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Evan Brown: "Geno Smith Is A Leader Second To None" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Are all doing. Oh good, can't complaining. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: to start us off. How have you seen the offensive
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  Speaker 1: behind the campage? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: really one thing I've noticed is watching from film and
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  Speaker 1: games last year, from the you know, the two tackles
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  Speaker 1: obviously both being rookies last year, and then the development
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  Speaker 1: and the progress they've made over over what you see
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  Speaker 1: from game film last year to what you can see
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  Speaker 1: during training camp this year. I think they've taken huge steps.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm just trying to continue the continuity of
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  Speaker 1: the group. You know, we've got to be a group
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  Speaker 1: that's together, and you know that starts with me with
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  Speaker 1: my communication, making sure we're all on the right page.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm doing. So I think it's gotten well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, leading the position is that part what you
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  Speaker 1: got to do your film study and get up continue
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  Speaker 1: Then how do you know, get you you tune? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll talk on that last point. I think
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  Speaker 1: on you know, getting to know everyone as an individual.
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  Speaker 1: It starts really outside the building. You know, obviously we're
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  Speaker 1: here day doing all that stuff, but you really on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line start to kind of form those bonds
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  Speaker 1: off the field and spending time with each other, really
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  Speaker 1: learning about each other, and that's when you really build
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  Speaker 1: that trust and get to know how everyone you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in their lives. And once you have
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  Speaker 1: that trust, you know you're just gonna play better as
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  Speaker 1: a group. How did you end up kind of decided
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  Speaker 1: your time to Seattle anyway? I guess kind of looking
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  Speaker 1: back on that now, you are, Yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a good conversations with UH, with my agent, and
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  Speaker 1: just a position that he and I both felt that
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  Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to compete for, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: certain job at center where I feel I'm most comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: We hear aboutation, that's the most important. I would say
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  Speaker 1: it's a combination between making sure all five of us
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  Speaker 1: are on the same page, and that also extends to
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends in the run game, and then obviously
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  Speaker 1: making sure we're targeted right on every play. So that
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  Speaker 1: would be the two things when it comes to me
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  Speaker 1: for the most important, most important things in my job,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to communication. Why do you think you're
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  Speaker 1: most comfortable after some position. I think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: more natural position for me. It's something that I've played more,
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  Speaker 1: I've taken countless more reps. You know, I if I
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  Speaker 1: were to advertise myself, I would say I'm a center
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  Speaker 1: who can play guard. And it's just just feels feels
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  Speaker 1: natural to me, feels feels comfortable in there. Liss have
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  Speaker 1: been like coming in where you know, all the guys
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned four guys who all played the other last
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  Speaker 1: year start off again and you're the guy, You're the
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  Speaker 1: new one, and you're one all came and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Just what's that? Yeah? I think kind of any team
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  Speaker 1: that you're on the center is that guy. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've I've had that experience already, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: bringing in you know what I see and what I
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  Speaker 1: know to the team and and you know, being loud,
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  Speaker 1: trying to be that that leader among the five linemen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I've tried to do. What does it
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  Speaker 1: mean to you at this point to go into the
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  Speaker 1: start of the season as the starting to center, after
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  Speaker 1: after the years you've had the twins? Yeah, I don't really.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I look at it as any different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I still go out on the field each
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  Speaker 1: day and and just trying to do you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a statement that you can hear all the time, But
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's true as trying to get one
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  Speaker 1: percent better each day. And you know, as long as
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, improving something in your individual game, you're
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  Speaker 1: making the team better each rep and you know, thus
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  Speaker 1: making everything, you know, the offense better, the team better, everything.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's my focus when I go into each
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  Speaker 1: day and stuff you're standing over the ball, just the
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  Speaker 1: process and how much time you really have. Sure that
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  Speaker 1: it can vary between you know, how our our cadences
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  Speaker 1: are going and stuff like that, but you know it
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  Speaker 1: can be anywhere from a second to about four or
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  Speaker 1: five seconds, depending on a lot of variables. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty quick to try and identify, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing on defense, and what their rotations look like
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  Speaker 1: and what their personnel is stuff like that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty quick process for sure. Your first season working
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  Speaker 1: with Gino. Just want to make me a question. Oh
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  Speaker 1: hell of a guy. I mean, he's you know, football IQ.
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  Speaker 1: He's seen a lot of ball in his day and
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of different defenses. You know, sees
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  Speaker 1: the whole picture very well and does a great job
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  Speaker 1: communicating with us, you know, mid before place on you know,
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  Speaker 1: any checks and changes he needs to do. And then
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  Speaker 1: just off the field, I mean leader second to none.
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  Speaker 1: I mean his his leadership abilities of really from what
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  Speaker 1: I've had, really grown and he's taken on that true
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  Speaker 1: role and he's been fantastic. What is maybe the flip
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  Speaker 1: cloth version of your career. Let's see, I started racing
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  Speaker 1: when I was about four or five years old, raced
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  Speaker 1: go carts into kid cards, a whole bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: series open wheel stuff, and then went to closed wheeled
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  Speaker 1: where I raced bannedeleiros and Legends cars up until I
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  Speaker 1: was like fourteen or fifteen. That's when I called it.
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  Speaker 1: I outgrew the sport a little bit. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a small person's sport for sure. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: quite a small person. So you had one kind of
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  Speaker 1: bad craft sided like this. I've had a couple, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had. I had one where a second didn't really
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  Speaker 1: want to lose, so I just threw it into the
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  Speaker 1: last corner a little too hard and went wheel to
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  Speaker 1: wheel and flipped over and didn't flip my engine off
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  Speaker 1: and caught on fire. So that was a good experience.
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  Speaker 1: My parents weren't too thrilled to say the least. So,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was fun thing that you know, me
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  Speaker 1: and my dad did as a hobby per se growing up.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know, no, I I like to think
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  Speaker 1: I'm a safe driver. What have teammates or coaches have
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  Speaker 1: anything said about watching that week eighteen Packers Lions game? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: They they definitely, uh, you know, poke a little fun at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, thanking, thanking me specifically for for our our
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  Speaker 1: role in helping the team get to the playoffs there.
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  Speaker 1: But that's really really been about it, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: anything else all right, Appreciate you