Yahoo Sports senior NFL analyst Nate Tice spoke with the new Seahawks quarterback about the outlook for his new team. Sam joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of Lowe’s.
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Seahawks took some some offensive players in the draft.
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Were you watching any college film leading up to the draft process?
Have you peaked any of those draft prospects that they took, you know, either at Zabel or uh Royo, even Damian Martinez or Tory Horton, any of these players, have you checked out at all?
Yeah.
I was able to kind of watch a little bit of highlights of the guys and, you know, Mr. Schneider, John, uh does a good job, and he's he's done a good job in the draft and Um, obviously trusted him, but, you know, had to go take a peek for myself, and sure enough, man, the tape doesn't lie.
Um, these guys are really good players.
I feel like they have an opportunity to be able to help us in a big way, um, and so I'm just looking forward to to working with them, you know, I'm so eager to to just work with these guys and, and just continue not only them, but my teammates that I've been working with here for the last You know, um, a few weeks, just continuing to get to know these guys and, and, you know, um, get on the same page.
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So when the time comes that we have to, you know, be on the same page during the season, um, it'll help us out even more.
Yeah, I'm excited to check it out.
What the guys that are returning in the new faces as well as with you, I think that offense could be a lot of fun to watch, really enjoyed Kubiak and what he did last year with the Saints, so it should be a really fun offense.
So you, you are here though on behalf of the Lowe's Foundation.
Uh, you went to a Lowe Seattle location and kind of surprised some students, walked the blue carpet with them.
Can you tell me a little about, tell us a little bit about how that experience was?
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Yeah, obviously, you know, um, with the Lowes Foundation, working with Skills USA and the National Signing Day event that they held there, and, um, you know, it hits home for me, um, you know, just being, you know, that my dad, um, was in the trades, um, his entire life, um, for, you know, 30 plus years as a plumber, um, getting to see kind of his work ethic and, um, everything that he taught me, not necessarily about plumbing, uh, but just, you know, in life in general, um, he You know, he, he was the example for me and my sister, and I feel like that's the reason we grew up to be um the people that we are today, um, and just to meet, you know, these kids and their families and Um, for them to, you know, to, to meet them and, and to hear them say like the impact that they're gonna have on their communities going forward.
I think that's the biggest thing is, you know, there's not a lot of people going into the trades anymore, um, and My dad always talk about it now.
It's like, it's such a lost art, you know, and, and so for these kids to be so, so eager and so willing to do that, um, you know, it really goes to show what kind of people they are and, and how they were raised.
Um, obviously that blue collar mentality, but, um, yeah, I think the biggest thing though is kind of the impact, um, that these kids are, are gonna have in the future in their communities and, and in this country, it's, um, it's an amazing thing to, to kind of see also just.
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Kind of them go, you know, high school, then, you know, kind of finishing up their high school paths, and now all of a sudden they're, you know, I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was 1718 years old.
I knew I wanted to play football, but I didn't know, other than football, I didn't know what field I wanted to go into.
And so for those, you know, for those students to already kind of have an idea of of what they want to do with their lives, like that's so.
Um, you know, it's, it's really inspirable.
It's, yeah, it's admirable and it's inspiring to, to see these kids just, um, you know, have so much conviction in what they want to do and, and, you know, all the help that they're gonna provide to to people, you know, in their communities.
It's, it's an amazing thing and, and it was just really cool to be a part of it.