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John Schneider Recaps The Season & Discusses The Upcoming Super Bowl · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: But John, last time we talked to you, uh at
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  Speaker 1: this spot it's you. Yeah, was after the DK trade
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  Speaker 1: and the Geno trade and uh not being able to
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  Speaker 1: sign a guard. Do you ever think about the butterfly
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  Speaker 1: effect of those decisions? And Marcus Lawrence and Cooper cup
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  Speaker 1: and Green's able.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, it's really m more like what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: every single day.
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  Speaker 3: And that's never really it's never really changed.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, it's it's never changed since two thousand ten when
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  Speaker 2: when Pete and I came here. I mean it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing every single day? What are our
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  Speaker 2: contingency plans? How are we improving in every aspect of
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  Speaker 2: our operation? And and uh, I think it's how that's
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  Speaker 2: how Pete guy totally hit it off. And so I
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  Speaker 2: understand like the angst and I definitely feel it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not how we operate, you know, it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing every single day to get better?
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  Speaker 2: It's really as simple as that, like like work on it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, work at it, pray on it, and like.
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  Speaker 3: What do we how how how can we improve every day?
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  Speaker 3: We did?
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  Speaker 4: You John when Utak for sant Darnle Marcus Lawren's free.
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  Speaker 2: Agence for this scene you order so sorry, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: revenant too much, Caffeine s Born.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, what was yourself that you did? What? What did
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  Speaker 3: you tell them about the franchise at at this.
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  Speaker 2: Point in POSI, Well, add had a relationship with with
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  Speaker 2: DeMarcus and then Clint had a relationship, you know, with Sam.
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  Speaker 2: So when you're bringing people into your building, like you,
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  Speaker 2: especially in free agency, you wanna make sure you're like
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  Speaker 2: the the the quality of the person, that we know.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly what we're getting.
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  Speaker 2: And uh so we had a we had a great
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  Speaker 2: you know background with those guys, like great like the character,
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  Speaker 2: the person, the work ethic, love of.
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  Speaker 3: The game, the grit, all the things you've heard for
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  Speaker 3: years and years or whatever. But uh but.
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  Speaker 2: Then it was about about like, hey, there's so many
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  Speaker 2: foundational pieces here, and uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I've told I think I've told you
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  Speaker 3: guys before.
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  Speaker 2: Like in two thousand five, the Sea Hawks hired Tim
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  Speaker 2: Rowscale and it was like I'd worked here in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand I was working for the Packers, and I wanna
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  Speaker 2: come back here so bad because I knew, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Pearson's here.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Kennedy Sam Ramsden, uh moll Kelly like all.
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  Speaker 2: These just awesome foundational like people in the in in
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  Speaker 2: the organization, and I'd work you know, like I'd worked for.
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  Speaker 3: Paul Allen before.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like it's really like the organization kind of
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  Speaker 2: like like kind of sells.
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  Speaker 1: Itself when you look at it from the way of
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  Speaker 1: you know, the culture and the fits and everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: And to see it work out in this way where
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  Speaker 2: it has gotten to this stage where we see how
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  Speaker 2: closet the team is even from the outside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you see it work out in that way,
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  Speaker 3: how special is it special?
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  Speaker 2: I mean just that it's the ultimate team sport and
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  Speaker 2: so that's obviously the players and the coaches and whatever
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  Speaker 2: we can do to support them. And so but to
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  Speaker 2: see like you know, Mike's emphasis on the you know,
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  Speaker 2: connecting the guys in the off season, and really like
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  Speaker 2: what that means and how important it is.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just like Ex's and O's.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, hey, man, like you're literally playing for the
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  Speaker 2: link the guy next to you, And uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's why we all like love growing up playing the game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially you know, play a high level like
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  Speaker 2: in myself that's a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Uah, yeah, so I think that's like, but that's just
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  Speaker 3: the love of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Like, and I think that's been really cool to
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  Speaker 2: see Mike.
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  Speaker 3: And his staff and then the players, like the vets
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  Speaker 3: like really buy into it.
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  Speaker 5: John, you or you had a run there where you
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  Speaker 5: uh either were picking late in.
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  Speaker 1: The first round or didn't used to pick it all.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the last few Jazz Charles Boom, Jack's grave
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  Speaker 5: Murph like, what have you thought of the way your
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  Speaker 5: your first round?
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  Speaker 3: Guys?
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  Speaker 5: That really helped you get to where you guys are
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  Speaker 5: right now?
