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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On What It Took To Become A Championship Caliber Team · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: This is great. Good to see everybody quite the spectacle,
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Speaker 1: so exciting times. Guys have been great. The last couple
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Speaker 1: of days.
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Speaker 2: Uh Cito San Jose has been awesome. And looking forward
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Speaker 2: to getting into a regular cadence here tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: So what do you got.
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Speaker 3: My congratulations being here? Thank you were as happy as
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Speaker 3: anyone to be here right now. I want to ask you, obviously,
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Speaker 3: at the start of the year, the people who supposedly
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Speaker 3: know who's going to be in the super Bowl, we're
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Speaker 3: not picking these two teams. And I'm sure you're fine
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Speaker 3: with that. That's been a situation everyone has faced at
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Speaker 3: some point in their life or is professional in sports.
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Speaker 3: That I want to know why you think the people
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Speaker 3: like when an underdog exceeds expectations. I won't say overachieved
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Speaker 3: because that might be an insult, but does it bring
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Speaker 3: more joy to a wonderful situation that you've defied the expectations?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think people are interested in it because it's
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Speaker 2: those are the stories. You know, you look at all
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Speaker 2: of our you know, the media entertainment, those are those
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Speaker 2: are the best movies, best shows, all that type of
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Speaker 2: stuff for us. You know. Look, we said it after
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Speaker 2: the after the championship game that we didn't care.
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Speaker 1: We really we really don't.
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Speaker 2: I think what was important for us was to become
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Speaker 2: a championship team. We weren't that in the spring. We're
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Speaker 2: on our way. That's where we wanted to become. But
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Speaker 2: in order to get to a stage like this and
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Speaker 2: win a game like this, it's got to be real
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Speaker 2: and that's what you have to become and uh, and that's.
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Speaker 1: What our focus was on. So but it's great.
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Speaker 2: People are gonna talk, there's there's a lot of attention,
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Speaker 2: and that's what makes the game so great. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of fans out there and it's exciting. But you know,
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Speaker 2: that's that's out of our control. It's not how we
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Speaker 2: operate on a day to day basis. So the process
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Speaker 2: has been a lot of fun, you know. Becoming the
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Speaker 2: team that we've become has been been an awesome journey. Mike, Well,
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Speaker 2: this is the only time we've been here, so it's
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Speaker 2: pretty sweet as it is. I don't know nothing to
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Speaker 2: compare it to.
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Speaker 4: Mike congratulates the great season.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: What went into the process of hiring Clint Kubie in
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Speaker 5: the off season and how do you think he's had
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Speaker 5: the impact that he's had on your team.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a benefit of us kind of being out
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Speaker 1: in front of it.
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Speaker 2: So and I haven't really had an opportunity to cast
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Speaker 2: a wide net and talk to a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of great coaches that were available last year, So.
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Speaker 2: In a classic Mike fashion, took my time, probably overthought
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Speaker 2: it a bit, talked to a lot of great people.
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Speaker 2: I think as the as the process really unwound, it
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Speaker 2: became very clear that Clint was the first person we
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Speaker 2: talked to that not only was he going to bring
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Speaker 2: a great staff, was a great plan. I think our
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Speaker 2: visions were aligned on what we were trying to create,
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Speaker 2: and just became very clear that he's going to be
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Speaker 2: a great partner to work with.
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Speaker 1: So excited for him. He's done a gret job. It's
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Speaker 1: been a lot of fun to work with him, and
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Speaker 1: we got one more game to go. Mike congresations on
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Speaker 1: being here.
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Speaker 6: Sam Donald's cooer has obviously, you know, he's had some
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Speaker 6: difficult moments, He's had this incredible resurgence. I'm wondering what
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Speaker 6: what your what you've been able to do to help
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Speaker 6: him get to this level where he's now got this
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Speaker 6: chance to really dispel any of his critics doubts about him,
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Speaker 6: and how you're going about that for Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Well, Sam, Sam has got to this point.
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Speaker 2: We were we're there to help well as of all
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Speaker 2: our players. But I think you know, Sam's story is
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Speaker 2: a little bit more in the line light than all
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Speaker 2: of our all of our all of our stories. But
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Speaker 2: that's that's made him who he is today. And I
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Speaker 2: think he would share the same sentiment with you. I
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Speaker 2: think our role in the whole thing is to be supportive.
