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Julian Love On The Team's Mindset Heading Into Week 6: "We're Pretty Hungry" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're doing jillian what have you found most effective when
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  Speaker 1: you have a short week and i guess you're also
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  Speaker 1: got the altitude to deal.
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  Speaker 2: With too yeah uh i know sam rams in uh
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  Speaker 2: andrea and sammy the nutritionist have a great plan like
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  Speaker 2: immediately after the game they kind of gave us a
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  Speaker 2: little pamphlet a little flyer sheet you know hydration sleep
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  Speaker 2: all those kind of things uh you can't really do
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  Speaker 2: too much with the altitude just make sure everything else
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  Speaker 2: is lined up how much do.
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  Speaker 3: You feel it and what is it like when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing an.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude I don't know. This is going to be the
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  Speaker 2: first for me, the first time playing over there. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to experience it. And, yeah, hopefully I'll be
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: I know you guys are probably always going to be
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  Speaker 4: critical on defense, and a lot went well in this game.
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  Speaker 4: Red zone still seems like you guys haven't been able
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  Speaker 4: to keep people out of the end zone as much.
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  Speaker 4: Anything that you're finding there that maybe you think you're
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  Speaker 4: going to turn that around soon?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just as a whole, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: a targeted focus for us. turning some of those situations
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  Speaker 2: into a field goal attempt, as opposed to seven, is huge.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of how we have to play complementary football,
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  Speaker 2: and we did not do that well enough on defense Sunday. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's an area of high importance right now. We are
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  Speaker 2: trying to continually work at it. I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: exactly what it looks like, but I know that it's
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  Speaker 2: important to us.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, what trends have you seen in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the last couple of games?
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  Speaker 3: Um.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I think each game has presented different things,
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  Speaker 2: and the flow of each game has been pretty different.
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  Speaker 2: I think as a team, we just got to finish games.
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  Speaker 2: We have to start fast. You know, always that situation
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  Speaker 2: where you try to play well, then just finish the games.
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  Speaker 2: We put ourselves in position on Sunday, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: too many mistakes on our part, and so we're not
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  Speaker 2: playing clean enough ball.
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  Speaker 4: What is kind of the psyche of the team right now,
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're pretty hungry. Um, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot to correct. There's a lot to improve. I think
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  Speaker 2: everyone pretty much on that field has a play or
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  Speaker 2: two that they're like, I wish I had that one back.
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  Speaker 2: And that's never great. Uh, it's never great when, you know, everyone,
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  Speaker 2: so I can't, you know, can't say it's one person.
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  Speaker 2: I think all of us are looking inward. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: just correcting that, just be sharpened up that one play. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're a good team. We know we can be, uh,
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  Speaker 2: a great team. Um, and it's going to take those
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  Speaker 2: one-offs to go away.
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  Speaker 3: On that front, Julian, you played in the two losses.
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  Speaker 3: You've still been right there in the game, so does
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  Speaker 3: that make it that much more frustrating that that extra
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  Speaker 3: little bit hasn't been there so far in those couple?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%. But, I mean, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: guys caught the vibe after the Chargers game. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you win that game, but we were frustrated because things
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  Speaker 2: just aren't being played cleanly. I think it goes into
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  Speaker 2: the process. It's kind of how we attack things. It's like, OK,
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  Speaker 2: the final result is going to be the final result.
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  Speaker 2: Like we obviously try to win games, but how did
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  Speaker 2: it look? What went into the game? And so there's
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  Speaker 2: so many corrections we could be making. Guys got to
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  Speaker 2: play better situationally, individually. And so I think all the
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  Speaker 2: guys inside are fired up, ready to turn that over.
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  Speaker 2: yeah what you got.
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  Speaker 4: When you're when you're chasing a clean game like you
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  Speaker 4: said how close do you feel like you are to
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  Speaker 4: turning a corner and to being able to have a
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  Speaker 4: performance even in a win that you feel.
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  Speaker 2: Good about yeah i think it's really close i feel
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  Speaker 2: like we're going to each game very confident the process
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  Speaker 2: the week the the reps of practice everybody's doing their
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  Speaker 2: job everybody's doing a good job no one like cutting
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  Speaker 2: corners at all it says on sunday when it's time
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  Speaker 2: to execute we have to execute we have to make
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  Speaker 2: our reads we have to make our checks we have
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  Speaker 2: to perform whatever play is out there for the time.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think offensively, especially teams, we just, we're still,
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  Speaker 2: we're still, we're close, but obviously it's not close enough.
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  Speaker 4: What is it for this defense to play decisiveness?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think is kind of, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: quite there yet for that to happen?
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  Speaker 2: I think we just got to get on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I think we could have a few third downs back.
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  Speaker 2: I think obviously we talked about red zone. That's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a choice. Like, okay, no matter how they got here,
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  Speaker 2: could be a turnover, could be a drive, whatever. Let's
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  Speaker 2: make the choice to force a kick. That could be
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  Speaker 2: a four-point swing. It could be huge for our team.
