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Cooper Kupp: "We Have A Mission In Front Of Us And We're Attacking It" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Will you avidly watched the games this weekend and all
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  Speaker 1: that are kind of had what's your approach to that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we will. My boys are really into, really
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  Speaker 1: into it right now. They want to watch football whenever
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  Speaker 1: it's on, so I'm sure they'll prod ust to get
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  Speaker 1: the games on at some point. But just looking forward,
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  Speaker 1: toting kind of the family, the games end up being on,
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  Speaker 1: they as they probably will, we'll we'll watch like watching with.
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  Speaker 2: Your kids, right, I'm sure you watch the game a
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  Speaker 2: little bit differently when you're with your boys. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun seeing the things that the boys notice. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they make me rewind all the time. They're always rewinding.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually just asked about this, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I just the color commentaries analysts. I mean, such
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  Speaker 1: a hard job, so difficult. It's I gotta mute that
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  Speaker 1: thing sometimes. And like, boys, sit down, let me explain
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  Speaker 1: to you what's really happening here. Don't listen to what
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  Speaker 1: Chris Chris Collinsworth, I love you. Let me let me
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  Speaker 1: explain what happened here. So I'm sure the boys love
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  Speaker 1: my dissertations. And uh yeah, but it's fun when.
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  Speaker 2: You when you watch a game, not just on Collinsworth
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  Speaker 2: but in general.
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  Speaker 1: What is some of the misconceptions you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: hear on a broadcast. It's I mean, it's it's an
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  Speaker 1: impossible job. Like you're not gonna be able to see
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  Speaker 1: everything happening in real time. They're not in the meeting rooms.
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  Speaker 1: So they try their best to be able to understand
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, what teams are doing, how they're scheming.
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  Speaker 1: But you gotta talk for three and a half hours
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  Speaker 1: straight over every single play. You're gonna get some stuff wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the nature of what they do. But having
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  Speaker 1: like been in some of the offenses, been in understanding
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  Speaker 1: what the scheme or what's seeing what's trying to get done,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just have I'm I'm cheating, I have
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  Speaker 1: an inside tracks. I was in the I was in
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  Speaker 1: I was I was there when the play was installed,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's, uh, it's just some stuff that
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  Speaker 1: comes up that's like, you know, where the onus gets
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  Speaker 1: put sometimes and being.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know that's not exactly that's not right. But
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  Speaker 2: that would that ever interest you post career? Would are
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  Speaker 2: you just stick to commentating at home? Uh, now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna stick to just commentating at home. I haven't I
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  Speaker 2: haven't thought too much about it, stopped bragging about the
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  Speaker 2: championship yet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's really it's real. It's really funny because
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  Speaker 1: he's super loud. You hear about you, hear him talking
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  Speaker 1: about all the time, and he's I hear him down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway like, hey man, thank you. No, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: It was really cool, Like, man, it's such a great game,
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  Speaker 1: and he just like yells it through as like echoes
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  Speaker 1: through the entire things. He's real proud of it. But
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  Speaker 1: I could assuming it was. It was a good game.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great game and some good football players
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  Speaker 1: out there on the field. So kudos to the FCS.
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  Speaker 2: You've got at least what for at least I can
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  Speaker 2: off the top of a headquet FCS guys. I could
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  Speaker 2: think of how much pride do you guys? And you've
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  Speaker 2: taken that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's was a cool thing. There's, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: there's really good football players at that level. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's cool because I haven't been around it's been years.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was one year actually in LA that
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  Speaker 1: we had like three or four guys from Eastern Washington
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  Speaker 1: specifically on the team, but first year that we've had
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  Speaker 1: guys from all over guys that I mean, there's three
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  Speaker 1: big Sky guys on the team, I think, And so
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  Speaker 1: it's cool there's on Saturday, we have something to talk
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  Speaker 1: about when everyone else is talking about all their other matchups.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes it fun as a receiver room.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't anything for you guys to have the guy who
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  Speaker 1: leads the league and receiving yards and Jackson this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's obviously that's a huge and that's a
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  Speaker 1: huge accomplishment. And I mean it's it's it's not it's
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  Speaker 1: not easy, it's a it's something that you have to
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  Speaker 1: do to be able to compete and you know, produce
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  Speaker 1: week after week. You know, we take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in just our overall success is an offense. I
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  Speaker 1: mean some of the stuff that Zach and and Ky
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  Speaker 1: and I have done, what you've seen from our tight
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  Speaker 1: ends and with Sam's like, we want to see you
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  Speaker 1: guys produce and be a part of winning games and
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  Speaker 1: certainly have some pride in having the league leader in
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  Speaker 1: our room. You have been running more often out of
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  Speaker 1: three receiver sets and running more effectively out of them.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is? You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's as a season's gone on, there's been
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  Speaker 1: times where we haven't been on our stuff across the
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  Speaker 1: board in terms of targets, in terms of hitting the
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  Speaker 1: blocks how we're supposed to. But as time's gone on,
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  Speaker 1: we've accumulated reps and just been able to play more
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  Speaker 1: efficient in that regard the you know, the running backs,
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  Speaker 1: trusting that we're going to get those blocks done. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's not just the eleven personnel stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: twelve and thirteen too. Finding ways to hit blocks better
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  Speaker 1: and be able to stay efficient you'll keep the bum
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. And we've done a better job of that
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  Speaker 1: just overall over the last few weeks. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: great see that stuff coming alive and just being able
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  Speaker 1: to mesh a little bit better with each other and
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  Speaker 1: communicate with one another and take plays that man paper
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  Speaker 1: look okay and.
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  Speaker 2: Turn them into great place.
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  Speaker 1: You know, be able to do the extra thing and
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  Speaker 1: a mastery of what we're trying to get done, where
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  Speaker 1: the ball is gonna go and how we can you know,
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  Speaker 1: what techniques can we use to make sure that this
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  Speaker 1: could this should be on paper a five yard run.
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  Speaker 1: How can we make it a twenty thirty yard run?
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  Speaker 1: And I think we got some of that stuff kind
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  Speaker 1: of starting to come to life. A different feeling for
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  Speaker 1: you when you see a guy run by you that
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  Speaker 1: you've blocked four versus when you make a big catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is different, and I think.
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting because some of the times that I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: the most excited in my career is just being able
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  Speaker 1: to make like being able to make the big block
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  Speaker 1: that springs a run or gets you the first down.
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  Speaker 1: That stuff's fun. It's fun being able to have that
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  Speaker 1: synergy with one another. You're playing off of each other,
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  Speaker 1: understanding I couldn't get my job done, but the guy
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  Speaker 1: next to me covered for me, so I can cover
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  Speaker 1: for him, you know, and playing off each other that
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  Speaker 1: way to make it come alive.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's a really fun thing. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's the best part of.
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  Speaker 1: Football is, you know, being able to make have eleven
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  Speaker 1: guys all do something together and make these plays that
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  Speaker 1: we call all these all these drawing and everything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make it make it come to life. I love it
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  Speaker 1: message that you shared with the team this week given
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  Speaker 1: your postseason success and some of the guys jsn AJ going.
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  Speaker 2: Through this for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, honestly, I haven't really had had to
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  Speaker 1: say much. There's been a it's been a really cool
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  Speaker 1: just understanding globally in this building that there's we're we're
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  Speaker 1: set on a mission.
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  Speaker 2: We got a mission in front of us, and we're
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  Speaker 2: attacking it.
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  Speaker 1: And even though we don't know who that is, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be put down in front of us, yet,
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  Speaker 1: we know we were gonna handle this week with with
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  Speaker 1: an intention, with an understanding that we're still you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're still under construction, we're still working towards something. And
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  Speaker 1: the attitude and the effort from the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: the focus that was in this room, out in the
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  Speaker 1: out in the walkthrough, on the walkthroughs, and out there
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field speaks about the guys that are
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  Speaker 1: that we have here. You know, every everyone's excited about
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity and you're gonna take these next few days
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  Speaker 1: and recover and then come back ready to go. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I saw you tap Bobo on the back right
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  Speaker 1: when you were breaking the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: You say thing to him you knew.
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  Speaker 1: His block was probably at the point of attack and
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  Speaker 1: what do you that whole play.
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  Speaker 2: And what he did on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Bubo did a great job there, just
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  Speaker 1: understanding just a little nuances, little details. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: what we do, you know, communicating in and out of huddle.
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  Speaker 1: It goes from vid him, it's from him to me
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of times just you know,
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  Speaker 1: from our old line to what we're doing at receiver
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  Speaker 1: and receiver communicating to the old line and the situations.
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  Speaker 1: And I think just the more that we can communicate,
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  Speaker 1: the more that there is, you know, over communicating even
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  Speaker 1: an understanding of what we're doing, we can just make
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  Speaker 1: things come to life that much better. And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: mean him he had a great, great block on that
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  Speaker 1: one K nine hit that thing, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was just a great play.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, is that easier to do when they're in
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  Speaker 2: man on a third and long to block that play
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  Speaker 2: like that? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it depends. I mean we've got it
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  Speaker 1: can be. It can be, but I mean all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you draw on paper, You draw this
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  Speaker 1: play on paper, but you can't draw every single look
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  Speaker 1: you're possibly gonna get and a lot of it comes
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  Speaker 1: on us to understand what the rules are and then
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  Speaker 1: within your rules, you just get done what you need,
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  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to get done, and trusted the guy
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  Speaker 1: behind you. That's you know, getting into that area after
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  Speaker 1: you've been there is you know, clean up whatever mess
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  Speaker 1: you've left form and a lot of that just comes
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  Speaker 1: down and playing fast, playing decisive, playing physical, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the old line did great job cleaning stuff up where
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  Speaker 1: you know, Bubble makes the block, Jack sayes a great
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  Speaker 1: job playing off of them, and you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's what's beautiful about about this game. And that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a huge one.
