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Throwback: Pete Carroll's Introductory Press Conference · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, my name is Todd Live Weekend, the CEO
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  Speaker 2: of Seattle Seahawks, and today we announced a new era
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  Speaker 2: of Seahawks football.
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  Speaker 1: We started the.
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  Speaker 2: Rebuilding our team with the hiring of one of the
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  Speaker 2: best coaches in all of America. We were able to
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  Speaker 2: get a guy that other teams tried to get but didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We were certainly at the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: We also offered Pete an extraordinary opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: A committed owner.
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  Speaker 2: Well I think is uh absolutely the best in sports,
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  Speaker 2: Paul Allen, the best fans, sixty consecutive sellouts, more legal procedure,
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  Speaker 2: calls on visiting teams in any other stadium maybe, and
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  Speaker 2: then absolutely fantastic facilities our stadium and this headquarters. I
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  Speaker 2: toured Pete around today and Pete was absolutely blown away.
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  Speaker 1: Pictures did not do justice to the great facility.
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  Speaker 2: We now have a great head coach and soon we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna announce the hiring of a great general manager. Today
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  Speaker 2: there's new hope for the Seahawks and an opportunity again
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  Speaker 2: to dream about championships. I am very, very proud to
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  Speaker 2: introduce Pete Carroll as the Seahawks executive vice president and
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  Speaker 2: new head coach, and I'm supposed to give.
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  Speaker 1: Him that helmet.
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  Speaker 3: The helmet, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I am so fired up to be here today to
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  Speaker 4: start this thing off. The first thing we got to
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  Speaker 4: do is toy the facilities, and right from the beginning
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  Speaker 4: they've undersold this is a tremendous place to come to work.
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  Speaker 4: My appreciation for the for this opportunity, UH, for from
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  Speaker 4: the top of the organization, from Paul Allen, tad Tadla
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  Speaker 4: Wikie and everybody that I've I've had the chances in
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  Speaker 4: the short time to deal with, have set this thing
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  Speaker 4: in motion in a manner that that really is is.
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  Speaker 1: Almost streamlike for me.
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  Speaker 4: I've been so impressed with their vision, uh and in
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  Speaker 4: their their their outlook to the future and how they
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  Speaker 4: want this organization to be run and how they hope
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  Speaker 4: it I can can gain a stature in the community
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  Speaker 4: of the NFL and for the people that that surround
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  Speaker 4: us here uh in the shadow area, that that is
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  Speaker 4: exactly in line with the way I think and what
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  Speaker 4: as I envisioned it and as I hope this to
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  Speaker 4: come together here in time.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a very very important time, UH.
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  Speaker 4: As we as we introduce ourselves to each other. I
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  Speaker 4: come from a place where we had tremendous fortune and
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  Speaker 4: I was blessed to be at the University of Southern
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  Speaker 4: California for the years I was there, and the things
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  Speaker 4: that we accomplished, the growth that we experienced has has
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  Speaker 4: really given me an opportunity to grow as a coach.
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  Speaker 4: That makes me a much different guy than I was
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  Speaker 4: a few years back. And with the knowledge of that
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  Speaker 4: and the experience of that, as this opportunity presented itself,
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  Speaker 4: I just could not pass up the chance to come here.
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  Speaker 4: It's just an amazing opportunity. And I've always loved the
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  Speaker 4: NFL so much. I loved my time in college football.
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  Speaker 4: But always I had, you know, a thought that maybe
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  Speaker 4: it could come together in a manner that would fit right,
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  Speaker 4: that would give me the chance to do things the
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  Speaker 4: way I would like to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is it. It's come together.
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  Speaker 4: The I know that the vision for the for the
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  Speaker 4: program starts at the top. I know that that Paul
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  Speaker 4: Allen wants to win, and he doesn't want to just
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  Speaker 4: win once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to win from now on.
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  Speaker 4: And to me, that fits exactly with the way I
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  Speaker 4: think and the way I've tried to present our football
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  Speaker 4: in recent years. You know, we I've grown up in
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  Speaker 4: the last ten years with expectations in coaching that it's
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  Speaker 4: hard to imagine that the standards could be set so
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  Speaker 4: high where you're only you're only judged by perfection. And
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  Speaker 4: I have embraced that thought, and it has made me
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  Speaker 4: more clear about how we come to this opportunity here
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  Speaker 4: in Seattle to take us to a place where I
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  Speaker 4: hope that we can separate, we can do things in
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  Speaker 4: a special manner, and I hope we can do things
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  Speaker 4: better than it's ever been done around but ever been
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  Speaker 4: done before around here, and there's an extraordinarily high expectations
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  Speaker 4: and I love living in that world. I love setting
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  Speaker 4: our sites so far out, setting our standards so high
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  Speaker 4: that that maybe it doesn't even seem feasible.
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  Speaker 1: And that's okay with me.
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  Speaker 4: And so as we enter into this embarking into this
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  Speaker 4: new time here with the Seahawks, I'm hoping that the
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  Speaker 4: people that follow us in this unbelievable fan following will
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  Speaker 4: join in. And even more than ever before, I've heard
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  Speaker 4: nothing but extraordinary comments about the stadium. I have not
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  Speaker 4: been at Quest Field for game time. But with the
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  Speaker 4: whole twelfth Man which we need and the fan base
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  Speaker 4: that we have that has just blown this place away,
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to be part of that as a
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  Speaker 4: defensive background guy. Knowing that we can call on the
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  Speaker 4: twelfth Man on third down, we need to take advantage.
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  Speaker 4: We need to make sure that we speed this thing
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  Speaker 4: up on the edge, we take advantage for our past
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  Speaker 4: rush opportunities to.
