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Dre'Mont Jones: "We Have To Be Better In The Run Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So being as versatile as you are, maybe when the
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  Speaker 1: teams will thin at certain spots the coaching stuck, they
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  Speaker 1: can move you around to wherever they need. You did
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  Speaker 1: last week feel like the best example You've been able
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  Speaker 1: to kind of do your whole role and do what
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  Speaker 1: you do best, cause you guys were healthier online.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't the best example. It just got the
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  Speaker 2: best results out of me. Uh personally, but no, I
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  Speaker 2: think to be other games where I've done it, and
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  Speaker 2: I've done a pretty solid job at it. Just continue
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  Speaker 2: to get better and getting used to a role of versatility.
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  Speaker 1: You've got three sacks in the last five games.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you let the team in pressures this last week. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: what's working for you right now?
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  Speaker 2: Just staying of course, No, no matter of the personal
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  Speaker 2: adversity of the phase, I'm make su I'm making sure
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  Speaker 2: that you know I'm going straight and narrow. I'm being
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  Speaker 2: positive about my my outcomes and my situation. Definitely not easy,
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  Speaker 2: but you know I I think I'm making the best
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  Speaker 2: of it for this team.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the personal adversity, what what kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Off field stuff? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen Byron Murphy kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of progress and getting back on the field, gather last
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  Speaker 2: week with you and what he.
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  Speaker 3: Can bring up the table for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just seeing I'm seeing his g his game continue
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  Speaker 2: to grow. He caught a little hiccup with the UH injury.
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  Speaker 2: He's out for a couple of weeks, and I've still
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  Speaker 2: seen this progression, his eagerness to learn. He he knows
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  Speaker 2: where to be and he knows how to use his leverage. Personally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's a short guy and super strong, so
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  Speaker 2: he has all the potential in the world to be great.
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  Speaker 3: What what is it about this spills offense makes them
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  Speaker 3: as dynamic as they are the challenges they present to you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, this weekend starts with their six y five, two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty pound quarterback. For real, that's the one
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  Speaker 2: that gets the horse going. I mean, without them, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think they'll be the team they are and they
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  Speaker 2: know that. So right now, he hasn't throw any interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully Russian coverage can work together so he can
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  Speaker 2: cause his first turn over a season.
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  Speaker 3: UH.
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  Speaker 2: I knowing a guy, he's been a guy in the
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  Speaker 2: pass that throws a lot of interceptions because he takes
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  Speaker 2: shots and I know he's eager to throw the ball
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  Speaker 2: as far as he can in front of our crowds,
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  Speaker 2: So you gotta do a good job of plastering him.
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  Speaker 1: Statistically, the run game, the run defense was a lot
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  Speaker 1: better in the second half Sunday in the first half.
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  Speaker 3: Is anything really.
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  Speaker 1: Change there at all?
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  Speaker 2: Or what our aggression? You know, just to pigback off that.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to continue to be better. I know
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  Speaker 2: personally for me, I don't like seeing the amount of
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  Speaker 2: yards on the board. Granted, you know we did win,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I don't wanna. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be the hindsight guy and forget about you know, the
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  Speaker 2: run game. It's still I think an issue for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's an issue for me. We got to be better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be one of the last teams
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  Speaker 2: in the league in a run game. So we're doing
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  Speaker 2: a good job, you know, we're our mindset's right, the
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  Speaker 2: coaches are emphasizing it, and eventually it's gonna get going.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you never want to have a teammate be traded
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  Speaker 3: away like Jerome, But with Ernest Jones coming in, he's
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  Speaker 3: highly touted is a pretty good run defense, uh kind
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  Speaker 3: of linebacker? What does that do for your.
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  Speaker 2: Defensive room read my buck eye. But it does it.
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  Speaker 2: It does a I can't really really speak on it
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  Speaker 2: because I don't really know Jones that that well. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know his game. I've heard from others that I
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  Speaker 2: know that plays for the Rams. I said he was good,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean as far as that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully this move works out for the betterment I'm obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we all want that to but we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like a positive thing obviously, when John Schnider
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  Speaker 3: and and your coach are working to get an impact
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  Speaker 3: player on your team. When the NFC is kind of
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  Speaker 3: this wide.
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  Speaker 2: Open, it can be viewed as a positive or neative thing.
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  Speaker 2: It it depends on what what window you looking through.
