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Devon Witherspoon: "We're Trying To Bounce Back From Last Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, it was dope.
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  Speaker 2: We all kind of got it at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: or the three guys, so, but we just sold it
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  Speaker 2: in and just tried to embrace it. But we really
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  Speaker 2: just trying to prepare for Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: So Julian saith they pulled you all side in the
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  Speaker 3: people sayer or did you did you have a hunderstand what?
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  Speaker 1: Nah?
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  Speaker 2: I thought we I thought we was in trouble. I
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  Speaker 2: ain't gonna lie if you messing. I thought we were
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  Speaker 2: gonna get in trouble. He was gonna say something, but
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  Speaker 2: I ain't. I had no idea that was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: what he was gonna say. Yeah, we was in my
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  Speaker 2: office right now.
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  Speaker 3: So when he tells you, when you considered the back
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  Speaker 3: of work that you put together on the fields.
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  Speaker 1: Does it surprise you at.
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  Speaker 3: All that this is in the honor that you were
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  Speaker 3: getting as a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it surprised me just because I was a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't think it was gonna go like that. I
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  Speaker 2: think rookieh had to prove theyself a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: before they get selected for something like that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it surprised me. But me, I just try to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and continue to be myself.
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  Speaker 1: So give me.
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  Speaker 3: The way your teammates talk about you, it seems like
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  Speaker 3: you have proved yourself.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that you look proved to Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I really that's really for them to decide. To be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I let everybody else dictate that me.
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  Speaker 1: I just go with me.
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  Speaker 3: What did you prove to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That I am who always would be? And people just
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  Speaker 2: gotta respect that. You feel me At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, what do you think you've.
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  Speaker 3: Grown the most as a player in the NFL?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Just learning the game, learning the way the NFL works,
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  Speaker 2: how different teams copycat lead, different things like that. It's
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  Speaker 2: just trying to get the legists of it all down.
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  Speaker 3: Devin, we knew you had confidence coming into the year
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  Speaker 3: anyway else So I I I don't think this would
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  Speaker 3: take you a surprise necessarily that you were.
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  Speaker 1: Able to get to it.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I don't really see it as a surprise. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was shocked, but I didn't think it was a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm'a just say that. So, yeah, what w last few
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  Speaker 1: weeks hard at all? But with the injury that could.
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  Speaker 2: Could a doctor early or Yeah, it's hard cause I
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  Speaker 2: haven't been able to practice how I want to, So
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  Speaker 2: playing a game is difficult cause I haven't got those
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  Speaker 2: reps that I needed to get to get to the
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  Speaker 2: game time decision. So it was just it was tough
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  Speaker 2: and I I had I had got beat a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times in the game, and then I was just
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  Speaker 2: really frustrated cause if normally it don't play out like that.
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  Speaker 2: So and I just gotta get back to practice and
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  Speaker 2: work on my crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you were close to playing and
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  Speaker 3: for those games?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I was close to playing the Tennessee game, and
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  Speaker 2: then I wasn't ready and then we end up being
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  Speaker 2: ready for this game.
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  Speaker 3: So happened to a game undevelopments with your practice.
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  Speaker 1: Gel like this.
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  Speaker 3: Next game that you feel more normal for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it should be more comfortable, but I still
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  Speaker 2: gotta work through the You know what I'm saying, bad
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  Speaker 2: areas that are so but it would be straight It
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  Speaker 2: should be straight.
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  Speaker 3: Sh wh when you m when you mentioned those couple
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  Speaker 3: of players that that followed you from my speak, is
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  Speaker 3: it not having the reps in practice from the week
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  Speaker 3: or is it still the kind of battling back from
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  Speaker 3: the physical and not being able.
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  Speaker 2: To move the way you want to yet both it
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  Speaker 2: was Alb'm saying, it's a uh bit of both. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was hard for me to move, come my hip
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But really s for me it
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  Speaker 2: which is more, I haven't got those reps in practice.
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  Speaker 1: If I wrap something over.
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  Speaker 2: And over again and I finally get it down, I
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  Speaker 2: know i'm'na be able to play it in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't do that. So that just bothered me
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  Speaker 2: cause I put that on tape.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you just like you really play the game
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had came in on the little blitz.
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  Speaker 2: I had got a hit, but he bounced south of
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  Speaker 2: it though, but then Leo tackled him, so I still celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: So it shit. He ask Gendo how he challenges you
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  Speaker 1: during the practice, which offensive player challenges.
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  Speaker 2: You the most. Well, I line up everywhere on the field,
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  Speaker 2: so I really get a chance to go and get
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  Speaker 2: some all.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not really one. It's just the whole offense
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  Speaker 1: in general.
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  Speaker 2: And then Gino challenged me as far as being being
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  Speaker 2: in a good position, but throwing a great ball to
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  Speaker 2: the receiver took place where I can't get it, so
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  Speaker 2: I gotta uh, you know, say play hands and hands
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. That's really challenging cause a lot you
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  Speaker 2: get a NFL quarterback and throw balls like that in
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of if you rep in the practice, you
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  Speaker 1: can alad played in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So what what's been the most like are you opening
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  Speaker 3: in a experience game so far?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: Any thinkgas stood out that you just didn't really.
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  Speaker 2: Know it was gonna be like this in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: not for real, Like once I started playing the game,
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  Speaker 2: I got everything, to be honest, but not for ain't shopping.
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  Speaker 3: If you had a situation like you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: guys your face ut this week, can you t can
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  Speaker 3: you go there the last game where you gotta win
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  Speaker 3: and hit all of that.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna get into something turn Nah, I didn't. I
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  Speaker 2: ain't have a situation like that before. But we just
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  Speaker 2: tryna go out there and finish the season right way.
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  Speaker 2: We got beat bad last week, so you just trying
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  Speaker 2: to bounce.
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  Speaker 1: Back for that was pro Bowl one of your roles stets. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't really had no pro bo goals. I ain't.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't insert me. I just come out here and
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  Speaker 2: play football, bro. That's all that I do. Good.
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  Speaker 1: That's don