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AJ Barner: "This Team Is Going To Keep Fighting" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Your touchdown please.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like a little block and release play. DK
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  Speaker 2: through a great block that I went back and saw
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  Speaker 2: and Gino put it on me and I just scored it.
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  Speaker 1: What was the key for you guys? A team just
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  Speaker 1: kind of stay composed effort. That was just such a
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  Speaker 1: weird sequencer in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just chipping away. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: blessing of disguise. We had those games like the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers earlier in the year when we were down
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  Speaker 2: by a lot and came back, So it just shows
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  Speaker 2: that this seems going to keep fighting and uh, yeah, describe.
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  Speaker 1: Your feeling when Zach Sharma scored the go ahead touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently I was feeling too crazy because I got
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  Speaker 2: a flag, but whatever. Yeah, just super stoked for Zach.
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  Speaker 2: Glad we're able to punch that in. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: the backs Rien wrote well all day, the old line
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  Speaker 2: blocked extremely well, and that was a big touchdown for us.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel like you've just grown as a
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  Speaker 1: player throughout your rookie season?
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  Speaker 2: And I think it really started for me when we
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  Speaker 2: went to Tennessee and did that combined practice. I really
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  Speaker 2: felt like I started to gain my confidence and kind
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  Speaker 2: of felt like I could play with whoever. And I
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  Speaker 2: think throughout the year, I mean, just being a rookie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a learning curve to try to learn
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  Speaker 2: new stuff every week. And I got great vets in
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  Speaker 2: my room, a really good coach, and a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys on the team that are super supportive and
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  Speaker 2: a great organization. So I think that just helped me.
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  Speaker 2: I've been leaning into that and growing.
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  Speaker 1: What was it about those joint practices that gave me
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  Speaker 1: that confidence?
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  Speaker 2: Just going going up against another team in practice and
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  Speaker 2: just knowing that, like I can hang with these guys,
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  Speaker 2: and like obviously you practice against your teammates, but like
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  Speaker 2: when you go up against somebody else, you kind of
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  Speaker 2: find out real quick, like what you're about.
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  Speaker 1: So you got the Michigan win yesterday unless you actual
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  Speaker 1: went today.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good weekend, huge win for Michigan, big win for
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  Speaker 2: US too. So yeah, great weekend. Uh that game. Just
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  Speaker 2: a ton of respect for that game, a ton of
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  Speaker 2: respect for Ohio and Michigan. But I'm just so glad
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  Speaker 2: that they won it in a Michigan way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Like it wasn't pretty at all. They ran the ball
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, some I stoked for those guys, cool guys, YEP.