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Julian Love Discusses The Team's Growth, What It Takes To Be A Good Leader & More · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys doing very official today with the logos?
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  Speaker 1: Turt on, There you go, Julian. What has clarity?
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  Speaker 3: How has clarity helped his defense in terms of especially
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  Speaker 3: an every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's been pretty much the main thing. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: clarity and how we want to play, how we want
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  Speaker 2: to obviously meet it's just uh, you know, clarity of
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  Speaker 2: just a standard and so you know, it's like shooting
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  Speaker 2: at a basketball room, you know, with the with the target.
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  Speaker 2: It says, when you have that goal set, it's easy
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  Speaker 2: to hit.
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  Speaker 1: Are you guys the opportunity you're taking in terms of
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  Speaker 1: your group, we've been I think, uh, you talked about
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  Speaker 1: it just as a leader.
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  Speaker 3: Can you talk about that the defense invented specifically your
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  Speaker 3: safety like individually?
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  Speaker 2: Like my leadership, Yeah, I think my leadership style is
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  Speaker 2: most importantly one of awareness. I don't know, I know
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  Speaker 2: how I come across, I know how I present myself,
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  Speaker 2: and so I know that, Uh, I got to stay
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  Speaker 2: within who I am. You know, I think leaders sometimes
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  Speaker 2: mess up trying to be everything at once. Uh, And
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  Speaker 2: I just I've learned over the years, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna be myself. I know what I'm good at
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  Speaker 2: how I can help, you know, my teammates in the
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  Speaker 2: best way that I see fit. And then just a second,
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  Speaker 2: it is just by example, just trying to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and play and you know, try to be a person,
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  Speaker 2: try to be a man's world a certain way, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully the people around me can feed off of it.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of feeling good here, I guess three years now,
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  Speaker 3: how do you kind of feel about this team or
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  Speaker 3: where you guys are right now?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of how everything's kind together maybe versus Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good question.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting. I mean I took you know now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: away from the game. I'll say, we just feel so
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  Speaker 2: settling as a family. I feel settling, you know, where
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  Speaker 2: we're living, in the community that the fans, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a really cool vibe on right now. And then with
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  Speaker 2: the team, I feel like we've taken a step up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, each of these past few years, and so
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  Speaker 2: I just love the place that we're at right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're super competitive, we're really close to.
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  Speaker 1: That locker room.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, you know you see it, but we're pretty
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  Speaker 2: close in there, and it's like it's all building into
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  Speaker 2: kind of what we want to become and then tied
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  Speaker 2: on top of all that is like Mike setting kind
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  Speaker 2: of a standard of what the team specifically this year
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  Speaker 2: wants to be the twenty twenty five Seahawks, And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. We're in an exciting spot. And so now he's
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  Speaker 2: got to go out and you know, work to earn
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  Speaker 2: what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: What's it been like basing Sam in practice? Your coach
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  Speaker 1: has talked about how it's been a pain of the
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  Speaker 1: butt trying to get to him because the ball comes
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  Speaker 1: out so good. Point, what's it been like for you guys? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's a pro.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he goes through his progressions, his reads, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's keying every defensive person's alignment, like he just has
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  Speaker 2: been around the block so long that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: have to play true and you have to just play
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  Speaker 2: within yourself. And you know it's great because you know,
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  Speaker 2: Kobe and I and the guys in the secondary can
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  Speaker 2: like self scout almost because we see, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: Sam is saying, what he's seeing from us, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's helping us to be better and having a vet
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  Speaker 2: having an experienced guy back there is like is really important,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, for the offensive guys. He gives creates
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  Speaker 2: some stability for he knows all the players, all the checks.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he's a quarterback, but he just has a great
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  Speaker 2: leadership style for those guys. And so you know, have
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  Speaker 2: experienced guy like him who's been through the fire and back.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty special in the other day, yes, but like
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  Speaker 2: he's been with you guys for a while to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get righted away, to get to the.
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  Speaker 1: Point where he's ross Canada. What do you what do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of seen for Man's developments in the players
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  Speaker 1: help you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyle cottam and I think from day one he
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  Speaker 2: just has been a a playmaker for us. I have
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  Speaker 2: been advocate of his because you know, he trust them
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  Speaker 2: one and two. He's going out there and playing fast
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  Speaker 2: and making plays. And it's shown itself in every single
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  Speaker 2: preseason game in the past few years. And so even
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  Speaker 2: last year he got his shot, got elevated a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times. The year before that, got a shot, got
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  Speaker 2: elevated a couple times. He stays around because you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just he he understands how to be a pro.
