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Pete Carroll: "I'm Really Excited About Riq Woolen" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, fire away. How did uh? How did he get
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  Speaker 1: through the week?
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  Speaker 2: He he he he practiced, Uh, except for today. He
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  Speaker 2: did a nice job. I think it's it's we were
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  Speaker 2: on on the right track to get him back even
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  Speaker 2: more seriously next week and see if we could. If
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  Speaker 2: he's got a shot, he needed to make it through
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  Speaker 2: something and we need to see how he would respond.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, we don't have all that information yet. But
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  Speaker 2: each Wednesday and Thursday he did fine and came out okay,
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  Speaker 2: seemingly uh today, but it was just the data make
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  Speaker 2: sure we didn't overload. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Adams Meta's doctors would say that he would be parking
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  Speaker 1: for a while this week anymore than on other.
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  Speaker 2: I th he's just telling you what it feels like. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's his knees been you know, been something.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just trying to take care of him and
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  Speaker 2: figure it out as we Gody Bradford, how do you
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  Speaker 2: come out?
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  Speaker 1: He's yeah, he did fine, he did fine. He's ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. Uh t bratle.
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  Speaker 2: Some jam his foot or something on on a play
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  Speaker 2: and it's just sore. Didn't He's not injured, seriously, but
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, it's trying to race to get back.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Tyler able to go today?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, we're gonna he ran today though he worked
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  Speaker 2: out and did all that with the trainers, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: run him at practice.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he'll run again tomorrow. We'll just it's day to
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  Speaker 1: day right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is he'd expect try to play? Yeah, I'm feeling like
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  Speaker 2: that's what everybody's saying. We'll get he's still gotta do it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's gotta make sure he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, in practice, that's true. Yeah, I think it was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the day before yesterday? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: With the short week next week, can you really learn
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  Speaker 2: any more about how ave Is is doing? Since you
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  Speaker 2: probably won't even have a full practice. Well, we'll do
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  Speaker 2: some some stuff, some extra stuff with him to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we'll well, you know, uh, aside from the other guys.
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  Speaker 2: He we don't need to hold him back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from the work. So we'll get some stuff done. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We had thought about it this week.
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  Speaker 2: We thought let's just get him through it, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll come back tomorrow next week and and take
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  Speaker 2: a look at him again.
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  Speaker 1: Com pay to say, Jason Peters probably be part of
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  Speaker 1: the day playing again.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta wait till tomorrow and see what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm not sure I can tell you anything about
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  Speaker 2: that yet. No, no, I am sure. I can't tell
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  Speaker 2: you anything about it yet.
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  Speaker 1: But my bad Tyler and Jamal. Do you expect both
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  Speaker 1: of them to play? Would like him to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'd like him too. We'll see what happens. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: you thought, uh, well, I think you started to read,
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  Speaker 1: so you thought we'll play played one of those better
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  Speaker 1: part of games, uh, Sunday, but the tackle the game
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  Speaker 1: he played up a little bit fu. Yeah, yep. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He obviously had had the jury, had to come back
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  Speaker 1: over there. I think you think something another one and
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of games. I do, and so how
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  Speaker 1: it it's just taking him a little bit of time
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  Speaker 1: to kinda get back to that Sene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you know, it got me missed camp
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  Speaker 2: and and uh had to play himself, you know, back
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  Speaker 2: into full speed. You know, he's just player, and it
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  Speaker 2: took him a bit. And he's done everything he can
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  Speaker 2: and he's getting better and playing better, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited about him in the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 1: I think he can really do some great stuff. Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen whether it's going to just subtle under the
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  Speaker 1: fuel role of the way. He's yeah, yeah, he's fine
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  Speaker 1: with it.
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  Speaker 2: He really, it's it's no problem for him at all.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing that we are concerned about him learning or
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  Speaker 2: understanding or anything. He's conceptually a really good learner. And
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, he's he's handled.
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  Speaker 1: All of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's rare is how quickly he took to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was like the first two weeks he
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  Speaker 2: was there and and it just shows you that he
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  Speaker 2: has great sense and awareness and he can make sense
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  Speaker 2: of the coach to speak and all of that, and
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  Speaker 2: and and put the concepts in the into play and
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  Speaker 2: feel very comfortable and play fast, you know, with confidence
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  Speaker 2: and all that. So he's a it's it's it is
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  Speaker 2: pretty rare. Yeah, when it comes to the rams det
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  Speaker 2: inspiring you all this having a great season, a loose
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  Speaker 2: getting into the backfield, likes you're someone that is playing
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  Speaker 2: opposite of garand Donald. But what else does he do?
