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DeMarcus Lawrence: "I Couldn't Ask For A Better Front Four To Be A Part Of" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh as well, just got done with a practice. You know,
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  Speaker 1: now it's time the cold tub chill.
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  Speaker 2: What's your recovery in the quite after practice? Uh? I
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  Speaker 2: started with some uh pool treadmill.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to explaining it, but treadmill in
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  Speaker 1: the pool, walk for five minutes, you know, cold, tough
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  Speaker 1: for another ten minutes, get in the hot, tough for three,
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  Speaker 1: back in the cold, tough for five, Shower up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then if I have enough time to get some boots,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get some boots before meetings.
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  Speaker 3: Donje Vowler said, yeah, you were a guy obviously that
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  Speaker 3: he talked to before the signed the sign here. Just
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  Speaker 3: come what was your sales pitch for coming here?
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  Speaker 2: And then what's he gonna bring to this team?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't too much. I had to sell long.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the proof is in the you know putting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he he was able to see what we
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  Speaker 1: was able to accomplish last year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have a tight knit a group around here.
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  Speaker 1: So I told him, if you know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of a Super Bowl winning defense, a
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  Speaker 1: real brotherhood, you know, come to the Hawks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you can say it was stressful, but you know
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  Speaker 1: It was a blessing, you know, just you know, be
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  Speaker 1: able to have my mind set on you know, receiving
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  Speaker 1: a child into this world, uh my last child at that,
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  Speaker 1: and then on top of it, you know, put a
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  Speaker 1: cherry on the top end, you know, get to win
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl, like you know, I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: all a man can dream of, receiving a child and
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: So that long after the game was a baby born.
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  Speaker 2: Baby was born next day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we was in there partying with t pay
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  Speaker 1: and the baby baby came twelve hours later.
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  Speaker 2: That that was your That was your sixth child, right,
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  Speaker 2: sixth child? Correct? Having six children's like.
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  Speaker 1: Man, uh, you know all honesty. You wouldn't believe me
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  Speaker 1: if I told you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has their own you know personality, you know, different
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  Speaker 1: characteristics about themselves. It's just you know, really finding out
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  Speaker 1: what what each child likes. You know, they're themeanor my
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  Speaker 1: girls are meaner than my boys. But my boys know
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  Speaker 1: they can't touch the girls, so you know, the girls
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  Speaker 1: just be wilding off on the boys. So we got
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  Speaker 1: a you know, interesting dynamics in the in the household.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all of enough. You mentioned the brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: Brotherhood earlier in figular with the veteran guys like Jay
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  Speaker 3: Ry trying to obviously you and and Leo. What's not
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  Speaker 3: like all you guys with all the experience you have,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of you played different places.
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  Speaker 2: Just how's that come together?
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  Speaker 1: It's genuine, man, you know, just to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play with these boys over the last year and you
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  Speaker 1: know just where we were last year, what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to build on and you know, become you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just great to have those caliber of leaders in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room with you like minded guys. And yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't ask for a better you know, Front four to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of with aught.
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  Speaker 2: That was going on at the end of it. Did
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  Speaker 2: it take you a little while to decide to come
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  Speaker 2: back and play this year? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I kind of had my mind made up
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  Speaker 1: that you know, if I won, I was done. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I kind of had a bittersweet feeling
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  Speaker 1: in my heart, you know, understanding that you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the with the type of team that we have, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, we should have been where we were last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is where the hard part begins. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, staying on the top.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you like about that challenge? Shoot? You know.
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  Speaker 1: They say it's no fun when the rabbit has the gun.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're we're the ones with the dot on
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  Speaker 1: our back. So you know, I just want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: see how that feels.
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  Speaker 2: See see you know, the different obstacles that we can overcome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how were we gonna stay together and those
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  Speaker 1: tough moments throughout the season, you know, and just be
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  Speaker 1: a part of this brotherhood once more.
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  Speaker 3: I saw you when the when the when the crowd
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  Speaker 3: noise went on and you're kind of up there trying
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  Speaker 3: to get the crowd into it. I mean, even even
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  Speaker 3: as long as you've played, it seems like you still
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  Speaker 3: enjoying that part of it being out here and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, most definitely. Man, we got the best crowd
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  Speaker 1: in America. So you know, if we if we're out
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  Speaker 1: here working, I believe they're out here working too.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you know, the twelve is one is for.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, just wanted to, you know, get their juices, spart,
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  Speaker 1: let them know that I see them being a part
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  Speaker 1: of everything that we do here.
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  Speaker 2: When went back to the side that you're coming back.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, at what point in the off season. Did
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  Speaker 2: you flip with decide to.
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  Speaker 1: Come back when my wife said it was okay?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when you made it back after the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. How much time did you have to spare?
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  Speaker 1: Baby came next day Sunday, Super Bowl Monday, Baby was here.
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  Speaker 2: You know it wasn't no time to spare. You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I gotta do it again.
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  Speaker 3: That's question.
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  Speaker 2: Say anything else side. I appreciate y'all expert