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Tory Horton: "This Is A Great Spot For Me" | Press Conference - August 4, 2025 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How I was capturing you so far.
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  Speaker 2: It's great, you know, I feel like it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all you can ask for. I'm blessed to be back
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  Speaker 2: on the field. You know, just learning from the older
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  Speaker 2: guys in the vets so uh, just being able to
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  Speaker 2: get my feet wet again and you know, learn from
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  Speaker 2: those who done that at the high levels and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just uh following them being as sponged. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: feels great to be back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like things are kind of clicking for you.
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  Speaker 1: This last week or so. Camps is like finding a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it kind of you know, all goes in uh
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  Speaker 2: mentally you gotta you gotta get on the board and
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  Speaker 2: you know try to you know, dial in on that
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  Speaker 2: mental aspect.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it's a lot of tool right just going out
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  Speaker 2: there and uh, you know, just having your physical ability
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  Speaker 2: just to execute plays. You gotta know what you got
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  Speaker 2: and what you want to do, and you know, certain
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  Speaker 2: certain yard marks. So uh, I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just being dialed in and like I said before, learning
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  Speaker 2: from those older guys on you know, certain spots and
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  Speaker 2: how to read some kind of you know, different coaches
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  Speaker 2: and techniques.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of you know, helping me.
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  Speaker 2: Out a lot to sharpen my game, or you're getting
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  Speaker 2: want more experience working with Sam out there.
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  Speaker 1: What goes into trying to develop a chemistry with a
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  Speaker 1: new quarterback, particularly when you're now playing at different level
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  Speaker 1: and now getting all these opportunities. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about where your poor is at?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm I'm still learning and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're still trying to get on that that same wavelength.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm the young and coming in and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've watched Sam, uh and he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: his thing at the league. So I asked him a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of questions. You know, I'm asking them, uh
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  Speaker 2: what he what he's looking for, his time and his teamwork,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I can make sure I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: best spot position for him, and you know, just to
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  Speaker 2: make sure we're in that same connection without you know,
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  Speaker 2: actually you know being that like.
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  Speaker 3: Verbal on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, So that's just you know, come with practicing
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  Speaker 2: and you know, taking time and at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day when we go on meet you know, I
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  Speaker 2: asked a whole lot of questions, Uh, My mom always said,
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  Speaker 2: never hears to ask questions, So you know, I pick
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  Speaker 2: everybody brain.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the need is totally in the
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  Speaker 1: past now or is that are you kind of back
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  Speaker 1: to her?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like the knee things kind of in
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  Speaker 2: the past. You know, the training staff they did a
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  Speaker 2: great job of me, and you know, we still stay
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  Speaker 2: on top of it to this day.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's just something.
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  Speaker 2: That you kind of just got to stay on top
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  Speaker 2: of and it's been helping me out a lot. So
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  Speaker 2: when I go out through on the field, the knee is.
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  Speaker 3: The last thing, like the last of my words. I
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  Speaker 3: just go out there and perform. How closer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was training, uh, you know, I excel
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  Speaker 2: Orange County. I got clear I want to say, two
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  Speaker 2: to three weeks before the combine, and uh, the trainer
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  Speaker 2: was like, we're gonna work and we're gonna see how
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  Speaker 2: bad you really want to go run at the combine
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  Speaker 2: and they you know, they.
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  Speaker 3: They gave it to me. Really it was like it's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be hard, but we believe with your competitive mindset
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  Speaker 2: you can go do it. So, uh it was it
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  Speaker 2: was quite a push, and you know, I wasn't one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent. I probably I wasn't even seventy percent. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that just go to my competitive nature of going out
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  Speaker 2: there and you know, seeing those other guys run and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just me getting a couple of runs. H
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  Speaker 2: During my training, you know, my training, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I could just go out there and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of wing it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we sharpened up my technique a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't do too much because I didn't have much time,
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  Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, I just you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Just went out there and run. No I did not, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I did not.
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  Speaker 2: I was I was kind of mad at the combine
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  Speaker 2: that I ran the four four one.
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  Speaker 3: I knew I had four to three emmy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: the knee wasn't all the way there yet. But I
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  Speaker 2: did want to show those scouts and people that I
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  Speaker 2: am a competitor and I've been on top of my
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  Speaker 2: rehab game, and you know, I'm still on top of
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  Speaker 2: it and now I feel like the knee is not
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  Speaker 2: even an issue, So I feel great. You learn about
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  Speaker 2: yourself in the last year, is going through an injury
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  Speaker 2: with the timing to that before the drop and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Just what's that teacher?
