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Julian Love: "Mike Macdonald Is An Innovator" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Excited it being a little bit brighter. What are the
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  Speaker 1: differences that you can tell being around this new staff
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  Speaker 1: the last three days compared to last year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just different people, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: different people. We're trying to get our foundation kind of
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  Speaker 2: philosophy of our our team. I think it's really we're
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  Speaker 2: just starting as a blank slate. I think it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the main message. We're gonna develop kind of the
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  Speaker 2: schemes and our pillars of what we want to go
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  Speaker 2: off of as a unit, I think with player input,
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty cool. And so yeah, that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: been the talk the past few days we've been here.
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  Speaker 3: Impression of Mike McDonald's so far.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a I think he's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I think he is incredibly smart that comes across. I
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  Speaker 2: think when you talk to him, he knows the game,
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  Speaker 2: he knows ball, and I think he's just an innovator.
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  Speaker 3: I think he.
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  Speaker 2: Is conscious of growth. You know, in his scheme, it's
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  Speaker 2: developing each year. It's not going to be the same
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  Speaker 2: thing that they ran last year in Baltimore, but he's
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  Speaker 2: always trying to max the players and so take away.
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  Speaker 2: I think Redel across the room, across the locker room
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  Speaker 2: is all great so far?
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  Speaker 3: What kind of sense have you gotten about the type
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  Speaker 3: of program he wants to run, what he wants the
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  Speaker 3: team to be all about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm still figuring that out myself, but
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  Speaker 2: I think he one is letting players still be themselves, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: have swag.
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  Speaker 3: Have energy. Whoever you are, be who you are.
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  Speaker 2: But also we have to follow those lines of our standard,
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  Speaker 2: and standard is either you're helping the team with who
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  Speaker 2: you are or not. I think that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: gist of him so far.
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  Speaker 1: He got hired, did you reach out to anybody you
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  Speaker 1: having to know with Baltimore and maybe get a sense
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  Speaker 1: of what he was like there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just so happened to be with Kyle Hamilton the
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  Speaker 2: day he got hired, and so we chopped that up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and yeah, he said nothing but great things.
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  Speaker 2: He said kind of everything I'm saying that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's smart, He's just really knows how to call a game.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously was coordinated, so he really knows how.
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  Speaker 3: To call a game. He really knows how to scheme. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm going to enjoy him.
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  Speaker 1: I have someone he seemed to draw a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of them, maybe more than people expected that he's Did
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  Speaker 1: he mention anything about that, like his ability to sort
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  Speaker 1: of find qualities to enhance players?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he they I mean, so far, the
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  Speaker 2: entire staff has done a great job of really diving
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  Speaker 2: into the tape of.
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  Speaker 3: Who they have in the room.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean a lot of tape has been poured
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  Speaker 2: over with these guys. I think they've been itching to
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  Speaker 2: get us all back in here because of how excited
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  Speaker 2: they are about what we have. And with Kyle, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a six y three safety who's a freak
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  Speaker 2: and so you can maximize him. But for what they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do with us, I think it is really cool
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  Speaker 2: that they're getting our flow, getting our.
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  Speaker 3: Feedback, getting my feedback on kind of what we want
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  Speaker 3: to do this here, what our standard will be. What
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  Speaker 3: is your reaction when they catch them all?
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  Speaker 1: And Klinder and how do you I guess where does
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  Speaker 1: that kind of throw on you?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Is kind together?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I take a step back and just really
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  Speaker 2: throws on me to be myself. That's uh why I'm
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  Speaker 2: here myself. I don't have to be Collandre, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be Jamal because I'm not and I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a little it's I'll say, it's sad
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  Speaker 2: for me. Goudy like those guys, those are my they're friends,
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  Speaker 2: and I enjoyed having them here last year. They both
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  Speaker 2: brought something out of me, out of my game, out
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  Speaker 2: of just my personality in a time when I was
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  Speaker 2: new to the building. They were the first people who
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  Speaker 2: kind of brought me in, and so I appreciate those
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  Speaker 2: guys all they did. Now I just have to be
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  Speaker 2: myself and just kind of provide my leadership for the
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  Speaker 2: guys in this room.
