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Press Pass | Etienne: "We know what we can be." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's oh just still how about some off season before
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  Speaker 1: he's the first off season crewing you pat it.
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  Speaker 2: To all level since you got to say, Uh, this
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  Speaker 2: offic this off season was great, Uh for me personally
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  Speaker 2: cause I was able to work on my game.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to just work out with the guys
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  Speaker 2: and just uh be more in tune with the team
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  Speaker 2: instead of just working on my way to get back
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  Speaker 2: and uh just being ready for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Proud. What have you seen at Tank.
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  Speaker 4: FIXB so far?
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  Speaker 1: What's it been like kind of forming that one two punch? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I seen a lot of the Tank. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I I just love his grind. I love his grid.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's very hungry and that's what I
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  Speaker 2: love about him. And uh just seeing his willingess to
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  Speaker 2: get better each and every day. Uh, He's he's a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: He's like newing the scheme like I've been there, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm seeing where he's going and where he's coming,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, just his willing's are come in every day
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  Speaker 2: and learn. I feel like I love that about him.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why you're gonna say a lot of growth
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  Speaker 2: for him early.
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  Speaker 1: It's a relationship like between him and you and the
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  Speaker 1: other running backs.
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  Speaker 4: In the running back around.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I feel like this year, uh Alrightsu was really well.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like everybody's here for one reason, that's the
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  Speaker 2: win football games. And now I feel like that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: go a long ways. There's no like jealousy within the room.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's here room for each other and we all helping
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  Speaker 2: each other to get better.
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  Speaker 3: I wore a year in this objects having to get
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  Speaker 3: at a year and trying to fig you, uh, it's
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  Speaker 3: night and day, it's night and day.
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  Speaker 2: Just knowing what coach is looking for, just knowing the scheme,
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  Speaker 2: just knowing what my office alignment are doing, playing to
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  Speaker 2: play out, and just having those reps and just having
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  Speaker 2: that that season behind me kind of propares me for
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  Speaker 2: it and just like moving forward, Like when coach coaches
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  Speaker 2: already know he's going to sorry, know he's looking for
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  Speaker 2: and so I was like, that's gonna be night and
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  Speaker 2: day for me.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna see it. Like levels of growth this year.
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  Speaker 2: Where were you Just anticipation, just being able to set
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  Speaker 2: things up, just knowing what I'm doing, just uh, my confidence.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like my first year was all about gaining
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  Speaker 2: my confidence back. And now I feel like once you
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  Speaker 2: get that, and once you wanted to that, it's football.
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  Speaker 2: It's something we're playing our whole lives. Uh, you kind
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  Speaker 2: of get to yourself, back to yourself again.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about working on your game, being ever to do
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  Speaker 4: that this offseason, What specifically did you work on, Like
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  Speaker 4: was it a certain uh you know, past protection things
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Or or what did you do?
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  Speaker 2: So my really my main focus is my tracks. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: just like my tracks, just uh, just me starting getting
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  Speaker 2: the ball, just staying on the just my shoulders being
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  Speaker 2: scrolled the office, a linement, just things like that. Because
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  Speaker 2: he was watching my fiet from last year, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of predetermining things, but what my shoulders wouldn't be square,
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  Speaker 2: So linebackers are kind of getting a beat on where
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  Speaker 2: I'm going. So this year is more focus. I just
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  Speaker 2: keeping my shoulder square that we don't giving myself a
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  Speaker 2: three wad go at all times. Enable he's not able
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  Speaker 2: to determine anything, I'm able to play with him and
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  Speaker 2: take the yards as there.
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  Speaker 1: Running Backs have kind of been in the news a
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  Speaker 1: lot lately with Ta KWin and Josh Jacobs and all
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  Speaker 1: of their contract situations. Could you just talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about your opinion on it, being that you're getting
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  Speaker 1: close to that time.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I feel like, uh, I really don't have a
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  Speaker 3: word in that.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like the market is what the market is,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, for me to go out there and get
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  Speaker 2: the best deal for myself, I have to come out
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  Speaker 2: here and work hard each and every day. If I
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  Speaker 2: don't produce or be productive, I'm not gonna even be
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  Speaker 2: in that conversation or they may be looking to pay me.
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  Speaker 2: So best thing I could do it just keep my
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  Speaker 2: head down and keep working and win games from my
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  Speaker 2: football team, do you feel.
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  Speaker 4: Like it could be an uphill battle for running back
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  Speaker 4: specifically just because it seems like you know they'll give
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  Speaker 4: you three hundred carries one season, three hundred carries the next,
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  Speaker 4: or drop your replacement. So do you think it could
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  Speaker 4: be like an uphill battle sometimes just in that position group?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, But I feel like it also depends on the
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  Speaker 2: type of back you are, because you doe to see
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  Speaker 2: some bads to get paid. Like Christian McCaffrey, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: he kisses the ball out the backfield. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like for running back, before you have to versify the game,
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  Speaker 2: you have to just be more than just a downhill
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  Speaker 2: bruiser in order to be able to build that level,
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  Speaker 2: in order to talk that leverage whenever you're going to
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  Speaker 2: the conversations, because like you said, like you three hundred
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  Speaker 2: carries and ten rushing yards, you see what the market
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  Speaker 2: is for the guys like that. So for us as
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  Speaker 2: we have to continue to grow and involve our game
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  Speaker 2: because you see the way that football's going, you see
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  Speaker 2: as a passing lead now, and we just have to
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  Speaker 2: evolves as a whole.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was a big emphasis, right, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to keep this off what has to happen to start fappening?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Just uh, I mean, I feel like we're going to
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  Speaker 2: start faster because like last year was our first year
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  Speaker 2: in this offense, so everyone was really learning.
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  Speaker 3: We were learning the weekend and week out.
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  Speaker 2: Two right now, we already have that foundation, we know
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  Speaker 2: who we can be, and we also added Calvin really,
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  Speaker 2: so I feel like that's just an automatic reason people
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  Speaker 2: gonna start faster, Like you can't help but.
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  Speaker 3: Start fast with guys like them on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm very excited for this year and see where
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Those expectations all it seemed like every other week in
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  Speaker 1: the off season, you guys were brought up about how
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  Speaker 1: you guys would do and obviously, after the success of
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  Speaker 1: last year, how you guys would do this year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you can't worry about what everyone else is saying.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like when everyone gets to talking and you
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  Speaker 2: just have to gel in on each other because, uh,
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  Speaker 2: at this same time last year, no one believed in us,
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  Speaker 2: and now we have to gelling as a team, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: just focused on each other, focus on our game, and
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  Speaker 2: uh we're just gonna come together, come closer, and work
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  Speaker 2: on ourselves and just block out the outside noise what's
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  Speaker 2: good or bad, because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you can't get too high or too low. I remember
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  Speaker 2: I was just reading something. It was like you dropped
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  Speaker 2: the game when it passed, like you see where all
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  Speaker 2: the fans go then. So it's really just just holding
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  Speaker 2: on yourself and your brothers, your teammates, and just understanding
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  Speaker 2: that at the end of the day, we are who
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  Speaker 2: we have and we start to rock and roll like
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  Speaker 2: that again.