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Sam Darnold: "All Three Phases Have Each Other's Back" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We know that, you know, those guys are going to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to roll Saturday night. So we're excited about
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  Speaker 1: the challenge. Given how many.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries they've had and how much tight.
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  Speaker 3: Has passed since that Week one match up, how much
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  Speaker 3: can you gather from going back and watching that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's you know, we kind of look
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  Speaker 1: at everything. You know, we're we're obviously gonna watch you know,
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  Speaker 1: how they played us last time. I'm sure they're doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. So there's things that you can look at.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, again, there's there's things that happened to them,
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  Speaker 1: there's things that happened to us, And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: both teams have kind of evolved into their their best selves.
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  Speaker 1: I guess going into this Week eighteen matchup.
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  Speaker 2: What do you remember in the preparation for for last
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  Speaker 2: year's game end of the season to get a number
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  Speaker 2: one seed and and and then at the actual game,
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  Speaker 2: any lessons he took out of last year's game or atually?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wasn't sure, man, No, there was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think going into this one, it's you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's some things always you can learn from watching the
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  Speaker 1: tape and and that experience that you have going against
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  Speaker 1: a similar team in some similar scheme. But again, we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna you know, do what we do and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go about our process the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Would you learn most about of that experience team last year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, you know, the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 1: just you know, mentally, just understanding kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the gravity of the game and all that stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's just football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I think that's the best part about
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  Speaker 1: it is you know, people want to make it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit bigger than it is, but we're just going
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  Speaker 1: out there. We're playing against the Niners, a really good
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  Speaker 1: football team, a team that we're going to be prepared for,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know it's gonna be great though. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the fans are going to be into it. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a great atmosphere. But other than that, it's it's football,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we'll be ready to go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it really that easy just treated as another game
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing, given all the stakes that are you
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  Speaker 2: know obviously around play there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know a great point about you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through it last year. For myself, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: having that experience of going through a game like that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the biggest thing is just treating
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  Speaker 1: it like another game, understanding kind of you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you get out there, it's people make it out to
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  Speaker 1: be bigger and it's you know, it's prime time all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Fans are going to be great, So understanding
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to have, you know, that that type
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  Speaker 1: of feel to it. But once you get out there
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  Speaker 1: between the lines, between the whistles, it's it's football, And
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  Speaker 1: you know that's the best part about this game.
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  Speaker 2: Traditionally, playing the big game like this on the road
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  Speaker 2: be you know, people think I was hopefully that's the
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  Speaker 2: take advantage.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have pub seven to one on.
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  Speaker 1: The road this year.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a seven one last year. What kind of
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  Speaker 3: comments does this team say they get like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think I think the great thing
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  Speaker 1: about this team is no matter matter where we are,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the environment's like, we're gonna go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play really good football, and we're gonna play
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  Speaker 1: complimentary football, all three phases helping each other. And that's it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Sam, we've waited long enough, stand Arnold.
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  Speaker 1: That was good man, that was good. No, that was epic.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who that guy is,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, hopefully one day I can meet him
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  Speaker 1: and maybe sign a jersey for him.
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  Speaker 3: Who showed it to you?
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  Speaker 1: First of all? And then what was the reaction? I
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  Speaker 1: just I saw it online.
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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first someone brought it up to me and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And
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  Speaker 1: then that was the end of the conversation. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: get anything from that. And then I went back and
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  Speaker 1: I was just you know, scrolling look at some stuff
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  Speaker 1: that people sent me after the game, and and that
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  Speaker 1: came up and I thought it was pretty good. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, football question, some of the some of the
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  Speaker 2: slow starts offensively the last month. It just kind of
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  Speaker 2: individual games and teams that have done plays against you guys.
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  Speaker 1: With a kind of picture No, I mean, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think we can come out faster. I think that's at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, Like, you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: a plan of how we want to come out and
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  Speaker 1: attack a team and attack the game, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we just got to, you know, just do a better
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  Speaker 1: job of executing. And that's really it is.
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  Speaker 2: There is there like an energy component to that Glen
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  Speaker 2: was talking about getting in it out.
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  Speaker 1: Of the huddle better stuff like that. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's always there's always stuff that we can improve on.
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  Speaker 1: We're always focusing on getting in out of the huddle
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  Speaker 1: every practice, every game. You know, I'm I'm making sure
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  Speaker 1: the guys are in there, we're getting out, We're getting
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  Speaker 1: the personnels in and out. So yeah, just having a
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  Speaker 1: smooth operation, it's not it doesn't need you know, it
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  Speaker 1: can always be better. You know, even if we're snapping
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  Speaker 1: the ball at twenty seconds on the play clock, like,
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  Speaker 1: we can always be have a better operation.
