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Geno Smith: "We Have Everything Right In Front Of Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: God, f now we're in your vote shirt to start
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  Speaker 1: with that. Just what why is that important to either?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, anytime we can get out and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, make a change, whether that's in our community,
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  Speaker 2: make a difference in our community, or you know nationally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, want want everyone to have that uh have
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  Speaker 2: that right which many have fought for. And so it's
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  Speaker 2: very important, uh for all of us. And so there's
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  Speaker 2: a voting center at Luomingfield that you know, hopefully everyone
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  Speaker 2: shows up to and uh let their voice be heard.
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  Speaker 2: When you take a look at the film that and
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  Speaker 2: you look at.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams that got some young rookies that linebacker spot
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  Speaker 1: with versus just what do you see with them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean uh yeah, you said, uh, some young guys,
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  Speaker 2: but uh they're playing like vets. You know they Uh
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  Speaker 2: they have a great system. They're a great coach. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna coach them up and get them ready and
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  Speaker 2: prepared to play.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like those guys are out there,
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  Speaker 2: they're playing together. Uh you can see obviously you know,
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  Speaker 2: they lost Aaron Donald, but you can still see upfront, man,
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  Speaker 2: they're getting after it. And so uh, we gotta be
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  Speaker 2: prepared for them. They do a great job at twist
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  Speaker 2: and stunts. Uh, they do a great job at you know,
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  Speaker 2: the pick game. They're picking the center, they're picking the guards,
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  Speaker 2: the tackles. Uh. So they have a lot of uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, different different formations, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different personnel, uh that we'll be keing on. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're a pretty good defense man. We got to
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  Speaker 2: go out there, we got to take it to them
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  Speaker 2: from the start, and then we got to finish strong.
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  Speaker 1: How similar or different is that defense with Rahim worse
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  Speaker 1: no longer coordinating it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's very similar in terms of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of their principles, but obviously new decordinator, new philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So there's gonna be subtle differences that you'll notice
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  Speaker 2: on film, and then obviously in the game they'll make
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  Speaker 2: different adjustments. Uh, they'll want to attack us in different ways.
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  Speaker 2: But still, you know, many of the same principles that
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  Speaker 2: they carried over.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, do you know how much has patients play into
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  Speaker 1: starting fast, that is, in terms of trying to stick
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  Speaker 1: with like the run game until it works. How does
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  Speaker 1: all that work for the offense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a it's a big part of
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  Speaker 2: the offense starting fast, you know, being able to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball, being able to be balanced pass play action
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  Speaker 2: as well as you know, vert and third downs. The
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  Speaker 2: more we can keep our defense on the sideline and
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  Speaker 2: keep them fresh, the better off they'll be. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's a complimentary football that we're talking about here, uh
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  Speaker 2: when you say that, And so we want to always
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  Speaker 2: start fast. But also, like you said, be patient, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not not you know, predetermine anything, not to not to
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  Speaker 2: make any you know, outside expectations or think things are
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go one way. You just play the next play,
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  Speaker 2: make the next right decision, and I think you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we want to start fast.
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  Speaker 2: We want to you know, step on the gas, and
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  Speaker 2: then we want to finish strong at the end. We've
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  Speaker 2: heard from Coch, We've from their teammates, so they can
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  Speaker 2: see the progress and that they know that there are
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  Speaker 2: things that are.
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  Speaker 1: On the right track.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, experience, what are those indicators where you know you're
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  Speaker 2: just about to turn the corner. What starts showing up
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  Speaker 2: on the you know, for the for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about the effort of the team. You don't
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  Speaker 2: see guys out there not giving effort. You know, you see, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you look at Spoon the way he plays,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just you know, fiery and just playing hard
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  Speaker 2: the entire game. Look at the way our defense fights,
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  Speaker 2: you know, look at the trenches in the way that
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  Speaker 2: they they fight throughout the entire game, no matter the circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at all of our games besides this
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  Speaker 2: past one, we've given ourselves a shot to win them,
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  Speaker 2: especially late. And so you can see our offense that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna continue to swing and continue to fight no matter
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  Speaker 2: what's going on around us. And you know, like like
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  Speaker 2: I said, if you look at our offensive line, I
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  Speaker 2: thought they played a phenomenal game this previous game. I
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  Speaker 2: thought the pass protection was outstanding. Uh. You can see
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  Speaker 2: those guys beginning to jail as they play with one
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  Speaker 2: another more. And so, uh, those are the things that
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  Speaker 2: we got to continue to improve and continue to push.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna continue to lead our offense and our team.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, the more we continue to play together and
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  Speaker 2: stick together.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Now listen to the outside noise, the better we'll be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned the pass run balance, and I
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  Speaker 2: know you guys have struggled with the rug so.
