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D.J. James: "This Means A Lot" - Seahawks Draft Conference Call · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: DJ, congratulations. I know that it was always gonna be
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  Speaker 1: cool to get a call today, but knowing that your
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  Speaker 1: teammate is also hard. How does that add to today?
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot. Then't know. I'm going in there
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  Speaker 1: with somebody out of play college football with years, it means.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot. It has full also plays Fassent me, well,
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  Speaker 1: can you tell us about me? And maya.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be a great locker room player. He gonna
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  Speaker 1: ran the Jews. He loves what he do. He loves
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  Speaker 1: playing cornerback and he had fun doing it as well.
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  Speaker 1: How much did you enjoy the pressman, Cavery Jauburn? Howd
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  Speaker 1: you guys in a lot? I liked it a lot
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like at times you got to challenge
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  Speaker 1: receivers and get in their face, so it was enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: And they also working on my prison man because people
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  Speaker 1: not to play off man as well. But it was
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  Speaker 1: fun just getting getting into other receiver spaces, missing enough
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  Speaker 1: time and disturber reliefs. It was fun and had two
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  Speaker 1: men then my two box the cleve.
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  Speaker 2: You mostly played on the outside at Auburn going into
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. Did you have any conversations with the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: leading up to this point, and where do you foresee
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  Speaker 2: yourself playing at the next level. Do you do you
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  Speaker 2: have experience playing in the slot to go with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I talked to Seattle a lot. They had
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  Speaker 1: dinner with me Pride them a pro day, and then
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  Speaker 1: I talked to them a couple of days before the
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  Speaker 1: draft of the club. So I no, I was on
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  Speaker 1: their radar going into the NFL. I'm ready to play
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  Speaker 1: whatever they needed to play at that nickel that the
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  Speaker 1: outside corner. I playing both, and if you did, some
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  Speaker 1: of such teams didn't any time to help the team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm what to do? Did you how did you describe
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  Speaker 1: your style of play as a corner? Oh? Real, I
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  Speaker 1: don't comment type of corner on first quick burst extinctual,
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  Speaker 1: uh smart high foot by IQ guy. Did you play
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  Speaker 1: inside it at Auburn?
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  Speaker 2: You tell what?
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you inside at all at Auburn, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I did. I played slot as well. We went into
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  Speaker 1: what went into leaving Oregon and ending up at Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: You said, what what what went into your transfer from
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  Speaker 1: Oregon to Auburn? Because like you know, how the fallows
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  Speaker 1: go crazy. Once you get to come, everybody keep coming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry what you say again, It was what went
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  Speaker 1: into your transfer from Oregon back to Auburn. I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be in the SEC. That's something I didn't
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  Speaker 1: I gave up on going out to Oregon, but also
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  Speaker 1: Mario Prisbon hit stout leaving the whole stop leaving going
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  Speaker 1: to Miami, and Auburn came back hard and transfer portal,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't give up that opportunity of playing across
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  Speaker 1: the home and all the SCC show case to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Me and Maiah said that you guys would trade off
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  Speaker 1: sides of the field, and there wasn't necessarily a set sight.
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  Speaker 1: How did you guys make that determination? Was that between
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  Speaker 1: you or was that coaches? It was really between us.
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  Speaker 1: It was just to sign off what side we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to if we want to tarment there because
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  Speaker 1: we both covered number one guy, So it was just
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  Speaker 1: both was just to sign what time, time of the game,
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  Speaker 1: sign of the time, if we want us want to
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  Speaker 1: start in the boundary, and want of us want to
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  Speaker 1: start of the field to get certain coverage and ran
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  Speaker 1: and just get give certain different books in different coverages
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  Speaker 1: because where you talking to us from? Sir? You tell what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Which city are you talking to us from?
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  Speaker 1: I'm in ghost store of Alabama right now? What went
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  Speaker 1: into you wanting to cover the number one guy? Did? Me?
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  Speaker 1: Knowing the competitor I am, everybody on my team trusted
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  Speaker 1: me to shut down one side of the still so
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  Speaker 1: and I knew I had the challenge to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So just knowing my myself, knowing my skill set against
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  Speaker 1: other players, so I was excited to for the challenge. DJ,
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  Speaker 1: do you write your name with periods or just DJ?
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  Speaker 1: Well can Yeah, I can do I can do periods
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  Speaker 1: as well. Because this man's for Desmond Junior Jay