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Devon Witherspoon On His Contract Extension "It Feels Special To Get It Done" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How does it feel that to get the contract company?
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  Speaker 2: Feel good? Man? You know, long time coming, but it
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  Speaker 2: feel good to get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Julian said, Uh, it's me your turn nowt to cover
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  Speaker 3: some things in the DV rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that what he said. You know, I take the
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  Speaker 4: challenge zone. Man, I'm gonna be ready. I'm gonna be ready.
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  Speaker 4: I got to gets ready.
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  Speaker 3: He says that you're pretty frugal that, uh, you still
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  Speaker 3: got stuff you're wearing from from high school. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't cheat with and I don't don't don't don't
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  Speaker 2: ever get that confused. You know what I'm saying. I'll
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  Speaker 2: always be cheat with it, but i'ma take care of
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  Speaker 2: the guys for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Devin, how involved were you in the process.
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  Speaker 3: Was it like, don't tell me until it's done, or
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  Speaker 3: were you kind of keeping updates that's going on for
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  Speaker 3: your kind of you know what the.
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  Speaker 1: Landscape was now.
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  Speaker 2: I was updated throughout the whole thing, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But but my mom was here and focus on being
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  Speaker 4: with my team and going to have practice and getting
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  Speaker 4: better every day.
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  Speaker 2: But my mind wasn't on that. But I knew what
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  Speaker 2: it was to.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to have these next few years knowing it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be with this team, This franchise really carved out something.
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  Speaker 1: How special is it to know that future is intment now?
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  Speaker 4: Especially man, it's kind of something you alreadys dreamed of,
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  Speaker 4: but it's kind of something that I knew as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's like we talked about it before and everything like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, I know I'm gonna be here. I know
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  Speaker 4: this is where my heart is. Well, that was never
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  Speaker 4: coming into a question, So it just it just feels
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  Speaker 4: bectal to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: You said it was a long time comment the long process. Man,
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  Speaker 2: you know a lot of back and for us, but
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  Speaker 2: it was easy to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Think this is exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Where you picture yourself being after you got drafted, Like
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  Speaker 3: how the first three years of play out?
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  Speaker 1: How's this extensions place out?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Kind of, but I didn't have idea how it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: One thing on my mind when I got drafted it
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  Speaker 4: was to be the best meet every day and try
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  Speaker 4: to win the city at Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: So Devin, you, you and Jackson obviously coming in together,
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  Speaker 3: you've been kind of tied it to hip ever since then.
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  Speaker 1: To have both of you guys get the deals done.
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  Speaker 3: The soft season kind of know your foundational pieces of
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  Speaker 3: us team to build around. What does that kind of
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  Speaker 3: mean to you guys to kind of have that under
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  Speaker 3: year for three years?
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  Speaker 2: It means everything to us.
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  Speaker 4: Though, like I said, we talked about it when we
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  Speaker 4: first got here and what we wanted to do, and
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  Speaker 4: then as the years passed, we just continued to grow
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  Speaker 4: and build. You know, it's changed at the point of
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  Speaker 4: time in the year, cause it's like stuff happens and
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  Speaker 4: we got to adjust and adapt.
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  Speaker 2: But we just always talked.
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  Speaker 4: About building on that and how could we be better
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  Speaker 4: and every day and how can we take this program
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  Speaker 4: to an elite program?
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  Speaker 3: So you remember that boat ride after you guys were
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  Speaker 3: drafted and yeah, and uh, what'd you guys talk about
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  Speaker 3: on that right?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Really, we didn't really say too much though. We were
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  Speaker 4: just we was happy to be here, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: It was like this crazy but y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that though I just paid cornerback in the nf
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  Speaker 3: in NFL history, what do those.
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  Speaker 1: Credentials mean to you? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It mean a lot, man.
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  Speaker 4: It just it's a it's a thing that you don't
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  Speaker 4: kind of think about for real, but when it happens
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  Speaker 4: like that's really real, like it ain't it ain't fake.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, for me, it means a lot to me,
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's nothing to me at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, cause it's like I got a team here,
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  Speaker 4: you feel me, and I'm trying to win though, So
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  Speaker 4: all that is love.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate all that, but I'm focused on building with
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  Speaker 2: my team right now.
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  Speaker 1: Before you set up at the podium, you sell you're
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  Speaker 1: joking with Mike for a moment, just wondering playing for
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  Speaker 1: him for a couple more years. What what help Scarted.
