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Speaker 1: of the off season program has begun here at the

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Speaker 1: Cross Country Mortgage Campus. We get a chance to hear

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Speaker 1: about that off season program from two players and from

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Speaker 1: head coach Kevin Stefanski today on from the podium. We're

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Speaker 1: also going to get a special treat as former Browns

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirksey and Rashard Higgins talked to the media earlier

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Speaker 1: today as they officially retired as Cleveland Browns. To start

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Speaker 1: the day off, it was head coach Kevin Stefanski. He

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Speaker 1: talked about how great it was to see all the

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first I want to say congratulations of Christian Kirksey

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Speaker 2: Rashard Higgins retiring as Browns today, which I think is

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Speaker 2: a pretty cool deal having those guys in the building today.

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Speaker 2: It's also great to have our team in the building

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Speaker 2: starting yesterday was first day of school. As you know,

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Speaker 2: this building is at its best when it has players

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Speaker 2: were very excited to see their smiling faces coming in

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Speaker 2: this building and get some work in yesterday and today.

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Speaker 2: As you know, Phase one, we're in the classroom with

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Speaker 2: the guys. Then they're in the weight room. They're on

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Speaker 2: in and I think it's been really positive first couple days,

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Speaker 2: so excited about that. But with that, I'll take any questions.

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Speaker 3: You saved your welcome back address to training camp. What

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Speaker 3: do you do yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a little bit of both, Tony.

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Speaker 2: I think part of yesterday is welcome back and checking

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Speaker 2: mandatory mini camp is another mile post in this and

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Speaker 2: then to your point, you have training camp, which really

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Speaker 2: kicks off that season. But in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 2: yesterday is the first day of the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 4: You go doing any practicing yet, But what are your

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Speaker 3: To throw it over the couple?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's They have a very very good plan Deshaun,

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Speaker 2: the medical team of ramping him up and throwing and

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Speaker 2: getting you know, he's doing all the things he's supposed

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Speaker 2: we get to those points in Ota is a mini camp,

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Speaker 5: But he's doing a great job.

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Speaker 6: The timeline now crystallized a little bit with Nick Chubb

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Speaker 2: I don't know that we'll go past you know, today

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Speaker 2: at it. I can promise you he's working very hard

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Speaker 2: early in the morning. He's here, he's he's he's attacking

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Speaker 2: his rehab. That's the best way I can put it.

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Speaker 2: When he's ready, he'll be ready.

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Speaker 5: In Orlando, Andrews said he was going to start running

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Speaker 3: In fact, doing that.

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Speaker 2: He's I'm not going to get into the specifics of

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Speaker 3: Kevin, how do you think the throwing will work out?

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Speaker 7: You think that James will get a ton of work

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Speaker 7: When you guys kind of take it easy with Deshaun

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Speaker 2: We'll try to do whatsever appropriate Mary Kay and for

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Speaker 2: making sure that we have a plan and we'll stick

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Speaker 2: Jamis will get some more throws, which I think is

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Speaker 8: How about your tables, Kevin, Jack, Conklin, Wills.

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Speaker 2: And out of the company, Well, they're all doing great.

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Speaker 2: that those are three different injuries, same position, but three

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Speaker 2: But again, these guys are working very, very hard to

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Speaker 10: As far as the offensive meetings at this point, is Dorsey.

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Speaker 3: Is starting to unveil your playbook.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sure, of course, that's what coach Doris is

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Speaker 4: Cot is this time of the year when you have

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Speaker 2: I think you can get a lot of work done

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Speaker 2: whether it's Coach Schwartz or Bubba Coach Dorsey, our position

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Speaker 2: these guys get going. Now, as you can imagine, in

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Speaker 2: day two, you don't throw the entire playbook at the guys,

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Speaker 2: put together the schemes and what you're doing this Really

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Speaker 10: Year ago, the defense was where the offense is. This year,

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Speaker 10: you know, learning a new scheme and everything. How does

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Speaker 6: Get to the practice field some of the offensive changes,

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Speaker 2: that's one of those things with us. We love to

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Speaker 2: every season in this league where you have to be evolving.

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Speaker 2: You cannot stay the same. I just think the other

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Speaker 2: I just don't think that's fair. I have too much

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Speaker 7: What kind of challenges does it present you that you've

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Speaker 11: You've got a new.

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Speaker 7: Offensive coordinator, a whole new staff, and new receiver trying

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Speaker 2: I think that's our job, Mary kay Is, is to

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Speaker 2: obviously we'll make sure that we are smart about Deshawn's

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Speaker 11: Kevin along those lines and the running back room, obviously,

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Speaker 11: you guys have a handful of new guys and just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you guys will be you'll really enjoy watching.

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Speaker 2: You'll hear Deuce coaching before you see him. He's, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's expected of them. Like you mentioned, Ashley, there are

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Speaker 2: right now. That's a huge part of this offseason program.

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Speaker 2: So that is definitely happening. Happening in the running back room,

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Speaker 2: and to your point, it's happening from player to player

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Speaker 12: Injuries are always part of this and you guys certainly

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Speaker 2: It's a good question. We look at everything. Certainly, you

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Speaker 2: there's certain things that we know aren'ting to change about

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Speaker 2: the game as it's being played. But we always want

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Speaker 2: whether it be from training, from the weight room, how

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Speaker 2: I would just tell you Cam that from a philosophical standpoint,

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Speaker 8: Where are you at on the offensive decision?

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Speaker 3: Jacob, just a serious question. Has any offensive player asked

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Speaker 8: Mike ray Bowl, Kevin Ken's found on what his role.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Coach Raves has been awesome having them up here

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Speaker 2: We're not doing attendance right now, so I can't tell

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Speaker 3: A role for him at this stage of.

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Speaker 7: In a sense yet, whether what kind of energy Jamis

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Speaker 10: Kevin, how much is Bubba talk about impact of the

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Speaker 2: We've spent a lot of time on that, Chris Bubba, myself,

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Speaker 2: It's another opportunity to get a tackle for a defensive

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody in the league can tell you

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Speaker 2: But I don't know that there's any club that knows

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Speaker 3: You think it's going to impact roster.

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Speaker 2: You know, potentially, Yeah, And it's another good question. Potentially,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, because without knowing exactly how the play looks,

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Speaker 6: That's another coaching challenge for you guys to figure this out,

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Speaker 2: We're in favor of keeping the foot in football. We're

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Speaker 2: exactly what it looks like, it's going to involve blocking

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Speaker 2: we know the play will be new. And again, I

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Speaker 14: Obviously, not take an attendance right now, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: It's a good question, you know, for us, we really

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Speaker 7: I was doing and coming along and do you anticipate

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Speaker 2: He's another, you know, another one of those guys in

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Speaker 2: It's their Have you guys been back there. There's construction

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Speaker 2: It's going to be pretty special, and obviously I think

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Speaker 3: You thought about doing the awkward dad.

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Speaker 2: Dance at the final four, there was not a half

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Speaker 8: You guys all coming.

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Speaker 7: Back into the building again, and can you just you know,

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Speaker 8: So that last game is not how you wanted the

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Speaker 16: I think that was one of the main reasons why

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Speaker 8: And Joe Woo's you know, is someone who's been through

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Speaker 6: A little bit, just what's this tim of You're like,

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Speaker 8: You're you're not doing stuff on the field. Then maybe

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Speaker 6: What's important about this time of year for you?

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Speaker 8: And and and what do you get.

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Speaker 15: Out of it?

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Speaker 11: Had a handful of new editions, but for the most part,

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Speaker 16: the body. So definitely got my weight up to a

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Speaker 16: weight that I like coming in and just keeping my

441
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Speaker 16: speed and my power out there.

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Speaker 9: So that's definitely one thing that I focus on this

443
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Speaker 9: off season.

444
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Speaker 3: Finished. You know the season good defense ranked number one,

445
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Speaker 3: But where do.

446
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Speaker 4: You think there's areas for you guys to improve again

447
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Speaker 4: even better than year.

448
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Speaker 3: Two with Jackford?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 16: I mean, yeah, we're number one, but we weren't perfect

451
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Speaker 16: out there at all. But I think our biggest thing

452
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Speaker 16: is when we were playing fast and we were playing together.

453
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Speaker 16: And but one of the areas I think that we

454
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Speaker 16: can improve on is definitely takeaways. To get more takeaways

455
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Speaker 16: and get our hands on the ball.

456
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Speaker 17: Been a rule change far as how you tackle eliminating

457
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Speaker 17: the hip drop. Is that something that as a team

458
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Speaker 17: and as you individually you just have to constantly work

459
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Speaker 17: on or is there something that pretty much you can

460
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Speaker 17: just to just.

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Speaker 18: You know, on the fly.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you definitely gonna have to work on

463
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Speaker 9: those things.

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Speaker 16: I mean, when something's being newly implemented into a into

465
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Speaker 16: an organization, into a team, uh, you probably gonna have

466
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Speaker 16: to practice it and change your forms of tackling and

467
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Speaker 16: just to teach it and just to learn it. So

468
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Speaker 16: I think it's definite gonna be something that we're gonna practice.