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  Speaker 1: Far this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering what your perspective on this has been because
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  Speaker 2: you're also leading the league in the tempts pipe considerable larger,
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  Speaker 2: leading the league in the yard, so you're getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of opportunities to throw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm guessing you'd like to see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more balanced. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all about you know, doing what's right. And
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  Speaker 2: in football, you know, if they load the box and
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna give us one on ones outside, we trust
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  Speaker 2: our receivers, we trust our protection, and the coaches trust
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  Speaker 2: me to make decisions. Uh, if they're gonna play too high,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna play shell. You know, we should have advantage
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  Speaker 2: looks in the run game and we should be able
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  Speaker 2: to run it. And so if we run the ball
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  Speaker 2: all game and it works and we win, I'm fine
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  Speaker 2: with it. If we pass it and we win, I'm
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  Speaker 2: fine with it. I think balance comes with doing the
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  Speaker 2: right thing, and whether that's run or pass, it's really
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  Speaker 2: dictated by you know, what the defense is doing, what's
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  Speaker 2: the situation. You know, what do we have to do
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  Speaker 2: in this moment to get the win. You know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot a lot of times people just say balance you know,
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent run, fifty percent past, but that that's really
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  Speaker 2: not a reality. It's about what's the next best play,
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  Speaker 2: what's the next you know, best decision in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's something like our process, right, you
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  Speaker 2: talk about process over the results. Our process is right,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the results will come as long as
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  Speaker 2: we stick to that.
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  Speaker 1: What is that look like to you when you look
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  Speaker 1: back and to goa in the fast week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw a lot of positive Really, I saw
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  Speaker 2: a lot of positives. I think up front, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we got after him. I thought the protection was great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought that I had a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: time back there. You could see where throughout the flow
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  Speaker 2: of the game where we got in rhythm, you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially early, and we were getting down there, we were
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  Speaker 2: moving the ball, and then we had some catastrophic mistakes
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  Speaker 2: that made the game look a lot different than it was.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think if we capitalize down there in the red zone,
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  Speaker 2: especially early in the game, get those points, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it creates a different situation for our team.
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  Speaker 1: It feels a lot different.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously, when you don't and those are things that
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  Speaker 2: are in our control. When you don't do that uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it just it puts a bad taste in
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  Speaker 2: your mouth. And so for us as an offense, each
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  Speaker 2: individual especially, you know, as a team, we're all looking
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  Speaker 2: inward and saying what can we do better? And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: if we clean up our mistakes. I've been saying this
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  Speaker 2: for a while, but if we clean up our mistakes
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  Speaker 2: and just play clean, we're we're more than capable of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, doing what we want to do.
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  Speaker 1: The first two drives you talk about getting the rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: First two drives went three and out, three and out,
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  Speaker 2: and then that third drive second quarter, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys went straight downfield. What did you see? It feel like? Changed? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just football, man Like if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the third down that we didn't convert, right, I
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  Speaker 2: threw a pass into a tight window and God barely
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  Speaker 2: gets tips it. If he doesn't tip that ball, we
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  Speaker 2: get a first down. And we're talking, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a matter of interest, the game of interest, as we
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  Speaker 2: talk about.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened?
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  Speaker 2: I thought I think we were better on early downs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we weren't in third and longs. That's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be tough on any offense. But we still got to
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  Speaker 2: convert those, you know, But you know, we were better
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  Speaker 2: on first and second down in that drive, and then
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  Speaker 2: obviously you know, got to be better in the red zone.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I thought we just got into a flow,
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  Speaker 2: got into a rhythm. We didn't panic, we didn't press,
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  Speaker 2: We allowed the game to come to us, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what happened that.
