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Speaker 1: tackling guru in all of America, Yes, all of America.
Speaker 1: Rocky setto coach. What's going down? Thanks? Oh Man, so
Speaker 1: good to have you in studio. Talk about why you're
Speaker 1: back out here. You're talking, You're having a little event
Speaker 1: coming up. Um, talk about why you're out here. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm from l A, so I love
Speaker 1: l A and were visiting family and uh, look what
Speaker 1: God's opened up. We have the tackling clinic here in
Speaker 1: Inglewood High School Tackling Clinton Inglewood shoulder tackling. And what
Speaker 1: is this thing that's called I think this is the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that coach Carol is gonna be part of
Speaker 1: UM in his coaching career in regards to the game
Speaker 1: of football. Yeah, tackling. Man. Going to go into that
Speaker 1: a little bit because I get questions. I run a
Speaker 1: spring football league in Richmond, Virginia, Man, and I hear
Speaker 1: parents all the time, Mike, what's up with these concussions?
Speaker 1: How do I you know, how does my kid not
Speaker 1: get the concussions? You know, I have I have my
Speaker 1: entire league doing manual net exercises just to help with
Speaker 1: the total the actual impact with the ground. But talk
Speaker 1: about this shoulder tackling and the rugby influence and and
Speaker 1: and all of those things. Talk about how you guys
Speaker 1: kind of developed This has been incredible. The Lord allowed
Speaker 1: us to develop this technique and ever since two thousand twelve,
Speaker 1: okay we got them two thousand ten and eleven and
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, we started teaching this tackling principle based
Speaker 1: on leverage, hitting with our shoulders. So we're a shoulder
Speaker 1: tackling team based on leverage. What happened was like I was,
Speaker 1: you know, this is what happened, Like on two thousand
Speaker 1: twelve the spring, we had a guy from England. There,
Speaker 1: guy him Kit Lawson. He's a football coach, American football,
Speaker 1: not soccer, American football coach in England for Birmingham University. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're totally or that. And then I was up in
Speaker 1: my office and I was showing this young guy he
Speaker 1: was younger than me, and show him this is how
Speaker 1: we teach tackling. And all he said was this, Oh, Rocky,
Speaker 1: all that is a shoulder tackle right there, I mean
Speaker 1: a shoulder tackle that rugby guys do. And from right
Speaker 1: there it was like boom, the Lord popped into mind
Speaker 1: teach our tackling system showing Rugby guys hitting each other
Speaker 1: often physical and then getting off the ground. The head's
Speaker 1: not involved and it's all loading up the shoulder in
Speaker 1: the chest and really and uh, it's been incredible. It's
Speaker 1: we have numbers that's shown that that I think it
Speaker 1: helped the health of our defensive players where concussions are
Speaker 1: dropped drastically since two thousand twelve. Yes, totally with the
Speaker 1: emphasis on shoulder tackling. Um, you got, we call it tackling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where the kind of mainstream has grabbed onto hawk tackling.
Speaker 1: But hawk tackle is more like I tackle the guys
Speaker 1: at the thigh level. But essentially, when we put the
Speaker 1: whole package together, it's a shoulder tackling system where I'm
Speaker 1: we're hitting guys with our shoulders. So if I'm coming
Speaker 1: that you, Mike, and you're a great tackling too, by
Speaker 1: the way, dominated for us, right, so I'm coming from you,
Speaker 1: if I'm coming from this side of you, I'm already
Speaker 1: knowing I'm gonna maintain my leverage to hit you with
Speaker 1: this shoulder. And then why by doing that? The old
Speaker 1: school man for the last forty years or so, I
Speaker 1: think it might have a theory on this. Ever since
Speaker 1: a were the face mask on guys have been taught
Speaker 1: to see what the hit, get your head across. I
Speaker 1: mean that's what I was taught, and I was taught
Speaker 1: heads go heads up with them. Yeah, we were all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Back in the day. We had this drill
Speaker 1: called bull in the ring man. You literally stand in
Speaker 1: the ring and they would call a out of number.