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Speaker 16: They talked about it a little bit so far since

470
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Speaker 16: being here in the building that, uh, this is a

471
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Speaker 16: rule change and something that we're gonna have to focus

472
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Speaker 16: on and not necessarily do so we don't get any

473
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Speaker 16: flags out there on.

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Speaker 3: The field those.

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Speaker 8: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 16: I usually feel like I don't usually tackle like that.

477
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Speaker 16: I'll usually just try to come as fast as I

478
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Speaker 16: can and shoot my shot out there. So uh no,

479
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Speaker 16: I don't think I don't have any issues with that

480
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Speaker 16: with that rule though.

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Speaker 6: You know what a hip drop tackle is, And do

482
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Speaker 6: you get worried as a defender that they're trying to

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Speaker 6: legislate the laws of physics because your your job is

484
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Speaker 6: to tackle and get guys on the ground. But they're

485
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Speaker 6: either changing your your your strike zone and now they're

486
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Speaker 6: telling you you can't tackle it in certain ways.

487
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Speaker 16: So just you know, yeah, I think it is tough because,

488
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Speaker 16: I mean, the game of football is a physical game

489
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Speaker 16: and it happens so fast, So I don't I don't

490
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Speaker 16: think guys do things intentionally to try to go out

491
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Speaker 16: there all by trying to hip drop or try to

492
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Speaker 16: hurt this guy on this tackle. But it's just like

493
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Speaker 16: I said, it happens so fast that you just try

494
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Speaker 16: to do what you can to get a guy down

495
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Speaker 16: and sometimes you're put in were positions to where something

496
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Speaker 16: like that may happen. But I think we're gonna do

497
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Speaker 16: a good job of trying to practice that during practice

498
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Speaker 16: to avoid those type of tackles and to play clean football.

499
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Speaker 9: So I think we'll just adjust well. And uh, it

500
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Speaker 9: shouldn't be an.

501
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Speaker 7: Issue going on the team that you guys have Deshaun

502
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Speaker 7: Watson coming back healthy from his shoulder injury this year

503
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Speaker 7: and if all goes well, but he'll be your quarterback.

504
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Speaker 7: We're all seventeen games. What's sort of the live on that?

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Speaker 9: Man, it's exciting.

506
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Speaker 16: I mean, you guys seen what Deshaun was out there

507
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Speaker 16: doing uh before he went out like that Baltimore game

508
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Speaker 16: and just his poise in the pocket and able to

509
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Speaker 16: stretch the field and and make every throw.

510
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Speaker 9: So I'm just.

511
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Speaker 16: Excited to have him back and hoping that his recovery

512
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Speaker 16: is still continue to go well. And I said, looking

513
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Speaker 16: for him being our number one quarterback and leading us to.

514
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Speaker 3: Injury, which Buckeyes you wanted to be draft?

515
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Speaker 18: Next?

516
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Speaker 8: Weeson?

517
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Speaker 16: I have to put a little word in about some

518
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Speaker 16: buck guys. I told him we need to get more

519
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Speaker 16: buck Eyes in here.

520
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Speaker 9: So I think we might see some.

521
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Speaker 16: But yeah, you can't go wrong with any buck Eyes

522
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Speaker 16: on the team.

523
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Speaker 9: I hope, So, I hope.

524
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Speaker 16: So that's a that's a good player coming out in

525
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Speaker 16: the draft from Ohio State that it would be a

526
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Speaker 16: good addition to the team.

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Speaker 9: I feel like being.

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Speaker 3: Down there last week and this team being loaded, a

529
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Speaker 3: lot of those guys would have been drafted. They stayed.

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Speaker 3: Probably the NIL.

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Speaker 5: Money is probably a big reason.

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Speaker 19: Like just what do you think about the state of things,

533
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Speaker 19: the state of what.

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Speaker 3: With college football? I mean, it's just different than it

535
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Speaker 3: was six years ago.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, it is different with the n I L and

537
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Speaker 16: guys able to enter the transferport. So it's a lot

538
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Speaker 16: different when I when I was in college, we were

539
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Speaker 16: able to we just if you went there, that that's

540
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Speaker 16: the school you were going to. And so it is different,

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Speaker 16: but I mean change isn't.

542
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Speaker 9: Always so bad.

543
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Speaker 16: So yeah, it just gotta just gotta get used to

544
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Speaker 16: it and see how it plays out.

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Speaker 2: Agree that they're making an NC football game after you graduated.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, no, I am com upset about that. When I

547
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Speaker 16: was a little kid, that's always something that wum. I

548
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Speaker 16: was like, Man, I want to play myself on a

549
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Speaker 16: video game. In NC double A used to always do

550
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Speaker 16: the Road to Glory.

551
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Speaker 9: And play there.

552
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Speaker 16: Saw I fulfill that and getting into the NFL and

553
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Speaker 16: being able to play Maden. But I'm glad they're bringing

554
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Speaker 16: the bringing the game back. So I know that's gonna

555
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Speaker 16: be exciting for a lot of guys that like to

556
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Speaker 16: play the game and can see themselves on the n

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Speaker 16: C double A game.

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Speaker 8: So we're entering year three with you, Martin. Greg is

559
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Speaker 8: that kind of core in the corner now? And you're

560
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Speaker 8: two in this system?

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Speaker 11: I guess how confident are you guys as a trio?

562
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Speaker 11: I know Greg, mom, he likes to say more about

563
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Speaker 11: this than you, But how how do you think you

564
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Speaker 11: guys have worked together so far and how confident.

565
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Speaker 3: Are you going into this?

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Speaker 18: Yeah?

567
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Speaker 9: Very confident.

568
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Speaker 16: I mean I feel we're the best corner group in

569
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Speaker 16: the NFL. I feel that we went out there and

570
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Speaker 16: showed that. But this is a new year and we

571
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Speaker 16: got to go out there and show that again. So

572
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Speaker 16: I mean that's what we're doing now, putting that work

573
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Speaker 16: in to go out and show why we're the best group.

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Speaker 16: And and so that's all it is, just getting to

575
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Speaker 16: the working and going out there and showing that.

576
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Speaker 9: But I definitely feel we're the best though.

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Speaker 19: That what you guys, Miles finally get that Defensive Player

578
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Speaker 19: of the aar War And I'm just curious for you personally.

579
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Speaker 19: I know they usually go to a pass rusher, but

580
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Speaker 19: do you ever think about like winning one of those?

581
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Speaker 9: Man?

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Speaker 16: I think Miles, he probably he probably could have won

583
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Speaker 16: the defensive Player of the Year every year. So I

584
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Speaker 16: was definitely well deserved. So I was happy for him

585
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Speaker 16: that he got that. Just a big testament to the

586
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Speaker 16: work he puts in and what he's what he means

587
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Speaker 16: to our team and what he's able to do out

588
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Speaker 16: there on the field. I mean, he's a dominant force,

589
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Speaker 16: and not many guys gonna stop him. Obviously, you need

590
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Speaker 16: probably this whole group of audiences to stop Miles. But

591
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Speaker 16: but just a big shout out to Miles and his accomplishments.

592
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Speaker 6: The the NFLPA survey that gets done every.

593
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Speaker 8: Year and here in recent years, one of.

594
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Speaker 6: The negatives that Brown's players who pointed out was the

595
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Speaker 6: weight room being in the field house. Now that you

596
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Speaker 6: come back and you see that they're building a new

597
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Speaker 6: weight room for you guys to address that concerned that

598
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Speaker 6: you guys expressed, just you know, what does that mean

599
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Speaker 6: to see you know, the organization addressing something that you

600
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Speaker 6: guys pointed out is maybe not being what.

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Speaker 8: You know, you guys would meet your standards.

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Speaker 16: I mean it meet my standard. I mean don't need much,

603
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Speaker 16: but I mean that that just shows you the pride

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Speaker 16: and that this is a player friendly organization. Like they

605
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Speaker 16: hear that is this something isn't going so well, so

606
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Speaker 16: they make changes and things that they could do to

607
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Speaker 16: help the players and get the organization running better.

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Speaker 9: Anything they could do to help us out there on

609
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Speaker 9: the field.

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Speaker 16: And I mean they do have a lot of ways

611
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Speaker 16: and there's a lot of equipment and machines that's been

612
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Speaker 16: brought in in the training room and everything to help

613
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Speaker 16: us out. So definitely appreciative of that.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, it's a lot of.

615
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Speaker 16: Changes that's being made and they're in the weight rooms

616
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Speaker 16: and everything to give us all the resources that we need.

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Speaker 4: Is it when you talk about your corner red group,

618
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Speaker 4: how important is it to you to keep that cup

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Speaker 4: together you Greg?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very important.

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Speaker 16: I mean that that was one of the things I've

622
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Speaker 16: kind of been openly sharing, like I want.

623
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Speaker 9: To keep us together.

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Speaker 16: I feel like you can even Ab says all the time,

625
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Speaker 16: you can never have enough enough great corners and enough

626
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Speaker 16: corners on the team, and I mean that that's real.

