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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M anyone else. Yeah, exactly what happened to bear fell off?
I don't know. Just time, just time for that thing
to uh restart. What has this been like?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I mean, you've played with one team obviously, one team
and one coach until you got here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
So these past month they're so kind of adapting to
a new team and everything. Uh yeah, definitely knew bit exciting.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I mean it's been uh, it's been a long time
since I learned a new offense, A long time since
I you know, sat in a meeting and how to
do the you know, to put the face up on
the board, and like whose teammate? Who's this what's this
guy's name? Like that's a stressful situation. That's high stress situation.
So yeah, it's it's good though, it's I mean, I'm
I'm excited about what we're doing and it is fun.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It's uh.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I love to learn, and so you know, being in
this place where we're all learning together, being able to
step in and be a part of this whole offense,
you know, stepping in the same place as everyone else
and will learn together.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's a it's a fun place to be.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I just had some time to understand what's this offense
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
For you to do? What do you think it does?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Essentially your skill set and when you're fit in it,
and how it all's gonna kind of map out where
you guys can get back here and gone.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, well I think you know the uh you know,
Clint's been in the lodgement places origins going all the
way back to an offense that I'm very familiar with,
and there's gonna be there, you know, the nuances here
and there.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But you know, a lot of similar stuff, a lot
of similar ideas and how you're attacking a defense and
you know, I believe in this offense and what what
it takes to to make it successful and the detail
us involved with it. So you know, there's a lot
of things that are that real similar to stuff I've
done done in the past, and and there's some new
stuff I'm excited to learn and try to step into.
So uh it is, it's it's good and there's uh,
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there's definitely some stuff that that accentuates, you know, the
things I've done the past.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You like about the Collected Wide Receiver of Great BRETHENTS books.
Now that you still set just the way that plays.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, you know, I think uh, I think one of
the coolest things is just the willingness for all the
guys to say, there's nothing in this offense that you
want to be kept from, Like everyone wants to be
able to do everything, and that that that's a big deal.
You've got guys that are willing to play every position,
learn every position, understand the intent of the play, and
then being able to say, no matter where I'm at,
I'm gonna be willing to block d in So i'mna
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be willing to block linebackers, willing to run, you know,
every level of route makes the fun so long guys
are moving us around, you know, Clint's you know, deep
into his bag of you know, all the different formations
and shifts and things that we can do.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So it makes a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You've got guys that are willing to do everything, learn
the offense as a whole, and go out there and
bloom make plays.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They're one of the huger wide receivers that's known or
on auction routes, breaking against leverage or breaking leverage in general.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Where did that start?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Where did you start to learn how.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
To do that. Yeah, Well I've I mean just as
a as a wee little lad run around grid iron,
great kids football. I mean, I was very thankful for
a lot of really good coaches I've been able to
learn from, you know, starting with you know my great kids,
coach Lamont right and you know the first time, you know,
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playing running back and growing up there. And then you
know coach Dumas played receiver at Washington State. Actually it
was a really good receiver Washington State, and he was
my my receiver coach.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
All the way through high school.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And I mean I've just had guys at every level
has been like man, I've just learned from some really
good guys, been able to play in some really good
receiver rooms and every every level. Been thankful for the
guys that come before me that have taught me how
to do things. And so it's a it's been a
you know, accumulation of just a lot of coaching, a
lot of teaching and very blessed, very thankful for so
many people that poured into me when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The culture or the messaging and just skilled in what
is stuff with your stay out to the motion.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, I think it's that belief the belief in that
that this is going to be done together for any
of the stuff to work, for all the goals and
all the things that we want SEUT to achieve. It's
you understand that we're gonna ultimately achieve it together and
it's gonna be playing for each other. And it's something
that you know, you I think a lot of times
rooms talk about it, but really trying to be about
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that here in terms of how the days model, the
guys that you're around, how the you know, how what
guys are doing when they leave the field, the extra
time that's being spent in the meeting rooms, in the
recovery rooms and all different stuff. You're doing something, man,
what can I do to be better for the guy
next to me? And that this is a place of
guys in body then but they believe it, and uh,
you know, I think that that makes it. Uh it
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makes a fun place to come into, a fun place
to come work.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let you talk a little bit about the time you
just pat that offense.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They're talking football and turn offense defenses.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
How much do you like outside of the game, and
just got to go on some bigger things that Yeah,
that's what I mean. It might be my favorite thing.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
My favorite thing is just the x's and o's, the
learning the chess match that you know that that football is,
and the innovation of guys like Mike who's who are
pushing the boundaries defensively that then challenge the offense like
you got to have answers. You know, no no offensive
corner wants to go out there and just say, hey,
they got us. You know, there's always you got. Defenses
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are trying to find ways to beat you. And and
those conversations, those things with Mike, with the guys, like
a lot of the guys in our coaching staff, it
makes it a lot of fun to come in to work.
