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Ty Okada: "I'm Trying To Grow In Any Way I Can" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Take.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really great call. I was coming down over the middle,
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  Speaker 2: tried to get him to get his eyes off of me,
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  Speaker 2: and then on a crossing route was just able to
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  Speaker 2: read it and play off of him and go out
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  Speaker 2: there and make a play. And so, yeah, no, that
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  Speaker 2: felt good.
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  Speaker 3: What's your comfort level like this year compared to years past?
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  Speaker 2: As you're do it continues to grow and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: it starts with understanding the what what we're doing on defense,
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  Speaker 2: and then the how how we're going to do it,
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  Speaker 2: and and just continuing to the why, like why is
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  Speaker 2: coach calling certain certain calls in certain situations? And the
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  Speaker 2: deeper that I grow in that understanding, just the comfort
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  Speaker 2: level grows with me and it helps tremendously.
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  Speaker 3: One where you thought, hey, maybe I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: a shot based on the call in the situation to
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  Speaker 3: make it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and we're able to set it up
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  Speaker 2: and we're kind of able to give the quarterback kind
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  Speaker 2: of a different read and a different look on that play.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was a great call by Mike and
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  Speaker 2: just was able to take advantage of it, which was nice.
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  Speaker 3: I talked about the confidence he season playing with this
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  Speaker 3: year compared to maybe a year in the past years,
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  Speaker 3: like what does happen almost a full season as the
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  Speaker 3: start of getting all those reps, real game raps. What
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  Speaker 3: does that do for Again?
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  Speaker 2: It just I've said it time and time again, but
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  Speaker 2: it builds that trust and not only myself and like
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  Speaker 2: my belief and how that continues to grow, but also
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  Speaker 2: just having the trust of my coaches and teammates and
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  Speaker 2: the ability to go out there and play free instead
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  Speaker 2: of going out there to uh not make a mistake
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  Speaker 2: or not lose the job or not screw up. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about like, no, let me actually go attack this,
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of it. Be the player that I know
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  Speaker 2: I can be. Having that confidence has helped tremendously.
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  Speaker 3: Is that kind of your I mean, obviously Kobe left,
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  Speaker 3: they brought in some guys to compete for that. Was
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  Speaker 3: that sort of your approach to that? Was it you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is my job, I can go win it kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's just it's me versus me every single day.
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  Speaker 2: I want every single dB in the dB rooms in
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  Speaker 2: Seattle to be you know, the best versions of themselves
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out. And if we all do that,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to continue to grow as a group and
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  Speaker 2: that's only going to further help the defense and the team.
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  Speaker 2: And so ultimately it's just me looking in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: and trying to grow any way that I can on and.
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  Speaker 1: Off the field.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw Jake Bobo kind of
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  Speaker 3: when you see that with the teammate like that, any
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  Speaker 3: guy who's been around here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately I didn't see it, but I heard about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm praying for Jake. He's nothing but just
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  Speaker 2: a great player and a great person, and my prayers
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  Speaker 2: go out to him. All of our teammates are going
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  Speaker 2: to have Jake's back, and we always want nothing but
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  Speaker 2: the best for all of our guys, and so we
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  Speaker 2: just pray for him for you know, a healthy recovery.
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  Speaker 1: There was a little bit of a scuffle over on
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  Speaker 1: that field, but it didn't get out of hand. How
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  Speaker 1: much of it was a reminder before practice, hey guys,
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  Speaker 1: we're here to work. How much of it was just
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  Speaker 1: been there, done that, understand you got to do the work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Level heads prevailed on that one and it was good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, There's going to be some john back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: which is great. This is to football. It's grown men
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  Speaker 2: hitting other grown men, so things are gonna happen. But no,
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  Speaker 2: it was great. Uh there's some reminders, but now really
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  Speaker 2: just about hey, this is important work. We need these reps.
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  Speaker 2: We can't waste time and uh yeah, so it was
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  Speaker 2: good that it didn't go to where it didn't need
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  Speaker 2: to go anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,