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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode two of the best podcast available, Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Edition, Live from the practice field. I'm Jason Gibbs

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Speaker 1: alongside Andrew Gribble. Had to do a little split screen.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's in different spots here, different tiers, so we've got

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we're we're keeping our proper distance

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Speaker 1: because we want to be avoiding meetings at all costs. Gribbs,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. It was good to see you

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Speaker 1: and talk to you through a mask today. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: guys backing on the field, and I think the one

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Speaker 1: thing that we take it take for granted, and I

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Speaker 1: was talking to Bow about it on Cleveland Brown's Daily

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Speaker 1: earlier today, is maybe we take stretching for granted. In

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Speaker 1: the first twenty minutes every day of practice for granted.

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Speaker 1: We're just like, I gotta finish up some stuff and

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Speaker 1: then I'll come outside and watch. Now, you watch every

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Speaker 1: minute of it when you don't have anything for five

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Speaker 1: minutes like we have. Yeah, it was just it was

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Speaker 1: exciting just to see football back. And it was again,

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Speaker 1: you can't say this enough. It's weird out there. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's weird, no fans, I mean it was even weird.

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Speaker 1: It felt like an o t A just because there

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Speaker 1: was no fans, but it was also weird because we

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Speaker 1: were so far away, and so you just have to

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Speaker 1: adjust to that. And this is gonna be the last

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Speaker 1: place you're gonna hear people complaining about the access that

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Speaker 1: we're getting, because I'm thankful that we're even watching practices

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Speaker 1: at this point. But when you watched the football in

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Speaker 1: the field, everything kind of looked business as usual, and

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Speaker 1: that was refreshing, not only because of the whole COVID

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Speaker 1: pandemic and everything like that, but it didn't look to

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Speaker 1: me at least like a new team with a new

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Speaker 1: head coach. It just seemed like they knew what they

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Speaker 1: were doing. It was I would say it call it

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Speaker 1: a crisp practice, not a lot of stoppages. Uh, things

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Speaker 1: were moving fast, and as Kevin Stepanski said afterward, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna find out that football shape is different

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Speaker 1: than all the Instagram videos and everything they've been posting

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Speaker 1: all throughout this offseason that this is this is now

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Speaker 1: gonna be what gets them into that shape going forward. Yes,

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Speaker 1: lifting four hundred pounds or doing squats with X amount

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Speaker 1: not take the place of a hot, steamy two hour

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Speaker 1: know if any of the media or myself was in

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Speaker 1: football shape either for watching practice. That that that's some

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of outside time that I have not

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Speaker 1: had much of. Ding No, correct, it is warm, it

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Speaker 1: is sticky. I have my plexiglass up on the side

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Speaker 1: of me. That's why I'm able to do this without

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Speaker 1: a mask on right now. But the breeze has died.

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Speaker 1: It it is a little stifling down here on the

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Speaker 1: practice field, dribbs. Let's get to it. News of the

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Speaker 1: day we had all we heard from a lot of guys, uh,

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Speaker 1: including Baker Mayfield, Jervis Landry, Grant Delpit uh, and of

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Speaker 1: course coach Dpansky before practice and again after practice. Uh.

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Speaker 1: What were your big takeaways, uh from any one of

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Speaker 1: out to you from the four guys we heard from today, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it was about as insightful of an interview

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Speaker 1: we've heard from Baker Mayfield in a while, and I

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Speaker 1: think he he went in a lot of detail about

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Speaker 1: what he did this offseason to kind of get himself

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Speaker 1: into shape. Getting a nutritionist involved a strength coach. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he looks good and he's moving around pretty good. I

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Speaker 1: thought I saw an extra little pepping his step on

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Speaker 1: a on a broken play where he had to run

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Speaker 1: and slide to the baseball slide today. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was He was as open as he's

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Speaker 1: been about last year being a struggle both physically and

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Speaker 1: was tough yer for everyone. And I think he's put

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Speaker 1: him talk about that. And I think he he feels

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Speaker 1: rejuvenated with this offense, with this new head coach, and

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Speaker 1: I think he he's in a good place and that's

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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, no question about it. He sounded. Uh

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Speaker 1: it was a quiet confidence. Yeah, I think taking taken

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Speaker 1: here as we kick things off, some other news of

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Speaker 1: the day. Um Uh, Kevin Stepanski basically said that J. C.

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Speaker 1: We all didn't know what that meant or what you know,

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Speaker 1: what the details were. Ian Rappaport from NFL Network saying

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Speaker 1: he sat out practice after undergoing a NIE scope. Uh.

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Speaker 1: to clean out loose bodies and he's discomfort. Procedures to

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Speaker 1: sign light him for a couple of weeks should not

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Speaker 1: affect his availability for the season. That is from NFL

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Speaker 1: Networks in Rappaport, So a little concerning at first, but

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Speaker 1: clearly it sounds like Trader will be here in time

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Speaker 1: for the season. In the meantime, Uh, the rookie Nick

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Speaker 1: And there's obviously two effects to this first off, as

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Speaker 1: Stefanski said, it's a great it's great experience, invaluable for

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Speaker 1: Nick Harris to gonna get thrown in there work alongside

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Speaker 1: Joel Betoni and why tell her their right guard? Uh,

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Speaker 1: and he'll he'll make the most of those that couple

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Speaker 1: The other side of this, though, is is that there

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Speaker 1: was some thought maybe with the lack of guards on

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be focused on center because that's a lot

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Speaker 1: I think it will be great experience for the rookie

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Speaker 1: fifth rounder that a lot of people believe was far

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Speaker 1: better than a fifth rounder. Yeah, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: And and Harris looked good today again, very business like

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Speaker 1: for the offense and for the defense, and normally this

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Speaker 1: be done. This is how it was. Fluid. Practice was

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Speaker 1: The other news of the day Myles Garrett with a

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Speaker 1: little handy tweak. Now we saw him after walk through everything.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know when will expect him back.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to think he needs to do exactly

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Speaker 1: opt out. Olivier Vernon wearing a hooded sweatshirt you pointed

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Speaker 1: of injuries on your hands. Yes, exactly. I think we

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Speaker 1: then the more we've heard about it. Now we haven't

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Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out, and I know

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it to me, Jarvis Landry practicing maybe a

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Speaker 1: But when you think about it, we're starting training camp

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Speaker 1: about three weeks later than expected, so maybe this would

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Speaker 1: game was was supposed to be taking place. What else

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Speaker 1: stood out to you from the offensive side of the wall,

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Speaker 1: because on the defensive side of the ball, it's hard,

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Speaker 1: We'll get a better idea when the pants come on

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Speaker 1: on Monday. Yeah. I just thought offensively, it was a

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Speaker 1: on the running attack. We saw plenty of that going

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Speaker 1: And I was excited to see the tight ends in

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Speaker 1: Actually I think that's a that's a position group with

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Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, David Njoku, and I saw a couple of

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Speaker 1: nice plays from Harrison Bryant as well. He that's a

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