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Charles Cross: "I Wouldn't Want To Be Anywhere Else" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Are y'all doing.
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  Speaker 2: Congrit? Charles? What doesn't mean to you to know you're
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  Speaker 2: second around here for a long time?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it means a lot to me. This team, this organization.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else. This place is definitely special.
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  Speaker 3: And I bleeded in in everyone in this buildings.
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  Speaker 4: That was, Uh what you wanted to see play out
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  Speaker 4: your whole situation to to get it done. Like what
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  Speaker 4: was that moment like when you ultimately knew you had
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  Speaker 4: had the extension kind of sealed the way?
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  Speaker 3: Oh I felt great, you know, just being in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: being around my teammates. Uh, the organization here, Like like
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  Speaker 3: I said before, like I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And here is like real special to me. Why is
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  Speaker 1: it special? I was drafted here?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, the teammates, the team, Camaradrie, that we have, the
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  Speaker 3: relationships and the buns means worth me.
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  Speaker 5: What's it been like, Uh, having to sit out the
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  Speaker 5: last few weeks since the team is.
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  Speaker 3: Finished in the season, It's been interesting, you know, past
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  Speaker 3: couple weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's been you know, big games that I I.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to play again, you know, just being smart about
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  Speaker 3: the situation and you know.
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  Speaker 1: Moving forward accordingly, Have you.
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  Speaker 2: Heard what Cool jumped on you was trying to block
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  Speaker 2: the field goal? Was that whatever?
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  Speaker 1: It was the last field goal of the coach game? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: cause she.
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  Speaker 2: Just split it at the time. Did you fear you
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  Speaker 2: might be able to come back this year?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a fear of not being able to
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  Speaker 3: come back. I believe in myself. I believe in you know,
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  Speaker 3: the training stuff and you know, doing everything I can
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  Speaker 3: so you know, come back and help the team.
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  Speaker 4: They told uh, Michael Donald told us Friday that even
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  Speaker 4: if you guys were playing this week, you probably would
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  Speaker 4: have been able to play.
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  Speaker 2: But how much is this five week really gonna help
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  Speaker 2: you for your first playoff game?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it had helped me a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just being able to you know, recover and you know,
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  Speaker 3: get the rips, get get more rips in and and
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  Speaker 3: uh to continue to refine what I've been working on.
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  Speaker 4: Charles, You've seen a number of changing pieces on the
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  Speaker 4: line since you've been here. Ave signed earlier this year,
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  Speaker 4: You're done now, great, Anthony Jalen are all kind of
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  Speaker 4: under contract for Wayoulu two.
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  Speaker 1: Like I.
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  Speaker 4: How excited are you about the continuity that you guys
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  Speaker 4: are gonna have as a unit year at least for
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  Speaker 4: the next couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of years at least.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very excited about it, just to just to o
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  Speaker 3: line room, like the guys in there, like they're great guys.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like everyone has, you know, been a great
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  Speaker 3: report with one another, and like we just one one
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  Speaker 3: big brotherhood and just continue to you know, grow and
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  Speaker 3: get better from week to week and go on from
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  Speaker 3: year to year.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen that kind of chemistry start to show
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  Speaker 4: up a little bit more on the field this year too,
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  Speaker 4: where you're starting to see that that extra a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more come out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely see that, you know, just from practice
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  Speaker 3: each week and and continue to get better from you know,
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  Speaker 3: the first game to to now at this point of
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  Speaker 3: the season. So like the the progress and and and
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  Speaker 3: the the guys have been great, like just you know,
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  Speaker 3: continue to keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you spent a whole year playing with Gray. What
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  Speaker 2: just what stands out the most about him as.
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  Speaker 3: A rookie coming in here, it's our cue of the game,
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  Speaker 3: his willingness to learn.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's a great guy man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he plays great football, he's a great person
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  Speaker 3: outside of football. I feel like personally like he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be one of my lifelong friends.
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  Speaker 5: Did that were you expecting the contract to happen now
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  Speaker 5: or was there something that kind of let it happened?
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  Speaker 3: And getting done right with this learner, I just leave
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  Speaker 3: my agent through his job and this is where we're at.
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  Speaker 5: Coach Vick Johns said that you guys started trying to
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  Speaker 5: intentionally get better at the screenplays. You know when did
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  Speaker 5: you remember when that happens that you guys kind of
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  Speaker 5: started working on that more and and what it's involved
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  Speaker 5: for an offensive lineman to help a screenplay and be successful.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely, I definitely feel like we've been more intentional
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  Speaker 3: as far as working on screenplays. Just the time in
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  Speaker 3: the landmarks, everyone moving together is one, especially with the
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  Speaker 3: with the playoffs and screens, the receiver screens, like uh,
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  Speaker 3: just the timing, the actually the landmarks, just everything working
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  Speaker 3: together is one.
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  Speaker 4: How about what the running game that seems to have
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  Speaker 4: really come alive the last three games here?
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  Speaker 1: What did you kind of seem from from the.
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  Speaker 4: Side here about why that's taking that extra a little
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  Speaker 4: bit forward as well?
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  Speaker 3: I say, just everyone's straining, like the run game is
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  Speaker 3: is everyone like during their job. Old line tight end
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  Speaker 3: receivers like everyone you know, straining to you know, get
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  Speaker 3: the extra block to to to keep their man held
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  Speaker 3: off for a for a extra click second.
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  Speaker 2: It's a group effort to feme ofless. Team all season
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  Speaker 2: has been guys stepping up when they get their opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Just what did you think of Josh these last three weeks?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Josh has done a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming in and playing you know, weekend and week out. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he played played great, like in a in in every
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  Speaker 3: game he's played. In my opinion, I mean, like what more?
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  Speaker 3: What more could you ask for for Josh? Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for him, proud, proud of him, Like he's
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  Speaker 3: doing everything that he needs to do.
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  Speaker 5: What did you think of that game on Saturday, the.
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  Speaker 1: Forty ninth game? Yeah, it was a great game. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like like we left a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: the bone.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, just you know, continue to to work
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  Speaker 3: in work each each week, in each practice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: continue to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Did you like practice taking the rain today or for me.
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  Speaker 1: Personally, I was just happy to be back there practice.
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  Speaker 2: When you when you guys played in the playoffs in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Did it did it feel different?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Did the game feel bigger than like a regular season game?
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  Speaker 1: It's different because it's one it done.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, for me, like I try to keep the
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  Speaker 3: moment the same, like not too high and not too low,
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  Speaker 3: or keep it consistent. That's how I like to think
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  Speaker 3: about it as far as like my preparation and and
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  Speaker 3: and how I'm building up for the week getting ready
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  Speaker 3: for the game.
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  Speaker 1: How do you spend this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Do you do you watch the other games to see
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  Speaker 5: that you might play, or do you try to just
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  Speaker 5: don't plug and just you're ready to work Monday with
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  Speaker 5: the information they're gonna get.
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  Speaker 3: I want watch I'm gonna watch football this weekend for sure,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just look at different teams and and watch
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  Speaker 3: their players and see their games. So I was just
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  Speaker 3: love watching football.
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  Speaker 2: Anything.
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  Speaker 1: Thank