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George Holani: "It's A Great Vibe In The Running Back Room" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How do you feel like this preseason has gone for you?
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  Speaker 1: Yere obviously first first camp, first preseason games, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, all glory to God, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: It's been great, you know for me just to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and I just you know, try to find
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  Speaker 1: a role for me and just trust my training and
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  Speaker 1: you know, go out there and compete. What's that moment
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  Speaker 1: like when you score a touchdown and there's a home
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  Speaker 1: crowd and everything that's kind of gone the way they are.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely the best feeling ever. I mean, just getting
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone, celebrating, you know, that long drive
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  Speaker 1: we had, all the hard work and just continue to
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  Speaker 1: give you know, props to the O line receivers and
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the great blocking up front. You've had
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  Speaker 1: some good moments on special teams too. How much experience
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  Speaker 1: did you have with that before you came here? Little
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  Speaker 1: to none. Honestly, I didn't play that much special teams
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  Speaker 1: in college. But just being able to buy in and
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  Speaker 1: actually learn a lot of techniques and getting with the
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  Speaker 1: you know, special teams coordinator and dialing into that has
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  Speaker 1: been it has been great so far. So just being
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  Speaker 1: able to go out there make a tackle. I made
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  Speaker 1: a tackle since high school, so it's been it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction to Katie stiff Marmin, Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was great to see you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: see that every day. We do that in practice and
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  Speaker 1: to see it's come to life in the real game
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  Speaker 1: is It's awesome to see that. So, I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: all on the sideline, you know, just great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just amped up for him, finally getting an end zone
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  Speaker 1: and its great stuff. That was your first tackle since
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  Speaker 1: size school. It's my second tackle since high school. My
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  Speaker 1: first one was in the Chargers game. Yes, sir, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're in a position nothing is guaranteed, obviously, proving yourself
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  Speaker 1: in this camp. Just how have you kind of approached that?
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  Speaker 1: Just trying to put your best foot forward, knowing whatever
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  Speaker 1: happens happens. I mean, just taking advantage of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every opportunity, you know, making the reps count, not counting anything.
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  Speaker 1: So just going out there and putting it on film
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  Speaker 1: and just showing teams you know, what kind of what
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  Speaker 1: kind of player I am, and uh, you know what
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  Speaker 1: what I can bring to you know, and team hed
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  Speaker 1: you end up something with Seattle anyway, assume you had
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  Speaker 1: some other offers. Uh, yeah, for sure. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: was with my agent. You know, we we talked it
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  Speaker 1: out and uh we thought it was the best position
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  Speaker 1: for me. What coaches said that they wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: from you. Everyone, they wanted to see a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coming in from college, you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: continue to you know, prove prove it every day, especially
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  Speaker 1: at the next level. You know, everyone's professional professionals, everyone's good.
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  Speaker 1: So just being able to go out there and prove
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  Speaker 1: it every day. How much pred you take it? Physicality
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  Speaker 1: physical in the game. I mean I try my best
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  Speaker 1: to be physical and everything I do. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the game we play, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: able to put good, great stuff on film. You know
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  Speaker 1: in past pro past blocking, you want to you want
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  Speaker 1: to be just as physical in that just as much
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  Speaker 1: as the run game. How tight it is that money
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  Speaker 1: backs room. You're happy to see Kenny's uh his difform
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  Speaker 1: and obviously was happy to see you score. How tight
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  Speaker 1: is that running back I mean it's really tight, you
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  Speaker 1: know the running back room. You know, everyone's always cheering
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  Speaker 1: each other on no matter what happens. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have each other's back, and we go out there, we celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: We talk about the celebrations we're going to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and do after we score. So it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a positive, great vibe in that room. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know he's He's taught me a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially the intentionality of just going out there
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  Speaker 1: and being you know, all down back, being able to
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  Speaker 1: do it all, run, catch, block, whatever it is you
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  Speaker 1: need to do when you're when your number is called,
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  Speaker 1: you go out there and perform. And he's he's been
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  Speaker 1: a really intense coach. Uh So, I think the main
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  Speaker 1: thing is being able to bring you know, great energy
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  Speaker 1: to the running back room, and that's by going out
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  Speaker 1: there and making plays. He asked you about your physicality,
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  Speaker 1: but it's nice to show off some of the moves
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  Speaker 1: to an eighteen yeard run made a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: mess Oh yes, sir, yes, sir, I mean it. It's
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  Speaker 1: great just being able to you know, truss up call
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  Speaker 1: the ed DS everyday drills, so being able to trust
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  Speaker 1: that and go out there and just you know, make
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  Speaker 1: make something happen. For sure. Thank you, thanks for sure, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate y'all. Yeah,