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DK Metcalf: "The Message Is To Start Faster" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Are y'all what was it like?
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  Speaker 3: Meaning triple h.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was good.
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  Speaker 1: I met him a couple other times, but him and
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  Speaker 1: Sean Michael's my favorite two wrestlers.
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  Speaker 4: Heartbreak in Yeah, you guys have done it a couple
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  Speaker 4: times over the years.
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  Speaker 2: But when you play team.
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  Speaker 1: That's close together twice in three weeks, right or is
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  Speaker 1: w What is that like preparing for a team you
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  Speaker 1: just saw. I mean our notes are a couple pages back,
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  Speaker 1: so you really don't have to uh look too far.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just like a halftime break. They're gonna make adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: We make adjustments and uh, you know, make the best
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  Speaker 1: team win. You know, see who can uh recover the
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  Speaker 1: fastest and you know, clean up their mistakes from the
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  Speaker 1: first time we met.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice the division?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you play these teams that twice a year anyway,
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  Speaker 3: do you do division teams really try to change things
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  Speaker 3: up from one game.
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  Speaker 2: To the next. Tif you notice it? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think a team right now uh has their identity
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  Speaker 1: and they're just gonna stick with it and uh you
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  Speaker 1: know there it's just like uh a a stubborn way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking, uh in my mind, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it works for people, it works for them. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, we're still gonna come out and try
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball and attack with our play action,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to you know, disguise everything. Uh
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  Speaker 1: throw a different a bunch of different looks at us,
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  Speaker 1: a couple uh cover zero looks every now and again,
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  Speaker 1: try to throw us off. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody just sticks to the guns and uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: plays plays how they play.
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  Speaker 2: You guys take more zone coverage than any team over
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks. Uh why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 2: And what opportunities?
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  Speaker 1: I think nobody wants to play me Jack's and Locke
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  Speaker 1: or Noah and man coverage, uh you know, for a
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  Speaker 1: whole game. So I think you know that that's just
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  Speaker 1: the personnel. Uh you know that we have, And I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's just smart by DC not not wanting to
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  Speaker 1: play us in uh man coverage for a whole game
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  Speaker 1: or you know, for the majority of a game. Cause
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we got people that will uh beat that.
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  Speaker 1: But we just gotta attack our attack the zones and
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  Speaker 1: catch the ball and get upfield and just try to
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  Speaker 1: break break as many tackles as we can and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get as many yards after catch as we can,
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  Speaker 1: but also open up the run game so we can
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  Speaker 1: gat them in that uh area.
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  Speaker 5: There's this opportunities in the red this year.
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  Speaker 1: What are the conversations been around that have been like
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  Speaker 1: around that, just trying to figure out ways we can
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  Speaker 1: punch the ball in and uh score uh in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, what we've been doing hasn't been working.
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  Speaker 1: So we done a bunch of self self scout over
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  Speaker 1: the past couple weeks, and I'm sure, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Grubb and the whole offensive staff is coming up
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  Speaker 1: with a better game plan to you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: uh score points down there. And nobody's intention is to
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  Speaker 1: you know, get down there install. But you know that's
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  Speaker 1: just one struggle that we've had this uh this season,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we're we're continuing to work on it.
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  Speaker 5: As a wide receiver, what's the challenge when you're working
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  Speaker 5: with such a short field and not very much space there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I think it just plays into the uh the
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  Speaker 1: defensive defensive advantage because they don't have as much area
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  Speaker 1: to cover, and you know that just takes away from
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  Speaker 1: the the routes uh that we can run down there.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of our our routes are to
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  Speaker 1: uh stretch the field and to get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: high lows, but uh, with the condensed field, uh, we
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  Speaker 1: got to try to run the ball or or try
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  Speaker 1: to uh beat 'em laterally.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know what was going on with Michael Dixon
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  Speaker 3: uh during a game on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Na.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean I'm pretty pretty focused on uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my job and uh trying to score or get open.
