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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Here are your hosts, Bou Bishop and Nathan Ziggura,

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Speaker 1: and welcome into this special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily.

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Speaker 1: Merrily Bow give a on board here as we kick

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Speaker 1: things off on this special edition, it's I'll tell you,

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Speaker 1: one of the coolest things about being back in the

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Speaker 1: of the hallmarks of this show in the in the

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Speaker 1: from the goated stuff, from with my kids of their clothes.

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Speaker 1: We got into that a little bit. The Chiefs, the

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Speaker 1: on again was great. Jeremiah Whoso Coromo. We caught up

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Speaker 1: And there's a guy who I mean s only we

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Speaker 1: the conversation I had with Anthony Schwartz. That was a

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Speaker 1: those interviews over the course of the next couple of

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Speaker 1: quick time out. You're listening to CBD on eight fifty

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Speaker 1: ESPN Cleveland Cleveland Browns Daily SPN Cleveland. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the special edition of Cleveland Browns Daily, and we think

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Speaker 1: about this defense and how good it can be, how

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Speaker 1: We'll remember the big off season signing was John Johnson

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Speaker 1: the Third, the safety formerly of the Rams, comes to

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Speaker 1: the Browns, and over the second half of the year,

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Speaker 1: as Grant Delpit got more comfortable, JJ three got to

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Speaker 1: back end of this defense is absolutely phenomenal. The corners,

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Speaker 1: the safeties, they're all back. And John Johnson is fired

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Speaker 1: great John Johnson the Third joint here in studio Hey,

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Speaker 1: before we get into all the football fund, we were

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Speaker 1: the kids are into the fortnite. Our children are and

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Speaker 1: they're using this derogatory phrase called your dog water. They're saying, say,

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Speaker 1: to come together a bit as a group and get

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00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,040
Speaker 1: some work done, but have some fun bond. That was

428
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,280
Speaker 1: a dope experience. Um, you know, like a lot of

429
00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,280
Speaker 1: guys is the first year kind of with me. Is

430
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,919
Speaker 1: my my first time being in the off season program

431
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,239
Speaker 1: for the for the whole you know year, so for

432
00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,240
Speaker 1: us to kind of get around each other beyond with

433
00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,440
Speaker 1: each other in the Bahamas, you know, Deshying took care

434
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,200
Speaker 1: of that, and it was it was a dope experience

435
00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,520
Speaker 1: for everybody to just you know, connect and just just

436
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,520
Speaker 1: have fun. Was there anybody that you went into that

437
00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,880
Speaker 1: trip that maybe you didn't know as well? And then

438
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,840
Speaker 1: coming out of the trip, you're like, man, I love

439
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,880
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah, a lot of guys. Um. I feel

440
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,359
Speaker 1: like I connected with a lot of guys down there. Um,

441
00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,440
Speaker 1: even within the receiving room. You know Amari Cooper, you

442
00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,080
Speaker 1: know he's a pretty quiet guy. But you know, I

443
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 1: got a chance to get to norm a little bit,

444
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,680
Speaker 1: and um, really get to know everybody in the offense

445
00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You know, we what we just

446
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,480
Speaker 1: stumbled on here is something we take for granted a

447
00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,040
Speaker 1: little bit, Like your first full off season. I mean

448
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,280
Speaker 1: you think about it like we've We've dealt with pandemic

449
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,840
Speaker 1: for two years and it's been hit or miss what

450
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,680
Speaker 1: you could do or what you couldn't And now you're

451
00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:45,360
Speaker 1: finally getting what is a normal, the old normal off season.

452
00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 1: What's that been like? It's been nice, um, Like I said,

453
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,760
Speaker 1: to to get more coaching, to be around the guys

454
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 1: for a longer time, being able to bind, being able

455
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,600
Speaker 1: to do things outside of the facility. You know, no

456
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 1: COVID restrictions this year. UM, it's been very, very helpful.

457
00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,639
Speaker 1: Do you feel like as are already closer? Because it

458
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,879
Speaker 1: had to be so difficult the last couple of years

459
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 1: it was you you really couldn't get together outside the

460
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,920
Speaker 1: facility at all, um, And now you know, guys are

461
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,160
Speaker 1: going going places together, going to eat together, UM, doing

462
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 1: different things outside of the building, which all builts you know,

463
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: great team camaraderie. How how hungry are you guys? I

464
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,080
Speaker 1: mean you tasted a couple of years ago, the postseason

465
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,359
Speaker 1: disappointment last year. We know everything the organization has done. Obviously,

466
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,520
Speaker 1: Deshan in the mixes an enormous commitment and we see

467
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 1: immediately the type of talent that he is. But there's

468
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,320
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on this team who have tasted

469
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 1: it and then had it pulled away. Do you sense

470
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 1: that in the team, Yeah, definitely, h definitely think they

471
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: were hungry, definitely want to win um and you know,

472
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,159
Speaker 1: and just keep continuing to get better day in, day out, weekend.

473
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: We go out in every game. Once the season comes,

474
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 1: with the sean coming in as a wide receiver, you

475
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 1: obviously want to develop chemistry with your quarterback. And it

476
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 1: looked today just being out there, you and him seemed

477
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: to already have a very good chemistry. The balls right

478
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 1: where you want it, You're making the catches on the

479
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 1: sidelines getting open. Uh. What has stood out to you

480
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,400
Speaker 1: about him on the field and then what stood out

481
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 1: to you about the shown off the field. On a field,

482
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 1: He's very smart, very instinctive, um to live as a

483
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,159
Speaker 1: you know, very beautiful pass. Off the field, He's just

484
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: a cool guy. He's just any one person from what

485
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,639
Speaker 1: I've been around. You know, he took care of the

486
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: whole team in the Bahamas, and you know, I feel

487
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 1: like that says a lot about his you know, his character.

488
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: It feels like you you've had this apprenticeship the last

489
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,880
Speaker 1: couple of years with some veterans who know their way

490
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 1: around anything about Jarvis and O'Dell and the way that

491
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: those guys went through And now it does feel a

492
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: little Nathan, I talked about this all the time. It

493
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: does feel like it's your time, that that it's your

494
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: your time to as we head into this you know

495
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: what this offense can be, that that it's your time

496
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,880
Speaker 1: to go And remember the impact you made that first

497
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 1: game in Dallas. You just were everywhere you needed to

498
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: be blocking and we remember talking to Guy's time saying

499
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: he just knows everything. He knows everywhere he's fir used

500
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: to be. You've done the work and it does feel

501
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: like that to us. Do you feel like that that

502
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: that this's going into this season? This is and you've

503
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 1: had great already, but in terms of what you're capable of,

504
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: it can be unleached a little bit this year. I'm

505
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: just trying to, you know, keep growing, keep keep keep building,

506
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,239
Speaker 1: keep learning from you know, past experiences and and and

507
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: just keep moving forward. When you go out in your

508
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: exit interview a year ago, what was kind of because

509
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: I know part of that is they give you this

510
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 1: is what we want you to focus on in the offseason.

511
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: What was your big point of emphasis. Oh, we're just

512
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,679
Speaker 1: developing more of a you know, leadership role within the

513
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 1: receiver room. Um. And one of the guys who've been

514
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: there the longest, So it is it definitely? Is it

515
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 1: definitely is it's you know, it hasn't really been too long,

516
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: but um, I'm very comfortable with the scheme, and other

517
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: guys who aren't as comfortable, you know, I can kind

518
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 1: of be there to kind of help them out and

519
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 1: kind of bring them up to speed. So this is

520
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: your third year in this system, which, by the way,

521
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: nice right you get to be in one system for

522
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: your entire career. Number one, how much more comfortable are

523
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 1: you than you were even last year at this time?

524
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: And then number two, what do you see as some

525
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: of the big changes that could be coming were to

526
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 1: this season's version now with the Shawn at quarterback? Yeah,

527
00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: I feel definitely more comfortable. Um. Every year, every you know,

528
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,239
Speaker 1: every time I get to go out there, you kind

529
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: of get to learn from your past experience. So you know,

530
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: I try to focus on that and and and keep

531
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: growing as much as I can. And you know, with

532
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: the Sean, I think he's just gonna add on to that. Um,

533
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, I think He brings a certain confidence and

534
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: swagger to the team that you know everybody feeds off

535
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: of as well. So I'm very excited. I'm very excited

536
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: for this, for this year, for this season. Um, if

537
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: everything that's in store, were you excited to see a

538
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: fellow Michigan man come into the fold here with Chase? Absolutely? Absolutely?

