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Julian Love: "We're Excited For Thursday" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing where playing on Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: In terms of big times, it's up there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the dream if you grew up around football
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  Speaker 1: or sports in general. I mean Thanksgiving was always just
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  Speaker 1: the best time when I was a kid. You're playing
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  Speaker 1: in the turkey balls with you know, your cousins, your family,
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  Speaker 1: your friends. Uh in high school, that's kind of when
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  Speaker 1: the state championships were being played around my high schools
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  Speaker 1: in again this year, so shout out to Nazareth Academy. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now you know it's it's it's the show. Knowing that
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  Speaker 1: tons of people are watching around their family, around their friends,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, you get to do what you do.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't here, gotch your But do you have a
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  Speaker 2: sense for how San Francisco has been the standard that
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  Speaker 2: they've been chasing since last year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a I'm aware of
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  Speaker 1: kind of the league and you know how the dynamics
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  Speaker 1: are and so I got a stunt to that obviously
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  Speaker 1: in a different division the country. Yeah, the Niners have
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  Speaker 1: been playing at a high level. They have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talented guys and this is a this is a battle.
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be a fun one. You know, Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: night wearing the all greens for the first time for myself,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a gonna be a fun one.
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  Speaker 2: You're not necessarily by the way, but yeah, can you
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  Speaker 2: can you tangibly feel to focus on the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers though when you came here, was like, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are really is it? Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean you knew the challenge that was ahead,
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  Speaker 1: and they really retained a lot of people, even added
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  Speaker 1: something to their team. They were the division winners last year,
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  Speaker 1: they made it to the conference championship game. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're well aware of what they have and you have
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  Speaker 1: to compete that. We have to combat that, and they're
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  Speaker 1: in a division and that's what we're gonna do, and
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  Speaker 1: so we're locked in. It's a short week. Guys flipped
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  Speaker 1: the script really quick and they're just focused on this game.
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  Speaker 2: Is that pretty easy to do?
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  Speaker 1: I guess because you did have a Thursday game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's physically not the easiest. It's tough, you know, these
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  Speaker 1: Thursday games, but mentally, you know you have to be sharp.
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  Speaker 1: You just had to be on it. Maybe you're not
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  Speaker 1: running as fast as you would for a long week
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  Speaker 1: or normal week, but you just have to be mentally
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  Speaker 1: sharp and mentally be able to turn around from the
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  Speaker 1: game much quicker of the previous game. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean physically we're all still getting there, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, we're excited for Thursday. Forty nine ers offense,
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  Speaker 1: stress defense with the different things they did, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: on top of all the talent they have at each position, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they have a great scheme. You know, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of movement, it's a lot of different pieces. You know,
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  Speaker 1: each player is pretty versatile and what they can do
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  Speaker 1: skill wise, and so they line up all over the
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  Speaker 1: place and that's the channel they bring. And so you
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  Speaker 1: have to do your job and just be able to
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  Speaker 1: guard all five eligible guys as Yeah, my mind's on
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  Speaker 1: the back end.
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  Speaker 2: About as difficult as a matchup as you can have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would, I would say so, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm relying on you know, you know, Pete scene him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he knows them. Everybody who's been here and knows about
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  Speaker 1: him and has an idea of what they do, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just relying on that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's my first time playing them in the division,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm just trying to get all the resources
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  Speaker 1: I possibly can uh to execute myself at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: But this this building knows them. Uh, this division game
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  Speaker 1: is always gonna be battled close, and so I'm just
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  Speaker 1: feeding out everybody else. His completion percentage is the best
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  Speaker 1: in the league. How much of that is him being
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  Speaker 1: willing to.
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  Speaker 2: Take chances and how much of it goes back to
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  Speaker 2: the versatility you said of his playmakers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, he's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: of you know, every great quarterback that there ever was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, puts the ball in the hands of you know,
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  Speaker 1: his playmakers, and they have a lot of playmakers, and
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  Speaker 1: so he's doing a good job of effectively getting to them.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, to do that at a young age is
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  Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. And so you know, he's a tough kid
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  Speaker 1: for sure, and he presents some challenges how he attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I would say he's he's doing his job
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  Speaker 1: at a high level this year more than last year.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to Sunday, it looked like after the first drive,
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  Speaker 1: we saw Bobby Wagner gather you guys on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: the defense. What was the gist of his message, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, we can't beat ourselves. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the penalties was a big story obviously from that game,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something we just have to turn the page on.
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  Speaker 1: We have to correct that because you know, we played
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  Speaker 1: when you look at you know, penalties aside statistics of
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know it was it was solid for us,
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  Speaker 1: and so we can't beat ourselves. And that was his message, basically,
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  Speaker 1: what do you what's the key to? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know you guys have been trying to do this all
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  Speaker 1: season long, but what's sort of the key to? You know,
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  Speaker 1: we said play cleaner, especially in key situations and key
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  Speaker 1: uh scenarios, and you know the refs are going to
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  Speaker 1: they know who we are. You know, we put it
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  Speaker 1: on tape that we play physical, physical style of football,
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  Speaker 1: and so they're a little more key on watching guys,
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  Speaker 1: and so we have to know that we've take that
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  Speaker 1: into account and just play clean ball because we have
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  Speaker 1: the talent to do so.
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  Speaker 2: Julian, you saw Christian McCaffrey last year with Carolina when
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  Speaker 2: you were there. What's the challenge he forced his defense
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  Speaker 2: defense staff to handle.
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  Speaker 1: He's just, you know, one of those guys who can
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  Speaker 1: really do it all. He's he's great out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's done his whole career, but he's an effective
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  Speaker 1: route runner as well, and you know he does the
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  Speaker 1: dirty work. He gets those tough runs, he blocks, and
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  Speaker 1: he's just a complete running back. And so yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: presents some challenges because you have to know where he is.
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  Speaker 1: They like to feature him, and so you got to
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  Speaker 1: know where two three is for sure. Okay, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you chriss in here.