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Speaker 1: played baseball kinda was in and out of it. Scouts

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Speaker 1: would come in and recognize, like I was considered a

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Speaker 1: five tools player, but I just someone gravitated towards football

434
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Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. Getting a scholarship offer. Went

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Speaker 1: to Miami thinking I was gonna be able to play both.

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Speaker 1: I kind of got the oh yeah, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you know that's a part of the package. You come

438
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Speaker 1: here play both sports. Of course, I go to try

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Speaker 1: to talk to this coaching staff about going down the spring,

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Speaker 1: and it was like, well, if you if you go

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Speaker 1: out for baseball, you probably want to earn a scholarship.

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Speaker 1: So that killed that until I was done and then

443
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Speaker 1: try to cut the story down. Someone who scotled me

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Speaker 1: in high school reached out to me after the draft

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Speaker 1: my my last year at Miami and said, Hey, having

446
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Speaker 1: to work out looking for some you know, former baseball

447
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Speaker 1: players who have athleticism and you know, maybe potential developmental

448
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Speaker 1: people in the minors and want to bring you in.

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Speaker 1: So go to a workout. I told people I had

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Speaker 1: an out of body experience because I hadn't touched the bat,

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Speaker 1: I hadn't thrown a ball. I was hitting Homer's to

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Speaker 1: dead center, you know, had a really strong arm just

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Speaker 1: from being in good shape from football. And so they said, hey,

454
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Speaker 1: we're gonna draft you the third day. We don't know

455
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Speaker 1: when or where, would just be by your phone and

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Speaker 1: the rest is kind of history. So great experience. I went,

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Speaker 1: I think like over twenty my first twenty bats, Uh

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Speaker 1: couldn't catch up to a curveball, and UH kind of

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Speaker 1: fought my way to two or close to two hundred

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Speaker 1: by the end of it. So it was it was

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Speaker 1: fun yeah, not many people. Yeah, I took four years

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Speaker 1: off and then I got drafted by the Cubs. No

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Speaker 1: big deal. Hey, we we appreciate your time. Congratulations on

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Speaker 1: the promotion again, well deserved and we couldn't be happier

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Speaker 1: for you. Uh. Ribble hopes that you're jumper is all

466
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Speaker 1: right and doing okay. Here. I'm ready for some basketball

467
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Speaker 1: man that I've been with. I've made in some withdrawal.

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Speaker 1: I haven't played in three months at least basketball and flag.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which one which one? Alright, Well, Bury,

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Speaker 1: do you think bury your hot bagg in the flag football?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. There's probably too much risk there. We

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Speaker 1: we can't lose Berry going down to al or something.

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Speaker 1: So when we return on the Best of Cleveland Brown's Daily,

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Speaker 1: featuring the Best Podcast Available, rookie center Nick Harris joins

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Speaker 1: Andrew Gribble and I. Just days after being drafted by

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Speaker 1: the Browns, his first interview with the media was with us.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear it next on the Best of Cleveland Brown's Daily,

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Speaker 1: featuring the Best Podcast Available on eight fifty ESPN Cleveland

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Speaker 1: prompt to you by Jack on ESPN w k n R.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the best of Cleveland Brown's Daily featuring

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Speaker 1: the Best Podcast Available Today. I'm Jason Gibbs, your host

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Speaker 1: on the Best Podcast Available, alongside Brown's senior staff writer

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Speaker 1: Andrew Gribble. We're playing some of our better interviews from

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Speaker 1: the podcast, which you can check out at Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: dot com or wherever you get your podcasts. Right now,

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Speaker 1: time to hear from our rookie center, Nick Harris, just

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Speaker 1: days after he was drafted, his first interview with any

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Speaker 1: media members. Well, it was with the Best Podcast Available.

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Speaker 1: Have a listen, Nick, just kind of walk us through

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Speaker 1: your your draft weekend. What was what was it like

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Speaker 1: from maybe Thursday to Saturday once you finally got that

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Speaker 1: call from the Browns. Yeah. So, I mean, as of

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Speaker 1: recent I've been in Seattle just by my school, um,

494
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Speaker 1: working out and um, you know, just trying to keep

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Speaker 1: my mind on things. But I flew back home to

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Speaker 1: l A because that's where I'm originally from, UM, just

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Speaker 1: to be with my family, just my immediate family, UM,

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Speaker 1: and yeah it was it was. I went through all emotions, um,

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Speaker 1: in those couple of days, you know, anxious, excited, angry, mad, happy, um.

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Speaker 1: But you know, once I got that call, all that

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Speaker 1: stuff went away, and um, you know, just greatful the

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Speaker 1: opportunity that you know, Cleveland Browns organization has given me,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm ready to you know, just

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Speaker 1: take it and go and run with it. Did you

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Speaker 1: have any conversations with the Browns leading up to UH

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Speaker 1: to draft weekend? Had you met with them? Had you

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Speaker 1: talked to them? And you talked to them at the

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Speaker 1: combine at all? I talked with them briefly, um, I

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Speaker 1: want to say, at the combine, real briefly, but nothing

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Speaker 1: nothing too like two in depth. That's why I kind

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Speaker 1: of I kind of threw me off. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even have like that that much interaction with

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Speaker 1: the you know, with the Browns. So you know, it

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Speaker 1: was it was. It caught me off guard. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, everything happens for a reason and I'm excited

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Speaker 1: for it. Did you know much about the Browns offensive

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Speaker 1: scheme beforehand? And what have you gotten to learn about it?

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Speaker 1: And how a lot of people think you're kind of

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Speaker 1: the the the kind of center that this offense need

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Speaker 1: he uses? Yeah, you know, I mean I have I

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Speaker 1: have heard some things. Um, And obviously in going through

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Speaker 1: this process, I just wanted to be in the right fit.

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Speaker 1: You know. I wanna, you know, get into an offense

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Speaker 1: where I I can use my my abilities to my

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Speaker 1: you know, to the best I can. And I have

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Speaker 1: heard that it is an offense where they people think

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Speaker 1: I can succeed and I also do too. So I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to you know, get going and trying to learn

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Speaker 1: this playbook and you know, just try to just try

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Speaker 1: to get better every day and learn from the guys

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Speaker 1: who are already there and um, you know, just try

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Speaker 1: to learn to become a pro to in this offense. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm definitely excited for that. What have the

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Speaker 1: challenges been for you leading up to draft weekend? You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean not being able to take visits and and

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Speaker 1: meet with teams that maybe wanted to spend a little

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Speaker 1: more time with you from the draft. Uh, how do

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Speaker 1: you get ready? You know, there's no pro days. What

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Speaker 1: what was what was the process like for you in

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Speaker 1: these months leading up to the draft when you're already

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Speaker 1: trying to figure your way out through this process and

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Speaker 1: and know how lengthy it is, but then all the

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Speaker 1: curveballs of what's happened here in the world and since

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Speaker 1: the last days. I mean, you know, just from what

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Speaker 1: I've heard from everybody else who has already gone through

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Speaker 1: the process that I missed. I missed a lot, you know,

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Speaker 1: no visits, none of that stuff. So UM, you know

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Speaker 1: it was it was kind of nerve racking because there's

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Speaker 1: just so many uncertainties, you know, know, so many unknowns.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do, what to expect. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I just tried to stay ready, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just try to stay mentally physically ready. UM. Tried

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Speaker 1: to stay in contact with that with whoever I could, UM,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just just made sure that you know,

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Speaker 1: I was always readily available to anybody who wants to

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Speaker 1: call or anything. So UM, definitely was weird. It was

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Speaker 1: uncertain um, but you know it turned out it turned

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Speaker 1: out good at the end. I guess what kind of

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Speaker 1: workouts are you able to do under these kind of limitations?

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Speaker 1: Like how how is it different? Funny story, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: working out in my strength coaches at you dubs garage, um,

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Speaker 1: so and he has everything I need. There's I have

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Speaker 1: a lot enough equipment. Um, you know, I have everything

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Speaker 1: you need to you know, lift and train. So I

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Speaker 1: haven't really missed a beat since, Like, I haven't had

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Speaker 1: anywhere not to work out at all. So you know,

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Speaker 1: everything's been good. I work out the majority of the

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Speaker 1: days a week, and you know it's been good. It's

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Speaker 1: been a smooth, smooth ride with working out all right.

