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Julian Love: "I'm Incredibly Grateful and Realize It's Special To Be A Seahawk" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: It's for more player of the year back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the baby he's good.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, any baby's good, child. I guess at this
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Speaker 2: point he's good. You two man too, All right, let's
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 1: Most meaningful contribution is just person.
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Speaker 2: I think from the jump, he's just let me be me.
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Speaker 2: He understands who you know I am. Let's just kind of,
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Speaker 2: you know, be myself. I think I've I've struggled with
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Speaker 2: that in the past, and he's somebody who just has
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Speaker 2: seen me early, you know, from meeting me, uh, and
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Speaker 2: just let me be that myself.
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Speaker 1: I have a way with players in that way, like
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Speaker 1: had a unique.
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Speaker 3: Background coaching, like Semiro and.
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Speaker 1: All that stuff. I mean, this is a people business
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day.
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Speaker 2: I think you know, you know, if you know that
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Speaker 2: somebody believes in you and trusts you and cares for you,
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Speaker 2: it shows itself.
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Speaker 1: And how you go about your day, how are you
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Speaker 1: go about work.
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Speaker 2: If it's a transactional process, then you know that love
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Speaker 2: doesn't come across and all the care factor goes down.
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Speaker 1: Some guys would do.
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Speaker 2: The accent just for kicks sometimes that Yeah, this group
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Speaker 2: we mess around with each other constantly or very unseerious.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, everything he says speed and vid as people
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Speaker 2: are making fun of are mimicking him.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's funny. What different dangerous.
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Speaker 2: I think he's a very natural receiver. I think he's
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Speaker 2: extremely fluid. He gets in out of his breaks. Uh,
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Speaker 2: super efficient. He's one of those there's a few players
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Speaker 2: in this league who can just be running at full
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Speaker 2: speed and break at any point.
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Speaker 1: He's one of them.
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Speaker 2: Uh. And after the fact, he's elusive with the ball
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Speaker 2: in his hand. And so yeah, it's it's very clear.
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Speaker 2: And obviously from the moment he got in the league,
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Speaker 2: while he's special, uh that he has everything you would
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Speaker 2: need out of a successful quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Obviously he's had a great year.
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Speaker 2: He throw the d ball, he makes sweet decisions, he analyzes,
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Speaker 2: he sees pressure early, he's making communication to his line,
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Speaker 2: and then when all of that fails, he's able to
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Speaker 2: get it done and improvise off script. And so how
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Speaker 2: about you, I didn't know, you know, I had the
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Speaker 2: pleasure of playing against him back in college when he
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Speaker 2: was at USC. Uh, and just he similar. You know,
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Speaker 2: he can do everything you need out of the quarterback.
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Speaker 2: He has the arm for it, has the mind for it,
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Speaker 2: has the work ethic for it. And then outside of football,
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Speaker 2: we just love him like he's just.
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Speaker 1: A good guy.
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Speaker 2: We enjoy hanging out with him. I enjoy golfing with him,
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Speaker 2: like we we have a serious love for Sam just
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Speaker 2: because he's a he's a good person. Yeah, yeah, oh
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Speaker 2: you said Sam, right? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: How would you describe the personal mentality of defense?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Man, we have a bunch of killers on defense. It's cool.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's different.
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Speaker 2: I'm different from you know, Leo or e j or Spoon, like,
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Speaker 2: we're all very different people. But when someone on the
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Speaker 2: field together, everyone has that killer instinct.
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Speaker 1: And you know you do it and you have as
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Speaker 1: an urgency for the person next to you. How did you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a mixture of my community, a
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Speaker 2: mixture of you know, my.
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Speaker 1: Wife, my family does always be there and support me.
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Speaker 1: But also just like.
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Speaker 2: There's a level of self confidence and belief in myself.
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Speaker 2: I think I've always had a tip on my shoulder.
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Speaker 2: Not many people I just know that about me unless
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Speaker 2: you truly know me. And so it's that it's that
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Speaker 2: constant competitive drive and nature that you know, up and
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Speaker 2: down things are positive.
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Speaker 1: Nowio, I'm gonna make it work. You know.
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Speaker 2: That might have been in some survival moments in my
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Speaker 2: past that but again, through those.
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Speaker 1: Moments have a lowed me to just thrive.
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Speaker 3: You feel like it's constantly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: My wife and I for years had made the joke
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Speaker 2: that I'm just the permanent underdog, you know, and that's
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Speaker 2: that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I know who I am. I like my style of play.
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Speaker 2: I think when you if people you if you watch
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Speaker 2: me play football, I think I have a really good
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Speaker 2: brand of football.
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Speaker 1: I take no shortcuts in the game.
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Speaker 2: I used to do all the tough jobs, and so
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Speaker 2: knowing that it kind of gives me a mental level.
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Speaker 1: Up on everything.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, this year was ups and downs and turbulent
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Speaker 2: a little bit, but through it all, I have great
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Speaker 2: guys around me, and so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool.
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Speaker 2: I have a lot of pride for Chicago. We say
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Speaker 2: that we live there in the off season, have a
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Speaker 2: house there. I have my youth camp there. Like, there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of pride and a lot of my friends,
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Speaker 2: you know, across the league. It's just you know, we
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Speaker 2: we understand. Uh, when you play somebody that's on another team,
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Speaker 2: it's from Chicago.
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Speaker 1: I can name a ton of them. Uh.
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Speaker 2: It's a special place because you know what it means
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Speaker 2: uh to play high school ball and just grow.
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Speaker 1: Up in that city.
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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that kid growing up I know.
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Speaker 2: Uh No, I feel like my my I would say
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Speaker 2: my dad pushed me and was very firm on us
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Speaker 2: in terms of sports and just trying to you know,
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Speaker 2: be great and maybe on football and basketball whatever. He
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Speaker 2: just had a good presence about him to push us.