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  Speaker 1: But uh they told us on the side that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we may not punt, So I didn't ask any questions
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  Speaker 1: after that. You know, we going forward and fourth down,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not coming off the field. So that's just like
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  Speaker 1: a plus in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: So you were by that point, you weren't surprised when
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  Speaker 3: you went forward on what fourth and six?
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  Speaker 1: No, Uh, cause I think we were still down uh
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  Speaker 1: at that point, and uh we were trying to score
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown cause the field goal wouldn't have done us
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  Speaker 1: any justice.
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  Speaker 4: Do gay You guys have come up with the drive
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  Speaker 4: you've needed when you needed in the last few weeks
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  Speaker 4: with overall offense productions a little with down last five
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  Speaker 4: games or so, what do you kind of seen over
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  Speaker 4: that stretch as to why you guys have been able
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  Speaker 4: to produce a little bit more pist points wise, and
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  Speaker 4: what do you why what do you guys need to tick.
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  Speaker 2: Up with a little bit here?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we're looking pretty much uh into that
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  Speaker 1: aspect of it. We're winning games and UH we scored
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  Speaker 1: when we need to, So I think that's just the
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  Speaker 1: only positive we can take away from it and continue
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  Speaker 1: to build on it. But with the message going forward,
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  Speaker 1: UH has been to start faster and to continued to hold.
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  Speaker 2: That that streak that we have.
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  Speaker 1: If we come out and score points on the first
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  Speaker 1: drive or in the first couple first couple drives that
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  Speaker 1: we have, then that's always a positive. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we're we're looking too much into the skid that
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  Speaker 1: we've been on, because you know, we've been winning games.
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  Speaker 2: What do you attribute to that?
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  Speaker 5: You guys do find ways to score the points in
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  Speaker 5: the touchdowns when you need them.
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  Speaker 1: I think just our level of focus whenever the defense
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  Speaker 1: gets a stop. They've been getting stops whenever we need
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  Speaker 1: we needed them to. The defense has just been playing
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  Speaker 1: lights out and I think just that just puts an
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  Speaker 1: extra chip on our shoulder. That we can't just leave
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  Speaker 1: our brothers out there high and dry like that. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta start answering and start scoring points more frequently. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just the team effort, of the team
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  Speaker 1: mentality that we've had. We can't just let the defense
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  Speaker 1: do all the dirty works about the excuse me?
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  Speaker 2: The focus?
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  Speaker 5: Has there been a different kind of energy since you
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  Speaker 5: guys came back from the bye week, and especially after
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  Speaker 5: that win after San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: I think just our tension to just one week at
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  Speaker 1: a time, not trying to look forward, you know, two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ahead or even the next day. We're just focus
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  Speaker 1: on the present moment and just controlling what we can control.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's just that's been a key uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, a tribute or or a key thought process
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  Speaker 1: that that we've uh held the past three weeks. Now
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we're we're not looking ahead, We're only
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  Speaker 1: just focusing on the present.
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  Speaker 2: And Fatherhood's gonna change your head couch. You said, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think fatherhood will change your head? Couch? Oh? No,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a robot sometimes, so uh you know, he
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  Speaker 1: he'll get a uh some personality with the kid uh
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  Speaker 1: with with little Jack.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, ye'all think of the change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you think that you were maybe seriously hurt
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  Speaker 3: when you went down in the second half?
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I ain't just gonna sit down. I ain't
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  Speaker 2: just gonna sit down there. Uh my foot went dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Uh I've never felt that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Only other time I felt that was when I broke
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  Speaker 1: my neck was my arm went dumb and it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was on fire. That same thing that happened.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in the game, my foot was numb.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Cal fan came over. He was like, what's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, brouh, it feels like a puddle of
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  Speaker 1: blood is in my cleat. And he just start pressing
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  Speaker 1: my foot and he was like this that hair.
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  Speaker 2: I was like no. He was like, oh, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Then I was like, alright, bet So what was it?
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  Speaker 1: It was a n He hit a perennial I think
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  Speaker 1: he said nerve and my knee that shot down to
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  Speaker 1: my foot and j it was just like hitting your
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  Speaker 1: funny bone.
