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Pete Carroll: "We Have To Put A Good Game Together" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: First chance we've had to uh come back after home
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  Speaker 1: game and play another home game here.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of kind of nice try to.
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  Speaker 1: Get in the routine of it, and we get our
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  Speaker 1: guys to you know, get really scrolled up and maximize
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  Speaker 1: these these time frames that we work with. We kind
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  Speaker 1: of had a lot of work on the road, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to get this going. So we kind of
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  Speaker 1: hopefully come back to back and put a good, good
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  Speaker 1: game together and uh get the kind of game that
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  Speaker 1: we want to see.
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  Speaker 2: So looking forward to it. He was frying today. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: he's fine. Yeah, he made it through today too. Both
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  Speaker 2: those guys practice today. Do you expect both?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Well, he asked for a new guy that did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, really good training before.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen him to come back out of here. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's come back to us in great shape. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He worked really hard to ensure that with the trainers
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  Speaker 1: and in leading up to this time.
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  Speaker 2: He looked like he was in top flight for him.
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  Speaker 1: He was really fast and really quick and and uh
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  Speaker 1: so you know we got a chance.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he can play in this game. So it's good.
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  Speaker 1: What has he been able to show you in a
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  Speaker 1: week that he's ready to jump back into this. And
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  Speaker 1: this kind of reminded us of the guy that we,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we hope to see and expect. Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's quick and explosive and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, he he's come back ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: He's really prepared well to do that. Did the did
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  Speaker 1: the weekend off sort of healthy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? It did? He needed he needed. How about Brandon?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he really did bounce back and I I was uh,
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  Speaker 1: really happy about that.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of slowed him down a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday just to make sure that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: get back.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a terrific week. So he's ready to
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  Speaker 2: be ready to play.
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  Speaker 1: We've gotta wait and see. We don't have to say
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  Speaker 1: that right yet, and we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have to do it if we don't want to do yet.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. How's Phil Haynes kind of doing with
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  Speaker 2: the cow We took an extra week.
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  Speaker 1: We really just took an extra week because it it
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  Speaker 1: kind of nagged with him, so we took an extra
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  Speaker 1: week to get him back.
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  Speaker 2: Next week. He should be ready to go. He's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing well for you know, to be a rook
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  Speaker 1: jumping in and playing like he's playing. He still has
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  Speaker 1: a lot to learn and he can be cleaner and
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  Speaker 1: sharper and more precise with a lot of things that
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. But uh, what we continue to see at
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  Speaker 1: him is really physical. He's a brute coming off the
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  Speaker 1: ball and can hold up against anybody, you know, and so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be really tested this week for sure, and this
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  Speaker 1: will be he's had enough time to get ready for this,
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  Speaker 1: but he's gonna get a lot better in time.
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  Speaker 2: You can just see that there's a big upside.
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  Speaker 1: You've been testing this and still probably gast he's smile
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  Speaker 1: the hair. Do you have any conversations with a young
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  Speaker 1: Stone's been around?
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  Speaker 2: He's he's fine, he's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't worry about that, but he knows what he's
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  Speaker 1: up against. Yeah, it's just it's just helped us so
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  Speaker 1: much that he has that kind of flexibility, very comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to him and feels at home. So
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  Speaker 1: and he's played enough football on both sides and you
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  Speaker 1: know he's he's got nailed. So he's really done a
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  Speaker 1: nice job. You know, we really really pleased with how
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  Speaker 1: Stones developed.
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  Speaker 2: Charbonney obviously, all the way back then, had a very
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  Speaker 2: good week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know, you guys, I can toss this
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  Speaker 1: out and all that, but what what kind of week
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  Speaker 1: did he have? He did? He did everything, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have as many reps as as the starter
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  Speaker 1: would have, but he had reps in.
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  Speaker 2: Every period, and he was very quick.
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  Speaker 1: And explosive and and uh seemed to feel comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: all the calls and things. So he's been studying, he's
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  Speaker 1: been staying with us.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. He looked pretty flashy out there, to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see the two days of practice with
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  Speaker 2: Frank getting back in the mix of you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's really hard to imagine that the
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  Speaker 1: guy could just move right on back in like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but he did. He had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of assignments and stuff that he
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  Speaker 1: has to get right and all that, which is only normal.
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  Speaker 1: But he fit right in and the temple of the
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  Speaker 1: way we practice and expectations of how we run and
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  Speaker 1: hustle and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, he just he just was right in it.
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  Speaker 1: So you can tell Frank's really happy to be back,
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  Speaker 1: and he's his mind is in a great place and
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  Speaker 1: he's looking forward to helping us, and so they're like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no hesitation to put him in. He's gonna play
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  Speaker 1: this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of pretty young, play off the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's you know, he's a who's there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna listen to him, Frank, He's not
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  Speaker 1: a guy's gonna try to push his influence around a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's but but he's grown into it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a natural connection with these guys because
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  Speaker 1: they are all young, you know, and so they can't
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  Speaker 1: help but look up to him. And so he's done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that they hope to do someday,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So, and he's really affable, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great kid man. And so I told him company,
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  Speaker 1: you do not have to come in here with some
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  Speaker 1: big leadership responsibility. You just come in here and play
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  Speaker 1: football and help us and we'll take it as it comes.
