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Julian Love: "We Have A Very Complete Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's going on.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about not shining away from the moments, and
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  Speaker 2: this started fifteen and all, so just putting that back
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  Speaker 2: into again about you know, the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: That's there for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun opportunity. I don't know, it's exciting
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  Speaker 1: times in Seattle right now. Uh, you know your neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: people you see kind of you know, on the street
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  Speaker 1: rocking their gear. It's a it's pretty special and we've
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  Speaker 1: earned this moment. The city's are in this moment, and
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  Speaker 1: so we're we're excited to take advantage in.
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  Speaker 2: Terms of walk through, in terms of each red toms
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  Speaker 2: to practice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just like kind of coach speak, but today
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  Speaker 1: feel like a normal Thursday walk through. Everybody's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going through the process, doing their practice prep.
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  Speaker 4: It just feels like kind of another week.
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  Speaker 1: I think I would imagine that's the goal of Mike
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  Speaker 1: and from the beginning it's a kind of established routine
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  Speaker 1: in a process that's similar. We can week out in
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  Speaker 1: no matter kind of what the game is, and so
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  Speaker 1: you know what to expect. We know we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday practice. Know how the flow goes Friday Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and so the process of the process then Sunday will
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  Speaker 1: be definitely exciting in the Stadium's what's.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest challenge of defending him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, He's has speed and he's strong.
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  Speaker 1: He's a strong receiver, he's good after the catch, and
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  Speaker 1: he's efficient in his route running, and so you just
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  Speaker 1: need to know where he's at all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You guys held Mat Staff for one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 3: yards the first time you played this year, and he's
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  Speaker 3: through for a lot more of the second time you
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  Speaker 3: faced John McVay.
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  Speaker 4: A bunch of times.
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  Speaker 3: Is how much do you like look at previous games
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  Speaker 3: as predictors of future and how do you kind of
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  Speaker 3: get ready for the next match.
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  Speaker 4: Against those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a dance, you know, between you know,
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  Speaker 1: the guy calling their plays, you know McVeigh as well as.
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  Speaker 4: Mike kind of calling our stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dance with what we were showing, what we're presenting,
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  Speaker 1: how we're gonna execute. I think the story of the
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  Speaker 1: second game was really just not executing defensively.
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  Speaker 4: We had a good plan in but we used.
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  Speaker 1: To execute to our fullest, and so you know that
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  Speaker 1: we know that I think you know, we've got the win.
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  Speaker 1: But we go into that Monday after that game knowing
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  Speaker 1: that it's great, we got to win, but on defense
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  Speaker 1: that that room was quiet for sure, knowing that we
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  Speaker 1: have some work to do. And I think we showed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, improvement the weeks after that game because like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that was allowed playoff like environment for that game,
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  Speaker 1: and now we know what takes pect what are the
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  Speaker 1: stress points that they're pretty tight end packages, kind of
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  Speaker 1: put on a defense from from your eyes knowing who
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  Speaker 1: they are, you know, eighty four, eighty seven, eighteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: All of them operate differently. They especially in their offense.
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  Speaker 1: They are catered, you know, and then you use a
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  Speaker 1: certain way just knowing who they are and where they're
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  Speaker 1: lined up, and then you know when you're on them,
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  Speaker 1: making sure you keep eyes on them, knowing allow any
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  Speaker 1: like lee kind of cheap stuff and just play ball.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just knowing it's not typical anymore in
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  Speaker 1: the league. I think that's the biggest thing. Everybody's going
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  Speaker 1: to the Zebra. The game got fast, uh and they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of bringing it back and bringing out bigger, bigger bodies,
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  Speaker 1: and so we've got match it accordingly. I think you
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  Speaker 1: overlapped with Kobe Parkinson here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, one year. Can you talk about just the player
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  Speaker 4: he's developed into.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's become a go to guy for them. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's very tall, he's strong, he's smart, he's good in
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  Speaker 1: the rung game. He has all the tools to be
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  Speaker 1: a successful tight end. And I enjoyed playing with him
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  Speaker 1: here and it's really easy to see how he's having
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  Speaker 1: success over there. You know, they're getting more involved into
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  Speaker 1: some of the vertical pass game than his first year there. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, he's he's become a serious, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tight end one for them.
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  Speaker 4: How do you guard and get what?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 4: What? What's the point there? Just to I disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's tough to say I discipline, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you're looking at him and so you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going out a quarterback, he's going to lead you
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  Speaker 1: a different direction. I think it's more so about spots,
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  Speaker 1: understanding spots in the field that they're trying to target,
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  Speaker 1: and just being disciplined enough to know, Okay, he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to get me off my spot right now. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Mike talked yesterday about the loss down there in week
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  Speaker 5: eleven and kind of the feeling of the team coming
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  Speaker 5: out of that game, and I think the phrase he
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  Speaker 5: was like, you could feel ourselves becoming the team we
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  Speaker 5: wanted to be despite losing. Obviously, what do you remember
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  Speaker 5: about just sort of the feelings with.