539
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, we locker Mace. Now. I love Chase. He's

540
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 1: a fiery guy, you know, dope personality. So I didn't

541
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 1: recognize him without the hair the first time. It was

542
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm so used to seeing the locks trying to look

543
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: like thor now that Yeah he was old, but you

544
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: see it, you know, the blood locks coming out. He's

545
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: got this guy. He talked him in the last bit

546
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: of the shower gold cold cold shower. Yeah, you do

547
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: that too, a little bit colder. Yeah, I think it

548
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: comes from back that whim Hoff. That's what I said.

549
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: I was on Real Sports where he gets to there,

550
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: he sits here for an hour and the freezing cold.

551
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: He plays that, but then he trains you to like

552
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: hold your breath as well, and like I suppose if

553
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,239
Speaker 1: you get to the advanced levels, you can hold your

554
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: breath for three minutes and then you have like the voices,

555
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: just like the cold shower gives you the voices. And

556
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that's pretty wild. It's good stuff.

557
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: It gives you an energy right when you get that

558
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: cold shower. I do every time. Now I won't stop.

559
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever stop. I have it the

560
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: science behind the science. Always lean on the science. I

561
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: got the shower that's behind, but then it's above and

562
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: then jets at. So I'm in. I mean all of

563
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: the heat and the all of the heat and living

564
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: a pebble beat. No, you're listening. I'm listening to you,

565
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: and I'm listening to win a bit and I'm going, okay,

566
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: let's go cold the last minute. Let's see what's happened.

567
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If you're in that type of

568
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: shower situation, you're gonna want to adjust where the water

569
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: is coming from to get directly hit with the cold water.

570
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: After the warm you can go on a gradient. You

571
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 1: bring it down down all in. But it's great, though,

572
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: But you felt like John Rambo and for Blood felt,

573
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: I mean it was, yeah, it was awful to shock

574
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: your system. There wasn't It did give you a little

575
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: bit of a rush, though, I will, I will give

576
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: you that. Yeah, that's the point, all right, DPJ. This

577
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: year goes bonkers. You become the guy, you have a monstracies,

578
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: and the team wins. You're super happy and everything. Based

579
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: off of this tweet, which was a week ago, one day,

580
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,719
Speaker 1: maybe one day I won't have to pay for you

581
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: at Chipotle tweets that would that be the dream? With

582
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: a Chipotle deal? Is that the dream for you? I

583
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 1: don't think anybody knows how much I love Chipotle more

584
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: than like the people I'm around closely, uh just speaking,

585
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: yesterday I had Chipotle three times? Okay, okay, okay. First

586
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: of all, like we need to we need to have

587
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: this done already, like this his agent. Come on, I'm

588
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: trying to get back to Bahamas. Come on, we gotta

589
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: get him a Chipotle deal immediately. All right, Chipotle, I

590
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: need you automation that Donald People's jones gets him a deal.

591
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's one year, two years, three years.

592
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: Time to go shoot for the stars. Gift cards, email

593
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: me or email him. That's it. What's the order out there?

594
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: Did you want? Three orders? Yesterday? Every time? Every time?

595
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: Oh god, I'm writing this step so we're going there.

596
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: We got double rice white or brown white rice, double white,

597
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: double white with cilantro on the line. And then we're

598
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: going one scoop with a regular chicken, and then we're

599
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: going to scoops with a polo ada triplet already and

600
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: then you know, now I'm just going a little hot

601
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: sauce and then I'm out the door. That's it. The

602
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: red one, the red one. No pico de gayo, No

603
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: no corn, no corn, no lettuce, no no veride, no cheese,

604
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: no sour cream. Maybe some cheese and sour cream. Every

605
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: now and every now, I say, away from the white condiments.

606
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: That's just me. I'm not a fan of the cream.

607
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: You don't like the cramer No, no cramit. Don't try

608
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: to call the crema. Don't try to call them aoli

609
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: and make you feel like it's good. It's cream. That's it.

610
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: I know exactly know what you're doing over there. So

611
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: all right, so that's this is fantastic. Would you say

612
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: because you said three yesterday in a year, three or

613
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: sixty five days Michigan man. Of course he's aware of this.

614
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: He did probably tell me about the quarter for the

615
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: leap year to make it completely accurate. How many Chippotle

616
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: labels are you eating in one year? In one year

617
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: on average, um, this at least once a week, so

618
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: between it's probably like seventy five some weeks, you can

619
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: get you know, two, and then maybe if I'm somewhere else,

620
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: we have three yesterday, so that really sets the number up. Yeah,

621
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: but then I probably won't eat it again for like

622
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: another leak, and then you'll be back in there. Do

623
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: you is there somebody else on the team that enjoys

624
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: Chippotle as much as you do? I haven't. I haven't

625
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: found you haven't found them at all. Would you say

626
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: it's accurate to say that that you've go tod Chippotle,

627
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: Chile's go. Okay? So this is Donovan comes in today.

628
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: My oldest is in this thing where he's talking about

629
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: like the other day at dinner, you go, oh, yeah, Dad,

630
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: you go to a good old man version of did

631
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: you go great? I don't understand to using the sentence.

632
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: So the way he said it was, he goes, Dad,

633
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: you go to the steak and I don't know, So

634
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't understand what instead of said the steak. So

635
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: this is a good little lesson for him on how

636
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: to use it. But Donovan came in here with the

637
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: hoodie got forever forever. You were aware of this because

638
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Speaker 1: of your son. There's the way you knew about this independently.

639
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: I mean, I know about the goat, and then when

640
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Speaker 1: somebody right that something can be goaded, then it's the

641
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. Yeah, the goaded thing, the e

642
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Speaker 1: D on the end of it was new to me.

643
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Speaker 1: Bryce from Fortnite, I'm go, That's what he says, Like

644
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: he take his boys out and he's like, I'm goaded.

645
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: Do you play? I don't play no video games, not

646
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: even Madden. There have been some good DPJ cards that

647
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: they dropped this year, which I'm sure you've heard about it,

648
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: but you've never gotten on there. Okay, all right, what

649
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: do you like to do for fun in your free time?

650
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: To France family? Yeah, people, person coded humans people. It's

651
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: in his name, it's in his name. Your app. Yes,

652
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: you got an app. Let's go. Let's tell you. It's

653
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: called Deep Pass jam Uh you know acronym d p

654
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Speaker 1: j UM. It's basically we made the app for um.

655
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: You know. It's a children's app, so I mean, but

656
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: anybody can play it. But it's basically like r K

657
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: game where you kind of travel and see how far

658
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,239
Speaker 1: you can go with you know, avatar is looks like

659
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Speaker 1: me um and all the proceeds going to the Children's

660
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Speaker 1: mos Hospital at the University of Michigan. So goaded human

661
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: And not only that, you've got a free youth camp

662
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: coming up next month. Where's that that'll be in Detroit, Michigan. Nice. Nice,

663
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You've got three downloads on this

664
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: for my three boys. As soon as they'll go, we'll

665
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: get them locking out and then one of them will

666
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: be goaded. Yes, if the number one. If they get

667
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: the highest score, then they're goaded and use it in

668
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,479
Speaker 1: the sentence. Correct. Yeah, that was good. What a job

669
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: out of it that was, seeing like us, but you know,

670
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: would be god. This Bahamas trip probably was God. If

671
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: we get to go on it next year. I don't

672
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: know if you can be more goaded once you're goaded,

673
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: but we try. De Sean told us he said, I know,

674
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: I saw him in the weight room. They said we

675
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: can come. Sean. I think it was missing because he

676
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: says the great best tripepper. That's what everybody says, best pepper,

677
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: best tripepper. I said, no, think you're missing with the

678
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Speaker 1: radio guys. We could go broadcasts out there. We won't

679
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: get in the way. Well, we're a fun we're a

680
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: fun group. He did say that Dom would not be

681
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: able to go if we did so, said it was

682
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: or Gibbe sacrifice for us. Dom is not willing to sacrifice.

683
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, Hold on a second. Don't be selfish.

684
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: You got you. Yeah, you know you wrote Space Mountain

685
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: every year every other year, Dom, what's what's the harm

686
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: in that? Who gets hurt? I'll take every other year

687
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: so for us we can get a deal going on.

