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Sam Darnold: "We Came Out With Really Good Energy" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I thought, Uh, I thought it was a good practice.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously great too great to finally, you know, practice and
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  Speaker 1: play against you know, another team, see some different scheme.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, all things considered, I thought we came
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  Speaker 1: out really good energy and uh yeah, I thought we
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  Speaker 1: practiced hard, executed some plays. Obviously there's some stuff to
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  Speaker 1: clean up, but I thought it was a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: day overall.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like you and Jackson really kind a good
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  Speaker 2: thing going today. Just how is that like relationship between
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  Speaker 2: YouTube growing as a as you get used.
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  Speaker 3: To each other's Yeah, it's been great. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think just all the time that we put in
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  Speaker 1: after practice. You know, if something doesn't necessarily click during practice,
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  Speaker 1: we're always all right, let's get that after after practice.
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  Speaker 1: And uh that's kind of the you know, the way
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing things in training camp, and it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: been paying off a little bit. So we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: continue to do that and uh work work, the timing
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  Speaker 1: of different routes.
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  Speaker 3: What you person get out.
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  Speaker 1: Of seeing different scheme, uh seem different defensive scheme, the
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  Speaker 1: way that they get to their certain coverages, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the biggest thing that I
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  Speaker 1: got out of.
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  Speaker 3: Today when he had to catch it, Yeah, that one down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was Uh, He's been doing it
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  Speaker 1: all camp. He's been making incredible catches like that, so
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  Speaker 1: it didn't necessarily surprise me. Incredible play though, you know
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  Speaker 1: when he went up there with one hand, a big mitt,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was I knew that it was over
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  Speaker 1: a fifty percent chance of catching it. Uh, but that
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  Speaker 1: was it was an incredible catch.
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  Speaker 3: What if you thought his camp just in general.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, you know, I think you know, from
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  Speaker 1: where he started at the beginning of OTAs in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: uh learning the offense kind of you know, just learning
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  Speaker 1: the routes, learning the system because as a tight end,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta understand some protections. You gotta understand understand the
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  Speaker 1: route tree, all the concepts, and you gotta understand the
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  Speaker 1: run game, all the calls in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's it's a tough position.
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  Speaker 1: To play, especially as a rookie, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he is just continuing to improve every single day.
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  Speaker 3: But you see it.
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  Speaker 1: You see you know, him coming early in the building
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  Speaker 1: in the tight end room with all the other tight ends,
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  Speaker 1: learning the system, doing everything that he can to.
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  Speaker 3: To understand it better. And that's a that's all you
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  Speaker 3: can ask for about how your own camp has gone,
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  Speaker 3: just to just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's been great. I think I
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  Speaker 1: think I've had a pre solid camp. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: always things do improve on, but you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: just overall, you know, I think just the communication between
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  Speaker 1: me and you know, all my teammates, all the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: being understand kind of the system, what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get done, you know, any questions that I have, being
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  Speaker 1: very vocal about it, and just getting on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing that so far in camp. But we
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  Speaker 1: just got to continue to to.
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  Speaker 3: Stack these days.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you when you've installed all your your offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the installs, red zone, third stuff, two minute,
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  Speaker 1: it can seem like a lot, especially when you start
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  Speaker 1: practicing and you get to those situations you don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: know we're coming up. You know, you haven't really studied
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  Speaker 1: two minutes and you know, a couple of days and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're in a two minute drill.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good stuff to just keep us on our
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  Speaker 1: toes and and it really. Uh, it really forces you
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  Speaker 1: to learn the playbook.
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  Speaker 3: In the enthusiasm this team, we're just can always park in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what's your impression of just kind of figure this team
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  Speaker 3: was that how it was down there? Yeah, that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's incredible, man to be able to go up
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  Speaker 1: against that defense every day and then come out here
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  Speaker 1: and finally be on the same team. Uh No, it's
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  Speaker 1: incredible just the defense, the way that they come out
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  Speaker 1: every single practice, even in the locker room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh not in practice. I feel like they're always laughing,
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  Speaker 1: joking around super loud in the locker room. So they're
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  Speaker 1: just they're great guys to be around and guys that
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  Speaker 1: you love to have on your team.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike told us jaln Bill Rowe is gonna get
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  Speaker 2: the whole game Saturday. Just where are you being in
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  Speaker 2: that room with him where you've seen it grow the most?
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  Speaker 4: Quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for Jay it's.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think for him, he's he's so gifted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, passing, you know, going on the run, you know,
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  Speaker 1: running making guys miss down the field. But for him,
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  Speaker 1: what he'sn't impressed me the most and is just sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the pocket and some of the throws that he's
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  Speaker 1: able to make. You know, I feel like the practice
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  Speaker 1: that we had a couple of days ago, he had
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  Speaker 1: a really beautiful seam seam bald to Elijah uh down
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  Speaker 1: the scene for a touchdown. And you know, he continues
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  Speaker 1: to make those throws every single day. And and then
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  Speaker 1: the work, the work that he's putting in off the
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  Speaker 1: field to be able to learn the system a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more. And you know, he's he's clearly putting in
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  Speaker 1: the work and you're you're starting to see it pay
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  Speaker 1: dividends on the field.