Speaker 1: You had to find him and you go head up.
Speaker 1: And like it's like my Pop Warner coach at the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't know. He was just you know,
Speaker 1: just part of the culture. And it's like if he
Speaker 1: if he didn't hear that crack, if he didn't hear
Speaker 1: that crack of the helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: like it was it was doing it wrong. Um, how
Speaker 1: do you implement this on a large scale to be
Speaker 1: able to really teach literally, because it has to start there.
Speaker 1: It has to start literally. It has to start where
Speaker 1: parents can actually see a difference. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: clinics throughout the West Coast and UH and Washington to
Speaker 1: California and UH talking. We're we invite high school and
Speaker 1: youth coaches, but not just them, but we need the parents,
Speaker 1: the dads and moms to be there so they have
Speaker 1: confidence knowing that their coaches are teaching this principle where
Speaker 1: there were helmet is there for protection. So just like
Speaker 1: we get in the car and put a seatbelt on,
Speaker 1: we're not trying to get in the car wrex if
Speaker 1: if you get in an accident and the seatbelt air
Speaker 1: bags are there to protect us. The helmets they're just
Speaker 1: in case if our head does get in there, then
Speaker 1: the kids, the players are fine. So the point is
Speaker 1: we're loading up the shoulders in the chest. Okay. And
Speaker 1: basically that's what we teach, whether I hit you at
Speaker 1: the profile level with at the near pack or at
Speaker 1: the hawk level with at the thighs and uh, that's
Speaker 1: what we taught. And here's this the question that I
Speaker 1: get asked, how do you teach this to NFL football players? Okay,
Speaker 1: guys who have been bawling and and dominating to get
Speaker 1: to that level. How do you get someone like that
Speaker 1: who really done, is at the premier level of their
Speaker 1: game to change your style all of a sudden. And
Speaker 1: I think it's two ways. Like A it's healthier, okay,
Speaker 1: And guys may not care about that two years later,
Speaker 1: but they will care something and be it's helped our
Speaker 1: players play better. You know, if it doesn't help you
Speaker 1: play better, guys wonna do it. Guys do it. They'll say,
Speaker 1: thank you for the sentiment, coach, but I appreciate that
Speaker 1: you care, But I gotta we gotta perform. Well. What
Speaker 1: I appreciate about it is because we did those drills
Speaker 1: and special teams drills, you know, getting ball leverage and still,
Speaker 1: you know, going towards the towards the tackle, moving towards
Speaker 1: the tackle as you're making your tackle. What I like
Speaker 1: about it is it gave you a baseline to think
Speaker 1: about as you're running down field on special teams. It
Speaker 1: gave me something to say, Okay, I gotta make sure
Speaker 1: I keep this guy here, and then your instincts start
Speaker 1: to take in after this. You know what I mean
Speaker 1: with the step punch, and I firmly believe once I
Speaker 1: learned that principle of literally step punching, hitting on the rise,
Speaker 1: keeping twelve cleats in the ground when you make contact,
Speaker 1: I didn't have another concussion. I didn't have another concussion.
Speaker 1: And that that was to your you know, your teaching
Speaker 1: to Sam and those guys that at Seattle kind of
Speaker 1: monitor coach Snyder. You know, the special team's coach with it,
Speaker 1: with the teaching um. Could you tell us some information
Speaker 1: where people can find out about this camp. There's a website.
Speaker 1: We don't have a web. We actually have a website
Speaker 1: about we have our teach tapes and the instructional stuff.
Speaker 1: Ww dot shoulder Tackling dot com. Www dot shoulder Tackling
Speaker 1: dot com, Shoulder Tackling dot com and really allows, like
Speaker 1: you said, to have a tackling plans. You have confidence
Speaker 1: and there's a method to it and uh and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have the clinic this Saturday. Okay, this Saturday, July
Speaker 1: nine at Inglewood High School in their auditorium. It's free.