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Speaker 2: You don't believe in him that there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: things that we saw in Sam that that we loved,
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Speaker 2: and he's lived up to those things and then some.
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Speaker 1: Uh. But as a coach, you know, we have visions
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Speaker 1: for our players.
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Speaker 2: And and it's about fulfilling that vision for Sam and
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Speaker 2: who he can become. And there's gonna be times throughout
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Speaker 2: the year you fall short and you kind of get
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Speaker 2: back up and dush yourself off and keep plugging away.
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Speaker 2: So and Sam's been that steadying force. And so he's
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Speaker 2: a resilient, resilient dude man, competitor winner. It's been fun
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Speaker 2: to be alongside him throughout the whole year.
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Speaker 7: Coach High Cakn Tessa Brewer from CNBC. There's been a
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Speaker 7: lot of publicity around the future for the team and
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Speaker 7: whether a pressured sale is imminent. I'm just wondering, in
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Speaker 7: your mind, what makes an ideal owner, who would be
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Speaker 7: an ideal owner for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Well to go with the sale and ownership. Nothing's from
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Speaker 2: our perspective, nothing's changed from two weeks ago, or nothing's
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Speaker 2: changed since I interviewed with the job for the job
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Speaker 2: with Jody two years ago. I'll say this, Jody is
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Speaker 2: a fantastic owner, supportive, steadfast and what she believes and
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Speaker 2: what she wants the Seahawks team to be and what
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Speaker 2: it should mean to our community. And it's very clear
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Speaker 2: on what her expectations.
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Speaker 1: Are and.
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Speaker 2: She can kind of see through the fog that sometimes
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Speaker 2: maybe in the first year I had a hard time doing.
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Speaker 2: And so to have that type of guidance and that
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Speaker 2: type of support has meant a lot. And so I
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Speaker 2: can say this, I love having Jody as our owner,
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Speaker 2: which has been fantastic.
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Speaker 8: Hey, Mike to your left here, wanted you to shed
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Speaker 8: some more insight into John Schneider, obviously a great reputation
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Speaker 8: for years, knowing what you knew about him before you
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Speaker 8: arrived and now having worked with him, Yeah, what's been
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Speaker 8: the most striking thing about how he operates and how
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Speaker 8: you two have been able to work together?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be fooled by his Aweshuck's personality. He's as
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Speaker 2: sharp as they come. And he seems like he's young
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Speaker 2: because of his energy and his enthusiasm. But he's He's
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Speaker 2: seen a lot of football, He's seen a lot of
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Speaker 2: great organizations operate. He's got a very clear vision what
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Speaker 2: he wants to achieve. Man, what a great communicator. The
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Speaker 2: spirit behind how he operates is the Seahawks. You know,
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Speaker 2: the brand of the Seahawks. John exemplifies that every day. Man,
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Speaker 2: he is a awesome person to work with on a
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Speaker 2: day to day basis. I look forward to seeing him
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Speaker 2: every day. He makes he makes it fun, he makes
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Speaker 2: it exciting.
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Speaker 1: He challenges you a lot.
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Speaker 2: I had a lot of mentors going through the process
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Speaker 2: two years ago, and to a man, said you need
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Speaker 2: to go work with that guy you know, and and
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Speaker 2: that meant a lot.
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Speaker 1: And he's lived up to that.
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Speaker 4: And then some hey, coach here ruins from TSA Mexico.
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Speaker 4: With all the noise and all the distractions you're in
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Speaker 4: this week, how do you change? How do you manage
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Speaker 4: the weekly preparation for an important game like this when
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Speaker 4: the most important in the year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're You know, you.
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Speaker 2: Try to be so steadfast in your process, and at
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Speaker 2: some point you know things are going to change, things
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Speaker 2: are going to be different, And what doesn't change is
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Speaker 2: our principles and the things that we're about on and
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Speaker 2: like a moment by moment basis. So my message to
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Speaker 2: the team say, look, we're gonna be loose and focused.
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Speaker 2: That's how we roll. So the loose part is we're
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Speaker 2: gonna enjoy it. We're gonna we're gonna enjoy these moments.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna love being with our friends and family and
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Speaker 2: and join our teammates. We're also to be focused like that,
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Speaker 2: we have an accountability to our process and the things
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Speaker 2: that we need to do to go play our best.
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Speaker 1: So I coach, that's going to be our process. Excuse me, sorry, Oh.
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Speaker 9: High coach over here. Congratulations on making it to the
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Speaker 9: super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 9: Funny enough, Actually, today was exactly one year since the
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Speaker 9: Rams indicated they.
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Speaker 1: Would move on from Cooper Cup.
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Speaker 9: I was kind of wondering, could you kind of describe
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Speaker 9: the process of getting Cooper Cup onto the team, what
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Speaker 9: he's meant to this organization. Some people thought he may
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Speaker 9: have been past his prime. Could you kind of describe
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Speaker 9: the impact that he's had catching a touchdown and it's
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Speaker 9: a championship and just his resurgence.
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Speaker 2: I guess, well, you know, you know, you knew Cooper
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Speaker 2: Cup through his reputation. Jake Petz is on our staff.
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Speaker 2: He's got a great relationship with Cooper. When it was first,
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Speaker 2: like we made it a point to, like I think
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Speaker 2: whenever the first time we were actually allowed to reach
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Speaker 2: out to Coop, I had him on the line and
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Speaker 2: just said, look like, we don't get a lot of
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Speaker 2: opportunities to really make an that, you know, acquire a
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Speaker 2: player like you, especially early in our program him. And
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Speaker 2: what better player to to bring in early than than
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Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. And man, he's just he's like I used
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Speaker 2: the word, I use the term force multiplier. He's that
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Speaker 2: with the receiver room. You can see it with the
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Speaker 2: effect with a lot of our guys like Jax is obvious,
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Speaker 2: but really the rest of our young receivers and uh,
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Speaker 2: and that's that's rippled all the way throughout the whole team, offense, defense,
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Speaker 2: special teams, all three phases.
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Speaker 1: He's helped me.
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Speaker 2: And then to see him make plays in the championship
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Speaker 2: game when the stakes are highest was was really special.
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy for him. He might go ahead, teammate,
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Speaker 1: you go first.
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Speaker 10: So, Mike, how would you describe the way, uh, the
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Speaker 10: benefit that you get as a play caller, The way
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Speaker 10: you guys can get after a quarterback without having to
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Speaker 10: blitz too.
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Speaker 2: Much makes me makes my life a lot easier for sure.
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Speaker 2: One thing I've one thing I've learned over the last
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Speaker 2: you know, three or four years calling plays is when
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Speaker 2: you build it right, you have faith in your players
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Speaker 2: and you trust him and they got your back as
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Speaker 2: you're trying to have theirs, and that's how it works together.
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Speaker 1: So quick call is a good call. Hey, Mike Stacy
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Speaker 1: Dale's NFL Network.
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Speaker 11: If you had to scheme against Jackson, what would be
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Speaker 11: the challenges?
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Speaker 1: How would you pursue him? He put three guys on the.
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Speaker 2: Thing with Jacks For your question is it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: you could put you could allocate two people to him,
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Speaker 2: but he's got vertical speed too, and so is it
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Speaker 2: in and out double? Is it a high load double? Okay,
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Speaker 2: well now I do that. Now I'm lighting the run
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Speaker 2: in the box. So our coaches do a phenomenal job
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Speaker 2: of moving around and it's not easy to do. You know,
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Speaker 2: you got to learn all those different positions. And that's
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Speaker 2: a tribute to Jackson frizz our receiver coach. He's done
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Speaker 2: a great job getting ready week to week. So there's
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Speaker 2: answers based off our teams are playing us, and sometimes
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Speaker 2: teams do a great job without the whole game and
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Speaker 2: other guys have to make plays. But man, he's been
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Speaker 2: incredibly consistent and a great player for US a whole year.
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Speaker 12: High coach, here, congratulations, be here, thank you. So of
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Speaker 12: course your defense has been important throughout the season, but
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Speaker 12: can you flesh out why and why the defense is
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Speaker 12: so important to win games in the NFL, especially the
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Speaker 12: Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: Well, right up my alley.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think, I think, I think our defense
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Speaker 2: has taken a turn when we when we became more connected,
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Speaker 2: and it's not easy to do that. Like last year,
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Speaker 2: we were going through some adversity in the middle beginning
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Speaker 2: to the middle of the part of the year, and
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Speaker 2: it takes a leap of faith to really buy in
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Speaker 2: and stick to the process of what we're trying to achieve.