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  Speaker 2: And I see a lot of my my former self
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  Speaker 2: early my career in him. And so it's easy for
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  Speaker 2: me to be advocate from because I you know, I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had a mentor that. You know, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to be that for him. But it's all earned.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing has been given to Tie and everyone in the
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  Speaker 2: bill he knows that. I mean, he has his own
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  Speaker 2: theme song in team meetings every time he makes a play. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Tyrone plays because we do call him Tyrone in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Uh He's earned that. So yeah, oh man, that's special.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, I was, I was talking to the
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  Speaker 2: defense the night before the game, and I said a
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  Speaker 2: little fire under some people apparently, I said, Bell is
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  Speaker 2: gonna get his first uh get the first turnover of
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  Speaker 2: the game. And after ty picks the ball off, he
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  Speaker 2: comes to me he says, Uh, that pissed me off,
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  Speaker 2: Like I can't believe you picked him, like and so
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  Speaker 2: I and you know, obviously just laughing about it. But
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  Speaker 2: just the challenge of it as to who he is.
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  Speaker 2: And I was supposed to play one handed against their starters.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, that's uh, that's what play football is.
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  Speaker 1: The practice squad last year, so maybe he's a good
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  Speaker 1: example of this. But with the new rules, since covid
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  Speaker 1: or guys can get elevated. How much does it feel
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  Speaker 1: like that practice squad is just the extension of your
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  Speaker 1: femal roster out the season.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and I mean here especially, I mean you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned ty being elevated a few times last year.
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  Speaker 1: It is important to It's a tool. It's a weapon
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  Speaker 1: you could use.
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  Speaker 2: You know, try to have a talented Peace squad guys
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  Speaker 2: that are can be plug and play at any moment.
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  Speaker 2: Uh is a weapon and we're trying to chase that edge.
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh, I mean that's a that's a buzzword around here,
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  Speaker 2: buzz phrase, chase the edge. But it's a it's cool tool.
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  Speaker 2: I mean to get Peace Squad guys to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play in games. We had so many last year,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot this year. So across the board,
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  Speaker 2: across the roster, you want talented guys. Tyrone by who
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  Speaker 2: is it, Erico Baidu? Yeah, you better call it Tyrone. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So he gets up in front of the team and
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  Speaker 2: uh and dances. He has his own Tyrone dance. You
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  Speaker 2: got to ask him about it. He might do it
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  Speaker 2: for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Earning speaking of buzzwords, earn the right to play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, we've been practicing so hard
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  Speaker 2: this this camp, this off season, whatever, and through that
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  Speaker 2: you build trust within each other, you know, trust next
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  Speaker 2: to me, you know, for the coaches, and so that's
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  Speaker 2: all that is. It's like practice hard and being able
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  Speaker 2: to be dependable is is what you need to do
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  Speaker 2: to play on this team. Talent, you know, is maybe
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  Speaker 2: the third or fourth factor, but just being able to
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  Speaker 2: you know, be smart and be dependable is like at
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  Speaker 2: a premium around here right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think they're earning the right to play,
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  Speaker 1: is uh, you guys good earning right to play? Is
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  Speaker 1: is that embodied? What did you think? I think we
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  Speaker 1: did well.
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  Speaker 2: I think you probably saw if you guys are out there,
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  Speaker 2: there's some footing issues. We kind of got that patched
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  Speaker 2: up early in practice by changing most of our cleats.
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  Speaker 2: I think we did well. They had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: interesting looks that we haven't gotten some true routes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But overall in the day, I think we compete and
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  Speaker 2: we're out there for a while and so we know
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  Speaker 2: we're communicating at a high level. Like when we play
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  Speaker 2: in line up, nobody's gonna want to line us, line
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  Speaker 2: up against us and play straight up there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of motion shifts, a lot of kind of
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  Speaker 2: window dressing, and so it's it was great because they
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of that stuff. And I think we
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  Speaker 2: did a great job, especially flying in landing at five
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  Speaker 2: pm and practicing at ten am the next morning.
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  Speaker 1: Uh is a beast. And now I think we rose
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  Speaker 1: to the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Offen use motions and the shifts and stuff to kind
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  Speaker 3: of find their advantage to kind of turn that.
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  Speaker 1: On its head and work doing that back on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of around kind of trying to dig pig
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  Speaker 1: your things from get cut of the field. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: nice is that you can of kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of have an answer fireback on that.
