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Tyler Lockett: "I Think We Have A Really Good Corps" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I wish the crowds.
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  Speaker 2: That's always fun, man. I wish we had more just
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. Being able to come out here every single day. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it gets you ready for the preseason, even in mock
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  Speaker 2: game that's coming up. It gets you ready just because
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  Speaker 2: you got to get used to being able to play
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  Speaker 2: in front of the fans, because it's one thing to
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  Speaker 2: play in front of the coaches, to play in front
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  Speaker 2: of your teammates. But where it makes a break you
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  Speaker 2: with being able to make the team is being able
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  Speaker 2: to play in front.
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  Speaker 1: Of a crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got any what's your sense of this wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver group in general, talent wise wise?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think we got a really good core. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I think as camp goes on, I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys will start to separate themselves. I think, like
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  Speaker 2: just with everything that we're trying to build, we got
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  Speaker 2: guys that could be able to run after the catch.
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  Speaker 2: We got guys who could create, Guys that can run routes,
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  Speaker 2: Guys that have strong hands just to be able to
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  Speaker 2: catch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I really like what we have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm going into year nine, so I've seen
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  Speaker 2: a lot of receivers come and go, whether I was
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  Speaker 2: out here as a rookie and now going into year nine,
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  Speaker 2: and so I really like the talent, the athletic ability,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. Now it's just us being able to
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  Speaker 2: continue to learn the IQ of the offense and to
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  Speaker 2: be able to take our game and notch every single practice.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out to you about Jackson man first impressions? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he a ballplayer, man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the biggest thing about Jackson is
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  Speaker 2: just he's just an overall football player. And sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you try to categorize somebody and say like, oh, he's
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  Speaker 2: just a slot receiver or he's just this. But honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think whatever we ask him to do, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to do it. He has really
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  Speaker 2: good senses, He has really good fell of the game.
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  Speaker 2: He understands like his body, his technique. He could do
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  Speaker 2: it fundamentally or he could just go out there and
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  Speaker 2: kind of freak it a little bit and get open.
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  Speaker 2: And so as you can already see, he already has
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  Speaker 2: a great connection with Gino and that's only gonna help us. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: these practices get some strict, just really defensive the contact stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but there's been a lot of players downfield.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the way this past game
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  Speaker 1: is howing early compared to last year at some of
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  Speaker 1: the four recents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is we've shown last
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  Speaker 2: year that we can be able to keep drives alive.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, like you know, a lot of times people
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  Speaker 2: used to say, oh, we're great being explosive players, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not great to be able to have thirteen fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen play drives. I think last year we was able
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  Speaker 2: to show that we could do that and still be
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  Speaker 2: able to take those explosive plays on the first and
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  Speaker 2: second plays of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this year, just for us, man, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're really gonna be good. Honestly, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: forgot your question.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of dep balls and specific plays out here.
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  Speaker 1: How does it compare to a lot of the passing
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  Speaker 1: games going out of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, I think the explosive is going to be
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  Speaker 2: really good for us, just because when we play a
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  Speaker 2: lot of teams, especially that three four type of defense,
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  Speaker 2: they try to keep everything in front of them, and
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  Speaker 2: so you got to be able to take what you can.
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  Speaker 2: But there's gonna be a lot of times where they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of sneaking up trying to jump something here and there.
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  Speaker 2: And so for us to be able to show our
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  Speaker 2: speed and our athleticism, it's going to open up everything
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  Speaker 2: up front, but also showing that we can go downfield.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter which player goes deep. Everybody got the legs.
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  Speaker 1: To do it.
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  Speaker 2: At this time last year, I mean, I think I
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  Speaker 2: think he's the same guy. I think the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: is just you know, he's already had a year under
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  Speaker 2: his belt where he could be able to go back
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  Speaker 2: watch himself, understand what he did right, understand what he
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  Speaker 2: did wrong. There's lots to talk about people saying, oh
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  Speaker 2: it was luck and all this different type of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just other things that gives them that driving
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  Speaker 2: motivation to be able to continue to be great. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like he said he wants to play until he's forty.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's like thirty seven, thirty eight, he's like
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  Speaker 2: thirty two. But I mean he's playing great, he's playing phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great leader, and he's only getting better whether
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  Speaker 2: it's on the field or off the field.
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  Speaker 1: He talks to us all the time, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Is you just want to continue to develop that relationship
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  Speaker 2: off the field, because it really does help when you
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  Speaker 2: get on the field. How do you feel consistent, scene
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  Speaker 2: on a face, able to take being in explosive and
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  Speaker 2: yet having lost the run situation.
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  Speaker 1: He'll just knowing when.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it comes and goes with you know,
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  Speaker 2: Shane our coordinator, just being able to help us learn
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  Speaker 2: how to do that, because there's gonna be times where
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  Speaker 2: he's like, hey man, like I see, I see they're
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  Speaker 2: letting us go deep. We're gonna go take those shots
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  Speaker 2: and do it. But then there's times where like Andy,
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line coach, will bring us in and he'll
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  Speaker 2: be like, hey man, like this is this is what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. This is how many time else we got.