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  Speaker 2: And but you can see.
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  Speaker 1: Already that, you know, it's they're kind of moving towards him.
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  Speaker 1: They're listening, and they're watching him. He had some flashy
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  Speaker 1: plays in practice, uh, in his time, so he's already
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  Speaker 1: shown up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's part of the job. But Is it wild
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  Speaker 2: to see him as a thirty year old dad or agree,
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  Speaker 2: that's great, man, It's it's awesome to see that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Frank came through the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was just you know, obviously fresh out of school
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  Speaker 1: and all that and big eye and all that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was there was a lot going on. And to
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  Speaker 1: see that he has put together a tremendous family and
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  Speaker 1: in a great unit around him in support of him,
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  Speaker 1: and and he's he's he talks about We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: his kids a little bit already. You know, he's talking
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  Speaker 1: just like a dad that knows what those responsibilities are.
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  Speaker 2: Hard and difficult. It is, you know, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing. He had said that you come back, and.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about it. We talked about all you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about them for a long time and
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  Speaker 1: and uh so when when you know, when the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: opened up, we were quick to go, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and worked out great, and the relationships have been maintained
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  Speaker 1: throughout and and so it was like, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: ten minute phone call, we're rolling, you know, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: take as much to get kicking on this.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the back. Your guys said older than I'm
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  Speaker 2: maybe black.
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  Speaker 1: You want that back? We were playing agent, How big
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  Speaker 1: of a pride that both the game look bad decided.
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  Speaker 2: To want no, I'm I'm proud of that. I am proud.
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  Speaker 1: I meant to tell you, frankly, I'm proud that they
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  Speaker 1: that they see where we're coming from and they can tell,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what we're all about, and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's not many hidden qualities here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty well exposed to who we are and what
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  Speaker 1: we're all about. And if they're taken to that and
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  Speaker 1: they feel right about it and and uh and look
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  Speaker 1: forward to taking part in it, you know, that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn good, you know, because for all this stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we have to do to get this, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: team ready week in, week out and through the season
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  Speaker 1: and all of the riggers and the challenges of it all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you you can't hide.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been there a long time now and
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  Speaker 1: they know you, and uh, you know that's why it's
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  Speaker 1: it's always been so important to be authentic and to
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  Speaker 1: be true and to be caring and and all that,
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  Speaker 1: because this it's.
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  Speaker 2: A long haul. You know, I think of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think of it as a flash in the
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  Speaker 1: pan they come in to hit get out of here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't think of it that way. I
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  Speaker 1: think of it of establishing relationships and working at it
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  Speaker 1: so that when it's all over, you know, and when
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about Frankie and his kids and talking about
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  Speaker 1: down home in the jungle where he came from and
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff that he's been through, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's meaning to it.
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  Speaker 2: There's depth to it, and it's it's kind of working
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  Speaker 2: out a little bit, but that's a passage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what's how do you how to grow a
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  Speaker 1: ladder and kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of walking help there? Well, it's it's it's life's challenges.
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  Speaker 1: Things happen, you know, and you have to do with them,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not always you know, what you want and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and there's some realities and the reality checks it that
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  Speaker 1: that you undertake along the way, and uh, it's just
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  Speaker 1: hard sometimes you know, you don't see eyed eye on everything.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that you don't care. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean that you won't be there for them when they
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  Speaker 2: come back around either. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's what I'm trying to outlast these guys,
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  Speaker 1: just like I asked them that last everybody that we're playing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and uh so I'll still be there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no matter what that happens or what said
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  Speaker 1: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know everybody wants. Oh he just somebody just said something,
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  Speaker 2: you know, off the cuff or whatever. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I know where these guys are coming from. And uh so,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, it's it's a I'm proud. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud that that we have a place that they
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  Speaker 1: want to return to. We got to work really hard
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  Speaker 1: to keep it that way.
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  Speaker 2: How is that openness worked in this league?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, no, go ahead, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll come wrong, go ahead. Oh in that process?
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  Speaker 1: Is how critical is the exit innyview for you know, when.
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  Speaker 2: You talk to the player and they have to leave,
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  Speaker 2: you know they come back authenticity of that discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is the way I looked at when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to that time, and you got it, it's
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  Speaker 1: time that you got to part ways.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be the one to tell them I
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  Speaker 2: want to be there.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I don't want to be there, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be there at the best I can to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we deal our way through this and
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  Speaker 1: instead of letting somebody else do it, and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of disjointed and all that. I think it should be
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  Speaker 1: really thoughtfully you know, handled and carefully and lovingly handled.