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  Speaker 2: Checks and balances, I would say, so you know Nolan' Teasily,
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  Speaker 2: Trent Kershner, Matt Berry, Uh, Aaron hin Line, Jason Barnes,
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  Speaker 2: like all these people would spend a ton of time
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  Speaker 2: with at this time.
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  Speaker 3: Of the year, right like figuring out where we're gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: And then learning from our like misapps or yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: and how do we how do we constantly prove on that?
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  Speaker 3: And we do it every year.
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  Speaker 2: And we've we've I think those guys have like done
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  Speaker 2: a great job of like alright, like what's a seahawk? Alright,
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  Speaker 2: and we just keep pounding that and then to go
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  Speaker 2: to go through it with a new staff, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a natural reset.
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  Speaker 3: So now you have a new Tenans coach, you got
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  Speaker 3: a new run you know what I mean. You got
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  Speaker 3: a school group of new people that you're learning, you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to evaluate, and so all those people coming together
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  Speaker 3: like Okay, it's kind of.
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  Speaker 2: A cool reset figuring out yeah, how you how you
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  Speaker 2: how you sharpen your skill set?
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  Speaker 3: Jell, the third youngest roster in the league.
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  Speaker 2: How set up do you feel you are for sustained success?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, honestly, that's like a It's.
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  Speaker 2: This is a year to year, right, we look pretty
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  Speaker 2: kind of up two three years out planning from a
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  Speaker 2: planning standpoint. But I've I've n I've never and this
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  Speaker 2: is not an arrogant thing to say at all, but
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  Speaker 2: I've never felt like we haven't been set up for success.
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  Speaker 2: Like again, getting back to the people in the building, like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we have a we can c you come to see
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  Speaker 2: how like we would support you like nutrition sloop studies,
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  Speaker 2: like we we got you.
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  Speaker 3: And so I've always felt like like we are set
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  Speaker 3: up for success. How far can you take it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean every year, I mean it's a different I
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  Speaker 2: mean look, man, we just played like San Francisco rams,
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  Speaker 2: Like you're talking about great organizations, great teams, and it's
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  Speaker 2: like this play here, that play there, and like so
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  Speaker 2: to say, you know, set up for sustained success, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I can't answer.
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  Speaker 4: That trying to try some the it's not the last
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  Speaker 4: head coach, one of the last head coaches hired in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, when you look back at what made
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  Speaker 4: him a god and has he even exceeded your expectations?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: With Mike, it was, you know, like the clarity of
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  Speaker 2: of uh and I'm sure you guys know that's speaking
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 3: It's like this really.
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  Speaker 2: Clear, thoughtful, intense, intelligent uh messaging. And then it's when
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  Speaker 2: you sit down with somebody, it's like, okay, how can
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  Speaker 2: I see myself partnering up with this person?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And we did it in the same manner like the
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  Speaker 2: the peat and I did. It's like, alright, can we
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  Speaker 2: can we sit down and be like simpatico and like
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  Speaker 2: are we gonna be able to work through our our
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  Speaker 2: ugly times together? Cause there's gonna be a lot of 'em?
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  Speaker 2: And uh.
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  Speaker 3: That that was what was very clear about uh about
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  Speaker 3: Mike and and exceeded at expectations. I think that's hard.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard to gauge because, uh, you know, you're so
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  Speaker 2: into the moment every single day.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's t the hard. We don't. It's it's like the.
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  Speaker 2: Man in the arena thing, you know, and you you know,
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  Speaker 2: you s you like step back, like we don't. We're
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  Speaker 2: not able to like step back like everybody else's and
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  Speaker 2: you it's just like you just constantly going. And it
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  Speaker 2: seems like yesterday that he just like walked through the
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  Speaker 2: door and like said, hide all of everybody in the building.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, yeah, so it's almost exactly sixteen years
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  Speaker 5: ago this week you were hired here. Could you have
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  Speaker 5: imagine still being here sixteen years later?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, uh super blessed to be able to
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  Speaker 2: raise our our boys here, Lennan and Jack, and then
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  Speaker 2: everything is tra Tracy's done for the autism community. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a total blessing. And then to have like
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  Speaker 2: our vision of I read this really cool article the
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  Speaker 2: other day about like.
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  Speaker 3: Cultures and artifactive relationships.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, isn't that hard to just like treat
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  Speaker 2: people the right way?
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  Speaker 3: Work? You work your ass off, you know, and and
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  Speaker 3: do it the way you wanna do it.
