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Devon Witherspoon: "I Bring A Lot Of Juice To The Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How enjoying good good?
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  Speaker 2: How was up? Oh the house camacin been going so
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  Speaker 2: far for you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, kid has been going really well. We've been out
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  Speaker 3: here competeing, you know, having a lot of fun, bring
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  Speaker 3: a lot of energy. The fans been great out here.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's just been one of a kind honestly, So it's
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  Speaker 3: been going very well.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of interview, you seem to play with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it out there, especially him getting the pads on.
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  Speaker 2: Is that just always been your.
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  Speaker 3: Your style of Uh yeah, just always be myself, you know,
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  Speaker 3: be the best liked be every day. But uh, just
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  Speaker 3: play with a lot of energy, bring a lot of
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  Speaker 3: juice to the defense, just go out there and have fun.
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  Speaker 1: And that just always been who I am. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's evident, like.
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  Speaker 4: Your tape and then seeing out here how much your
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  Speaker 4: joy you get from hitting people.
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  Speaker 2: How exciting was it to get the pads out? What
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  Speaker 2: does that feel like? Christmas come early for playing like?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, honestly kind of a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but just you know, get back into the real
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  Speaker 3: field of the game of football. You know, our preseason
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  Speaker 3: games coming out real quick, so uh, you gotta get
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  Speaker 3: back into that MOLDI tackling, you know, hearing folks again.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it was real cool and it was a
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  Speaker 3: real joy and to get passed back on.
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  Speaker 5: Would you say that that's the thing in your game
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  Speaker 5: that you want people to notice the most is the
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  Speaker 5: physicality aspect.
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  Speaker 3: I just say it's a part of my game that
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  Speaker 3: people should realize that I that I bring to the table.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of undersized and stuff like that, but I
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  Speaker 3: just don't want people to, you know, try to Oh
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  Speaker 3: he's not that big, so he's not gonna hit you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lie. So I just try to be a
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  Speaker 1: physical I could be, you know, just bring a lot
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  Speaker 1: of juice.
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  Speaker 2: Adjust to even playing inside a how j how do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like that's going for you?
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  Speaker 1: It's been going smooth.
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  Speaker 3: It was a easy transition once I got a downpack,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just keep keep getting a lot of reps
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  Speaker 3: at it, uh at Nickel and then it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: just slow it down, just bring to your speed of
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  Speaker 3: the game. And it's it's a real easy transition though,
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  Speaker 3: especially in our defense and not kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Playing your skill set.
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  Speaker 1: You a physical guy, be kind of play big effect
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  Speaker 1: that you're closer. Yeah, it plays in it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh my game is a a good amount also, but
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  Speaker 3: it just plays well to our defense the way we
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  Speaker 3: run it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's.
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  Speaker 2: Between playing inside or it's been outside.
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  Speaker 3: Purpose Nah, I don't really have a preference or whatever coach
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  Speaker 3: need me to do, I'll go do it.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the different skills that requires when you're playing.
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  Speaker 3: Out letters playing uh more outside, you kind of more
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  Speaker 3: on the island. You can kind of get your bigger
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  Speaker 3: type receivers. In the slide, you get the more shift
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  Speaker 3: of your guys, and you get to be in the
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  Speaker 3: run fit a little bit more so. But in the league,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they moved their top guys to the slide
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  Speaker 3: as well, so you get a lot of uh good
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  Speaker 3: reps at both.
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  Speaker 2: How did that come about? We saw your signing sort
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  Speaker 2: of start to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's coming about.
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  Speaker 2: It It like to you, So you start to do
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  Speaker 2: that very many camp it seemed like kind of moving
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  Speaker 2: to it seemed like you started out signing the more
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  Speaker 2: smart navment side you moving circle that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, coach, you told me, oh, we just gonna try
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  Speaker 3: you at Nickel today. Get you some rest, see how
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  Speaker 3: you feel, see how you like it, and just ask me, uh,
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  Speaker 3: how did I feel.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day and how was I
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with it? And I was.
