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Bobby Wagner: "I Feel Very Confident About Where We Are Going" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Stuff. I'm just a what ch'all got for me? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Did you come back here? And do you go to captain?
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  Speaker 1: You go to side now for the seven time? See
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  Speaker 1: art your thought something?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's humbling. Uh, it's a blessing. I really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it. For my teammates. Uh, just being away for
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  Speaker 2: a year and coming back and you know, s them
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  Speaker 2: still holding me in the high regard means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Long did they go yes today? Last night you were
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  Speaker 2: saying that you still hollerge or a bast or excuse
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  Speaker 2: to a fast?
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  Speaker 1: But I did do that. I go back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about with me?
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  Speaker 2: You mad to see him?
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  Speaker 1: What was the major? What about fast that? Uh? I
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  Speaker 1: remembered pretty much when I was there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I was kind of deciding I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: meet the presidents, to meet the dean and and figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to make it work. Obviously, cause I got
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  Speaker 2: a day job. So my major in college was business.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna get my NBA. Uh hopefully just starting
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  Speaker 2: this genuine.
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  Speaker 1: That changed the last.
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  Speaker 2: I mean obviously I got to know those guys differently
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  Speaker 2: than than going against them. And the thing too, you
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  Speaker 2: get to learn of people when you going through hardships.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to see, you know, people when they
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  Speaker 2: were doing uh, when everything wasn't going right, which I
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  Speaker 2: think that's when you kind of figure out who a
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  Speaker 2: person is. But for me, I I've always kind of
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  Speaker 2: circled La, not for any specific competitive reason, just because
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  Speaker 2: it's home and so it honestly it kind of goes
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  Speaker 2: back to that just being able to uh uh playing
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  Speaker 2: for my family. But they come here, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: really a thing success.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had some hardships.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a different form because you know, the
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  Speaker 2: hardships I've had here was was people that I've been
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  Speaker 2: around for a long time versus it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: new and so he was kind of figuring it out
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  Speaker 2: with people and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Make you grow as a person, grow as a player,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I think I'm better for it.
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  Speaker 3: How was that impacted your.
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  Speaker 1: Practice? Different people games? But then so how do you.
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  Speaker 3: Think that game?
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  Speaker 2: I just think it just makes the game more fun
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  Speaker 2: because you uh, you know, you know them, they know you.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you got to pick their brain on you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was asking them questions about things that they were
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  Speaker 2: doing uh against us when I was playing here. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, who would have thought that come back here
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  Speaker 2: and now? Will they use those things? Will they not
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  Speaker 2: use those things? Will I switch something up with I not?
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  Speaker 2: So it's saw chest, but it should be a fun game.
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  Speaker 2: You were saying last time we talked to you, is
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  Speaker 2: that you know your last game on that field regular season.
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  Speaker 1: Games didn't and well with injury, and you thought almost
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  Speaker 1: I just playing a game for perfect Nah. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I got a glimpse of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the preseason obviously, that last game, uh, when
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  Speaker 2: I was with the Rams. So I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be really really cool. Uh, but my mind is just
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to remain focusing and put
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  Speaker 2: some wins up.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of wins this year. You played every season.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that happens. What are you the trips
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  Speaker 1: to that? What did you shake a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 1: why you don't like that. I think consistency. I think.
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  Speaker 2: The hunger for knowledge and the people that I've surrounded
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  Speaker 2: myself with, whether it's business, health, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I've had a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: help me throughout the course of my career, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: be on the football field or from my health perspective,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I just have a great team. I've
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  Speaker 2: worked with a lot of amazing people, and I'm really
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  Speaker 2: consistent on what I do.
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  Speaker 1: What point in your career did you realize the support
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  Speaker 1: in field was so important? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was. I would say the first year,
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  Speaker 2: my rookie year, but I think I I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't able to put words to it. I think I
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  Speaker 2: was just leaning on people or you know. I always
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  Speaker 2: thought it was weird when guys wouldn't aks people questions
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  Speaker 2: or like linebackers that played in the league for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, they were like afraid to ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: I was never really.
