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Ty Okada: "We Have A Great Group Of Young DBs" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Can't feel a different kind of coming in a different
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  Speaker 1: role when you attend to them, Yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: The h the approach and the attention to detail is
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  Speaker 1: still the same, and you're always trying to grow as
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  Speaker 1: a player, but just having years in the system now
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  Speaker 1: trying to help bring younger guys along at that same time,
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  Speaker 1: I would say that that's probably the biggest difference so
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  Speaker 1: far this year. How is that? I mean obviously they
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  Speaker 1: probably they've drafted a guy, signed some free agents as
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  Speaker 1: well at the safety spot. How did you kind of
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  Speaker 1: approach all that awesome? Just in any way that I
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  Speaker 1: can help them grow as people and as players, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna take that on my shoulders and try
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  Speaker 1: to help them in any way that I can. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a great group of young dbs and they're they're
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  Speaker 1: like sponges. They they want to learn and they're willing
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  Speaker 1: to learn anything and everything. So any way that I
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  Speaker 1: can help them out, that's just kind of my goal
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  Speaker 1: is to help bring them along. Spool was last year
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  Speaker 1: life for you to take over the little did have
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  Speaker 1: the production he did as a guy, that's you never
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  Speaker 1: really had to grind. Who can go the harder out
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  Speaker 1: of place. Yeah, it was. It was a blessing to
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  Speaker 1: uh get that opportunity and just to see that all
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  Speaker 1: the hard work and the dedication all come to fruition
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  Speaker 1: and gain. Really the trust of my teammates and the
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  Speaker 1: coaches was really special to me because ultimately, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to help help us win games in any way
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  Speaker 1: that I can help do that, whether it's on special
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  Speaker 1: teams or defense. I just take a lot of pride
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  Speaker 1: in that, and so it was it was special. How's
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  Speaker 1: married life treating you so far? Really good? It's it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: We've been together now for six years, so not much
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  Speaker 1: has changed. I feel like when kids come into the picture,
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  Speaker 1: that's maybe when it becomes a little bit different. But
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  Speaker 1: it's been great so far. Pretty big year for your life, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: So have you taking stock of the last twelve months, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt. I keep making the joke two rings in
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  Speaker 1: a year is not too bad. So it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been a special year. Your first interception and the
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  Speaker 1: I guess you had one in the Green Bay preseason game,
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  Speaker 1: but your first regular season interception? What was that like
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  Speaker 1: and what do you remember about that play? Yeah, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, shout out to the rush Spoon did a
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  Speaker 1: great job hitting the blitz fast. Our front got the
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  Speaker 1: pressure and so forcing Jaden to get it out of
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  Speaker 1: his hands and kind of you know, he was just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get rid of the ball and then being
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  Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that opportunity was really special.
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  Speaker 1: But shout out to those guys. They really help make
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  Speaker 1: that play come to life today for this kind of came.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you guys are just doing the walkthroughs and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: How big are those days? You know to like take
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  Speaker 1: the easy days, but like they're learning days in your mind. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Coach hits on this a lot, and it's really just
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  Speaker 1: like taking pride in everything that we do, every single step,
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  Speaker 1: whatever moment that is in front of us, taking full
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it. Those are reps like today in an
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  Speaker 1: act practice where it's walked through speed, those are those
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  Speaker 1: are real. Those are real reps, whether you're visualizing it,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're getting to see it and to walk through
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  Speaker 1: temple like those are those are reps that you you
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  Speaker 1: get to see and it's not taxing on your body,
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  Speaker 1: but mentally, if you're challenging yourself and trying to take
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  Speaker 1: full advantage of it. It really it helps tremendously. Was
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  Speaker 1: it nice to be indoors better than out there with
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  Speaker 1: all that smoke? Yeah, it's funny though it seems like
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  Speaker 1: there's still a little bit of smoke in here for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but no doubt it will be the same atmosphere as
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  Speaker 1: a lost time you guys were there. But I get
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  Speaker 1: to a looming the field on Saturday and do that,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to be kind of fun. Yeah, it's always
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  Speaker 1: exciting to get in front of some more twelves. I
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  Speaker 1: know that they're always out at practice, which is awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and you feel the love and support. Loom's a bit
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  Speaker 1: bigger so you can fit some more fans in there,
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  Speaker 1: which is really fun and just that excitement. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for the young guys to kind of get a feeling
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  Speaker 1: for that too. I remember when I first came in
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  Speaker 1: that was our first real opportunity to play in front
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  Speaker 1: of a decent sized crowd and just working on our
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  Speaker 1: communication on defense and how we're getting to adjustments with
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  Speaker 1: fans there in a little bit of crowd noise. So
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  Speaker 1: those are always great opportunities to just sharpen our sword.
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  Speaker 1: The secondary, it seems like there's a lot of really
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  Speaker 1: just count guys with personal players that can do different things.
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  Speaker 1: How much does that excite you think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things Mike mcdonlogy can do in the back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's always super exciting, and it's just about the
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  Speaker 1: guys out there owning their role and whatever your role is,
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  Speaker 1: understanding it, doing it to your best ability. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: really fun when you have such versatile guys that can
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of different things in this defense. Any
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  Speaker 1: think hose guys nice? I thank you, appreciate