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Aden Durde: "Devon Witherspoon Is An Elite Competitor" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Huh, I'm ready to take questions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not really, I just wanna go change.
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  Speaker 1: When can you look at out of the matchups and
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  Speaker 1: what what main, what percess? What do you go back to?
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  Speaker 2: How much of it is what you based you, how
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  Speaker 2: much of it is you need against those cause this
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  Speaker 2: is any challenge.
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  Speaker 1: For me, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I think like when you're playing an unconn uncommon opponent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, oh okay, when you're playing like a uncommon,
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  Speaker 2: uncommon opponent, I think you have to kind of look
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  Speaker 2: at yourself, you know, like you have to be led
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  Speaker 2: by your rules. You have to be understand how you align,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be able to communicate at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: And really if you take that and then you look
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  Speaker 2: at the start of the season, like the start of
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  Speaker 2: the seasons by execution and fundamentals, you know, like really
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  Speaker 2: and truthfully, everyone's still finding out who they are. You
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  Speaker 2: know that that's the growth of the NFL, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like teams evolve over the season, Like our chance to
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  Speaker 2: go out there, it's.
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  Speaker 1: All about us on Sunday. It's about us.
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  Speaker 2: And how we approach it and when we go out there,
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  Speaker 2: how we execute.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Mike, Uh, what'd you get called some players
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  Speaker 1: in live preseason game. Would you kind of take an
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  Speaker 1: experience and on Yeah, it's good experience.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually the first in the second preseason game,
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a great experience. I think like
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  Speaker 2: I learned a lot, Like I called him at different
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  Speaker 2: pass in the game that kind of affected some of
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  Speaker 2: the calls I've done, how you manage personnel and how
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  Speaker 2: you process that. It was like for my growth, it
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  Speaker 2: was huge, you know, and then like as I go
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  Speaker 2: through it, you start getting more comfortable, you start seeing
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  Speaker 2: the game and week by week those things I can
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  Speaker 2: feel like day by day at times I grow and
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  Speaker 2: then I think it's something I've just heard or is
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  Speaker 2: is is a great it's a great time, Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm joining some much.
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  Speaker 1: Are you certain to get a second sight to hearing
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  Speaker 1: Mike and what he's gonna call it more time? Does
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  Speaker 1: he kind of have you gotten to the point where
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  Speaker 1: you kind of know where he's gonna go with stuff yet? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Times, Yeah, there's like times out here in practice when
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  Speaker 2: call it periods like cause I if he's calling it,
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  Speaker 2: I'll call it, you know, in my head, I call
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  Speaker 2: it and go through the process and the mechanics of
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  Speaker 2: it A lot of times you call it in the
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  Speaker 2: same players and in the same situations.
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  Speaker 1: You know, can you imagine like what the challenge was
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  Speaker 1: like for somebody like Mike who is calling players and
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  Speaker 1: also trying to coach the team at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: and the juggling that you have to do to do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I wouldn't say I can imagine it, cause I
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  Speaker 2: think it's really for him. It's his experience. But I
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  Speaker 2: definitely see the challenges and then I think I think
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  Speaker 2: of it more as like my job. Okay, where can
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  Speaker 2: I take the weight off him?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And how can I support him? Like what errors do
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  Speaker 2: I kind of flourish in? And then what eras can
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  Speaker 2: I see around corners for him and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's more me looking from necessarily from his eyes. I
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  Speaker 2: look at it, try and look at it around corners
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  Speaker 2: for him at the moment, because that's my job.
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  Speaker 1: It's impressed you most about Mike him.
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  Speaker 2: And have you book m I'd say the number like
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a few things, but I would say
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  Speaker 2: the number one thing is his ability to process information
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  Speaker 2: in the moment, like you can do it at a very
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  Speaker 2: very high level and and his blue from what he wants,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I believe in him and that that
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  Speaker 2: says a lot to me.
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  Speaker 1: And you spend a lot of time with the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line specifically, how do you kind of just seen that
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  Speaker 1: group grow from the from you know, from the.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning to Yeah, I think they're growing as a group,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like D line is a lot about connection
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  Speaker 2: and understanding how you play off each other and like
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  Speaker 2: what you want. And I think week by week you
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  Speaker 2: see that kind of vision that they want and I
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  Speaker 2: think Jay Hines is doing a great job of bringing
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing to life.
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  Speaker 1: Is you see every.
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  Speaker 2: Day they're kind of making a better understanding of how
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  Speaker 2: as a group they need to play, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: I think when the D line is playing really well,
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  Speaker 2: they understand what they're trying to achieve instead of like
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  Speaker 2: an individual achievement. Do you know, like when they do that,
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  Speaker 2: they can really affect the QB and they can affect
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  Speaker 2: the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Gave What are some of the ways you found that
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  Speaker 1: you can support like what he's.
