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K'Von Wallace: "This System Seems Perfect For Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I got doing bad good. I appreciate it, pre shured it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey kick on. You ended practice yesterday with a pick.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see on that play?
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  Speaker 2: I kind of read the whole thing out, seeing a
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  Speaker 2: running back motion out. It was empty, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: make a play. It was fifteen seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 2: We was up one. All they had to do was
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  Speaker 2: make a field goal, and I knew some type of
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  Speaker 2: outcomecept was gonna come, and I just, you know, trust
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  Speaker 2: my instincts and play with it.
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  Speaker 1: You have to receive closest to you on that play.
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  Speaker 1: When do you make the determination to do that? In
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  Speaker 1: the station?
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  Speaker 2: My eyes on quarterback the whole time. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: look at my man. I knew what was coming. I
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  Speaker 2: knew it was gonna happen, and I just was hoping
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  Speaker 2: it to to make the play when it came.
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  Speaker 1: How was the voice moving up at this point, treaming, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's been yeah, it's been up and down. I
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  Speaker 2: have a very loud voice. Uh naturally, I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to yell to the top of my lungs. But my
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  Speaker 2: I'm so passionate about this game man, the system, and
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  Speaker 2: just this team in general. So I have to like
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  Speaker 2: calm myself down sometimes, but it's it's been holding up
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  Speaker 2: pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: My my lady is very very hard on.
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  Speaker 2: Me because she she don't want me to be old
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  Speaker 2: with no voice, so she she definitely always tell me
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  Speaker 2: just calm down, chill out. Uh, it's not that serious,
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  Speaker 2: That's what she'll say. But I'm very passionate about about
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  Speaker 2: what I do, and you know, but I'll be out.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be fun. We've heard players and coaches talk about
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  Speaker 1: your communications because of you being that guy doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Has that always been your game or is this particular
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  Speaker 1: steper man at you?
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  Speaker 2: I I felt like it grew with experience, I r I.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely won't say my rookie year was like this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was just a guy trying to learn everything.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like the knowledge I've gained over the years,
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I just you know, give it to others.
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  Speaker 2: I n I know how to articulate with what it said. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the system that's been played, and I love how to
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  Speaker 2: get it to my corner and get it to my line,
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  Speaker 2: butry get it to the DN if you dropping. It
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  Speaker 2: all comes with experience, man and and knowing your players.
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  Speaker 2: I watch a lot of Seahawks film, knowing who I'm with,
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  Speaker 2: knowing what they like, knowing their strengths and their weaknesses,
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  Speaker 2: so I can communicate with them the right way, and
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  Speaker 2: it helped better my game as well.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you Seahawks filver you're watching for last year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Just last year?
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  Speaker 2: So I I I T I try. I haven't got
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  Speaker 2: through all. Uh who was eighteen?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Uh seventeen uh games?
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  Speaker 2: I think I I watched uh all first the first ten.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm slowly still watching it while also, you know, game
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  Speaker 2: planning for uh, the Browns and the the Broncos for
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  Speaker 2: the season, and you know, I'm I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: do everything I can to to help me and to
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  Speaker 2: help my team. Is it on in the background or
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  Speaker 2: are you taking notes because the team has changed.
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  Speaker 1: Over quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you gotta. You gotta take notes my notebooks.
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  Speaker 2: If you see it, you'll laugh. I have a I
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  Speaker 2: have a old notebook. The front page is off it,
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  Speaker 2: and I I keep the front page of 'em. It's
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  Speaker 2: just like it keeps me grounded. It keeps me at
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  Speaker 2: a place where everything matters. The things that I learned
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  Speaker 2: in the past, the things that I'm learning now, Everything's
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  Speaker 2: matters and UH any time I can wanna go back
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  Speaker 2: t UH two years to look at my notes, to
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  Speaker 2: to see what scheme I'm going against, to see what
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  Speaker 2: coach I'm going against, it it definitely can help you
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  Speaker 2: and today as well.
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  Speaker 1: How did you master the uh, the art of leading
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this since I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: I was a receiver my whole life up until college.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, knowing what the quarterbacks likes, knowing what
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  Speaker 2: they seeing out there, knowing where the receivers have to be.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 2: It it kind of came from my wide receiver background
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  Speaker 2: when I was growing up. Just just knowing what the
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks looking for, knowing what what what spots they need
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  Speaker 2: to be in and and just reacting on for that.
