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Speaker 1: And we welcome you into Cleveland Brown's headquarters here in Baria, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: Jason Gibbs, along with Brown senior staff writer Andrew Gribble,

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Speaker 1: we are in the media room directly above us the

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Speaker 1: war room, normally for drafting, but for the last few

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Speaker 1: days a lot of meetings and a lot of things happening.

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Speaker 1: The Browns fifty three man roster is set dot dot

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Speaker 1: dot for now for the next yeah, it is. It

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Speaker 1: will be a fluid situation. But let's get you up

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Speaker 1: to speed with what we do know at this time

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Speaker 1: and what has happened today. The Browns UH making two

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Speaker 1: trades right before the four pm UH cut down to

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Speaker 1: fifty three deadline. Don't forget as well. On Friday they

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Speaker 1: had traded quarterback da would blow to Detroit. UH. Had

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Speaker 1: swapped some picks for years from now swaps. Yeah, who

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Speaker 1: knows where we will be at that point. UH. Today though,

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Speaker 1: the Browns active and they went out and got a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, Taiwan Taylor. UH. The Browns will receive him,

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Speaker 1: the Titans receiving on this closed draft pick. We've seen

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Speaker 1: in a lot of different things, a lot of speculation

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Speaker 1: from either side. Taylor five eleven, two hundred five pounds

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Speaker 1: entering his third NFL season out of Western Kentucky. Originally

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Speaker 1: nine games with nine starts, has fifty three career receptions

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Speaker 1: and one touchdown in thirteen contest. That was trade number one.

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Speaker 1: Trade number two. Today the Browns go out and they

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Speaker 1: get more help on that offensive line. They trade for

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Speaker 1: guard Justin McCrae from the Green Bay Packers that will

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Speaker 1: also get a raft pick. In twenty The Packers received

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Speaker 1: a draft picked as well in McCrae six three fifteen pounds,

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Speaker 1: his third NFL season out of Central Florida. Originally signed

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Speaker 1: with Tennessee as an undrafted free agent, and he has

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Speaker 1: appeared in twenty five regular season games with thirteen starts.

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Speaker 1: Last year twelve games with five starts for the Packers. Uh.

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Speaker 1: John Dorsey wheeling and dealing here, and we we don't

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Speaker 1: I think this is kind of a couple of reasons

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Speaker 1: trades have now become pretty common in the NFL, especially

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Speaker 1: the number one waiver acclaim priority, these are the kind

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a feeling that potential both of those

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Speaker 1: odds are you might not get any of those guys.

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Speaker 1: So I think all of these moves were depth related.

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Speaker 1: The most intriguing one to me is Taylor because I

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Speaker 1: think we we watched this entire training camp and always

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Speaker 1: get better, especially with Taylor's skill set. He is is

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Speaker 1: more of that kind of slot shifty kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how quickly he moves into

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Speaker 1: part of the things. I take a look at that

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Speaker 1: we've we've been a part of this almost every year,

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Speaker 1: If you only five wide receivers, almost all those those

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Speaker 1: interesting see how you really evaluate this competition. I think

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Speaker 1: here is what we do know. These are some of

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Speaker 1: the bigger names that were affected today in cut down Day.

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Speaker 1: Contracts terminated included a linebacker Ray Ray Armstrong, punter Britain

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Speaker 1: not enough to make this fifty three man roster. And

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Speaker 1: gathers what stands out to you from the names that

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