688
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: Some great human Chipotle too, great humans right here showing

689
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: what it's like to care for their fellow man. What

690
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: better The big year out of this is all family knows.

691
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: This is a d all the People's State School. But

692
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: everyone's still pretty good every once in a while, pretty good.

693
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: The great Donovan People's Jones in studio, Thanks Buddy. I

694
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: think the sky's a limit for this young man, so smart,

695
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: such a great work ethic, so physically gifted, and now

696
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: a year three, playing fast, working on his separation, continuing

697
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: to get better as a route runner, and I think

698
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: he's developed a nice rapport with Deshaun Watson early on.

699
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: Now somebody who kind of came into camp late in

700
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: the mix, but has already said his rapport with Shawn

701
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: Watson has started to really come together. The franchise that's right,

702
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: he was franchise tag. Now he of a nice, big

703
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: extension the Chief, David Najoko. Next on this special edition

704
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Speaker 1: of Cleveland Brown's Daily, Cleveland Brown's Daily, ESPN Cleveland. Welcome

705
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: back into Cleveland Brown's Daily. From the Cross Country Mortgage

706
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: Campus in Barria. Nathan Zagura here and by the way,

707
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: very excited for what you're gonna hear next. Now, this

708
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Speaker 1: was from the Zagur and Friends podcast, a k a.

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Speaker 1: The b p A. Got a chance to talk with

710
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: the Chief fresh off of signing that massive contract extension

711
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: in the mid fifty millions. That's right for him, an

712
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: opportunity this year to establish himself as one of the

713
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: elite tight ends in the NFL. The Browns clearly believe

714
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: in him. We're gonna talk about his journey, the downs,

715
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: the ups, and where he is now and what he

716
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: can do in this offense. And I'll tell you what.

717
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: Being out there at Mini camp at First Energy stadium,

718
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in the red zone from Watson to Najoku.

719
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: I think a sign of things to come. But somebody

720
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: that I was thrilled for. He absolutely deserves this, and

721
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: I think he is gonna make everybody around the league

722
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: no just how good he is and just how lucky

723
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: we are to have him in Cleveland. It's the chief

724
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: in this exclusive one on one right to see you man. Congratulations,

725
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: the big extension all of that. How are you feeling

726
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: right now? I feel good, I feel I feel blessed truly. Um,

727
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: we just had a great practice today, you know here

728
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: on Green Tree. So we gotta just, you know, keep

729
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: stacking them bricks. That's all we gotta do. This is

730
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: a talented team and we're gonna get in. Then a second,

731
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about what you guys hope to accomplish

732
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: this season. But let's talk about you for a second.

733
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: Because you think about your story, and you think about

734
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: your family and your heritage and everything that you've gone

735
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: through to get to this country, to go to the

736
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Speaker 1: U to come to the National Football League, and then

737
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're gonna get a phone call

738
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, maybe it's a month ago

739
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: at this point, but a couple of weeks ago where

740
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: they say we're going to give you a four year

741
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: extension fifty six million dollars. What was that moment? Like

742
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: it was a blessing. You know, Um, not many people know,

743
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: you know the background story of what really happened for

744
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: the past two years, you know, So it was it

745
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: was a great achievement to you know, reach that level.

746
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: You know now it's just only up from here. Is

747
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: it's something to put in the work double time and

748
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: get after it. When you got that call that, what

749
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: was your reaction like, like, he's a real person. I mean,

750
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: you got a call and they say, okay, you're set,

751
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: your kids are set, your grandkids are set, all of that.

752
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: That's got to be a pretty powerful thing. I feel

753
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: like it hasn't hit yet, so I'm still I mean

754
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: I didn't really feel anything crazy. My phones were going crazy,

755
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: but um, I don't think it hit yet. So whenever

756
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: it hits, I'm gonna give you a call and be like, okay,

757
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: now now I feel it all right, you'll let me know. Well,

758
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm so happy for you, you you know,

759
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: your journey here with the Browns and we'll talk about

760
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's get into it, because this is

761
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: a celebration of you, and then there's more to come, right,

762
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 1: there's more work to do as you've you've laid out.

763
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: But you come into your first round draft pick. What

764
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: were you twenty at the time that you're drafted. You're

765
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: a very young man. I remember that. So you go

766
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: from that, and then I remember your second season. He

767
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: had a lot of success that year and it felt

768
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: like the sky was going to be the limit. Right.

769
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: We go into two thousand nineteen and that was a

770
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: rough year for a lot of reasons. And we don't

771
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: even get to the reasons. But when you think about

772
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: where you were and then you go through that, what

773
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: was that You're like for you personally, knowing where you're

774
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: standing right now, what you are talking about, Oh, it

775
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: was it was tough, you know, um injury plague year

776
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: for me. I guess I just wasn't just you know,

777
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: getting it together. Um, yeah, it was. It was tough

778
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: mentally more than physically. But um, you know, like I said,

779
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,959
Speaker 1: God is good. I just gotta put in that work

780
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: and keep them first and good things will happen. So yeah,

781
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: and that was a tough experience. You say, Okay, you know,

782
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: maybe I don't maybe Cleveland isn't the place for me.

783
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: And the Brown said, you know what, you're going anywhere.

784
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: We're not letting you. So it's nice that. It's nice

785
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: that right now you're feeling I don't want to be here,

786
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: but we value you. And then you go into two

787
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty and the light bulb starts to go on.

788
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: And now, while the stats weren't maybe what we all

789
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: know they could be and what I think we all

790
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: think they will be going forward, something clicked for you

791
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: and you bought in. You became a tremendous blocker. You

792
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: showed the ability whenever you got targets, you showed the

793
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: ability to produce. There's your fan club back. They're keeping

794
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: you on the field, Mr Joe Sheihn. But how what

795
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: allowed you to make that men Toil transformation? Because it's

796
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: easy to say, you know what they're they're not treating

797
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: me right, And you said, you know what, I'm gonna

798
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: do what I can and control myself. And how did

799
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: that change happen? And how did it get you to here?

800
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was a bunch of things, really,

801
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: and I think the most important thing was just um

802
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: reminiscing on the past, you know, looking back at Sen

803
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we weren't doing as good as we

804
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: should have been doing, but just a fan base was

805
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: always there, you know, riding with us through thick and thin.

806
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: And then I'm sitting here like, why am I complaining?

807
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: You know, obviously things could be better, But I'm in

808
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: a good place right now. My whole life, I've been competing.

809
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: Why do why I stop now? You know, So I

810
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: just said, you know what, I'm gonna shut up and

811
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna work, and I'm gonna ignore all the noise,

812
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: ignore all the distraction, just focus on the team. You know,

813
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: what can I do to help the team in in total?

814
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: You know, And obviously the stats weren't there. You know,

815
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: I wasn't really doing what I wanted to do at

816
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: the time. But at a certain point I started to

817
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: fall in love with the things that they they were

818
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: forcing me to do, which was blocking more than during

819
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: anything else, and um, yeah, I just eventually just started

820
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: having a good time doing that. And then the ball

821
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: started coming, you know, I started catching some balls here

822
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: and there, and then you know, as each day progress,

823
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: each each month, each year progress, I just kept working

824
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: on my craft and I just was basically just keeping

825
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: the focal point was for the team and good things

826
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: will happen. There was a play I want to ask

827
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: you about. It was I believe it was the last

828
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: week of the Browns needed to win that game, obviously

829
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. I think it was about

830
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: a third down late in the game, maybe a third

831
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: and six near midfield, and the ball came in kind

832
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: of high to you and you made the catch and

833
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: it was a catch that turned out to be massive

834
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: in the outcome of the game. And then I know

835
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: you had the big game against Kansas City in the

836
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: playoffs and you started to get more involved as that

837
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: season went on. Do you remember that play? Was that

838
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: one that six with you? Was a big third down

839
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: conversion that game against the Steelers, And it was just

840
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: one of those moments where for me, I've always you

841
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: know this stuff, always been a big supportive of yours

842
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 1: and a big believer in you. But it was one

843
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: of those where it was like, okay, even in a

844
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: game where the ball necessarily coming your way all the time,

845
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: when it did and you needed to have it, you

846
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: got it, And I kind of felt like that was

847
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: a springboard kind of of a momentum play for you

848
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: that carried on into last year. Yeah. I mean, I

849
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: just putting in the work, you know, when no one's watching.

