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Speaker 1: And wrapped up their final practices of the week and

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Speaker 1: have the weekend off before preparing for the Bengals next week.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Gibbs and this is the From the Podium podcast.

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Speaker 1: The team practiced at Cleveland Brown Stadium on Thursday, and

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Speaker 1: again they'll have the weekend off before game week begins

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Speaker 1: on Monday. With the players having the weekend off, the

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Speaker 1: availability a little light the last two days. So today

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Speaker 1: it's a special edition of the From the Podium podcast

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Speaker 1: as we feature all of the press conferences from the

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Speaker 1: final two days of practice.

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Speaker 2: This week.

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Speaker 1: We feature four players, two personnel members, head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: Stefanski who talked on both days. First up, it's head

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Speaker 1: coach Kevin Stefanski who talked to the media on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: before practice to discuss the state of the fifty three

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Speaker 3: Okay firewing gus practicing today?

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Speaker 4: Yes, hello, Yes, What did you like about the corner

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Speaker 4: that you guys claim?

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, he played well in our game. We

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Speaker 5: thought he did a nice job, so that certainly caught

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Speaker 5: our eye. Did some work on him over the course

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Speaker 5: of his time there college productive player?

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Speaker 6: Was it the teams in tempt to.

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Speaker 7: Bring an experienced quarterback.

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Speaker 6: To the practice squad.

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Speaker 5: I think we look at everything, Tony, and you look

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Speaker 5: at what's available and what can make your team better

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Speaker 5: and and and certainly you know we'll make decisions based

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Speaker 5: on that. But just felt like adding PJ. Walker to

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Speaker 5: get that news?

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Speaker 8: Okay?

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Speaker 9: Kevin per reports, I guess kg Work's gonna sign with Tennessee.

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Speaker 9: Is that disappointing?

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Speaker 10: Uh?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, like we talked about yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, disappointed how it all worked out, rooting

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Speaker 5: for him, you know, not surprised ultimately that that he

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Speaker 8: Really, Are you.

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Speaker 3: Going into the open or expecting to play borrow?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Why the stadium tomorrow?

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Speaker 5: Well, I just felt like we needed to get down

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Speaker 5: felt like it cou'd be helpful for all of our guys.

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Speaker 11: Just got one more run down there.

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Speaker 5: I think it helps Now with Dustin, he'll obviously spend

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Speaker 12: Happy to have a guy like Austin walking and your

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Speaker 12: back on the practice squad at the preseason.

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Speaker 5: He had, yes, yeah, and and really, can I tell

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Speaker 5: you there's a lot of guys we're excited that are

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Speaker 5: you put so much work into this thing with these players,

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Speaker 5: when you can continue to work with guys. And Austin

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Speaker 13: Do you have to make a couple other move like

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Speaker 5: Three set, as you know, Jeff, it's constantly being worked

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Speaker 11: You move guys around, and so it's constant.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that specific move will happen, but there's

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Speaker 10: Kevin, you look around the league and it seems like

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Speaker 10: the kicker market was very volatile. I guess for lack

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Speaker 5: I haven't noticed that, Chris necessarily, but I think, as

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Speaker 14: Well went and did the decision to really s Aj

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Speaker 7: Back to the squad.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it becomes a numbers game, and I

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Speaker 5: had that converse with a lot of our players. It's

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Speaker 5: So that dB room is very crowded. Obviously we've now

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Speaker 8: Hours or so.

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Speaker 9: Denzel still on the protocol. Yes, I should probably know

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Speaker 5: I don't think so, but I also don't know the

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Speaker 4: Is it exciting to be the guy like Leatherwood just

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Speaker 5: we try to spend a lot of time in that

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Speaker 11: So that's exciting for us.

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Speaker 1: First up after coach Stefanski, assistant general manager and vice

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Speaker 1: and how the team chose new kicker Dustin Hopkins.

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Speaker 15: We put the team in the best position we can,

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Speaker 15: so you know, we tried to evaluate, you know, everyone

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Speaker 15: that was available or could be available. I wouldn't speak

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Speaker 15: I mean, you know, we did our due diligence there

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Speaker 10: Well, it seems like the kicker market this year and

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Speaker 10: that you know, teams are a little quicker to kind

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Speaker 15: There's a lot of there's a lot of movement out

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Speaker 15: there obviously, you know. So you know, I think teams

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Speaker 15: and so I can't speak to what their decision making was,

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Speaker 4: How hard is it decision for your organization when you

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Speaker 7: A year ago.

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Speaker 15: It's all tough, you know, it's really tough. Like Kate's

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Speaker 15: all of these decisions are tough when you're trying to,

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Speaker 13: What did you write about Dustin Hopkins? So, but some

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Speaker 15: Market, Yeah, Dustin's a pro, you know, like, yeah, the

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Speaker 13: But in some of those other guys, Nick Folk and.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, alright, we you know that's not to take

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Speaker 15: anything away from them, right, I'm just speaking specific to Dustin.

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Speaker 15: You know, we just feel confident that when we when

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Speaker 7: How do you.

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Speaker 3: Balance that decision between you know, pulling the trade around

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 15: It's like I said earlier, it's tough, right, and you

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Speaker 15: know you kind of have to get a postal where

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Speaker 16: When bring in a quarterback to the breast flat his

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Speaker 15: I think experience is great, right, Like you know, if

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Speaker 15: you look throughout our defense to Rodney has brought great

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Speaker 15: like to to play seventeen plus weeks. That that adds

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Speaker 15: So yeah, that's that's a you know, it's something you consider,

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Speaker 15: I think across all the positions.

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Speaker 7: But we like PJ.

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Speaker 17: To switch out AJ Green for the kid he played.

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Speaker 15: From, Yeah, I mean Calish, you know he you know,

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Speaker 15: he had an interception, well he almost had an interception

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Speaker 15: it's really just again you you're always trying to make sure.

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Speaker 7: The roster is as robust as possible.

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Speaker 15: And Aj, you know, in terms of special teams coming

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Speaker 15: of good things for this team and this organization throughout

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Speaker 15: the couple of years. But we just thought, you know,

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Speaker 18: How hard did you try to get kid signed back

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Speaker 19: Inspect Yeah, I think we do.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think you can understand, you know, him maybe

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Speaker 15: breath of fresh air for lack of better terms. So look,

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Speaker 15: we we we want him to do well. I don't

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Speaker 15: you know, I wish him the best and and we'll

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Speaker 10: You have two undrafted free agents that that you signed

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Speaker 10: the defense with uh Mamoud and uh Ronnie last year

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Speaker 20: How does that work?

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Speaker 10: I mean, I mean, I imagine once they get into here,

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Speaker 10: it doesn't matter a rookie of draft pick, undrafted in.

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Speaker 15: Terms of I mean, first, it's a credit to just

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Speaker 15: they kind of I told them this, you know, earlier

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Speaker 7: Provide us with that, but also protect us.

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Speaker 15: Right, So I think they did a great job of

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Speaker 14: How difficult was the Austin Watkins decision having to run

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Speaker 19: On this practice squad.

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Speaker 15: Once you step between the white lines, it's all about

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Speaker 7: So he did.

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Speaker 15: Everything you could ask him to do right, Like it

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Speaker 7: I think we're glad we got him back.

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Speaker 20: He was buried running him team.

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Speaker 7: He was like a receiver. So did you guys see

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Speaker 15: Yeah, like our pro staff, you know led by Adam

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Speaker 15: there there's a lot of traits in his body. He's

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Speaker 7: He's on our team and he's made plays.

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Speaker 15: I think you do want to you can factored all

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Speaker 15: So yeah, you factor that in, but that's not the

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Speaker 13: I mean, it seems like every team does that. You're like,

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Speaker 18: You know, these these these traits cutting into.

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Speaker 21: The seasons with your experience.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think you know, look like Durton did what

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Speaker 7: Has right now.

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Speaker 8: So do you see PJ.

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Speaker 8: It's just no.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, Denzel, this is the fourth time he's going through

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Speaker 17: Quote, think how concerning is up from the organizations perspective?

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Speaker 7: I can't think I'm standing. He had a great camp.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, We'll just I think we're gonna continue to just

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Speaker 20: Luke couldn't like any guard in Ohio state.

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Speaker 7: Correct that transition?

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Speaker 15: You know, honestly, I don't think that was a particular conversation,

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Speaker 3: You know, you guys, option, how confident are you at Jederick?

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Speaker 16: At the combine, you said you would be involved in

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 16: So you pleased with what you've done and contributed.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, you know as well as anyone what a Jim

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Speaker 11: That informing to what we had in some help.

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Speaker 22: He's just been honestly getting the best out of our

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Speaker 23: I think.

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Speaker 22: It's been really really nice to see the players embrace

451
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Speaker 22: this change.

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Speaker 4: How did the the line move additions that you guys

453
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Speaker 4: made him saws a bit so well with what Jim

454
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Speaker 4: wants to do.

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Speaker 22: I think like one thing we pride ourselves into is

456
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Speaker 22: being strong in the trenches. So that's both on the

457
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Speaker 22: oppensive line and the defensive line. So one of our

458
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Speaker 22: key objective in the off season was to add some depth.

459
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Speaker 23: There and really be be.

