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Mario Edwards Jr: "This Place Has Great Chemistry" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: A great on hang on, Oh, thank you, thank you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got swell what I'm feeling too? Uh huh what
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  Speaker 1: do you take it away? God should spend how many
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  Speaker 1: weeks have you've been here? Four weeks? My days, my
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  Speaker 1: days running together? Right now? You take it away from
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  Speaker 1: your time here in the last few weeks. You repeting
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  Speaker 1: the Uh just a camaraderie. Uh, this place here has
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  Speaker 1: a great chemistry. Love it. Uh great chemistry. Just uh
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  Speaker 1: came to a place where everybody's competing every day. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: familiar faces. Uh it it's been fun. What is this
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  Speaker 1: team where this scheme allow you to do the best
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  Speaker 1: fit your skill? Son allows me to play fast, physical
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  Speaker 1: and aggressive, allows me to get off penetrate, Uh, be disruptive. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things is Uh. If you're reach, stay reached.
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  Speaker 1: Just be back there and calls have or you've been
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  Speaker 1: a lot even if you play the league. Look, what
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  Speaker 1: what's you need about King K? How they do you
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  Speaker 1: think here? How you run time? It's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: player base. Uh. He listens to the players. Uh. He
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  Speaker 1: works really good with the players, and he takes care
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  Speaker 1: of us good as well. And Uh, I just like
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  Speaker 1: the old scheme man. We have athletes on every level
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  Speaker 1: of the ball d line, linebacker, secondary, and it's good
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  Speaker 1: to go up and be able to contribute to him.
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  Speaker 1: We hear that a lot of players shoot, majority of
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  Speaker 1: the coaches have played in the league, so they know
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  Speaker 1: what it's like, They know our bodies feel, they know
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  Speaker 1: what we go through, and so a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: times they they understand how to work us and still
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  Speaker 1: get the most out of us without necessarily being on
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  Speaker 1: your three hours or four hours stuff like that. You've
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  Speaker 1: been around long enough, you don't necessarily need snaps Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and Green Bay. What what would you tell some of
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  Speaker 1: these young guys that are still trying to make an
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  Speaker 1: impression about that game. You know, you're not just playing
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  Speaker 1: for this this organization. You're playing for thirty one or
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  Speaker 1: other organizations, and what you put on tape is what
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have. And uh, you know, you neither continue
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  Speaker 1: your career and be three, four, five and nine years
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  Speaker 1: like me or you know, hey, it could go a
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  Speaker 1: different way, So make sure you put what you wanna
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  Speaker 1: see on on film. What do you think you guys
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  Speaker 1: are up front defensive? Way from what you see throughout
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  Speaker 1: camp to preseason games, and everything about what you guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna get your friend's table. Uh, We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to bring a lot to the table. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: from my fade to d Hall to uh dt Uh,
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  Speaker 1: those guys just athletic and strong and k and being
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  Speaker 1: on the edge on the inside. You got dre Me
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  Speaker 1: and Jay Reid, and I just look at it like
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  Speaker 1: a three headed monster. You get a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: everything for us three and I just think that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna play some hard, hard mouth football this year. How
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  Speaker 1: was the systems that you what you want to say?
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  Speaker 1: If it's me, great, it lets me be an athlete,
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  Speaker 1: let me be uh aggressive, It lets me play physical
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  Speaker 1: and fast, not much thinking, just get lined up and
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  Speaker 1: kind of go, Well, can you tell about what j Reid?
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  Speaker 1: Uh doesn't the communication in this scheme? I know games
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  Speaker 1: away for a couple of years, but he knows. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I it was good. I recently, even yesterday in practice
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  Speaker 1: just uh communicating with our guys. We were able to
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  Speaker 1: look at each other kind of have a little head
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  Speaker 1: nod or a little communication and we understood that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted the game to be and so just kind of
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  Speaker 1: understand how to communicate and with certain guys, like how
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  Speaker 1: they like to run certain games, how they like to rush,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of, you know, assist them when you signed
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  Speaker 1: go to the lating strength care your expectations in tren
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  Speaker 1: uh kind of like what's going on here? This opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get out here and earn a spot,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to get out here and play. I had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of familiar faces. Tracy was my special team coach
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  Speaker 1: in UH Oakland. UH. LeVar Campbell was my player development
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  Speaker 1: coach in uh S. In Chicago, I played with Nico Thorpe,
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  Speaker 1: played with Darren Bates. So when I got here, it
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  Speaker 1: was like familiar faces. It was like home to men.
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  Speaker 1: How much uh three four? Any of us doing a
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  Speaker 1: three and four in from your career? What else have
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  Speaker 1: you done the defensive only on UH, I've been outside linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: I've been all up and down the line man four
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  Speaker 1: three three four pretty much everything. What they're asking me
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  Speaker 1: to do with gaps is that familiar to what you've done?
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  Speaker 1: Three point Uh? Yeah? I mean when I first got
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  Speaker 1: drafted here and UH in Oakland, UH Ken Norton was
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator there along with Jethrow Franklin. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of the similar defense here there. So
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of running what I did as a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like having a dad who was playing in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL? Uh? It was great, man. It was good
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  Speaker 1: to have a coach that I can go talk to
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  Speaker 1: and then also talk to as a dad as well,
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  Speaker 1: kind of have the blueprint on the coaching side and
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  Speaker 1: the players side. And uh, you know, at a young age,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of knew what I was doing, what I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be when I grew up. Did he take
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  Speaker 1: you to the football field or were you taking him
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  Speaker 1: to the football field and asking to play catch to
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  Speaker 1: New York as the game? Uh? It started off, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: him taking me and started taking me around the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: facility in the facility, and then it started getting to
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  Speaker 1: the point where I started beating him in the workouts
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  Speaker 1: and so it was fun. Did he stop working out
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  Speaker 1: with you after that? Yeah? But once I started lifting
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  Speaker 1: in the in the f threes and four as he quit,
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  Speaker 1: he quit lifting with me and working out with me
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  Speaker 1: anything else? Really, thanks, thank you.