850
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: I just recall so many early mornings and late nights

851
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: you know that that year was during like the COVID play.

852
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: So it was just it was tough to get in

853
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: here and do the work. But I found places. Luckily,

854
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: I've my guy out here whose name is Chad. He

855
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: he has a gym and he's you know, a great

856
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: uh physical therapist. I was with him late nights. I'll

857
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: never forget like nine pm, ten pm, just every night,

858
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: just getting after it into driving home. It'll be like

859
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: almost midnight. I'm just like thinking, like I gotta keep working.

860
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: I gotta keep working, you know what I'm saying. So

861
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: it was just, uh, it wasn't just me. I have to, uh,

862
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, give the applause to everybody around me that

863
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: was helping me, you know, be the best to me

864
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: I can be at the time. And in your room,

865
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: you were playing a role that maybe said, Okay, I'm

866
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: not doing everything I want to do, but I'm gonna

867
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: do what they asked me to do. Well, Austin Hooper,

868
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: same thing I came in. It was a two time

869
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl are just catching eighty balls a year? That

870
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: didn't have in here, But he kind of was doing

871
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: the things that they asked him to do. And I'll

872
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: go back to the Chargers game last year. Seven targets,

873
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: seven catches, then get a hundred and seventy yards in

874
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: that game, you have the seventy plus yard touchdown catch

875
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: and run, and that was the one where I think

876
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: everybody's like, yeah, this is the guy that we know

877
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: what he is capable of doing. Well, now you're the

878
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 1: guy and you have the opportunity to get seven targets

879
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: a game, to make those plays, and you go back

880
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: to your efficiency last year and I'll toot your horn

881
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: for you. Ten yards of target, no problem, right, So

882
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: you say, okay, let's give him a d targs here.

883
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: That's eight hundred yards, that's eight touchdowns. That's where you

884
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: get back to being in those kind of elite conversations

885
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: that I know you believe you can be in clearly

886
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: with what they decided to give to you, the Browns

887
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: belief that you can be so here you are. Now

888
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: you've put in the work, You've been rewarded even though

889
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: you haven't gotten to do everything that you want to do.

890
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: And now it's all in front of you. So what's

891
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: your mindset knowing that that's the case. Now, I'm just

892
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: ready to work, man, honestly, like, I just can't wait

893
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: until week one, you know, um do all this process,

894
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: I give God all the glory and I just I'm

895
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: just itching it gets a week one. So I'm very

896
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: excited for and I'm sided for you. And now you

897
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: have a quarterback into Shaun Watson, who has put up

898
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: enormous numbers everywhere that he has played. I know, you

899
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: guys got to go to the Bahamas and then as

900
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: you've got your contract, then you've gotten to matriculate in

901
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: here and start to work with them. What's that kind

902
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: of relationship in chemistry? Like, because it's an important thing, right,

903
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: the relationship with the quarterback. And from my eyes, it

904
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: feels like the middle of the field. The ball is

905
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: going to the middle of the field quite a bit

906
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: more now. And so that's good for you. Yeah, no,

907
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a great relationship already. You know, we

908
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: started off very strong you know, meeting up in the

909
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: Bahamas with the whole offense. You know, he took care

910
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: of all that. So that was very impressive and it

911
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: showed that his loyalty was with us, and you know

912
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: that that goes a long way. You know. It was fun,

913
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: It was fun, It was a great time. It was

914
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: a great team bonding. We put in the work too,

915
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: so it was just the best of both worlds, you know.

916
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: Um So yeah, I mean that that bond is is

917
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: very important. That commission important. So like even like when

918
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: we're not on the same page for whatever reason, we

919
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: are on the same page, you know, and that split

920
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: second it counts. You know, this game is all about inches.

921
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's very important that that we just

922
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: keep building on that relationship. You know, the whole team.

923
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: We bring everybody with us and we just get their

924
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: show on the road. What is he kind of told

925
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: you he wants out of you out as his his

926
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: number one guy. That's confidentially. We definitely talk, you know,

927
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, and we have, um, we have a

928
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: big goals that we we we have to reach. So

929
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: we're we're excited about that. What was discussion like with

930
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: Andrew Barry Kevin Stefancy. Once you put the pen to

931
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: the paper and they said, look, this is how much

932
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: we believe in you. And you say, and you know,

933
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you why you were right. It's a

934
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: good too it baby, Let's get to do it. I'm ready,

935
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: all right. Talk about you mentioned this team the goals.

936
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: Not only do we know what's on offense, we know

937
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: what's on defense. And you see it firsthand every day

938
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: out here in the seven on sevens. When you look

939
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: at this defense, to speed, the length, the ability to

940
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: cover every bladed grass, what's kind of stood at to

941
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: you so far. I'm so excited to watch them ball

942
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: as well. You know, not only like our our d line,

943
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: but our linebackers, our corners are safeties. I'm just excited

944
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: to see everybody just put it all together and really

945
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: be that force that we know them to be. You know. Uh,

946
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: we have all the tools, like I said, all the

947
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: tools on offense, on d fens, on special teams. We

948
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: have everything there. So it's up to us to get

949
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: this job done. Alright. A couple of just one fun

950
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: question and then one obviously family question. What does this

951
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: mean to your family? Because that's I know how big

952
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: it is to you. I know how tight you are

953
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: with your family. What does this mean to your family?

954
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: It was he was there. I think they were more

955
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: excited than me. Really, I mean I was. I'm excited,

956
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: but I wasn't like, you know, jumping off, you know,

957
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: going crazy. I was just you know, okay, you know

958
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: what's what's next? You know what I'm saying. So like,

959
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: they were very happy, They're very excited. They understand that,

960
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's in this together, you know what I'm saying. So, yeah,

961
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: we're excited or vetting for the next step. What was

962
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: the reaction from your teammates. They're they're funny. They're funny, man.

963
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: They want me to buy everything now. They want to

964
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: buy them all gifts and everything. So yeah, it's it's

965
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: it's it's all up. Listen. That's a good place to

966
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: be in, right, I hear you. It's a good place

967
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: to be in. So all right, and then a little

968
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: more fun. We talked about family earlier, but I know

969
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 1: your brother had a w w E triout that you attended.

970
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: First of all, I wouldn't mind if that was the

971
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: path that I was on. But nonetheless, here we go.

972
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: How was that was that pretty cool? That was lit

973
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: that they let us go to WrestleMania too. It was

974
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: is like sold out crowd both days like it was.

975
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: It was intense. It was intense, and it was it

976
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: was awesome to see him having fun, having a good time.

977
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: So I was happy. Is he is he pursuing that?

978
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: Is there a future there? Oh? Man? The Chief and

979
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: the w w E the family spread their wings. I

980
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: like that, all right? And then the last thing you said,

981
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: it hasn't hit you yet, But is there anything that

982
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: you said, Okay, we get this big contract, anything that

983
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: you were looking forward to doing with it, maybe a

984
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 1: purchase for yourself, for the fan, for people back home

985
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: and anything like that. Not really, Probably just keep doing

986
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I have a charity back in Nigeria

987
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: that I do um and annually excuse me, and uh

988
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: just you know, just be the best man I can

989
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: be overall. You know, I love it. You haven't changed it.

990
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: Remember the man one of my favorites. It's so happy

991
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: for you. Best elect this season. Keep doing and I'm

992
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: looking for looking for a lot of chief slams. Let's go.

993
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: We're so happy for that young man. He deserves it

994
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: and Like I said, this is gonna be the first

995
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: time in his career where he is the guy. And

996
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: I think that means a big, big season in store

997
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: for David Najoko. And what about the fact that he

998
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 1: works so hard to become a great blocker. That shows

999
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: you he wants it. He is gonna work even harder

1000
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: now that he is paid to prove the Browns right,

1001
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,479
Speaker 1: to prove everybody right in the show just how good

1002
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: he can be. I'm excited for that. I'm also excited

1003
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: for our number two of this special show. We've got

1004
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Wusu Coamoa. We've got Denzel Ward fresh off of

1005
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: his big contract extension that made at the time made

1006
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: him the highest paid cornerback in the NFL. We also

1007
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: have a good friend of the program Sioni Taki Takie

1008
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: and wide receiver Anthony Schwartz. That's all coming your way

1009
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: in our number two of the special edition of Cleveland

1010
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: Brown's Daily Cleveland Browns Daily sp N Cleveland, Welcome back

1011
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: into Cleveland Browns Daily if you guys are enjoying this

1012
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: holiday week edition. By the way, Roumkey Waste and Recycling

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1014
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1015
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1016
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: to learn more. Earlier this year, we're at the Browns

1017
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: Foundation golf outing early in June. I want to say,

1018
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: I believe it was maybe June sixth does a matter

1019
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: of fact, and right where I hit a three rd

1020
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: drive onto the green, called my shot live on the radio,

1021
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: No big deal, shades of Britain Cole legend. We sat

1022
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,479
Speaker 1: down with Jeremiah O Woo su Coromoa, and this young

1023
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: man had an immediate impact as a rookie. Bigger things

1024
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 1: lay ahead for him in the year. Number two, another

1025
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,959
Speaker 1: guy on this Brown's defense with big time Pro Bowl

1026
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: All Pro potential, one of the steels of the draft,

1027
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: and now somebody looking to cement himself as one of

1028
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: the elites at his position in the National Football League.

