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Brady Russell: "The Biggest Thing I Pride Myself On Is Multiplicity" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you congrats the first few days of PARENTID.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great, It's it's fun. She's super cute. So
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  Speaker 3: I never thought a newborn was cute until I was
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  Speaker 3: on my own.
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  Speaker 4: What was Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: Like, Uh, Saturday was cool. It was eventful.
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  Speaker 3: The night before we like kind of thought she was
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  Speaker 3: in labor having contractions and stuff, so it was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm gonna be at the game,
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  Speaker 3: don't know if I'm gonna have to be home. And
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  Speaker 3: then contractions held off and stuff. So I was like
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  Speaker 3: all right, and she just like go play, like, go
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  Speaker 3: have fun, and so uh went and then halftime checked
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  Speaker 3: and she was back having contractions again and stuff. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like I better hit the road.
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  Speaker 1: So where you want to learn the whole time?
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  Speaker 4: Like was there a playing somebody's gonna tell you if
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  Speaker 4: it was going down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I gave her our security guys number George,
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  Speaker 3: and they had like a car and stuff ready in
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  Speaker 3: case I needed to get out of there quick. But
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't super urgent. I had time to go home
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  Speaker 3: and get her and yeah, or height and weight and
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  Speaker 3: what's that?
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  Speaker 1: What's the end?
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  Speaker 3: She was twenty and a half inches, she's nine pounds
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  Speaker 3: four ounces.
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  Speaker 1: She's a little tank. Her name's Hadley.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ready you ever had a league game really before?
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  Speaker 1: What was absolutely not? Yeah? That was fun as h.
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  Speaker 3: I love the guys that work security of the garage there,
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  Speaker 3: so they were all pumped up for me, giving me
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  Speaker 3: fist bumps as I left the stadium and direct me out,
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  Speaker 3: getting me through.
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  Speaker 1: Quick, so make a hit get out. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: that's your first right, Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 2: How uh in retrospect, how.
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  Speaker 1: Good was it that you've been with a team now
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  Speaker 1: three going on four years, that you had in roads
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  Speaker 1: that you could connections, that you could range all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's super helpful for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And just everybody wanting to help me out and not
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  Speaker 3: feeling like a hindrance that my wife's giving birth. You
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  Speaker 3: know that they're all supporting me and loving me and
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  Speaker 3: just excited for me to go have my first child.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of perspectives I give you? You know, we
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  Speaker 1: touch a little bit about having a child.
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  Speaker 4: What did you get out of that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think the I have the perspective probably ahead
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  Speaker 3: of time, because I had nine months to prepare. If
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  Speaker 3: you will not that I'd ever really feel prepared, but
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  Speaker 3: just the perspective of it. Now, it's like when I
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  Speaker 3: got into the NFL, I'm just a single dude that's
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  Speaker 3: out there having fun playing ball, But it really does
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  Speaker 3: turn into provision for your family. So it's pretty cool
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  Speaker 3: being able to like feel like I'm actually making a
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  Speaker 3: difference in someone's life just by just by going out
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  Speaker 3: and executing plays.
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  Speaker 4: You to talk to with, you know, football side or
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  Speaker 4: gamma side to kind of give you some perspective on,
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  Speaker 4: you know, balancing the football.
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  Speaker 1: Side and the family side as well.
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  Speaker 4: Say that again, anybody you talked to in football or
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  Speaker 4: family to kind of give you more perspective on how
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  Speaker 4: to kind of you handle fatherhood going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't think I really I mean, I got
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  Speaker 3: a billion people to give me advice, I guess, but no,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't in particular seeking a bunch at that point.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've done all the I'm never going
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  Speaker 3: to be prepared right for fatherhood. No one ever feels
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  Speaker 3: totally prepared. So I guess just being content in the
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  Speaker 3: fact that I can only control the things I can
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  Speaker 3: control and letting everything else fall into place.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to football, We've seen you all over
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  Speaker 4: the field.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about Chlorrie his offense and how
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  Speaker 2: he wants to.
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  Speaker 1: Susie this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the multiplicity and just all the different
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  Speaker 3: things we get to do, and it's fun, like we're
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  Speaker 3: all everybody's given their best shot to try to, Like
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  Speaker 3: I want to prove that we move the ball best
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  Speaker 3: in base I'm sure the receivers want to prove that
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  Speaker 3: we move the ball best. And eleven personnel and tight
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  Speaker 3: ends want twelve personnel. Some of us want thirteen personnel,
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  Speaker 3: fourteen persons. So it's just fun competing with everybody and
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  Speaker 3: trying to prove that you're the guy that should be
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  Speaker 3: one of the best eleven on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I saw you and Jared Ivy involved in a big hit
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  Speaker 2: on special teams. That's something you really can't do out
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  Speaker 2: here in practice. How valuable are those kickoff reps and
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  Speaker 2: hunting reps in the games to get that full.
