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Julian Love: "I'm Excited To Be Here Long Term" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you well enough.
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Speaker 2: So what does this mean for you?
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Speaker 3: It's exciting obviously, security for me and my family, and
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Speaker 3: just you know, belief the program has belief in me.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here long term.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to Mike McDonald, obviously you haven't played
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Speaker 4: a game yet for him, but what does that What
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Speaker 4: does that say to you the new head coach to
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Speaker 4: sign off on this, and hey, we need this guy
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Speaker 4: to be here long term.
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Speaker 1: And that's a foundational it's big time. Obviously, it's trust.
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Speaker 3: You feel good when you know the guy you're playing
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Speaker 3: for trusts you and believes in you.
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Speaker 1: Uh. And from the early point, I know, I talked
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Speaker 1: to you guys a while ago. We we hit it off.
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Speaker 1: I think we connected in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 3: I'm familiar with how he calls games in his past,
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Speaker 3: and he's just a good guy to talk to him,
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Speaker 3: be around, and so I think we just connected and
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to play for him and obviously now earn
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Speaker 3: what I have going forward.
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Speaker 1: The process for this sort of it was a pretty
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Speaker 1: good process.
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Speaker 3: It started earlier this spring, I would say, and we
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Speaker 3: just you know, we operated.
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Speaker 1: It was it was just great.
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Speaker 3: I think across the board. You know, this process in
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Speaker 3: the past hasn't been the best for me.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, from.
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Speaker 3: John down all the guys, they just were so professional
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Speaker 3: and I really appreciated how they.
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Speaker 1: Handled it all.
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Speaker 3: And I just, you know, was around. I want to
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Speaker 3: be here, build a team up. We have new staff,
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Speaker 3: and so I just had to do my part and
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Speaker 3: it was very natural.
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Speaker 1: Like like mentioned, noxious communication. I know every defense wants
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Speaker 1: to communicate. That's always, you know staple. But is it different?
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Speaker 3: Does anything feel different in terms of the way that
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Speaker 3: you guys are going about it or the emphasis on that.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: I think from a schematic perspective, you know, we want
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Speaker 3: to do a lot of things. I think we have
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Speaker 3: an extreme amount of talent, but that means nothing if
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Speaker 3: you can't evolve game plan wise week to week. And
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Speaker 3: so to have a lot of things, you got to
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Speaker 3: communicate a lot. We got to have tools, we got
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Speaker 3: to have checks. And then from a bigger perspective, just
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Speaker 3: building a team, building an organization that's together. We got
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Speaker 3: to be able to talk to each other across the board.
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Speaker 1: We gotta be able to guest each other up, hold
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Speaker 1: each other accountable.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's what that ab Nazis communication is
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Speaker 3: like talk to a point of seeming of naxious. But
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Speaker 3: that's just gonna have to be the standard, and we're
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Speaker 3: building that. It's day two of camp. We're trying to
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Speaker 3: get to that. Guys are you know, might be tired
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Speaker 3: all that stuff, and so we're we're trying to get
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Speaker 3: to that point right now. But I think it's a
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Speaker 3: it's a good emphasis to have communicator most of the
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Speaker 3: Nazis communicator. I wonst the the naxist. I think it's good.
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Speaker 3: I think keyvon Wallace is doing a great job. Guy
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Speaker 3: we we brought in obviously, and he's allowed as guy.
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Speaker 1: On the field.
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Speaker 3: Uh bar none uh As it's a Richmond, Virginia guys.
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Speaker 1: So I have a lot of respect for those guys
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Speaker 1: from Richmond, Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Mike also talked about your direct communication with him in
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Speaker 2: being maybe a voice for the team and just being.
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Speaker 1: Very honest about what you're seeing.
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Speaker 3: What responsibility do you feel in that regard?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 3: You know, I feel like I'm you guys know me,
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty very neutral, try to be cool, calm and collected,
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Speaker 3: and I just try to have and so I think
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Speaker 3: to be that kind of a middleman with what his
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Speaker 3: emphasis is, what his message is, and try to relate
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Speaker 3: that to the.
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Speaker 1: Team in any way I can. Is my job.
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Speaker 3: You know, being a leader on this team is just
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Speaker 3: being myself. I think I'm an intimate guy. I'm not
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Speaker 3: a hoot and holler. You guys know that. But I
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Speaker 3: talked to my guys. I want to know how everybody's feeling.
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Speaker 3: I got to know how to communicate to our guys
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Speaker 3: because everyone's different, and so that's my job. I got
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Speaker 3: to relay that message out and just build as thing
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Speaker 3: as we go. Yeah, you know it was I think
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Speaker 3: third down, third and four.
