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Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns how their first press conferences of the

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Speaker 1: week as the team turns the page to the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans on Sunday. I'm Jake Melentik, and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: From the Podium podcast. Today at the Podium a few

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Speaker 1: big names, including the newest member of your Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: First up, though, we start with the head coach, Kevin Stefansku,

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Speaker 1: who talked before practice and gave us a preview of

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans and some information on why the Browns

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Speaker 1: chose to sign running back Kareem Hunt.

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Speaker 2: Okay, start our preparation onto Tennessee. Excited about the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to be in front of our fans again. They were

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Speaker 2: unbelievable Week one. I expect the same from our group.

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Speaker 2: We're excited about the challenge of playing another AFC opponent,

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Speaker 2: a one on one football team. Have a ton of

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Speaker 2: respect for coach Rabel and all of his coaches. They

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Speaker 2: do a great job down there, really really well coached offense, defense,

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Speaker 2: and special teams. Like every week, the challenge is different,

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Speaker 2: but the challenge is definitely you know, there are difficult

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Speaker 2: matchups when you talk about facing the Titans, whether it's

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Speaker 2: their defense, their stout front, how they're able to defend

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Speaker 2: in the back end their offense obviously with an unbelievable

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Speaker 2: rush attack. We know what they're capable of. Really well coached, sound, physical,

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Speaker 2: special teams group. So it's a unique challenge every single week.

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Speaker 2: So what we're doing here today is pouring ourselves into

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Speaker 2: the preparation so that we're ready for that challenge. And

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Speaker 2: with that, I'll take any questions.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Kevin, did you watch Kareem's workout yesterday? And if so,

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Speaker 3: how did he look to you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I did, and he looked in good shape.

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Speaker 2: As you guys know, there's football shape and there's working

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Speaker 2: out to stay ready shape. So I'm sure he's going

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Speaker 2: to come along this week and we'll see where he is.

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Speaker 2: But he looks to be in good shape.

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Speaker 3: And you know the way it ended with him last

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Speaker 3: year he was able to go to free agency. Did

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Speaker 3: you think it was always a possibility that he'd be

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Speaker 3: able to return or did you kind of move past that?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: I think in this business you always you never know,

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Speaker 2: really so, and that's what you know. When guys leave here,

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Speaker 2: you're always rooting for them, you're wishing them well, and

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Speaker 2: again in this case, an opportunity to present itself here.

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Speaker 2: You know, Kareem has familiarity in our offense and what

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Speaker 2: we're about, so it felt like it was a really

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Speaker 6: Thanks Jordan, Kevin, you just you just touched on the

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Speaker 6: familiarity that Kareem has. How much does that help given

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Speaker 6: these circumstances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a big deal, Tom. I mean,

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Speaker 2: as you know, as when you add players that are

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Speaker 2: free agents, oftentimes you have to ramp them up and

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Speaker 2: get them ready to play, and we have done that.

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Speaker 2: You can do that in this case. There's obviously some

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Speaker 2: newness that Kareem is learning, but he can pick up

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Speaker 2: things very quickly, so that definitely factored into it.

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Speaker 6: And if I could pivot to Deshan real quick. You

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Speaker 6: said after the game that obviously there were some throws

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Speaker 6: look at the film, what do you think of his

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very similar to all of us.

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Speaker 2: You know, plays, calls that you want, back blocks that

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Speaker 2: you want, back tackles, all those. Anytime you come up short,

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Speaker 2: there's things that you want to do differently. I think

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Speaker 2: that's the beauty of our sport. That's the beauty of

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Speaker 2: playing in this league where you get another opportunity. But

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Speaker 2: I know Deshaun and all of our players want to

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Speaker 7: Kevin, can you just talk about how I'm guessing that

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Speaker 7: Jerome Ford will continue to be your lead back and

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Speaker 7: if so, how do you think Kareem will compliment him

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Speaker 7: and his running style?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think Mary Kay, you know, Jerome is the lead back,

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Speaker 2: but we have to work through all of those type

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Speaker 2: So I think we need to work through all of that.

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Speaker 2: But I yes, Jerome is the starter.

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Speaker 7: And what does Kareem bring that's maybe sort of different

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as you guys know haven't been around Kareem for

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Speaker 8: And you talked about that familiarity and having to game

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Speaker 8: what Kareem can do. But how much can you go

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Speaker 8: you're planning for what he's able to do this week

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Speaker 8: and even just next week these recent games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a good point, Cam. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's a familiarity that Kareem has with our offense. It's

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Speaker 2: also our familiarity with Kareem and his ability and you

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Speaker 2: know the run types the past types that that he

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Speaker 9: So just to be clear, Kevin, you do you think

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Speaker 9: there's a chance that you could use Kareem on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a chance, But we got to see

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Speaker 9: Out, Okay, and when you look at other struggles of

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Speaker 9: but what can be done to make it better than

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Speaker 9: it was first two games?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it takes everybody, Jeff, I really do

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Speaker 2: to be a little bit cleaner on our technique, be

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Speaker 2: a little bit cleaner in our execution. It's really pretty simple.