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  Speaker 4: So from the technique standpoint, you you have to jing there,
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  Speaker 4: your work on your pay.
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  Speaker 2: Inside it sounds like when you have the boundary in
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  Speaker 2: the times to your closer.
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  Speaker 1: Uh kind of but not not really.
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  Speaker 3: You just got I say, you got a a kind
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  Speaker 3: of a lot more space for the uh the slot
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  Speaker 3: receiver to give you a lot more work.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably about it, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you like your hit on him the other.
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  Speaker 1: Day or uh, yeah he was he was fired up.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was just it was just real competitive so
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  Speaker 3: it was another person or anything like that, and you
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  Speaker 3: just we just fired up to have to pass on.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a it was a uh a good
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  Speaker 1: play then, I know it was kind of I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Through your side of why youss uh nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It was just a couple of business things that we
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  Speaker 3: had to handle on the business side.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing really crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Then it seems like you're talking about being fired up
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  Speaker 4: and stuff like a play doesn't quite go your way,
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  Speaker 4: or even if it does, like you're s bouncing around
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  Speaker 4: firing up, celebrating stuff or.
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  Speaker 2: Or bads and something go right, or you're like where.
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  Speaker 4: Where does that come from?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want? What does that do for you
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  Speaker 1: in your play on the field. Kind of have a
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  Speaker 1: channel and that that energy.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean really, you just gotta realize that these
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  Speaker 3: guys are in an in the NFL too, so they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna make plays on here and stuff like that. But
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  Speaker 3: you just can't let one play beat you more than
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  Speaker 3: one time. So after that plays over it, just take
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  Speaker 3: it off. Just try to be better the next play.
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  Speaker 3: So that's always my mindset went on. When I kind
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  Speaker 3: of get beat and stuff like that, just play the
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  Speaker 3: next play. Just get the ball down, give our defense
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  Speaker 3: another chance.
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  Speaker 5: After you missed the two days, how we leave? Were
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  Speaker 5: you just to get back with the team, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and do what.
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  Speaker 1: It is that you like to do. I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was real happy. The team was also happy too.
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  Speaker 3: They welcome me in with open arms, nothing personal or
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  Speaker 3: anything against me and stuff like that. I was just
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  Speaker 3: real happy to be bad with the guys. Just no
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  Speaker 3: just lie how we interact with each other in the
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  Speaker 3: locker room, it's just really it's just real genuine.
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  Speaker 1: So I was really happy to get me.
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  Speaker 5: Back undersized and I'm just using air when you're undersized
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  Speaker 5: and let's say, and you're a good hit or how
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  Speaker 5: much of your ability to read the play do we underestimate, right,
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  Speaker 5: because you have to be sure how much of the
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  Speaker 5: plays are you so away round?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, that just really falls into the category of watching film.
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  Speaker 3: You just knowing what's going on out there.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's really I can.
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  Speaker 3: All I said really say about that is just watch
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  Speaker 3: film and just be aware of your surroundings, what's going
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  Speaker 3: on at there on the field, and what the team
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  Speaker 3: like to do.
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  Speaker 5: So something you you pride yourself in doing college and
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  Speaker 5: now obviously pro ability to study the film.
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  Speaker 3: Study the film and just trying to get any kind
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  Speaker 3: of cheat code that we can get out there on
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  Speaker 3: the field and just give us advantage over the offensive the.
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  Speaker 2: Other the other guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy though, because like everybody got their
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  Speaker 3: own different style of play, but we we just so competitive,
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  Speaker 3: like nobody wants to get beat and even when we
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  Speaker 3: do it, just like, uh, just go win the next play.
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  Speaker 3: So with those guys, like we always just be real
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  Speaker 3: competitive with each other. We try to hold each other
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  Speaker 3: to the high standard and we just go out there
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  Speaker 3: and play football.
