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Cooper Kupp: "We Want To Always Be Moving Forward" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Slower than usual, Laura, Mike must have been going for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it's Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Kay is Leo? There's no chance here was Leo? Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: well let me do this all right?
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  Speaker 3: Group picture of this. You've got multiple billions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna buy the Seahawks. What is the first thing
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  Speaker 3: you do other than giving yourself a raise?
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  Speaker 2: It's the first thing I do.
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  Speaker 1: I go and ask Mike what's the thing that he
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  Speaker 1: needs for the team?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you? I feel like you wanted
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  Speaker 2: a more dynamic answer than that.
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  Speaker 3: What would you what would you want to see happen.
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  Speaker 2: For a football team that you owned? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, because I think the probably knows what the
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  Speaker 1: team needs more than I do. So I'd go talk
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  Speaker 1: to Mike and then I'd say, what do you guys need?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's gonna help move the needle? And then I
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  Speaker 1: make sure that got done.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, what's really early about what you can see it
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  Speaker 2: out of this offense for people right now? A lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of ring. Yeah, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's good.
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  Speaker 1: There's like enough of a challenge of new things that
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  Speaker 1: are added in the guys have to say on top
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, right, Like, I think the danger you fall
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  Speaker 1: into is you you have guys come in that just
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're running the same exact thing, and you
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  Speaker 1: get complacent. You think you know the details, think you
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  Speaker 1: know the stuff. And so there's enough new things that's
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  Speaker 1: keeping people on their toes. And it's fortunate to getting
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  Speaker 1: your book. It's fortunate to ask questions and forcing you
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  Speaker 1: to understand and master what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So I've enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: I've enjoyed the the challenge of that, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the coach are doing great job of getting
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're only a few days in here, but
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of stuff in but being willing
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  Speaker 1: to answer questions, you know, we we've had to. I
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  Speaker 1: think we've installed really quickly. But now we've got the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to, you know, dive into things the depth that
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  Speaker 1: we're that we want and we need.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's coming now.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia the scrimmage, I saw you talking to order when
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  Speaker 1: you're joining you some some moves that just can you
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  Speaker 1: just talk about the enjoyment You have a dad and
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  Speaker 1: him asking.
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  Speaker 3: And you giving back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, just like I was saying before about you know,
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  Speaker 1: coaches being open to having, you know, being asked questions
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  Speaker 1: and having to explain things. I think the you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the more missed things that people don't emphasize
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  Speaker 1: is another's coach a player communication, but there's also player
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  Speaker 1: to player communication.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've.
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  Speaker 1: You know, been blessed to play this game for quite
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  Speaker 1: a while and be able to see quite a few
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  Speaker 1: different things. And I love being able to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you guys about ball and guys that are interested in
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  Speaker 1: and are asking good questions and want to know. I
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  Speaker 1: love being able to you know, step into that that
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  Speaker 1: role and be able to help him out. And and
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  Speaker 1: so what we talked about all the time here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being twelve is one mob tize all the things that
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  Speaker 1: we live about, live and breathe. You know, it's about
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  Speaker 1: the collective being better. How does the collective get better?
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  Speaker 1: And that's that becomes with you know, rooting for the
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  Speaker 1: guys next to you.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard several guys talk about Brian Floyd that he
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  Speaker 3: has really high expectations. I imagine every coach probably dies,
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  Speaker 3: but how does that show up with him?
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  Speaker 2: I guess what that kind of yeah, well, I think
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  Speaker 2: you'd be surprised. I don't think. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think it can be easy for coaches to kind
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  Speaker 1: of get like I said, you know, complacency is a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous word, but to get comfortable with, you know, things
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  Speaker 1: being run a certain way. And you know, I think that's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that is something that Brian's like, Brian knows he has
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  Speaker 1: a great vision. He's seen a lot of really good football,
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  Speaker 1: and so he has an expectation for us. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't hit that expectation. You just you're you're it's gonna be. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't this isn't how we're gonna do it. This
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  Speaker 1: is how we're gonna do it. Though, And you know there's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's coaching there involved with that, and and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we want.
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  Speaker 2: Bell be always moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Neil's always always moving forwards, one percent better every day.
