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Cooper Kupp: "It's Been Very Fun To Play Alongside Jaxon" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: There everyone great.
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  Speaker 2: Any more juice to the matchup?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it already there for week one? Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's there's you don't need anything extra. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I think what you put in there. Uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're going into the next season week one. There's the
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  Speaker 1: the emotions are high, you're excited about it. You've been
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  Speaker 1: uh obviously going against your own team for most of
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  Speaker 1: the last five months and uh and yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: ready to go into someone else and probably this work
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  Speaker 1: out there and you know, just let it rip. Your head.
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  Speaker 3: Coach is just telling us that you've offered some ideas
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  Speaker 3: and things you've seen and that's worked other places.
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  Speaker 1: Was that did you volunteer that?
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  Speaker 2: Did they ask you that?
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  Speaker 3: And how's that process gone?
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  Speaker 1: How does it work? Yeah? I just think it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a mix, you know, like sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: being asked something that I think it's a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys here that play a lot of
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  Speaker 1: football just wanting to. Uh, you have coaches that want
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  Speaker 1: the best for the guys that are sitting sitting in
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  Speaker 1: this room and in this in this building. And when
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  Speaker 1: you've got coaches that want that, you know there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna ask questions and be open to things, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing you can do is start feeling like
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  Speaker 1: you have everything figured out and have so much respect
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  Speaker 1: for Mike because he's he's like, he's open, He's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just want what's best for our team and whatever
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  Speaker 1: that looks like, let's make that happen. And we got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches that the same way and when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to football, and so it's a mixture of
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  Speaker 1: both those things. Him having an open door policy to
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  Speaker 1: guys being able to come in and just be able
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  Speaker 1: to talk with him, and also them being able to
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  Speaker 1: search out and find ways find the ledges for us
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  Speaker 1: and really appreciative of that here from defensive players about
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  Speaker 1: you know, his football mind and his footbly like Q
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  Speaker 1: whatever is.
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  Speaker 2: An offensive guy. What's it like talking football to him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and it's challenging. He talks fast, and he
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  Speaker 1: talks in their language, so that's, uh, that's nice. When
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  Speaker 1: he's like, you know, throwing you some stuff like I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you call that. You can call you
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  Speaker 1: call it lizard or whatever you say, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that means, you know, And he just keeps
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  Speaker 1: going and you're like, look, dude, you win all right,
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  Speaker 1: you got you got us. But no, it's it's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's been fun talking with him and being able
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  Speaker 1: to like shoot ideas off each other and hearing what
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking that the things he's coming up with, things
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  Speaker 1: that get him excited about football. It's like, man, this
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  Speaker 1: it's it's really cool. It's cool. It's just to see
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  Speaker 1: the the passion for for the game and not just
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  Speaker 1: the not I mean just for like for trying to
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  Speaker 1: find ways to win, find ways like you like this
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  Speaker 1: is just gonna be find ways to make it really
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  Speaker 1: hard on on offense to do what they want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's been fun kind of hearing some of
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  Speaker 1: those ideas from him. Yeah, State secrets. Are there any
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  Speaker 1: ideas you can share? Chance a chance?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, You've got the chance to play for one
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  Speaker 3: of the best offensive minds in the game with Sean Fay,
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  Speaker 3: and I are playing for Mike the defensive mind. How
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  Speaker 3: are their minds different?
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  Speaker 1: How are their minds kind of the same. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're always like you can see it, They're
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  Speaker 1: always on you know, there's it's just like constantly like
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  Speaker 1: searching for you know what that what's the next thing
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  Speaker 1: going to be is there is there a weakness here?
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  Speaker 1: Is there something that I'm missing or something I'm not seeing,
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  Speaker 1: or is there a better way to do it? And
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  Speaker 1: it just seems like it's constant, like you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, with with both it's not even
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  Speaker 1: just with football. It's or like their side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it is the coaching side of things,
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  Speaker 1: like how can we communicate better? How can we just
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  Speaker 1: be better in the building, And it's Uh, as a players,
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  Speaker 1: like man, you want to be around guys like that
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  Speaker 1: like that. Then they're just like they're pushing the envelope.