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  Speaker 2: So the shoulder thing is that w do you practice
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  Speaker 2: last with us? Practice the sholder things that south done?
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  Speaker 2: Or what shoulder? What? What shoulder? I don't know what exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You have the game against the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: Her posticuelt to run game is to.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of breaking out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I think it's just something that we have to
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  Speaker 1: just continually work on and just continue to uh press forward,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, uh, you know we'll get Can or
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  Speaker 1: Sharp's uh to pop a long one, and you know
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  Speaker 1: everybody will put this run run game mess to bed.
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  Speaker 2: What makes uh Kobe Bryant good?
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  Speaker 1: See I call him Ed Reid. He just I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a stretch, but just hear me out.
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  Speaker 1: No offense to aread or anything, but uh, just the
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  Speaker 1: way that he tracks the ball. He's always near the ball. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just going back to you know when he was a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: he was always he's always had a nose for the ball,
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  Speaker 1: whether that was punching it out, catching picks or you know,
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  Speaker 1: making a uh a open field tackle. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: he had the complete package to be a a great
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  Speaker 1: defensive player.
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  Speaker 3: Uh with the punch out part, like it's is he
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  Speaker 3: soon maybe a camp more than.
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  Speaker 1: The practice that you guy really gotta be aware of.
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  Speaker 3: Like when you're trying to finish a run and practice
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  Speaker 3: your camp or anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think that's just our or our whole defense,
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  Speaker 1: uh or any defense around the league. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: just pretty much what everybody's teaching now, is the punch out, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the the tillman. UH punch out is what they call it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's just what every coach is uh preaching,
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  Speaker 1: cause I they'd rather have a a forced fumble than
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  Speaker 1: a tackle any day of the week. And what every
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  Speaker 1: nickname when you get that.
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  Speaker 2: After seeing him in camp his rookie.
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  Speaker 5: Year, I know that you spend more time watching film
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  Speaker 5: of like your offense or posing defenses, but when you
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  Speaker 5: see Leonard Williams on film.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out lost He's a big dude and he's
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  Speaker 1: just wrecking games. I thought he was gonna get UH
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  Speaker 1: Player of the Week last week cause he had a
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  Speaker 1: a great game last week. But you know, congratulation on
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  Speaker 1: him getting it this week. He comes in to work
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  Speaker 1: every day. He's a great professional, great teammate to you know,
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  Speaker 1: be coming the building and work with every day. But
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  Speaker 1: just kudos to our whole defense just for the way
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  Speaker 1: they've been playing these past a few weeks. They've definitely
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  Speaker 1: held us, held us up, held this team up, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just looking forward to you know, seeing them
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  Speaker 1: finish off this season strong.
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  Speaker 3: I think the fourth and sixth play the Jackson he
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  Speaker 3: that was, if I remember correctly, that was a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a scramble situation, and it seems like he's taking
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  Speaker 3: a step forward in that regard. What does it take
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  Speaker 3: for a receiver to really be good in those situations?
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  Speaker 1: If you don't get the ball in the first read
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  Speaker 1: and the play breaks down, you can't just sit there
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  Speaker 1: and look at the quarterback. You have to know exactly
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  Speaker 1: where the other routes are and just make a quick
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  Speaker 1: and decisive decision. So I think that's the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that separates a great scrambler from, you know, a not
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  Speaker 1: so good one.
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  Speaker 2: Is there some rhyme or reason to where you go?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is it just pure playground football at that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got to know the play, the base of the play,
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  Speaker 1: and you know basically where everybody's route is in and up.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we both had He had a low option.
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  Speaker 1: I had a high option. I was always on the
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  Speaker 1: right side of the field. Nobody else was further than me,
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  Speaker 1: or nobody else was above me, so I just kept running.
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  Speaker 1: Locke was above him, So Jack basically I mean lock
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  Speaker 1: broke across the field, excuse me, and Jacks just saw
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  Speaker 1: open grass and you just run the open grass.
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  Speaker 4: On a completely random.
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  Speaker 3: Note, when you're talking about blood and your cleat and
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  Speaker 3: made me think about the my cause my cleat programs.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk a little bit about this Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: But how did you how did you get that?