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned up at you dubbed working out of

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Speaker 1: a garage there and strength conditioning coach. You're from California,

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Speaker 1: Why Washington? It was the only D one offer I

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Speaker 1: had out of high school. Um, so I did. There

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Speaker 1: was no there really was no other options. So I I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I knew I wanted to play. I'm at

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Speaker 1: that level. I knew I was capable. Um So when

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Speaker 1: I when the opportunity presented itself, I had to take

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Speaker 1: it for sure. I mean it definitely was definitely was

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Speaker 1: a blessing and came late, and you know, I'm happy,

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Speaker 1: you know, Coach Peterson gave me that the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and you know, play there and I think

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Speaker 1: it turned out pretty well. And then yeah, just a

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Speaker 1: little bit when the coaches, uh were the coaches at

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire heartbroken that you turned them down? Uh a

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Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit, I mean, but you know

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Speaker 1: they kind of thought they kind of knew I would

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Speaker 1: eventually get found by someone. Um, so they were they were,

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Speaker 1: they were good about it, and you know I always

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Speaker 1: kept in contact with them for just just giving me

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Speaker 1: the opportunity. For sure. When you take a look at

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Speaker 1: the program, you get on campus, you think you're going

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Speaker 1: to red shirt, or at least that's what you were told.

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Speaker 1: What what's the mentality you have when you show up

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Speaker 1: on that first day and take us through that process

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Speaker 1: from you up on campus. You you start practicing in

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Speaker 1: anticipation for the fall, you're gonna be a red shirt,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're not a red

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Speaker 1: shirt and you're playing. Yeah, I mean, I mean you

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Speaker 1: said it right. I mean I had all intentions of

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Speaker 1: red shoting. I was two hundred and seventy pounds my

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Speaker 1: freshman year. Um, so you know I had all intentions

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Speaker 1: of getting bigger and learning to playbook, learning the offense,

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Speaker 1: just learn how to be a call to athletes. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't let that stop my development. Um. In camp,

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Speaker 1: you know, I tried to learn to playbook as fast

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Speaker 1: as I could. Um, just played fast. That was my

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Speaker 1: one thing. I just wanted to play fast, because you know,

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Speaker 1: you can mess up. But if you mess up going

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Speaker 1: a hundred percent UM, you know that they can't knock

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Speaker 1: you for your effort, you know. So that's something I

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00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'll try to hold my hat on UM.

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00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: And you know, the coaches they were surprised at how

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Speaker 1: fast I picked it up and how fast I was

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Speaker 1: playing UM. And you know, they presented me the opportunity.

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00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: They didn't force it there like if you if you

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Speaker 1: want to, like, if you want to play, you know,

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00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: we would love that, and you know we really did.

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00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: You can help the team. But if not, you know

619
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Speaker 1: you can red shirt and really you know, grow. And

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get on the field as fast like

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Speaker 1: I wanted to play football. I didn't want to see it.

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Speaker 1: So you know, when it when it presented itself, I

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Speaker 1: took it. And you know, I think I think it

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00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: worked out. You were recruited as a center, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: so we're you surprised that they even gave you that

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Speaker 1: look at at guard. Then, well, so I was recruited

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Speaker 1: as a center, but I played tackle in high school,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't really play center in high school. UM.

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Speaker 1: But obviously because my like my height, they recruited me

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Speaker 1: as a center. UM. But I was taking a lot

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Speaker 1: of reps at guard for like injury purposes because we

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00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries and camped that year. So

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00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: they just threw me in that guard and you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of got it fast. I got the hang

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Speaker 1: of it, and um, I wasn't surprised, um, but you know,

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00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: I got used to it fast, and it was it

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00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: was fun. I love playing guard. So, Nick, what was

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00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: the process like for you then moving to center? Like,

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Speaker 1: how did you had you had you ever done it

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Speaker 1: before in high school? I know you said you play tackle,

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00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: but what was it like learning the position? Yeah, so

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00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: I played center h one game in high school because

643
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: our center got hurt. Um, So I kind of knew

644
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: how to snap already like that. It's never been a

645
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: big deal for me learning how to snap. It wasn't

646
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: really that hard, um. But you know, it's the it's

647
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: the taking control of you know, having everybody know listening

648
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: to you and you're making the calls and you're making

649
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: the adjustments. You know, you're you're mic pointing and all

650
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: that stuff. So, um, that was the thing that I

651
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: had to I had to get used to. But it

652
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: wasn't hard because I'm a vocal person as is like

653
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: I like talking, I like you know, being in control

654
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: of things. So UM, it wasn't that wasn't difficult. It

655
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: was just something new that I had to learn how

656
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: to you know, you know, control. So it wasn't a

657
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: hard transition at all. Actually, I think it it was

658
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: way easier than I thought it was gonna be. Um.

659
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: Obviously there was some technical things that had to work

660
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: on with my footwork and you know, past setting is

661
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: different as a center, and run bocking is different as

662
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: you got snapped the ball first, so your hands are

663
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: on different time, like on a different time. So um,

664
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: from a technical standpoint, it wasn't difficult, just something new

665
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: to learn. And you know, I think it worked out

666
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: for me. When did you grow into a leader at Washington?

667
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: Would you say, Um, I would say my junior year.

668
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: My junior when I started playing center is when I

669
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: kind of I grew into a more vocal presence. You know,

670
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: I started to feel more comfortable on the on the team,

671
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: and UM, at that time playing center, UM with you know,

672
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: with veteran guys on the old line, you know, they

673
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: started to listen to me. So I started to realize

674
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: that I did have some you know, a kind of

675
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: a role on that team as a as a leader.

676
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: So I really I really understood that, UM my junior

677
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: year and then my senior year, it was the whole team.

678
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: At first, it was just the offensive line and just

679
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: the offense. But I realized how much, you know, the

680
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: team fed off of my energy and fed off the

681
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: things I said. So I would say my junior year

682
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,959
Speaker 1: and then my senior year really kind of grew, UM,

683
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: the whole team. And as as being a leader, what

684
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: has made you the most successful? UM, technique or mental?

685
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: Which one? Uh? Which one do you pride yourself on?

686
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: That's really kind of helped you take your game to

687
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: the next level? Yeah, I mean both, honestly, I both

688
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: are those are two things I definitely take, UM, you know,

689
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 1: really serious because you know, playing center, UM, you gotta

690
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: be locked in mentally, you gotta know, you gotta know

691
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: more than the average person about football, and you gotta

692
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 1: know more about everything UM and and the technique wise,

693
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: you know, not being a big, big maller guy like

694
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: not you know, big six five three twenty guy. You know,

695
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta learn some tools to you know,

696
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: the chief blocks and UM, you know, make sure that

697
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 1: you you're you're sharp out there, because you know, I'm

698
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: not the biggest dude, but the technique has to stand

699
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: down and has to be on point, and you have

700
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: to make sure you get blocks made and um, so

701
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: definitely those are the two things I make sure. And

702
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: you know, watching film for both of those things is huge.

703
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: Learning from other guys and um learning different tricks of

704
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: the trade for sure. So both of those two are definitely, uh,

705
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: something I take pride in for sure. Nick was the

706
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: moment against Arizona State in two eighteen. You probably know

707
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Is that the most famous? Yeah? Yeah,

708
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: I mean that was crazy. Um, I don't know, It's

709
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: just like it was just something I did. Uh. We

710
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: me and that guy were going back and forth the

711
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: whole game, you know, talking mess to each other and um,

712
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: he I was getting to his head and I was

713
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: just messing. I was just messing around, was being myself. Um.

714
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: But after that game, my phone was going crazy and

715
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: it was blowing up and like froze, and I just

716
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of notifications and stuff. So yeah,

717
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: it was the most famous. I felt sure you had

718
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: a lot of accolades in college, a lot of awards,

719
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: a lot of recognition, uh, for your play at Washington

720
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: from a conference standpoint, from a national standpoint, Um, is

721
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: there an accolade that stands out to you? Is there

722
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: an award that means more to you than any out

723
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: of all the ones that you've been able to achieve

724
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: so far? UM? I think hmm, I think that my

725
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: the two the two packs Old championships mean a lot. Um,

726
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, because I was I contributed on both of those. Um.

