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Aden Durde: "This Game Is About Playing Your Best In The Best Moments" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good to see it.
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  Speaker 2: Just love coaching football, love the guys, and just great
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  Speaker 2: to be back at it, back at it. It's funny
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  Speaker 2: how like sometimes you think it's like it like you
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  Speaker 2: take the year for like, Okay, we're back with the guys.
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  Speaker 2: But you can't miss a step. You have to you
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  Speaker 2: have to reset and you have to go again. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the beauty of like football in general,
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  Speaker 2: is that you get to.
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  Speaker 1: Restart, rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: You focus on the details and the fundamentals, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't get too far ahead or you can't miss steps.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I think we all love
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed doing.
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  Speaker 3: We sometimes about how when you have a competitions it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have to necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: Look just like it did last year. The players can
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  Speaker 1: dictate maybe you played all the days, how much do
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  Speaker 1: you like that last year?
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  Speaker 3: If the best of loving guys don't look like they
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  Speaker 3: did last year, it.
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  Speaker 2: Can kind of be I think it's the way you
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  Speaker 2: have to go. I think competition is everything. I think
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  Speaker 2: you if you lack that and you give things when
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  Speaker 2: they shouldn't be given, I think you're ultimately going against
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  Speaker 2: what you believe in. This game is about playing your
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  Speaker 2: best in the best moments, and I think as if
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  Speaker 2: people strive for that, and we've got great battles going
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  Speaker 2: on right now and people trying to play their best football,
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  Speaker 2: those things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to you have to give give opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: To the versatility of similar defensive facts. How much of
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  Speaker 3: that help when you different guy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 2: But I think what you have to see also is
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  Speaker 2: that this is what camp's for. So like you can
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  Speaker 2: think people are versatile, you can look at all these
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  Speaker 2: different ways, but some people are good in one spot.
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  Speaker 1: Some people can hand.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just their abilities, it's the it's the mental
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  Speaker 2: weight that goes with the game and seeing the game
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  Speaker 2: from different lenses, and some people are really good at that,
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  Speaker 2: and some people like being in certain spots.
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  Speaker 4: I think that an offense with the new coordinator would
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  Speaker 4: be a little slower to start. You might think an
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  Speaker 4: offense with the new coordinator might be a little slower
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  Speaker 4: to start camp, But it seems like the offensive playing
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  Speaker 4: pretty Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see from Bran like this? Because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of carryover.
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  Speaker 2: I think, like some of the tomolology is different, as
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  Speaker 2: I understand, but there's a lot of carryover. There's an
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  Speaker 2: understanding of how how the rules are targeting.
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  Speaker 1: But they're doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: They're details there and they're creating explosives. They're giving us
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  Speaker 2: problems at times, and I thought today was a great practice.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is what it is. It's it's goal
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  Speaker 2: is ongoing. I think ne and Maya is doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job. And I think as we go, you see
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  Speaker 2: who else shows up and just wait for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I think the game, the games, and when.
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  Speaker 2: We go against different people that that will really show itself.
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  Speaker 2: When we put pads on and you have to tackle
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  Speaker 2: and you have to play our style, we'll find out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's shown up a lot on early down football,
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  Speaker 2: coming up, hit in the run, doing some great things
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  Speaker 2: in man and I think he's shown some great things.
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  Speaker 1: It's just exciting to see him moving on. When you
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  Speaker 1: were in down, you know you're on the d line.
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  Speaker 1: But did he played the Cowboys, No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He played corner, But then when he went to Washington
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  Speaker 2: he played Nick in year one.
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  Speaker 1: Like so he's kind of like jumped around different spots.
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  Speaker 1: The same questions sort of been about the safety.
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  Speaker 5: He looks like we still see Tayl Conn that basically
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  Speaker 5: working with the wins the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Is that. Yeah, I think as you as we said,
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  Speaker 2: these are battles like ti Ty has been playing it
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  Speaker 2: from why wouldn't he carry on playing? And then Bud's
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  Speaker 2: got to compete for those spots, and AJ's got to
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  Speaker 2: compete for those spots. Rodney's got to compete for those spots.
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  Speaker 2: Max is doing a good job. I think you just
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  Speaker 2: this is what camp is for. People have to show
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  Speaker 2: themselves and show Like we talk about the FuG and
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  Speaker 2: like all the all the information that's on them right now,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of gets a bit misty for him, but
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  Speaker 2: like you're looking for the people that stand out in
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  Speaker 2: that situation.
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  Speaker 4: Riley Mills versus Mason Richmond a couple of times at
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  Speaker 4: the end of practice, what's it been like seeing Riley
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  Speaker 4: with the pull off season?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch Riley Mills for the rest of practice?
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  Speaker 1: He was dominating.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, I think Riley's doing a great job seeing
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  Speaker 2: seeing Riley stand up, and it's just like Riley's what
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  Speaker 2: it's about. He loves football, He trains for every day
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  Speaker 2: and he just he's always looking for improvements and he's
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  Speaker 2: doing great. It's just he's around great players too, and
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  Speaker 2: he's humble enough to learn off them, coaches said, and
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  Speaker 2: Byron has said he expected to be more active than
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  Speaker 2: the that's rushing. What do we see in his.
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  Speaker 5: Development or what he shout?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think something like Byron is an
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable player that can do that can play I think
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  Speaker 2: an elite level on every down and distance, and that's
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  Speaker 2: rare in the NFL. I think Jay Hines is doing
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable job like developing him over the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: Like you've seen, like he's an elite run defender. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to show this year that he
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  Speaker 2: got sacks and production last year, but he's going to
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  Speaker 2: show that he's an elite pass rusher too.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's doing a great job there. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure we talked to you what they signed.