Speaker 1: We've invited anyone who's interested. Free something going on talking
Speaker 1: about National Football League and tackling and it's free. People free.
Speaker 1: That's that's awesome. Want parents to come, we want players
Speaker 1: to come, we want the coaches come. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: representatives from the Rams. You'r l a Rams. The Oakland
Speaker 1: Raiders coach Ken Norton is going to be there. And
Speaker 1: I think Bobby Wagner is gonna show up from area
Speaker 1: from southern California, because how's Bobby going to be in town?
Speaker 1: He knows I work every Monday, and he's hit me.
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's gonna get I don't know
Speaker 1: if you'll get there that morning. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he'll be he said he plans to be there. So, um,
Speaker 1: we're really trying to help the game of football, you know,
Speaker 1: and in football in particularly in the inner city, where
Speaker 1: football is important to many people through tradition, through opportunities
Speaker 1: that the game creates. So we're really if the guys
Speaker 1: are gonna play football and inner city, we want to
Speaker 1: be able to equip the coaches and the parents and
Speaker 1: the players to do it safe as safe as possible.
Speaker 1: Of course, no tackling technique could eliminate injuries, still sports
Speaker 1: and still football, but we like to think it minimizes
Speaker 1: a chance and at the same time makes people better
Speaker 1: football players. And I got something for you, Mike. We
Speaker 1: have a theory. Remember how he talked about the last
Speaker 1: forty years or so that guys have been taught to
Speaker 1: keep hit with the head or the face masks. I
Speaker 1: think we didn't really invent anything. I think the Good
Speaker 1: Lord allowed us to just open our eyes to take
Speaker 1: it back to the old school principles of how the
Speaker 1: game was played rugby was from what our game was
Speaker 1: birthed out of the game of rugby. Okay, And then
Speaker 1: talking to like, I have a friend named John MacArthur
Speaker 1: who's like in his eighties, I said, John, how did
Speaker 1: they teach you how to tackle? Because in his senior
Speaker 1: year high school they said they put the single bar
Speaker 1: face mask. So he played in the era before the
Speaker 1: face mask was put on, they get a lot of
Speaker 1: broken notes. He's a pretty decent looking dude for I
Speaker 1: don't know how much damage he had to his face,
Speaker 1: but he said, rocket, it was all shoulder tackling. It
Speaker 1: was all hitting with a shoulder and wouldn't put the head.
Speaker 1: So somewhere along the line, as technology got better and
Speaker 1: the face mask got better, it was like, dude, this
Speaker 1: is a pretty good thing to hit with, and let's
Speaker 1: go with it. So I think it's taking it back
Speaker 1: to old schools. I've even talked to Dick Buckets. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I talked to Pete about that piece that he had
Speaker 1: a conversation with. So we talked to him and he
Speaker 1: was rocky and he sounds just like how you would
Speaker 1: Dick Bucket is the iconic Dick Buckets hit with my
Speaker 1: shoulders and my body and said, what okay, Mr Buckets,
Speaker 1: are you telling me you didn't try to hit him? No,
Speaker 1: I just had to hit him my body. Talking to
Speaker 1: Mike Haines, the Hall of Fame cornerback from Raiders have
Speaker 1: him taped up, and he said, yeah, all we were
Speaker 1: taught to shoulder tackle. So somewhere along the line things
Speaker 1: got a little off track. And I think we're just
Speaker 1: serving the football community by just bringing it back to
Speaker 1: the old school, the fundamental way of playing football. It's
Speaker 1: the greatest game in the universe. And I tell young
Speaker 1: people all the time, especially parents, you want to see
Speaker 1: it done right, watch camp Chancellor. You guys will probably
Speaker 1: you know Campbell go down and when his all hadn't done.
Speaker 1: Is one of the best tacklers we've seen. And he
Speaker 1: gets penalties, not because I think the helmet was involved.