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Speaker 2: I think for us, we look real hard at at scheme, technique, alignments,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the the nuts and bolts of it, to

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Speaker 2: make sure that we're doing everything to have a precise attack.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Kevin, just a couple of housekeeping things here with Amari,

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Speaker 10: to get some treatment or are you concerned about their

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really thinking past today. This is really

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Speaker 10: And then just looking at the Titans with Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 10: Just your thoughts on what you see when you study

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Speaker 10: the film and the challenge they present to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a very very physical group. You know, starts with

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Speaker 2: one man can't tackle Derek Henry. You got to swarm

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Speaker 2: they have a great boot action game, a great keeper game,

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Speaker 11: Hey, Kevin, I wanted to ask about dewand I mean,

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Speaker 11: the game, but after reviewing the film, you know, how

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Speaker 11: did you guys think he did overall in the tough

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think tough assignment. I thought he performed well.

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Speaker 2: He's got to continue, like all rookies do, you know,

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Speaker 2: just got to continue to get better throughout this season.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's working really hard with the coaches

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Speaker 2: at Like we talked about earlier, every week is different,

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Speaker 2: So you pour out that game plan from this week

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Speaker 2: from last week, excuse me, and you pour in this week.

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Speaker 2: So that's what he's working hard on. But a young

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Speaker 12: Hey, Kevin, I know Jim spent the last couple of

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Speaker 12: advisor role. Just curious, how much do you see similarities

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Speaker 12: between what they're running defensively to what you guys do,

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Speaker 12: what Jim does up here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say that they're pretty different schematically just where

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Speaker 2: that they do. Obviously, Jim's influence throughout their time together.

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Speaker 2: You know that Jim could probably better answer that, but

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Speaker 2: I'd say there's probably more differences than there are similarities.

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Speaker 13: Kevin a little unsure about something. When Ford went down

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Speaker 13: for four weeks in training camp, you acquired Jordan Will,

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Speaker 13: then you traded for Pierre Strong, So why now with

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Speaker 13: Kareem Hunt and why not then?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think you're always looking at the ways

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Speaker 2: to improve your team, Tony, and based on your team

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Speaker 2: at the moment. Obviously, Nick Chubb being unavailable factored into

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Speaker 2: this decision, and Kareem knows that, and Kareem feels as

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Speaker 2: sick about Knick's injury as anybody, But you know, this

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Speaker 2: is the situation that we're in the circumstances, so I

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Speaker 14: Kevin, going back to Kareem for a second, with you know,

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Speaker 14: having Jerome and Pierre as kind of younger guys, what

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Speaker 14: is his leadership style? What do you think he can

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Speaker 14: bring in that aspect to help them kind of grow

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with our roster, Kelsey, if you look

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Speaker 2: there are veterans that have been there, done that, if

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Speaker 2: young guys, times verbally, sometimes just by doing your job.

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Speaker 2: So I think Kareem, uh, you know, first day in

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Speaker 2: And then I think the young guys will watch how

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Speaker 2: Kareem works at practice, in particular in the games he

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Speaker 2: practices already plays hard.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Kevin Jed Wills, you know obviously on the on

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Speaker 7: the game winning fumble recovery, he struggled on that particular play,

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Speaker 7: and you know he's kind of taking a beating all

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Speaker 7: over the place. My question is with you guys having

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Speaker 7: did it leave Jed out on an island a little

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Speaker 7: about his performance that night?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to look back when I'm looking forward, Mary kay,

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Speaker 2: But it's a tough game that those type of those

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Speaker 2: moments are going to happen at times. We expect Jed

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Speaker 2: to bounce back. That's a good fo ball player. That

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Speaker 2: he was going against. But we're going to focus on

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Speaker 3: Hey, Kevin, obviously Dero made a real long run, but

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Speaker 3: what did you like about how he handled being pressed

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Speaker 3: into that bigger role Monday night?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it's all a lot of our young guys. Scott,

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Speaker 2: hear this from me all the time, and it's about

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Speaker 2: staying ready and because you just never know when your

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Speaker 2: opportunity is going to come. And I think Jerome has

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Speaker 2: been a great example of that. Is somebody that works

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Speaker 3: And then Grant had another strong game. Are you seeing

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Speaker 6: Hey, Kareem, welcome back. I guess, man, Hey, first of all,

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Speaker 6: You're coming back under really interesting circumstances. Can you just

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 8: And then for you to be back here and playing,

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Speaker 4: All right, Max, We'll take you a question from Mary Kay.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Kareem, welcome back. Can Can you just talk about

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Speaker 7: And I'm told real quick that you that you have

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Speaker 16: I mean most most definitely, I'm just gonna ready to

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Speaker 16: I'm just ready to go out there and I'll showcase

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Speaker 3: Where did like, did any fences have to be mended?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Kareem.

