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Rashid Shaheed: "I'm Excited To Be A Part Of This Organization" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good. Great, I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you got the news yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it was a bittersweet feeling. It was a bittersweet feeling, but.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of excitement, a lot of excitement from you know,
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  Speaker 3: my family, myself of course, just excited about the journey,
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  Speaker 3: excited to be here. I'm excited to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of the organization and so far it has been nothing
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  Speaker 3: but welcoming and uh, you know, just feeling good right now.
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  Speaker 2: Why the level of exciting, No, what do you know
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  Speaker 2: about the organization?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? So, I know it's a winning organization and that's
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  Speaker 3: what matters the most in this league. And I'm just
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  Speaker 3: excited to be a part of it and get to
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  Speaker 3: know the guys, the coaches, and just get acclimated with
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  Speaker 3: the culture around here.
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  Speaker 2: What what these last few weeks been like? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: tim like third de Bens, some rumors maybe this would
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  Speaker 2: happened for you had you had you been thinking that
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  Speaker 2: this might happen?
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  Speaker 1: And what did that been like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, uh, trying not to focus on the rumors.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was a lot of stuff circulating, but
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  Speaker 3: I'd had to stay focused on what you know, I
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  Speaker 3: had in front of me. But you know, now that
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  Speaker 3: it's here, I feel like I'm ready for it, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, everything is gonna be smooth, a uh
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  Speaker 3: smooth transition. That's transition be easier because it's Clinton running
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  Speaker 3: the offense and then he played with him last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, familiar with Clint. I'm super glad to be
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  Speaker 3: connected back with him. He's familiar with me, he knows
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  Speaker 3: my strengths, and I know what his mindset is going
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  Speaker 3: into games, and you know, it shouldn't be too hard
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  Speaker 3: to get acclimated with him.
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  Speaker 1: And just you know, buy my role in the offense.
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  Speaker 4: Probably your first glance at the playbook, is it pretty
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  Speaker 4: much what you know from a year ago or is
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  Speaker 4: there tweaks to it from.
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  Speaker 1: What you guys had in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty much the same little tweets here and there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, game planning stuff. But from the first looks
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  Speaker 3: of it, it looks pretty similar. It's just gonna take a minute,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, get use of the verbridge again and
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  Speaker 3: you know, just, uh, it should come pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: What were your reactions to seeing what Clint's offense was
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  Speaker 2: doing here in Seattle on his first year here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not surprised. The first you know minute heals
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  Speaker 3: with us in New Orleans. You know, it was super explosive,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of big plays and uh he
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  Speaker 3: just brought the same momentum here and yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 3: nothing but smooth and it's been fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any guys on the team or other
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  Speaker 2: connects that you know about here?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? S, I don't. I don't, but uh, I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to get to know everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And talking about this offense in terms of how it
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  Speaker 2: fits your skill set.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, I feel like there's a lot of wide
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  Speaker 3: open opportunities. You know, we get into a lot of
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  Speaker 3: play action and you know, stuff like that, so I
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  Speaker 3: could stress to feel vertically, I feel like I could
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  Speaker 3: bring that into this offense. And yeah, just in any
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  Speaker 3: type of explosiveness, I'm all here for it.
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  Speaker 2: What's been your impression of Sam Darnold from uh Afar.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't spent mosch time with him yet, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: just going out to walk through, he seems like a
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  Speaker 3: energetic guy, seems funny, seems super relaxed. He has a
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  Speaker 3: great control of the offense and that's you know, been
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  Speaker 3: on display throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: So far, white out to white out? What's it?
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  Speaker 1: What do you.
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  Speaker 4: Anticipate it being like with meeting?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was gonna be fun. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun. I'm excited to team up with him.
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  Speaker 3: He's had a great year so far, a great career,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just excited to be a share of the
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  Speaker 3: same field as as well as the rest of this
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  Speaker 3: offense to come together there and win some games.
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  Speaker 4: Chrystal Lobby obviously had a relationship with him from college
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  Speaker 4: and such. Did you ask him about what to expect
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  Speaker 4: from Jackson coming to join him up here?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he said he just super cool, chill dude.
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  Speaker 3: He just loves football and loves to play, loves to
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  Speaker 3: learn from others, and just loves compete. And you know
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  Speaker 3: you see that on it every Sunday for Seahawks fans.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't watch a lot of Saints football the last
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  Speaker 3: four years? Or what kind of player of the Seahawks getting?
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  Speaker 1: Uh uh?
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  Speaker 3: A guy with a lot of energy, a guy who
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  Speaker 3: loves to win, a guy loves to compete. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I can make plays on any level and I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to do whatever it takes to win. How do you
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  Speaker 3: look at your whole journey have you played at we
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  Speaker 3: were State, not the not the most high profile school
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  Speaker 3: in the world, probably, and then entering the league is
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  Speaker 3: a undrafted free agent and everything, and now you're you know.