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  Speaker 2: Afraid to aks UH coach Norton or Ray Lewis or
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  Speaker 2: anybody that was willing to give me feedback, knowledge, Patrick, Patrick, Willis, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: London Fletcher. All these guys been great for me in
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  Speaker 2: my career and very helpful. So I'm pretty sure I'm
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  Speaker 2: missing some people, So please don't feel offended.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever talk to you guys like.
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  Speaker 3: Rather than about the same time?
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  Speaker 1: Still?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I talk to Levante pretty often. We all we
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  Speaker 2: always text each other before the season. We always check
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  Speaker 2: in at some point during the season, and then after
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  Speaker 2: the season for sure, cause me and Levante Uh we
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  Speaker 2: were we were uh roommates in the at the Singer Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So he's somebody I always keep keep a close eye on.
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  Speaker 1: What made you wanna pursue an NBA now versus after
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  Speaker 1: your time? Why not? I mean it's more or why not?
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  Speaker 2: Like I like I said, I always feel like this
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  Speaker 2: game is as a a special game from the standpoint
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  Speaker 2: of you know, if you you start in August and
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  Speaker 2: if you lucky you in in February and it's February
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  Speaker 2: til next August, you have a lot of time to
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  Speaker 2: do stuff. So I try to find a way to
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  Speaker 2: feel that time that's gonna make me better, And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's it's gonna be it.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby, was there something about.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams the way they do things that impressed you
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  Speaker 2: what you got inside.
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  Speaker 1: The building and maybe you win them teem from the
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  Speaker 1: outside for.
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  Speaker 2: Him anything say about Yeah, I mean seeing sign up
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  Speaker 2: closest was uh was really really cool. See how he
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  Speaker 2: handled everybody like obviously it too like you see the good,
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  Speaker 2: but then you know, see how he is during adversity.
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  Speaker 2: That was cool. Cool, It was cool seeing him. It
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  Speaker 2: was funny because I would always walk by him and
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  Speaker 2: he would be on his phone and it was like
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, and so at some point I
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  Speaker 2: just asked him, like, what are you doing on your phone?
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just you always staring at it, and he's
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  Speaker 2: he was like reading. So he was always reading a
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  Speaker 2: book and I thought that was really cool cause it
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  Speaker 2: made me like, ah, I can read a book on
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  Speaker 2: my phone, and so that was cool. And AD's just
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  Speaker 2: a d walk in. He's on his like second workout.
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  Speaker 2: You know, his shirts barely on cause he's popping out
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  Speaker 2: of his shirt. So I see him do one sixties
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  Speaker 2: on a dumb bell and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, alright, let me try one forties. So girls, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's pretty strong.
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  Speaker 3: Gins Rigs. Last year now that you've had, which was
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  Speaker 3: a number.
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  Speaker 1: One quarterback with the US from Afar, I thought, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was a lot of growth in like confidence obviously
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have as many reps or like before
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  Speaker 1: he got kind of thrown in there, but he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the guy.
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  Speaker 2: But last year he got a chance to be the guy.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw, I'm from Afar. I'm you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: heard it, but like his preparation has always been consistent.
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  Speaker 2: I've always said, like if you watch him prepare while
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  Speaker 2: Russ was the the starter, like you couldn't tell the
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  Speaker 2: difference because he was preparing as if he was a starter.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it was a natural transition for
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  Speaker 2: him that when he became the guy, that he would
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  Speaker 2: just do what he normally did, but this time he
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  Speaker 2: would get the reps during the game. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think as the season went on and even now, he's
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  Speaker 2: more commanded of the offense, more understanding, uh, more input,
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  Speaker 2: more knowing you know, where you want the guys to
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  Speaker 2: run on certain routes or when you wanna check things.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's been the biggest thing, is just his
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  Speaker 2: his growth in that area and just being comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: this being his offense.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like this defense is.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's to be determined. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't had all the guys out there yet. We
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  Speaker 2: know how we wanna play, we know where we wanna
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  Speaker 2: get accomplished, but right now everything is just words and
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  Speaker 2: so s until we get out there and and start
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  Speaker 2: doing the things that we wanna do, stopping to run,
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  Speaker 2: being playmakers, flying around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have to prove that, and so.
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  Speaker 3: That's to come when do you use the run defense
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  Speaker 3: defense from last year without in the middle, Like what
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  Speaker 3: should out to you as far as the struggle fins
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  Speaker 3: thirty last year and.
