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Michael Jerrell: "It Feels Like Home" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: For you.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think the first couple of days went
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 1: I think it went will It was a it's a
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  Speaker 1: bit of adjusting period, coming from uh, coming from college
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  Speaker 1: and learning like my coaches philosophies and having to learn
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  Speaker 1: a new coaches philosophy. I mean, it's always a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not a challenge that I'm I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a challenge that I'm not too small for. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's been pretty good so far. Uh, And I'm handling
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  Speaker 1: it pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Looked like they give you a little bit a time
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  Speaker 3: of guard too. What was that like playing inside a
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  Speaker 3: but I know you were mostly attacked like a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It feel good playing at uh plane at guard.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Everything happened so fast, but it's all it's I feel
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  Speaker 1: like the same thing is tackle. It's just everything's just
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  Speaker 1: right there in front of you. And obviously going against
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  Speaker 1: a bigger guy. I think my my speeding length at
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  Speaker 1: guard kind of helps me a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't really have too much trouble, was just
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  Speaker 1: getting adjusted to it.
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  Speaker 3: What was the biggest difference you see making the D
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  Speaker 3: two jump up to giving a practice like this and
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  Speaker 3: the speed different some kind of how to adjust to
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  Speaker 3: the slumvel.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, there's not it's not really too much
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  Speaker 1: of a speed difference. It's just guys are more discipline.
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  Speaker 1: I would say D two kind of guys kind of
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  Speaker 1: fall out of fall out and do things that aren't characteristic.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're playing against a better competition, Uh, obviously
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  Speaker 1: they're bigger, but they're just more They're just more discipline.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they lift the same ways as we lift
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  Speaker 1: at D two, So they're all everybody strong. It's just
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  Speaker 1: attention to detail is a little bit more different.
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  Speaker 4: What's just sort of this whole week THEND like for
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  Speaker 4: you to get drafted. I think it was last Saturday
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  Speaker 4: you got drafted, and now you're hear havn't gone through
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  Speaker 4: a couple of NFL practices and all that, but just
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  Speaker 4: kind of I guess that will we just kind of
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  Speaker 4: what like for that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: At first, when I got drafted, the whole two or
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  Speaker 1: three days, like my phone was just not stop ringing
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  Speaker 1: for like four days, and I just had to put
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  Speaker 1: it on do not disturbed, And it was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit overwhelming. I kind of get like sometimes like social
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  Speaker 1: anxiety from my phone ringing too much. But like once
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  Speaker 1: they calmed down, it's been good. And then getting up
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  Speaker 1: here just felt like home, you know, like just soaking
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  Speaker 1: it all in, Like I can't believe I'm really here
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle, you know, playing being I'm a Seahawk. Now.
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  Speaker 2: So you talked about this a little bit last week,
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  Speaker 2: but it's how much pride do you take representing Findlay
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  Speaker 2: and with Division two guys that are there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of D two guys that make that league.
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  Speaker 4: Oh a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I might one day, I might get Findley tatted on me,
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  Speaker 1: but I take Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: where I came from. I wouldn't trade my experience for
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm glad the coaches and the players, and
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  Speaker 1: the teachers and the students that I met at the school.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade my experience for the world. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: I went to Finley and uh, I would do it
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  Speaker 1: all over again if.
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  Speaker 4: I could give me the invite to Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: How did that all come about?
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  Speaker 1: My former coach, Robert Keys, he's a he's a quality
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  Speaker 1: control coach for the special teams at Ohio State. My so,
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  Speaker 1: when he had left and he had my head coach
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  Speaker 1: had reached out to him and said, hell, can we
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  Speaker 1: get Mike into the Ohio State Pro Day? Their strength
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  Speaker 1: coach like yeah, let's let's get him in. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's how went from there.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, how far away is that? Where you at like.
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  Speaker 1: An hour, like an hour and thirty from Findley and
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  Speaker 1: it's like two hours and thirty minutes from Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks, thank you, appreciation