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Speaker 1: And we welcome you into the Cross Country Mortgage Campus. Maria,

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Speaker 1: Ohio is the place. This is the best podcast available

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Speaker 1: on Jason Gibbs Glad You're with us. Rookie Mini Caamp

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Speaker 1: on today's show, an exclusive one on one interview with

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Speaker 1: former Ohio State Center and now new Brown's Rookie Center

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Speaker 1: Luke Wepler, renaissance man, as you will find out here

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Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. Obviously, the big news of

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Speaker 1: the weekend, in addition to the rookies all being on

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Speaker 1: the Browns acquisition of Zadarius Smith from the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: The three time Pro bowler fifty four and a half

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Speaker 1: sacks in his career, thirty six of them have come

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Speaker 1: in the last four seasons. Our good friend Jake Truck

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Speaker 1: from ESPN dot Com pointing this out. One of five

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Speaker 1: players to have ten plus sacks and three of the

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Speaker 1: last four seasons. Miles Garrett is one of the others.

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Speaker 1: This guy is a machine and he can get to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and it will be a nice little pairing

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Speaker 1: with Miles Garrett. He'll be reunited with Delvin, Tomlinson and

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Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz, has to be pretty happy looking at his

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Speaker 1: defense and all the adjustments that Andrew Berry has made

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Speaker 1: in the last three months of this very young football season.

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Speaker 1: On paper, the Brown's very deep on that defensive line. Now,

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Speaker 1: linebackers are strong with a nice group of veterans, and

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Speaker 1: them pretty pretty solid. Juan Thornhill will only add to

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Speaker 1: that as well. The Browns, of course, receiving Zadarius Smith

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Speaker 1: plus a twenty twenty five to sixth rounder and a

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Speaker 1: three in twenty twenty five. We're not waiting around till

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Speaker 1: the end of the draft for that. The Vikings get

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Speaker 1: Zadaria Smith is a Cleveland Brown. Andrew Berry doing a

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Speaker 1: masterful job yet again with Quasi Adolpho mensa former Brown's

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Speaker 1: assistant GM who's now the Vikings new general manager. So

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Speaker 1: congratulations to them. Looking forward to having Zadarius on campus

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks as we move into

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Speaker 1: week in June. For more, now on Rookie Minicamp twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, I had a chance to sit down with

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Speaker 1: former Ohio State Senator Luke Whippler. He is the Brown

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Speaker 1: sixth round pick. Here in twenty twenty three, I mentioned

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Speaker 1: a renaissance man to play chess, looking to play chess

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Speaker 1: with Amari Cooper and beat him. According to Luke Whipler,

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Speaker 1: a great rugby player, and oh yeah, he's a pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good football player as well. And I know Bill

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Speaker 1: Callahan is very very excited to have him on campus

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Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns. For more, have a watch and

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Speaker 1: have a listen, and here on the best podcast available

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Speaker 1: live from the Cross Country Mortgage Campus in Borea. Happy

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Speaker 1: to be joined by new sixth round pick Ohio State

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Speaker 1: for a few minutes. Man, I appreciate the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Day one in the books

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been awesome. I think, like you said, coach

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Speaker 1: Was there a was there a moment when you walked

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Speaker 1: He is. He's a great human in addition to being

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Speaker 2: I think the last I guess forty eight hours that

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Speaker 1: I noticed, yes he was coach Callahan was bringing you

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Speaker 1: And is that something that you learned in high school

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Speaker 1: For They had no question about it. They take their

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, we're happy to have you here. Definitely in

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Speaker 2: For me, it's just starting to really mastered with technique

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