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  Speaker 1: Next drive of it obviously ended with the bad snap,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys moved the ball pretty well. There was
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  Speaker 1: That a good example of what your offense can be
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  Speaker 1: when it's really clicking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in all the games, if you watch
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  Speaker 2: all of our games, we have those spurts where it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, we can move the ball at will
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  Speaker 2: at times, and you can see it when we don't
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  Speaker 2: have you know, penalties that that set us back, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't have turnovers or things like that
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  Speaker 2: that aren't conducive to winning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we move the ball and we do our thing.
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  Speaker 2: But when we shoot ourselves in the foot, if we
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  Speaker 2: start the drive first and fifteen, first and twenty, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're battling back at that point, and it's gonna be tough,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and like I said, you gotta be able
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  Speaker 2: to overcome it. Great teams do, but we still can't
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  Speaker 2: put ourselves in that position. The cleaner we play, the
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  Speaker 2: better we play as far as first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, the better off we are. We saw
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  Speaker 1: your frustration as the game went on, and of course
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  Speaker 1: you want to win the competitor you are. Was that
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  Speaker 1: game in particular frustrating? Was there anything in particular that
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  Speaker 1: was more upsetting? Just losing? You know, that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: main thing. You know. I'm really not a great loser.
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  Speaker 1: It sucks. I hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I need to overall when I watch myself, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: just continue to uplift the guys, and you know, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm being honest, do a better job at you know
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  Speaker 2: times when we're down. Those are things that I'm constantly improving.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say I'm perfect at it. I'm very
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  Speaker 2: emotional when it comes to winning, when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: doing the right thing, and so at times I let
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  Speaker 2: my emotion show.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that's good or bad, I guess that's.
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  Speaker 2: A personal opinion, But you know, I'm gonna be myself
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  Speaker 2: at all times, and so uh, I wanna continue to
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  Speaker 2: bring that fire to our team, to our offense. I
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  Speaker 2: wanna continue to be competitive and not in a bad way,
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  Speaker 2: but in a good way. And so it's always a
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  Speaker 2: fine line that you gotta walk. But I gotta be
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  Speaker 2: careful with making, you know, too many mistakes in that area.
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  Speaker 1: How difficult is it to be genuine and a competitor
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  Speaker 1: but not be fake, raw, raw and positive when it's
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  Speaker 1: not going well. I don't think it's difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone uh is themselves and I think as
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  Speaker 2: long as you're being yourself, I think it's fine. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, if it becomes something that you're going overboard
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  Speaker 2: or it's a hindrance to your team or you're you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're hurting the team, then that's the problem. But otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just be yourself. You know, the the guys
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  Speaker 2: like when I let my emotions show, but I'm just
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  Speaker 2: you know, evaluating myself and saying, hey, I can be
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  Speaker 2: better in this area. And so those are things that
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: What what in what way were you not better that? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I I got a penalty, you know, those are those
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  Speaker 2: are things that I can't have happened. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like everyone's watching me, right, so if I'm upset, they
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  Speaker 2: get a little anti right, So I just gotta have
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  Speaker 2: a better poker face and just work on it.
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  Speaker 1: I assume the penalty was because that guy shoved you
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  Speaker 1: under the chin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was pretty upset at that, but again,
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  Speaker 2: you know ref didn't call it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, move on to the next play.
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  Speaker 2: The same time, though, how has your competitiveness and emotion
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  Speaker 2: helped you get to this point in your career and
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  Speaker 2: be the player you are? Yeah, that's a big part
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  Speaker 2: of who I am. I love the game. I'm passionate
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  Speaker 2: about football. I can't look I look forward to going
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  Speaker 2: to practice every day and you know, trying to get better.
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  Speaker 2: And so the fire that I have inside of me,
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  Speaker 2: the chip on my shoulder, I think you got We've
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  Speaker 2: already talked about that. It's never gonna leave. So I
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  Speaker 2: just have to continue to maintain it, man, And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is my driving force. It is helped me get
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  Speaker 2: to this point and will carry me on into the future.
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  Speaker 1: But can't let it be affect me in a negative way.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of yourself scouting process.
