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Cooper Kupp: "We Have A Special Group" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So everyone great talking a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot about Rivers this week.
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  Speaker 3: What do you just appreciate in general about a guy
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  Speaker 3: who is who has that resume and that rucke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me shoot that gumut. He's a good player, man,
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  Speaker 1: a good football player. So he's been in the uh
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like he's even been in the offense the
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  Speaker 1: last few years. So it's a shoot. It's Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: He's his resume speaks for speaks for himself. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be gonna be really cool to be out
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  Speaker 1: there and uh be on the field with uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer. Did you cross pass with
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  Speaker 1: him in LA at all? We did, just for a
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  Speaker 1: practice and then I believe we played them. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure he had played. We play him in twenty h
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  Speaker 1: eighteen early in the I think Week three in the coliseum.
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  Speaker 1: So just just a little bit here and there. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine being out of the game for five years
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  Speaker 1: and just saying, yeah, I did that, you know, But
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  Speaker 1: I mean credit to him, just like the the like
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  Speaker 1: you said, I mean, I think you see kind of
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  Speaker 1: like his appreciation for what this game is and the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity presents itself to come back and be in a
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  Speaker 1: building like this. You don't take that for granted. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a very special thing. Every single day
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  Speaker 1: you get a step through those doors and be a
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  Speaker 1: part of playing in the NFL. It's a it is
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  Speaker 1: a you know, that grass out there's hollow ground, and
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  Speaker 1: so every opportunity to get to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: compete on it, you respect it and you enjoy every
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  Speaker 1: minute of it. And you know, Philip Evers, I know
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  Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that did that in his
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  Speaker 1: career and you'll see is natural and real love for
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Saberts going back to practice this week, he's a
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  Speaker 4: guy that you know, before his injuries, maybe not lighting
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  Speaker 4: up the statutes or anything, but what what does he do.
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  Speaker 1: That helps make this guy? Yeah, solves the man. He's
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  Speaker 1: got some great vibery about him. You know, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's the confidence that he brings, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just picking up guys around him. He's he's awesome. He's
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  Speaker 1: an awesome player for us. And as it's been documented,
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  Speaker 1: he is, you know, probably the funniest guy on the
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  Speaker 1: on the team. I would second that, and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's just great. Everyone here loves him what he
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  Speaker 1: does for the guys around him. I'm talking about being
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  Speaker 1: a force multiplier and being able to you know, communicate
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  Speaker 1: and do things to help the guys around you and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you're taking care of your little pocket
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  Speaker 1: of the offense is a is ah you know. He
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  Speaker 1: he embodies that. So it's gonna be great have him back.
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  Speaker 2: Has the season gone for you based on what you
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  Speaker 2: were expecting, you know, personally for your performance and.
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  Speaker 1: And Ha's gone so far? Yeah, I mean sure, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm I feel good him. I'm I'm executing the things
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  Speaker 1: I'm asked to do over and over again and feel like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming in here on Monday and feeling good
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  Speaker 1: about what's being on tape. What am I? What am
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  Speaker 1: I being asked to do? And how well am I
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  Speaker 1: executing it? Him? I can thanking for the guys around me,
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  Speaker 1: and and that's all I can do. That's all I
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  Speaker 1: can do. And uh, you know, it's uh, it's fun
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  Speaker 1: when you're a part of a group that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got guys that want to play for each other.
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  Speaker 1: You got guys that, at the end of the day
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  Speaker 1: want to walk off that field with with a win
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: get to be a part of that, and you do
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  Speaker 1: everything I can, you know, day in and day out
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm a positive piece of things.
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  Speaker 1: And whatever is asked to me, whatever that is, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do, I'm gonna go out there
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  Speaker 1: and and uh find a way to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of vocal leaders on defense, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious who who steps up on offense when you
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  Speaker 2: know the team needs that side of the ball needs
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  Speaker 2: to kind of hear from from from somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's lots of people that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season have have been that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's been different times, there's been different you know,
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  Speaker 1: reasons for it's been different situations of guys stepping up.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Uh, you know, obviously Sam's gonna Sam leaves
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  Speaker 1: the offense, and day in and day out, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: come in here and he's he has been the unquestioned
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  Speaker 1: leader of you know, making sure that we're on our
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  Speaker 1: stuff and that he's communicating things to us and leading
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  Speaker 1: the arge offensively, commanding the huddle. Yeah, guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know Jaylon Sendel's only as he's only a second year,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of what he does up front, all
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  Speaker 1: losing an incredible job stepping in for him. You you know,
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  Speaker 1: AJ's also had a spots where he's stepping up and
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  Speaker 1: being able to, you know, encourage guys and bring bring
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  Speaker 1: energy when when he feels like there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: lull and you know there's just there's guys across the board.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's been a it's been a really cool thing
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  Speaker 1: to see that kind of uh guys step out and
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  Speaker 1: step into that and into those places where you know
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  Speaker 1: where it needs to be said.
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  Speaker 3: Your defense has put up some really impressive numbers. One
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  Speaker 3: of them is conversion third down conversion rate in the
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  Speaker 3: last five weeks. Does it feel like that on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 3: I think opponents are getting like twenty five percent of
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  Speaker 3: their opportunities. Does that ever put you guys into crunch
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  Speaker 3: time on the sidelines with the conversations you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: have on offense.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, I mean I think they've done a great
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  Speaker 1: job and I'm not going to complain about having less
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  Speaker 1: time to look at the at the iPad on the
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  Speaker 1: sideline there. You know, it's uh, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: great thing when you you know, you get the third down,
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  Speaker 1: you start hearing about pun alert and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and feel confident that that's it's gonna happen. And it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like you're a you're you're not getting where
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  Speaker 1: catfish and thinking that you're about to get it back
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  Speaker 1: out in the field. And they've done a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: You've done a really good job of geting guys off
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  Speaker 1: the field there. And obviously I've touched on it before,
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  Speaker 1: but you're the most confidence in those guys and how
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  Speaker 1: they're playing. It's a it's a special group over there.
