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Zach Charbonnet: "I'm Excited To Feel The 12s Energy" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: First pretty season game coming up here, And what are
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  Speaker 1: you looking to get out of that? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as of right now, just looking every day day by day.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm just excited to be with the team,
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  Speaker 1: get that first little feel in the stadium, So it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be exciting. So I'm just looking forward to that
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  Speaker 1: and playing with my brothers. Whatever I'm playing in front
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  Speaker 1: of the crowd. I know it's not a ready listen
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  Speaker 1: gave us. Don't keep a ready getting crowds. Just playing
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  Speaker 1: in front of the fans. Yeah, I mean anytime you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're able to get in front of the twelves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's an honor being able to play in front of
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  Speaker 1: a fan base like that. So I'm just excited to
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  Speaker 1: feel their energy practice for a few days. But it
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  Speaker 1: looks like you're back fully now. Is it just kind
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  Speaker 1: of a fighter little thing or yeah? All good, All
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  Speaker 1: good and ready to go now. So I'm excited. What's
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  Speaker 1: been if anything, you could make it sudjustment as you
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  Speaker 1: go from you call football the uncoll Yeah, definitely, just
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  Speaker 1: the speed of a play can get on the ball
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. College, you know it's not as fast,
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  Speaker 1: especially now being at the NFL level, everybody knows what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. So just being prepared and just reading my
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  Speaker 1: keys and stuff like that been the biggest adjustment. What
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  Speaker 1: is your one cuttle tea? Yeah, you know that was
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  Speaker 1: one thing they brought me in here for too, is
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  Speaker 1: to be one cup be physical type of back. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what I'm gonna bring, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep bring and developing. So that's definitely what
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  Speaker 1: I'm ringing, or a physical back. And how horn are
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  Speaker 1: these receiving games or amy there's contact that practice is
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  Speaker 1: a little different than live game. Actually, how important is
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  Speaker 1: that whole contact? Yeah, you know, definitely first getting out
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  Speaker 1: there and just hitting and tackling. You know, that's always
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  Speaker 1: different from practice. So you know, it's just being importan,
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  Speaker 1: especially as a physical back, just continuing to develop to
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  Speaker 1: get my pad level down and you know, just run downhill.
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  Speaker 1: So that's gonna be important. You played with Jake Bobo
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  Speaker 1: last years a couple times talked about his swag and
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  Speaker 1: confidence or whatever. Did you kind of see that when
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  Speaker 1: you put your teammates with him last year and everything? Oh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's definitely quiet. But you know every time
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  Speaker 1: he steps on the field, you know, he gets after
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  Speaker 1: you know, his ultimate competitor. So you know, I love
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  Speaker 1: watching him play and I love watching him around. What
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  Speaker 1: you were thoughts about the running as a whole. You know,
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  Speaker 1: guy's been out degrees, but just when everybody's out there,
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  Speaker 1: what do you like about that group? Yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: excited to, you know, just be a part of that
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  Speaker 1: group with these guys. You know, we obviously we feed
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  Speaker 1: off each other. You know, one person gonna make a
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  Speaker 1: big play, you know, we're gonna celebrate. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited and just to take care of each
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  Speaker 1: other and just play with them. You were pretty involved
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  Speaker 1: in the passing game that u c l A. Was
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  Speaker 1: that more like designing the screens or is it more
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  Speaker 1: you getting split out wide? Yeah, you're talking about at UCLA. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely a mix of both. You know, I practiced a lot,
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  Speaker 1: especially an empty down back in the UCLA, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times in games, you know, just it was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of checkdowns and stuff like that. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just developed that relationship with my quarterback during so
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  Speaker 1: you know that's what got me a lot of checkdowns,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of receptions during that time. So just having
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  Speaker 1: that trust with me and him trusting me and me
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  Speaker 1: trusting him. So whereever you learn maybe doesn't. The NFL Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I won't say last couple weeks, but definitely just the
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  Speaker 1: fan base we have here, you know, definitely exciting. When
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  Speaker 1: I first got here, like, I had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: the twelves were, what they're all about. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: now I definitely know what they are, know the energy
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  Speaker 1: they bring, so you know, I'm just excited. That's been
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me. It would have been your
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  Speaker 1: impression that Pete Carroll. You know, obviously he's the guy
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  Speaker 1: you were aware of before, but you're being around him
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  Speaker 1: every day, what are you impression? You know, Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just the energy brings. You know, it's it's unmatched. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the competition. He loves having us compete every single day,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I just love that culture, that little
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  Speaker 1: philosophy that he has of competing. So you know, I
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  Speaker 1: definitely love his energy and stuff like that. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to be playing under him. Yeah,