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Rayshawn Jenkins: "We Have To Prove Ourselves Every Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That's dune. What's up?
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  Speaker 2: How'd you learn about your defense last week?
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  Speaker 3: That me might have been unexpected even given the.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of type you spent together in the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I can't really say it was anything like too unexpected.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we just did what we normally do
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  Speaker 4: every single day, which is we run to the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we give relentless effort.
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  Speaker 4: We tackle well, we practice on t tackling. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I wanna say almost every day we're out there, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we we got some form of tackling circuit or tackling drill.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think anything really too much surprised me.
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  Speaker 4: But it was g uh good to just see like
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  Speaker 4: everything coming to fruition, Like everything we've been practicing and everything,
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  Speaker 4: you know, uh, just kind of go from the practice
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  Speaker 4: field to the game stylistically.
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  Speaker 5: How much different is a challenge with me and what
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  Speaker 5: they wanna do versus what you saw we calling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're I mean they're not try hot anything they
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  Speaker 4: tell you everywhere in the media. Whatever, they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: run the ball. You know, that's what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: They got a good back in thirty eight, so you
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  Speaker 4: know as well as we tackled last week. Last week
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  Speaker 4: is last week, and you know every week is a
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  Speaker 4: new opportunity, so we have to come out there and
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  Speaker 4: showcase those same abilities and skill again, especially against a
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  Speaker 4: runner like this.
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  Speaker 5: In your experience, you played for a couple of different teams.
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  Speaker 5: Was that more practice in tackling over the offseason than
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  Speaker 5: you've been used to?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, yes, I would definitely say so. I mean, of
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  Speaker 4: course there's a big emphasis around the league just because.
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  Speaker 1: The hitting yardage is in the tackles.
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  Speaker 4: You know, those three four yard games, especially after contact,
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  Speaker 4: really adds up over a course of a game. But
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  Speaker 4: here we we we really paid attention to that, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what that's why our coaches just to make us
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  Speaker 4: practice tackles all day.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you're talking about like the different drills where
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  Speaker 5: you have the facts and everything, not so much live tackling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just different drills.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not so much live tackling, just different just drills
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  Speaker 4: that we just continually just get closed on.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever been on a team.
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  Speaker 2: That does the circuit drills are tackling one punch out
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  Speaker 2: and move to another form tackling in every position. If
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  Speaker 2: you've been on a team because that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we don't do it every day.
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  Speaker 4: Well we used to didn't do it every day, but
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  Speaker 4: here we I mean we do it every day. So
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know it, it's definitely a point of emphasis.
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  Speaker 3: And then is it fair to soon I'm I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: to hear that in your practice that there's just there's
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  Speaker 3: a sense of trying to get multiple players there and
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  Speaker 3: then when the first person hits you eliminate them being
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  Speaker 3: able to get an extra three or four yards because
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  Speaker 3: the first hit stops them there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean that's the ideal of it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: in the perfect world, you want to get the guy
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  Speaker 4: down on the first you know contact, but.
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  Speaker 1: We we run to the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Well here, so it's you know, even if the first
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  Speaker 4: guy then to make the tackle, at least he gets
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  Speaker 4: the runner to stop his feet and then you got
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  Speaker 4: the pursuit from you know, the entire defense is.
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  Speaker 1: Pursuing the ball. Carry Chrishan, you.
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  Speaker 2: Flash time it again with the three safeties caveon coming
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  Speaker 2: on you being able to be more down in the
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  Speaker 2: box that a place where you feel best or do
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  Speaker 2: you not care whether you're back or.
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  Speaker 1: Or in the box. I mean, I would prefer.
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  Speaker 4: To be toward a line of scrimmage, just because that's
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  Speaker 4: what I've been doing for the past three years.
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  Speaker 1: My first four years.
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  Speaker 4: In the NFL, I played primarily the free safety position,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, I loved at the time because it
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  Speaker 4: was like everything I known.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, Okay, I love it. And but then
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  Speaker 1: when I was, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of forced to move down to the strong safety
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  Speaker 4: position due to injury, I fell in love with that
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  Speaker 4: because I'm like, man, it's action down here every.
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  Speaker 1: Every play, whether it's the run game or the past game.