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  Speaker 3: Heard you for that and how is he kind of
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  Speaker 3: helped you develop and in Maximus, what.
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  Speaker 2: You can do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready, man, you know I told him when you
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  Speaker 4: first got here, like I'm thankful. I know what you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna bring into the team. I know what you do
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna be the guy here for you. So
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  Speaker 4: it means everything to me, man. You know, just to
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  Speaker 4: continue to build with him, continue to learn from him
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  Speaker 4: the way he gained plans, just to be involved with that,
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  Speaker 4: it just means everything to me.
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  Speaker 2: Man. You know, I know I got his back, I
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  Speaker 2: know he got my bat, So it means everything to me.
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  Speaker 1: When you got badge on your jersey, the sledgehammer or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: The other side that one. Uh, I have no idea,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, and all I see, I ain't know that.
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  Speaker 3: Was when they first started the draft pumps the Steven
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  Speaker 3: how realistic was almost a.
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  Speaker 1: Decade with the same team, the team the draft you
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  Speaker 1: can stay eight plus years.
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  Speaker 4: Before was that even in That's not something I was
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  Speaker 4: really kind of thinking about at that moment. Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I was just coming in and try to be the
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  Speaker 4: best of me every day, So it wasn't something that
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  Speaker 4: was on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Does a deal like this add pressure or take pressure
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  Speaker 1: off the bill?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it does neither though. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of both. But I don't think it
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  Speaker 4: does nothing to me. You know'na be me every day.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't nothing gonna change about me. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: really see it no type of way.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that you and Josh now
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  Speaker 1: both having uh job, having contracts.
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  Speaker 3: Together for the next three years.
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  Speaker 1: You guys get to continue playing together the continuity on
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  Speaker 1: that back.
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  Speaker 4: End, it's still good, you know, like that's my that's
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  Speaker 4: my doll, right though for so like just that's my boy.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, being together. It's not just in the building,
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  Speaker 4: but outside of building everything like that. Like we got
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  Speaker 4: a real good relationship and it's still growing to this day.
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  Speaker 4: But knowing that we're gonna be here and knowing how
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  Speaker 4: we practicing what we chasing like off the field and
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that, it means everything to us.
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  Speaker 2: So we chasing greatness for sure. When the negotiations were
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  Speaker 2: going on, how did you stay grounded your pensions staying
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  Speaker 2: focused on being out here?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Who helped you?
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  Speaker 1: How did you stay focused?
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  Speaker 4: It was easy to my teammates man, Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: when you come in and you coming to work with
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  Speaker 4: guys like this like d hall e j and lee
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  Speaker 4: on them like mirth. I mean you kind of guys.
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  Speaker 4: When you come to work with guys like that means everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to take the pressure off because now I
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  Speaker 4: know what they're about and they know what I'm about.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just easy to come out here and just
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  Speaker 4: focus on football.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first person you called or texted when the
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  Speaker 1: deal got done.
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  Speaker 2: My mom, she said she was just happy.
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  Speaker 1: As a blitzer.
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  Speaker 2: What what do you think it makes you as effective
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  Speaker 2: as you are in the morteam My ability to win.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean, I know how to win on past
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  Speaker 4: ruses and stuff like that, but it's it's a study
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  Speaker 4: that I have to continue to work on.
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  Speaker 1: Mike has said that the how effective you were in
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and we've seen it at other times,
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  Speaker 1: been in the super Bowl especially, he said that that
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  Speaker 1: makes him think about maybe using you more in that role.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about that? You know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want me to do, I'm gonna be able
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  Speaker 2: to do it. So just let me know, coke Y.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, since I'm planning to bring Terran and uh
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  Speaker 3: Terry and Arnold and do you know him at all?
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  Speaker 1: To have you asked about him?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: I what do you expect to from him when he
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  Speaker 1: when he comes to here.
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  Speaker 2: To be part of no come? I do. I do
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  Speaker 2: know him, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I did send him a tests and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: but I haven't got a chance to ask to have
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  Speaker 4: a full conversation with him and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, I know he.
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  Speaker 4: I know he could play ball though, and I know
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  Speaker 4: he He's gonna be easy to, you know, come in
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  Speaker 4: with this culture and how we do and the way
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  Speaker 4: we go about our business over here, I think it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be easy for him to fall in line, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and just adapt to this situation. I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be the best for him, So I can't wait he
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  Speaker 4: get him, you know, ready to work with sh Brea,
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  Speaker 4: anything else,