627
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Speaker 16: Guys go down or and just having the ability to

628
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Speaker 16: be able to match up with any teams across the board,

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Speaker 16: whether that's inside in the slot with gregor outside with

630
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Speaker 16: me and Martin and being able to rotate and do

631
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Speaker 16: different things and having multiple number one corners on the team.

632
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Speaker 16: So it's definitely we're definitely in an ideal situation position

633
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Speaker 16: and those guys did a great job of drafting all

634
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Speaker 16: of us and getting us all here. But I said,

635
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Speaker 16: we just gotta continue to go out and show that

636
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Speaker 16: that we're number one, though, I assure you that.

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Speaker 7: All these Greg new Some trade rumors are nothing and

638
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Speaker 7: can easily be just dismissed.

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Speaker 16: I mean, Greg's in the building now working so so

640
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Speaker 16: I mean I think so, but I don't, you know,

641
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Speaker 16: I don't know all the behind the scenes stuff, but

642
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 16: we're all in the building now, working towards the same

643
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 16: goal and trying to be the best.

644
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Speaker 8: Chance to catch up with Kirksey and Hollywood.

645
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Speaker 16: Not yet, but I'm looking for I've seen they retire.

646
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Speaker 16: I was like, oh man, that's crazy. I feel like

647
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 16: they could come back for another year with us. But

648
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 16: those are great guys I enjoy playing with as well.

649
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Speaker 8: They're still young guys, reminder of how quickly this can go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

651
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Speaker 9: Man, that's what I'm saying.

652
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Speaker 16: Is Tom be flying. I was just talking to some people.

653
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Speaker 16: I'm going on year seven. I feel like i just

654
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Speaker 16: came into the league. So Tom has definitely been flying

655
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Speaker 16: and definitely got to take advantage of all the opportunities

656
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Speaker 16: that you're giving.

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Speaker 11: I don't know if you've had a chance to really

658
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Speaker 11: talk to Justin Hardy yet, but just you being a

659
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Speaker 11: Northeast Ohio guy who gets to play for your hometown team,

660
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Speaker 11: him getting to come back here and get that opportunity.

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Speaker 9: Can you speak to how special that is and how

662
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Speaker 9: excited you already have him here? Definitely excited.

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Speaker 16: I'll talk to him on the phone actually with him

664
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Speaker 16: signing here. So big Cleveland guy. He's gonna be a

665
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Speaker 16: great addition to the team. He's an ace on the

666
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Speaker 16: special teams, and they did a great job of getting

667
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 16: here here. I think he's gonna definitely be a guy

668
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 16: that gives us some great production not there.

669
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Speaker 10: You talked about the the hunger from you know, the

670
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 10: way last season ended. How many times have you watched

671
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 10: that game since last season?

672
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 16: Honestly, I haven't even watched that game yet. So I

673
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 16: haven't watched it yet. Yeah, I just haven't even got

674
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 16: to it yet, honestly, So.

675
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: Get to it at some point. M best left.

676
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Speaker 16: Yeah, I feel like that that game is overwhere Like

677
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 16: my focus is gonna be more so on the teams

678
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 16: that we're gonna be playing coming up in Whoever that

679
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 16: first game is gonna be, That's who I'm gonna start

680
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 16: watching film on. I do some self evaluations once I

681
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 16: watched the season's film and everything. But I don't know

682
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Speaker 16: if I'm necessarily gon go back to that game.

683
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Speaker 9: Just shit though, And so is.

684
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Speaker 14: You mentioned the top like not just rusting on the

685
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 14: rules last year? You know, the guys understanding you can't

686
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Speaker 14: just pick up where you left off. Is that like

687
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 14: a conversation that's had among the guys in meeting rooms

688
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 14: or or is that something that guys just show up

689
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Speaker 14: and they kind of are already understanding.

690
00:30:58,560 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 10: Nah.

691
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Speaker 16: Uh, Coaches, the whole organization kind of been saying that, uh,

692
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 16: we set a great foundation last year and it was good,

693
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 16: but like they've been saying, we can't just think that's

694
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 16: automatically gonna click and uh we're gonna pick up where

695
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 16: we left off. So even though we may, but we

696
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 16: just go try to continue to build on top of

697
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 16: it and continue to uh make the unecessary steps to

698
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 16: build and grow this team.

699
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 8: Wh schedules coming out probably in about a month or so.

700
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Speaker 6: Have you gone down the roster of quarterbacks that you're

701
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 6: gonna face this year?

702
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 20: Oh?

703
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 16: I know, not yet, but I know I know there's

704
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 16: gonna be some some great talented quarterbacks out there, but no,

705
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 16: I haven't checked them out yet.

706
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Speaker 8: Last week, obviously there's a lot of talk about just

707
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 8: like the future of the.

708
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Speaker 14: Stadium and where you guys been playing eventually you're from here,

709
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 14: Just uh, what is your what are your thoughts I

710
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 14: guess on the idea of the stadium or maybe playing

711
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 14: outside of downtown please.

712
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 16: Yeah, oh that's a great question for me, honestly. I mean,

713
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 16: I like said, I'm I'm a Cleveland guys. I mean,

714
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Speaker 16: I appreciate all the history that's that's going into uh

715
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 16: the stadium that we're playing in currently, and uh, I

716
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 16: enjoy playing in the conditions and having the roof open

717
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 16: and everything.

718
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 9: But I mean, like I said, but nothing's wrong with

719
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Speaker 9: change though.

720
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Speaker 16: If we end up deciding to move the stadium, I mean,

721
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 16: I'll be open to it. I'm just wherever I could

722
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 16: go play some football, let I'm cool with.

723
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Speaker 1: Next was quarterback Deshaun Watson. He talked about how his

724
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: rehab is going and how it's been so far learning

725
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: a new offense under Ken dor Seat.

726
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Speaker 3: Well, exactly the process of the rehab, what they got

727
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Speaker 3: you doing, you know.

728
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Speaker 10: Specifically, you know, trying to maybe the ramp up process

729
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 10: that you're looking at over the next weeks and months.

730
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 21: Yeah, So we have a very custom wise program for

731
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 21: my shoulder, you know, with the help of you know myself,

732
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 21: the training staff, the Browns, doctor, el Tray shot in

733
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 21: La Elite Oulta Sport and you know Quincy Billy really

734
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 21: my whole team, Tom down in Jacksonville. Yeah, we just

735
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 21: put a process that can you know, ramp up and

736
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 21: that's just right for you know, the right timing to

737
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 21: come back and be able to be full go. And

738
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Speaker 21: I think in this process right now, it's all about

739
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 21: load management and not doing too much even though I

740
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 21: probably could. So, Yeah, we just made sure that we

741
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 21: take it the day by day and we do exactly

742
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 21: what everyone came on you know months before, got on

743
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 21: that call and we put the plan together just to

744
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 21: make sure we're on the right track and stand you know,

745
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 21: stand on the right track and not geting ahead of ourselves.

746
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 6: Responding to what you have done to this point, how

747
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 6: is it feeling how we see it?

748
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 21: I feel, uh, really good, very confident in myself in

749
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 21: the process that's that's going.

750
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 18: Shoulder has been really well.

751
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 21: So just making sure that I don't do anything extra

752
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 21: that's gonna harm it or or or anything like that.

753
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 18: So I think that's the biggest thing.

754
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 21: That's exactly what you know, doctor Elatrosh and the guys

755
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 21: told me is, don't try to do anything extra and

756
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 21: rush back. So just follow this the script and the

757
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 21: and the plan, and you'll be exactly where you want

758
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 21: to want to be, even even better than before.

759
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 8: Good patient, Are you following orders?

760
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 14: Yeah?

761
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 18: I try to do just just naturally.

762
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 21: For myself, I try to do a little bit more,

763
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 21: but you know, Joe and those guys are keeping me

764
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 21: tained and making sure that I'm just doing exactly what

765
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 21: the program's say. If it's eight reps, then do eight reps.

766
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Speaker 21: Don't try to do too much afterwards, because you know,

767
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 21: they're their experts, and uh, you know, I got to

768
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 21: follow their lead, and especially doctor Ela Trosh, the surgeon

769
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 21: who you know, been doing the shoulders for a very

770
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 21: very long time. Especially a lot of baseball guys. So

771
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 21: you know, my time in LA has been great. Learned

772
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 21: a lot from their staff, uh, other players and other athletes.

773
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 21: That's something that's a part of that. You know, baseball

774
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 21: to football to ten is golf, all all types of

775
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 21: guys and and and ladies that was out there in

776
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 21: that facility. I was able to talk to and and

777
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 21: kind of we can feed off each other.

778
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 8: What are you planning or hoping to be able to

779
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:23,479
Speaker 8: person again?

780
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 18: I'm not sure.

