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Boye Mafe: "I Appreciate The Faith The Team Has In Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, afternoon, Oh my fault, good afternoon. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Wait, how'd you feel about your first game?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was the first one. Not everything was perfect,
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  Speaker 1: not everything was what you wanted it to be, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was a good one to start. We
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  Speaker 1: got the win. At the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 1: the main focus. So I'm just happy to leave the
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  Speaker 1: game with the dub and leave the win and leave
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  Speaker 1: the stuff to work on to be ready for the
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  Speaker 1: next one. But it leaves a good taste in your
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  Speaker 1: mouth when you do it with a win.
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  Speaker 2: What is the Patriots office?
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  Speaker 1: What will the Patriots office.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge you most?
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  Speaker 1: But oh, I mean they have their their identity. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a new team, new coach. They're having they're creating
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  Speaker 1: their identity, and right now they're creating identity in the
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  Speaker 1: run game. So we're we're focusing whatever it is, whatever
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  Speaker 1: their challenge is, whatever they have, we have to have
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  Speaker 1: a plan for it. So at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things that you game plan. You
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  Speaker 1: figure out what they want to do and how they
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  Speaker 1: want to create it. We have our create, made our
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  Speaker 1: best efforts to defend that.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you feel dropping in the coverage as much as
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  Speaker 2: you did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know, me and Mike on top,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just messing around. No, it was actually it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty good. You know. We've had off season for
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  Speaker 1: it camp going into it, so we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: it and understanding that it is another part of my game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something that I have to grow in and
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  Speaker 1: something I have to become a player. That's you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you can do more, the more valuable you are.
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  Speaker 1: So I have to be able to learn and figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to do this part of my game.
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  Speaker 2: Guessing. During the game, you maybe don't see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on behind you, but when you put
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  Speaker 2: the film on, watch the way the defensive backs were
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  Speaker 2: making tackles in the open field. Just how big is
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  Speaker 2: that for your defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge. It's huge. It's huge because especially as a
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  Speaker 1: dan lineman, you know, the biggest thing that we train
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  Speaker 1: ourselves is running out of the stacks once the ball
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  Speaker 1: is throwing downfield, getting out, chasing the ball downfield. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're chasing downfield and you're seeing the plays being made,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like a wow. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the catch, catch, tackle, catch, tackle. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big thing for us is catch tackles. So even if
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  Speaker 1: they catch the ball going down, not getting a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of yards after the throw, that's big for us.
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  Speaker 2: Does this defense ask you to drop and coverage more
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  Speaker 2: than you have.
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  Speaker 1: In the past. Uh? Yeah, I mean it's it's one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that's a new defense, new scheme, new things.
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely asked me to play a different role
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  Speaker 1: and be a different player. So it's one thing I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting adjusted to and just one thing that I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for. Did you do that in college? Too? Small?
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot. In college I only regarded running backs
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  Speaker 1: and tight ends, nothing, no receivers. So it's a different
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  Speaker 1: world for me, but you know, getting adjusted to it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you have to do to train differently for that
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  Speaker 2: or to prepare for that? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Basically for me, the biggest thing is getting with you know,
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  Speaker 1: the dB coaches, and getting with the coaches understanding coverages
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  Speaker 1: and concepts and what they actually what they actually do.
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  Speaker 1: Where my help is where I gotta be. So just
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  Speaker 1: having those conversations and really letting that not just my coach,
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  Speaker 1: and having other coaches help me with a lot along
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  Speaker 1: with that that you're gonna have to talk to Mike
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  Speaker 1: that happens.
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  Speaker 2: But what do you appreciate about a new challenge?
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  Speaker 1: I just, honestly, for me, I believe I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: faith that they have in me. I appreciate the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they do believe in me as a player and
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  Speaker 1: they believe that I can do it. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's a challenge and it's something that I have to
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  Speaker 1: step up to the plate and do.
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  Speaker 2: You were on the field there a ton of plays
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  Speaker 2: this last game, and probably more snaps than they would
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  Speaker 2: usually have a guy in a rotation doing. Just how
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  Speaker 2: comfortable were you playing that much throughout a game.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the things, you know, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's the bell. You know, we have some guys down
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  Speaker 1: right now. So for me, it's next time mentality and
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  Speaker 1: just being able to step up and be a person
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  Speaker 1: in that position. That's the biggest thing. There's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: one person of this defense that's bigger or more than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: So the thing about is that we can use so
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  Speaker 1: many people in different ways, and at the time that
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  Speaker 1: was what was asked was me and asked them a team.
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  Speaker 1: So it just stepped up to the plate and be
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  Speaker 1: that player.
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  Speaker 2: For us, it seemed like the defense was light years
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  Speaker 2: faster in this game then what we saw last year.
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  Speaker 1: Did it feel that way on the field, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean the you know, we've been doing a lot countless
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  Speaker 1: reps from OTAs to now to you know, coming into
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  Speaker 1: a new system and learning it. We all took the
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  Speaker 1: hotness awareness of knowing that this is what we needed
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  Speaker 1: to do. So honestly, I feel as if with all
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  Speaker 1: the reps that we had going into the game, it
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  Speaker 1: felt a lot better. And that connective of spending the
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  Speaker 1: time with each other to understand how each other play,
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  Speaker 1: how to you know, communicate and all that, so I
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was made it easier the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we were able to go out there, play faster and
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  Speaker 1: just understand that you could trust to God to your
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  Speaker 1: left and right, so you do your job to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent, they'll do their job to one hundred percent too.
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  Speaker 1: With this defense, so important space awareness, just understanding your
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  Speaker 1: space and then protecting that space and then going to
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  Speaker 1: different angles if you need to in terms of running
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  Speaker 1: back and things like that. Uh yeah, I mean, at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's like the in the
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  Speaker 1: simplest form, you know, there's the there's essence of you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got your job. You know it's a top gun.
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  Speaker 1: You never leave your wing man, right, So in essence,
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  Speaker 1: I have my job and someone asked has let's say
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  Speaker 1: they have the next responsibility. If I can hold my
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  Speaker 1: end of the bargain down, set the edge that I
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  Speaker 1: can trust in somebody else to clean it up. I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to make every play, but as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: we make it so that somebody can walk into make
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  Speaker 1: a play your top gun. You use analogy like that
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  Speaker 1: movie Top Gun. I remember my coach used to teach
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  Speaker 1: me in college. He used to say that to us
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  Speaker 1: is never leave your wing man, and I just always
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  Speaker 1: have to always stuck with me. How'd you feel about
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  Speaker 1: the past rush in general.
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  Speaker 2: In this game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot of hits on the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of sacks, but I felt as if
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  Speaker 1: it was we were getting home. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things is it was a first go at it. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was the first time with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bullets, and it is exciting for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something that we can build off and grow.
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  Speaker 1: It's never perfect, it's never exactly what you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: look like. But I feel like it's a good building
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  Speaker 1: block to start the season off. When you watch for
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  Speaker 1: Modreck Stevenson on film, what stands out if anything, or
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  Speaker 1: what you said when you watch for Modre Stevenson thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight they're back for the Patriots, what stands.
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  Speaker 2: Out if anything?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's a very patient runner. He knows
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing. You know, he's had a very successful
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  Speaker 1: first week, so he's gonna be building off of that,
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  Speaker 1: and we have to understand what we have to do
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  Speaker 1: as a defense and how to minimize his success. And
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  Speaker 1: that's at the end of the day. You got to
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  Speaker 1: watch how he was being successful against Cincinnati and how
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna attack that and how are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sure that it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen Derek Hall grow from his rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Season now, he's grown tremendously. He's definitely gotten a lot
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable. He's definitely gotten to the point where it's
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  Speaker 1: and I'd love to see it. You know. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that's especially being here with him as
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  Speaker 1: he got him into the LEA came into the league,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seeing them transition in year two. His comfortability,
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  Speaker 1: his confidence is growing. He's becoming a player that he could.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be in the league for a while,
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  Speaker 1: so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of remind you of what you did you're one
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  Speaker 2: of year two, just how that sort of the cover
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  Speaker 2: you felt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can definitely see that, the comfortability and how
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, playing the game and how he's seeing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's starting to see a lot more than he did
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  Speaker 1: his rookie year, So that's one thing I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: I give him his kudos too, because you know, he
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  Speaker 1: definitely had to do some work in the off season
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  Speaker 1: to get to that point. So yeah, I definitely see
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  Speaker 1: the comfortability too, and how he's playing, how he goes
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  Speaker 1: out there, and he's just he feels like he's ready
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  Speaker 1: to be out there and not like you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you first get in the league, it is deer in headlights.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no way around it. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: for me, especially my rookieyears, I didn't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: I just knew a job. But now we're having conversations
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  Speaker 1: about things we see on the field and things that
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  Speaker 1: we can take advantage of. So that definitely seen that
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  Speaker 1: growth and then it makes it very exciting. Back to
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  Speaker 1: the idea of you dropping more. Obviously you're not getting
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  Speaker 1: as many chances to rush the quarterback, but the chances
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  Speaker 1: you do get can can those be more effective when
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  Speaker 1: the tackle doesn't know whether you're going forward or going backwards?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things is that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about this defense is that you never know who's
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  Speaker 1: going who's not going, So it gives you an advantage.
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  Speaker 1: And it's one of those things that you have to
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  Speaker 1: use it to your advantage of you know, maybe showing something,
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  Speaker 1: showing them a picture and making it look like this,
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  Speaker 1: but oh then maybe they'll seehm, I'm dropping and the
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  Speaker 1: next thing I'm coming, and next time, oh, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: rush off the edge and next thing you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: dropping back. So you definitely have to use that to
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  Speaker 1: your advantage. One of the things, it's like how offensive
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  Speaker 1: disguised their places. You know, you see a formation or
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  Speaker 1: you have a receiver that's close to the core, but
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, he's run to the flat. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a give and take, you know, how they
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  Speaker 1: disguise their plays. We discuss our calls. Thank you appreciate it.