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Nick Bellore: "We Have A Resilient Group" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We can proceed now. I didn't have time to prepare
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  Speaker 1: prepare one. I was not briefed sufficiently for this, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll do my best. How did Jake Bobo do on
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  Speaker 1: his between two bolo ors debut? He did all right.
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  Speaker 1: It was decent started the season, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for a rookie, it was not bad. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: you did it look like I coached? No? He No,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't take any of them either. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: give him a couple of them, but he was not
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  Speaker 1: receptive of that at all. Going back to last week's game,
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of the oh yeah, it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big it was Army Navy week for him,
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  Speaker 1: so he was all gassed up, and uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: really exciting. Uh you know, I think to see him
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  Speaker 1: make up those plays like that, He's been doing it
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  Speaker 1: all year. So it doesn't you know, didn't surprise anybody
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  Speaker 1: or you know, but it's something that he's a great
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  Speaker 1: asset to this team and he makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: big plays and he's a great player out there, kind
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  Speaker 1: of an unsung hero on special teams and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they you know, Debo back there returning, which you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously is something you don't see all the time, so
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  Speaker 1: we were, you know, prepared for that and for him
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  Speaker 1: to make plays like that was awesome. You've obviously been
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  Speaker 1: around a lot of teams in a lot of years
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. How do you see this team
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  Speaker 1: kind of handling what's going through right now? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we're in a you know, a tough stretch right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I think we have a resilient group.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, obviously it's been tough the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks and it's not how we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go at all, but I think it's a testament to
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  Speaker 1: the guys we have and you know, top down, from
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  Speaker 1: Pete down, you know, it's business as usual, but we
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  Speaker 1: know that what's at stake now, and I think keeping
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  Speaker 1: things consistent from our coaches to the guys in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, like no one is way, no one is
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  Speaker 1: different than you know they have been or acting in
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  Speaker 1: a different way. Obviously, you know, things get more tense
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  Speaker 1: as you know, the season progresses, no matter what situation
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  Speaker 1: you're in. You know, for us now, it's obviously you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to win games, period, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: reflected you know, every day in practice and and I
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  Speaker 1: think in the meetings and everything, but it's nothing that
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  Speaker 1: you know, really game to game to game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we always talk about it, but we don't treat games differently.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously games matter more or less to the outside world,
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  Speaker 1: but to us, it's all kind of the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about that yesterday. How confident are you that
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  Speaker 1: this team has what takes to kind of flip it
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  Speaker 1: here and finish strong. I mean, we do, We do
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  Speaker 1: have it. It's a matter of us just executing when
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  Speaker 1: the game comes on Monday night. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: the game plans, we and we have the players and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff is just a matter of us executing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think obviously we always talk about it, but practice,
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  Speaker 1: and if you just watch practice, it's I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you would see a team that's gone through the rough patch.
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  Speaker 1: I think guys are upbeat and you know, ready to
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  Speaker 1: you know, do what's asked them on Monday night. So
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone's excited for the opportunity. How different is
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  Speaker 1: the vibe here in a losing streak like this compared
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  Speaker 1: to you know, other places that you've been when those
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  Speaker 1: teams have been down. Yeah, I think it's more tense here,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is a good thing. I played a
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  Speaker 1: lot of places where it was just what we did
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  Speaker 1: was losing every week, and and here, you know, over
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  Speaker 1: the years, I mean I've been here a while now,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's uncomfortable and it should be because it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, everyone's you know, livelihood is basically at stake,
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, you I think obviously winning is
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing. And you know, some places in
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  Speaker 1: the past that I've been, it's like it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, if you want, it was great, but
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  Speaker 1: you're more or less you're week in, week out, you
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  Speaker 1: were losing, and that's not something that happens here. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously we have to write the ship, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's important that we, you know, say the course of
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing and continue to get better at executing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for the games, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the rest will take care of itself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be fine. I'm just an old guy getting you
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  Speaker 1: got to get me a rascal to go around the building.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot of conversations league level
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  Speaker 1: kickoffs and how to make that play safer, what they
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  Speaker 1: would do to adjust. There was more conversation this week.
