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Michael Jerrell: "This Is A Dream Come True" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, heading today, doing good? Congratulations, how you feeling feel good?
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  Speaker 1: Dream come true? You know? So, yeah, I feel real
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  Speaker 1: good today.
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  Speaker 2: You wanted to be the guy from Findley that made
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  Speaker 2: it in the NFL as it's a big step for
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  Speaker 2: you on that path. Yeah, it's a it's a big step.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously work ain't done. I still gotta keep climbing, climbing. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: can't get never too high, never too low, Gotta stay
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  Speaker 2: right on the steady plane, and you know, more work
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  Speaker 2: to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like your first training camp preseason things? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it wasn't good. I mean there was
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  Speaker 2: some rough start at at the beginning. It was a
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  Speaker 2: little rough trying to get adjusted. But once I got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of my technique down, working with George uh,
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  Speaker 2: George fen my vet uh, you know, he helped me
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  Speaker 2: out a lot, helped me slow it down for me
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. And the coaches obviously the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, it's been pretty good after that jump in.
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  Speaker 1: Competition from Finland to the NFL. Was there a point
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  Speaker 1: in camp where you realize, like, yeah, I go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've always felt like I belong from the
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  Speaker 2: day the day that got my number called, So I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is this.
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  Speaker 1: A nerve wracking a couple of days or did they
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  Speaker 1: kind of get hint to you?
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, I don't know. I'm the type of
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  Speaker 2: person like you just never know what to expect. So
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a little bit, you know, nerve wrecking,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. But you know, once one o'clock hit,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I'm going good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: So person you told, I didn't call anybody. I just
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  Speaker 2: went straight to meetings and man, just shoot, Thank the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: That's why that's what I call the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So what did what did George try to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about this weekend? I can you was an une drafted
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  Speaker 1: guy once upon time to evacuate this.
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  Speaker 2: Going to college and name then get to this point
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  Speaker 2: you getting the shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Just put it on tape, you know, put it on tape.
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  Speaker 2: Make it you know, if say worst comes the worst
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks didn't want me, you know, put it on tape
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  Speaker 2: to where another thirty one of the teams want me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, make your tape undeniable. Make it to where
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  Speaker 2: you know they can't cut you, they can't get rid
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  Speaker 2: of you. And just keep working, put your head down
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  Speaker 2: and whatever happens. You know, happens. Uh, you know it's
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  Speaker 2: all it's all written. So did you get Yeah, one
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  Speaker 2: o'clock just passed, and I'm like, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Was any part of your which part did you have
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  Speaker 1: to work at? If any? Was it the footwork, the
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  Speaker 1: leverage in terms of you know, you used this teaming
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  Speaker 1: up to the NFL level. Can't you repeat it again? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Which was more difficult for you to work at?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the feet or was it more the leverage
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  Speaker 1: in terms of your position?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I would say, I mean, I would say a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of everything, you know, like what I could
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  Speaker 2: do in college, I can't do it out here like
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  Speaker 2: these dudes vast these guys want the big pro Like
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  Speaker 2: some of the rookies went the big programs, had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the best training, and I'm going against some
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  Speaker 2: of the world's best athletes and some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: I could do with D two, I can't do it
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  Speaker 2: out here.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to really work on everything. Probably happened.
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  Speaker 2: But your your college coach obviously usage before if you
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  Speaker 2: kind of Obama had a chest to talk to him
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  Speaker 2: or were you able uh he uh he called me,
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  Speaker 2: But I couldn't answer his call. Matter of fact, I
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  Speaker 2: did TELLT. I told my coach. So I told my coach,
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  Speaker 2: had to tell him first, because you know, if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for him, man, I wouldn't even be in this
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  Speaker 2: situation right now. You know, he's y'all looking at a
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  Speaker 2: product of Corey Allen.
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  Speaker 1: So it's meaningful for you that Towers on that uh team.
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  Speaker 2: He said Tower. Oh yeah, that's my dog. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: my locker buddy too. So yeah, I see that.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Hoff always makes you go first in the drill,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, always makes you go first to
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  Speaker 1: the sled drill? Why is that? Because I was struggling
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  Speaker 1: with it.
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  Speaker 2: So I used to I used to be like in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the pack, obviously, letting the vets go first,
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  Speaker 2: because vets they gotta go first, and the rookies, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you fall in where you're supposed to fall in at.
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  Speaker 2: And I would always go, like, one day I go
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  Speaker 2: for like five or five or six on the sled,
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  Speaker 2: or one day I go like three or six on
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  Speaker 2: the sledge. So he said, you know what, Mike up first,
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  Speaker 2: he got, you get up in the front, you do
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  Speaker 2: the sled, And that day I think I want six
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  Speaker 2: for six on it, and uh so he just been
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  Speaker 2: making me go ahead it first, just so I can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just do it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I I kind of like psyche myself out sometime about
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  Speaker 2: doing the sled, Like, I don't know, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Just a it's just a thing. It's I like it though,
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  Speaker 1: it get me better. Are you know someone who.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoys being underestimated or would you like to like get
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  Speaker 2: pass that? That's something I like to get past it
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  Speaker 2: at some point. I mean, we all here. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter where you went to school at, or where you
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  Speaker 2: came from or your journey. We all here, so eventually
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  Speaker 2: I gotta gotta get past that.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like? Uh I I can't remember when
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  Speaker 1: you when you told us your most attendance at college ones?
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  Speaker 1: But what was it like? Playing like so far and
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  Speaker 1: you know the Dooman the other day? I an't match that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big difference from your college experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of weird because like in college,
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  Speaker 2: I say, the probably the biggest crowd I probably played
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  Speaker 2: in front. It was probably maybe about like fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: maybe at my home games, maybe around eleven on a
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  Speaker 2: on a on a big game about around eleven. I've
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  Speaker 2: played in crowds as small as like two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: then going into so far in every game more and
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  Speaker 2: more people starting to come, and then going to loomit
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  Speaker 2: that was like, I don't know, I kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like a movie a little bit with all the firework
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  Speaker 2: and everything the likes, and it felt.
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  Speaker 1: Like a movie. Nah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I can hear a lot on the field.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as loud as I mean, we on offense,
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  Speaker 2: so they don't get loud for us, but a defense,
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  Speaker 2: I could just imagine what it's like to be on
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  Speaker 2: the defense or the opposing offense alright.
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  Speaker 1: Else, why was it so late? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I played. I played all the way up
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  Speaker 2: through high school. I just didn't have a a position.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of like a tweener guy, like I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a a real position cause I played basketball
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  Speaker 2: and I was called this undersized so but I've a
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  Speaker 2: I played lineman, but I wasn't. I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a lineman tight end type for my first first
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  Speaker 2: few years. And then they moved over to the defense,
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  Speaker 2: and defense wasn't really my thing, so they moved me
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  Speaker 2: back over to the offense a line my last year college,
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  Speaker 2: I mean last year high school, and I just worked
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  Speaker 2: at it. I was athletic, more athletic than some of
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  Speaker 2: the players, and playing in the MIC conference going up
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  Speaker 2: against me. I want to getst a Division one athlete
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  Speaker 2: at end every week and that just got me better
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  Speaker 2: throughout the whole year.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.