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Abraham Lucas: "We're Going To Be Elite At The Basics" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, how did uh an off season not having to
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  Speaker 1: do rehab work all the time feel for you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if it felt like any
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  Speaker 2: particular type of way. It was just work, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was just different type of work.
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  Speaker 3: So I've time we talked to you said you played
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  Speaker 3: you had last year? Kind of want a flat tire? Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you feel like it's uh played again?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what are the differences?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, new offense, there's so much goes into it.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's early, but what's some of the differences
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  Speaker 4: You've noticed that this new offense is opposed to it
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  Speaker 4: flat it before?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's entirely new, so pretty much everything. What's been
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  Speaker 2: like so.
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  Speaker 3: Our getting to know coach Ben? And then, uh, how
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  Speaker 3: how does he differ because of the flying coaches.
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  Speaker 2: That you've had would have? Uh? I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: the first thing that sticks out is experience obviously. I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's been everywhere coaching a lot of people, so
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  Speaker 2: merely that's the main thing. You know, It's just a
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  Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge, So I'm looking forward to learning from
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  Speaker 2: him more.
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  Speaker 3: I the the outside zone stuff, I'm sure you've done
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  Speaker 3: it before.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like there's more of an emphasis on it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I do you like that?
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  Speaker 2: And how's that going? I mean, I don't have a choice,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you put a lot of time into training.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't train with any of the other guys on
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  Speaker 3: the line. And and what are your initial impressions of
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  Speaker 3: Christian Ains and Anthony Bradford play next team? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, trained with U Satawa and it's specifically in the
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  Speaker 2: weight room in the off season, and Christian and a
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  Speaker 2: beer growing there. I mean they're young, obviously, but they're growing,
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  Speaker 2: picking it up and they're doing really well. So it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: What made you want to start the business.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of this year because I like to lift weights?
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  Speaker 2: I mean nothing really other than that, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of a passion. So it's a good question. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I guess it just kind of came about naturally.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I didn't always used to love it, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, when I got to college, I really started
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  Speaker 2: to like it.
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  Speaker 3: So you're entering the final year of your deal.
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  Speaker 4: H have you are your representative talked about maybe getting
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  Speaker 4: something to Devil before and season making the deal?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't really know too much about how
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  Speaker 2: that process works. I'm just trying to, you know, learn
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  Speaker 2: as much as I can in the offense so I
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  Speaker 2: can be you know, crystal clear on it and confident
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  Speaker 2: in it. Going into the season this year.
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  Speaker 1: Gray had told us that you guys have worked out
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  Speaker 1: together when you're process this summer and getting no impact
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  Speaker 1: then and seen him coming him that was kind.
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  Speaker 2: You're really possible now. Uh. I think he's got all
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  Speaker 2: the potential to be a really good player. I mean
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  Speaker 2: from what I'd noticed. I mean, I didn't work out
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  Speaker 2: with him too too much. He was just at the
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  Speaker 2: same agency, so he was only there for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. But he just seemed like a guy who
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't say too much, just was trying
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  Speaker 2: to put his head down and work as much as possible.
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  Speaker 3: What are you, Sam Darnold kind of what's your first
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  Speaker 3: impression of him?
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  Speaker 2: Been working with him and how he can answer how
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  Speaker 2: to look a lot?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my first impression was in twenty seventeen when he
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  Speaker 2: was at USC and we beat him in Pullman. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm Sam's a bright guy obviously coming off a
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  Speaker 2: really good year, great quarterback. I'm looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: what he can do and how he's gonna lead you.
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  Speaker 3: Got on fine to leave this game the healthy estab
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  Speaker 3: you say that peminality to find what do you have
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Just downhill, running off the ball, establishing the run? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know he had a lot of criticism for that.
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  Speaker 2: So moving into this year, we're looking to really get
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  Speaker 2: after it in the run game, specifically to bring a.
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  Speaker 3: Full uh fullback as a full to point back into
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  Speaker 3: this this offense.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that that can do for you
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  Speaker 1: guys in that in that.
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  Speaker 3: Areas and building the run knee and our offense.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of features them. I mean, I think it when
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  Speaker 2: you bring a fullback in, it's kind of like establishes
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  Speaker 2: that the run game is a cornerstone to your offense,
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  Speaker 2: not just kind of an optional thing, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: mean fullbacks are primarily blocking back, so looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: see what they can do in this offense as well.
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  Speaker 3: Would you say you're a hundred percent hoping out the
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  Speaker 3: knee and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody's ever really a hundred percent healthy,
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  Speaker 2: So I mean I'm playing you know that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: good sign.
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  Speaker 3: I can't really you know what you impression of the
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  Speaker 3: new offensive line coaches, you know, Ben and Dennison.
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  Speaker 2: All those guys say that again, what are you?
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  Speaker 3: What your pressure is? The new offensive line coaches, Ben
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  Speaker 3: and Dennison.
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  Speaker 2: All those guys. Uh, I mean, like I said, they're
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  Speaker 2: super smart, super I mean, obviously I have more experience
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  Speaker 2: than me, so I'd be dumb not to listen to them.
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  Speaker 2: But I you know, I'm I'm really looking forward to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, continuing to learn from them about like how
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  Speaker 2: I can continue to improve and get better.
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  Speaker 4: With the relative health you had this offseason, how far
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  Speaker 4: ahead are you now that you normal? I'd say that again,
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  Speaker 4: but your relative healthy off season? How far ahead are
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  Speaker 4: you right now at this stage as opposed to like
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  Speaker 4: last year?