1029
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: He sat down with Bo and myself at the Cleveland

1030
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: Browns Foundation golf outing. Take a listen. What a treat

1031
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: to be joined by Jeremiah Skoramoa. Here, man, How's how's this?

1032
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: How's these o t a is going? We're getting into

1033
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 1: minicamp here next week, but it's getting there. Right, Yeah,

1034
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: Tez is going, well, a lot of little stuff correcting,

1035
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: and uh, there's a lot of stuff that you you

1036
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: you think that you got covered, but then you kind

1037
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: of go to it again. Is that okay, you want

1038
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: need to get better at this and I need to

1039
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: get better at that. So, um, it's a lot of

1040
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: things in reference to the smaller details that were correcting

1041
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: as a whole defense, you know, specifically as linebackers of course,

1042
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: but as a whole defense, it's a lot of little

1043
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: stuff to correct to make sure that we sustain ourselves

1044
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: as you know, uh, or want to elevate ourselves to

1045
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: that top five, top three defense in NFL. I gotta

1046
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: tell you so in watching these and I've been out

1047
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: there every day in the seven on seven's, it really

1048
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 1: is a case of iron sharpening iron because our offense

1049
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: is very talented, obviously led by Shaun Watson and you

1050
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: Gottamari Cooper there now, but there are multiple times a

1051
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: session where the ball can't come out and you've got

1052
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: you and Jacob out there, You've got John and you've

1053
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: got Grant and you've got you know, Greedy and Denzel

1054
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: and Greg and that's a lot of speed out there,

1055
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: and then we're seeing some dime with Ryan m. J

1056
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: Emerson playing some dime at times, and you're seeing just

1057
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: the speed that you guys in the length that you have.

1058
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: It's almost it's not positionless, but you all have the

1059
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: ability to run with anybody. Yeah, I do feel like

1060
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: it's positioned to sometimes but like it's a bunch of

1061
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: just fast dudes out here and just bawling. But no,

1062
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is, you know, And I think

1063
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: they did that intentionally to be able to have guys.

1064
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: It's very athletic and have guys very versatile and what

1065
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: they do, you know what I mean. Even Greg makes

1066
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: jokes sometimes like man, I can playing the box, playing

1067
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: about and a couple of times last year he forgot

1068
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: to you know, do some things, but he ended up

1069
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: in a box. So so you know, we always make

1070
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: jokes like that. But and I make jokes as well. Well.

1071
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: You've seen me playing in the corner. I've had I'll

1072
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: never forget in Jacksonville. Yeah, the preseason debut, you're out

1073
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: there playing exactly. So now we always make jokes like that,

1074
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: but it's definitely, uh, you know, I feel like it's

1075
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: intentional to be honest, how is the communication now? Knowing

1076
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: that everybody, I said, I'll throw a walk in there

1077
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: as well, and Robey as well. You guys all played

1078
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: together last year, so you guys now have not only

1079
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: the same system, we're able to continue to play fast,

1080
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: but you guys have all played together in the defense

1081
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: that requires obviously man is man, but when you're playing

1082
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: a lot of the zones like you guys play. You know,

1083
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: I spent some time with with Jeff Howard and the

1084
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: checks based on emotion and how many like four people

1085
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: could be affected by the one guy moving inside and

1086
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: becoming the two and how you guys react to those things.

1087
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: Does it feel more seamless now that you guys have

1088
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: her all together in that second year? Yeah? I mean,

1089
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, our mindset is that we never have it

1090
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: all together. You know, we're always trying to do that, um,

1091
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: that next step, but we're trying to always accomplish that

1092
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: next step. So I think with us is more so

1093
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: again incorporating more things. We have the understanding of the

1094
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: base fund murals of the defense, So now it's more

1095
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: so incorporating those things that, uh, we'll give us some

1096
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: leverage in terms of mixing up some coverages, makes up

1097
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: a man with some zone throwing a couple of listes,

1098
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: throwing a couple of you know, corner lists and stuff

1099
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: like that. So it's a bunch of It's exactly who

1100
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 1: we are. So we are versatile defense, and we're really

1101
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: trying to be versatile in terms of you know, play

1102
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: calling and stuff like that, in terms of the scheme.

1103
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: So I think that's always the aim is to um,

1104
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, get the offense a lot on their shoulders

1105
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: as they do us. You know, I think it's you know,

1106
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: we talked about this up and I think when they

1107
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: when maybe and everyone, when they're building that defense and

1108
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: drafting you guys, they were going for that. They wanted

1109
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who were about the same height,

1110
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: about the same weight. You're with you wearing. Then we

1111
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: like sometimes at the corners at a linebacker, like a

1112
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: lot of times, the only weapon you have now the

1113
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: way that the game is governed by the officials, by

1114
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: the rules, is disguise. It's kind of the only thing

1115
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: you have left is that left what second and it

1116
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: feels like you guys are positioned to take really a

1117
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: full advantage of that truly even coming from you know college.

1118
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: You know, we could actually reroute sometimes, you know, and

1119
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: they won't really say nothing to us, and you know

1120
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: here's like don't touch them, no reroute good disgracious, but no,

1121
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: it's definitely UM something that again you can use to

1122
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: to leverage off of the offense in terms of you know, disguise,

1123
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: in terms of pre snap um calls and things like that.

1124
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes the offense has a preconceived notion of okay, well

1125
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 1: anytime you here are or L and you know that's

1126
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: left right, you know, but you know you can also

1127
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: change those things up. You can you can go W,

1128
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: or you can go S, or you can go another

1129
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: letter that's not even in the strong week. Yes, right,

1130
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: you can use Z or something like that. So it's

1131
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: all about you know, UM, I Q and who can

1132
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: you know, I'll smart the other you know, as we

1133
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: as we know, smart, tough, accountable. That's a big part

1134
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: of it, man, And you said that, I remember the

1135
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: night you drafted the three pillars smart. Listen, you've got

1136
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: to be smart to play a defense in the NFL

1137
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: because there are so many checks and there's so many

1138
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 1: preestep motions that affect everybody on the field and word side,

1139
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 1: the strength is now on and how you're gonna handle

1140
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: if its motion into a bunch of all these crazy things.

1141
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: That is amazing. I think what you guys are able

1142
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: to do. I wanted to ask you a somebody who's

1143
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: seen this offense, how is do you see it change?

1144
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: I know this is a passing camp and they want

1145
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: to emphasize the drop back passing game. Are you seeing

1146
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: anything different from our offense? And what's kind of stood

1147
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: out to you and those battles you guys are having

1148
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: in those seven on sevens. Yeah, just just to play calling,

1149
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, and uh the fluidity you know with within

1150
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: you know Watson leading, Uh, you know whoever is that

1151
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: quarterback right now? Is is that play calling? Is really

1152
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: I have seen some places that I haven't see before. Um,

1153
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: just a reference to our offense used against us. You know,

1154
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: they're really playing with our scheme to be honest. You

1155
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: know a couple of times, you know, you know you

1156
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: gotta take a special and no revert the you know

1157
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: over back to the other side, and you know all

1158
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: types of stuff that uh, they really throw at us.

1159
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's really interesting. You know, we want

1160
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: to see you how to how that's gonna play out

1161
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: with some other teams. So you know, it's a really

1162
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, advancing whether you want to say the advancement

1163
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,760
Speaker 1: is players or you want to stay the advancement of scheme.

1164
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a collective of them both.

