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Elijah Arroyo: "It's Going To Be A Great Season For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we doing. It's great. Yeah, a great day and competition.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds about how you guys go back to your visit,
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  Speaker 2: your thirty visit or whatever like because of the.
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  Speaker 1: Bought you guys formed the what's it been like? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just the position he plays, It's it's natural.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just we started talking smack from the
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  Speaker 2: day I met him, and uh, you know, he's an
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  Speaker 2: elite competitor.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's gonna bring it every.
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  Speaker 2: Day and uh, I just love getting better with him speaking.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's what I expect him to say. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, he he can't guard me. That's all I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of man.
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  Speaker 2: Just his strength, his ability to move, and uh, just
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  Speaker 2: the will he brings every player he's he's just a
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  Speaker 2: great player overall. And you know, I'm glad to have
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  Speaker 2: him on our team.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel like you're You're a justment it's
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  Speaker 1: coming along with after you to do.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm doing well. I've learned a lot,
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  Speaker 2: you know since I got here in O. T. A. S.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I'm just gonna continue to learn,
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  Speaker 2: continue to build and uh, just perfect my craft.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I would say just the speed and
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  Speaker 2: the plays and you know, just learning, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect and everything. You know, in college you can
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  Speaker 2: kind of get away with, you know, little things, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I realized, you know, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: be great, everything has to be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: How do you like this offense? Just say that again?
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  Speaker 1: Practice this offense? How does it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we feed off each other and uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know our coach is gonna get the ball to
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  Speaker 2: guys who make plays. So he makes plays. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's great. I make plays and you know it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a great day. It's gonna be a great season
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's been great. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a vet, he's he's been in the
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  Speaker 2: league for a minute now, and uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: his ability to throw the ball, his ability to read everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's great having, you know, a quarterback you can truly trust.
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  Speaker 1: Competition kind of got even more competitive with you and
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  Speaker 1: a j barter Way. You know, Fat was released.
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  Speaker 2: Can you kind of talk about just that wide open
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  Speaker 2: competition where you feel like you're at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a healthy competition going.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as soon as we got the news, we
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  Speaker 2: talked to you know, it's it's our time. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not really I mean, we're we're competing, but at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, you know, we're trying to elevate each other.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit about how you guys help each other
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  Speaker 1: in this role and where where you see both of
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  Speaker 1: you get. Yeah, me and Ah have a great bond.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he helps me out a lot, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: in film and practice, like just perfecting my craft and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, anything I see. You know, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not shy to let him know either bring to that
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  Speaker 2: group in terms of leadership, this tech offense, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of accent team.
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  Speaker 1: That's the guy right there, that's the vet.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's he's also been in the league for a
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  Speaker 2: minute now, and uh, you know I've been following him
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  Speaker 2: around just trying to get you know, his uh, his
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  Speaker 2: after practice routine, Just trying to figure out ways to
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  Speaker 2: get my body right and uh because I want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ultimately play in this league for a long
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  Speaker 2: time as well.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've gotten better so far.
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  Speaker 2: There's still you know, a lot of room for improvement,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I'm taking steps forward.
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  Speaker 1: I'm headed in the right direction. Challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we we got some some really good
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  Speaker 2: dudes out there.
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  Speaker 1: We got DLA out there, We got the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of a lot of guys who
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  Speaker 1: can go. I keep.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, coming in, I thought he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the block and tight end. But you know, I came
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  Speaker 2: out here and you know, he's been making some really
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  Speaker 2: good plays and I'm really excited for for him this season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited to see you know, the two
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  Speaker 1: headed monster. What have you even see?
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  Speaker 2: I'm very proud of him, from him coming in and
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  Speaker 2: not being able to get team reps to coming out today,
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  Speaker 2: really this whole week, you know, he's been coming out working,
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  Speaker 2: he's been coming out with his head on fire, and
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  Speaker 2: uh uh, you know, just hats off to him. I'm
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  Speaker 2: proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: What does he do?
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  Speaker 2: Everything just is route running getting open you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got strong hands, he's he's good at you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: contesting contested catches and uh he's a very smart player
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  Speaker 2: overall as well.
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  Speaker 1: The blunt game and how different is what they're asking
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  Speaker 1: you to do in the run game for what you
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  Speaker 1: were doing previously at Miami, like you.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so, at Miami we did like we ran a
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  Speaker 2: lot of dual I was really just you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of base blocking with the end.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have us doing it all