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  Speaker 5: Ask you randomly?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, talk about this the blood and cleat good tech
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  Speaker 1: with but talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Like the partner what it means to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it just meant uh meant the world? Uh
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  Speaker 1: to me?
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  Speaker 2: Is there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Prison Fellowship is just an organization I've been uh
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  Speaker 1: you know supporting since my rookie year. But just to
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  Speaker 1: bring along sound uh local organization uh that I can
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  Speaker 1: start to support. That means this brings more eyes to
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  Speaker 1: the to the causes that they uh that they have
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  Speaker 1: at at hand. And yeah, it's a great uh donation
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  Speaker 1: for whoever uh gets my cleats on the coming week.
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  Speaker 1: So I just think it's a it's a good uh
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  Speaker 1: thing that the NFL has going, uh, just to bring
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  Speaker 1: awareness to you know, the the players and you know
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  Speaker 1: what they support off the field.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you think of the design?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they get the design of the cla. Oh it
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  Speaker 2: was all AI generated.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the AI it turned out great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just from not uh you know, a human doing it
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  Speaker 1: to a computer doing it. I'm not too much in
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  Speaker 1: the AI, but you know it it it turned out good.
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  Speaker 2: Why white prison culture?
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  Speaker 1: I was in church when I was a sophomore junior
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  Speaker 1: in college and the preacher was talking about uh prisoners,
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  Speaker 1: and I just never thought about, you know, the prisoners
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  Speaker 1: and how they don't have a second chance at life.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people just write them off and just
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  Speaker 1: forget about them. But uh, with Prison Fellowship, they get
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  Speaker 1: a second chance at life or just uh a second
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  Speaker 1: chance of hearing the word of God. And with that organization,
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  Speaker 1: you have people who go in and visit the prisoners
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  Speaker 1: and uh just have Bible study with them and just
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  Speaker 1: treat them like humans, uh other than you know, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, a curse to society.
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  Speaker 3: Have you have you been?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, Well no I did. I did a couple
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  Speaker 2: like a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Dave loved the team security guard took uh Me Maybury,
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  Speaker 1: Noah Fant and a couple other guys to uh juvenile
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  Speaker 1: Uh Hall here was something no just we just ran,
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  Speaker 1: uh Dave love actually hooked it up and uh gathered
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  Speaker 1: a couple of players and uh we went there.
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  Speaker 2: On the off day.
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  Speaker 5: What was that like?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It was good.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good experience just to talk to the
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  Speaker 1: younger guys or and younger men and women uh in
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  Speaker 1: there and uh just basically the whole message of you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not forgotten you you do have a life outside
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  Speaker 1: of here that you will be able to live and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just don't forget about it.
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  Speaker 2: What did they want to know from you?
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  Speaker 1: If they ask you what they act they were? They
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  Speaker 1: were asking me questions, was Locke was better than me?
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  Speaker 1: How is it playing with Pete? How was it playing
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  Speaker 1: with Marshaan? Do I think we're gonna make the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: Why do I crash out on the field? And those
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  Speaker 1: were pretty much the basic uh questions or comments that
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  Speaker 1: they were saying. But they were very truthful, very honest,
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  Speaker 1: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Respected 'em for it. Marshalls, you didn't play with m Yeah? No,
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  Speaker 2: I played three four games with Marshall. That was it?
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  Speaker 2: Who was that? It was great? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's a Hall of Famer in my book. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: great player, great person off the field. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: for those four games that I three, four games that
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  Speaker 1: I had with him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's just great to be around.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, guy of that caliber who knows hisself in and
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  Speaker 1: out and doesn't care what anybody else thinks about him.
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  Speaker 2: How long did you spend with him with the drivenile detention?
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  Speaker 2: Uh just a couple hours. Well, they answer to the crash
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  Speaker 2: out question. Hm, did you said?
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  Speaker 4: They asks you about the crash out stuff?
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  Speaker 1: What'd you dope? I said, it's a physical game and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta crash out.
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  Speaker 2: The thank