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Byron Murphy II: "I'm Trying To Be The Best Version Of Myself Each And Every Day" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You're doing free good training, cap being good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting better every day. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking the right steps. I feel like I'm moving
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. So I'm getting better. Your coach
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  Speaker 1: said something similar to that, and then I asked him
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  Speaker 1: about how you've been approaching this professionally this season, off
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  Speaker 1: season and this preseason. How have you done that? One?
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  Speaker 1: Are the steps that you're taking really really, man, just
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  Speaker 1: taking it day by day, you know, step by step,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not trying to you know, overlook things or
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  Speaker 1: you know, look ahead. Just taking one day at a time,
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  Speaker 1: focus on what I need to focus on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: during that day, get better, you know, on that Pacific day,
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  Speaker 1: then come back out here, you know, and do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing again the next day. So just really just
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  Speaker 1: trying to be the best version of myself each and
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  Speaker 1: every day. You could see you getting to the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: the line board, and it means a lot, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he he been watching me. I've been I've
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  Speaker 1: been working, you know, I've been grinding, working on my game,
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  Speaker 1: my pass rushing, and it's uh, it's been coming a
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  Speaker 1: lot out here, you know, these past the past five days,
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  Speaker 1: a camp. So I'm looking forward to you know, this
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  Speaker 1: season and pass rushing getting to the quarterback. Looking back
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  Speaker 1: at last season when you watched the film, what are
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  Speaker 1: some things that really clicked for you in year two
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  Speaker 1: that helped you increase your production the way that you
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  Speaker 1: did across the world. Really just the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it slowed down a lot last year. Uh. And also
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  Speaker 1: to just you know, recognizing things, you know, just knowing
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  Speaker 1: with my opset on the field. Also to just knowing
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  Speaker 1: you know, how guys, you know, how guys want to
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  Speaker 1: set me at the line, or how gods just want
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  Speaker 1: to take set something period, you know, how they try
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  Speaker 1: to stop my power or speed whatever whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just locking in to just getting into
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  Speaker 1: the field room and really just studying and studying my opponents.
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  Speaker 1: Great said this morning, you've been putting them in a
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  Speaker 1: pilatder Well, how do you to sharpen each other? And
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  Speaker 1: what's that battle been like? Yeah, man, just coming out here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to get him, you know, the best
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  Speaker 1: look as possible, you know, give him the hardest, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever that looked like. You know, I'm always
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, get him better. You know, compete
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  Speaker 1: at a at a very high level, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: you know he can be prepared, you know for Sundays
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  Speaker 1: when he go out there and go gainst any other
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  Speaker 1: d line. You know, he could shut him down. But man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out here every day, you know, give him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, give him everything. I God, I'm giving my
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  Speaker 1: best every time I step on the field. Or this
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  Speaker 1: time last year, I'm talking about you taking kind of
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  Speaker 1: a year, two leads and sure enough you had a
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  Speaker 1: great year. What's what's the next step for you? And you?
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  Speaker 1: The next up for me is first first win football
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  Speaker 1: games again. Uh but this year, you know, our Pro
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. I'm looking for things like that, double digit sacks,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm holding myself to, you know, a high standard
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  Speaker 1: this year. That seem like a pretty touch practice out
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  Speaker 1: there today, just just kind of just cut of the
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  Speaker 1: way cams the seven year. Yeah, I mean that's normal, man,
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  Speaker 1: Just guys trying to get better. Ain't nothing nothing personal,
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  Speaker 1: Just guys coupede you know, Uh, get very attests out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it don't mean nothing to us. Man, we
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  Speaker 1: are brothers. At the end of the day. How's dad
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  Speaker 1: like dad? Life's good? Man? Dad likes treat me right,
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  Speaker 1: my little girl. She was just out here by the way.
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  Speaker 1: She about to be ten months uh soon, so it's
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  Speaker 1: treat me good man. It's probably like that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: best thing that could ever happen to me. What what's
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  Speaker 1: she up to now? Uh, I'm I'm not sure, but
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  Speaker 1: she's fat, like she gotta as she got a double
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  Speaker 1: chin now like it's it's crazy. You remember when yeah,
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  Speaker 1: remember yeah? And then I say