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Bobby Wagner: "There Are Things That We Can Still Do Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's that up?
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  Speaker 2: What was it like having Crank Clark coming back to
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  Speaker 2: rejoin you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna be a great uh familiar face. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: someone that is very good at second quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's had a hell of a career, so it's cool
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  Speaker 3: to get him back.
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  Speaker 1: What do you remember him as us here your first time?
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  Speaker 3: Just how passionate he was about the game, the energy
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  Speaker 3: that he played with the game. You know, I TI
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  Speaker 3: at that time he was growing a lot as a
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  Speaker 3: person and just seeing the growth that he had over
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  Speaker 3: over the years is just special. And then just watching
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  Speaker 3: it from Afar, you know, when he was with KC
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  Speaker 3: and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It's it's just been really cool to follow his
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  Speaker 1: career and follow.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all the things that he's been able to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: He's another example of your example there.
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  Speaker 2: There have been others of guys who leave here sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's under not great circumstances, yet they come back. What
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  Speaker 2: is it about the environment or coach Carroll brings Grays back?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the culture. I definitely feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: the culture. Just the energy that you bring. I mean
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times like when you when I was
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  Speaker 3: first coming into the league and and was around for
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  Speaker 3: a while. We start adding gods from different teams. They
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  Speaker 3: will always say like, this was a special place and
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  Speaker 3: it's not like anywhere else, And you know, at the time,
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  Speaker 3: like I didn't have that experience. You know, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know anything else but what I was experiencing. So I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of it is that you go to
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  Speaker 3: other places, you realize how special this place is, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, you hope to not burn the bridge. So
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  Speaker 3: if opportunity presents itself, you were able to come back.
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  Speaker 1: And from what side special do you think? What makes
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  Speaker 1: that special or what's the most special part of it?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think, Uh, it's definitely the people. People in
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  Speaker 3: the environment, obviously, p I would say that's that's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: What are you guys gonna mess with?
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  Speaker 3: Theyre tryna alp a lot man, you know, his leadership,
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  Speaker 3: his play. I mean, that's an amazing player. It's very
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate what happened. But he's real stout and run game
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  Speaker 3: equally as good in the past, game, extremely smart, a leader,
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  Speaker 3: just all around this a good person, fun guy to
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  Speaker 3: play with, and so it's gonna be you know, tough
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  Speaker 3: to have him out, but I know he's gonna work
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  Speaker 3: hard and try to get.
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  Speaker 1: Back this defensive runn you guys have been on the
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  Speaker 1: last three games. I guess how sustainable do you think
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  Speaker 1: this can be? I mean you two areas of improvement
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  Speaker 1: still for you guys, or do you feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is sustainable.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know there's because there's you know, the
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things that we could still do better.
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  Speaker 3: Even in this last game. You know, we let some
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  Speaker 3: of the runs get out on us. That's stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we could fix. It wasn't anything that they did, per se,
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  Speaker 3: it was plays that we could have made to eliminate that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's also a reminder that you know, we got
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  Speaker 3: to stay on our things, do our things right, or
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  Speaker 3: things like that can happen. So there's still so much
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  Speaker 3: I feel we can improve on, and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we got the guys to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby was an encouraging tend in the entire second half
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  Speaker 2: Lots Week for the defense to still play as well
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  Speaker 2: as it did through the second half of the AZTE
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  Speaker 2: Weeks game. Is that encouraging for you guys to.
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  Speaker 1: Know that you can keep rolling? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, we we definitely respect our depth.
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  Speaker 3: We r respect the guys that you know we have
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  Speaker 3: coming in. Obviously, he's always been a next man of
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  Speaker 3: mentality no matter who the person is. But it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be hard to f you know, feel tennis shoes. I
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  Speaker 3: think we got guys that you know will play well,
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  Speaker 3: but Channel is such as a special player and I
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  Speaker 3: don't wanna overlook his impact to our team.
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  Speaker 2: With Deshaun Watson ale like, what have you seen on
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  Speaker 2: tap from cluck up there?
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  Speaker 1: Backup? Then?