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Speaker 2: And but when you're a kid, you're just having fun.
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Speaker 2: I feel like when I was in Little League, the
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Speaker 2: Lion Bears, uh, in Peevy football, uh, in North Lake,
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Speaker 2: I was just having fun. I enjoyed just playing with
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Speaker 2: with my friends and just kind of hanging out.
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Speaker 1: I felt like it wasn't you know, super serious.
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Speaker 2: And then in high school and nas, same thing, Like
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Speaker 2: all my guys are playing, I'm just having fun and
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Speaker 2: it's a bonus that we're winning.
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Speaker 1: It's a bonus that I'm good, and same thing.
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Speaker 2: I I kind of you had to carry that kid
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Speaker 2: like love for this game. Uh, and thankfully I still
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Speaker 2: have it. I mean, I run on and run on
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Speaker 2: some grass for a living. It's uh, it's pretty special
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Speaker 2: to think about and it had to be on this stage.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I was meant for this moment. I
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Speaker 2: feel like this moment was waiting for me, and so
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Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here and just happy.
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Speaker 1: To be here with this team. Yeah, the NFL to Mexico.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 1: So my dad is black, my mom is Cuban and Mexican.
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Speaker 2: Maalito is from Chihuahua, Mexico, and my Alita some Havana, Cuba.
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Speaker 1: And so I grew.
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Speaker 2: Up in a Hispanic area of Chicago, Loland Square, I
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Speaker 2: live predominantly before high school. And yeah, everything growing up,
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Speaker 2: like my mom when we get home was you know,
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Speaker 2: it was always like a quick meal.
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Speaker 1: Was always like rice beans and like some protein of
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Speaker 1: some sort. Like it was.
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Speaker 2: I was just like the quick staple she got home
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Speaker 2: from work. You could put some together for us. I
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Speaker 2: grew up on you know, bread and the steak and Panada's, uh,
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Speaker 2: a ton of stuff. Like I have a lot of
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Speaker 2: passion for who I am. It's just my family. And
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Speaker 2: I talked to a few days ago, and he's so proud.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy who came over and made
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Speaker 2: something of himself. You know, in the sixties and Uh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to just be their grandson. It means
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Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: I mean if you keep playing, if you having fun
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Speaker 2: and just enjoying the sport.
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Speaker 1: Uh, you could be on the biggest states like me,
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Speaker 1: let's go thank you Yeah, like giants immediately. Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 2: I was a little heartbreaking for sure. I you know,
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Speaker 2: I was a leader, I was a captain uh in
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Speaker 2: that in that unit. And I was young, like I
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Speaker 2: was twenty four that my last season over there, starting
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Speaker 2: to play my best football, starting to become a full
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Speaker 2: time starter.
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Speaker 1: Do multiple coaches, do multiple things. So it's tough.
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Speaker 2: I love a lot of people in that building, still
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Speaker 2: a lot of people I have a love and respect for.
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Speaker 1: But it just it just didn't line.
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Speaker 2: And thankfully, I you know how to leave a faith
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Speaker 2: and see I don't found success pretty pretty quick.
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Speaker 1: Uh and so yeah, I I love my journey, I
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Speaker 1: love the path. I love being a giant.
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Speaker 2: But I am incredibly grateful and I didn't realize it's
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Speaker 2: special to be a Seahawk, especially with these guys, especially
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Speaker 2: my guy over here at Landa Williams with me. Thank
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Speaker 2: you appreciation super Yeah, that's a good question. I think
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Speaker 2: it was the I forget who we played, but it
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Speaker 2: was a game after Tampa Bay. I think that was
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Speaker 2: a moment of like, man, we lost and in defense
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Speaker 2: we lost kind of in a in a in a
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Speaker 2: way we we're.
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Speaker 1: Not accustomed to. It wasn't our style.
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Speaker 2: They just had our number early in the season, and
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Speaker 2: we responded. Everybody just got closer, you know. The the
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Speaker 2: love that we have for each other, like it doesn't
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Speaker 2: like fatigue, it's constant. It's every day we are competitive.
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Speaker 2: We mess around a ton and through the winds, but
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Speaker 2: especially through like losses like that. If you can stay connected,
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Speaker 2: that's how you know you're on something special.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And we just have been incredibly consistent, uh in that.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say that time.
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Speaker 1: Your friends and family.
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Speaker 2: Was yeah, one hundred percent. Everybody loves me and cheers
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Speaker 2: for me. But it's always been one of those situations where, uh,
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Speaker 2: they'll say, listen, you're playing the Bears, which I played
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Speaker 2: it back when I was the Giants played the Bears
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Speaker 2: a few times in a few years.
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Speaker 1: They always say, I hope you get a pick, but
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Speaker 1: I hope the Bears win.
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Speaker 2: Like just you know, Chicago fans, they're very cut to
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Speaker 2: the point as my cousins. That's family friends, all the
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Speaker 2: kids I played with growing up, and this season everyone
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Speaker 2: was buzzing.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: If they ended up winning that game against the Rams,
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Speaker 2: there would have been a lot of uncomfortable conversations because
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Speaker 2: they were coming out to Seattle. I'm sure some people
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Speaker 2: are asking for tickets to support me. Uh, I'd be
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Speaker 2: wearing their Bears gear. Yeah, I'm very aware my you know,
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Speaker 2: my my wife's from we both start dating it Nas
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Speaker 2: and her family are Cubbies and they're there's they're bears out.
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Speaker 1: My family not so much, but you know some of
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Speaker 1: the in.
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Speaker 2: Laws, you know, if they're staying over, I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 2: we're not talking about the Bears, like it's in this
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Speaker 2: house for Seattle only.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it would have been real uncomfortable. Yeah, high
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Speaker 1: school swearts.