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  Speaker 3: Contact in Yeah, it's super valuable because obviously, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to go running over our own returners
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  Speaker 3: or putting our own guys blocking in harm's way or something.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have to pull up early. So it's fun when
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  Speaker 3: you actually get to go unleash it on another team.
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  Speaker 4: First one, How could that feel?
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  Speaker 1: First one? Yeah, it felt great, felt great.
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  Speaker 4: It's sort of the de facto captain of the special teams.
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  Speaker 4: How how much pread did you take last year? It's
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  Speaker 4: sort of that was such a key part in every game,
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  Speaker 4: I mean the kickoff return of the divisional game. What
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  Speaker 4: happened at the championship game.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Myer.
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  Speaker 4: Some people thought could be MVP in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: bend of thing. I mean, it was like everybody significantly
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  Speaker 4: do something on social teams down the stress there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we took a ton of pride in it and
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  Speaker 3: just treating our roles like it's an offensive and defensive role,
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  Speaker 3: and like we're running our own plays out there, and
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  Speaker 3: we have our own calls, and every time you go
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  Speaker 3: in the game, like something different could be called. So
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  Speaker 3: you got to be totally prepared and know, all right,
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  Speaker 3: this is the play that's called, this is what my
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  Speaker 3: guy's going to try to do to me. And Jay
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  Speaker 3: puts us in really good situations to be prepared, which
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  Speaker 3: I love. There's a lot of babies now in that
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  Speaker 3: locker room.
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  Speaker 4: Is there like a community of Seahawk babies now?
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  Speaker 1: And off the field. That kind of makes things a little.
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  Speaker 3: Different, it doesn't make it too different. The moms are
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  Speaker 3: all our wives. I guess they're all super close here,
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  Speaker 3: So it's cool that group, just how they rally and
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  Speaker 3: support each other and love each other.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think the babies.
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  Speaker 3: Are changing anything, but they've definitely added some new responsibility
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  Speaker 3: to the group.
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  Speaker 4: Were able to see Hard Knocks offside where they show it,
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  Speaker 4: the scene where you had to leave it halftime and everything.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually not watching the Hard Knocks till till after.
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  Speaker 3: I got too many things going on already.
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  Speaker 2: I like your teammates, you know, congratulating you when you're leaving.
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  Speaker 2: What was that moment like if like your leading locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Your teammates are all giving me a love in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the game there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's super kind of them. It's like such a
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  Speaker 3: unique thing because it's like I'm like, holy Colum, about
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  Speaker 3: to go have a kid. I'm freaking out in my
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  Speaker 3: head trying to get ready to get in the car,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, everybody comes show me some love.
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  Speaker 1: Was very sweet of them.
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  Speaker 4: Are you pretty much like exclusively working at full back now?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still doing like stuff in the tight end rooms. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The probably the biggest thing I'm priding myself on is multiplicity.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to be able to do everything a
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  Speaker 3: tight end does and everything a fullback does, and I
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  Speaker 3: want to prove that I'm capable of that too because
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  Speaker 3: it is a lot of responsibility. So no, I think
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  Speaker 3: I want to do a little bit everything still.
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  Speaker 2: Really like Robbi's injured, you're number one up on that
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  Speaker 2: spine now, Like, how comfortable do you feel with full
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  Speaker 2: back into total we obviously in their last year too,
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  Speaker 2: like taking.
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  Speaker 4: That rule now and running with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely feel a lot more comfortable this year
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  Speaker 3: after having a year of learning and just understanding what
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  Speaker 3: it looks like to play that position in the re belt.
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  Speaker 1: So things feel a lot. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know easier is the right word, but my
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  Speaker 3: mental process pre snap is a lot smooth this year,
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  Speaker 3: and understanding what the defense is showing me and what
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  Speaker 3: I need to do on that play.
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  Speaker 1: Joint practices.
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  Speaker 4: Just the benefits of that is you guys at the
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  Speaker 4: road kind of bonding and all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome because there's a lot Like most all
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  Speaker 3: the time in practice, you're not wanting to finish your
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  Speaker 3: own teammates to the ground and get pancakes and stuff like.
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  Speaker 3: You want to take care of each other. So it's
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  Speaker 3: fun when you go against another team and you get
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  Speaker 3: to truly kind of unleash and and just open up
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  Speaker 3: that extra little notch if you will anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thanks guys.