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Sam Howell: "I'm Super Excited To Be Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Getting your first taste of this offense.
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  Speaker 2: How does how does this offense for Ryan Grubb compare
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  Speaker 2: and contrast to what you added there Vien Mey last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's it's it's it's a little different.
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  Speaker 3: But Grub's done a great job. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 3: so much fun learning from him, and obviously, you know
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  Speaker 3: he's had so much success over the past few years.
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  Speaker 3: So we do a lot of different things, mixed up
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  Speaker 3: some tempos, but it's been a lot of fun. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's definitely a quarterback friendly offense, and Eric Banamey's
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  Speaker 3: offense was was kind of similar in that way that
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  Speaker 3: it was a quarterback friendly offense, and both of those
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  Speaker 3: guys like like to throw the ball a lot. So
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely a lot of fun to play in. I
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  Speaker 3: think just how aggressive he is and just how much
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  Speaker 3: he he wants to push the ball down the field,
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  Speaker 3: and that's kind of similar to what I've done in
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  Speaker 3: the past.
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  Speaker 1: And it's definitely the offense that I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: want to play in.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't a chance to talk to you since the
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  Speaker 2: trade that what was your first reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was excited.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think, you know, once I kind of
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  Speaker 3: got the idea that, you know, me being traded was
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  Speaker 3: a possibility. You know, Seattle was one of those places
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  Speaker 3: that I want to come be a part of. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just super excited to be here, and I think coach
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  Speaker 3: Mike's done a great job of starting to build this thing.
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  Speaker 3: So this is definitely one of those places that even now,
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  Speaker 3: even coming out of the draft, I wanted to come to.
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  Speaker 3: So I just love being in the city, I love
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  Speaker 3: being a part of this team, and I'm just excited
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 1: To work.
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  Speaker 2: Before anything.
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  Speaker 3: Uh now, actually the first time I was here was
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  Speaker 3: when we played out here last year. But I just
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  Speaker 3: love the team, love the organization. I know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys on the team, and I think this is
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  Speaker 3: this is a good this is a good football team.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of really good players, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: really good pieces here, So we've got to try to
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  Speaker 3: keep building it every single day.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming in a situation with a guy who's established starter.
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  Speaker 1: And the head of you you were you were. I
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  Speaker 1: guess pay with that or the situation maybe it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: this definitive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think you know, in this league,
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  Speaker 3: you know to to be able to play, you gotta compete,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what I'm willing to do. You know, no
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  Speaker 3: matter what the situation is, you know, no matter who
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  Speaker 3: the starter is, if I'm the starter, I'm coming to
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  Speaker 3: compete every single day. And I think, you know, Gino
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  Speaker 3: has been great. You know, I've learned a lot from
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  Speaker 3: Geno and he's he's a great player. I have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respect for him and and everything he's been
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  Speaker 3: been through in his career, just the way he's always
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  Speaker 3: battled and bounced back. So I'm excited to be here
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  Speaker 3: with Gino and learn from him and just compete with him.
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  Speaker 3: And we and we battle every single day. We want
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  Speaker 3: to make each other better. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're on the same team, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: whoever's out there is gonna We're gonna support each other
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  Speaker 3: and try to help this team win.
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  Speaker 2: Told you about role, future expectations, any of.
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  Speaker 1: That, honestly, not much. You know.
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  Speaker 3: They just tell me to, you know, keep working and
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  Speaker 3: just keep trying to get better every single day. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm taking it one day at a time,
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  Speaker 3: and I really don't worry too much about the future
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  Speaker 3: or what what plans they might have for me, just
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  Speaker 3: because nobody really knows, you know, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you just got to take it one day at a
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  Speaker 3: time and and do the best you can and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You learn from starting seventeen games.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, I mean I learned a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, first year starting, there's there's obviously I could
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  Speaker 3: probably sit up here all day and talk about things
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  Speaker 3: that I've learned, but you know, it was just great
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  Speaker 3: for me to get that experience and and get those
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  Speaker 3: in game experiences. Obviously I was it was my second year,
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  Speaker 3: but really first year playing, so there's nothing like getting
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  Speaker 3: those live game reps.
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  Speaker 1: So there's definitely a lot of lessons to be learned.
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  Speaker 3: And I think those those things that I've learned will
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  Speaker 3: make me better the next time we get an opportunity, and.
