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Roy Robertson-Harris: "I'm Blessed To Be Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That's not too bad. I've been on longer flights. Uh so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm my new home now, so I'm excited, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: blessed to be here. I'm excited for a new opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: One of these last twenty four forty eight hours been
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  Speaker 2: like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh last twenty four Well, I've been always on a
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  Speaker 1: flight twenty four hours ago, just adjusting to the time.
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  Speaker 1: And uh it's pretty surreal being with a new team
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  Speaker 1: and I just played for another on Sunday. But I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed to be able to continue to play the
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  Speaker 1: game I loved, I put my life into, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: meeting everybody today has been great. My new teammates, new
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  Speaker 1: coaches and everything, and uh so it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Do you all would take you to get a handle
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  Speaker 2: on a new playbook a new scheme?
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  Speaker 1: Say it again?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, how long will it take you to get
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  Speaker 2: a handle on a new playbook and a new scheme?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, it shouldn't take long. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty good with learning new you know, new systems. I've
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  Speaker 1: been in a lot of different systems, so it's exciting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just to be able to play.
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  Speaker 2: What you expecting that the trade might happened or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that, or just catch.
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  Speaker 1: Off guard or uh you can say they caught me
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  Speaker 1: off guard. It is what it is, part of the business,
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  Speaker 1: so can't be too upset about it. Still playing ball,
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  Speaker 1: so no complaints here first yet, fans.
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  Speaker 2: I'm familiar with you as a players. What what kind
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  Speaker 2: player are you? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I bring a lot of violence just
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  Speaker 1: get off to to this d line. Obviously this uh,
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  Speaker 1: this friend is very talented and well known. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I bring a lot of uh violence and get
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  Speaker 1: off and you know, uh pretty solid in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: uh pass rush is pretty solid. Bringing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: energy on the field. Practicing Sunday. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect to potentially play this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I hope? So yeah, I hope. So I'll go go,
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  Speaker 1: uh get to practice today and and just uh continue
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  Speaker 1: to learn and and you know, from my teammates and
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  Speaker 1: my coaches, and get get myself ready, be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: We know this defense requires a high level of communication.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything in the burbage that that carries over
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  Speaker 2: from one of your past defenses? H?
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  Speaker 1: Some stuff is you know some stuff is new, some
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  Speaker 1: stuff is old. Like I'm like I said, this is
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  Speaker 1: pretty easy for me to learn and pick up those things.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been getting a lot of help from my
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  Speaker 1: guys so far for the few hours that I've been here. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been good. It's been good. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna adapt pretty well. And we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: That You've been on longer flights than the one from
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  Speaker 2: Seattle to London. Yeah, where were those flights?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I went to Japan in March from from Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: had a stop in Atlanta, and from Atlanta to Tokyo's
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  Speaker 1: fourteen hours. Uh. Prior to that, it was Houston to
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  Speaker 1: uh Real dejioniro So and that was about ten hours,
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  Speaker 1: ten and a half hours. So only thing that was
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  Speaker 1: bad it was it was the middle of the day,
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  Speaker 1: so I had a night's rest and so natural kind
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  Speaker 1: of in and out. But it wasn't too bad.
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  Speaker 2: How do they do you like to travel for fun?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Like to travel with me and my wife. We'd
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  Speaker 1: like to get around and see the world. Man. We
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  Speaker 1: don't like to stay put, so we'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: what's out there see different cultures. I'm a foodie so
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  Speaker 1: love to try different different foods all over all over
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  Speaker 1: the world, and you know, to enjoy myself.
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  Speaker 2: What's the favorite place you've been and how many countries
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  Speaker 2: have you been with? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot? Probably uh eight or nine different countries, Tokyo uh
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  Speaker 1: or Japan obviously, Japan's probably my favorite so far. Anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in Central America has been pretty good. Jamaica, anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the Caribbean it's always super fun foody.
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking forward to trying here?
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  Speaker 1: Anything and everything? So if there's any suggestions, y'all let
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  Speaker 1: me know. I'm not on social media, so it'll be
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  Speaker 1: hard to uh see that, but on my way out
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  Speaker 1: or throughout the time I'm here, if y'all got any suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: don't be afraid to throw it my way. M Maybe
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  Speaker 1: rest run in Japan anywhere there's udon, noodles or ramen.
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  Speaker 1: Not too big on raw fish, so that's all they
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  Speaker 1: that's how they eat sushi out there. But I'm more
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  Speaker 1: of an American sushi role kind of guy. But the
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  Speaker 1: oudon and ramen was pretty good out there, So got
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  Speaker 1: to give Japan their their props for that.
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  Speaker 2: They've listened to use a defensive tackle, how much end
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  Speaker 2: play or free five?
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  Speaker 1: Say it again, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Three or five technique? Did you play in Jacksonville?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been strictly I've been strictly in most of
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  Speaker 1: the time there. Recently moved over to end a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. I was an inn in college, a four
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  Speaker 1: down in in college, outside linebacker in Chicago for my
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  Speaker 1: rookie year, and then made the transition inside. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you could say I've played all the way across the board,
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  Speaker 1: from end to nose to tackle. They told anything about
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  Speaker 1: that multiplicity here and how they'd like to use it.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. We're still working on that. We're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: in practice, still learning the install and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So all that stuff will come into play and I'll
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  Speaker 1: see where I'm going to be watching you play.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a crazy straight arm seems to never get
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  Speaker 2: moved off the ball. Is that something you've always had
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  Speaker 2: in power wise or something you developed here in the NFL?
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  Speaker 1: Learned that as a young guy in college. One of
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  Speaker 1: my one of my guys, taught me the long arm
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  Speaker 1: and just been my fastball most of the time. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say I'm trying to get away from it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm trying to work other things as well and
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  Speaker 1: not to be so one dimensional, but as one of
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  Speaker 1: my go tos, just to come off with power and
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  Speaker 1: and just try and get vertical play on that side
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  Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: How well have you Gottener and Kipson in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: That's my guy. That's my guy. Chicago and in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: We spent some time in both cities. Super proud of him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just being able to continue to play and
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  Speaker 1: do what he's doing. So it's it's good to see him.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see Ray was out there in Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: Ray Shawn for a little bit, so it's good to
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  Speaker 1: see some familiar faces around here.
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  Speaker 2: As a small school and undrafted guy when you've started
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  Speaker 2: too how much does that play in the kind of
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  Speaker 2: your your mindset on the field. Is that something that
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  Speaker 2: kind of puts a chip on your shoulder?
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  Speaker 1: We do?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know guys look at me. Oh he went
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  Speaker 1: to U tap like, yeah, I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys I played with that are still playing in this league.
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  Speaker 1: That was at UTEP. You know, I always played with
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  Speaker 1: a chip on my shoulder, just to prove that I'm
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  Speaker 1: here respectfully. But yeah, man, good, Thank you guys, appreciate it. Blessings,