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Derick Hall: "Starting Fast Is A Big Emphasis Every Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Did you.
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  Speaker 2: There? What's that.
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  Speaker 3: There are thin these.
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  Speaker 1: Last couple of games at three games and you get
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  Speaker 1: three sacks now didn't have any last season? What what
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like is really coming to life now
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  Speaker 1: for you in this defensive scheme to accentuate your stress? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the big part of it is just
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  Speaker 3: knowing what I had to attack going into the offseason
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  Speaker 3: and really honing in on that, being able to develop
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  Speaker 3: my pass rush and take it to that next level,
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  Speaker 3: having to gear under my belt, knowing what to expect,
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  Speaker 3: you know, knowing how things are gonna flow, having gods
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  Speaker 3: that trusting me like Chinner boy A. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, the scheme that that coach Mike has
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  Speaker 3: put in place for us on defense side of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: I think it allows the entire defense, but specifically the
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  Speaker 3: outside back to be really really effective a gaming and
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  Speaker 3: the game out.
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  Speaker 1: They're just starting fast through coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: Off balash Man, that's infat I mean that's a big
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  Speaker 3: emphasis every single week. I think every single day we
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  Speaker 3: go out to practice, you know, the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 3: to start fast and you know, continue to play on
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  Speaker 3: and then close it out at the end. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that showed really really well the day, just being
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  Speaker 3: able to go out start fast, playing through our keys,
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  Speaker 3: and we knew that were gonna tack the edges and
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  Speaker 3: the alleys, so being able to play confident and not
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  Speaker 3: let the eye canded body you and go out and
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  Speaker 3: play physical and I think, you know we're accomplish it
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  Speaker 3: really well.
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  Speaker 1: Help you accounts? Did that help you see that come
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  Speaker 1: that in the game?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, just trying to figure out every little
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  Speaker 3: caveat that I can to be able to help me
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  Speaker 3: react quicker, and uh, you know, I think Boxton was
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  Speaker 3: one one of those really really big things. I did
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of it in college, but not the
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  Speaker 3: way that I did this offseason. So it's definitely starting
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  Speaker 3: to pay off.
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  Speaker 1: Exact at the end of the half, I think the
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  Speaker 1: entire stadium kind of saw you closing for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Then, uh, how big were your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Getting as you were kind of closed in there and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't see the kind of stens you coming there?
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  Speaker 3: Huge I think initially just being being blocked by the
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  Speaker 3: tight end being chip and then uh, the tackle coming
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  Speaker 3: back blocking me to and I turn around and I'm
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  Speaker 3: just I'm coaching him like he still has the ball, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and then just you know, taking that B line to
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  Speaker 3: just that extra effort able to go and chase him
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  Speaker 3: down there in the end.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's what it takes.
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  Speaker 3: And that's part of the Seahawks g and A that
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  Speaker 3: we live by every single day.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of made a big year or two leave?
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  Speaker 1: Is that something you're talking about if you got any
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  Speaker 1: tips from him?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of what he.
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  Speaker 3: Was able to do from your one year two And
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  Speaker 3: it seems like you're kind of doing the same.
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  Speaker 2: Thing now yourself. Yeah, me and boy, you are really close.
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  Speaker 3: He the one who helped me through all the the
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  Speaker 3: rookie growing pains last year, you know, giving giving me
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  Speaker 3: the way I mean with the littlest things where it
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  Speaker 3: comes to get into God's food and you know, how
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  Speaker 3: to prepare, how to take care of my body, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, is just being able to still lean on
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  Speaker 3: him a lot this year, and uh, he talked to
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  Speaker 3: me a lot. We still talk about, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the different things, especially when it comes to the game
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  Speaker 3: and being able for me to see different things now
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  Speaker 3: and being able to translate that to him and him
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  Speaker 3: get me input back. I think that's the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 3: Just being able to feed off each other. So you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's definitely helped me out a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of your adjustment.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I think the biggest thing was just really
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  Speaker 3: the the speed of the game wasn't a big of
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  Speaker 3: a deal, but really understanding the game. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming from Callus, I thought I was a really really
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  Speaker 3: smart guy and uh, but you don't have all the
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  Speaker 3: shifts and motions and different things that you have now. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: just learning personnel and different guys and different things that
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  Speaker 3: you know are put in place to be successful in
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  Speaker 3: those places and picking up on those and going out
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  Speaker 3: in every single week and trying to hone in on
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  Speaker 3: that and you know, little tips and tendencies to go
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  Speaker 3: out and be successful.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's the biggest difference blocking.
