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Grey Zabel: "These Guys Are The Best Leaders I've Been Around" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We can do your first NFL faaring camp.
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  Speaker 2: But do you think I think they're coming along for you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, progressing every single day. I mean, you got to
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  Speaker 3: clean up a lot of things. And going against the
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  Speaker 3: guys that you go against uh on the Seahawks D line,
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  Speaker 3: they they magnify your weaknesses tenfold. So just trying to
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  Speaker 3: learn from them and take as much coaching as I
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  Speaker 3: can and progress as much as I can whatever you learn.
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  Speaker 1: Just from the first day of pad's going on till
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  Speaker 1: today one pass question.
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  Speaker 2: Or even before the pads.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you guys a little insider information. Coach
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  Speaker 3: McDonald probably doesn't want me to, but Leonard Williams, Jay Reid, Murph,
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  Speaker 3: those guys are really really good. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you guys knew that or not, but yeah, what's
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  Speaker 3: good about them?
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  Speaker 1: What's playing in the conversations that are happy with that?
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  Speaker 3: No, but to outsiders, yeah you'd think so. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: these guys are one of the best leaders I've been around,
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  Speaker 3: Like Leo talking to me the past few days during
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  Speaker 3: one on ones, helping me out, progressing my kind of
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  Speaker 3: past at what he's seeing, what I'm feeling like, all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. So I I mean, that's just type of
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  Speaker 3: person player he is, leader he is so uh, that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the culture that's being built around here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 3: I mean a lot of times I'm asking him questions. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: there's a few times that he's came out to me
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  Speaker 3: and just said like, hey, this is what I'm seeing,
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna help me out and all that. So
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  Speaker 3: just using kind of all the knowledge I can gain, uh,
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  Speaker 3: to be the best I can to get that kind
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  Speaker 3: of help.
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  Speaker 2: When you got no not at all.
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  Speaker 3: And it just kudos to the vets on this team
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  Speaker 3: for doing that because, as I found out, that's not.
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  Speaker 2: Normal around the league.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just a testament to what coach is building
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  Speaker 3: here and the type of culture we have with Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: And besides the D line, how about your teammates the
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  Speaker 4: on line, how they like you know, because they are working,
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  Speaker 4: how they helped.
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  Speaker 3: Guide you through this week and so camped, I can't
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  Speaker 3: even put into words how much I mean, a guy
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  Speaker 3: like Charles Cross has helped me so far. He seems
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  Speaker 3: like a big brother to me, kind of guiding me
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  Speaker 3: through the ranks and what to expect and kind of tips.
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  Speaker 2: And tricks and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So and I mean it goes all the way across
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  Speaker 3: the board from Olulu Jalen. So I'm pretty fortunate to
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  Speaker 3: be in the offensive line room that I am in.
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  Speaker 4: Double takes some times when you look across the jams
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  Speaker 4: and Dull plays drag guard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit just like the good old days
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  Speaker 3: back in Faro, North Dakota, playing next to each other,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of times it's like we don't really
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  Speaker 3: talk and then after a play.
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  Speaker 2: We like finish each other's sentences. So that's like a
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  Speaker 2: little jump scare.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it's awesome time to play next to him
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  Speaker 3: and a great dude as well.
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  Speaker 2: What you what more have you learned here from this
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  Speaker 2: first week being around coach Ben and this staff and
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  Speaker 2: just the way that everything's coming together, Like, girl, that's
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  Speaker 2: fly with that new with that new coaches. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Run the damn ball, That's what I've learned. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's where we're gonna hang our hat on this year.
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  Speaker 3: So it starts up front and we've got to be
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  Speaker 3: able to move the line scrimmage and then protect the
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  Speaker 3: guy behind us who's slinging the rock pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, right now, what kind of coaches. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's a tough love type coach. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: coach you up.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean every single question I have he answers
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like sometimes you can see my kind
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  Speaker 3: of wheels turning up in my head thinking about a
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  Speaker 3: certain play and he just answers it for me. So
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  Speaker 3: that just is a testament to what type of coach
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  Speaker 3: he is and can understand all the.
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  Speaker 1: Players, Charles, where you are behind the scenes, he's what
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  Speaker 1: is he like.
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  Speaker 2: When we don't see him?
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  Speaker 3: God? Du I mean, it's it's just so hard to
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  Speaker 3: describe our relationship because it's like we have so much
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  Speaker 3: fun on the football field together, just carries over into
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  Speaker 3: the meeting rooms with cracking.
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  Speaker 2: Jokes and and always laughing and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he's kind of starting to come out
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  Speaker 3: of his shell a little bit and accept the kind
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  Speaker 3: of leadership role that he's in and is continuing to
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  Speaker 3: push us.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, like we're having fun every
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  Speaker 2: single day.
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  Speaker 1: Whose idea was shut?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just had to show him a few Midwest
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  Speaker 3: traditions and stuff as we're really getting to know each other.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you could probably say I was a bad.
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  Speaker 3: Influence on him a ray that wasn't your first time
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  Speaker 3: in the game, not my first time, probably won't be.
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  Speaker 2: My last time.
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  Speaker 4: So anyone else to push that yet?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet, I can't really find it out here. Uh
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  Speaker 3: in training camp, I had to get that all up.
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  Speaker 3: So we're just sticking with water. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: That Rennigan was not going with me. Wand here gets
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  Speaker 4: your wandering dancing a little bit. I think seymore, did
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  Speaker 4: you guys talk about that?
