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Devon Witherspoon: "This Is The Standard We Set Ourselves To" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What is the moment you take back on when you
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  Speaker 1: think like, oh, like we're really locked in, like you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be my brother forever. I mean I kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt like that the moment we got on the boat,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right after the plane ride, when we got
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  Speaker 1: to Seattle. I mean, it just kind of felt a
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  Speaker 1: connection there and we're like, yeah, we're gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: reason we changed this program around. So what is it
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  Speaker 1: about the way that things that has to have everybody
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  Speaker 1: call it cuture and everybody Just just the way he
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  Speaker 1: details everything out. You know, he don't leave no strong
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  Speaker 1: on turn. You know, we go over everything, every little
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  Speaker 1: detail because it matters. You know, you think it don't
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  Speaker 1: come up in a game and then you realize like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah that extra step on that tackle could have
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  Speaker 1: saved us two three yards. You know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So just the way he detailed everything
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  Speaker 1: out and when he pulls up those plays like hey
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  Speaker 1: there's a mis step here, this is something you guys,
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  Speaker 1: what does that do for? I mean we we, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we look at each other now and tell
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  Speaker 1: us like we're gonna be this just the standard we
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  Speaker 1: set ourselves too, So nobody blinking out when somebody gets
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  Speaker 1: on yourself about stuff like that. So, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of easy when all the guys are bought into
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  Speaker 1: what the game plan and how coach is gonna coach us,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to buy into it. Whatever Darrell reeves. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just the way he takes the field, the way he
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  Speaker 1: took a billion being on the island one on one
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  Speaker 1: with the best receiving in the league. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was able to do it for a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: then that's a heart of a line right there. Man.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about a guy who don't bast down for nobody,
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  Speaker 1: that's him. Yeah. My mom, man, you know she did
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  Speaker 1: everything for us, you know, being a single parent household,
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  Speaker 1: she got things done. I mean it literally like making
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  Speaker 1: magic happen. And I was able to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: watch her do that. So yes, I mean, now we
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  Speaker 1: just talked about shopping and stuff like that. So oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's really her shopping. I ain't really shopping, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a well my team issue gear. Yeah, you will
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  Speaker 1: poss I mean, I think it's gonna be a big
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  Speaker 1: thing coming up because you having guys who could play
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  Speaker 1: multiple positions like that at a high level. Man I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you want those guys on your team, So I think
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  Speaker 1: there's really gonna be an evolving factor in the next
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  Speaker 1: upcoming years valuable there's any merit being able to kind
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it also depends on like the team and
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  Speaker 1: what you need at the moment, so it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: factor into that. You can't really pinpoint what it is,
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  Speaker 1: so it's bother about what your team needs at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere you lost in the zone as well. Is that
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  Speaker 1: kind of strange all coming to that stadium rival and
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  Speaker 1: having Now it's not strange at all. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: actually accomplishment for us. So you guys are pretty young
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  Speaker 1: across the border up front particular, you know you got young.
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  Speaker 1: What is their experience? I mean it means everything. Man,
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  Speaker 1: having those guys in the room, you know, the way
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  Speaker 1: they set the standard and hold it, Like the way
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  Speaker 1: they consistently through their work out. You could tell like
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  Speaker 1: they've been good for a long time just by the
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  Speaker 1: way they work Like it doesn't happen overnight, but those
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  Speaker 1: guys stay consistent with it every day and you can
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  Speaker 1: tell why they've been great in his leap for so long.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean it means everything being able to to
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  Speaker 1: give a get the guys like that a chance to
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  Speaker 1: play in the Super Bowl. Man, I'm more happy for
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  Speaker 1: them than that I am for myself, you know man,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no way they didn't make the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't believe it. Like the way they play together, man,
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  Speaker 1: the way they go about their business is just kind
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  Speaker 1: of shocking to me. So I mean kind of but
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  Speaker 1: like like I said, the way we go about our
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  Speaker 1: business now, man, just treat every game the same. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's no really a pressure on us to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, Yeah, you gotta take a moment to asorb
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  Speaker 1: everything and you know, take a moment to enjoy where
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  Speaker 1: you're at, be where your feet are. But when a
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  Speaker 1: ball kick off, man, all that go out the window.
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  Speaker 1: We had a game to win, so set that in
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  Speaker 1: after right now, you know, being able to be with
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  Speaker 1: my guys, no interacting with y'all, doing this media and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all that, I mean literally everything, you know, but most
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  Speaker 1: of all, just being on our team, you know, celebrating
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  Speaker 1: what we accomplished over this this season. But we're not done.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, like when teams get up
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  Speaker 1: on us, we feel like it's not nothing that that
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  Speaker 1: did something that we did. We always believe that. So
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  Speaker 1: when we go in we make our adjustment. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to be better than to have time.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, man, we look ourselves in the eye
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  Speaker 1: and we tell each other, Man, we set a standard
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves and we're gonna hold each other to that standard.
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  Speaker 1: So we when we're not doing it, man, we look
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  Speaker 1: you know, we feel some type of way about it,
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  Speaker 1: and then we gotta go out there and correct that.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, is everything, you know, I thank the
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  Speaker 1: guy every day for allowing me to be here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my family, they stayed on me, you know, they always
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  Speaker 1: pushed me to be who I am, you know, every day,
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  Speaker 1: and then football gave me the opportunity to take care
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  Speaker 1: of my family. So, you know, just being a great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: So