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Grey Zabel On Heading Into His Second NFL Season · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: How's your second NFL Trading camp going so far?
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  Speaker 1: It's going a little bit better than the first train camp.
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  Speaker 1: You can finally kind of take a deep breath and
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  Speaker 1: realize what's happening, understand kind of the game a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better, keep my head above water a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: and continue to get better improve.
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  Speaker 2: What's your conversations like with Lena Williams this year compared
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  Speaker 2: to last year's drink.
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  Speaker 1: Last year it was a lot of learning, understanding kind
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  Speaker 1: of how the NFL was, uh, the speed, what to
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  Speaker 1: look for all it's Uh, this year it's it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. It's how how can we get each other better?
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  Speaker 1: What do I do that gives his him problems for
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  Speaker 1: him to get better? And then it's mainly just asking
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  Speaker 1: a ton of questions, trying to learn as much football
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  Speaker 1: as I possibly can.
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  Speaker 2: The new offense, I know, sound you can really new,
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  Speaker 2: but that new? But but what the new coordinaria they
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  Speaker 2: get for you guys up front? It does it seem
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  Speaker 2: like it seems like a lot of new news.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of carry on.
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  Speaker 2: Group in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean quite a bit of carryover, And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's the the similarity of last year that that
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  Speaker 1: helps us play fast and understand the offense really well.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of new things twists and uh
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  Speaker 1: to the offense that allows us to gain a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more knowledge of the defense and what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: and then being the best play possible. Let him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think Bo's a lot farther along than I was
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, just his understanding of football and how
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  Speaker 1: he kind of moves and and plays the game of football.
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  Speaker 1: And he's doing an unbelievable job coming in here and
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  Speaker 1: kind of doing what a guy like him should do.
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  Speaker 1: And he's playing really good football and we're excited to
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  Speaker 1: see that, excited to see his.
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  Speaker 2: Future here as a head man to start practice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was in the shoes a year ago. It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't do anything right, and now it's uh.
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  Speaker 1: Being one rookie in the old line is tough. We
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  Speaker 1: had six last year that allowed us to to kind
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  Speaker 1: of pawn off every other day. But you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job and we're excited.
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  Speaker 2: How did it come to be that an offensive lineman
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  Speaker 2: that's their job.
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  Speaker 1: That was a John Benton deal. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: he started that from but last year, uh, like first
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  Speaker 1: or second training camp practice with fans, he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to say, we need a we need a
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  Speaker 1: hype guy to get the crowd going, and kind of
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  Speaker 1: took off from there. And thank goodness it's only for
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  Speaker 1: training camp and not for the season because it it
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  Speaker 1: get old pretty quick. You're gonna be working on the
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  Speaker 1: farm this summer. Yeah, it was hard work. The Dakota
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  Speaker 1: summers was not nice. It was it was way too
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  Speaker 1: hot out. But I always said, like when I was
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  Speaker 1: back home, I get to come out here and have
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  Speaker 1: fun and play football. Like I'm done working, so now
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  Speaker 1: it's having fun playing football and enjoying life. Yeah. Just uh,
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  Speaker 1: basically just scouting crops, kind of cleaning up a yard
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  Speaker 1: to build a feed lot there, and so I was
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  Speaker 1: having a pole fence throughout almost every day I was
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  Speaker 1: up there. So that was just an absolute pleasure. Just
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of why I'm not a rancher. So it
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  Speaker 1: was good. I mean, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it was I was excited to get out here, and
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  Speaker 1: it just made that much more enjoyable to fly out
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  Speaker 1: to the sift northwest the county. Yeah, Mount City South
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  Speaker 1: Dakota the metropolitan of seventy one population Mount City. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where it's at the farm when you're that year.
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  Speaker 1: My head agronomous also known as my father, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of one. He allows me to come out
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  Speaker 1: here and play this game of football, and he kind
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  Speaker 1: of holds down the fort back there, so it's it's play.
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  Speaker 2: Did you give you reports during the season.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, like yesterday he was up there. I
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  Speaker 1: got about twenty different pictures and videos of the crops
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  Speaker 1: and and all that stuff. So it's it's good to
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  Speaker 1: get a kind of a piece of home as you're
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  Speaker 1: out here playing. So it also just reminds me like
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  Speaker 1: there's more things in life than football if you have
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  Speaker 1: a bad day, so it's good to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: that and then at the end of the day come
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  Speaker 1: out and have as much fun as possible out here
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  Speaker 1: on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: You found that you've got more farming fans.
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  Speaker 1: Now than he was above that. I'm not that good
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  Speaker 1: a farmer yet, so let's stick to football.
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  Speaker 2: What's the closest kind of big city to them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Pier is about an hour and a half
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  Speaker 1: or hour and a half south and then Bismarck, North
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  Speaker 1: Dakota is about an hour and fifteen minutes north, so
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  Speaker 1: kind of right in the middle there. Great Blue Angels were.