If I said, I'm really enjoying being here and the
challenge that it presents. How much my Mike's office, I'm
out starting. I don't have like a stop clock in
there or anything, but I mean quite a bit. I've
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picked up on some of his ten season he sits
them of the baseball bat most of the time, like
throwing the baseball bat around. He like sits Chris Cross
apple sauce on his chair, his feet on the ground
a lot of times. And so he's got some he's
got some interesting habits, but uh yeah, so enough to
learn some of that stuff in some of the.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
More competitive periods out there. I mean, you guys are
trying to simulate Game Mike situations. Have you gotten the field?
Uh for like the kind of competitor that Sam Darnold is, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I mean he's in the you know, he's kind of
been in this offense a little bit, you know, so
he's he's got a little bit of a leg up
on all of the guys that are learning.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For the first time.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But you see, just like you know, there is there's
an understanding of he knows what what what takes to
make this offense go. It's the details, it's all that stuff.
Guy's the precision execution. And you know we're gonna get there.
You know, we're you know, wherever it is six practices
in at this point, seven practices in, and we're gonna
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get there. And there's because of the urgency of guys
like Sam who see when it's not right and can say, hey,
this is how it has to be to make this
thing go against this look, and how we're gonna be
able to attack this look, this defense.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
This is where I need guys to be and and
I love that.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I love when our quarterbacks taking that urgency into things
and understanding and mastery of these concepts. And so it's
really fun to play with something like that and excited
for the guys to be able to come alongside them
and learn to make those things come to life.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Does he get like fired up in good or bad moments?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, he does, And I think it's it's good. It's
always in a good way. You know, it's always it's
challenging guys. You know, it's challenging guys, never the meaning,
but it is. It's a good thing to have, you know,
that urgency that comes out in practice.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's the coach McDonald ads that you're early in the
relationship building process with Sam. But when are there any
things about Sam that have surprised you getting to know
him during this process?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Surprise me? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, quarterbacks are usually pretty good golfers. I heard
he's having a he's in a little bit of slump
right now on the golf course.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You did, he that's nice for him to come up
here and it's confident. It's confident. You like the confidence.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, he kind
of has a childish taste like palette. You know, like
he we went out to dinner and he's talking.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I mean, I don't know. I just I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I don't trust him yet with the food recommendations or
things like that, which again quarterbacks, I would have expected
a little bit differently. But you know, if everyone has
their own.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Thing, well, it sounds like there's a story there with
a pile thing. Yeah, I mean he would say he
wanted to go to dinner.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I was like, perfect, that's what, Like that sounds good
and I mean it's just the recommendations are kind of
the way it came off was like he wanted to
go get some you know, fries and chicken strips, and
I was like, look, I have a six year old.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I can bring you his food. We can go.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'll go. I can bring that and I'll go eat
something good. So yeah, that was but we end up
ended up being fine. Like he he he ventured out
and was like, okay, he was at least willing to
try some stuff. And it seems like maybe there's I
may have misread them.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I will tell if you talk about watching dog Doug
Bald when you're growing up and he was named by
the fifty Bucks Players.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, Christy, what made him a special receiver?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I mean, I guess, if you want to put a
word on it, I think competitiveness probably is one that
would would get placed on him. A willingness to go
out there and just make plays, make it happen.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I mean, he's just an incredibly talented football player. I
think you know, the quickness, is ability to set guys up.
I've talked about has come to balance release being one
of the best that I've seen. And but he he competed.
I mean, he played throughout the game, throughout the snap.
You knew that he was going to going to bring it,
and he was in here talking to the guys you know,
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a week or two ago and it's like, man, he's
still got that same juice, that same eagerness you need
to see, Like, hey, he's someone that you want to
be around because the energy he brings and the way
he calls everyone up to a certain stard of just
living life.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So I love that about Doug Baldwin receiver, was that
he talked to the receivers as the entire team.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, he was talking to who he talked, He talked
to When I saw him, he was talking to a
group of a few different guys with offense Steven SiGe
little mix with guys.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How you feel physical, looks like you're feel good? Feel good?
I'm uh, yeah, feeling good.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I want to guess he said you maybe get the fields.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But he's I guess, I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, they talk a lot, a lot of talk, but
they back they backed up. I mean I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I mean not just like talking track, they almost like
the communication. You know, usually when I've been in playing
against them, you can't hear anything anyways, you know what
I mean. But now like going out there hearing the communication,
hearing the way that they're as the offense is moving,
you know, formations and shifts as how they're getting in
and out of their calls, and their mastery of what
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they're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It's really impressive. And that's what you need.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You need guys there that are that are doing that
and making sure that they're on their stuff. Defense playing
is one and it's cool to see that and hear
that from the defense side.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What do you see in Jake Bobo?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So it's as seeming to spend a lot of time
working out with you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, Jason Man, I mean incredibly gifted route runner. It's uh,
I mean ball skills and things like that. He's a
lot of a lot of tangible skills as traces as
a receiver.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You say, this is something and you want that guy
out in the field.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Really smart, willing to go in there and block, I mean,
does a lot of the dirty work, willing to go
do all that off. And yeah, I mean he's just
a really good football player. So satdy out there and
play with him. Yeah for me, thank you, asking for