727
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: You know, I played through the whole both of those

728
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: whole games, and those you know, those games are good games.

729
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: They were grinders and we got the job done. But

730
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: I think the main one I'm pretty proud of is um,

731
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: one of our banquet awards I got. UM it's called

732
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: the Guy Clarity Awards, and it's voted by the whole team,

733
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: and it's basically, UM, just the most inspirational players. You know,

734
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: the person that you know inspires you to come to

735
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: the stadium every day and you know, put your best

736
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: foot forward, and UM, someone you can lean on when

737
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: you know you're not feeling it that morning, and you know,

738
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: the whole my whole team, UM, you know, voted for me,

739
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: and that meant the lot because it it made me

740
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: realize like the effect I had on my team. You know,

741
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: I don't really realize it because going through it, you know,

742
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: you're just trying to worry about getting your job done,

743
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, but it it kind of, you know, resonated

744
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: with me that like, damn, I did have an impact

745
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: on these guys, and you know, I kind of want

746
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: to keep building on that characteristic of that going forward

747
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: into the next level. So UM, yeah, that one definitely

748
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: that that one definitely meant the most for sure. What

749
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: about what you do on the field translates to a

750
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: wide zone scheme like what specifically? Why why are you

751
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: the right fit in those kind of schemes? Um, I

752
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: would just say my athleticism, I think, Um, I move

753
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: lottery laterally very well. Um, I'm I'm pretty quick. My

754
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: short area quickness is pretty well, and I have pretty

755
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: good hand placement. I'm on reach box and stuff like that,

756
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: and I really pride myself on blocking on the second

757
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: and third level. Um, It's not an easy tag has

758
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: all alignement, but um, it's something I really love doing.

759
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: It's it's super fun. Um and just you know, just

760
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: the nature of how I play. You know, I'm I'm

761
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: naturally just a quick guy. Is the faster guy, So um,

762
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: it'll be definitely. I think those two things definitely are

763
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: suitable for being in a wide zone office for sure

764
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: appreciate Nick Harris's time, and we are excited to see

765
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Nick Harris out on the field as much as he's

766
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: excited to get here and get out on the field.

767
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: Coming up, it's our two of the Best of Cleveland

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00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: Brown's Daily today, featuring the best podcast available. It's our

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00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: interview with the Voice of the Browns, Jim Donovan from

770
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 1: our schedule release show. He breaks down the entire Cleveland

771
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: brown schedule. You'll hear it next when the Best of

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00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Daily, featuring the best podcast available, continues on

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00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: back into the Best of Brown's Daily, featuring the best

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00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: podcast available on Jason Gibbs, the host of the b

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00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: p A, alongside Brown's senior staff writer Andrew Gribble. Coming

778
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: up here an hour two on the Best of the

779
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: bp A. You'll hear from rookie safety Grant Delpit also

780
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: Brown's linebacker coach Jason Tarver. Right now, it's our interview

781
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: with Jim Donovan, the voice of the Browns, from our

782
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: schedule release special. He breaks down every game of the

783
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: brown schedule. Have a listen. The schedule is out and

784
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the schedule maker didn't do the Brown

785
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: and Orange a whole lot of favors here in No,

786
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: they didn't it, and especially right off the tip, Right

787
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: off the tip that opening game. Wow, what a game

788
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: in Baltimore MMT Bank Stadium against the Ravens Lamar Jackson,

789
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: who the Browns made human in that game in Baltimore

790
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: last year, I mean really human. They kind of gave

791
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: every buddy a textbook on maybe how you defend against him.

792
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: Not that anybody was successful against him after that. Um

793
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: And and the Bronze were not successful against him later

794
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: in the year, But I mean, that might have been

795
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: the game of the season last year, considering where the

796
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: Browns wanted and how they wanted with Dick Chubb having

797
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. If you can go in there, whether it's

798
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: the opening Sunday, Jason, or at any point in the

799
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: season and beat the Ravens in Baltimore. You have done

800
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: a great, great deal of good and you've obviously played

801
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: very well because that is a tremendous atmosphere, one of

802
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: the all time tough stadiums to win in when you're

803
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: the visiting team. Yeah, no question about it, I think,

804
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: And it pains me to say that probably one of

805
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: the top three or four stadiums in the seven years

806
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: that I've been doing this to go to in terms

807
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: of the atmosphere, how we're set up real close to

808
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: the field. We are literally amongst the fans, some of

809
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: whom usually are overserved by us time we kick off

810
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. That happened to be right front of us.

811
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: But uh, it is a very very tough place to play,

812
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: and it's a tough it's a tough way to kick

813
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:11,720
Speaker 1: off the season, and on a history that doesn't favor

814
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: us too well in openers. No, I mean you consider this.

815
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: I mean, since they only won the opening game once

816
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: and they've tied it once, and they've been a whole

817
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: lot of losses and a lot of them have come

818
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: in Cleveland really through the years, the Bronze have opened

819
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: at home many many years since coming back And you

820
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: know what, Jason, I've always thought, and I've said this

821
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: to you before, but I've always thought the opening game

822
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: of the season, and specifically for the Browns, is so

823
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: important because it's the one game of the year that

824
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: you get so much time to prepare for it. You

825
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: can really mold your whole training camp around being ready

826
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: for the opening game of the year. How much you

827
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: play your regulars, how much you don't play your regulars,

828
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: and and you get ready for that game. And really,

829
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: I think most teams, and I would think the Brons

830
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: were in this category to start get ready for the

831
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: opening game of the season. Really the opening day of

832
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: training camp, everything is geared to being ready to go

833
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: for that opening game. And the fact that you they

834
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: haven't won it so historically so many times, it never

835
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: to me feels like you walk out of there oh

836
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: and one. It feels like you walk out of there

837
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: oh and two because you've had so much time to

838
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 1: prepare for it, and it just is a big letdown

839
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: when you don't win it. That's why I think it's

840
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: so important. Now, this is this is a tough way

841
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: for Kevin Stefanski, it's a tough way for Joe Woods

842
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: to open up his career as the defensive coordinator, to

843
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: get Lamar Jackson in his first game. And you know

844
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: the other thing, Jason, is that the Ravens have a

845
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: bad taste in their mouth after what happened last year

846
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and for two years in a row

847
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: now they have lost right away in the playoffs and

848
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: both times at home. But to go in as the

849
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: number one seat last year and play the way they

850
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: did against Tennessee and get knocked out of the playoffs

851
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: right away, that they've got a lot to make up for.

852
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: I think let's take a look at the other games

853
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: in this first quarter of the season, and and you

854
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: play that Sunday game at Baltimore. It's a quick turnaround,

855
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: but at least it's at home, it's a Thursday night game,

856
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: and it's against the number one pick in the draft

857
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: in Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals coming to town. Well,

858
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: that's got a lot of storylines. It really does. Because

859
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: it's a Thursday night game. You're right and pending upon

860
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: what you do. If you if you go into Baltimore

861
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: and play very well and get a good result in there,

862
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: you have a chance to make up and get a

863
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: lot of steam going into the front part of this schedule,

864
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: which because the Brons in in, you know, many years

865
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: have come out of that thing. Oh and one, that

866
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: first month of the season has been a problem going

867
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: into October. Too many times they've been two below five

868
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: hundred or three below five and you're just fighting to

869
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: get back to sea level the remaining part of the year.

870
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: But Joe Burrow coming in with Cincinnati and it will

871
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 1: be really a lot of fun. Baker Mayfield being reinvented,

872
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: and you know it will be great show. That will

873
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: be a tremendous atmosphere. I go back to that Thursday

874
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: night game, but really last year against the Steelers up

875
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: until the last eight seconds of the game, but you

876
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: go back the year before that night against the Jets

877
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: was so electric inside that stadium because people were waiting

878
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: for the Browns to win. Um. Turning on those lights

879
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 1: at First Energy Stadium is always fun in the regular season, yeah,

880
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: no question about it. You get back to back home games,

881
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: then with the Bengals Thursday night, a long weekend off

882
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: and then a date with the Washington Redskins coming to town,

883
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: and again some high profile players in Chase young and

884
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, we'll find out who's gonna be playing quarterback

885
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: for Washington when when their season starts. But uh, they've

886
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: got a few answers. And then to close out the

887
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: first quarter, a trip to Jerry World. And for me,

888
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my eighth season producing the radio

889
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: network in the game day broadcasts, and it's my first

890
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: trip to Jerry World. I know you've been there once

891
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: before and and they have pretty good stories from the

892
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: last time you were there. Yeah, it's um, it's the

893
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: first time that we went there when it was built

894
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: and it's the only time we've been there so far. Um.

