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John Schneider: "We Have A Great Foundation Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, emotions have been all over the place right the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days. You know, I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've been on my phone for the last
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  Speaker 2: since what Tuesday morning or something Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: You know, unfortunately or fortunately, however you look at this.
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  Speaker 2: We are all here today because we underachieved in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. We all did, and now we're in a
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  Speaker 2: situation where, you know, we all need to get better, and.
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  Speaker 1: We understand that.
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  Speaker 2: The twelves, the fans, the community, Jody, everybody in this
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  Speaker 2: building deserves better.
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  Speaker 1: We had high expectations for twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we overachieved in twenty twenty two, and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: we underachieved in twenty twenty three, and I think everybody
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  Speaker 2: recognizes that. But again, it's the time for all of
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  Speaker 2: us to look in the mirror in this organization myself
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  Speaker 2: included obviously, and improve, learn.
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  Speaker 1: And move forward, you know, Pete Carroll, So.
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  Speaker 2: We could have Pete and I could split today and
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  Speaker 2: have podcasts for years on end, and just sitting riff
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  Speaker 2: about all the decisions, all the discussions, all the debates,
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  Speaker 2: the ups.
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  Speaker 1: The downs, everything we've been through. We've been so blessed
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  Speaker 1: to have that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: I consider myself extremely fortunate to have hooked up with
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  Speaker 2: Pete fourteen fifteen years ago now, and I find it
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  Speaker 2: very ironic that we're sitting up here today embarking on
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  Speaker 2: a head coaching search, when again, fifteen years ago, I
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  Speaker 2: thought I was going to be doing that. I was
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  Speaker 2: preparing for that, you know, like at that moment, I
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  Speaker 2: had thirty six pages of coaching material in my big
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  Speaker 2: book for Todd LAWICKI and and uh and mister Allen,
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  Speaker 2: and I had to like rip the thirty six pages
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  Speaker 2: out of there because they had hired Pete and Todd.
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  Speaker 1: Todd did an incredible job of working.
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  Speaker 2: Through that situation, and Lancelopes as well, talking me into
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  Speaker 2: coming up coming out here and and uh interviewing and
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  Speaker 2: sitting down with Pete and and coming up with a
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  Speaker 2: great solution.
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  Speaker 1: And again, just.
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  Speaker 2: Very very blessed to have worked with Pete and all
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  Speaker 2: the positive lessons and the leadership, uh, the leadership lessons
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  Speaker 2: and thoughts and philosophies. And I can't even begin to
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  Speaker 2: explain to you, uh, you know, pretty emotional press conference
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  Speaker 2: the other day, uh.
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  Speaker 1: When I say your emotions are all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's moving on from a very very historic partnership
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  Speaker 2: and amazing, amazing, uh level of success and achievement that
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  Speaker 2: Pete and uh myself are extremely proud of.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to being able.
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  Speaker 2: To call it Pete and text him he's ready. He's
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  Speaker 2: texting me that crazy all the time, like Hey, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: what's what you know? What is going on with this
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  Speaker 2: and that? And so it's uh, yeah, it's been a
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  Speaker 2: great it's been a great experience.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have a clear directive from Joe Allen
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  Speaker 2: moving forward as we embark on our new coaching search. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's clear, it's concise. You know, we want to keep
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  Speaker 2: our positive culture. What everything that's been created here, everything
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  Speaker 2: in this building. There's so many special people in this building.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing to be on the phone with all these
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  Speaker 2: agents and the people that are interested in this position
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to explain to them, you know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know there's a foundation here that's incredible. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Arnold, our president, started here as an intern. So
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  Speaker 2: Chuck and Dave and you know, Karen Spencer and and
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  Speaker 2: Cindy I mean Moe Kelly. I mean the people, and
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  Speaker 2: I hate to skip anybody, but those those those foundational
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  Speaker 2: people e K. Sorry, Uh, I mean they were here
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  Speaker 2: since the West was won basically, and uh, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: excited for this new new individual to partners, you know, the.
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  Speaker 1: Partner with and uh move forward. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's already clear in talking to all these people
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  Speaker 2: that uh you know where we're going and.
