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Uchenna Nwosu: "Getting After The Quarterback Is What We Like To Do" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's it like when the full fronts going like it
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  Speaker 1: was last week and seems like everybody's getting a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: It's nice, you know. That's what we like to do,
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  Speaker 2: is rush. Of course we'd like to play the run,
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  Speaker 2: but get up to the quarterbacks what we like to do.
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  Speaker 2: So when we had a game like we did last Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: it was just felt good. Everybody was happy, little energy
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  Speaker 2: was good.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like to have your mom?
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  Speaker 2: Uh in attendance there for Yeah, my mom's been lots
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  Speaker 2: means very lot to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a very special woman.
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  Speaker 2: So to have her there, especially travel that far, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sending the heat for me, you know, show us how
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  Speaker 2: much he loves me and cares.
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  Speaker 3: So feels good to have her out there.
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  Speaker 2: You've been back for a few games now, how close
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  Speaker 2: to your normal self do you feel out there? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I probably seem still you know, trying to get my
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  Speaker 3: legs back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't really have off season training for real,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which I can kind of feel, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: steady coming.
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  Speaker 3: Along each game, each day practice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tryna you know, continue to work, continue to push
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  Speaker 2: my body to make sure I'm I'm still here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still climbing still, you know, getting back to myself.
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  Speaker 1: How much does it does it mean to you to
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  Speaker 1: kind of be back though, given everything he went through
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't take this game for granted, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just something I love to do.
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  Speaker 3: I love playing ball, you know, I love out running.
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  Speaker 2: Being out there running, hitting, making plays, celebrating, enjoying the moment.
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  Speaker 2: So missing those for like the last like two seasons, really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it sucks. But I'm back now, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just you know, worried about staying positive.
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  Speaker 1: What are the characteristics when you look at this Texans
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  Speaker 1: offense that stand out, especially around CJ. Stroud.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a he's a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: They got good offensive weapons, they got good coaches, they
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  Speaker 2: got good running backs, they got a good they got
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  Speaker 2: talent on their defense, you know, so it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: good battle. You know, It's just CJ is second year
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  Speaker 2: or third year, I believe, and you know, you see
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  Speaker 2: what he's able to do with the last two seasons,
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  Speaker 2: so he's only getting better. They had a slow start
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  Speaker 2: to the season, but you see them picking it up now.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be a good match up for us, and
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  Speaker 2: and you can't wait to play.
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  Speaker 1: How did you compare the kind of connection in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room that you guys have this year compared to
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  Speaker 1: like pastors.
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  Speaker 2: I probably said it's a lot more you know, camaraderie
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  Speaker 2: going around in there, a lot of guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: talking to guys that don't usually do.
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  Speaker 3: That's also kind of dude to where the lockers are
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  Speaker 3: set up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm over there with the old line, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the old linemen are there with the d Line.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of mixed matching there. So the guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you see a shadow boxing there all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really a brotherhood. Everybody's having fun. Feels more
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  Speaker 2: connected definitely.
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  Speaker 3: How did the the shadow boxing thing? How did that
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  Speaker 3: all kind of start? I don't know, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was, you know, from the y ns,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the young dudes, they they they kind of
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  Speaker 2: brought it on. Like once you see them do it,
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  Speaker 2: it's like everybody's doing it now. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how it started, but once it started, then it ain't
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  Speaker 2: stop since.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, you're from the lare.
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  Speaker 2: Third years and why your mom traveled all the way
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  Speaker 2: to Jacksonville per game.
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  Speaker 3: More than the West Spostol.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my mom just likes to travel in general.
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  Speaker 2: She goes to Dubai, she goes to the other league,
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  Speaker 2: she goes thev all.
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  Speaker 3: Over the world, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So any chance she gets to leave the house and
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  Speaker 2: you know, get on the plane and go somewhere, she
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it. So yeah, w when you said you
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  Speaker 2: don't have offiction in training?
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  Speaker 3: What were you doing with your time rehabing? Oh? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: day all da every day rehabit.
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  Speaker 2: I was in there all l literally all day just tryna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get my knees strong again. I couldn't really
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  Speaker 2: do no running, you know, cause I was in crutches
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  Speaker 2: for like eight weeks, you know, and I had to
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  Speaker 2: when I kept back got back, I couldn't you know,
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  Speaker 2: s hit the field. I had to keep getting strength
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  Speaker 2: back in my kne get support. So literally just rehabbing
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  Speaker 2: literally from February to like what second week of August,
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  Speaker 2: third week of August when I finally was able to
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  Speaker 2: get on the field. So what'd you do to get
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  Speaker 2: yourself in playing shape?
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  Speaker 3: Like conditioning? What you gotta run?
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  Speaker 2: You gotta run and practice you know, that's where you
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  Speaker 2: get your conditioning. When the balls thrown, you gotta sprint
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  Speaker 2: full speed, chase the ball. You know, a guy get
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  Speaker 2: on the bike, walk on the treadmill, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: do all other other forms of cardio, battle ropes, stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the same injury or uh that got new
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  Speaker 1: work done or is there a different injury that they
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  Speaker 1: came out?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? No, I had a different injury.