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  Speaker 1: Play to the crowd.
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  Speaker 4: That will help us be more effective, to be able
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  Speaker 4: to connect like that on the first day I'm talking
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  Speaker 4: to you with the fan base, That's an unusual situation
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  Speaker 4: for a coach, but I'm counting on that factor to
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  Speaker 4: help us as well. The style of play here, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you a little bit of insights about what
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  Speaker 4: we're thinking here is if you watch our team play,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna see great effort. You watch our team play,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna see great enthusiasm. We're gonna play this game
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  Speaker 4: like it's supposed to be played, like you love. You
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  Speaker 4: love the game of football, and it shows in the
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  Speaker 4: way that you bring it.
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  Speaker 1: From day to day.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see a very very tough football team
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  Speaker 4: from word go uh and that's critically important to us,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to I want you to see a
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  Speaker 4: team that plays smart. So if you've got a great effort,
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  Speaker 4: you have great enthusiasm, you have great toughness about your program,
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  Speaker 4: and you play with great smarts, and you do things well,
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  Speaker 4: do things right, you have a chance to be a
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  Speaker 4: pretty good football team just from that. And that's where
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  Speaker 4: it will begin, with a very clear thought of how
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna create our ball. It will be it would
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  Speaker 4: be wrong for me not to mention that in our
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  Speaker 4: football that we have to run the football to be
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  Speaker 4: successful in our division first, and then in the NFL
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  Speaker 4: you have to. And so as we set our sights
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  Speaker 4: for you'll, you'll you'll follow how this will come together
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  Speaker 4: and how we'll set our course and philosophically about running
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  Speaker 4: the football. It will affect everything that has to do
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  Speaker 4: that follows. It will affect defense, it will affect our
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  Speaker 4: passing game, it will help our quarterback. It'll give us
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  Speaker 4: the kind of mindset and they approach that that we
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  Speaker 4: all love to back from the when.
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  Speaker 1: When we follow this game in football.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm really excited about that, and you'll know more
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  Speaker 4: about that in the days days to come.
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  Speaker 1: You'll understand what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 4: I know that there's questions about you know, NFL coach
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  Speaker 4: for a long time, sixteen years, went into the college.
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  Speaker 4: We've been back to college coaching for it was nine
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  Speaker 4: seasons at a USC. You know what's happened?
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  Speaker 1: You know what is this all?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: And where?
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  Speaker 4: What do you get really when when you get me
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  Speaker 4: coming into this program. Uh, there has been a tremendous
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  Speaker 4: amount of growth through through this this these past nine years.
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  Speaker 4: One I told you about is about the expectations in
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  Speaker 4: living with that we're in the NFL. Expectations are you
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  Speaker 4: gotta win? And I totally understand that, and I get
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  Speaker 4: it and I love that part of what goes on
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  Speaker 4: about about being in the league. But these expectations don't
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  Speaker 4: have to overwhelm us. They have to drive us and
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  Speaker 4: guide us. And UH, in my time dealing with championships
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  Speaker 4: year after year after year, there comes a mindset of
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  Speaker 4: expectations with the players and the coaches and how we
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  Speaker 4: prepare and how we practice it.
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  Speaker 1: Is critically important to our future.
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  Speaker 4: We have to embrace and understand the fact that the
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  Speaker 4: way you practice is what makes you. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a mindset that I'm hoping that we will be able
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  Speaker 4: to convey as quickly as possible to our players, and
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  Speaker 4: of course I have to extend it from my staff
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  Speaker 4: to our players, but it is what gives you a
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  Speaker 4: chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Be a champion.
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  Speaker 4: From now on, you have to understand the fundamentals of
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  Speaker 4: making championship play and bringing yourself to the kind of
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  Speaker 4: excellence that it takes to play right. Comes from the
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  Speaker 4: way you prepare it and the way you practice, and
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  Speaker 4: it's an extremely big part of our program, and we'll
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  Speaker 4: share it with you as we go through it. I
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  Speaker 4: know that in the years past year at SC we
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  Speaker 4: had open practices and then we had people coming in
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  Speaker 4: and out all the time, and it was an atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: that is not common in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be quite the same here.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be a little bit different, But we
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  Speaker 4: still want to introduce our football to the people that
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  Speaker 4: follow us and know what we're all about, so that
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  Speaker 4: you can embrace it and be part of it as well.
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  Speaker 4: I think I benefited tremendously in the process in college
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  Speaker 4: football of evaluating young players and having to project players
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  Speaker 4: into their future.
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  Speaker 1: We have to see and have the vision see.
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  Speaker 4: Where they're going and what they could become is something
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  Speaker 4: that is more keenly attuned me to the whole process
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  Speaker 4: of valuating an analysis of personnel that I'm really I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to bring to organizations. You know, in our time
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  Speaker 4: at SC, we recruited all of the same guys that
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  Speaker 4: are playing in the NFL, basically, And so you'll ask,
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  Speaker 4: you know, how you're going to coach young kids in
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  Speaker 4: school coming from high school and college, now you're going
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  Speaker 4: to coach grown men.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're the same guys. They're the same people.
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  Speaker 4: They're just a little bit older, and they grow and
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  Speaker 4: they experience things a little bit differently, but they're the
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  Speaker 4: same people. I think in the years we're at sea,
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  Speaker 4: there's sixty something guys were drafted, and I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know the numbers, but a bunch of first rounders.
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  Speaker 1: They're the same guys. We're looking for, the same guys
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  Speaker 1: we're looking for as we.