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  Speaker 2: H Yeah, I just feel like it's more than just
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  Speaker 2: the on field aspect of the game. Uh, it's a
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  Speaker 2: huge mental toll to be out for that long and
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  Speaker 2: out for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, of course, it being my senior year, in
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  Speaker 2: my fifth year, I wanted to come back and achieve
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  Speaker 2: some things.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We did achieve one of those things, which was going
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  Speaker 2: to a bowl game. But you know, it kind of
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  Speaker 2: puts you in a dark place. And I have a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good fan base. Shout out to them. Uh, they
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  Speaker 2: kind of you know, kept kept me, you know, well
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  Speaker 2: grounded and you know, just just well just just safe
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just her. So I kind of I
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  Speaker 2: kind of just found that, you know, just that mental
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  Speaker 2: that mental I don't know, it's just like that mental circle.
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  Speaker 3: For me to just you know, stay at it.
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  Speaker 2: And it kind of just showed me that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta find you know, a different drive.
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  Speaker 2: It's not always on THEA feel. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of looked at my you know, just my rehab
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  Speaker 2: at a different level. I looked at my studying at
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  Speaker 2: a different level. I was still studying no defenses and
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  Speaker 2: some of the players while my team was still playing,
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  Speaker 2: even though I couldn't you know, physically be out there
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  Speaker 2: or travel with.
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  Speaker 3: Them during that time.
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  Speaker 2: Just on the TV, I was, you know, kying of
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  Speaker 2: call out defense and you know the reads and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. And you know, now when I you know,
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  Speaker 2: watch film and study and when I ask questions, I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking all those because you know that all that plays
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  Speaker 2: apart and you want to be on the same wavelane.
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  Speaker 1: Have you gone through all that? How cool was this
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  Speaker 1: Saturday when you're you know, you're in little midfield, there's
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  Speaker 1: fans there and everything. I mean, it's like you kind
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  Speaker 1: of got to do that.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing, you know I did. I do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of praying, and you know, I thank God. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he deserves all the credit. He's he's always watched. He's
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  Speaker 2: always been watching over me. And uh, it was just
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  Speaker 2: a blessing to you know, be back on the field
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  Speaker 2: and you know, at this level I'm at now, that's that's.
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  Speaker 3: Something you could just dream of.
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  Speaker 2: And Uh, at the end of the day, I just
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  Speaker 2: try to go out there, put my best before, make
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  Speaker 2: the best out of the opportunities. If that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: special teams, if that's you know, just just going out
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  Speaker 2: there picking up the block. I want to do it
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  Speaker 2: to the best of my ability, you know, because at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, this is all I dreamed
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  Speaker 2: of and when I was a kid, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: said I do anything to get to this spot. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of you kind of live in
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  Speaker 2: that dream and and uh no, I'm going day by
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  Speaker 2: day just trying to get better every day.
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  Speaker 1: Where you've been able to stack a bunch of practices
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  Speaker 1: now together, where you're gonna fully healthy and really getting
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  Speaker 1: versus this offense.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you love about this offense troubles?
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  Speaker 1: How you fit into it now? Do you have a
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  Speaker 1: chance actually running a lot of team rafts?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's a it's a great it's
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  Speaker 2: a great spot for me. You know, just getting more
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  Speaker 2: doubt into the playbook. You kind of you kind of
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  Speaker 2: slow things down in your head.
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  Speaker 3: Uh uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of things that you know, we got
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  Speaker 2: in this offense, and we got a lot of weapons,
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  Speaker 2: and uh it's just just a lot of shifts and
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  Speaker 2: movements and you know, deep deep kind of routes and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and just intermedia you kind of get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it and you know Clinton, he's a
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's a he's a hell of oc and
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  Speaker 2: you know he he knows what he's doing for sure,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's it's a it's a great I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's a great offense.
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  Speaker 3: For me to fit in.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, of course we got cool Jack's
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  Speaker 2: mvs Now Bobbo, all those guys who like key roles
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  Speaker 2: in this offense and just me, uh coming in from
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  Speaker 2: like coming from to ot As just learning behind those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You you see, like you know, this offense is going
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  Speaker 2: to open up and it's you know, it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of you know, huge and big plays,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a lot of players who can make those
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  Speaker 2: big plays.
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  Speaker 1: Like you keep yourself with more of like kind of
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  Speaker 1: stretch your field.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I don't really know so far. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I just kind of go out there and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just just try to be the best, the
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  Speaker 2: best version of me. You know, if it is underneath,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna you know, go one hundred and to percent.
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  Speaker 2: If it's deep routes and I gotta take the top
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  Speaker 2: off and uh, you know, just clear it up for
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  Speaker 2: the underneath.