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  Speaker 1: You any different. BOYLBA has such a success he's out
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  Speaker 1: on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: Uh I I don't feel like there's any difference in
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  Speaker 3: the blocking, you know. I feel like there's definitely gonna
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  Speaker 3: be something now. Uh, you know, just going out and
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  Speaker 3: having you know, having a solid game like like the
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  Speaker 3: way I did, so being able to you know, expecting
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  Speaker 3: you know, tippers and six May protection seven May protection
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  Speaker 3: with the with the front that we have in general.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think there was anything before, but I
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  Speaker 3: feel like now there there's gonna be change that teams
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  Speaker 3: are gonna have to make across across uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: the league with the defensive front that we have.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the physical improvement has been talking about the
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  Speaker 1: mental aspect of the game. But where do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like your confidence is at right now compared to last year?
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  Speaker 1: How much is this coaching staff helped really boost that
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  Speaker 1: confidence in terms of being able to pick up on
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  Speaker 1: tendencies from tackles and the mental aspects of.
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  Speaker 2: The game in general. I think it's not in day. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, last year I would say I was watching
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  Speaker 3: film more than studying film.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then coming into this year on on April eighth,
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  Speaker 3: you know, first day we got back coaches.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in you. You know you're gonna have really
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  Speaker 2: really good years.
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  Speaker 3: Just continue to work, continue to put your head down,
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  Speaker 3: continue to prep and you know, just having that belief
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  Speaker 3: and hearing that, you know from a new staff who
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  Speaker 3: know it's nothing about me, They don't know me from
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  Speaker 3: a canapaign.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know them from a canapign, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then coming out and seeing them trust me you know,
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  Speaker 3: day end and day out, to go out and do
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  Speaker 3: my job and be successful. I think that's huge playing
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  Speaker 3: in my confidence. And then, like I said, the mental
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  Speaker 3: side of the game as far as studying, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's not in dare as well. You know, being able
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  Speaker 3: to look at different things and see things that I
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  Speaker 3: think is gonna help me have as successful And then
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  Speaker 3: those conversations across the front with the guys like boy
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  Speaker 3: A and Jay Reid and different things like that as
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  Speaker 3: we go through the game.
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  Speaker 1: Does a changeing quarterback? Does that change a lot? And
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  Speaker 1: you just stayed with the see what effect.
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  Speaker 2: Does that happen? I'm sorry, can you change a quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: The team changes the quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? When the team changed the quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think that's that's something you have to
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  Speaker 3: pay attention to. Obviously, we wish the best for Tour,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, he wasn't able to play this week.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got Scolar Thompson coming in, who's who's
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  Speaker 3: been in the league and you know has experience of
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  Speaker 3: being able to try to contain him.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have Boil come in and.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, a solid guy who holds the ball
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more. You know, not as fast, so
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  Speaker 3: being able to pick up on those things and knowing
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  Speaker 3: who's at that personnel at the point in the game,
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  Speaker 3: I think is really the big for us.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, you have what success today? When he gets back,
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  Speaker 2: I think you'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I can say about him, that guy still
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  Speaker 3: comes to work every single day and does everything he
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  Speaker 3: can to help the defense be successful off the field,
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  Speaker 3: you know, through our practice, you know, d Hall, what
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  Speaker 3: are you seeing here?
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  Speaker 2: What are you seeing there? Like how can I help you?
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  Speaker 3: And throughout the game today he's coaching me to about
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  Speaker 3: every single time you know what you see, well, I
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  Speaker 3: think you can do this, I think you could do that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just across the front. I mean that guy's
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  Speaker 3: a leader. He's he's our leader on the defense and
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  Speaker 3: across the defensive line. And he's somebody also that I
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  Speaker 3: really really leaned on coming into my second year and
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  Speaker 3: just trying to have a success. And you know, yet
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  Speaker 3: is a great guy, great leader, great and I feel
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  Speaker 3: like when he get back, it's just gonna take another step.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any Thank you appreciate y'all, thank you, have
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  Speaker 3: a great evening.