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  Speaker 1: You said, you mentioned when you look back at your tape,
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  Speaker 1: you're executing what you actually do and you said, I'm am,
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  Speaker 1: I playing for the guys next to me. How does
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  Speaker 1: that show up? How can you tell you're doing it
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  Speaker 1: for the guys around you? Yeah, I think that's along
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that stuff is there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff in this game that you know isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: show up in the stat book. There's stuff that isn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be seen in the box score. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say probably actually like seventy five percent of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that gets done on the football field doesn't show
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  Speaker 1: up in the stat book. And you know, how well
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  Speaker 1: can you dominate that seventy five percent of the game
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  Speaker 1: that you know everyone else, you know might pass by.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got a lot of guys that take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pride in that, that take pride in and
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  Speaker 1: blocking for the guys around them, you know, uh, running
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  Speaker 1: your route precisely and knowing that you know your route
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  Speaker 1: isn't always just about you getting open your routs, about
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  Speaker 1: pulling coverage, about distributing the field, you know, running backs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pick up lists and trusting their tracks and
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  Speaker 1: setting up blocks, and you know, there's so many things
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  Speaker 1: in this game that are pivotal to the game. They
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  Speaker 1: are the essential part of this game. And we've got
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  Speaker 1: guys and take that, take that seriously, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: you've seen success. And you've also seen that when that's
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  Speaker 1: not done, those details aren't emphasized, and those details aren't executed.
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  Speaker 1: Why we spread her out, you know. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: the same reason if you guys, you guys would't have
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  Speaker 1: a job if you guys could see that stuff. While
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  Speaker 1: you guys are asking, because you want to know what
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  Speaker 1: the reason is that things don't go the way they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to when it's in the details. Is in the
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  Speaker 1: details that only the guys are in this in this
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  Speaker 1: room that are getting coached on it for you know,
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  Speaker 1: forty fifty hours a week to be able to understand
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  Speaker 1: what they are. It's those guys that understand what needs
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  Speaker 1: to get done. And and we've got guys to take
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  Speaker 1: that very seriously.
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  Speaker 4: And on some really good teams this fun including how
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  Speaker 4: much is that a trait you see on the best
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  Speaker 4: teams of like having those guys that do all those
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  Speaker 4: things you.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned, that's it. I mean, that's uh, you have to
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  Speaker 1: it for you to be a good team. The good
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  Speaker 1: teams in this league do that stuff. The bad teams don't.
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  Speaker 1: That's point blank period. You can do all the other
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you want to do and whatever, all your
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  Speaker 1: analysis of all different kinds of things, just the guys
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  Speaker 1: that do the things that don't show open the staft
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  Speaker 1: book at a very high level. Those are the teams
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  Speaker 1: that have opportunities to play very meaningful games at this
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  Speaker 1: point in the year. So yeah, without doubt, that's that
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  Speaker 1: is a common denominator all the way through. I suppose
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of along similar lines. But look, we've
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  Speaker 1: heard a lot about how close you guys are as
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  Speaker 1: a team at the end of the day. How important
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  Speaker 1: is that in winning football games? Yeah? Do I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think it goes back to that same thing, right, like,
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  Speaker 1: I think the hard thing to do is to do
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  Speaker 1: the things that, uh don't don't benefit you in any capacity,
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  Speaker 1: but benefit the team or benefit someone else. And being
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  Speaker 1: able to come and do that over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. And you know, it's hard to do if
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  Speaker 1: you don't love the person next to you, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't love the person that's scoring the touch, and if
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  Speaker 1: you don't love the person that's you know, running the
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  Speaker 1: ball for the first down, that's securing the game. That
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  Speaker 1: if you don't love those guys, it's gonna be really
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  Speaker 1: hard to come in and continually do it, continually do
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  Speaker 1: it over and over again. You might do it once
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  Speaker 1: or twice, but to really compete for the guys, to
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  Speaker 1: really put it on the line, you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: love the people that you're sitting you're going through this
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  Speaker 1: process with, and you know, the most connected teams do it. You.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what's the first thing you look at in game
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  Speaker 2: film when you look back at the previous game.
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  Speaker 1: If there's not really time, you just watch, uh you
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  Speaker 1: watch it play by play, position by position, and watch
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  Speaker 1: you guys compete. There's there's not much else to It's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: what was what was the defense doing? And then how
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  Speaker 1: are we attacking it? What were we doing? Are we
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  Speaker 1: winning across the board? Our guys just doing their job
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  Speaker 1: And that's what That's what I like to see is
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  Speaker 1: seeing guys compete and communicating and get their job done.
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  Speaker 2: Other things you look at in your own film in
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  Speaker 2: particular to kind of assess your how things are going
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean, yeah, that's the same thing. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's am I doing my job? I can't do anything
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  Speaker 1: more than what I'm asked to do. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I get that opportunity when I'm watching my film,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I know what my job is. I know
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  Speaker 1: what the defense was doing. You know how am I
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  Speaker 1: best exciting that? And am I doing it over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again and at a high level to
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  Speaker 1: make sure it's not just you know, checking the box,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to make sure I'm dominating in those
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  Speaker 1: things as well. So start there. Anything else awesome? Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys,