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Bobby Wagner: "We Have Playmakers All Over The Field" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Whole lot being me too. Yeah, yeah, being that was
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  Speaker 1: last week you know, I mean just I just it's
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  Speaker 1: more surprises.
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  Speaker 2: You know, from time to time, y'all can get something
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  Speaker 2: for me too, y'all can ask me whatever. Y'all gon't
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  Speaker 2: ask me whatever anyway, So I mean, it doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to be about football all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But well, what's the response to your comic book?
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  Speaker 2: Bet It's been very positive, very you know, cause I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people family members deal with stroke
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  Speaker 2: more so, so I think that was the thing that
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  Speaker 2: was they had players reach out and say that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my my mom or my grandma or my
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  Speaker 2: whatever suffered through a stroke, things of that nature. So
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  Speaker 2: it's more like just connecting with people that had similar situations.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's probably been the coolest part.
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  Speaker 1: What was last weekend like with the twenty thirteen guys around?
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  Speaker 1: It was it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: I mean for me, it was no, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: say unfortunate, but I c I feel like I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: really celebrate it cause I was, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: lock in and and stay focused for the game, and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, it was cool to like being around
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  Speaker 2: those guys and see those guys again. But I and
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  Speaker 2: really feel like I could celebrate it like I probably
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  Speaker 2: would have if I wasn't playing. But it's a grateful
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  Speaker 2: position to be in.
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  Speaker 1: So was it when you hadn't seen in a while?
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  Speaker 1: That it was?
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  Speaker 2: It was cool to I hadn't seen Red in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't seen Red in a while. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: truck truck driver in a while. A lot of those
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  Speaker 2: guys I haven't seen in a while unless they live
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  Speaker 2: out here in California, like me, Bangsing California. So I
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  Speaker 2: saw those guys. But yeah, there was a good group
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  Speaker 2: of guys I hadn't seen, even like coaches I hadn't
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  Speaker 2: seen in a while.
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  Speaker 1: That was McDonald, Clinton McDonald's thud, Clinton McDonald truck d No,
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  Speaker 1: I just I was a rookie. I just went with it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they were called 'em call him truck, so
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  Speaker 1: I call him truck. When it comes to this week's game,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Love goes back and plays the team who drafted him.
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  Speaker 1: What is he brought to the defense, Just another guy
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  Speaker 1: that makes plays.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's you know, I could definitely understand going
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  Speaker 2: back to your your place where you've uh played it
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  Speaker 2: can get a little emotional U unless you hide it
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  Speaker 2: real well like I did.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun for him.
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  Speaker 2: But he's been, you know, a good communicator for us,
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  Speaker 2: a good guy out there we could trust that can
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  Speaker 2: make plays.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's been it's been good.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a different guy who's led the team and
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  Speaker 2: tackles each of the first three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What does that city.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just we got playmakers all across the board.
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  Speaker 2: I think we got guys that you know, wanna make plays.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think last game they tried spooning
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and so I think that's why he was
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  Speaker 2: in that position. But you know, we got playmakers off
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  Speaker 2: the fielding so you know, as we gain more confidence
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  Speaker 2: with each other, as we gain more repetitions and reps with.
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  Speaker 1: Each other, I I could just see that just happening
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Globble drumal a lot going back.
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  Speaker 2: To those stupens, just another playmaker energy. You know, his
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  Speaker 2: energy on the field is so contagious, builds the and
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  Speaker 2: uplifts the whole team. And so whether he's playing or
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  Speaker 2: even like him being on the sideline was you know,
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  Speaker 2: created a lot of energy for us. So having him
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  Speaker 2: out there on the field, you know, making plays. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: he's a great blitzer, able to make plays in the
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  Speaker 2: past game. So just another playmaker that's going to help
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  Speaker 2: our team.