Speaker 1: It's just it looks violent. It's just awesome. That's so
Speaker 1: explosive in his hips and Uh talking to talking about
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Obviously you guys um are in the hunt
Speaker 1: every single year. Um for you personally being from l A. Uh,
Speaker 1: how is the addition of the Los Angeles now Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams moving back here to l A. How did
Speaker 1: that affect you personally? Because you know you're from here. Dude,
Speaker 1: you compete against them, you know what I mean? How
Speaker 1: did that affect well? I mean I grew up at
Speaker 1: l A. Ram fan. I remember watching Kevin Green and
Speaker 1: you have written those dudes, and now that they're they're
Speaker 1: playing at the l A Colosseum. I'm a trojan man.
Speaker 1: I played at USC and and coach there, and I
Speaker 1: never thought I'd get to play another game there. So
Speaker 1: on a nostalgic personal level, I mean, I grew up
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes east of the Colosseum. To be able
Speaker 1: to play another game, that's special. How are my friends
Speaker 1: and family are down here? And uh, it's gonna I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna use up all my tickets to man talking. Okay,
Speaker 1: so talk about the NFC west Man. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough year, man. I mean, every every every team,
Speaker 1: um is right there, seems to be right on the
Speaker 1: cusp um. Obviously, you guys playing on winning it. You
Speaker 1: know that's that's the goal every year. Talk about the
Speaker 1: other three teams in that in that division, and um,
Speaker 1: how tough it's gonna you guys actually have to match
Speaker 1: up against him because people talk about San Francisco. I
Speaker 1: look at the Arizona Cardinals that you got in Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: That's probably the biggest rivalry right now on that division.
Speaker 1: Oh it's tough. I mean from you know, from Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: You know how good they did last year. They're incredible.
Speaker 1: They got their defense and Carson throwing the ball with
Speaker 1: the trojan too, So they're good. Man. And in the Rams,
Speaker 1: the defense that they have and they beat us twice
Speaker 1: last year. I hate playing the Rams. Oh, they're tough.
Speaker 1: I mean their defense, that front seven they were pasting.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't want special teams. It's like they
Speaker 1: knew what buttons to push. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I hated that they're tough. Man. Then the Niners, of course,
Speaker 1: there there's a incredibly tough game with the new coach,
Speaker 1: with the new system. Man, I think they got a
Speaker 1: chance to be getting better and they're gonna be competitive.
Speaker 1: So every year we just you know, how does Mike
Speaker 1: You heard coach Carroll a hundred thousand times, but just
Speaker 1: let's see how good we could be and this keep
Speaker 1: the focus on us and hopefully we like the results
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. You know, so God
Speaker 1: willing would just see what this maximize the Seahawks and
Speaker 1: see how far we could take it. Rock I was there, Um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there when you guys first walked in the building,
Speaker 1: but I got there the first week of the first game,
Speaker 1: and uh and thank god it was incredible, awesome, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys. But you guys gave me another start because
Speaker 1: you never know when free agency, how if grass is
Speaker 1: green on the other side, and the grass is definitely
Speaker 1: greener for me. Um, A lot of the core players
Speaker 1: that you have right now, with the exception of your
Speaker 1: quarterback and things like that, came onto that team in eleven.
Speaker 1: You talked about Cam and Earl and those guys, Um,
Speaker 1: now they're paid. Talk about first of all the type
Speaker 1: of player that they had to have been for you
Speaker 1: guys to you know, for those guys to be as
Speaker 1: grounded as they are now after they've gotten the money.