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  Speaker 2: So when I first I got injured, that's when I
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  Speaker 2: got cut, and then I had the quad injury. But
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  Speaker 2: then the uh the last game of the season ended
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  Speaker 2: up tearing my moniscus and and uh I had to
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  Speaker 2: get off season surgery for thats.
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  Speaker 1: Just what what's he brought to this group in terms
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  Speaker 1: of leadership and.
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  Speaker 3: His playing in the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely bringing you know, he's a twelve year vet,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so he's bringing that sense of of that wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that experience on the field. If you sit
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  Speaker 2: in the meetings with us, man, he's he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a funny guy man, so you gotta be there to
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  Speaker 2: to know how he is.
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  Speaker 3: But he's definitely a leader out there.
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  Speaker 2: He has some more playing experienced, playoff experience, he's been
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  Speaker 2: to the highs.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's been Pro Bowl all, he's had all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the kind of experience he brings around us,
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  Speaker 2: especially the younger guys, rookies.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, first, second, third year players.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good to have him, a vet like him,
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  Speaker 2: a guy who can make plays, the guy who's been
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  Speaker 2: there before.
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  Speaker 3: So it was really big for him to have us
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  Speaker 3: this year. You guys call him crash out.
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  Speaker 1: Just to see a guy put the kind of effort
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  Speaker 1: he does, you know, play and play out and then
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  Speaker 1: practice to just how impresses that for twelve year bet
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  Speaker 1: just to play that hard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very impressive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, his football is a very rough sport, as
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  Speaker 2: we all know, and somebody who can do it that
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  Speaker 2: consistently for twelve years like he does, you know, it's great,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just it's just a show us how much
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  Speaker 2: he takes care of his body and how much he
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  Speaker 2: loves the game. Can you develop like that play style
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  Speaker 2: or something close to that over the course of your
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  Speaker 2: career or is that something you just com into the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: And either have it or you don't. I'll probably say
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  Speaker 3: something you can develop. We've seen it with.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys on a team that might not have it
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  Speaker 2: when they first get here, but you know, being around
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  Speaker 2: guys like us, we're gonna push you, we gonna talk trash,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna make sure you get there else you ain't
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to play with us, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: there's something you can definitely develop it. You start to
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  Speaker 2: see with some guys like over time, they're starting to
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  Speaker 2: get it now, they start to know what it's like,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, but part of it is definitely you know,
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  Speaker 2: you either have it or you don't, but it can
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  Speaker 2: definitely be, you know, drilled into a person's attitude, part
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  Speaker 2: of them who they are.
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  Speaker 1: When you watch film of your team play on your defense,
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  Speaker 1: in particular, how close to or how close you did,
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  Speaker 1: the potential of what the defense can becount.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're almost there, you know, we have.
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  Speaker 2: We've had to put together some good games this year.
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  Speaker 2: We've had one game where we didn't perform against the Bucks,
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  Speaker 2: but overall, you know, I feel like we're trending in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction. The biggest thing is really is communication,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you have to be four as one
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  Speaker 2: out there, and if we're all talking, cover each other up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, communicating out there, we can be unstoppable. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not so much the talent, it's more of that.
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  Speaker 2: So the how much how much more can we communicate
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  Speaker 2: with them, especially being at home when it's so loud,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where communication has to go up.
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  Speaker 3: How uh uh?
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  Speaker 1: NICKI, Minory has some pretty unique athletic ability and you
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  Speaker 1: know what have you noticed watching him start to get some.
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  Speaker 3: Time out of the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very He's a very decisive person. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I'll say his game and once he sees something, he's triggering.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's the type of guy he is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he he doesn't start, He does a second guest thing
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  Speaker 2: if he sees He trusts his body, he trusts his speed,
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  Speaker 2: trusts his mind. So I like that, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: like that from a rookie. You don't really see that.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of rookies are I hesitant, but him, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Going for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's he's attacking every play, he's playing hard.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's sure about himself. He's confident, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: we need from rookies.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned that home communication could be a challenge sometimes
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  Speaker 1: because of the.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have to like change the method of communication
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  Speaker 3: sometimes at home.
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  Speaker 1: Or just like do it better.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to do it better, you know, And
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  Speaker 2: that's and that's that's what we ask for us, what
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  Speaker 2: we want, you know, we want the crowd being loud
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  Speaker 2: because it messes the other team up as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you just gotta do it better. You just gotta
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  Speaker 3: over communicate, something we talk about every day. Is it
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  Speaker 3: more of a challenge to deal with the noise at home?
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  Speaker 3: And obviously you just said.
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  Speaker 1: That you want the noise, but does it create more
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  Speaker 1: challenge when.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a defense that requires more communication pre snap
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  Speaker 2: than the previous defense you played in here. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say it's a challenge. It's just it's just something that
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  Speaker 2: we just we just work on, you know. It's something
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  Speaker 2: that's becoming a part of us. Like like I said,
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  Speaker 2: like we we practice it every day. We practice with
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  Speaker 2: crowd noise every day, so we making sure that it's
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  Speaker 2: just becoming a.
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  Speaker 3: Part of us.
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  Speaker 2: Even if we're on the road and it's quiet, we
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  Speaker 2: still doing the same thing. So you know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say it's a challenge, but we just gotta keep doing
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else that's interesting, Thank you, thank you, thank you,