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  Speaker 2: And though we've been blessed to be allowed to do
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  Speaker 2: it the way we wanna do it.
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  Speaker 3: And uh that's Paul Allen and in Joey.
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  Speaker 1: I believe they are the only GM that has had
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  Speaker 1: two different coaches.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, get to the super Bowl that you worked with.
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  Speaker 1: What are the differences you feel between that build and
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  Speaker 1: this build? And you know, how do you reflect on
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  Speaker 1: it for yourself as well?
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  Speaker 3: You making me reflect on it right now? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I better get ready for these questions. Oh man, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: very different, very different. Uh people I would say competitors, Yeah, same,
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  Speaker 2: but like different, Like those guys were more those guys
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  Speaker 2: were edgy.
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  Speaker 3: Man, they were like us against the world.
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  Speaker 2: You know, John, you should have drafted me higher like Marshawn,
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  Speaker 2: like mf me one day because I mean trade from earlier,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like those guys were like more edgy. These
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  Speaker 2: guys are like, I don't know, it's it's a comment.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost a different it's a different generation. Like these
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  Speaker 2: guys are at bought into like the I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: those guys that play for each other if that's not it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like these guys are just like they're they're
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  Speaker 2: really together and uh they've bought into the twelve is
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  Speaker 2: one mentality. I'm sure it's like taking between your favorite children,
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  Speaker 2: like this froster as it in against all, What was
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  Speaker 2: it you that you built? I can't do that, I
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  Speaker 2: mean I I like I said earlier, it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're playing San Francisco the Rams. You gotta play here
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  Speaker 2: or play there, believe.
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  Speaker 3: It or not.
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  Speaker 2: When you go like seven and nine or seven and ten, now,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that different than going nine and seven. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's all these teams are you know, we've had some
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  Speaker 2: teams that underachieved and we've had some teams that have overachieved.
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  Speaker 2: So it's hard to say, like you know, the specific
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  Speaker 2: build because like I said, it's it has been the
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  Speaker 2: same mentality while we're working on our corrections and trying
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  Speaker 2: to thinks. You know what when Michael Michael was talking
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  Speaker 2: about earlier, like we're asking about earlier, you're just constantly
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  Speaker 2: tweaking and as you go and soil every year's totally different,
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  Speaker 2: and we're in that process right now.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting ready for next year.
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  Speaker 2: I men, we're gonna have meetings down in Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 2: Like we're gonna have draft meetings down there, you know, so.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I can't y you and you and make.
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  Speaker 6: Sure to uh, I s embrace some moment on the
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  Speaker 6: field after the games.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, after a couple of years working the others, what
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  Speaker 5: was that.
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  Speaker 6: Moment like sharing that celebration just blessings, just you know
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  Speaker 6: a lot of prayer, a lot of hard work, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of tough conversations, tough decisions that he's embraced right away.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it was, it was, It was. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And then to uh, like the.
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  Speaker 2: Fans right to have the twelves and like how the
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  Speaker 2: stadiums just lit up, places going crazy, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: the vision of like I talked about earlier, like wanting
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  Speaker 2: to get back here and like introduce a you know,
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  Speaker 2: consistent championship caler you know, football team for like the
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  Speaker 2: amazing fans.
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  Speaker 3: Right, the twelve's not all loud?
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  Speaker 2: It was, And like I had told him, like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: when we when we get this, when we get this rocking,
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  Speaker 2: like you're gonna be You're gonna you're gonna be shook.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he was, so Sand's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Uh, the season Sam had what have you
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  Speaker 1: thought of that?
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  Speaker 5: And then uh, just the guy who's been behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 5: and also what he's done the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: The dream.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everything that you know Clinton talked about, Uh, Kevin o'faller,
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  Speaker 2: all the guys that you know we had done our
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  Speaker 2: research with, just the person, the competitor. Uh, the way
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  Speaker 2: he treats his teammates a leader. Uh, he hasn't flinched.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like like I think we were all
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  Speaker 2: more panicked, but he, you know, than what was going
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  Speaker 2: on than he was. He was kind of like looking
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  Speaker 2: at us like we had three heads. Is like what
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  Speaker 2: you like? Whatsoever? So worried about?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. So he's like, I'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: So he I haven't seen a lot of quarterbacks like
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  Speaker 2: not throw a ball and then go out and play
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm and we've been blessed to be around some pretty
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  Speaker 2: damn gidamons and the Uh going back through.
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  Speaker 1: A sheet like look.
