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Aden Durde: "The Next Step Is Carrying On Being Who We Are" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How were all doing?
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  Speaker 2: We asked you about the Hankins and your connection with
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  Speaker 2: him in past weeks, But what did you see? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I was asking him last week with the guy's going down,
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  Speaker 2: So what did you see out of the way you played?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he played great.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, when you've got like we spoke
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  Speaker 2: about it last week, but when you've got like an
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  Speaker 2: older guy like that, the blocking schemes and those things
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  Speaker 2: he's seen.
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  Speaker 1: He's had so many reps of those in.
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  Speaker 2: Games like that, when you see unscouted runs and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, he can react. Now, he can come back,
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  Speaker 2: give you clean feedback. And I feel like he really
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  Speaker 2: pushed himself last week. I think he played thirty three
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  Speaker 2: snaps and he normally plays probably in the range of
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  Speaker 2: like eighteen to twenty two. And like to take on
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  Speaker 2: that he's done a great job for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's like the next step that's next? I
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  Speaker 1: think the next step is like just carry on being
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  Speaker 1: who we are, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that's like such a cliche thing to say,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a there's a lot of areas we need
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  Speaker 2: to grow him, and I think that's just the evolution
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  Speaker 2: of what we're trying to become the system that we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to be in and the style of play that
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  Speaker 2: we want to do. So I think the next step
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  Speaker 2: is just really embracing the process even more. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like this league's about constant improvement, you know, because someone's
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  Speaker 2: gonna someone's gonna attack your system a certain way. They
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  Speaker 2: put a copycat right out of there, or they put
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  Speaker 2: a copycat play out there. Someone's gonna do the same
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  Speaker 2: play against you, expose the same weaknesses, and how you
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  Speaker 2: deal with that and how.
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  Speaker 1: You grow in that while still playing with the play style.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, like to answer your question, it's really
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  Speaker 2: like embracing the process. And I think the guys are
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  Speaker 2: doing that day by day. You know, I just got
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  Speaker 2: to stay in it day by day.
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  Speaker 1: I really could Matt to tell Ben helpful right away?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that going to be a process.
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  Speaker 2: He's been here close, it's gonna be Obviously it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a process because it's he's been here before.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he left. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I think he left like week that, the day eleven
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  Speaker 2: off training camp or something like that, and he's just
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  Speaker 2: come back. So there's stuff that he's missed and and
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  Speaker 2: getting into It is just gettinghim back up to speed
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  Speaker 2: and going through that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that or really where teams with like
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  Speaker 1: if you guys didn't do something right against them and.
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  Speaker 2: The Patriots put that in or something like, have you.
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  Speaker 1: Seen teams copying?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you see that week in week out, like every
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  Speaker 2: week in the NFL. That's not just us, that's every defense.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see issue plays that affect them. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: put that fire out, they're gonna come back and do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. Another team will try and do the
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  Speaker 2: same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how have you guys responded to that? Again?
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  Speaker 1: You think to put the issue plays in you you
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  Speaker 1: have to respond to it. Yeah, so yes, But like
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  Speaker 1: the process is that it's a constant thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, as you said, as something gets put on tape,
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  Speaker 2: is really finding those issues, understand the wise, speaking to
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  Speaker 2: the players, making sure we correct that.
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  Speaker 1: With Jonathan's hand, like a couple of years ago, he
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  Speaker 1: sort of planted the player retiring before he came back
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  Speaker 1: to live with Dallas or the heater. You remember that
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  Speaker 1: at all or no, because he came to Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just on the trade dead lab
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  Speaker 2: in twenty two and so I'd never I've never worked
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  Speaker 2: with him before, and then he he came straight in
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  Speaker 2: and I think we played the Bears the next week
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  Speaker 2: and he plays straight away.
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  Speaker 1: And done a great job. He's he's like, there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why you played twelve years in the league. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's a constant pro. He goes through the process.
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  Speaker 2: He loves football, he loves the every day grind of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a cool thing to see. You can see he's
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  Speaker 2: helping the young guys.
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  Speaker 1: What makes him so good against double teams? He seems
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  Speaker 1: to just split those legs. Man, No, he I feel
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  Speaker 1: you know him byron.
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  Speaker 2: They have they have a unique understanding of where pressure
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  Speaker 2: is coming from and the timing of when pressure is.
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  Speaker 1: Coming, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: So like there's timings to double teams. So and they
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  Speaker 2: both have I wouldn't. I think it's a natural feel.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to ask them what they feel. But
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  Speaker 2: they're they both can understand where the pressure is coming from,
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  Speaker 2: understand how to collision pressure and then snap out of here.
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  Speaker 1: They're very good of that. What did you see from
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  Speaker 1: Mike Boras sent.