781
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 21: I mean the plan is to you know, come back

782
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 21: whenever they they feel like and I feel like we're

783
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 21: on the same page every ready. So there's not a

784
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 21: timeline or a date that we have that you know,

785
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 21: this is when I'm gonna be one hundred percent. You know,

786
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 21: it's just kind of you know how the process. It

787
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 21: can be sooner than later, it can be later than soon,

788
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 21: you know. So I think he's just really depending on

789
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 21: how each landmark we hit and how.

790
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 18: Fast we can get it, and how my shoulders reacting.

791
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 3: So it's fluid.

792
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 6: It's it's it's unclear to you at this point, like

793
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 6: when you're gonna be you know, back to your normal

794
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 6: self and it's gonna hinge on like you said, weather

795
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 6: and how you responds.

796
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 21: No, for sure, Yeah, I mean everything that we're doing

797
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 21: is I'm doing everything that you know, the doctors have

798
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 21: planned out, so uh, if it's throwing sixty balls, if

799
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 21: it's throwing forty balls a day, if it's throwing it varies,

800
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 21: you know, and they have a very strategic uh program

801
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 21: for my my shoulder, so it goes you know, up down,

802
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 21: up down, you know.

803
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 18: I guess you know.

804
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 21: For me, I just take it one day at a

805
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 21: time because I don't know the strategy really behind. But UH,

806
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 21: I just know that the plan is just gonna work out,

807
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 21: so I just follow their their ideas and their game plan.

808
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 8: It's like, how big is this this coming up season

809
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 8: for you?

810
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: The first two it.

811
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: Didn't go at all like you wanted, So how how

812
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 2: big is this third season would it be?

813
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 6: For?

814
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 15: Uh?

815
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 21: For me, it's a it's another opportunity for myself to

816
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 21: just get on the field. I'm not making it bigger

817
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 21: than what it it naturally is. If I would have

818
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 21: played the full year and we would have won the

819
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 21: Super Bowl, it would have been the same same idea

820
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 21: and vice versa. So for me, it's just taking the

821
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 21: one day at a time, building a lad leadership that

822
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 21: we built and carried over from last year and getting

823
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 21: this team exactly what we need to get to UH,

824
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 21: and get ready to play each and every.

825
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 7: Week for you to be base first phase.

826
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Speaker 21: Ye, But for me it's always been important. I don't

827
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 21: think my whole career outside of yeah, yeah, I've been

828
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 21: outside of COVID.

829
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 3: This is UH.

830
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 21: I mean I've always reported on the first day. So

831
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 21: it's always been important for me to just get around

832
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 21: the guys, get with the team. Uh, build that that chemistry,

833
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 21: build that friendship, build that locker room that we you

834
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 21: know we had last year. And it starts split of

835
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 21: course the quarterbacks and if you know, we're in here

836
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 21: leading by example and every day putting in an extra time,

837
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 21: everyone else is gonna see us and follow and so

838
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 21: this it's always been very important for me, but also

839
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 21: just me being in you know, the facility and being

840
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 21: around the coaches and being around the players.

841
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 18: Is I love doing it. This is what I love

842
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 18: to do.

843
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 21: This is why I do it, is just to be

844
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 21: able to be around football and uh everyone, that's a

845
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 21: part of it.

846
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 14: What he canna be because like as you're assistant, ready

847
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 14: to know him, how loble can this officers.

848
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 3: Of program be?

849
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 18: For that connection with you guys, it was very very good.

850
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 18: You know the time.

851
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 21: That's one thing you can't get back is time, and

852
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 21: you know the time, like you said, just for me

853
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 21: being here face to face, being able to hear his

854
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 21: voice here, excuse me, hear how he communicates, hear how

855
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 21: you know he runs, staying call staings a little bit

856
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 21: different than Kevin our AVP did like the previous two years.

857
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 21: You know, it's good to be around that and we

858
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 21: can kind of communicate. He can do the same thing

859
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 21: for him, you know, get around me and see how

860
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 21: that I operate, how I learn what's good, what's not good,

861
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 21: what we want to change. And yeah, we've been doing

862
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 21: that the first two days. We've had a lot of

863
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 21: conversation and a lot of meetings, and it's been very good.

864
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 8: Pressure of the now you're a lot of the classroom

865
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:06,720
Speaker 8: and you can talk football.

866
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 6: What's your impression of, uh, the the tweaks and changes

867
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 6: that Dorsey and coach the fans ski planning to implement

868
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 6: offensive works.

869
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 18: Uh, yeah, it's very really good.

870
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 21: I mean a lot of opportunities for the receivers to

871
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 21: be able to really showcase their skills, a lot of

872
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 21: guys moving around, a lot of guys being able to

873
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 21: play different spots, and then myself to just be uh

874
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 21: free and and not really kind of controlled in a sense.

875
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 21: It's really just kind of go out there and and

876
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 21: be able to you know, showcase spread offense, throw it around,

877
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 21: run around and and make some place happen. So that's

878
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 21: very exciting for myself.

879
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 7: How do you sort of work through the issue of

880
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 7: ramping up and not rushing yourself and them not rushing you,

881
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 7: but also installing a whole new offense, getting to know

882
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 7: a whole new coordinator, getting timing down with Jerry Judy.

883
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 7: How do you make that all work together.

884
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 21: It's part of the plan. It's actually part of the process.

885
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 21: So everything that you know I said that we you know,

886
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 21: as a group, collective group from la to Jacksonville to

887
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 21: when I say Jacksonville, this is Tom. You know, the

888
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 21: staff here, doctor elatrosh out in la Quincy, my QB trainer, Billy,

889
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 21: my personal trainer. We all are on the same page.

890
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 21: So everything that is in the game plan in the

891
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 21: process is aligned to be able to have those check marks,

892
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 21: those timing and get with the receivers.

893
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 18: Okay, cool.

894
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 21: In two weeks, maybe we have the opportunity to throw

895
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 21: to the receivers you know when we step on the field.

896
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 18: Just continue to take it.

897
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 21: And that's why I have to take it one day

898
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 21: at a time, because if I try to rush that process,

899
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 21: then that might set us back in my extend, you know,

900
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 21: you know, whatever that game plan.

901
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 18: Maybe leads to.

902
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 21: So everything is aligned with that as far as the

903
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 21: new offense, the timing with the receivers, with my skills

904
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 21: set getting on the field.

905
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 18: So I'm doing everything that I can to make sure

906
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 18: I follow that.

907
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 4: Have you been able to like let one go yet

908
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 4: or stil really in the process.

909
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 21: I mean I've been able to throw. I think it's

910
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 21: still early to really let go when you say let

911
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 21: it go as far as like talking like fifty yards

912
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 21: don't field or yeah, yeah, I'm throwing flu speed. Everything

913
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 21: is fluid motion, no hinging or and when I say hinging,

914
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 21: you know my release point when I'm throwing and things

915
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 21: like that. Everything is fluid and motion is really good.

916
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 21: The velocity and the strength is really good. So it's

917
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 21: been it's been well.

918
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 4: So you repected, like when we get to OTS and

919
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 4: the team gets on the field, do you expect to

920
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 4: be able to participate.

921
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 3: At least in some of those practicing.

922
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 21: Uh, that's the plan. You know, we we talked previously

923
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 21: about that. I think we gotta see how these next

924
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 21: couple of weeks ago. I know for doctor Latrosh he

925
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 21: he wants to be a little bit more conservative just

926
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 21: because you know, it was Uh, it was a joint,

927
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 21: you know, the glenoyd laboring. Uh, so he wants to

928
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 21: really make sure that we're not doing too much. And

929
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 21: other espers that was a part of it said the

930
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 21: same thing. You know, this is a a injury that

931
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 21: you you know, for spring, you know, you wanna maybe

932
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 21: you a little bit more conservative and uh, you know

933
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 21: this summer and get ready for training camp, that's when

934
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 21: there's gonna be a time where we can pick that up.

935
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 21: So I think he can go either way for for

936
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 21: that in the next couple of weeks.

937
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 6: Sure mechanics haven't changed it all, No, sir, mm Are

938
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 6: the laboring repaired?

939
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 4: And what was the the glenoy pole?

940
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 18: No, not the full laboring.

941
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 21: So the glenoyd, the bone that chipped off in my

942
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 21: joint is called the of course the glenoy, which is

943
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 21: attached to the laboring. So when the glenoy came off

944
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 21: the bone, it was the laboring was the one that

945
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 21: was hanging the bone. So he had to pretty much

946
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 21: repair that and put that together. So he just pretty

947
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 21: much made sure the laboring was was good, but there

948
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 21: wasn't a full labor It was just a partial of

949
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 21: the labor that was connected.

950
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 8: To the glenoith h What was your reaction when change

951
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 8: your offensive coordinators?

952
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 4: Was amazing?

953
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 21: I mean, it's part of the business, you know, it

954
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 21: was it was you know, I kind of heard through

955
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 21: the weeds of you know, there might be a change,

956
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 21: but I wasn't sure. You know, that's every opport, that's

957
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 21: every NFL team you know going into it, uh that

958
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 21: there might be changes, Coaches might be leaving, coaches might

959
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 21: get fired. But you know, me and a VP have

960
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 21: a great relationship. We built that over the last two years.