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  Speaker 2: Games when you started fast, started slow, didn't turn the
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  Speaker 2: ball over? Did turn the ball over? Is there value
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  Speaker 2: in like having all those different game experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of this Yeah, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we've I've said it after games. I think Mike has
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  Speaker 1: said it quite a bit after games and its pressers,
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  Speaker 1: like this team can win multiple ways. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: would love on offense to play a really clean game
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  Speaker 1: throughout the game all four quarters, and you know we're
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  Speaker 1: working towards that. But yeah, I think that's that's something
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  Speaker 1: that we're all chasing, is for all three phases to
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  Speaker 1: play really really good football. Four quarters. But if not,
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  Speaker 1: we understand that, you know, all three phases are going
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  Speaker 1: to have each other's backs. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes a you know, a good team, that's what makes
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  Speaker 1: a resilient team as well.
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  Speaker 3: And how do you do the balance of that? So
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  Speaker 3: you need to take your shots too, You need to pust,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to take your opportunities to be aggressive the
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  Speaker 3: spots to keep it if it is going to get you.
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  Speaker 3: How do you kind of see some of those in
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  Speaker 3: the last month and change some of the turnout that
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  Speaker 3: you have had kind of where that balance kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Sits for you and be kind of yeah, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, turnovers, they're unacceptable no matter how
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  Speaker 1: they come. I mean, obviously tip some things like that
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  Speaker 1: you would like to say, oh man, that's out of
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  Speaker 1: my control, but you know, did I need to be
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  Speaker 1: in that position for that guy to tip that ball?
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  Speaker 1: And so I just I think that you know, all turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: all plays where you know, we can look at ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and be like, oh man, I could have I could
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  Speaker 1: have done better on that play, which is almost every play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you think about it, you can always
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit better every single play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's this team can continue to to to get better,
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  Speaker 1: and I look at that as me personally. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the best part about this team is we
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  Speaker 1: got a ton of guys that look in the mirror
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost like how can I be better for
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  Speaker 1: the team? And you know, if we just all have
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  Speaker 1: that mindset, which we do have, we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to get better and stack you know, really good
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  Speaker 1: days and stack wins.
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  Speaker 2: We've been hearing all year about how close together this team.
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  Speaker 2: That is kind of how that shows up on the
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  Speaker 2: pass somebody relatively new.
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  Speaker 3: Hear your opinion such March, When did you start to
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  Speaker 3: kind of get a.
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  Speaker 1: Sense of Oh, shoot, I'd probably say like ot AS,
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  Speaker 1: probably the middle of OTAs, just having some of our
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  Speaker 1: competition things that we did with the coaches involved as
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  Speaker 1: well on the field, just you know, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: when we had those competition periods, it was so fun
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  Speaker 1: and the guys were so close, guys especially that had
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  Speaker 1: been here for for multiple years together. But then you
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  Speaker 1: get in the locker room and you see the kind
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  Speaker 1: of love that you know, we we have for each other,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, that's unlike unlike anywhere I've been and
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  Speaker 1: you know it's special to see.
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  Speaker 3: We just talked to Ad.
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  Speaker 2: And he was talking about the Barcas Lawrence and leg
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  Speaker 2: and pact he has in his practice house.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a offense like on Held.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, I would say again going back to April,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's something that he's always done. And
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  Speaker 1: he would even if he beats an offensive lineman with
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  Speaker 1: a move in April or in training camp like he was,
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  Speaker 1: he was gonna go up to the offensive lineman and
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  Speaker 1: tell him like how he beat him and how he
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  Speaker 1: can be better for that. And that's something special that
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  Speaker 1: you know a guy like d law you know he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need to do that, you know, a vet like that,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's totally And this is what I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of talking about, is like he's looking at himself
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  Speaker 1: like how can I get better? But the next level,
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  Speaker 1: when you've played so long in this league is how
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  Speaker 1: can I make the team better? How can I make
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  Speaker 1: the guys around me better? So he's always looking to
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  Speaker 1: to make people better around him. And again, we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys like that.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are selfless or have to work at TA.
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  Speaker 3: Can you see that impacting other players and.
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  Speaker 1: If so, Yeah, of course, I mean d Law is
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  Speaker 1: perfect example, you know, but I think Cooper Cup is
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  Speaker 1: another example. You know, a guy that just comes in,
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  Speaker 1: he works really hard, and you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: that's leading by example. You know, he came in in
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  Speaker 1: OTAs and you know, he was working really hard, wasn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily saying too much, and guys just saw him work.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's he's got a lot of accolades
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  Speaker 1: from stuff that he did in LA And you know, guys,
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  Speaker 1: guys look up to him, whether he knows it or not.
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  Speaker 1: You know, guys are always kind of looking at him
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  Speaker 1: and what is he going to do? And he led
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  Speaker 1: by example. And and now you know with him having
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  Speaker 1: a voice in the locker room and in his you know,
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  Speaker 1: position room, you know that's that's invaluable. You know, to
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  Speaker 1: have a guy like that in the locker room here
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  Speaker 1: a line. He's one of a kind, a is one
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  Speaker 1: of a kind. And you know that's what we love
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  Speaker 1: about him, you know, just the energy that he brings
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline, you know, in this building in practice,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, that's a he's a special person, you know,
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  Speaker 1: someone that you know, he just does the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: He just does the right right thing every single play.
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  Speaker 1: When he's in this building, he's always looking to get better.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he's he's one of a kind and someone
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  Speaker 1: that we love. Thanks guys,