895
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: It is a city unto itself, it really is. It

896
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: is so big and it is such a huge stadium.

897
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: The Browns should have won that day. They should have

898
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: won that day. They were I had the whole game,

899
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: and late in the game, they were so wounded in

900
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: the defensive secondary with injuries. They couldn't cover anybody, and

901
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: so the Bronze kept committing penalties and getting you know,

902
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: illegal use of the hands or past interference and that's

903
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: how Dallas came back and tight of and then won

904
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: the game at overtime. It was a shame, but they

905
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: played very well down there. You know the other thing

906
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: with the Bengals and the Redskins, Jason, it's really important

907
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: the Bronze win at home early in the year. Last

908
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: year they didn't do that. They ended up five hundred

909
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: at home. But if you remember, you know they lost

910
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: to Tennessee, they lost to Seattle. You know they weren't

911
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: playing well at home. They should win at home. You

912
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: really need to win at home. I mean that that

913
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: crowds ready to win at home. You should make it

914
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 1: very ung comfortable for Jill Burrow and you know, whoever

915
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: Haskins or whoever is gonna be playing for the Redskins

916
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: at the time, make it difficult for them and beat them.

917
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: You're right, two very winnable games at home. Not easy,

918
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: but winnable football games at home. You really need to

919
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: take care of business in the first month, because your

920
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: first two road games there doozies. We get into the

921
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: second quarter of the season. I was a little surprised

922
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: that this has become the national TV game on a

923
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,720
Speaker 1: Sunday for US, But here we are four on October eleven.

924
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: It's a home game with the Indianapolis Colts, and yeah,

925
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: they've got Philip Rivers and they have a good football team.

926
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: But I'm a little surprised that that seems to be

927
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: I mean, would signal a nance romo, uh, CBS a

928
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 1: team broadcast and with the Steelers the following week, one

929
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 1: would think they would become that game in Miles Garrett's

930
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: first game back against them, But instead it's the Colts. Yeah,

931
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. Good team, great coach. I like Frank

932
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: Right a lot. I think he does great things there. Um,

933
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: I think that unfortunately. I mean, you know, if you

934
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: can remember last year when we were there in the

935
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: summer for that the combined practices with the two which

936
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: led up to the to the preseason game against each

937
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,720
Speaker 1: other at Lucas Oil Stadium. Um, at that point, remember, Jason,

938
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: they were just saying, well, Andrew Luck is going to

939
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: be back. I mean, it's just a matter of when.

940
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: But he's gonna come back. There's no doubt about it.

941
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: And of course right after we leave that it really

942
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: comes out, no, he's not going to be back. In fact,

943
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: he's never coming back. He's gonna retire. So I mean

944
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: that threw a monkey wrench into their season. The Philip

945
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: Rivers thing will be really interesting because the Tom Brady

946
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: story has overshadowed some of these quarterbacks moving around. Um,

947
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see. I mean, Rivers is

948
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 1: not an interesting deal there, it's a one year deal. Um.

949
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: You know they have other you know, quarterbacks laying behind there.

950
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: Jacobe Brisette. Um, they played good defense. I that that

951
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: should be an interesting game. It really should. The Colts, Um,

952
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, that will be a lot of fun. You know,

953
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: and as you say, it's a late afternoon game, you

954
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: know the crowd will be ready. Yes, they will, no

955
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: question about it. All right, So we have the Colts

956
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: and then we hit the road for two games and

957
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: then you get really into the division swing yet again

958
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. So before the bye week and

959
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: before you get the halfway point of the year, Cincinnati

960
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: is done and gone. Yeah, you know, I um, I

961
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: give I have to give that Zach Taylor a lot

962
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: of credit. When the Browns played them last year. I

963
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: thought the Bengals played really hard and obviously really well

964
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: the last game of the season and beat the Bronx.

965
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: But even the game in Cleveland, I mean they're inside

966
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: the ten yard line the entire afternoon. The fact of

967
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: the matter was they couldn't get it into the end

968
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: zone and scored touchdowns, but they were all over the Browns.

969
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: That was a very white knuckle or ride that afternoon

970
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: in a game where if you remember when you when

971
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: the Bronx went into the game that day at home

972
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, you figure it's gonna be a win

973
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 1: and probably a very easy win. And the statistics said

974
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: the brown should run the ball all over them. They

975
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: were the worst run defense in the NFL, and the

976
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: Browns for some reason didn't run the ball in the

977
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: first half. But it was a tight game, and you know,

978
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: I would imagine it will be interesting to see what

979
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor does in his second year. And of course

980
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: the trip to Pittsburgh is always amazing, you know, And

981
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: at some point things have got to shift around there,

982
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: because if you're really going to arrive at the point

983
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: where you want to arrive at win the division, go

984
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, you're gonna have to learn how to

985
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: win over there, and more importantly, you have to overcome

986
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: the song Renegade. Yes, that's right, when Renegade comes on

987
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: and I would you'd like to have a lead, Yes,

988
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, desperately want to have a lead

989
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: in that situation. The final game before the bye week,

990
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders and uh Gruden Maya will carb

991
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: the quarterback will be Mariota by that time. I think

992
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of storylines involving the Raiders here by

993
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: the time they get to us Halloween weekend, and by

994
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: the way, quite happy that they're coming here hell Ween

995
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 1: weekend as opposed to us going to them in Vegas. Yeah,

996
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: they're Yeah, I think everything has been gauged to um,

997
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, making what they think is going to be

998
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: actually be their team, the Gruden Mayock creation when they

999
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: arrive in Las Vegas. I mean, you know, and so

1000
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: they're they're presumably and and you just wonder what they're

1001
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: gonna be all about. I I, um, you know, the

1002
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: John Gruden thing shows little signs Jason that it's gonna

1003
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: take shape and take off. But then they'll they'll lose

1004
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: to in a row, and they may not play well,

1005
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it just has had it hasn't

1006
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: had it hasn't had a long shelf life when they've

1007
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: played well. Now, whether that's the quarterback or whether it's

1008
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: him just really fiddling with his roster to the point

1009
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 1: now where he says, Okay, it's year three and it's

1010
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: time to really go that that should be. It would be.

1011
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: It will be a lot of fun to see them

1012
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: come to Cleveland, and it will be a lot of

1013
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: fun to see really what they're all about by that time,

1014
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: because they should be really starting to become what they

1015
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: envisioned themselves to become. The bye week comes right at

1016
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the year, which we will take all

1017
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: day long, coming out done the third quarter of the

1018
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: football season. And Andrew Gribble and I talked about earlier.

1019
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: Gribbs thinks this is the toughest part of the schedule here.

1020
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: The next four out of the five games that you're

1021
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: playing are against playoff caliber opponents. And you start things

1022
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 1: off with two games at home. It'll be Houston followed

1023
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: by Philadelphia, two very tough games for this football team,

1024
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: and really probably at this point in the year, you're

1025
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: probably going gut check time. Let's see what this team

1026
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: is made of here against two of the better teams

1027
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: in football. Yeah, I agree. Um, we do not play

1028
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: well um through the years, except when they first came

1029
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: into the NFL against the Texans, I mean early on,

1030
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: we were okay against the Texans. Terry Robiski got his

1031
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: only win as the interim head coach of the Props

1032
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: against the Texans. Butch Davis gotta win against the Texans. Um.

1033
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: But since then we have really struggled. There was a

1034
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: death Knell game when it looked as though we were

1035
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: rolling coming in against Houston, and J J Watch just

1036
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: dominated the game against the Browns the last time we

1037
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: were down there. Mayfield had a bad first half but

1038
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: a very good second half. But it was such a

1039
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: bad first half that you know, it just wasn't gonna work.