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  Speaker 1: And then how do have help with with the receivers? I? Man,
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  Speaker 1: does that help you with playing defense? Your you're a
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  Speaker 1: receiver and now you're a gep? How did how does
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  Speaker 1: that help with you as well?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it it helps articulate like schemes, the the
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  Speaker 2: formations you gonna get. Usually if you get two in
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  Speaker 2: ones coming right behind it. Usually if you get one
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  Speaker 2: out two's coming out as well. It's just certain concepts
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  Speaker 2: that officers love. I kind of like try to memorize
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  Speaker 2: and try to grasp for my game so I can't
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  Speaker 2: play faster.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us about free agency? What that process
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  Speaker 1: was like, how you ended up here?
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy. Freationship was crazy for me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna say too much to throw anybody under the bus,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, it was. It was definitely between the Giants
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  Speaker 2: and here the the scheme that the defensive coordiner there
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  Speaker 2: that was at the Titans with me when I was there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh went to the Giants and we got a great,
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  Speaker 2: great relationship me and Shane and I love the system
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  Speaker 2: that he he he has and he played with. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I felt like for me personally, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald as a scientist kind of remind me of
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  Speaker 2: UH coach Venables when I was in college for Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: He's like a scientist as as a defensive caller and
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  Speaker 2: he he he mixed up pressures. Uh, he mix up
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  Speaker 2: who's blitzing, what responsibilities? What he got d d n's
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  Speaker 2: ten yards deep. You know, just certain things that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: He he ran a lot of three safety packages.
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  Speaker 2: Uh we got two great safeties and Junior and Love
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  Speaker 2: and uh Rashawn Jenkins, and I wanted to help these
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  Speaker 2: guys make some plays and the system just seems perfect
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  Speaker 2: for me. My style of play, my versatility. You could
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  Speaker 2: put me at nickel, you could put me at deep
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  Speaker 2: safety in the box, and I feel like I can
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  Speaker 2: do well. And I feel like helping Mike McDonald be
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  Speaker 2: that Swiss army knife like he had those guys at
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to be they like, how excited
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  Speaker 1: should fans be that if this defense is playing to
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  Speaker 1: it's to it to go.
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  Speaker 2: Man, if if you come to the practices or you
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  Speaker 2: see the preseason, we we play with a lot of physicality,
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  Speaker 2: and we play with a lot of you know, just
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  Speaker 2: chip on our shoulder. We got a lot of proof
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  Speaker 2: from my perspective. Last year was in the standard and
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  Speaker 2: we just trying to take it one day at a time,
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  Speaker 2: and an and and build a foundation brick by brick
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  Speaker 2: each day, just trying to get better, but just trying
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  Speaker 2: to find ways to play play with each other an
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  Speaker 2: an And and build uh uh a tenacious defense. We
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  Speaker 2: tryna become the number one defense in the world in
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  Speaker 2: the world. So if that's our mindset, we got to
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  Speaker 2: attack it each and every day. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: offense is gonna have to you know, circle us man
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  Speaker 2: and an and and and bring they big boy pads
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  Speaker 2: on and they they got something coming for 'em. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, as as the twelves out there,
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  Speaker 2: if you watching, it's some special groom in here for sure,
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  Speaker 2: just to be able to run out man, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's always a blessing to play for any organization and
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  Speaker 2: where you know their name on the front and what
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  Speaker 2: your name on the back. Man to I feel like
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  Speaker 2: each and every year, the the the percenters go down
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  Speaker 2: for for guys in the league. I'm going in year five, man,
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  Speaker 2: and to get to the league was what point o
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  Speaker 2: O nine nine nine, And then you know, each and
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  Speaker 2: every year just gets small and smaller. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: the guys that I came in with not playing no more.
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  Speaker 2: And that that motivates me to know, like I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: blessed and fortunate, but to know that like I gotta
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  Speaker 2: keep going. It's it's it's a lot grooming within me.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've getten better each and every year.
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  Speaker 2: Last year was my best year statistic statistic wise. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to j keep getting better, get more tackles,
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  Speaker 2: get more pigs, get more TFLs, just trying to do
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  Speaker 2: anything I can to help my defense pretty safely.
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  Speaker 1: Tryna, does that give an offensive advantages that give a
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  Speaker 1: defense the challenges? I don't think it's any challenges.
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  Speaker 2: When you were a professional, you know the ends and
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  Speaker 2: O what you need to be, what you need to do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't oh, okay for for for the offense, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know who who's what h what position they in.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know who's the nickel. You don't know who's
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  Speaker 2: the safety. You don't know who's gonna drop, you know
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  Speaker 2: who's gonna be back. You don't know who's gonna blitz.
