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Mike Macdonald: "It Was A Great Rookie Camp" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great day man. I was really proud
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  Speaker 1: of the progress from day one to day day two,
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  Speaker 1: just as Spirit was there on their assignments. We're obviously
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  Speaker 1: gonna be chasing all the all the things, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was just I thought it was a great rookie
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  Speaker 1: camp overall, what an awesome start, and just proud of
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  Speaker 1: the jump that we made and we got some really
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  Speaker 1: cool players out there, so yeah, great start.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of challenge us this for you to kind of
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  Speaker 2: figure out what all these guys are doing with the
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  Speaker 2: kind of scrambled drill of getting your system up to
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  Speaker 2: speed in a day and a half and getting used
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  Speaker 2: to play alongside each other and everything, the challenges is
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  Speaker 2: kind of fliver. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys came in on Thursday, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have so much time to install some things. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't the first time we've done this,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not putting everything in, so it's uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a balance between you know, trying to stress them a
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  Speaker 1: little bit mentally, but really the thing that you're you're
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  Speaker 1: really looking forward to is having, you know, make it
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  Speaker 1: clear so the guys can go play fast and and
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  Speaker 1: go you know, try to be able to evaluate them.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you know, build a foundation for when they come back,
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  Speaker 1: and they have a kind of a working knowledge about
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  Speaker 1: how we roll.
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  Speaker 2: So I know, in situations like this it canna be
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  Speaker 2: hard to judge Lineman, probably, but you have three draft
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  Speaker 2: picks basically the betsive line there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get a bunch of a sense of those
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  Speaker 1: guys kind of through these couple of days. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just just being around them and understanding how they move
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  Speaker 1: and with Huff and Uh, you know, just being with
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  Speaker 1: those guys for for almost forty eight hours and it's
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  Speaker 1: just cool to get to know them a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's some things that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: working on for those guys, but you know, just like
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  Speaker 1: with everybody on the team, we're you know, we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of chasing those details and.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys come back and they're mixing them with the
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  Speaker 2: veterans proteats have just what's adjustment like for the rookies day.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy, it's not well, you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: vets have been here. You know, they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty hefty install onto their belts by the time
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  Speaker 1: these guys get there, so they'll be they'll be you know,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be getting caught up throughout the rest of the spring,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that's just that's the way the NFL is,
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  Speaker 1: and so uh, they'll just kind of dive in head first.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of rules now that well, I have
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  Speaker 1: extra time with rookies and things, so you know, I
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  Speaker 1: have plenty of time to get caught up. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we have a pretty cool program ready for him, and
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  Speaker 1: uh and uh, I'll be exciting for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Would you see in the quarterbacks these first couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of instruments, Well, it's good to see him complete some
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  Speaker 1: balls today, so that was good. I was a little
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  Speaker 1: upset we didn't take the ball away a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more on defense, so but you know they're right there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just, uh, I thought that threw the ball well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought getting to be able to operate the offense
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  Speaker 1: with the cadences, you know, we weren't just throwing snapping
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  Speaker 1: on one every time, so our operation was solid, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought we we handled the ball well for sure.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the two quarters during these
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  Speaker 2: couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to tell with the with the tempo, but
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  Speaker 1: mentally not a lot of mistakes. I thought they moved well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's things again, there's this, there's so many
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's a good start. Yeah, they only
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  Speaker 1: know cover three and cover four right now. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's just a lot of things that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be working on. But obviously a good start
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  Speaker 1: trying to get them to talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: and open up. So I'm sure that'll happen pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: That's fun those guys as the time. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: all competitors. To tell them like, hey, you can't play
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  Speaker 2: the ball, I could just the restrictions on what they
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  Speaker 2: can do is.