1040
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, you remember the failed

1041
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: attempt of making Kevin Hogan a starting quarterback against the

1042
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: against the Texans, and he completed more to Houston than

1043
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: he did to his own team. Um, yeah, that that's

1044
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a tough twosome. You're right about that, Philadelphia.

1045
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: You know, I just admire Doug Peterson and how he

1046
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: coaches that team very very much. And then you go

1047
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: on the road for two games. Thanksgiving weekend we are

1048
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and then the following week we are at Tennessee.

1049
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: Yet another playoff team, the team that went to the

1050
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 1: a f C championship games. So a game at Jacksonville,

1051
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: and a lot of fans I think would look at

1052
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville game and say, that's a win. They're not

1053
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: a good football team. They're gonna be tanking. We have

1054
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: not played well in Jacksonville. No, my gosh. The last

1055
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: time he went down there, I mean, you know, you

1056
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: figured that you're you know, you're gonna win and you're

1057
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: gonna you know, you're on a roll there and they

1058
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: went down there and you know, just didn't perform well

1059
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: at all. Brian Hoyer had a rough game down there,

1060
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: I remember, and the Bronx just you know, fizzled down there.

1061
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: So um again, you know, Doug Maron, I would imagine

1062
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: Jason I mean remember there were reports right at the

1063
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: conclusion of the regular season that he was fired, but

1064
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't fired. Um. You know a lot of you know,

1065
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: this game, we could have easily been in London for

1066
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: this game, but the international games have been brought back

1067
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: state side. Certainly understandable. Um again, um interesting game. I

1068
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: like the Browns talent against Jacksonville, and like you said,

1069
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: then the game after that, you know, uh, that's a

1070
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: really good team with that coach really knows how to

1071
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: get that team dialed up. We got a taste of

1072
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: that in a very very distasteful way in the opening

1073
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: game last year. Mike Rabel really did an amazing job

1074
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: with that team. Final quarter of the season. Then, uh,

1075
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: and it closes out a little bit of a gauntlet here.

1076
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: It's a Monday night or it's our second prime time game.

1077
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: It's against the Baltimore Ravens Monday Night, December fourteen. Gonna

1078
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: be nice and cold at First Energy Stadium, but the

1079
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: Ravens coming to town for a little prime time action.

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00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any bigger than that for the Bronze.

1081
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: I always look at the schedule and it always looked

1082
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: so so great and appetizing because you get your rivalries.

1083
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: Once again, you're inside the division, but you want to

1084
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: be in it. You know, you don't want to be

1085
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: in that category of in the hunt. You want to

1086
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: be in the category of for the division. You're still

1087
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,439
Speaker 1: in it. You're definitely in it as a wild card

1088
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: possibility and that and that would add to the atmosphere.

1089
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: You just don't want to be playing out the string

1090
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: and it will be fascinating to see, you know, where

1091
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: the Bronze are at that point in time, because, um,

1092
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of firepower on this team. There's

1093
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: a lot of star power on this team, and if

1094
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: it stays healthy, and I know that's a big if,

1095
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: but if it stays healthy, it could really be hitting

1096
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: stride at that point that you know, Kevin Stepanski would

1097
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: be months into his first season where things should be

1098
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: really in sync at that point. But that would be

1099
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: fun if mathematically we're very much in it at that time. Yeah, indeed.

1100
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: And then nothing like spending the holidays in Jersey back

1101
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: to back weeks. I'm not quite sure what the schedule

1102
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: maker was doing, although they did this this past season

1103
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. They did the Giants and Jets

1104
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: thing back to back weeks. But again, it's one of

1105
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: those things where you look at it and you go,

1106
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: we gotta go. We have to go to the Giants,

1107
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: and then depending on who's where, and if we're in

1108
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: contention and the Jets are in contention, maybe that Sunday

1109
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: game becomes a Saturday game on and now we're flying

1110
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day ten back to New Jersey when we've

1111
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 1: already been there six days earlier. Yeah, We've done that once.

1112
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: We flew on Christmas Day. One time we played in Miami, Uh,

1113
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: down there around Christmas and I can remember flying on

1114
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Um, you know, the the Giants fascinating Joe Judge,

1115
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: How will Daniel Jones be at that time? Will stay

1116
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley be healthy at that time? You know? What

1117
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: are the Giants gonna be like with this shift in

1118
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: in head coaching? Uh you know, uh Shermer being out

1119
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: and now Joe Judge coming over from New England and

1120
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: really anointed as a tough guy coming up Bill Belichick

1121
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: staff where he's gonna really make the Giants tough again. Uh,

1122
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: that will be fun. The Jets will be interesting. Where

1123
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: will they be at that time? You know, Adam Gaze,

1124
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: where are they gonna be? Where are they gonna be

1125
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: with Sam Donald at that time? Because we know in

1126
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: Chicago there's great worry about Mitchell Trabiski. Um, you wonder

1127
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: if there's a little worry about Donald too. Yeah, no question,

1128
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: final game of the year. And I hate that we

1129
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: do this. I hate the schedule maker for doing this.

1130
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: But it's a date with the Steelers and it's on

1131
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: January three, and similar to the Ravens game. I'm hoping

1132
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: that it means something on January three, when we play

1133
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: host of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, and more importantly, you

1134
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: wanted to mean something for us rather than just for them,

1135
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: because they'll fill the place. You know, fans are gonna

1136
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: be in there, and hopefully they are. They'll fill the place.

1137
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,439
Speaker 1: I mean a couple of years ago, remember they needed

1138
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: a win coming in and uh and came in and

1139
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: won the game, and they were looking at the scoreboard

1140
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: because somebody else was involved in the game that they

1141
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: needed and you're right that. I mean again, as we

1142
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: look at it, that game looks great and you just

1143
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: hope it sizes up to the way the season plays out,

1144
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: that it is great, that it is a big game,

1145
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: that you're really playing for something, not just for a

1146
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: draft choice, you know, or just trying to you know,

1147
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: add a win on. Hopefully it's a win that gets

1148
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: you somewhere into the postseason. That would be something. Always

1149
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: love when we can hear from Jimmy Donovan, the voice

1150
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: of your Cleveland Browns. Injuries during childbirth require experience. Counsel

1151
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: called the lawyers at Elk and Elk for a clear

1152
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: answer as to what happened during your child's birth. Elk

1153
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Speaker 1: and Elk, proud partner of the Cleveland Browns called one

1154
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Speaker 1: hundred elk Ohio. Today, we'll take a time out when

1155
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: we come back. Brown's Rookie safety Grant Delpit joins Gribble

1156
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: and I on the Best of Cleveland Brown's Daily featuring

1157
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: the best podcast available on eight fifty ESPN Cleveland Cleveland

1158
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: Browns Daily brought to you by Jack on ESPN, AFT

1159
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: W k n R. Back here on the Best of

1160
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Daily, featuring the best podcast available. What is

1161
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: the best podcast available? You ask, it is the Browns

1162
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: Draft Podcast and also the Browns Training Camp Podcast. We'll

1163
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: be back with you in just a couple of weeks

1164
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: featuring Andrew Gribble and I. You can check it out

1165
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: at Cleveland Browns dot com or wherever you get your podcasts,

1166
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: and you can also check us out on our YouTube

1167
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: page YouTube dot com. Slash Browns Rookie safety Grant Dulpit

1168
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: kind enough to give us a few minutes of his

1169
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: time late in May to talk about the Browns Virtual

1170
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: Rookie Minicamp and how his first month as a Cleveland

1171
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: brown was going have a listen. What has this month

1172
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: and change been like for you since becoming a member

1173
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. Um. You know, of course it's

1174
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: been a different experience. Uh. You know, we've just been

1175
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: doing meetings every day, just trying to lend the defense

1176
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: as fast as I can, trying to get to know

1177
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: the guys as well. And it's kind of hard to

1178
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: get to everybody over zoom, you know, over the phone

1179
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So, um, it's definitely been a

1180
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: different experience, but it's coming along well. I think we've

1181
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: gotten to the routine and things. Uh, you know, a

1182
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: b and coast to bask and done terrific job. So