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  Speaker 2: Just as a quarterbacks working get from more than anybody
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  Speaker 2: else in.
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  Speaker 3: Just a yeah, I mean, obviously it was it was
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  Speaker 3: fun throwing the ball, but you know, obviously we would
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  Speaker 3: have liked to be more in control of some of
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  Speaker 3: the games, you know, and and not have been in
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  Speaker 3: those situations where we had to throw the ball every
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  Speaker 3: single play.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it is what it is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we we we tried.
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  Speaker 3: To win as may games as possible, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously obviously didn't really work out for us.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that that that year is behind us.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new year. I'm happy to be here and
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  Speaker 1: Seattle and happy to get to work. You had that
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  Speaker 1: chance to reflect on how last year went, looking back
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  Speaker 1: at film where the areas come to Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you feel like you need to improve the
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  Speaker 2: most in your game, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I think I can just I think I can
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  Speaker 1: play some smart ball.
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  Speaker 3: I think there was you know, at times where we
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  Speaker 3: were down big in some games, I was a little
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  Speaker 3: too aggressive of just trying to make something happen, trying
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  Speaker 3: to get us back in the game. And that's why,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the turnovers are just way too high for
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  Speaker 3: for what I wanted and what the team needed. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's definitely something that I can take from
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  Speaker 3: last year is just you know, playing better football, playing
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  Speaker 3: better football, playing smarter football, And those are all things
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  Speaker 3: that I think I can do better moving forward. Valuable
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  Speaker 3: was that trip you guys all got together and went
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  Speaker 3: down too familiarity? Yeah, it was great, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: you know, get getting to know the guys and spending
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  Speaker 3: some spending some time with the guys away from away
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  Speaker 3: from here. I think that's always good. And we got
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  Speaker 3: a great locker room, great group of guys. So coaches
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  Speaker 3: have been great. You know, I think we have it.
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  Speaker 3: We're really truly building a family here in Seattle. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of fun to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: And when you when you look at the weapons that
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have around people going to backs over and receiver,
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  Speaker 2: plus the offense that Lion has and what they did
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  Speaker 2: at Washington last few years, how exciting is that for
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  Speaker 2: you guys quarterback work, you kind of seeing what you
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  Speaker 2: guys can have for you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, it's very exciting. You know. We we have so
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  Speaker 1: many great pieces.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got DK Jack's Locke Cannon in the backfield,
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  Speaker 3: Zach in the backfield, Noah, and you know, we have
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  Speaker 3: so many great players. And I think, you know, coach
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  Speaker 3: Grub is gonna you know, that's what he does. He
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  Speaker 3: knows how to utilize he knows how to utilize his
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  Speaker 3: talent and he's already shown that already. Uh So it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of fun to be a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: What do you what do you remember the game here
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  Speaker 1: last year? I remember we should have won, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a good battle.
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  Speaker 3: I just remember we we got the ball down seven
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, and I've I've never heard of stadium.
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  Speaker 1: That loud, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we might have had to use two timeouts
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  Speaker 3: on that drive just because it was hard for us
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  Speaker 3: to communicate. So it'll definitely be fun to be on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of that. But yeah, just cool experience,
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  Speaker 3: you know, playing here in Seattle. Obviously, as a kid,
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  Speaker 3: this is one of those places where you want to
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  Speaker 3: come and play, and the the atmosphere was awesome, So
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  Speaker 3: it'll be fun to experience that a lot this year.
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  Speaker 2: Coordinator, what are some of the things that he reaches
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  Speaker 2: to his quarterbacks and demands that you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think he just wants to come
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  Speaker 3: out here and command the show, and he wants to
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  Speaker 3: kind of take ownership of this offense and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and run the offense how he wants to run it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Obviously he has a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things.
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  Speaker 3: That he tells us on a daily basis, But I
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  Speaker 3: think the main thing that he he wants his first
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks to come and command the show.
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  Speaker 2: How interested do you remember the Seahawks being in you?
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  Speaker 1: If it all draft it again?
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  Speaker 2: How interested do you remember the Seahawks being in you
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  Speaker 2: coming out of college?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously probably not not interested enough, you know,
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean we have some good talks.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Canalis was here at the time, and he was great.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun getting to know him. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: obviously going to the draft, you really never know what's
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  Speaker 3: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't regret anything that happened to me in my career,
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  Speaker 3: and I truly believe that, you know, everything that's happened
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  Speaker 3: has happened for a reason, and I truly believe that
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  Speaker 3: God has a plan for me. And you know, going
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  Speaker 3: to Washington, I definitely learned a lot out of that experience.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm happy to be here now in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Fans city of Seattle, but they don't really know you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like to do?
