Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hawk blogger mornings.

In fact, we're just crossing over into afternoon, but happy to be with you.

Not quite the warm weather we've had out here

at Virginia Mason Athletic Center on day three

at Seahawks Training Camp,

but my day is brightened right now

because we're joined by Derek Hall,

the edge rusher for the Seattle Seahawks third year.

Derek, man, how you doing?

Man, I'm blessed.

I can't complain. Thank you for having me. Well, you know, I see you're eating your lunch here. You packed up there with some protein. What do we got? What's your go-to meal here at the V-Mac? Oh, yeah. A go-to meal? What I think they make best is probably a little bit of the barbecue, like the ribs. Uh-huh. They're doing ribs up there, huh? The steak and onions. Well, that was yesterday. The steak onions is really good. You know, they have some really good protein. So food's really good. Engine them do a good job.

And like I said, my dad has been a big thing for me. So being steadfast on that, trying to eat the right thing to make sure I take care of my body. Is your diet the same as it was as a rookie or is it different? Completely different, not in a day. Yeah, tell me about it. Rookie year is kind of like a college deal. It's like, man, I'll get you whatever.

It's going to burn off.

Uh-huh.

But, you know, year by year, the older you get, you know, you're like... rookie year was kind of like a college deal. It's like, man, I can eat whatever. It's going to burn off.

Uh-huh.

And, you know, year by year, the older you get, you know, you're like, you start to feel the difference in how you eat and, you know, how your body takes things and different things like that. So being able to try to eat right and eat clean, man, that was huge for me going into this year. Last year was all about, you know, football-wise, you know, taking care of my body a little more.

Now it's adding to that and doing my diet the right way and the way it should be.

So it's adding to that and doing my diet the right way and the way it should be. So it's,

it's going really well for me. Is that something that you kind of came on to on your own or is it something that, you know, a vet or someone else kind of turned you on to? No, just myself, man, just like going through my rookie year, knowing what I need to do going the year two,

getting a year to two, my FBI, my football, you know, just being able to game to slow down

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