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Leonard Williams: "We All Want To Be The Tip Of The Spear" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Or is it just another game on the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely get intrigued by matchups, you know. We we
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  Speaker 1: try to go back to the process as much as possible,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we've been doing a good job of
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  Speaker 1: that as a team. But overall, it shows me what
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  Speaker 1: type of team we have when I see guys get
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  Speaker 1: excited when we were playing against a good team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we got the Rams coming up this week obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of outside noise and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: but overall, you know, it's about our process and it's
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  Speaker 1: about just becoming better as a team. But we are
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  Speaker 1: excited to play this game.
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  Speaker 3: I would have the Slime treat you, Aniclideon Slime treat
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  Speaker 3: you the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was actually for d Law and t Night,
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  Speaker 1: But I think as I was, you know, taking my
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  Speaker 1: pads and helmets and stuff off, d Law just wanted
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  Speaker 1: me to be the guy to to slime them. So
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  Speaker 1: me and b Murphy stayed after and to carry of
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  Speaker 1: the guys. And we're excited for them getting that award.
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  Speaker 3: What's always the biddest challenge of the the sew McVay offense.
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  Speaker 1: Defending to me is just how fast Matt Stafford just
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  Speaker 1: gets the ball out. They also run attack players and
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  Speaker 1: hurry up pretty well, which that has been affecting our
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  Speaker 1: defense at times throughout the season. We're aware of that,
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  Speaker 1: we're practicing it, and it's something we're trying to clean
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  Speaker 1: up and fix. But I think them being a hurry
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  Speaker 1: up offense, staying on track with the way they run
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  Speaker 1: their offense is is going to be the challenge. Attack
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  Speaker 1: players like the center and the whole old line is
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  Speaker 1: like pretty much set up and well, the center's like
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  Speaker 1: the last person out pretty much just like the whole
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  Speaker 1: offensive set. The center gets out there last second, puts
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  Speaker 1: the ball on the ground and just snaps it, so
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  Speaker 1: you kind of catch the defense standing up or not set.
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  Speaker 4: The numbers say and really good when teams blitz him.
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  Speaker 3: What allows him to operate?
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  Speaker 1: So honestly, he just does some freaking stuff. Sometimes on
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  Speaker 1: film there's times where he has his back completely turned
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  Speaker 1: to the receiver and he's getting sacked and pressured and
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  Speaker 1: he throws the ball like over his shoulder like we've
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  Speaker 1: been looking and makes it completion down the field and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's impressive, but at the same time, I think
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  Speaker 1: as every week, as every quarterback, as much pressure we
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  Speaker 1: can get in his face, as much time as we
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  Speaker 1: can hit him, it will affect him like it affects
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  Speaker 1: every quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like every time your defensive line dominates the game,
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  Speaker 3: the game goes your way. Do you guys feel that
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  Speaker 3: responsibility each week to bring that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is something we've been saying since
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  Speaker 1: OTAs and since camp that you know, we want to
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  Speaker 1: be the tip of the spear. We want to be
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  Speaker 1: the best group on the defense, and we want to
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  Speaker 1: be the best group on the team. We want to
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  Speaker 1: be the team, the group that you know puts the
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  Speaker 1: team on our back. And you know, we have as
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  Speaker 1: much respect and and for you know, every other person
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  Speaker 1: on the team obviously, but I think we know that
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  Speaker 1: when we stop the running, when we are allowed to
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  Speaker 1: pass rush, you know, things turn out well.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard multiple players.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard multiple players refer to their position group as
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  Speaker 2: wanting to be the tip of the Spirit's a type
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  Speaker 2: a team when every position group feels like that should
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  Speaker 2: be them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's great. I mean, it's good to have
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  Speaker 1: that type of competition in the building. It just pushed
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  Speaker 1: us to be the best that we can. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if the dB group, you know, happens to be the
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  Speaker 1: best position group on the field, even in practice, it's
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  Speaker 1: like we're going to hear a lot about it in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. We're going to hear about it in
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  Speaker 1: the in the team meetings and all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like a competition every single day. It's not
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  Speaker 1: even just on Sunday. It's a it's in walkthroughs, it's
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  Speaker 1: in the way we communicate, it's in the way we
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  Speaker 1: run to the ball, it's in the way how many
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  Speaker 1: how many shots are we taking on the ball? In practice,
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  Speaker 1: we compete at every single thing. We all want to
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  Speaker 1: be the tip of the spear. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what's our team.