Speaker 1: And is a different coaching those guys, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's people asking what's the difference in coaching at USC
Speaker 1: compared to the NFL distractions? You know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like the and I think we went through a season
Speaker 1: last year and maybe half the season last year. You
Speaker 1: remember the last two years, we start off pretty slow
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden and things got tightened up
Speaker 1: and we're able to get going a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think guys are ready to, like see how far we
Speaker 1: could take it. I think there's a more meaningful thing
Speaker 1: being able to go as far as a football team,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think guys are really focused. I
Speaker 1: think this is the most focused I've seen our guys
Speaker 1: on maximizing Seahawks as we've seen in a few years.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited and I like our chances to see
Speaker 1: if it could be a pretty good team this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the political answer. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: You gotta say the political answers. I know you, I know,
Speaker 1: I know you know what you're gonna do over there. Man,
Speaker 1: you know I know that's right. Man, I know that's right.
Speaker 1: Um again, uh, standing with the Seahawks. Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be different not seeing two four. I'm not saying be
Speaker 1: small walk down those halls. You know how he slow walk.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody getting out of his way. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be different not seeing him walk down those hallways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss him. You know, I admire him. How
Speaker 1: he played it was incredible. You know, you blocked firm
Speaker 1: you played with them. That guy is a special football
Speaker 1: player on game Base. He's ridiculous, you know. And so
Speaker 1: we'll miss some. But Thomas Rawls and Chris and Michael.
Speaker 1: We drafted three rookie so competitions on, man, and I
Speaker 1: kind of I like our chances in some ways. I
Speaker 1: feel like our team will have to will galvanize with
Speaker 1: each other and to come together to make everything, to
Speaker 1: hold up the parts together. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what's gonna happens this team, man, because you guys have
Speaker 1: had a lot of success over the last few years. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was just up there for O t
Speaker 1: Is a little bit and it was it seemed like
Speaker 1: a new renewed sense of urgency. Yeah, totally. We didn't
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl last you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we you know, we we got beat up. Um talk
Speaker 1: about how hungry you guys. I think we're hungry, man,
Speaker 1: I think I think what your senses right on, That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. But like the focus of the guys
Speaker 1: distractions out the door, and like, let's go. I think
Speaker 1: it's the emphasis. I think guys are can at this
Speaker 1: vacation time as a time to reload and to see
Speaker 1: how far we can get it. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I want to just share with
Speaker 1: you what's been going on with with our team is
Speaker 1: like you came in and give an incredible talk to
Speaker 1: the team about what is going to be meaningful beyond
Speaker 1: the game of football. And that's been something that's heavy
Speaker 1: on Coach Carol's harden. He's been talking about more meaningful things,
Speaker 1: deeper things that are parley or carry guys past the
Speaker 1: game of football. And uh, I think guys are getting
Speaker 1: to a deeper level or trudity on our football team.
Speaker 1: Like you said ten two thousand and two thousand, some
Speaker 1: guys have been with us for seven football that's like
Speaker 1: almost two college That's crazy and and and it's you
Speaker 1: rarely see those types of things, um in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, all the money flying around, what people wanting
Speaker 1: to get paid and things like that. But that's attributed
Speaker 1: to how you guys draft. I mean, you don't see
Speaker 1: many free agents coming there, and I mean you see
Speaker 1: something come in and make a splash, But for the
Speaker 1: most part, man, you guys are home grown. Um, even
Speaker 1: from a coach standpoint, you have any aspirations to be
Speaker 1: a head coach Ryan, you know? God willing? Um, I
Speaker 1: love to I would love to have that chance. And
Speaker 1: I'm happy with doing what I'm doing, learning for the best.
Speaker 1: You know. I've had some heroes over the years of
Speaker 1: like uh uh, I love sitting up on guys like
Speaker 1: John Wooden, who's a U c l A. All then
Speaker 1: with Trojan you know, and anybody. Yeah, but learning from
Speaker 1: and Coach Carroll. I mean, I think he's the best
Speaker 1: coach in the game of football, and whether it's college
Speaker 1: or pro, he knows how to do it, you know.
Speaker 1: And Um, I'm learning just like you know. I remember you,
Speaker 1: remember you, you know, as a player, I remember you.