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  Speaker 2: He did a good job, you know, like that that
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  Speaker 2: one way he came out and got the screen you
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  Speaker 2: didn't like Mike Mole just comes in and does his job,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like he's just he makes he makes it
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  Speaker 2: hard on us because we've got to get more snaps.
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  Speaker 2: He's just got to keep pushing, keep working.
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  Speaker 1: He has.
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  Speaker 2: His versatility is his kind of superpower and the ability
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  Speaker 2: to play them in all those different spots.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously kind of a tall guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean he talked about that when he
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  Speaker 2: was drafted that that was kind kind of have you
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  Speaker 2: seen him progress? He's done a good job and he again,
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  Speaker 2: it's like as you get into these areas of playing
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  Speaker 2: different parts of the line, especially when you play multiple spots,
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  Speaker 2: he's understanding what blocking blocking scheme you're gonna get in
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  Speaker 2: that spot. And I think that's his growth and that's
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  Speaker 2: where I've seen him grow because then he knows how
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  Speaker 2: to really use his pad level and understand where the
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  Speaker 2: pressure is coming from. Back to the teams when guys
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  Speaker 2: go to a knee to react, is that a coaching
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  Speaker 2: thing or is that a personal preference players that come
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  Speaker 2: to It's a bit of both, but it's really comes
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  Speaker 2: from a personal preference in my opinion. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of both, but it's it's a feel and an
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  Speaker 2: ability to kind of constantly like do that like some
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  Speaker 2: people don't like doing it and they don't like doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not someone that pushes that. The idea is not
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  Speaker 1: given obviously, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, Yeah, to anchor and really hold that to a
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  Speaker 2: point and then how fast can you snap out.
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  Speaker 1: Of its player? We have the instinctual instinct. I was
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  Speaker 1: talking to our dad sent about it too, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Said, but this thing has a has a you can't
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  Speaker 2: like you think it's how important is that it's part
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  Speaker 2: of the DNA.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's critical. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: like I talked to the guys, and I think we do.
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  Speaker 1: We talk to the guys.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a part of the game that you take
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  Speaker 2: the players to and then when it gets to that point,
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  Speaker 2: they bring it to life, you know, like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that happens when it crosses the white line. But
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  Speaker 2: there is a point like Jenks, you see, he has
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  Speaker 2: it like there's there's a point he feels the timing
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  Speaker 2: when the bulls coming out, so he can break on
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  Speaker 2: the ball and get those great hits in that kind
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  Speaker 2: of era of the field in front of him, Like
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  Speaker 2: Chenna has it, you know on the edge, there's there's
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  Speaker 2: I feel I feel like that's that's the kind of.
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  Speaker 1: That's a players like super his gift.
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  Speaker 2: Then when when he has it, it's like, how do
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  Speaker 2: you kind of bring it up and off lifted and
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  Speaker 2: put him in a position to do it even more?
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  Speaker 1: Does it affect you us on the team then definitely?
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  Speaker 2: I think like when you because then when you see
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  Speaker 2: people do like I've seen guys learn the game like
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  Speaker 2: younger players learn the game off older players like that,
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  Speaker 2: like why did you do that? H I felt this,
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  Speaker 2: I saw this, I saw this keys, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: those things and then when you see them again, you
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  Speaker 2: start understanding why the wise behind the play that you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Lines play a lot of heavy personnel and they like
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  Speaker 1: to run right at you.
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  Speaker 2: Part you looking forward to seeing if your team can
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  Speaker 2: stand up to what they're going to be ring on
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  Speaker 2: Monday night. Yeah, I think like you've got to embrace
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  Speaker 2: the challenge of every game. You know, like we we
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  Speaker 2: played New England, we've got to ask those similar questions.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we we played this week and it was
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  Speaker 2: a different game, but it was vertical speed, lateral speed,
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  Speaker 2: Like I think every week, you've just got to embrace
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  Speaker 2: the challenge that comes along with it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be some things that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know were going to happen in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And and the more you can focus on doing it
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  Speaker 2: our way, I think, and we think. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the best way of moving forwards. But it's a great challenge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what does Miles Adams bring if if he
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  Speaker 1: gets some more snaps.
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  Speaker 2: This week, he brings like he has to bring a lot,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, gets more snaps, he he
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  Speaker 2: has a good I feel like the jump he's made
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  Speaker 2: this year of just and I didn't coach him last year,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know, but like just watching the tape,
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  Speaker 2: his ability to play first down run game has grown,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and then his ability in asking. He's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good pass rusher, and his understanding of leverage is
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  Speaker 2: hand used when he's rushing. The ability to get to edges.
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  Speaker 2: You see that, and I've seen that throughout the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what you can do. Everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks, Thanks guys,