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  Speaker 4: Go through this draft process, and I'm really looking forward
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  Speaker 4: to bringing that to the organization. I have a different
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  Speaker 4: way of looking at it than they did when I
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  Speaker 4: was only a coach at USC. I had an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to be in charge of the entire program and have
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  Speaker 4: the expectations of evaluating and analysis and managing in a
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  Speaker 4: matter that I think has prepared me for this opportunity
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  Speaker 4: in a way that I hope will be very successful.
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  Speaker 1: My job is.
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  Speaker 4: Really to orchestrate the performance of this club, and in that,
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  Speaker 4: as I mentioned about practice, and as I mentioned about
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  Speaker 4: dealing with our personnel, this is a big job, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a job that encompasses a lot of aspects of it,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna need I'm gonna need a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 4: of help. We will enter into a search here to
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  Speaker 4: to to hire the general manager and put that position
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  Speaker 4: in place in the next few days, with a matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, will start this afternoon. This is an enormous
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  Speaker 4: decision for us, and it's a process that will go
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  Speaker 4: through together. I'm thrilled to be part of this process.
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  Speaker 4: It is extremely instrumental into our future. The whole process
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  Speaker 4: of fighting our talent, the process of making it fit
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  Speaker 4: with the coaching and the style of our play, and
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  Speaker 4: being able to be intrigally involved in that is hugely
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  Speaker 4: important to me, and it is it is really really
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  Speaker 4: the reason that I've decided to come here is that
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  Speaker 4: I understand from from the organization that I will be
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  Speaker 4: inter involved in all aspects of that, and so that's
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  Speaker 4: something that will give me a chance to be the
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  Speaker 4: best I can do. If there was a difference from
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  Speaker 4: when I was in the NFL before to when I
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  Speaker 4: was in the NFL now is I think that the
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  Speaker 4: experience that I had then, the experience that I had
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  Speaker 4: in college football to see what it's like to be
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  Speaker 4: to run a program and to come here with the
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  Speaker 4: freedom that we're gonna have that we're gonna share here,
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  Speaker 4: the collaboration that we will present to you as leading
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  Speaker 4: this organization is exactly what I was looking for, exactly
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  Speaker 4: what I needed.
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  Speaker 1: I think could be the very best I can offer
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. So with that, this is.
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  Speaker 4: An extraordinary time and I hope that you can sense
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  Speaker 4: the excitement that I feel about this opportunity. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be hard. I know it's gonna be difficult,
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  Speaker 4: and people from where I come from, I want to say, well, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: why would you do that? When you win all the
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  Speaker 4: time in college football and here you're going into the
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  Speaker 4: meat grinder of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready. I couldn't be more prepared for it.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't be more excited about it, and I can't
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  Speaker 4: wait to get started. And I know we have to
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  Speaker 4: go through the press conference, but I can't wait to
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  Speaker 4: get upstairs and start looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Film and getting this thing wrong.
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  Speaker 4: So with that, the last thing I'll leave you with
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  Speaker 4: that you'll hear a lot from us in this program,
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  Speaker 4: and this this program is about competition, and we'll we'll
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  Speaker 4: see in all aspects of the work that we do
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  Speaker 4: that we will be in a relentless pursuit of a
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  Speaker 4: competitive edge. And everything we're doing, from from the front
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  Speaker 4: office to the administration, to the our all of the
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  Speaker 4: personnel aspects, to all of the work with our players
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  Speaker 4: to the off season work, We're going to compete like crazy,
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  Speaker 4: like maybe you've never seen it. And I hope that
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  Speaker 4: that will be the theme that will rise to us,
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  Speaker 4: that will be the most important part of it, because
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  Speaker 4: we are in the most competitive world you can be
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  Speaker 4: in in the NFL. And I can't wait to get
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  Speaker 4: this thing underway. I can't wait to get it started.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm pleased to see that there's some we have
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  Speaker 4: some players out here. I saw just to go to
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  Speaker 4: the old great to see Warren out there. Thanks for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of love and support out there.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I know that Lawrence Jackson is here, one of my
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  Speaker 4: guys from from MESSI I didn't see Loafi as If
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  Speaker 4: Loaf is around see out there somewhere. But the guys
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  Speaker 4: that will come here, I want them to come see
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  Speaker 4: me as soon as possible. See Aaron in the back
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  Speaker 4: back there. Awesome to see you back there. And uh, Josh,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're out here somewhere too.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with us, our ability to communicate to one another,
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  Speaker 4: our ability to see see a common vision and to
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  Speaker 4: do this together. And uh, I think you're gonna be
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  Speaker 4: jacked about the coaches that are gonna come in here
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  Speaker 4: in the attitude that they'll bring. But we need you
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  Speaker 4: guys to jump on board and go with this. It
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  Speaker 4: won't happen any other way. We need to be together
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  Speaker 4: on on our mission on this. So I I'm thanks
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  Speaker 4: to for those guys representing the rest of the fellas
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  Speaker 4: that will be part of this.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to get going. Uh it it's great to
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  Speaker 1: be a Seahawk. HM. Hoping up the questions.
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  Speaker 5: People, Yes, well, when you were at uh excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: when you were you know England, one of the criticisms
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  Speaker 5: was that your your UH practices and your team wasn't disciple.
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  Speaker 5: I'm wondering if you would agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: That was just one of the many criticisms. UH.
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  Speaker 2: And do you agree with that and what's changed uh
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  Speaker 2: to make it different?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I won't. I wouldn't agree with that at all.
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  Speaker 4: The UH I think in UH, there's a there's a
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  Speaker 4: personality that comes out of my coaching that that might
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit different than the personality that comes
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  Speaker 4: out of the coaches and then the expectations of maybe
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  Speaker 4: people that follow the game.
