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Clint Hurtt: "We Should Be Able Affect The Quarterback Consistently" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: But you the by Ovins, and you're never gonna turn
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  Speaker 1: down a chance to have your guys get suppressed. What
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  Speaker 1: is there any thought that maybe you would have been
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  Speaker 1: better just to keep going after that performance against the Giants?
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  Speaker 1: Now you know what the way it felt, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going in and kind of knowing where our guys are,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was at the right time. Uh obviously, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you feel like you're starting to hit a stride,
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  Speaker 1: you don't, so I I totally understand that. But the
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  Speaker 1: health of the guys and knowing that's a long season,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they'd hit when it needed to hit or did.
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  Speaker 2: That defensive performance. From the perspective, what was.
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  Speaker 1: That like before to night and plus away it was
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  Speaker 1: I it was exciting to see those guys go out
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  Speaker 1: and go play that way and go perform. Obviously that
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  Speaker 1: felt really really good. But you know, I'm always gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like a glass half empty type of guys who
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  Speaker 1: always looking for more, keep pushing for more, cause I
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  Speaker 1: know that's what eleven sacks. I'm not saying anything about
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  Speaker 1: that part. That's a rare feat, but in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the performance and overall level of play, that's what consistently
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  Speaker 1: I wanna see us go do it, cause I know
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  Speaker 1: we have the ability to do that. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: ability to get pressure is to stay and you feel
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  Speaker 1: like going into the situation, you know, I I mean
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  Speaker 1: I don't I can't throw on any wrong numbers. But we
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  Speaker 1: should be able to affect the quarterback consistently with who
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  Speaker 1: we have and rushing coverage and the complimentary calls and
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  Speaker 1: the guys executing the system. Cause you got guys who
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  Speaker 1: are playmakers, you know, between Wags and Jamal and Diggs
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  Speaker 1: and obviously the guys that we have up front. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: everyone has their shots and they gotta take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: those opportunities when they're there, you know. So the fun
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  Speaker 1: part is obviously trying to help put those guys in
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  Speaker 1: positions to go do that and go have fun and
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  Speaker 1: and uh help help raise our level of play and
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  Speaker 1: talk so much about the sash, but also the takeaways
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  Speaker 1: and the forest.
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  Speaker 2: Full board because there's coming bunches of Moore that you're
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  Speaker 2: playing out of your a or service.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, just the awareness, you know, when you're watching watching
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  Speaker 1: the film, the biggest thing you always wanna see is
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  Speaker 1: the guy's awareness were going for those opportunities for the
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  Speaker 1: ball you know, whether it's matching up routes and coverage,
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  Speaker 1: going after the quarterback and seeing opportunities to go attack
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  Speaker 1: the elbow, get you know, get the ball off the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback's hand, you know, and then obviously ball carreas out
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  Speaker 1: and you'll and field have an opportunity the second man
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  Speaker 1: in third man and go attack the football, when then
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  Speaker 1: you already have a teammate that's already on the tackle.
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  Speaker 1: So every opportunity is opportunity to go get the ball,
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  Speaker 1: get it back for our offense. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: see guys purposeful with going to go do that, and
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  Speaker 1: that really there was a really good showing of that
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  Speaker 1: on Monday tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Was on the out there for nights.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I guess sort of what did you see from him?
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  Speaker 1: What did you like about that?
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  Speaker 2: The part you immediately felt was is playmaking.
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  Speaker 1: Even though obviously he wished were we all wish you
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  Speaker 1: would have made the sack on the first one to
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  Speaker 1: send him off the edge, he was right there, but
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  Speaker 1: you see his presence there and then obviously the great
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  Speaker 1: hit out in the flat that he had before you
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  Speaker 1: before he end up getting hurt. So you see the energy, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the flashiness, you know, the energy that he brings and
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  Speaker 1: the explosiveness as a playmaker, so that part was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's obviously, uh, you know, great to have him back.
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  Speaker 1: The great safety felt allow you guys to be multiple
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  Speaker 1: with so many different things. You know what we can
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  Speaker 1: do man zone, pressure is things of that nature. So
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  Speaker 1: you just have a lot of versatility in your calls.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like each week you face especially this week
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  Speaker 2: pomp Ford and is that you the pressure and you
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  Speaker 2: have guys staining their runner face.
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  Speaker 1: I mean those are both things are highly important. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: playing his quarterback, Burrows a special special player. Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: can see things so well and so fast and coverage
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  Speaker 1: you can diagnose him nowhere to go with the football obviously,
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  Speaker 1: mix is a talent and runner, so you gotta be
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  Speaker 1: timely about how you do your calls. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you wanna be signed on the pass game, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta make sure your run fits are good too because
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  Speaker 1: of the talent of the back and uh and handling
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  Speaker 1: those things. So just gotta be well bounced with your
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  Speaker 1: calls and try to keep him off schedule the best
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  Speaker 1: you can.
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  Speaker 2: With the dealing with how different last week the first.
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  Speaker 1: Few games, Uh, you saw him a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: willing to kind of get out and move around.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, when the pressure was there.
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  Speaker 1: He could see early on that he was kind of
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  Speaker 1: back there as a statue and protecting himself as he
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  Speaker 1: was going through.
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  Speaker 2: But now you see he's more lively.
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  Speaker 1: You know he can escape and just he's not like
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  Speaker 1: a a avid runner. I wouldn't say that, but in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just sliding to the left, sliding to the right,
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  Speaker 1: climbing the pocket to extend, and you know, it's those
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  Speaker 1: kind of plays that gives that extra step that the
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  Speaker 1: receiver needs to get open and things like that. And
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  Speaker 1: he's got some talented guys he's throwing to, so you
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  Speaker 1: could definitely see his He's how his health was coming
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  Speaker 1: along in the last game.
