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Speaker 1: Right now, we are pleased to welcome in on our hotline,

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Speaker 1: the brand new Cleveland Brown wide receiver Cedric Tillman from

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Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee joins us right now. Cedric, thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us in congratulations, Thank you, thank you. How

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Speaker 1: does it feel to be an NFL football player? How

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Speaker 1: does it feel to be a Cleveland Brown?

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Speaker 2: So it was great, you know, it does even better

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Speaker 2: be a Cleveland Brown. You know, I'm ready to go,

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Speaker 2: ready to win, ready to compete. Let's do this.

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Speaker 3: Your father was in the National Football League, played collegiately

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Speaker 3: obviously with Steve McNair at Alcorn State. How special is

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Speaker 3: it to follow in his footsteps now and be an

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Speaker 3: NFL wide receiver. We gotta be a pretty special thing

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Speaker 3: for your family.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know it's great. You know, like you said,

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Speaker 2: my dad playing in that league, and you know he

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Speaker 2: was able to give me a lot of advice and

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Speaker 2: a lot of coaching, uh, you know, while I was

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Speaker 2: growing up and even now, so you know, it's great

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Speaker 2: to have a second generation.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Cedric tyvis here? How does it feel

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Speaker 4: to play with a quarterback like Deshaun Watson and you know,

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Speaker 4: be out there with Amari Cooper and DPJ and Elijah

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Speaker 4: Moore in his receiving corps.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You know, I'm really excited to get to you know,

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Speaker 2: learn my new teammates, my new brothers, you know, my receivers.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. And you know, playing with Deshaun

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Speaker 2: Watson and that's one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited, Cedric.

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Speaker 1: They talked about your responsibility in how much you just

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Speaker 1: love the game of football. Glenn Cook was talking about

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Speaker 1: that and also your responsibility within the program at Tennessee

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Speaker 1: to rebuild the program and take it to new heights.

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Speaker 1: Is that something you've taken personally? Is that something you'd

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Speaker 1: like to add to here with the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know. You know I've been a part of

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe not winning so many games and really

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Speaker 2: turn it around. So you know, I'm really looking forward

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Speaker 2: to helping the Browns win.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, We're ready to put things around over there

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Speaker 2: and be a part of that.

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Speaker 3: Cedric, what have your initial conversations been like with our

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Speaker 3: wide receiver coach chat o'sha.

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Speaker 2: Ohvin good. You know, I just got out the phone

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Speaker 2: with him. You know, he's excited I'm excited, you know,

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Speaker 2: he said, just enjoyed his moment, enjoy this night. So

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Speaker 2: you know we're worry about the work and stuff later.

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Speaker 2: So you know already you know our toe coach, we're

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Speaker 2: ready to go, ready to comteinue rate a ball. So

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Speaker 2: I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: Now you go.

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Speaker 3: You look at twenty twenty one. You come a first

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Speaker 3: thousand yard receiver Tennessee since Justin Hunter that year on

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Speaker 3: thousand and eighty one yards, seventeen to catch twelve touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: You look at what you did against Alabama seven for one,

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Speaker 3: fifty two in a touchdown, ten for two hundred a

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Speaker 3: touchdown against that great Georgia defense. You know what what

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Speaker 3: were those games like for you? You finish the year

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Speaker 3: with a touchdown in seven straight games, you score ten

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Speaker 3: times five one hundred yard games. Talk about that stretch

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Speaker 3: and then what happened this year with that ankle injury

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Speaker 3: and are you do you feel like you're fully back

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Speaker 3: to where you were in those dominating twenty twenty one performances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, uh, Kyle really on fire in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, and I was able to really have the

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Speaker 2: last really good six seven games whatever it was, had

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Speaker 2: a little streak. You know, I come in to twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two just want to you know, capitalize on that

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Speaker 2: one and improved, you know fourtuentlyth third game of the year.

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Speaker 2: You know, got heard high ankle sprain, attic your surgeries,

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Speaker 2: So it was tough. You know, that's not the way

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Speaker 2: I wanted my last year at Tennessee to go. But

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Speaker 2: you know he was able to still win a lot

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Speaker 2: of games, and I was able to come back and

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Speaker 2: fight at the end. So you know, I feel really

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent healthy, ready to go, and I'm Peveland

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Speaker 4: Cedric, tell us a guy who you that you look

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Speaker 4: up to when playing football? Who do you model your

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Speaker 4: game after?

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Speaker 2: You know, I really mondored my game after DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 2: you know, being able to go up and get the

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Speaker 2: ball no matter who's on them. But definitely and Mark

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Speaker 2: Cooper with the route running. I have definitely watched him

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Speaker 2: on him how he runs routes. So I'm really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to learning about that.

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Speaker 3: He is meticulous. I will tell you that, Cedric, about

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Speaker 3: the details that go in. He scouts himself, he scouts

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Speaker 3: his opponents, and I think it's got to be exciting

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Speaker 3: right to get into a room with somebody that you

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Speaker 3: looked up to to understand their process. Because at this

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Speaker 3: level it's one thing to have special gifts, and obviously

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Speaker 3: you have tremendous athletic gifts size, the strength to go downfield,

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Speaker 3: make those contested catches, the speed to do so at

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifteen pounds. What how excited are you

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Speaker 3: to kind of understand and pick the brain of somebody

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Speaker 3: who has been one of the best professional route runners

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Speaker 3: in this league for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: Man, Like you said, Man, it's about the details and

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Speaker 2: stuff like that, and you know, I know I'll be

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Speaker 2: able to really look up to him and really learn

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Speaker 2: a lot from him, you know. So I'm looking forward

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Speaker 2: to playing with him, teaming up and ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Cedric. For those who have not had the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: watch a lot of Tennessee or not see a lot

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Speaker 3: of Tennessee tape your tape, how would you describe your

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Speaker 3: game to our audience?

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Speaker 2: Big physical playmaker and a touchdown touchdown guys.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown, let's go store the football.

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Speaker 1: Baby, Absolutely, Cedric. We thank you very much for the time,

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Speaker 1: graduate enjoy the evening, and we're looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: you here in Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys for having me.

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Speaker 1: Cedric Tillman, new wide receiver from the Tennessee Volunteers, now

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Speaker 1: at Cleveland Brown