1165
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: So I would be thrown out of my family if

1166
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you notre Dame football question. You got

1167
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: my guy coaching there, Marcus Marcus for fifteen years man.

1168
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: And my former my former radio host is an analyst

1169
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: now there, James Laurnitis. So a lot of Buckeyes there.

1170
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: But Marcus is a guy who is just infectious when

1171
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: it comes to his uh phenomenal Yeah, but what is

1172
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: your impressions of what he's done so far and what

1173
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: he could do well? As we know, Marcus didn't coach

1174
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: me at all, but um, I have had you know,

1175
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: countless conversations and encounters with him. Man, A stand up guy,

1176
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, really understands, really understands adaptability.

1177
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: I think that's his strength, like his adaptability and relatability.

1178
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: He's really you know, elite at being able to understand

1179
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 1: who this person is, um where this person has come

1180
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: from and to be able to not change or not

1181
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: in the sense of change for the worst, but actually

1182
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: change for the better in sense of, you know, fitting

1183
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: into those gaps that that person needs. And I think

1184
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: that's as a coach, that's something that's very important too,

1185
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: for the coach to understand who they're speaking, to understand

1186
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: their audience, and to be able to articulate themselves in

1187
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: the way that you can connect to him. You know,

1188
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: it's very very important, you know what I think. So

1189
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. He's gonna do great things, you know,

1190
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, on the field, off the field,

1191
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: and you know, so I'm looking forward to seeing what

1192
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: what comes out of it. Yeah's gonna be exciting. Good

1193
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: talking about real quick. Yeah, we speaking a great things

1194
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: on and off the field. You got many camps coming up.

1195
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: But then after that, I know you're going overseas and

1196
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: and tell us a little about your your trip back

1197
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: to Ghana. Yeah, so, um, the first trip was about

1198
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: you know, basically starting these camps and being able to

1199
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: see um, evaluating you know, the brothers and we have

1200
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: to actually we have some sisters, to be honest, but

1201
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: evaluating the brothers to be able to you know, have

1202
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: a better opportunities, you know, come over here to maybe

1203
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: attend some you know NFL academies and things like that.

1204
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: So we wanted to make sure that we just introduced

1205
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: the game, if anything, to them. Uh we fed about

1206
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: five kids, you know, we you know, as we know,

1207
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, diet is huge for me. So I was

1208
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,479
Speaker 1: incorporating the aspect as well with some of the kids

1209
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: there and some of the children there and even some

1210
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: of the younger adults you know around my age and

1211
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: and so on. So this camp right here, NFL PA

1212
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: we're going and you know NFL Africa is really incorporated,

1213
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we're really going to have a

1214
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: final camp, you know as a final camp where a

1215
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: bunch of people from different places will come in and

1216
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: and train and do a bunch of things and become

1217
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 1: evaluated as we you know, for further opportunities. So that's

1218
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: a yeah, it's gonna be great. Good talking to you man,

1219
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,479
Speaker 1: little time day appreciate that was a lot of fun.

1220
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: And you can see j ok in hear two. When

1221
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: you come out here to the Cross Country Mortgage Campus

1222
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: for training camp, you're gonna see guy who's even faster,

1223
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: he's bigger, he's stronger, he knows where he's supposed to

1224
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: be in this defense. And I can tell you the

1225
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: linebacker coach Jason Tarr, we know he's an excitable guy.

1226
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: He has fired up about j Okay. Another person that

1227
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: was fired up, maybe even emotional, after signing a contract

1228
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: that made him the highest paid cornerback in the league,

1229
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: Denzel Ward. This is an interview from right after he

1230
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,439
Speaker 1: signed that new contract extension and it's coming up next

1231
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: on this special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily Cleveland Brown's

1232
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: Daily SPN Cleveland. Welcome back into the special edition of

1233
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Daily. Time now to talk a little bit

1234
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: about the lockdown by the Lake. Denzel Ward, Ohio born

1235
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,439
Speaker 1: and raised Ohio State, the Browns early first round pick,

1236
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 1: big contract extension, just his story, what he has been through,

1237
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: the tragedies, had to deal with that, he's overcome to

1238
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: become one of the elite corners in the NFL, one

1239
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: of the great men in this community as well, and

1240
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: somebody who was rewarded handsomely for all of that on

1241
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: the field, off the field, everything he represents with the

1242
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns with a contract extension that made him the

1243
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: highest paid cornerback in the league. I got a chance

1244
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: to talk with him after that. Incredible moment for Denzel

1245
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 1: and his family. This is a good one. You don't

1246
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: want to miss it. First of all, let me congratulate

1247
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: you on signing a historic deal to extend your time

1248
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: here with the Cleveland Browns through seven. Let's just talk

1249
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 1: about kind of how did this come to be, kind

1250
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: of walk us through your state of mind leading up

1251
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: to the moment when you walked upstairs and and signed

1252
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: that paper. That was crazy. So I started, I knew that,

1253
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: Uh it was We're in talks. I was talking constant

1254
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: communication with my agents Tory Dandy and uh a B.

1255
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: So we're going back and forth like probably like a

1256
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: week before and just going back from fore phone contracts

1257
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 1: and trying to get it done and uh come into

1258
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: an agreement about things. And then the past a couple

1259
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: of days, it was it was getting closer, like, Okay,

1260
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: this thing might might get done, we might make it happen.

1261
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean the day came they signed it

1262
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: off and came to agreement. So it was exciting. So

1263
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: where were you when you got the phone call from

1264
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: your agent that yes, I was, I was in Florida.

1265
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: I was in Florida coming back coming back up here,

1266
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: uh to Cleveland, got it done. It was excited mom,

1267
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: excited brother, excited family. So it was crazy. What was

1268
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: kind of like your emotion when you guy, he said

1269
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: it's done. You're gonna be the highest paid quarterback in

1270
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: NFL history. You're gonna be with the Browns, staying in

1271
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: Ohio where you spent your entire football life coming forward.

1272
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was in shocked. Man. Just I continue

1273
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: to look at it, continue to see the highest paid

1274
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: cornerback in history. I mean, it's been a lot of

1275
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 1: amazing corners, a lot of amazing dbs that then came

1276
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: through the NFL, and for my name to be up

1277
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: there at the top and one of those guys, um,

1278
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: it means a lot to take a lot of pride

1279
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: in that, a lot of respecting that. I just want

1280
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: to continue to show that I'm that guy. But I

1281
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 1: mean it's a blessing at the end of the day.

1282
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: Did you ever like, I mean, people think, you know,

1283
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: let's aim high, right, and we have these holes for

1284
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: ourselves personally, professionally, team all of that. Did you ever

1285
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 1: think like a day like this would actually come. I mean,

1286
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: you have thoughts in back of your hair, like, man,

1287
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: you want to be the best, you want to get

1288
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: the best and do everything. But I mean for me,

1289
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 1: I just want to work and grind and do everything

1290
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: that I can to put myself in that position and

1291
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: the like once it's finally in front of your face

1292
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, you finally here. But I mean,

1293
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: it's still a long way to go, like I said,

1294
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: but um, it's definitely amazing to be in this position.

1295
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: When you actually took the pen in your hand and

1296
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: we're about to sign the paper, where you excited nervous?

1297
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: Was it? Did you get emotional because because then it's real.

1298
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: Then it's real, it's done. Allow, it's kind of shay.

1299
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, I'm really signing that. It's crazy.

1300
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: So definitely a lot of motion going through my body,

1301
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: just excitement. But bless I said, just blessed at the

1302
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: end of the day. And I know you saw a

1303
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: lot of love from your teammates obviously on social media.

1304
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: I have to imagine when you walked in people dinners

1305
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: on Denzel now right, what what was the kind of

1306
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: the reaction that's been all the reaction dinner on me,

1307
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: going out, everything on me. So, I mean it's all good.

1308
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: I definitely bring it on, Definitely bring that camaraderie on,

1309
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: so definitely appreciate it on my teammates, everyone that's congratulating

1310
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: me and help give me to this point, it's on.

1311
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: What was it like to kind of get back here,

1312
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: take the contract out of but just be able to

1313
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: kind of walk in and I know, Ohio really put

1314
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: its best weather foot for their little snow for everybody

1315
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: You're used to it. Maybe not everybody else on the

1316
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: team's used to it, but just to know that you're

1317
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: walking back in, you're about to start this two season

1318
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: here with this team to accomplish and have the opportunity

1319
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: accomplished some really special. Yeah, definitely looking forward to glad

1320
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: about the new additions that we added to the team. So,

1321
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's a lot of excitement around the team.

