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Aden Durde: "Our Mission Is To Constantly Improve" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good. It's a bit warmer in here.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked to Mike about what are you seen in
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  Speaker 2: the defense and how the defense has come together since
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  Speaker 2: we've won.
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  Speaker 1: How would you assess them?
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  Speaker 3: I think the constant, the constant messaging from Mike and
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  Speaker 3: our mission is to constantly improve, like consistent improvement, consistent
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  Speaker 3: self improvement, consistent position, group improvement, and unit improvement. And
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  Speaker 3: that I think obviously at times you're you're on that
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  Speaker 3: level and you're always trying to push. But that's what
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  Speaker 3: we've seen, consistent improvement. Guys trying to be better, trying
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  Speaker 3: to be better versions of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And if some of them shown up on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I saw three cooling in the first matchup between these
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  Speaker 2: t teams, have a couple of players he'd walk back.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen him respond the.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of the season. Yeah, we had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: good players in that game too. Just exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It really off what I just said, Like, uh, I've
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  Speaker 3: seen a guy that has played in the rotation, has
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  Speaker 3: dealt with every opportunity his best way. He comes to
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  Speaker 3: work every day, he puts his best foot forwards, and
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  Speaker 3: you just want the best of the guy. Like I
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  Speaker 3: think he's making plays and he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Has that that that rotation when you started that you
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  Speaker 2: kind of vision that would keep going on.
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  Speaker 3: The Yeah, you hope it because this guy's competing guys
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  Speaker 3: trying to be trying to play their best football, and
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  Speaker 3: it's worked like that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see is different about this offense in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco now versus what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: At the beginning of the season. I thin're gonna use
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  Speaker 1: some players different.
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  Speaker 3: They've evolved because some injuries, they've they've changed, but at
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  Speaker 3: the core of what they are, they still they still
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  Speaker 3: fundamentally do the same things they do, Like they have
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  Speaker 3: that searching for explosives. They're gonna play the wrong game,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna run off the ball. They've had some different runs,
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately they're the same fundamental team that played really
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  Speaker 3: good football.
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  Speaker 2: Like they're using Kyle us checking a little bit differently
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  Speaker 2: in motion. How how does that change things for defense?
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  Speaker 2: When when they use the full back the way.
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  Speaker 1: They're using it.
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  Speaker 3: You just have to get used to the formations that
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  Speaker 3: they're building and how they're building them and what the
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  Speaker 3: final formation is. Once the guys understand those things, I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of is to kind of move your
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  Speaker 3: eyes and they're doing one thing when they want you
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  Speaker 3: to see the other.
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  Speaker 1: Change the keys for the guys up front, make the
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  Speaker 1: edges softer.
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  Speaker 3: And if you lock onto your keys and you can,
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  Speaker 3: you can understand what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: You can play fast and physical.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of running backs can be a
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  Speaker 3: much you get in the cafe like wee one catch?
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  Speaker 3: How that want to running back in the It's a
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  Speaker 3: real challenge. He he can at times, he can. He
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  Speaker 3: can make you question what kind of coverages you want
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  Speaker 3: to play. He can make you think about matchups. He
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  Speaker 3: can make you think about the situations they can put
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  Speaker 3: you in. He he is He's an elite player and
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  Speaker 3: you gotta respect the way he plays a game.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything about.
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  Speaker 2: Questions when you sing about from other like do your
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  Speaker 2: threatbacks that pass like emotional front.
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  Speaker 1: Type of guys that have done thattic? What is it
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  Speaker 1: about this? Because a little bit different some of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that have been able to do things like this.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a He's an extremely great athlete and
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  Speaker 3: that shows up on the field. But his understanding of
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  Speaker 3: zones and how when to sit down and when to
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  Speaker 3: move and how to break away from leverage.
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  Speaker 1: You see it all over tape.
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  Speaker 3: He plays the game like a receiver and plays a
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  Speaker 3: game like a very good running back.
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  Speaker 2: To how do you develop a rush plan for a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Rockberdy who is not a runner, but he
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  Speaker 2: can jackson that way, but he's really loosive. How do
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  Speaker 2: you develop a rush plan the first month?
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  Speaker 3: I think you have to You have to look at
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  Speaker 3: yourself first. When you're creating a rush plan. You have
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  Speaker 3: to look at who you are, how your players play,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to first of all, get on the
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  Speaker 3: same page and understand what the achievement is. Like you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to not rush, like that's the worst thing
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  Speaker 3: that can happen is that you will try and stick
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  Speaker 3: to a block and it's just stuck in one position
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  Speaker 3: and there's no pressure at all. Like, we just have
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  Speaker 3: to be on the same page. You have to understand
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  Speaker 3: our rush lanes, have to communicate really well, see where
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  Speaker 3: the opportunities are, who has the opportunity. And when you
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  Speaker 3: do that, no one kind of is selfish in those situations.
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  Speaker 3: They understand what their role is and how they press
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  Speaker 3: the pocket. And there there are the times I've seen
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  Speaker 3: the best success.
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  Speaker 2: Look the forty yards are really good up third down.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see that, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: The kind of yeah, utilizing matchups, understanding they're very good
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  Speaker 3: at understanding like what you could be in how you
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  Speaker 3: can be in.
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  Speaker 1: It, attacking your weaknesses. They do a great job. He's
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  Speaker 1: gone through almost the second world regulations.
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  Speaker 2: How would you sort of describe the player Acquirant has
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  Speaker 2: become this year.