460
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Speaker 22: Strong with guys that are athletic, can get off the ball,

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Speaker 22: and I think that's what we're seeing from them this

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Speaker 22: training camp.

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Speaker 4: We haven't talked to you since there is trade, so

464
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Speaker 4: just I guess what can he add and then how

465
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Speaker 4: kind of bonus is it when it happens kind of

466
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Speaker 4: late in this cycle.

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Speaker 22: I think two folds, Like one off the field, he

468
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Speaker 22: has a ton like he's a veteran, he's been around,

469
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Speaker 22: and I think it's just good for our young players,

470
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Speaker 22: like what he brings into that room. And the second

471
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Speaker 22: fold is obviously on the field, like you've seen it

472
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Speaker 22: true preseason, like he's gonna be a problem for opposing offense.

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Speaker 22: He can get off the ball, he can penetrate, he

474
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Speaker 22: can set an edge, he can sub inside. So I

475
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Speaker 22: think there's just gonna be so much flexibility that he

476
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Speaker 22: provides for our defense, and I think it's just gonna

477
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Speaker 22: be positive for the front.

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Speaker 16: Did the Browns consider Robbie gold on Alls a kicking alternatively?

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Speaker 22: I mean when we go through any position, not just kickers,

480
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Speaker 22: we really like dig deep and really do not leave

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Speaker 22: any stone unturned.

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Speaker 23: So we've considered a variety of options, both.

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Speaker 22: Trade free agents, potential claim through the way we are

484
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Speaker 22: addition to practice squad, so we've really contemplated a very

485
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Speaker 22: broad group.

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Speaker 17: Kevin just told to Shawn, as one of the team captains,

487
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Speaker 17: just from your perspective, what have you seen as far

488
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Speaker 17: as his evolution from the day he walked in the

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Speaker 17: door with this franchise to now where he's one of

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Speaker 17: the leaders of the team official.

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Speaker 22: I mean to see how DeShawn has integrated himself into.

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Speaker 21: The team has just really been impressive.

493
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Speaker 22: To be able to be with us this entire officason

494
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Speaker 22: program and really build connection with teammates and be able

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Speaker 22: to gain you trust and do everything he's done I

496
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Speaker 22: think has been great and He's been just great to

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Speaker 22: be around.

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Speaker 10: I'm sure there's always a lot of discussion on a

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Speaker 10: lot of the players that you're getting down on the

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Speaker 10: fifty three. How many of you, if you had the

501
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Speaker 10: ballpark it, how many of those were really difficult decisions

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Speaker 10: in terms of this one or this person or that person.

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Speaker 22: I mean, it's a good question because it quite frankly

504
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Speaker 22: like they're all difficult. And I know it's che'sy answer

505
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Speaker 22: because everybody's telling you, like, yeah, we wish we could

506
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Speaker 22: keep ninety, and it's actually true, we just can't. But

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Speaker 22: I think they're always hard because when you think about it, like, yeah,

508
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Speaker 22: for some like we think if some of the own

509
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Speaker 22: drafted breageon that.

510
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Speaker 21: Made or roster, like that's the best news of their week.

511
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Speaker 22: But for others, like you're pretty much like you know,

512
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Speaker 22: putting a dent into their their dreams and their careers.

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Speaker 22: But you know, what we always hope is like when

514
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Speaker 22: they do put that film out there in pre season,

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Speaker 22: Yes it's a job interview for us, but it's a

516
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Speaker 22: job interview for thirty one other clubs, And I think

517
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Speaker 22: that we always hope that they're going to go and

518
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Speaker 22: find another.

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Speaker 16: Opportunity somewhere else, Kevin acknowledged the role of backup quarterbacks

520
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Speaker 16: is different. It's not like just competing for a rosters.

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Speaker 16: So why is the organization so confident that ETR can

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Speaker 16: serve that role during.

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Speaker 8: The regular season.

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Speaker 21: That's a great question.

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Speaker 22: I think like the work we've done through the college process,

526
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Speaker 22: so through the draft, we did a ton of works

527
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Speaker 22: on him, and we felt pretty.

528
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Speaker 21: Good about our evaluation.

529
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Speaker 22: But as you know, quarterback development takes time, and I

530
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Speaker 22: think over confidence in that space.

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Speaker 21: Is not a strategy.

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Speaker 22: So I think we're still we're still uh learning, we're

533
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Speaker 22: still uh supporting him in his development. But we're just

534
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Speaker 22: very pleased with what he's done so far and we'll

535
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Speaker 22: do everything we can to support him and make sure

536
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Speaker 22: that continues through the regularly.

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Speaker 16: Does that contribute to bring a veteran into practice.

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Speaker 22: School, I think like we were just looking to complete

539
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Speaker 22: that room, and PJ just fit really well what we

540
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Speaker 22: were looking to add, and I think, yeah, you can

541
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Speaker 22: only help with his experience, not just in the NFL,

542
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Speaker 22: but even in the XFL. I think that's gonna be

543
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Speaker 22: a nice breadth of experience that What are your thoughts

544
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Speaker 22: on Elijah Moore.

545
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Speaker 21: Throughout this school.

546
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Speaker 22: I mean, Elijah's had a really really nice pre season.

547
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Speaker 22: I think when you have a guy like him, I

548
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Speaker 22: mean you've seen how the coaches have been using him

549
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Speaker 22: in multiple different ways.

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Speaker 23: I just think you want him to get the ball

551
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Speaker 23: because uh he's just really good with it in his hands.

552
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Speaker 22: So it's just been a very very pleasant surprise and

553
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Speaker 22: we're looking forward to see what he did for others.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, efent with Martin Emerson. I mean it seems like

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Speaker 24: he's kind of already grown along in the free season

556
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Speaker 24: when with his physical style, Like how how well do

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Speaker 24: you think he fits in the system and what kind

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Speaker 24: of growth that he's.

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Speaker 8: Seen from him?

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Speaker 21: I think really well, like a gym will tell.

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Speaker 22: You, you know, the the amount of men coverage that he's

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Speaker 22: looking forward to play. I think I think, uh mj

563
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Speaker 22: fits really well what he wants to do. And he's

564
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Speaker 22: had like.

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Speaker 23: A tremendous progression from last year coming in as a

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Speaker 23: rookie and then all.

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Speaker 22: The way through this year. We just keep seeing it

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Speaker 22: arrow up. So it's been super encouraging and very positive.

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Speaker 4: After with the contract restructuring that you guys have done lately,

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Speaker 4: why now, like, why is this the.

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Speaker 6: Time you guys like you.

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Speaker 22: Oh, I mean in terms of like our strategy when

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Speaker 22: it comes either player acquisition or contract management.

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Speaker 23: We're very thorough villaged and aggressive, and I.

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Speaker 22: Think for us it's about creating flexibility so that we

576
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Speaker 22: can do what we want to do operate at any

577
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Speaker 22: point in time.

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Speaker 4: Does it feel like you guys do more of that

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Speaker 4: than other teams?

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Speaker 21: Everyone has their own strategy. I don't.

581
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Speaker 23: I can't really comment on how go about it.

582
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Speaker 22: I just know that we try to find ways to

583
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Speaker 22: get an edge wherever we can.

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Speaker 18: Find one as an organization, Are you guys approaching then's

585
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Speaker 18: awards question any differently than you would anyone else in

586
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Speaker 18: that it's just the fourth time heed To suffered a

587
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Speaker 18: head injury as.

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Speaker 22: Around I mean from a medical standpoint, I'm not going

589
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Speaker 22: to come in on anything specific.

590
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Speaker 21: All I can say is that our.

591
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Speaker 22: Medical team follows the protocols that need to be followed,

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Speaker 22: regardless it's.

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Speaker 21: One four six, there's a protocol and you follow.

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Speaker 10: It may be anecdotical, but it seems like there was

595
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Speaker 10: a lot more volatility than the kicking market this preseason.

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Speaker 20: Are are teams being more aggressive in.

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Speaker 10: Finding weaknesses that specific spot now than maybe compared to

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Speaker 10: five ten years ago.

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Speaker 21: Yeah, it's a great question. I think if you look

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Speaker 21: just over the past.

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Speaker 22: Couple of weeks, the couple year, sorry, the margin of

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Speaker 22: these games, like how little they are to win the games,

603
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Speaker 22: like how many points.

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Speaker 21: You need to win them.

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Speaker 22: I think it's small, and it really goes back to

606
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Speaker 22: complementary goal and making sure that all three phases contribute.

607
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Speaker 21: And that's no.

608
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Speaker 22: Difference for specialists and kick for a special team and specialist.

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Speaker 23: So I think there's just probably like a emphasis on

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Speaker 23: that in making sure that.

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Speaker 14: All three faiths can introduce concertainly the challenges of kicking

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Speaker 14: in this particular stadium.

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Speaker 11: Especially late in the year.

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Speaker 14: How does that impact your processes when you're trying to

615
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Speaker 14: find obviously in this case, you found Dustin and you

616
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Speaker 14: feel like he's the guy to do that, or just

617
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Speaker 14: you know this being as he put it, a notorious

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Speaker 14: place to kick.

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Speaker 11: In the league.

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Speaker 3: How much how complex does that make.

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Speaker 19: It for you guys?