961
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 21: You know, we went to dinner, talked about vacation and

962
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 21: still talk to this day. So you know, I think

963
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 21: he's gonna do a hell of a job over there

964
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 21: in uh New England. And then of course you know

965
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 21: when with Dorsey here, he's gonna do a heck of

966
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 21: a job for us to be able to try to

967
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 21: take this offense to another level. So as far as

968
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 21: my reaction, of course, you know I love a VP,

969
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 21: but you know business is part of this and you

970
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 21: know that's side of my control.

971
00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 22: Did you think that, uh, that Dorsey's offense is uh

972
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 22: more adaptable to to to your strength?

973
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 10: Uh?

974
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 21: I mean, I I guess so you know, I'm still

975
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 21: learning Dorsey's offense, you know. I I know he had

976
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 21: quarterbacks like you know, Josh Allen, Cam Newton, you know,

977
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 21: running his offense, and those are very similar guys to myself.

978
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 21: But uh, for me, I just try to whatever offense

979
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 21: is getting called, I try to execute as best as

980
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 21: I possibly can, so you know, hopefully, yeah, it'll be

981
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 21: able to showcase my skills that you know I've shown

982
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 21: before in the sleep.

983
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 3: Does it matter who called for plays?

984
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 18: No, they don't.

985
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 3: Why doesn't it mappen?

986
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 10: Uh?

987
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 21: Because they both work together, so they both have the

988
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 21: same mindset. They both have the the head sets and communicate.

989
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 21: So uh, for me, whoever calls the plays is, you know,

990
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 21: gonna call the plays. We as a offense and as

991
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 21: a quarterback, we still gotta go execute and and go

992
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 21: out there and.

993
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 6: Perform on setting the the rehab process here aside. And

994
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 6: I know that's tough to do cause you're you're going

995
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 6: through it right now. But just strictly from a football

996
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 6: perspective on the field, what do you hope is better

997
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 6: for you fish coming year?

998
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 18: I don't hope for anything.

999
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 21: I mean, my my expectations is is super high and

1000
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 21: just like everybody else that is a part of this team,

1001
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 21: a part of this organization, fans, everyone has a high expectations,

1002
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 21: especially for me and being a quarterback, being the type

1003
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 21: of player that I am, being the the NFL player

1004
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 21: I am, so I think the expectations is high.

1005
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 18: I don't think that is a secret.

1006
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 21: So for me is to go out there and perform

1007
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 21: very very high to lead us to an opportunity to

1008
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 21: go get the ultimate goal. And but first it starts

1009
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 21: now in the spring building that leading into a train ACCOUMP,

1010
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 21: taking care of our business in the division, and then

1011
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 21: you know, you'll see what happened when we get the

1012
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 21: opportunity and the big dance and see where we go

1013
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 21: from there. But you know that's a long wast from here.

1014
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 21: We gotta focus on, you know, what's right now and

1015
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 21: being president in a moment. But I don't have any hopes.

1016
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 21: I know exactly what I'm capable of doing and and

1017
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 21: and being, and you know, we just gotta go out

1018
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 21: there and have the opportunities to do it.

1019
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 10: Sure, what was what's been covered through the soul process,

1020
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 10: the physical, the pain going you know, dealing with the

1021
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 10: pain or the patients you have to you know, because

1022
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 10: you talked about the specific play and you know the

1023
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 10: way they're they've set it up with.

1024
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 3: Load bands and everything.

1025
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 10: You know, the patients you have to show to t

1026
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 10: you know, recover fully to get back to where you

1027
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 10: you hope to be.

1028
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 21: If I had a pick, I would say neither, but

1029
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 21: cause the pain haven't really been a problem. And now

1030
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 21: that I think that's one thing that doctor Elatroce was

1031
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 21: super super surprised, especially when I first got to him

1032
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 21: in November, is how did I play in that Baltimore game?

1033
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 21: Really the Cardinals game too, but uh especially the Baltimore game.

1034
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 21: He was he was amazed by that. But uh so

1035
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 21: if I can play through that right now, the the

1036
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 21: the glenoid is held, you know, and it's just building

1037
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 21: that endurance and the the management of just throwing football

1038
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 21: is constantly and not getting a tired.

1039
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,479
Speaker 18: So I think that part is is good.

1040
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 21: As far as being patient, I mean, I've I've gained

1041
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 21: and learned how to be patient in the last three years,

1042
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 21: so for me, uh, that's not a big part either.

1043
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 21: I think it's just honestly, just stay focusing and on

1044
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 21: track of what they're allowing me to do and just

1045
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 21: taking it one step at a time. And if I

1046
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 21: can do that and uh focus on myself to to

1047
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 21: be the better person, be the better uh teammate and

1048
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 21: player that I can be through this process, then I

1049
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 21: think that's the best.

1050
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 7: Thing that is There some thought that perhaps you suffered

1051
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 7: the fracture before the Baltimore game, that you maybe had

1052
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 7: some of the fracture going out.

1053
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 2: In the Cardinals game.

1054
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 18: Uh, it's possible. I'm not I'm not sure.

1055
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 21: He was just amazed how I was able to play

1056
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 21: those two weeks dealing with the pain as ports, especially

1057
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 21: for what he's seen, uh over his years with baseball guys,

1058
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 21: not really football guys, but baseball guys that on a

1059
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 21: dealt with uh, you know, shoulder injuries.

1060
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, what why do they.

1061
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 7: Think perhaps now that because we of course thought that

1062
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 7: you fractured the shoulder during the Baltimore game like first

1063
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 7: half and came out and played that amazing second half.

1064
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 7: But w what's the new you know information here? Like

1065
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,720
Speaker 7: why do they think maybe you suffered it earlier?

1066
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 2: And when do they think that you suffered it?

1067
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 7: And do you remember when.

1068
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 16: You might have suffered it now?

1069
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 21: I don't really remember. I was just of course from

1070
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 21: the Tennessee gam I was dealing with, you know, just

1071
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 21: shoulder injuries. So I think, uh, you know, with him

1072
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 21: just over his years, just kind of he don't know,

1073
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 21: you know, cause it don't really happen in football with

1074
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 21: this injury. It's a lot of baseball guys. So for him,

1075
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 21: it just goes back to his baseball experience.

1076
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 9: Uh.

1077
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 21: So that's why he was just kind of where no

1078
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 21: one knows when it actually happened or when that bone

1079
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 21: actually came apart. I knew for for sure in Baltimore though,

1080
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 21: because I heard some clicking sounds and and that's one

1081
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 21: of the indicators that you know, something is wrong with

1082
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 21: that joint. But uh that's probably a question for doctor

1083
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 21: Ela Trosh and why he pretty much said that. I

1084
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 21: just know that he was just very amazed how I

1085
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 21: finished both of those games.

1086
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 7: Answer could have.

1087
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 20: Happened on that hit in the in the Titans game.

1088
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: Are you saying that, even.

1089
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 7: All the way back to then and the rest of

1090
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,959
Speaker 7: the shoulder prums that you suffered could have been tied

1091
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 7: to that original hit. Possibly?

1092
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 18: Possibly, I'm not I'm not, I'm not even sure.

1093
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1094
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 21: Possibly, So you played preseason games now I think that's

1095
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 21: a Kevin and uh Ab question.

1096
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 3: Doctor Ela Trosh is he opposed to it cause it's

1097
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 3: a conservative Uh.

1098
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 21: We haven't even talked about the preseason honestly, other than

1099
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 21: training camp and and what were you doing throughout you know,

1100
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 21: practice and stuff, But as far as preseason games, I'm

1101
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 21: not I'm not sure.

1102
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 11: Share with the the fact that this isn't a common

1103
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 11: injury in football, especially has that been I guess difficult

1104
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 11: to wrap your head around that.

1105
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 8: There's not really a comms that you can compare your timeline.

1106
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 11: To you, or the rehab to you, or talk to

1107
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 11: anybody really about that's gone through something similar.

1108
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 21: Yeah, especially in the football space, it's definitely different. But

1109
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 21: like I said, it was a lot of baseball guys.

1110
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 21: A couple of pitchers that I got close to. Uh,

1111
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 21: A guy that played with the Dodgers, you know last year,

1112
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 21: he pitched, He did very very similar. The guy that

1113
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 21: reached out to me the last week from Boston, Trevor

1114
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 21: I think it's named Trevor Story. He did the very

1115
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 21: same thing to me, uh, what he did with his shoulder,

1116
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 21: uh last week. So you know, there's different baseball guys

1117
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 21: that came through and I think of volleyball girl she

1118
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 21: had the similar injury labor them. Yeah, and a couple

1119
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 21: of basketball guys that were out there too. So yeah,

1120
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 21: we all just like like I said, we all come

1121
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,320
Speaker 21: in there, we put it in the work, but we

1122
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 21: able to communicate because we're dealing with the same things,

1123
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 21: so we help each other out.

1124
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 18: So I think that was the closest thing.

1125
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 3: A couple more.

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00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 17: On, behalf of our community want to thank you for

1127
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 17: opening up a business and you're employing young folks.

