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Mike Macdonald: "It Was An Awesome Atmosphere" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't uh wasn't the prettiest of wins of
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  Speaker 1: all time.
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  Speaker 2: But to any win in.
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  Speaker 1: This league, preseason included, needs to be celebrated. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean what it was an awesome atmosphere back you know,
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  Speaker 1: the first game at home. Twelves are rocking, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been told that's nothing compared to the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: So we're excited for that in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean this is uh, we're onto the
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  Speaker 1: next part of the you know, the process here, got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of big days ahead of us, and just
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  Speaker 1: proud of the effort of the guys really throughout you know,
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  Speaker 1: the off season, throughout training camp and then we've got
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a group.
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  Speaker 2: So excited for the next face here. But it was
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  Speaker 2: a good win. I'm not sure yet. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get it looked at tomorrow, but we'll uh, we'll
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  Speaker 1: know probably probably no.
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  Speaker 2: More in the next couple of days of Arty Burns.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing or yeah, same thing with already.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to see out of gen up pretty
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  Speaker 1: quickly obviously tonight with the quick score and get yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I made some great throws, seemed decisive plan was do
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  Speaker 1: a couple series, but uh, I think we still enough
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  Speaker 1: after I think the good five plays.
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  Speaker 2: What about from the defense the one drive had.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know, I mean overall good, the energy
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  Speaker 1: was there, execution was was solid.
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  Speaker 2: We had the penalty on the third down, which is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of the theme of the night, which is something that
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  Speaker 1: we need to clean up moving forward. But it was
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  Speaker 1: good to get the stop after we gave up the penalty.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a knee.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see the intensity you taught you just had
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  Speaker 1: energy bit of the intensity that you needed to see
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  Speaker 1: from the first unit to the last unit of this game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean we gave up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: yards and thirty three points on the board is not
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  Speaker 1: going to cut it. So you know, it takes everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the standard.
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  Speaker 2: It's the standard.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, not exactly pleased with the defensive performance as
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  Speaker 1: a whole, but there's a lot of good things on
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  Speaker 1: tape too, So we'll look at it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll improve, you know, we'll see out of the penalty.
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  Speaker 1: We let them covert the downs on the third down
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  Speaker 1: penalties and you know, if you're gonna good teams are
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  Speaker 1: gonna make you pay.
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  Speaker 2: And they made us pay. Mike, have you made a
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  Speaker 2: decision if it's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be your starter at Grankard?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? No, we'll know in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: The play on the most injury, is that a football
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  Speaker 1: player or is that pushing him a live a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a football Yeah, I don't really want to
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  Speaker 1: comment on it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it seemed like an obvious penalty. The
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  Speaker 2: argument was his like a split or something. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I believe so, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: What do you seeing that Jimmie Sheriff came in can't
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  Speaker 1: wait for you guys to sign him midway through in
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  Speaker 1: the kind of preseason he's put together here.
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  Speaker 2: What have you kind of seen out.
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  Speaker 1: Of his performance? Well, he's a guy that really stood
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  Speaker 1: out during you know, the rookie tryout and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of the message with all the guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's not a spot for you right now, was
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  Speaker 1: still invested in, you know, in your growth and development.
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  Speaker 1: And he's to his credit, he didn't skip a beat
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  Speaker 1: since he's been here, so you know, he should be
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  Speaker 1: proud of the way he played.
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  Speaker 2: D Escorts obviously had the big pun of return.
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  Speaker 1: What I guess in general, how have you kind of
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  Speaker 1: assessed his preseason and where he stands at things. Always
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  Speaker 1: capable making plays like that, and you know that's that
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  Speaker 1: type of player.
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  Speaker 2: He is so proud of thee.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's worked his tail off U to put
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  Speaker 1: himself in a good position here, So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: should be proud of himself. Coach.
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  Speaker 2: You've got players up and down the roster that flashed.