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  Speaker 2: Calling again, definitely in personnel, Definitely on the sideline, coaching
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  Speaker 2: up the players, going through with the like while he
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  Speaker 2: think about when he's dealing with the offense, I'm dealing
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  Speaker 2: with stuff on the defense, on the sidelum or the
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  Speaker 2: offense or on the field. How we communicate that information
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  Speaker 2: just areas like that and just certain game plan things
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  Speaker 2: we talk.
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  Speaker 3: About, Julian, I think as Julian today talked about the
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  Speaker 3: defense increase every week, and just how important is that
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  Speaker 3: the message into the players and part of the psyche
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  Speaker 3: of this organization from mighty yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think really that improvement is a collective of
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  Speaker 2: all of us. It's their manus, you know, It's not
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  Speaker 2: just how they're improving. I think as we're gradually because
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  Speaker 2: we're a lot of us are new people coming together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like and a lot of us didn't know
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  Speaker 2: each other. And I think you see systematically and kind
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  Speaker 2: of as a group, there's growth there week in week out,
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  Speaker 2: and then just like anything, like as you more understand it,
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  Speaker 2: you can start playing freeer, you can start talking with
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  Speaker 2: way more confidence, you start playing with way more confidence,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Like that to me, that's the growth of
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  Speaker 2: those guys. And I feel like the growth of all
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  Speaker 2: of us as a group.
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest suppression to you about ty around where
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of yeah, he's like there.
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  Speaker 2: You see when he came in obviously missed the whole
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  Speaker 2: of spring, and then as he's gone through camp, I
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  Speaker 2: felt like it was like probably ten days twelve days
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  Speaker 2: into camp, it was a real shift, Like especially you
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  Speaker 2: felt his speed, like his ability to play sideline to sideline,
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  Speaker 2: and now like I felt in the last kind of
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  Speaker 2: I would say the last two weeks, his communication has
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  Speaker 2: gone through the roofs, like the understanding, the way he's
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  Speaker 2: lining people up, he's getting more confident, he's doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job.
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  Speaker 1: What's straight much jokes were all gonna look like this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think his role is multiple, you know, like his
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  Speaker 2: he has when you get players like Dre and I
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  Speaker 2: feel Leo has some of those qualities too that you
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  Speaker 2: can play in different positions on rush situations that you
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  Speaker 2: try and think about, how do you feature them, how
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  Speaker 2: do they get get abilities to be showcase their talents.
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  Speaker 2: And I think like in early football, dres role will
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  Speaker 2: be his normal role, the role that you've seen him in,
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  Speaker 2: and then as we get into more like pass down situations,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes his role can change and sometimes it will be
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  Speaker 2: what he's really good at. But I feel like all
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  Speaker 2: of those guys when we get into situations that feature
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  Speaker 2: their talent, that's their.
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  Speaker 1: Role some time. Is that going to be a big
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  Speaker 1: deal with him? I think time will tell you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think like as you're coming into it, it's not
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  Speaker 2: like you want to rush him in. He's just like
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  Speaker 2: we said, give him some confidence, let him do what
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  Speaker 2: he's real good at, and then move him from there.
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  Speaker 1: What's impressed.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot like I feel like that. I think
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  Speaker 2: if you look on the field, on the play and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a lead quickness, is intelligent, is kind of
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  Speaker 2: football IQ is through the roof, like he has an
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  Speaker 2: uncanny ability to like like study stuff and know what's
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  Speaker 2: coming and be ahead of the play. But really the
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  Speaker 2: thing that's impressed me is his growth as a leader.
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  Speaker 2: I would say in the last especially of a training camp,
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  Speaker 2: like you feel him, you feel like he's not It's
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  Speaker 2: not that he's more mature, Like I think he's a
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  Speaker 2: mature guy when I first met him, but he's understanding
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  Speaker 2: what he means to the defense and how he can
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  Speaker 2: drive and influence people.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any examples of ways that you've seen them.
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  Speaker 2: I've just seen him like when practice is going well
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  Speaker 2: when it's not going well, just being able to stand
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  Speaker 2: up have the energy that you know, he's like, he's
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  Speaker 2: like a little ball of energy. So it's like when
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  Speaker 2: he's like that, he brings other people up and how
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  Speaker 2: he uses that is important and he's doing like a
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  Speaker 2: great trouble that.
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  Speaker 3: To add to that, is there that he's got a
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  Speaker 3: high accountability of self.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's a he's an elite competitor, Like
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't ever want to lose, you know, like you
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  Speaker 2: can see that. You can see that when you're watching practice,
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  Speaker 2: I think, but that is just him now. I think
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  Speaker 2: he is like he's giving it to all of the
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  Speaker 2: guys and usks around him, and that that's what I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else, Thanks guys,