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  Speaker 2: You approach it as though he's healthier, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to feel that out.
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  Speaker 1: I think you always approach a game like a guy
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  Speaker 1: is healthy, because you never truly know if you're going
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  Speaker 1: You say, well, he's not capable of doing this and
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  Speaker 1: doing that, and then you get so surprised on game day.
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  Speaker 2: To me, that's your fall as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: You should always prepare, like when we prepare for the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: we prepare like Taekwon was playing, and if he's not there,
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  Speaker 1: he's not there. But you prepare like guys are at
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  Speaker 1: their optimum best, and you get ready to go play
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  Speaker 1: the game that way and so that way you don't
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  Speaker 1: have any letdowns blown up after.
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  Speaker 2: That last year, Chase, what do you telling him about?
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  Speaker 2: And you can kills the game? Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You trust your technique and you prepare yourself to play
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  Speaker 1: every game. Pete says it all the time. Every game
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  Speaker 1: is a championship opportunity. There's a lot of great players
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  Speaker 1: in this league, and Chase is obviously one of them.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't try to make the matchup bigger than
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  Speaker 1: what it is. You know you're playing a great player.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to play against a great player too. You
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  Speaker 1: trust your technique, You execute the calls, and you let
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  Speaker 1: the chips fall where they may, but you don't make the.
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  Speaker 2: Game bigger than what it is. What's that un with
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  Speaker 2: then he coverage?
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  Speaker 1: You just got to understand where your help is based
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  Speaker 1: on the call. Whether it's a pressure you know in
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  Speaker 1: UH post high or split safety defense, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: know where your help is and understand usually when splits
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  Speaker 1: get cut, you understand that generally they're working their way
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  Speaker 1: across the field sometimes I know all the time. That's
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  Speaker 1: generally what you're thinking is so know where your help
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  Speaker 1: is and how you have to play your leverage. You're
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  Speaker 1: based on the calls.
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  Speaker 2: That's all He's broad getting everybody.
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  Speaker 1: On the defensive line the right place, all the calls
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  Speaker 1: you've been before.
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  Speaker 2: Is he grown in that area or is this something.
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  Speaker 1: That you a No, that's something that we when I
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  Speaker 1: first got here with him, you know, he was more
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  Speaker 1: of knowing like a first down, first second down, run defender,
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  Speaker 1: things of that nature. But he was always somebody who
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  Speaker 1: was high football intellect and intelligence. So when you see that,
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  Speaker 1: you then you challenge him to expand their knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the game. And he's a quick study, and you know
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  Speaker 1: that's something that in order to become an every down player,
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  Speaker 1: which was important to him. Then you got to learn protections,
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  Speaker 1: you got to learn call you have to learn win
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  Speaker 1: certain d line games should be put in place based
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  Speaker 1: off of are their chips, who's the chip coming from
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  Speaker 1: as a tight end, as a receiver, is it a back?
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  Speaker 1: You know, how to identify the hot calls and protections,
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  Speaker 1: where the center's going. There's things that he didn't learn before.
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  Speaker 1: But to his credit, he's taking he's taking that on
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  Speaker 1: and he's gotten it down and the guy's around him
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  Speaker 1: obviously he can reap the benefits of it. And to
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  Speaker 1: his credit is you try to teach that the guys,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody grasped it as well. He's taken and run
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  Speaker 1: with it where he's like another coach on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been awesome to see him do it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first chance for him to look as
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  Speaker 2: comfortable as he getting there less that's really even seen
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  Speaker 2: us not surprised at all.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we saw him do a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: that in college, but then seeing him when he got
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  Speaker 1: out here in practice to be he was very smooth
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  Speaker 1: and natural doing it then too. But again, football intelligence, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just an awareness as a player in the calmness. He's
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  Speaker 1: not sporadic in his movements. He can really play patient.
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  Speaker 1: He has a great feeling of receiver stems and reading
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  Speaker 1: and feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Off of routes.
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  Speaker 1: That's uncanny as a coach. I don't know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coach can take a lot of credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: Because the kid naturally has some of those things. That's
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  Speaker 1: something I mean, they we wrap the concepts and then
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  Speaker 1: now it's a matter of you can rep and practice
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  Speaker 1: the concepts all you want to. Now it's the madik
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  Speaker 1: and a guy in the heat of the moment respond
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  Speaker 1: the right way to it. So he was in a
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  Speaker 1: great position for that and played it beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: This year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh, it starts all started in the springtime,
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  Speaker 1: coming off of his rookie season, going into last spring
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  Speaker 1: and the game slowing down. I know you guys have
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  Speaker 1: heard me say that before about a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: when they're a rookie. The college game is so different
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  Speaker 1: than the NFL game. You know, things are going quickly,
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  Speaker 1: so they're trying to learn a new defense, learn the terminalogy,
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  Speaker 1: respond to the players that they're seeing. So things are
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  Speaker 1: in the early part of the year is going really
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  Speaker 1: really quickly, And now that the game slowed down, you
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  Speaker 1: can see some of his physical traits and talent and
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  Speaker 1: the mental side of the game that he has start
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  Speaker 1: to take off. You know, Derek Hall's going through a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that transition, uh as well as a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: but really bright future for him.
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  Speaker 2: And Mafi's doing a great job right now. Anything else, Thanks,
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  Speaker 2: thank you everybody. You gotta take care of