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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking of a meeting we had and actually,
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Speaker 2: ironically enough, going into our San Francisco game here last year.
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Speaker 1: And we just made it.
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Speaker 2: We made a kind of a pack with each other,
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Speaker 2: like we're going to be a great defense no matter
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Speaker 2: what it takes. And they bought in and and it
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Speaker 2: didn't happen overnight. Excuse me, but that's the type of
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Speaker 2: stuff in the dedication. It takes moving in the same
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Speaker 2: direction to actually make this thing come to life. So
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Speaker 2: of course, I mean you got to you got to
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Speaker 2: stop people, you got to keep points off the board,
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Speaker 2: you got to control field position, you gotta affect quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: All those things are really important to win football games.
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Speaker 13: Mike to you're right right over here.
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Speaker 14: Uh, you guys have been one of the best second
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Speaker 14: half teams in the NFL, specifically third quarter.
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Speaker 11: And you know, people talk about halftime adjustments or this
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Speaker 11: or that, but I'm just curious what you would attribute
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Speaker 11: that to.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a few things. One our players
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Speaker 2: do a great job of adjusting. They're really smart, and
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Speaker 2: we talk about being relentless, so that if you're going
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Speaker 2: to be relentless, you need to do that for sixty minutes.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you about our Our training staff and
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Speaker 2: strength staff.
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Speaker 1: Has done a phenomenal job. The guys put together.
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Speaker 2: A great offseason program that we had a lot of
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Speaker 2: attendance to which has been reported, and that matters, you know,
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Speaker 2: to build those callasies up to do it the right
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Speaker 2: way and compete with your teammates. Is I believe it's
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Speaker 2: better for you than kind of doing your own thing
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Speaker 2: in the offseason, and that's put the guys in position
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Speaker 2: to play great football for the entirety of the game.
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Speaker 15: I coach Jaluk from Play to It and fan are
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Speaker 15: closer than Petricks fan? And do you think these can
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Speaker 15: be you during the super Bowl or a factor? And
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Speaker 15: what do you think about them during the entire season?
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Speaker 1: The question is is how many I'm sorry.
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Speaker 15: The Seattle fan are closer than Petris fan and maybe
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Speaker 15: he is a member.
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Speaker 2: There's whether or not there's gonna be twelves at the
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Speaker 2: game compared to Patriots fans.
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Speaker 1: That's the question.
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Speaker 16: I think closer in proximity.
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Speaker 1: Because they're closer. Oh, I've thought about it.
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Speaker 2: Look, our twelves have they've they've traveled tremendously throughout the year. Man,
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Speaker 2: we're in Nashville. A bunch of fans are there, Carolina,
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Speaker 2: we have a bunch of fans. They did, They've been
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Speaker 2: tremendous the whole year. I expect quite to turnout this game.
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Speaker 2: I feel like you could put the game anywhere in
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Speaker 2: the world, and we have a we have a heck
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Speaker 2: of a turnout.
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Speaker 14: Coach Mike over here. Given the potential for a rule,
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Speaker 14: Sunday could be the last time we see a J.
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Speaker 14: Barnard could be the last person ever do the touch bush.
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Speaker 14: Can you just talk about how significant that's been for
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Speaker 14: you guys all season and just kind of how significant
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Speaker 14: has been for the league over the past few years.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's one of those deals like, look, you got
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Speaker 2: to understand the rules and try to play by him
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Speaker 2: better than anybody else.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: For us, it's been a really effective way to get
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Speaker 2: a yard and you know, in high leverage games and
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Speaker 2: high leverage situations, yards matter, especially in short yardage. So
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Speaker 2: AJ has done a tremendous job our coaching staffs. It's
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Speaker 2: taken a lot of commitment throughout the whole season to
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Speaker 2: to really you know, kind of master the ball handling
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Speaker 2: and secure the football, which has been great. And the
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Speaker 2: guys like it, you know, the guys, the guys like
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Speaker 2: running that play.
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Speaker 1: I know, AJ does, Mike.
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Speaker 5: A lot of people idolizing you football players, people who
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Speaker 5: are playing in the Super Bowl. I wonder who do
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Speaker 5: you idolized as a kid.
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Speaker 2: Wow, Look, my heroes are my sisters. My sister Maggie's
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Speaker 2: four years older than me, my sister Kate six years
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Speaker 2: older than me. And they were like they could do
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Speaker 2: no wrong. Anything they did. I followed them. They I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're you know, I just you know, they played soccer
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Speaker 2: in high school. I went to all their games. You know,
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Speaker 2: I just I just thought they're the coolest people ever
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Speaker 2: now and now just like what they're able to do
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Speaker 2: with their families and their careers and kind of doing everything.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just excelling just being great people. I
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Speaker 2: really look up to them to this day. So they're
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Speaker 2: my heroes.
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Speaker 16: Mike over here, congratulations on winning the conference championship and
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Speaker 16: reaching the Super Bowl. Ess from Channel two here in
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Speaker 16: the Bay Area. Normally, when you come into town, you're
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Speaker 16: playing a difficult division rival, whether it's here or up there.
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Speaker 16: How surreal is it if it is at all that
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Speaker 16: you're here for the Super Bowl and so you get
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Speaker 16: to enjoy you know, being in the Bay as opposed
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Speaker 16: to coming into enmity territory where you're gonna have you know,
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Speaker 16: hostile care out, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the context is significantly different. You know, we're staying
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Speaker 2: in a different hotel, we're in a different area. We're really
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Speaker 2: just kind of in the scope of game process throughout
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Speaker 2: it throughout a week. So it's been a great setting
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Speaker 2: that you know, the people here have been awesome. Hotel
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Speaker 2: folks have been great and welcoming. But at the end
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Speaker 2: of day, you could have put this thing anywhere. You know,
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Speaker 2: our process and mentality probably would be as about about
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Speaker 2: the same.
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Speaker 17: Coaches year back on the right, what would you say
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Speaker 17: is the most or the toughest lesson in leadership that
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Speaker 17: you would learned maybe under somebody that you had coached
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Speaker 17: under that's kind of shaped your approach in your first
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Speaker 17: year with Seattle here.
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Speaker 1: Well, this goes back to college.
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Speaker 2: I used to think of leadership as a position and
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Speaker 2: like a position of power, and you tried to look
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Speaker 2: sweet and you know, get high profile stuff and get
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Speaker 2: big time jobs and all that, and like became very
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Speaker 2: clear to me very quickly. It is not about you,
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Speaker 2: and it's about how well you can serve people that
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Speaker 2: you're surrounded with. So you don't know everything, and there's
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Speaker 2: people around you that do. And it's about getting people aligned,
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Speaker 2: moving in the same direction, empowering them. And when you
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Speaker 2: do that, it's it's a pretty powerful thing. It's a
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Speaker 2: lot of fun.
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Speaker 18: Mike backright right over here, just wanted it. Oh, thanks,
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Speaker 18: I just wanted to ask you about the fact that
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Speaker 18: you've got the youngest roster or the third youngest roster
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Speaker 18: in the league right now, built primarily through the draft,
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Speaker 18: but you've had some key veteran editions either via free
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Speaker 18: agency or trade coop Lawrence Williams a few of these guys.
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Speaker 1: Why does this mix work as well as it does? Well?
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Speaker 1: I think there's a well.
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Speaker 2: First of all, it's a masterclass by by John and
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Speaker 2: our personnel folks. A lot of coaches have a lot
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Speaker 2: of input on who's especially through free agency and this
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Speaker 2: draft in particular, that when you have a shared alignment
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Speaker 2: about what type of team you want to have, what
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Speaker 2: type of people you want in your building.
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Speaker 1: I think that streamlines that process.
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Speaker 2: But the common thread are guys that that love the
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Speaker 2: process of doing football and and to their credit, they
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Speaker 2: they bought in and really they're doing.
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Speaker 1: It for the guy next film, you know.
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Speaker 2: And that's a connected group that we're proud to proud
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Speaker 2: to say that we've.
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Speaker 1: Been able to build over the last year.
