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Abraham Lucas: "This Is My Dream Coming True" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think I'm just really still trying to process everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal, so I mean, trust me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty ecstatic about it. But now, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been a journey, and you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so thankful to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Grew up a Seahawks fan, you went to school Washington State,
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  Speaker 2: get drafted by the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Kind the extension of the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to you to to spend all
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  Speaker 2: this time at one place.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm gonna I'm gonna say some
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  Speaker 1: words and then I'll answer your question. I guess I
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  Speaker 1: just like, first want to thank the organization obviously for
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  Speaker 1: their belief and their faith in me, and Coach McDonald
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  Speaker 1: and UH coach Benton and Patty and John and Joey
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  Speaker 1: Lane for really, you know, putting something together for me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in my mind, it's a reflection of how
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  Speaker 1: much they believe in me. And I love this team,
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  Speaker 1: I love this organization. I mean, this is it's literally
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  Speaker 1: my dream coming true or the dream that I had
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  Speaker 1: for since the time I was you know, three years old,
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  Speaker 1: four years old watching football with my dad, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just so stoked about it. Everything to me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep keep being the same guy, keep putting
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  Speaker 1: my head down and working and you know, same stone
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  Speaker 1: stone face, no emotion type of guy. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited about it. I'm just really happy that
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  Speaker 1: something was able to get done.
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  Speaker 2: Did did this kind of come together quickly or have
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  Speaker 2: spared the worst for.
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  Speaker 1: A while or I mean there was a process. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I was involved, but I was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I let my you know, my agent and the people
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  Speaker 1: who know how to do that stuff sort of do
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Uh, But you know there was communication. There's
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  Speaker 1: communication to me, and I was, you know, pretty much
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  Speaker 1: just say, hey, you guys handle it. And I know
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  Speaker 1: I know there will be the best thing, best deal
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  Speaker 1: put forward. So I'm happy with it.
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  Speaker 3: I know this will change the way that you approach
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  Speaker 3: your job.
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  Speaker 4: But what does it allow you to envision about the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line or this offense and where it could go
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  Speaker 4: in the next two years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we have all the potential in
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  Speaker 1: the world to be really really great. I mean we
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  Speaker 1: have I think as an old line, we have a
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  Speaker 1: great relationship and just everybody in the room in general,
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  Speaker 1: and I just think that we just keep putting our
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  Speaker 1: heads down and keep going, you know, and it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to have some security in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: Once it became evident at Washington State, if you have
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  Speaker 3: a future you could play it professionally. How much of
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  Speaker 3: a goal was just this a second contract?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, I mean, it was part of it, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: But for me, like the goal has always been to
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  Speaker 1: be as great as I could be, and anything else
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  Speaker 1: that comes with that is just part of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've always wanted to be a pro bowler
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  Speaker 1: and an All Pro player, and that's still what I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna work towards. This. It's just basically another tick on
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  Speaker 1: the box. But you know, there's still so much more
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  Speaker 1: to do, so I'm looking forward to getting after that.
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  Speaker 2: It was your first call to after uh found out
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  Speaker 2: the deal was gonna get done.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I called my dad. Yeah, call my dad and
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  Speaker 1: I'll call my mom later today. What was that conversation? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get pretty surreal, I would say. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I think I'm still trying to kind
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  Speaker 1: of process everything. But you know, just the doors that
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  Speaker 1: something like that can open up and the people that
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  Speaker 1: you can help, and that's what I'm kind of looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the most. You know, it's helping my loved ones.
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  Speaker 2: The adversity that you dealt with with the knee and everything,
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  Speaker 2: how does that factor into like your emotions about getting
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  Speaker 2: the steal done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, like I said earlier, like I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so thankful for the organization for having faith in me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I really think that this deal is a
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  Speaker 1: testament to how much they believe in me. Yeah, injuries
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  Speaker 1: suck and they're just you know, they're tough to get through,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you just put your head down and
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  Speaker 1: keep going. So I did that as best I could.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, was there a dark moment in there where
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  Speaker 2: you thought they like this wouldn't happen or or do
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  Speaker 2: you just kind of like put your head down, And.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can control what you can control. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Leach taught me that, so I try not to think
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  Speaker 1: about it in that regards. Just like, Okay, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hurt, but now the rehab is my opportunity. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now getting back is my opportunity. Okay, I've only played
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  Speaker 1: six games this year, that's my opportunity. Seven games the
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  Speaker 1: next year, that's my opportunity. So we just keep going,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and keep a positive outlook towards it all
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  Speaker 1: as much as I can.
