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Ryan Grubb: "I'm Really Encouraged By Our Run Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: WHOA, that was a lot. How are you doing everybody good? Good?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to see offense? And then Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Else, I think it's just like any early season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you had a scrimmage or a preseason game, you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for operation, you know, integrity, making sure that we
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  Speaker 2: can get in out of a huddle, operate clearly and
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  Speaker 2: in tough situations and and uh, you know, just look smooth,
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  Speaker 2: feels smooth, and.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure the operation pieces is good for the guys.
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  Speaker 3: So far, what do you feel like this offense is
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to really lean on and do best?
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  Speaker 2: Man, That's a great question. I think there's still a
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  Speaker 2: lot to learn from that. I'm really encouraged in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days here in.
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  Speaker 1: Our run game.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily obviously today it was not a padded practice,
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  Speaker 2: but yesterday and then at times on Saturday, I felt
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  Speaker 2: like we were able to come together and start moving
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  Speaker 2: some people off the line of scrimmage, which was really encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously that's something you want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: hang your hat on, is that you know you can
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  Speaker 2: establish a line of scrimmage, have a good run game
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  Speaker 2: set up the rest of your your game plan, just.
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  Speaker 3: Like yesterday was mentioning, uh, Kenny McIntosh George Allani being
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  Speaker 3: the neck and deck that the third down back role
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  Speaker 3: have seen from those two players in the way that
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  Speaker 3: they are handling your offense and what you're looking.
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  Speaker 1: For in that goal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think George has been a standout in general
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  Speaker 2: at camp. He's got a really really physical style and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, his contact balance is really good.
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  Speaker 1: He's picked up the offense very quickly. He's a bright kid.
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  Speaker 2: He has the ability to pass protect and be really
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  Speaker 2: firm on the inside, and at the same time he
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  Speaker 2: has good hands outside. So I think George is a
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  Speaker 2: good fit. And then for for Kenny, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's really progressed from this spring. It's good to
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  Speaker 2: see him in pads finally. You know, I didn't really
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  Speaker 2: know what you had with him, but he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: more of a slasher guy out of the backfield. He
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  Speaker 2: catch the ball and I know we're really working hard
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  Speaker 2: to try to get his pass protection, you know, up
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  Speaker 2: to snuff so we can be a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: physical in that.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Bobo is a good lot of receiver. How does
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  Speaker 1: that help you guys play cold? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think first and foremost, it helps him as receivers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that when you're aggressive on the outside,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard for defenders to realize what you're doing when
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  Speaker 2: you come off the ball that quickly, and obviously for
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  Speaker 2: the play action, you know it's setting up, it feels
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  Speaker 2: the same, it looks the same to the defense, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're running by him. So I
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  Speaker 2: think from from our standpoint, obviously the blockers on the
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  Speaker 2: outside and setting up the play action game is is pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen out of Ken Walker and how
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  Speaker 1: would you describe his game?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I think Ken grows every day. I think he
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  Speaker 2: gets better every single day. I think this sky is
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  Speaker 2: the limit for him. I think he's a really really
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  Speaker 2: talented powerful back. That's that's a true like three tool guy.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's gonna be able to run the ball every
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  Speaker 2: run you got, he's gonna be able to catch the football,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to pass protect, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's growing. You know, he was a natural runner, he
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  Speaker 2: knew what to do with the ball on his hand,
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  Speaker 2: and now you know is intelligent in the past protection.
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  Speaker 1: Scheme, he works really hard at it.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I think he's getting a lot better and he's
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  Speaker 2: electric out of the backfield as a pass catcher.
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  Speaker 3: On game day for a preseason game, is that maybe
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  Speaker 3: elevated the importance for the coaching staff too, because you
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  Speaker 3: guys haven't done this together.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're all kind of new doing this together. Well, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got a little taste of that alumin
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, but I think for sure, when there's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more of an element against another team, just
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  Speaker 2: some of the communication processes and it typically it's in
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the tight moments when clock's winded down
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  Speaker 2: and making sure we got the right personnel in into quarters,
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  Speaker 2: into halfs, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, luckily for us, we've got a good
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  Speaker 1: veteran staff.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have been around a lot, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty easy to communicate with those guys. I think
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  Speaker 2: we've already kind of worked out some of those kinks,
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  Speaker 2: but there'll be a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: We'll we'll grow a ton of the staff. And in
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  Speaker 1: these three games you want installing what you want to do,
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  Speaker 1: We're we're close.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing We're probably seventy eighty percent there. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the bones of everything we need to
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  Speaker 2: do are there. There's probably some of the finer details
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  Speaker 2: and some of the motions and movements and things like
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  Speaker 2: that that you can add to some of the concepts
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  Speaker 2: that we already have in So I feel like we
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of the basic structure. So now there's
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  Speaker 2: some of the fine tuning it to us to happen
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  Speaker 2: some of the late game mechanics, situational football things like
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  Speaker 2: that that we have to continue to build.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine, what are the last four days when Gina was out?
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  Speaker 1: Help how did that help him? Oh? Wow? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought back to Sam.