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  Speaker 1: I coached this game UH with tremendous energy.
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  Speaker 4: And an intent to play with extraordinary discipline.
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  Speaker 1: UH.
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  Speaker 4: And and so whether that's something that you thought and
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  Speaker 4: you take you take a look back and look at
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  Speaker 4: how we handle the football. Do we take care of
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  Speaker 4: the ball? Are we are we doing things right on
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  Speaker 4: on the football field? Do we practice with intent? Do
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  Speaker 4: we do all of the things that it takes to
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  Speaker 4: make a good football team come together?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna see all of that. If there's a difference, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: how could we possibly have won all of the championships
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  Speaker 4: we won and in the last seven eight whatever years?
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  Speaker 4: Is you guys know the numbers better than I do.
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  Speaker 4: If we want a discipline program, if we didn't play
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  Speaker 4: the game well, if we didn't do the things that
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  Speaker 4: it takes to play great football. And that's, uh, that
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  Speaker 4: is a when I was in New England, I was
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven and twenty one. I that's that's not a
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  Speaker 4: bad record there, and uh it was. It's we didn't
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  Speaker 4: quite get it done, but uh, it was the time
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  Speaker 4: when we were still developing how to put I was
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  Speaker 4: still developing how to put our process together. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's it's exceedingly farther along than it was it at
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  Speaker 4: that time. And I'm thrilled to bring it. And I
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  Speaker 4: think if yuh, when you watch our play, you're you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna you're gonna forget about what happened and whatever you
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  Speaker 4: you're thinking about Neil Destrict, what else we got to be?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but how did this st when was the Seaton?
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  Speaker 6: Was the because you had other ANFL games A Frogier and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sim th in in the uh.
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  Speaker 4: In the past nine years, there's been of all of
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: the speculation, you would think that I was talking five
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: or six times a year.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Never happened. I've talked to th three or.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Four teams in earnest in nine years, and in each
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: situation they presented an opportunity that to me sounded like
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: it was different than the normal format for for UH
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: head coach coming.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Into the league. Uh m n n.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: None of those situations was like with this situa, W
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: was like has been presented here. This is exactly the
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: the format and the makeup of the job as I've
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: envisioned it. And when when that came to light, UH,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: it was clear that this is a very very curious opportunity.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: And so in short order, UH, with a couple of
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: phone calls and in a big meeting on Sunday, we
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: were able to put this thing together. And UH, but
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: it it it comes from a very clear delivery of
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: what this organization is all about, what they wanna do.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: And and I thought Todd did a fantastic job. And
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: and UH Landslopes when we had a chance to visit,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: did a fantastic job.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: And giving me the the.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Representation from the owner of what they expected here and
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: it's it fit perfectly. So when when the job was
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: presented and I had a chance to to to sign
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a contract that there was no question in my mind
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: this is something I wanted to do.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: So it was the days off the lease.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: No, it was yeah, we're just yeah, we're just talking it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: We're talking a matter of days and uh. But Sunday
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: was the big day for us when we got together
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and sat down and really got serious about what it
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: was all. You know, all of them would come together
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: like and and uh, it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Was very clear that this was something I had I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't hassen. What were you and how were you in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the GM work together? Who goes and walk?
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah that we well right as we entered this process
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: right now to uh d to you know.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Find the gym that's gonna fit with the Seahawks. Uh,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: there'll be a.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Collaboration in the process of of figuring that out. There'll
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: be a collaboration on figuring out what is the best
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: format for us to put it together. The guys that
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: will be interviewed, that are on the list right now
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: have varied backgrounds. They have very uh degrees of experience
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: and expertise. And as we put it together, we wanna
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: do the thing is as well as we can.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Possibly do it. We wanna do it right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: So to do that, we've got to see who the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: guy is and then figure out how we're gonna fit
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: it together. And as we do that, uh, I think
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: it's exactly the best way to pull out the strengths
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: and the special aspects that that you know, the candidates
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: have and then we'll figure out how that works from there.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: You think you were in the name.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Figure job games could be able to work work control
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: over your past.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: How much different is it you're you know where they
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: then than the New England job? Yeah?