1183
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready. What what have you guys done

1184
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: to try to get to know each other and what

1185
01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: can you what can you tell us about some of

1186
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: the guys in your room them that you've gotten to

1187
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: know over this last few weeks. Yeah, I mean we

1188
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: meet with each other every day, UM, so you know,

1189
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: of course the meeting starts off just you know, by

1190
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 1: talking a little um, just you know, how to how

1191
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: to how you've been doing this past week? You know,

1192
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: if you be on a Monday, how the weekend was

1193
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So just getting to know, like

1194
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: we bet to the room. You know, guys like Carl

1195
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: Joseph and sent da Um and guys like that's been there,

1196
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, like red Wine, Um. And that's just in

1197
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: the saving room in corners room. Um. We got Greedy

1198
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: dizel Uh, we got d Lou. We got a bunch

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01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: of guys that we just try to you know, get

1200
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: to know. Um. You know, I'm looking for We're being

1201
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: O t as right now. So it sucks that we

1202
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 1: can't be in Cleveland, but I'm looking forward to getting

1203
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 1: up there maybe in July. You know, if things started

1204
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: called out, what is that room, like who's the who's

1205
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: the prankster of the group, Who's the jokester, who's freewheeling

1206
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: and liking they have a good time, the prankster and

1207
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: the jug I don't know it's how because you know,

1208
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 1: we take care of business in the meeting. Um, but

1209
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: before all that stuff, you know, guys like that, you know,

1210
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: Joe Brown said, I said, Greedy Greed is the goofy

1211
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: one in the group. You know, he's always been like

1212
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: that since LSU days. Uh. So you know he's a

1213
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: great personality. But I think the room is full of

1214
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: great personality that you know guys on my owning how

1215
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: you mentioned it before we taped, But how how have

1216
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: you been what have you been doing to stay in

1217
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: shape and how creative have you had to get to

1218
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 1: to keep up with to be in football shape without

1219
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: playing football? And I'm working out every day every day, Monday,

1220
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: do Friday, sometimes on Saturday. UM, you know, doing the

1221
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: workouts that the Browns sent us, as well as getting

1222
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: your own work out in UM whenever I can so UM,

1223
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: it's it's it's tough, you know, it's we're trying to

1224
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: not to I'm trying not to be content with things.

1225
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to go up and you know, improve

1226
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,479
Speaker 1: my game, improved my body to make sure my body

1227
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: is ready to play. Uh. You know, whenever we get

1228
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: chanced to what has been the toughest exercise that you've

1229
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: had to adapt, you know, something that that you like

1230
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: to do workout wise, that you've had to change based

1231
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: on what you have ever on you don't have there. Yeah, Well,

1232
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: I think I'm kind of blessed cause I have a

1233
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: facility to work out in UM and it's not like

1234
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: anybody here, It's just me and Ryan Clark. Uh, you

1235
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: know that's he played for Steelers back in the day.

1236
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: Sorry Browns FA, but my guy since LSU days. UM.

1237
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, we've been over here to working out the facility. UM.

1238
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of guys don't like a

1239
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: lot of guys are you know, making it up as

1240
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 1: they go? You know, would that be we're going down

1241
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: in the country with I don't know, some chopping trees,

1242
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: the type of wood or something like that. But I

1243
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: know Jacob Phillips up there in Tennessee doing the country way. Uh,

1244
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: you gotta ask him about that. You guys have a

1245
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: lot again, a lot of l s U Tigers up here.

1246
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: And obviously you can't go out any better than what

1247
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: you did in college football with raising the national championship

1248
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: trophy and what was the best moment of that season?

1249
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 1: What was the best moment two thousand and nineteen for you? No,

1250
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: either getting over the hump of beating Alabama and that's

1251
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: something we hadn't been done in eight years. Um. That

1252
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: was a great feeling. That was a great feeling, especially

1253
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: doing in Tuscaloosa. UM. And then of course the national championship. UM.

1254
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: You know, seeing all the you know, the hard work,

1255
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 1: uh come into play and you know, really just accomplished

1256
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: that goal that we've been wanting for so long. You know,

1257
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: it's really finally getting LSU back where it needs to be. Um,

1258
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: that was something that I told myself I wanted to

1259
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: do before I've been played one snapping college. Um, it

1260
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: was great to you know, have my career in like that.

1261
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Speaker 1: Do you ever think for a moment about going to Alabama?

1262
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: I took a visit to Alabama. I did not an official,

1263
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 1: but I took an unofficial and it was a great school. Uh,

1264
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: great facilities, great everything. You know, I make a statement, Um,

1265
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 1: but no, I just wasn't feeling now I was. I

1266
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: was always in my heart. Well, let me ask you

1267
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: about your last season there and how how tough was

1268
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: it maybe mentally for you to kind of battle through

1269
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,479
Speaker 1: an injury but still be out there for your guys

1270
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: and what what what kind of stuff were you going

1271
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: through behind the scenes to kind of get yourself ready

1272
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: for those game days. People just don't know, man, I

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Speaker 1: just don't know. Uh now, try not to talked about

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Speaker 1: a lot. But I really showed myself my team, you know,

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01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: in in the in the circle, like o the building.

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01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: You know that I'm not in it for the draft,

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01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 1: and I wasn't in it to protect my draft status.

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01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: If I was, I would have just sat out the

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01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 1: rest of the season. You know. I wasn't worried about

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01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: going first round, you know, top ten, top five team,

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01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: and I was really trying to be there for my guys.

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01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: I could have easily, you know what I'm saying, Hun

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01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: the clice up and probably got surgery on my ankle

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01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: and it would have been good in a couple of weeks.

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01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to miss any games, and so

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01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: just you know, behind closed doors, it was tough. It

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01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 1: was tough. No, you couldn't tell if I was limping out.

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01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: Their fans don't really care about all that stuff. Uh ankle, slove,

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01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: flare it up. Um. But you know, we got through

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01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: it and we didn't lose the game. So that's all

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01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: I meant. Speaking of moving, you've been all over the place,

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01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Houston, Florida, back to Louisiana now on the

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: on the Cleveland. Um, how supportive has your family been

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01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 1: through everything? I have been very supportive, even in my days,

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01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 1: uh Florida, I MG that one year you know, they

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01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: came to every home game, and I say, it wasn't that.

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01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: I romg. It's not a lot of people that come

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01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: to the to the home games because everybody comes from

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Speaker 1: across the country. Being my my mom and my sister

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01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: and my dad was always there. So I'm sure that

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01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: they will be at every Cleveland game. You know, I

1302
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 1: have to find a spot where they can come for

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01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 1: the weekends. I know they're gonna be coming up, so

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01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be nice if I was

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01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 1: at a great support system and they're definitely gonna be

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01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 1: a part of it. What's Greedy told you about Cleveland

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01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: as a place to live. Greedy said, well, you know, uh,

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01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 1: he said, it's night O. Greed's a family man. You know,

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01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 1: he's been with his he's been with his daughter and

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01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 1: his and his and as girl and just being up

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01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Um, you know, I'm from Louisian. I've never

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01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: even been in Cleveland before. I never even thought about

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01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 1: going to Cleveland before. So um, he said, it's it's

1314
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,600
Speaker 1: not as bad as you were seeing. That's on it.

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01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: It's on the lake. Um, downtown area is great. It's

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01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 1: great stadium, Um, you know, great people as well. So

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01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: and I'm decided to get up there for the first time.

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01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: You will need a winner code. I hate to be

1319
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: news that that part will come in December. But if

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01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: you're playing in January, it doesn't matter. You don't feel

1321
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: the cold. Trust me, especially when you're playing January football. Um,

1322
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: what's the best piece of advice that Ryan Clark has

1323
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: given you? You said your trained with him, what's the

1324
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: what's the best piece of advice you've got? And what

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01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: has he told you about that little rivalry with a

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01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: team that he used to play for. Yeah, there's a

1327
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 1: there's a big rivalry at that you know division games.