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  Speaker 2: How hard is it going to be to make this
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  Speaker 2: cut a couple of days?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean these are these are hard decisions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you just kind of let what's what's
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  Speaker 1: best for the team to be the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: guiding light and uh, you know, and John and I
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  Speaker 1: have been kind of hand in hand to this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm looking forward to kind of the
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  Speaker 1: next stage. But this is going to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is a tough time. This is probably the toughest
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  Speaker 1: part of the job. And I think if you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, you know, optimistically, you're saying, Okay, well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a long term investment too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's an opportunity for guys to be on.
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  Speaker 1: Peace squads hopefully other people that won't have an opportunity here,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to be here have earned you know, an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, so you know again, like like Jamie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know there might be an opportunity to come back,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully the guys feel like you know, we're invested
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  Speaker 1: in their growth as well. So bittersweet for sure, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be some tough decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Macintosh had the long touchdown runs. What'd you say
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  Speaker 2: at him on that run? And just what's even showing
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  Speaker 2: you lest? Yeah him?
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  Speaker 1: Man, George again, you know they had it. They had
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  Speaker 1: a great I thought both played really well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: George didn't have the flashy run, but he got you know,
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  Speaker 1: he had some tough, good runs to get the back
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  Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage and get positive yards.
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  Speaker 2: I think both made plays on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: So just uh, you know, two good, two really good
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  Speaker 1: players man. And just you know, Kenny Maximore again another
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  Speaker 1: example of a guy that's been real looking, really really hard.
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  Speaker 2: So for him to have an opportunity to make.
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  Speaker 1: Such a great play, just uh, just really happy for him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just really happy for where he's at and
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  Speaker 1: he should.
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  Speaker 2: Be proud of himself. Guys fired up, Yeah, I got out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the guys were fired up on that one. That was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Good coach.
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  Speaker 2: How ready is the team to start to start the season.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're right where we should be, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's we're not gonna We're not We're not
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  Speaker 1: the team that we need to be yet, but it's
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  Speaker 1: still early and the important the important part.
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  Speaker 2: Is us to keep taking the steps that we need
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  Speaker 2: to take.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be our focus here as the
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  Speaker 1: team starts to declare itself this week, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get a couple of days break and then come back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, full week for getting ready for Denver and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, whatever happens in the Denver game, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the same mentality, you know, from that all
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  Speaker 1: the way through you know, game seventeen and then into
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the preseason and camped.
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  Speaker 1: At H Yeah, I just I really like Thereek. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really good player. I mean, he just does the
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  Speaker 1: right thing all the time. We're on record about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the type of the toughness that he has and the type.
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  Speaker 2: Of football player he is.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what he did on teams today,
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  Speaker 1: So I makes you eager to watch that tape and
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  Speaker 1: see what Jay thinks as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited about him. You and Jay set out
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  Speaker 2: a dual kickoff returns back. You've decided that you've done
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  Speaker 2: it every time this preseason.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the way you're gonna go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably for the most part. Yeah, Moore is playing
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  Speaker 2: a lot this preseason. You've used him different ways. What
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  Speaker 2: what do you like about what he's bringing so far? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's an element.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just so big out there man, just
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  Speaker 1: like he can. He can, like you said, Johnny, you
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  Speaker 1: can play up and down the line. Underratedly versatile, smart,
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  Speaker 1: really underratedly smart player too.
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  Speaker 2: And he just makes place.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's the guy that has been getting that
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  Speaker 1: group that pass rush of coordinated with that later in games.
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  Speaker 2: So he's been an asset for us.
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  Speaker 1: What the Darryl Taylor trade yesterday, I guess what was
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  Speaker 1: what sort of went into that. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get into all the details, but you know, for for DT,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity for him, you know. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for what he's going to do and you know
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  Speaker 1: he's will be uh, we'll be rooting for him. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any indication that Draymond Jones might be back. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's Yeah, it's looking positive and we're optimistic with Draymond.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see this week on how many reps he gets
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  Speaker 2: and how we ramp it up anything else. Thank you, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: thanks you guys, have a good night. You