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Cooper Kupp: "We Have A Great Challenge Ahead Of Us" | Seattle Seahawks · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Growing up. Mm hm, I was, uh.
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  Speaker 2: The Dave Kneehouse narrating the mile my VHS tape that
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  Speaker 2: was that was my life.
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  Speaker 3: Tells for you guys, getting a little break in the
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  Speaker 3: way and coming back refreciously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. It comes up nicely. I think we've
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  Speaker 2: been I think it's just spacing wise. I can you get,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a quarter of the way ish through the season,
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit mini by and you get focused
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  Speaker 2: in on another you know, stretch of games here before
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  Speaker 2: getting another opportunity to you know, uh recover. And that
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  Speaker 2: sounds seems like the guys took advantage of it and
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  Speaker 2: uh or chomping at the bit to get back to work.
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  Speaker 3: And so he sees a lot of similarities in what
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  Speaker 3: the Bucks do on defense, what you go against and
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  Speaker 3: practice every day.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you.
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  Speaker 2: See the similar Yeah, I think there's some similar structures,
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  Speaker 2: some of the you know pressures and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: You see, you know, coach refer back to way back
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  Speaker 2: the system that goes on. I need to study and
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  Speaker 2: see what he said. I went all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to the Rex Ryan tree of defense. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just uh, shoot, they play hard, get guys are flying
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  Speaker 2: around you. You're seeing a lot of different coverage structures
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  Speaker 2: and do a pretty good job of mixing things up,
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  Speaker 2: and it's hard to anticipate some stuff. So they're present
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  Speaker 2: a great challenge and they're doing I mean they're they're
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  Speaker 2: playing really good football too, see them. They're rush defense,
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  Speaker 2: they have some guys up front, They're able to control
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  Speaker 2: things at the line scrimmage pretty well. So a great
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  Speaker 2: challenge ahead. But man, I know, I know we're excited
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  Speaker 2: about it. So you were going to go back and
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  Speaker 2: study the Rex Ryan days. Yeah, I was just I
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  Speaker 2: was caught off guard, but I didn't know it went back.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that went back to the Rex Ryan stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go, you know, figure it out, fact
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  Speaker 2: check Mike a little bit and see see what's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You were teammates with Baker Mayfield for a little while, right,
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  Speaker 2: Just what was he like.
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  Speaker 1: And what was it like playing with him? Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: shuret he he was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what he was asked to do in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, I believe back in LA what he was
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  Speaker 2: asked to do was I mean, dang near impossible coming
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  Speaker 2: in and I think he ran the offense after four
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  Speaker 2: days of being there. It was something ridiculous I think
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  Speaker 2: went down won the game against the Raiders. Possibly, but yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: incredible competitor, leader and just a fun guy to be around.
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  Speaker 2: I want to play for him and you can see
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  Speaker 2: him and he's the way he plays the game, plays
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  Speaker 2: a law of passion and yeah, I respect that and
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  Speaker 2: the I mean obviously playing playing really good football as well.
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  Speaker 1: Sam's comfortability I don't know if that's a word right,
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  Speaker 1: the way that he is in the pocket, patience, distribution
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  Speaker 1: to various receivers. Can you just talk about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's very impressive and I think especially having
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  Speaker 2: I have touched on before, like the scarring that can
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  Speaker 2: happen with quarterbacks through a career of playing football. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you start to get feel like, you know, he throws
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  Speaker 2: that things go wrong, plays go wrong, you know, protections,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. He starts to lose trust in certain things.
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  Speaker 2: But his ability just to stay stay, you know, mentally
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  Speaker 2: strong enough and have the fort twode to be able
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  Speaker 2: to say I can trust in who I am as
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  Speaker 2: a player, trusting the guys that we have on this team,
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  Speaker 2: and being able to continue to play at a high
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  Speaker 2: level even when he's got all these other experiences that
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  Speaker 2: didn't turn out, you know, didn't turn out positively for him.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very impressive thing. And so him being able
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  Speaker 2: to do what he's been doing this year and I
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  Speaker 2: mean last year as well, speaks to the kind of
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  Speaker 2: guy that he is and why it's fun to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and play football with him in Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: How did he pull that off? And how much did
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  Speaker 1: you and some of the other teammates just crash course
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he I mean, I was, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have anything to do with that. Like that was
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  Speaker 2: that was you know, Baker and his I mean, his
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  Speaker 2: ability to just kind of compartmentalize things. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: think for us correct meal like step in and it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's like once the football, once the play started,
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  Speaker 2: that's its own animal. But even just getting through the
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  Speaker 2: procedural stuff that you have to do as a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: is an incredible challenge. So that's that was That was
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  Speaker 2: Baker and the coaches and those guys that were getting
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  Speaker 2: him ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of respect the whole locker room. Now that after
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  Speaker 1: the Yeah, that's a it's a huge deal.