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01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: I know that they've always you know, he's always been

1329
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: riving with the stealers, so you know he's he's really

1330
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: just told me, you know, just just be yourself. And

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, guys wish that they had the rookie year back. Um,

1332
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: so just just going going year one is really something

1333
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 1: to proof. And I think that have a lot of

1334
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: stuff to prove to people. Of course, every team I

1335
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: passed me up, and you know, being drafted forty four overall,

1336
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: that's really a big chip on my shoulder. Um, So

1337
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, some guys may look at it is a

1338
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: good thing, I do. You know, I'm truly blessed, but

1339
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 1: I do have a lot more to prove, and you know,

1340
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm ready to put on that Brown's jersey and get

1341
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: to work. One of the things that Andrew Berry said

1342
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: about what do you like about your game was the versatility?

1343
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,679
Speaker 1: What what what has made you kind of a player

1344
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: that's been able to to play a lot of different

1345
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: spots in that defensive backfield. Oh well, I think my

1346
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 1: ability to learn, you know, all positions is something that

1347
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 1: I probed myself. And you know, even right now, you

1348
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: know I'm trying to learn every every secondary position, so

1349
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: I know that what the guy's left and right and

1350
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 1: me is doing, um, and that can help me do

1351
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: my job. So I think that you know my ability

1352
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 1: to learn fast, think on my feet, um. And of

1353
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 1: course it because the scheme always has everything to do it. Now,

1354
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: I'll just ask you one more thing. What have you

1355
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: learned about your potential role in this defense so far

1356
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,760
Speaker 1: from from what you've gathered, and what do you like

1357
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: about it? Yeah, it's a brand new defense. My role,

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01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if I know exactly what my role

1359
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: would be. I know that I'm gonna have to come

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01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: in early and earn a spot. Um, that's before anything.

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: I gotta earn trust with the vets, and I got

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01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: earnest about with the coaches. So UM, I'm looking forward

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01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,680
Speaker 1: to doing that. You know I'm doing that right now, Uh,

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01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 1: in meetings and watching film every day. So um. You

1365
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: know the identity that I'll have isn't isn't isn't there yet.

1366
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: But you know, we were slowly figuring up. Are you

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Speaker 1: going to challenge before we wrap up? Are you going

1368
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 1: to challenge Myles Garrett to any weight left in competitions?

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01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: I will not be doing that, you know he has

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01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: that one. Um, I could challenge into something else and

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01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 1: we have to figure it out, but he's definitely I

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01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 1: would not be partaking in that. Coming up next, on

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Speaker 1: position many will be watching here in the NFL season.

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Speaker 1: linebacker coach Jason Tarbert. Coach, just walk me through what

1391
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:09,400
Speaker 1: the off season program has been for you, been like

1392
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 1: for you and how how much you've had to adapt

1393
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: to what you're usually doing this time of year. Well,

1394
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:18,759
Speaker 1: you know what, it's It's been fun because it's finding

1395
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 1: new ways to to get players information, so we're able

1396
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: to record videos, We're able to do a lot of

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01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,720
Speaker 1: different things and get them information and check it. The

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Speaker 1: guys have been They really worked and they've competed when

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Speaker 1: when we're in meetings, they're they're competing to get the

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01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: answers right first. So that's been been really good to see. Uh.

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01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: It took work early, meaning putting things together, but but

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01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: that's what we do with coaches. We just watch video

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01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: and put clips together at the browns of the different

1404
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: places we're going to take from, you know, to add

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01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 1: to the coach woods the scheme. So it was a

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01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: lot of like work early to make videos sooner. Is

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: it tougher when you're in a meeting to to make

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01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: sure your message is resonating or how do you how

1409
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,120
Speaker 1: do you get the vibes from players when that that

1410
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 1: something really is clicking with them? Well, when when when

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01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,439
Speaker 1: you're presenting with some of the cool functions of these

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01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, these online meetings, as you can be looking

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01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: at what they're doing. You know, you can see if

1414
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: they're cameras facing the ceiling or if they're pretending to

1415
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: take notes or if they're really taking the notes. So, uh,

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01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 1: some of that has been really good. Our guys have

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01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: been outstanding and Leeds, Yeah, the linebacker position group, they're

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: they're hungry to learn and we we had one miss

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01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: for a family thing, but we've had almost of tendants.

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01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: It's been awesome. That's that's a very very good thing,

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01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: especially all things considered in the world right now. Uh,

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01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 1: Jason Tarber our guests the Browns new linebacker coach, coach,

1423
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: what uh what attracted you to this position? And a

1424
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: spot on Joe Wood's staff and Kevin Stefanski staff. Ultimately, well,

1425
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Um, when what's the opportunity to

1426
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: get act in the NFL? Very excited about that. Two

1427
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 1: was the type of people were bringing into the organization. Uh,

1428
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: They're honest, they're smart. Um. Having worked with your Woods,

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01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: he's intelligent and they got both men, Kevin and Joe

1430
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: have the ability to focus in the moment and stay

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01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: in the moment to quote Phil Jackson because we all

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01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: saw the micro verder stuff, right, but that was one

1433
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Speaker 1: of Phil's favorite things to stay in the moment. Both

1434
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: men are very focused, very honest, and you're just excited

1435
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,760
Speaker 1: as a player a coach to be around their personality

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01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: and coach, You've got one of the younger groups on

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Speaker 1: the team, and I'm just wondering, what what do you

1438
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 1: like about that kind of challenge going into a group

1439
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: with some guys with the potential but not not a

1440
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:53,599
Speaker 1: lot of guys that have played a lot a lot

1441
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL so far. Well, the first thing you

1442
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 1: gotta do, and Coach Spancy says it really well is work.

1443
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: Our group working right now. And what's great is is

1444
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: they all come from different backgrounds with Stony and Mac

1445
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: and Jacob, and I don't want to leave anybody out,

1446
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: so the other guys, you're all included too. But I'm

1447
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 1: not going to feed up everybody in the name at

1448
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 1: the moment, okay, but they they know that they need

1449
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: to learn more and that can be very powerful. But

1450
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: they also know who they are and we're trying to

1451
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: bring that out in and their identity. Every everyone has

1452
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: an identity as a football player and we want them

1453
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: to be them their best selves. And you need to

1454
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: show that identity every day so we're regardless of what's

1455
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: going on, be you. Um, you know, like certain guys

1456
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: wear shirts in the meeting all the time. Other guys

1457
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: don't because they're at their houses, right But they need

1458
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: to beat them because that's how you become your best

1459
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,839
Speaker 1: self and anything. So that's one to live your identity

1460
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,640
Speaker 1: and then to realize you don't know everything. None of

1461
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 1: us do. We're all constantly really learning or else we're

1462
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: in trouble. And the group has been really good with

1463
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: those two things. So that's what And how does a

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01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: player like a like a b. J Goodson who comes in,

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01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: how does how does someone like that established leadership during

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01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: these kind of settings right now? Well, it's it's interesting.

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01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: We start a lot of our our meetings with that, like, hey, listen,

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01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: tell me something good that happened over the weekend. Just

1469
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Speaker 1: that in the interaction. That's one of the greatest things

1470
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,640
Speaker 1: of the coaches is to be around guys get that

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01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: want to get better and are getting better all the time.

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Speaker 1: I mean simple questions like that if you hear their personalities.

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01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: J has been wonderful in the meeting as well because

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01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: he has played a little bit more, uh with a

1475
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,560
Speaker 1: lot of different teams, so there's certain things that he's experienced.

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01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: We talk a lot about what it's forced to look like.

