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Charles Cross: "I've Grown My Overall Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Think you're gonna have to prove DK wrong on us.
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  Speaker 2: You right, I don't have a personality, just jokes.
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  Speaker 3: Just jokes about DK's personality.
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  Speaker 2: O man, DK, funny? Man, you ka funny?
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  Speaker 1: Can you read the king parts he's putting up in
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  Speaker 1: the back?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what we're good for?
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  Speaker 2: We c the the non verbal communication look off right now?
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  Speaker 3: About Uh, you worked on like Pilate's inflexibility in the
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  Speaker 3: off season. You feeling that come through uh the first
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  Speaker 3: few games of this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely feel like they helped me this offseason, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just working on my flexibility and being able to move
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  Speaker 4: in in awkward positions.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at what.
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  Speaker 4: The run gamings in the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Look, you knew that New England wanted to sell out
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  Speaker 1: to stop the run, but how would you evaluate it?
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  Speaker 1: Just kind of overall with either lanes that are there
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  Speaker 1: for the types.
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  Speaker 3: Of runs that have been calls.
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  Speaker 4: I would just be better as a as a group and
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  Speaker 4: get the runs going. Just continue to see everything through
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  Speaker 4: one lens and communicate to you know, get the job.
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  Speaker 2: Don.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, where do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you've grown the most as a player from Lost yeriou,
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  Speaker 1: that's I say.
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  Speaker 4: I I've grown my overall games, just you know, improvements
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  Speaker 4: to get better in the ring game and past game,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, just tryna bring guys along with me.
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  Speaker 1: What are the conversations with Connor Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Been like, kind of done a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just coming in and learn the offense and getting us
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  Speaker 4: in the right the right positions to you know, be cepful.
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  Speaker 4: So I fight, he's done a a tremendous job coming
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  Speaker 4: in and playing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever like pick his brain about bigger football things,
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  Speaker 1: not just game planning, but just like bigger football stories
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  Speaker 1: or schemes or.
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  Speaker 4: Teams that he's been on y'all have. He's you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's been on a couple of different teams. Son, Just
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  Speaker 4: tryna learn from him, see what he knows and and
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  Speaker 4: see how I can use it to help to help me.
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  Speaker 3: Does he ever smile?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course?
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  Speaker 1: From on the film this week, how much does what
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  Speaker 1: Miami does defensively look like what you're seeing in practice?
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  Speaker 4: They have a lot of SI It's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: similarities between the defense just from the DC, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being with Mike and in Baltimore, and I feel like
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be a a good, good challene for us,
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  Speaker 4: a good game for us this week.
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  Speaker 2: What are the polates classes or what were the polates
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  Speaker 2: classes like?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was mostly just stretching in core, just trying
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  Speaker 4: to get my core right and and being flexible.
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  Speaker 3: Were you just like showing up to a studio with
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of other people in there or at least
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  Speaker 3: like private?
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  Speaker 2: It was more private, Charles.
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  Speaker 3: You came in the league with Abe Lucas and he's obviously,
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  Speaker 3: uh working back from injury. Uh you how much do
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  Speaker 3: you talk to him and keep him his head kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the game as as he's waiting to come back.
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  Speaker 4: I talk to I talked to Ape every time I
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  Speaker 4: see him, you know, just checking on seeing I hate
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  Speaker 4: doing you know, can't wait for him to come back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for him when he does get back. How
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  Speaker 2: is he doing? How does spirits?
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  Speaker 4: Oh he's in great spirits, just coming there every day,
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  Speaker 4: putting the work to be able to come back and play.
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  Speaker 1: Which offensive lineman have you taken under your wing?
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say just one specific, just just being being
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  Speaker 4: together as a whole group, you know, as a offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: everyone has to be together.
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  Speaker 1: You got a lot of young guys in there, You
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of rookies.
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  Speaker 4: What's the what's the piece of advice or what were
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  Speaker 4: you told as a rookie that you know makes the
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  Speaker 4: biggest difference. Oh, just I'd say this preparation, just being
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  Speaker 4: a pro, being ready, knowing your job, and being able
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  Speaker 4: to it'scute.
