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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "Process Over Results" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's your third straight week going against uh USh receiver. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Is you still take L s U
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  Speaker 1: over O s U for nah?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I wouldn't say I take no, I don't. But
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  Speaker 2: it is always good to play former buck Eye and
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  Speaker 2: been having some good luck with that. So hopefully we continue,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to win against those guys.
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  Speaker 1: He just got a offensive Rooky of the year over
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  Speaker 1: there in Tampa Bay. What what have you seen from
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  Speaker 1: from that rookie promos man?
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  Speaker 2: He's been bawling out. You know, I'm definitely happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a sharp route runner, he's gonna catch
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  Speaker 2: the ball, a solid player, you know, something we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to focus on. You know, hopefully he doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: you know, too good of a Sunday, but super proud
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  Speaker 2: of him. You know, he's a brother of mine, so
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  Speaker 2: it like I said, it's great to see him balling out.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a runner runner into him around here?
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  Speaker 2: He was?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He had his draft already here, you know, got to
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  Speaker 2: see him get drafted out here, so you know, that
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  Speaker 2: was cool. I know he has a lot of friends
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  Speaker 2: and family and a lot of love out here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm sure it would be a cool moment for
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  Speaker 2: him to come back.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get more of a clarification at all about
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  Speaker 4: holding penalty whatever?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I didn't. I just gotta be better
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  Speaker 3: on my my end. I guess.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at a matchup, I know that you're
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  Speaker 5: looking at film, right and what's happening in front of you.
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  Speaker 5: How much do you dive into the numbers, if at all,
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  Speaker 5: to know statistically what a defense is trending towards.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I'm we did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: They put it up on a board for us statistically,
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  Speaker 2: and like what coverages they're in if that's what you're asking,
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  Speaker 2: you know their base coverages and the percentages you know
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  Speaker 2: they'd like to do on first and second and third down.
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  Speaker 2: So statistically, that's the only thing I really look at.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at this bus defense and you look
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  Speaker 5: at rushing yards alot, which is not very many, one
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  Speaker 5: of the best in the league, you don't look at
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  Speaker 5: those numbers to think, oh, maybe the focus goes again
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  Speaker 5: towards throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Little.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for me myself, not really, I don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really think like that. I just you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have a ton of respect for these guys though,
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  Speaker 2: these guys like you, like you said, run to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the rushing yards per game you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't really see.
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  Speaker 2: And uh but I think they have a solid secondary
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  Speaker 2: and a great defense, and I think it will will
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  Speaker 2: be a great challenge this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You're establishing yourself as one of the best receivers in
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: You're not the.
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  Speaker 1: Tallest, you're not the fastest, you're not the strongest. What's
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  Speaker 1: something maybe people don't understand that it takes to be
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  Speaker 1: a good receiver that just doesn't show up on those
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  Speaker 1: types of things.
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  Speaker 2: I guess some wheel power, you know, just getting a
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  Speaker 2: job done, you know, playing and simple executing, building relationships,
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  Speaker 2: working and executing.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, what was your mindset like in the
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  Speaker 4: first half of that game? I don't think you had
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  Speaker 4: a target until what was it, late in the third
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  Speaker 4: quarter at some point the third quarter? Are you going
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  Speaker 4: to sand before that and saying, hey, give me the ball?
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  Speaker 3: I'm open? Like, what's your what's your mindset? Like? Uh No,
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  Speaker 3: I know it will find me when it finds me.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I just got to focus on doing my job,
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  Speaker 2: and that is running routes and catching footballs and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I love to do. And uh, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: long as we're winning, we're putting points up, we're creating
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  Speaker 2: solid drives.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy with that because you know, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, winning is all that matters.
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  Speaker 4: What claus did you have on and would you switch to?
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  Speaker 2: I had a couple of cleats on, honestly asked and
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  Speaker 2: beyond ask and my my regular shoes, but uh, put
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  Speaker 2: the untouchables on? Those were those were the ones right there?
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  Speaker 2: The untouchables.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, different ones on in.
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  Speaker 6: The first half and then change those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel any different. Yeah, the last pair of
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  Speaker 3: felt the best.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone focuses on your receiving, but you're also willing
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  Speaker 1: to dig out of safety in the run game. Is
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  Speaker 1: that something that you've always done or something that you've
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  Speaker 1: picked up more.
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  Speaker 3: Here, No, that's something I always done.
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  Speaker 2: Looking back, you know, my career all the way to
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  Speaker 2: high school, something that you know, I take pride in
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  Speaker 2: and you know, want to spring open Zach and K
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  Speaker 2: nine and whoever has the ball, you know, just do
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  Speaker 2: my extra part because I know those guys would do
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  Speaker 2: it for me. So I think that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: bomb we created. So anything I can do in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, you know, I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: When you catch a back shoulder throw like you did
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  Speaker 4: on the final drive, there is that the idea. Is
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  Speaker 4: the play design that way or is that sort of
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  Speaker 4: based on the look you get and how the quarterback plays?
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  Speaker 2: You say, yeah, it's based on a look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just playing ball. Honestly, a million things you know can happen,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just about you know, executing, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, and Sam did that putting
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  Speaker 2: put the ball in a great spot and I was
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  Speaker 2: able to make a play.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you've talked in the past about the different
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  Speaker 6: veteran receivers You've been lucky to play with since you
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  Speaker 6: got in the NFL. You've been with Cooper cop now
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  Speaker 6: for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What's a thing or two you've learned from him in
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  Speaker 2: the time he's been here, Just his preparation. I love
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  Speaker 2: when he when he says, you know, process over results.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that sticks with me. It's about the process,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being dedicated to the process and not dedicated,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not attached to the result.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that can go up and down. So,
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  Speaker 3: but being dedicated and.
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  Speaker 2: Trusting the process is something that he kind of like
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  Speaker 2: something I felt like was in me, but he put
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  Speaker 2: it in words, and I thought it just clicked.
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  Speaker 3: And you know that's something you know, I would take
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  Speaker 3: from him.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson.
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  Speaker 6: With the start to the season that you're off to do,
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  Speaker 6: you expect defenses to start approaching you differently, start trying
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  Speaker 6: to shade more your direction, try to do things to
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  Speaker 6: get you out of your game more than you've seen
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  Speaker 6: up to this point.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure you know that is a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: And uh but like I always said, we got threats
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  Speaker 2: all over the field. You know, Toy Horton coming to
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  Speaker 2: Live Cooper Cup. You know obviously K nine backfield, O line.
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  Speaker 2: So you know this is a group effort and you know,
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  Speaker 2: if they shaved my way, you know, bring somebody else open.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a that's a good that's good for us.
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  Speaker 1: At Ohio State, did that ever happen to you or
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  Speaker 1: you got away the games and Ohio State did that
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  Speaker 1: happen where you don't notice defenses?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we had so many guys on the field,
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  Speaker 2: it was I think it was you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: hard at that time, but Yeah, I don't know when
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  Speaker 2: you have a lot of when you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys on the field that can you know, create plays,
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  Speaker 2: which I feel like, you know, like I said, the
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  Speaker 2: Seattle offense does as well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean kind of hard to keep on just one guy.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been the best most efficient two tight
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  Speaker 1: end offense in the NFL so far. What is it
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  Speaker 1: about that grouping that's working so.
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  Speaker 2: Well for you guys right now with the two tight
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  Speaker 2: end set. Yeah, just being able to run the ball,
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  Speaker 2: physical presence. I think the tight ends do a great job.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they get enough credit being able to
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  Speaker 2: be in a run game and also run great routes
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  Speaker 2: and catch the ball, be available. So them being versatile
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  Speaker 2: like that just opens up the offense so much. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: they're a big part of this offense. And we're lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have a J and Roo and and all those guys.
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  Speaker 3: A what stands out to him.
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  Speaker 2: About as a pass catcher Aju aj He got big hands.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a big target. You know, he knows
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  Speaker 2: how to attack the ball. Just very athletic, you know,
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  Speaker 2: big athlete, big target, Like I said, so for sure
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  Speaker 2: catcher and yeah, that's what.
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  Speaker 3: I saying when you told McDonald that you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: come back and be the best.
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  Speaker 6: What part of you became better.
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  Speaker 1: That had nothing to do with your speed or answering?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just I know, just ending the season like I
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  Speaker 2: did and collecting all that information, having that that confidence. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: building that throughout the season and you know, just knowing that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, letting time play its course and uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know this is what I you know, dream and love.
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  Speaker 2: So I just knew that, Like I said, just playing
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  Speaker 2: the course. You know, I'm gonna come back better.
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  Speaker 3: What was it you said it was like your.
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  Speaker 6: Junior year You're like, I'm about to go to the
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  Speaker 6: league in high school? I mean, what was it about
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  Speaker 6: that junior year that.
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  Speaker 2: You felt eighteen hundred yards about twenty five touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like, yeah, it's time, Like
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  Speaker 3: were you just were you unsure about it before that? Unsure?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, anything can happen, and which is
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  Speaker 2: still could have but I think I was just I
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  Speaker 2: felt stamped at that time.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks you, Jess, Thank you. Fank Ure.