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  Speaker 1: How we're gonna evolve.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, all the people that are interested in this, and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, our sports science staff, the trainers, you know, nutrition,
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  Speaker 2: everything we've built over the years. I mean our kitchen
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  Speaker 2: staff is like world renown basically. I mean Stu McNabb's
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  Speaker 2: doing like you know, interviews for local magazines and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: These guys is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's amazing. We have a great foundation here,
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  Speaker 2: a great culture, the stadium. Uh again, like the fans
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  Speaker 2: of the stadium so loud right on the water here.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, people back you. It's just uh, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been it's been exciting. It's been exciting to uh to
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  Speaker 2: talk to people about that. And you know, we've been
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  Speaker 2: blessed to have great relationships with legendary coaches, close working
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  Speaker 2: relationships with legendary coaches over the years, Mike Holmgren, Marty Schottenheimer,
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  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy, who's you know, the Packers all time winning
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  Speaker 2: his coach, and obviously you know coach Carol. So we
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  Speaker 2: know success and a great partnership looks like and you know,
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  Speaker 2: really really looking forward to learning as much as we
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  Speaker 2: can throughout this process as we embark on our new
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  Speaker 2: coaching search that has already begun. And yeah, like my
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  Speaker 2: good friend Andy Reid says, the time is yours question. John,
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  Speaker 2: You've talked about excitement, and you've talked about all these people.
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  Speaker 3: What excites you most about getting a chance to go
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  Speaker 3: through this process?
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  Speaker 2: I think the learning evolving, looking forward, where's the game going?
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  Speaker 2: You know, fourteen years is a long time for one
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  Speaker 2: coach to be in a spot, right and and.
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  Speaker 1: It's been an incredible.
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  Speaker 2: God rest his soul, Marty Schottenheimer would always tell me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one coach can't stay in one spot for
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  Speaker 2: more than ten years. He retired when I was with
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  Speaker 2: him in Kansas City for a year.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: To learn from all these people that are doing incredible things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in college football and around around the National
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  Speaker 2: Football League, and you cannot. If you're stagnant in this league,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're behind. So I think that's probably the most
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  Speaker 2: intriguing thing is to learn and be open minded.
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  Speaker 1: John, What can you tell us about where things stand
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: With the search, Well, we're very much in the initial
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  Speaker 2: there's a initial processes, right, so you know fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: ago it was a totally different setup. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things we need to do to a lot a
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  Speaker 2: lot of boxes that need to be checked, and we
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  Speaker 2: need to be make sure we're we're staying instead with
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  Speaker 2: with all the rules that are put in place. We've
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  Speaker 2: sent in several consent forms and we're hoping to begin
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  Speaker 2: uh interviews tomorrow. John, you mentioned stagnant there for that word. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel did you feel things have become kind
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  Speaker 2: of stagnant?
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's more of like a like a growth,
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  Speaker 2: like okay, it's it's how are.
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  Speaker 1: We getting better every day?
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  Speaker 2: I think Pete would tell you that, you know, his
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  Speaker 2: model is always like what's next?
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, uh, you know what, how are we Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe stagnant's not the best term, but you know, how
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  Speaker 2: are we like learning? How are we how are we
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  Speaker 2: gonna crush this thing moving forward and keep everybody We
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  Speaker 2: always talk about, you know, coming to work every day
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  Speaker 2: knowing what kind of influence you're gonna have on the organization.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes the great culture. And you know, Pete
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  Speaker 2: and I are very proud of, you know, the culture
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  Speaker 2: that we established here. And so I think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the thought of w what a everybody again looking in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror, That's what that means. And that's every individual
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  Speaker 2: in the organization, whether it's in ticketing or you know,
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  Speaker 2: marketing or or cowde scouting or nutrition equipment or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing to get better every single day?
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of influence am I having on on
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  Speaker 2: the UH organization? And excuse me, my previous experience in
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  Speaker 2: going through this is that you again, this was with
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  Speaker 2: Mike Mike McCarthy's search. We it was a long time ago,
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  Speaker 2: UH with Ted Thompson, but.
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  Speaker 1: UH, we learned so much.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not necessarily about where we've been, but it's
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  Speaker 2: about how much you can just grow.