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  Speaker 5: I said, you're gonna sign that Dante Fowler, he obviously
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  Speaker 5: said you were kind of a big part of that.
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  Speaker 5: Just just I guess what was your influence in that?
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen out of Dante for a long time?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I was in Atlanta and just just seeing talking
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  Speaker 2: to him, seeing where he's at. An opportunity arise and
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  Speaker 2: we talked, the team talked and it it kind of
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  Speaker 2: worked this time. So I think just giving an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting his feet now. He kind of flashed the
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  Speaker 2: day a few times and done a good job. But
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  Speaker 2: he's getting there.
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  Speaker 1: What is Zachary?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: To the to the unit, Zach order you back. He's
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  Speaker 1: done great.
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  Speaker 2: Like Zach has brought a lot, He's bought knowledge. I
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  Speaker 2: would say he sees this system like when this system's
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  Speaker 2: called or he's called this system before, you can do
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  Speaker 2: it lots of different ways. And seeing his his kind
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  Speaker 2: of view of things and how he called things is
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  Speaker 2: great for my learning, great for conversation and the defensive stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then at the core of it, Zach is a
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  Speaker 2: dog and he coaches like that. And these guys have
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  Speaker 2: been doing great this this camp.
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  Speaker 3: I asked you about some of the things Mike is
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  Speaker 3: doing to get you ready as a playballer and developed
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  Speaker 3: you in that area?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or do you feel like you are this year
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  Speaker 5: in that area compared?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just you move forwards like me and him
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  Speaker 2: work at that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He talks to me, He gives me pointers.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of like talks with me about things I've
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  Speaker 2: called why I've called him and we talk about that
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  Speaker 2: all the time. I do think that like from this
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  Speaker 2: time last year to.
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  Speaker 1: Where I'm now, I am ahead of where I was.
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  Speaker 2: I think, and that is just experience of doing the job,
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  Speaker 2: feeling more comfortable and kind of putting myself more in
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  Speaker 2: that role instead of like working with players.
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  Speaker 1: I've kind of stepped back a little bit and it's
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  Speaker 1: helped me.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing some of that in these game practices?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike's ability going back to Zach and then our supplying,
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  Speaker 3: Mike's ability to bring.
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  Speaker 5: In new coaches taking what they came.
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  Speaker 4: Can contribute, and also still keeping what he has in there.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it all comes down to MIC's on
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  Speaker 2: boarding process, like his ability to share with people what
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  Speaker 2: the expectations are to work on this in this organization
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  Speaker 2: from a coaching standpoint, is like clarity in that is
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  Speaker 2: is excellent, Like everyone understands not just what they're role is,
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  Speaker 2: but what what has expected them in the way of
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  Speaker 2: life and the way we do things around here. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, like you can you have to ask Brian,
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  Speaker 2: but what I've seen it's excellent.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are fire of those and rookies like you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Worried last year with all the information, all the different
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  Speaker 3: Now you seem.
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  Speaker 1: To do a little with that with cart What are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for?
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  Speaker 4: How they react?
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  Speaker 1: When do you know that? I think you just you
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  Speaker 1: have to give it time.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be patient, and you have to be
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  Speaker 2: okay with people making mistakes because, like you said, it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a crazy amount of information and they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you're looking for, like constantly make the same mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Then maybe they're weighed on too much with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of information. You might have to pull back or is
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  Speaker 2: it like new mistakes? Is it like just lack of
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  Speaker 2: understanding the situation they're in and and you kind of
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  Speaker 2: have to evaluate that and the person that has done
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  Speaker 2: the two people who have done a really good job
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  Speaker 2: over that in the last two years are cast got
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  Speaker 2: with the corners and the Nickels, and Jeff done a
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  Speaker 2: great job with Nick last year.
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  Speaker 1: Hell do you see where's Budd cargreenect? Yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. He's playing some dime, he's playing some
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  Speaker 1: he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: Some nickel times for us and safety, So like he
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  Speaker 2: has the same thing, but it's just like taking.
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  Speaker 1: It on and look how he operates in those situations.
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  Speaker 5: The Anthony Bill obviously he didn't lie of that last year,
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  Speaker 5: but him kind of doing that now with nick Ol.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a great job and he's part. Part
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  Speaker 2: of it is like learning because when you're playing the
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  Speaker 2: game at three different levels the lens at the speed
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  Speaker 2: of the game is different, Like because you get to
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  Speaker 2: the ball the faster the game is, you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of make some mistakes like technically technique wise, and other
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  Speaker 2: people can cover you make those mistakes on the back
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  Speaker 2: end and they can be touchdowns and it's like so
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  Speaker 2: just seeing the game from those different levels, like the
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  Speaker 2: guys are working with him, like Chris Partridge and Jeff
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  Speaker 2: On like how to work at different levels.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see it's going well right now, and you
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  Speaker 1: just I think as we go and I keep saying.
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  Speaker 2: It, but that's what the preseason games are for because
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  Speaker 2: they will show people tackling, they will show people getting
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  Speaker 2: on and off block.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm excited to see.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you feel so far about your.
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  Speaker 5: Julian out more for much of his time Dansby as
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  Speaker 5: well as Fuller, he was playing.
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  Speaker 2: Some inside Full has been playing some inside Dan's be's
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  Speaker 2: doing a good job. We haven't got to see Julian
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  Speaker 2: because he hasn't been out there last week.
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  Speaker 1: By like those two guys are good dance shows up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see him in PAD like he were
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  Speaker 2: in PAD today, but really tackling situations and then full
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  Speaker 2: of full of tough.
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  Speaker 1: He gets he gets stuck in.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a bit of weight on him because he's
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  Speaker 2: moving positions, but he's doing a good job.