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Riq Woolen: "I'm Just Trying To Get Better Every Day" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You have taken some shots out field.
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  Speaker 2: I'm up bad and.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't getting completed.
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Competitor? Do you like when when whether it's a practice
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  Speaker 1: or bonus, are going after that.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't necessarily they were going after me. It's just
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  Speaker 3: that I'm guarding one of the best receivers in the league,
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  Speaker 3: Missus Jackson, and of course they're gonna try to get
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  Speaker 3: him the ball, and it's my job to prevent him
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  Speaker 3: from getting the ball. So other than that, I was
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  Speaker 3: just doing my job protecting the d ball and that's
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  Speaker 3: what I did.
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  Speaker 1: I guess seems like he's taking or what looks different.
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  Speaker 2: So everything the man, it's like he got faster.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people think he was a
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  Speaker 3: person that just can playing a slot, but that was
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  Speaker 3: just a misconception about what people will say that they
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  Speaker 3: never really watch his game, because the guy got releases,
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  Speaker 3: he got great hands, and he can get yards after catch.
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  Speaker 2: He real smooth, He run like water.
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  Speaker 1: You said he seems like he's faster district.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Your coach said that you're have an extramentous camp. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like it's going.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, honestly, I feel like he's been going well. I've
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  Speaker 3: just been trying to be a great teammate. I've been
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  Speaker 3: just trying to get better every day, trying to find
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  Speaker 3: something better to get, uh get better at it each day,
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  Speaker 3: and then just being a great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to try to take a step forward.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just be more consistent in my techniques and whenever
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  Speaker 3: I'm in off and whenever I'm impressed.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything else your approach to the offseason or a.
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  Speaker 2: Camp for uh No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean maybe last year just because in a new defense.
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  Speaker 3: But now that I know the defense, I know what's
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  Speaker 3: being asked of me. I know that I gotta press
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  Speaker 3: a lot. That's the most I've pressed in my career,
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  Speaker 3: and I did well at it. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be more consistent at it, and whenever I do
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  Speaker 3: play off, I want to be more consistent in that
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: What's the key to pressing well? I know you said consistency.
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  Speaker 4: What a couple of defeats?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm tall. I mean, like I said, I've been
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  Speaker 2: like a hooper man.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta have a good feet, and I got long feet,
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  Speaker 3: so I gotta have good feet.
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  Speaker 2: I can't be clumsy.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So, That's one thing I did work on though,
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  Speaker 3: having good feet this all season and just having great
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  Speaker 3: eyes and being patient.
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  Speaker 1: Contractually, this just looks like a big year for you
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  Speaker 1: with going into freezency. How do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: think about that?
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's human nature, of course is on your
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  Speaker 3: mind when you think about great things like that. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, I mean, I can't be too worried.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I gotta be with my feet at and
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  Speaker 3: as being here as a seahawk that's giving everything I
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  Speaker 3: got to the place that drafted me, and of course
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  Speaker 3: judgment they gonna come.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not really worried. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I just keep doing the same thing I've been doing,
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  Speaker 3: that's playing football, and I just keep being a great teammate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, he gonna be a dog man, that's
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  Speaker 3: my name for him. But like I just looking at
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  Speaker 3: him out there, he gets better every day. And as
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  Speaker 3: a rookie, it is just crazy because you know you
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  Speaker 3: you like you see we draft a rookie and like
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  Speaker 3: you got you got your eyes on him. But this
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  Speaker 3: particular rookie, he's doing a great job and each day
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  Speaker 3: he comes in just ready to work, and he's like
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  Speaker 3: a she's been learning from all the other receivers, and
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  Speaker 3: he continued to go out there and compete and do well.
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  Speaker 3: Sure the one he's a rookie and he competing with
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  Speaker 3: the big dogs. I mean, he's he's been consistent out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's making highlight plays, He's catching over guys. So that's
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  Speaker 3: one thing I've been noticing from him.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of the effect that what's he able to do?
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  Speaker 1: Once over the fringing summer too? Coming into the SAI
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  Speaker 1: at this levelint wasn't out.
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  Speaker 2: Here for that self a little bit. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: knew who he was.
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  Speaker 3: I got I had on my video game on the
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  Speaker 3: College Football twenty twenty five, so I know what he
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  Speaker 3: can do. I know he was gonna be a great player.
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  Speaker 3: But seeing him in person and he doing the same
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  Speaker 3: thing the idea on the video game is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it is like?
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  Speaker 2: Seeing it's gonna be It's gonna be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I still keeping touch with go.
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  Speaker 3: I trained in Florida and Geno's from Florida, so I
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  Speaker 3: always see him out there and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be amazing, and it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Man, who's your quarterback in that video game?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: What's your quarterback in the video game?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Whoever Colorado State quarterback is?
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  Speaker 1: Work on your feet?
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  Speaker 4: Three?
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  Speaker 1: What did you do? Did you do? Groups did you do?
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  Speaker 4: What did you do? Work?
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  Speaker 2: You show?
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  Speaker 3: Just a lot of press, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of drills, And that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whenever you're out there, Yeah, you training.
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  Speaker 3: You just gotta just train a lot on press, and
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  Speaker 3: you just gotta go against your trainer and he gotta
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  Speaker 3: be quick as hell. So I got a quick trainer,
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  Speaker 3: and that's pretty much how I go.
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  Speaker 4: What if you see from Sam Donalds and going back
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  Speaker 4: to the quarterback, what do you see that?
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  Speaker 2: Shoot? Sam is amazing, dude. I played against him already.
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  Speaker 3: H He's a tough guy and he continues to jail
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  Speaker 3: and be with the team even more each day. And
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  Speaker 3: just going against that practice a lot of fun, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just because uh, you know, he's new to the team,
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  Speaker 3: so you gotta talk to him a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: joke with him and stuff like that. But that's all
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  Speaker 3: part of the brotherhood. And I'm glad to have him
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  Speaker 3: as my teammate.
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  Speaker 1: You seem like out there what's change for you?
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  Speaker 2: It's actually pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Like I told him, I said, I like having him
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  Speaker 3: on the team because it makes me want to go harder.
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  Speaker 3: It makes me want to compete. You know, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: be we gotta be able to be close because at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, we are as key pieces on our defense,
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  Speaker 3: just like we have many key pieces. But uh, the
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  Speaker 3: guys look at us as playmakers on the team, and
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  Speaker 3: we gotta be able to jail and be comfortable to uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, go out there and perform.
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  Speaker 1: Can can this be in your second year of this defense?
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  Speaker 4: Kind of help with the consistency that you talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, shoot, I just gotta be
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  Speaker 3: more locked in myself. Football is more mental than physical
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  Speaker 3: and anything. And I'm physically gifted with everything that God
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  Speaker 3: gave me. It's just more mental than anything.
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  Speaker 1: How does that he has? How does that show up? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Dang? I mean Kobe, he he's a pro.
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  Speaker 3: He comes in every day, works hard, and for them
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  Speaker 3: to change his position, it's pretty amazing. Because the guy
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  Speaker 3: Jim Thorpe winner, so it ain't like he doesn't know ball.
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  Speaker 3: When you're a thort winner in college You're the best
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  Speaker 3: dB in the in college. So for him to come
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  Speaker 3: out and be able to go play safety and then
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  Speaker 3: dominate and continue to get better every day and as
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  Speaker 3: the season go on, and then we're gonna continue this
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  Speaker 3: season and he's a baller. So I'm glad to have
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  Speaker 3: him back there and he's gonna do amazing things this year.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jerry, thank you.