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Devon Witherspoon: "I'm Out Here Focused On Making Plays" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You look like you're ready, like no business. What do
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  Speaker 1: you take away from where the Stephens is at right now? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we said we got a lot of things we got
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  Speaker 1: to work on, but we building day by day. Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is process we got to do all of Again,
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  Speaker 1: we've been here before, we know what it takes, so
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  Speaker 1: we just got to take it a day at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Me might appridge it the guy who's coming on Strongness
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  Speaker 1: Camp after the first couple of years where he's spent
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  Speaker 1: more respective teams. Guy, but what have you seen him
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  Speaker 1: on MC of all as a cornerback? No, just his
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  Speaker 1: ability to make plays. You know, he recognizing the game now.
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  Speaker 1: I think the game is slowing down for him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. He's starting to understand sets and what's going
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  Speaker 1: on now there on the field. He just making place. Man,
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  Speaker 1: So he here balling right now. Man. We give him
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  Speaker 1: all the praise because we know what he could do,
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  Speaker 1: so we hold him to a high standard. But so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's bothering right now. Are you sciated this defense can be?
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  Speaker 1: How do you get a new guy up to speed?
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  Speaker 1: Your guys think you got a new position of your speeding? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you just take it a day at a time. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you try to give him all the knowledge that you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially guys who've been in the defense long enough. We
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  Speaker 1: tell him, man, just slow the game down. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot. We're throwing a lot at you
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  Speaker 1: right now. We understand that. But we just try to
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  Speaker 1: take a day at a time. We try to install
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  Speaker 1: slow for them so they can get it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then we try to give them time to execute
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  Speaker 1: out there on the field. So we we go over
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  Speaker 1: the things a lot in our room just to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we get a down pack. But ultimately you still
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  Speaker 1: got to come out here and execute. But we just
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  Speaker 1: got to work at it day by day, so you
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  Speaker 1: never What are your thoughts and how the rookies have
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  Speaker 1: handled this training camps are, especially Michael and Andre being
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  Speaker 1: the ones that have been out there the most. They
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  Speaker 1: had it in real well man, Like I said, they
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  Speaker 1: they've been ou here balling. They just showing up every day.
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  Speaker 1: They actually got some great rookies this year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they've been out here doing everything they need to do.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, man, they're doing great right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they taking the day by day and they got here
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  Speaker 1: making player too. So shout out to the rooks he
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  Speaker 1: mentioned you you are kind of loud guys out there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the Clark? He got the
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  Speaker 1: Bible to make plays for real? Man, I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to see him and asking once once the game, once
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  Speaker 1: he get to know the game, and I understand a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that's going on out there, especially
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  Speaker 1: what the offense does. And he's gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of players in his defense. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see what we could do. What have you
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  Speaker 1: thought of hard knocks and kind of just the way
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  Speaker 1: they've been We ain't paying no attention to it, man.
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  Speaker 1: We focused on what we got to do. So since
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  Speaker 1: drafting year, and you also have some great battles, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going back to four years ago and practice all the
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  Speaker 1: way through. Now, just what do you get out of
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  Speaker 1: those matchup with the practice every day? Man? He just
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  Speaker 1: the way he run routes is so elusive and just
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  Speaker 1: like it's hard to get a till on what he's
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  Speaker 1: about to do. Man, but he's able to create separation.
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  Speaker 1: He run routes fluently efficiently. I mean his ball tracking
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  Speaker 1: skills is just like halls but shit, but like the
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  Speaker 1: way he gonna track the ball in the air man.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's one of none. So you know, he
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  Speaker 1: he could do everything. He could run the route, he
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  Speaker 1: makes contested catches, and you're gonna have a big year
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  Speaker 1: again this year. So I'm waiting to see that too. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: what's your view of your contract situation with the thing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that right now. I might. He'll
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  Speaker 1: focused on making place and trying to get better day
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  Speaker 1: by day. Man, we gotta think we got other stuff
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  Speaker 1: we focus on, and ultimately we're trying to win a game.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm focusing on right now. He should
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  Speaker 1: a four years, could be done through it and be finished.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm really not focused on right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is waiting for contract, could you make a
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  Speaker 1: decision to not practice and saying you can get it done?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it important to you to keep going inde
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  Speaker 1: in a park? Practice now? Get got it? We got
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  Speaker 1: a low season ahead of us, man, even if contractor
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  Speaker 1: or not, you know, we still gotta play football at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, and we got to be
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  Speaker 1: out there and be prepared. Man, if you're not practicing,
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  Speaker 1: you're not getting ready for the season. Because everybodyl in
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  Speaker 1: the league is praticing they getting better. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm my mind there right now and focused on what
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  Speaker 1: I need to do right now. I'm not ready to
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  Speaker 1: worry about anything else. Yeah, as careless and league good