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  Speaker 2: It is, I mean, it's it's powerful when you have
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  Speaker 2: answered to all these motions ships before they do it.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing on especially tied to all into playing at
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  Speaker 2: home and looming and they're trying to get different cadences
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  Speaker 2: going the motion shifts. It could be a weapon for us,
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  Speaker 2: but it takes a lot of work. We gotta we
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  Speaker 2: gotta practice. Uh, we gotta practice, walk through a ton,
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  Speaker 2: communicated tons, spend time with each other because it needs
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  Speaker 2: to be kind of before they do it, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of know, everyone knows what's going on, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: But if we could do at a high level, we
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  Speaker 1: could be really good.
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  Speaker 3: Guys started off three, you know last year and then
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  Speaker 3: had some adversity, and do you feel like the teams
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  Speaker 3: better prepared to handle the ups and down to the
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  Speaker 3: regular seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was kind of weird last year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we were winning those games, but like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to phrase it differently, but we didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: like we just didn't fully know how to win yet.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were winning off of talent alone in
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  Speaker 2: those first few games. And so now it's like knowing that,
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  Speaker 2: knowing our personnel. Obviously a lot of these guys have
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  Speaker 2: been here for now for two years at least, it's
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  Speaker 2: important to establish, Okay, this is how we win. These
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  Speaker 2: are the pillars we're trying to hit. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think that stuff goes into being a young team with
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  Speaker 2: a young system. Just everything was, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: early in the process. So now it's just like week one,
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  Speaker 2: week seven, week whatever, We're gonna attack it the same way,
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  Speaker 2: and so it is kind of a it's comforting knowing
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  Speaker 2: that win or loss, we kind of know the process
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  Speaker 2: of what we want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Observer, it seemed like the pad list practices are about
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  Speaker 3: as physical as I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: How would you how would you describe the pad list
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  Speaker 1: practices this.
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  Speaker 3: Year and Kwa you guys rushed it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely been pushed. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what we want to do, especially you know,
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  Speaker 2: I can look at the offense sid of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: We want to establish the run is like I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you've heard that a million times this offseason. You can't
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  Speaker 2: establish it without being physical in practice.
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  Speaker 1: We have to build that and we have.
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  Speaker 2: I think guys have been challenged, especially the front guys
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  Speaker 2: D line and olb's linebackers tight ends like they've been
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  Speaker 2: getting after it.
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  Speaker 1: Paths, there no pads.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's trying to build our identity and kind of have
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  Speaker 2: a chip on their shoulder, which is uh, which is special.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool to be a part of cool to see
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  Speaker 2: you hear the past pop.
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  Speaker 1: And UH on things.
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  Speaker 2: We might be in shells, but it's all a power
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  Speaker 2: who we want to be. We can't be physical by
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. Gotta gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: Think it's reflective of coach McDonald's.
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  Speaker 2: I think, Uh, I don't know, he's not like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like as a person, he's not like a like a
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  Speaker 2: you know, a tough guy. But I think in terms
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  Speaker 2: of establishing the team, that was something that he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to transition into just being a more physical team. And
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  Speaker 2: what he did was brought in some people who can
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  Speaker 2: coach that up. Well, I mean the whole offensive staff,
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  Speaker 2: they've been living by it. It should be their competitive
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  Speaker 2: and the building. If they have a bad day there,
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  Speaker 2: they're letting you know about it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's coach Mike's I think awareness to all right,
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  Speaker 2: how do we get to being a dominant, a physically
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  Speaker 2: dominant team.
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  Speaker 1: We're bringing some people that can help coach it. And
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  Speaker 1: so uh, that's what that is. I think.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, some safeties and linebackers are gonna match up against Robbie.
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  Speaker 1: It's when they they hit the oots.
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  Speaker 2: And that guy's a workhorse. He is such a pro at.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how old he is, but I would
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  Speaker 2: imagine he's young. It's gonna be special to see him
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  Speaker 2: get after it. That man is a bowling ball and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm excited for the crowd. The twelve is that
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  Speaker 2: oots to be channing? Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He walked walked out for the last preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: They fully get it yet, like it was, a few
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  Speaker 2: of us were doing the oots, but it was excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him getting the action, maybe get a carrier
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  Speaker 2: to run somebody over because he has the ability.
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  Speaker 1: He's just he's a bull. I appreciate you guys. Thank you.