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Noah Fant: "My Main Focus Is Being Ready For Week 1" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know obviously started not I mean I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: practicing at first, recovering from some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, it's gone good so far.
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  Speaker 1: Just getting used to, you know, having the pads on,
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  Speaker 1: running routes with Gino, all that, all that stuff. It's
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  Speaker 1: a process through camp, so it's been it's been going
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  Speaker 1: good though that Like he's.
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  Speaker 3: Coming in the guy this year versus post if there's
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  Speaker 3: a competition, guys just playing the rest all that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously we know who our guy is this year,
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  Speaker 1: whereas last year we're kind of in between the two.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's just getting those those quality reps
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  Speaker 1: and trying to you know, get ready for the season.
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  Speaker 1: How long in the.
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  Speaker 4: Camp did it take for you to feel where you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: Be last year or this year this Oh I'm still
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  Speaker 1: I'm still getting there, to be honest, it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a process. I try to use up every single day
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  Speaker 1: until that first game, so try to be as clean
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  Speaker 1: as possible and and get there. So it's it's still
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  Speaker 1: a process. I'm not there yet, but still working and
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  Speaker 1: getting there. So physically, do you feel all the back
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  Speaker 1: from yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I you know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be out here practicing, but you know I wasn't, you know, right,
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  Speaker 1: the training staff is taking care of me. Uh, Pete's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job of you know, helping me out
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  Speaker 1: and taking care of me. So I'm feeling good and
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  Speaker 1: just trying to you know, get all the technique back,
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  Speaker 1: all the you know, running the routs, things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh going.
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  Speaker 2: From there practice.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been I've been full go I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: it all and uh, feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: Do you need to play in the game and not
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  Speaker 2: for the season starts. I'll leave that up to the
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  Speaker 2: coaches their discretion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never you know, gonna turn down playing, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: my my main focus is being ready for week one, uh,
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  Speaker 1: when we when we face the Rams, and and going
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  Speaker 1: from there.
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  Speaker 3: So asplosically about this while ago, but last year you
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  Speaker 3: guys combined the three you.
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  Speaker 4: Put up you know, a thousand plus yards, nine touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: and tied end.
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  Speaker 3: There's maybe not the one guy put up big numbers.
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  Speaker 4: What's the value of when it's a bunch of different
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  Speaker 4: guys doing it. Maybe it's not one obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Paying out for the gay. Yeah, I think it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of mixes up an offense. It kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: gives you multiple routes that you can go multiple directions.
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  Speaker 1: I think all of us have the mindset to just
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  Speaker 1: contribute as much as possible and uh and go from there.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's you know, a good thing. Though.
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  Speaker 4: What's the confidence like for your group right now with
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  Speaker 4: you Will Cooley Tyler albe in back this year and
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  Speaker 4: being able to have that cohesiveness for the year.
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  Speaker 1: In human system, Yeah, I think I think the cohesion
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  Speaker 1: in our room is good. I mean I think that
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  Speaker 1: we all you know, like playing with each other and
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  Speaker 1: to have fun with each other, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things that we're all just looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to having another year together and uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, going from there.
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  Speaker 4: So this is your first contract year.
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  Speaker 2: Great thoughts on that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's something that's that's real, right, it's there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. My My biggest focus is.
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  Speaker 1: To make as many blocks as possible, catch as many
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  Speaker 1: passes as possible, and break as many tackles, and then that
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  Speaker 1: will put me in a good position if I'm able
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  Speaker 1: to do those things. So all the rest, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some things are out of my control, some things are
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  Speaker 1: in my control. So I just gotta take advantage of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my opportunities on the field and and go
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  Speaker 1: from there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, draft character.
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  Speaker 2: Uh that's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the Titan room is always always a fun,
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  Speaker 1: laid back group, but has to get you know, get
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  Speaker 1: down to business. We're in the in the trenches with
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  Speaker 1: the old line. We have to catch passes, We have
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  Speaker 1: to kind of do a little bit of everything. So
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  Speaker 1: you can never be too high or too low. You
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  Speaker 1: kind of just have to be ready to work every
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  Speaker 1: day and and uh catch whatever's stone at you, whether
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  Speaker 1: you know, anything with involving the game. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the biggest thing that describes our group. You've
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  Speaker 1: obviously played Withdrew for a few years now as well,
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  Speaker 1: and Tiver here at all.
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  Speaker 4: I guess how do you see him kind of approaching
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  Speaker 4: this now in his second year here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Drew's doing great. To be honest, I
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  Speaker 1: think he he's grown a lot since he's been here.
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  Speaker 1: Just today he made this crazy it was like a
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  Speaker 1: forty fifty yard pass for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's impressed me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's I mean from being coming in as rookies together
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  Speaker 1: to where he is now is like his light year.
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  Speaker 1: So he's improved a bunch and I'm super super happy
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  Speaker 1: for his improvement and I think he's, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the sky's limit for him. I think on this team,
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  Speaker 1: we like we know our roles, right, but I definitely
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  Speaker 1: have confidence in him and obviously you know as our
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  Speaker 1: starter also.
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  Speaker 4: So given the fact you play alongside both of them,
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  Speaker 4: how different do Charles and he look to you this
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  Speaker 4: year with the year end of their films coming against.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just in camp alone, they've made things
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  Speaker 1: a lot easier. Just you know, they know all the calls,
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  Speaker 1: they're making calls or communicating all those things. As a
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  Speaker 1: rookie some you know, sometimes you get in positions where
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  Speaker 1: it's like you have tons of things to worry about,
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  Speaker 1: and that's tough on the field as are going.
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  Speaker 2: But those guys are ready.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are have put the work in and they're
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  Speaker 1: you know, making the call out there, communicating, doing all
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  Speaker 1: these things, and it's it's made things a ton of
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  Speaker 1: times easier, and they're just going to keep climbing and
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  Speaker 1: climbing and getting better and better with that. Sky's the
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  Speaker 1: limit for both of them. They're they're both great players,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy to have them next to me and
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  Speaker 1: make my life a lot easier.
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  Speaker 4: So what do you think, what do you think is
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  Speaker 4: the best trash talker?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question, I'd have to say. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that I deal with every day is Candre Digs.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, I haven't really gone against. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't really had too many trash talker Butqandre is
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  Speaker 1: always always saying a piece of too, so I'll have
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  Speaker 1: to give.
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  Speaker 2: That to him.
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  Speaker 1: Trash out the style just constantly talking. Just he's constantly
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  Speaker 1: got something to say, but in a good way. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's constantly pushing his teammates and you know he just
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  Speaker 1: there's not one specific thing that he says. He's just
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  Speaker 1: constantly in your ears. So it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: So think your practice right.
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  Speaker 1: That you guys dont camp before practice. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a double headed sword. I think I've I've
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  Speaker 1: had joint practices when I was in Denver.
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  Speaker 2: I liked them.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you still get those reps in games
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  Speaker 1: against other teams. So it just depending on what the
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  Speaker 1: coach is like. And obviously coach Carroll is or whoever
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  Speaker 1: it was decided that we weren't going to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm perfectly good with that either either way. So
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  Speaker 1: I think there's benefits and there's there's downsides to it.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a good change up. It was a
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  Speaker 1: good change up going against different guys, Guys coming to
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  Speaker 1: your facility or you traveling to somebody else's facility.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good change up in the middle of camp.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that was the biggest thing anything else
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  Speaker 2: eight