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  Speaker 2: That was a huge play for us because of a
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  Speaker 2: teammate this year. Yeah, I mean he's he's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: He's been an an incredible asset for us. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's understanding, he knows every position he's got. You know,
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  Speaker 1: very early on, like man, there's a there was just
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  Speaker 1: an eight understanding of football. And with all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we've installed in OTAs, with how much volume there was,
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard if you don't understand what's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get done. You understand the premise of what these players
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  Speaker 1: are trying to get done and how we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: execute things. This makes it really hard to to grasp
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  Speaker 1: it all. But man, early on, it's like, man, he
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  Speaker 1: just knew it. He knew the space that we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to take up and these route concepts, what what does
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  Speaker 1: this route have to be? Just based on how we're
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  Speaker 1: going to distribute the field. And and he's been great,
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  Speaker 1: and he's and his ability to fight some of the
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs of this year. You know, there's times
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  Speaker 1: where he wanted to be out there on the field
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  Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, nothing that he did wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: because of you know, other guys being down, or needs
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  Speaker 1: and special teams needs in other part, other rooms. His
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  Speaker 1: selflessness to know that when he was not activated, that
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  Speaker 1: there was a there was no change in terms of
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  Speaker 1: his his intention, his work ethic, his effort out you know,
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  Speaker 1: out there with the guys, and and then when the
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  Speaker 1: opportunities do come, I mean, he's he's just over and
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  Speaker 1: over again answered the bill.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, I love Jake.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's in here, love him, and you know he's
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  Speaker 1: been been a big deal, big big part of our
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  Speaker 1: of our thing this year. Right, I can't remember, did
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  Speaker 1: you guys have a buy at any point in your
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: rams experience, like a playoffs. Yeah, twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: we did.
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  Speaker 2: We went to Super Bowl that year.
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  Speaker 1: I was I had the A C L injury that year,
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  Speaker 1: but I do remember a little bit about that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven years ago.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is important to take out of
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  Speaker 2: this week in particular? I think it's the growth you
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  Speaker 2: continue to grow, you need to grow. It's not this
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  Speaker 2: isn't a week off.
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  Speaker 1: It's an opportunity to you know, hone into some stuff,
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  Speaker 1: to dive in deeper, to self scout yourself and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, look at some things that you can do
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  Speaker 1: better as a as a as units, but also said individually,
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  Speaker 1: how can we be better? How can you set yourself
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  Speaker 1: up going into next week to be a better football
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  Speaker 1: player and set yourself up to be able to attack
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  Speaker 1: that next week?
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  Speaker 2: Teams have requested to speak with Clint for their head
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  Speaker 2: coach opening.
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  Speaker 1: So what have you learned about him in this time
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  Speaker 1: that makes you think he would be a good head coach?
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  Speaker 2: If anything, Man, I guess you're and vouch for him
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  Speaker 2: to leave? You want me to do? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, guys love him? You want you
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  Speaker 1: want to play for guys like Clint. The humility is
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  Speaker 1: one thing I think is one of his special traits. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he leans on guys, but obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: a very smart ball coach, understands a lot about this game.
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  Speaker 1: But his humility to be able to talk to guys
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  Speaker 1: and maybe see if like, hey, there's something that I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking someone to do, maybe maybe they can't do it
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, and there's maybe there's a better way
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And his openness to be able to
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  Speaker 1: talk to players and the coaches that he has around
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  Speaker 1: him and to delegate and be able to grab everyone's
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  Speaker 1: best traits and bring him all to the forefront. I
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  Speaker 1: think he does a great job of that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll he'll be great. Hopefully he's here, but
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  Speaker 1: I guess I also, I mean, you want everyone to
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  Speaker 1: be able to ascend and go do whatever they want
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: So but he'll be great where he is in training camp.
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  Speaker 2: How steady even keeled? Sam is like, how big a
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  Speaker 2: trade is that?
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  Speaker 1: Going into a playoff run where you've got a quarterback who's.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty Yeah, it's it's a big deal. You know, emotions can.
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  Speaker 1: Get high and in the playoffs when there's there is
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  Speaker 1: it's the same game.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be looming field an hour before that game starts,
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  Speaker 1: like it's gonna be electric, it's gonna be buzzing, it's
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  Speaker 1: you know that's that's playoff football.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the same game if you can.
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  Speaker 1: Allow yourself to not get caught up in all the
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  Speaker 1: emotion and everything else that's going on the intensity of
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  Speaker 1: the game, it's the same exact game that we've played,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing we've played all year. And uh, having
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  Speaker 1: someone that's like Sam, that's gonna be steady, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be consistent, it goes a long way in terms of
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  Speaker 1: calming guys that might be feeling that getting into the
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: huddle and you get in there and it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Sam's delivering that that play and challenging you for that
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  Speaker 1: next the next snap and you know which go Tom.
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  Speaker 1: It just brings you back to that place like it's
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  Speaker 1: the same you're you're here with your guys, with your
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  Speaker 1: eleven guys that are and go out there and and
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  Speaker 1: compete for a compete for it for a w just
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  Speaker 1: like we have the every week the week stepped on
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  Speaker 1: that field, Yep, thank you guys,