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Mike Macdonald: "These Preseason Games Coming Up Are Invaluable" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good. Everybody, all right, what do you got, Bo? What
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  Speaker 1: did the film of Saturday of the Night to you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: A lot a lot of good things, A lot of
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  Speaker 1: good things, a lot of things we need to work
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  Speaker 1: on too. I mean it's uh, just another another step
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  Speaker 1: into the whole operation and where we're going. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: there are some good things that we put on tape.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to like just sit. I mean it's I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what do you want to like? There's a
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  Speaker 1: position or something like it. Give you some more, okay, Bob? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I felt I felt our fore man rush a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more in the stadium, and uh, that was good
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  Speaker 1: to see. You know something we've been we've been harping
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  Speaker 1: on kind of the guys working off one another, get
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  Speaker 1: the games, called things like that. So that was good
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  Speaker 1: to see. Oh, reassuring.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Then? That's great? You had to be this week? It's
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  Speaker 1: that a leading question.
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  Speaker 2: It was recovery as you thought, or maybe sooner or later.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I just say like we followed the steps of
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  Speaker 1: I felt like, you know what everyone was saying what
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  Speaker 1: we needed to do and hmm, and it was time
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  Speaker 1: for him to go out there and he was there.
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  Speaker 1: Its great you see full goals. I would have been four.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I'm as far as I know, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's he's he's rolling some of the linebackers.
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  Speaker 3: And now we've seen tyres Night get some good opportunities here.
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  Speaker 3: Just what are you seeing as he develops in his
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  Speaker 3: first camp?
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  Speaker 1: It was good to see him making some tackles on
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  Speaker 1: in the set we did threes live or tackling without
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback on Saturday. Uh, made a few tackles, which
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  Speaker 1: is good to see. I want to watch the tape
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  Speaker 1: today to see how if he's taking the next step.
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  Speaker 1: So the challenge to him is, you know, can he
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  Speaker 1: build on it every day? You know, we're we're out
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  Speaker 1: of time of you know, two steps forward, one step back.
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  Speaker 1: That goes for everybody. And uh, I'm interested without making
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  Speaker 1: judgment right now, but we had we didn't finish the
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  Speaker 1: way we needed to on defense today and so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what's burned in my mind right now.
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  Speaker 3: And Orgin a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed to bring a different energy today for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from him so far? It is Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great example of just a guy just keeps
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  Speaker 1: doing it and you know, we'll see when in in
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  Speaker 1: preseason games, we'll have an ample opportunity to show what
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  Speaker 1: he can do, and it's good to make it. See
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  Speaker 1: him make a couple of plays today.
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  Speaker 3: Is Tyler Lockett just getting veteran the rest of day?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just working. Yeah, we learned about Geno Smith
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  Speaker 1: since you came to Seattle, the guy that I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was. I mean, it's just you know, it's uh
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  Speaker 1: again on the record with this, but just just you know,
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  Speaker 1: respect for who he is as a player, accuracy operation,
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  Speaker 1: how he handles the guys. Uh yeah, just and we're
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  Speaker 1: in our relationship is still still in the works. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've known each other for what five months now, so
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we're in a good spot. We're wrong,
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  Speaker 1: Marquis are saying pretty active out there today.
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  Speaker 3: What do you kind of see from him since you
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  Speaker 3: guys brought him back last week?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you see, you see the athlete, you see
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  Speaker 1: the person. He's got a little bit to catch up
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  Speaker 1: on with the scheme slowed the game down for him.
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna try to give
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  Speaker 1: him some more opportunity to show what he can do,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, these these preseason games coming up
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  Speaker 1: are invaluable practice against the Titans. Just see him operate
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better, and uh, we're excited about him.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from offensive class and umatic Max Putcher.
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  Speaker 2: Make his journeys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Max is a great guy, works his tail off.
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  Speaker 1: The guys love him. Just a really cool story. Happy
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  Speaker 1: for him. But he's he's right in the mix, you know, battle,
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  Speaker 1: just battle on his tail off every day. So he's
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  Speaker 1: right there now inspiring. Just well, we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys with really cool stories, you know, so I
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  Speaker 1: think he's right there with him. And uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: I just respect how he operates and where he's come from,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of guys, you know, have cool stories
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  Speaker 1: that they can fall back on.
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  Speaker 2: How much just a looming upcoming preseason game add to
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  Speaker 2: the competition and a sense of urgency Without rushing too much.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's the game. I just think, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, this is the last true training
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  Speaker 1: camp week of us to go through all the have
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  Speaker 1: all the reps, all the time, all those things, and
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  Speaker 1: so like we need to take advantage of this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And that was my message to the guys. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after we broke practice, what have.
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  Speaker 3: You thought of some of the feistiness that rieg Woll
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  Speaker 3: in his show we saw him kind of mix it
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  Speaker 3: up with Walker.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit today.
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  Speaker 2: What have you thought of all that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I love I love the competitor, I
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  Speaker 1: love the spirit all that. We need to take care
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  Speaker 1: of one another, you know. So you know, if we
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  Speaker 1: get in, if we're getting a scrap here or there,
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  Speaker 1: that's understandable. But we've got to make sure everybody's healthy
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  Speaker 1: and we're taking care of another at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It's rotating, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Where's that competition, right? It's open. It's open. Yeah, Nick's
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  Speaker 1: done a nice job. He's pushing Olu. Young pops are
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job too. Jenne's doing a good job up.
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  Speaker 1: So it's open? Is there? In these one on one reps?
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  Speaker 3: Everything else? Seems like Charles Cross isn't getting beat a lot.