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Speaker 2: We started dating when I was sixteen, both in nash
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Speaker 2: she's from La Grange Park. Yeah, we've been ten years,
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Speaker 2: ten plus years together.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus mean to me Jesus.
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Speaker 2: I mean we we try to have faith in in
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Speaker 2: living faith. My family, Uh, you know are we were
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Speaker 2: raising two people in this world and one on the way. Uh,
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Speaker 2: and it's important to us. I think it's important to
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Speaker 2: believe in something. I'm okay with other people believing in
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Speaker 2: whatever they believe in. We are Christian, yeah, and we
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Speaker 2: just try to leave with love. Everything we do is Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's pretty internal. I would say it's a lot of
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Speaker 2: self reflection, a lot of guidance, asking for you know,
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Speaker 2: just to stay safe and healthy and to be able
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Speaker 2: to go home to my family after the game, but
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Speaker 2: play a violence sport. And so that's mostly kind of
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Speaker 2: my routine and that does good music, good food, and
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Speaker 2: just try to kind of vibe Bible before the game.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: My wife and I, uh yeah, they live in Seattle
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Speaker 2: with me. My parents are back and forth between Chicago
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Speaker 2: and Seattle every.
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Speaker 1: Every weekend, every game. They go to every game.
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Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah, that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Where do you see the kind of like hmmm, that's
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Speaker 1: that's a great question.
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Speaker 2: I think we've all kind of took on a tone
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Speaker 2: of being very matter of fact. If you talk to Mike,
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Speaker 2: he just tries to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't like to make any anything, you know, grand
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Speaker 2: drive out out of everything and you know, like he'll say,
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Speaker 2: like who do we play next to?
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Speaker 1: What time? Do you play?
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Speaker 2: And then we all like will say in team meeting constantly,
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Speaker 2: it's every meeting like we don't care. And so that
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Speaker 2: I mind saying his quote of we did not care.
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Speaker 2: That's just how he's been all year, all the past
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Speaker 2: two years, and that's how we are as a team.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to he Jay, it's been special. I
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Speaker 2: think for the moment he walked into the building, the
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Speaker 2: defense transformed.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He's somebody who is young but carries himself so mature.
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Speaker 2: I was shocked at like he was younger than me.
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Speaker 2: When he got to the team. He was got how
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Speaker 2: he carried himself and how you know professional he is.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, Ernest, I think transform our defense for the better.
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Speaker 2: And now he's a leader. Uh he was a ward
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Speaker 2: of the contract this offseason because you know, he means
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Speaker 2: so much to us and he's the I mean, he's
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Speaker 2: the the catalyst for everything we do on defense.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, what'd you get a lot about the.
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Speaker 1: Want but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think directly for me, I'm dealing with
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Speaker 2: young NICKI man worry uh uh, just an incredible talented
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Speaker 2: goofball and from the jump I told him like listen, man,
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Speaker 2: like there's urgency to be successful here. We need you
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Speaker 2: on the field. You you make us better. It's not
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Speaker 2: gonna be easy. It's gonna be tough.
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Speaker 1: Uh. This defense uh can be complex at times.
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Speaker 2: But if you get your job done and lock in
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Speaker 2: and just are humble about it, like, we could be
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Speaker 2: special and we need you to be special. We got
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Speaker 2: some some there's some urgency with some vets here, just
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Speaker 2: trying to win now.
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Speaker 1: And so there's no dipping your toe in the water.
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Speaker 1: You better hit the ground running.
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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna support you and love you and assists
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Speaker 2: in any way I can for you to get that
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Speaker 2: father figure, big brother figure, let's call it that.
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Speaker 1: He said, it's calling me uncle. I said, I'm not
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Speaker 1: an uncle, I'm big brother.
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Speaker 2: There's levels to it. I'm at the big bro category.
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Speaker 2: I'll never be your uncle, but I've enjoyed it. He's
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Speaker 2: a goofball, you know, college kids growing up in the
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Speaker 2: n I L Era are different. But I I love
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Speaker 2: just being around him, his lockers next to me and
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Speaker 2: spoons and yeah, we have a good time.
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Speaker 1: And I like taking a feel with him.
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Speaker 5: Expect yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think individually, I just you know, mentioned that my
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Speaker 2: wife and I kind of was laughing, called myself the
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Speaker 2: permanent underdog just individually, but for this team. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say we're you know, the favorites or underdog
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Speaker 2: is because everyone's opinion kind of doesn't matter, you know.
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Speaker 1: To the perspective of the people in the room with us.
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Speaker 1: Uh you know, all yeah, no perfect.
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Speaker 2: I mean start of the season, like Furstday camp, there
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Speaker 2: is no more belief you know, in that room than
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Speaker 2: you know than anywhere else. We just we we felt
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Speaker 2: we werelways supposed to be here. We felt like we
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Speaker 2: had a really good team and we're gonna do special things.
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Speaker 1: Now. Everybody else didn't see that or know that.
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Speaker 2: They didn't know it was cooking up in Seattle, but
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Speaker 2: it was just as a constant belief from the jump.
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Speaker 2: And that's because we just have we have talent, we
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Speaker 2: have a connectedness, we have coaches that we believe in,
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Speaker 2: and we just have an identity that's just kind of
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Speaker 2: swagger forward and uh yeah, I think.
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Speaker 1: That proof is in the pudding.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, no, I I could care less. I feel like
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Speaker 2: we had just have killers on this defense, on this team,
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Speaker 2: and we always knew we were meant for this moment. Uh,
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Speaker 2: and so now that we're here, it's quote unquote another week. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like, you know, everyone has
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Speaker 2: a ship on their shoulder. I carry a big one.
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Speaker 1: I just don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm very very level headed, uh, kind of cool, collected,
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Speaker 2: and I carry.