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  Speaker 1: They want to be ahead of everything. It's like they're
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  Speaker 1: not okay sitting back and saying, well if someone else is,
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  Speaker 1: They're not okay with the thought that someone else is
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  Speaker 1: doing it better than they are, you know. And so
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. I really love that mindset. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it makes it fun as a as a as a
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  Speaker 1: player to be able to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: You find that it's an edge that a coach has
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  Speaker 3: given you a the play call that makes the difference
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  Speaker 3: versus just focusing on what you're good at and getting.
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  Speaker 1: Really good at what you're good at. Yeah, and you can.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's there's that like that fine line between
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  Speaker 1: those two things, right like you want to you have
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  Speaker 1: to be a master of your stuff. Everybody talks about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's this team's identity? What are you going
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  Speaker 1: to be about? And everyone has to find that. But
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  Speaker 1: that's also every team is also looking at every other
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  Speaker 1: team and saying, well, what is their identity? What are
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  Speaker 1: they good at? And then they do everything they can't
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  Speaker 1: take it away, you know, that's that's just like that's
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  Speaker 1: their m that's you know, Bill Belichick's been doing it
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  Speaker 1: for years and years and years and years, like that's
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  Speaker 1: how you it's how you beat people. And so you
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  Speaker 1: know there's an element of saying, Okay, well we know
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  Speaker 1: what we're about. How are we thinking teams are gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to stop us? What are some things that we
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  Speaker 1: can expose from on their side of the ball as well?
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  Speaker 1: What fits into our stuff? What fits into our like
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  Speaker 1: id that'd be easy for us to implement and be
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  Speaker 1: really good at right away? That can you know, attack
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  Speaker 1: something that we're sitting on the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what everything is doing now. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's a balance of that training camp. You spend all
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  Speaker 1: this time being able to master your systems and have
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  Speaker 1: this understanding of this big, massive things that you want
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  Speaker 1: to do, and you know, in the midst of all
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  Speaker 1: that you find the things that, man, these are some
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  Speaker 1: plays that we've really executed well and take those things
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  Speaker 1: into the season and you know, build off of them.
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  Speaker 3: How hard was playing at loomin all those years as
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  Speaker 3: as a visitor and how excited are you.
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  Speaker 1: To kind of have to be on your side from
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  Speaker 1: one Yeah, man, it's a challenge. It's it's it's always
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  Speaker 1: been a challenge. You just knew it was gonna be loud,
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  Speaker 1: and I I am very excited to be on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of it now that's just gonna be Uh
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  Speaker 1: That's how I'm meant. And I know it's something that
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about here about you know, being able to
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  Speaker 1: defend our grass, defend our spot and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make it something that is that you know, carries that
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  Speaker 1: that weight that it's always been in Lumen and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something that the guys here have taken
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  Speaker 1: into account. Are it's important to us and I know,
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  Speaker 1: certainly for me having experienced it from the other side,
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  Speaker 1: I know how good it can be. I know how
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  Speaker 1: difficult it is to go out there and operate on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the ball when that place is rocking,
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  Speaker 1: and and very excited and optimistic that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: get out there on on Sunday and that place is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be rocking.
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  Speaker 2: Played in Seattle plenty, but being on the hometown team now,
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  Speaker 2: being from the state, I'm sure have family and friends
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  Speaker 2: or is that kind of make this one special to.
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  Speaker 1: Be back home? Yeah, it is. You know, that is
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  Speaker 1: a it's a cool thing to be able to have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think I've talked about before. My first
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  Speaker 1: time playing here is a ton of people and my
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  Speaker 1: dad want all those tickets, hundred and fifty tickets or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. You know, it's like it's a cool
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  Speaker 1: thing to be able to be here. And he's always
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like you come here and play and
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  Speaker 1: your friends or whatever are wearing Seattle jerseys and now
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  Speaker 1: it's like now it's it's just like as a on
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  Speaker 1: the outside off the fields, like man, his friends. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, now we're in the same jersey. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing this. We're able to be the people do
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  Speaker 1: that together. So it's gonna be a really that would
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  Speaker 1: be a really cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: What do you appreciate about JSN now that maybe you
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  Speaker 2: didn't know when you guys first started working together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a ton. So. I mean obviously I
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  Speaker 1: only knew him as a football player, and what I've
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  Speaker 1: seen on film, we love just the competitiveness he has
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  Speaker 1: he brings every single day. It's, uh, it's really impressive
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  Speaker 1: to see just the uh, I don't know if the words.