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  Speaker 1: And then and you wish them on the on their
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  Speaker 1: way and then hope you know, we may be coming
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  Speaker 1: back again, you never know, you know, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we may be coming.
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  Speaker 2: Back after your career is over. You never know, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's I still want to be there for them,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's important, it's really important how you do it,
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  Speaker 1: and that that exchange is challenging and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: you got to face up to the hard stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though you don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: You don't like it, you know. And that's what we
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: try to do with that because we're told you're all
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  Speaker 2: the way, we're telling more than me out and why
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  Speaker 2: do you make it more? Yeah, I just told that
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  Speaker 2: just recently.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's not working, you know, So so what the
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  Speaker 2: question is, why has it worked? Do you think what
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  Speaker 2: are the factors that have made it work where that
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  Speaker 2: everyone said it.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't work in the NFLIC you do, well, I do
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  Speaker 1: know the ones that that that you know take the
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: moment to say that we're not this, or we're not that,
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  Speaker 1: or you can't do it this way, you can't do
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  Speaker 1: it that way.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand, and that's because they're not here and
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  Speaker 1: they don't realize, you know, because it looks like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm well aware of this. It looks like it's all
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  Speaker 1: fun and games, you know, like we're just having fun
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  Speaker 1: out here and playing music and dancing around and.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing that. We are doing that.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, there's a lot of depth and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of meaning, and a lot of great football, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great challenges.
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  Speaker 2: And and.
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  Speaker 1: Hurdles and obstacles don't overcome together to make you who
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  Speaker 1: you are and all that. And you know why, I
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  Speaker 1: think we figured it out, you know, I figured out
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  Speaker 1: the way I can do it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't coach like somebody else, But I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: do really well at what I know and what I
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  Speaker 1: can do, and and uh and kick ass every at
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  Speaker 1: every turn, in every phase, no matter what it is
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  Speaker 1: or where it is or who it is, it don't matter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and go about it in that manner
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  Speaker 1: and which for the best you know and see what
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  Speaker 1: happens afterwards, you know when you well you were also had.
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  Speaker 2: Been afforded with the stability that nobody else in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Or I fell at you from Pats and last when
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  Speaker 1: you got.
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  Speaker 2: Here from SCU did you did you have an inkling
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  Speaker 2: you'd have that ramp that brought out?
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  Speaker 1: I said, I said, Taytor, hey, we got chance to
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: go see how you want to go. They'll probably give
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  Speaker 1: us a couple of years, you know, and then they'll
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  Speaker 1: kick us out of here. So let's go see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, he was all on board. And the
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  Speaker 1: way we went, you know, so yeah, it went a
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  Speaker 1: lot longer than I would have thought it would have
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Yet the reason I came here was
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  Speaker 1: to show and prove that we could.
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  Speaker 2: Do it in this way.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, that's something I'll always be grateful for,
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  Speaker 1: that runway when you got there.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I didn't feel that at all. I know,
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: what's your imperton team play?
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  Speaker 1: I think you got to provide him any.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I think we met him, Yeah, I think we met
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  Speaker 1: him in the room. I think he came in, if
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  Speaker 1: I remember correctly about it. I thought he was a
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  Speaker 1: really nice kid. You know, he's really really easy going
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy. It didn't feel this, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: monstrous fire burning in him. I didn't see that in him,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I thought he was just a nice kid
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  Speaker 1: and sharp and all that, and uh then went with
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  Speaker 1: what everybody else knew.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. You know, that's a fifteen minute meeting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and he talks for about half of that.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you get a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 1: who were like playing ball in like five six ways
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  Speaker 1: a little later.
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  Speaker 2: Is he need to get all in that room? I
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  Speaker 2: think so? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you take a kid like Spoon, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been playing he's a little kid, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the first grader or something like that playing organized football
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  Speaker 1: for you know, and so it's different. Yeah, you grow
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  Speaker 1: up with it. It's different, and when you don't it,
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  Speaker 1: it can leave some bases in there, you know, for
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: the growth and the experience and all of the awareness
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  Speaker 1: that comes from playing since you can as long as
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  Speaker 1: you can remember, you know. And so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's Yeah, he's overcome a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Just about boy. I just watching him yesterday and in
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  Speaker 1: practice I was fired up about him. He's come such
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  Speaker 1: a long way as you can see him so comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and so assertive. Now it's just different, is different, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just what the growth is and that's it
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  Speaker 1: was really noticeable. I made mention to the defensive staff,
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  Speaker 1: but how what do he look like?
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  Speaker 2: You know? And it's cool to the emergence and so
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  Speaker 2: you guys want to kind of go on all the air.
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  Speaker 1: We can whatever you're going, and you know
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  Speaker 2: You're good, Okay,