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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 37-9 Win Over The Atlanta Falcons · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright, good to see everybody great winning. Really proud of
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  Speaker 1: our our team, resolve we had. I mean we we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to start the day fast and it was uh
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  Speaker 1: tough getting going ten am, uh ten am start, but
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  Speaker 1: you'd feel the guys we're trying.
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  Speaker 2: We just hard to get the momentum there.
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  Speaker 1: And Atlanta was playing really good on defense, uh initially,
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  Speaker 1: but man, I'm really happy and proud of our second half.
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  Speaker 1: The guys stacked plays, played complimentary football, played the situations
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  Speaker 1: really well. Obviously the kickoff was great to get a
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  Speaker 1: return finally, can't wait to watch it and who who
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  Speaker 1: popped all those blocks? But man, just really proud of
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  Speaker 1: our crew. You know, the mentality we have, the resolve,
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  Speaker 1: the connectedness really great, so much deserve win.
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  Speaker 2: The guys had a great week.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it's you know, let's not take these East Coast
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  Speaker 1: trips for granted. This is a this is not easy
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  Speaker 1: and Atlanta's a good football team.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 3: To make sure you called this year heat touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: A halftime maybe right?
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  Speaker 3: Was it just a huts or or did you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a feeling or something there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know something about you know, it's just called
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  Speaker 2: Kobe's pick last year too.
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  Speaker 1: Here, that's kind of I'm gonna get a fine for that,
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  Speaker 1: for for bragging.
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  Speaker 3: How about is the impact overall that she eat.
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  Speaker 2: Had on the game?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I you felt them all the way,
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  Speaker 1: like since we've since we traded for him. But finally
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  Speaker 1: the ball finds him and then you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: return game, as soon as he breaks to that first level,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's nobody's gonna catch him. So but uh
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  Speaker 1: made some great plays, you know, and conversion downs too,
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  Speaker 1: which are really uh really important. You told us Friday
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  Speaker 1: about how well Devin witha she is playing, even if
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  Speaker 1: the stats should always show it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, today the stats did just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeh had a game. Yeah, you had to have felt
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  Speaker 1: Spoon throughout that game. He was just what a phenomenal player.
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  Speaker 1: The play on the uh e Menmory sat Or interception
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  Speaker 1: was is a incredibly difficult play to make, played with
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  Speaker 1: anticipation and awesome play. And then the on on his
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  Speaker 1: interception another just super high level football play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just an incredible football play understanding. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on in that play and he
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  Speaker 1: he just he just gets it and played the anticipation
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  Speaker 1: and the relentlesses to go keep attacking the football. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that ball was alive there for a second, and
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  Speaker 1: that's great.
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  Speaker 3: What happened Uh between the first time the second half? Offensively,
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  Speaker 3: the playoftions seem to be more open. Uh runs for
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  Speaker 3: breaking like what changed?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I gotta give Atlantic credit. They they
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  Speaker 1: had a They they rushed us well in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we got our run game going a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in the second half. Again, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I say this every week, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like our coaches did a good job kind of going
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  Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, going back to our second
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  Speaker 1: half openers, getting a feel for how they're playing us,
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  Speaker 1: what could do well. So our coaches deserve a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit for designing a good second half game plan.
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  Speaker 1: Our players did a great job by executing it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought thought Clinton he was dialed in, man, he was,
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  Speaker 1: he was. I thought he called a tremendous game. He
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  Speaker 1: did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: What's the concern level with the term numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? Yeah. I mean you look at that one on
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  Speaker 1: the short yardage.
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  Speaker 2: It's the game testic catch that we we need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to make. So now, well the Wearsman the
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  Speaker 2: play he made.
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  Speaker 1: You said it was a really difficult play.
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  Speaker 2: Was it just twelve his pick?
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  Speaker 3: Was it something about the call that was difficult or just.
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  Speaker 2: To play and solved with something that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like what his job is on that play
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  Speaker 1: and then what they ran is not an easy play
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  Speaker 1: to make, so you have to have anticipation to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play that that play and he did it.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think of uh, Julian And it looks
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  Speaker 3: like you got kind of rotated Julian and Ty.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a bit. Yeah, you know, we had a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a pitch count for Julian and uh, he felt
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  Speaker 1: he felt really good. I felt like he executed well,
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was confident and were fortunately the way
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  Speaker 1: the game played out where you know, we could we
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  Speaker 1: could let Ty close it out for us.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought Ty played really good football as well.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I I d like, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to take a second like tya kotta deserves Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: massive shout out from from the coat just everybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this guy has played incredible football for us and all
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  Speaker 1: he does every day is just prepare his tail off.
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  Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal teammate. He plays so hard, he executes
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  Speaker 1: at a high level. Everything matters to him. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we've played great defense since he since he had to
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  Speaker 1: take over for Julian And I know his production isn't
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  Speaker 1: his isn't as high, but man, this guy just just
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  Speaker 1: love having I'm really happy for him. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's just playing really, really well. So shout out the tie.