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  Speaker 3: Use the word innovator when talking about McDonald. We've heard
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  Speaker 3: that word before. What about him seems innovative?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, it's just a growth mindset. I think,
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  Speaker 2: simply put, it's he has a growth mindset. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to always improve what he's doing. He wants to improve
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  Speaker 2: our team, so year to year in year out, it
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  Speaker 2: won't be the same. You can tell he's always looking
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  Speaker 2: to get that cutting edge out of the game because
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  Speaker 2: the game is changing, players are changing, and scheme and
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  Speaker 2: style has to as well. And I think you kind
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  Speaker 2: of get that sense. But he's very intentional I would
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  Speaker 2: say is the main thing. He's super intentional of what
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  Speaker 2: he says, what he means, and how he goes about things.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's been great to see so far.
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  Speaker 1: What if you got to know Leslie Frazier repressions of him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't gotten to know him super well, but
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  Speaker 2: we had a few conversations. And I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 2: guy who's been around the league, who I think appreciates
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  Speaker 2: my game, who's been around some good guys that I
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  Speaker 2: kind of want to emulate in certain aspects of my game.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a.
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  Speaker 2: Guy who I think is good to have in the room.
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  Speaker 2: He guys, he's a guy who knows ball. We have
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  Speaker 2: some young coaches and he's a guy who has that experience,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that balance is really cool with having
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  Speaker 2: him in along with that with all that's new here,
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  Speaker 2: comforting is he needs. It's nice. Uh, it's nice. I'll
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  Speaker 2: say that this some you know, familiarity. Obviously, he knows
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  Speaker 2: our personalities and kind of knows how we go about things.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a good one, Uh for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's tough, you know, a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 2: haven't gone through coaching changes before. I I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what you want to say about it. I have, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's I they can lean on me, actually on them,
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  Speaker 2: just for all that insecurity that might they might feel.
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  Speaker 3: But so far, every thing's been good.
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  Speaker 4: Where have you learned from I mean, what is it
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  Speaker 4: that you now take.
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  Speaker 1: Away when you made the coaching change?
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  Speaker 4: You know, how do you come meet listening patients?
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of yeah, listening patients compassions like
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  Speaker 2: compassion like you said, but I mean expectation. I think
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  Speaker 2: you have to understand that it's a blank slate. These
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  Speaker 2: people are making impressions off of you. The tape is
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  Speaker 2: the tape, whatever your football, but they you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: learning your personalities.
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  Speaker 3: And so you have to be okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody comes in and uh, you know, you have
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  Speaker 2: to understand who they are as well. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the first thing I feel as import and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to go to where we want to go is
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  Speaker 2: that sense of mutual understanding.
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  Speaker 3: Player to player, coach to coach, player to coach.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm just stressing that to the young guys
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  Speaker 2: is taking everything right down, everything because everything's important right now.
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  Speaker 3: You got to know where they're from.
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  Speaker 2: What their family situation is like, so we can really
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  Speaker 2: mesh as quick as possible, hit the ground running, come training.
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  Speaker 1: Camp, leadership ball, you've taken. What kind of leader have you? Band?
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  Speaker 4: And then you go into the you continue to.
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  Speaker 3: Be Yeah, I think I'm I don't know right word.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm a intention You're good, I'm an intentional leader.
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  Speaker 2: I guess weird as it sounds.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a intimate leader.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a guy who's gonna, you know, hoot and
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  Speaker 2: holler in front of the group.
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  Speaker 3: That's not me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty collected, and I just want to say what
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  Speaker 2: it is and what it isn't for our guys. I
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  Speaker 2: think that sense of accountability obviously has to be there.
