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Mike Macdonald: "There Were A Lot Of Positive Things" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Just impressions playing practicing somebody else who's benefits and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, it's great work. Working with these guys. Coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff was great. Setting the whole thing up. The organization
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  Speaker 2: I thought was was solid and uh, the guys are
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  Speaker 2: ready to practice. You know, it's eight am our time.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the mentality was right. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: watch the tape. I just told the team, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get you know, jawing and things and some extra
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  Speaker 2: stuff like and for the most part, we were responsible.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we did a good job.
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  Speaker 2: But I just want the guys to know, like what
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  Speaker 2: shows up on tape is is who we are. So
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  Speaker 2: let's make sure we're doing the right things when you know,
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  Speaker 2: between the lines and uh, when we watch it, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 3: But exciting time from what you did time for the defense,
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  Speaker 3: what w the fake?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of positive things at the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 2: and especially with our ones. Some things in the in
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  Speaker 2: the back end when we need to we need to
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  Speaker 2: clean up for sure, and uh you know, uh, the
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  Speaker 2: two the two two defense. You know, we'll evaluate what
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  Speaker 2: it looks like. I don't want to come to any
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  Speaker 2: conclusions right now, but we'll we'll see, we'll see when
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  Speaker 2: we get a chance to watch it.
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  Speaker 4: Backing off what you said earlier, it seemed like guys
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  Speaker 4: kind of towed the line well of competitive and getting
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  Speaker 4: after it, but not nothing went over the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of ones where we just want
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  Speaker 2: to be a little smarter and going to the ground
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  Speaker 2: and stuff where we're trying to stay on our feet.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, guys did a good job.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't getmuch of a sense of the offense probably yet.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: I was on the tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I think I might move back and forth, but today
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  Speaker 2: I was exclusively on the defensive field.
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  Speaker 4: I was tight.
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  Speaker 1: Every spacer Sager spots with all the.
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  Speaker 2: Ju thrown out, and we're throwing a lot at him
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  Speaker 2: on purpose. But just keep on coming along, man, keep
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  Speaker 2: finding new stuff to screw up, and you'll keep growing.
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  Speaker 3: Job.
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  Speaker 2: I think he felt a little tweak or something where
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  Speaker 2: he didn't finish practice, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Think he's I think he's good to go.
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  Speaker 4: But is there isn't Tyler hasn't been doing much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a little something going on with the
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  Speaker 2: in his leg right now, but he's he's good.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler will be ready to roll.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he just he was this morning and so we're, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to figure out what's.
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  Speaker 3: Going on with George Lai again today show. It's good
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  Speaker 3: to hear.
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  Speaker 1: How is he pressed the coaching staff?
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  Speaker 2: Well, tell, I didn't see it. Greg, what running the
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  Speaker 2: ball blocking? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? All those Yeah, I mean, shoot your name it.
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  Speaker 2: It's three about the top four things you want from
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  Speaker 2: your backs, so uh, I can't wait to see it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, those are the things we expect from our guys.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned the.
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  Speaker 4: Line of scrimmage Byron Murphy, was you know, being disruptive
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  Speaker 4: again you find yourself having to like kind of temper
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  Speaker 4: the excitement at all for you, like because he's a
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  Speaker 4: rookie and I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 3: Were you able to catch up with any friends on the.
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  Speaker 2: Titans before podcast?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah, a lot of a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny in the NFL, it's smaller world than you
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  Speaker 2: then you'd uh, you'd expect, just coming from the outside end.
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  Speaker 2: But they got a lot of great people in the organization,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great people that I've worked with in
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  Speaker 2: the past.
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  Speaker 3: So we had a chance.
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  Speaker 2: We got to here, a little early coaching staff just
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  Speaker 2: to make sure on the same page how we want
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  Speaker 2: to operate things like that, and just a lot of
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  Speaker 2: respect for those guys. But they got a lot of great,
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  Speaker 2: great people.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit more of the playbooks and the use
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  Speaker 4: of this setting rapid than.
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  Speaker 3: Hockey and coming the whole teams.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I think, yeah, it's probably significantly more than you'd
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  Speaker 2: be comfortable putting out to everybody, and some of some
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  Speaker 2: of the things you're showing. It's it's it's a balance
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  Speaker 2: of like, hey, this is our best stuff right now,
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how it looks. This is some stuff we
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  Speaker 2: want to not experiment with. Let's see how it looks
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  Speaker 2: that we really might not have as many reps as
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  Speaker 2: we want against someone that we're not you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: not used to how they're motioning and shifting and the
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  Speaker 2: plays that they're running.
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  Speaker 3: So just kind of see how it works.
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  Speaker 2: So combinations the charges, how did it look today us? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's so yeah, there's some when we're getting a little fancier,
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  Speaker 2: we there's some details we need to clean up. Just uh,
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  Speaker 2: the guys know what I'm talking about. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see it. But yeah, we're not we're not. We've got
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  Speaker 2: some room to grow there. I just think you writers
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  Speaker 2: should be. It's just the guys will if you show it.
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  Speaker 3: And explain it the right way. They picked, they understand.
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  Speaker 2: We just you know, when you get into setting and
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  Speaker 2: things change and you're a different field, new offense, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's the message is like, yeah, it's still eleven guys
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  Speaker 2: in the field. You know they can't go unbalanced. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's still football. At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: We got to execute our rules.
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  Speaker 4: We have the sack there at the end, it looked
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  Speaker 4: like he was in the hug in a lot of
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  Speaker 4: action today.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of his day to spoon?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have to blitz him because otherwise I'll complain
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  Speaker 2: the whole practice. So I got to send him early.
