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Seahawks Draft Press Conference: "Christian Haynes Is A Really Good Player" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Got Christian Nanes.
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  Speaker 2: There was a long, long wait, but you know, we
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  Speaker 2: were trying to think of Leonard Williams the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: But smart, tough, reliable, Uh you know, fifty fifty one
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  Speaker 2: starts length, explosiveness, great pass protector.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, plays with some nasty I mean we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we're really excited. Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 3: And not much to have. Yeah, our type of guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think you said, I'm kind of seeing a theme here,
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  Speaker 4: but really excited to add him door o line and
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  Speaker 4: get after him, compete, and we'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 4: how it all shakes out by the end.
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  Speaker 5: John, you talked about yesterday not thinking that Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 5: was gonna be there.
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  Speaker 1: It'd pick eighty one to have a two time All
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  Speaker 1: American still available there. How surprised were you with it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a little run there too, that there
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  Speaker 2: was a couple of guys starting to go. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got and then Indy went ready ahead of us,
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  Speaker 2: and then I had somebody in the room. It was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, you know, it was like they're gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna take him right here.
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  Speaker 1: So we had a little panic there.
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  Speaker 4: But he played exclusively right guard in college.
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  Speaker 2: Do you you see flexibility to move around to any
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  Speaker 2: other spots.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's obviously the most comfortable there. But I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's just guys gonna come and compete now. He's he's solid, dude,
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  Speaker 1: Sorry that one. No, I'm not saying anything.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously doing a lot of work in
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  Speaker 4: fright guard, but definitely some position flex.
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  Speaker 3: Across the you know, interior line. So you know, but
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  Speaker 3: we'll start in my guard.
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  Speaker 6: Why would he be, sorry, why would he be positioned
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  Speaker 6: to make an early impact or or to to be
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  Speaker 6: on the field right away.
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  Speaker 1: He's played a ton of ball. He's played a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football. I think they you know, people were ripping
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  Speaker 1: off stuff in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, uh, like I said, fifty to fifty one starts,
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  Speaker 2: he's had forty eight pressures in like it not like
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly where it is. It just only sixteen
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty seven snaps. The guy's really really experienced.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and we had again it's a full buy in coaches, uh,
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  Speaker 2: scouting analytics, his uh his, uh, this speed velocity ratio
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  Speaker 2: is there. It was everything was really exciting. Yeah, spreading
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  Speaker 2: profile was amazing. He generates a ton of force, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was fun.
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  Speaker 4: It's good Patrick Ward, John you had you mentioned kind
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  Speaker 4: of at wrung guys, what's that what are those moments
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  Speaker 4: like for you?
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  Speaker 2: We're kind of waiting down your Well, this was I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this was long at so long because of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the length of the uh you know, the second round,
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  Speaker 2: not having at not having a uh a pick. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had we had considered going up several
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  Speaker 2: times and then things just didn't work out. People wanted
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  Speaker 2: to pick, and then you know, people had their players taken.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Mike, you.
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  Speaker 7: You mentioned he spoke with Scott Hoff and people conversations
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  Speaker 7: Scot up and then the Senior Bowl forms of what
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  Speaker 7: what kind of insight did you get from Scott andand
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  Speaker 7: seeing him in a different setting then the one who
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  Speaker 7: was at you know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean, I guess, like John said, there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of consensus really with with Huff and Grubb
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  Speaker 4: and you know, Hutch and all, you know really everybody
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  Speaker 4: that uh Todd with his area and stuff. So we
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  Speaker 4: really just it's uh, it's great to have everybody on
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  Speaker 4: the same court, you know. And uh so I think
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  Speaker 4: a Senior Bowl was was really impressive as well, so
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  Speaker 4: that you know, I mighta sealed the deal.
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  Speaker 8: I would assume the Tennessee takee you took special note of.
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  Speaker 1: That for obvious reasons.
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  Speaker 8: Uh what what made an impression possibly from that game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean just obviously the level of competition, right, Uh
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean then you're gonna look at You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna try to study those games as much as possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: Then when they're when they're playing up, you know, up
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  Speaker 1: like that. But when all of them, we have all
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  Speaker 1: these cutups down, was like, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, show us all your pressure of all the pressures,
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  Speaker 2: show them all like your run, play stuff outside zone,
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  Speaker 2: inside zone, so.
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  Speaker 1: You can watch so much stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, what are some characters.
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  Speaker 2: When you consider Lonnard Williams as in your second round
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  Speaker 2: pick this year? Just how excited in general you guys
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  Speaker 2: to post your offensive and defensive line with with these
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  Speaker 2: two picks or three picks to huge? I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're really wanted to, you know, put an emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on it, and and the board ended up kind of
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  Speaker 2: feeling that way for us.
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  Speaker 3: John, what are some characteristic characteristics that.
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  Speaker 1: Show up when you watch him play?
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  Speaker 8: Uh?