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  Speaker 2: That's like I said, you guys want to play for him,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I thought it was awesome, Like he
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  Speaker 2: came in and I think he talked about a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about how much fun he had even just in
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  Speaker 2: the course of that year. And super happy for him
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  Speaker 2: because he's gone off like you know, made a uh
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever whoever wanted people want to say about him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's gone and been Baker Mayfield and so
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool, pretty cool, uh, you know, career arc for him.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have had one of the most productive, actually
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  Speaker 2: the most productive twelve personnel offense in the NFL so far.
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  Speaker 1: You've run it well in that in that package, and
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  Speaker 1: you've passed it well. Why is that working?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you guys have been able to execute. At
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, coach is pushing some good
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  Speaker 2: positions and and we've done a good job being you know,
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  Speaker 2: decently balanced in terms of the things that you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: coming out of that those personnels and you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: keep people on their toes and being able to get
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  Speaker 2: reps and just comes back to execution. You get you
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  Speaker 2: get reps, you're able to anticipate things and execute him better.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've just done a good job of
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  Speaker 2: that of the first four games.
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  Speaker 3: You just mentioned Baker having kind of a cool journey,
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  Speaker 3: and Sam's been very similar to their teammates for a minute
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  Speaker 3: in Carolina and in that position in particular, do people
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  Speaker 3: maybe give up on as little too early and it's
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  Speaker 3: a good to see players and they get a second
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  Speaker 3: chance to do what they're both doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I could sit up here and give you
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  Speaker 2: a dissertation on what I think about the whole quarterback position,
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  Speaker 2: but I was told I speak too much up here,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm just saying it's heap pretty limited now I
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  Speaker 2: say too many words, too many words. Yeah, thanks, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I do think. In short, I do think you know
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  Speaker 2: the you know the plugs pulled on guys. I think early,
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  Speaker 2: and you gotta give guys the ability to learn and
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  Speaker 2: make mistakes and the freedom, truly give guys the freedom
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  Speaker 2: to make mistakes like guys across the league. Rookies come
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  Speaker 2: in here, make huge mistakes. I know I made my
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  Speaker 2: fair share. And as a quarterback, you are put in
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  Speaker 2: a position where you have to make these decisions, and
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  Speaker 2: you're put in a position to make a mistake at
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  Speaker 2: a ten twenty thirty X what most other guys are,
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  Speaker 2: so there's gonna be more mistakes, There's.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be more errors.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we're so critical of those guys because
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  Speaker 2: they're seeing they stab the ball all the time. Like,
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  Speaker 2: give you guys a chance, you guys a chance to learn,
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  Speaker 2: figure it out, and you know, don't put the pressure
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  Speaker 2: on to be like if you make a mistake, like
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  Speaker 2: just let it rip, go go do it again, Like
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  Speaker 2: it's fine. These are part of a part of growing
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  Speaker 2: in this league. Is a natural process, is gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the best correction in this league have
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  Speaker 2: been in positions early on where they grow into that
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  Speaker 2: and make those mistakes behind the scenes, or they're given
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  Speaker 2: a position to go out there and learn and you know,
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  Speaker 2: let it fly. And the coaches have said it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm securing myself, we're secure enough to trust that
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to figure these things out. I
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  Speaker 2: think those guys flourish if you just let them get
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  Speaker 2: to that place.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the sudden change stuff you guys do in
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  Speaker 3: training camp. Have you seen that payoff in the season
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  Speaker 3: so far? Given how many turnovers your defense has been
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  Speaker 3: able to get in each game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a you know, that's something through football.
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  Speaker 2: Football teams have been doing forever and ever. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a complimentary football, like you want to try to
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  Speaker 2: get into the habit of you know when that happens
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  Speaker 2: in a game of that mindset shift, like hey, to
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  Speaker 2: try to capitalize, honest thing. But anytime you step on
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  Speaker 2: the field, the goal isn't change. You're still trying to
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  Speaker 2: the goals to score touchdown. Anytime we take the field,
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  Speaker 2: that's the goal, regardless of whether it's not the negative
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  Speaker 2: one or the positive one, like we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: try to score. So it's more so I think getting
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  Speaker 2: yourself in that like this is a game that can
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  Speaker 2: change real quickly and all yourself just to reset mentally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is, if you even just being
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of it, like defensively being in
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  Speaker 2: a negative position, you know, offensively going out.