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  Speaker 3: I think he he does a good job of getting
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  Speaker 3: the balls to to the his key players. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you watch that fort Nits game, you know he was.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons why they won that
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  Speaker 3: game was his decision making, the ability to use his feet,
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  Speaker 3: things of that nature. So he's a guy that you
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  Speaker 3: know you have to respect, and you know, the more
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  Speaker 3: reps he gets, the more time he plays, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you could just see him getting better and better and growing.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: That that kind of stops with us, but then can
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  Speaker 3: continue after we stop playing him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, y'all affording.
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  Speaker 3: Speed to your defense and I say that just because.
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  Speaker 1: How important is what speed? Speed? Okay, just because when you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys blitting you in your natural position, you're not even
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  Speaker 3: navigat tipped, and I figure, I'm gonna treat you that
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  Speaker 3: because of the speed. For the players, now important is
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  Speaker 3: that you get disguised. I mean, I think it plays
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  Speaker 3: a part, but I think you know, if you're playing
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  Speaker 3: a smart quarterback, they'll be able to tell a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it is just trying to disguise and manipulate how they.
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  Speaker 1: Slide the front.
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  Speaker 3: If you can do that, manipulate how the the center
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  Speaker 3: calls the slide, and maybe you can slide away from
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  Speaker 3: the blitz or things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: I think speed.
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  Speaker 3: Allows you to do that, but also the disguises that
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  Speaker 3: you know defenses are able to do. I think that
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  Speaker 3: messes up more than just the speed in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: because sometimes if you're on the slot and you're blitzing
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  Speaker 3: and you're way over there, like if it's a quick throw,
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  Speaker 3: you're never gonna make it. But you know, if you're
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  Speaker 3: able to manipulate the throw or manipulate you know, the check,
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh, you can get there faster and the
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  Speaker 3: speed it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 1: So it's communication play critical part, and how you're a.
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  Speaker 3: Disguising then for sure all plays all of its hand
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  Speaker 3: in hand, you know what I mean, Like if I'm
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  Speaker 3: if I'm blessing, I need maybe, uh Jordan, the safeties
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  Speaker 3: whatever to show some vice versas if they're blesching, I
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  Speaker 3: I gotta do it. And then it's you know, the
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  Speaker 3: back end too, Like the back ends got to show
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  Speaker 3: a different live because quarterbacks come out and they read
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  Speaker 3: certain back ends and whether it's too high a single
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  Speaker 3: high and now check or play and they might check
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  Speaker 3: it away from the blitch and then you know, they
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  Speaker 3: don't get nothing out of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think all of it just works together good
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  Speaker 1: with Jordan's second half of speak, Jordan was great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think you know, he was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit frustrating in the first half with how to win,
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  Speaker 3: but you know he's able to lock in and make
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  Speaker 3: some really really key plays and you just saw the emotion,
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  Speaker 3: Like every time he made a play is just more.
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  Speaker 1: And more emotion. And he's doing a really good job
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  Speaker 1: about that. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We kind of all had a had a conversation move so,
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  Speaker 3: but it was him. It's all him.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen much of that emotion out of him?
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  Speaker 1: He's you don't really seems kind of like a low
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  Speaker 1: key game. No, you see it.
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  Speaker 3: You see it from time to time, and I think
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  Speaker 3: there's you know, obviously naturally as a a a player period,
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  Speaker 3: like when you make a good play, you're gonna have emotions,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether he gets a sack or things of
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  Speaker 3: that nature, like you just you have emotion.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what's happening in last game.
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  Speaker 3: He was making some really good critical plays and key moments,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I think he's just brought out that energy.
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  Speaker 2: That's what when we talked to you is about bouncing
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  Speaker 2: back from that tough loss Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: You did that? How can you take that?
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  Speaker 3: Or you're able to do this past week and carry
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  Speaker 3: it forward and did this game and be out there.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's equally as important to bounce back from
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  Speaker 3: a win and a loss, cause sometimes you can get.
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  Speaker 1: Too high off a win and you.
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  Speaker 3: Lead that into the next game and then you don't
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  Speaker 3: prepare as well or you don't play as well. So
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  Speaker 3: all these games are important, every last one of them
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  Speaker 3: are important because it gets you ready for the next game,
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  Speaker 3: next game, and ultimately those games turn into championship games,
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  Speaker 3: and so you try to find something to get better
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  Speaker 3: at every single game and you hope you performed at
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  Speaker 3: your best when the time's right.
