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Speaker 4: Now here's your host, Jen Mueller.

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Speaker 4: Of the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: It is an off season edition of the Seahawks Insiders podcast.

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Speaker 2: And John Boyle, I know that you don't like to

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Speaker 2: be this busy during the off season, but there's a

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Speaker 3: Going on around this since we've last talked, Yes, beds

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Speaker 3: of Change. Yeah, it's been going back to really middle

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Speaker 3: of about what about a week and a half ago,

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Speaker 3: and how WALKTT got released. Ever since then, it's been

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Speaker 2: You've been in the building more than I have in

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Speaker 2: the last week and a half. Yes, is there a

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to say because a lot of

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Speaker 1: We're not really like around them as.

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Speaker 3: Much, so I don't, I don't know, it's hard to say,

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Speaker 3: Like the energy in the building. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's a lot going on. So yeah, I

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Speaker 3: You you know, you just never know this time of

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Speaker 3: year how all these moves play out. But there's you know,

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Speaker 1: But that's the kind of the unfortunate part of the

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Speaker 3: Guys come and go, and bands get connected to guys,

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Speaker 3: and then you gotta sometimes move on.

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Speaker 2: It is the uh, it's the hard thing in all

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Speaker 2: of sports, right And I've learned that as hard as

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Speaker 2: it is to say goodbye, you know you're going to

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Speaker 2: see them somewhere down the line, and I'll cheer for

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Speaker 2: I will cheer for Pete Carroll as long as he's

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Speaker 5: Really excited to introduce Sam Donald's a new quarterback. And

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Speaker 5: this is exciting times, man. Just you know, it's been

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Speaker 3: You know, one of things that really jumped out to

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Speaker 2: This is just when the rumors.

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Speaker 3: For Seahawks fans, it was the game against Seattle. It

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, this is a guy really not

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Speaker 2: He's got I believe it was five game winning touchdown

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Speaker 2: The other thing that people talked about with Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 2: The matchups aren't as favorable. And so the thing I

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Speaker 3: He handled that question very well, and it you know,

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Speaker 1: But you know, they dealt with some injuries up front.

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Speaker 3: They ran into, you know, a really good aggressive defense

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So like, look again, Sam Darnl will tell you

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Speaker 3: Because he had two bad games, you'd you'd kind of

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Speaker 2: Well, and it was, in fact a career year for him.

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Speaker 2: He was a pro Bowly he throw, he threw, he threw,

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Speaker 2: I could have done better on that one. He threw

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the not the short catch and runs next

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Speaker 3: But you got to look at like what this defense

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Speaker 3: It's the stuff he talked about, is being smart. It's

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Speaker 2: I think all of that helps settle an offense into

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And when you have a quarterback who's gonna know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, what Kobeak is doing now is not

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Speaker 1: It's all part of that.

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Speaker 3: You know, West Coast, Shanahan Tree, and you know, compared

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Speaker 2: And you bring in a guy like Cooper Cup to

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I think you are setting them up to succeed. It's

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Speaker 3: And even if he's a guy that's not getting the

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Speaker 2: Well, because I know a lot of people are saying, yes,

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Speaker 4: So what happens with that? And he is pretty good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously, you know, working with Clint a little bit

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Speaker 4: Year this NFL season. Feel every play, every hit, every moment.

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Speaker 4: Excited is the word he keeps coming back to.

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Speaker 2: I've actually said it a couple of times. Is there

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Speaker 1: I mean use the word complimentary.

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Speaker 2: You know, you talk about a team that can run

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Speaker 1: I thought you were talking right. He could run block

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Speaker 2: Well, he's a pretty large person. I'm very excited him there.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's a guy you're bringing in to add

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Speaker 3: think he's just a great, great addition. He should, you know,

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Speaker 3: be a good veteran presence in that position group and

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Speaker 3: in the locker room as well. So in Dirty obviously

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Speaker 3: knows him well, and you know, he made the Pro

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Speaker 3: Bowl twice with Dirday as his line coach. So I

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Speaker 3: just you know, again going back to some of these

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Speaker 3: New Orleans guys they brought in, or you know, Kubiak connections,

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Speaker 3: however you want to call it. I think in free agency,

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Speaker 3: when you you know, you get to know the you

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Speaker 3: don't have a lot of time to get to know

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Speaker 3: the guys you're you're trying to evaluate, you know, what

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Speaker 3: you see on tape and what you've heard about him.