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Speaker 3: So, Mike over here, authorities this morning law enforcement announced
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Speaker 3: that there's going to be no ice enforcement operations and
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Speaker 3: then around the Super Bowl or any associated events.
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Speaker 10: That's obviously going to please bad Bunny.
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Speaker 1: Is it going to please you? I haven't thought about that.
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Speaker 2: One second, And if you know anything about me, I'm
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Speaker 2: thinking about our football team and getting ready to go.
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Speaker 1: So you had no comment on that.
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Speaker 5: Mike, you had.
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Speaker 11: Uh you mentioned the forty nine Ers game here last
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Speaker 11: year as a moment we talked about you're gonna be
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Speaker 11: a great defense. What was it about, you know, that game,
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Speaker 11: that moment, that point in the season of which why
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Speaker 11: that message was doing well.
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Speaker 2: I think at this point or that point last year,
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Speaker 2: we were kind of a little bit on a roller coaster.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's some up and downs to the season,
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Speaker 2: facing some adversity. We had some turnover in our roster.
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Speaker 2: So I just think we're at a you know, inflection
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Speaker 2: point of where we want to go.
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Speaker 1: And so I think it just took that was the time.
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Speaker 2: For us as a group to really say, Okay, look,
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Speaker 2: this is what we're trying to create, doesn't matter what
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Speaker 2: it's going to take. Let's be committed to the process.
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Speaker 2: Let's go make it happen. And and to the guy's credit,
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Speaker 2: they've done it. You know, our coach has been phenomenal
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Speaker 2: with it. It's been it's been a wild journey and
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Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 17: Mike dear Right.
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Speaker 14: As you know, it's believed that there has not been
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Speaker 14: a defensive play calling head coach to win the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 17: I realize you've got other things on your mind, but
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Speaker 17: what do you make of the opportunity to become the first?
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Speaker 2: I just, Brady, I just you know me, I just
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Speaker 2: I just want us to win the game and so
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Speaker 2: and put us in best position we possibly can to
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Speaker 2: win the game. If we win it, that'll be the
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Speaker 2: last thing on my mind. You know, I'll be really
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Speaker 2: happy for the twelves, for our players, coaches. That's going
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Speaker 2: to be the stuff that really means that's going to
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Speaker 2: be special to me and and really the rest of
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Speaker 2: the crew.
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Speaker 13: Uh yeah, de Orlando led better landa journal constitution correct
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Speaker 13: shout out, Hey, you mentioned coach Rick and coach Harby
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Speaker 13: last night. Who are some of the other influences in
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Speaker 13: your coaching style? And then what do you have to
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Speaker 13: say to the young folks back home that might want
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Speaker 13: to get into coaching in the high school ranks and
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Speaker 13: below them?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 2: I mean every coach that I've worked for has really
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Speaker 2: made a tremendous impact on me. The first one, you know,
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Speaker 2: Coach Mike Kloy is my high school coach. Obvious Smith
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Speaker 2: was my high school coach. I worked for him at
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Speaker 2: Cedar Schulz. Coach Smith taught me how to like grow
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Speaker 2: up and take responsibility for your life. Honestly, tough of
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Speaker 2: me up, for sure. I think he can vouch that
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Speaker 2: all the all those all those men that I work for,
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Speaker 2: they walk the walk and they talk to talk. And
19:53
Speaker 2: so when you talk about like men of integrity, men
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Speaker 2: of faith that back up what they say and are
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Speaker 2: about the right stuff, those guys that means a lot.
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Speaker 2: You know, to have those type of role models in
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Speaker 2: your life and people that are getting trying to get
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Speaker 2: into coaching. It's like, if you have passionate, if you're
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Speaker 2: passionate about you know, teaching and learning and growing and
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Speaker 2: you're about that type of stuff, stay true it, man,
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Speaker 2: Just go for it. Just go for it, no matter
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Speaker 2: what you're doing. For Like, there's no such thing as failure.
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Speaker 2: Failure means when you give, Like what is failure. It's like,
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Speaker 2: if I don't get the job I want, Okay, well
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Speaker 2: let's go. Let's go to the next opportunity. So enjoy
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Speaker 2: the process, align yourself with great people, and go let
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Speaker 2: it rip.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you,