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Rashid Shaheed: "This Has Been Nothing But A Dream Come True" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's everybody takes her that opening kickoffs? Uh? Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: that was a crazy moment. Uh just built momentum for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the game. Yeah. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to say. I was that was just a crazy experience.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Jay Harbaugh for putting us, uh all
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  Speaker 1: eleven guys on the right page each and every week,
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  Speaker 1: so big shout out to him. Do you feel the
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  Speaker 1: crowd when you're on the field like that or is
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  Speaker 1: it something like you're tube in the zone to notice?
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  Speaker 1: Uh th this particular play. I did kind of hear
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  Speaker 1: the crowd a little bit. It just kind of erupted.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, that that particular play. I did you
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  Speaker 1: like to I felt it? Yeah, it was crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: was like that I just feel a foot hit my leg.
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I know that was That was funny.
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  Speaker 1: But do you have a kicker try the league sleeping?
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  Speaker 1: I can't say that. You know, what kind of Joel
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  Speaker 1: do you think the ark? The energy is already hide
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  Speaker 1: the tip it with twenty minutes for kickoffs? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of Joel do you think you could return to your team? What?
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  Speaker 1: What did that lead to you? Yeah, just showed how
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  Speaker 1: prepared we are to come out and dominate. That was
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  Speaker 1: our mindset throughout the whole week, as our mindset each
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  Speaker 1: and every game, and that's exactly what we came out
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  Speaker 1: to do, and then started with special teams and kind
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  Speaker 1: of carried throughout the rest of the game. What's your
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  Speaker 1: quarterback show this week? Toughness, resilient. He's a leader and
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  Speaker 1: the captain of this team. You know, he came out,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't feeling one hundred percent and he played a
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  Speaker 1: great game and that's all we could ask for him.
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  Speaker 1: What was the feeling like, you know, after you hear
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  Speaker 1: about the injuries, saw it like happened in real time,
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  Speaker 1: But two days before the playoff game, we're back down.
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  Speaker 1: What was the feeling like with the offense. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was some some news that we weren't expecting, but we
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  Speaker 1: knew that, you know, we had a great backup and
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  Speaker 1: he was gonna come in and compete and we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna rally behind him. Whoever's back there, we know that
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  Speaker 1: we could win with. And yeah, it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a surprise, but you know, I feel like we handled
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  Speaker 1: it well. She did thirty yard run. What's it like
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  Speaker 1: having to offensive lineman that get that far out in
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  Speaker 1: the front. Yeah, sub down and sable were yards down fielding.
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  Speaker 1: But how awesome is that to have to buffet bashers
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  Speaker 1: that could run line. Yeah, that's a good, uh way
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  Speaker 1: to put it. Yeah. No, to have guys that have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of effort, it it kind of just as
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  Speaker 1: as an example of how you know, we we know
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  Speaker 1: that if we put the effort in that any play
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  Speaker 1: could be a touchdown, and you know, guys like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's a perfect example of our team and uh and
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  Speaker 1: embodies of what we want to do each and every play.
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  Speaker 1: She did we were stay closed to give you a
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  Speaker 1: both several hundred touchdown turns and get in college. What's
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  Speaker 1: striking is how different the kickoffs look because of the
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  Speaker 1: mechanics and the rule changes. When did you understand how
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  Speaker 1: to maximize returns in this new system in the way
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  Speaker 1: they deal it is honestly pretty pretty recently. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: start the year off kick returning. Uh when I came here. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's when I finally got the opportunity to get back there.
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  Speaker 1: So I knew that, Uh, I just had to stick
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  Speaker 1: with the game plan and you know, just follow the
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  Speaker 1: ten guys. I knew that this group is super special
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  Speaker 1: and They put in a lot of effort throughout each
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  Speaker 1: and every week, So all I gotta do is just
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  Speaker 1: follow those guys, and they do that just handled the rest.
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  Speaker 1: If help told us when you got here that he
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  Speaker 1: asked you what it's like to be as fast as
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  Speaker 1: you already? Do you remember that conversation with him, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was one of the first things he asked. But
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  Speaker 1: he said he's been watching me for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, he was super excited to have me. Christine,
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  Speaker 1: you have our people lead two of the biggest plays
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  Speaker 1: of the entire season, Department turned against the Rams and
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  Speaker 1: then you know the kickoff return tonight. Joining this team
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  Speaker 1: mid season and being able to make impacts in such
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  Speaker 1: huge games like that, what was that me to you?
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  Speaker 1: Means everything? Just to come out here and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a part of this team, it's super special being
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  Speaker 1: a part of the wide receiver room. It's just nothing
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  Speaker 1: like I've ever experienced, and it's been nothing but a
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  Speaker 1: dream come true. And yeah, we just gotta keep sacking wins.
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  Speaker 1: You had to describe what makes this team special someone
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  Speaker 1: who's just parachuted into it. What's the biggest thing that
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  Speaker 1: it was apparent to you just took togetherness, the want
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  Speaker 1: to to to fight for the man next to you.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody has that same mindset and we
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  Speaker 1: all kind of just we just stick by each other
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. It's always the next play mentality, next
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  Speaker 1: man up mentality, and uh, we all know that what
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  Speaker 1: we're capable of, and you know, we come up with
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  Speaker 1: that mindset that we could dominate every play October to
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  Speaker 1: turn on October? Could you imagine you were gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the NFC title? You can season? Not even a thought
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  Speaker 1: when you got here? When did you at what point
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  Speaker 1: after the first week in November? If you gotta, did
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  Speaker 1: you realize this reached costa h after the first game? Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that was a special group of special locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, obviously I played in New Orleans here
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  Speaker 1: earlier this season, and I saw first hand what type
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  Speaker 1: of team and you know what type of defense that
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  Speaker 1: they you know, bring, and uh, yeah, it's been nothing
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  Speaker 1: but a great time. You've had experienced played in the
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  Speaker 1: backfield in this offense, but the New Orleans and see
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  Speaker 1: how and obviously the first jet Suite game, how how
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  Speaker 1: is that experience helped translate to the the current kick
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  Speaker 1: return style as you mentioned, adapting to that with the
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  Speaker 1: way the blocking is set up. Uh, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: similar as a run play. Yeah, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a a stretch play if you if you will. As
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  Speaker 1: as a running back, you know, you just kind of
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  Speaker 1: follow the teams. You you, you know, you know where
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  Speaker 1: your guys are gonna be at, and you just gotta
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  Speaker 1: trust them. And that's that's what I do. I just
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  Speaker 1: trust my teammates and and they make me right. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been great so far. We'll talked about your running
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  Speaker 1: style that you almost glide when you run. Is that
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  Speaker 1: track by I do know? You run track too? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the track back? You think that you run
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  Speaker 1: so easily? What the spies feed? Yeah, for sure, I'll
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  Speaker 1: give track all the credit for that. Yeah. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up running track and uh that's something that I always
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  Speaker 1: knew that would help me out with football, so I
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  Speaker 1: stuck with it, and uh yeah, I w I would
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  Speaker 1: get my track background the credit for that. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: think that was thanks you, Thank you as for sure,