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Clint Hurtt: "I Love The Spirit Of Competition" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Mm, this keeps a light. This is actually gonna be
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick if you guys let it be. That sounds
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  Speaker 2: like you wanted to na Na.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: A few lucks defense just funny.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Number one always good cause I'm happy to get
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  Speaker 2: in pads. I'm not a not a big fan of
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  Speaker 2: not being in past cause me, that's not real football eving.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have heard me call it underwear Olympics before, but.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's real deal. I had a great deal yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Today we gave up some things that we did
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  Speaker 2: not give up yesterday and really overall in camp.
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  Speaker 1: But that's good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it gives you something that will get on
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  Speaker 2: the guys and things that you gotta get corrected and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So but I love the spirit of competition. So there
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  Speaker 1: was some good some bad today. Would you think of
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  Speaker 1: that in six?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I love the spirit and the energy that he brings,
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  Speaker 1: uh playing this game.
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  Speaker 2: It's infectious, you know, with their young kid, that's just
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  Speaker 2: how he is all the time. Uh, that's something that
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  Speaker 2: everybody else will build off of. But he had a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a day. Super competitive, He's gonna tackle, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get it. Fits and obviously we know he can
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  Speaker 2: do as a cover guy, so really impressive day.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the time when you can really start to
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  Speaker 1: see what you guy do the s I would say everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything was under evaluation.
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  Speaker 2: The real stuff is when pads get on for every position,
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  Speaker 2: not just DB's probably because now you can.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge the football.
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  Speaker 2: And then when the pads are all so you see
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  Speaker 2: it with everybody every position. I just want to put
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  Speaker 2: it to them. But there's not a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: standing out. What's we're here? Yeah, he's a Mario has
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  Speaker 2: been impressive, you know, explosive, fast, twitchy, plays on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of a lot of screaming. So I've been
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  Speaker 2: really pleased with what he's been able to do since
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  Speaker 2: he's ernest.
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  Speaker 1: It's been good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he had an opportunity to get to
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  Speaker 2: get some extra players in today and go against the
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  Speaker 2: ones a little bit. So he's really came a far
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  Speaker 2: a long range as development. Uh, really give a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit to John Glenn. They did a great job
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  Speaker 2: with him and bringing him along. So I just want
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  Speaker 2: to keep seeing him take those steps. But he's a
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  Speaker 2: guy that complits, good guy. You know, his learning still
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  Speaker 2: annuances of playing in the box like that. He was
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  Speaker 2: a lot with us as the outside backers last year,
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  Speaker 2: so he brings the element of his blitzer off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So I like where he's going. I mean it's a
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  Speaker 2: great thing. I mean he's played all over the place
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  Speaker 2: on the meeting. That's not a big deal. I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's always played multiple positions for us on the d
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  Speaker 2: line all the way back to when I was here
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  Speaker 2: with him in seventeen. So that's no big deal. But
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  Speaker 2: it's Boston that he's doing that for us. He ain't like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: play making in the backfield pass rush, that's the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that's shown since we started practice.
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  Speaker 1: He's been living in the backfield, so kind on that
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  Speaker 1: to continue guys different mentality or the fans, there ain't
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  Speaker 1: different different. Yeah, I mean you got to earn the
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  Speaker 1: right to rest and pass it. And that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: And having some situation around this's these offensive formations and
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature where you know the runs are
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  Speaker 2: coming that we have to highten our awareness for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for our young players to do that. He discipent for
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  Speaker 2: on veteran guys that recognize them because if you do
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  Speaker 2: that and you're more consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Stopping the run. You're committed to it.
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  Speaker 2: Now you earn more rights to go rush the passer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the big thing. Last week finished tied for
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  Speaker 2: seven in sacks. Last year, we couldn't stop the run
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  Speaker 2: to save our life. So imagine if you get more
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  Speaker 2: opportunities or rush by defending the run game better.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the part that nobody ever talks about. We
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  Speaker 1: just fund like we got three sacks.
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  Speaker 2: In the season, but we finished tied for seven. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's always a nobody thinks how to can play,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: The last morning, straight up. No, it has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it is just your mentality, formation, recognition,
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  Speaker 2: understanding how you gotta play certain blocks, and anticipation of plays.
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  Speaker 2: Joey Banks some play if you're a creaming place, is
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  Speaker 2: you're safety gotta It's good to see that for the
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  Speaker 2: young guys and again and you know, really high quality depth.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to see those guys continue to grow. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But those a lot of those guys are.
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  Speaker 2: Making a lot of plays off camp Floy Mike has
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  Speaker 2: been rock solid, steady, you know, just playing with low
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  Speaker 2: pad level, which is a challenge being six to six
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  Speaker 2: good pad level physical.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see when the pads got on, how
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna respond.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a really really nice job, super smart kids
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  Speaker 2: who understands the playbook real well. And then Derek Hall
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  Speaker 2: has been really physical, violent on the edges, great motor, excited.
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  Speaker 2: So if the outside linebacker room is a deep in
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  Speaker 2: talented the room, you think Yon.
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  Speaker 1: Based big pack. You know the last days pads on
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  Speaker 1: where you've seen him progress the most.
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  Speaker 2: Compared to you always want to see the big jumpers
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  Speaker 2: from year one to year two with guys with understanding
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  Speaker 2: is It's kind of stuff I was talking about with
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  Speaker 2: run defense in my FEA started to show that h
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  Speaker 2: with coming along with that and starting to see things
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  Speaker 2: and taking the shots and and whatnot, So that that
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  Speaker 2: part has been really good to see. It's it's been encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to see him keep growing. I expect
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  Speaker 2: big things out of him.