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  Speaker 1: What's that process like for you in terms of having
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  Speaker 1: to learn guys or their tendencies and communicate with the
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  Speaker 1: new players that are coming in during during the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big process. It's definitely not easy to rework
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  Speaker 2: your roster in the middle of the season. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do what they're gonna do regardless, and obviously I respect that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm for it. I believe in their in their system
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  Speaker 2: and what they want to do. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: an adjustment for all of us to learn a new
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  Speaker 2: guy and kind of re establish a new relationship and
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  Speaker 2: reastablish a new voice that you're gonna hear making the
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  Speaker 2: calls in the middle of the field, especially, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cause he's the quarterback of the defense. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: something you gotta adjusted to all of us playing at
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  Speaker 2: a different weight this season. Has that been any sort
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  Speaker 2: of an adjustment for you? It has been just getting
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with my body again and figuring out, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my strengths and weaknesses, and how to make sure all
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  Speaker 2: my all my weaknesses are just completely strengths. So it's
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  Speaker 2: been a challenge in that aspect too, and I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing a good job by it so far.
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  Speaker 1: When this pass rush is going, well, how much of
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  Speaker 1: it is guys playing off each other.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking a boy.
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  Speaker 1: Is sack force fun as you know to you collapse
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  Speaker 1: of pocket and then he's able.
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  Speaker 2: To get Yeah, do you hold out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I would say last game was probably the best game
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly of us all working together as good as we did.
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  Speaker 2: I think these past couple of games prior before that game,
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of us just we just went
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  Speaker 2: in and it just happened to be like that. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like this Atlanta game was a good game of
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  Speaker 2: us communicating the past game schemes, whether it's a game
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  Speaker 2: or just going to straight worth a straight rush and
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  Speaker 2: just reading off each other. And we had to get
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  Speaker 2: better at that. It's only been a couple of games.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's only been seven games. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: more football to play to get better and build our
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  Speaker 2: relationship on that aspect.
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  Speaker 1: If you dropped in covers as much as you thought
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  Speaker 1: you might have or.
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  Speaker 2: Butt on par I've I've dropped a good amount of
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  Speaker 2: time so far this year. I'm comfortabout doing it now.
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  Speaker 2: So shoot, put me on whoever?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Put me on George Kittle.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen Derek Hall grow in the last from
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  Speaker 1: last season this year being around him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's the same type of player. I honestly,
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  Speaker 2: only thing that's been different is his mindset and it's
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  Speaker 2: applying to the field and uh he guys, it has
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  Speaker 2: to continue.
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  Speaker 1: I was, yeah, yeah, Jackson had a duck jersey on
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  Speaker 1: the week after.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have something that you had to do as well?
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  Speaker 2: I had to do something that's a little more personal,
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  Speaker 2: but uh no, I didn't make that bet. But thinking
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  Speaker 2: of that, I don't know why we didn't run the
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  Speaker 2: ball in the uh the last six sections of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So talk to uh them boys down in Columbus and
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  Speaker 2: telling him to run the damn ball next time and
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  Speaker 2: just get trust the kicker. But it's all good. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think at the penalty, the intentional penalty late.
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  Speaker 3: In the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know if that was on purpose. We
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  Speaker 2: I think Mike brought that up to me and asked me,
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  Speaker 2: do you think it's on purpose or they did by accident?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was intentional. It was a
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  Speaker 2: very genius move. I didn't I wouldn't expect that, so
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  Speaker 2: that was actually, you know, big brain play by him.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think there should have been a second left? Nah?
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  Speaker 2: I'nna be real. I don't want to be biased. Nah,
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  Speaker 2: we ran out of time. We just my boy, my
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  Speaker 2: boy eighteen was back there. Just too comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: But it's good.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna learn.
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  Speaker 1: First game with Robertson Harris. Uh, what were you impressions
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  Speaker 1: at him?
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  Speaker 2: Man? It's like six eight, It's crazy. Uh, he's super
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  Speaker 2: super strong. I've been watching him. I've been seeing this
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  Speaker 2: game from Afar for a while. I shouldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: watching him, I seeing I saw him in Chicago, I
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  Speaker 2: saw him in Jacksonville. You know, I just watched a
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  Speaker 2: lot of football and a lot of tapes, so eventually
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  Speaker 2: trying to just see guys and you pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: who they are, so you know, it's been unique process
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  Speaker 2: of just bringing him in and he's picked up the
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  Speaker 2: defense pretty well. Very powerful guy, uh rushlo as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna add a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good plays to our defense here soon. Do you
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  Speaker 2: for a defensive lineman part that long shoot? Can nobody
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  Speaker 2: touch your chest? You in the ball game?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Like? You don't want a big, strong alignment grabbing you
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  Speaker 2: and trying to rofile you, cause they're already biggeran US
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  Speaker 2: in the first place, especially me. They like six eight
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  Speaker 2: three thirty and I'm wherever my weight is. So playing
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  Speaker 2: with extensions is very key for a d linman.
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  Speaker 3: We else, Thanks for cool, Thanks for lying.