1128
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 3: I know you did the same thing.

1129
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 17: In Houston when you had rest when you had the

1130
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 17: restaurant and you employed people. Is that something that is

1131
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 17: just innate within you to give other people an opportunity

1132
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 17: or is it something else?

1133
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 3: But again, thank you for opening up that business in

1134
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 3: our community.

1135
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 21: Yes, sir, and no, thank you. And yeah, this is

1136
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 21: something I've always done since I was in high school.

1137
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 21: You know, people gave me opportunities. Coming from where I

1138
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 21: come from, I didn't have much uh singing parym mom,

1139
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 21: So you know that was something that I wanted to

1140
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 21: use this opportunity to do the same thing is be

1141
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 21: able to give opportunities for people to have jobs.

1142
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 18: And I know this community around here won't and looking

1143
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 18: for opportunities like that.

1144
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 21: So if I can be able to, you know, somehow

1145
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 21: give back and help it out, help Cleveland out. This

1146
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 21: is definitely, you know, where I wanna be and this

1147
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 21: is what I wanna do. So it was very important

1148
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 21: for me and my team, and uh we wanna continue

1149
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 21: to do that and and build around here, not just

1150
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 21: in restaurants and in that space, but rec centers and

1151
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 21: you know, boys and girls clubs, all all things like

1152
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 21: that is definitely on the list, and you know, we're

1153
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 21: just mating for the right time and to be able

1154
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 21: to release that. But we've been in part in the

1155
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 21: community for.

1156
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 13: That too, as she used back into things and other

1157
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 13: guys that are dealing with injuries ees back into things.

1158
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 13: How valuable is this first phase in terms of the

1159
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 13: time in the classroom and the time that you're putting

1160
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 13: it into learning this playbook and just really getting into

1161
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 13: things like.

1162
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 18: That, that's very important.

1163
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 21: I think the mental side of the game is very important,

1164
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 21: especially with the new OC. You know, some certain things

1165
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 21: that are gonna carry over, but it's gonna be a

1166
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 21: lot of new things. And you know, we got to

1167
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 21: know how he communicates his offense, He communicates the way

1168
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 21: that him and Kevin are communicating, so we all can

1169
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 21: be on the same page. It's a lot of different

1170
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 21: moving new moving parts, especially throughout the position groups. You know,

1171
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 21: the office of line who's very familiar with you know,

1172
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 21: the the past of what they've been on, you know,

1173
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 21: coached on. And then you have the receiver as a

1174
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 21: runner back. So as a offense has been great, but

1175
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 21: we've seen it on the defensive side last year that

1176
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 21: you know, when we brought it in a new DC,

1177
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 21: how everything kind of messed together. And if we can

1178
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 21: put the time in uh like they did last year,

1179
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 21: I think we can do the same thing and take

1180
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 21: a huge leaps.

1181
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 14: Like there's sometimes guys that have a serious injury and

1182
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:20,760
Speaker 14: there's a mental block right at.

1183
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 3: Least sometimes struggling back to the player.

1184
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 2: That there were.

1185
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 14: I'm just curious, like, how much of your recovery has

1186
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 14: been and will be just a mental thing for you.

1187
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 3: And if that's been a factor, it won't be.

1188
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 18: It won't be.

1189
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 8: I ask him this.

1190
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 6: About the offense and how it's going to look now

1191
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 6: that you've had a couple of classroom sessions. Is it

1192
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 6: gonna be noticeably different for folks watching this, or is

1193
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 6: it that the changes more like nuanced and sundle.

1194
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 8: Do you think.

1195
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 18: Think we might have to wait and see? I now,

1196
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 18: then we might have to wait and see. I can't

1197
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 18: give it too much information on that one.

1198
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: Next up, we're the former Browns Christian Kirksey and Richard Higgins.

1199
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: They wrapped up the day the two of them signed

1200
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: one day contracts today to officially retire as Cleveland Browns

1201
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: and talked about how important that was to them and

1202
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: why they chose to come back to a city as

1203
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: special as Cleveland.

1204
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 20: Hey, good morning, and welcome.

1205
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 22: We're really excited today to welcome back two players who

1206
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 22: really exemplify what it means to be a Brown on

1207
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 22: and off the field. And got a chance to see

1208
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 22: Christian Schard earlier and told him welcome home, because this

1209
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 22: truly is their home and you want to welcome them back. Obviously,

1210
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 22: Christian Kirksey, as I call him the Captain, was drafted

1211
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 22: here in the third round in twenty fourteen. Obviously been

1212
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 22: through a lot of highs and lows here during that

1213
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 22: period of time, but again was always an inspiration to

1214
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 22: everybody here in the building. You know, just just led

1215
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 22: with such passion and heart and you know he left

1216
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 22: everything on and off the field for us. Just so

1217
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 22: welcome to have him back and for him to retire

1218
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 22: as a Brown means the world to me and to

1219
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 22: our family, to this organization. Also want to welcome back

1220
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 22: for Shard Hollywood Higgins in fifth round here out of

1221
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 22: Colorado State in twenty sixteen. Higgy, you know, had his

1222
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 22: highs and lows as a player, always worked his way back,

1223
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 22: had an opportunity. He was on the practice squad and

1224
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 22: worked his way back up to the starting roster and

1225
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 22: shined in a lot of big moments for us. I

1226
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 22: think I have a picture on my phone from when

1227
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 22: he scored the game winning touchdown against the Bills in

1228
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 22: twenty nineteen, and I'm going crazy. So I look forward

1229
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 22: to sharing that with him. But really excited to have

1230
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,720
Speaker 22: these guys back here and glad that they are retiring

1231
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 22: as Cleveland Browns. And so, without further ado, I would

1232
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,959
Speaker 22: like to welcome Christian Richard up to the stage.

1233
00:55:50,880 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 20: Here he comes. Welcome bright Man. Yeah, that's so funny.

1234
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 20: I guess that's alright.

1235
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 22: We'll give you a couple of this is yours.

1236
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 20: Welcome you guys back, So make it official.

1237
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 2: There you go.

1238
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 3: He's welcome. Believe you.

1239
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 20: Yes, I'm eighty two.

1240
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 18: Get a couple of next good.

1241
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 20: Great not Let you guys have at it.

1242
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 9: Man, y'all look the same.

1243
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, man, it feels good.

1244
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 3: Feels good.

1245
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 5: Everybody going. Yeah, I can access anything I don't want

1246
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 5: to add.

1247
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 12: Yesterday, you guys were up here, like after the draft

1248
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 12: and stuff, and how quickly the time when you come.

1249
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 6: What are your.

1250
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 3: Reflections on coming back?

1251
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 5: I guess yeah, I start.

1252
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 23: Oh, man, I feel feel good. I mean, once me

1253
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,320
Speaker 23: and my wife got the playing I mean, it's twenty fourteen.

1254
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 23: I remember first coming here, a little kid coming from

1255
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 23: the University of Iowa, and just the amount of love

1256
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 23: that I've that I've got since day one been here.

1257
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 23: You just feel the love again once you step foot

1258
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 23: in Cleveland, and it's just a blessing to be able

1259
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 23: to be a part of an organization and to officially,

1260
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 23: you know, end my career here.

1261
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 5: It's something that you know, I dreamed of since I.

1262
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 23: Was a kid, to be able to play in the

1263
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 23: league and to be able to you know, buy in

1264
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 23: into an organization and become family, and just to come

1265
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 23: back and to do that. My wife is from Cleveland,

1266
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 23: my daughter was born in Cleveland. Everything is just special

1267
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 23: to me about Cleveland. So it just felt good coming

1268
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 23: back here.

1269
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 3: So important for you guys to go ahead.

1270
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 15: So I really felt like it meant some special me

1271
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 15: because my whole motto behind everything I did.

1272
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 9: Was making them believe.

1273
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.

1274
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 15: And I feel like in order to make him believe,

1275
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 15: somebody had to believe in me, and Cleveland was the

1276
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 15: first to believe in me.

1277
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 2: You know, I spent six years.

1278
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 15: Of my life here, hard years of my life here,

1279
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 15: and you know, I feel like the group that we had,

1280
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 15: we set the standard. You know, we went to the playoffs,

1281
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 15: and that's that's what the barrios, you know, for each

1282
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 15: group that comes in here, and it only made it

1283
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 15: right to do it as a Brown the same way

1284
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 15: I came in. It's the same way I gotta go out.

1285
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 3: So what do you ask? Done here?

1286
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 20: Now?

1287
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 3: What's the next step in your in your life?

1288
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 23: Wherever God, wherever God leaves me? And I meant to fashion,

1289
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 23: so I feel like I can always have fun in fashion.

1290
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 23: I think close is an expression of who you are.

1291
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 23: You can tell a lot by a person about you know,

1292
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 23: what they wear. So that's a that's a hobby of

1293
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 23: mine that I definitely enjoy. Football obviously, is something that

1294
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 23: you know, I've been doing my whole life, and you

1295
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 23: you learn a lot of lessons in the game, not.