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  Speaker 2: What other skills said does he have? It gives him
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  Speaker 2: that speed or that he's explosive, He's he's got good quicks. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: He's you can see him growing, you know with with
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  Speaker 2: his experience makes good choices. They run really good games,
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  Speaker 2: and Aaron is a big part of that. And whenever
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  Speaker 2: he's out there, he affects everybody. But he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's done a really nice job and they cut him
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  Speaker 2: loose a bunch, so he gets a lot of good opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know, well when they first started doing colors
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  Speaker 2: with the number to do cadences, when that first got along.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have never even thought about that before, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad you brought it up. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: way back in the day, there was numbers that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you one two or three, you know, one thirty eight,
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  Speaker 2: one thirty eight, and the numbers were a hot number
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  Speaker 2: kind of the thing, you know and all that. But
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  Speaker 2: I know, I don't remember, unfortunately, but he just became
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  Speaker 2: part of the game, and I can't tell you when
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  Speaker 2: it started.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Uh do the uop though for you? The Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I go back to the Tigers and the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers we said, Hike, so Ripping and Waldron were saying
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  Speaker 2: that mcveigh's really good about knowing defensive players and schemes
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  Speaker 2: and where defensive guys are depending.
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  Speaker 1: On where the offense. Is he unique in that regardless
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  Speaker 1: of offensive playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if unique, because a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: are you know, well schooled, but he's really good at it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's just part of you know why I have
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  Speaker 2: respect for his game and what he's done and all.
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  Speaker 2: He's very well versed and makes very good decisions in
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  Speaker 2: that regard and also using his own people too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to their special talents.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really good personnel coach.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he he gets the most out of his guys.
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  Speaker 1: Much more indicadence thing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any input on what do you guys
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  Speaker 2: use in any given year like green eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Or white whatever? Like have input or just let all
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  Speaker 1: of the most seas.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's really not ever been an issue,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't away. Yeah, I'm not thought that I
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  Speaker 2: should weigh in on that. I know when I'm when
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my stuff, I'm you know, my seven ons
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  Speaker 2: and stuff out there that I like to mix my colors.
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  Speaker 2: We got to ask you a lot about flying back
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  Speaker 2: east when you fly to LA What's goes into when
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  Speaker 2: you go on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Versus earlier way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because of that, you know, it's basically the time change,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is the issue when you're going back. So
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  Speaker 2: the fact that there isn't one, you know that it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't necessitate you know, getting settling, settle in and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Our guys can really treat this like it's a home game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in a sense in terms of their preparation
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  Speaker 2: and their Friday nights and and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And so they they we.
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  Speaker 2: Ask our guys to really develop a routine and how
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  Speaker 2: they lead into the games. And so this is a
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  Speaker 2: for them. This is a like a home game Friday
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  Speaker 2: for them. And so and then you get on the plane,
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  Speaker 2: next thing you know, you're there. You know, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of how it goes. So I don't know it's worked out,
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  Speaker 2: you know for some time. You know. That's that's Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's not a whole lot more thought into that than that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, most teams, I think most teams traveling the
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  Speaker 2: night before the game and go I just met as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to leave in the morning that you leave that
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  Speaker 2: you arrived in the early evening. Oh you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: like we used to do at EOP when we play
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  Speaker 2: Oregon and we leave at six am in the morning
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  Speaker 2: and fly up on on Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, now that you brought that up, I
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  Speaker 2: was coaching at EUOP at the time.
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  Speaker 1: We were playing Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was in the first game of the year,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, by our budget, we stayed out of
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  Speaker 2: the hotel, you know, business and all that. So we
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  Speaker 2: got up and stocked in at six o'clock, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to fly at six o'clock in the morning, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just as fogged in in the valley as you can get.
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  Speaker 1: And we get delayed and delayed and delayed, and.
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  Speaker 2: We finally get out and we were gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: pregame meal at Denny's and uh so, uh what happened
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  Speaker 2: is we were so late that we're at Danny's and
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  Speaker 2: the guys are eating and we're taping up and you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys are sitting up on the tables, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then Danny's table, I'm gonna rush to the stadium to
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  Speaker 2: get to the game.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually, it was actually a pretty good game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it was actually a pretty good game for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: That means it was somewhere close anything else