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me let me not even compared to that,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: that's too long ago. So the let me compared to
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: to what what I've just come from, and where you
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: have an organization where the people absolutely believe in who
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: you are and what you're all about, and they want
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: you to take your philosophy and and uh and embrace
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the entire organization with it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: That's what this is.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: This is this they they have uh Uh, they've embraced
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: my approach and the way I see things and the
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: way I want to do stuff in a manner that
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: they want to wipe the path clear and give me
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: the clearest opportunity to uh, you know, to bring everything
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: that I have to offer. That that's really what I
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: was looking for. It was the trust and the belief
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: from the from the top of the organization. They don't
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: have an agenda of how they want their football player.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: They want me to do that.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: And that's that's exactly precisely what I was looking for,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and I had to trust. I have to trust that,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: and I do. We have great people. The message has
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: been absolutely clear. There's no question in my mind of
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: where we're going and what we're doing and how we're
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: gonna go about it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And that's what was necessary.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: In other situations around the league, and as guys get
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: jobs around the league, there isn't always that level of
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: communication from the top down, and there isn't always that
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: that that will to give you the opportunity to do
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: exactly the what you feel and how you you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: how you can express your abilities and all. That's what
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I've given been given here and I can't it's just
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: it's I can't tell you how excited I am about that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: That is what I had in I at SC and
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: it is where I found my best My best success
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: was when I had the kinds of opportunity to to
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: factor into all aspects of it and there was one
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: single voice about what the football was gonna be like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: and there was one place to go, one door to
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: knock on for the players. They knew exactly who's calling
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: shots and then what what's up? And that is what
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: gives me the best chance to be the best I
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: can be. I was not gonna go anywhere where I
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: couldn't be putting myself in that situation. I feel exactly
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: comfortable and free to to tell you that that's that's
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: how this is gonna work.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: If that means your voice would he had the personal choices.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: We're gonna work that all out. We're gonna work that
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: out with with with the the luck you get it
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: gets to come to this organization. We'll figure that out
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: based on his background and what's best for us, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: and it'll all be worked out. And I have i'm'a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: have tremendous comfort and in telling you that we'll find
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: the very best way to orchestrate that. How that will
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: come out, you'll find out in the next few days.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And and where we can get this thing harned out yours.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: You don't pay m said the post grade that you
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: leave at colgram at five when we got.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: To day for next to the day, Well, first off,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: there will be some guys that I've worked with in
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: the past.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: We're putting the staff together now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: This is a ver very critical time for us to
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: to to race to get the guys that we needed
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to compete for, but also take the time that takes
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: to do this exactly right. You'll see in the next
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: few days as we released the the guys coming. As
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: far as as as leaving that sea, there was never
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: gonna be a right time. Whether we had won every
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: game or whether we had there was never gonna be
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the perfect time. We had such a deep had such
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: a deep relationship with uh, with that whole community that
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: surrounds that, you know, that that club, that that team
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: in the school, that it was always gonna be hard.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, we put so much into it and we
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: we you know, we gave so much to it that
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: it was gonna be a difficult time. And the fact
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: that it's coming up now has nothing to do with
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: anything outside of this um glorious opportunity here to come
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: to Seahawks. Uh. There there are are some stuff, you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: there's always gonna be stuff, but there's some stuff come
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: you know, coming that UH, questions about NCAA things and
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: all that Y, you'll see when when everything comes out
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: my involvement and all that, I'm not mentioned in any
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of those any of that. I those issues and have
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: been dealing with that for five years, uh you know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: and it's in my mind. I'm very comfortable with it. Y.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: The university has to deal with it as time comes.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: But we also feel very confident down there that everything
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: was gonna work out very well and and and that
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: all of the facts and the truth will come out
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: and we'll contribute to all of that. So I don't
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: feel like that's that's even an issue in any way.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: There was no discourse down there. There's some question about
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: uh you know, maybe there's some kind of infusing.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: There was none of that.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: This is this is an opportunity that even the the
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the university couldn't come up with anything to make a
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: difference in In my think that because of this, this
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: the special opportunity to come to this competitive environment is
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: so unique for me that I I I just had
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: to come.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I couldn't pass it up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, uh one might you know, if you have the
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: coolest coach in the NFL right now here in the
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: clo open the cello come up from a guy that
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: looks pretty cool out there.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And I'm saying I might add tell you yeah a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: little bit on this this newswagg Er persona. The iments
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that you want to instill in the team, and uh
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: secondly on the radio today have to under your leadership
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you take the NFC West into the playoffs and you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: enjoin me. What's your name?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: What?
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: What's your name? Right? Try to give that if you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: saying all those nice things, uh you want what what?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: What we're we're gonna go about doing here is is
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: in in everybody that we deal with in the in
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the organization. We wanna see how good somebody can be,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: whether they're they're they're working downstairs, or whether they're working upstairs,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: or whether they're they're catching passes on on the football field.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: We wanna figure out a vision for every aspect of
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: everybody that contributes to our our effort.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: For how good can they possibly be?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: And then once we figure out what that maximum the
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: maximum is, then we're gonna work to to make that
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: vision come true for that individual.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: That's how this thing works, It's how my thinking works.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: And so as we take over, if you look at
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: it in the broader sense, how good could we be
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: here at Seattle. That that's that's what we have to
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: figure out. How good can we believe that we can be?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: What is the vision for this? And and in that
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: then we work to it in every way that we can.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: What comes what comes with that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: What comes with that, Charlie, is the process of extending
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: your your expectations and extending your vision to what you
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: can do as a player and a performer and a
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: coach and an administrator and on and on. That's what's
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: so exciting to me. I had a chance to embrace
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: this organization and see if we can't all buy into
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: that orchestrate that we all can understand, we're going to
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: take this to a level that it's never been before.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: And in that, uh, it's going to take time. It's
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: gonna take us to what This is not something that
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: you snap your fingers and it changes. This is about relationships,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: This is about envisioning, This is about working. This is
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: about practicing and preparing to get this all done and
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: put together. You know, if somebody nobody's asked me, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: how long is it gonna take it?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I got no idea. I wish I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: could tell you. I don't know that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: But what I do know is when we're playing really
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: good football, when we start to do things right, things
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: that we can count on, where we're we're maximizing our
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: players input and what they can do and using the
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: special qualities of our quarterbacks and our receivers and our
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: rushers and all that, then we start to get close
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: to figuring out where we can go. And and so, uh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I can't wait. I'm not waiting for three or four
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: years to figure this out. I'm going right now. But
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: how long it takes, I don't know. It's it's this
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: process that comes together between the players and the coaches
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: that is most critical in this relationship that has to
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: take place that Uh, I hope we can. We can
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: do something in in in great fashion and and you'll
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: see it. I don't know what you're asking them about, swagger.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know nothing about that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Do you moved and labeled a player's coach, and and
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: some theorized that that that style has been essential to
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: your great success in USC. Others have theorized that maybe
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: that style is not best suited for the NFL. So uh,
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: three part or A you consider yourself the players coach,
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: B do you consider that there's a difference in the
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: approach between college football and pro football? And see do
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: you feel any need to change your style based on
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: on y are yourn any one.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: In the New York experience best question of to day?