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  Speaker 2: People that you were. I mean, how would you describe
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  Speaker 2: what Mike's out way? As you said Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Mike's a little bit bigger corner, so he the more
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  Speaker 3: physical side of it.
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  Speaker 1: He's real good at it.
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  Speaker 3: But Mike might just be having like an outstanding training
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  Speaker 3: camp and stuff like that. So I just go out there,
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  Speaker 3: I I hey, I just let them all behind, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just keep doing out there, keep competing. You having a
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  Speaker 3: awesome training camp. So I can't really do anything about
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  Speaker 3: that but give him a lot of praise and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just keep churning 'em on. So that's really about it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you had if if Nicol sort of ends
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  Speaker 2: up your spot or whatever it is that I mean
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  Speaker 2: exact if you like.
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  Speaker 1: That, yeah, I get.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I've you told it. Also, what that that's
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  Speaker 3: Nicholas actually kind of fun. So I mean I'll be
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  Speaker 3: all told, Okay, well we just go out there and
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  Speaker 3: compete in that back end, you know, either well, we're
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  Speaker 3: kind of all interchangeable, so it's not really everyone has
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  Speaker 3: this one specific spot, like we all kind of know
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  Speaker 3: the whole back end.
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  Speaker 4: So then the best quarterbacks in theas to travel with
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  Speaker 4: guys in times as like so like getting time in
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  Speaker 4: the slot, working with that area of killed the case
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  Speaker 4: that ever gets called upon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just uh, like I said, uh, in the league,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh some of the top guys go to
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  Speaker 3: the slot nowadays, Like it's nothing just the stationary outside
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  Speaker 3: game anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So you gotta be real flexible about how you play.
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  Speaker 4: So how would you describe your early your matchups against Tyler,
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  Speaker 4: lockin K and Jackson see like YouTube especially, you know
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  Speaker 4: Jackson's going.
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  Speaker 2: Back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, it's been It's been fun. You know. Uh have
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  Speaker 1: these veteran guys on our team.
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  Speaker 3: Tyl to like it just he's so shifting man, He's
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  Speaker 3: a he's one of the most underrated receivers in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Bro and the and.
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  Speaker 3: His talent it can it can shock you by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: But if you know what you're gonna give you like,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's just him.
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  Speaker 3: We got DK, the bigger receiver man. DK's gonna give
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  Speaker 3: you everything you want. You gotta compete real real well
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  Speaker 3: against him. And then Jackson more shifted guy know and
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  Speaker 3: slot He's gonna give you everything you uh you need
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  Speaker 3: and want to see before the season hit. So we
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  Speaker 3: kind of get uh a jack of all trades with
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  Speaker 3: our receivers, so you kind of see it all. So
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  Speaker 3: why the time the season hits, like, you gonna kind
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  Speaker 3: of see what all the types of game, every talent.
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  Speaker 4: There's somebody new going against him, what makes him good?
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  Speaker 4: What makes him tough to cover for? Somebody who asking
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  Speaker 4: any other set of ball for something? For considering he
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  Speaker 4: is generally underrated.
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  Speaker 1: He knows how to beat you. That's that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the simplest way I could put it. He knows
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  Speaker 3: how to beat you. So there's nothing more than that
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  Speaker 3: less he just knows how to beat you.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you feel like that will help you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean when when the season comes, I mean going
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  Speaker 2: I guess Tyler every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's gonna help not just me, but
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  Speaker 3: also Mike, Jack, Reid Tray, It's gonna help everybody. So
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  Speaker 3: we get prepared. Like I said, we get to see
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  Speaker 3: a jack of all trades with our receivers. So it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna prepare us a lot for the uh season. So
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  Speaker 3: when we see do see those guys, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: get a feel for what they're gonna do against us,
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  Speaker 3: how they gonna attack us.
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  Speaker 2: Anythink else.
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  Speaker 1: Guys teach you appreciation