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  Speaker 2: You said, there's enough differences to keep guys on there
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  Speaker 2: because what about this offense? Fields are most different?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can't tell you all that, right, It was
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  Speaker 1: like the same thing last year. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I guess we can go back to that. Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the wing tea stuff that we've got in is
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  Speaker 1: fantastic right, like I like the dynamic, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: receivers and three point stances, it's gonna be good. So yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: there there's enough stuff. There's enough stuff that I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he but we know where he came from.
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  Speaker 1: But also there's like he's been there enough time to
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  Speaker 1: be also grab some stuff like, hey, here's.
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  Speaker 2: Some things that you know we're gonna do different. There's
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  Speaker 2: some details that.
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  Speaker 1: We want to do that we want to add in,
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  Speaker 1: some wrinkles, mix of things that we've done well before.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's just uh, you know, I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a good mesh there.
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  Speaker 1: And he's done a great job of just coming in
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  Speaker 1: with with ideas, great foundation, but new ideas as well.
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  Speaker 3: Are you staying from Jalen Milroe in his second year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, there's uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think you that first year there's a lot happening, the
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  Speaker 1: amount of thinking that's going on. I think he selled
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  Speaker 1: into that a little bit, just letting it rip, which
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  Speaker 1: is awesome, just letting uh some some some balls go
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  Speaker 1: with anticipation that he wasn't last year, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: pretty prequel.
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  Speaker 3: See a lot of these offensive systems have different tranolage.
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  Speaker 2: You got a lot of the same play. How important
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  Speaker 2: do you think it is for a play calling it?
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  Speaker 2: I think this level to Snell.
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  Speaker 3: I think have more so then than being solely grow
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  Speaker 3: fused on the scheme stuff everybody running along missteps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's there's a balance to it, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think, Uh, you know, as a player, and you
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  Speaker 1: need to be as adaptable as possible, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: part of our job. And as a play caller, you
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  Speaker 1: should be as comfortable and as much in the flow
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  Speaker 1: state of the you know, subconscious competence as you can be. Right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think the best play callers aren't stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Here looking but they're just calling things.
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  Speaker 1: They're just letting the plays come to them and seeing
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  Speaker 1: the game. And so I think it's important then that
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  Speaker 1: they are able to install and get to us exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they see in their head and how they see
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  Speaker 1: the game. Now, there's also a level to that of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know here, you like, Sam needs to be able
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  Speaker 1: to communicate it to us. It needs to be clear
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  Speaker 1: however that comes across, and so there's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's layers of communication that happened from Brian to Sam,
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  Speaker 1: and Sam to the players and players at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage amongst each other.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always this level to it.
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  Speaker 1: But but that's where I think, you know, Brian has
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  Speaker 1: done a great job of owning all of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: and then simplifying it down to the point like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is where Brian's comfortable calling things. Is how he's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable seeing the game and calling it, and this is
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  Speaker 1: how it fits and makes sense for us as players
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  Speaker 1: to be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Get the job done.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel like play Brian?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. Mike's kind of like a short,
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  Speaker 2: stocky guy.
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  Speaker 1: Brian's like tall and skinny, So they kind of have
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  Speaker 1: like this nice little evening out to each other.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's cool because they're both very like pretty calm,
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  Speaker 1: cool collected guys, which makes it fun to you know,
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  Speaker 1: work with. You're like, yeah, you're there's there's a comfort
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  Speaker 1: to bringing questions, bringing thoughts to them as well, like hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 2: What? What? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think this is something that can fit
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  Speaker 1: in MS in terms of what we're doing. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: but they also which I think will be good when
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  Speaker 1: there are moments where there's gonna be one guy gets
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  Speaker 1: heat because they both do have high standards and there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be moments of emotion that come through.
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  Speaker 2: But both being play off off of each.
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  Speaker 1: Other and know like, hey, there's gonna be you get
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  Speaker 1: you get too much emotion going out there can be
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  Speaker 1: kind of just a roller coaster of love of emotion.
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  Speaker 1: But but you know, you get good guys that can
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  Speaker 1: can play in this place like you're playing in this
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  Speaker 1: place and not in this one. It's cool to see
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  Speaker 1: and they've got a great relationship just in the short
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  Speaker 1: time they've been together.
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  Speaker 2: So this is like your type through a love with
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  Speaker 2: training camp whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Do they all feel the same or do you do
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  Speaker 3: something different in every training.
