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Speaker 1: Martin, thank you very much for joining us. Congratulations and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Cleveland Browns. Yes, sir, thanks for having me,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Is it starting to set in yet?

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Speaker 1: I can hear the family in the background. How what's

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Speaker 1: the feeling like? Oh, man, that's a great feeling. It's

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Speaker 1: a great feeling. Man. Just know, um, I found like

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Speaker 1: my father crying. It's been It really didn't hit me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, but it's a blessing. I'm just ready to work.

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Speaker 1: I'm just real, you know, joyful right now at this moment.

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Speaker 1: I'm just so happy right now. Go Browns Go. Martin Emerson,

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Speaker 1: very excited for you. Love to hear that excitement in

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Speaker 1: your voice, your dream coming true to be in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, joining the Browns now And you know

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Speaker 1: what kind of what conversation wasn't What was the call

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Speaker 1: like when you got it to let you know that

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Speaker 1: you were going to be joining this franchise. It was

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Speaker 1: a great call. Is best call in my life. It

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Speaker 1: was a great call. Great great So I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: six pounds, a lot of size there on the outside.

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Speaker 1: The Browns is you know, play a lot of cover three,

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Speaker 1: a lot of cover four, amount of man principles in

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Speaker 1: that if you're an outside guy, is that something that

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Speaker 1: you feel like suits your skill set very well? Yes, sir, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: But I was on the MISSI State, So but like

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Speaker 1: I can come in you know, and come compete, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and and do what the coaches you know, expect

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Speaker 1: me to do. When you play, Yes, sir, When you

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Speaker 1: play in the SEC, you go against a lot of

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Speaker 1: elite talent and you're pretty darn good. You have the

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Speaker 1: highest coverage great according to Pro Football Focus last year

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Speaker 1: in the SEC, in the heighst of any SEC quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and twenty What allowed you to to have that success?

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Speaker 1: And what do you think you're gonna show Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: fans that you can do playing that position against elite

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Speaker 1: talent here in the National Football League? Uh, yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Just preparation, you know, believing it myself, you know, UM,

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Speaker 1: a lot of confidence, a lot of film study, so

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Speaker 1: just you know, and and also going going out in

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Speaker 1: practice and putting the work in. Playing for Zach Garnett,

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Speaker 1: how do you think that that's prepared you for the NFL.

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Speaker 1: He's a great coach, you know. Um, we played a

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Speaker 1: lot of man, a lot of his own You know,

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Speaker 1: we did a lot of different things and the secret dary,

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Speaker 1: so I feel like he helped me a lot from

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Speaker 1: my own personal edification here in Martin. Martin Emerson joining

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Speaker 1: us on the show, is Mike Leach is weird every

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Speaker 1: day as he is in press conferences. Oh man, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's weird, but I would just say, coach

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Speaker 1: Mike everything you gotta see, that's him every day. So however,

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Speaker 1: you know, however you however you think he is or whatever,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's him. That's him every day. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: So you know he's the same person every day that

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Speaker 1: he is in the press conference, in the media. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of consistency from your new head

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Speaker 1: coach Kevin Stefanski. You are not gonna get as much

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Speaker 1: of the character that Mike Leech is, certainly from Kevin

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Speaker 1: Stefanski here. But did you get a chance to talk

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Speaker 1: to anybody on the d offensive staff about you know? Uh?

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Speaker 1: And after getting that call, anybody the defense coordinator Joe

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Speaker 1: Woods or your dB coaches, you know, Jeff Howard, Brandon Lynch.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You're gonna love all of

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Speaker 1: those guys. Mhm h. Coach shot me to take He

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Speaker 1: accidently on me to call him now, so all right, wow, okay,

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Speaker 1: well if you got Martin, thank you. Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Martin Emerson, the Cleveland Browns new quarterback,