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  Speaker 3: John and you mentioned, you know, fourteen years ago you
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  Speaker 3: had your notes thirty six pages what you wanted, Yeah, hiring,
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  Speaker 3: how over the f last fourteen years, has what you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for and coached maybe evolved or changed ob've saly
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  Speaker 3: the names are different, but just maybe the experience you've
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  Speaker 3: had these fourteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Changed what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question, John we uh In going going
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  Speaker 2: through the questionnaire and looking over all the questions. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have sports science in there. I didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: heavy load of analytics in there. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the two things that are the stand out the most.
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  Speaker 1: How that's evolved.
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  Speaker 2: Return to play, you know, knowing when to take players
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  Speaker 2: off the field, and balance now with the coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: for practice.
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  Speaker 1: What does that look like to people? I think that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the you know, but when you get into you know.
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  Speaker 2: The leadership, strategic, you know, advancements, all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's all pretty much stay the same. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: not the strategic part obviously with the analytics, but those
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  Speaker 2: two things stand out sports science and analytics.
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  Speaker 1: You said the directive from ownership is to maintain your culture.
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  Speaker 1: What what like qualities are you going to prioritize as
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  Speaker 1: you look for a head coach. That's it our culture?
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  Speaker 2: And then how are we evolving? Who's gonna help us
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  Speaker 2: move to the next level. Right, how are we gonna
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  Speaker 2: you know, compete with everybody that we need to compete.
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  Speaker 1: With and advance this organization moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a I think we're gonna learn so much
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  Speaker 2: of this process about the ideas. And you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of all the connections we have around the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League and we've learned a lot already and
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  Speaker 2: so to be able to understand what that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: You know, different opinions, different.
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  Speaker 2: Philosophies open the door to two different ideas, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a defensive head coach or a offensive head coach or
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  Speaker 2: a special team's got is becoming a head coach? I
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  Speaker 2: think that's all just really really important.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned that you're achieving this year.
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  Speaker 3: Could you put your finger on on on a resource
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  Speaker 3: for why you think that happened?
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  Speaker 1: And I guess I'll surprise Wordy that you guys didn't
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  Speaker 1: step forward. Uh disappointed. I think everybody was very disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had several games that you know, just
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  Speaker 2: got out of control a little bit, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would say disappointed. I'm not gonna get into specific
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  Speaker 2: spob I hope you I hope you can respect that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, how does your rule change now at all? Great
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  Speaker 1: quot question.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, basically, the role changes are set up earlier was
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  Speaker 2: and it's been a question.
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  Speaker 1: For a number of years.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the coaching staff did not fall under my umbrella
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  Speaker 2: and now now it will. And it's not a it's
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  Speaker 2: not a necessarily a Jody Allen decision or choosing this
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  Speaker 2: person or that person.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a contractual situation. It's you had to you say,
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  Speaker 1: a lost week. He was competing to stay to keep
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  Speaker 1: the job. What was the process like for you? Did
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  Speaker 1: you have those same conversations with Jody?
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  Speaker 2: And I mean the guy that you worked so moosely
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  Speaker 2: with was like yo, I mean I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get him signed off on that.
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  Speaker 1: But how did that conversation go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get into the specifics of the conversations. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: those are very confidential and very private. I would say
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  Speaker 2: that Pete knew, you know how I felt about things
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  Speaker 2: and uh where we needed to improve. Uh, and Jody
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  Speaker 2: knew knew my, uh my opinions as well.
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  Speaker 4: John JA, Just to clarify your role it is, is
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  Speaker 4: it you're understanding that you will have final say over
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  Speaker 4: personnel decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of the coaches. Yes, is not one person or
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  Speaker 1: experience that has shaped the criteria that you look forward.
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  Speaker 2: To coach more than others.
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  Speaker 1: Uh N.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would say that, you know, my initial experience
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  Speaker 2: with with Ron Wolfe, my mentor, who has spent a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time with U on Friday afternoon, which was
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  Speaker 2: awesome speaking with him. But no, I think his ability
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  Speaker 2: to push me out the door at a young age
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years old and go, you know, work closely
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  Speaker 2: with Marty Schottenheimer and Carl Peterson and Kansas City. They
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  Speaker 2: were an extremely successful organization at the time. As well,
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  Speaker 2: he recognized that I need I needed to grow and
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  Speaker 2: get out of the pack or organization and so being
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  Speaker 2: able to you know, work with uh Marty and Terry
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  Speaker 2: Bradway and you know, Mike McCarthy was on that staff
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  Speaker 2: having come from Green Bay where it was you know,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Holger and Andy Ree and John Gruden.
