for Byron? You said
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  Speaker 1: there's another level he could take it to.
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  Speaker 2: Just like I said, operating on every down. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's been games where he takes it over and he's
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  Speaker 2: just got to keep consistently pushing and growing in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: I think he scratches the surface because I think there's
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  Speaker 2: still plays that experience. And it's just time that he'll gain,
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  Speaker 2: that he'll know looks, he'll know situations, he'll understand what
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  Speaker 2: plays are coming, because I think that position, you get
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  Speaker 2: these pictures and looks daily, and only a certain amount
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  Speaker 2: of things can happen with blocking schemes, down and distance,
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  Speaker 2: and it allows, you see Leo, sometimes Leo and Jay
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  Speaker 2: Reid make some big splash plays because they're playing ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the snap, and I think as that time goes
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  Speaker 2: with Byron and he can learn off these guys, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna make those plays on early downs.
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  Speaker 4: He told us that you gave him the go-ahead to
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  Speaker 4: rush out of a two-point stance. How does that even
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  Speaker 4: come about in the first place?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's him. He has some unique movement skills.
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  Speaker 2: I think he has some very unique lower body strength
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  Speaker 2: and he moves like a small player. He moves like
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  Speaker 2: an edge player when he's approaching players and his leverage
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  Speaker 2: because he's not super tall. So it's like he can
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  Speaker 2: get under players and we just thought it was a
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  Speaker 2: good idea and we practiced it probably from last year
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  Speaker 2: just before the Tennessee game. I think the Tennessee game
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  Speaker 2: was the first play, first time he'd done it, and
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  Speaker 2: he got sacked on a pressure that we ran, him
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  Speaker 2: and Spoon. And I think that's the first time we'd
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  Speaker 2: done it. And then from there, he's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: been working in practice and then came to life this season.
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  Speaker 3: And you had another defensive tackle that you'd worked with
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  Speaker 3: do that before?
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  Speaker 1: Do that?
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  Speaker 2: Leo done it last year.
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  Speaker 1: But more, it was more like edges.
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  Speaker 2: When they went inside, they created separation and space and
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  Speaker 2: worked like that. And some of his movement, I think,
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  Speaker 2: kind of translated, so we're just looking if he can
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 6: Was it about Murphy that you thought two-point worked? Speed
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  Speaker 6: or because he's lower to the ground?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, speed, quickness, lower to the ground, lower body strength.
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  Speaker 2: He has, I think, elite short area quickness, like his ability,
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  Speaker 2: and he's fluid.
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  Speaker 1: He's very coordinated.
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  Speaker 3: In a general sense, what is the benefit of a
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  Speaker 3: two-point rush versus a three-point rush?
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  Speaker 2: It's different for different players. I think space and time changes.
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  Speaker 2: It distorts because, like, the line is moving. It matters
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  Speaker 2: who you're rushing with. the down and distance, the situation
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  Speaker 2: you're in, all these things kind of change.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got time, it kind of gives you edges
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  Speaker 1: of players easier. It's like putting people in space.
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  Speaker 6: What guidelines do you give him on when to do
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  Speaker 6: it and when not to? He made it sound like
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  Speaker 6: a green light that he.
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  Speaker 1: Can do it whenever he wants. He wouldn't do it
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  Speaker 1: on first down, would he?
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  Speaker 6: Is there a name for that or anything?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a name for it? He has a name
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  Speaker 1: for it, yes. It's called ninja mode. Him and the
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  Speaker 1: guys have a name for it, yeah. Anything else? Thanks.