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  Speaker 1: You hear a lot about like his energy and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What does that look like? It sound like on game bays.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I could say what it sounds like,
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  Speaker 2: because there's some not so nice things to say. But
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  Speaker 2: it's just he fly around, he make plays, he knows
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  Speaker 2: how to get people going. You know, he's talking trash
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  Speaker 2: and it's just he just makes the game fun. It's
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  Speaker 2: been pointed out on Twitter elsewhere that you had a
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  Speaker 2: small voice role in the Ninja Turtle.
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  Speaker 1: Movie that correct and everything I.
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  Speaker 2: Did after that comes back, you know, just people they
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  Speaker 2: like Ninja Turtles, and then they reached out to my
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  Speaker 2: my marketing guy, and they kind of set it up
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's a voiceover, so I could I
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  Speaker 2: could do it, and I did it.
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  Speaker 1: Whose voice did you do? I did?
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  Speaker 2: It's just what the it's when they it's like splinters
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  Speaker 2: in the street and everybody's looking at him and call
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  Speaker 2: him a rat, and I'm the voice in the background
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  Speaker 2: say he don't look like a rat he's a cat
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  Speaker 2: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: What what was this? I did this in the summer,
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  Speaker 1: summer time? How this stuff like that take? It took
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  Speaker 1: me like ten minutes. It really wasn't that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my it was just one line, so it wasn't not
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  Speaker 1: that much you have to act and rather say when
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  Speaker 1: you get down that your voice too. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: really would love to do voiceovers.
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  Speaker 2: I think that would be really really cool to do
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  Speaker 2: voiceover for a really big movie.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's in my future. Who knows, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just think you could be like a different character
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  Speaker 2: and you just add the voice to the character, you know, acting,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there's so much more that goes into that,
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  Speaker 2: facial expressions, things that nature.
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  Speaker 1: But like you just.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta feel what the the character is, you know that
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing, which I watch cartoons all the time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I watch different things all the time that I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's just easier fit for me.
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  Speaker 1: Where you do that I did out here sea. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: nobody takes for that one line.
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  Speaker 2: It only took like two texts cause we just kept
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  Speaker 2: playing like we got the text that we wanted and
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  Speaker 2: then I just playing around with it. And so they
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  Speaker 2: did one of the ones. I was just playing around.
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  Speaker 2: They they went with that one. So I maybe like
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  Speaker 2: a couple of texts you did you get royalties or
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  Speaker 2: something after the after the release.
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  Speaker 1: Of the movie. I mean, I'll get some financial compensation
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  Speaker 1: for sure. You already know. I you know, I'm good
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  Speaker 1: with the finances. When it comes to.
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  Speaker 2: That is offensive line injuries and and changes across that front.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen?
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  Speaker 1: Uh being the key to to making sure.
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  Speaker 2: That there's a balance and contained as.
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  Speaker 1: A dual threat.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is not allowing him to
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  Speaker 2: use his feet to make plays, and not just in
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  Speaker 2: the run game as well, just passing as well. So
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  Speaker 2: I think a couple of his big plays, he scrambles
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, guys, you know, because they respect
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  Speaker 2: his running ability so much, they leave coverages and then
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  Speaker 2: he throws over throw the ball over his head. But
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  Speaker 2: he's also has the ability to to sit in the
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  Speaker 2: pocket and make good throws our our. I think our
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  Speaker 2: job is to make sure he feels the pressure, make
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  Speaker 2: sure he try to get the ball out quick, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like he's done a good job using
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  Speaker 2: his legs to to make plays. And I don't see
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  Speaker 2: why they won't lean on that. When you head back
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  Speaker 2: and watched it, what did you think of the game
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  Speaker 2: had on Sunday? I mean, he had an amazing game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the backfield. I think he had a
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  Speaker 2: sack and a half, a couple of big hits on
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  Speaker 2: jail break screens. It's just amazing to watch him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: watch him come in as a rookie and then leave
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  Speaker 2: and then come back. And the maturity and the leadership
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  Speaker 2: and the understanding of the game. I think all of
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  Speaker 2: that is just playing a part and it was a
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  Speaker 2: big part in that him playing so well.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? Where the defense is
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  Speaker 1: a general, I mean, yourn defense numbers are really good.