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  Speaker 2: Probably like night and day? Yeah, no, I mean it
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  Speaker 2: helps when you're not in a brace and you can
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  Speaker 2: actually walk without crutches. So I mean, and you guys
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  Speaker 2: have seen I mean I post on social media me
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  Speaker 2: lifting and stuff like that. It sends everybody into a frenzy,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is kind of funny. But I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: good work, so I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: Are are you heavier, lighter or anything than you were
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  Speaker 3: last year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm three twenty five. I saw that too. You know
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  Speaker 2: everybody thought it was like two, I'm three twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: rest assuredly, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: A good Are there things about this offense, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: plus shotgun or running the ball, they.
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  Speaker 3: Get kind of take some pressure off you, guys, make
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  Speaker 3: much easier.
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  Speaker 2: On your offense more. Uh, not really? And when I
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  Speaker 2: say not really, I just mean cause that I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the pressure's ever really offer you
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  Speaker 2: as an offensive lineman, cause you're, you know, the first
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  Speaker 2: line of really attack. So no no pressure, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: I mean in terms of, like in past protection, they
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  Speaker 3: make at f.
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  Speaker 4: Easier on the guys.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it depends on how you look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, anytime you're not in the one on one,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be easier. But that's every offense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and some people put tackles on islands more and so
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  Speaker 2: I mean it just depends on the look.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many rollouts, how does that change protection for you?
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  Speaker 4: Say that again, having so many rollouts in this offensive
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  Speaker 4: quarterback on the move, how does that change protection for you?
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  Speaker 2: I guess just the technique changes. I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's not anything super expert, like any extra challenge. It
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  Speaker 2: just you know, you coach the technique, do the technique.
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  Speaker 2: So you kind of refer to the criticism you guys
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  Speaker 2: get on the offensive line. Is that I mean, is that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that like a chip on your shoulder kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing if you guys at the end of this year
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  Speaker 2: at all or not? Really, the only criticism I really
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  Speaker 2: am concerned about is the stuff that's in this building. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody has an opinion. I have an opinion
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of things. That doesn't mean it matters,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: So how could do you think this offensive line could
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  Speaker 3: be this year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Like, however good we want to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we have the right coaching, the right tools. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the identity has definitely changed from last year to this year.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean it's just as it's on us as
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  Speaker 2: far as we want to take it.
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  Speaker 3: How is the identity change?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're just more so I'm thinking our with
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  Speaker 2: an I we're with when you get a new staff in,
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, everybody wants to run the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but when it kind of you come in and it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a non negotiable, like we're running the ball,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? We put a fullback in
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  Speaker 2: the backfield. Like we're you know, like we're changing it up,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing things differently. You know. It's it's like an
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  Speaker 2: old school mentality with a new school principal sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely just looking forward to getting after that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that might be the biggest difference for
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  Speaker 4: you guys with the run game coming the last couple
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  Speaker 4: of years, is maybe just general.
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  Speaker 3: Commitment to it rather than well, it's something you just
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  Speaker 3: have some balance on all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I would just say, or I guess I'll put it
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  Speaker 2: like this, like we're trying to be elite at very
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  Speaker 2: few things. But those few things are you know, what
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  Speaker 2: the offense is gonna be based around, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: run game. You know, we're gonna be elite at the
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  Speaker 2: run game. Like that's the philosophy with it. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not some you know, hodgepodge of just a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of different stuff we're just throwing in, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, We're gonna be elite at the basics and
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  Speaker 2: make sure that they work so we could do it
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  Speaker 2: against anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously receivers, running backs, you know, quarterbacks got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of pub a lot of flashy plays. What's
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  Speaker 3: a play that you loved an offense the blinman, a
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  Speaker 3: play that offensive lineman can make that stands out that
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  Speaker 3: you love to make.
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  Speaker 2: Scoring for one, Well, if I did score, that would
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  Speaker 2: be pretty cool, but that'll never happen. Uh, Like pancake blocks,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty cool. When you pass off
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  Speaker 2: a twist in pass game, that's pretty cool. When and
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  Speaker 2: when everybody on the O line kind of executes perfectly,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty awesome, just because it's like a well oiled
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  Speaker 2: machine kind of all coming together and working. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what the game's all about, you know. It's it's when
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  Speaker 2: you can see that it's kind of like an art form.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you look at it and you're like, nah,
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  Speaker 2: this is art. This is a good, good thing beyond
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  Speaker 2: the physical part. Is how tough as the last couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Years did.
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You just mean like mentally or obviously I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to play, but you know, there's an unfortunately, and fortunately
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  Speaker 2: there's things in life you can't really control. So it's
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  Speaker 2: just up to you on kind of how you want
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  Speaker 2: to respond. You know, I took precautions to not let
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  Speaker 2: things get to my head. It's part of the reason
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  Speaker 2: why I don't have a Twitter, because I don't need
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  Speaker 2: to deal with all that crap. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I just it's like, Okay, I got I had surgery,
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  Speaker 2: so now we're gonna get after the rehab and we're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna get back to getting right, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: things take a while to heal, depending on what you injure.
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  Speaker 2: So it was tough. But you know, I'm still walking.
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  Speaker 2: It's not amputated or anything, you know, So anything else
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  Speaker 2: ask thanks, sure, yeah, thanks, thanks, thank you us