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Speaker 1: We were a nickel Gino idea what we had going on.
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Speaker 3: I got a good beat on it, obviously, playing at
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Speaker 3: the sticks, good break balls right there for me.
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Speaker 1: I was able to grab it, got off the field.
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Speaker 3: What kind of pressure does this offense and the passaget put.
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Speaker 1: Out the guys in the second man they've been getting
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Speaker 1: after it.
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Speaker 3: Grub has them dialed in and Gino, I mean, he's
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Speaker 3: looked really good these first two days coming out, which.
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Speaker 1: Is is always good.
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Speaker 3: Usually you see the defense starting super fast and camp traditionally,
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Speaker 3: and we have been doing well, but Gino's been throwing
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Speaker 3: that thing, and so, you know, I give a lot
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Speaker 3: of respect to what we have going on. I'm super
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Speaker 3: excited for what we have. Everyone's being utilized. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we have so much balance offensively, I'm excited to see
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Speaker 3: what we have.
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Speaker 1: Anything you've seen in your.
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Speaker 3: Six years in the NFL, you know, it's it's a
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Speaker 3: little bit of everything, which I think is unique in itself.
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Speaker 3: You know, everybody has a style, but so far, I mean,
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Speaker 3: they can line up in big personnel, run the ball,
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Speaker 3: they can spread it out, they can motion shift. Uh,
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Speaker 3: they can play straight up versus man Brazilona. I think
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Speaker 3: we have every ability to do things successfully and so
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Speaker 3: that's unique. And Grub, I mean is dialing it up
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Speaker 3: right now. It's day two, and so we're excited. Obviously
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Speaker 3: on defense, we got to be on our ship. We
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Speaker 3: want to be on our stuff. Excuse me, Marland, sorry,
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Speaker 3: And so yeah, how.
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Speaker 2: Different can this Your last year has felt like when
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Speaker 2: you were kind of a jack of all trades a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I guess we're black of a better way
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Speaker 2: of saying it. But this year you really have an
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Speaker 2: established role back there.
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Speaker 3: You know, I kind of will keep that same thing
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Speaker 3: that's what I do. I think that's what I do best.
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Speaker 3: My entire career playing football, I've been able to do
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Speaker 3: multiple things, and for us to be successful, I think
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Speaker 3: we have the multiple We have so much talent, but
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Speaker 3: it makes no sense if the talents lined up in
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Speaker 3: the same spot every play, and so we're moving guys around.
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Speaker 3: We're going to be, you know, especially on defense, really
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Speaker 3: fluid in that. And what that takes is a higher
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Speaker 3: responsibility for guys to learn more things. You know, not
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Speaker 3: just learn inside slot. I gotta learn corner, you got
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Speaker 3: safety's got to learn the slot, outside linebacker stuff that.
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 3: If you look at what the Ravens were doing defensively
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Speaker 3: last year, guys were everywhere, and that's what we need
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Speaker 3: to get to.
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Speaker 1: And we have the ability, which is so exciting.
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Speaker 2: And you mentioned the contract process in the past. Why
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Speaker 2: you didn't I assume you're kind of refer to the
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Speaker 2: giants and things like.
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Speaker 1: That coming here. Yeah, self validate.
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Speaker 3: I guess the kind of the decisions you made then
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Speaker 3: and everything it does. I mean, I think I'm a
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Speaker 3: big proponent of winning. Doubt just double down on myself.
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Speaker 3: I think, no matter what situation I've been placed in.
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Speaker 3: I've been productive. I've stayed who I am, which is
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Speaker 3: tough when things sometimes don't fall your way.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's the most validating thing.
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Speaker 3: Is that I stay chewed myself in this process as
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Speaker 3: a player, as a person at home for my family,
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Speaker 3: and to be rewarded is extremely validating.
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Speaker 1: So I'm grateful learning a new defense.
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Speaker 4: Do you see some extra value at least from all
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Speaker 4: the long term perspective going against a new offense that
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Speaker 4: has a little bit of that multiplicity rather than if
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Speaker 4: you were facing the same offense you faced the last year.
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Speaker 3: Of course, it's like swinging a baseball bat with the
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Speaker 3: donut on it. You know, you want to see, you
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Speaker 3: want to feel a little. That's a baseball reference for
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Speaker 3: guys who I got some looks over here. These wanted
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Speaker 3: to make it tougher early. If we're going through our
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Speaker 3: toughest looks right now in training camp. Everything in the
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Speaker 3: game comes seasons gonna be easy, that's the whope, obviously.
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Speaker 3: And so they're doing a lot, and we got to
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Speaker 3: be on our stuff, and so it's really good. I
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Speaker 3: ever seen that, and we we we accept the challenge.