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  Speaker 9: Initial quickness, length, you can get under people who can
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  Speaker 9: less hips Uh like the past protection stuff is the
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  Speaker 9: jet and the lateral movement stays in front of people
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  Speaker 9: who's got strong hands.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, he's he He's got anchor, He's he's good.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a good, really good g really good football player,
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  Speaker 1: really good, Uh, you know, still experienced.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was like the nuances and uh he
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  Speaker 2: had a great uh zoom interview with with coach Hop
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  Speaker 2: Uh that they love the football intelligence, so uh, everybody's
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  Speaker 2: just really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Kay, how do you feel about your art?
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  Speaker 2: I just say, h how do you feel about you
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  Speaker 2: guard spot as a old just with Anthony but obviously
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  Speaker 2: played a lot of right.
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  Speaker 1: Guard last year and then Lincoln and all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Adam lacoln was w was was huge for us.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony you know, started a couple of games for US
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  Speaker 1: last year. You know he's we.
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  Speaker 2: Just want more competition there, you know when uh wanna
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  Speaker 2: keep working and see what the board looks like tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: with this.
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  Speaker 1: Era of college football? Guys, how depressive was it? Did
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  Speaker 1: he state? Six years a Connecticut? Three coaching changes, took
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  Speaker 1: your captain master's degree. All that rare? It is rare.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's you hit it on the head. But
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  Speaker 4: he's just a mature guy, smart. Everyone come out of
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  Speaker 4: the school loves him. Even people that have worked worked,
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  Speaker 4: uh work me in Baltimore that crossed with him in
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  Speaker 4: that Yukon uh had a lot of great things to
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  Speaker 4: say about him as well.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a lot of time. You know, six
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  Speaker 3: six years seniors.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty impressive, but uh, we won't be seeing those guys
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  Speaker 4: after a couple years once the whole Covied thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: balls off here.
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  Speaker 3: But John did Jim Moore of.
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  Speaker 1: You have any insights to you personally? Yeah, he just classy.
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  Speaker 2: He's like you could get a classy You're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: getting a classy, highly intelligent and nasty football player.
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  Speaker 1: Great combination, I guess if you like that.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you think?
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  Speaker 9: What do you guys think it was about him that
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  Speaker 9: made him a two time captain?
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  Speaker 4: It's ocean, Yeah, all the things we're talking about, right,
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  Speaker 4: it's just the everyday attitude. I mean, when when you're
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  Speaker 4: doing every day like like Christian does, like people see it,
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  Speaker 4: players see it, coaches see it, right, and those are
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  Speaker 4: the guys who want to lead your team.
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  Speaker 6: So we're excited to bring that the six years in
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  Speaker 6: one place four on the football field, change anything about
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  Speaker 6: how you get to evaluate the football part of him,
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  Speaker 6: either how he grew in a system or just kind
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  Speaker 6: of the comparison that you get to make with him
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  Speaker 6: year over year.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, just the you know, the the experience to a point, yes,
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  Speaker 10: but the Senior Bowl really, you know, we can see
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  Speaker 10: him and then one on one is did a great job.
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  Speaker 10: You could just you know, you can see him against
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  Speaker 10: the different levels of competition, different styles of defensive.
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  Speaker 1: Lineman, you know, the level play there.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that that was you know, pretty very
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  Speaker 2: important to the evaluation process.
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  Speaker 5: John kind of similar to BOP's question, But you guys
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  Speaker 5: appreciate the interior group on the line quite a bit
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  Speaker 5: this offseason. None of those starters from last year back
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  Speaker 5: with the other year. How how do you kind of
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  Speaker 5: feel that process is gone? But the outlook for the
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  Speaker 5: group as a whole, even at center, but the the
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  Speaker 5: the group that you kind of have there now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like the process.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've you know, we've would you know, gone
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  Speaker 2: through it in a like efficient manner.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've panicked.
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  Speaker 2: And at that position is clearly a position that you
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  Speaker 2: can it's easy, easy, to panic because of the the
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  Speaker 2: lack of depth, you know, whether it's profo ball or
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  Speaker 2: college football, right so at that, you know, on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line, So I think, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, we're not gonna stop working at you know, or
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  Speaker 1: just keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Did did the blocking scheme that uh, Ryan and Scott
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  Speaker 3: want to run?
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  Speaker 7: Did that influence and all that type of offensive lineman
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  Speaker 7: you're looking.
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  Speaker 4: For, uh to a degree, But we're gonna be multiple
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  Speaker 4: up there on on the schemes we running. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: to to a certain extent, I mean, you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: we're we're considering those.
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  Speaker 3: Types of things.
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  Speaker 4: But I'd say on the whole probably probably not, you know,
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  Speaker 4: majorly that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Might consider that caroson card just to.
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  Speaker 4: Say, uh, both, why if we're talking about culture, yesterday
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  Speaker 4: we had a defensive player drafted, see that we're dominating
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  Speaker 4: a couple of times today an offensive player, Sayney.
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  Speaker 3: Would dominated did it great?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeahs I I've got it two.
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  Speaker 3: A few times. But yeah, that's great, keep it.
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  Speaker 8: But I mean it, there's gotta be some intentionality with
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  Speaker 8: you all are creating and when you're looking to.
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  Speaker 3: Create here, Yeah, I think that I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that's fair. Uh, just the style
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  Speaker 3: of play that no one wants to play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're going for.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's our standard of how we play football. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you wanna play, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: play a certain way.
