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Ernest Jones IV: "We'll Be Ready To Ball Out" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So most impressive thing that the defense did last week.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm, I wouldn't say that was just nothing impressive.
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  Speaker 3: I think. I mean, we just did what we we do.
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  Speaker 3: We go out there and play ball. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So that physicality was expected. Yeah, just kind of the
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  Speaker 1: the unity that.
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  Speaker 4: We saw that was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's us, that's that's just what we are,
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  Speaker 3: who we are, how we've been working.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you would like to have gotten to w
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  Speaker 1: But in any way, did that feel like it made
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  Speaker 1: a statement or sent a message that this is a defense.
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  Speaker 5: To be reckoned with us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you gotta you, you got to.
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  Speaker 3: Y when you play us, just we're gonna play tough,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna play hard, we're gonna be physical, and you Y. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say something, but I don't need to
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  Speaker 3: say that. So let me just go this route. When
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  Speaker 3: you play us, we're gonna be physical, We're gonna attack
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  Speaker 3: the ball, We're gonna try to do it and play
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  Speaker 3: this game the right way, and you know that's what
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  Speaker 3: that's how we'll go, you know, with it from here.
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  Speaker 6: And there's a team in the league that doesn't say
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  Speaker 6: they wanna be physical what's the difference between saying, hey,
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  Speaker 6: we wanna be physical and actually being that team?
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  Speaker 4: How how do you get to that point?
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  Speaker 3: That's the difference doing it versus saying it. We do it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not just on Sunday, we do it m Wednesday, Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, been in the league five years, two different teams,
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  Speaker 3: didn't get to you know, spend much time with Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no team that I've been on that works
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  Speaker 3: as hard as we work or that you know, grinds
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  Speaker 3: each and every day. So I think that just shows
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  Speaker 3: up on Sunday when we go out there and play.
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  Speaker 5: What what did you see from DeMarcus Lawrence up front
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  Speaker 5: from his game this weekend and the kind of strength
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  Speaker 5: he brings to that that ended up front?
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  Speaker 3: Disruptive man, He's savvy, vat man. Can you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you played the game so long, you just see things,
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  Speaker 3: you just feel things. So when you're out there with him,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a great feel of the game, great feel
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  Speaker 3: of you know, if it's run or pass. And he's
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  Speaker 3: one of those guys like I'm always looking to on
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  Speaker 3: the field to see what he's see. If I could
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  Speaker 3: tell like his body language and what he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: thinking because if I see him loaded up like he
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  Speaker 3: must be thinking, it's about to be a pass. So
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  Speaker 3: that'll just give me some extra, you know, tips to
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  Speaker 3: get back in you know my drops earlier.
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  Speaker 7: For people that don't know Drake Thomas as well, you know,
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  Speaker 7: share a little bit what you've seen from him as a.
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  Speaker 3: Linebacker man since I got here, just constant progress. And
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  Speaker 3: Drake's one of the the smartest guys in the room,
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  Speaker 3: one of the guys that you can depend on him
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  Speaker 3: to be in the right spot. And then once the
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  Speaker 3: once you turn on the tape and there's somebody in
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  Speaker 3: front of him to strike.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a lot of power he can strike. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to, you know, see him continue to grow
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  Speaker 3: because he is young, but I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: He's a he's a baller.
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  Speaker 7: Steelers did a lot of quick game, a lot of
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  Speaker 7: screen stuff, not a lot of deep down the field.
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  Speaker 7: How much do you focus on what their game plan
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  Speaker 7: was in one week with Aaron Rodgers and with this
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  Speaker 7: new crew versus kind of past stuff they've done.
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  Speaker 3: I think when you look at the Stellers group, you
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  Speaker 3: have to look at him in the past of what
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  Speaker 3: you know, Aaron Rodgers has done. The stuff has kind
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  Speaker 3: of been, you know, the same stuff. Wherever he goes.
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  Speaker 3: He's taken the things that he does well. And when
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  Speaker 3: you're that good, you do that. So it's always, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we're watching film this week, you know, the same
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  Speaker 3: stuff that he did last week. They were doing it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit when he was with the Jets. So
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you just take it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: game by game. Each week, the team's gonna come out
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  Speaker 3: there and they got you know, several players that they
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  Speaker 3: think that are gonna beat you and put you in tough,
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  Speaker 3: you know situations, but at the end, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of it all, they'll roll back to their core and
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  Speaker 3: we'll be ready.
