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Devon Witherspoon: "This Is Going To Be A Great Test For Our Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Do you look at this matchup and see it as
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  Speaker 1: a measuring stick for this team of this defense.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just see it that as it's just another
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  Speaker 2: matchup a good, great team.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta play the divisional game.
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  Speaker 2: We know how we know how they play, we know
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  Speaker 2: how they're gonna come, with the attitude they're gonna bring.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tough, physical football game.
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  Speaker 2: So what kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Challenges does Stafford bring as a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he a d quarterback man. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: got all the characteristics you need for a quarterback. You
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  Speaker 2: know how to operate his offense. He knows defenses really well.
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  Speaker 2: He know how to identify pressures and get the ball.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of guys now, so it's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everything you want in the quarterback. So it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a great test for our defense and we just gotta
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  Speaker 2: go out there and play.
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  Speaker 1: You love the game, you're a student of the game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you sit back a little bit and appreciate, like all
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  Speaker 1: the nuances are gonna happen in this game between McVay, McDonald, Kubiak,
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  Speaker 1: Chris su Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely. We just know it's gonna be a great test
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  Speaker 3: for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chess game, and it's gonna be It's be
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  Speaker 2: a tough match up. It's gonna be fun see how
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  Speaker 2: those guys game playing each other. But yeah, we just
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  Speaker 2: just gonna have fun living in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: He's been on the field.
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  Speaker 3: For a couple of weeks now with Nick, him and Maury.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like about how he's showing.
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  Speaker 2: Up on the get there? Uh, he's just doing everything
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  Speaker 2: we we thought he would do. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: We asked him to do a lot and he and
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  Speaker 2: he does it. So it's like everything you need in
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  Speaker 2: a rookie. He gotta fit me strong, he big, Like
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  Speaker 2: he bigger than the majority of everybody out there.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's crazy when you see it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean he can play football, man, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to see what he got.
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  Speaker 1: Jason said, part of you know how he's had the
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  Speaker 1: season he's had. It's going against you guys every day
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  Speaker 1: in training camp. Uh as good as he is. Did
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  Speaker 1: you expect this kind of season for him? Uh? Coming
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  Speaker 1: out of camp?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course I said that my rookie year. Well,
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  Speaker 2: just because he had the numbers everybody else thought he
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  Speaker 2: would have.
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  Speaker 3: I said my rookie. I'm like, bro y'all, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't know what he got in store for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Like so it's like we always expecting him to be
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  Speaker 2: this guy, Like it's just now he got a chance
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  Speaker 2: to show it and everybody to get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: see it now.
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  Speaker 3: So of course it was just.
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  Speaker 2: You and Earnest when he was out and he was saying,
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  Speaker 2: you were right, Like when you're watching the game as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to play this different perspective.
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  Speaker 3: What what did you see that was different when in the.
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  Speaker 2: Games that you weren't playing, you know, you get to
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  Speaker 2: look at the game from a different lens. Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a player, when you in the game, it's like
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  Speaker 2: you focus on so much stuff like the game plan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the route concepts were gonna get and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. Well you still do it from the sidelines,
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  Speaker 2: it's like when you're not playing, but it's like now
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  Speaker 2: you get to watch your guys like go out there
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  Speaker 2: and execute the game plan we talked about all week,
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  Speaker 2: and you get to look at it from a fan
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  Speaker 2: like like like dang, like we really is like that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so when you get to sit back and
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  Speaker 2: look at it from the sidelines of fan bro it's
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  Speaker 2: just crazy. You see what we built around here. You
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  Speaker 2: see how we take everything serious. And you see like
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  Speaker 2: the the thing we say the most man just nest
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  Speaker 2: man up. So when you see it and you go
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  Speaker 2: out there and and those guys get on the field, man,
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  Speaker 2: they go out there and make plays.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's a great it's just a good feeling.
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  Speaker 4: Was there any aspect of the.
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  Speaker 3: Game that was different looking at it? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: From the sideline not playing?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, well, say you not playing? So you get to
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  Speaker 2: just cheer on your guys and let them know the
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  Speaker 2: look thing that's going on, like such releases that we
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  Speaker 2: they getting for missing that they being running on as
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So he just to get the
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  Speaker 2: fun of your guys to what they don't see on
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  Speaker 2: the field at that moment.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to Jackson, you see him on the practice
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  Speaker 4: field out here, have to try to cover him with
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  Speaker 4: why is he get open the way he does? Like
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  Speaker 4: what is it about his game that kind of allows
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  Speaker 4: him to do what he's doing right now? When you
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  Speaker 4: when you think of it from a defensive side of the.