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  Speaker 1: Where you can't need to improve the low friends.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I just think it's just more so just being
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  Speaker 2: gap sound and you know, playing with each other. I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of a lot of the guys like
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  Speaker 2: first time playing with one another.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a field thing.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think me coming back, I've been around
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  Speaker 2: Jordan for a while. I know he reads certain things,
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  Speaker 2: I know he does some certain things. I've been around
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  Speaker 2: Jay Reed, I've been around a couple of guys up front,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's a it's a field thing. It's a trusting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trusting the guy's gonna be where he's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be, Trusting I'm gonna be where I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been building that trust since since I got back,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel really confident about where we're going.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we don't I hope we don't just pass
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  Speaker 2: on it like this is not a big deal. That's
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  Speaker 2: an extremely big deal, something that we should definitely applaud,
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  Speaker 2: definitely appreciate definitely, you know, acknowledge, because that's not easy
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  Speaker 2: having that type of injury, coming back being ready for
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  Speaker 2: the first game, because I think, you know, when he
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  Speaker 2: got hurt, I don't think anybody thought that he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be ready for his first game. And to be in
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  Speaker 2: that position, looking great, moving great, it's an accomplishment in itself.
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  Speaker 2: So I really hope that we as the world don't
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  Speaker 2: just look over like that's a easy thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: This morning.
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  Speaker 2: Change you guys just talking about what your thoughts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was just more so it was more so I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of doing what I normally do, just uh
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  Speaker 2: talking to some of the culture as far as like
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  Speaker 2: scheme stuff, and I just I kind of walked through
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  Speaker 2: his office.
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  Speaker 1: He was blasting music.
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  Speaker 2: So I kind of just poked my head in there,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, we kind of just had a
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  Speaker 2: moment where we were like, man, like all the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of been through, the good, the bad
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  Speaker 2: or ugly, to be in this position, to be together
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  Speaker 2: starting another season trying to win a championship, Uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: something that again we we probably had a moment of appreciation.
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  Speaker 3: What was a music us.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Rick James see the ricks, Rick
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  Speaker 2: James or Prince. One of the two.
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  Speaker 1: It it definitely changed to Prince.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the first I can't remember the
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  Speaker 2: first song, but it was loud when it was something
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  Speaker 2: you thought it was possible a year and a half ago,
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  Speaker 2: and when you were released.
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  Speaker 1: At this moment.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, at at this moment last year, No, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think so at all. I I wasn't even I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even set on it. I just thought it was
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  Speaker 2: a a chapter that closed it again. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching guys like sharm kJ cam Cliff Uh. I think
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  Speaker 2: the only person that really got a chance to come
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  Speaker 2: back was Bruce, and so I didn't feel like it
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  Speaker 2: was a possibility. But you know, guy, he works in
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  Speaker 2: a serious way.
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  Speaker 1: So I love he was such a young lost first
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  Speaker 1: year that you feel.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a combination between you say some stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you advise to an extent, but at the same time
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  Speaker 2: you can let 'em learn your way.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how I I was taught. I was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of throwing the fire.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing different was the guys I was playing
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  Speaker 2: when was young too, like sharm earl uh kJ, all
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  Speaker 2: those guys around my age. Maybe Mike Benning was older,
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  Speaker 2: Cliff was older. But you know, really it's more so
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  Speaker 2: in the moment, you know, when you think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you give up a play, or maybe something happens
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  Speaker 2: and you think it's the end of the world. You know,
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  Speaker 2: having somebody there that reminds you like it's not the
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  Speaker 2: end of the world. Like, I think that's probably my
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  Speaker 2: biggest contribution.
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  Speaker 1: What do you vote?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of wins, a lot of growth on the
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  Speaker 2: defensive side, and you know, being at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the league. Collectively, together we have the talent, we have
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  Speaker 2: the people, we have the coaching staff, we have an
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  Speaker 2: amazing city back in US, and I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's possible. All we gotta do is just do it.
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  Speaker 1: Or leader I do rebooks on my phone.
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  Speaker 2: I still feel like I stare at my phone too much,
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  Speaker 2: so I step away from it. I l I'm more
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  Speaker 2: like listening books uh during the season, cause I'm like
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  Speaker 2: watching film a lot, or I'm looking at notes.