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  Speaker 2: But during that time, he could be able to tell
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  Speaker 2: us like, hey man, this is four minute offense. We
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to keep the ball. We gotta
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  Speaker 2: be able to keep the sticks moving and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that comes with us being able to take one
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  Speaker 2: down at a time, and sometimes that's hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what plays like this out here practice is
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  Speaker 2: for us to be able to do.
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  Speaker 1: We go from team blitz to team run.
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  Speaker 2: The team pass to seven on to two minutes, and
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be able to like renew your mind, because
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  Speaker 2: every time you got.
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  Speaker 1: To be able to go to something new, it's mind.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get ready after eight years? The precis
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  Speaker 1: das give me?
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think? I mean? For me, I think
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  Speaker 2: I started looking at it in a different way. I
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  Speaker 2: started looking at it backwards. You know, at some point,
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  Speaker 2: you know my time and career is going to be over,
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  Speaker 2: and for me, I want to be able.
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  Speaker 1: To enjoy football as much as I possibly can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like when you're younger and you're in the league,
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  Speaker 2: it's like you're just enjoying it. Everything is new. You
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  Speaker 2: never think that it's going to be over. But as
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  Speaker 2: you start getting older, you start realizing, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you get one life, and so after this life, I
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  Speaker 2: don't get to play football no more. Right, so you
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  Speaker 2: just start trying to enjoy every single minute of it,
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  Speaker 2: try to get as great as you can, keep learning,
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  Speaker 2: keep getting better, and then you just go out on
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  Speaker 2: your own terms.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Again and.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Bobby, Bobby was at the wedding too.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what Bobby wanted me to say, But nah, it.
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  Speaker 1: Was great just to be able to have Russ there.
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  Speaker 2: Man Russ invited me after my rookie year to his
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  Speaker 2: wedding out there and Liverpool, and so it was pretty
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  Speaker 2: cool to just to be able to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and watch him and see her get married. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean we've been brothers like this whole entire time. He's
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  Speaker 2: been like my big brother, giving me advice, helped me
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  Speaker 2: along the way, was there for me if I ever
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  Speaker 2: needed anything. So it was really cool just for him
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  Speaker 2: to be able to come out there, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to support me and Laurence Union. And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we still talk to this day. You know, we encourage
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  Speaker 2: one another. Like if he ever needs anything, he knows
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  Speaker 2: he could call me and his vice versa. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: DK has more of a style than me. I think
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  Speaker 2: Lauren would have got so upset with me if I
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  Speaker 2: did anything except World White and Black tucks.
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  Speaker 1: How different does he aspend slipt to you this year?
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  Speaker 1: It seems like he he's helping out and he's just
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  Speaker 1: starting to show a little bit of way he can do.
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  Speaker 1: How different does he look to you, hey, worse for me?
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  Speaker 2: I mean we see him out there scoring a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: every single play, one of the things that the coaches
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  Speaker 2: are really like keying in on us as receivers is
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  Speaker 2: being able to finish the block because you see, like
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  Speaker 2: we have running backs like Keen even from last year
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  Speaker 2: or DJ who would like be able to break a
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  Speaker 2: tackle and then it's like them versus the corner. But
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  Speaker 2: now we're trying to eliminate that corner by being able
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we block them and not take
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  Speaker 2: a playoff. So even d he's out there, he might
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  Speaker 2: be on the backside, he's running to go get that corner.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the things that we're emphasizing. And then when
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  Speaker 2: you're looking into the past game, like he's making like
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  Speaker 2: crazy catches left and right.
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  Speaker 1: You saw what he could do in the screen game
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  Speaker 1: the very first day of practice.
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  Speaker 2: We see what he can do when he runs across
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  Speaker 2: the middle once the ball is in his hands. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it turns into a punt return for him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, how they come together?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I kind of brought it up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I learned the worst thing that can happen
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  Speaker 2: is people say no, So you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: reached out to the Seahawks upstairs on the third floor
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  Speaker 2: kind of talked to him just about you know, the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to be able to do a partnership. I learned
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  Speaker 2: about you know them, just throughout the years of me
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  Speaker 2: being here. They had one with Windermere, and so when
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  Speaker 2: I heard that Windemere wasn't gonna do it anymore, then
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  Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to.
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  Speaker 1: See if it was even possible to do it.
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  Speaker 2: We went through all the rules, the laws and regulations,
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  Speaker 2: We did everything the right way, and so I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: to even be able to have a chance to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that. And honestly, I think it says
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  Speaker 2: a lot about our organization, just believing in us, giving
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  Speaker 2: us a chance to be able to start, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our second careers early, being able to find balance and
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  Speaker 2: time management to be able to do those type of things.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, I feel like I can't speak for
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  Speaker 2: every organization, but I mean I never really heard of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of organizations even going that extra model to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do stuff to help a player, even
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  Speaker 2: if it doesn't help them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, we gotta talk on the sign nah.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just it's just anything that kind of it's
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  Speaker 2: different layers. It just depends on what layer that you
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  Speaker 2: you know, you decided to sign up for when y'all
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  Speaker 2: did the negotiations, but you know, just different marketing tools
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  Speaker 2: and techniques and strategies, kind of like other people, like
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I see Zilo here, so let's just say
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  Speaker 2: the same thing as Zilla. I mean, I think you
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  Speaker 2: see everybody around, I think it speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 1: First day out here, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Was screaming, bab b, bab b, and I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's just one of those guys that will go down.