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Speaker 16: I mean, it worked out. It worked out obviously right

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Speaker 12: Hey, Kareem, I just want to ask how much familiarity

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Speaker 15: You know, I just love the game of football. I

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Speaker 5: understand that. You know, we're going to play the rest

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Speaker 5: of the season for twenty four.

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Speaker 6: Thanks Jordan A.

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Speaker 12: Walk.

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Speaker 6: Speaking of team efforts, what's it like to tackle Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not easy. It's not easy. Like you said,

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Speaker 5: I think you hit it right on the head. It's

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Speaker 5: eleven of us and it's one of him, So we

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Speaker 5: got to get eleven hats to the ball. We understand

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Speaker 5: that he's a he's a he's been the top five

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Speaker 5: we understand that. We give him his respect, but it's

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Speaker 5: eleven of us, and with all eleven of us getting

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Speaker 5: we got to make it hard on him, you know.

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Speaker 5: So obviously it's a huge challenge for us. But I think,

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Speaker 5: like I said, if we get all eleven guys running

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Speaker 5: to the ball like I know we will, you know

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Speaker 5: we'll we'll be up for it.

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Speaker 6: And statistically speaking, you guys are amongst the top and

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Speaker 6: in so many categories defensively ay walk in terms of

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Speaker 6: the third down conversion zone. How much is that a

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Speaker 6: point of emphasis by coach Schwartz.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta get off the field. We got to

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Speaker 5: get off the field. You never want to give a

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Speaker 5: team free free plays, you know, we don't. I think

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Speaker 5: this is the least amount of plays I've played in

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Speaker 5: two games, you know, as far as us being able

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Speaker 5: to get off the field, and we even left some

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Speaker 5: out there, you know, Like I said, So you know

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Speaker 5: when you talk to our team, our defense, especially you

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Speaker 5: hear you know, in our locker room last week after

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Speaker 5: the game, just a lot of guys you know, you know,

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Speaker 5: wanting to play back, wanting to play back, and you know,

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Speaker 5: a lot of from the outside looking at you're like, oh,

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Speaker 5: they're playing great defense. They're playing great defense. We thought

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Speaker 5: we you know, we played okay. You know, we played

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Speaker 5: okay last week, but we left some players out there

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Speaker 5: that we know we we shouldn't give up as a defense,

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Speaker 5: and we hold ourselves to a high standard and that's

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Speaker 5: just what it is, and we got to live up

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Speaker 5: to it every week. So we got a long way

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Speaker 5: to go, but we're trending in the right direction, and

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Speaker 5: like you said, third down is going going to be

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Speaker 5: a huge point of emphasis for us.

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Speaker 12: Hey, wealk just wanted to ask you about Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 12: and the difference in him what you saw on him

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Speaker 12: last week against the Chargers. And you know what, when

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Speaker 12: he's playing like that, how much how different does that

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Speaker 12: make their offense.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I have much respect for Ryan Tannehill. I

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Speaker 5: played against him, Uh, you know every year I was

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Speaker 5: in Indy. Obviously, respect his game, you know, a whole lot.

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Speaker 5: He he he makes that offense go, you know, when

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Speaker 5: he's hot and he's uh you know, obviously they're able

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Speaker 5: to run the ball and he's throwing the play action pass,

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Speaker 5: throwing the boots and all that stuff and taking the

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Speaker 5: shots down the field. He's very dynamic, you know. So

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Speaker 5: we got to make sure that we're on our p's

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Speaker 5: and q's and we're you know where we need to

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Speaker 5: be as far as the defensive coverages and all that stuff,

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Speaker 5: and uh, don't make it easy on them. You know,

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Speaker 5: we gotta we gotta make sure that he sees a

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Speaker 5: lot of bodies, you know, we're getting pressure on him

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Speaker 5: and then he see the sticky coverage outside and you know,

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Speaker 5: guys in their spots. So, like I said, huge challenge

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Speaker 5: for us defensively with the run game, with the play

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Speaker 5: action pass and all that stuff. But like I said,

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Speaker 5: if all eleven guys are working and doing what they're

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Speaker 5: supposed to do, then we'll be fine.

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