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  Speaker 4: The free safety, I mean you more so just back there,
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  Speaker 4: just looking for anything that will break. The ball goes
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  Speaker 4: up in the air every once in a while, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta attack it, get the ball car down if it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, a busted gap or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean you may as a free.
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  Speaker 4: Safety get ten twelve opportunities in the game. Strong safety
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  Speaker 4: just in so much action, you know, it's just endless opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: Their first play of the game, you might have saved
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  Speaker 5: the touchdown there.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see there on that player before the play?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I knew they were gonna run it there because
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  Speaker 4: I seen just two gaps open, so I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: might as well just getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming right here.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, just that having that in my mind,
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  Speaker 4: it allowed me to close the distance between me and
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  Speaker 4: the ball carrier much faster. So I didn't give him
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  Speaker 4: a lot of room to work with. So he had
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  Speaker 4: to make his decision right now, and I just shot at.
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  Speaker 3: Him playing with Julian Love now for you know, an
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  Speaker 3: offseason in the first hands, what have you seen him
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  Speaker 3: bringing this defense?
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  Speaker 4: His IQ of the game is, you know, really high.
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  Speaker 4: He really understands the game of football. He's on the details,
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  Speaker 4: the ultimate professional. And then you know he's a playmaker
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day. So just having a
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  Speaker 4: guy like that to to be back there with you
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  Speaker 4: just makes it that much more easier.
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  Speaker 5: Is Kavon Wallace as talkative during games as he is
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  Speaker 5: during practice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely that that's Kaveon's game.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna call things out before you know, uh, they
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  Speaker 4: even get to their looks. Whatever he's thinking, you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: know about it. Very vocal player, which from the safety position,
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  Speaker 4: you want a guy like that.
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  Speaker 5: Are you trying to have three turnover sports and another
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  Speaker 5: fumble on the ground. How encouraging. Is that for you
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  Speaker 5: guys to to see that kind of turnover production potential
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  Speaker 5: on that first game out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I mean, just like tackling, it's a point of
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  Speaker 4: emphasis here and I'm pretty sure it'supportent ephasis around the
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  Speaker 4: league because the ball is at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: that's the most important thing on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta take the ball away. Uh. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean very encouraging.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said earlier, this is a this is
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  Speaker 4: a week to week league, and you gotta continually come
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  Speaker 4: out here and every week prove yourself.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen Richard Sherman and Camp Chancellor, guys that come
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  Speaker 5: around a little bit, and a lot of the alums
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  Speaker 5: were there someday.
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  Speaker 4: What's what's it like, I guess kind in your first
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  Speaker 4: year with the team, getting.
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  Speaker 1: To know some of those guys and learned some of
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  Speaker 1: the history of this team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was cool because I mean those are guys
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  Speaker 4: that I watched, you know, growing up. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: was in college watching these guys, so it it was
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of cool just to be.
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  Speaker 1: Around those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I you know, uh, Marshawn Lynch, Cam Sherman, guys like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I actually chopped it up with Cam and
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  Speaker 4: kind of picked his brain on a on a few things,
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  Speaker 4: and you know it, it's it's great to have just
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  Speaker 4: have you know, people that played this game at a
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  Speaker 4: high level come back to the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know it. It's cool to be around.
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  Speaker 4: Felt their advice.
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  Speaker 5: Still holds up, Like when you when you chop it
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  Speaker 5: up with Camp, what about what.
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  Speaker 2: He says still holds up even though he hasn't played it.
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  Speaker 4: You got you gotta approve yourself every week and no
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  Speaker 4: matter what you did last week, come out here, try
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  Speaker 4: to be better the following week, and so on and
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  Speaker 4: so forth.
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  Speaker 1: When you watch those games and when you watch the leil,
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  Speaker 1: what did you like.
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  Speaker 4: Most Every player had their own style that they brought
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  Speaker 4: to you know, the table, to the game, and they
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  Speaker 4: made sure the way they played the game, they made
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  Speaker 4: sure it looked like that on film every single Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Uh you had Sherman locked down corner. You
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  Speaker 4: had uh Cam, big hitter, you know, big presence on
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  Speaker 4: the field.
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  Speaker 1: Earl he's back there.
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  Speaker 4: He was back there just really controlling the airwaves, controlling
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the field so and making making those
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  Speaker 4: erasers tackles that you know his team needn't make.