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  Speaker 1: There where it is or you are backed up.
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  Speaker 2: It's those kinds of things that I think do make
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  Speaker 2: a difference in just the mindset shift and playing out scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like the goal
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  Speaker 1: the goals and change.
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  Speaker 3: You practice that like during training camp, are they surprising
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  Speaker 3: you in that situation or are you are you working
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  Speaker 3: on plays that you might work on like you might
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  Speaker 3: run in a given part of the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of times there's it's they
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  Speaker 2: try to create a sense of, you know, truly a
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  Speaker 2: sudden change, you know, whatever the situation is in practice,
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  Speaker 2: like you don't know what this periods are going to,
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  Speaker 2: but here it is. This is a situation, and you
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  Speaker 2: play it out and you might send a really good
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  Speaker 2: job of that presenting those even just during the course
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  Speaker 2: of the year.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just the training camp thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's sounds like we get to experience, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 2: the year as well, and being able to just kind
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  Speaker 2: of react to those situations. I think it's a great
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  Speaker 2: exercise for coaches too, to be able to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: these are the things that we want to get to
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  Speaker 2: in these situations, and they're a getting the same practice
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  Speaker 2: that we are. This is their first time playing for
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  Speaker 2: a new play caller in a while after four games.
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  Speaker 1: Anything you've learned about Clint.
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  Speaker 2: Kubiak, anything I've learned, I mean, the dude is legendary
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  Speaker 2: for operating on such a little sleep.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he does it and it seems
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  Speaker 2: like the only thing that happens, Like his demeanor says
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  Speaker 2: exactly this. His hat just goes from like here and
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  Speaker 2: fact by the end of the day, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like it's his hair like this, you know, like that's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that changes, just how you just know
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  Speaker 2: where he's at with where's where his hat's at. But
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  Speaker 2: now he's been he's been awesome. It's it's I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to I don't want to put a number on
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  Speaker 2: exactly what is, but I know it's uh is very low.
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  Speaker 2: It's very low that sleep doctors would not be happy with.
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kobiak.
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  Speaker 3: When Mike talks to Mike Donald talks about stuff that
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  Speaker 3: you guys are doing well, he offered references like the
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  Speaker 3: spring or training camp, but like ore the other parts
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  Speaker 3: of your guys's training that you think is directly resulting
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  Speaker 3: in some of the success you guys have had, maybe
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  Speaker 3: specifically just on offense.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's all encompassing, right, Like there's I could
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  Speaker 2: say like there's one thing like hey, this is the
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  Speaker 2: one thing that's kind of like made the difference for us.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's just a if I was to say,
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  Speaker 2: I guess if I was to say that, it would
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  Speaker 2: just be the focus of like when they are in here, tess.
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  Speaker 2: Before the guys are in here, they want to learn,
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  Speaker 2: they want to figure it out, they want to have answers.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have the conversations from leading to meeting
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  Speaker 2: and I ask the questions that allow them to anticipate
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  Speaker 2: things that clear things up to play fast. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just gotten better and better, at least in
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  Speaker 2: my view, like how the offense operated week two, week
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  Speaker 2: three of training camp to how we're operating now. Just
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  Speaker 2: the smoothness, the efficiency, the procedural stuff, but also just
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  Speaker 2: in terms of anticipating looks and hitting blocks and getting
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  Speaker 2: into routs, distributing the field, all that's just so much
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  Speaker 2: better as we just kind of neue to grow and
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  Speaker 2: the expectation has not changed that it's going to get
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  Speaker 2: better and better as well as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 3: You've been in a good yard after catch guy your
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  Speaker 3: whole career. What goes into being good at that?
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  Speaker 1: Hardly?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a decisiveness. I think there's an anticipation
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  Speaker 2: that's involved with that as well. Being able to see coverages,
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  Speaker 2: to see patterns that happen and have an idea of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, within this game, like you catch a lot
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  Speaker 2: of footballs with your back to the defense and being
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  Speaker 2: able to anticipate while I know where people are at
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  Speaker 2: or where I should go without having to look. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that doesn't always happen, but trying to as
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  Speaker 2: much as you can see that so you can be
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  Speaker 2: decisive and you know, puncture the defense that it does
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  Speaker 2: make make a big difference. And just small things like that,
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  Speaker 2: small things that allow you to anticipate.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get you know, a.
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  Speaker 2: Step here there gives you a able to get a
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  Speaker 2: shoulder through falling forward for a couple more yards makes
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  Speaker 2: the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Thank you guys, Thank you