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Frank Clark: "I'm Just Ready To Help This Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, here we go. Yeah, I know, doing to day,
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  Speaker 1: good area, does it? He'll be back. So actually right
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  Speaker 1: back at home. Feel like you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I got out of bed this morning, went to school,
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  Speaker 1: came back and my bed is still messing and I
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  Speaker 1: can get right back in. How did this all work out?
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  Speaker 1: Did they just call you, like on Monday or whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's usually how it happens. You know. You're usually sitting
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  Speaker 1: at home, not doing too much, usually messing around with
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  Speaker 1: the kids or something like that, playing the father role,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, doing what I do, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden I got that call, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I was waiting to play some football, staying active
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. You get a lot of exercise picking those
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  Speaker 1: kids up throughout the day, I'll tell you. So at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, they gave me that call, man,
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  Speaker 1: and I was ecstatic, just simply that's what that was.
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  Speaker 1: One of those calls I've been waiting for, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we tried to get a few things done
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  Speaker 1: done before the season, but it didn't work out like
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  Speaker 1: we wanted. But fortunately for me, fortunately for everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to get it done. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: that matters. You were in talks with the Seahawks before
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  Speaker 1: the season about coming back. Of course, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: always been one of my goals to get back to
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  Speaker 1: Seattle at some point in my career, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: going through my first st in here. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be here for the rest of my career.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I you have dreams growing up as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing sports. I'm like, man, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be with those guys, to play for one team my
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  Speaker 1: whole career, and you know, do that and retire a Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: just one one team. And you know, unfortunately that didn't
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  Speaker 1: happen the way I wanted it to happen, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. You learn life lessons through this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I was able to go off to
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  Speaker 1: you know, other places, and you know, help those teams
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  Speaker 1: and do some great things, and you gained experiences with it.
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  Speaker 1: And I came back yere nine with fuller experience it
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm just ready to help this team
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  Speaker 1: take it to another level. And what ways are you
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  Speaker 1: a better player or a different player since you left?
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's more mental than the physical part, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the physical and the tech technicality of the game doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really change once you developed those tools, So it's more
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  Speaker 1: the mental part. I feel like I was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more immature about four or five years ago. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of things about the game that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really understand. I still got guys like Mike, Bennett Cliff,
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  Speaker 1: they still text me to this day, even before I
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  Speaker 1: was signed back. You know, they still texting me like, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: you need to do this better. I have Mike text
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  Speaker 1: me like, you know, you suck this game. And so
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was a lot of stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they was always once my vets, always my vets. Once
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  Speaker 1: the OG is always the OG's and you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I said all the time. You know, they've
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  Speaker 1: been a you know, one of the large, largest and
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  Speaker 1: you know, biggest support systems that I've had, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in my career, Doctors plays. It makes people want to
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  Speaker 1: come back, you know, the first person to say that
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  Speaker 1: all want to get back to Seattle. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's just very special, and that starts up top. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it starts with coach Carroll. You know, in their job
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  Speaker 1: that he does with his players. You know, he allows
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  Speaker 1: you to be you. You know, you come well, it
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  Speaker 1: starts with football first obviously. You know, if you're playing football,
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  Speaker 1: if you're doing your job, you know you've been up
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  Speaker 1: early on time, never late. You know, he ain't gonn
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  Speaker 1: bother you too much, you know, But that's where it starts.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like Coach Carroll just you know, his
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  Speaker 1: infectious personality. You know, he's he's around here. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I made a joke to an around like you're moving fast
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  Speaker 1: and everybody in the building. Coach still you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, He's like, hell yeah, you know. Then he
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to throw you know, like four or five footballs
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  Speaker 1: in the basket from like forty feet out and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking at him like, yeah, he still
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  Speaker 1: got it, you know what I'm saying. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it's him, you know, And I'm sure other players have
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  Speaker 1: said the same thing, you know. And the city as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's nobody like the Toils. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can go anywhere, you can go far a wide, wherever
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  Speaker 1: you want to go. You know you ain't go find
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  Speaker 1: no the city like the Toils cheering for you in
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  Speaker 1: the stands. Was talking yesterday about the friend trip you
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  Speaker 1: guys have that you know, goes back to your days.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how excited do you play with him again? And
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  Speaker 1: oh man, you know, Jeremy dog, that's one of my
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  Speaker 1: best friends since the you know, the day he came
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  Speaker 1: into the league. We met each other in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Very excited. You know, he's having a great season so far.
