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Derick Hall: "Continuing To Play With These Guys Is Very Special To Me" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Times ten.
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  Speaker 2: I think everything the extentsion happened. Man, it's it's been
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  Speaker 2: obviously God celebrated. Man happy for me, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's just again speak towards the comaraderie that
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  Speaker 2: we have here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they they definitely been no one.
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  Speaker 3: Wait what was the process like, uh, how long had
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  Speaker 3: that been at the works for?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, about probably about three weeks, So I think it
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  Speaker 2: went pretty quick, you know. I think that was something
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  Speaker 2: that they wanted to get done pretty quick obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: also on my side, you know, obviously we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get something done.
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  Speaker 1: So man, we love it here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm happy to be here and I'm I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: so glad that we got the deal done.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you do it now instead of wait till
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  Speaker 3: next springing even.
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  Speaker 1: What the market was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, uh, this place is really special to me
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  Speaker 2: and uh for me, Man, I really love the game
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  Speaker 2: in football obviously, the the the money and hints, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our job and what we do. But man, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: really about the love of the game. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: knowing knowing I'm getting myself into when I'll come to
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  Speaker 2: work every day, you know, obviously, Uh, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: a pristine organization man, John, Mike and all those guys
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  Speaker 2: men that do a great job of letting us be
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  Speaker 2: ourself truly come out of competing, and I know we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna win a lot of games and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: championships here. So you know, I'm I'm I'm willing to
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice whatever everybody else thought, I would be willing to make.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they able to be here and be with
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  Speaker 2: this team, culture more important, money or for sure, I
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  Speaker 2: I in my personal opinion, you know, it's speaking for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like that's that's huge for me.
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  Speaker 2: And again, man, you know, knowing I'm getting myself into
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  Speaker 2: and I don't worry about learning a new team and
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  Speaker 2: new staff, new you know, knew everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm happy to be here and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad we gotta done.
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  Speaker 4: You're at a point where you're gonna take on a
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  Speaker 4: larger leadership well with what ways if you contemplated doing
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  Speaker 4: or how do you see yourself showing up as leve
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  Speaker 4: as they can?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think for me pressure, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's anything different. You know, had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversations with older guys this year Jay Love you know
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  Speaker 2: ej W want about the process, but also you know
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  Speaker 2: it it was a good, good part of it for
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  Speaker 2: me for them to tell me, man, you you doing
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  Speaker 2: the right things. You know, you come to work, you
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  Speaker 2: do things the right way, and uh, you know you're
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  Speaker 2: becoming that leader for us. And you know, they just
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  Speaker 2: continue to tell me to do what I do, what
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing, and you know, they felt like I had
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  Speaker 2: leadership qualities from the jump. But you know, obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: you know, steps and boundaries to the thing. But man,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's a blessing. It's so amazing and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's so good to be here for you to come.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Julian, I think the quote you give us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to go with.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody in that locker talks about or talk hat been Derek,
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  Speaker 4: and yet he's still somebody that everybody loves in there, Like,
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  Speaker 4: what what does that kind of mean to you to
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  Speaker 4: kind of know that you can, you know, give it
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  Speaker 4: out the tradition around, take some of the back and
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  Speaker 4: kind of have.
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  Speaker 1: That respective that far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I I think it's huge again, just magnifying
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  Speaker 2: being myself and I think the guys are receptive to that. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they know when I come in the building, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: i'm'a be loud. You know, I'm I'm gonna talk my junk.
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  Speaker 2: They gonna talk back. We're gonna have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna shout a box a hundred times a day.
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  Speaker 2: I may win one, I may win fifty, but the
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  Speaker 2: the conversation and talking crap still gonna be the same.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's pretty cool, man, just camaraderie and
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  Speaker 2: love that we have for one another specially and then
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  Speaker 2: like I said, man, just sign nate extension.
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  Speaker 1: And walking in the meeting and walking in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: It it was just it, it was so special, you
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  Speaker 1: know everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's so happy for me, and you know, obviously vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: For me to be able to stay here and uh
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  Speaker 2: continue to play with these guys, it's very special to me.
