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Mike Macdonald: "It Was Great To Be Back At Lumen Field" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great to be back at Looman. Good to
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  Speaker 1: see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Great practice, great show out from the twelves. Its great atmosphere,
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  Speaker 2: music was bumping. Guys were into it. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: gone the whole week now, so you know they're they're
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  Speaker 2: pretty sore, but great spirits.
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  Speaker 1: And great practice.
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  Speaker 2: So day off tomorrow and then we'll be back at
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  Speaker 2: it on Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you like? Like?
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  Speaker 2: I just I just think that the spirit of our
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  Speaker 2: group right now and like the intention of what we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to achieve is is spot on for.
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  Speaker 1: What we need it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're not we're not perfect by any stretch.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things that uh, you know that we're
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  Speaker 2: chasing right now, and you know, we're kind of done
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  Speaker 2: with the install phase. So we were talking about the
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  Speaker 2: other day, is hey, now we're circling back and you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's focus on getting really good at what we do.
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  Speaker 2: But some good situational work. It was great to see
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  Speaker 2: the threes there at the end, you know, go go
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  Speaker 2: down the field that you know there was a skeptical,
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  Speaker 2: you know, funky flag that.
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  Speaker 1: Was thrown right there on third down by uh by
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  Speaker 1: the ref in charge, I guess. But it was good.
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  Speaker 2: They went down the field executed. We'll see if that
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  Speaker 2: was a touchdown at the end of TV. But guys
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  Speaker 2: are in a good spot, but much needed and much
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  Speaker 2: deserved day off.
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  Speaker 3: It really seems like which the toy wore take off
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  Speaker 3: and it looks like it's fully healthy, giving more snaps.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say from him?
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  Speaker 3: Now here is or getting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing. You guys are. Seems like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a wise man. Steve Smith Senior once said,
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  Speaker 2: rookies need to make a play a day to kind
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  Speaker 2: of make a name for themselves, and he's doing that.
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  Speaker 2: He's making multiple plays every day. So it's great for
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, great for him, great competition in the receiver room. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're two weeks in, but let's let's keep
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  Speaker 2: it rolling.
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  Speaker 4: It was a score, there was that meaningful or what was?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? We we have our own little way to score
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  Speaker 2: practice based on it's a really nerdy way of doing
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  Speaker 2: it actually off of like expected points and based off situation.
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  Speaker 2: So I think was a deep the defense come out
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  Speaker 2: on top today? It was at the blue or the
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  Speaker 2: green was left?
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  Speaker 1: Oh green ended up coming up top?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go back to the drying board. I think, all right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see you're gonna talk to Brian on that one.
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  Speaker 1: It's close. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's good means both sides making place to what we want.
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  Speaker 4: How you're going to ultimately make the decision at right
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  Speaker 4: guard and center, Like, what are the things that are
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  Speaker 4: going to ultimately decide that those positions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're looking for chemistry initially, uh, overall
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  Speaker 2: consistency execution.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's that simple.
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  Speaker 2: I think just who gives us the best chance to
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  Speaker 2: consistently move the ball, consistently run the ball, and uh
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  Speaker 2: and protect Sam.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 3: You've given Jalen Sundell. I want to look at center
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  Speaker 3: and right guard with the ones like what have you
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  Speaker 3: liked about what is it about his game that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stands out to you as a part.
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  Speaker 1: Of that mix.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's really smart and he's a great athlete. We
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  Speaker 2: know that, but he's shown his physicality as well. Like
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  Speaker 2: a guy he's not the biggest lineman of all time,
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  Speaker 2: but he can hold his own on some of the
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  Speaker 2: power rushes. He's shown them to do that, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the combination of moving people off the ball
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  Speaker 2: and being able to hit his target to the second
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  Speaker 2: level have been impressive. He's just he's he did it
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  Speaker 2: last year, He's done throughout the whole off season program, so.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he kind of can pop around.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'repping a little bit of tackle right now
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  Speaker 2: because of our tackle situations, just to keep him warm there.
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  Speaker 1: And he doesn't miss a beat. It looks like a.
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  Speaker 3: Miss the whole lot of Christianity today.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's just dealing with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: pack right now.
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  Speaker 2: So but he should be okay what happened with Chrystal.
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  Speaker 2: He's working through his back locked up. Not sure how
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  Speaker 2: long it's going to be. He may or may not
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  Speaker 2: be ready for the game next week, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: What's your impression of the rookie class.
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  Speaker 2: Overall, Well, I think I think the same things that
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit they've had, you know, those those habits that.
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  Speaker 2: They formed throughout the off season program are paying dividends
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  Speaker 2: for them. So the dedication, the work ethic, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they've adopted routines. I think they I think the
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  Speaker 2: vets are taking ale like it to them because how
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  Speaker 2: they treat them with respect.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're they're they're they're.
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  Speaker 2: Good guys, but they're also really hard players doing their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a responsibility there. So it's just a.