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  Speaker 2: You're locked in on what you have to do at
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  Speaker 2: any given moment, But something like this, you thought about
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  Speaker 2: the impact I might have on a kid growing up
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  Speaker 2: playing football in Washington right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Man, if hopefully we'll have the same impact on
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  Speaker 1: someone as it did me, you know, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: can't think of any like super local guys that I
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  Speaker 1: looked up to in the same scenario as me. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope to influence people in my family
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  Speaker 1: and like outside of my family as much as I can.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned you call it a dream come truer, Like,
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  Speaker 4: could you even realistically have thought, Okay, I'm gonna stay
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  Speaker 4: in the same state at high school, college, and then
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the odds of that are pretty rare to Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's super Yeah, I mean, I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: was ever really thought that crossed my mind, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through the process, it was kind of like, all right, like,
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  Speaker 1: whoever's gonna you know, whatever happens is gonna happen, and
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  Speaker 1: fortunate enough to get an opportunity here and play for
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  Speaker 1: the best organization.
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  Speaker 2: So if the scheme you guys are running under with
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  Speaker 2: John Benn and everything, now, how.
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  Speaker 1: The fit and with that with you?
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  Speaker 2: How I mean, obviously periods have become a really good fit.
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  Speaker 2: But how it is it a big difference while you're
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  Speaker 2: doing in the past and then kind of fits you
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  Speaker 2: better in that way?
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  Speaker 1: Or I mean I've learned. I've had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different coaches, you know, in a lot of different styles,
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  Speaker 1: so I would say everything's pretty different. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the style, I'm going to try my best
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  Speaker 1: to excel. I mean, I do. I really love this scheme.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great. There's a lot of moving parts
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  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun to be and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm really really looking forward to excelling more.
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  Speaker 1: The way the NFL is go.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead so that it seems like a very direct coach.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about how he coaches you in particular?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Well, coach was a coach. Debby was an offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: so he understands it. He understands the mentality. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: my the thing I love about him the most is
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  Speaker 1: his attention to detail. You know, he's really good at
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  Speaker 1: pointing out the little things, you know, and it's very
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  Speaker 1: you know, points out the minute sort of topics. It's
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  Speaker 1: not all general. So yeah, I mean that's the way
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  Speaker 1: you get better. So I'm happy about that. The way
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: You get this great news and then you get to
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  Speaker 2: turn around and go against a guy like Nick Bosa
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  Speaker 2: potentially this week.
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  Speaker 1: You look forward to some of you know, the best
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  Speaker 1: going against the best and testing yourself that way. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's the name of competition, it's the
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  Speaker 1: name of the game. You know, been doing it for
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  Speaker 1: the past few years, so you know it was a
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  Speaker 1: very excellent player, very very skilled, and so yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. John's uh attention to detail.
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  Speaker 4: You just say that's because he played or are you
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  Speaker 4: tributing to that?
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  Speaker 1: To that, I mean I would think it's part of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And then you know he's been coaching for longer than
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  Speaker 1: I've been alive, so I mean that probably helps it too.
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  Speaker 1: I have you said earlier in this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember if it was a really training camp
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  Speaker 2: or back in the spring, but like you know, the commitment.
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  Speaker 1: To run the football is gonna be there this year,
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  Speaker 1: at least to the preseason certainly seems like you're on
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  Speaker 1: track for that to kind of see the way you
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  Speaker 1: guys came out of the gates running the ball in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, kind of what you've show him so far.
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  Speaker 1: How how encouraging is that for you guys as you
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  Speaker 1: start to get going here, that's super encouraging. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's expected. I knew. I mean, I think everybody knew
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  Speaker 1: that that's what it's gonna be. And you know it's
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  Speaker 1: a softening process, so you have to keep doing it
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  Speaker 1: in order for it to work. Sometimes other times, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it works right out of the gate, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: other times you have to kind of tap the rock
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  Speaker 1: until it breaks, so to speak. So excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: You opened last season your first game against forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 4: Just how much different do you feel physically today getting
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  Speaker 4: ready for the forty niners and you did coming out
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  Speaker 4: of the buy last year the.
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  Speaker 1: Night and day. Yeah, healthy, feeling good, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And it's week one, not week eleven, so that's great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, congrats and