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Tyreke Smith: "It's Been A Great Camp" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all the way, one great way it ended. Just
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  Speaker 1: how does this preseason trading camp in for your last year?
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  Speaker 2: It's been, Uh, it's been great man. Just I was
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  Speaker 2: just telling due is my last game. It was my
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  Speaker 2: first competitive game in like two years. So every moment
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  Speaker 2: I get on the field, it's like surreal and I
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  Speaker 2: just thank God just for putting me in this position
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  Speaker 2: and just giving me the guidance and the strength of
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 1: And thank the team.
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  Speaker 2: They they've been rallying behind me. And it's just been
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  Speaker 2: a great camp. Just working every day, is trying to
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  Speaker 2: stack days, make sure I get better each day.
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  Speaker 1: After such a long way off that you're in.
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  Speaker 2: It's really just like kind of I was a little anxious,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a little a little nervous, little butterflies. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean once you get back out there and I
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  Speaker 2: get that first like hit or a little bit of contact,
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  Speaker 2: kind of just sinking and just feels like I've been
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  Speaker 2: been doing it feels kind of like practice, just you know,
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  Speaker 2: just doing my job and trying to do it right
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  Speaker 2: along or the other Did you.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like things really slowed down and I seemed like
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  Speaker 1: you were flying around the field a lot more. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I feel like every rep I really go out there,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it just slows down more and more. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of felt like when I was early on
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  Speaker 2: in camp, I was kind of like kind of a
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  Speaker 2: little rusty and it just took some time to like
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  Speaker 2: knock off the rust. But each day I try to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go in there and going to practice and
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  Speaker 2: work on something maybe that I didn't do good to the
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  Speaker 2: last day U and it's just been paying off.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I just been trying to like just stack days, man,
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  Speaker 2: just stack good days and become an impact for the team.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like having a last year just kind
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  Speaker 1: of having to same watskay? Uh? It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was hard, but I didn't really look at it
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  Speaker 2: as a negative. I kind of looked at it as
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  Speaker 2: a positive to try to increase my mental get stronger
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  Speaker 2: my foundation, and it gave me a chance to give
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  Speaker 2: my body all the way healthy so I could give
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  Speaker 2: the team the impact that they needed.
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  Speaker 1: What was the issue of something related or uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was like a lower LAI related not that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know you, But what do you think you improved
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  Speaker 1: to that?
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  Speaker 2: I think I proved toughness just going out there, just
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  Speaker 2: giving my all one hundred and twenty percent. Every time
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  Speaker 2: I step on the field. If I'm out there, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to make an impact anyway I can.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's just me. I'm trying to go.
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  Speaker 2: You're never gonna see me on the field like slashing
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  Speaker 2: or not going hard. I try to go as hard
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  Speaker 2: as I can. It's a blessing, It's an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: be out here, so I try to take it the
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  Speaker 2: right way.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking at first, how far do you think you're read
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  Speaker 1: on this? I was running a lot. I was probably Uh.
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  Speaker 2: At one point I was up on like every special
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  Speaker 2: team and going in on defense. I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just gotta deep breaths the deep breath, try to
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  Speaker 2: breathe it out.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned special teams Peep match it out the other day.
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  Speaker 1: It's like being important thing you know for PEP. How
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  Speaker 1: about did you do that in House State? And how
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  Speaker 1: much is different from I really didn't do it at
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  Speaker 1: Holla State.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what really I took the initiatives really just
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  Speaker 2: like trying to get in the get in the film,
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  Speaker 2: and get in the books on special teams, just really
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  Speaker 2: like trying to try to give my team to impact
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  Speaker 2: in whatever way I can so that when they told
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  Speaker 2: me I was gonna be playing that, I try to
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  Speaker 2: watch as much film one they try to learn as
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  Speaker 2: much as I can. And he's, like I said, each
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  Speaker 2: day I try to stack days. I'm getting better and
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  Speaker 2: better at it.
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  Speaker 1: You probably know Jackson than a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: this team.
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  Speaker 2: What was it like playing against him a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago in college?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's He's a special guy, man, special player. He's elusive.
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  Speaker 2: He could catch the ball, he can get yards as
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  Speaker 2: to catch. He could he could be a threat if
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  Speaker 2: you let him. So, I mean, it's just it's and
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  Speaker 2: it's a great thing that he's here. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I was so happy when he got drafted. Man, that's
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  Speaker 1: my guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. We actually called each other twin cause we got
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  Speaker 2: the same birthday and uh in the same last name.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just like it's a blessing again, like just
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  Speaker 2: being out here on the same field with the brother
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  Speaker 2: I shared a in the locker rooms before.
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  Speaker 1: Does that catch that catch he had to night?
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  Speaker 2: Does that kind of highlight the things he can do,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a weight hands, catching that ball over his
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  Speaker 2: shoulder like that and making a play out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was just a little bit of what
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  Speaker 2: he could do. He he got a lot in his bag.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I'm telling you, Jackson's a special player.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it day in and day out when I
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  Speaker 2: was on the practice field in them at Ol State.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not.
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  Speaker 2: When he gets his uh, when he gets his chance,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna show you all what he could do for
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  Speaker 2: a So you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys have the same birthday, did you ever celebrate it together? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: We were, Uh, I think we were winning.
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  Speaker 2: Workouts, So I mean now it's kind of our celebration.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we just always kept in contact, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anything else has Thanks, Thanks, thank you. I appreciate you.