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  Speaker 1: Was that a gold coming out here today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's gonna be days where the d line's kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting off the ball a little bit quicker and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to learn from that. And I think
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  Speaker 3: if we're gonna hang our hat on being physical and
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  Speaker 3: running the ball, we have to show up every single
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  Speaker 3: day right now. I mean Jack said it perfectly. We're
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  Speaker 3: processed driven. We're not result driven. It's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a roller coaster up and down some days and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and you just want to have that trend going linear
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  Speaker 3: in a positive direction. So that's something where if the
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  Speaker 3: head coach is saying that, like we really kind of
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  Speaker 3: need to look in the mirror and kind of figure
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  Speaker 3: out how we kind of can get the horses turned
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  Speaker 3: in the right direction and run the ball north.
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  Speaker 1: Technical detail wise, would it be noticed that it's important.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just being locked in every single play
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  Speaker 3: and having your best play be the next play, and
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  Speaker 3: so learning from every single play, because I mean, coming
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  Speaker 3: into this league as a rookie, it's not gonna be perfect,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, you got to
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  Speaker 3: get the job done. You got to keep the quarterback vertical,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to find a way to move the
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  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. So I think just understanding that and
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  Speaker 3: taking it into a mindset type deal, because sometimes, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're just gonna have to will yourself into a block
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  Speaker 3: and you might not have the best footwork of the
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  Speaker 3: hand placement, but you just got to fight and kind
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  Speaker 3: of continue to find that edge.
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  Speaker 1: Are such a big part of offensive line play.
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  Speaker 4: How much does it helping the interior group that you've
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  Speaker 4: played center, Jalen's.
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  Speaker 2: Played center, now Christian Haines is getting snaps there. How
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  Speaker 2: much did that to help the cohesion with that group
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  Speaker 2: when you guys are still working to learn the song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it helps out a ton. Anytime somebody
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  Speaker 3: can have experience at center and understand different positions and
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  Speaker 3: kind of what each position is needing.
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  Speaker 2: I think is super important because.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you want to walk
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  Speaker 3: up to a line of scrimmage and not have to
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  Speaker 3: say anything because everyone knows what they're doing. But at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, like you still got to communicate and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes over communicate on what you're doing to make sure
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  Speaker 3: everyone's on the same page. So I think any time
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  Speaker 3: you can have kind of crossover of positions is super important,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that helps out just the growth entirely
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  Speaker 3: of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned what's stand up keep still less?
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  Speaker 3: I would say just quickness off the ball and smartness too,
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  Speaker 3: Like there you just named off three elite defensive linemen
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  Speaker 3: and so being able to understand what they're thinking while
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  Speaker 3: still trying to get your job done, reading their stances
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  Speaker 3: and all that, and then them also playing games with
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  Speaker 3: you and mixing up their stance so you think one
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  Speaker 3: thing and they do another. So I think iron sharpens iron,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's gonna be really important that I
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  Speaker 3: get to go against these guys. The offensive line gets
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  Speaker 3: to go against these guys, because at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, when you make the guy across from you
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  Speaker 3: better he's gonna end up making you better because you're
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  Speaker 3: both just stacking each other and getting better.
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  Speaker 4: We want is kind of practice then to get on
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  Speaker 4: and over a little of today and as your first
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  Speaker 4: kind of NFL skirmiship with that, like if you want
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  Speaker 4: to talk to the last.
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  Speaker 3: Years, Yeah, I think you always got to understand that,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's a really high level intensity out there in
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  Speaker 3: the practice field. And I think at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, like we're so kind of focused on blue
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  Speaker 3: versus White when it's just the Seahawks playing together. And
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  Speaker 3: I think our leaders in that group Leo Oh Lou Charles,
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  Speaker 3: they kind of let everyone know like we're we're all
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  Speaker 3: one squad, and sometimes you do need to have kind
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  Speaker 3: of those some of those skirmishes to kind of ramp
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  Speaker 3: up the competition and kind of get the blood pressure
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  Speaker 3: going a little bit so everyone starts kind of competing
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  Speaker 3: at a different level.
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  Speaker 2: If that makes sense, great.
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  Speaker 1: How would you describe what the standard is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the standard is just get comfortable being on.
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  Speaker 2: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you have to move
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  Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. In this game, you got to
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  Speaker 3: give your running back a chance to run downhill, and
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  Speaker 3: then you got to protect your quarterback at all costs.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, we got a great QB with Sammy
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  Speaker 3: d and we got to keep him vertical and keep
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  Speaker 3: him clean, because when we do, it's pretty remarkable what
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  Speaker 3: he can do with the football and the guys that
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  Speaker 3: we have on the outside. So I think it's on
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line to keep him clean and let our
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  Speaker 3: squad kind of kind of go to work.
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  Speaker 2: Great apology, he's a good plan. Frascal, touch you.
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  Speaker 3: In New York if you have any reactions.
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  Speaker 1: To that as a player, and thoughts about safety especially,
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  Speaker 1: he's always.
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  Speaker 2: Great kind of I mean, thoughts and prayers go out
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  Speaker 2: to them out in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Just goes to show that you got to take every
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  Speaker 3: day as a blessing and got to be grateful that
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  Speaker 3: that you're still on this earth when you wake up
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  Speaker 3: and come to work every single day with a smile.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else, guys, dat you acreed my shrip dead.