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  Speaker 1: That well yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to practice like a pro. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to get our reps in and
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  Speaker 1: get great work in and sharpen each other and you know,
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  Speaker 1: those things are that's just that's the way the world is,
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  Speaker 1: and we're trying to take care of one another, but
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  Speaker 1: also you know, but also compete at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes it gets exaggerated a little bit
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  Speaker 1: on you know, I wasn't you know, I was in
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  Speaker 1: a position to make the play. It's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: put your hands down, you know, but uh, but no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. They'll get used to it,
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  Speaker 1: and the and the vets will kind of show them
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  Speaker 1: how it's done. But I think when you when you
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  Speaker 1: watch when you watch our practice today, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty clean and not a lot of guys on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, especially with the wet conditions, so overall really good.
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  Speaker 2: What's your philosophy on the atmosphere and how loud the
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  Speaker 2: music is and all of that is that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when the veterans are here.
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  Speaker 2: Just what do you think about?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're working through it. I mean, obviously you want
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  Speaker 1: to bring the juice and have energy and have the
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  Speaker 1: music flowing like that's all good, but we also want
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  Speaker 1: to temper that with Okay, well, we're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: some teaching done at the same time. You know, what's
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  Speaker 1: the right volume? You know, like, how can we communicate
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  Speaker 1: the best? Do you want to stress guys? So I
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  Speaker 1: think it depends on the situation and kind of the
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  Speaker 1: flow of practice. But you know, we'll experiment with it
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  Speaker 1: and uh kind of figure it out as we go.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hand pick any of those No, Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have no ideas in charge of the music or who's
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  Speaker 1: picking the playlist. But I think when the guys get back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll get their input and we'll incentivize it.
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  Speaker 1: And guys that are making sweet plays, I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 1: be picking playlists and setting things up to as long
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  Speaker 1: as it's clean.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned it was you know, it was nice to
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  Speaker 2: see them complete passes. But also you have a defensive pedigree,
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  Speaker 2: so you are used to watching practice from a defensive perspective.
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  Speaker 2: What's your intentionality here is the transition to head coach
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  Speaker 2: of not being cranky if the defense had a bad day,
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  Speaker 2: or how do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're looking I think you're just when anything we're doing,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for the right intent with the guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: is our minds in the right spots, the focus there
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  Speaker 1: or what we asked them to do is clear, And
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  Speaker 1: then are we playing and executing at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously, you know, the offense, we want them
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  Speaker 1: to make a bunch of plays. You know, we want
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  Speaker 1: to make plays on defense, so there's a balance, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But even like when you go to walk through, you
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  Speaker 1: want guys to be ready to roll in a good
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  Speaker 1: body positioning them, have the mind in the right place,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, all the rest of stuff we
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  Speaker 1: can we can work from there and coach them up
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  Speaker 1: to watch the other practice.
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  Speaker 2: Who stood out yesterday a fire and murder.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah again tough, tough to really truly evaluate because
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  Speaker 1: of the tempo, but just just overall good start. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna crown him right now on he's the
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  Speaker 1: next best, he's the tackle of all time. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean like he's we're really excited about it, and shows
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  Speaker 1: all the bend and the strength at the point of
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  Speaker 1: attack and acceleration. You know, we get a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better shape, you know, so we can get through a
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  Speaker 1: whole practice and fly around like we expect him to.
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  Speaker 1: But he understands that just like the rest of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's so hard to stay in this elite shape the
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  Speaker 1: way the calendar is set up. So he'll get there,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll be we'll be pushing them in the meantime.
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  Speaker 2: Tyrese, I just send it this whole press out of
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  Speaker 2: him as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyrese made some good plays, made some good plays.
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  Speaker 1: I think today we add a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: install So there's a couple couple you know, mental errors
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  Speaker 1: that we want to chase. But uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think the again, the intense there. The attention to detail
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  Speaker 1: is there. Keep moving, keep working on all the movement.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're playing like a linebacker in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But again, just like everybody else on the team, those
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  Speaker 1: are the things that are gonna be really important for
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  Speaker 1: us to do so and he sees that, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: go to work on it. Dj uh No, both work
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  Speaker 1: inside and out. Now, it depends on how we can
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  Speaker 1: handle it and all that, but goals to be to
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  Speaker 1: be both anything else, all right, guys, you