Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Michael Dickson: "It's An Honor To Be Part Of The Seahawks Top 50"

Transcript

Michael Dickson: "It's An Honor To Be Part Of The Seahawks Top 50" · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I like to be named to the top fifty players
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: in franchise history. Pretty cool.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: You know, I haven't really taken my time here for
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: granted at all, so it's it's quite an honor to
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: be part of that.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Going on.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: That was with John right, I know, you guys overlapped
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: for that one training camp and you've talked about like
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: what a good looking metory he was. Is of course
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: of him going and saying, yeah, no, that was definitely cool.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Two punters on there.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: You're kind of an old man around here now, being
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: here as long as you are. How do you know
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: it's crazy going into my eighth year.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: I still feel like my rookie season was like a
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: season ago.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: I come out here and think about, you know, that
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: rookie mini camp where I was, you know, locked in,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: taking it super serious.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: And I still feel like I'm like that today.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, like I haven't taken any of
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: my time here for granted, doing everything I can to
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: leave here, leave, you know, when the time comes, leave
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: with no regrets.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: So I'm doing everything. Certain players will their off season
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: year to year will change with the physicality or something
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: What when you look back.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Was eight years. How does your off season change or
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: does it change? Yeah, no, it definitely does. You know, I'll.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: Take more time off after the season from hunting just
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: to let my body in those certain areas fully recover,
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: keep my lifting the same. But in seasons where I
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: like have the biggest changes from year to year, I
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: try and take something from every year, whether it's a
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: lesson that I learned in that year mentally or physically.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Or skill wise.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: Each year I should be better than I was the last,
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: just because you know, I don't want to have any
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: repeat years. I want to like improve in in some
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: way in every year and every game.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, constantly trying to improve. What would you want
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: to grove on going into Europe?
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can just get better at everything, but
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: it's more just having the right mentality when something doesn't
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: go your way, to be able to look at it objectively,
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: to be able to be unphased by whatever it gets
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: thrown at you in a game. I'll always really try
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: and pride myself on that, to be to be unphased
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: by anything and still execute at a high level.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: What was your reaction to finding out that there's gold
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: to be NFL games? I was pumped.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: I was pumped, and then the Seahawks got their Australian licensing,
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: so I'm like, I can kind of see the future.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Seahawks.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: Playing in Australia one day would be like dream dream
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: come true.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: So figure out. Yeah, yeah, I know I need to
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: need to get onto someone. You do you still go
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: back there, like in the off season or how much
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: have you spent it? Yeah? I spent about like ten
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: weeks there a year.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: I'll normally go back twice a year and spend time
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: at home and see family and friends and everything.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: How much have you seen interested in the American football
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: grow there just at the time you've been in the league.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to tell. I mean from my perspective,
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: it's grown a lot. But I don't know if that's
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: just because I'm playing in the NFL now and I
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: look out for it more, But it seems like it's
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: grown a lot.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: My family will always have people saying that they watched
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: it religiously and love it because most of the games
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: will be on like a Monday morning in Australia, so
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: people will get up early and watch the game.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's definitely grown. Do you watch arc
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: Rows and your favorite team? Yeah, I do.
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: I sign up for like an Australian football subscription to
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: watch watch my team. I go for Collingwood Magpies. They're
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: killing it, so that's good.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: You were sending out videos or how you got Texas.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: I think it was video YouTube videos they got Texas
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: and personal.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was part of like kicking program and
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: they were sending you know, they had contacts in American
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: college football. So then you know, I just was punting
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: at a local field, no helmet or pads, and they
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: just took his word that that I had what it
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: took to play at Texas and they invited me for
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: my official visit and that's when they offered me.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: If someone has said you're gonna have an eight year
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: NFL career, you have probam for a couple of time tracks.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: If I don't know, I don't know. I think that
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: that was always it was always the dream.
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: It was always that was My purpose in college was
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: to play the best I could to play in the NFL.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: But yeah, eight years, Yeah, I don't know if I
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: would have thought i'd be, you know, playing at a
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: high level for that long, but yeah, each each time
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: I I kind of achieve a goal, the goal just
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: gets higher. So it'll be fun to look back one day.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Did you follow the NFL much as a kid.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: No, The first, like, the first American football game I've
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: watched from start to finish was the first one I
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: played in in college, and then the first NFL game
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: I watched was actually I watched the Super Bowl once
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: and then yeah, since then, been watching
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: It anything else can expect, all right, appreciate it.