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  Speaker 3: Our you know, the inter media routes.
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  Speaker 2: You know I do that too, So uh, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the roles ain't you know, really kind of like
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  Speaker 2: it's not really solidified yet.
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  Speaker 3: And you know the special thing about clinton offense, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You you could be anywhere, everywhere at any time. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, I'm still uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: learning the offense. And you know, blessed to be with
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  Speaker 2: Jackson all those Vets and uh Coop, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: learning a lot from cooping them and how to you know,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of study those those players and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, just connect.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, there's something you could emulate from uh Cooper and.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson and steal something from that.
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  Speaker 3: Skill wise, what would you choose to get?
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Coop shiftiness and you know his creativity in
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  Speaker 2: his routes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I'll watch him at practice, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just like, damn, that's I gotta put that in my bag.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he he got some he got some crazy
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  Speaker 2: top of the route moves and you know he I'm
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  Speaker 2: always asking him like how he's reading leverage and things
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm just that sponge.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask a lot of questions and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just his decisive decisiveness on the field, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just how smart and to where he is on the field.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't with Jacks. You know. He he's a shifty player.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's real shifty.
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  Speaker 2: And uh he he has a quick trigger release and
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  Speaker 2: just his ball skills. You know, he's uh, he's he's
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  Speaker 2: he's ball friendly. You know, if you if you watch
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  Speaker 2: him on the field, he's always you know, friendly to
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback. He has you know, strong hands and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been picking this brand a lot too on you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, he kind of just told me
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a focused thing and you know you secure
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  Speaker 2: first before you make that move, and you know it
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  Speaker 2: just shows you know, your legs kind of take over
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  Speaker 2: at that point and you know you roll them now.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel like those those attributes right there.
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  Speaker 3: I liked them a lot from them.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to from your first pre season and.
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  Speaker 2: This week, Uh, I probably say executing At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, I want to be perfect.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to be perfect, but you.
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  Speaker 2: Know that's just my the chip I have and you
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  Speaker 2: know mistakes are going to happen. But you know, if
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  Speaker 2: I have a mistake, the mistake is going to be
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent. And you know I watch film every
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  Speaker 2: day to you know, perfect my you know, perfect my
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  Speaker 2: craft and just being the best position and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just the best version of me out there on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna be my first time being back,
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, playing wise. So you know, I'm fired up,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. So uh just trying to dial in and
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  Speaker 2: make sure I'm getting everything you know, tied up and
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  Speaker 2: got the screws tied.
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  Speaker 1: So hoping to do some returns too, or I mean
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  Speaker 1: doing kind of both returns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pump return Uh, probably probably back there getting some
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  Speaker 2: of those in. Been learning from a great return Steve Simms,
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  Speaker 2: you know, picking his brain back there, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so you know, just just picking his brain
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  Speaker 2: and learning from him, making sure I'm getting in the
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  Speaker 2: right spot, I'm catching it, you know, send it up
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, and just how to read you
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  Speaker 2: a gun.
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  Speaker 3: And things like that. So uh yeah, it's all love.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had a little bit of an incident,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: love each other and you know we have a strong
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have a strong team chemistry. So uh
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't it wasn't really none, uh no, nothing much.
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  Speaker 2: He just kind of cleared the air and it looked
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  Speaker 2: bad out there, and you know it was nothing like that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, full.
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  Speaker 3: Accountability and everybody moved on.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a great uh you know, just a
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  Speaker 2: great speech.
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  Speaker 1: The things that you'll end up being still in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: What does that kind of grace team?
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  Speaker 3: Uh uh.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of been hearing that a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of stay away from the media. I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of been douting and focused on myself.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. Me hearing that, you know, it's it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a you know, motivation for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, Uh, God
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  Speaker 2: had his uh you know, he had his plan for me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm happy I ended up in Seattle, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of teams who knocked me because of the injury, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's a it's a hard pital swallow,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I'm blessed I'm here now and I
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  Speaker 2: just want to make the best of my opportunities. So
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  Speaker 2: me hearing is still a the draft. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to go out there and capitalize in. You know,
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  Speaker 2: let let those people know that I'm back and you
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  Speaker 2: know I'm full.
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  Speaker 3: Go, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Who you got coming up Thirsday? What you got coming
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday? I know you're leading in your family heart
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  Speaker 1: the last year, the coming up on the now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I got I got my uh my mom, dad,
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  Speaker 2: and then uh I got my sister, My sister and
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  Speaker 2: her husband coming up, and my fiance would be here.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it'd be good.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be good showing anything else. Thanks, appreciate you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you guys,