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  Speaker 1: What's the beneficial you've made in your second year at
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  Speaker 1: GG These guys that think that maybe all that way
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  Speaker 1: year stress now especially too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously things slow down with the more experience,
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  Speaker 2: like being in this role kind of know what to expect,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the anticipation of certain things and and whatnot
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  Speaker 2: has been really really good and obviously just of where
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  Speaker 2: we need to go with our package and the calls
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  Speaker 2: and utilizing personnel better because the first year is the
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  Speaker 2: world when you're putting stuff together, things you're taking out,
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  Speaker 2: things you're adding inne you know. Really this offseason was about, okay,
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  Speaker 2: where we're gonna simplify, execute better, and obviously accentuate you know,
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  Speaker 2: your guys are gonna make plays, So that part's been
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  Speaker 2: has been slowed down that when you first get into it,
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  Speaker 2: obviously learning experience from me, there was a lot going on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, first time around, so a lot different this
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  Speaker 2: year offseason, second offseason. You have to die with.
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  Speaker 1: Pity and.
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  Speaker 2: Let him go the way how the rules going to
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  Speaker 2: CBA is down back enough, you know, so they protect them.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta make sure when it's time to go is go.
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  Speaker 2: Time improve as a run defender, and he has actually
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  Speaker 2: been committed to doing that, trying to work to get
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  Speaker 2: better in that facet. And he's just maximizing all of
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  Speaker 2: his rushings, you know, maximizing all of his rushes. He
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  Speaker 2: can do that, and he's no reason why he can't. Yeh,
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  Speaker 2: double Jesus, that guy I know, for no reason why happened?
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  Speaker 1: He ever young? What you've seen that of him as well?
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  Speaker 2: So much uh the same stuff we recognize, big physical,
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  Speaker 2: strong plays with great length in the run game. A
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  Speaker 2: tough guy to be able to move. Gotta keep working
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  Speaker 2: on his pad level, you know, but a good understanding
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  Speaker 2: of the scheme. But he's coming along well pay for body.
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  Speaker 2: Uh he's been doing that so far. I've been He's
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  Speaker 2: got the green dot on and all the communication and
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  Speaker 2: what Nott's been doing great. Interesting, that's big because you
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  Speaker 2: have a you have a calming influence and that's not
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  Speaker 2: a you know, Jordan did that last year obviously, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Cody had experienced with that last year and it's and
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  Speaker 2: they did great for what they had to do, but
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  Speaker 2: it's different. You're talking about the Hall of Fame player,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and this, and obviously he has a calming
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  Speaker 2: influence and voice so when he said something to Huddle,
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  Speaker 2: everything comes down. So it's been great having him.
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  Speaker 1: Julian Love had that intersection we sat. I guess what
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  Speaker 1: you've seen out of hand or so.
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  Speaker 2: Versatile, he can do so many things, uh, coverage wise,
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  Speaker 2: zone man, blitz, run fit, Uh, he's a heck of
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  Speaker 2: a football player. I think he's severely underrated, to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with. So it's uh great having him. But he
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  Speaker 2: provides a lot of versatility to us defensively, and again,
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  Speaker 2: you can never have enough smart football players. And uh
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  Speaker 2: he has another one that back in with Kandre and
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  Speaker 2: Bobby and all the other guys we got. I don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna short change anybody, but the safety's control and command
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So what's just can look like gif.
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  Speaker 2: You uh has great instincts and field that's what that
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  Speaker 2: goes on with that position. The nickel can be a
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  Speaker 2: hard transition for young people because now you got the
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  Speaker 2: whole field as supposed to just being outside.
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  Speaker 1: At one all day long.
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  Speaker 2: And he has unbelievable instincts and feel and understanding. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: we wanna continue to grow and develop him. And that's
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing competition there with him and Kobe.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in that spot for trying Kobe, I think from
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  Speaker 1: that person in the kind of safety last than the years.
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  Speaker 2: You know the whole You know, the thing about it
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  Speaker 2: is you wanna have guys that give you position flexibility.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously he's still a nickel for us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Kobe can play in a lot of different spots, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and again, cerebral player, really smartness.
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  Speaker 1: A really good communicator.
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  Speaker 2: You say, you heard me talk about what our safeties
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  Speaker 2: have to do in his defense. So it's really it's
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  Speaker 2: a natural fit. And he's a good football player. Anybody
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  Speaker 2: can take the ball away from the opponent. You wanna
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  Speaker 2: find ways to get him on the field.
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  Speaker 1: What if you're let's say you don't been the school
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  Speaker 1: to get both in the same game and just start outside.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see that that's get to be determined. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that shakes out.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought of the way Mike Jack and Trade brawlers,
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  Speaker 2: all those guys have responds having the top five picking
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  Speaker 2: their round, you all being competing, that was already in
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  Speaker 2: their natural spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, having Spoon there just ratchett things up even higher.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. But we've got a very talented group and the
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  Speaker 2: competition has been fierce and exciting to watch.
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  Speaker 1: What if you see from the channel of Washington coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Haste, consistent, physical, do his job, great leader, everybodies everything
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  Speaker 2: that you want to look for, and a guy to
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  Speaker 2: be a Seahawk leader, competitive, tough, physical, could do all
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  Speaker 2: the tricks of the trade of the job and help
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  Speaker 2: bring all other people.
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  Speaker 1: Along with them. Thanks Blake, thank you, thank you.