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Devon Witherspoon: "Everyone Gets Their Chance To Shine" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You f Pro Bowls in as many seasons, put you
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  Speaker 1: in some preyer company. Just what does that mean to
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  Speaker 1: you to have that owner again?
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, you know, just honored man.
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  Speaker 3: You know you gotta take the accomplishment that come with this.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta cherish those moments. They don't come by very often.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm happy, you know, I'm grateful for that.
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  Speaker 4: Is that old you have before the season stirts to
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  Speaker 4: be a pro bowler?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: Where is that right among the things you wanna accomplish?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it don't. It don't really cross my mind.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing to be on our mind is to win,
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  Speaker 3: to go win and know every week. So whatever a
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  Speaker 3: complisment come with that, we'll we appreciate him though, But
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  Speaker 3: you know we looking at the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: Who is your favorite player growing up?
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  Speaker 2: It's favorite player? Ever? Yeah I don't remember favorite player,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that my favorite corner was the real Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: So what'd you like about his game?
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  Speaker 3: Just the way he took on the challenge to being
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  Speaker 3: one on one on the island. You know, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: care who it was, He just took that challenge on.
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  Speaker 4: So the fact that you got so many pro bowlers
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  Speaker 4: on this team. What does that say about how well
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  Speaker 4: Brown did this this year's team.
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  Speaker 2: I just think t justifout like how how bad in
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  Speaker 2: everyone is.
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  Speaker 3: And you know the thing you do when you have
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  Speaker 3: team success, not just player success. Everyone gets their chance
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  Speaker 3: to sign Bron. Like I said, we don't really care
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  Speaker 3: about the stats, bro. Everybody whoever makes that play, we
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  Speaker 3: go out there and celebrated, and I think that's just
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  Speaker 3: the testiment of this team.
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  Speaker 1: So you've talked about Mike McDonald getting in his bag
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  Speaker 1: at times when things are not going as well like
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  Speaker 1: they were sometimes against the RAM. What's his what's his tone?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How do how does that go?
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  Speaker 2: During the game?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you know we always talk about
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  Speaker 3: when we face how we're gonna look when we face adversity,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, we know everything that's not gonna go
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  Speaker 3: as playing. Sometimes they had a great scheme for us
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, but we ain't better, not for real,
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  Speaker 3: We just came and half time we had to make
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  Speaker 3: their adjustments. Like we always talk about there on the sideline,
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  Speaker 3: we talk about how they're attacking us and how they
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  Speaker 3: blocking skin blocking this and that and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So when we get to have time when we go
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  Speaker 3: out there and talk about what we've seen out there
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  Speaker 3: on the field, and then we make adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: So shout out the coach show, how'd you.
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  Speaker 5: Feel a day or two after that game, after playing
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  Speaker 5: what eighty eight whatever? Tired?
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  Speaker 2: Bro? All the talking about tied? Yeah, you just tired, bro.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to find a way to keep your
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  Speaker 3: body up and moving and don't just give into that.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think would you think of player
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  Speaker 1: where even more pick the guy up on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: and then kind of setting back up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I told him I've been there before.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't had nobody to come tell me no, stop
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, though, So at least you had
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  Speaker 3: somebody to come tell you to chill. But uh no,
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  Speaker 3: that was a great awareness by him though, to not
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  Speaker 3: do go all the way through with it.
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  Speaker 2: But I went through with it.
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  Speaker 4: So what is it about this team that seems to
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  Speaker 4: be so effective of making those half time adjustments? Is
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  Speaker 4: it the team or is it the way the coaches
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  Speaker 4: communicate that tolf time.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's both of them.
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  Speaker 3: The way the coaches come up, come back and taught
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  Speaker 3: to us about stuff we've seen, and then it's us
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  Speaker 3: communicating on the sideline before halftime. You know, we get
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  Speaker 3: that out they're attacking us like this, they're blocking them
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  Speaker 3: like that that we're getting these rock concepts in this
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  Speaker 3: formation in.
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  Speaker 2: This part of the field.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it's stuff that we talk about on
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  Speaker 3: the field before we get to have time, and then
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  Speaker 3: it's just a coach making the adjustments that we gave them,
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  Speaker 3: that the answers that we gave them when we get
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  Speaker 3: to have time.
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  Speaker 4: So so the coaches are asking you guys before they
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  Speaker 4: start making.
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  Speaker 3: Any sort of adjustments a little bit about they asking us,
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  Speaker 3: but we also coming back and telling us, like like
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  Speaker 3: I said, when we don't we're not doing performing the
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  Speaker 3: way we is, Like we talk about it like instantly,
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  Speaker 3: like okay, how are we not getting over? How are
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  Speaker 3: we not playing this block back? And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just a testament to both of them.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the explosives plays in that game, how much
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  Speaker 5: of that was, like we heard there was some miscommunication
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  Speaker 5: on a few of those plays versus them just making
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  Speaker 5: great plays.
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  Speaker 3: It was us, Like I said, I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that was just self inflict the wounds like it's
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  Speaker 3: it's loud, a looming b but it's hard to communicate.
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  Speaker 3: And when we got things on live motion and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that, it's just hard to communicate.
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  Speaker 2: And when the fans is that loud.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we we got to take that challenge
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  Speaker 3: on practicing that better throughout the week and then gets
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  Speaker 3: a getting used to the crowd noise. So it was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of self affected wounds. But they made a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great players and they they made them.