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: What do you go? There's three part? First off, uh
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: most the first person, Uh, players exactly? You think I'm
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: kidding bough No, That label players coach, you know, has
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: been one that's been out there for a long time,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: you know, and it carries different connotations for different people.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: If I don't mind it, except for when the people
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: use it against you and they think you know your
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: players coach is so you're no good. You know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: What has to happen in our organization is we have
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to have communication.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: We have to be able to do to get to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: the point where we understand the talent that we're dealing with,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: the player that we're dealing with. It is most important
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: that I know who Aaron Curry is and know what
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: he's all about so that I can figure him out,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: so that I can help the best position myself, so
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: that I can help him be the best he can be.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Whatever it takes to get that done is what I'm
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: willing to do. I could care less if these guys
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: like me, I can care less if they have if
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: they have this this you know, fun and games relationship
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: with their coach or whatever. You know, you want to
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: think that as a players coach designation is all about
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: It's about communication and I've got to make myself available
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: to figure out who they are and what they're all
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: about to help them be the very best they can be.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: If that that's what being a players coach is, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: don't know that. Maybe that's what that is. Okay, that's
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the first thing.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: What's a second?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Is there a difference in approach in the in that
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: regard fog I when when the players came back in
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: the last nine years to our organization back at SEE
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: and they'd come to us, and I always stick them
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: in front of the players.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: So I wanted our players to hear from those guys
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: in the league so that they would understand what what
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: the experience is like to try and help them, you know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: picture what they were going to get into eventually down
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the road.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: And the players would would.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Always come back and say, it's a business, it's it's
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: you don't understand, it's not what you think it was.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Gonna be like, it's totally different. They'll tell them stuff
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: like that. That's that's something that is I heard. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: heard that as a challenge to me. I heard that
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: as a challenge if I ever was back in that
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: situation to create the relationship with the players where you
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: could draw out of them the best they have to offer.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think you do that by not communicating with people.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I don't think you do that at a distance. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: think you do that by figuring out what where they
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: can go, who they are, what they have to offer,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: what's special about them, and then and then bring that
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: to life. Okay, so, uh is there a difference. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: don't think there needs to be a difference. What happens
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: in the NFL is guys get older and they get
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: a little more of a p of an opinion of
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: what the world is all about, their world, the football world,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: what's best for them. That's something that you deal with
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: and that's just a natural process that happens for guys
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: as they grow through the league, and we have to
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: grow together to help guys understand how that can work
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: against them, how that doesn't always suit them and it
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: doesn't always help them stay clear about what's really important.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: What's important in playing football on any level, from popcorner
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: to the NFL is working hard and guys have to
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: stay in connection with that. So whatever I can do
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: to help guys understand that and stay with that is
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: what's important. Is there a difference between talking to a
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: twenty year old kid or a twenty four year old
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: kid or a thirty four year old kid.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Unless you don't, unless you don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: understand that they grow and.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: They they expand their their vision, they have more opinion,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: more sense of the world that's around them, and I
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: and I have no problem with that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not worried about embracing that in any way.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I'm an old guy now, you know. I look back.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I was a young coachman before. I'm not a young
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: coach anymore.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I think I've got an ability to go back to
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: these guys and help them find their best. And as
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: long as a football player knows you you're helping them
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: get what he wants and be what he thinks he
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: can be, they're gonna listen.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And that's what we need to do.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: That's why communicating is so important. Maybe that's different than
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: how the rest of the league reins.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't know how to do it
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: any other way. That's the way we're gonna do it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Third part it So these experiences, then, do they uh
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: cause you to reflect that you're gonna change your approach
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: based on what you did in.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: New York and New England and US fourteen years ago
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: or thir I think thirteen years ago.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I took the job at New England thirteen years ago.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: You know, seasons, seasons and seasons and seasons have gone by,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: experiences have come and gone.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Players.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Some of the greatest players in our program are some
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: of the greatest players in the NFL right now. You
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: go back to Carson Hamer and Troy Polamalo and all
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: those guys that started up that we started off with,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: all the way to the the sixty guys that have
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: been drafted and whatever the you know, we put I
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: think there's forty eight guys or something in the league
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: right now. It's just that came out of our program
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: in the last few years, you know. So it's an
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: amazing amount of guys that we've dealt with. And I've
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: grown through this experience, and I think I know I
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: know so much more clearly where I'm coming from than
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I did then. I was not at my best at
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: New York. I can't tell you how how far away
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: I was then from where I am right now. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: was not at my best at New England. I think
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks have benefited from the fact of what I've
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: been through and what I've gone through. I don't have
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: any problem going to the league and going to these
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: players and helping them be the best they can possibly be.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I have no problem with that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: The challenges of it. It is a little bit different
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: in our format. We get to coach these guys so
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: much more, we get to be around them so much more.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: There's no compliance office, you know, there's it's just a
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: different deal.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: You know. And so so I'm not the same.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Hopefully I'm better and from the experiences that I've had
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: and the great challenges that we've lived. With the mindset
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: of being a champion for so many years and being
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: on top for so long, there's something that transforms you
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: somewhat in the way you look at things and your
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: expectations and what you expect from the people around you.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to bring that to a club. What
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: is a rest spark question right here. That's a good answer, man.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I like that one that was as long. Yeah what what?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: What was the first part? What's gonna be like for you?
