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D.J. James: "We Are Enjoying It A Lot" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I know, said pretty well, to be out here for
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  Speaker 1: your first NFL practices and having any money out there
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  Speaker 1: with him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's great. Just having a former teammate with me,
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  Speaker 2: us living our dream of playing in the NFL. It's fun.
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  Speaker 2: Were having fun Carl Scott pushing us, cause Scott, he's
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  Speaker 2: really pushing us to the limits. But it's fun. We're
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  Speaker 2: enjoying it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Pushing you because he's now Bama got anything.
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  Speaker 2: He he's very competitive on that end, but we enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: He makes little jokes about it, but we enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: We just keep going every day with him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he tried to get you to go to
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  Speaker 1: Neil tried to get to go to Auburn initially, Uh
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  Speaker 1: a little bit or or you ended up kind of
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  Speaker 1: coming back that. I guess what do you remember that
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  Speaker 1: of him? He said, you guys do each other high
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  Speaker 1: school a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Who me and there Ma, Yeah, oh yeah we did.
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  Speaker 2: We actually played in an All Star game in high
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  Speaker 2: school together. So we been having just a connection, have
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  Speaker 2: been that bond, that friendship with each other. So know
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  Speaker 2: him for a long time. Played with him in high
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  Speaker 2: school in a All Star game, played with him in
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  Speaker 2: college for two years years and now here in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: When did you guys first get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 3: after you got drafted last week and you knew.
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  Speaker 2: You were going to the same place right after, right
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  Speaker 2: after we talked to each other. We're both very excited.
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  Speaker 2: Both felt more comfortable about coming far away from home,
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  Speaker 2: but with each other and being former teammates. It's great, Dud.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's not close close to here, but just
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  Speaker 3: being up at Oregon and all giving kind of a
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  Speaker 3: feel for coming up to the Northwest again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it feels it feels normal to me again
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  Speaker 2: because I done been out here being in the weather,
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  Speaker 2: then felt the weather. But it's comfortable to me. It's comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Did you play a game of Dusky Stadium?
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  Speaker 2: I did it so I did.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what year that was?
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  Speaker 2: It was twenty nineteen, year twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Just two days on the field I heard. How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel feel like it's going for it?
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  Speaker 2: It's going really well, playing inside nickel and playing outside
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  Speaker 2: at corner. Just adjusting and playing more inside as well.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going really good. I'm learning, they're helping me learn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a dust well to it.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you like ever playing inside. How comfortable
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  Speaker 1: do you feel in general kind of doing that wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's growing on about the day. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever they need me to play. I feel I can
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  Speaker 2: play anywhere they need me to play, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: learn it. But nickels really fun for me. I like
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  Speaker 2: the nickel position. I like what the nickel does. I
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  Speaker 2: always played a lot of corners, so it became real
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  Speaker 2: normal to me, But nickels something new for me. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: What is it you like about it?
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  Speaker 1: You kind of smile there when you start talking.
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  Speaker 2: About it that you always kind of wanted to Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of always. I love the inside. I get
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  Speaker 2: to work my feet just and it's more of an
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  Speaker 2: eye progression type deal, just working looking where your eyes
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  Speaker 2: are looking at the quarterback. Didn't get your eyes to
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  Speaker 2: your man and then to your landmark. It's just it's
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  Speaker 2: making you use your brain. And that's what I like
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  Speaker 2: to do while playing football, Just work and using my
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  Speaker 2: brain and playing smart football.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you ticket