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  Speaker 6: So what role does unselfishness play the defense being good?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I mean nobody these selfish in the defense to be
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  Speaker 3: honest self.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners like guys not being selfish, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that just tends the goal. Is
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  Speaker 3: you see how we played, how well we interact with
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  Speaker 3: each other. You know, we played for one of another
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  Speaker 3: out here, like I said when we talked about this
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  Speaker 3: and OTA's and stuff like that, like how we want
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  Speaker 3: to be seen and the identity want to build ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, once we started buy in and we brought
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  Speaker 3: it to life, bro, like we really we meant what
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  Speaker 3: we said.
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  Speaker 2: So is there any.
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  Speaker 4: Thought of anything other than what you guys are right
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  Speaker 4: Like you're telling you about culture and how you want
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  Speaker 4: to show up? Was it pretty much everybody on the
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  Speaker 4: same page from the get go, or were there different
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  Speaker 4: ideas of what this team.
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  Speaker 6: Could end up being.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was from the get go, to be honest, though,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, a lot of the players on defense
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  Speaker 3: was already here, so we had a year into the
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  Speaker 3: system and everything. I think for offens was just a
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  Speaker 3: little bit different because they had a lot of new
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  Speaker 3: pieces added on and in off seasons. So it's like
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  Speaker 3: it probably took them a little bit more time to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to build that relationship. But I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it was a problem with building it. I mean, once
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  Speaker 3: we realized what we had and the way we practice
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  Speaker 3: and the way we go about our business, it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: hard to see, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think we just took it on as
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  Speaker 2: a challenge.
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  Speaker 5: I know you're close with all your teammates, but given
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  Speaker 5: that you guys became Seahawks on the same date, it's
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  Speaker 5: the special to see what you and Jackson been able
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  Speaker 5: to accomplish and how you guys have helped the team winner.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Man also also happy and proud
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  Speaker 3: of my brother Man. Like I said, I just know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people were talking about early on in
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  Speaker 3: his career about numbers and stuff like that. That's why
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  Speaker 3: again I don't pay attention to all that stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, y'all just don't know who he is and
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  Speaker 3: what he could do until you get get a chance
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  Speaker 3: to sow the world, you know. So like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just proud man. You know, I'm happy for my dog.
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  Speaker 2: Like just put some respect on his name. You know.
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  Speaker 6: Leonard told us that he considers you like one of
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  Speaker 6: one of the defensive linement with the way that you
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  Speaker 6: played our physical if you play, I'm wondering who or
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  Speaker 6: what along the way like in your development as a
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  Speaker 6: football player had the biggest impact on that style of play.
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  Speaker 3: I would say more of my high school DV coach
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  Speaker 3: and then when I got to college, my first two
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  Speaker 3: years my coach, Key coach Kenoto Hudson, he really double
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  Speaker 3: down on like being able to tackle playing in the
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten.
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  Speaker 2: Get cold, they're gonna run the football.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like he really harped on tackling like a
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  Speaker 3: lot every day and we working on it every day.
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  Speaker 3: And I still hear his voice in my head now
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  Speaker 3: when I get blocked by receiver or don't make a tackle,
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  Speaker 3: I can just hear his voice like cussing me out.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't want to hit it. I
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  Speaker 2: really don't want to hit it. What you saying, I
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  Speaker 2: can't say that. That's you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want know why to get in trouble about
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  Speaker 3: that except element.
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  Speaker 1: Of like when you're not the biggest guy in the field,
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  Speaker 1: of that be like a point of pride and like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: but they might look at me and think he's not
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  Speaker 1: a big DV.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hit like this, No, I really, I just played
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  Speaker 3: and like I just play to be honest, like when
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  Speaker 3: I'm out there on the field, like I don't think
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  Speaker 3: about some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's just my body reacts to it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are sitting here with twelve wins to
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  Speaker 1: two more wins and you get the number one seed.
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  Speaker 1: How do you finish kind of what you started?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: A by going want to know every week, man can't
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  Speaker 3: look ahead to the further game and the next game
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  Speaker 3: after that. We gotta focus on with the task in
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  Speaker 3: hand for this week. So all lives on Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: What have you got to know about? And the Tinese
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  Speaker 2: been here? Say that again? Rashid of got to know
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  Speaker 2: about him, and.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he different a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he kind of like stayed to himself for a little
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  Speaker 3: bit though. But like I said, it was easy for
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  Speaker 3: him to buy in because he kind of played in
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  Speaker 3: the system before everybody else got in there. But like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we take each other with open norms. We
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  Speaker 3: when he got here, man, we just embraced him. We
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  Speaker 3: thank him for everything he could do, and we we
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  Speaker 3: had a standard set for him. So when he got here,
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  Speaker 3: he had to Hey, we know what you could do,
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  Speaker 3: we know how you play, So just come in and
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  Speaker 3: be yourself. Don't don't try to fit in and nothing
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Just be yourself. Bro, Devin, you.
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  Speaker 5: Guys have missed the playoffs, play game, or lots of
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  Speaker 5: the lats of two years since you been here. What
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  Speaker 5: does it mean to finally break through and get there
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  Speaker 5: for yourself?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean a lot, man. You know, you put
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of work and it's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things that go into this. The playoffs is something you
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  Speaker 3: you should want to get to. Unfortunately we fell short
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  Speaker 3: the first two years, but it just feels good to
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  Speaker 3: be able to get there now. But like I said,
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at the bigger picture. Man, we we got stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta handle anything else that's thanks, Thanks, appreciation,