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  Speaker 1: To spend some passing yards, but that's the results of
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  Speaker 1: you know, teams don't getting run around you or I guess,
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  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're in a good I think we're in
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  Speaker 2: a good space. I mean, I feel like one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest things that you know, coming into this offseason
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  Speaker 2: and coming to this season period was being able to
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  Speaker 2: stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we got that.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's other areas that we need to lock in
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  Speaker 2: and hone in but you know, I think for us,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing was, you know, making sure teams can't
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  Speaker 2: run the ball on us, because it's just from a
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  Speaker 2: you know, how we play this game. You can't have
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  Speaker 2: a team doing both. You got to take away something,
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  Speaker 2: and the run game is the game that the part
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  Speaker 2: of the field you want to take away the first.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, we've been in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: situations where you know, we're up and you know, guys
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  Speaker 2: just throwing the ball, and so some of those numbers
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  Speaker 2: are inflated. But you know, I feel as we get
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  Speaker 2: guys back and get guys healthy, it's just gonna keep
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  Speaker 2: getting better and better.
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  Speaker 1: The how much more is.
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  Speaker 2: The energy and the excite And when it's the prime time,
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  Speaker 2: the Monday night type games in the middle of.
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  Speaker 1: The season like that, I think they're cool.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you know, I've been around you know,
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  Speaker 2: coach Carrall for a long time, and so he's really
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  Speaker 2: got into our minds that it's just a game. And
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  Speaker 2: I really believe that it's just a game. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot more people watching. But I mean, obviously, growing
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  Speaker 2: up as a kid, you watch Monday night football, then
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  Speaker 2: it turns to like Sunday night and Thursday night, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the day, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a game. You know it's gonna be a fun game,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people watching, and you just want to
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  Speaker 2: put your best foot forward.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have like.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out of us.
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  Speaker 1: Do you are you annoyed by an early bye week?
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  Speaker 1: Do you like an early bye week? I guess what would?
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  Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on.
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  Speaker 2: My opinion on a bye week is you always complain
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  Speaker 2: about it whenever you see it, whether it's too late
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  Speaker 2: or too early, and then it always ended up being
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  Speaker 2: the perfect time whatever it is. So you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: complain about it being early, but then it'll give guys
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  Speaker 2: some some time that got hurt early to get back,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, give you an early rest or things
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  Speaker 2: of that nature. And so m historically, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: whenever we've had a bias, always been the right time
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  Speaker 2: for that particular team that year, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it will be the same they feel.
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  Speaker 1: About the white on white uniform, combo. I like the
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  Speaker 1: white on white. I like white and white.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I get to wear my black gloves and
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  Speaker 2: black cleats, and that's the closest thing to black I'll
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  Speaker 2: be getting uh so far, but I'm still pushing Nike,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to get black jerseys. I know, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: NFL is gonna, you know, make it a little bit leaner,
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  Speaker 2: so we could just wear whatever color we want, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm still all for black jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: And we said, well we're Seattle, so I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was cool.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he wanted to get out of there, so
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, watching a guy like that. He was
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  Speaker 2: so loyal, you know, and played his butt off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: every single game, and just unfortunately he wasn't able to
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  Speaker 2: win a championship there, and it got to a point
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  Speaker 2: where he wants to move on, and you know, he
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  Speaker 2: gonna play with a guy like Giannis, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be really cool. They still gonna lose to
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers, but you know, good for the East to
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  Speaker 2: be exciting until they play Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Which one of your teammates you think would make the
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  Speaker 1: best actor actor, Dann, That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I would say DK because DK actually has a passion for.
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  Speaker 1: It and he kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Does it a little bit already, so I think he
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  Speaker 2: would be the one best equipped to kind of make
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  Speaker 2: that transition.
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  Speaker 1: He did the commercial with the NFL script thing. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was great. I mean, that's you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was perfect. Like he he stayed in
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  Speaker 2: his room and he did what he was supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he could do more. But I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was dope. It was a dope, Mercier. I told
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  Speaker 2: him that when I saw it. It was cool, all right,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, appreciate