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Speaker 22: Yeah, we definitely take all of this into conservation when

623
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Speaker 22: we do think about transaction and what we want to

624
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Speaker 22: do here. I think it's hard, you know, it's hard

625
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Speaker 22: to kick in multiple places in this league as well,

626
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Speaker 22: So I think like, when we think about it, we

627
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Speaker 22: thought that Dustin was someone that would be reliable, and

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Speaker 22: it's inaccurate.

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Speaker 23: Throughout his career, and that's definitely something that way it turns.

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Speaker 16: Out different region we know more. There's always turnover. We

631
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Speaker 16: know that of your twenty four new players. Is that

632
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Speaker 16: a more product of the coordinator changes.

633
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Speaker 8: Than anything given?

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Speaker 22: I would say, I would say it's really a product

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Speaker 22: of us every year looking through our roster and making

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Speaker 22: sure we put the best product together. To be honest,

637
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Speaker 22: I do like I think that that's our job in

638
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Speaker 22: personnel to make sure we give the coaches the best

639
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Speaker 22: tools we can get in whether that means twenty four

640
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Speaker 22: turnover or ten, those are things that we just want

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Speaker 22: to make sure we have the best roster.

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Speaker 4: What did you guys see Jerome for as a rookie,

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Speaker 4: Even though we didn't get a ton of time on offense,

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Speaker 4: they gave you confidence that you can be the.

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Speaker 8: Numbers of guys.

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Speaker 22: I think like Jerome has had a very nice progression

647
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Speaker 22: in getting more comfortable in our scheme in just by

648
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Speaker 22: the nature of time spent in the meeting room and

649
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Speaker 22: with the coaches. He's just again shown progression every step

650
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Speaker 22: of the way, both on field or in the classroom,

651
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Speaker 22: And I think those were things that help the coaches

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Speaker 22: with filling up.

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Speaker 25: You guys have certainly been comfortable using draft picks and

654
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Speaker 25: bringing down It's like dres so far Elia over the best.

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Speaker 20: Why are you might you think teams are more comfortable.

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Speaker 3: Kind of giving up draft capital, like you guys have

657
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Speaker 3: to bring in better in your.

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Speaker 22: Sort find a ROSSI I think it's about like using

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Speaker 22: any of your assets to figure out the best way

660
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Speaker 22: to put the best roster together. So whether that's draft capital,

661
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Speaker 22: whether that's a player for player trade like we've done recently,

662
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Speaker 22: it's really just about exploring every single opportunity that we have.

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Speaker 22: And then you kind of also think into account like

664
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Speaker 22: the probabilities and in in you know, where you see

665
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Speaker 22: those draft picks potentially being used in the in the future,

666
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Speaker 22: in the future, and then.

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Speaker 21: How does that balance with acquiring a player for now?

668
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Speaker 22: So kind of like that balance of like wanting to

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Speaker 22: be competitive and successful now but also not forgetting the

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Speaker 22: future as well.

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Speaker 12: How dip is that balance of you know, being aggressive

672
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Speaker 12: and going after what you want and kind of waiting

673
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Speaker 12: around and seeing how the.

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Speaker 21: Chip plint goal it is.

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Speaker 22: That's why we're here, That's why Andrew is so good

676
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 22: at it. I think it's a matter of always having

677
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 22: a long term plan but never losing sight of the

678
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 22: short term because we're here to win.

679
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 7: There's no such thing as on Black one.

680
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 6: There's no such thing.

681
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 17: It's a perfect roster in the NFL.

682
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 14: But now that you're through the major transaction cycle here,

683
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 14: just how do you feel in general about where this

684
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 14: team is positioned.

685
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 23: I think we feel good about where we're positioned in

686
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 23: the sense of, like we.

687
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 22: Had goals and objectives we wanted to hit through the

688
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 22: off season, and we did. But now everyone would You

689
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 22: said it in your question, like, no roster is ever perfect,

690
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 22: and we.

691
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 23: Will continue to work through improvements and.

692
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 22: Really developing our young players and making sure we're ready

693
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 22: if their name is ever.

694
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 21: Call up from the practice squad.

695
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 23: So really like that work is really never done, to

696
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 23: be honest with you.

697
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: After coach Stefanski and the two front office members, it

698
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: was time to hear from the players on Wednesday and Thursday.

699
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: It started off on Wednesday with a pay of undrafted rookies.

700
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: The first of the two was my mood Diabate, who

701
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: talked about the importance of having a short memory as

702
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: an NFL player, and how much he has loved the

703
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: support from the fans.

704
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 16: Yeah, sir, So what was your reaction to.

705
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 6: I was happy? You know, it was a great feeling.

706
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 6: Uh Uh, I'd love to hear so far.

707
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 8: You know.

708
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 6: I love to coaches, love to f the staff, the facility,

709
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 6: everything about being at Cleveland Brown. So I was really

710
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 6: happy to know that I was gonna continue.

711
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 14: Uh.

712
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 6: Very happy to have the opportunity to keep showing what

713
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 6: I'm about.

714
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 8: You know.

715
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 3: So when did you find out? Who was your initial reactions?

716
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 6: Uh? Ab called me. Uh. I was at my hotel,

717
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 6: just relaxing. He called me, let me know that I

718
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 6: was on the team, you know, told me he was

719
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 6: proud of me.

720
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 8: Uh.

721
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 6: And this reaction was just happiness, you know, Uh, just

722
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 6: really excited to get to work. You know, it's not

723
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 6: really too big of a celebration in my opinion, it's just,

724
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 6: you know, yes, now I have the opportunity to keep going,

725
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 6: keep working, keep improving, keep doing what I plan on

726
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 6: doing in this league. The first person you call, I

727
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 6: just grew FaceTime my whole family, So my mom, my dad,

728
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 6: and my three sisters.

729
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 26: How hard is that the compartmentalize now that he works

730
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 26: so hard to get on the roster and keeping that

731
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 26: fuckers going into the season.

732
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 6: Oh, it's easy, you know, just keep doing what you're doing,

733
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 6: worry about what's coming the next day, Uh, worrying about

734
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 6: getting better each and every single day, you know, not

735
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 6: worrying about uh, what's going on, just worrying about improving. So,

736
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 6: you know, as long as I keep my mind setting

737
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 6: on improving every day and becoming a better football player,

738
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 6: a better teammate, being better at every aspect of the

739
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 6: game and everything and beyond.

740
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 10: Ronnie kind of followed the same path that he did

741
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 10: with you know, being an undrafted guy. Now he's on

742
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 10: on the roster. Do you guys talk much, you know

743
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 10: during the you know, the last couple of weeks about

744
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 10: you know, the potential and about kind of being in

745
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 10: the sit in similar r you know, similar boat.

746
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 6: Nah, we didn't talk too much about it. You know,

747
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 6: we just kept telling each other, Hey, keep doing what

748
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 6: you're doing. He telling me the same thing. Let's just

749
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 6: keep balling, you know, keep focusing on what we're doing,

750
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 6: keep getting better and uh and earning the trust of

751
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 6: you know, the staff and our teammate teammates around.

752
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 12: Hey, Dad, what was there a point in the preseason

753
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 12: where you kind of felt like, Alright, I'm I've got this,

754
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 12: I'm doing this, and I'm proving myself enough to make

755
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 12: this spot on the degree.

756
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 6: I mean I felt I F I felt that way,

757
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 6: you know, from the first day of camp toil the

758
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 6: last day. You know, in all honesty, Uh, like I

759
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 6: said in my last interview, I always felt the confidence

760
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 6: of my ability to be able to complete the task.

761
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 6: And you know, as practice w P, as practice came

762
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 6: on and uh, each practice was passing by, I was

763
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 6: felt like I was having great practices and doing everything

764
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 6: to the best of my ability. So you know, I

765
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 6: was always confident that yeah, the Eagles point, uh the

766
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 6: Eagles game, like I s I think I said in

767
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 6: my last interview too. That's more of letting you the

768
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 6: letting everybody know what was going on. You know. Uh,

769
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 6: I was already pretty you know, confident in what I

770
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 6: was able to do. You know, I was able to

771
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 6: have gr great reps in practice. So I feel like,

772
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 6: you know, the team, you know, the p the coaches,

773
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 6: everybody knew what I was about. But uh, it was

774
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 6: great to let the whole league, don't let everybody uh

775
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 6: watch him? Though?

776
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 3: Is that like a weird almost?

777
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 24: Like when you're so confident in what you can do

778
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 24: and you feel that confidence from inside the buildings, but

779
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 24: like you said, like it took a little bit from

780
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 24: maybe the outside world.

781
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's that. Yeah, it's not not really weird. You know,

782
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 6: you just stay in your own bubble. I'm kind of

783
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,959
Speaker 6: in my own bubble, focus on what I have to do.

784
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 6: I'm not worrying about you know, the media, what's going

785
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 6: on outside of here. I'm just focusing on what I

786
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 6: have to do and uh and the points that my

787
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 6: coaches get me to improve in whatever aspect they want

788
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 6: me to improve in. I don't spend my mental energy

789
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 6: worrying about what other people are worried about, you know,

790
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 6: I just I'm just worried about the people in this building,

791
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 6: my teammates who encourage me and give me pointers to

792
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 6: get better, and my coaches in the organization who everybody

793
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 6: who's who's here correcting me. That's what I like to

794
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 6: focus on.