1296
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 5: Just on the field. Off the field.

1297
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 23: You learn how to work with people of different color,

1298
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 23: different backgrounds, and you work for a common goal. So like,

1299
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 23: football is something that's always a part of me. So

1300
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 23: I don't know if that's something that you know, I

1301
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 23: would go into next in my career, like coaching or

1302
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 23: just being a mentor of some sort two kids. Because

1303
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 23: even if you don't make it to the professional level,

1304
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 23: I think just playing sports it teaches you a lot.

1305
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 23: So if I can help somebody that's gonna come after me,

1306
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 23: that's that may be something I can get into. But

1307
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 23: right now, you know, I'm chilling, hanging out with my family. Uh,

1308
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 23: and we'll see what guy have in store for me next.

1309
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 3: Did you answer that question to important for you to

1310
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 3: do us?

1311
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 10: Oh?

1312
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 23: Yeah, So it was important for me to come back

1313
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 23: to Cleveland because I'm a person that, you know, Cleveland

1314
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 23: I believed in. I wasn't expecting to come to Cleveland

1315
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 23: and you know, I wasn't expecting to go as high

1316
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 23: as I did in the draft.

1317
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 5: And you know, I just remember the.

1318
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 23: Day that I got drafted, and I was just in

1319
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 23: disbelief that, you know, they gave me an opportunity, they

1320
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 23: gave me a chance. So I wanted to come back

1321
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 23: full circle. I mean, I got drafted in twenty fourteen,

1322
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 23: and it's twenty twenty four and it's like a whole

1323
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 23: ten years later. Being able to in my football career

1324
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 23: and the place that I started, it just meant a lot.

1325
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 23: I've been through a lot in Cleveland, just how with

1326
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 23: shar I said. I mean, I'd have been through some

1327
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 23: dark times in Cleveland as far as you know, in

1328
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 23: the football world, we wasn't you know, good or we

1329
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 23: had you know, some crazy records. But I had the

1330
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 23: best times of my life here. Like I said, I

1331
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 23: met my wife here, my daughter was born here. Like

1332
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 23: everything is bleeding in Cleveland and Cleveland Cleveland, even from

1333
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 23: like the dog checks to the like fans like they

1334
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 23: coming to me and and bringing me in just the

1335
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 23: community of being watching Payton Man of the Year nomine here. Uh,

1336
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 23: just just going out and you know, having my first

1337
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 23: fashion show here, having football camps here, just going and

1338
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 23: doing different charity events here. Uh, the Secret Centers, just

1339
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 23: everything that that eye embody is Cleveland. It's a blue

1340
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 23: collar city to where like you gotta work hard, you

1341
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 23: gotta believe in yourself if nobody else believe in you.

1342
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 23: And I feel like everything that that that Cleveland bodies,

1343
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 23: that's me. So I just want to come back and

1344
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 23: pay it for it and be a part of this

1345
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 23: organization and in my career, so that that played a

1346
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 23: big part in it.

1347
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 3: You guys, what do you remember? What are you gonna

1348
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 3: remember most about being.

1349
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 15: Heard going to the playoffs? You know, let me beat

1350
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 15: the Stillers at home and it was like, man, were

1351
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 15: going to the playoffs. And I'll never forget that moment.

1352
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 15: You know, worked so hard for the only sixteens and.

1353
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 9: Next year we go one and you get what I'm saying,

1354
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 9: and it's like, man, this is hard.

1355
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 15: And to see the fruit of the labor just flourished

1356
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 15: right in front of us, that was amazing, you know,

1357
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 15: And it was amazing to go to the playoffs that

1358
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 15: I'll never forget that moment. The whole city was lit.

1359
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 15: Every the food tasted better, everything.

1360
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 2: It was just fun.

1361
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 9: It was a fun moment.

1362
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 23: So unfortunately I didn't get the chance to go to

1363
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 23: the playoffs. The year that I left was the year

1364
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 23: they went to the playoffs, and I was It was

1365
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 23: a little bittersweet. It was like I wish I was

1366
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 23: there to enjoy it, but I was so happy to

1367
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 23: see Cleveland go to the playoffs.

1368
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 5: I was cheering them on.

1369
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 23: I guess my playoffs would have been the year we

1370
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 23: went one to fifteen and uh we won on Christmas Eve.

1371
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 23: I mean, everybody in the stand so celebrating, like we

1372
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 23: want the super Bowl.

1373
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:07,959
Speaker 16: So uh.

1374
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 5: Uh that's that's a great memory.

1375
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 23: And uh, I was just talking to Dan when we

1376
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 23: went on the road to Atlanta and we were seven

1377
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 23: and four and we was number one in the a

1378
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 23: f C at the time, a f C North at

1379
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 23: the time. And uh a player that stuck out to

1380
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 23: me was when he was on special teams and and

1381
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 23: uh we kicked the field goal and Devin Hester in

1382
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 23: the back he catches it and he's running down the sideline.

1383
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 23: I'm just like, this is about to go crazy, and

1384
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 23: you just see Joe Potonio just knee just knee drop,

1385
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 23: and he tackled Devin Hester I'm like Joe, like, bro,

1386
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 23: you're fast, and uh that was that was one of

1387
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 23: the biggest moments because we got back on the bus

1388
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 23: and you know, it's all in the press, like, oh

1389
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 23: the Browns were seven and four, we number one the

1390
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 23: a f C North and that was just you know,

1391
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 23: that was like my playoffs.

1392
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 5: But unfortunately I didn't actually get to go to the playoffs.

1393
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 23: We were shard, but uh, it made my heart happy

1394
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 23: to see them boys, uh do their thing and it's

1395
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 23: no better way but to beat the stealers in the playoffs.

1396
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 5: I think every Brown's fan and people from Cleveland enjoyed

1397
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:10,959
Speaker 5: that moment. So that was cool.

1398
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 4: So why do you think you guys were embraced by

1399
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 4: the fans so much?

1400
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 9: Honestly?

1401
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 15: Honestly, I would say just the naturality behind everything. You know,

1402
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 15: they just want you to be yourself and as long

1403
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 15: as you can catch that ball and and do good

1404
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 15: for the team, then they love you for who you are.

1405
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 15: You know, doing things in the community as well. You know,

1406
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 15: I've did bowling events and just to give away food

1407
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 15: and we're always there.

1408
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 2: In the community, you know.

1409
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 15: And for me growing up, I never had like somebody

1410
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 15: to look up to as far as oh, you know what,

1411
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 15: they was doing a turkey giveaway and I got to

1412
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 15: meet an NFL player or you get know what I'm saying.

1413
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 15: And for us to just go out in the community

1414
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 15: and put face behind I'm a a helmet. You know

1415
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 15: that that means a lot to kids, That mean a

1416
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 15: lot to anybody. I mean, I went to a I

1417
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 15: went to a jail and spoke to to guys in

1418
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 15: a jail. And you know, if, if if that's what

1419
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 15: it had to come down to, then that's what I

1420
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 15: did to make somebody happy, you know. And at the

1421
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 15: end of the day, Cleveland fans they want you to

1422
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 15: catch the ball and and do your job. And I

1423
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 15: feel like that's that's what we did at the end

1424
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 15: of the day, and that's why they embrace us so much.

1425
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 8: You got to do in your post football Right now, I'm.

1426
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:33,959
Speaker 2: Trying to take care of my kids.

1427
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 8: Man.

1428
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 15: Ah, it's a it's a headache right now. But it's

1429
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 15: it's fun, you know, being a dad is fun. It's

1430
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 15: something that's new for me. My oldest is too, and

1431
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 15: it's it's something new and exciting to look up to

1432
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 15: every morning. You know, every morning, it's something different. Like

1433
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 15: my son come home and it's like eat eat, and

1434
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 15: it's like, man, you hungry too. I'm hungry too, bro like,

1435
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 15: but it's it's fun. So right now I'm just being

1436
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 15: a dad and just taking every day day by day.

1437
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 7: It is Cleveland Brown's team right now.

1438
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 2: What do you see?

1439
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 7: I mean, are do you take a lot of pride

1440
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 7: and join the fact that it looks like things are stable.

1441
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 4: And on the up and up?

1442
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 11: And what do you think of this team?

1443
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean stability is is the I think the

1444
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 5: biggest thing that that is the make of a team.

1445
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 23: Like when when you were somewhere and you're stable and

1446
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 23: you know, like this coaching staff, the players they're gonna

1447
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 23: be here like they can really grow and have something

1448
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 23: you know, special going on. I look at this team

1449
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 23: and from top to bottom, I think the roster is amazing.

1450
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 23: And I was just talking to Rashard as we was,

1451
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 23: you know, was looking at them doing their workouts and everything.

1452
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 23: I didn't know like we was just loaded at quarterback.

1453
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 23: Uh that that's a great quarterback room. And obviously it's

1454
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 23: it's some players like you know, the Mary Cooper's and

1455
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 23: the Joe Potonios and the Nick Chubbs and you just

1456
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 23: look at and you like, where are the holes in

1457
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 23: the in the roster? And it's kind of hard to find.