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  Speaker 3: When you have a left tackle of his caliber, How
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  Speaker 3: much does that help an offense when you can rely
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  Speaker 3: on that guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the anchor of the offensive line. Man. So we
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  Speaker 1: go as Charles goes and uh, just again, another guy
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  Speaker 1: that you get to know throughout the process and how
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  Speaker 1: he operates. Just a lot of respect for how he
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  Speaker 1: goes about his business. It's like a stylent assassin out there.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, just you know again, I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the radio this morning, but not some
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  Speaker 1: offensive line savant, but you know, from what you see
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  Speaker 1: and how you evaluate practice and how off any wins
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  Speaker 1: one on ones, and then listening to the offensive coaches,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like he's he's really been. He's got some
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  Speaker 1: things to take his game to the next level, and
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  Speaker 1: you want that from all your guys, like, how are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna level up? How are you gonna go take
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  Speaker 1: your game? You know, to put yourself in best spot
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  Speaker 1: to further your career and help the team.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, you said Saturday, and you don't have your five
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  Speaker 2: yet for the offensive line. When do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: you need to kind of know who your guys are
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  Speaker 2: to kind of get prepped for the start of the
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  Speaker 2: season or is that something that can be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more influx and kind of figure it out as
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you need to have it at any point.
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  Speaker 1: It's based on who you are and where you're at
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  Speaker 1: with your team. But if I gave you an answer.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just be making something up off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head.
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  Speaker 3: Clendon Curtis, is he still in play to maybe go
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  Speaker 3: back to right guard and compete for that spart or
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  Speaker 3: if you like him at.
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  Speaker 1: Right tackle right now? We like him at right tackle,
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  Speaker 1: but he does have some ability to go inside. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll see if we're moving back inside. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: he's cooking a tackle. We're about to talk to Jsen.
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  Speaker 1: What's the element that he brings that's kind of unique
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  Speaker 1: to him as oppose the other receivers have just gotten.
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  Speaker 1: It's got this like fluid explosiveness about him that can
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  Speaker 1: run the entire route tree incredible ways like track the ball,
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  Speaker 1: body control, explosive in and out of his cuts. And
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  Speaker 1: I think I talked about all this like tacit stuff
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but it's like, this is this competitor
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  Speaker 1: in him, the mentality of what we want. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he has that, so I encourage him to keep doing
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  Speaker 1: those things. If you could really the message doing that'd
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  Speaker 1: be great. I could look at talk to cam Chancellor
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  Speaker 1: and Lawyer out there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was it kind of nice, I guess getting to
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  Speaker 3: know the getting to know those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was awesome. Man. Just I was I was telling, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this big just a huge fan of Cam and you
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  Speaker 1: know the person is in his career. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I just you see him at Ferston, like I still
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  Speaker 1: can't believe he played safety, like it's incredible. And with Lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I just remember like living
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  Speaker 1: and I remember used to watch all the America's games
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  Speaker 1: and just like on repeat, you know, and he was
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  Speaker 1: doing the Patriots one and I was, It's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is it's pretty sweet. Like you're Loaura malloy.
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  Speaker 3: When you when you were first round Leslie, Brazier and Bolton,
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  Speaker 3: what stood out to you about the way he.
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  Speaker 1: Took taught and the coach and the players and what
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  Speaker 1: did you pick it up along the way, you know
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  Speaker 1: you would not posserb His communication style is one that
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  Speaker 1: is uh compliments mine very much. He takes the edge
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  Speaker 1: off very perspective, perspective or perspective about things. He just
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  Speaker 1: kind of he's able to take himself out of the
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  Speaker 1: this and look at it from different perspectives, different angles, patients,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. I mean, he's just a just a
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  Speaker 1: great confidant and I think the players recognize that and
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  Speaker 1: they appreciate, you know, his approach.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about the advantages of interior pressure versus edge pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'd love to man, it's a there's
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  Speaker 1: different ways. First of all, there's different ways to affect
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. So timing is one, being able to step
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  Speaker 1: into your throw things like that, which it goes underrated
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  Speaker 1: because you know the quarterbacks they sit in these you
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  Speaker 1: know they sit in practice. I'm getting after our guys
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  Speaker 1: staying away from our qbs, which we need to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job of. But sometimes there's a false sense
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  Speaker 1: of security. So when you get people in your lap,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's tough to step in and deliver
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  Speaker 1: throws on time accurately. And you know, in the shortest system,
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  Speaker 1: two points is a straight line and those guys are closer.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think we're in the in the
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  Speaker 1: process of the edge guys feeling what our interior rush
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  Speaker 1: feels like and being able to play off one another.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't coordinate every rush. You know, you can't
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  Speaker 1: just draw lines on a sheet and have guys just
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  Speaker 1: run it and everything. You know, everybody's happy. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: there has to be some improvisation to it, as well, chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: how you play off one another. And that's why all
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  Speaker 1: these what all these reps are.
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  Speaker 2: For Kenny Nagatas got hurting camp last year, didn't get
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  Speaker 2: any chance to play much last year. What have you
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  Speaker 2: seen that of him as he gets up the stween
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  Speaker 2: with you guys here in the next.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kenny's getting pushed right now. Now, he's in a battle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think, uh, I think George is right
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  Speaker 1: there with him, and uh, you know, he's in a
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  Speaker 1: battle to see who's gonna be the third running back
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  Speaker 1: for us. And uh, he's getting he's getting uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: getting his money's worth. So it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: how it plays out over the next few weeks. Everything else,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, all right, thank you