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  Speaker 1: The four years in the NFL T time, right. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a great journey. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I just continue to keep my head
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  Speaker 3: down and keep working despite you know, M not being
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh coming out of college at you know,
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  Speaker 3: top school, you know FCS guys kind of get overlooked.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I love being, you know, an example
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  Speaker 3: of you know, you can make it from anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You've got an extensive track background, Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us more about that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I come from a track family. Both my parents,
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  Speaker 3: mom and dad, and both sisters run track as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I was just kind of born to run, I
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  Speaker 3: like to say.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big part of my game, and I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I try to focus on that as.
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  Speaker 1: Much as possible. What were the events that you ran sprints,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred, two hundred, four hundred in relays.
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  Speaker 2: Did you think about running in college?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No, I always knew I was gonna be a football player.
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  Speaker 3: I just kind of used track to, you know, help
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  Speaker 3: with football.
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  Speaker 2: You were up here in Seattle not that long ago
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  Speaker 2: for a game, didn't quite go to Saint Way at all.
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  Speaker 2: What's it gonna be like to be on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing from afar, it looks like a fun team and
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  Speaker 3: it looks like everybody's super close and it shows why
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  Speaker 3: you guys have had the success so far this season.
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  Speaker 3: What were your impressions of the Seahawks defense studying them
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  Speaker 3: for a week of film and then also playing against them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they were tough. They were tough.
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  Speaker 3: They fly around, you know, they make plays to turn
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  Speaker 3: the ball over. They have a lot of weapons and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys you gotta focus on, so it
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  Speaker 3: makes it tough for opposing offenses.
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  Speaker 2: When you didn't get drafted, what what were your goal
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  Speaker 2: What did you expect?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, I knew I was gonna get opportunity at some point,
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't know where. I just knew I had
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  Speaker 3: to be ready for the opportunity. And I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I did a good job of that. And uh now
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  Speaker 3: I'm here and uh, you know, Kah I'm gonna keep
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  Speaker 3: making that work.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think for you?
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  Speaker 2: What was the most important trade that that overcame?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he wasn't drafted or he was from Weaver State
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  Speaker 1: or what what did you do? What was the success
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  Speaker 1: passed to you? I would say my mental toughness.
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  Speaker 3: You know, not being drafted, you know, you could kind
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  Speaker 3: of get down and you know, kind of question you
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  Speaker 3: know yourself and you know, not know what's next. But
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  Speaker 3: as long as you stay prepared and stay ready for
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity, you never know what could happen. And that's
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  Speaker 3: exactly what happened in my situation. I was just ready
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  Speaker 3: for it and I took every opportunity that came to me.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm here in the mental toughness.
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  Speaker 4: Just what did you do about yourself and the league
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  Speaker 4: when you got the injury and then you've.
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  Speaker 2: Got yourself back playing?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Sorry you ask it one more time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, mental toughness, and tell me about that you got
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  Speaker 2: the injury. What did you do about yourself to get.
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  Speaker 1: Back and play right? Uh? I learned that could overcome anything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, injuries that come in this league.
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  Speaker 3: But it's all about how you, you know, get yourself
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  Speaker 3: back there's a lot of ups and downs with this game.
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  Speaker 3: It comes with it, and you just gotta realize that
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  Speaker 3: and you gotta stay down and stay around people that
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  Speaker 3: that love you and care about you, and it'll be
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  Speaker 3: just fine. Early Uh last season, h what did you
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  Speaker 3: learn about how uh your speed compared with what Chris
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  Speaker 3: was bringing and how defense is prepared for That opened
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  Speaker 3: up stuff for Alvin and the run.
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  Speaker 1: Game, right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, being able to stress to feel vertically, it opened
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  Speaker 3: up a ton. I feel like that's why we had
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  Speaker 3: so much success going on uh early on in last season.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, just the ability to for me and Chris
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  Speaker 3: to trust to feel vertically. It opened up so many
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  Speaker 3: different things. And yeah, no, that's that was kind of
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  Speaker 3: the name of our game on offense last year. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: something that we focused on and something that we were
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  Speaker 3: able to kind of keep point and you know, just
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  Speaker 3: execute it.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a story behind uh the number number?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I've warned it all growing up. I was
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  Speaker 1: my dad's number more to Pop Warner high school college.
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  Speaker 1: So why not wear it in the NFL?
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  Speaker 2: You can be a free agent at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 1: Is that anything on your mind now as you come here?
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  Speaker 2: Or you're just kind of worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Later, or uh no, I'm I'm here to stay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to stay, man, So I'm excited to you know,
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  Speaker 3: we can figure something out after the off season, but
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  Speaker 3: or as the season ends.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, hope you're looking at this is this is
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  Speaker 1: your new home long term? Yeah, yes, sir? Yeah, anything else,
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  Speaker 1: Thank thank you, guys.