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Eric Saubert: "I'm Open To Any Role Given To Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't met a lot of you guys yet,
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  Speaker 1: but Eric, so I going to meet you guys. Formerly,
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  Speaker 1: what do you see you want on the team? I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've been in a lot of places where
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  Speaker 1: the role is kind of similar, but uh really like
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  Speaker 1: accepting like a veteran presence in the tight end room
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  Speaker 1: and you know, role model, leadership role for them, and
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  Speaker 1: then on top of that, you know, contributing in any
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  Speaker 1: way I can, whether it be in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: past game, special teams. It's like, you know, just being
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  Speaker 1: being really versatile and open to any role that is
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  Speaker 1: given to me. Similar How similar is this offense to
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  Speaker 1: what you reign in San Francisco? Obviously there's the ties
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  Speaker 1: between coach Cuban coach Shanahan, but not identical. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely. Uh, Clint's got a lot of his own
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  Speaker 1: little wrinkles in the offense that make it make it his.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of similarities, Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: predicated on outside z own is like the basis of
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  Speaker 1: what we do, you know, really stretching defenses and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, creating misdirection. It's it's a lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, Clinton is uh kind of we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of honing it in the playmakers we got and
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  Speaker 1: you know, things things looking good. The group of rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: second year guys. What do you see now that uh
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  Speaker 1: start with a ju kid just like wants to get
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  Speaker 1: better every single day. He loves the game of football.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's constantly looking for an edge, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: to improve his game. I love working with him because
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  Speaker 1: he's like, he's just so open and he's also a
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  Speaker 1: great player. I think he's gonna have a really great,
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  Speaker 1: great year and great career ahead of him. Two As
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  Speaker 1: far as Royal, seeing him develop has been really really cool.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's shown a lot of great things and
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't even like tapped his potential yet. We got
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  Speaker 1: a room just full of guys that that want to
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  Speaker 1: get better and love ball and want to help this team.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're when you got a room like that,
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  Speaker 1: everything is easy. You know, Well, we're heavily relied on
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  Speaker 1: to do a lot of things right. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of responsibilities. Are we gotta be on point
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  Speaker 1: in the run game as well as the past game.
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  Speaker 1: So when you when you have that role, you know
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you're you're catching a pass, You're you're
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  Speaker 1: contributing at the point of attack. You know, you're helping
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  Speaker 1: move the chains. When when you when you get the
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  Speaker 1: keeper game going right, it's it's, uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: look at what George can do in San Francisco running
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  Speaker 1: kind of them similar offense, and uh, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason we can't do the same with the guys
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  Speaker 1: we have anything else, guys, Thanks cool, Yeah, appreciate