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Speaker 1: Last year was all about a reset, re establishing the

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Speaker 1: winning formula. What is this year about? But this is

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Speaker 1: about the going for it. We're going for it. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's no question what's at stake here in the

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Speaker 1: expectations that we have. We can be a championship club

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Speaker 1: and we've got to find it day to day, you know,

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Speaker 1: one play at a time, one step at a time

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Speaker 1: as we work it, and then as we put these

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Speaker 1: games together and we learn and grow and become the

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Speaker 1: kind of team more capable of becoming. It doesn't have

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Speaker 1: anything to do do with anybody else. It's about the guys

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Speaker 1: in this locker room right now, and first off it

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Speaker 1: will be the competition to get the team settled, and

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Speaker 1: then it'll be about the next steps as we move

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Speaker 1: into the schedule and just take it one step at

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Speaker 1: a time. Russell with the Snap takes a look to

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Speaker 1: the end of what did it mean to have your

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback locked up long term? Well, I think it's

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Speaker 1: it's valuable to everybody in every phase. You know, Russell

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Speaker 1: has been a great Seahawk, He's had a fantastic start

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Speaker 1: to his career and he's just kicking into this is

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Speaker 1: kind of phase two of his career. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: gone these first ten years, He's going to get ready

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Speaker 1: for the next ten. The confidence that he brings, the

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Speaker 1: work ethic that he stands for. His competitiveness is, you know,

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Speaker 1: off the charts, and his performance, his ability to win

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Speaker 1: in his belief in doing that. All of those factors

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Speaker 1: are all part of our team makeup. How did year

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Speaker 1: one with him working with Brian Schottenheimer go and where

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Speaker 1: are there areas where that relationship can improve. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was a big challenge here for for both guys. For

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Speaker 1: Shotty knowing that he's got the franchise quarterback, he's got

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Speaker 1: to find him and he did. He challenged him. He's

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Speaker 1: taken over command of more football than ever before, and

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Speaker 1: he'll just continue to get better at it. This is

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Speaker 1: really the this is the golden part of Russell's career

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Speaker 1: now where he can really benefit from all of the

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Speaker 1: year's experience. I think the connection with Shoddy has taken

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Speaker 1: him to the next level of the learning, and I

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Speaker 1: think we should see him just take charge of the

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Speaker 1: game even more than he has in the back. We

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Speaker 1: know what Doug Ball was brought on the field. What

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Speaker 1: are you gonna miss the most about him not being

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Speaker 1: around the facility. Oh, it's just as just as pure

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Speaker 1: competitor that he was. Um, it showed up in everything

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Speaker 1: that he was about. He was fierce competitive and in

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Speaker 1: that it generated the style of play in an attitude

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Speaker 1: all that, but what he really was was just a

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Speaker 1: competitor and he was a phenomenal battler. And it played

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Speaker 1: over into how he took care of his body and

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Speaker 1: how he worked his body through. He would come back

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Speaker 1: from thanks you if you'd never think of a player,

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Speaker 1: if you could come back from him. He just crushed.

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Speaker 1: So he turned to play times, you know, and and

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Speaker 1: uh eventually you know, he caught up for him and

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Speaker 1: he was banged up in the end the end of

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Speaker 1: his career. But um, that competitive, this is really the key.

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Speaker 1: On the bright side, he brought in three receivers via

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Speaker 1: the draft, other guys undrafted free agents as well. DK

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Speaker 1: Metcalf became an Internet sensation before the draft. Fans are

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Speaker 1: obviously really excited. What do you think the key to

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Speaker 1: his sess will be in finding the success at the

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Speaker 1: next level. He just needs to get comfortable. He's so talented.

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Speaker 1: He's explosively fast. He's extraordinarily quick for a big man.

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Speaker 1: He's got a great catching range that we've we've witnessed

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Speaker 1: already in our practices. Uh, he's level headed, he's a

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Speaker 1: good learner. Um, we need to find out how he

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Speaker 1: after he makes a big play, does he come back

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Speaker 1: and make another one? You know, we just need to

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Speaker 1: find out his nature as a competitor as he plays

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Speaker 1: for us. But there's there's there's nothing he can do,

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Speaker 1: and so we're really excited about it. When I say Seattle,

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Speaker 1: what comes to mind? I think the energy of the place.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the energy that that is so obvious

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Speaker 1: in the nature this extraordinary area that we live in.

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Speaker 1: But it's also the energy of the people. You know.

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Speaker 1: I've been so taken by the following and the fans

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Speaker 1: and the support and the love and the fun that

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Speaker 1: we've had with our fans in that relationship. This place

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Speaker 1: is just I had a great energy, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm kind of energetic myself, I kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: this this this community and all that. So um, But

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Speaker 1: I think it's a juice, you know. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's a juice from the trees and the mountains and

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Speaker 1: the lake and the water and the rivers and all

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Speaker 1: of that. But it's also the people that are just

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Speaker 1: so extraordinarily you know, committed to following and being the

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