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I think it's great. I talked to start last night
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: and and uh, I can't wait for us to get together.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: I love Steve Sarkusan. I'd love what what he stands
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: for and what he what he uh what he has
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: brought to this program. I just fricking hate that they
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: beat this last year. What we did?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: H I love?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Sorry, so well it it is great. We will collaborate,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: we'll work together.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna help him as much as I can with
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: their program as long as uh, I I have my
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: heart is will always be at SC so that there'll
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: always be an edge that I'll hold back. But uh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: you know I I the relationship will be uh deep
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and uh we'll have a great.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Time this week. You're thrilled to be running the football
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: programs in this town. I promise you, cos it's gonna
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: be the third straight fighter. It's gonna be a third
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: straight offensive and defensis system of this team.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: If he's running, are you gonna eat that transition?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And how to reach outst THO.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you know, it's a it's a real challenge
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: for the coach. You know you do you do you
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: wanna stay with the system to help the players a longer?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Do you? You wanna do what your best at.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: What we need to do as coaches is do what
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: we are best equipped to bring to this program and
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: then that there are gonna be some changes.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: There are gonna be some transitions, but we we to.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: To try and suit it for the players right now
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: is not to put us in the best position to
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: bring the best coaching that we have, so so they'll
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: be a likely a lot of commonality on what just
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: happened defensively and and uh, there's the background and the
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: lineage of what's happened here defensively and in the last
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: year really does fit very well to where I come from.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: We go way back in in in the system, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: that lineage is is common on the other side of
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the ball's gonna change and so it it's gonna shift
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: and you you'll.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: See alerd of this in your life.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Answer what uh what did you know?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: With specific Sam, don't hold me responsible for what I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: just said. I can't remember what I did okay, oh yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: what's the jetson vikers?
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: You know, you you grow ups as what did you
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: know specifically back then?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: There, that's a great question. I didn't know who the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: heck I was as a football coach. Th that that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Everybody has a philosophy, you just may not know how
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: to describe what it is. You know, you're living your life,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: you're doing your thing, you're doing your work, you have
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: a way of doing things. But what transformed for me
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: before getting the USC between New England and SC was
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: really I had an epiphany of what was most important
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: to me as a as a football coach, and in
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: that process of putting those thoughts together, it it it
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: kind of just solidified a mentality and an approach that
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: now has been put in practice for now ten years
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: that I feel like I'm bringing a very very clear
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: message to our football team when we get in our
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: meeting room, when we start this thing off, They're gonna
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: know where I'm coming from because I know where I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: coming from, and and in that I can the whole
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: challenge here is to get the whole organization on the
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: same page. Everybody is understands where we're coming from. What
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: we're all about where we're going, what we're doing.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that then. I didn't know it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: And I'm almost embarrassed to tell you that I'm coaching
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: an NFL club and I still didn't have my act together.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: But you have to figure it out. You have to
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: go through the process. And I challenge anybody to stand
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: up right here and tell me what your philosophy is.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: You can tell me what it is, and it's hard
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: to do that. We're gonna do things better than it's
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: ever been done before in everything we're doing.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: That's the line that we live with. That is the principle.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm a competitor and I'm gonna competition is going
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: to be the central team in this program, and on
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: and on and on, and as I deliver our message
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: and what we're all about to our club, they're going
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: to be extremely clear that it's my job to make
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: them clear and understand the coaches, the administration, the players,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: all the way down through it so that we can
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: be on the same page. The whole idea here is
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: to maximize all that we have available to and bring
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: it to where we can perform at our very best.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: That's the whole deal. And that's what I have to
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: get done in this process. The sooner that the players
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: will give in and start listening and not fight the
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: new stuff and not challenge us about the new system
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: and want to know, hey, Wybe, maybe should do it
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: this way, the sooner they start listening and give themselves
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: to us, the faster we'll move.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: And so that's what I didn't have.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't have that mentality, Sam, and I didn't And unfortunately,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody can operate at their optimum until
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: you get there.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And and it's what I've preached for every.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Individual guy and every coach to draw out the very
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: best they they have to offer. Well, you can't do
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: that if you don't know what the very best you
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: have is, you know. So we have to get through
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: that process self discovery and then bring it to light
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: and then make them sense of.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: It so that you can help people around you go
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and what's more.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Figured out who the actual words of football coach some
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: important point show.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Well, that's that's in the In the years that I
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: was in the NFL, I was an NFL guy, you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I coached in college for like ten or eleven years,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: and then they went to the league. In sixteen years
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: of it, I became an NFL guy. We did everything,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: set everything in the same exact vein uh, the same terminology,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: the same conceptual approach, tactical approach at USC that we
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: that we would do, we'll do right now. That's not
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: changing at all because it's the best I have to
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: offer for in our football. So throughout that process, you know,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I I was. I've always held in my mind that
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: the the the NFL is the highest level of competition.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: It's worth all of the resources come together.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: It is the best athletes, the best coaches, the best
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: of the best, and that's the best place to compete
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: if you're a competitive And that's why when the opportunity
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: what I was looking to see, was there ever a
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: chance to fit it together?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: There wasn't.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: It wasn't right because I couldn't sit up here and
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: talk to you like I'm telling you now how clearly
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I get to express what I have to offer now
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: This is the time, this is our opportunity.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you how, how h how that makes
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: me feel to have this chance now it's the very
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: the pinnacle of the competitive environment.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: And I get to work with it and go for
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it and and uh so it was yeah, it it
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: It was always in my mind.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: It wasn't uh I I loved coaching college coach college
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: football is awesome. The whole environment around the college m
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: uh mentality, the the the workplace, you know, being at
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: the university, sitting all of that is extraordinary.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: This is a little bit different.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: You know, this is the league, this is the NFL,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: and I can and I'm could be more pumped about
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: bringing it to it. Let's see how far we can
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: take it before your good.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: A process, what how your evaluation? What yours will stay.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Or what you go?