1322
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: I was looking forward again back seeing the guys again

1323
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: with the coaches. I'm just looking forward again everything started again.

1324
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't go out how we wanted to

1325
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: last year, but um, we got a new opportunity this

1326
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: year and that's the biggest thing on the back end

1327
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: of this defense. A lot of continuity in your room.

1328
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: You're back, Greg's back, Troy's back, Greedy's back, A J.

1329
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: Green is back. So the five guys who played the

1330
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: most in your room all back, you go. The safety's

1331
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: Ronnie John and Grant rich account all back. How's that

1332
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: continuity kind of helping use you guys hit the ground

1333
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: running here for this early phase one. Yeah, I think

1334
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: that makes the biggest difference in the world. Just having

1335
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: those guys that you know how they play, you know

1336
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do on the field. Who's gonna be

1337
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: in well positioned, Having the same coaches back, it's huge

1338
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: to not having to learn a new playbook, knowing the

1339
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: defenses that's gonna be going in. So I think we

1340
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: could build on top of last year, been on top

1341
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: of the years that we had together, and really be

1342
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: special this year. What did Jeff Howard and Brandon Lynch?

1343
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: I said, Man, just calling me, thanking me, And I'm thinking, now,

1344
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate them so much for helping get me to

1345
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: this position and sign but um, just real grateful for

1346
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: them all. Everybody talks about the camaraderie and so You've

1347
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: had an unbelievable life changing moment not only for you,

1348
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: but for generation awards that come. That camaraderie has got

1349
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: to be fun, though, because everybody they take pride in it,

1350
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: they love it. I know they're gonna tease, as you

1351
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier about taking out the dinner, But is that

1352
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: cool to kind of sign it as you're coming back

1353
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: and actually getting to be together as op post you

1354
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: signing it? You know in Florida in the middle of

1355
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: the offseason, you're not gonna see any of your teammates.

1356
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: Was that kind of cool to be able to have

1357
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: that moment and share that with everybody. I'll definitely be

1358
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: able to share that money with my teammates, my family

1359
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: and everybody. So I'm looking forward to continue to get

1360
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: with my teammates, go out to eat, and uh, just

1361
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: continue to communicate, talk and just get back with the guys.

1362
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: You said something in your press conference earlier that struck

1363
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: me and some people. You think, oh, now I've gotten paid,

1364
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: now I've made it, And what you said is that

1365
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: means now I have to work harder, work more. The

1366
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: word work is all over this building right now and

1367
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: typical Kevin Stefanski fashion kind of what's your mindset about? Okay? Yes,

1368
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: They've given me this, this tremendous reward that I've earned

1369
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: by the way you did earn it. And then now

1370
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: how you want to go forward and carry yourself knowing

1371
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: that you you are a cornerstone of this franchise. Yeah,

1372
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: I feel I've been proving myself since I've been in

1373
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: a Like I said, I feel that definitely earned this contract.

1374
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: But um, my biggest thing, I like, I want to work.

1375
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: I feel I want to grind. I feel I want

1376
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: to show that I'm that guy I'm deserving of this,

1377
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: and just to get back to the community, get back

1378
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: to everybody. It's not just for me, I feel like,

1379
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: but I just want to continue to show that I'm

1380
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: that guy. You mentioned the community. You're the Walter Payton

1381
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: Man of the Year for the Cleveland Browns. That's a

1382
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: pretty good stretch. Walter Payton Man of the Year, highest

1383
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: paid cornerback in NFL history. Both meaningful in their own right.

1384
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: But you're working the community, make them know your name,

1385
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: your foundation. How important is that and does this allow

1386
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: you to do even more in that regard. It's it's huge,

1387
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: and it's it's definitely important. Like I said, Uh, this

1388
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: kind of definitely gonna help for me to expand in

1389
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: my family, to expand our foundation and be able to

1390
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: help the community and do different things. So we're definitely

1391
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: gonna be trying to come up with new ideas the

1392
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: ways we could get back, ways we could make a

1393
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: positive impact. What did you mean when you were the

1394
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of your nominee for the Cleveland Browns

1395
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: And it meant a lot. I want to say that

1396
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: it was a goal of mine, but something like in

1397
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: the back of my head and I was like, man,

1398
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: this is this is definitely go with you. I have

1399
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: a foundation to have, uh, this goals where I want

1400
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: to impact positively impact the community and people around me,

1401
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: and um, just trying to do that and bring my

1402
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: family along. So it was definitely grateful for to be

1403
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: recognized for the Watson Payton Man of the Year, and

1404
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: my family should be grateful for that as well. Yeah,

1405
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of you know, great

1406
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: players in the league, but if you go through the

1407
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: list of guys that are great, great players, and then

1408
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: also Walter Payton Man of the Year for their team,

1409
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: not as big of a list, and the person comes

1410
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: to my mind immediately is Larry Fitzgerald. That guy's great

1411
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: on the field, great off the field, and clearly that's

1412
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 1: something you're striving to do as well. Yeah, definitely striving

1413
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: to do that, I said, just trying to stay in

1414
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: the community and be good on and off the field.

1415
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: All right, talk about this team. You said, some new

1416
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: faces Deshaun Watson, Amari Cooper, guys you're gonna have to

1417
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: deal with in practice and training camp and then be

1418
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: thankfully don't have to deal with them in games anymore.

1419
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: What's kind of the energy that they've brought, as you

1420
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: kinds of just you know, starting to get to know

1421
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: each other and be around each other. Yeah, it's gonna

1422
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: be excited. I went against both of those guys, whether

1423
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: that was in college or in the NFL, So those

1424
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: are talented guys I'm looking forward to going against in

1425
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: practice and building this team up. What's kind of the

1426
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: vibe would you say of the team right now? I

1427
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: think guys are excited, Guys are excited to get back

1428
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,959
Speaker 1: get to work. Guys are in there grinding, ready to work.

1429
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: I got a new opportunity this year, Like I said,

1430
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: we didn't finish how he wanted last year, but new

1431
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: opportunity new beginnings, so we're ready to get it started.

1432
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: What was your off season like prior to the week

1433
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: with the contract and all that, What did you choose

1434
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: to do? As you mentioned, last year didn' end the

1435
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: way you guys wanted to, but it's the NFL. Quickly

1436
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: a new season will come and get to watch Super

1437
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: Bowl play out, take some time to yourself, and then

1438
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: now here you're back starting the work for what we

1439
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: hope is a great two seeds. So what did you

1440
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: kind of do in that get away period. I'll took

1441
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: a couple of tricks with my family, but as I

1442
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: got back to work, I got a root thing. So

1443
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: I went out to Florida and was working out and

1444
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: just getting my body ride game ready and prepared to

1445
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: come back here. Family, I know it is so important

1446
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: to you. What was kind of their reaction to this.

1447
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: Everyone has all different reacies, crying, laughing, smiling, everybody's side.

1448
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: So definitely don't throw like a little party or something

1449
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 1: for family and close friends to come come in and celebrate.

1450
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: So they're gonna enjoy it. And I know you mentioned

1451
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: in your press conference Mother's that you've got something big,

1452
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: big plan, anything big plan for yourself after sign this contract,

1453
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: or we just focused on which is a beautiful thing.

1454
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: Focus on my family right now. I'm not sure what

1455
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do for my self yet, but I definitely

1456
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: want to do song special for my family. So thinking

1457
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: of ideas about that. We're so happy for you and

1458
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: the cool thing like you get to do it in Cleveland.

1459
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 1: You have committed to Cleveland, to Cleveland, Brown said, we

1460
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: need you here, We are committing to you here, and

1461
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna put that money in front of you to

1462
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: make sure you say absolutely, let's do this. And you

1463
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: can do so much more in the area where you

1464
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: were born. That's what to me, Like, you can't really

1465
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: make this stuff up, Like this is real life. You're

1466
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: living that dream and I think it's awesome. So happy

1467
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,479
Speaker 1: for you, man, congrats kind of a theme on today's show.

1468
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: So happy for the chief, So happy for Denzel Ward

1469
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: as well. Well deserved, well earned. And you think about

1470
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 1: now Denzel Greedy, Greg, that's as good of the top

1471
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: three corners. I think as they're in the league. Greg

1472
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: and Denzel might be one of the best one two

1473
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: tandems in the league. At an M. J Emerson A J.