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  Speaker 1: That I always you can't avoid that when you watch films.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, in what ways have you gotten better at
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  Speaker 2: that over the years, or where have you seen a change.
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  Speaker 1: In your Yeah. When I was little, man, I used
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  Speaker 1: to ball my eyes. I used to cry.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I really used to cry. My mom she
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  Speaker 2: hated it. She didn't understand. I used to cry like
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  Speaker 2: a baby. So I don't cry tears anymore. I fight them,
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  Speaker 2: I hold them back. But it still feels the same way.
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  Speaker 2: It cuts deep, man, Like I want to win so bad.
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  Speaker 2: I want the guys to enjoy the success of all
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  Speaker 2: the hard work we put in. I want to go
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  Speaker 2: into the locker room and celebrate with the with the
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  Speaker 2: team and with our guys. Uh So when we don't win,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what I did out there, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: I played it all, it all hurts the same, and
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to the to the next opportunity. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we got great guys on this team in this locker room,
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  Speaker 2: and we're getting things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're four and four right now.
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  Speaker 2: We got everything right in front of us, and everyone's
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  Speaker 2: positive and they're prepared, and uh, you know, we're getting
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  Speaker 2: on the right track and we're going to be good.
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  Speaker 2: Lost three games in a row at home, and five
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen fifteen over the last thirty at home.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to fans about what's gonna be different this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we want to bring that passion, that energy,
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  Speaker 2: and we want to start fast and start early. When
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  Speaker 2: I when I think about like previous you know, Seattle
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  Speaker 2: teams and uh, the connectedness with the with the fans,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why we call them the twelves, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why our mantra is twelve is one because we all
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  Speaker 2: want to contribute to the winning out there. And it's
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  Speaker 2: been that way since I've gotten here, and it'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to be that way because of how passionate these fans are.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to continue to get them riled up
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  Speaker 2: and have them excited and you know, feeling rowdy, want
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  Speaker 2: want them to yell and you know, just lose their
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  Speaker 2: voice out there when we're out there because we're doing
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  Speaker 2: so well. And so that's something like I said, man,
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  Speaker 2: we we can be better at home, and I'll take
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  Speaker 2: that personal. And so I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we go out there and give our fans something to
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  Speaker 2: be very excited about. And we got the right team
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  Speaker 2: to do it. How do you feel about just execud
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  Speaker 2: Like you mentioned earlier, the biggest injuries.
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  Speaker 1: In your offense right now is you guys. You know
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  Speaker 1: shooting your soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that's uh, that's that's something that
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  Speaker 2: you can look at and say, you know, if we
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  Speaker 2: can if we can control that, then that's a good thing, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: those are things that are.
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  Speaker 1: In our power and our control, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But again, if we continue to make the same mistakes, right,
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  Speaker 2: then I mean, what's the point. You know, we gotta
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  Speaker 2: we gotta at some point clean it up. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what we do. We talk about it all day. We
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  Speaker 2: meet and we discuss the things that are holding us back.
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  Speaker 2: We're honest about it, and then we work to correct it.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've had, you know, a really good week
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  Speaker 2: of practice so far, looking forward to today, looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to today's practice, and and cleaning up some of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But I think just overall, if we don't shoot ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in the foot, right we say that, if we don't
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  Speaker 2: shoot ourselves in the foot, we move the ball on
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  Speaker 2: everybody and we can score on anybody. So that should
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  Speaker 2: be something we should look forward to, is to correct
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  Speaker 2: those things.
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys are like top five to thirty
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  Speaker 1: longs or something like that. You think that's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: contributor to the number. Yeah, I mean it's gonna it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Third and long.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a high percentage in the NFL to uh
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  Speaker 2: to you know, to convert. But if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the you know, one through six, I think we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: up there fifty sixty percent, right, So we're pretty good
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  Speaker 2: in that area. Again, it's just us holding us back
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: at times. How do you feel you played in the
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: eight years. I feel like it's it's not my best.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been my exact best. I feel like my
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: decision making has been there. I feel like I'm happy
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: with the way that I've used my legs and done
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: some other things.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like my process is there. You know.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: I just think that I can play a lot cleaner
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: and always going to strive to do better.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: And I think that I can right. Thank you guys,