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  Speaker 3: Cold in here.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, going back to the sheet trade.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know the Tori's issue was as big of
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  Speaker 1: a deal with the No, Was it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of serendipity that it just happened to.
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  Speaker 3: Work out that way. Yep, serendipity of God's work.
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  Speaker 2: Just we we had been talking to the the Saints
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  Speaker 2: like and when I would say talking like begging, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for a while and.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like a.
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  Speaker 2: Big negotiation, and they were kind of like, alright, well
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  Speaker 2: this is what's gonna take. And it was like a well,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. We had planned on having you know,
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  Speaker 2: Tory amra sheets. You know, our deep are like top
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  Speaker 2: topping and uh taking the top off guys speed threats
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  Speaker 2: and literally like that week, toris like, now I'm not
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  Speaker 2: feeling really good.
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  Speaker 3: Something's going on. And so we uh you know, Sam
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  Speaker 3: and Strict and those guys were they seem pretty worries.
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  Speaker 3: And then these you know, start doing these games and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And so but toys in a great spot isn'tna be
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  Speaker 2: I guess would be an amazing player.
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  Speaker 3: We're he isn't great guy. I don't know. That's time
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  Speaker 3: you spent a little bit. He's an amazing person.
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  Speaker 5: Kid, Y you just got the U did the deal
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  Speaker 5: with Charles a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, how important
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  Speaker 5: was that to get that done?
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  Speaker 2: In a huge, huge, We have a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: to do coming up, and uh, you know, inv uh investing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting Joey's approval to be able to invest
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  Speaker 2: in the persons was big for us.
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  Speaker 3: So you were you know, we were able to uh
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  Speaker 3: work it out Joey.
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  Speaker 2: Joey Lane did an amazing job with that and just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like just day to day it was.
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  Speaker 3: It probably went on for I don't know, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Like four or five weeks and uh yeah, so to
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  Speaker 2: be able to you know, left tackle, I mean you.
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  Speaker 5: Got a just do pro twos that's yes, that we
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  Speaker 5: talked to you. Yeah, just kind of getting these guys
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  Speaker 5: signed up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cornerstone dudes.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, again the people and then the competitors
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  Speaker 2: and then and there are two totally different a uh animals,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like two totally different athletes. You really are Ken?
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  Speaker 1: Oh what's Kenneth Walker showing you for his future?
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  Speaker 3: For his future?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh, I mean Ken's been He's been awesome, I
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  Speaker 2: mean explosive.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I would say I would say maybe a little more
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  Speaker 2: decisive last month and a half and uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd he's a free agent. We love that him back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah times should you guys did a whatt w I'd
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  Speaker 4: wake me in.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty four whether it was your intentions.
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  Speaker 4: You have to quot about higher out, What were the
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  Speaker 4: thoughts about when coming out.
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  Speaker 2: And what did you get out?
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  Speaker 3: How's the bos.
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  Speaker 2: He's it's like it is what you know, all the
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  Speaker 2: guys thought, you know, they went into the school. The person,
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  Speaker 2: the competitor. I mean he's literally like a running back
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  Speaker 2: that can throw. I mean literally like the guy could
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  Speaker 2: take off. It's like playing Rock Perdy but like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the guy can like I mean, Brock probably get pissed,
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  Speaker 2: but like he's the really fastest guy could take off.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah in Brocks, so like dynamic, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: running around and like the pump fakes and like keeping
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  Speaker 2: people off balance, and he's got that too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Two great quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, thanks for that. We're gonna have her hands full.
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  Speaker 2: Uh they have two amazing running backs or defense is amazing,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, it's like every every every week.