1458
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 23: So I think this team is built very well. I

1459
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 23: think the coaching staff is a great coaching staff. Although

1460
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 23: I didn't play under Kevin Stefanski, I just heard a

1461
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 23: lot of good things about him. And I think that Cleveland,

1462
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 23: you know, just looking at him on paper, is they

1463
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,920
Speaker 23: got what it takes. Obviously we know it's just the NFL.

1464
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 23: You know, anything can happen. So but when you look

1465
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 23: at it, it's like where are the weaknesses and you

1466
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 23: really don't see any. So I'm excited to see to

1467
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 23: see what Cleveland, Cleveland does. So what's to say about Man?

1468
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 23: I mean, when he talked with Devin Hester, I knew

1469
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 23: he's gonna be here for a while. But Man, since

1470
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 23: I since I met Joe in twenty fourteen, Man, he's

1471
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:54,959
Speaker 23: he's been the same person.

1472
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 5: He's been consistent. And that's the thing about being in

1473
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 5: the NFL.

1474
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 23: It's like it's not the best is the most consistent

1475
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 23: player and you can tell that like he's just put

1476
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 23: in the work.

1477
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 5: He's on and off the field an amazing person.

1478
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 23: And when you put that together with talent, you know,

1479
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 23: you're gonna play here for a long time, and I

1480
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 23: would like to see him, you know, stay here for

1481
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 23: as long as he can. I don't think that he's

1482
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 23: slowing up at any time. I think that he's had

1483
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 23: Probro careers, a Probro career. I think he had seasons

1484
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 23: where it's like, hey, man, like you should be all pro,

1485
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 23: you should do this, you do that. And I think

1486
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 23: that you know, he's showing showing everybody why he is

1487
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 23: doing this for a long time because he's consistent at

1488
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 23: what he does. And Joe's a good friend of mine,

1489
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 23: and you know, I wish him the best and you know,

1490
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 23: hope to see him and just you know, congratulate him

1491
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 23: on you know, just having a great career here and

1492
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 23: just keep it up.

1493
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 8: You guys talked.

1494
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 3: About the memories that you have here in Cleveland, But

1495
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 3: how much at.

1496
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 13: It for you guys to have memories and cul fort

1497
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 13: impacts like Christian the dog check and the Red Carpet

1498
01:08:58,520 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 13: For the fans that are talking about that right now

1499
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 13: and just really excited.

1500
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 16: To see you back here.

1501
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 2: I really feel like.

1502
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 15: The Red Carpet was something that we was just playing

1503
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 15: with you know, and you know Obj came, Obj came,

1504
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 15: and he had a swag by hisself, and it was

1505
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 15: just like, man, if he gonna have a swag by hisself,

1506
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 15: why I can't have my own swag.

1507
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 16: Too, you know.

1508
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 15: And you think of Hollywood, you think of lights, camera action,

1509
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 15: and it was just like, you know what, i'm'a just

1510
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 15: we gonna go out in the fashion.

1511
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 2: We gonna go in the style.

1512
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 15: And we practiced and we practiced and then that game

1513
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 15: came up and we did it and it was just

1514
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 15: like that was a staple point, you know.

1515
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:44,560
Speaker 5: And that's another reason the fans liked me.

1516
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 20: Bro like.

1517
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 2: Just being myself and.

1518
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 15: It's just the au just just being me, you know,

1519
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,919
Speaker 15: just playing and just having.

1520
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 18: Fun while we doing what we love to do.

1521
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 2: And that really meant a lot to me.

1522
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 5: You know, man, oh that the red carpet is is

1523
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:07,679
Speaker 5: that's fire.

1524
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 10: You know.

1525
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 23: I wish I had those moments to get in the

1526
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:13,599
Speaker 23: end zone to do a red carpet myself, but never happened.

1527
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 23: But uh, just like the dog check, you know, actually

1528
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 23: like me and Jamie Collins, uh, you know, Jamie really

1529
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 23: brought it to the to my attention and uh, when

1530
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 23: you think of a dog check.

1531
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,679
Speaker 5: You think of obviously the dog pound.

1532
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 23: What you think of in moments of of you know,

1533
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 23: crucial moments where you know everything is in chaos, everything

1534
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 23: is going crazy, when the game the momentum is switching

1535
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 23: and things of that matter. It's like you gotta you.

1536
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 23: You yell to your boys, you yell to your brother's

1537
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 23: dog check to make sure you understand, like, bro, this

1538
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 23: is a moment where like like I need you so

1539
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 23: like where the dog at in you? And I think

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01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 23: that the city, the city of Cleveland, embodies it because

1541
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 23: you know, uh, hard work, dedication, that's what it's really about.

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01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 23: And when you know everybody has an underdog story. You know,

1543
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 23: everybody has a story of being underlooked, overlooked or whatever.

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01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 23: And I think that the city of Cleveland resonates with

1545
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:18,639
Speaker 23: me because when you're out on that field, whether it's

1546
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,879
Speaker 23: your field playing football, whether it's your field being a carpenter,

1547
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 23: where it's your field being a doctor, whether your feel

1548
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 23: being a parent, like you gotta be a dog. It's

1549
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 23: gonna be tough moments. It's gonna be tough moments that

1550
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,880
Speaker 23: you gotta understand. You got to overcome it. You got

1551
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 23: people that's looking up to you. You got people that's

1552
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 23: you know, counting on you, and it's like.

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01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 5: Are you a dog?

1554
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 23: Gives you a dog at your craft? Like, you know,

1555
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 23: check yourself. So I think that we just embody just

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 23: a lot, Me and Richard with the city. And I

1557
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 23: think that's why, you know, fans love me because no

1558
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 23: matter where I met in my life, whether it's high low, like,

1559
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 23: I'm gonna be consistent to be the same person. So uh,

1560
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 23: that's that's why I think the city really resonates with

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 23: the dog check.

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01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 3: So question, we're we're where you guys?

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01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 7: Look at that?

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01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:07,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in Houston.

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01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 9: We mean too far from each other?

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01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 2: Wanna be some one on ones three hours away?

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01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 12: You guys A lotta talk here about potentially the Browns

1568
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 12: leaving the lakefront.

1569
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 3: Just wondering your thoughts on that.

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01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 9: I seen that.

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01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 15: I seen that.

1572
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 9: I didn't like it.

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01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 15: The only reason it was like, man, I think we

1574
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 15: got advantage being on that lake. You know, teams come

1575
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 15: in and it's cold. Well I'm from Dallas anyway, so

1576
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 15: it's I'm cold too. So it really I don't know,

1577
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:45,560
Speaker 15: but I like change, you know, if that's something that

1578
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:48,640
Speaker 15: they do. I'm all for bro I'm all for it.

1579
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 15: I've seen a lot of fans was like kind of

1580
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 15: mad about it. But I mean, if that's what it is,

1581
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 15: If if that's what it boils down to, so be

1582
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 15: it new stadium, sh get rid of that old lifestyle

1583
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 15: and onto a new one, you know, so.

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01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 23: Obviously you know it's it's a historic stadium in my opinion,

1585
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 23: just being on the lake, having a lake effect, you know,

1586
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 23: the Muni lot, just you know, just seeing that that,

1587
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 23: the fans just flooding the streets. When you're driving through

1588
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 23: the city game day, it's just it's just bringing back

1589
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 23: so many memories of uh, when you just you wake up,

1590
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 23: you know, you go through your game day routine and

1591
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 23: then from you know, I used to live in Strongsville,

1592
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 23: so from Strongsville to downtown Cleveland, you know, a good

1593
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 23: fifteen twenty minutes, so you just had your your preparation,

1594
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 23: and then it's like a movie feel when you're driving

1595
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,480
Speaker 23: through the city and then when you go you know, underground,

1596
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 23: you park and you just just see the lake, you

1597
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:49,720
Speaker 23: see the fans and everything like that. I mean, I'm

1598
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 23: a mister stadium being downtown. If it was to come

1599
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 23: out here, but I understand that you gotta change it up,

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01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:59,760
Speaker 23: you know, you gotta you gotta switch it up from

1601
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:01,639
Speaker 23: time to time. But I think the city of adapt,

1602
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 23: that the fans will adapt, just like anything else. So

1603
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 23: I'm I'm a fan of both because I understand it's just,

1604
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 23: you know, it's something new and it's it's it's refreshing.

1605
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 23: But I also understand, like you know, history, and you know,

1606
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 23: that's that was home. You know, that's like those homes

1607
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,280
Speaker 23: that you see that still here from you know, half

1608
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 23: many years ago. It's it's a feeling and it's an

1609
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 23: attachment to it. But you know, some things you gotta

1610
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 23: let go. You got to move forward.

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01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 7: Get one more h Can I get a dog check in? Yeah?

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01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 5: You know, I meant me Doug check.

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01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, I got, I got.

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01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 5: I said, I got a lot of game left in

1615
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 5: me too. You know, already signed the papers though.

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Speaker 1: So that wraps us up today On from the Podium.

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