795
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 23: Satty, your teammates, So what were they saying?

796
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 21: They play for saying safety things.

797
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 6: Like that keep going, you know, That's the biggest thing.

798
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 6: Keep going. You know, as a football player, you have

799
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 6: to have quick memory. Whether it's a good player or

800
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 6: a bad player, you have to have quick memory. You

801
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 6: do a good play, forget about the next play. You

802
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 6: do a bad play, forget about the next play. So

803
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 6: that's been my mindset. I've already forgot about the preseason

804
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 6: as far as I know. I didn't make any plays

805
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 6: this year yet, So I'm excited to keep working and

806
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 6: uh and get out there and prove myself.

807
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: You got any new goals set for this season?

808
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 6: Just be better every single day, be better than I

809
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 6: was yesterday. And if I do that every single day,

810
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 6: I know I'm gonna end up where I wanna be

811
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 6: at the end of the season.

812
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 11: So what special team?

813
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 6: So are you gonna start the season?

814
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 17: Uh?

815
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 6: All of 'em? But playing on all I play on

816
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 6: all phases. I'm not sure where the depth charge is

817
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 6: gonna be. Uh you could talk to PUBB about that,

818
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 6: but uh, you know, I rotate and get rest of

819
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 6: it at every aspect of the game. So I'm I'm

820
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 6: prepared for whatever my name is called.

821
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 26: How hard is it to see a guy like Austin

822
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 26: Watkins who made all the players and that all those

823
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 26: right things and not make this team.

824
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, I wasn't. I wasn't actually paying attention.

825
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 6: You know. Uh, that's the offense. Uh, that's AB's decision.

826
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 8: You know.

827
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 6: I trust whatever AB's gonna do, you know, whatever he

828
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 6: w whatever he decides, that's the best decision for the team.

829
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 6: So that's what I'm gunning behind.

830
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 11: Yeah.

831
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 24: So yeah, sir, Sorry, Running You've talked a lot, like

832
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 24: in the lead up to cut down day about just

833
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 24: not focusing on the end result really and just going

834
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 24: out there everyday and pretty gonna work out. What's that

835
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 24: like for you to compartmentalize that you're going through the

836
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 24: group off season and training bands and everything and not

837
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 24: stay focused on that a result.

838
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, you just you just have to focus on what

839
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 6: the goal is. That's why I say, you know, when

840
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 6: when he was asking what my goal was for the season,

841
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 6: my goal is to be better every single day. Cause

842
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 6: if I'm better every single day, then I'm gonna get

843
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 6: that ultimate goal and the end of being a great player.

844
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 6: So that's part of corm p compartmentalizing is just being

845
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 6: focused on what you could do today to become a

846
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 6: better player, and then tomorrow. So if you do this

847
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 6: every single day, you know, when you look at the

848
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 6: whole season as a whole lot, Oh, this is a

849
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 6: seven month season, you know, that could be kind of

850
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 6: that could be kind of hard on the psyche. So

851
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 6: when you're able to tell yourself and people can take

852
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 6: this into their own personal lives and their jobs too.

853
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 6: When you tell yourself, I'm just gonna focus on this day,

854
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 6: I'm gonna focus on the next day. I'm gonna focus

855
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 6: on the next day. When you're able to do that,

856
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 6: it makes it so much better to improve in all

857
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 6: areas of your life. So that's what I do. That's

858
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 6: what I'm focused on this year.

859
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 12: And they don't care about that outside noise, right, But

860
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 12: does it make you feel good to know that there

861
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 12: is a big part of the fan base who's just

862
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 12: kind of pulling for you, wait.

863
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 21: And see if you made that roster.

864
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, that feels good. You know, I definitely appreciate that,

865
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 6: definitely appreciate all the Cleveland fans half of my back

866
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 6: and wanted me to represent this team. You know, that

867
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 6: means a lot. So, you know, love and respect to

868
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 6: all of them, you know, all the Cleveland Browns fans

869
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 6: around the nation.

870
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: The other undrafted rookie safety Ronnie Hickman, who made this

871
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: football team, and discussed how important was to have fellow

872
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: undrafted players in the safety room and why he chose

873
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: the Browns after not being drafted.

874
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 10: How special does it feel to be on the fifty three,

875
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 10: you know, come from the path you had to take

876
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 10: to get there.

877
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: Extremely special.

878
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 27: A lot of emotions still remember the day of Jeff draft,

879
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 27: of not getting that call. So just kind of using

880
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 27: those emotions to drive me and help me get to

881
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 27: the points where.

882
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 8: I'm at now.

883
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 24: Ronnie, you know you said, like last three week or

884
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 24: two weeks ago, you weren't like focused on the end result.

885
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: You were just trying to go about the process.

886
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 8: Like how was that?

887
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 24: I think you can courtmental lines that looking back.

888
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 27: Now, I think it just it it worked for the better,

889
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 27: you know, ended up where I'm at right now. It

890
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 27: was a lot of outside noise, a lot of people

891
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 27: telling you this or you seeing stuff online, but I

892
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 27: chose to to not focus on those things. And I

893
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 27: uh thank my family, you know for kind of letting

894
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 27: me just uh hone in on the football aspect of things,

895
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 27: and you know, keeping the man being the main thing.

896
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 3: When did you find out that you made it?

897
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 2: I wanna say, around like ten thirty in the morning yesterday.

898
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 27: I was laying in bed. I knew the call was

899
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 27: coming at some point. It kind of felt like drafted

900
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 27: all over again. I was joking with my family, but

901
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 27: I knew it was coming at some point in the morning,

902
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 27: and luckily it was at tenth thirty.

903
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 8: Line.

904
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: Uh.

905
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 27: Anxious to say the least, just cause you know you're

906
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 27: gonna get a call, but you're not sure what the

907
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 27: answer gonna be. But you know, I I felt like

908
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 27: I did what I could and it was no longer

909
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 27: you know, my decision, uh at that time, so it

910
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 27: was no out of my control.

911
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 7: We gonna get a au inspiration.

912
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: Got drafting your career, yeah, a hundred percent.

913
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 27: You know, A big, big thing that you know, I'm

914
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 27: fortunate to be a part of was just being able

915
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 27: to be a sponge to to a guy like Rodney,

916
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 27: a guy with a lot of years and experience under

917
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 27: his belt, and luckily he was willing to share it all,

918
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 27: you know, whether it was questions just off the field.

919
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 27: On the field, he was a guy who was like

920
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 27: an open book. So myself and pretty much everyone in

921
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 27: a room and put them cloches. Was able to learn

922
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 27: from him, and you know, he's twelve years in the league,

923
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 27: so you know he knows a lot.

924
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 10: The Anfinity went through the same took the same path

925
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 10: for a year, and you know how much did.

926
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 20: How much did you kind of commiserate with him?

927
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 10: Yeah?

928
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 27: You know, any quick questions I had about this whole

929
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 27: undrafting process, I was writing, uh, the Anthony's ear just

930
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 27: as like you said, he he came from it. He

931
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 27: did the exact same thing I did. So he's been

932
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 27: a huge up as well, have a youth.

933
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 4: Maybe when he flashed back to that draft days not

934
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 4: getting picked, was it an easy decision to come here

935
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 4: or did you have a couple that you just wind

936
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 4: up picking the round?

937
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 27: I mean, I give a lot of that credit, uh

938
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 27: to my agent, you know, I I hired him to

939
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 27: make decisions like that. You know, luckily he led me

940
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 27: down the right path, so it kind of worked on

941
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 27: that way.

942
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 4: And wh when you don't get drafted, I know obviously

943
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 4: that's not what you wanted to. Did you take away

944
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 4: all the kind of reset and say I can still

945
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 4: get where I want to?

946
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 8: Go even though I wasn't drafted for either.

947
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, a hundred percent, you kind of have to.

948
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 27: You know, things happened quick and once I was still it,

949
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 27: you know, it's still a lot of people who were

950
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 27: killed to be in the shoes.

951
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 2: That I was in, being the undrafted guy.

952
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 27: So once you think about it from that perspective and

953
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 27: real life that you got a chance to do something

954
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 27: one percent got to do and realize that it's a blessing.

955
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 2: You know, it kind of worked out if.

956
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 6: I remember it correctly.

957
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 3: I think he had three interceptions at Ohio State in.

958
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 14: Your collegiate career, three and one preseason here, just you

959
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 14: know that knows for the the.

960
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 20: Football just you know, how did you develop?

961
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 7: Where?

962
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 27: Where did that come from? Just opportunity. This game is

963
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 27: about opportunity. You never know when your numbers called, but

964
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 27: when you're numbers called, you gotta make the play. And

965
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 27: that's kind of a thing we used to say at

966
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 27: UH at Ohio State. So you know, when you're numbers called,

967
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 27: you wanna go out there and make the play. Land

968
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 27: And I don't feel yourself for your teammates as well.

969
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 13: How much did going up against Harris and those wide

970
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 13: receivers at Ohio State prop in practice.

971
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 8: Prepare you for this?

972
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 27: Uh, I mean tremendous. I mean there's a there's a

973
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 27: little next step when it when you get out here

974
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 27: to the professional level. But the guys there back at

975
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 27: the higher state they're all gonna be in the same

976
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 27: shoes I'm in within the next few years. So it's

977
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 27: it's good to kind of build that competitive edge and

978
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 27: that competitive.