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  Speaker 2: Really fired up on that fourth down pass break up.
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  Speaker 1: But then there, Yeah, it was funny. I thought I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was going to check the coverage to a
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  Speaker 1: certain check we have with that call, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it the same way obviously, So I'm glad he
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  Speaker 1: made that call.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise it would have been a little easier for us.
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  Speaker 3: And Jery came back and made the look like he
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  Speaker 3: made the play on the fubble as well to get that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you might have to ask Marcus Lawrence who
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  Speaker 1: got who got that out, because he said that's what
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  Speaker 1: he does.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, happy to have Jay Reed back.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell me outside of just being a really
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  Speaker 1: good player, just having back emotionally and as a as
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  Speaker 1: a leader on our football team.
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  Speaker 2: Strapping it back up with the guys is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: The defensive players that it doesn't have. These games don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be close. You're talking about how this team
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  Speaker 3: continues to kind of separate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we've grown in that area in terms
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  Speaker 1: of like we we talk about, you know, we talk
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  Speaker 1: stacking wins, but now it's like in terms of stacking plays.
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  Speaker 2: So like just like a like a.
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  Speaker 1: Moment by moment mindset of winning that down, winning that situation,
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  Speaker 1: and we just kind of reload and go back after it.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like our team has grown in that area.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I know they say that, and it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: I love that mentality, but it's like you're not really worried.
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  Speaker 1: We're just not worried about the result. Like we're just
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  Speaker 1: I love how our mentality is really just focused on
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  Speaker 1: how we play down in and down out and controlling
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  Speaker 1: what we can control. I know it sounds kind of
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  Speaker 1: cliche and whatever, but it really is our mindset. So
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  Speaker 1: but when you can stack a certain amount of plays
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  Speaker 1: together in situations, you know, that's how you get stops,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how you that's how you lim up points
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  Speaker 1: a little half dumb speech to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I said, like it's a little little speech.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't very long.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us us return this kickoff or go blop this kickoff,
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  Speaker 1: let's go score a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And new ideas that to put Nick on special teams
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  Speaker 3: and then kick kick block.
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  Speaker 1: Well Jay, yeah, yeah, I mean he's he's been so
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  Speaker 1: close for so long. And I'll tell you what, Like
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  Speaker 1: you you watch our kick our you know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: goal block unit, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Really proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: The effort in there, like that's a great it's a
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  Speaker 1: great indicator of like your effort on your football team.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick brings it every time. And it's not just him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, Danthony l is great in the wedge.
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  Speaker 1: Our d linemen are awesome. They get a great push.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm really happy for Nick because he's really been
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  Speaker 2: ripping it on on field goal block. He's come so
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  Speaker 2: close for for a while now.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of times in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that yeah, yeah, we wont you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's so good extended plays and just go be a playmaker, man,
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  Speaker 1: go you know, go do the things that you do
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  Speaker 1: and get excited about it. But just kind of build
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  Speaker 1: him up on that front. But you can't him, can't
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  Speaker 1: make too big of these things, just like let him
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  Speaker 1: just encourage him to keep you know, make him go
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  Speaker 1: do what he does and and and uh, making it
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  Speaker 1: come to life. He could have run for the first
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  Speaker 1: down on the interception in the first half is then
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  Speaker 1: he's second half, he's taken off front and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if that was something you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I don't know, I have to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he could have gotten the first
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  Speaker 2: down on that on the one he threw. Not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Overall, tremendous casion. He gave out some game like like
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  Speaker 1: he got one of the game balls. I'm really happy
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  Speaker 1: for him. He's he's worked his tail off.
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  Speaker 2: He just really has. He just does it every day.
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  Speaker 1: And she just asset for us obviously when how we're
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  Speaker 1: utilizing him and we're playing him against thirteen personnel in
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  Speaker 1: there and he's throwing his stuff in there. So happy
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  Speaker 1: for him and he's got a great attitude.
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  Speaker 2: So happy for him. He deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about Arroyo?
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  Speaker 2: And as I.
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  Speaker 1: Think Peeley's okay, Arroyo, We're gonna see it's a knee,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll evaluate it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see. This is a second road game
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  Speaker 2: in a row. Where you've had a big fan residence
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  Speaker 2: of hearing him, you know, it's incredible. Yeah, it was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve shout out Thanks John Man. I just so impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know Atlanta is a great city, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but uh happy that our I mean, it's just it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, our twelve, our twelves were everywhere, and so
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  Speaker 1: we really appreciate it and it really helps me, like
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  Speaker 1: we need an energy there in the first half, and
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  Speaker 1: our fans brought it. And then on the second half,
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  Speaker 1: as we started to stack some sacks of points, you
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  Speaker 1: could feel that you could hear the Seahawks chance.
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  Speaker 2: In the in the in the stadium, and that was
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  Speaker 2: that was awesome. It really helped us kind of push
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  Speaker 2: th rought through the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Is anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks all right? Great, Thanks for Christma