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Cooper Kupp On Playing For The Seahawks "It's A Very Special Thing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. Hello. Oh, thank you. How's the wing tea
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  Speaker 1: coming along? It's good. It's good. We're, we're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so you walking off with Jake Keats, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think he's adding to the quarterback room?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of coach is he?
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  Speaker 2: And what do you think he's.
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  Speaker 1: Adding to that? Um, yeah, I mean, shoot, he's a,
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  Speaker 1: a high energy individual. Um, and he knows a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, you know, I think there's, uh, There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff in that room in terms of the
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  Speaker 3: processing that happens at the quarterback position. It's good to
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  Speaker 3: have someone in there that has been in that spot
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  Speaker 3: before that's also allowing Sam understands the amount of football
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  Speaker 3: that's been played in that room. And knowing what information
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  Speaker 3: needs to be put on the table, what stuff can
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  Speaker 3: be jumped over, just to give Sam, I think, the
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  Speaker 3: most clarity possible.
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  Speaker 1: The most what? Clarity.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. We saw the clip of Mike pulling you off
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  Speaker 2: the practice field in Tennessee. Has that happened to you before?
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction when he put you there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're working through some stuff, and so it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of like, you know, I understood where he was
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  Speaker 3: coming from. And, yeah, it is what it is. I
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  Speaker 3: trust Mike and ultimately what he's doing. He's looking out
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  Speaker 3: for his guys, for his team.
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  Speaker 1: And, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, there's always a party that wants to compete,
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  Speaker 3: a competitor that wants to go out there and go
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  Speaker 3: in those situations. Those practices are a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: But I understand that's kind of something that you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I trust Mike. Does your mind go at all the
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  Speaker 3: sliding doors of if you've been out there and what
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  Speaker 3: happened with Jake and you not being out there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's, it's, well, that's, That's an absolutely awful situation.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously everyone here feels for Jake. So, yeah. Hey, Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: you teach a lot of the young guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: give them skills and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen anything from the new young wide receivers,
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  Speaker 3: like anything from them that they've taught you or you've noticed? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, they're a lot of fun. Yeah, they,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's always stuff. There's always, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's something you grab from everyone in terms of this,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how you're seeing a stem of rust. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I've run a certain route for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Someone comes in and sees it, runs it for the
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  Speaker 3: first time the way they see it. It's like, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I never would have ran it that way,
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  Speaker 3: but let's talk about it. There might be something to
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  Speaker 3: how you're approaching that route.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got guys that are very intentional in that way.
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  Speaker 3: They're not just out there doing things just to do them.
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  Speaker 3: There's a reason behind them. And so, yeah, you're always
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  Speaker 3: keeping an eye on things and having those conversations in
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  Speaker 3: our room. It makes it a lot of fun to
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  Speaker 3: talk ball.
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  Speaker 1: Perspective in your 10th year.
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  Speaker 3: What can you say about perspective on the field, off
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  Speaker 3: the field?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a big question. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a big question. I mean, there's so much.
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  Speaker 3: I think things get– I don't know what the word
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  Speaker 3: is exactly. Probably this is not the right way to
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  Speaker 3: say it, but things become less– things aren't as pivotal, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like when you're young, every single play holds away the world. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a win can put you in a place
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  Speaker 3: that you feel like you can't– like you've got it
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  Speaker 3: all figured out, which isn't the right place to be.
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  Speaker 1: And then a loss in a rep can make you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you'll never be able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And both those things are wrong. But I think as
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  Speaker 3: time goes on, you realize it's all a journey. It's
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  Speaker 3: all a process. It's all about this build into who
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be and just constantly responding to those opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: That ultimately is what is going to write the story, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's not the outcome of the moment. It's how you're
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  Speaker 3: going to respond to the string of moments that happen. Cooper,
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  Speaker 3: as somebody from Yakima with a cell, what does it
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  Speaker 3: mean to have this next chapter, this team that's been
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Your whole life?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, it's pretty cool. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 3: talked a lot about, you know, growing up a Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: fan and then eventually, you know, learning bedtime was when
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  Speaker 3: the game ended. So then it became just I was
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  Speaker 3: rooting for overtime at all times and just enjoying football. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's not missing me how cool it is
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  Speaker 3: to come back to the state. You know, I grew
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  Speaker 3: up here, spent 18 years of my life in Yakima, spent,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 23 years years in the state of Washington. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that there's a lot of memories. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people that came alongside me that helped get
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  Speaker 3: me to where I am today. So it's definitely something
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  Speaker 3: that's not missing me. A very, very special thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So with that said, what does it mean that.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody wants to spend $ 9 billion in the culture that
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  Speaker 3: was built by this? Yeah, no, it's super cool. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about that. I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people that are, you know, I think, um, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Jody was awesome in my time here. And I know
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  Speaker 3: Mike absolutely loved working with her. And I think there's
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  Speaker 3: also some excitement for what this new ownership group has
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  Speaker 3: and looking forward to meeting them, seeing what their plans
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  Speaker 3: are for the team.