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  Speaker 1: And m M. Martin morning.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the staff was you know, mood, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it was it was an incredible staff that Coach Homember
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  Speaker 2: put together.
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  Speaker 1: So I would say just over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Just the experiences of you know, moving back to you know,
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  Speaker 2: Washington with with coach Setten Aimery for one year and
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  Speaker 2: experiencing you know, different ownership groups as well, like the
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  Speaker 2: variety of ownership groups. Uh, the wide range of leaderships, uh,
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  Speaker 2: responsibility or demands and and uh, you know from from
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  Speaker 2: uh you know Lamar Hunt to going to Washington to
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  Speaker 2: going back to the Packers, you know, working closely with
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  Speaker 2: with uh. Mister Allen, I remember, you know, sitting upstairs
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  Speaker 2: in that room interviewing it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I felt like I was thirty yards away from.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Wickie and and uh and mister Allen, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: of myself. Wait, that's a guy that starred at Microsoft.
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  Speaker 1: What am I doing in viewing with his guys?
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  Speaker 2: So no, all the lessons and learned there, Paul was
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  Speaker 2: an extremely extremely challenging you challenged your brain. It was
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  Speaker 2: just an amazing individual to work for.
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  Speaker 1: Specifics. What is the makeup of the team.
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  Speaker 5: You have right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a young, talented team that that is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, feels like they're right on the cusp. I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of guys that have a ton
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  Speaker 2: of confidence in their abilities. They're all very highly disappointed
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  Speaker 2: in what just happened. I think, to a man they
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  Speaker 2: would all tell you that, and I know it's from
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  Speaker 2: you know, the exit interviews that I had that we
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  Speaker 2: still should be playing and everybody was very disappointed. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a great core. I think again, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're a very attractive job because of that. You
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  Speaker 2: know that there's there's young talent all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're the fourth youngest team in the league
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. And the Packers were number one,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, first team since nineteen seventy seven to make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he has said that you felt the team
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  Speaker 1: was still close. Do you feel like you guys are
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  Speaker 1: close to being a championship caliber I do.
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  Speaker 5: Ian's question about uh timing on all of this and
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  Speaker 5: discussions behind the scenes, was there. Did you have any
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  Speaker 5: sort of indication saying the last month of the season
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  Speaker 5: that there might be a change in the coaching position.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you work with Pete Uh, his brain's
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  Speaker 2: on fire and so you have to be ready for everything.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, the last several years, I've always been
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  Speaker 2: ready if he just decided at one point too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he said to me one day, you know, several years ago, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go change the world, you know, And.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I get it. He probably could, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always had to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: I've always had to have a list and try to
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  Speaker 2: be in the in the midst of what the landscape
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  Speaker 2: looks like around the National Football League. And our staff
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  Speaker 2: does a great job with that. Again, I'm really proud
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  Speaker 2: of all the relationships that our personnel staff are scouts, uh,
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  Speaker 2: people in the building that we have in our reputation
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  Speaker 2: on the National Football League like a low ego, uh, well,
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  Speaker 2: communicating easy group of people that you know, can learn
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  Speaker 2: a lot from their relationships.
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  Speaker 4: What was the internal players reaction and how you had
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  Speaker 4: to navigate that last week?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I actually haven't spoken to many of the
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  Speaker 2: players yet. That's something that you know, once we get
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  Speaker 2: organized here and and uh, you know, it's a very
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  Speaker 2: competitive situation right now. So you know, once we get
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  Speaker 2: past that, I'll be able to you know, speak to
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  Speaker 2: the players, uh and and you know, let them know
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. But you know, right now, our primary
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  Speaker 2: focus is on uh competing with the other teams and
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  Speaker 2: and and trying to hire the best coach of possibly
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  Speaker 2: can to advance this this uh, this steal forward well.
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  Speaker 4: Your view was your view different than Pete Carroll's and
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  Speaker 4: that Ultimate.
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  Speaker 1: League was the decision. My view different.
