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Boye Mafe: "We Expect Greatness Out Of Everybody" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: What's that like for you guys to kind of get
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  Speaker 2: get going.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's been a while since we have the
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  Speaker 4: paths on our field, you know, so we're just getting
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  Speaker 4: back into it.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a good one.
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  Speaker 4: I was excited to see everybody out there, to see
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  Speaker 4: all the guys and you know, it's not especially going
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  Speaker 4: through the off season getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the that's like the next step.
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  Speaker 4: You have all OTAs to get ready beginning of camp
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  Speaker 4: and now it's like, all right, pads are an, let's
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  Speaker 4: get to it.
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  Speaker 3: Where you went from like one sack to nine sacks?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to eighteen this year?
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  Speaker 1: What's your plan for? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Year three?
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  Speaker 4: Just just you know, it's a game of football. You
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  Speaker 4: never know, there's ups and down. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things that can happen. Obviously my goals would be better
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  Speaker 4: than I was last year. It's always that, But at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, I can't control that. Just
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  Speaker 4: gotta do what I can do and making sure my
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  Speaker 4: game's getting better every day.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you want to see your game?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: For me, especially as noticing plays before pre snap. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of things is that happened
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  Speaker 4: pre snap back can give you taels and things that
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  Speaker 4: you can see beforehand. And one of the things, especially
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  Speaker 4: from last year, I noticed there were plays that I
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  Speaker 4: felt like I left on the table and to be
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  Speaker 4: able to capitalize on those plays and see those plays
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  Speaker 4: pre snap and earlier and be able to make most
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  Speaker 4: of those plays.
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  Speaker 6: How important is that?
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  Speaker 7: Amazing defense?
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  Speaker 6: Realizing the pre snap just cause of the temple that
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  Speaker 6: you that Mike's trying to every.
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  Speaker 1: Nice play, it's very important.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got a lot of stuff move We
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  Speaker 4: were moving really quickly, So you gotta be able to
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  Speaker 4: be able to do your job, understand your assignment, and
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  Speaker 4: on top of that, look for your keys, look for
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  Speaker 4: the pre snap alignment things that you know, formations, everything.
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  Speaker 4: So that's one of the things that you have to
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  Speaker 4: be ready for and be able to be adaptable.
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  Speaker 6: To communication so before that's also key in this defense obviously, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: for sure, for sure, I did you have to do
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  Speaker 6: with an extra on that or that's just an evolution
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  Speaker 6: of your game in terms of the defense. How to
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  Speaker 6: communicate in the pre snap it with intentionality.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, I mean, it's definitely just something you learned about
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  Speaker 4: when you're watching the game of football, you're understanding what's
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  Speaker 4: going on, and when you see taels and things, do
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  Speaker 4: and keep to your best. Say to the team, give
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  Speaker 4: it everybody a chance to see what you see from
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  Speaker 4: the sideline.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like every single person on the defense is
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  Speaker 5: talking and yelling something to somebody before the snap. Is
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  Speaker 5: it just chaotic as.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds now? I mean for us, it's more of
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  Speaker 1: a sympathy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's something that from the outside looking in,
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  Speaker 4: it probably does sound chaotic, But to us, everyone knows
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  Speaker 4: what we're saying, and it's you know, it means something
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  Speaker 4: to somebody. It may not mean something to all eleven guys,
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  Speaker 4: but it means something to somebody. So the communication may
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  Speaker 4: sound crazy and everyone's talking at each other at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, but at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: We all are hearing each other.
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  Speaker 3: Good boy, this first padded practice defense seemed to have
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good day. How important is it for the
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  Speaker 3: defense start gaining confidence in these physical practices.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It's definitely important. It's thing, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: the next step.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one thing. It's one thing to go out
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  Speaker 4: there and walk through the defense. It's one thing to
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  Speaker 4: you know, fast get through it with no pads and everything.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's when the pads are on that's the
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  Speaker 4: next step. And understand that we can understand each other
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  Speaker 4: as players and understand who we can rely on and
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  Speaker 4: what players to how when placed is will definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Help us in the long run.
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  Speaker 4: So now that you know what a guy to your
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  Speaker 4: left and the guy to your right is gonna do,
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  Speaker 4: then you know how to play your own game.
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  Speaker 7: When you mentioned players left on the table and just
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  Speaker 7: kind of evaluating yourself and film study and all that,
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  Speaker 7: how hard are you on yourself in terms of how
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  Speaker 7: much more there is out there than than what you've
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  Speaker 7: gotten to at this point?
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  Speaker 1: Like how tough of.
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  Speaker 5: A grader are you when you look at your film?
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  Speaker 4: I'm very hard on myself. It's just, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: is the way the cookie crumbles. There's just no one way,
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  Speaker 4: no two different ways to do it. But to me,
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  Speaker 4: I expect myself whenever there's a chance to make a play,
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  Speaker 4: it should be my play. And it's not to say
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  Speaker 4: that in a selfish way. Obviously there's you know, situations
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  Speaker 4: and things happen, But I hold myself to a high standard.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my whole life, I've done that. My family
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  Speaker 4: holds me to a high standard. Everybody around me understands that,
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  Speaker 4: and they just know that's what I expect of myself,
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  Speaker 4: and I also expected other people around me. And that's
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  Speaker 4: the thing I love about this team is that we
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  Speaker 4: all hold each other to a very high standard and
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  Speaker 4: we expect greatness out of everybody in the room.
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  Speaker 7: So when you make that kind of leap and you
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  Speaker 7: give a nine sack season, did you think that was
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  Speaker 7: a good season or how would you value yourself last year?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it was just part of the part,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It's it's one thing, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I have a thing that I one of my teammates
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  Speaker 4: in college always told me, and to this day it
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  Speaker 4: always stuck with me. Don't eh, don't mistake activity for achievement.
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  Speaker 4: And I always take that to heart because to me,
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  Speaker 4: that means that no matter what you're doing, there's always more.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's cool to have an achievement, it's cool
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  Speaker 4: to have things, but at the essence, that's just activity.
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  Speaker 4: The achievement is something greater. So to me, it was
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  Speaker 4: a year of activity. I was just gonna ask I
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  Speaker 4: told you that a teammate in college. His name is
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  Speaker 4: Michael due Treadway.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, how's a big playing with Dudson and Baker. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't here for OTAs. Now, what's been like getting to
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  Speaker 1: know them.
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  Speaker 6: And playing with them?
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  Speaker 4: There's definitely a lot better, you know, you get that
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  Speaker 4: that cohesion. That's one of the things. That's the biggest
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  Speaker 4: thing is having that cohesion. And you need the reps.
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  Speaker 4: You need to understand how they communicate, how they play
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  Speaker 4: off each other, what to expect to them when you
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  Speaker 4: got pulling, you know, pulling guards when you have dropping
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  Speaker 4: in the past. So having that connection and having that
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  Speaker 4: chance to get the reps in and get the chance
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  Speaker 4: to see what it would look like is very important
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  Speaker 4: to us right now. So just getting that chemistry and
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  Speaker 4: building that bond to each other.
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  Speaker 1: What's it been like getting used to basically an.
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  Speaker 5: Entirely new coaching staff and however, you know differently they
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  Speaker 5: teach versus the last staff.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just like create a new relationship. You
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  Speaker 4: gotta go through the phase. You gotta coord each other.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta understand how one person moves versus how the
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  Speaker 4: other person moves, and you gotta understand They got to
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  Speaker 4: understand us, and we gotta understand them, you know, their
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  Speaker 4: expectations of us and where we need to be and
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  Speaker 4: understand how we can make that be one and create
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  Speaker 4: the common goal.
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  Speaker 1: And what stands out to you about the way that
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  Speaker 1: they teach, Uh, they ax.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they have very high expectations everybody. They hold
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  Speaker 4: everyone to a very high standard. So it's one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that you have to be ready for and
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  Speaker 4: be understanding that your expectations are high and be able
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  Speaker 4: to meet those.
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  Speaker 3: He's been a season and a half seeing what China
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  Speaker 3: does for this defense and you have to play without
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  Speaker 3: him for half a season.
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  Speaker 5: Just him being back out there's what does he bring
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  Speaker 5: to this defense?
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  Speaker 1: Especially, it's uh, it's my mentality.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he has that dog in 'em and he
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  Speaker 4: the when he gets out there, and especially it builds
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  Speaker 4: confidence in everybody else. He's one of those people that
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  Speaker 4: can you know, he has that chemistry and that leadership
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  Speaker 4: to him.
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely it's great to have him back out there.
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  Speaker 4: And it's definitely one of the things we you know,
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  Speaker 4: missed last year and I've been waiting for it. So
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  Speaker 4: it's finally back to it and be able to have
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  Speaker 4: a full season with each other to be able to
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  Speaker 4: play and have a great year.
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  Speaker 2: I think with Chris Long that anyone can play anywhere
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  Speaker 2: on this defense, and you like that. How much are
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  Speaker 2: you seeing of that in or early on day one?
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  Speaker 2: Pads and I would look to velop.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you see it and across I mean as
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  Speaker 4: you see it. You know when you watch our practices,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's in a different positions. You could have somebody here,
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  Speaker 4: somebody there. So it's one thing that they told us
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  Speaker 4: from the day one that we have to be ready
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  Speaker 4: for and then since day one they haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Lied about it. And you have to be prepared for
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  Speaker 1: whatever the coaches call upon you to do.
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  Speaker 2: People, we'll see what's what paths on today? Though, I
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  Speaker 2: when you've got actually got to be physical.
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  Speaker 1: And shoot around, Yeah, it's definitely one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Uh to me, it pads is just the part.
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  Speaker 4: Its just I feel like as when you're without paths,
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  Speaker 4: you're playing probably like seventy five percent eighty five percent
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  Speaker 4: as physicality wise passes.
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  Speaker 1: Is that extra that extra?
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  Speaker 2: Go?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you had one B one drills today and you
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  Speaker 3: went up against Mike Durrell, the rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Talk a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: About him and what you see on him as a blocker.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a lot of the guys we got
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  Speaker 4: coming in right now, they're learning and I like a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the young guys are very hungry. They play
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  Speaker 4: very physical, and that's very good to see the guys
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  Speaker 4: coming in and working. They're trying to earn a spot
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  Speaker 4: on the team. So some of the things that I've
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  Speaker 4: you know, taken Meyer too. You know understand that, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: these guys are ready to play. So it's been good
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  Speaker 4: to watch them and see them develop.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, given that you're just a week ind and
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  Speaker 5: camp now, grant the outset and will work as well
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  Speaker 5: the communication across your defense as important as that is.
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  Speaker 5: With the flexibility, you guys are trying to run out there,
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  Speaker 5: where do you feel it is right now and trying
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  Speaker 5: to get up to speed with that as a group.
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  Speaker 5: But it was Brady mentioned you guys were talking a
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  Speaker 5: bunch bunch out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: But how how long will it take to get.
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  Speaker 5: That where you guys want it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, they're there's no one time to be
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  Speaker 4: able to say it's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: Something that's an ongoing continuation because you can never say
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  Speaker 4: something's perfect. You'll never be at the point where it's like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, it's good enough. It'll never be, especially with
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  Speaker 4: how this team runs and how our staff is. Expectations
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  Speaker 4: always perfection, and you can never be perfect. There's never
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  Speaker 4: a great you know, one way, Okay, it's exactly where
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  Speaker 4: we want it. So I feel as if it's always
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  Speaker 4: gonna be an ongoing thing, Do I see it. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get better, for sure, and it's definitely gonna be
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  Speaker 4: something that we get more comfortable, we get more understanding
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  Speaker 4: of each other as players, will definitely grow into something
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  Speaker 4: that's even.
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  Speaker 1: Better anything else. Guys, thank you, appreciate it. Thank you,