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  Speaker 2: You don't it's it's it's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: they have to game plan for an and that's what
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  Speaker 2: you know Mike McDonald is trying to do. Tryna have
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  Speaker 2: so much stuff that the offense have to game plan for,
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  Speaker 2: so they can't have a strength in one thing, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just trying to confuse the the offense so
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  Speaker 2: we can go out there and make.
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  Speaker 1: Plays all would have been your impressions to Mike McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: Great guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's tried his hardest to to be the funniest in
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  Speaker 2: the room, and it it be coming out of corny
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  Speaker 2: which ultimately be funny sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: So great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, And he's a tremendous leader, man I I I
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  Speaker 2: I respect him on a U on a on a
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  Speaker 2: higher scale.
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  Speaker 1: I I learned so so much from him already.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he he he's a he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of wisdom who's just trying to pass
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  Speaker 2: it down and trying to teach, always teaching. And and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a big learner. I got two ears
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  Speaker 2: and and I'm first to listen for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of wisdom, have you had a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: much with Lutzi Fraser? Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: After every after every practice, he'd be having the DB's
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  Speaker 2: catch balls, deep balls, and just he's always keeping the
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  Speaker 2: ball on our mind as a defensive back, because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time we can lose that trying to swap
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  Speaker 2: it down or just make tackles, but keeping the ball
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  Speaker 2: in our minds where we punching it out, picking it
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  Speaker 2: always just having a ball in your mind, That's that's
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  Speaker 2: that's one big thing that I.
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  Speaker 1: Got from him. Man.
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  Speaker 2: He he always talk about DB's turning into receivers, and
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  Speaker 2: he helped me in that aspect for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Good do you have a nickname, either growing up or here?
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  Speaker 2: I got a bunch of nicknames, man, I got a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of nicknames growing up. My nickname is Buck. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people don't know that. This is actually, ah,
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  Speaker 2: that's actually a great question. I never really got acted
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  Speaker 2: there in a large setting like this, but uh, my
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  Speaker 2: nickname was Buck. Growing up in high school, I was
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  Speaker 2: nicknamed KK and then in the league kind of hear everything.
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  Speaker 1: K Dug.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Okada called me k Swiss the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that was about.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I got I got a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of nicknames though, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Be a story of nine five. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was born, my grandmother was attending and
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  Speaker 2: when I came out the room, she said that my
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  Speaker 2: eyes were like this, like just so big, and she
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  Speaker 2: was like, I got these big old buck eyes. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why she named me Buck, cause my my eyes
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  Speaker 2: was as big as a deer, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where that came from. Is there is there
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  Speaker 1: a challenge of all to the thirty sephy roll.
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  Speaker 2: Like I mean maybe some weeks to playing why maybe
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  Speaker 2: some weeks considered like game play.
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  Speaker 1: As much have learned the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I always be ready, Man, I'm a professional, I've been
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  Speaker 2: a backup, I've been a st I've been a special
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  Speaker 2: seams guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I didn't, I didn't have all through to
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  Speaker 1: the labor.
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  Speaker 2: So just always being ready, being a professional, and always
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  Speaker 2: being ready to go, knowing what to do, the ins
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  Speaker 2: and outs, knowing the game plan, executing the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: There's been times where you know, I was a backup
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  Speaker 2: and I got hurt herself in the walm ups and
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  Speaker 2: I end up starting the whole game. So just just
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  Speaker 2: small stuff like that. You just gotta always be ready, always,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what. That's why I always try to tell
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  Speaker 2: the rooks and the young guys that come in, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know it, it can pass you by, you know
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  Speaker 2: you you get so caught up being a rookie, get
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  Speaker 2: so caught up and trying to get the snacks, and
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  Speaker 2: trying to learn the playbook, trying to learn how to
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  Speaker 2: be on time, never be late, and and just so
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  Speaker 2: many things that go into being a rookie man, just
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  Speaker 2: trying to let them know like their time can can
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  Speaker 2: be any time. It's always God's timing. It's always the
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  Speaker 2: time of that you know, the game can go go,
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  Speaker 2: go that way, whatever. But always be ready, man. I
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  Speaker 2: always be ready to be a professional and do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing so you can be in the right place.
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  Speaker 2: What's the Cordius high splash, questions said, Yeah, the Cordius
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  Speaker 2: joke that your head. Oh my goodness, it's so many,
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  Speaker 2: he said one this morning. Actually, uh I, I I,
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  Speaker 2: I really can't articulate that right now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but he he's he's definitely a corny
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I appreciate it. Thank you,