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  Speaker 3: This defense really well play twice lest year. What kind
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  Speaker 3: of stands down to your group?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just the multiple defenses that they run,
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  Speaker 1: the way that they like to, you know, move their
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  Speaker 1: safeties around.
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  Speaker 3: They do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're Nickel does a really good job of understanding,
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  Speaker 1: you know, leverages and not trying to tip or give
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  Speaker 1: anything away that in that way. And then the defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the defensive line knows how to rush the passer.
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  Speaker 1: And that was that was a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we had to game plan a lot for the
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  Speaker 1: rush when I was in Minnesota, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a credit to those guys, guys like Rashan Kenny, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you got some beasts up front, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to be able to play against guys like that.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of it Kenneth out there kind
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  Speaker 1: of first? Yeah, Yeah, I mean Ken's always great.
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  Speaker 3: It's always great to have him out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's such a he's such a fireball, just
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  Speaker 1: the way that he runs the rock. You know, his
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  Speaker 1: attitude out there on the field, him and him and
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  Speaker 1: sharps in George getting some touches as well. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just great whenever you get you know, everybody out there.
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  Speaker 3: He told us we.
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  Speaker 1: Made hats, and we made hats and shirts as well,
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  Speaker 1: and get you one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Was that something that Kubiak to the other coaches in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco? Yeah, yeah, it's always it's always kind of
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, it's been something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback coaches, coordinators say, especially in the system, it's just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just means listen to your feet. It means,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if if you're supposed to throw a certain
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  Speaker 1: route on a hitch and you take two hitches, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you throw it. You better complete it or you
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  Speaker 1: better move on, you know, because that's you know there
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  Speaker 1: there's so much rhythm and so much anticipation in the system,
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  Speaker 1: and when you're not when you're not playing on time,
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  Speaker 1: when you're not listening to your feet, it can be
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  Speaker 1: really tough. I would say, I would say more so
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  Speaker 1: in OTAs the over under would be definitely higher un
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  Speaker 1: listening to your feet. But I think now it's probably
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  Speaker 1: like one or two, one or two times a day.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get a chance to raise the seat. I think
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  Speaker 1: that you know that that was a little tough, but
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  Speaker 1: we made it work. The kid that was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: holding my helmet walking next to me was incredible. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a joy to be around. But you know, even
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  Speaker 1: all the kids with with their bikes, it's so fun,
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  Speaker 1: such a great tradition, I think to be able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hang out with some of these kids that
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  Speaker 1: are the future of this game, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: to be able to hang out with them and and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just to put a smile on their face.
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  Speaker 3: Envision and the packet.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but you know, this league is crazy. So
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  Speaker 1: it always keeps me on my toes when when there's.
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  Speaker 3: The extra curricular stuff. What do you think of that?
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  Speaker 3: Is it a good bad, indifferent thing?
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  Speaker 2: And then as a quarterback, how smart do you have
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  Speaker 2: to be walking line between supporting your guys and getting the.
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  Speaker 3: Hell out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm getting right in there, man. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: my time to shine, you know what I mean. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting right in the middle of it now. It was fronting.
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  Speaker 1: Right when it happened, I like started walking back and
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  Speaker 1: then I turned around. I think after like ten stays
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh man, that that pile has
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  Speaker 1: really grown a little bit. You know, it must be
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  Speaker 1: a serious, you know, scrum there. So it was, uh no,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It is what it is. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: when you haven't necessarily, you know, played against these guys,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there's gonna be some some pulling of jerseys,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, some things that guys aren't gonna Like
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a running back or receiver down the
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  Speaker 1: field and getting tackled, or a guy punching the ball
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  Speaker 1: out when the receiver the running back thinks to play.
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  Speaker 1: Play is over, and so that stuff's gonna happen. We're
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  Speaker 1: all competitive, but I think the professional teams can can
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  Speaker 1: do that and then move on to the next play.
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  Speaker 4: So Sam, in the in the run game, looks like
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  Speaker 4: with the preseason even today, you're gainst some like the
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  Speaker 4: four to three front kind of looks on against your game.
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  Speaker 4: Is that nice to see like a good change of
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  Speaker 4: pace from the different front that you guys don't.
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  Speaker 3: Do with fourteen for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was kind of what I said
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, like just to see different scheme. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just talking about coverages. I'm talking about the front linebackers,
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  Speaker 1: the way that they pressure, even the way that they rush,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether they're a you know, a gap you
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  Speaker 1: know coming off the line, or whether they're two gapping
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  Speaker 1: as defensive linemen. Like it's it's just really good to
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  Speaker 1: see different scheme as a whole on defense. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just great to work all that.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys. Some examples