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  Speaker 2: Camp or no, they feel pretty similar.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the first one is always super different, is
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  Speaker 1: the one that stands out like your a rookie year
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  Speaker 1: and you're just not sure what's you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea, you have no idea what's gonna be like.
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  Speaker 1: But after that first one, it's kind of like it's
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I training camp is what six weeks long?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah? Six six seven weeks?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like a little over a year of training
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  Speaker 1: camp in AFL training camp for my life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's it feels a little bit like Groundhog's Day.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think the battle is not letting
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  Speaker 1: it be too much. Like you don't get too much
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  Speaker 1: into that, right, you know, show up, great challenge and
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  Speaker 1: Mike does a great job of making sure you got
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  Speaker 1: come to work every day. Uh you know with your
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  Speaker 1: lunch pill and hard hat.
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  Speaker 2: At this point in your career, trooper out big of
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  Speaker 2: a priority. Wishs when it made it play on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that would be sweet. What do you laugh at?
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  Speaker 2: Because I just I don't know. I I just it
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  Speaker 2: would be awesome. I've been vocal about it like in
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  Speaker 2: the past. There's so many moving parts which I get.
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  Speaker 2: I I just would love, like, really, what we need
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  Speaker 2: to do. There's a great crew that works out and
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  Speaker 2: that set shut out there. It's a great crew that
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  Speaker 2: out there that keeps us grass really nice and just
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  Speaker 2: go ask them like, hey, what would it take like,
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  Speaker 2: what is it like? What is it really like? What
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  Speaker 2: would it look like together? Because I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: grassology of all that stuff, right, Like you've got soccer
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  Speaker 2: teams playing on it, you got a lot of stuff happening.
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  Speaker 2: You've got events being hosted.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to think with all the resources of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL that we can make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's there's there's people that can make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep, you know, as players keep voicing
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  Speaker 1: what we what we want and what we think is important.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, eventually, I do think it will get done.
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  Speaker 2: It makes a huge difference.
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  Speaker 1: And I know all the metrics and all the data
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  Speaker 1: that says, you know, whatever the injury rates of this,
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  Speaker 1: but like I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I know how I feel.
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  Speaker 1: I think you asked a lot of players would say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, like whether whether the injury rates change
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  Speaker 1: or not. I know how my body feels after playing
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  Speaker 1: on turf versus grass.
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  Speaker 2: You can ask the coaches how their backs feel after
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  Speaker 2: standing on turf versus grass, Right, it's like that's a
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  Speaker 2: that's a now they've got coaches have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other issues, so but like they but it does make
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  Speaker 2: a difference.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of well, the Colosseum, the Colisseum for a
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  Speaker 1: few years there, and you know there there's college I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's it's selling California. But you know there's colleges we're
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  Speaker 1: playing on that quite a bit. I'm sure they add
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  Speaker 1: events and things like that, So it's possible. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's possible. It's just, uh, you know, it's a conversation
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  Speaker 1: that needs to continue.
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  Speaker 3: With all the movement towards multiple tight ends, multiple backs,
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  Speaker 3: just have your personal fewer receivers on the field, how
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  Speaker 3: do you keep from tipping what plays you're doing depending
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  Speaker 3: on which receivers are out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's where you know, as receivers, we
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  Speaker 1: need to do a good job of making sure we
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  Speaker 1: can be you know, you know, multi faceted in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what we're, what we what we do. We can't
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  Speaker 1: be we can't get stuck in this place where we
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  Speaker 1: only do one thing. And it's also on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: our our play callers and our offensive coaches to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're not you know, creating tendencies in that
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  Speaker 1: way as well, because you know, defenses of coaches, there's
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  Speaker 1: not the amount of time that's spent and looking for
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  Speaker 1: tendencies and things like any edge.
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  Speaker 2: This game's too hard to be you know, fighting uphill.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be fighting uphill battles, So you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: something that we need to be aware of and need
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we're taking into account. And as receivers,
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  Speaker 1: we need to make sure that we're doing everything we
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  Speaker 1: can when we're asked to block, we got blocked, and
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  Speaker 1: RASK go down the field. We go down the field
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  Speaker 1: and we make effective plays down there, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and all the things in between with that, so that
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  Speaker 1: that's uh that goes hand in hand with us doing
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  Speaker 1: our job and the coach is doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: bring us in those positions.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you, Kay.