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  Speaker 2: So he's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Was there a specific aspect runner of a pass that
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  Speaker 4: you were excited about with your one one?
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  Speaker 2: It felt like we played the run pretty well up front.
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  Speaker 2: There's some things that we got to play better on,
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  Speaker 2: some schemes on the edge and second level. It's tough
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  Speaker 2: to tell what's happening inside in real time, but it
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  Speaker 2: felt like I felt like the guys played the blocks
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  Speaker 2: pretty well, and we circled the ball and there's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of explosives that you know, we're gonna want to
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  Speaker 2: look and see, you know in the past game that
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  Speaker 2: we got it.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta fix it's in.
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  Speaker 4: A particular be seen that of him as a run defender.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's he he sees it really well.
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  Speaker 3: He sees it really well. Impressed with his growth.
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  Speaker 2: Just it's coming from a scheme where they played some
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  Speaker 2: some certain looks a little bit differently than we're used
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  Speaker 2: to playing them. So it's it's not as easy and
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  Speaker 2: of an ask as you might think. So he's he's
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: How beneficial is this for? This is messes all the units,
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  Speaker 1: but special teams, the gunners. It looked like it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, up tempot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, you're gonna make the football team
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  Speaker 2: man be a gunner, I you know, so stakes are high.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like guys really got amped up on pup
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  Speaker 1: return or spirited as you might have said, like what
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  Speaker 1: did you see on that?
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  Speaker 3: And poring thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's part of the message of the team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you're winning special teams reps, then you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna earn more reps. And if you're losing special teams
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  Speaker 2: reps then that's not good. So we'll look at it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure out, you know, uh, who's doing what, who
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  Speaker 2: shows up? But those are those are great periods.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: It's a high intent. The guys are getting after. Its
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  Speaker 2: controlled environment. You know, it's not easy winning against device,
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  Speaker 2: but if you can do that, then you know you
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  Speaker 2: have some ability.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any concern with Baker still being out in
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  Speaker 4: how to you know Boski Corps?
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  Speaker 2: I have just the same mentality. Just get the other
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  Speaker 2: guys ready to go, and then when he comes back,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be rolling.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of touch on this at the beginning, but
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  Speaker 4: just the whole operation of it. Twenty four hours ago
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  Speaker 4: you hadn't left Seattle, I don't think, and you're on
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  Speaker 4: the practice field at eight am. Just yeah, the entire
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  Speaker 4: operation involved outside of just the football stuff to get this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for asking that, John. I'm just really thankful
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  Speaker 2: for the organization as a whole. I mean, given you Dave,
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  Speaker 2: Thanks brother, Yeah, I mean, but did the job our
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  Speaker 2: equipment people do, getting everything set up, everything's to a
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  Speaker 2: tea in the hotel. It just makes you appreciate. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is something we said, we felt like
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  Speaker 2: it was important. Is it to be better for our
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  Speaker 2: football team? And then just we you know, we made
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  Speaker 2: that decision in the spring, and then from the top
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  Speaker 2: down from Jody to John Chuck, you know, just saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's make it happen. Let's make it happen at a
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  Speaker 2: high level. That's big time shout out to everybody involved.
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  Speaker 2: So Sie, you asking that, probably should have lived with that,
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  Speaker 2: but thank you.
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  Speaker 3: The weather is a little different, does that. He's a
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  Speaker 3: cake man.
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  Speaker 2: It's only eighty nine degrees. No's a little more humid.
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  Speaker 2: But it should be warmer tomorrow, I think so. But
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  Speaker 2: the guys did a great job. You know, we're hydrated
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  Speaker 2: and I think for the most part everybody finished practice.
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  Speaker 3: Uh don't I don't have I don't have any info
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  Speaker 3: on that right now.
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  Speaker 2: Tarik Oldie stayed on the right side of this first couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of years, you guys have been moving around. Don't know
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  Speaker 3: how much he did that today, but just in general,
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  Speaker 3: when he's been on the other side, where did you
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  Speaker 3: see from them?
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  Speaker 2: It's funny you at It's like this is I didn't
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that, Like when we showed up, so
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  Speaker 2: things like you change. We're just hey, man, like both
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  Speaker 2: everybody plays both sides. But I think Terrek had some
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  Speaker 2: great plays today man, So we're we're excited for him,
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  Speaker 2: but we haven't played a game yet, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: my challenge to him is how good can you get
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  Speaker 2: in the next you know, two three weeks before we
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  Speaker 2: play a game.
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  Speaker 3: I think you got to watch the film yourself and
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  Speaker 3: did grub or anymore.
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  Speaker 1: On the offensive side, tap you just said early indication
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  Speaker 1: how things went.
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  Speaker 2: I think for the most part, they said it went well,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to give like super you know,
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  Speaker 2: tight details and stuff, but excited to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Your philosophy, sorry, your philosophy. On the offense, how important
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  Speaker 1: is it for them to also set their tone? It's
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  Speaker 1: doctor Jackson afterwards, and he said it's important for the
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  Speaker 1: offense to set their tone as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we're one team and we want to play
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  Speaker 2: a certain way and the expect whoever's out there many
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  Speaker 2: three phases, you know, we we want to we want
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  Speaker 2: to play our style of football. So they're a huge
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  Speaker 2: part of the equation. But it's just, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: all it's all one squad. It's not it's not three phases.
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  Speaker 2: It's all one, one great Seahawks unit. Thanks guys,