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  Speaker 2: The leadership council Mike does, I'm sure a lot of
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  Speaker 2: teams have some version of that. What do you like
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  Speaker 2: about the way Mike does that? And kind of what
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like you get as a team out
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  Speaker 2: of having those meetings with him?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a great job of just creating an
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  Speaker 3: open room for conversation. There's plenty of stuff on there
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  Speaker 3: that you, I'm sure, don't see. For sure, you don't
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  Speaker 3: see on hard knocks, but it's a great space for
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  Speaker 3: conversation just for guys in every room around the team
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  Speaker 3: to be able to have a say on how guys
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  Speaker 3: are feeling, where guys are at, what they see, if
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  Speaker 3: there's a need that needs to be met, if there's
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  Speaker 3: something we can do better. Then we can have that conversation,
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  Speaker 3: a truly open conversation about how we feel, and Mike
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  Speaker 3: does a great job of being able to open that
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  Speaker 3: door for communication, not just to go from coaches down,
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  Speaker 3: but to go to players up as well. When you're
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  Speaker 3: in Mike's office and he's picking your brain, is that
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  Speaker 3: more you going like, hey, coach, I've seen something, or
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  Speaker 3: is it him coming to you asking questions? I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a little bit of both. I think I probably
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  Speaker 3: ask more questions than he's asking me questions. I certainly
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  Speaker 3: ask him more than he's asking me.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just great.
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  Speaker 3: He's got an open-door policy. At least I think he does.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to put him on the spot. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pretty– I mean, guys going there, they got
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  Speaker 3: something to say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Mike's great about, you know, giving you his time.
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  Speaker 3: When you have a chance to speak to the Colson family,
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  Speaker 3: what is it that you want to tell them about
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  Speaker 3: what it feels to be a CNR?
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  Speaker 1: What do I want to tell them? Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think– I'm sure they've done their due
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  Speaker 3: diligence on what we're about and what it's like in
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  Speaker 3: this building. And I think there's a reason why they
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  Speaker 3: want to be a part of it and see the
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  Speaker 3: value in it.
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  Speaker 1: And so hopefully I wouldn't have to say anything.
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  Speaker 3: They would just know that there's something special here in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how we go about our business.
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  Speaker 1: And actions speak louder than words in that way. Back
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  Speaker 1: to Bobo, what do you think your receiver core will
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  Speaker 1: miss with him out there? Yeah, a lot. First and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: just the person that he is.
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  Speaker 3: That, I think, is the thing that is overlooked upon
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  Speaker 3: all of this stuff. We're a group of men that
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  Speaker 3: come together every day to pursue a goal and have
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  Speaker 3: our own lives that all coalesce into this story that
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  Speaker 3: makes this season come alive. So not having him be
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  Speaker 3: a part of that story moving forward for this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough. It's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, I know he's going to get after
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  Speaker 3: things in terms of the rehab and all of that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but just not, just not having bubble the person around
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  Speaker 3: us is going to be really tough.
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  Speaker 2: You've talked in the past about kind of with the
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  Speaker 2: cerebral side of the game, all the studying that coming
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  Speaker 2: out of necessity, you've said, you know, you weren't the
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  Speaker 2: biggest guy, the fastest guy.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that.
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  Speaker 2: Like that you had to do it how much do
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  Speaker 2: you enjoy that side of like finding those edges as
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  Speaker 2: mike would say and like helping mike unlock something on
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  Speaker 2: tape is that fun for you to see.
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  Speaker 3: That oh without a doubt it is i mean i
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  Speaker 3: think that's the i think that's one of the coolest
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  Speaker 3: parts about this game is finding ways to and really
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  Speaker 3: i think it's just finding ways for the team to
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  Speaker 3: have an edge right finding something that comes alive in
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  Speaker 3: in a game and it's not i mean it's it's
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  Speaker 3: almost better, I would almost say it's better when it's
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  Speaker 3: not even you that's the one bringing it live, but
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  Speaker 3: when you find a way for someone else to have
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  Speaker 3: success and bring something, bring that edge and find success
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  Speaker 3: and find a way to beat a team based on
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  Speaker 3: things that we collectively work together to solve, that is
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  Speaker 3: my favorite thing in the world. And so, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: what you come in and watch the film for, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we communicate for, that's what makes A team that
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  Speaker 3: wants to collaborate together is so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: If you came in here and you.
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  Speaker 3: Just had to do exactly what the coaches say with
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  Speaker 3: no say in terms of how it was going to
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  Speaker 3: get done, I don't know that I'd still be playing
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  Speaker 3: football in all honesty. That wouldn't be much fun for me.
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  Speaker 3: Being able to collaborate, being able to figure it out
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  Speaker 3: together and work together, having guys in our room, players
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  Speaker 3: that are open to asking questions and also a suggestions,
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  Speaker 3: that is what makes this game so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.