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Devon Witherspoon: “We Always Try To Take On That Challenge” · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Devin, how excited where the last.
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  Speaker 2: Play like call you got put the what to it
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: How excited were you that last time? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind of excited. Were baking on the
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  Speaker 2: rests getting home and they got home, so I was excited.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to see uh Rick Wilm be able to come
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  Speaker 1: down with that interception.
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  Speaker 2: At the end for him, Odell, I appreciate. We gotta
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  Speaker 2: get old tips and over those, we gotta get them.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, sir, I feel I ain't even know I
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  Speaker 2: had a sagging tap after the game, so I ain't
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  Speaker 2: it really wanted nothing to me in the moment, but
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I appreciate that though. However they came,
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  Speaker 2: we need 'em.
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  Speaker 1: Like talked earlier about it being the only year two.
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  Speaker 1: By becoming the leader of the defense, where do you
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  Speaker 1: think you've grown in that area of your game of leadership?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I really don't even know, to be honest, I
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  Speaker 2: just feel comfortable around my teammates and they accept me
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  Speaker 2: for for me being me, so it makes it easy
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  Speaker 2: for going down. Just try to be yourself and lead
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  Speaker 2: those guys cause they trust me. So I just go
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  Speaker 2: out there and lead on my teammates. That's how that's
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  Speaker 2: what make it easy, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Like the challenge is a defense when you know you're
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  Speaker 1: going back out there series after series in a tight
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  Speaker 1: game where you gotta protect the leader.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we always try to take on that challenge, even
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  Speaker 2: when the times we came up short. Man. We always
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  Speaker 2: want to put the challenge on us, man, cause I
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  Speaker 2: feel like any given time we go out there in
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  Speaker 2: the game, so we always gonna take that challenge against
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  Speaker 2: anybody to.
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  Speaker 1: Like going against an offense that runs them any screens.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we've seen that before. I think they got that
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  Speaker 2: that game planning from the Bills, So we've seen them before.
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  Speaker 1: So a little out of left field players' repointed for
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll wants to get back into coaching. Still be
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  Speaker 1: a good NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Coaching Duh, it's Pete Carroll. Yeah sure so so he
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  Speaker 2: a players coach, man, He a lot of players gonna
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  Speaker 2: gravitate to him as soon as he get there if
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  Speaker 2: you do get that job. So, I mean, he know
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  Speaker 2: how to you know how to make work don't feel
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  Speaker 2: like work. So that's what makes it fun playing for him.
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  Speaker 2: So and says thanks for thanks and appreciation.