979
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 2: Culture at at Ohio State. So I'm thankful for that.

980
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 3: Here's what more on that?

981
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 13: What what kind of career do you take?

982
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: CJ.

983
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 27: Stroud's gonna Uh, Scott's the limit for for a kid

984
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 27: like that. You know, he has it up here. He

985
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 27: has it on the field and and uh, one thing

986
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 27: I like about see is the most is he's a leader.

987
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 27: So being a quarterback, you know, that's one thing you

988
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 27: gotta pride yourself on, and I'm sure he does.

989
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: How important is that? The specialty still m you to

990
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 3: make it on this roster?

991
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 27: How Ill Big was the the most important, if I'm

992
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 27: being honest, the most important, Like I said earlier, whenever

993
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 27: you're on the field, you you wanna make a play

994
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 27: in and allow the coaches to trust you and the

995
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 27: players to trust you when you step on that field,

996
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 27: So whenever you get a chance, you gotta.

997
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 2: Make the most of it. Right about to get thoughts

998
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: on the States this year?

999
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 27: I think your former team's gonna do uh Natti.

1000
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 9: So the anxieties been able to take a deep breath,

1001
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 9: and are you still kind of anxious about it?

1002
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 7: Nah?

1003
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 8: Man?

1004
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 27: The Rents do every day for real, So it's like

1005
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 27: a it's a small side, but like the Rents do

1006
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 27: every day around here in this profession, you got you

1007
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 27: gotta earn it every day.

1008
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: Thursday, we heard from running back Jerome Ford, who talked

1009
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: for the first time after being cleared to practice earlier

1010
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: this week. He discussed a lot of the ways he

1011
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: has grown as a player from year one to year

1012
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: two and how he expects to be utilized in this offense.

1013
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 8: Are you feeling, Jerome pretty good?

1014
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 28: Good?

1015
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 18: Do you feel like if they need you to do

1016
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 18: anything on September tenth in terms of third down, whatever

1017
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 18: you need to do, you're ready to roll, Yes, ma'am.

1018
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 16: Was it disappointing not to get raps in preseason?

1019
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 28: I was just seeing seeing everybody compete and not being

1020
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 28: able to be out there and compete and have fun

1021
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 28: with the team and you know, jail.

1022
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 8: With everybody wild playing football. It was definitely disappointed.

1023
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 4: Were you worried that it was gonna be something that

1024
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 4: would keep you out part of the regular season?

1025
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 28: Uh No, we got a pretty good training staff, so

1026
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 28: I didn't think it was gonna be.

1027
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 8: When you feel back at all, mm, how did you stay?

1028
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 10: You know, on top of everything.

1029
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 18: That turns up played for a game plan, let's pick

1030
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 18: up all the.

1031
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 28: Things that you need to get, uh, meeting and coaches

1032
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 28: and the fact that if you don't show up the

1033
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 28: meetings you get fine. So definitely trying to avoid you know, finds,

1034
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 28: but also of course you know, wanting to stay and

1035
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 28: pretty much face.

1036
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 8: With everybody and what everybody else was learning, going to.

1037
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 28: The meetings, taking notes and still keeping the same routine

1038
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 28: even though I'm uh not practicing.

1039
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 14: Didn't mean anything to you that you know, the organization

1040
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 14: just really wasn't concerned about.

1041
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: Your your goal, like while you were.

1042
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 3: Going through that injury.

1043
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 14: By the times, when guys get cranged up in camp,

1044
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 14: you know that that changes things. But they were pretty

1045
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 14: stet past and s and drums still are number two

1046
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 14: back and you know he.

1047
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 11: Was gonna be ready to be worn?

1048
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 8: Uh can you repeat the beginning place?

1049
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 14: It just the you know the fact that they they

1050
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 14: didn't waiver and you, even though you got banged up

1051
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 14: in camp, they said you were the second running prank.

1052
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 8: Just what that mean to you? Uh? It meant a

1053
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 8: lot to me.

1054
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 22: Uh.

1055
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 28: Ever since I got here, you know, Uh Coachlafanski, Uh

1056
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 28: ab you know.

1057
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 8: They they always been like am in my ear, you know,

1058
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 8: always to.

1059
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 28: Help anything that I I need, you know, and you

1060
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 28: know that's just a good thing.

1061
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 8: And I'm I'm I'm grateful for him.

1062
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: Are you fix him to be the kick return?

1063
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 7: Or did see something?

1064
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 6: Uh?

1065
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 8: I don't know yet. I we don't w I don't

1066
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 8: think we figured it out yet, but we'll see next year.

1067
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 6: I feel that we work there.

1068
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 8: I definitely when we tried to stump the last time.

1069
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 5: Uh, he was trying to start out last year.

1070
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 6: Uh.

1071
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 18: You had to learn how to become a.

1072
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 5: Teammate, a better teammate.

1073
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 18: Uh do you elaborate a little bit, like, you know,

1074
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 18: what what do you mean by dad?

1075
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 21: What have you got better?

1076
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 28: Uh? Just whenever I come somewhere new, I'm usually quiet, uh,

1077
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 28: trying to feel everybody out first. I'm probably not like

1078
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 28: the outgoing just speak to everybody, UH type person. I'm

1079
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 28: a little more like, uh reserve and I kind of

1080
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 28: you know chill.

1081
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 8: I'm I'm not really uh.

1082
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 28: Hey, how you doing? Like you know, I speak, I

1083
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 28: speak every time I see someone. But I'm not like

1084
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 28: the you know, ain't let's go go out and do

1085
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 28: something immediately, you know, through him.

1086
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 8: We've seen some.

1087
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 16: Uh homos exchanges about the RPO players, some in the

1088
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 16: games Campus City that was a new player I know

1089
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 16: who want in Philadelphia? I think with shop, is there

1090
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 16: an adjustment to this running game out of the shotgun.

1091
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 6: In the fourth yid?

1092
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 5: Uh?

1093
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 8: I don't. I don't think it's really an adjustment.

1094
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 9: Uh.

1095
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 8: We go through uh I forget what we call it.

1096
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 28: I'm bring front right now, but we go through uh

1097
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 28: center quarterback, running back exchange before practice every day. So

1098
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 28: you know, it's just getting back out there, getting used

1099
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 28: to playing. In general, I don't think the gun had

1100
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 28: anything to do with it.

1101
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 10: Took you talked about being a new kid and the

1102
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 10: new guy in the in the place. Peers now that guy,

1103
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 10: But what have you done to kind of you know,

1104
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 10: weth them here? And I know you say, y, you're

1105
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 10: kind of quiet, but but how have you what have

1106
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 10: you done to try to help him get up to speed?

1107
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: Uh?

1108
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 7: Just you know, O my first year here, you know,

1109
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 7: just point him in the.

1110
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 28: Right direction where to go for extras if you ever

1111
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 28: need something. You know, we actually went through the job

1112
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 28: process to get so I actually knew.

1113
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 8: Him a little bit. Uh, we did.

1114
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 28: I think we did a visit together, so like I

1115
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 28: kind of knew him as soon as he came and

1116
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 28: he like, Yo, man, what up? So you know, his

1117
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 28: outgoing has brought me to be like, alright, what's up?

1118
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 28: Like you know, and just whatever he aksed me he

1119
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 28: needs something, I I'm there.

1120
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 24: And when you talked to you last time, you talked

1121
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 24: about as a rookie like learning how to do the

1122
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 24: off the field things and and be a pro, like

1123
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 24: with the film and the studying and and everything like that.

1124
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 24: Do you feel like, even though it's unfortunate to miss

1125
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 24: time obviously, like that you were better prepared to like

1126
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 24: go through and then do those sort of things this

1127
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 24: year while you were out.

1128
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 8: I actually do Uh.

1129
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 28: I was able to build a routine early even with

1130
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 28: being injured, and last year I had an injury also

1131
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 28: that took me away for a little bit, and it

1132
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 28: kind of messed up my routine. But with being you know,

1133
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 28: getting into it so early and being able to create

1134
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 28: a routines.

1135
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 8: But I I was injured. You know, I feel like

1136
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 8: it was a a big step from where I was

1137
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 8: last year in terms of nikatubb uh.

1138
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 18: You know, I and Kareem were so close. U Karine

1139
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 18: seemed to have a good way of kind of keeping

1140
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 18: things like for Nick and making.

1141
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 3: Him laugh all that stuff.

1142
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 29: How how do you feel so.

1143
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 18: Like the chemistry is, how's the relationship between you and Nick?

1144
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 18: Are you guys really getting close.

1145
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 21: And developing that?

1146
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 18: You know that fine you'll need and s curio?

1147
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 28: Oh yeah, uh, I think pretty much. We all young

1148
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 28: in a room, so y'all look at Nick as our

1149
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 28: big brother. So like, you know, any questions we have,

1150
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 28: you know, like about life, football or anything we asking Nick.

