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Jason Peters: "Charles Cross Is Going To Be Great" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hold on, there's a lot of new faces since the
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  Speaker 1: last time you were in the building.
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  Speaker 2: But what is still the saint about this team or
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  Speaker 2: your organization? Uh? The culture. Uh. I've been watching them
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  Speaker 2: last couple weeks and they been playing hard and battling.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they just been playing Seattle ball. And I
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  Speaker 2: still see that here.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one years in this league, four to two years old,
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  Speaker 1: Like what makes you wanna keep chasing this?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I wasn't really chasing it. You know, when you
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  Speaker 2: get the call and you s you know, through God,
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  Speaker 2: anything as possible so I can still do it. So
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  Speaker 2: when I got the call, I know these guys pretty
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  Speaker 2: pretty well and it's a young, good team. So I
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  Speaker 2: was like the g I get the call, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: go ball. So I ain't gonna say this the the
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  Speaker 2: the the last rodeo, but I'm I'm right there. Then
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  Speaker 2: what was it?
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  Speaker 1: What s uh this offseason?
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  Speaker 2: Were you thinking you were gonna end up playing this year? No? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: to answer you a question, no, I didn't. Uh. Once
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  Speaker 2: Uh September hit and the the first kickoff, I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done, you know, but I didn't retire. I just
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  Speaker 2: kept the doing open and and I got the call.
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  Speaker 2: So if it wasn't this team, you know, I probably
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  Speaker 2: would have been done. What was your training like if
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  Speaker 2: if you weren't in the mindset that you were gonna
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  Speaker 2: be playing. Uh just kind of got cardio, bike, elliptical,
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  Speaker 2: you know, no kind of field work where you're out
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  Speaker 2: there just pounding yourself, but more more cardio.
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  Speaker 1: So did they call you just totally out of the
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  Speaker 1: blue or did you have any idea they were interested
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  Speaker 1: or Uh?
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  Speaker 2: John Gon kept in contact with me, and Uh, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of kept the door open and he's like, he'll
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  Speaker 2: just get back with me. So I just kind of
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  Speaker 2: kept it open. Gohea, Given what your workouts have been,
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  Speaker 2: how much time do you need to be at how
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  Speaker 2: much time do you need to be where you want
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  Speaker 2: going out on the field. Uh, just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks towing the pads, putting the helmet on, just getting
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  Speaker 2: my legs up under me. That's why you got camp.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's different playing off as the line and
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  Speaker 2: you once you go in thirteen play drive, you can't
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  Speaker 2: come out. You know, D line can come out, receive
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  Speaker 2: a running back. Those guys can come out. Old line
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  Speaker 2: you can't come out. So just uh just a couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks to get my legs up under me.
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  Speaker 1: Were watching the Seahawks or were you watching games?
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  Speaker 2: Just? Oh, just watching game? You know, g uh teams
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  Speaker 2: out and play for Philly, uh Dallas. You know, kept
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  Speaker 2: my own uh Seattle, you know, just to see how
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  Speaker 2: the the old line was gonna look, the chemistry, and
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  Speaker 2: they been looking pretty solid.
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  Speaker 1: You said, if it wasn't Seattle, or you don't think
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  Speaker 1: you would have come back?
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  Speaker 2: What what what makes it special here? Uh? I've my
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  Speaker 2: last year. Man. I had a a great time here
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  Speaker 2: with Pete and UH connected with a bunch of guys here,
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  Speaker 2: and I just felt, you know, with DK and Walker
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  Speaker 2: and Gino and all the offensive line, Charles and all
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  Speaker 2: those guys, we had good chemistry. So I decided to
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  Speaker 2: just come on back here.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you make your home in the off season?
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  Speaker 2: Texas?
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  Speaker 1: What did uh John explain as sort of the the.
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  Speaker 2: Vision for your role? Uh, just helping the young guys,
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  Speaker 2: helping them out, uh, feeding them my knowledge and then
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  Speaker 2: you know pretty much what I did last year.
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  Speaker 1: The you talking all about whether it's gonna be mostly
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  Speaker 1: tackle or guard or is that something you guy you
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  Speaker 1: still figuring out?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I can play all the way across. So whatever
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  Speaker 2: they they they need me to do, i'm'a just jump
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  Speaker 2: in there and go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, I think it was three weeks when you
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  Speaker 1: were on the practice scob before you were ready to
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  Speaker 1: play it. Do you have a sense your acclamation period
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  Speaker 1: how long it might.
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  Speaker 2: Be this time? Not really, I mean whenever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: after two weeks some of 'em'a I'll be rolling you.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Charles h How good do you think.
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  Speaker 2: He can be? Man? Charles's gonna be great. Man. He
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  Speaker 2: got good feet, He's strong, uh, smart, and he listens,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so I think he gonna do just Well.
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  Speaker 2: What has been your uh post football plan? Uh? I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't really thought about it. I just been rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Probably probably coach scout something like that, you know, stay
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  Speaker 2: in the game without being in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Weird having a head coach five years younger and you.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't really thought about it. I ain't really checked
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  Speaker 2: his age. You know, these guys on offense, you if
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  Speaker 2: you watch it from afar bit what what's impressed to
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  Speaker 2: you about the way that they played to the first
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  Speaker 2: month of the season. Uh? Ge you know Geno Walker,
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  Speaker 2: uh Metcalf and them guys making plays offensive line blocking, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Gino throwing the catching. It just I mean the chemistry,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with a new coach, you getting the system.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it starts slow, but some guys started out stopped
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. So it just been impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Gina's been around the league a long time. You got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to tell him for the first time last
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  Speaker 1: year what what maybe stood out to you that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know about him when you're actually around him on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's super smart man. Gino's super smart. Uh he
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  Speaker 2: knows ball and uh as it's just really impressive. If
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  Speaker 2: you not you hadn't been around him, he no ball,
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  Speaker 2: So he gonna make you accountable if you don't know
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  Speaker 2: anything else. Okay, all right,