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  Speaker 1: Like your mom was able to be here for the
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  Speaker 1: sighting of it this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, mom, Mom and my sister flew in, uh last night,
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  Speaker 2: they got heard about midnight last night, turned around left
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  Speaker 2: back this morning. So obviously that's something that's pretty special
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  Speaker 2: obviously for my mom and my family. But uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: excusing me man, just my mom continued to be my mom,
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  Speaker 2: you know, showing up doing the things that she does,
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  Speaker 2: flying in overnight to be able to fly back out
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  Speaker 2: and go to work tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's special. They got from Mississippi. Correct, Yep, good Port.
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  Speaker 3: You have something truck related or fishing related on it
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  Speaker 3: on your shot unless now.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I think I got enough trucks to go around.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you if you see me, you know
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  Speaker 2: I'm always in some different So I I got enough trucks. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I bought a boat a couple of years ago, still
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  Speaker 2: still fairly new. I you know, I rarely use it
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  Speaker 2: from time to time. But uh man, now man, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm older, I'm a little bit wiser. So uh I
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  Speaker 2: bought some property this past offseason. Well, I guess this
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  Speaker 2: off season back home and now now the extension is
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  Speaker 2: in starting to do house plans and you know, wanta
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  Speaker 2: wanna do a family compound.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my next step. What kind of boat you get?
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  Speaker 2: I got a two thirty nine QSFS, So my next
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  Speaker 2: step up is gonna be the two ninety one, which
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  Speaker 2: is pretty big. Probably probably next offseason. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: won't have time to enjoy it before camp starts or
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  Speaker 2: probably the next officer. Yeah, it's a Cynegon, so built
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  Speaker 2: it out myself. Customs three hundred yamahunda back. You can't
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  Speaker 2: go to a boat deal and find that motor. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta order that one, so it's pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: Julie.
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  Speaker 4: We were asking Julian about your style of play.
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  Speaker 1: The word he used to describe it was violent. And
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  Speaker 1: there's different ways to play your position. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: think violence is? What do you think that's your style
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  Speaker 1: of play? I think that's just who I am in
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  Speaker 1: my core.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like when I go out on
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  Speaker 2: the field every day, you know, even in practice right now,
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  Speaker 2: OTAs you kind of have to tame and take care
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  Speaker 2: of each other and take care of the way you practice.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, my goal is to displace you and
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  Speaker 2: get to the ball. And you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's what we eat, think or breathe on defense side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball. There's no man between you and the
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  Speaker 2: ball at all times, and whether that be run or past.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously I'm working different things in my past
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  Speaker 2: ruster off season to really enhance my game.
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  Speaker 1: But you can know powers coming.
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  Speaker 2: You can't stop it, and I think that's just mentality
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  Speaker 2: that I have, man, and I think it really stems
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  Speaker 2: from growing up and everything that I went through. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I just I hear stuff head on. I go straight
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  Speaker 2: through the process and there's nothing that's gonna stop me.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of touching on that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know your story when the draft was a
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  Speaker 4: pretty big wild stuff for it and to kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Get this contract to come down into.
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  Speaker 3: Uh after all the fact count of what the fact
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  Speaker 3: kind of your family.
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  Speaker 1: Is here from that posing, So yeah, it was it
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  Speaker 1: was special.
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  Speaker 2: I think number one again sharing that moment with my
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  Speaker 2: mom and uh, you know, my sister and then my agents. Man,
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  Speaker 2: just to countless hoge that they put in over the
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  Speaker 2: fat past few weeks, staying up late cause they live
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  Speaker 2: on the East coast. So by the time I get
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  Speaker 2: out the building here and get home and get set,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty delayed there. But you know, them taking the
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  Speaker 2: time and you know, getting this thing worked out. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's pretty specially looking from where I
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  Speaker 2: come from to looking the word the Lord has blessed
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  Speaker 2: me now, Man, it's it's unbelievable, It's unimaginable. And just
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  Speaker 2: continue to show people, man, you know, n no matter
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  Speaker 2: where you starting at, the where you come from, there's
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  Speaker 2: always hope.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm I'm big.
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  Speaker 2: I'm big in my faith obviously, so I'm I'm faith based.
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  Speaker 2: But i mean, you just believe in God. Man, there's
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  Speaker 2: good's the limit, the the proport you have.
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  Speaker 4: In the super Bowl, look with the sack sack and
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  Speaker 4: the force humble and everything.