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  Speaker 1: Just really I'm being very happy. Just watch them get
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  Speaker 1: back to yourself, you know, this year and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could say and being back in Seattle has a large,
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  Speaker 1: you know reason for that, it's a big reason for that.
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  Speaker 1: But I just felt like he's just getting back comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and getting in that more and I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: something that we all want to do, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even myself, you know, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: I want to get back into that mode, back into
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  Speaker 1: that comfort zone and just doing what I do, having
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  Speaker 1: my hand in the dirt, rushing the pass and set
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  Speaker 1: and the edge. You said that you've been working out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a slightly different scheme I think from the last
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  Speaker 1: time you were your commy argue that you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: go for Sunday. I'm very confident, but at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you know, my confidence comes from, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having confidence in my coaches as well. And uh, you know, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I talked to coach what two days ago, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was this Thursday here today. Yeah, I talked to
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  Speaker 1: them Tuesday and they basically just giving me to run
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  Speaker 1: down and everything, and I was like, yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: to play. You know, he asked me, like, you want
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  Speaker 1: to play this weekend. I'm like, yeah, yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Why wouldn't I? Football is football at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day. Playbooks change, teens may change,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, calls and different techniques and the things
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  Speaker 1: that you have to do to get a job done
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  Speaker 1: that necessarily don't change as much. Friends in Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: were also trying to recruit you to come back there
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  Speaker 1: or how I guess how did those conversations develop over
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  Speaker 1: was out of a possibility. Yeah, I mean Kens City.
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  Speaker 1: It was a host of other teams. You honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the main thing that comes into factor. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big family guy. You know, I got kids and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. I got three kids. The last thing
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  Speaker 1: I want to do is just have my kids having
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  Speaker 1: to make new relationships, build new foundations, do all of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff and start from the beginning. I'm I'm not
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  Speaker 1: big in and learn the new playbooks and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that as well. You know, I've I feel like over
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  Speaker 1: the last what nine years, it's been about I've had
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  Speaker 1: different coordinators here, two different coordinators in Seattle, I had
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  Speaker 1: one coordinator in Kansas and one coordinator in the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: That's like four different playbooks. I'm cool, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think at that point, you know that's
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  Speaker 1: four different playbooks nine years. I'm like, I did enough,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's on the bottom half of how many
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  Speaker 1: you know, how gods move around in this league. But
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  Speaker 1: for me, I like to you know, if you know
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  Speaker 1: me as a as a player, if you give me
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  Speaker 1: one task and you allow me to focus and lock
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  Speaker 1: in on it, we're gonna get the job. None more
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  Speaker 1: than likely. You've mentioned that when you're here the first time.
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  Speaker 1: But now that you've been away and you're older and
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you have your young kids, what has
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll meant to your development as a person? It
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  Speaker 1: started here, you know, so a lot of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I learned just as a young player coming out
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  Speaker 1: as a rookie, it's it. It came from here. It
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  Speaker 1: was instilled here. If that makes sense. You don't go
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  Speaker 1: four or five years and say, oh, well, it's finally clicked.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I I kind of everything
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  Speaker 1: that I was taught everything nine years later in my career.
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  Speaker 1: It all started day one in Seattle, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: with the foundation that was being built. I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to a few of my guys and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thank god that I had Cliff April, Mike Bennett,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, cam Earl, Thomas Brandon, me Van, Bruce Irvin.
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  Speaker 1: I can go on and on. I thank god I
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  Speaker 1: had that type of group because the chances of a
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  Speaker 1: guy coming in as a rookie and having those type
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  Speaker 1: of leaders in front of you where you're able to learn,
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  Speaker 1: You're able to learn from you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: top some of the top guys, you can learn from it,
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  Speaker 1: and you able to learn from the other side as well,
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  Speaker 1: for some guys you probably shouldn't have learned from, but
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  Speaker 1: you got this balance. And I feel like that's what
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  Speaker 1: they had back in the day. It was a clear balance,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I learned from those type of
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  Speaker 1: guys and I learned from the best. You can learn
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  Speaker 1: from and I carried that on throughout my career and
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  Speaker 1: I was able to just spread that, you know, the word,
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  Speaker 1: you know basically throughout the league and what I've learned.