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: And where are you going to do?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah? That's yeah.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: We have to draw from all of the resources that
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: we have, all of the people that are here, all
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: the the information, the film that we have, and and
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: in in it is is as swiftly as we can
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: get through that. We start to evaluate and make our
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: our you know, our our assessments, and then from there
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: we put it together with what what comes up in
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: free agency, what happens in the draft, and and then
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: we go to work at it. There's uh you know,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: it's it's just a long, arduous process of uh I
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: and the evaluation process never ends, you know. Right, we
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: start and we go and we just keep working at it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Something that we we adapted uh uh to our way
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: we recruited in college. That you just keep looking at
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: the guys and you keep looking and looking and looking
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: into you. You just you you just ferret out every
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: single thing that you can get out of it, uh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: the information that that that's available to you, and then
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: you try you assess when you when you have to.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: We're not gonna rush in anything. We're gonna take our time.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: We're gonna do this right. We're gonna work forever to
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: get this done. And uh and so that we can
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: make the right choices. Well, we make all the right choices.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I'd like to say, Yeah, it's gonna you know, you
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: challenge it is this. This isn't like a a hundred
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: percent science here. You're gonna there's gonna be some manner.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: It is how we go about gathering the what we
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: need to make those kinds of choices, and we do
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: it with great care.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: So you must have looked hard about what's here in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: football A lot of not as much, not as much
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: as I would like. I haven't had time to do that.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: What do you what you do now?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: What?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: What kind of mouth do you have upon here a morning?
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Now, I I'm I'm not even gonna go there cause
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I have that it would be I'd be remiss cause
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: I don't have enough information right now. I I know
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: that we have a quarterback that that has played really
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: good football in his career. Uh, Matty, He's he he's
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: feeling pretty good. He's bouncing back from a sore shoulder
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: during the season. He's ready to go. That That is
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: one of the key elements of putting together a team
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: that has a chance to win right away. You gotta
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: have quarterback.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And so, uh, I know that we have.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: We have a first class guy, Matt, and I can't
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: wait to get working with him. And and there's a
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: lot of there's a lot of strikes. There's some issues
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: that we have to do with that we'll deal with
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: in time. But I but the the NFL is is
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: a quarterback driven you know process, and so the fact
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: that we have Matt hasselback here is is uh a big.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Factor to me.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: He's played the game, he's been a champion, he knows
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: how to get the thing done. We gotta get his
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: his his support group, and in in his play to
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: the level that gives us a chance to.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Play pay football. Okay, we're back up.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm thrilled that he's got that background
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: of that experience. Right now, he's not banged up, he said,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: he's really healthy.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: You mentioned the other day about thinking a lesson from
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: your father. I'll I'll look back and make that decision.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Just keep going. I mean, it can't be.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: It's as it's as simple as disfiguratively take take the step,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: you take the job, you take the challenge, and you
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: never look over your shoulder. That's just it's as clearly
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: as it is, and you make the decision a great decision.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, my pop told me that a long
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: time ago. Uh, and it was it.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: It couldn't be more true in this situation right now,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: and anybody on the back end of it that's wondering.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not going. I'm not looking back, you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm only looking to the future and we're gonna
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: by the way we approach it will make something happen
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: with special manner.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Yea later on that you hired out your staff.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I I haven't talked to Alis yet today.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: But if that, if that comes together, it's one of
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: the it'll be one of the great UH achievements in
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: a in a early process of putting this thing together,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: he's a fantastic football coach. Uh A And and UH,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to get out of here, So I'll
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: call him and see where we're going now, like.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You'll almost work here in two thousand with the Seahawks.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Is there any connections with the Seahawks as a cornerbacks coach?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: No?
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: No, are you that?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: If there was, I can't remember it. I remember that.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: How do you feel at up the previous staff or
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: do you wanna start you or no?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: No, no, there's there's there's th there's some tremendous coaches
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: here in the in the program and UH, as we
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: put this thing together, you know, we're gonna go through
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: and evaluate everybody as the best we can and try
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: to make the right choices. This is an extremely difficult
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: time in the coaching world.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: UH.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Families involved and kids involved in the whole thing, and
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: and with great care, we we'll try to work our
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: way through this. Just in leaving the program at sc
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: UH UH you know, in meeting with the co with
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: the coaching staff yesterday. It's a tremendously difficult time and
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: and challenging time for everyone. And so with great care
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: and heart, will you know, we'll move through this and
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: try to make great decisions. But uh, there are some
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: excellent coaches here, obviously, you.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Think the hiring a coach first before GM is usually
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: a backward way to do it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: You see a positive in that? And do you see? Yeah,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I think there's a real positive and I get to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: be involved with it. Yeah, I like it a lot.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Cause the DM field limited now because of your of your.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Import Well, as we said, we're gonna we're gonna work
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: it out with the candidates that are here, and they're
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: they're the the different levels of experience and backgrounds they have.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: We'll put this thing together in a way that that
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: will hopefully maximize you, it will maximize.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: What we bring to the organization. So, uh, we're gonna
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: do that exactly the right way, hope.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Last question, do you have any personal relationships with members
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: of the artists?
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Sure? Sure, yeah, there there there are guys yeah that
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: that Uh they've worked within a couple of different settings
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: and stuff, and and uh that's all part of the
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: information that we have, you know, to to deal with
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: and all and and uh, you know I it won't
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: work out for everybody, and and uh, this is a
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: very difficult business. And in that I wish the guys
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: the very best. That we can't work together, and if
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: we can, then we'll try to. Uh we'll put together
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: something really unique. And specially, thank you very much for
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: having me. And it's it's a it's a blast, BC Hawk.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you. M