1151
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 28: And I feel like it kind of helped keep him

1152
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 28: on his toes too. Even with the playbook. We like, yo, Nick,

1153
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 28: what we got on this? And he'll get us back

1154
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 28: either if he know it, he tell us right then

1155
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 28: and there, and if it's something new that we just

1156
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 28: mighta just went over he'd be like, yo, coach, was

1157
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 28: this you know, for new guys who ain't ready to

1158
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 28: just be like yo coach, what.

1159
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 8: I got in the middle of a meeting in front

1160
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 8: of everybody. He'll asks for you stuff like that.

1161
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,399
Speaker 4: Do you have a good sense for when we get

1162
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 4: to that open or what your role's gonna be, if it's.

1163
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 11: Gonna be mostly throw downs or just spelling Nick from

1164
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 11: time to time?

1165
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 20: Uh?

1166
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 28: I you know, I don't know the role yet, but

1167
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 28: whatever I'm whatever role I'm giving U, I'm ready to do.

1168
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 28: A coach been preparing all of us for everything. So

1169
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 28: you know, whether you know Nick helmet come off or something,

1170
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 28: or he need to shoot tight on the sideline, We'll

1171
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 28: be ready for whatever the situation is is.

1172
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 3: Jrm, what do you think is the most reported lesson.

1173
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 11: You wanta tect so far?

1174
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 8: Uh?

1175
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 28: How to be a pro a Nick? Do every you

1176
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 28: guys coached up Nick? Do literally everything the right way.

1177
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 8: I don't like I told you before, I don't think

1178
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 8: Nick ever.

1179
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 28: Had a fine Uh. The way he warm up, get

1180
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 28: ready for practice. He he there late, ice tub, clot tub,

1181
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 28: pretty much everything. The way he carry yourself Like w

1182
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 28: I I'm just starting to be able to get into

1183
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 28: like a groove where I can be like, you know,

1184
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 28: it's what I need to do before practice. I know,

1185
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 28: I gotta get here a little bit earlier and i'm'na

1186
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 28: stay a little bit later.

1187
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 25: So so, I mean you you mentioned it a couple

1188
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 25: of times, you know, the finds and stuff, you know,

1189
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 25: those things that were happening issues so by like showing

1190
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 25: up on time and stuff.

1191
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 28: Uh no, not really, but it is pretty scary, you know,

1192
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 28: you know, find out somebody taking some money out your check.

1193
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 8: It ain't fun at all.

1194
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 16: The room is uh, there's being in shape and being

1195
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 16: in game shape.

1196
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 6: You haven't been able to play in the games.

1197
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 16: Are you confident that you could get there for uh

1198
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 16: before splitting any game?

1199
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 7: Game shape?

1200
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 8: Definitely? Like like we was talking about with Nick uh

1201
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 8: being a pro.

1202
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 28: You see every play Nick run, He run about forty

1203
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 28: yards after the play even though you know the play's

1204
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 28: over with And that's us getting in game shape and

1205
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 28: he that's something that he taught us to do. So

1206
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 28: pretty I feel like I do enough of that throughout

1207
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 28: the days and I kill myself through practice this week.

1208
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 28: I should be ready to you should should.

1209
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 16: Be a hard Greek.

1210
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 6: Pretty practice book.

1211
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 25: Right, dude, Like if that Kansas City game looked at

1212
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 25: like a regular season game, get event be able to

1213
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 25: go and kind of want I don't know.

1214
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: The last of the players new Brown's kicker Dustin Hopkins,

1215
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: who addressed the media for the first time since being

1216
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 1: acquired by the Brown and Orange from the LA Chargers.

1217
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: Hopkins talked about the pressure of kicking for a new

1218
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: team and how he's rehabbed his rib injury this offseason.

1219
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there you go.

1220
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 3: So when did you find out about the trade? Kind

1221
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: of what your thoughts.

1222
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 29: Officially, I found out I think maybe an hour before

1223
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 29: everyone else found out. I was surprised because it was

1224
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 29: I didn't know that it was even possibility of looking

1225
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 29: at the team landscape stuff, and from what I was

1226
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 29: hearing back, I didn't know I could be here and

1227
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 29: then here we are, So you know, I'd be believing

1228
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 29: the providence of God and I think that there are

1229
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 29: no accidents and so I'm excited to be here and

1230
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 29: excited to get to work.

1231
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, going up to that day, did

1232
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 3: you still think you had a chance to be the Charger's.

1233
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 29: Kicker or did you kind of know that that was

1234
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 29: I had had an honest conversation with Tom, the GM

1235
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 29: for the Chargers, and uh, basically just asked him, did

1236
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 29: you see me in y'all's future or did y'all see

1237
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 29: you going with Cam? And he was honest with me

1238
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 29: told me, which was awesome because he let Uh, he

1239
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 29: just let me know that for family planning.

1240
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 19: Purposes and stuff. It's just helpful to know that and

1241
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 19: be told something up front, which is nice.

1242
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 29: And so I knew after our last preseason game we

1243
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 29: had that conversation that it wouldn't be there, but I

1244
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 29: knew they were shopping, so I didn't know where.

1245
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 8: It could be.

1246
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 7: But did you kick in the Chargers gas year?

1247
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 29: No, I was hurt on that game actually funny enough,

1248
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 29: but I've played here before, but it's been years before.

1249
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 13: Yes, sir Dust, and you've you with some team, so

1250
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 13: you're kind of an example of perseverance in your field.

1251
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 20: Talk about that kind of like what Cade's.

1252
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 7: Going through now.

1253
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 29: Yeah, Well, I've kicked with Kad in the summertime before.

1254
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 29: We've trained at the same place we have. I don't

1255
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 29: know if he has another kicking coach, but we at

1256
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 29: least have one kicking coach that we have in common,

1257
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 29: and uh, he's super talented kicker.

1258
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 19: I mean his leg strength is is tough to argue against.

1259
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 19: So he'll he'll be fine.

1260
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 10: You know.

1261
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 19: It's this whole game is.

1262
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 29: Can be frustrating sometimes, you know, at any position, but

1263
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 29: especially kicking. You get to the right spot and everything

1264
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 29: works out, and you get to a wrong spot and

1265
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 29: it doesn't. So I think he'll have a bright future.

1266
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 13: And yeah I wish him, well, wait, just a fall,

1267
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 13: but your perseverance to go from Buffalo to New Orleans

1268
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 13: and all like.

1269
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 19: You sure man.

1270
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 29: To be honest with you, I remember my rookie year,

1271
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 29: I had a I had tore my groin and I

1272
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 29: remember just praying. I was like, Lord, I'd love to

1273
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 29: be vested, you know, and uh, fast forward, this is

1274
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 29: my eleventh year.

1275
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 19: It's just everything is a blessing.

1276
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 29: So I'm just and and not that if I never

1277
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 29: played again, I've got a lot of things to be

1278
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 29: thankful forore. But I stand here, you know, X amount

1279
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 29: of years later and just thankful to still be playing

1280
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 29: the game. So it's it's tough, but you know, it's

1281
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 29: it's awesome be a part of a team.

1282
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 3: Is there any extra added pressure coming to a keeping

1283
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 3: situation like this, I.

1284
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 29: Don't think so it's I don't I don't read too

1285
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 29: much in the external things just because I don't think

1286
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 29: it's helpful. I try to control what I can control.

1287
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 29: And you know, besides the location, obviously, this is a

1288
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 29: notorious place to kick. It's a tough it's a tough

1289
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 29: place to do this job. But at this point in

1290
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 29: my career, I always tell myself, you know, I try

1291
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 29: to be focused on the I try to be focused

1292
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 29: on process and not the results.

1293
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 19: Obviously, we're in a results of oriented.

1294
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 29: Business, Like I know the results eventually have to be there,

1295
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 29: but I tell myself I'm process oriented and the results

1296
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 29: will come. So kicking in place like this and knowing

1297
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 29: that I need to be at my best is a

1298
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 29: kind of an exciting challenge, even though a tough one

1299
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 29: at the same time.

1300
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 10: So you said it's a notorious place as kickers. When

1301
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 10: you're talking about the various places.

1302
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 19: What everyone knows about Cleveland?

1303
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 2: What is it?

1304
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 10: What I mean, what are those conversations like, what are

1305
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 10: you guys you know, specifically talking about talking about?

1306
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: Sure?

1307
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 29: Sure, well, you've got a handful of places in the

1308
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 29: league that are notorious and Cleveland's one of them.

1309
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 19: I'd say Buffalo's up there. Maybe at Chicago.

1310
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 29: I'm sure there's some places I'm missing, but there's a

1311
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 29: handful of places that you know through on the Lake.

1312
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 29: You're up north, you're in a tough division. There's nothing,

1313
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 29: there's nothing blocking the wind coming off the lake. You know,

1314
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 29: it's just sweeping in there. And so I'm excited actually

1315
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 29: just getting the opportunity to practice in there tomorrow. And

1316
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 29: even though I've played there before, the more you can

1317
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 29: get practice in a stadium and learn kind of I

1318
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 29: don't know the ins and outs of what when typically

1319
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 29: does in there, when it seems like it's gonna move

1320
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 29: the ball and it doesn't, when it doesn't seem like

1321
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 29: it's gonna move the ball and it does.

1322
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 19: So I've got a lot to learn in that stadium,

1323
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 19: But I'm up for the challenge.

1324
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 16: Practice time this year, Sir, did you misspractice time in

1325
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 16: training campus?