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  Speaker 1: How closely do you follow that and what are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that as a play at part of the game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I don't know how much I've contributed
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  Speaker 1: positively to the health and safety of that play. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, for a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we mentioned, you know, John earlier and
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  Speaker 1: myself and a bunch of guys throughout this league, guys
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  Speaker 1: that are now coaching for us. You know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: our livelihood really, and I think that I think obviously
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  Speaker 1: the strides to make the plays healthier and everything it's
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  Speaker 1: safer for all of us is a great thing. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen the I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the statistics on it, with the fair catch rule
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  Speaker 1: and everything, but I don't think it's been as drastic
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  Speaker 1: as as I think everyone thought it would be. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you have the teams that kick touchbacks no
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  Speaker 1: matter what, and then you have the teams that you know,
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  Speaker 1: kick it short no matter what. So I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, things are kind of
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  Speaker 1: unchanged for us. You know, when we when we play
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  Speaker 1: the Niners, for example, they bring the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. We bring the ball out. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of obviously the rule change I think has affected
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit, but I don't think it's been
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  Speaker 1: as drastic as I think people we thought going into
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  Speaker 1: the season, like going on that goal line package, decent
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  Speaker 1: chance you see that you know whatever, you don't call
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  Speaker 1: their push push part of the we show just when
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  Speaker 1: you study that play. What's so difficult about the way
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  Speaker 1: they do it. I mean obviously you got to you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the O line to the quarterback. They have you know,
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  Speaker 1: a great unit, one of the best offensive lines in
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  Speaker 1: the in the league, and then obviously a quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: is playing outstanding, that's a great player, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, they've really nailed it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's all kind of a leverage thing and they're able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, get that push that I think is uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's been hard for teams to stop. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're doing our best to you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of study the play because you don't see it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. A couple of teams have tried to emulate
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  Speaker 1: it with you know, mixed results, but really from top down,
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  Speaker 1: they have all the guys to do it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of kind of being the lower guy
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  Speaker 1: and getting more push than them. Really, what about makeup
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  Speaker 1: is important at a time like now when you are
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  Speaker 1: trying to snap the streak and get things going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's the consistency and the positivity because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not always easy to be positive when things
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  Speaker 1: are going the way they are, and obviously there's things
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  Speaker 1: that need to be that we address that. It's like
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  Speaker 1: we have to execute this better, on and on and
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  Speaker 1: on that. You know, you might not see the positive
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  Speaker 1: you know, spin on things or whatever. But I think
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  Speaker 1: anytime you have, you know, a superior coach being consistent
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  Speaker 1: all the time, I think it's a great thing because
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get day in and day out,
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  Speaker 1: and you can always rely on that. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: get that everywhere because obviously there's you know, like stresses
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  Speaker 1: and and different things go on during the season. I
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  Speaker 1: think having him be able to kind of keep the
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  Speaker 1: ship straight, I think is amazing because, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty rare thing in the NFL and any
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  Speaker 1: level of sport or probably any business really. For a
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  Speaker 1: while there, what's it like having this job at Christmas time.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. I haven't really Uh, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: at the phase where the kids, you know, it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: not all about presence, but uh, they end up responding
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  Speaker 1: more to the actual box that the gift came in
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  Speaker 1: than uh than anything inside of it. But I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just start to kind of reflect a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more when you have kids, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just in terms of uh, your time with
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  Speaker 1: them and then being able to Obviously my kids are
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  Speaker 1: probably too young to kind of really grasp the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I play football. And I've said it before. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: I doubt they'll ever believe that I played, but I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to, uh, you know, kind of make them proud
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  Speaker 1: if they ever do catch a glimpse of it someday.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it is different than just being like
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a single guy or whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having you know your little ones, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: know your family around with which is great. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's extra special now anything else. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks yep h