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Sam Darnold: "The Last Couple Of Days Have Been Great" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's going on guys right off the field? I love it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the last couple of days are great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously some some good execution, some execution we
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  Speaker 2: got to clean up. But you know, I thought it's
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  Speaker 2: been two really good days so far.
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  Speaker 1: The disguising defenses that Mike grows ads, how does that
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  Speaker 1: help you guys as an offensive or Yeah, helps a ton.
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  Speaker 2: I mean whenever you can go up against the defense
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  Speaker 2: you know as good schematically with also combined with the
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  Speaker 2: great players that we have on defense, it's it's only
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  Speaker 2: gonna help us.
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  Speaker 1: What are they showing you? What?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: What tests you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, just showing one way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming the other, especially on you know, third medium, third
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  Speaker 2: and long situations. The second and long situations they do
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  Speaker 2: similar things. And then even in just you know, base
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  Speaker 2: base downs they do you know, the safety you know,
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  Speaker 2: Kobe and Julian they do a great job of disguising.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always a fun, fun challenge every single practice.
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  Speaker 1: Right yourself point here, making the decision between and the
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  Speaker 1: challenge of the defense deep and taking what they're giving
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  Speaker 1: you a checkdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think at this stage you want
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  Speaker 2: to make you know, every play possible, but you want.
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  Speaker 1: To make the right play.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's how I'm gonna challenge myself
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  Speaker 2: this training camp.
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  Speaker 1: You know, go down to Californy, guys with a new offense,
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  Speaker 1: lag your faces. How poring was that? Y? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always good to get extra work, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like OTAs we we get quite a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to be honest in and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just told the guys, if you're down in l
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  Speaker 2: A and want to come out and throw, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: really it. It wasn't anything more than that. So just
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  Speaker 2: got some of the guys together and was able to
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  Speaker 2: throw around in the off season, which is always nice.
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  Speaker 1: Deep organized are yes, Yeah, I've done that, you know
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  Speaker 1: every now and again.
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  Speaker 2: But kind of the similar thing like because we only
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  Speaker 2: get really a month off in the summer to be
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  Speaker 2: able to spend time with families, do what we need
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  Speaker 2: to do, get engaged, uh, stuff like that. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's I I always think it's important to to allow
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  Speaker 2: everybody to just have time off, and so I just
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  Speaker 2: I kind of leave it open ended, like if you
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  Speaker 2: guys want to come, you can, If not, it's really
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll be in the Orange County, LA area,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll leave it at that.
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  Speaker 1: Coordinate that engagement situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we told each other, No, we did not. We
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  Speaker 2: did not coordinate. That just worked out, worked out like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's again, like I said, it's really the only time
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  Speaker 2: we get off in that in the summer. So we
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  Speaker 2: knew that there were gonna be a few guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting engaged around the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a picture somewhere can count them up,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know the exact number.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a few receivers, quite a few titands. Is it
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  Speaker 1: just about.
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  Speaker 2: Like sort of the hoping to find it off the
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  Speaker 2: field benefits a kind of like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, you know, it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool to be able to spend time with each
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  Speaker 2: other off the field. On the field, you know, of
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  Speaker 2: the timing all that, obviously we're working on all that,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, yeah, it's great to be able to spend
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  Speaker 2: time off the field as well.
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  Speaker 1: And your mental advantage. I want to see as a
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  Speaker 1: train das it's both myself off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for us it's it's playing fast, playing decisive.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about that all the time, and in.
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  Speaker 2: Team meetings and and offensive meetings, just being very decisive
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  Speaker 2: with what we're doing, you know, schematically, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's it's really also listening to my feet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, That's that's a huge thing that we always
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  Speaker 2: preach in the quarterback room. It's you know, if okay,
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  Speaker 2: if my first reason not there, check it down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no reason to you know, sit in.
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  Speaker 2: The pocket a little longer because I think something might
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  Speaker 2: open up, especially on first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: Just get into the checkdown and move on.
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  Speaker 2: No, Drew Locke for a long time, but but kind
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  Speaker 2: of having him as a teammate now in that.
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  Speaker 1: Relationship, Yeah, Drew's the man.
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  Speaker 2: We've been known each other forever, it seems like, and
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  Speaker 2: it feels like and you know, every now and then
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  Speaker 2: when we would at games against each other, we would
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  Speaker 2: always meet on the fifty yard line pregame warm up
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  Speaker 2: and chop it up a little bit. But now to
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  Speaker 2: have them as a teammates unbelievable. And what do you
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  Speaker 2: like about this offense and how it fits to the
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  Speaker 2: players that you that you're seeing now on this team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I feel like we're gonna have first, first
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  Speaker 2: and foremost. I think we're gonna be able to run
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  Speaker 2: the football. You know, Clint Offense, the system that we have,
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  Speaker 2: the coaches that we have to be able to teach
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  Speaker 2: run game is is you know, are some of the
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  Speaker 2: best in the in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion. And so we're gonna do that.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're gonna play action and when we get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to drop back and throw the throw the
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  Speaker 2: rock a little bit, you know, on on second and
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  Speaker 2: you know, medium second and long and then third down situations,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we're gonna push the ball Downfield said that you
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  Speaker 2: guys have been doing some kind of playing the whole
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  Speaker 2: time each other, but also that he knows his job
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  Speaker 2: is just a supporting here.