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  Speaker 2: But then the flip side of it is, I want
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  Speaker 2: to create a culture where we're gassing each other up
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  Speaker 2: and just as happy celebrating next person success is your own.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of my goal in my leadership style,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm just trying to adopt that and just
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  Speaker 2: be present for our guys. Herespend your initial impressions of
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  Speaker 2: Ray Sean, and how do you think your guys and
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  Speaker 2: skills will compliment each other. I think we're gonna complement
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  Speaker 2: each other really well. I think personality we compliment each
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  Speaker 2: other well. And like you said, on the field, so
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  Speaker 2: far he's been great. I mean, he's a guy who's
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  Speaker 2: a vet you going on year eight. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: been playing good ball. And I feel like, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like me, you know, you to be productive as you
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  Speaker 2: can and you just kind of still fly under the radar.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like he was a guy who was just
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  Speaker 3: really doing his thing with the.
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  Speaker 2: Chargers and then with Jacksonville and just you know who's
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  Speaker 2: kind of flying under the radar. But I have been
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  Speaker 2: watching his state for years and I've appreciated his game,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's cool to be in the room with him,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a guy. I think we're going to really
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  Speaker 2: mess and really kind of cultivate our style on this defense,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the secondary.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned you experienced coaching changes, and even back to
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame you had different Dcason there and everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: does it never get easier to continue to adapt and
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  Speaker 4: learn and have to meet new people and have to
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  Speaker 4: kind of reset as you go through.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know, I guess it does get a little easier.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: No, I won't say that, I'll say it doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: get easier. I guess you get more numb to it. Weirdly,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is my you know, eighth coordinator or
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  Speaker 2: whatever in nine years, dating back.
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  Speaker 3: To Notre Dame, and so it's something that you got
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: But it's helped my game. I think that's the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing is it's helped my game. I know different schemes,
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  Speaker 2: i know different verbiage. I've experienced kind of it all
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  Speaker 2: and it's only benefited me. I think just me playing
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  Speaker 2: multiple positions, having a ton of coordinators and style was
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  Speaker 2: huge for my growth of my development. I'm excited because
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a good group we got. I
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  Speaker 2: think John hired the right people. I think we really
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  Speaker 2: have something that we can build off of with the
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  Speaker 2: guys that are in here right now.
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  Speaker 3: A few months and how is fatherhood changed you changing me?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Uh, the sleep is a little less, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I smile more.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you could.
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  Speaker 2: Say, I mean it's the best. You guys who have
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  Speaker 2: kids know, it's just that first kid you're holding them
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  Speaker 2: and you just I mean, you can't love anything more.
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  Speaker 2: And I really appreciated my time with him.
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  Speaker 3: He is a great baby.
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  Speaker 2: I caught a good we caught a good stretch of
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  Speaker 2: him sleeping well. Right now, he has some teeth already
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  Speaker 2: at three months to teeth pop through, and so that's
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  Speaker 2: another challenge. But everything I mean is just a blessing
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  Speaker 2: and my my wife and I are just super happy
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  Speaker 2: to get this time with them.
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  Speaker 3: What does the maximizing you as a player look like? Hmm,
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  Speaker 3: that's a that's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: I like that maximizing me as a player, I think
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  Speaker 2: just letting me be me, understanding who I am off
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  Speaker 2: the field. I think every time I had challenges in
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  Speaker 2: my career, people kind of did understand the uh sparity
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  Speaker 2: between my game, my practice, self.
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  Speaker 3: And who I am right now off the field.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think understanding you know, I'm pretty calm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty, very pretty neutral off the field, but on
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  Speaker 2: the field, I try to get after it, and so
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  Speaker 2: that I think is unlocking my games, understanding myself, understanding
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  Speaker 2: me as a person, and then aside from that, just
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  Speaker 2: me around the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I like to be around the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, I try to get after it and
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  Speaker 2: just try to help this roster win.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of the year you had last year?
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  Speaker 2: When you look back on you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: exciting because obviously I had some great things happen to me.
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  Speaker 2: I got the Pro Bowl, you know, I had some
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  Speaker 2: some good weeks there. And I'm excited because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot I left out there. I feel like, whether it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't playing as much as I could have been, or
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  Speaker 2: just some games that just weren't my games. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: because that means that bar can be raised even higher.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just going to try to stay composed, stay myself,
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  Speaker 2: stay who I am, but understand that my balds are higher.
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  Speaker 3: This year personally.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, thats.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thanks to guys. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hm