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  Speaker 1: So the last thing I wanna do is look at
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  Speaker 1: UH A smaller version of that. So what do you
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  Speaker 1: listen to? You? What do you listening to? What am
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  Speaker 1: I listening to?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: I am listening to crucial conversations and I just finish
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  Speaker 2: the firm and I listen to.
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  Speaker 1: The score. Takes care of yourself, Bill Wash Yes, so audible, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: audible if you wanna give me some free credits, if
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  Speaker 1: you wanted some free credits, or you know a partnership.
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  Speaker 1: I know a guy. What are you talking about? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's been great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I I've watched some of his film, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with him playing in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But he's really really smart, really fast, makes place, understands
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  Speaker 2: rops con concepts really really well, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: fun to be out there with him.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell that by what he does or does
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  Speaker 1: he does? Something explains.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the combination, like when you having a
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  Speaker 2: conversation with somebody and you know they're you're able to
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  Speaker 2: talk back, like concepts, Uh, whether it's you know, a formation,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a thing like you know, like before play
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  Speaker 2: we're talking like, hey, what you think is coming? I
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  Speaker 2: think it's more so that it's that type of feel.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, like the being able to explain your
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  Speaker 2: thought process and and seeing some of the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: he's able to see.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about kind of let the rupees, you know,
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  Speaker 1: build things out on their own, but be getting them
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  Speaker 1: some life.
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  Speaker 2: Has there been anybody in particular, not just looking just
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  Speaker 2: somebody younger since you come.
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  Speaker 1: Back, that you've taken a particular light into, uh.
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  Speaker 2: That's getting a little bit of extra your time or
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  Speaker 2: get attention, just trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Help your mom. I would would that's K nine count.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's probably yeah, he c He's probably the
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  Speaker 2: one because I feel when I left DK try to
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  Speaker 2: do the stuff that I was doing with DKA with him,
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  Speaker 2: So then we all naturally kind of uh, when I
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  Speaker 2: came back, we all naturally kind of combined, so we
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  Speaker 2: like work out together. We talk about different things. He'll
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  Speaker 2: ask me questions about what I'm seeing or how he
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  Speaker 2: tries to hit the whole things of that nature. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the person that comes to my mind off top
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  Speaker 2: now that.
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  Speaker 3: You you played with him obviously before your love and
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  Speaker 3: now that you have what's an underappreciated for what Pandrey does.
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  Speaker 1: What he does, I wanna sound cliche, but how smart
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  Speaker 1: he is. I think.
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  Speaker 2: Him his ability to control the defense from the back end.
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  Speaker 2: He's always been really oppressive since the moment he got here,
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  Speaker 2: and then the consistency on making plays.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many interceptions he had last year,
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  Speaker 2: but some of the catches that he was able to
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  Speaker 2: have last year were amazing catches. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: people talk about him being the best safety in the
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  Speaker 2: world enough. And you know, I think he has the
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  Speaker 2: numbers to prove it. I think he has the film
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  Speaker 2: to prove it. And so I think that's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of underappreciation. It is like sometimes he makes a play
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  Speaker 2: that's become so that we come so used to it
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  Speaker 2: that we don't highlight it the way that maybe somebody
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  Speaker 2: else does.
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  Speaker 1: You remember when you what you were taking when you
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  Speaker 1: walk off the field.
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  Speaker 2: After that that, I was like, dang, we lost again.
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  Speaker 2: That sucks, probably very bad than what I thought. And
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  Speaker 2: then like the you know, the the room was kind
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  Speaker 2: of quiet, so it was like, alright, the season's over.
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  Speaker 2: What's the plan. I think my mamy went to my
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  Speaker 2: my thought process went to like, alright, how can I
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  Speaker 2: be better next year? And so I just started working
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  Speaker 2: and started doing I don't I don't think I took
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  Speaker 2: that much time off. I started doing yoga maybe like
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: three or four days after the last game. And then
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: figuring out what was gonna happen. I knew there was
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that were gonna happen, a lot
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: of decisions gonna be made, a lot of changes, But
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: that stuff I couldn't control so instill until that stuff
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: kinda kind of started to unravel.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Then that's when I started to figure out what I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: was gonna do. They else cool, appreciate it.