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Sam Darnold: "Our Offensive Line Is Playing Incredible" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How think about it? What's going on? Guys? Good? Obviously
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  Speaker 1: a tough divisional game this week that we're really looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to. Got a uh, you know, a great great defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I feel like, you know, they're doing a
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  Speaker 1: really good job. I think they're you know, up there,
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  Speaker 1: if not number one and forcing turnovers. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: always tough whenever you're on against the defense like that
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  Speaker 1: that can you know, punch the ball out, take it
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  Speaker 1: away defensively. And so for them, I think just you know,
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  Speaker 1: rushing coverage kind of working together. They got a great
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  Speaker 1: front tied tied with really good backers and really good
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  Speaker 1: dbs that make it all come to life. So we're
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  Speaker 1: really looking forward to the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: How easy or hard is it to speed up your
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  Speaker 2: mechanics or delivery when you've got guys that are not
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  Speaker 2: just taking the ball away. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: back hits and pressures too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think that's that's the name of
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  Speaker 1: the game, right if you can just if you can
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  Speaker 1: get home rushing four or five guys every single time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you love that as a defensive coordinator especially,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we got to be on our p
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  Speaker 1: and cues but also you know, they like to mix
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  Speaker 1: it up, they like to bring certain pressures, so we
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  Speaker 1: just got to be ready for it.
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  Speaker 3: How does the defense are playing this year compare to
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  Speaker 3: what you guys saw what you saw with them last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they're doing some similar things, but obviously,
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  Speaker 1: like like every offense, like every defense, like every team
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know, they're they're evolving, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the personnel that they have and all the different
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  Speaker 1: things that they can do defensively. So you know, they've
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  Speaker 1: they've shown a lot of different things this year, and
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  Speaker 1: we're excited about, you know, going up against these guys.
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  Speaker 3: From Fenton Lake thirty seven and how they use him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I feel like, you know, he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the one back there that you know, is kind
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  Speaker 1: of directing people where to go and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: running the show back there. And for a good reason.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he seems like a smart football player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and again it's you know, he's he's obviously you know,
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  Speaker 1: really good, and not only him, but you know some
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  Speaker 1: of the other you know dbs that work along with him,
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  Speaker 1: and the linebackers for that matter, in just disguising a
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  Speaker 1: lot of their coverages and a lot of their pressures.
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  Speaker 1: So it definitely makes it tough to go against. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: but exciting. Like I said about just the opportunity that
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  Speaker 1: we have.
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  Speaker 3: Do you go back and look at those two games
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  Speaker 3: from last year against them much at all? Or is
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  Speaker 3: it obviously that was a different team you're playing with it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we look at everything. Uh, you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the games that they've played this year,
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  Speaker 1: you know, games that you know I played last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we look at we look at everything just to kind
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  Speaker 1: of see, you know, see what we what we could
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  Speaker 1: potentially get on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Defense is playing the way that it is. How is
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  Speaker 2: that change the change in the entire field of the
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  Speaker 2: game for you on offense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, I think I said this after the game,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, just playing playing with a defense like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, can give you a lot of you know
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  Speaker 1: comfort as a quarterback. Obviously, you know, I'm still gonna
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  Speaker 1: continue to push myself, push the guys on offense to
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  Speaker 1: continue to be better. You know, I think we got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to protect the football. I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a huge emphasis coming out of that game that we
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  Speaker 1: had last week. But again, you know, with with our
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  Speaker 1: defense playing the way that they are right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing well, and again we just got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to do what we do on offense.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're going to ask you, is this rams
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  Speaker 4: game personal for you? How personal this is?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No? I think I think for us, it's just
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  Speaker 1: about going down there. For myself personally, it's about going
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  Speaker 1: down there and taking care of business.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that. You know, it's as simple as up from.
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  Speaker 4: That playoff game to you for yourself and quarterbacking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, just you know, having answers.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing is you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I had opportunities to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: out and I didn't in that game. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like having answers for for certain looks
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  Speaker 1: and being able to, uh just go through my progressions,
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  Speaker 1: go through my reads and trust my my feet and
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  Speaker 1: my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about protecting the ball and and it just
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  Speaker 3: feels like a game that could definitely come down to
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  Speaker 3: the to the end. You guys had to turnovers at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the game. How do you change that?
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  Speaker 3: If that that what that's what happens this week is
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  Speaker 3: you get down to a close game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's just what I said. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, being very just being very uh deliberate
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  Speaker 1: with kind of my progressions, going through my reads, understanding
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  Speaker 1: when the pockets you know a little bit messy, and
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  Speaker 1: when I need to maybe check the ball down or
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  Speaker 1: even just throw it away. So I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a huge point of emphsis this week. But again,
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  Speaker 1: I like to play every single plays its own and
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  Speaker 1: kind of go from there. Sacked ten times in nine games,
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of that fact? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: first of all, it's a it's a good you know,
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  Speaker 1: our offensive line is playing incredible tight ends, running backs,
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  Speaker 1: all those that are you know, in protection, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. And then our receivers being able to
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  Speaker 1: get open. And then for me, it's just being able
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball out and going through my reads. O.