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  Speaker 2: Here a little bit earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: What stuck with you about what they had to say?
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  Speaker 1: That they were remarkable? Just the attention to detail, the
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  Speaker 1: I would I didn't really know that much about them,
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  Speaker 1: and then they played a video and stuff and it
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  Speaker 1: was so cool to see kind of what they do,
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  Speaker 1: how they perform, how they travel, the new obstacles and
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  Speaker 1: challenges that they have for every single show, and it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's what I watched some YouTube videos on them last night.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty sweet. Yeah, they're definitely pretty high in my
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  Speaker 1: book for sure. Would you ever go, Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'd fit in a fighter pilot just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'd be too too tall, too wide, be
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  Speaker 1: super cool top guns like my favorite movie of all time.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely if they had a cockpit big enough
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  Speaker 1: with the high Wednesday canceled.
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  Speaker 2: That going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we noticed for sure. Sam still probably hates me
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  Speaker 1: as I'm asking to repeat the play like every other
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  Speaker 1: time they flew over, so uh, yeah, you could definite
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  Speaker 1: notice him and it's a win loss situation. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it sucks that they couldn't fly over today, but at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, it's pretty nice having a breeze out
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  Speaker 1: at practice for two and a half hours. So we
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  Speaker 1: take what we can get around here.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a couple of padded practices in Now, who
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  Speaker 3: do you look forward to going up against him one
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  Speaker 3: on ones?
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  Speaker 1: The most nobody, nobody on our defense line, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's one on ones is just tough. It's I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how realistic it is for an offensive lineman. It's
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  Speaker 1: just we're all working on our own thing and trying
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  Speaker 1: new stuff and all that. And I mean, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, like I say, Bira Murphy as
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  Speaker 1: he whoops me every single time we go one on one,
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  Speaker 1: but just having a pass rusher like that to get
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  Speaker 1: you better, and he's a he's a good enough pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher where any weakness that you have in a set,
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  Speaker 1: if you go to lateral or too vertical or don't
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  Speaker 1: punch early enough, he just exposes it. So then as
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  Speaker 1: he watched that film, it just continues to have you
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  Speaker 1: work on something day in and day out. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: with the guy like Riley Mills is the same exact
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  Speaker 1: way and you just you go across the line. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not fun when our defense has like eight guys
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  Speaker 1: that can consistently get home in a pass rush. So
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  Speaker 1: makes our jobs really hard during the week and then
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays and it's our greatest blessings for you. Mentioned
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  Speaker 1: he's really good. Where does that show up? But what
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  Speaker 1: does he do that makes Yeah? How long do you
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  Speaker 1: got and where do I start? I think, well, he
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  Speaker 1: wins a leverage battle right away. He's got the strength
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  Speaker 1: of bull rush, he's got the quickness to go side
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  Speaker 1: to side, he's got the ability to bend if he
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  Speaker 1: needs to get to an edge or bend a corner,
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  Speaker 1: and so you allow him to really kind of get
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  Speaker 1: outside of that A gap and plays like a three
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  Speaker 1: tech and give him a two way go or a
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  Speaker 1: three way go with a strength if he wants a
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  Speaker 1: bowl rush. It's it's the guy that I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's a ceiling on what he can do. And I
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  Speaker 1: think last year was so cool to see what he
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  Speaker 1: did was he was really just kind of in the
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  Speaker 1: A gap for most of the time, and you have
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  Speaker 1: Leo rushing as a three. So to have those numbers
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  Speaker 1: being an a gap nose tackle is pretty remarkable. I
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  Speaker 1: think it just shows you his his ability, his kind
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  Speaker 1: of floor of what he has and now it's just
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  Speaker 1: you set the baseline, you set the floor, and now
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  Speaker 1: it's just up from here.
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  Speaker 3: He seems to frustrate blockers with that, with that knee drop,
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  Speaker 3: and they know a lot of guys to specialize in that.
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  Speaker 2: As a lineman.
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  Speaker 3: If you go and get somebody like that, they can
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  Speaker 3: get on the knee like that and then hold you
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  Speaker 3: up and get them to make plays. Like how difficult
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  Speaker 3: is that? I mean, just dealing with somebody that does that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just get the ic yacht ready to
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  Speaker 1: put on your lower back because it's you're just your
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  Speaker 1: body's going to be bending and cranking the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: And he does it to perfection. I mean, to drop
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  Speaker 1: out on a knee like that and crank like it
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  Speaker 1: puts us both offensive linemen in a hard place and
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  Speaker 1: then it allows the linebacker to free up because we
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  Speaker 1: have to ben to on a on one guy like murphs.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can master it, it's it's a It's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty useful skill in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else, Guys