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  Speaker 1: Okn you kind of describe the new relationship you guys
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  Speaker 1: have as the teammates name that's nicely said that. Uh No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean here's the best I think.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just when the season comes around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you need the guys in the quarterback room to just
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  Speaker 2: support one another. Whether it's me supporting other guys or
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  Speaker 2: them supporting me. It's you know, it's it's full circle
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  Speaker 2: and it works all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: So it's that's kind of the mindset we have in.
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  Speaker 2: The quarterback room and and we're just gonna keep that
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  Speaker 2: rolling all the way until February. You're early in developing
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  Speaker 2: chemistry with Elijah Royo, But what have you seen from
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  Speaker 2: him so far and how.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to fit into this defense with his or
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  Speaker 1: his offense with his skill set?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think Elijah has a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great traits, you know, and I think, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, learning the system, understanding what we're doing every
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  Speaker 2: single play, understanding concepts. You know, he's you can already
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  Speaker 2: tell he's studied a ton in summer and he's coming here.
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  Speaker 1: He's really knowing his stuff right now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see as we continue to go throughout installs throughout
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  Speaker 2: the week, but he's doing a great job so far.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, he's he's a big target and he's to
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  Speaker 2: fine on the field. Can you talk about the wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver group because it seemed like every single guy made
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  Speaker 2: plays today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a ton of guys are making plays.
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  Speaker 2: You know, It's what you want to see in training camp, man,
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  Speaker 2: just all the guys making plays.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, if we get a chance.
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  Speaker 2: To push it down the field, we have all the
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  Speaker 2: confidence in the world that guys are gonna go up
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  Speaker 2: and make plays. And then if we do check it
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  Speaker 2: down to a you know, running back, tight end or
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  Speaker 2: even a receiver, they're they're gonna be able to get
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  Speaker 2: you know, run after the catch, first impression to hurt
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  Speaker 2: really fast, uh, you know, quick receiver shifting in and
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  Speaker 2: out of routes. And he's really picking it up just
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  Speaker 2: like Elijah. So you know, I think again, I can't
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  Speaker 2: harpen enough. But that's the biggest thing as a rookie
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  Speaker 2: is just to understand the system, understand the offense and
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  Speaker 2: kind of what we're doing. And once once you understand that,
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  Speaker 2: you're able to play really fast. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he's doing a really good job of that so far.
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  Speaker 2: You played little bit backs more.
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  Speaker 1: Does that change their timing and the mesh point on
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  Speaker 1: right and running and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've you know, I've heard that playing
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  Speaker 2: offenses with with fullbacks. You know, I was in one
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  Speaker 2: last year in Minnesota. I was in one year before
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco. So it's always a different element that
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  Speaker 2: you got to prepare for as a defense.
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  Speaker 1: What have you become more comfortable Mark, what's the biggest.
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  Speaker 2: Learning curve or comfort level you have proved on. I
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  Speaker 2: think just one of the guys, right, I think, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, building that camaraderie with not only the offensive
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  Speaker 2: guys but the defensive guys. You know, understanding each other
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  Speaker 2: on and off the field. I think when you understand
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  Speaker 2: each other off the field, that only helps the chemistry
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  Speaker 2: on the field.
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  Speaker 1: If you're talking about by trusting your feet and that
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  Speaker 1: course the stuff tack to do that, and I guess if.
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  Speaker 2: The basis can each other for sure, for sure, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing within the system. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: built so that you're you're throwing. You know, you're throwing
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  Speaker 2: concepts on certain hitches. Right, So if I take a
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  Speaker 2: seven step drop and I hitch one time, I'm supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be throwing a certain route. If I hitch again,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't be throwing that route anymore, because it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's all timing based. And so I think when we
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  Speaker 2: say listen to our feet, that's kind of what we
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  Speaker 2: what we mean by that. If we're hitching two or
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  Speaker 2: three times, you know, on a longer route, usually it
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  Speaker 2: should be going down to a checkdown.
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  Speaker 1: Because the running game, how much.
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna take it to.
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  Speaker 1: The n the lines.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, you gotta you always gotta wait for the
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  Speaker 2: pads to come on to really see what what it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna look like. But I can I can tell with
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  Speaker 2: the tape that I watched last year when you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we were playing a defense that that played Seattle
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  Speaker 2: the week before. I could see the online come off
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  Speaker 2: the rock. I can see it, you know, the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of days I saw at O t A. So
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  Speaker 2: I have a really good feeling about you know, our
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  Speaker 2: offensive line, fullbacks, running backs, even obviously tight ends, and
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  Speaker 2: even the receivers being able to go down the field
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  Speaker 2: and make game changing blocks.
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  Speaker 1: See the progress from jail from the first track of America.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, he's he's just gonna continue to learn.
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  Speaker 2: He's in there early with all of us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: studying learning. So that's all you can ask for is
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  Speaker 2: just to for him to continue to grow and and
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  Speaker 2: learn under the system.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool, It was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was the ball flies down there up there, I
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  Speaker 2: should say in Tahoe. So that was an adjustment I
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  Speaker 2: had to make, but yeah, man, it was. It was
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  Speaker 2: a good time. Uhh, the good one. Yeah, it went
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  Speaker 2: down right, It's always tough talking about golf. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: it went down a little bit and then kind of
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  Speaker 2: came back up towards the end, so which is good.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It means that I'm training hard and I'm not golfing
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  Speaker 2: as much, so uh, but no, it's always fun to
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  Speaker 2: get out there.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys think