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Abraham Lucas: "It's Great To Have Consistency" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Be a little bit of a trick question, but you
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  Speaker 1: had the same starting offensive line combination for the last
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  Speaker 1: two games. So is there a quantifiable measure of continuity.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus some big words. I would say yes, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: understanding your question correctly. Now, I mean, when you can
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  Speaker 2: get consistency, even a little bit rolling, I think it
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  Speaker 2: just I mean, you learn about steps, put the guy
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  Speaker 2: next to you his footwork, like, how do you fit
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  Speaker 2: into that? How he fits into your playing style? You know,
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  Speaker 2: So it's great to have consistency going all around.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the guy next to you, what do he
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  Speaker 3: thought how the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 2: Playing it does really stepped up. I mean we were
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  Speaker 2: in his position once. I remember my rookie year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and he just keeps improving, has a good attitude about it,
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  Speaker 2: and just really a silent worker, just put his head
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  Speaker 2: down and goes to work. So happy to be playing
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  Speaker 2: next time.
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  Speaker 1: What about you, how you felt in these last four games.
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  Speaker 2: Getting back as far as physically or mentally, Well, everything, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: my leg's hurt. Mentally, I'm a little tired. Who isn't.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm happy to be back. I'm grateful to be
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  Speaker 2: back playing, you know. I mean, I'm here to play,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to win, so feeling good about it.
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  Speaker 4: You spent a lot of time with trainers, you know, rehabbing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for that period of time. Talk about like
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  Speaker 4: what it meant for you to have people working with
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  Speaker 4: you like that day and day out, with what they
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  Speaker 4: helped you to do to get back to.
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  Speaker 2: Where you are now. I mean it was there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things, and that stuff still goes on. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're never really one hundred percent when you play,
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  Speaker 2: But I mean I appreciate them and the time they
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  Speaker 2: took with me. It was so very long. It was
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  Speaker 2: very arduous. It's very painful at times, but all necessary.
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  Speaker 2: I really wasn't concerned about it because I kind of
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  Speaker 2: knew the plan coming into it, so I knew it
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  Speaker 2: was gonna be it was gonna be a longer thing,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, attacked as best I could.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to.
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  Speaker 1: Zach Chargaonay and his style of front right, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: comparing it to Ken Walker, but what do you just
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  Speaker 1: like about the way Zach either sees the game or ruts.
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  Speaker 2: I think with Ken and Zach both it's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they both kind of have different styles of rushing. I
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  Speaker 2: would say Ken Ken is a little bit more finesse
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  Speaker 2: in my eyes, and I love both the way that
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  Speaker 2: both of them compete. In Zach, Zach so Harden knows
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  Speaker 2: kind of thudder hit or he loves contact. Now that's
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  Speaker 2: not to say that Ken doesn't love contact or that
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  Speaker 2: Zach can't be elusive as well. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think when you have two running backs, there was that
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  Speaker 2: good you know, interchanging in and out, and then we
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  Speaker 2: got guys like Kenny and the or as well in
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  Speaker 2: the mix. I mean it's tough to beat and stuff
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  Speaker 2: to stop. What did What have you gotten to know from?
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  Speaker 4: Uh got to learn about Scot Huff and the time
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  Speaker 4: he's been What.
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  Speaker 2: Have I gotten to learn about him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yea, as as you've got to know on what stands
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  Speaker 4: out about him? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he coached you dub that sucks now. He actually
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  Speaker 2: recruited me back in the day when he was at Boise,
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  Speaker 2: And I like, I like coach Chuff. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit too early I think to tell
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, I don't. I don't think he's given
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  Speaker 2: up all the tricks of the trade just yet. But
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  Speaker 2: then again, it's the first year, and so going in
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  Speaker 2: the next year and new year after that, and you're
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  Speaker 2: after that, you know, hopefully we'll see just continued growth
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 3: There's often the line to come out of the game, well,
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  Speaker 3: the season high rushing yards and no saw, no sacks.
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  Speaker 2: Just Harry Wardon know the game is that for the
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  Speaker 2: five year say that one more time.
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  Speaker 3: Just Harry Wardy is that kind of performance for the
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  Speaker 3: five to yu And there's the stat line shows no
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  Speaker 3: sacks and season high rushing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's great. It's kind of what we expect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I i'm'a get too excited. I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: just try to. I mean it's a game to game thing.
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  Speaker 2: Every front's different, Every team has different different players, different athletes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not just it's not just as simple
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  Speaker 2: as hey, just you know, go run the ball a
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  Speaker 2: bunch and get a bunch of yards. I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: different techniques and stuff you have to employ it and
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  Speaker 2: when it all comes together comes together, it's great.
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  Speaker 4: You see your defense every day in practice.
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  Speaker 2: What makes them so unique and so special? I think,
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  Speaker 2: uh coach McDonald has I mean, he's obviously a defensive guy,
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  Speaker 2: but he's he's really brought the defense together and schemed up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, things based on their individual strengths, and it just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, things take a little while to get going sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: but they started firing on all cylinders and they have
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  Speaker 2: the past few weeks, and they're just gonna continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better. So, I mean, you got guys like Jared
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  Speaker 2: Reid and Leonard in the middle, and then you got
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  Speaker 2: boy A d Hall, you know, Draymond off the edge,
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  Speaker 2: and then you got the secondary. Like things are really
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  Speaker 2: looking up for that defense, and they're just gonna continue
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  Speaker 2: to go upward.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Jones said that your guys's playoff mode is sort
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  Speaker 3: of like the death zone, but fans kind of like
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  Speaker 3: the idea of death zone for the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like that, Honiker for that? Yeah, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if that's what they want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't care. I gotta go against them anyway.
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  Speaker 4: So and in here where a lot of players, younger
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  Speaker 4: players are choosing to move over to the defensive side,
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  Speaker 4: it has to be an offensive line. And I'm curious,
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  Speaker 4: why did you choose offensive line? Why I just stick
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  Speaker 4: with it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know if I actually chose it. I
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  Speaker 2: just realized that defensive end probably wasn't gonna work out
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  Speaker 2: for me because of my size. And then I had
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  Speaker 2: a wide frame and I put it on a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of weight. So there's not too many plus three hundred
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  Speaker 2: pounds defensive ends, I think at all in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: or in college for that matter. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that just kind of finds find you, I
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  Speaker 2: guess in my case, and I mean it's fine. I
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  Speaker 2: like my position, you know. I mean it was my
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  Speaker 2: last year of high school. I was just kind of like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: probably not gonna be a defensive player, probably gonna be
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  Speaker 2: an offensive linement, so I better get used to it.
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  Speaker 4: Is there are the tackles or right tackles or tackles
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  Speaker 4: in general that you watch or that you look to
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  Speaker 4: and you kind of admire their games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a few. I like, I know Brian
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  Speaker 2: O'Neil a little bit for the Vikings. He's a great tackle.
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  Speaker 2: H I think Penay Sewell is probably upwards to the best.
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  Speaker 2: Him and uh Lane Johnson from the Eagles. I really
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  Speaker 2: respect all their games. And you know it's not just
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  Speaker 2: right tackle. They watch left tackles too, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: know Garat Bulls for the Broncos. He's a beast. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys and then I watch, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the guys on our team. I pick up stuff from
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  Speaker 2: Charles and Jason Peters and such.
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  Speaker 4: So what are the things that you look at when
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  Speaker 4: you look at another tackle and you that they.
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  Speaker 2: Can respect their game? Uh? Just efficiency technique? Uh what
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  Speaker 2: they do, how they do it, their attitude, hand placement,
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  Speaker 2: how they fit in their scheme. You know. I mean
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  Speaker 2: you could pick up different little tools from everybody, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of the beauty of age. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to stick to one sort of thing. You
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  Speaker 2: can just continue adding tools to your toolbox.
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  Speaker 1: Dk Metcals does he blocks like an offensive lineman? How
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  Speaker 1: would you rate his tenacity and his ability to block?
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  Speaker 2: I think Dk does a great job block and I
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  Speaker 2: I like his mentality kind of when he gets going,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's pretty hard to stop him. But uh, he
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's ferocious. He just you know, he's not
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  Speaker 2: a guy that takes takes any crap from anybody, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, you like that. I think it'd be a
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  Speaker 2: good offensive lineman if he was to play ohod line,
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  Speaker 2: he'd have to.
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  Speaker 5: Put off Kep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: wish I looked like him.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, Abe, speaking of DK, he said yesterday that, uh,
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDonald's defensive mind that he brings helps him understand
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  Speaker 5: offenses cornerbacks in his position a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Would would you.
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  Speaker 5: Say that's the same thing I understand defense? Isn't meant
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  Speaker 5: to say, but would you say that's the same for
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  Speaker 5: you from that coach?
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  Speaker 2: Like, is that how I see Bike's mind kind of working? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what goes on in his mind. He's
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  Speaker 2: hard to read, but uh no, I mean he's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a he's a savant, like genius, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: he like the way he kind of talks and like
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  Speaker 2: he's he's he's a football guy for sure, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes I mean, I think it makes it
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  Speaker 2: easier on that defense, but it also as an offensive player,
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  Speaker 2: just listening to him talk schemes and stuff and and
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  Speaker 2: just rattle it off and just be like so on
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  Speaker 2: point and precise, it's easier for us I think his
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  Speaker 2: offensive players to be like, yeah, this guy knows what
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about, and he's gonna dial up the best
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  Speaker 2: plan for us, and you know, he obviously respects the
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  Speaker 2: offensive game, so makes it that much easier to follow.
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  Speaker 2: So I would agree.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have been running a lot of counters and
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  Speaker 4: you know, uh, you pull in on a lot of
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  Speaker 4: those players. Talk about what that is like for you
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  Speaker 4: as a right tackle. Do you like blocking and moving
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  Speaker 4: or or uh? And what does that mean physically for
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  Speaker 4: the defense to.
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  Speaker 2: Have to see him? Kind of? I think you'd have
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  Speaker 2: to ask ask defensive players what it would mean for
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  Speaker 2: them to see me coming around. Some probably wouldn't care. Some,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they're freaked out. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean it's just call it hall at execution
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  Speaker 2: type of thing. I mean, I'm not if they call
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  Speaker 2: more great, If they call other plays, fine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really I mean, do I get the poll, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's nice to go. If I can crack some people,
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  Speaker 2: that's great, But if not, there's other plays I can
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  Speaker 2: crack people on two So I'm not really worried about it.
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  Speaker 2: Ye