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AJ Barner: "I'm Excited About The Offense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's so guys. How how you're feeling kind of back
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  Speaker 1: from all feeling really good?
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I think mentally just really want to come out
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  Speaker 2: here and you know, have a great mindset about attacking
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  Speaker 2: the day as camp goes on and on. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing for myself. But physically feeling feeling
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  Speaker 2: really good. Obviously working through some things still, but excited
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  Speaker 2: about the direction I'm headed.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Jay, last time that we talked to you, you
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  Speaker 1: had obviously gotten too practice with Brian Fleury and now
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  Speaker 1: you've got some experience in the field. What are your
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  Speaker 1: initial thoughts now being in this offense and how it's similar,
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  Speaker 1: how it's different for you guys at last, I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: excited about the offense.
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  Speaker 2: I think coach Fleury does a great job of just
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  Speaker 2: you know, being all about ball.
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  Speaker 1: He runs his meetings the right way. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He expects great things out of his players, and he
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  Speaker 2: comes to work today with the same kind of attitude.
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  Speaker 2: That's just straight business and I think as a player
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  Speaker 2: you can really respect a guy that that has those values.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a great fit here. What's your favorite part
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  Speaker 1: of the bull My favorite part of football.
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  Speaker 2: I love just being on a team, I think, especially
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  Speaker 2: this team, and I love the fact that in football
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  Speaker 2: you can really get better at the game in so
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  Speaker 2: many different ways. You can come out here in practice,
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  Speaker 2: you can go in the weight room and get a lift.
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  Speaker 2: You can go in the cold tub and that's getting
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  Speaker 2: better too. So I think there's so many great ways
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  Speaker 2: to get better at the game, especially the tight end
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  Speaker 2: position as well, because we we affect the game in
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  Speaker 2: so many different ways.
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  Speaker 1: Time we talk to you, he said that you want
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  Speaker 1: to be the best title of the league, and you
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  Speaker 1: believe you will pay what kind of tangible steps you
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  Speaker 1: would take you this all season will get there.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I think just really attacking every single day, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the mindset, and I think everyone on our team
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  Speaker 2: just you know, believing in themselves and holding themselves to
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  Speaker 2: a high standard, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: just doing their job over and over again and letting
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  Speaker 2: the rest take care of itself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know we ever asked you about that. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL did not do anything with the whatever. Thank yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're paying attention to wait and see what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Yeah, I was grateful that they did not
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  Speaker 2: ban it. Super excited to get that going again. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm stoked that they didn't get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of similar alias question, what do we expect from
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  Speaker 1: the show this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just take it to another level, just
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  Speaker 2: continue to be myself, both for my teammates and that
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  Speaker 2: that version on the field as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think just.
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  Speaker 2: Every year you grow in the league and you learn
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more. You learn a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: the length of the season, how long these games are,
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  Speaker 2: and that you know there's opportunities to affect the game
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  Speaker 2: in the first quarter, in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. To convince the coach you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we need to convince it. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever they want to call, I'll be ready
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  Speaker 2: to do it. So yeah, unique.
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  Speaker 1: Things in the off season like NNA like better anything
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  Speaker 1: was her? Or was your injuries for that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, that was unique for me surgery. Never had surgery before,
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  Speaker 2: so that was that was pretty crazy. I actually tried
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  Speaker 2: I tried some tai chi this year, So I did
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  Speaker 2: a little tai chi out here in Seattle, and that
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  Speaker 2: that was cool for me to do. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I like to try new things, experience new things, so
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  Speaker 2: tai chi was a new one I did. They called
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  Speaker 2: my mind UH, and I was I was in a
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  Speaker 2: zen state. I felt very you know, flow and worked
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  Speaker 2: on my balance too, So it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Was that intentionally you wanted to work on I was
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  Speaker 1: really like, you know, I've said it before.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love football, I'm obsessed with football, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, how can I get how can I
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  Speaker 2: recover better? Like I was feeling some type of way
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  Speaker 2: my body was hurt, and I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm let's try tai chi and see if this is
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  Speaker 2: like what I need. And it wasn't like a magic
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  Speaker 2: pill or nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But it was cool to try out. Have you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Just continued to take steps UH to be the best
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  Speaker 2: version of you dog And I think, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna ask a lot of Elijah and I think he's
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  Speaker 2: ready to step up. So I'm excited about Elijah and
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  Speaker 2: just the strides that he's made in the run game
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  Speaker 2: in the past game and being able to play with
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  Speaker 2: multiple tight ends in the field. I think that UH
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  Speaker 2: is only going to help our offense. So really expect
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great things.
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  Speaker 1: Out of Elijah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great, great guy to get back in the vMac
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  Speaker 2: obviously been here before, been some time since he's been back,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, great addition of the room, great vet. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's been in the league for a long
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  Speaker 2: time can only help and provide great value.
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  Speaker 1: So we're excited about Nick game here. I was. It
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  Speaker 1: was great.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, good to be around the tight ends talkball, talk
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  Speaker 2: the tight end position and yeah hopefully you know the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks Titands got some love there too.
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  Speaker 1: Which was cool. Which was cool to do a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to just you know, do what
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  Speaker 2: I could, but didn't want to like experiment in that setting.
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  Speaker 1: Gratings there with you two, right, kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: nice thing for you guys to deal with, experience something different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, we had a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: tight ends there, you know, a lot of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that were there last year.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a great event that those guys put on
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  Speaker 1: to go to one of the World Cup games. I did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what what was it like being in the stadium kind
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  Speaker 1: of for a Nazi games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, out of body experience for sure, same same energy
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  Speaker 2: though in that building, regardless of what's going on. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, big shout out to the people of Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we always bring it, especially when you bring
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  Speaker 2: an event like that to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a cool experience.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's great for the game of soccer
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  Speaker 2: football to continue to grow in America.
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  Speaker 1: Good, thank you, Thank