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  Speaker 3: Guys have talked about the outside noise, it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know about this game, and then we'll start to
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  Speaker 3: come around you guys more.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys keep winning, how do you how do
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  Speaker 4: you sort of you know, elimit that or not get.
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  Speaker 3: That you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, it's just understanding who we are,
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  Speaker 1: who I am as a person, Understanding the guys in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, the coaching staff. You know, we're all
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  Speaker 1: working so hard every single week. You know, we enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the you know, when we do get a win, we
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed on Monday, but you know it's onto the next
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  Speaker 1: you know, Monday night really Tuesday, and we're focused on
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about a while ago leadership style that you
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  Speaker 3: kind of admires, the quiet like offensive line kind of
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  Speaker 3: Was that always the way that you kind of led
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  Speaker 3: or is there a time that you tried different kind
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  Speaker 3: of leadership styles and and just settled on this one.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think for me, it's it's always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if I need to speak up or you know,
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  Speaker 1: say something that the offensive guys need to hear, or
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  Speaker 1: a certain position group or a certain person needs to hear,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm gonna speak up, and I feel great
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  Speaker 1: about doing that. But you know, first and foremost, it's
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  Speaker 1: about doing my job. And if I'm if I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing my job and I'm getting on people like that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me and ever has, and so
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  Speaker 1: I always make sure that I'm trying to and it
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  Speaker 1: may come off as leading by example, but it's really
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  Speaker 1: just doing your job. And I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys in that locker room are leaders because
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  Speaker 1: everyone in there tries to do their job and they
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  Speaker 1: do it at a high level. And that's just it.
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  Speaker 4: What does twelve attempts in the games say about your
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  Speaker 4: winning game and the fluid team of your offense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's awesome, you know, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball that we the way that we did,
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  Speaker 1: I think without you know, the knees at the end
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of the first half, I think
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  Speaker 1: we're over two hundred yards. So you know, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are continuing to come together, like I always say, as
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  Speaker 1: an offensive line, and you know, as a running back group,
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  Speaker 1: tight end group, receiver group, even blocking blocking their tail
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  Speaker 1: tails off Robbie oots doing this thing as a fullback, Brady.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good man, the whole the whole group's really
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  Speaker 1: coming together and we're just going to continue to build
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  Speaker 1: off that week after week.
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  Speaker 4: Changing centers can be disruptive for an offense, but with Elu,
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  Speaker 4: can you tell like this guy that started a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of games and also you got the reps with them
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  Speaker 4: in camp when there's a competition that can you notice
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  Speaker 4: that as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think Olu does a does
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  Speaker 1: a really good job. He did a really good job
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  Speaker 1: when he got in there last week, so I know
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to continue to prepare his butt off
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  Speaker 1: and do everything that he can to help this team win.
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  Speaker 3: You guys seem to keep keep it light, keep it
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  Speaker 3: steady weekend even as things build. Who's who's the person
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  Speaker 3: that thinks to the funniest in the locker room? Actually
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  Speaker 3: the funniest.
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  Speaker 1: Who thinks that there? Because that is a that is
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  Speaker 1: a big difference, you know. I'm I think Eric Sobert
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  Speaker 1: might be the funniest guy, but that's just you know again,
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  Speaker 1: that's everybody has a different taste. But Sabby is pretty funny. Coop,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, thinks he's the funniest, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to go with that because he's tried to drill
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  Speaker 1: me on a couple of things, a couple of one liners,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I just thought this was a good time
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  Speaker 1: to maybe air that out. And uh, we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: he says about that.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of Coop, obviously, going back to l A and
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  Speaker 4: just for you haven't spent half a season around him.
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  Speaker 4: Now what's he meant to to the offense.
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  Speaker 1: This team as a whole. Yeah, man, he's incredible. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I talk about it a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: just the work that he puts in, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: unlike anyone else that I've ever met. Yeah, he's just
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  Speaker 1: he's been a huge, a huge fit for us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as an offense, just the way that he works and
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  Speaker 1: just the things he can do on the field as well.
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  Speaker 1: He's also been a huge catalyst for kind of bringing
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  Speaker 1: these guys together, bringing the team together too. So you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's been very I don't know if this this
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  Speaker 1: is probably the understatement of the year, but he's a
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  Speaker 1: very important piece to what we're building here. Appreciate it, guys,