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  Speaker 1: The team coming off that Yeah, I think before that game,
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  Speaker 1: the standards of the defense are already high, and as
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  Speaker 1: the game was going on, I think they got some
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  Speaker 1: stuff rolling. Early defense was we were it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: tense over towards our part of the field, and we
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  Speaker 1: were playing well. In hindsight, if you took a step back,
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  Speaker 1: he realized we were playing well, but he didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like that in the moment, and so we guys kind
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  Speaker 1: of bowed up and kept battling. And after the game
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  Speaker 1: he realized kind of what the number showed, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was defining just to be like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: if we execute this and this and this.
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  Speaker 4: You know that game.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, you know we lost a turnover battle, but it
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  Speaker 1: came on to kick at the end. So if we're fishing,
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  Speaker 1: if we could take care of the ball, we could
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  Speaker 1: get the ball, then then what shape will be in
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  Speaker 1: the So yeah, I think that's the biggest key of
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 5: And then coming out of the game it became kind
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  Speaker 5: of a well publicized thing what Ernest said after the
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  Speaker 5: supporting Sam, Oh, yeah, what does that kind of do
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  Speaker 5: for a team when one side of the ball is
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  Speaker 5: then having a bad day and immediately the other side
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  Speaker 5: of the ball steps up?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean from the jump, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it was. I mean, maybe something in Cam just
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  Speaker 1: kind of being around. Sam's like, dude, you're a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna lead us. But we like, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: we have your back no matter what. I know you
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  Speaker 1: have our back and in our down moments second LA game,
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  Speaker 1: Sam was like, defense, you guys are good like and
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  Speaker 1: they made it happen late in night game. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's we have a very complete team, which is probably
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  Speaker 1: the first time I've ever had such a complete team
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  Speaker 1: in my career. You know, offense, we trust them and
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  Speaker 1: believe in them fully. It's not just not just talk,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a full belief. I know they believe
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  Speaker 1: in us fully. And then special teams. That's our that's
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  Speaker 1: our X fact, that's our special weapon. Because people are
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  Speaker 1: going in each day and you know, challenging themselves to
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  Speaker 1: do the job and not just kind of talk about
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  Speaker 1: it and not float through the process, but to really
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  Speaker 1: enjoy and get after the process.
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  Speaker 3: When the other game, like the last one, that was
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  Speaker 3: up to your standards on the defensive side, as a
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  Speaker 3: competitor and at the defense, you guys have, you look
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  Speaker 3: forward to a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Face that team again.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling some guys we came in Monday, like
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  Speaker 1: that was the best case scenario.
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  Speaker 4: We did it.
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  Speaker 1: We played like ship that second game, but we want
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  Speaker 1: like we got the We got to win in a
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  Speaker 1: critical part of the season, and now there's improvements to
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  Speaker 1: be made. Like that's that's the best when you can
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  Speaker 1: win a game and still have something to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a part of some units that you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you were perfect and still lose by a few touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: And so that's a that's a unit we have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially on defense. Everybody takes pride on their side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, but we took pride on it. If we
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  Speaker 1: get our job right and do what we're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do and we have confidence in that, then things should
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  Speaker 1: be good. Oh that was Monday after the Rams game. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've been playing lives out.
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  Speaker 5: We're on the opposite side of the Marcus for a
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  Speaker 5: few years when with the Giants and wondering as a
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  Speaker 5: teammates this year, what what has stood out about him
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  Speaker 5: that you didn't know previously until until you were this year.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's like, this is a good dude. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: I should have been down obviously.
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's a killer on the field, and you
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  Speaker 1: can see in his eyes that he's he has intent
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  Speaker 1: to uh, you know, to get off the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: But just off the field, like we were just messing around,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing some cards, like you know, our break,
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  Speaker 1: Like we just kind of hang out with him, and
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  Speaker 1: he's just a kind of a fun loving guy, great
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  Speaker 1: father to his kids, family man, and so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: cool to see that, you know, off the field stuff
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  Speaker 1: with him, because on.
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  Speaker 4: The field he's he's transformed his defense.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Snider won the Executive of the Year award today.
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  Speaker 5: I just as a player kind of that people talk
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  Speaker 5: about the culture he says and things like that from
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  Speaker 5: the top down, how do you kind of see that
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  Speaker 5: as a player.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. I Mean he's just you guys have
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  Speaker 1: all talked to him. I'm sure. Uh he he shoots
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  Speaker 1: you straight. Uh, he's not super serious. He's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's just like a guy you can enjoy talking
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  Speaker 1: to and you could be real with, which I think
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  Speaker 1: is appreciated in terms of, like, you know, the people
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  Speaker 1: he's getting in here. He believes in talent development from
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  Speaker 1: the inside. He he I mean this past draft class,
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  Speaker 1: we take a bunch of guys who would just have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of upside. It might take some work to
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  Speaker 1: you know, coach people up and just do the right things,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but he sees the value in that. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't let any of the stuff that distracts other people
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like a personality type get in the way. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And that's specially that's hard to do. You can't have
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  Speaker 1: any really bias about you And so yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well idn't know that I was well deserved?