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  Speaker 3: Wait for? Yeah, I mean, I you know, we don't
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  Speaker 3: don't get too much time away from here. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously I love ball first and I I just love
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  Speaker 3: to be here and you know, be with my teammates.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean outside of football, you know, I play.
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  Speaker 3: I play a little golf every now and then. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of my new thing, my new hobby. I
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  Speaker 3: like to get out there and play a little golf
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  Speaker 3: when I can. But yeah, it's pretty much it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty even kill guy, pretty chill.
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  Speaker 1: Don't really do a whole lot outside of here.
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  Speaker 2: Would have been your just impression. I mean, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about Geno and respect for his game a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: getting to know him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gino is great. Geno is the man.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's obviously you know, I've always been
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  Speaker 3: a fan of his, you know, just being on the
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  Speaker 3: other side watching him, the way he goes about his business.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's he's a true professional, and you know
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  Speaker 3: just the way he practices each and every day. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just how committed he is to his craft and how
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  Speaker 3: committed he is to this team, and there's how much
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  Speaker 3: he puts into it. Those are things that you really
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  Speaker 3: don't know until you you work right beside somebody. So
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  Speaker 3: it's been fun to watch him do that and and
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  Speaker 3: and learn from him. And you know, I think he's
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  Speaker 3: he's a great player.
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  Speaker 2: About McDonald, whether it's personality wise or coaching style.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike's great and obviously, you know, first year head coach.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some things that you know, he's still
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out about this, but I think he's
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  Speaker 3: doing a great job. And I think one of the
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  Speaker 3: things I love about him is just how much he's
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  Speaker 3: you know, talking about the culture side of of this,
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  Speaker 3: of this team, just because I feel like in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL that's that's something that could be lost at times.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how how important having a good culture is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having a winning culture is, and that's something
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  Speaker 3: that obviously he's been a part of in Baltimore and
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  Speaker 3: he's trying to bring here and definitely doing some things different,
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  Speaker 3: doing some things his own ways. But you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think he's been great, been great for the whole team
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  Speaker 3: as far as you know, getting everybody on the same
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  Speaker 3: page and really just trying to build this family family.
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  Speaker 2: Like atmosphere, Sam on a quarterback friendly offense, what they
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  Speaker 2: want the quarterback to command the show, you balance.
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  Speaker 1: Execution and patients. So again, how do you balance execution
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  Speaker 1: and patients and a quarterback friendly offense where you are
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  Speaker 1: where you're commanding that show?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, actually, I think
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  Speaker 3: you execute the plays how you're taught to execute them,
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  Speaker 3: and at times, you know, that might be checking the
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  Speaker 3: ball down, and I think at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: the defense really dictates where the ball goes, and as
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback, you just got to stay patient and trust that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe on this play you had to check
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  Speaker 3: it down, but maybe we might come back to that
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  Speaker 3: same play layer in the game and get a different
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  Speaker 3: look defensively, and now we can take the shot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think you just got to trust.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta trust to play card that you know he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna call plays to put you in good scenarios where
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  Speaker 3: you don't always have to take the checkdowns and be patient.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he coach greb will allow you to be
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  Speaker 3: aggressive at times. But I think you just got to
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  Speaker 3: go through each and every play like it's its own play,
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  Speaker 3: and you just go through how you taught to go
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  Speaker 3: through it, and really the defense will dictate the result.
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  Speaker 2: What's different about Mike McDonald or Rank Groud that you
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  Speaker 2: haven't had from a coach before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, kind of what I was saying
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  Speaker 3: about Mike is just how big he is on the
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  Speaker 3: culture piece and how much he really talks about that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we have team meetings all the time where
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  Speaker 3: he you know, he talks about culture for thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I think that's really important, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's something that the guys will respond to really well.
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  Speaker 3: And Coach Grub, you know, I just love, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just how he can mix up tim Bow and really
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  Speaker 3: keep the defense on his heels.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't really think that that that's that's not something you
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  Speaker 3: see a whole lot of NFL. So obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's he's more of a college guy, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for him to get his opportunity to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think he's got some really good stuff. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Yeah,