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Speaker 1: But if you've got some of the.

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Speaker 3: Building that really has a relationship, that that can help

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Speaker 3: that decision making quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: And it is important to note that we are not

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Speaker 2: seeing the final picture. There is still a draft coming up.

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Speaker 2: There are still the potential.

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Speaker 3: We're a week into free agency, like, there's still a

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Speaker 3: lot of good players out there.

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Speaker 1: There's other moves that can happen.

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Speaker 3: There's a draft, so it's you know, and when people

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Speaker 3: want to look at certain position groups.

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Speaker 1: Offensive line, we know, wondering about that.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm sure that we're going to have updates somewhere

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Speaker 2: along the line.

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Speaker 3: I think it was both John Schneider and Mike McDonald

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Speaker 3: made comments onlines like well, you know, we're not playing

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Speaker 3: a game tomorrow, like they've got some time to add

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Speaker 3: to that, and all over the roster.

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Speaker 4: Really, and here's what we know for sure.

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Speaker 2: Sam Darnold already has his eye on getting better in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I know that he doesn't have a

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Speaker 2: whole lot of teammates right now to throw to. Maybe

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Speaker 2: he's doing some sort of camps, but until they actually

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Speaker 2: get to organize team activities, here's what he's going to

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Speaker 2: be working on heading towards, heading towards the season.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, I kind of look at

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Speaker 6: those last couple of games, you know, I think being

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Speaker 6: able to get the ball out a little bit quicker

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Speaker 6: on some of the dropback stuff that we had those

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Speaker 6: last couple of games, and understanding where the outlets are

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Speaker 6: and even if a guy's covered, like even if my

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Speaker 6: back's covered on a checkdown, like just throwing it at

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Speaker 6: his feet. You know, I felt like I was taking

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Speaker 6: some unnecessary sacks last year, especially those last few games,

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Speaker 6: and just going to continue to work that however I

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Speaker 6: can in drills and drill settings, you know, uh, you know,

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Speaker 6: early early April and even even you know later this March,

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Speaker 6: but you know, when we start to get into those

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Speaker 6: team periods and start to get into training camp a

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Speaker 6: little bit, I'll definitely be you know, thinking about that,

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Speaker 6: keeping two hands on the ball in the pocket at

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Speaker 6: all times, and I'm just doing all the little fun

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Speaker 6: fundamental things you know, and uh, and I think, but

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Speaker 6: that's a big one is being able to just get

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Speaker 6: the ball out on time.

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Speaker 2: You know what I need to work on John being

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Speaker 2: able to identify Sam Donald's voice without having somebody introduce that.

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Speaker 4: I know, I was like, what I'm starting of the

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Speaker 4: press conference. I was like, wait, what who am I

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Speaker 4: listening to right now? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll get there, Yeah, I'll get there. That is

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Speaker 2: going to be one of the things I know we

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Speaker 2: need reps, he needs reps. I you know, it's the

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Speaker 2: off season. We all have things to work on. What

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Speaker 2: do you what do you think the next big story

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Speaker 2: is going to be that you write? I know I'm

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Speaker 2: going to put you on the spot. What do you

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Speaker 2: think the next big one is?

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Speaker 1: Big one?

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's gonna give me a little one, but

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Speaker 3: people don't really want to know about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's gonna be seahawks dot.

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Speaker 2: Com those where you can go to find everything.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be signings obviously between you know now next week,

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Speaker 3: and you know there's guys reportedly visiting today, so who

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Speaker 3: knows when it will be there. You know, signings will

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Speaker 3: be happening. But big story, I don't know. Some fun

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Speaker 3: draft stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's gonna be really think.

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Speaker 1: Draft five picks in the first ninety two, that's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna skip over the fact that John's playing that

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Speaker 2: close to the best because I'm sure he's working on something.

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Speaker 1: Something's cooking.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I know all that Why that's why

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Speaker 2: you need to make sure that you are tuned in

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Speaker 2: on Seahawks dot Com and we will bring you all

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Speaker 2: of the news you need to know during the off

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Speaker 2: season as we head towards twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time.

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