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned special team is the next factor for you
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  Speaker 5: guys points of your career A kind of a special
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  Speaker 5: teams guy, What do you think? I mean, every coach says, hey,
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  Speaker 5: let's be getting all three fag is less emphasize specially,
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  Speaker 5: but not every team does it necessarily YEA What do
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  Speaker 5: you think has allowed to you guys.
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  Speaker 4: To have so much. I think it's the people in
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  Speaker 4: the room.
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  Speaker 1: I think it starts with Brady Russell, our best teams captain,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously we have a great kind of set a
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  Speaker 1: specialist with Jay, My, Dicko and Stole. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: the standard that's like, it's very serious, Like what we
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  Speaker 1: do is not I've been in some rooms where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. We're gonna kick it through the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. We're gonna you know, like, no, we kicked
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  Speaker 1: the ball and play, we cover kicks and we expect
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  Speaker 1: to create explosive in return game. It started with with
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  Speaker 1: Jay Hardball, just setting the tone like.
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  Speaker 4: This is is it serious?
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  Speaker 1: Because nobody wants to do it anymore. Kickoff rules are changing,
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  Speaker 1: all these things are are constantly changing by Spubs teams.
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  Speaker 1: If we can get it right first, we could be
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  Speaker 1: really special. And he said that from day one, which
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  Speaker 1: you know, so credit to all of our team's leaders
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  Speaker 1: as well as Jay.
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  Speaker 4: Second, they did in.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth quarter. The comeback is after you guys stopped
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  Speaker 1: from three three and outs in the row.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what changed? I don't know exactly what changed there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we figure some things out and start calling
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  Speaker 1: some things differently, so you know, don't need to get
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  Speaker 1: into that. But I think I remember that week after
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  Speaker 1: that game, Mike we were talking, we were in his office,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, he said something along lines of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's special about our team is that we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: get it right, Like we're gonna figure it out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it might not be the first quarter, they can quarter
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  Speaker 1: a third quarter whenever. That happened in that game, but
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  Speaker 1: we have the guys that know that we are going
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  Speaker 1: to get it right, and that's powerful, I mean especial.
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  Speaker 4: You know, again, you're part of a unit organization.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you guys in the in the workplace, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're like things aren't going your way. They might not
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  Speaker 1: go your way until it's over. But for us, we know,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the tides are going to turn no matter what. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And we trust in Mike, We trust in our coaches
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  Speaker 1: under Mike, and we touched on our players to make
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  Speaker 1: things right and I'm just gonna let things continue to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So wish we would figure out earlier in that game,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we figured it out, and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're confident for Sunday. You referred to Brady Russell as
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  Speaker 1: or a special teams captain is just like an unofficial
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  Speaker 1: thing that's kind of understood since you guys did the
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  Speaker 1: game captains. Yeah, I think it's unofficial, that's understood.
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  Speaker 4: He's a core guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have a lot of leaders in the room,
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  Speaker 1: but I think from the from the first point, every
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  Speaker 1: time Brady speaks, people listen.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of those guys. H.
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  Speaker 1: He has incredible intent with how he goes about his work.
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  Speaker 1: He gives one hundred and every single thing he does, uh,
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  Speaker 1: his practice, his pregame, running around without a shirt on,
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff, it's and it's it's all through work,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think if he wasn't, if he was
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  Speaker 1: in another building, people might not have valued that as much.
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  Speaker 1: But like Jay as well as Mike and everybody has
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  Speaker 1: allowed him to be himself and he's just he leads
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  Speaker 1: the charge and he gets everybody right. For sure.
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  Speaker 5: I watched the video of Mike first pressure.
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  Speaker 4: I did yeahan with.
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  Speaker 5: You guys last year, which is I guess what do
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  Speaker 5: you remember about him talking to you guys like that
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  Speaker 5: back in Afril?
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  Speaker 4: That was special.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone who's in that built in the in
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  Speaker 1: the room kind of pictured it. They had the slide.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that he said in that video like it was
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  Speaker 1: very much real. That was his first meeting. It was
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  Speaker 1: maybe five minutes, ten minutes into him introducing himself to us,
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  Speaker 1: and he just stay to the power of being in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle in front of you know this fan base. I mean,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you see the size of the team room. It's lumin
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  Speaker 1: like it's our power, and so we're catering to that.
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  Speaker 1: We we love the opportunity. It's gonna be fun. It
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  Speaker 1: was fun this past weekend. It's gonna be fun again
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know Seattle just it just means more
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  Speaker 1: to this community for sure, anything else.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you,