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  Speaker 6: Overall, just seeing what Aaron Rodgers did last week, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: his last couple of years, he had the injury and
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  Speaker 6: the Jets offense wasn't maybe function as well as how
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  Speaker 6: impressive was what he was able to do last week
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  Speaker 6: at whatever forty two.
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  Speaker 3: Years he was bawling, balling is, getting the ball out quick,
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  Speaker 3: making decisions, teammates around him, helping him. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: played a really good game. So I think this week
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  Speaker 3: we got a good challenge for us, you know, defensively
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  Speaker 3: versus their offense. And when you want to be the best,
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  Speaker 3: and you want to be one of the best defenses,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta go. You go whoever, no matter what, you
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  Speaker 3: go play and you get it done.
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  Speaker 7: You've seeing the tight end as big as darn On
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  Speaker 7: Washington over there haven't and it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: He got bigger from college. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 3: can do that, but he did. He's a big guy.
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  Speaker 4: What do you appreciate about playing with Josh?
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  Speaker 2: Joe and it comes to work every day.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't really say too much, but you can look into
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  Speaker 3: his eyes and see, man, I'm here with you, I'm
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  Speaker 3: ready to fight. He's jobs out love, quiet, quiet dog man.
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  Speaker 3: He brings a lot of energy, brings a lot a
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  Speaker 3: lot to this team, a lot of physicality that we
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  Speaker 3: need on that side at that position.
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  Speaker 2: So I love playing with Josh.
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  Speaker 4: You had a couple of games last year on defense
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  Speaker 4: where you guys closed the game out, including the game
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  Speaker 4: against the Jets and Aaron Rodgers. What do you learn
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  Speaker 4: about your guys in those moments that maybe carries into
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  Speaker 4: this season.
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  Speaker 3: It's just more just continues to, you know, build that trust.
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  Speaker 3: I think The biggest thing you can have on defense,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess in sports in general, is trusting
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  Speaker 3: the guys that you play with. When you do that,
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  Speaker 3: you're able to play at at a level that you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to play if you didn't trust. So
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  Speaker 3: just allows us to play faster.
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  Speaker 8: Like to DeMarcus Lawrence, I think it was like the
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  Speaker 8: first play of the game, he blows up the right
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  Speaker 8: back and then hits Purty to play Like, is it
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  Speaker 8: surprising that a guy can play with that kind of
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  Speaker 8: physicality and violence for over a decade in the NFL
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  Speaker 8: and last as long as he has.
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  Speaker 3: No I think, you know, when it comes to just
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  Speaker 3: how long can you play like that? That's you know,
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  Speaker 3: that goes back to what you're made of as a man,
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  Speaker 3: how you raise, how you grew up. Whether he's playing
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  Speaker 3: ten years, fifteen years, what I know about de Love
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  Speaker 3: they're playing football on Sunday and he's out there. He's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be physical, he's gonna be trying to knock your
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  Speaker 3: head off.
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  Speaker 7: So when you played on teams that have had defense
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  Speaker 7: with the club, those doubt games, anything that specifically stood
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  Speaker 7: out to you about what it was about those defenses
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  Speaker 7: that allowed them to get off the field at the end.
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  Speaker 3: I think, just no, no flinch the moment, the moment
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  Speaker 3: gets bigger, but the moment for us is still the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's all it is, just the moments. Do
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  Speaker 3: you know, rise and you just gotta trust. Go back
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  Speaker 3: to the training, go back to the to the stuff
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  Speaker 3: you did all June, July, August.
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  Speaker 2: That that that gives you.
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  Speaker 3: That should give you the confidence in those situations where
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  Speaker 3: we got to close to let's go close it.
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  Speaker 4: There's a certain type relationship that a Green Doc guy
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  Speaker 4: has with his play caller.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I always I always think I'm Mike's favorite, Like, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I have to be. I have to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Uh, it is different. We talk often trying
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  Speaker 3: to see uh, because I'll get in situations where I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's loud in lumitfield, I can't hear Mike. So I
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  Speaker 3: have to get in situations where I have to make calls.
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  Speaker 3: So we're always constantly communicating on that aspect of it.
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  Speaker 3: And during the game we got a TV time out,
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  Speaker 3: go check in with him, see what he's thinking. I
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  Speaker 3: think our relationship is unique. And I'll say this again
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  Speaker 3: just because Kobe's coming here. I do think Mike, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald's favorite player is the mic linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Just just saying.