Speaker 1: Just just trying to learn if what if I become
Speaker 1: a coach from day you had a great coach Herman
Speaker 1: Smith and Coach Carroll. Just we're just trying to keep learning,
Speaker 1: you know, and see what see what could happen next.
Speaker 1: What's in your opinion, what's the best thing about Coach Carroll?
Speaker 1: I know, for for me, I asked this question all
Speaker 1: the time. It's his energy. I just people don't realize
Speaker 1: how the energy of your leader when he walks into
Speaker 1: the building, if it's up, I mean, it kind of
Speaker 1: just makes naturally makes your energy level go up. If
Speaker 1: he's in an urgent state, and your urgency goes up. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about Pete. Talk about you
Speaker 1: know what you think is the most important aspect or
Speaker 1: thing about Pete Carroll? Okay, Um, I think one of
Speaker 1: the biggest gifts I've been so this show. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be with him for sixteen years. Sixteen years? What I
Speaker 1: he was in his forties and now he's sixties. I'm forty.
Speaker 1: Now you know things have changed, man. I'd say one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things about him is that he challenges
Speaker 1: us to discover who we are, and he knows who
Speaker 1: he is. He would say, I'm a competitor. That's he
Speaker 1: knows who he is. So how's that helped me? He's
Speaker 1: influenced me to discover what is most important to me.
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian. Jesus is most important to me, my
Speaker 1: wife Charlotte, and my four children, and then the game
Speaker 1: of football in that order. So he's really helped me
Speaker 1: to discover what's most important to me and to live it,
Speaker 1: and I think what you touched upon with the players
Speaker 1: you just barely brushed upon. But hopefully it caused guys
Speaker 1: to start thinking, okay, who are they? Like football may
Speaker 1: describe you, but doesn't define you. I used to be
Speaker 1: in NFL football or I'm an NFL player currently. That
Speaker 1: may describe what you do who you are, but who
Speaker 1: ultimately are you is the deeper meaning that we're trying
Speaker 1: to help our Seahawks and coaches to discover. And I
Speaker 1: appreciate what you how you went through with that. It's huge,
Speaker 1: especially here from another guy who's really crossed over the
Speaker 1: line though from playing to retirement. It's gonna happen to
Speaker 1: all of us someday, you know, And that's how I
Speaker 1: started it. I mean, it's gonna happen to all of us.
Speaker 1: And Pete and I talked about it earlier that day.
Speaker 1: Purpose you know so often, you know, and purpose has
Speaker 1: been football since I was five years old. Man Um
Speaker 1: and I always talk about parallels. I talked to kids
Speaker 1: in my foundation about running parallels. You can chase your
Speaker 1: dream at the same time while you know, developing another love,
Speaker 1: developing another purpose or why you get up in the
Speaker 1: morning and Um, obviously Christ has been huge in your life. Um,
Speaker 1: talk about how how your your your your spirit and
Speaker 1: your religion has kind of guided your life. Mike, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, just like we talked about even as a boy,
Speaker 1: like football was my identity and my pinnacle was not
Speaker 1: the NFLI pinnacles. If I can only play at US
Speaker 1: I walked on as a junior. I went I had
Speaker 1: to go to junior college and I wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: And then I went walk down and beg to get
Speaker 1: on into my senior my next year to gave me
Speaker 1: a scholarship. Man, this is the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: But I had people talking to me about Christ, the
Speaker 1: Gospel and the change in my life where that fire
Speaker 1: side of football is like a big part of me,
Speaker 1: but it isn't doesn't define who I am. And Jesus
Speaker 1: dying on the cross rising up three days later, this
Speaker 1: science exactly who I am. And so how does that
Speaker 1: actually influence my coaching and my parenting, in my parents
Speaker 1: and being a husband. You know, my goal number one
Speaker 1: goals to have Charlotte loved Jesus more. My number one
Speaker 1: goal for my children to teach him to love Jesus.