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  Speaker 3: As you say, coming out of them, coming out of
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  Speaker 3: every draft. You you know, can you make the joke.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a doctor you never say you watched the surgery.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, to look back on the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 5: draft and come out with Jackson Spoon and just what
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: foundational pieces they've been to get him in.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: One ROUNDE What what have those two done for you? Man?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Spoon's like, you know, a heartbeat guy, like the whole
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: building feels him. And then jack there, It's like these
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: completely different personalities but yet in their own right, like
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: everybody just like you know.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Totally respects Jackson. He handles himself.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we were that was it was amazing to have,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: you know, two guys that we thought were you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: top like five to seven players in that draft. To
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: be able to draft both those guys was it was
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: was pretty It was pretty incredible.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: You got a chance to have Paul out and stand
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: uh for the NC championship, to any championships? What did
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: it mean for you to help Jody uh raise the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: flag for for this last one? I'm sorry you were
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: there and it helped.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul stand and raise the flag for the the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: no I I I didn't.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: She doesn't, Oh I know ya alright, So what what
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: what did it mean for you to to see her
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: doing it?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: That was amazing.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I thought it was awesome. And then t to like
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Matt Hasselbeck was there, Cliff Michael. It's just cool to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: see that. Like I'm a huge history football story and
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: like and so to see those guys like up there
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: with her and then know like how important it was
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: to Paul and like raising the flag and the whole
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: tradition and it was it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Wa.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: It was amazing to sit there and and see like
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: we got in the owner's box and I forgot that
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: she was up there doing that, and I'm.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Like, where's everybody? Like we gotta get going here, Like
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: where's she? You know? It was like as we wap
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: it up before the games and we hug it out
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: and stuff. So yeah, it was really cool to see that, Trum.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Thanks for asking that. Sorry, see where you.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Set first the estates, but soon as you fit super
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Bowl before is right?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: What's there?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Namaz? Sure Mike, unless he goes through these ten days,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: do you ready for the game. Yeah, I mean we
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: have our private conversations, you know. But uh, he's done
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: an amazing job already of like you know, talking to
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the people that have been through it, the coaches, and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: like he had a he had an amazing meeting this morning,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: like hey, expectations, this is what it's gonna look like.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Uh, his messaging is really awes like. He he is
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: a very like he's very clear with his messaging. He's
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: not he doesn't like stammer around like I am right now,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like he can get a
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: look right at it, you know.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And uh so he hit the players like, Hey, this
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: is what it's gonna look like. You know, this is
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: what the team we go to the team the week,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. So and he'll continue to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: do that the rest of the week. But uh, yeah,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: he knows. John, Does he mean anything to you that
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it's a remess with the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: No, I've tried to like have that like that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for that. Ye, trying not to think about
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: that too much. That was an amazing game though, But
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: it no, it it it It really doesn't. It's like, okay, like,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: what's what's the next team we're playing?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: And it it doesn't. John, you mentioned you had some
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: teams that underachieved, some teams that overachieved. Do you feel
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: like this is one that overachieved based upon your preseason expectation? Uh?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Great question.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Uh. Paul used to ask me, like, what what's our
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: record gonna be? And I'm like you know, he's like
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a a data guy.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, uh, you're you're You're trying to tell a
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: guy like you.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Know, starting Microsoft, Like you know, you know, I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: we're gonna be nine and seven, you know what I mean.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Like it's all about like the expectations and like, but
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I think when we when we got into training camp
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: watching out, uh, Sam was like interacting, you know with
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: his teammates and then like however, he was like buying
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: in uh the walk arounds.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And Mike's making it about the continuity and the connectedness.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I was kind of like, man, these guys are these
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: guys are But I'm Catholic and I'm a warrior too,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: so it's like, alright, well, where are we deficient?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: So I always think like that, you know, like what
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: are we? Where are we? What are we missing?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: So my brain's always kind of rubbing like that, Yes,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: you got young, got.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Named Executive of the Year for the first time in
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: sixteen years. I guess what does that mean to you
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: at at this point?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Doesn't mean anything to you at.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: This point to get in all like that, Yeah, I
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: always give uh.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Ryan Grigson's a good Bunnyon of I'm always like, yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that was like so Andrew Luck, that was pretty hard
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to pick.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Uh, thank thanks for the flash, Gordon.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You know, like, no, it's really the coolest thing about
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: it is it's like, you know, getting back to like
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: those foundational pieces, like I was talking about my opinion,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: it's like one of the the the coolest like, uh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: organizational awards.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It's like the people that you know, like I said,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: like Eric Kennedy and Rob Portius and you know James upstairs,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the guys that are like are constantly working on like
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: all this stuff to make help us operate.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And it's like to me, that to me, that's the
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: coolest part about Like it's a it's an organizational award.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: It's not like, yeah, we alway, we always we're always
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: gonna have very tough decisions to make good and bad.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: We're blessed to be doing that every single day.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But the part about like the like the people that
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: help us make those decisions, you know what I mean,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Like I'm sure you know James Churchill like puts together
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: all this stuff for us, you know in the video,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you know, and then it's like alright, man, I hope
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: these guys, you know he cares just as much as
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: we all do. And I'm sure he goes home at
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: night like, man, I hope those guys don't screw it up,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you know. So that's what that's why I think it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: like a really cool organizational.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Alright, thank you everyone
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Something