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  Speaker 2: And then last year something specific.
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  Speaker 1: If you're playing off of each other that year.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely I feel like their relationship cause I think both
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  Speaker 3: of them had like ten sacks or something right, So
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  Speaker 3: I definitely feel like the relationship obviously off the field,
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  Speaker 3: but then on the field, the the camaraderie, the the
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  Speaker 3: way they were able to work together with some of
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  Speaker 3: the stunts they were working, uh, running together. I definitely
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  Speaker 3: feel like that played the part in they success.
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  Speaker 2: With Willard Spoon, how impressing you've been with the physicality,
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  Speaker 2: I mean physicality of play, the way he's hit the
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  Speaker 2: guys at his size.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's been a pressure. I mean I watched the
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  Speaker 1: play that he had.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I forgot who he was playing when he kind
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  Speaker 3: of came off the side and hit somebody. But you
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  Speaker 3: come in, everybody says like you wonder if that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: translate into the next level, And you see it translating
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  Speaker 3: into the next level. He's not afraid to make tackles,
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  Speaker 3: he's not afraid to put his body in there, and
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  Speaker 3: this is just the beginning. I still feel like he's
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  Speaker 3: still learning, still growing, and so I think those his
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  Speaker 3: are gonna be probably more violent and happen more often
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  Speaker 3: once he starts to figure everything out.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen many other cornerbacks his size play with
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  Speaker 2: that kind of physicality?
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  Speaker 3: Not too many, to be honest, And just you know,
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  Speaker 3: he likes to hit and he likes to to make tackles.
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  Speaker 3: He likes to make plays like he thrives on that.
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  Speaker 3: And so I mean, I I don't really know who
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  Speaker 3: to compare himself to besides himself, but it's it's really
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  Speaker 3: cool to be uh, to be around him, be around
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  Speaker 3: his energy. I think he's similar to Jamal, just very contagious,
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  Speaker 3: positive energy. And so when he makes that play ignite
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  Speaker 3: the whole whole crowd, it.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like he's got a sense for the game.
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  Speaker 2: That might be he pretty advanced for a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Ye is that something?
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  Speaker 2: Is that something you guys see clickings that stand out
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  Speaker 2: to you as well?
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  Speaker 3: With him, I definitely feel like he's a lot further.
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  Speaker 3: But I think a lot of it is just care.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think he cares a lot. He wants to
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  Speaker 3: do do the right things, and he asks questions. I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of times when you come in I'm
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  Speaker 3: so young, You're so afraid to ask questions cause you
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  Speaker 3: don't wanna sound dumb or you wanna do this.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, he's not afraid.
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  Speaker 3: He asks all the questions he and it helps him
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  Speaker 3: understand and catch on things faster than most players because
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  Speaker 3: he's not afraid of anything.
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  Speaker 1: Are guys comparing their special cleats this week? Because he's
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  Speaker 1: got the best ones for the throwback man.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think it's It's kind of like everybody
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  Speaker 3: fights for a second. Let's it's like there's already a
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  Speaker 3: number one. Yeah, we don't have to say his name.
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  Speaker 3: I think his number is in between fifty five and
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  Speaker 3: fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's whoever after that? It's second place.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure you know those guys will have
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  Speaker 3: some interesting cleats or something like that. DK probably has
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  Speaker 3: something but dazzled or I don't know where you at.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm, what are you gonna have? Jordan's You can't be Jordan's, No,
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  Speaker 1: you can't. He knows that you can't be Jordans.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have to get a specially designed or did
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  Speaker 2: you just ask for aspasi a colorway or what?
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  Speaker 3: You just tell him to master Jersey and you know
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty simple. You know, you got Jordan's. You don't
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  Speaker 3: got a bedazzle or anything or do anything crazy like that.
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  Speaker 1: Jewelry. You know, I'm not saying because somebody's in the
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  Speaker 1: room or not, you.
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  Speaker 3: Say bedazzled, I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's going to do that, but I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. Thank you. Thanks good