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  Speaker 5: So did you change your mind at all or change
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  Speaker 5: your idea of what it looked like to play football
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  Speaker 5: for high level defense?
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  Speaker 4: It was very encouraging to watch, cause, I mean I
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  Speaker 4: came from Miami and as we know, we have a
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  Speaker 4: uh a extensive history of you know, great dbs that
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  Speaker 4: that came from the hurricane. So you know, just just
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  Speaker 4: watching that and then uh looking at here as well
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  Speaker 4: just just really upholds a standard that you know that
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  Speaker 4: any defensive back that plays this game really wants to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, live up to.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like communicating on defense before the snap
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  Speaker 5: for the first time at the stadium?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it was loud.
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  Speaker 4: That was I mean, it's top I always tell people
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  Speaker 4: that's top two loudest places I've ever played in, you know.
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  Speaker 1: In my career.
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  Speaker 4: So going into the game, we really emphasized that hand
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  Speaker 4: signals will I mean, we have to just be on
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  Speaker 4: those because we're not gonna be able to hear each
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  Speaker 4: other out in the field.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even hear you know, my.
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  Speaker 4: Teammate who's maybe six feet away from me at at
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  Speaker 4: some points in the game. So it was just really
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  Speaker 4: huge with just being on point with the hand signaling
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  Speaker 4: in the game.
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  Speaker 5: You have to switch those up throughout the game so
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  Speaker 5: that the offense doesn't pick up on them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we're playing against some really smart quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 4: you know, guys like Aaron Rodgers or you know, just
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  Speaker 4: any quarterback in the league. They're gonna be able to
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  Speaker 4: pick things like that up quickly. So we have to
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  Speaker 4: you know, adjust on the fly.
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  Speaker 5: And what's the other A lot of stadium that you
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  Speaker 5: played in arrowhead yup.
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  Speaker 4: The the mentality of your guys when you went on
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  Speaker 4: the field twice, you know already backed up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and held up in both those situations. Yeah, we didn't
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  Speaker 4: really care about what the rest of the team was doing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we we knew we had a job to
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  Speaker 4: do and we had to do it to the best
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  Speaker 4: of our ability. I mean, once you get to you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: worrying about other people's positions, that's when stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Just goes just just south.
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  Speaker 4: So you really have to just hone in on what
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  Speaker 4: you need to do, take care of the moment, no
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  Speaker 4: matter like what happened previously, take care of the moment,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know, the game would kind of just
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  Speaker 4: start to piece itself together. Y, your coach during training
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  Speaker 4: camp would spring those I think what mystery periods or
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  Speaker 4: mystery situations on you guys, and you faced a couple
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  Speaker 4: of those in in that game.
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  Speaker 5: How prepared did you feel to handle those?
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  Speaker 1: We felt prepared.
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  Speaker 4: Just like you said, coach always puts us in those
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  Speaker 4: positions throughout the week, so it was nothing new. I
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  Speaker 4: mean that sudden change felt like a sudden change on
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  Speaker 4: on Wednesday when he just Hey, sudden change out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 4: and now we have to go out there and play,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just off of not even a call sheet,
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  Speaker 4: just they just just calling random plays with loud speakers
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  Speaker 4: in the background.
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  Speaker 5: So he still does those.
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  Speaker 1: During the season.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, you guys change coverages all the time. If
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  Speaker 2: you played in a defense to changes coverages this often,
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  Speaker 2: and do you enjoy that or is it challenging?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't played in the defense that changes coverages this often,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I played in defense to where we
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  Speaker 4: we kind of switch it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: This defense is completely different.
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  Speaker 4: I'm definitely gonna say it's challenging just because of the
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  Speaker 4: different positions that you know, like me myself, I play
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  Speaker 4: you know, three different positions on the defense. So I
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  Speaker 4: have to be able to be like, Okay, we're a nickel,
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  Speaker 4: we'reing this, we're in this. How does you know everyone
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  Speaker 4: different from each other? So it's challenging a w in
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  Speaker 4: a way like that, But for the most part, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you if you studying the game and you just
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  Speaker 4: kind of just you know, you're a football guy, it'll
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  Speaker 4: everything just kind of makes sense anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you for