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  Speaker 2: Is probably one of the best players to ever play
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  Speaker 2: in a Seattle Seahawks uniform.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean it says a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, even for us guys, we missed
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  Speaker 2: him a lot of events. We missed him, just his presence,
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  Speaker 2: just the conversations, all that different type of stuff, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, I got the chance to grow with him
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  Speaker 2: ever since I came in as a rookie, and so
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  Speaker 2: just being able to see him come back, it's more
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  Speaker 2: of an appreciation because you know, Bobby went somewhere else
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  Speaker 2: and not only did he thrive, but he came back
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  Speaker 2: and he's able to relay you know what it was
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  Speaker 2: like going somewhere else, how much he missed being here
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  Speaker 2: like and all that type of stuff, and so we
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  Speaker 2: don't take.
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  Speaker 1: It for granted.
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  Speaker 2: We just go out there and we know we got
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  Speaker 2: somebody that knows what he's doing, that knows what to
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  Speaker 2: expect and knows how to get everybody involved and get
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  Speaker 2: everybody going way for the career and being in the
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  Speaker 2: state you're at now where you're starting to think about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I can be playing for him, but
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  Speaker 2: how in awe is it you know, for you and
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  Speaker 2: thrust the team.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing a guy that's now with.
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  Speaker 2: The year twelve that's still out there every single day
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  Speaker 2: making all the plays on the practice field that he's
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you know, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes that gets overlooked and taking for granted
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  Speaker 2: because you look at a guy like Bobby, he's been
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  Speaker 2: successful so long and he's been consistent for so long.
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  Speaker 2: People just think it's easy to get into year twelve
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to do that. And I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the way my body feels that year nine, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: how do you even do that? But you know, you
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  Speaker 2: see it early on, like I said, when I got here,
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  Speaker 2: like he did a great job of taking care of
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  Speaker 2: his body and he still does now. He's like the
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  Speaker 2: first guy in, the last guy out. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it says a lot because a lot of us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you want to get back home, you want to see
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  Speaker 2: your wife, or you want to see your kids.
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  Speaker 1: But this is your job.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to be able to do what gets
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  Speaker 2: you prepared and gets you right for the day of
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  Speaker 2: the game. So some people can leave, some people can stay.
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  Speaker 2: But the type of mindset of mentality that Bobby has,
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  Speaker 2: it's a reason why he's staying and why he's still
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  Speaker 2: playing going into year twelve, especially.
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  Speaker 1: As a linebackers. Oh, I mean I thought he was great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I went against him a lot in OTAs
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I know you guys have asked
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of questions, and I said, I just
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like like his mirror technique, Like everything
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  Speaker 2: a part of his game, whether he's playing off, he
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  Speaker 2: knows when the jump went not to I haven't got
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  Speaker 2: to go against him yet today. But the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: is I think he's gonna help us out a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I think it doesn't matter if we put him at corner,
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  Speaker 2: if we put him at nickel. The biggest thing is
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  Speaker 2: his value and what he brings, and he brings that
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  Speaker 2: physical toughness that we look for in corners, just to
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  Speaker 2: be able to make that tackle and just be able
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  Speaker 2: to guard the best receivers. The first time I'm met
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  Speaker 2: Bobby probably not first time I'm mad Bobby's probably when
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  Speaker 2: he's probably tackled.
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  Speaker 1: Me in one of the practices. Crey Brown and.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're phenomenal. Like it's fun being
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  Speaker 2: able to go against Trey. You know, trades from my hometown,
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  Speaker 2: so it's kind of cool being able to go up
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  Speaker 2: against him. You know, he's pretty physical, he likes to
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  Speaker 2: be hands on a lot, so you know, it helps
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  Speaker 2: me to be able to work on just different stuff
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  Speaker 2: when it's going when it's me going against more of
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  Speaker 2: aggressive corners. It's fun being able to see Mike Jack
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  Speaker 2: because you know, Mike Jack had a great year last
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  Speaker 2: year and he's picking up where he left off.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing great.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to challenge all of us at receiver. He's
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  Speaker 2: doing great and being able to understand route combinations and
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  Speaker 2: and plays when it comes to down and distances, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he made a couple of good plays out
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  Speaker 2: here today, and he's made a couple of good plays
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  Speaker 2: out here just the first three days, so I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him battle. You know, the biggest thing about
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  Speaker 2: this game is that you know you always want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to show your value and show what you
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  Speaker 2: can be able to do because the better and better
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  Speaker 2: you play is harder for coaches to keep you off
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  Speaker 2: that fields. Yeah, I appreciate you