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  Speaker 2: You know, last fall camp when I was at Washington,
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  Speaker 2: Michael had a little bit of a scap strain and
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  Speaker 2: I think he was out for close to nine days.
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  Speaker 2: And in those nine days, the growth that are two
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  Speaker 2: and three had was tremendous. And so those those valuable
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  Speaker 2: reps are you just can't replace those. And just thinking
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  Speaker 2: about all the situational football that we do. Put our
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  Speaker 2: guys in, our quarterbacks get a ton of work in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone and third down things like that. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that what we saw with Sam was the
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  Speaker 2: ability to make plays, be a quick processor and just
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  Speaker 2: have to refine the decision making.
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  Speaker 3: GA know, what, what have you learned about him beyond
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  Speaker 3: what you could just see on film watching his tape
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  Speaker 3: and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Competitor, competitor, He's tough.
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  Speaker 2: He's a tough guy in the moment he wants to
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  Speaker 2: step up, and I think you don't know a guy,
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  Speaker 2: so you start to work with them a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But then you think about, you know some of the
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  Speaker 2: stats that Gino, you know, more fourth quarter comebacks in
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  Speaker 2: the last two years and any quarterback. And I think he
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  Speaker 2: embodies that just like you put him up against the wall,
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  Speaker 2: you tell me can't do something, and and he's gonna respond.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's definitely not gonna back down to a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Receivers, what have you kind of learned about those guys
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  Speaker 2: on how you feel like you may be able to
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  Speaker 2: best utilize them. DK is really big and fast, he
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  Speaker 2: should be easy to find. Lockett super savvy. He knows
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  Speaker 2: how to find open coverage. And Jax has grown every
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  Speaker 2: single day.
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  Speaker 1: Is that good? That was close? And he talked about
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  Speaker 1: what it would take to develop at a play calling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, unfortunately, a little bit of trial and error and uh,
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to Kingsley Pearson. But I do
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  Speaker 2: think it takes time, and it takes rapport with both
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  Speaker 2: your staff and players, and I think it takes an
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  Speaker 2: ego free environment, and sometimes you got to learn that
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  Speaker 2: the hard way and understand that there has to be
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  Speaker 2: a collaboration, right Like there, there's a concept that we
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  Speaker 2: put in a couple of days ago that I hadn't
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  Speaker 2: run and Friz had some experience with it and it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It's been great for us. It's been a staple the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: And you just have to be okay realizing that best
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  Speaker 2: idea wins, doesn't matter who it is, and and then
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  Speaker 2: be elite teachers, you know. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: something that this staff can do really well.
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  Speaker 1: Strength and conditioning coach, you give me a hard staff.
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  Speaker 1: How have you seen those experiences help.
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  Speaker 2: You to that?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, back to thinking about the strength
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  Speaker 2: and conditioning part. When when you're a strength and conditioning
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  Speaker 2: coach or a special teams coach or a head coach,
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  Speaker 2: you get used to communicating and having relationships with the
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  Speaker 2: team and not just your guys or your room. And
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  Speaker 2: I always felt like that gave me an inside track
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  Speaker 2: on just the heartbeat of the team and being able
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  Speaker 2: to collaborate with players, bring them together, help the unifying
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  Speaker 2: process for your job.
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  Speaker 1: For Slan Ryan, what is being at this level? What
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  Speaker 1: makes it easier for you to do what you do
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  Speaker 1: and what makes it harder? What's more of a job?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question. I think the obvious answer
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  Speaker 2: for the easier part is the amount of time that
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  Speaker 2: you have to focus on football and your team, like
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  Speaker 2: just the players that are here. I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about anybody that we're trying to bring into this building.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just focused on our players here and the family
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  Speaker 2: that is the Seahawks. I think that part has been
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  Speaker 2: tremendously rewarding, just to be able to think about ball
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  Speaker 2: all the time, focus on football and building relationships with
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  Speaker 2: the players and the people that are part of the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: and that part has been really advantageous. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's probably the biggest highlight. I think it's it's the
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  Speaker 2: same challenges you have with any offense. You know, first
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  Speaker 2: time install new faces, whether it's coaches or players. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the translation piece, getting everybody on the same page, speaking
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  Speaker 2: the same language, and that's always the difficulty and then
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  Speaker 2: having the patience and you know, just the stick to
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  Speaker 2: itiveness to get through that part.
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  Speaker 3: Helps.
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  Speaker 1: He's a bump and now I think you know very much.
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  Speaker 2: I think back to my time with with Klin a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stops that we had that. I just think
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  Speaker 2: that when you're trying to help, because everybody wants to
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  Speaker 2: do a great job, when you come together as a staff,
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  Speaker 2: and again, you know, going back to getting everybody speaking
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  Speaker 2: the same language, when you have another person that's responsible
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  Speaker 2: for that much of the offense and pass protection, run scheme,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, getting that translation down for everybody else
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  Speaker 2: in the staff and be able to get this thing
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  Speaker 2: off the ground quickly and efficiently and the way you
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  Speaker 2: want it to is is pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: So Huff's obviously been a huge part of that. What's
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on your tight end group right now? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we've got about.