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  Speaker 1: The scope of things that he can bring to life
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  Speaker 1: offensively as a wide receiver, there's not You can't just
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  Speaker 1: slot him into one place and say he can only
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  Speaker 1: do this. He is He's able to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of every part of the offense and and wants to.
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  Speaker 1: I think he has a desire to do that too,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is awesome. We have someone that's that's
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  Speaker 1: willing to step into some roles and do some things
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  Speaker 1: that you know might be a little messier, might be
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe not what people think you can do,
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  Speaker 1: but I may you start bringing a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: things to life, you become very difficult to cover. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're moving around all over the offense and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. So yeah, very uh, it's been very fun
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  Speaker 1: to be able to you know, play alongside Jackson, learn
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about him and learn from him just
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  Speaker 1: how he sees the game.
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  Speaker 2: Fortners have a lot of news starters on defense rookies,
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  Speaker 2: even that we didn't get to see in the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: So as an offense, how do you guys prepare? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've gone against a Robert solid defense before.
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  Speaker 1: How do you prepare for that? Yeah, it's always tough,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the first game, especially the first few games
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  Speaker 1: of the season, because you're here searching for what film
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna watch, you know, especially with you know, new decordinators, Like, man,
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  Speaker 1: where how far back to you go? Like, and then
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  Speaker 1: what do you expect? Okay, He'm sure it's all is
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  Speaker 1: putting new stuff in. He's he's you know, he's growing
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  Speaker 1: as a coach and changing some stuff and adding some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, man, I'm trying to figure out what you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna watch and do you know? And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: it kind of falls back to what was asked about
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  Speaker 1: earlier about being able to be good at your stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Like you gotta be able to be early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be able to be good at your stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you anticipate some looks that he might
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  Speaker 1: not get. But you're gonna be able to play ball.
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  Speaker 1: Are you and Sam gonna wear your flannels? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a little warm here, so I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if I'm gonna bring the flannel out. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my wife does most of my styling for me, and
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  Speaker 1: so whatever she lays out for me, I'll probably wear that.
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  Speaker 1: Other attributes of like a Robert solid defense, Like can
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  Speaker 1: you watch defense from like characteristics? Yeah, well, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you can. Coverage wise, there's obviously some coverage stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you see that's, you know, pretty consistent. I think you
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  Speaker 1: like those guys up front, like they're always is always
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  Speaker 1: about I think their defense really starts up there, and
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  Speaker 1: the guys that really come off the ball and disrupt
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  Speaker 1: things and you know everything else all everyone else kind
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  Speaker 1: of just plays off that. It's just it makes it
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  Speaker 1: makes football really hard when those guys are for an offense,
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  Speaker 1: makes football really hard for an offense. When those guys
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  Speaker 1: up front are are doing what they're doing. They've got
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  Speaker 1: a really good one up there with BOTHA and obviously
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  Speaker 1: those other guys are they're gonna be They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: good up front. That's just what they do. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you obviously have Fred in the middle there. He's done
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  Speaker 1: thing this for a long time. He knows this defense.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, I think that's just also some
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  Speaker 1: of that solid has you know, guys that play at
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  Speaker 1: that second level that can run and hit and diagnose
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  Speaker 1: things and and you know, finish tacklers when finished tackles
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  Speaker 1: when when he needs to, and and so there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have those guys ready to go. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the other thing. Those guys they play hard and
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  Speaker 1: it's always uh, really fun going against them because you
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  Speaker 1: know you're gonna get you know, that high end. Sure
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  Speaker 1: you can get the high effort, and you gotta you
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  Speaker 1: gotta match it, you gotta bring it people.
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  Speaker 2: You think, how many people are you gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: family friends estimate?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even ask the time. Yeah, I'm I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: it will be. I'm sure it will be a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll sneak you guys