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  Speaker 1: You got the big contracts after the trade, then you won,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a world championship, made the Pro Bowls, and
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  Speaker 1: now you're back where you said you wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: all along. Is it's kind of like the best of
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  Speaker 1: all world scenario. I think it is. I think what
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  Speaker 1: makes it even more, you know, the cherry on the top,
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  Speaker 1: it would be the win one year. Honestly, that's my goal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I said it. I was coming in going
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  Speaker 1: on like year four, after year four, after year three
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  Speaker 1: when we lost the playoffs, we lost in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the Dallas and always going to
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  Speaker 1: year you know, that was your four. Year three we
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  Speaker 1: didn't go to the playoffs. Year four we lost to Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: and I start thinking about, like, am I go to
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  Speaker 1: ever be successful in the league? You know I was.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I started questioning it. I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going on my year five. You know, I've never
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  Speaker 1: sniffed a playoff win. Basically, I never really got close
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  Speaker 1: to winning the Super Bowl. I never won a major
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  Speaker 1: championship my whole life up until we won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just sending that, like, damn, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is it worth it? Like? Is all of this worth it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting surgeries and shit, and I'm tired against surgeries,
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  Speaker 1: Like I want to see the glory of it. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see it. And like I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was putting the work in, I just never had click,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And then of course the contract comes up.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be here, but you know, you got
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  Speaker 1: situations of business part. Eventually I end up in Kansas
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  Speaker 1: and Lord behoes that year I won the championship, So
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  Speaker 1: you never know how this life gonna go, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, me just being able to go on
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  Speaker 1: that journey, it's a journey, and I'm thankful for it.
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  Speaker 1: Me being up to go on that journey and come
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  Speaker 1: back to this place, you know, just hold a special
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  Speaker 1: place in my heart, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thankful to be here. What was it Titan
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  Speaker 1: Denver like and playing with Russell yet it was dope, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Just being able to reconnect with Russ out there, Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I know, not I joke a lot. I said a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff on Twitter. That's just me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: some people don't understand that shit. You always understood it.
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  Speaker 1: I always love Russ though, you know, and just being
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  Speaker 1: able to reconnect with Russ, you know, and uh just
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  Speaker 1: talk to and we had a few great conversations while
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  Speaker 1: he was out there. And the one thing he just
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  Speaker 1: always you know, if you know Russ, he can always
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  Speaker 1: tell you hold your faith, man, keep God first, Hold
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  Speaker 1: your faith. And that's something you need to hear a
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  Speaker 1: few times in life, if you know, cause you're gonna
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: go through battles, you go go through those signs where
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  Speaker 1: you know you got doubt, you have you know, everybody
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  Speaker 1: in your ear, positive or negative. But you just hear
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  Speaker 1: those words echo from Russ. I heard. I hear him
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  Speaker 1: echo like, Yo, just keep your faith, dog, hold your
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  Speaker 1: head high. You're gonna be alright. You are who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Remember who you are. That's one thing you told me.
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  Speaker 1: You remember who you are. And that's one thing I
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  Speaker 1: told him before I left. You know, I'm like, remember
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  Speaker 1: who you are. You know what I mean? Cause you
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  Speaker 1: still the show, bro. You know that was my time
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  Speaker 1: in dimmer hell. Yeah, you know how do. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: wear them throw backs. I gotta wear the throw backs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Come on, no, I told coach KAS said, look, coach,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta wear that green. I ain't never seen that now,
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  Speaker 1: ya ain't. Ya ain't bring the throw backs out. When
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  Speaker 1: I was here, we just wearing lime green and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm like, I gotta throw
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  Speaker 1: that throw back on with it. Come on, now, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna look real good on Sunday. Bro, give up fifty five?
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  Speaker 1: Ah man, you know how it go? So how that go?
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  Speaker 1: I had DM. I'm like, yo, Bro, what you want
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  Speaker 1: for the fifty five? I know how this goes. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. You know, these new new age kids, they
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  Speaker 1: want all this money for they numbers. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't getting no response back. So that tell you
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  Speaker 1: already what his answer is. Huh. So it looked like
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  Speaker 1: I might be rocking fifty seven this year, but nah, Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you know how the rules go, Bro. Once you start
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  Speaker 1: the season with a number, you gotta keep it. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: That's how it is. What I would want fifty five,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but fifty seven I can live with. Fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I worn't in college for four years, so we just
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  Speaker 1: gonna go back at it that way, you know, Alright,
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  Speaker 1: anything else, take sure I appreciate, thank you, Thank Jo