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  Speaker 1: Which is Gena's leadership show up in those late game
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  Speaker 1: situations when you're driving the tide the game, and and
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  Speaker 1: over time.
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  Speaker 2: You know he's a great leader man.
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  Speaker 4: Just the belief he has, the way he prepares, he
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  Speaker 4: does everything in the right way, and he bring guys
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  Speaker 4: along with him.
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  Speaker 2: Charles, what have you made of your first two games?
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  Speaker 2: Just in general and the way you you've.
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  Speaker 1: Played And a lot of people have greed you pretty
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  Speaker 1: highly do the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you view it?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I can ala get better, Like I'm
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  Speaker 4: not complacent where I'm at, Like I just wanna continue
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  Speaker 4: to grow and get better from week to week.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is contributed to that?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a mindset or was that things that you
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  Speaker 3: specifically worked on like during the off season.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say accommodation of both.
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  Speaker 4: Just just just going from like the offseason, like just
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  Speaker 4: trusting my training from there and putting it to now.
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  Speaker 4: Just come in each week being prepared, being ready to
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  Speaker 4: pl being ready to play, and just trying to do
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  Speaker 4: that consistently. Y, you had that.
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  Speaker 1: Toy injury last year too early in the year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's I mean, obviously is it better not
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  Speaker 3: having that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, last year that had to have impacted you.
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  Speaker 2: R Yah, it's definitely better not not having any injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Knock on wood.
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  Speaker 3: That lack of complacency inside the locker room, how much
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  Speaker 3: do you notice that right now? Because you guys are
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  Speaker 3: chewing out A lot of teams could maybe become complacent
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  Speaker 3: after winning the first two game going into.
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  Speaker 2: A third game.
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  Speaker 4: I fel like, I feel like we're not a complacent team.
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  Speaker 4: We just wanna get continue to get better and better
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  Speaker 4: each week. Obviously one of our first two games, but
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  Speaker 4: we gonna continue to stack and grow and get better
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  Speaker 4: from week to week. What has been the coaching point
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  Speaker 4: from Grubb and maybe just got help about getting the
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  Speaker 4: run game going this week, Just being on the same page,
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  Speaker 4: being physical at the point of the tech and and
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  Speaker 4: everyone's just doing their job.
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  Speaker 3: TuS you came into the league with a reputation is
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  Speaker 3: a great pass blockers and questions as a run blocker.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about the mentality it's taken to improve as a
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  Speaker 3: run blocker.
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  Speaker 4: It definitely had had had had to be man a
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  Speaker 4: mindset for me, just wanted wanted to get better, wanted
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  Speaker 4: to run the ball, and just working working on giving
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  Speaker 4: my technique and my footwork right.
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  Speaker 1: What from the.
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  Speaker 4: Technique standpoint, how much differently are those teaching points this
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  Speaker 4: year with the new coaching staff and maybe some new
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  Speaker 4: things that have been introduced the previous it compared to
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  Speaker 4: the previous.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I feel like it was just I feel like
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  Speaker 4: personally for me, like it was just more technical, just
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  Speaker 4: getting that muscle memory down, seeing the looks and and
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  Speaker 4: knowing which footwork to take and being fishing.
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  Speaker 3: Edit his games, do you admire uh left tackle? That
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  Speaker 3: that you my model after?
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  Speaker 4: It's a few guys I like Taunts, I like Tron Smith, Trent.
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably missing a few guys, but that was probably
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  Speaker 4: like just top three off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like about their games?
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  Speaker 4: They their physical, they have great footwork, and they're efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever talked much to Walter Jones at all
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  Speaker 1: or is he come around?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I do, I do.
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  Speaker 4: I actually watch watched uh Walter Washington Jones t tape
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  Speaker 4: when I first got here, and like some of the
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  Speaker 4: stuff he do, he did it was like it was
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  Speaker 4: like one of one, like only he can do that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: So I I can't. I feel like I can't really
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  Speaker 4: take too much from his game.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, anything else, guys, that's true, no problem,