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  Speaker 2: Great combination of of talent, ability, of character, football character,
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  Speaker 2: and uh they spend a lot of time with one another.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The linemener are thick as thieves, as Jim Harbaugh would say,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be a fun group to track,
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  Speaker 2: you know, over the over this year and years to come.
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  Speaker 1: Assimilating him.
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  Speaker 2: And he's doing great. Yeah, he's doing great. He saw
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  Speaker 2: a command today. I mean, we'll put in some tough situations,
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  Speaker 2: but moved the ball with the ones a good bit and.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know, saw that drive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we simulated an overtime drive, so move the
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  Speaker 2: ball in a position to uh kick the field goal
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  Speaker 2: right there, and either way it came out.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks were gonna win today. So that was good. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think.
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  Speaker 2: The company and he has with the relationships with the
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  Speaker 2: guys on the whole team that he can just be
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  Speaker 2: him and that's good enough.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's anything. You know, you saw it with
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  Speaker 1: me last year.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming in a new situation kind of figuring out,
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  Speaker 2: like you know what, what's what's the deal? You know
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  Speaker 2: who's who and how it works out. But he's going
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  Speaker 2: a lot quicker than I did. But I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a respect there with the guys, and they appreciate his
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  Speaker 2: work ethic and and who he is as a person.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a dang good quarterback too. That helps.
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  Speaker 4: This is your second year getting to coach Jerik Yong,
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  Speaker 4: and how have you seen him progress in this offense?
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  Speaker 3: Is the number of touchdowns score and went today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's another guy. He keeps making plays every day,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't ignore that. I feel the physicality this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's always been a physical guy, especially on
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  Speaker 2: special teams, gunner that sort of thing. But in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, we feel him. I feel like he's somehow
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  Speaker 2: I got more flexible. You know, he's done a ton
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  Speaker 2: of off season works. He's like he's a rocked up guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's really strong, but getting it out of his break,
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  Speaker 2: sinking his hips, explosive out of breaks. How you feel that?
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  Speaker 2: And then he's made some really great contested catches, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone. So that's been great, you know,
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  Speaker 2: happy for me that he deserves the situation that he's
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  Speaker 2: put himself in.
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  Speaker 3: Got hurt on that touchdown, and what would you do,
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  Speaker 3: you know what anymore what happened there.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna get tests, but initial feedback is not positive,
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  Speaker 2: so I won't won't kind of make a decoration yet,
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  Speaker 2: but thought some prayers are with a j That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing at the end there, just saying a prayer
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  Speaker 2: on his behalf.
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  Speaker 1: And just.
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  Speaker 2: What a great what a great person, what a great
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  Speaker 2: this young person full of just great spirit, incredibly smart,
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  Speaker 2: just treats everybody with such respect.
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  Speaker 1: He's got such a life about him. Man.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's it's, uh, it's heartbreaking. You know, these guys,
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  Speaker 2: they work so hard. It's just one play. It's just
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  Speaker 2: such a shame. Yeah, he's doing well, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: working through personal stuff right now. So he's on his
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  Speaker 2: way back. But he's a guy that, like we said,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we need to support him in this time.
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  Speaker 1: And but he's he's uh, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Doing a great job. He's doing a great job. He's
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  Speaker 2: but he's battling through a lot of things right now.
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  Speaker 2: So but he'll he'll be good to go. He's coming around.
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  Speaker 1: About his dad. Yeah, you to.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, Yeah, yeah, of course, of course, I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine going through that, you know, And it's uh, but
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  Speaker 2: that's why, that's why it's so important for us to
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  Speaker 2: you know, have the you know, the mos and the
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  Speaker 2: Soups and the Jonathan's and the Roys in the building
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  Speaker 2: to have support for guys when they need it, because
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  Speaker 2: our guys need to help me. Obviously j and needs
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  Speaker 2: it now. But there's you know, we got ninety guys
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  Speaker 2: on the roster. They're all dealing with stuff, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just I can't it's it's hard to imagine. So you're
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  Speaker 2: just you're trying to be empathetic with him, and you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: let's be as supportive as we possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, he's such a beast. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: guy is just such a alpha.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's he's are you know, probably our top
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  Speaker 2: leader on defense.
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  Speaker 1: And but it's it's a tough time. It's a tough time.
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  Speaker 2: It's really really hard and his family needs them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're really far away. So that's a tough balance
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  Speaker 2: right now. So it's going to be a process over
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  Speaker 2: the next you know. However, you know, it's just one
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  Speaker 2: of these things kind of never goes away. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's his new reality, which is unfortunate that aspect of.
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  Speaker 3: This job, the ninety guys, everybody having.
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  Speaker 2: Some Yeah, you just realize the gravity of it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as you build relationship with the guys, you have a
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  Speaker 2: better appreciation for the things that they're bringing to the
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  Speaker 2: you know, bringing to the table. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: call it baggage, but it's it's you know, the things
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  Speaker 2: that are going through their minds and spirits at all times.
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  Speaker 2: And that's part of how we decide who to hire
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  Speaker 2: people in the building and as coaches. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: you're not just hiring expertise. You're hiring the person, and
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  Speaker 2: that's really important. It's just it's just like when you
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  Speaker 2: draft the player. You trade for a player because we're
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  Speaker 2: all human, you know, it's just that he has a
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  Speaker 2: human experience. You know, you guys are experiencing from your
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  Speaker 2: point of view, our players are doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's and there's nowadays, I mean, there's so much crap
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  Speaker 2: going on with information and feedback and everyone makes judge
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  Speaker 2: and there's money.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just which is great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we love this game, and there's attention, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the biggest sport in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's all great. I mean, that's what we
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  Speaker 1: ask for. We're living our dreams.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes it's not easy as it seems. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's stuff that you have to deal go through.
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  Speaker 4: I'll talk about start for game prep week and it's
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  Speaker 4: a of a unique first game. Are you going to
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  Speaker 4: talk to the team at all about the cheers that
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  Speaker 4: might be coming for people on the other sideline and
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  Speaker 4: how to kind of be prepared for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we're not going to talk about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't even thought about it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we should be cheering Pete when he gets here.
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  Speaker 2: We should be cheering Geno.
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  Speaker 1: How could he not? Uh so, yeah, we should be.
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  Speaker 1: We should be.
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  Speaker 2: Cheering those guys now when the ball snap, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go try to win the game, and and
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna be playing our starters, but uh we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go compete like heck. I think Pete would appreciate that,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope, I hope, I hope he gets a
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  Speaker 2: great ovation. He deserves it.
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  Speaker 3: Getting back to some performance advice, some players, Zach Charbonnay
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  Speaker 3: just seems he's been going about this business professionally.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, all home camp so far, what
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  Speaker 4: do you see it from me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Actually, he's just a stut.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's just a everything you want in a
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  Speaker 2: person and a football player.
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  Speaker 1: He's that's him. I mean, he's just does it.
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  Speaker 2: Every day, same person, great spirit, strong as an ox,
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  Speaker 2: does everything right. I mean, I could you know, just go,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want from a football player? Zach Sharbonay,
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  Speaker 2: you know you.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned the overtime situation going down getting a kick. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think of Brady's stepping in and snapping?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we uh we slowed the rush down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. We can't afford to lose Brady, but but
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  Speaker 2: you know that could. It's one of these things that
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  Speaker 2: you have to be ready for these things, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: go through all these gospel sterios.
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  Speaker 1: But Brady's the man. He's ready to go. He's practices
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  Speaker 1: on his own and yeah, he's awesome. Is Walker.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a little soreness from the sprint with his
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  Speaker 2: foot right now, but he's fine. We're just we're just
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  Speaker 2: taking care of him right now throughout camp.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, it seems like Jackson syphan Jay, But it seems
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  Speaker 3: like he's taken another stride even with his showing so far,
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  Speaker 3: what have you kind of seen. It seems like he's
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  Speaker 3: making big plays downfield just about every practice you have,
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  Speaker 3: Like he's made.
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  Speaker 1: A real lead.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see in his his game right now?
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 2: It's like this is more than expence like we had,
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  Speaker 2: we had a great vision. I think he I think
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  Speaker 2: he led the charge on the type of player that
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  Speaker 2: he wants to be. He's kind of set his own
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  Speaker 2: standard in his goals that he wants to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: an elite receiver in this game and and in our league.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he's right there. Can run all the cuts,
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  Speaker 2: run on the whole route, tree, take the top off,
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  Speaker 2: He's great after the catch, He's great in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: He's playing really decisive right now. He's moving around and
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  Speaker 2: he's playing multiple spots. Him and Coop have a great relationship,
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  Speaker 2: and let's keep it rolling, you know, because we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be We're gonna need them and we're gonna feature them,
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  Speaker 2: and teams know that.
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  Speaker 1: And but he's doing a great.
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  Speaker 3: Job unlike Sam and here kind of that chemistry really building.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, just like we're saying, as we're all kind
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  Speaker 2: of spending all this time with one another getting into form,
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  Speaker 2: it matters to them to get it figured out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of little conversations that have to happen
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  Speaker 2: in reps, whittling away until you figure out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of get in that groove. So I think
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  Speaker 2: they would tell you they're on our way. We're not
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  Speaker 2: where we want to be, but the trajectory is in
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  Speaker 2: the right place.
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  Speaker 3: So you dropped out and just push ups one one career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Quaz bet me if Mike Mo is gonna win,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was against oulu have to accept the bet.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Mark was the mvos and uh so, I mean
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  Speaker 2: you can't turn turn it down. So five push ups,
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  Speaker 2: I lost the bat. It's Mike Mo's fault. Everyone golf
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  Speaker 2: all right, thanks, Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 3: Having the second