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  Speaker 3: I just guess help us did that kind of meet
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  Speaker 3: you and you know what really went right.
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  Speaker 1: In that game previous? Yeah? So, I mean, I last
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  Speaker 1: year is pretty tough for me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, you know, the passers when the rate
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  Speaker 2: was high, the pressure rate was high, but it was hard.
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  Speaker 1: For me to get home.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm just always I'm like God, like
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  Speaker 2: I'm there, I'm there, I'm there, and man, I've I
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  Speaker 2: was letting to worry me so much. And one night
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  Speaker 2: I just prayed, I'm like, Lord, whenever the time comes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be here. I'll be prepared. I'm just continue to
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  Speaker 2: do to work, continue to go out every day and
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  Speaker 2: put my bills for forward. And what better time for
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  Speaker 2: it to show itself on the worldwide stage man, the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl? And I was just overjoyed, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: I was so overjoyed for that moment, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 2: all the work that I put it in all year and.
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  Speaker 1: Have a show up at that time, it was pretty
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  Speaker 1: special for me. You guys talking that.
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  Speaker 3: Locker about not chasing stats, playing the right way. What
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  Speaker 3: does it mean to then be rewarded for playing that way,
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  Speaker 3: even necessarily having the big numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: Just again speaking back on the aspect of how they
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  Speaker 2: view me upstairs, you know, I think that's huge. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I love Mike and his staff and I
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  Speaker 2: know they feel the same way about me. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that show obviously over the last couple of days
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  Speaker 2: of what they've done, you know, for me and my
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  Speaker 2: family moving forward, and man, I think it's huge. And again, bro,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just the tip of iceberg. There's there's so
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  Speaker 2: much more for me, and I know there's so much
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  Speaker 2: greater heights that I can go to my game of ball,
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  Speaker 2: and it just continue to work towards that every single day.
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  Speaker 4: What is there greater heights?
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  Speaker 1: What do the greater heights look like for you as
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  Speaker 1: a player? What what is that next step? As far
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  Speaker 1: as you know, now you got this in your contract,
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  Speaker 1: go to the year four, If what are.
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  Speaker 4: Those areas where you're like, I still got a lot higher.
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  Speaker 2: To go in terms to get my seam mainly, man,
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  Speaker 2: just detailing out my game, detailing out my past rush
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, like again, power is my thing.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I set the edge. I played around
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  Speaker 1: really well.
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  Speaker 2: But man, just being able to get back out on edges,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being able to set up my rushes a
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  Speaker 2: lot better and turn those pressures and hits that I
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  Speaker 2: had last year in the sacks and getting there just
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  Speaker 2: that much of a tick faster. And I think we're
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  Speaker 2: drilling that every single day. And that's what I'm working.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't worked any power, and that's that's just what
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  Speaker 2: it is for me. Man, I'm just trying to put
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  Speaker 2: the nail on the hammer, you know, keep pushing the
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  Speaker 2: envelope and continue to grow in the area where I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I need to gro You.
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  Speaker 1: Learned so much last year from DeMarcus Lawrence.
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  Speaker 3: Now you've got Dante Fowler here, much different style player.
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  Speaker 3: How much does that benefit you now to have another
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  Speaker 3: veteran that plays different stylistically to help in the answer,
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  Speaker 3: It huge huge.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Take came in and I introduced myself and he
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  Speaker 2: was just like, hey, man, I'm I'm glad to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm happy to help in any way that
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  Speaker 1: I can.
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  Speaker 2: And every single day, again, we talk a lot of
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  Speaker 2: crap to each other, but we go out there and
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  Speaker 2: we push each other, you know. Just in speaking the
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  Speaker 2: aspect of the day. W we were working some and
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of I really can wrap my head around,
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  Speaker 2: and he really slowed down and just helped show me
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  Speaker 2: the way and how he would play it. And I
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody know he's a speed rusher. So been
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  Speaker 2: able to have two different aspects of d Law who's
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  Speaker 2: crazy and insane and does all the right things, and
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  Speaker 2: then having someone who's been here just as long, but
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  Speaker 2: the speed dynamic is out of this world. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's what he's known for. And be able to have
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  Speaker 2: both of those guys and continue to lean on 'em.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's huge for me in my development. Help
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it, right, Thank you, thank you, thank you,