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Speaker 1: Myself a certain way. I talk a certain way, and
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Speaker 1: that's always.
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Speaker 2: Reflected people thinking that I wasn't a certain type of player.
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Speaker 2: But I think the past, you know, decade of my life,
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Speaker 2: I've played really good ball and when you watch me play,
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Speaker 2: I put a good product on the field.
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Speaker 1: And so I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I always if you know, you know the type of player,
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Speaker 2: and uh, I'm okay with that. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There's some buckets I could do. I've been referred to
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Speaker 2: a lot into the broadcasting kind of media world.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I would need to be educated,
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Speaker 1: more educated in the space. Oh man. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to say this to you guys, but I.
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Speaker 2: Also want to like, have you know, some sort of
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Speaker 2: education in journalism. I think there's a lot of former
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Speaker 2: players talking when they don't need a mic these days,
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Speaker 2: at least things to be more educated before.
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Speaker 1: I think just saying such blanket statements.
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Speaker 2: And there's a few journalists that I have a lot
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Speaker 2: of respect for, and so I would want to take
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Speaker 2: the time to do that if I go down that route.
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Speaker 1: When you look at a.
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Speaker 3: Guy like Kyle Hamilton, Brian Branch.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, these guys who are feeling very positionless, do you
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Speaker 7: see it going more in that direction?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that that safety slot is more
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Speaker 2: so becoming a thing because it allows you to play
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Speaker 2: a light versus the past still and have guys that
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Speaker 2: can move in space, but also tough enough guys to
17:53
Speaker 2: be able to stop a run. So that that kind
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Speaker 2: of safety slot I think is becoming its own category.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't nickel corner, but now people are getting little
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Speaker 2: Biger again, and so that big nickel that whatever it
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Speaker 2: is you call it, that's becoming more of a thing.
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Speaker 1: And so yeah, do you think that adds.
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Speaker 3: More defense I have, like Kyle Hamilton is just as valuable.
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Speaker 1: As Miles Garrett. Uh, I would say it is valuable.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's you know, it's apples oranges in
18:17
Speaker 2: terms of what you think. I know, pass rushers our
18:20
Speaker 2: scene is uh, you know, pretty important.
18:22
Speaker 1: I think it's important. I'm a dB.
18:25
Speaker 2: But to have like especially guys like Kyle, especially guys
18:27
Speaker 2: like NICKI man, worry. I'll put those guys separate because
18:29
Speaker 2: they have a lot of length in space and so
18:31
Speaker 2: they can cover tight ends, receivers, they can fit the run,
18:33
Speaker 2: they can runners receiver, they could uh cover people dropping zone,
18:37
Speaker 2: whatever you want to do, blitz. Nick is incredible at
18:40
Speaker 2: press ring and so it allows you to be versatile.
18:44
Speaker 2: Use him as an outside linebacker, use him as a linebacker,
18:46
Speaker 2: using him as a nickel, using them at the corner,
18:47
Speaker 2: use him at safety.
18:48
Speaker 1: Whatever. Uh.
18:49
Speaker 2: It's a it's an incredible X factor. And there's there's
18:53
Speaker 2: a few, there's not many. You gotta keep that list
18:55
Speaker 2: short because it's tough to do. Yeah, yeah, don't you
19:00
Speaker 2: can see you.
19:10
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:10
Speaker 2: Me and Leill talk pretty often about that stuff. You know,
19:14
Speaker 2: I've been with him for the past seven years. Our
19:16
Speaker 2: wives are close. Uh, and I mean the moments yesterday
19:20
Speaker 2: we were just talking like, dude, this is incredible.
19:23
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be doing it with you.
19:26
Speaker 2: You know, we from the jump in in New York
19:30
Speaker 2: just had a love for each other, uh and appreciation
19:32
Speaker 2: for each other. And to carry that on so many
19:34
Speaker 2: years later, it's pretty cool things have happened.
19:36
Speaker 1: People got we've gotten.
19:37
Speaker 2: Married, h kids on the way, the whole, the whole deal.
19:42
Speaker 2: And I think with all that, like we're ready for
19:44
Speaker 2: this moment. I think it's been waiting for us.
19:49
Speaker 1: The giant.
19:50
Speaker 2: You know, I thought I would at least been a
19:54
Speaker 2: few years longer. Uh you know, I had at one point,
19:58
Speaker 2: and there's extension talk, but there's the values I didn't online.
20:02
Speaker 2: I saw myself in a tier slightly above where they
20:05
Speaker 2: had me, and so those kind of just a betting
20:06
Speaker 2: on yourself type of thing. I have a lot of
20:09
Speaker 2: love for people in the organization, you know, you know
20:13
Speaker 2: missus Marra, this is it's top class organization. So a
20:17
Speaker 2: lot of love and appreciation, a lot of texts in
20:18
Speaker 2: recent weeks from a lot of people in that building.
20:22
Speaker 2: But I I love where I'm at.
20:27
Speaker 1: Mm hm hm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a tale
20:36
Speaker 1: of two cities for sure. For me, I don't know,
20:39
Speaker 1: it's tough.
20:40
Speaker 2: I I I think that's the appreciation that me and
20:42
Speaker 2: Leo kind of have is like we know what.
20:44
Speaker 1: It's been like. Uh, it's tough.
20:46
Speaker 2: It's affects your mental effects, maybe your your you know,
20:49
Speaker 2: your your personal life, outside the game, Losing is on
20:52
Speaker 2: fund especially if your competitor. And so we you know
20:54
Speaker 2: a few of those guys that are still over there
20:57
Speaker 2: on the team like, yeah, it's just it's not a
21:00
Speaker 2: fun place.
21:01
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I'm grateful. Yeah.
21:03
Speaker 2: One more in New York.
21:10
Speaker 1: Yeah Seattle. Yeah.