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  Speaker 2: It a ton so far, but there's it seems like
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  Speaker 2: all of them have different skill sets of different Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked that. They They were a group
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  Speaker 2: that I pointed out in the Offensive Unit meeting today.
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  Speaker 2: We had some lulls in the week. At the end
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  Speaker 2: of last week and a couple of times. I really
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  Speaker 2: felt like the tight End group specifically was what lifted
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  Speaker 2: us out of that. Just their energy, they're they're communicating
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  Speaker 2: at a really really high level and just how you
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  Speaker 2: want it to look on film, effort, finish, and just
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  Speaker 2: executing at a really high level, like knowing what they're if.
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  Speaker 2: If I want to get something in, I talked to
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  Speaker 2: coach Mac He's like, it's in.
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  Speaker 1: We can get it in. Don't worry. We can do
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  Speaker 1: that with two tight ends on the field.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just their openness to compete and have
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  Speaker 2: a really really talented room and realize the competition is
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  Speaker 2: going on but still staying together. So just both how
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  Speaker 2: they've been playing and then the unity that they have
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  Speaker 2: within the room I think, and.
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  Speaker 1: Bodies what we want to have on the offense. Right,
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  Speaker 1: What you about guys.
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  Speaker 2: What since the process started when they came back in April,
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  Speaker 2: what have you wanted them to learn about you?
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think they have learned about of you? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I hope consistency.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think one of the toughest things in
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  Speaker 2: any job is if you show up and you're working
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  Speaker 2: with people and you don't know what you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get I think that's really difficult when you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: set high bars and have people, you know, chase edges
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  Speaker 2: as Mike would say, and look for greatness and think
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  Speaker 2: that if you're a different person and they don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to expect, I think that can be really hard.
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  Speaker 1: To be demanding in that nature.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope they realize that I'm committed to the
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  Speaker 2: process and that I'm consistent, and you know, just like
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  Speaker 2: any I think some people have misconception, honestly about NFL
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  Speaker 2: players that you know, relationships don't matter and that is
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  Speaker 2: just business and money. And I promise you that relationships
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  Speaker 2: do matter. They're still human, you know, there's still guys
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  Speaker 2: that got feelings and a lot of them got families,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: With you and Scott being your first time in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: how much having Kennedy Problemoli, who has been a coordinator,
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  Speaker 3: play caller, running back coach both to college at the level,
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  Speaker 3: how much is having him here really helped this acclamation period.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think KP always brings up you know, anytime
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  Speaker 2: he got somebody like KP that as you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a wealth of experience, you're gonna be able to draw
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  Speaker 2: into that in a lot of different ways, and I
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  Speaker 2: think one of the things that KP brings it typically
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  Speaker 2: some of his best stuff isn't really x'es and o's,
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  Speaker 2: and he's had some great ideas, but just his mentorship
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  Speaker 2: in that room and throughout the staff meetings and just
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  Speaker 2: he's very patient, slow to speak, and then when he does,
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  Speaker 2: he feels like, you know, he's got some information to
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  Speaker 2: draw back on, and I think those are invaluable. What's
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  Speaker 2: that We're getting there?
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  Speaker 1: We're getting there.
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  Speaker 2: I told John Snyder yesterday, we might have ten O
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  Speaker 2: line coaches, but we're gonna get that run game right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited about him.
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  Speaker 2: Man, they're starting to run off the ball a little
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  Speaker 2: bit last couple of days and attack the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a little bit more of a unified front.
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  Speaker 2: Communication has been at a higher level, and especially the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of practices. So I'm really hoping that that
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  Speaker 2: we're really starting to set the right trend there.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? Yeah, Oh, they're doing great. They're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: It's exactly what you want to high operating guys that
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  Speaker 2: are battling it out for. You know, one of the
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  Speaker 2: most important positions on the offense, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: want that, we want high level competition. So they're both
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job. They're splitting reps and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's making them both a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Better, especially third and short.
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  Speaker 2: Where are the things you're looking at? Oh man, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot there, I think, you know NFL obviously one
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  Speaker 2: of the toughest parts is the third down packages, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that you just have to be sound in
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  Speaker 2: your edges and your gaps and understand where the problems
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  Speaker 2: are at. And luckily for us we go against Mike
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  Speaker 2: every day and the defensive staff that's very creative and
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  Speaker 2: it's fun going up against another really creative mind as
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  Speaker 2: far as how he put people in different spots and
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  Speaker 2: you know, works against tendencies and things like that. So
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to make ourselves bulletproof during this process.
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  Speaker 1: Fan with a kind of being out but having a
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  Speaker 1: guy like George to rely on at that right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a great move, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: by the front office with John just thinking about you
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  Speaker 2: need that great three tackle or a guy that's battling
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  Speaker 2: to start a tackle. And I think George's flexibility to
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  Speaker 2: play left and right, I just and the experience that
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  Speaker 2: he has. We played a lot of games in Houston
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  Speaker 2: obviously last year. He's got great presence in the room
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  Speaker 2: and in the locker room, so he's invaluable.
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  Speaker 1: We've been really, really lucky to have him. Thanks everybody,