1477
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: So I've been fortunate to be around some great ones

1478
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,600
Speaker 1: and coach on all three phases in football. And so

1479
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:49,559
Speaker 1: every once in a while, there'll be a power point

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Speaker 1: that says with a big picture and picture re fly

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01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: and it says who's this, and then we'll get words

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01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: of wisdom from from players that I've coached or or

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01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 1: coach looms coach that's with us in the linebacker room,

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01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,640
Speaker 1: and and those lessons can be very valuable in this

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01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: setting because we're not all of them. So we work

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01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: on we work on a few of those every week

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01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 1: and start discussions and and talk about what it's going

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01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 1: to be like in the middle of the fourth quarter

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01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: in that type game in the NFL. This is what

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01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: it feels like, so that they can remember and pull

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Speaker 1: back on that when it does get get there, because

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be animal. Coach. You have a young linebacker room, uh,

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01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: and two guys last year, one that played a lot

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01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: and one that came on towards the end of the

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01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 1: year in si Ony Taki Taki and obviously Mack Wilson. UM.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people will tell you in the league

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Speaker 1: the greatest improvement is from year one to year two

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01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: and a young player. These guys have to improve with

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01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, a new scheme, and have to

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:58,679
Speaker 1: do it virtually right now. UM. One of the biggest

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01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: challenges what have you take talk to them about and

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01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: what are your expectations in those two from year one

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01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: two year two? Well, I think for all of us,

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01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: there's three things. Number One right now with what's going

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01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 1: on in the world and in the country, is our safety,

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01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: our safety for our family or safety for ourselves. As

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01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 1: we talked about that all the time with the guys

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01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 1: and they've been great about that. Two is coming into

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01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 1: the scheme this off season. We really got to own

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01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 1: the scheme. What that means is it's not just knowing, hey,

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01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:31,879
Speaker 1: we're gonna do you know, cover three, cover four, blits.

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01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: Everybody does some of that, but it's really owning it.

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01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: It's understanding the ins and out to what words we

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: have to say to help the dbs and the linebackers,

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01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: knowing where we fit. What's awesome about being a linebacker

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01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: is how it got its name. You're backed off the line,

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01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:48,799
Speaker 1: you're behind the line and in front of the dvs

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01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: and that's the best place that you're in the middle

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01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 1: of all of it is great. And they can only

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01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 1: do two things. They can run or they can pass.

1521
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,640
Speaker 1: Now our cares are both right, so we're gonna eyes right.

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01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: But that's what's great about being linebackers. Were in the

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01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 1: middle of it, So we need to own that skin.

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01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: Our young men have done a really good job of

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01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: studying it quizzing each other. We have different ways and

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01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: we quiz them. So that's one, and then two is

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01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 1: getting in shape, and that's a challenge in this environment.

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01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: Our guys have done a very good job so far

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01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: of doing drills and and things that were required to

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01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: and I think that will continue. Um, but that's different

1531
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: because on your own you're used to being around people.

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01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: So specifically, to answer your question about the two young

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01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: men that are working between the first and their second year,

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01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: that's what you miss, is that being around your teammate

1535
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: in that time, because it really is the first off season,

1536
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: and there's more time in the NFL off season on

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01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,400
Speaker 1: your own than there is when you're going through college. Obviously,

1538
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,560
Speaker 1: classes and things you gotta do, so that's one of

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01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: the learning curves. But we speak on that a lot.

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01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 1: We've asked a lot of people this what what about

1541
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: this last few months has made you maybe appreciate parts

1542
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: of coaching that you never appreciated before, or parts of

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01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: the game that that you maybe didn't appreciate as much

1544
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 1: now that you've been in this situation. Uh has been

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01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 1: long answer. I've learned so much about myself, having an

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01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: education background and teaching for parents and siblings and everything.

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01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:13,600
Speaker 1: Uh read. Some of the meetings are recorded, so and

1548
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: try on the perfectionists and trying to make them perfect.

1549
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: And the good part about that is you can see yourself. Girl,

1550
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 1: as a coach, you can you can really get better

1551
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: at making it concise so the guys can understand it.

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01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: That's been a challenge and that's been fun to do.

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01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 1: Uh tuners doing it from home, so you'll be in

1554
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: the middle of meetings like this. I'm surprobasedly my boys

1555
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: haven't run around behind this yet and started yelling stuff

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01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 1: at me. Um. But there's more things going on, you know,

1557
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: And it's been cool as a football coach have two

1558
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: little boys to be able to coach them as well.

1559
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: Sometimes that gets lost, especially in the first year off

1560
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 1: season because your first year moving into somewhere. Uh there's

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01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 1: just more things that go on, right, And doing that

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01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 1: from home this year was you need and pretty cool.

1563
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: More time with the family, more time to perfect how

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01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: how quickly and how directly we can coach. That's been

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01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: that's been exciting and that's been helpful. Jason Tarver, the

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01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: Browns new linebacker coach, our guest here on the best

1567
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,560
Speaker 1: podcast available. Coach to follow that up? What was the

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01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 1: draft process like? Uh? From one on one in person

1569
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: interviews not happening. I mean essentially we were all together

1570
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: at the NFL combine and that was it. So what

1571
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 1: was the draft process like? And talk about that draft

1572
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 1: weekend essentially and where you guys were all at working

1573
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: remotely with a lot of help from some great I

1574
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 1: T people in our department. Oh hey, yeah, did the

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01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: I T did a great job setting everything up. I

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01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: mean it's been great. I'm on my stuff that they

1577
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:50,919
Speaker 1: set up for me at home, sending me different cables

1578
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: to have lots of screens. Uh, you know, it was

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01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: kind of It was really cool is having a family around,

1580
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: and of course the broadcast showed that, but you know,

1581
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 1: when when and you do, it was cool to have

1582
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: the family kind of come behind and go what's going on?

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01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:09,280
Speaker 1: So that was gonna process wise, very more. We were

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01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: We did a good job as as an organization of

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01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: watching video on our own and then getting together and

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01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: talking about it. That was really good. I spent a

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01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: little more time with the young men on zoom calls

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01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: and on calling than than because you couldn't visit the

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01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: PROTE So that was the biggest difference. I got to

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01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: know a lot of our guys, including Jacob and Solomon,

1591
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:32,680
Speaker 1: or two young linebackers through that process, both of whom

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01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: were very excited about. So that was actually really good.

1593
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: You could really get to know some of the some

1594
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: of the young men in the draft and rooting for

1595
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: the ones that that we weren't able to get too

1596
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 1: because you only get one out of every thirty two.

1597
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes you get a couple of extra picks, and

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01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: we did a good job of doing that. So that

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01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: part was unique getting to know him through Zoom kind

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01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,760
Speaker 1: of like this getting to know him just by talking UM.

1601
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: But I do like as a coach going to Proto

1602
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:01,799
Speaker 1: is because you get to see them in their environment.

1603
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 1: So that was the part that we missed. Bill Walsh,

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01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: Steve marr Ucci, Mike Singletary, Derek Mason, Bob Toledo, David

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01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 1: shot just to name a few, just to name a

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01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,599
Speaker 1: few of the coaches that that you've been blessed enough

1607
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: to work with, what's the best piece of advice you've

1608
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: gotten in terms of working from those guys? Oh wow,

1609
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: you could go down You can go down the list.

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01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:28,639
Speaker 1: Um coach Walsh did a nice job of of bringing

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01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old into the building and making

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01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: sure that every Friday checking on and really asking park questions,

1613
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:39,799
Speaker 1: what did you learn this week? Why? What are you thinking?

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01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: Did you get this done? He put the playbook down

1615
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: and said, you know, you've got a week memorize this.

1616
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 1: And it was the West Coast Offense playbook. That's famous

1617
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 1: now right, that was an offensive that time. So he

1618
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 1: came in to the this will be a quick story,

1619
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: but it's a good one. He came in Friday and said,

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01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, what's the longest a and I rattled it

1621
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 1: off and and he kind of looked at me funny,

1622
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: and I said, what's the next question? Because no we

1623
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:09,320
Speaker 1: ever got the first one right. Well, he told me

1624
01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: to read the book. So there are some things like that.

1625
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:17,680
Speaker 1: Train coach Mary was wonderful with how just how to

1626
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 1: run a team meeting and treat people, treat people from

1627
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 1: the media to everything, be yourself and treat them with respect.

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01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: That's what I learned good. He asked about motivation by

1629
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: secretary was outstanding. Um, Dave Shaw, we want to talk

1630
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 1: about an amazing person that's the same every day, that's

1631
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: that's him. I could keep going if I left you out.

1632
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, coaches, but that's our job of a coach

1633
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 1: is to get better every day and take something from everybody.

1634
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: So as much as I could learn in any of

1635
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: those situations, that's what I was doing and hopefully we

1636
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: can translate that to our to our young men. Thanks

1637
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: to Coach for his time. One final time out when

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01:26:57,280 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 1: we come back, final thoughts, and we get you ready

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01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: for Friday and the return of Bow and Nathan as

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1652
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