21:20
Speaker 2: Oh we love New York and my wife and I
21:22
Speaker 2: we love New York. We love New Jersey. We've stayed
21:24
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Obviously we loved it. The food, the people,
21:27
Speaker 2: everything was you know, it had a little bit of
21:28
Speaker 2: a grit to it that we there's a little custom
21:31
Speaker 2: to Chicago.
21:31
Speaker 1: See but like in terms of life, like everything, you can.
21:35
Speaker 2: Go out to Seattle aligne for us, well, were having
21:39
Speaker 2: our baby and like having a baby, it just allowed
21:41
Speaker 2: us to be more I don't know, in tune with
21:44
Speaker 2: you know we had going on and now we have
21:45
Speaker 2: another one on the way. It's allows us to kind
21:48
Speaker 2: of you know, just breathe. It seems like Seattle is beautiful. Uh,
21:52
Speaker 2: it's slower, and the fans are so good. The community
21:57
Speaker 2: they go all out for for the Seahawks of the
21:59
Speaker 2: Marine is for a storm for whatever. It is a
22:02
Speaker 2: great sports sound and so timing just I think the
22:04
Speaker 2: line for what we were doing. Yeah, I got you next.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah defens. Wow, that's pretty cool.
22:21
Speaker 2: I you know, I love playing for for Mike from
22:24
Speaker 2: the jump.
22:25
Speaker 1: There's no one he doesn't.
22:26
Speaker 2: We bought into what he was selling immediately and it
22:30
Speaker 2: took just one moment of cutting on the tape. He
22:35
Speaker 2: is second to none when it comes to knowing football.
22:37
Speaker 2: That's evident. You guys have talked to him. You guys
22:39
Speaker 2: know what he does. He he coaches.
22:42
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he he lays it out as very
22:43
Speaker 1: much black and white. He leaves no room for gray.
22:46
Speaker 2: If you ask him a question, if he doesn't know it,
22:48
Speaker 2: he'll like get back to you in a minute after
22:50
Speaker 2: just thinking about it a little bit more. Everything about
22:53
Speaker 2: having him as our defensive play color. It is why
22:56
Speaker 2: we're so successful. Uh, It's directly tied to who he is.
22:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, following themselves out.
23:05
Speaker 1: No, I don't think I was in No, No, I
23:12
Speaker 1: don't think I was in that specific one.
23:14
Speaker 2: But it's like a weekly thing. I think the base
23:16
Speaker 2: of this team is like a foundly ship of love
23:18
Speaker 2: for real. But with that you can be accountable to
23:21
Speaker 2: each other. You could like say, when things aren't right,
23:24
Speaker 2: and Mike is the first one to say if a
23:26
Speaker 2: call was a bad call was like, I shouldn't put
23:28
Speaker 2: you guys in the position, And he really means it.
23:30
Speaker 2: You know, some people just kind of try to save
23:33
Speaker 2: their face, Mike, isn't that.
23:37
Speaker 1: Drake May I think he can make all the throws.
23:39
Speaker 2: Uh, he make all the reads. He's communicating to the
23:41
Speaker 2: line in terms of protections. But then when all that fails, Uh.
23:46
Speaker 1: He can operate off script.
23:47
Speaker 2: You see him with a lot of success with his
23:49
Speaker 2: legs still looking downfield, making plays and burning people.
23:53
Speaker 1: And so it's gonna complete. Uh. Rush is one type
23:56
Speaker 1: of game versus him. Uh. And then in secondary we
23:58
Speaker 1: just got to do what we do and try to
23:59
Speaker 1: cover but we can. Ye take a lot of questions
24:03
Speaker 1: about your roots for Mexico City, Okay, sure, something about
24:08
Speaker 1: your roots importance, Like, I mean, you have the best
24:11
Speaker 1: of three.
24:13
Speaker 2: I was blessed at birth, let's say that to be
24:18
Speaker 2: my my dad's Black, my mom's Mexican and Cuban and
24:20
Speaker 2: so one. We just had good food all the time
24:23
Speaker 2: growing up. Maa she was a great cook. We lived
24:26
Speaker 2: right by her.
24:27
Speaker 1: My grandma Memphis and see my my black grandmother.
24:31
Speaker 2: Uh, she cooked a whole different the style, delicious food,
24:35
Speaker 2: and so I have a lot of Probably I think
24:36
Speaker 2: food is one thing.
24:37
Speaker 1: But then just culture.
24:38
Speaker 2: We were always dancing, We're always you know, hugging each other,
24:41
Speaker 2: showing love. I think in the Hispanic culture is just
24:44
Speaker 2: you express love very openly.
24:47
Speaker 1: That's my mom. Uh, She's crying at every little thing.
24:51
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I think just growing up in that,
24:54
Speaker 2: growing up in that part of Chicago, especially kind of
24:56
Speaker 2: the Humble Park Logan Square area, it means a lot.
25:00
Speaker 1: Uh do you like the best I mean, like food, music,
25:03
Speaker 1: something like that that connects you to your roots. Uh.
25:06
Speaker 2: Well, my my favorite meal, my only thought was panadas.
25:09
Speaker 2: It's not a Cuban or Mexican, but she made it
25:12
Speaker 2: was it was their mind, like if she was making
25:14
Speaker 2: it, it was for me directly.
25:15
Speaker 1: Uh.
25:15
Speaker 2: She made a good rope via uh. And then just
25:18
Speaker 2: anything my mom My mom had a great bread at seak.
25:20
Speaker 2: And so I think food was love, especially in the
25:22
Speaker 2: Hispanic culture, especially Mexican culture.
25:25
Speaker 1: Uh.