1326
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 2: I did? I did.

1327
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 29: I had a like a minor rib injury, and it

1328
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 29: was one of those things they said, hey, if you

1329
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 29: can push forward, you're not gonna make it worse, but

1330
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 29: it might hurt for two months, or you can just

1331
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 29: chill out for a week or two and it'll.

1332
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 19: Probably resolve itself.

1333
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 7: It was just a week.

1334
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 29: Yeah, it was just that, and I just knew that

1335
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 29: whether it was in LA or now Cleveland, but somewhere else,

1336
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 29: that I'd rather be healthy for my team than have

1337
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 29: to be fighting an injury that I wouldn't have to

1338
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 29: for months.

1339
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 3: Does does that come from kind of what happened after

1340
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 3: that kick and against Denverord.

1341
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 19: When you had the injury or uh no, No, they

1342
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 19: were unrelated. They were unrelated.

1343
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 29: Yeah, it was just I mean a mindset of, like,

1344
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 29: you know, I want to be kick in Oh yeah,

1345
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 29: maybe maybe maybe I didn't purposely think about that, but shoot, subconsciously,

1346
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 29: maybe I just knew. I know, it's it's a long season,

1347
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 29: and with with it being preseason, I don't want to

1348
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 29: say the games don't matter, because they do.

1349
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 19: There's a lot of guys that it means their whole

1350
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 19: future career.

1351
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 29: So I don't want to say the games don't matter,

1352
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 29: but for me feeling pretty good that I would have

1353
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 29: a job somewhere, whether that was still in LA or

1354
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 29: somewhere else, that I wanted to be right for whatever

1355
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 29: team I was with.

1356
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 19: How was that injury last year and it was the

1357
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 19: cuir of a hand hamstrings.

1358
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 29: Yeah, it's like all these injuries, you know, I'm not

1359
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 29: It's usually not that bad. I was just last year

1360
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 29: had a little rough patch.

1361
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, but.

1362
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 19: You said, how frustrating was it being hurts?

1363
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 29: It's not fun because you feel like you're doing everything

1364
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 29: you can to get back healthy. In some weeks you

1365
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 29: see like a jump and improvement, and other weeks you're

1366
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 29: still doing the same right things and you don't feel

1367
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 29: any different.

1368
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 19: So, uh, it could be frustrating, But at the same time,

1369
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 19: it's just a for me.

1370
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 29: It's a trusting in God's timing and oftentimes it's not

1371
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 29: as fast as you'd like it to be.

1372
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 19: So it was it was frustrating kicking.

1373
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 18: Yeah, in terms of getting ready for the Bengals, I'm not.

1374
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 18: Since you've been around the bend a few times, sure,

1375
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 18: is it easier to adjust to a new snaphole sequence

1376
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 18: and kind of just.

1377
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 3: Get your mojo down fairly quickly?

1378
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1379
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 29: I mean, we had a good work day today and

1380
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 29: it wasn't perfect, and we're all still learning each other.

1381
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 19: And it's one of those things.

1382
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 29: I tell them what I like, and they tell me

1383
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 29: what what they like, and we try to find that

1384
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 29: perfect mesh of when everybody's comfortable.

1385
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 19: So I thought, we got really good work today and

1386
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 19: we're just gonna get what we got.

1387
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 29: It's nice going into this long weekend knowing that we

1388
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 29: can work this week next week and feel good going

1389
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 29: to the game.

1390
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 7: So it takes.

1391
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 19: It takes a little bit, but I feel good about

1392
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 19: the time we have to do it.

1393
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 14: Talk about talk about being notorious for pandemical kischen and

1394
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 14: how you're real process oriented. So just over the these

1395
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 14: next two weeks leading into the season, I guess, maybe

1396
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 14: what's your process of trying to figure out how to

1397
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 14: be successful, you know kicking?

1398
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 29: Yeah, once again, I try not to think about too

1399
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 29: much external things, you know, so I really just focus

1400
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 29: on am I hitting a pure ball? Do we have

1401
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 29: a good rhythm like I just mentioned with our operation,

1402
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 29: and if those things are happening, I can I can

1403
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 29: figure it out on game day as far as like what.

1404
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 7: The wind is doing.

1405
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 29: It's just you want to make sure that the rhythm

1406
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 29: is good and I'm hitting pure and that's kind of

1407
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 29: my only goal and and yeah.

1408
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 19: So it'll takes me get used to but I feel

1409
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 19: good about it.

1410
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 4: As a kiffer in being a veteran like you are

1411
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 4: coming into situations how much your previous experience gives you

1412
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 4: even more confidence or does it at all?

1413
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 7: Or going to one team to another.

1414
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 19: I am glad that.

1415
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 29: I'm at this point my career coming here as opposed

1416
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:58,399
Speaker 29: to maybe going Buffalo then here. That's a tough run,

1417
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 29: you know, so and uh so, yeah, I'd rather. I'd

1418
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 29: rather do it now with this timing, having some experience,

1419
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 29: and shoot, I was in It's I wouldn't say it's

1420
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 29: at the same level as Cleveland, but Washington's not an

1421
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 29: easy place to play in at times, and so that's

1422
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 29: a lot of experience there for a good window of time.

1423
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 19: So uh yeah, it's nice.

1424
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 29: Any any reps you can get under your belt as

1425
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 29: a kicker, as a player in adding position, I think

1426
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 29: is is useful and you learn from a number of

1427
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 29: things you do.

1428
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 19: And uh yeah, so I'm I'm excited that it's uh

1429
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 19: that the timing is good.

1430
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 18: Yeah, since you have you had some orders with them

1431
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 18: the last couple of days of encouraging fourteen.

1432
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 8: I have not yet.

1433
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,399
Speaker 29: Yeah, we've we've trained together last summer for two days,

1434
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 29: so so I know him and we're friendly.

1435
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 19: But Uh, it's not like we talk all the time,

1436
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 19: but yes, with.

1437
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 13: The grass set that grom Stadium there is that difficult

1438
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 13: because some ke gus have said that's part of the

1439
00:56:59,000 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 13: victorious like.

1440
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 8: Quart of it too.

1441
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 29: When I've played there, I'm actually typically kind of pleased

1442
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,760
Speaker 29: with it, like pleasantly surprised.

1443
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 19: But maybe that also could be a result of me

1444
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 19: playing there.

1445
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 29: I don't off the top of my head, I don't remember,

1446
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 29: but at certain times of the year, and oftentimes feels

1447
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 29: get worse or better as the year is going or

1448
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 29: as the year goes on, you hope you play certain

1449
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 29: teams after they've switched the new grass in. You know,

1450
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 29: it's so maybe I've just been fortunate, But when I

1451
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 29: played there in the past, I felt the grass was

1452
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 29: pretty good.

1453
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 19: So well, I guess I'll learn. I'll learn here soon.

1454
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 3: You're coming to a team with pretty high expectations. Is

1455
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 3: that exciting that, you know, get a chance to make

1456
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 3: kicking some big moments?

1457
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 29: I think yes, because because anytime when you're with h

1458
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 29: when you're playing games that you're kicking field goals and

1459
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 29: you're down twenty or something, it's like it's a it's

1460
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 29: almost harder to focus because you feel like it's that

1461
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 29: might not make a difference, but you know, when you're

1462
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 29: when you're kicking in meaningful moments, it.

1463
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 19: Forces you to you know. I think off times, pressure

1464
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 19: almost helps helps focus in a number of different fields.

1465
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 19: But with kicking, I just feel like, you know, you

1466
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 19: have to walk in and so and I want to win.

1467
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 19: Like I like winning, I don't like losing.

1468
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 29: So anytime I can be on a team with high hopes,

1469
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 29: high expectations and with the ability to do it, I would.

1470
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 19: Like to be on this team. So I'm glad to

1471
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 19: be here.

1472
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: Finally, we hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski again, who

1473
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: addressed the media after Thursday the final practice of the week.

1474
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 30: Would you tells and conditions you like this ever reason

1475
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 30: it's beautiful out here?

1476
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's honestly, that's that's our place in

1477
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 5: the lake. We can get anything out of here.

1478
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 11: That's why we love it.

1479
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 5: We happen to get a beautiful day today. You know

1480
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 5: next week's gonna be hot, probably cool down later in

1481
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 5: the week. But you have to be ready for every

1482
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 5: element when you're playing on the lake, like we are.

1483
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 20: All ex back on the field of day, I mean,

1484
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 20: where what did you see out of him?

1485
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 8: Just?

1486
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks good.

1487
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 11: It's just it's hard to say.

1488
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 5: I mean, he's got an tinue to progress and we'll

1489
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 5: see how it goes into Monday of next week.

1490
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 18: What message do you send your team if you send

1491
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 18: them forth.

1492
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 25: To see the weekend?

1493
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 20: Yeah?

1494
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you got to make.

1495
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 5: Sure that you use this weekend to your advantage. You

1496
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 5: got to recharge that battery. It's a short, short, little

1497
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 5: respite here for everybody, and you know, we'll work and

1498
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 5: as we're looking ahead to Cincinnati and doing work on them,

1499
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 5: but just take a breather, charge the battery up, and

1500
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 5: then get ready to roll.

1501
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 20: PG is not here today, you expect them, I mean

1502
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 20: there are any hold.