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Speaker 4: How do you get how do you message people to
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Speaker 4: understand that without playing the games. Yeah, you know what
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Speaker 4: I'm saying, trying to get people be firs satile, looking
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Speaker 4: how to be versatile.
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Speaker 1: I think, you know talking to some young guys.
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Speaker 3: For me is just being in the meetings and being
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Speaker 3: intentive to more than what is being told to your
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Speaker 3: specific position as a guy, you know, a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: just trying to get it, trying to make a team,
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out where my spot was on a team.
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Speaker 3: I understood I had to learn nickel, strong, free, and
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Speaker 3: corner just in case somebody needed this up. And I
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Speaker 3: there's a couple of seasons I started games at corner, nickel, slot, uh,
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Speaker 3: free and strong, And so I think I just tell
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Speaker 3: guys stay patient.
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Speaker 1: And stay ready. You never know what your time is called.
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Speaker 3: Uh and so that's kind of my message is you
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Speaker 3: gotta be able to expand your horizons and try to
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Speaker 3: learn multiple things.
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Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit of the chemistry you
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Speaker 1: guys are developing and.
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Speaker 4: What they bring to the team.
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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how how excited I am for
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Speaker 3: our safety room.
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Speaker 1: You know, Ray Sean is a guy.
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Speaker 3: Who has been super productive in the league, has kind
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Speaker 3: of like me. I just feel like has just not
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Speaker 3: been I don't know, it's been an.
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Speaker 1: Underdog of sorts. But he's been productive. Last year, he
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Speaker 1: had a great year. Before he had a great year
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Speaker 1: over in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 3: He's been a baller and so he just has that experience,
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Speaker 3: that knowledge. He can talk to guys, he understands people
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Speaker 3: on a personal level, and him sends a game. I
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Speaker 3: think we could talk ball super natural. And then Keavon
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Speaker 3: has been around the block too. He plays good ball,
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Speaker 3: is a dog on special teams, is a dog on
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Speaker 3: defense in whatever role. And so I see my game
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Speaker 3: in my past in both of them, and so.
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Speaker 1: We work really well together.
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Speaker 3: Then to think about the rest of the room, and
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Speaker 3: we Kobe Bryant, who is I mean the most left
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Speaker 3: on person on this team.
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Speaker 1: I would say he's a baller and right now.
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Speaker 3: Obviously transitioning from nickel corner safety, he's doing a lot,
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Speaker 3: but he's a ballplayer and so when his time is called,
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Speaker 3: I know he's ready. And then the young guys we
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Speaker 3: have in the room, you know, like Tyo Katta, John Sutherland,
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Speaker 3: our ballers, and they're staying ready.
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Speaker 1: I I got some time last year, but they're just available.
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Speaker 3: They work hard every day, and so our room is
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Speaker 3: is just so good, and it's so balanced just from
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Speaker 3: a people perspective, from a work balanced perspective, and so
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Speaker 3: I'm excited about our safety room.
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Speaker 1: Are you going to treat yourself to any instead of clubs?
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Speaker 1: The golf game is tough, you know, ever since we
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Speaker 1: had the baby. I'll blame I'll blame that, all right.
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Speaker 3: I'll just say that's my excuse, had a baby. Golf
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Speaker 3: game has been going downhill, handicapped going up, and I
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Speaker 3: got to wait till the next spring to re sharpen it.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I'll buy some clothes. Maybe that'll be the fix.
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Speaker 3: It won't, but I'll try.
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Speaker 1: This coaching staff is almost entirely new from last season.
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Speaker 1: What has stood out to you about maybe their demeanor,
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Speaker 1: the way they coach, et cetera. I think I was
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Speaker 1: thinking about today. They're just intentional.
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Speaker 3: I think there's some things that in football, this is
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Speaker 3: kind of our understated.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it any other way.
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Speaker 1: But they put.
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Speaker 3: Words to thoughts, you know, they put words into how
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Speaker 3: to play the game, alignment and tension assignment, and so
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Speaker 3: they're I mean, they're so detailed right now every present
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Speaker 3: presentation we have, whether it's offensive and special teams, Mike
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Speaker 3: talking about.
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Speaker 1: The team stuff.
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Speaker 3: Situational football is so detailed, and so you can tell
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Speaker 3: they're put in the work and they care. They pour
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Speaker 3: into a lot of drills all the stuff we do
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Speaker 3: each each day, and so I'm appreciative right now we
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Speaker 3: have a good staff in here, and so now we've.
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Speaker 1: Got to make it come to life.
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Speaker 3: Anything else.
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Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it all right, y'all,