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  Speaker 3: So those are the types of guys are bringing in.
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  Speaker 8: Along those lines, Mike, were all interested to see kind
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  Speaker 8: of your offensive identity as you're evaluating a guard, would
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  Speaker 8: you say you have any slight preference towards the past
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  Speaker 8: blocking versus the run blocking or do you want the
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  Speaker 8: road grad Like when you watch a tape, what Vic
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  Speaker 8: really gets you when you watch a a great.
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  Speaker 4: Ball, I like the guys that knock him off the ball,
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  Speaker 4: that's me, you know, So we gotta figure out the
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  Speaker 4: rest later.
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  Speaker 3: But I think Christian brings up to the table. So
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  Speaker 3: that's first sound looking for John.
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  Speaker 5: What's your kind of outlook for older pitting into this
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  Speaker 5: offseason for you guys after the little bit you played
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  Speaker 5: last year and kind of type projectors to car.
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  Speaker 3: Old did nice job last year coming in when he played.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he came in the Detroit game and m
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  Speaker 2: Evan Evan was injured and he came in and you
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  Speaker 2: know when we were dumb with people, continue to drive
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  Speaker 2: and then up scoring and then uh yeah you did.
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  Speaker 1: A nice job when he played, and uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know it's a year of you know, girls for him,
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  Speaker 2: but the same the same way we felt about him
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  Speaker 2: last year. He goes to Michigan's name captain in the
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  Speaker 2: spring and he's smart again, smart, tough level guy.
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  Speaker 1: John Wilde, what'd you think of that draft? Ah, sorry
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  Speaker 1: the call, I wasn't on it. Yeah it was awesome.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, just let when you like your guys see that
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  Speaker 10: you did again last year Old Bride, Well, he was
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  Speaker 10: so passionate about him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just just awesome, Like he's his his initial
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  Speaker 2: report is like, you know, this guy's a seahawk like
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  Speaker 2: and that's you know, in I don't know, September, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So he just had so much passion for him, so
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, it's fun to it's always it's a blast
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  Speaker 2: to be able to call people like that.
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  Speaker 1: So he's had a.
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  Speaker 2: Relationship with him, you know, Jason Barnes as well. Jason
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  Speaker 2: went in there and uh we did the school call,
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  Speaker 2: and those guys they've just they just always really liked him.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not sure if top top's been doing
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  Speaker 1: this since uh the West was one. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: uh if he's ever been able to do that. So
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  Speaker 1: it was fun. John.
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  Speaker 2: You look mentioned the uh the run on the guard
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  Speaker 2: that had started the offensive linemen to the in the
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  Speaker 2: second round, early third round, and you're saying.
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  Speaker 9: That you guys would say we're trading up was going
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  Speaker 9: up to get Christian the main goal behind that.
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  Speaker 1: We wooh, and maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have said that, Uh, we were trying to
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  Speaker 3: trade up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into specifically when we would.
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  Speaker 2: Try to trade up and similar to that child to
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  Speaker 2: be able to stampat with the picks he had and
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  Speaker 2: be able to get the guys he did on the
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  Speaker 2: defensive and offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean now that we're then around three work to
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  Speaker 1: be done for his consident.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, we're excited for tomorrow and we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work to do and there's still some you know,
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  Speaker 2: darkeoty football.
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  Speaker 1: Players on the on the board, and then you know
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna jump.
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  Speaker 2: Into the rookie free agency and we try to crush it.
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  Speaker 3: John, I guess seem maturity and experience is probably the
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  Speaker 3: easy answer.
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  Speaker 4: But what is the benefit of a twenty four year
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  Speaker 4: old and and bringing someone in like that to essentially.
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  Speaker 1: Have the opportunity to come in and play a contribute
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  Speaker 1: right away.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you enabled to us in his intelligence, his
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  Speaker 2: football intelligence I'll be related to with our coaches interacted
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  Speaker 2: with them on the zoom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's a tough, competitive guy that has u a l
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  Speaker 2: a level of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be too big for him, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So guys that you know have that experience.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and it's playing fifty one games and start
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  Speaker 2: fifty of the mean, I think that's a lot a
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  Speaker 2: lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Football, Mike, what's the dynamic coaches on us in colleges?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe can did you really get them?
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  Speaker 7: Other guy?
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  Speaker 3: Or you're excited to find all why?
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  Speaker 4: And the thing I'd like about how we did it is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when you do it at the combine, it's
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  Speaker 4: only fifteen minutes, right, Sometimes there's something that with another zoom.
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  Speaker 4: But this gives us a little bit bigger opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: kind of dive into the football knowledge and uh like
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  Speaker 4: football character and kind of how they see the game
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  Speaker 4: and and their personalities get a chance to kind of
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  Speaker 4: come out and shine too. So I think the way
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  Speaker 4: we do it is is really cool when our guys
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  Speaker 4: did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a time one on those A league?
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  Speaker 3: Is the league or strict involves or try to keep
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  Speaker 3: to an hour now, Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely less
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  Speaker 3: of an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Before anything else.
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  Speaker 3: You thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.