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  Speaker 4: Awards the future and what where the team needed to go.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's you know, it's a good question, but it's
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  Speaker 2: different every year. Every year this time, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: sit down and we have conversations about, uh, where we're
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  Speaker 2: heading this direction or where we're heading in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean different, Uh no, not necessarily, especially this
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  Speaker 2: time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: You can get this.
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  Speaker 2: This is the again our our least favorite time of
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  Speaker 2: the year. You're whether you're connected to whether it's directly
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  Speaker 2: with your team or you're connected to friends on other teams.
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  Speaker 2: It's always the worst time of the year when you
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  Speaker 2: know you have friends and families leaving teams or you know,
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  Speaker 2: moving on to different teams, and you know you're trying
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to help people get hired at other places or you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: w whatever that looks like.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It's just it's just, you know, we're all blessed to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: work in the National Football.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: League, but we know what we're definitely getting into and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: what the ramifications are in a result.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: You know, oriented industry.
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  Speaker 5: Have a never you've got a cast here for candidates to.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Look at it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I think there's a six reportedly, how many is too many?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Like you gonna look at non too many is not
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: too many. It will handle it, you know, just like
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: our free agency process, our draft process. We're already in everything.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Anybody you know that you can pretty.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Much think of.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I had a gentleman email me the other day, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: know whose buddy is a Pop Warner coach down.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The road, and he's extremely interested too. So, uh, it's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: just really.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Been amazing, like the the calls and the notes and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: everything you get.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: It's it's a it's really a uh.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I don't wanna say a confidence booster, but I think
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: it's a great uh reputation for this organization and like
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a really cool uh feeling throughout the National Football League
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of what people think of this organization on the outside.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And so it's uh again, it's it's a it's a
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: very I think people recognize it's a very intriguing job
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and one that can you can come in and and uh,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you know, have a have a great partnership with everybody
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  Speaker 2: here and uh and get rolling.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I think people recognize that.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Is how are you uh gonna handle candidates who are
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: still on teams that are playing the rules.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: There and being unable.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: To talk to them certain strenches like are are y
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: are those candidates still gonna be among the processes?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, they will be.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: There's certain there's out there's obviously certain rules that we
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: needed to buy. Bye Son, surprise you the uh, the
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: interest around the league?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know that you've built a great culture here,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: But does that surprise you that you've heard from so
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: many people? I think n N Y, yes and no.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I you know, I think we can.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: We can all We all all go through periods during
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the season we kind of have our heads buried in
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the sand because we're all working so hard at what
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: we're doing. You know, if it's if it's it's you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: it's scouting, it's you know, working in in in in
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the equipment room or upstairs in the cafeteria or whatever.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You kind of just you're you're so dial in focused.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But then you step back and you know, you think about,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: you know, everything our our group does it at the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: combine or you know, conversations at owners meetings or any
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: opportunities at games to interact with people from other clubs.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And so I think people recognize again that you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: we have great ownership, we have great fans that the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: culture has always been phenomenal here. You know, I was
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: here in two thousand with coach Holmgren and Ted and
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that group, and that's you know, when I got to
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: know Dave and e k And and Karen and Chuck
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: and and Cindy and everybody.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And that's why in two.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Thousand and I forget what year it was when Tim
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Roschoo was hired, I was disappointed that I didn't get
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to call the interview for it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: But in twenty ten, I was really excited.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: To uh to feel like, yeah, I'd be able to
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: come back here, to know this is such a awesome
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: place to work and to live and to.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Thrives a lot. She's our boss. Yeah, you have a boss, right, Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: The last quarter century, this franchise's head previous head coaches
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: take this job. How philosophical do you value a guy
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: who's either a head coach now or he's been a
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: head coach versus someone who hasn't.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a balance, it's it's definitely a balance.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Or you know, you to take a shot with somebody
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: that's uh never been a head coach that hasn't had
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: necessarily had those ups and downs when there's some hard,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: hard things to go through. I think Pete alluded to
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: that in his press conference other the other day.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: It's a hard job.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You know you're gonna go through some some pretty dark times,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and then you know you're gonna do some through some
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: great times too. The the key is to stay right
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: in the middle of that and not be on a
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: roller coaster, and to know that when you win a game,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you have all the answers and you're
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the best thing going. And then when you lose a game,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you're not the worst team in the National Football League
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and you don't have any good players. So the balance