25:25
Speaker 2: And that's how it was expressed a Tamali's on Christmas
25:28
Speaker 2: as Yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, Uh, I'm here,
25:33
Speaker 2: I'm representing. There's a few of us on the team Uh,
25:36
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's part of me. I'm happy to
25:38
Speaker 2: to represent such a such a powerful part of this world.
25:43
Speaker 2: Yeah you have, Yeah, you guys feel.
25:49
Speaker 1: Like it's pretty cool. I think this is becoming an
25:55
Speaker 1: international sport.
25:56
Speaker 2: It wasn't maybe you know, twenty years ago, and just
25:59
Speaker 2: have a small part part of that is pretty cool.
26:01
Speaker 2: I was talking to my grandfather ma uh this this week,
26:04
Speaker 2: and he just expressed how.
26:05
Speaker 1: Proud he was, especially coming from Mexico.
26:09
Speaker 2: You know, he couldn't even imagine like his grandson playing
26:13
Speaker 2: in Super Bowl, and so, I don't know, it's a
26:15
Speaker 2: it's a lot of love, it's a lot of pride,
26:17
Speaker 2: and yeah, I think it's exciting going back to Mexico City.
26:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.
26:23
Speaker 2: When you see also what teams are doing with the Spanish.
26:29
Speaker 1: Yeah means feel good his representation.
26:32
Speaker 2: I think everybody should be seen and heard, especially uh uh,
26:37
Speaker 2: the Hispanic parts of this world. And so I'm happy
26:39
Speaker 2: that the NFL is going a little international.
26:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, three and four just read it, okay, c
26:52
Speaker 1: P this gasta. Oh yeah, I hope I wasn't saying
27:02
Speaker 1: anything bad. Okay, cool. I like more so number three.
27:09
Speaker 1: I like theav Theater. That's a vibe again.
27:18
Speaker 2: Next World Cup, Oh gosh, I don't I don't watch
27:22
Speaker 2: too much football or soccer, so I can't have an
27:25
Speaker 2: educated guess on that. We'll just say us, I don't know.
27:30
Speaker 2: They probably won't win. Uh, but I don't know. I
27:32
Speaker 2: don't have any guess on that.
27:35
Speaker 4: With the with the rise of sports betting and fantasy sports,
27:38
Speaker 4: a lot of time, Spanish treat athletes like commodities. What's
27:41
Speaker 4: one of the things that the media could do to help,
27:44
Speaker 4: you know, limit that.
27:46
Speaker 1: I don't know.
27:46
Speaker 2: I think the sports betting stuff is a little dicey.
27:49
Speaker 2: I don't gamble myself.
27:52
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think everyone's making money off a lot.
27:55
Speaker 2: Of things, and it's good. It's good for the sport's good.
27:58
Speaker 2: You know, players are getting paid and all that stuff.
27:59
Speaker 2: But I think there's need to be a little things
28:02
Speaker 2: need to be more black and white for accessibility for
28:05
Speaker 2: that stuff.
28:05
Speaker 4: And then if you had to build an all time which.
28:08
Speaker 2: Player that's a great question all time DV room. Uh,
28:13
Speaker 2: I'll go Ronnie Lott, I'll go Ed Reid, I'll go
28:19
Speaker 2: I'll go Peanut Tillman. That's a favorite of mine. Other side,
28:24
Speaker 2: I'll go hmmm, I don't want to get this right. Uh,
28:31
Speaker 2: I'll go Patrick Peterson other side, and then the slot,
28:36
Speaker 2: I'll go Devin Witherspoon.
28:38
Speaker 1: I'll go one to my one of my guys.
28:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys were here the conversation this year.
29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the game after the bye week last
29:02
Speaker 2: week or last year. It was really the game before
29:05
Speaker 2: the Bible we played the Rams where he you know,
29:07
Speaker 2: we kind of we played a great game, and then
29:09
Speaker 2: before the bye Mike said, listen, I have I have
29:12
Speaker 2: a vision for us. What if when we get back,
29:15
Speaker 2: where is the best defense in the league. It was
29:17
Speaker 2: very matter of fact, like like forget everything that happened
29:20
Speaker 2: up to this point. We were figuring things out, figuring
29:22
Speaker 2: out each other, but going forward, can we be the
29:24
Speaker 2: best in the league? And now started from last year,
29:27
Speaker 2: So that second half of last year you saw that,
29:29
Speaker 2: and then that carried over into the work and the
29:31
Speaker 2: process of this offseason, and it carried over into this season.
29:34
Speaker 1: And so seriously that's how he said.
29:36
Speaker 2: It, like what if we saw were the best best
29:39
Speaker 2: defense in the league? Yeah, time, yeah, or this was big.
29:46
Speaker 2: I think it was more so like just knowing who
29:48
Speaker 2: we were. I think Mike calls plays but I think
29:50
Speaker 2: when you find out who who you have in the room,
29:53
Speaker 2: you can carry things more to them.
29:55
Speaker 1: And so I think it was just a sense of understanding.
29:56
Speaker 2: Like we were winning some games early the last season
29:58
Speaker 2: that like we were kind of just off of pure talent,
30:01
Speaker 2: but now kind of the process of how we win
30:03
Speaker 2: it is just way more refined. Yeah, my grandpa will
30:08
Speaker 2: not be here Sunday.
30:09
Speaker 7: Uh.
30:10
Speaker 2: He uh struggles a little bit to get around and
30:13
Speaker 2: so uh he's gonna be.
30:15
Speaker 1: Watching uh in Chicago. Yeah, yeah, say it one more time. Reset.
30:22
Speaker 1: I think when I.
30:24
Speaker 2: First had a kid, my son, Uh, it gave me
30:27
Speaker 2: a whole different perspective on football. Work is work, and
30:30
Speaker 2: everything out side of that is, you know, my life
30:33
Speaker 2: is who I am and uh, you know my family
30:36
Speaker 2: is a big part of that. And so whenever I'm
30:38
Speaker 2: driving home, it says a bad day, good day, whatever.
30:41
Speaker 2: You take a second, you know in the garage, and
30:43
Speaker 2: as soon as you go out the car, my son
30:45
Speaker 2: doesn't care if I had a good day or bad day.
30:47
Speaker 1: He just wants me there and to play with him. Uh.
30:49
Speaker 2: And so that's when you have that kind of like
30:51
Speaker 2: kid like focus. Nothing's ever as bad or as good
30:55
Speaker 2: as it is, or as it seems. I get home,
30:58
Speaker 2: I walk through that door, and he's gonna smile and
31:00
Speaker 2: say Dad, And that's the best feeling in the world. Yeah,
31:05
Speaker 2: we let Mexico. I appreciate you guys. Of course, I've
31:09
Speaker 2: seen that googled.
31:11
Speaker 1: That's a great question. Well, honestly, probably it was.
31:17
Speaker 2: I was trying to find because I just still want
31:19
Speaker 2: to be singing some bad bunny and not fully know
31:21
Speaker 2: what it means. So I think googled some lyrics. I
31:23
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, way home, what does this actually mean? Uh, yeah,
31:26
Speaker 2: that's some bad Bunny lyrics translation.
31:32
Speaker 1: I think I think he's going in a lot of ways.
31:35
Speaker 2: I think this rookie year man it to be, especially
31:38
Speaker 2: when you're on week twenty three or whatever week we're on.
31:41
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing he's going is his patience
31:43
Speaker 2: and just kind of consistency, you know. I think he's
31:45
Speaker 2: learned that you can't be too high or low from
31:48
Speaker 2: practice to game to whatever.
31:51
Speaker 1: And he's good leaders around him.
31:52
Speaker 2: He as me, he has a bunch of guys that
31:53
Speaker 2: I help him, gude him through that and basically reinforce
31:57
Speaker 2: the idea of competitive stamina for him, Like can you
32:00
Speaker 2: go longer than the other person, especially.
32:02
Speaker 1: This late in the season. Versatility, it's it's everything. He
32:07
Speaker 1: could be everything for us.
32:08
Speaker 2: He could play on all fronts, uh, the D line,
32:11
Speaker 2: the linebacker level or dB.
32:13
Speaker 1: Of course, he is a special talent.
32:17
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a premier player in this league for
32:19
Speaker 2: a long time for you and your era.
32:24
Speaker 1: What is the meaning of Colin Colin Kaepernick?
32:27
Speaker 7: Oh?
32:27
Speaker 2: Wow, I think it's bigger than football. I think it's
32:31
Speaker 2: a legacy of standing on what you believe in and
32:36
Speaker 2: I don't know, just being just unapologetic about it.
32:39
Speaker 1: I think it goes.
32:40
Speaker 2: Along with his message, but it goes along with a
32:42
Speaker 2: lot of things are going on today and he obviously,
32:46
Speaker 2: you know, he had to do it alone a lot
32:48
Speaker 2: of the time. I was probably in high school when
32:50
Speaker 2: that was all stuff was going on. But it's prevalent
32:54
Speaker 2: now as it was back then to like what's going
32:59
Speaker 2: on under Yeah, I would imagine. So, I think it's
33:03
Speaker 2: become a little bit more okay to do so. I
33:04
Speaker 2: don't think it's making as big of a story as
33:06
Speaker 2: it did with Kaepernick, but yeah, I think people stand
33:09
Speaker 2: on what they believe in and and they're pretty open
33:12
Speaker 2: about it.
33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, you're good.
33:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm extremely proud.
33:32
Speaker 1: You know.
33:32
Speaker 2: For me, I understand kind of the weight of it all,
33:35
Speaker 2: especially on this stage. But to me, I just think
33:37
Speaker 2: of like my ma Maalita is love for me. I
33:41
Speaker 2: think my mom's love for me, uh and the culture
33:44
Speaker 2: that I was.
33:44
Speaker 1: I was.
33:44
Speaker 2: I was raised in my godmother's Puerto Rican So like everything,
33:48
Speaker 2: I'm hitting all the little touching points, but for me,
33:50
Speaker 2: it's just there. You know, they're their maximum love for
33:55
Speaker 2: me growing up and they raised me the right way.
33:57
Speaker 2: And to be on this stage is direct related to
34:00
Speaker 2: how you know they were uh as as role models.
34:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, something that you received maybe in high school for teacher,
34:10
Speaker 7: counsel or coach.
34:13
Speaker 1: In high school. Mm hmm in high school mm hmmm.
34:20
Speaker 1: I don't know.
34:20
Speaker 2: I think I learned. I don't know if it was
34:23
Speaker 2: a piece of advice just to be myself. That's a
34:27
Speaker 2: very developmental age for for people. I know who I
34:30
Speaker 2: was at that point for sure, But I knew as
34:33
Speaker 2: I was transitioning from high school, like Okay, I be myself.
34:36
Speaker 2: People like it, they like if they don't whatever, And
34:39
Speaker 2: so I was able to learn that before I got
34:41
Speaker 2: into this kind of crazy life that I'm in. Yeah,
34:46
Speaker 2: that's when loveybody, good game.
34:49
Speaker 1: It is as simple as that.
34:50
Speaker 2: I think I don't know a quarterback to get so
34:53
Speaker 2: much line or it's so much like eyes on him,
34:55
Speaker 2: like he's just another teammate, Like no one's is as
34:58
Speaker 2: important as the person next to us, and so it's love.
35:02
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, good job the way to dice them up.
35:06
Speaker 1: Let's do it again, same time and in two weeks.
35:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, familiar they wanted to.
35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this was kind of weird.
35:26
Speaker 2: Obviously, we played them and we had to buy because
35:27
Speaker 2: we won the division, then played them again, and so
35:29
Speaker 2: it was pretty much three weeks, you know, almost a
35:31
Speaker 2: month of like Niners prep and like just like knowing
35:34
Speaker 2: what they were going on.
35:36
Speaker 1: And I think scheme wise is whatever.
35:37
Speaker 2: I think Shanahan's an incredible coach, incredible play caller.
35:41
Speaker 1: Our guys is as well. I think that's a story
35:44
Speaker 1: for sure.
35:44
Speaker 2: But in terms of people in the matchups, I think
35:47
Speaker 2: we felt really good about who we had, especially on
35:49
Speaker 2: defense matching up with their offense.
35:51
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Kitto got hurt. That was a bummer. I respect
35:55
Speaker 1: the hell out of him in his play.
35:56
Speaker 2: Style and so then you're by Shep with these guys,
35:59
Speaker 2: and on the we felt good, so like actually and
36:01
Speaker 2: those wise we knew we couldn't allow certain things to
36:03
Speaker 2: happen other than that, it's it's like Willigan's will.
36:05
Speaker 1: And then we felt good going into that second game. Yeah, Hey,
36:08
Speaker 1: what's your biggest financial flex? I asked Chris Jones this
36:11
Speaker 1: last year. I don't know if you've seen the video,
36:13
Speaker 1: no what he said? He said he has the fifty
36:16
Speaker 1: attack the Tiffany watch other guys. My gosh, you know
36:21
Speaker 1: I still go to save money.
36:23
Speaker 2: So it could be like either extreme, But what would
36:25
Speaker 2: you say, something creative your financial philosophy?
36:29
Speaker 1: What's your biggest financial flex My biggest financial flex?
36:31
Speaker 2: I have no single flex piece financially, but I would say, uh,
36:36
Speaker 2: we were pretty aggressive in the market. I would say,
36:38
Speaker 2: because you know a lot of people. If you're making
36:41
Speaker 2: all your money in the league, it's a short time.
36:43
Speaker 2: You might want to be conservative to let that last for
36:45
Speaker 2: your lifetime. But I I'm banking on and hoping that
36:48
Speaker 2: I can have a job after the league and continue
36:50
Speaker 2: to make some money.
36:52
Speaker 1: So we just we say aggressive.
36:53
Speaker 2: I think I got money at a good point right
36:56
Speaker 2: before covid.
36:57
Speaker 1: Uh, so I had some cash on hand. And if
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Speaker 1: you had cash in that time, U.
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Speaker 2: Not associated to anything, you were able to kind of
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Speaker 2: double tap and get into the market at a good time.
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Speaker 1: And so timing yeah, portfolio for sure.
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Speaker 2: Uh you know, like what your return is or like something?
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Speaker 2: Oh oh specific? Oh perfect, Well I'm going to specifics.
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Speaker 2: But I got into in Vidio at a low in covid.
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Speaker 1: Uh. And video Yeah, Video to the Moon. I love
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Speaker 1: that company. You grew up a die hard fan of
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Speaker 1: No die hard, but I was a big Ravens fan
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Speaker 1: throughout kind of my teenage years. Go to college?
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Speaker 2: Wait, I know this, well, how do I feel like
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Speaker 2: he went to a smart school.
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Speaker 1: In the best state? Is he Princeton? Guys? No? Oh Delaware?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Delaware, delare I just know who's a Blue Hen?
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I just know a few Blue Hens. There's
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Speaker 2: been a few in the league.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And then you've been studying the last one,
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Speaker 1: h you guys? Yeah, what's your favorite bad By song?
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Speaker 2: I like TAKITHI that came out a few years ago,
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Speaker 2: his new album. I like d T M F I
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Speaker 2: Masked like the main song. I like, uh, your Dream performer,
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Speaker 2: time dream performer, Uh, dream performer.
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Speaker 1: I'm a J Cole fan, so probably J Cole be good.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 2: No, I like Bad Bunny Dream performer, though I probably
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Speaker 2: do J Cole all time. I'd love to see Prince live, obviously,
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Speaker 2: I could watch as many YouTube replays. Uh, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'll say that, yeah, thank you, Yeah, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think in the building we've had a constant belief
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Speaker 2: in who we are and how we operate.
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Speaker 1: I think just the leaf to the outside world has
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Speaker 1: this got bigger each week.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's what makes the team specials Like
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Speaker 2: we I don't know, we we keep it in house
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Speaker 2: and we don't we maybe call it ignorance, call it confidence, whatever,
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Speaker 2: but from the jump, we just believed in who.
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Speaker 1: We had that You guys, what's it like?
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Speaker 2: Can you put into words what it's like to stand
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Speaker 2: on a big defensive play in your home stadium with
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Speaker 2: the noise your fans make?
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Speaker 1: Like what?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, player at Lumen is a challenge if you're on
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Speaker 2: defense because the fans are so loud. But it's special,
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Speaker 2: it's cool, it's cool to be a part of. It's
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Speaker 2: like the whole place is shaking, and so yeah, it's exciting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got.
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Speaker 3: You the specifically.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do these last few. I'll do these last few.
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Speaker 1: Are Chris right. I would say I was shout at
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Speaker 1: a few guys.
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Speaker 2: I think I had a few mentors and role models
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Speaker 2: that were crucial to me. I think of Michael Thomas
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Speaker 2: my time in New York. Nate was a guy foreign
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Speaker 2: patriot form. I played with him with the Giants. I
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Speaker 2: think of Logan Ryan Gibil Peppers. I think of Quandary Diggs,
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Speaker 2: he's on a team with us now. I had a
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Speaker 2: lot of guys that I ran with and I played
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Speaker 2: with that just gave me some good pieces of knowledge
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Speaker 2: and then so I was able to get a good
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Speaker 2: picture of it all.
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