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  Speaker 4: On those attack players in the tempo is the key
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  Speaker 4: is to tell the center and you got to get
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  Speaker 4: the calls and you guys set before you see the center.
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  Speaker 1: The tail is the rest of the offense. So when
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  Speaker 1: the when if the guard is like already in the
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  Speaker 1: stand so the tackles are already in the stands, like
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  Speaker 1: everybody's pretty much set. But then the off the center
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  Speaker 1: is pretty much back here talking to the quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: then he walks up with the ball. Uh, that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much to tell. But they also just run a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hurry up that's different than a tack play, and
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  Speaker 1: that's something that we have to just be on top of.
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  Speaker 1: Our defense has a lot of communication and checks and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So this is one of those games
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  Speaker 1: where when we see them hurrying up, we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to line up and go.
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  Speaker 3: The plays a lot of three tight ends more than
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  Speaker 3: most teams do. How how does that change things for
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  Speaker 3: you guys?
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  Speaker 1: It's changed a little bit of Uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: way the Rams operate. They're in giant personnel a lot
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  Speaker 1: with the three tight ends. But we you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: studying the film and we know how to attack it.
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  Speaker 2: What are all of the things you've talked about Stafford's
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  Speaker 2: kind of freakish ability to get the ball out, the
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  Speaker 2: way that they run these attack plays. Does your rush
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  Speaker 2: tend to be more aggressive or do you have to
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  Speaker 2: sit back and watch just a little bit to not
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  Speaker 2: over pursuit.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it's how we handle first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: What makes us team good is they they keep the
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  Speaker 1: sticks at a manageable distance at all times. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're like number one in the league right now on
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  Speaker 1: like shortest third down yardage or something like that, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that allows them to run the type of
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  Speaker 1: offense they want. So as a defense, we have to
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  Speaker 1: do a good job of getting stops for no gain
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  Speaker 1: or negative yards on first and second down, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know they'll get them in a get back on
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  Speaker 1: tracks type of situation and that's when we can kind
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  Speaker 1: of dial up our defense.
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  Speaker 3: Christ Jones and Cooper Cup obviously get be playing the
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  Speaker 3: former team and you've had the experience of playing former
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  Speaker 3: teams before. What's what's that like for a player to
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  Speaker 3: go back and play a team that maybe you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, just we've gone For me, you know, I played
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  Speaker 1: the Jets last year and I've been I was asked
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  Speaker 1: that same question going into the game, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: I was just saying, you know, it felt so long ago.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is my new team, my new family.
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  Speaker 1: That it's really not that like personal thing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: some people think it may be that may be different
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  Speaker 1: for other players depending on how long they were there,
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  Speaker 1: how long away they've been and things like that, but
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  Speaker 1: for me, you just got to treat it like another game.
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  Speaker 4: Whenard you guys are the only team in the league
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  Speaker 4: that has six different guys with at least twenty pressures
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  Speaker 4: of the quarterback to what does that kind of say
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  Speaker 4: to you about this group and what you kind of
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  Speaker 4: done to have that many guys be affecting things where
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  Speaker 4: they are.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it just feels like we're living what we say.
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  Speaker 1: That's something we've been talking about since OTA's in camp
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  Speaker 1: as well, is that you know, it takes eleven men
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  Speaker 1: to rush. It takes eleven of us to get to
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. And whether that's a four down rush or
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  Speaker 1: we're sending pressures or nickels or safeties and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: it takes the guys on the back and to cover
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  Speaker 1: their guys so give us time to get to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And it gives the guys up front to be on
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  Speaker 1: the same page to get to the quarterback. So it
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  Speaker 1: just it takes a team.
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  Speaker 4: And the guy who leads you in that is Channa
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  Speaker 4: And he did it without playing week one and having
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  Speaker 4: win in the Stamps the next couple of games. How
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  Speaker 4: good is he playing for you guys right now? And
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  Speaker 4: what do you kind of see from him now he's
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  Speaker 4: healthy and back doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's playing amazing. I think you see the
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  Speaker 1: confidence growing. The leadership has always been there. He's continuing
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  Speaker 1: to be a great leader on the field. And one
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  Speaker 1: thing I love about him is his veteran Him being
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  Speaker 1: a veteran, he sees a lot of things. He's played
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  Speaker 1: the Rams so many times and now at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in practice were lined up on the same
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  Speaker 1: side as each other, and he's calling out the players.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know exactly what he's seeing, and uh, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it makes my job easier playing next to a guy
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 4: And thanks, thanks, good