Speaker 1: My number one goal and football is help guys be
Speaker 1: as good as it could become, so that you develop
Speaker 1: relationships that man, this guy actually cares about me. And
Speaker 1: so when deeper, more meaningful things come up, then I'm
Speaker 1: able to speak the truth to them, you know, and
Speaker 1: essentially guys and everything that I do, so even the
Speaker 1: shoulder thing, shoulder tackling, you know, people just tackling. Well,
Speaker 1: if this could help people to be safer and help
Speaker 1: me really help the game of football thrive beyond our generations,
Speaker 1: what a great thing to be a part of. That's awesome,
Speaker 1: rock Man. I want to thank you for coming in today, man,
Speaker 1: I mean really, man, it's good seeing You're always good
Speaker 1: to see a friend, um. And what you guys are
Speaker 1: doing for the game of football, because you hear so
Speaker 1: much negativity about our game, about the concussions, about uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you see the decline and Pop Warner and
Speaker 1: things like that. And I tell people all the time,
Speaker 1: the game of football it should be called CEOs and
Speaker 1: training because if we could really take all the skills
Speaker 1: that we learned to being on time, to discipline, the route, recogntion,
Speaker 1: all the things that make us great athletes, we can
Speaker 1: take that and translate that into real life skills. All
Speaker 1: you do is taking xs and os and making it
Speaker 1: another concept. You'd be successful in almost everything. Look what
Speaker 1: you've done here, you know, that's an example. And look
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your community back in in Virginia,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so we're hoping to
Speaker 1: develop raise up leaders. And the game has enough adversity,
Speaker 1: enough good stuff, and enough support as a team that
Speaker 1: you learn these skills, you know, And um so, yeah,
Speaker 1: the game football is the greatest game. We have to
Speaker 1: do what we can to protect and strengthen that. You
Speaker 1: know what a privilege it is to be part of this.
Speaker 1: Dope man, dope dude, can I plug the clinic one
Speaker 1: last time? It's at Englewood High School, Light nine from
Speaker 1: ten to twelve. It's just it will be in the auditorium.
Speaker 1: Like we said, we'll have representatives from the Rams who
Speaker 1: are adopting our style, the Raiders who can brought to
Speaker 1: the Raiders Ken Orn, and then we'll have Seahawk me
Speaker 1: and maybe another coach and maybe Bobby. I think Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagoner is gonna be there. So come on out, Man's free, free, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully,
Speaker 1: you guys, the network could uh, I don't know, make
Speaker 1: maybe even make a segment out of it. You got
Speaker 1: nothing else there after man, after the after the hundred
Speaker 1: talking about that we can talk about tackle and use
Speaker 1: this platform to educate the world of football. Man, all right, well,
Speaker 1: you know what before I let you go, you mentioned
Speaker 1: it before the top one. I'm just going I'm just
Speaker 1: going to Okay, you got what's your top ten players? Oh? Man? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I put you on the spot. I think they're all
Speaker 1: Seahawks though. Come on, some great players in this league.
Speaker 1: Watch film. You see some great players. So you don't
Speaker 1: have ten players that you could that you can name off.
Speaker 1: I'm out of blank right now. You call me. I
Speaker 1: wasn't prepared for that one. Hold. I went through your
Speaker 1: studio and I try to look for the tender, and
Speaker 1: we have the tender. We don't have it yet. We
Speaker 1: don't have it. I gave my ten yesterday. And you
Speaker 1: know I have some receivers, you know, ten, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: I mean ten on eight and then you know you
Speaker 1: on to you know, Luke kick Lee and Agent Peterson
Speaker 1: and no guys but Tom Brady. Man, it's tough to
Speaker 1: not four Super Bowl championships. I mean he's almost he's
Speaker 1: over forty, almost, man, and still doing it at a
Speaker 1: high level. You gotta put him up there, man, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you go. That's it for this week's Seahawks
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Speaker 1: Seto for joining us and Sully for filling in behind
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