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  Speaker 4: You guys, do you guys meet separately just going over
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  Speaker 4: stuff kind of week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll meet separately, uh with whether it be just
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  Speaker 3: me and him or we'll do you know, a signal
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  Speaker 3: callers meeting where he's kind of explaining the lawd of Land,
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  Speaker 3: how we're gonna go out there role in this series
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  Speaker 3: and series to come.
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  Speaker 8: So some guys excuse me like hearing everything that the
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  Speaker 8: coach will have to say up until when the cutoff
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  Speaker 8: is and some guys don't want to hear it. I
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  Speaker 8: can't remember what he where he said you following that spectrum,
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  Speaker 8: but he said some guys tell him to shut up
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  Speaker 8: because they talk too much.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to hear.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear it because most of the time
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  Speaker 3: as he's talking, I'm trying to talk, so I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: and listening. So honestly, it's like that's kind of hard
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  Speaker 3: telling you truth, but it works for me. I like
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  Speaker 3: all the information because most of the time he's right.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll take the play call or yes, extra stuf
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  Speaker 3: as he's telling me to play I'll kind of get
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  Speaker 3: the first two or three words and then I can
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  Speaker 3: piece it together from there or what we got.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm listening to him to see if I
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  Speaker 2: need to hate.
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  Speaker 3: Tell Job this. We have a lot of that, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: tell job this. If this happens, we're going to do
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  Speaker 3: this like he's a he's a he's a big talker.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that, given.
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  Speaker 1: That, what's the benefit of having week two on the
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  Speaker 1: road right where you're not going to have as much
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  Speaker 1: crowd noise as you did at Loom And does that.
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  Speaker 4: Help make a jump?
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think our communication should be spot on. I think
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  Speaker 3: we should be able to get lined up, get our
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  Speaker 3: cleats in the ground, and you know, just be ready
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  Speaker 3: to go play, be ready to go ball out. Shouldn't have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, too much noise while they're on offense. So
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  Speaker 3: we should be fine as far as communicating and just
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  Speaker 3: getting lined up.
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  Speaker 6: I think the Seahawks have lost a road games since
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  Speaker 6: you've been here. You guys won seven of eight last
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  Speaker 6: year total. What what do you guys like about going
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  Speaker 6: on the road. Is it it's sort of the mentality
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  Speaker 6: or what I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it's just the mentality, But I think it goes
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  Speaker 3: back to the mentality as team when you take seventy
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  Speaker 3: players from the Seahawks and you take us on the road,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to go into uncomfortable situation and comfortable
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  Speaker 3: environments and we got to come out of there and
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  Speaker 3: you know, scratch, fighting claw for a win. I think
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  Speaker 3: we just we just live up to those moments, Like
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  Speaker 3: I mean, wherever we're playing football at since then we'll
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  Speaker 3: go get the job done. That's how we play and
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  Speaker 3: think on defense. And I think it just you know,
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  Speaker 3: rolled over.
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  Speaker 7: Coaching staff compared to some of the others in terms
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  Speaker 7: of openness to incorporating your feedback or players feedback into
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  Speaker 7: game planning and how things are going during the game.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, they're super open.
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  Speaker 3: Mike's always if it doesn't work or it's not clicking
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  Speaker 3: in our minds, he'll he'll throw it out with a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 3: So he's always listening to us, you know, he's always
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  Speaker 3: thinking for us, trying to be ahead. If you know,
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  Speaker 3: if he feels that we're struggling with something, he'll just
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and kind of eliminate it off our plates.
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  Speaker 3: So he's always in constant communication with us.
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  Speaker 5: Back to Brady's question there, how much is that to
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  Speaker 5: a conversation with the coach on the side of it?
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  Speaker 5: Is it about stuff beyond the play call, like tell
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  Speaker 5: Leo to watch for this, you know, other things around
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  Speaker 5: the play call itself and getting it in.
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  Speaker 2: In that communication.
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  Speaker 3: If we got twenty seconds, five of it was for
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  Speaker 3: the call. The other fifteen seconds were him telling me, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: tell Leo to do this, tell Job to get here, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to do this, like it's mostly that.
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  Speaker 2: It was the How.
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  Speaker 4: Hectic was the in that context, how hectic was that
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  Speaker 4: final drive against Rogers last year?
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  Speaker 2: Were we the Jets game? Did we played at home?
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  Speaker 2: Or that was? That was here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: It was there.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's fine. We could hear, we could communicate.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't have to rush things. He was able to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just communicate effectively. So it was fine.
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  Speaker 7: Oh thank you,