1503
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 4: Up, he'll be here Monday.

1504
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 3: Kevin, do you even know Jerome is your number two back?

1505
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 8: Do you see it?

1506
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 3: Still anticipate he can be your kick return?

1507
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 2: Could be?

1508
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1509
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 5: I think we have multiple guys that can do it. Obviously,

1510
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 5: Jerome did it for us last year, did a nice job,

1511
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 5: so he's certainly a candidate. But we have multiple guys

1512
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 5: that can do it.

1513
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,959
Speaker 8: So you'd be comfortable with him doing both. I would, Kevin.

1514
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 3: You got Jordan goes on I hour today.

1515
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 9: See when it coming back from injury, Ay walk coming

1516
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 9: back from injury.

1517
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 3: Are you are you confident you.

1518
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 24: Have the depth you need their on linebacker and some

1519
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 24: of these young guys are going to be throw pretty quickly.

1520
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 8: I am.

1521
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 5: I think that's the name of the game, Tom, As

1522
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 5: you know in this business is depth is important because

1523
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 5: you're gonna need everybody at certain points throughout the season.

1524
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 5: So whether you're young or old, you gotta be ready

1525
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 5: to roll. And I think the guys have had a

1526
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 5: nice camp. Coach Tarby does a really nice job getting

1527
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 5: those guys ready to go.

1528
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 24: Having hitting over earth back out here. I guess he

1529
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 24: just seems to have such a good understanding of the

1530
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 24: defense with his time in San Francisco.

1531
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 3: What he's added to.

1532
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 8: The deep line.

1533
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, excited about mo.

1534
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 5: I think he did a really nice job just going

1535
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 5: back all the way to the spring to the summer

1536
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 5: of the preseason games. He acquitted himself well and all

1537
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 5: those reps that he got. A veteran like you mentioned,

1538
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 5: Ashley knows this scheme, knows how to operate in this scheme.

1539
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 20: So excited to have him which.

1540
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,439
Speaker 18: Went forward, Will he be as ready as he needs

1541
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 18: to be to pick up glitzes and do all those

1542
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 18: things that he'll need to do on third down if he's.

1543
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 5: Called upontent he will Mary Kay And I think again,

1544
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 5: you know, disappointed that he didn't get preseason reps, but

1545
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 5: he's played for us before, He's played in the preseason

1546
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 5: last year, he's played in game last season, so he's

1547
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 5: somebody that we do have a conference how Dust today, Yeah,

1548
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 5: did a nice job. You know, getting down here was helpful.

1549
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 11: I think for him.

1550
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 5: He got down here early with the specialists and got

1551
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 5: to lay of the land and that type of thing

1552
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 5: and did a nice job.

1553
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 14: Now, if you guys go into this next week, you're

1554
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Speaker 14: into week one, do you feel like that you were

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Speaker 14: able to accomplish everything in July and August that you

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Speaker 14: would had hoped too.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think you put a plan together and you you

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Speaker 5: make sure that you check the boxes as you go.

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Speaker 5: We certainly did that. We followed our plan, and really

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Speaker 5: that's for us right now. You just have to trust

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Speaker 5: in your process and what you've done, and then you

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Speaker 5: get going next week for a seventeen game season.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, you've talked about finding the plays that the quarterback likes.

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Speaker 17: Do you feel good about where that is heading into

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Speaker 17: the season and you know the process.

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Speaker 3: It seemed like that was just all off season long,

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Speaker 3: who you know, working on trying to.

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Speaker 5: Get Yeah, I think I think that's all season long.

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Speaker 5: I think when what happens with offensive football is you

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Speaker 5: run a lot of plays in the spring and summer

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Speaker 5: and they become your core and then you start to

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Speaker 5: pivot and you add a little dendum to a play

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Speaker 5: in Week one and then maybe you're run it again

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Speaker 5: in Week five. So I think that's just ongoing and

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Speaker 5: you have to have a constant dialogue with the quarterback

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Speaker 5: and things that he's comfortable with, and then ultimately what

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Speaker 5: matches the quarterbacks eye, what matches your talent and your

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Speaker 5: personnel that you have. So I really think that's ongoing.

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Speaker 3: And it seems like you'll have a good report I

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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's a he's a gym rat. Deshaun

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Speaker 5: loves to talk ball. AVP and I were just talking

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Speaker 5: about that this morning and you're putting tape on and

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Speaker 5: you're talking about different looks that you're getting and things

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Speaker 5: that he sees. Because I've said it before, the quarterback

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Speaker 5: has the best seat in the house when it comes

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Speaker 5: to looking at a defense and seeing a tell and

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Speaker 5: how did you know that coverage was coming? And those

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Speaker 5: type of conversations. So he works very, very hard at it.

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Speaker 29: And you're not just going to Houston and you're looking

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Speaker 29: at host, you're looking at games will high Yeah everything right,

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Speaker 29: like the Elephants, maybe the Red Elephants.

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Speaker 18: How will impact your game plan that that Dustin isn't

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Speaker 18: necessarily a long ball hitter?

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Speaker 3: I think fifteen or thirty you know how compact?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I think we go into every game looking

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Speaker 5: at the conditions, looking at who we're playing, and making

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Speaker 5: those type of decisions, trying to be stay ahead of

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Speaker 5: it as you can, and then end game. I think

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Speaker 5: Bubba does a great job of kind of letting us

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Speaker 5: know where we're comfortable getting to the yard line wise.

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Speaker 5: So I don't see that changing much other than to

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Speaker 5: say that we adjust to our players. We did, and

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Speaker 5: I think we'll put out a release here in a

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Speaker 5: little bit.

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Speaker 30: Can we see Jerome out there you're working on you know,

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Speaker 30: kickoff or kickoffs? Is the expectation that will be the

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Speaker 30: re dream guy we'll see. Like I said, I think

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Speaker 30: he's a candidate for it. I think we have multiple

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Speaker 30: guys on our roster that can do it. We'll kind

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Speaker 30: of get through next week and Bubba and myself will

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Speaker 30: make a decision.

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Speaker 5: There's one of them, because I have a question.

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Speaker 4: If he is, then you can ask your question, does

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Speaker 4: that speak to just how different place he is now

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Speaker 4: from the last year that it was gonna be on

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Speaker 4: your guys who wasn't a captain and now he's one

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Speaker 4: of the guys.

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Speaker 5: Well, all right, so our captains are Deshaun Watson, Joel Botonio,

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Speaker 5: Anthony Walker, Miles Garrett, and Charlie Hewlett. We have five

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Speaker 5: guys will elect a game captain each week as well.

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Speaker 5: The players will select that captain, so you'll see six

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Speaker 5: guys out there for coin toss. I've said it before.

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Speaker 5: Leadership comes in all different styles, and it comes in

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Speaker 5: different shapes and sizes, and you vote for captains and

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Speaker 5: it is really important. We also have a leadership committee

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Speaker 5: and we have players represented from every position there, so

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Speaker 5: you don't need that, see to determine that you're a leader. Now,

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Speaker 5: having said that, these players voted for those guys, and

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Speaker 5: you know Deshaun in particular because you asked the question

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Speaker 5: but DeShawn, that's very, very natural for him to lead,

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Speaker 5: and I think he's comfortable leading from out in front.

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Speaker 5: I think he's comfortable from leading and letting his teammates

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Speaker 5: get credit. And that's just something that he's always done

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Speaker 5: his whole life. And just the way he's integrated himself

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Speaker 5: into this football team is impressive to watch from the

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Speaker 5: course of the moment he got here to now, just

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Speaker 5: seeing how he's gotten to know everybody on his team,

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Speaker 5: how he pushes them, how he motivates him. I think

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Speaker 5: you're seeing a lot of examples of high quality leadership

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Speaker 5: from DeShawn in particular.

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Speaker 7: Devil is a.

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Speaker 13: Difference between the leadership committee.

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Speaker 6: And we have each share.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, good question. So our leadership committee meets each week

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Speaker 5: and that's one player from every position, so one defensive end,

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Speaker 5: one defensive tackle, one safety, one corner, that type of thing.

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Speaker 5: So that's a group that I talk to every week

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Speaker 5: about all things under the sun. And then your captains,

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Speaker 5: as you guys know, are the team that you send

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Speaker 5: out or the group that you send out to midfield,

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Speaker 5: and they kind of represent who you are and what you're.

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Speaker 14: About to look at twenty five colleague, I saw him walkin.

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Speaker 5: I got to talk to him, Yes, just you know,

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Speaker 5: and Alex Leatherwood, Lucas or you know. We have new

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01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 5: players here, and that's kind of what happens, as you know,

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Speaker 5: really throughout the season, you add practice squad players, you

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Speaker 5: lose practice squad players. So good to see those guys

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Speaker 5: will start to integrate them into our program here over

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Speaker 5: the next few days. To me is that you and

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Speaker 5: the players.

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Speaker 16: So right now, I think you have twenty.

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Speaker 20: Four players that were not here last year under fifty three.

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Speaker 20: Does that say a lot to you?

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Speaker 11: I turnover, Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what the average is, Tony. Turnover happens,

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Speaker 5: as we know in football every single season, so not

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Speaker 5: surprised that it's a significant number, but the number itself.

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