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  Speaker 2: All, I mean he running routes sufficiently know he don't
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  Speaker 2: have no ways of steps getting in and out of
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  Speaker 2: breaks man, and like he can catch the football like
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  Speaker 2: no matter where is that he make all the tough
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  Speaker 2: catches you throw. So it's like, br he's efficient when
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  Speaker 2: he in his route running. So it's like that's just
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  Speaker 2: always to make him great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, to Nick, what's his growth look like from
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  Speaker 3: week one?
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  Speaker 4: Obviously he missed you know, three plus games, but from
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  Speaker 4: week one to now, what's what's his growth look like
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  Speaker 4: to you?
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  Speaker 2: The way he now he getting comfortable being on the field, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: trusting what he sees on tape now, the way we
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  Speaker 2: communicate and everything, like he just trusts what the guys
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  Speaker 2: around him telling him and then he go out there
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  Speaker 2: and make plays.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like to see him grow up.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like as a rookie, but now he's getting
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  Speaker 2: more of like, yeah, your rookie days are over with Brow.
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  Speaker 2: You know we have way through the season like, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: you a football your NFL football player now.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Pound for pound, you hit as hard as anybody in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. When you see guys like Drake Thomas and
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  Speaker 1: Tayo Katta bringing it, you guys got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: smaller guys, what do you appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: The way they're playing, It's just the way we played
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  Speaker 2: football around here, man. We we don't kind of hold back.
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  Speaker 2: We play a staff style nobody want to play. We
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  Speaker 2: preach that all the time in here, and we play
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  Speaker 2: a physical football team. We a physical football team. We
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  Speaker 2: play a physical style of football. We reiterated every day
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  Speaker 2: just to let it know, like when we put on
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  Speaker 2: our passes. So we're like, hey, look, just get the
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  Speaker 2: week going, like we got to come out here and
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  Speaker 2: hit each other, you know, so we get ready for
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna coming on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: How good was the play?
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  Speaker 3: Me?
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  Speaker 1: And maya appreciate made in the end zone?
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  Speaker 2: When you play that's the elite, right, you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: an elite player right there. Man, the way to finish
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  Speaker 2: on the football. But just it's elite, bro, That's all
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  Speaker 2: that I said. But it was just elite play you offense.
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  Speaker 1: Now they heat. What was your reaction when when that
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  Speaker 1: move got made?
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  Speaker 3: I was I was glad. I was happy.
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  Speaker 2: We just like what Mike says all the time, and
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  Speaker 2: we just chasing edges and trying to find a better
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  Speaker 2: way to build out football team. So I was happy.
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  Speaker 2: I know what he brings to the table. I watched
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  Speaker 2: his tape, so I was happy about it.
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  Speaker 3: How good is the replaying right now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that thing that tape speaks for himself. I
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  Speaker 2: mean he playing out his mind and like we always
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  Speaker 2: knew he could play like this. So it's nothing new
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  Speaker 2: to us, but it's just now he's just getting back
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  Speaker 2: in his bag.
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  Speaker 1: Ramscott poking the coo at DeVante Adams on their side.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see in those guys as receivers and
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  Speaker 1: how are they to slow down?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's Devanta Adams. I think he
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  Speaker 2: got a name for himself in his league. He a
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  Speaker 2: great player. He a vet, older guy who know the beats,
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  Speaker 2: all type of coverages and then Puga, He's just a
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  Speaker 2: guy who was like you know, he made a smart
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  Speaker 2: when he first came into the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Man, he could do everything he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: He can literally run the football, catch it, probably throw
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  Speaker 2: it if you ask him to. He do everything. Man,
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a good test for us. But
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  Speaker 2: we know how they play, so he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: good battle.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the next man up mentality earlier when a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Tyres gets his chances.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he hasn't been playing as much lately, and
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  Speaker 2: then he gets called upon and plays like he did.
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  Speaker 3: Just how excited are you guys for him in that situation?
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  Speaker 2: Were very excited, man, Just you know, we always knew
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  Speaker 2: like he he played like this before, so it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's nothing new. But you know, we were always excited
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  Speaker 2: when our guys make plays. Man, we preach about it
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  Speaker 2: all week. Let's celebrate with your guys when it when
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  Speaker 2: you make plays, you know, let him know, show your emotion.
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  Speaker 3: And passion for this game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like when he met and when anybody make
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  Speaker 2: a play, man, it's just just a special moment out there.
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  Speaker 3: So that ty reason m anything else. That's a reguing system.