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  Speaker 2: When they're pinned, keeping them pinned, so it gives our
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  Speaker 2: offense a short field. Just those little things. So you're
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  Speaker 2: making the choice each play to just lock in and
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  Speaker 2: get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: When you take a look at Denver this week, they
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  Speaker 1: made a change with their play caller just a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: You know what Sean Payton brings, but how does that
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  Speaker 1: change game prep when you have two different play callers
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely interesting. I think, I mean, you want all
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  Speaker 2: the tape. in the world consistently, you know, the most
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  Speaker 2: recent tape on whoever you have. And so it switches
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  Speaker 2: things up. You kind of got to go back into
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  Speaker 2: the archives a little bit. But the players are still
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  Speaker 2: the players. We kind of know it's a talented group,
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  Speaker 2: it's a talented team, a high-energy group. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to bring it. We know, or I've heard,
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  Speaker 2: that Denver is a great atmosphere. And so I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to see what it's like. I'm excited to compete with
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  Speaker 2: the guys.
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  Speaker 4: You guys didn't give up any plays over 19 yards
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  Speaker 4: the first couple games, but explosive plays have kind of
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  Speaker 4: trickled in the last few games. What are you noticing there?
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  Speaker 2: Just one-offs. I think, yeah, challenging at the point of catch,
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  Speaker 2: at the point of contact is a high priority for
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  Speaker 2: us right now. With the Thursday night games, like, aside
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  Speaker 2: from just the physical challenge of playing four.
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  Speaker 4: Days after a play, what's it like.
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  Speaker 3: Playing with, like, I imagine you guys aren't going to
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  Speaker 3: have anything.
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  Speaker 4: Close to a normal practice.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like playing without really your typical practice? It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: Probably early in my career, I wasn't sure how to
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  Speaker 2: feel about it. But I think the ball player in
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  Speaker 2: you is just like, especially after, like, a loss, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, let's just line up again. Like, it's the
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  Speaker 2: best case scenario. It's like, okay, let's just. No thinking,
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  Speaker 2: just doing. Go out there Thursday and try to win
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  Speaker 2: a game. And so it is a little bit of that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's more walkthroughs. It's more, you know, intentional meeting times,
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  Speaker 2: making sure you're trying to get looks and trying to
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  Speaker 2: get reps, probably not at full speed. But end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, it's like line the ball up and let's play.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's kind of the freedom of a Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night game, even though the body is still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting right.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the things that.
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  Speaker 3: You guys wanted to improve on, I think last week
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  Speaker 3: you guys had a players-only meeting about defensive penalties.
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  Speaker 2: This past game you guys had, I believe, just one
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  Speaker 2: defensive penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys have conversations about that?
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  Speaker 1: Like, hey, look, when we put our mind to something,
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  Speaker 1: we can enact change?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly how we feel in the building. It's
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  Speaker 2: like each week there's been things. Obviously the charge game
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  Speaker 2: was penalties. This game we have a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: to address. We've got to win the turnover battle. And, yeah, guys,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of like, just just lead it on
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  Speaker 2: it's not really like a um a moment of crisis
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  Speaker 2: type of like like player only meeting it's really just
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  Speaker 2: like hey let's let's talk about it like we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to shy away from things even though we could
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  Speaker 2: be you know five and oh right now we're still
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  Speaker 2: going to talk through things as players as teammates as
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  Speaker 2: friends um so yeah some of those conversations we already
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  Speaker 2: had this week it's like okay what can we improve
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  Speaker 2: on how can we you know breathe life into each
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  Speaker 2: other how can we show love how can we also
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  Speaker 2: hold each other accountable And everybody to a man is
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  Speaker 2: grown in here. And so they, you know, they take
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  Speaker 2: the onus on themselves. And so that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: cool part of those players only moments. It might not
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  Speaker 2: be like a formal meeting. It might just be a
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  Speaker 2: general conversation, but it's constant with us.
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  Speaker 4: You said you're a good team, not a great team,
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  Speaker 4: but you can be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: After a similar start last year, then you guys obviously
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  Speaker 4: got caught. I know it's new season looking back, but
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  Speaker 4: is there value for the guys who've been around?
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  Speaker 1: Like, Hey, we're capable of making this shift in season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I think, you know, the grand scheme
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  Speaker 2: of things, you want to continually build and continue to
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  Speaker 2: play your best brand of football. Right now we're not
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  Speaker 2: playing our best brand of football, just straight up and down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys see it. But it's out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's obtainable. I've been a part of some groups in
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  Speaker 2: previous life that you feel like you played a pretty
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  Speaker 2: clean game and you still lose by two scores. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's empowering to know. It's like if we're just
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  Speaker 2: on our stuff, if we're on the details, we're playing together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we can make things happen. Obviously, it's proven in the past,
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  Speaker 2: but we still have to go through that. That's a
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  Speaker 2: callous thing we have to build this year. It's a
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  Speaker 2: new mountain, as we've talked about. Adversity has shown itself,
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  Speaker 2: so how are we going to respond? What did you
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  Speaker 2: think of Okada in the first game of the season?
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  Speaker 2: He played lights out. I thought the hardest thing about
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  Speaker 2: coming back, trust me, is just trusting your body. Getting
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  Speaker 2: out of your head and just letting the game come
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  Speaker 2: to you and so i thought he made some great
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  Speaker 2: tackles out there like he his his presence was felt
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  Speaker 2: in a physical way um when he's out there i
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  Speaker 2: think everyone is a little calmer um just because he
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  Speaker 2: is very on point with his communication and his details
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  Speaker 2: um and so i'm really happy for for you know
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  Speaker 2: his coming out party this year i think he's been
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  Speaker 2: excited to show what he has as a full year
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  Speaker 2: starter good yeah thank you i appreciate it