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: is to be right in the middle of that. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: so there's something to be said for that experience. Absolutely,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know, people going through tough times with the media
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: or you know, just any any of the pressures. People
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: are are high end achievers in this industry, as you've
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: been exposed to, and they put a ton of pressure
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: on themselves.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So you know, our our key here.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Is to let people know that they're gonna have people
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that can they have a strong foundation of people that
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: are gonna help them be the best head coach you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and have the best staff that they could possibly have,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and and they're gonna know that we can support them
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: whether they've been a head coach or they haven't been
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a head coach. But that's a great philosophical head coaching,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Search question for sure, John, do.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: You anticipate speaking any college coaches or do you or
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: do you think this would be an NFL specific search.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure yet. We haven't decided that. You know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's wide open still. You know, there's so
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: much movement in college football already. I mean, you saw
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: congratulations of Jed. You know, Jed was with us right
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: when we got here. I totally could have told you
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: fifteen years later that he would been the head coach
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: at University of Washington when we hung out those first
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: couple of days together.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: No, but congratulations to.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Jed and and his staff and uh, best luck with him.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: That there's so much late movement. You know, I started
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: tracking it early. My son's at Boise. Jack's at Boise
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and working and recruiting, and so you know, they went
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: through a coaching change, you know what two months ago
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: or something. So you think about how far along they're
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: in their process. It just it makes it slightly more
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: difficult for those individuals, you know, they're you know, they
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: have to they have to balance the fact of leaving,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: leaving these young men that they've these young people that
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: they've recruited.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: He had the role of advisor. Yeah, yeah, is there No,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: there's not.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's something that we'll just keep researching in
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the future and discussing and you know, seeing how this goes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's uh, you know, uh I feel
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: but you know, Jody and Pete got to a great
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: spot and and uh, you know, the organization's in is
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: very healthy and you know, ready to move forward.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: John, what did you think of of Gino season?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I think Gina in a good season. It was a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: little you know, it's a little bit opposite of last year.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: You know, he started out real strong last year and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you know things, you know, dipped a little bit the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: second half and then I thought, you know, this year
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: he started out not quite as strong as last year
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and then finished in a real strong manner.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: There's many John, what's his opportunity mean for you? Did
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: you could get him a shot to run the franchise
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: after fourteen years.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Uh, I I don't feel like it's like I haven't
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: been running the organization.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I understand the question, but I don't I feel like
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we've been.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like there's been necessarily just one person
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: running the organization. Last question and yeah, just is there
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a bals You mentioned offensive coach, defensive coach, special teams
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: coach all three year playoffs?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Still did you lean towards one?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Does that make a difference at all in today's NFL
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: guy's an offensive guy or.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: The defensive guy. I think you definitely have to look
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: at the history.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You have to look at you know, the different experiences
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: that those individuals have had.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You know, we've done a ton of study on that already.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You know we've been looking at it for years.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: You know, special teams coaches especially are you know when
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you look at coach Harbaugh, I apologize for some of
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the other coaches that I'm missing there, but he obviously
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: he stands out with all the success.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They've had in Baltimore.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: And you know, when you're when you're when you're the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: special teams coach, you have a really good feel for
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and you're in the midst of who's gonna be inactive,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: active all throughout the week, and the planning on both
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: sides of the ball with.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: You know, the offensive staff and the defensive staff.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And what what both groups are looking for, and so, uh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: it's it's there's a balance too of you know, Okay,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: if you hire a defensive coach, you're gonna and he
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: hires a really good offensive coordinator, and then that that
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator is gonna leave the next year, then what
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: kind of consistency are you gonna have with the quarterback?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: If you go back and look at you know, the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: San Francisco four eight nine ers when we hired coach
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: McCarthy in Green Bay, they had just drafted Alex Smith
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and so they had like three different offensive coordinators. So
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that got things, you know, a little bit wonky for
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: his career early in the mix.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So you have to look at those things.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And if you hire a great offensive coordinator or a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: guy who's gonna be a good play caller, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: where's the strength as the defensive coordinator And you know
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: what kind of consistency and philosophy strategy is that guy
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: going to have and how long is he going to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: be able to stick around?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Too?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So staff, development, and procurement. I think that's extremely important,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: regardless if it's a offensive guy, defensive guy, or special teams.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you everyone,