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  Speaker 1: For where he was week came last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question someone were talking about this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I think in two folds. As the player, I think
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  Speaker 3: he's always been that player. I think what's changed in
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  Speaker 3: him is he's understood what it takes to be a
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  Speaker 3: like an elite NFL player as a professional mindset, how
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  Speaker 3: he attacks the day, how he gets his body right,
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  Speaker 3: how he takes each day and information, how he uses
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  Speaker 3: it on the field. I've seen him growing confident, Like
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's cool to see him on the field
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  Speaker 3: now with the guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's before he was quite quiet.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's like he's more out of himself, just
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  Speaker 3: having fun, just.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoying the game. But I've seen him grown a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's matured a lot. Lay Marcus plays from like an efforts.
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  Speaker 1: How do you say impact, say the basin particularly similar.
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  Speaker 3: I think it impacts the whole defense, not just the
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  Speaker 3: younger guys. I think when people play that hard, it's
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  Speaker 3: contagious and when you put the work in day after day.
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  Speaker 3: Because I know Mike said it to you guys, I've said.
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  Speaker 1: It to you guys. He practices like that. He goes
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  Speaker 1: through individuals like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think when you put that work in and guys
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  Speaker 3: see that on the outcome on the field, they they
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  Speaker 3: do it. You know, like he's had a huge impact
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  Speaker 3: on this defense and he just keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: The most influencial player, No, I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: I think like I think just I think different players
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  Speaker 3: have different influences different ways. I think his influence is
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  Speaker 3: that he's just laws. He's nuts, and he has fun
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  Speaker 3: and he goes as hard as he can, and that
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  Speaker 3: that energy is infectious throughout the game. Other people have
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  Speaker 3: different influences in different ways.
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  Speaker 2: Last time, you guys faced an elite offense, you give
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  Speaker 2: up a few points in few yards against the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: You guys look at this as an opportunity to kind
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  Speaker 2: of reset your standard for how you play defense.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think we see that every week.
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  Speaker 3: I think like you come away from the game against
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  Speaker 3: the Rams, we were playing Carolina in the next week.
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  Speaker 1: We have to clean up where we gave up, away
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  Speaker 1: the explosives, the communication issues, and get to work.
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  Speaker 3: I think the thing, the mindset and the mission of
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone in our group right now is that
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  Speaker 3: we have to win this week. That's all that really matters.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if we can keep that mindset Mike
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  Speaker 3: talks about, you can just be where your feet or
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  Speaker 3: you can focus on the moment and you can move
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  Speaker 3: forwards with Nick at this point, are you guys still
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  Speaker 3: like adding stuff to he's played or have you kind
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  Speaker 3: of settled in? Yeah, kind of just settled in, like
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  Speaker 3: you kind of has found his world moving around and
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  Speaker 3: just let him play fast and free.
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  Speaker 1: And what's what do you think the best thing he's
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  Speaker 1: doing right now? That's quite a few things good now.
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  Speaker 3: It covers well he His understanding the game is growing.
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  Speaker 3: I think the understanding of NFL football, what he gets
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  Speaker 3: in different spots, and how he plays it, those things
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  Speaker 3: are growing, and I think he does well.
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  Speaker 1: He just.
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  Speaker 3: He really plays well in the alley of the field.
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  Speaker 3: Like his speed, his size, his length, his ability to
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  Speaker 3: tag get people down in space.
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  Speaker 1: You see that and it helps our defense. It seems
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  Speaker 1: that he had Jordan play more than he kills kind
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  Speaker 1: of spot in the last week at Tag Candy in.
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  Speaker 3: The World with what did you kind of make up
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  Speaker 3: Julian Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Around that I'd always done both with World kind of
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  Speaker 1: playing that. But whether those two guys kind of played
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  Speaker 1: out him. Yeah, Julian's are pro he can he can
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  Speaker 1: pick up things. He's super smart.
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  Speaker 3: It was just cool to see him make some plays
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  Speaker 3: and kind of he dropped that pick against the Rams
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  Speaker 3: and it was just like cool for him to get
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  Speaker 3: a pick, get himself back up, get on the board
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  Speaker 3: and get going.
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  Speaker 1: To see him sink under that. That's where would you
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  Speaker 1: kind of make it away? He kind of played that
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  Speaker 1: kind of That's that's Julian though. He's just a he's
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  Speaker 1: a real playmaker.
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  Speaker 3: Like when there's opportunities to make plays on the ball,
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  Speaker 3: to get people down in space in critical moments, Julian
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  Speaker 3: does that and it was it was just good. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's good for him to get himself going.
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  Speaker 2: And get going the loss of Anthony Bell. You know,
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  Speaker 2: what are you seeing from pandre and and is he
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  Speaker 2: ready to step in if you guys need.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's just got back, so it's just
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  Speaker 3: like him working through those things. But no, I think
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  Speaker 3: like everyone's in that mindset right now where they're ready
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  Speaker 3: to step in when needed.
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  Speaker 1: It's that time of year.
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  Speaker 3: You love.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned some infections and he has something spoken. How
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  Speaker 1: can you tell that?
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  Speaker 3: You can see it just the way the front play
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  Speaker 3: and it's not just him, it's Leo, it's Byron, it's
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  Speaker 3: Jay Reed, the hall boy, a channel, all those guys.
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  Speaker 3: They feed off one another. And I think when those things,
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  Speaker 3: when you make plays and you try, like he's had
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  Speaker 3: two force fumbles where the boys passed him and he
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  Speaker 3: comes back and he makes the play. And when you
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  Speaker 3: do that, you see other guys celebrate with him. They
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that work. They appreciate that someone's willing to do
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  Speaker 3: that for them to be successful. And I think that
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  Speaker 3: those things allow people to kind of it is infectious.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, how
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  Speaker 3: A great with Hi