1474
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: Green is back and all of a sudden, you say, man,

1475
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: this team is deep at corner. They can cover anybody

1476
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: and Ward this year not only getting some work outside,

1477
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: also some work inside as well as Greg is so

1478
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: a lot of versatility, a lot of flexibility for Jeff

1479
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: Howard and Joe Woods on the back in the middle,

1480
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: friends of this program. Well, in a nutshell that advice

1481
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Speaker 1: out there about brown stabling, from secret methods to picking

1482
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Speaker 1: lottery numbers to betting big when you're on a roll,

1483
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Speaker 1: these myths can lose you money and get you in

1484
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Speaker 1: a lot of trouble. So before you wage or find

1485
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 1: out what's real and what isn't at keep it fun

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Speaker 1: Ohio dot com. Oh baby, this one right here. Shout

1487
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: out to my boy, Kenny Classman. This is for you Bishop.

1488
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: That's me now, buddy. We we were talking as you

1489
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: as you came in studio right before we started the show.

1490
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: Um four year four, which is hard to believe. But

1491
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: also the fact that you would have been a guy

1492
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: who would have been in the studio with us a lot,

1493
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,959
Speaker 1: but because of two years of COVID, we haven't seen

1494
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: you man. I mean he got to see how the side.

1495
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you in personal like two years about

1496
01:05:58,720 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: it's good to have you back. It's good to be

1497
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: back walking around the full building. Yes, yeah, it's been

1498
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: it's been crazy. Obviously with the COVID situation, it's been

1499
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: weird for everybody and stuff. And like you said, couldn't

1500
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: couldn't see you guys, and they had the guys spaced

1501
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: out throughout the whole facility so we couldn't even mesh

1502
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 1: with the guys during the season. Um, But I'm happy

1503
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: everything is back to normal because I feel like this

1504
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: is what we needed, you know what I mean, and

1505
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: hanging out with you guys, hanging out with the boys,

1506
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, I mean us and the boys go bowling,

1507
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: do little stuff outside of football, Like yeah, I need

1508
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: to kind of just meshing. So I'm happy things are

1509
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: back to normal. You guys haven't even got to have

1510
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: like this part of the off season. Oh yeah, going

1511
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: that's right, Like going into my fourth year. I feel like,

1512
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like I was telling you guys earlier, like, man,

1513
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: this is the first time that I feel like it

1514
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: feels normal because you know, the last two years, um,

1515
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: the whole COVID stuff. You know, then that's weird. You

1516
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: can't really get around the guys and then go through plays,

1517
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: go through certain stuff, and so I feel like going

1518
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: through my fourth year, I'm like, wow, this kind of

1519
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: feels new, but I know that this is you know,

1520
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 1: this is kind of the normal. You know, how much

1521
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: did you miss that? Just being able to be around

1522
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: each other and the team building. I mean, everybody was

1523
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: on the same everybody in the league was in the

1524
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: same situation, but probably the first time in your life

1525
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: as a as I mean all the way through Pop Warner,

1526
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: high school, college, you're always around your team. To not

1527
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 1: be around your team had to be incredibly difficult. It's yeah,

1528
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 1: it's it's something that people kind of miss, you know,

1529
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: And like you said, in college, high school, you you

1530
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: work out with your guys, you work out with the team,

1531
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: and so even these little workouts that we have every

1532
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: mornings as a team is so crucial, you know what

1533
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean. You're working out with the guys, you see

1534
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: who's putting in the work, pushing each other, and you

1535
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: need that stuff. You need that camaraderie. And I feel

1536
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,479
Speaker 1: really good, even though it's been on only a couple

1537
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: of weeks. I feel like the guys, it's like, you

1538
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean like a fist. You know, we're

1539
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 1: getting stronger together, so I'm excited. All right, how are

1540
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: you feeling. I'm feeling good. You know. I would say, um,

1541
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: we're making big strides with the shoulder. Um, but I

1542
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: feel really good, dude, everything's good. The strength is there.

1543
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: I'm running um, getting the conditioning backup, doing all that stuff,

1544
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: and I feel really good. I feel really good going

1545
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: into your four. Let me tell you something, not only

1546
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you say you feel good, but feeling good,

1547
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: looking good. Let's talk about this hair talking. Let's talk.

1548
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Yeah, no, yeah, I'm letting the locks go,

1549
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: growing it out. You know, I went to B y

1550
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: U that you've gotta be clean cut. No, you know

1551
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like it's like lieutenant over there.

1552
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:30,599
Speaker 1: Obviously they're training things. Shout out to Kani's. He's letting

1553
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: the guys grow out the hair out. Now all of

1554
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's it's a whole different vibe. But usually

1555
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 1: when the guys leave from B y U, they kind

1556
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: of grow out the hair. So that's me. You know,

1557
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm letting the throw go finally lenning the hair. It's

1558
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: gonna start locking hopefully you know it's long enough to

1559
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: start hanging out the helmet. You have to change your helmet. Yeah,

1560
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 1: I might have to, you know, kind of justicize and

1561
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: do all that stuff and kind of play with it.

1562
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: But it'll be exciting. That's a lot of coming out.

1563
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: It's breath taking. So you mentioned it's great to get

1564
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,759
Speaker 1: over me back now defense though, especially in your room

1565
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: and even the room behind you with your corners and

1566
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 1: your safety. Is this back end of this defense. A

1567
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: lot of familiar faces and a lot of guys who

1568
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: it's either their second or now their third year in

1569
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: this Joe Woods defense. So you guys, what's that like?

1570
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: They be able to be around each other, but have

1571
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: a lot of familiar faces you know in the rooms.

1572
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: Once again, that's big, you know what I mean, that's

1573
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: big to continue to have the same guys around us.

1574
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: And then like you said, going into the third year,

1575
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: um to Joe Wood's defense is is big for a

1576
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: lot of the guys. And then for some of the

1577
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: guys you know it came last year, John Johnson, all

1578
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: these guys that came last year newso um and Grant

1579
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: you know him playing you know what I mean? So

1580
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be good for them too, because they're

1581
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: going into year two of of learning this defense and

1582
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna be flying around making plays, and so you

1583
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: just kind of you get to, you know, all the

1584
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 1: stuff that you you know what I mean, should be

1585
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: on the same page, and you guys can talk out

1586
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 1: there and and understand what's coming. And so it's gonna

1587
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really fun. Man. Expect a lot of

1588
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: guys to be out there around making a lot of plays.

1589
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: You know, we noticed it even last year as the

1590
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: season was going along, that there was a point where

1591
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,679
Speaker 1: it felt like the defense flipped. It was like, oh,

1592
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: we got it. Um what do you remember what was

1593
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: the point that that happened for you when it felt

1594
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 1: like everybody was kind of rolling in the same direction.

1595
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: Because it was a feeling out process for sure. To

1596
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, the first couple of games, obviously,

1597
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 1: you know Chicago, we caught some strides, but then we're

1598
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: a little inconsistent. But I feel like I think it

1599
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: was week six or or seven that we really just

1600
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 1: kind of clicked, you know, especially the back in the

1601
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: back end. They were making plays. Remember that Ravens game

1602
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: where they got four interceptions and and yeah, and the

1603
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 1: Bengals game to you know where we're just out there flying,

1604
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: people are making plays left right, and the back end

1605
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: was going. So we're gonna build on that, you know

1606
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 1: what I mean. And a lot of the same faces

1607
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: are around. Um, you know, you got the D line

1608
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: coming in. You know, would be exciting to see what

1609
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: they do with the D line to finish up all

1610
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: that stuff. But you got Miles you know, obviously coming back.

1611
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: And so we got a lot of like you guys

1612
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:58,759
Speaker 1: have been emphasized, we got a lot of familiar faces

1613
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be. Yeah, just expect good things. We

1614
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: certainly are. Have you got to talk to Chase one

1615
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: a bit much at all? I feel like would get

1616
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: along famously. No, Yeah, Chase. Actually Chase played with my

1617
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 1: boy too at the page, so, um, you know, my

1618
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 1: boy told him like, dude, how's Chase Man, what's up?

1619
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: And he Chase like, dude, you're gonna like him. He's

1620
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: definitely one of the guys. So when Chase got here,

1621
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you know my guy hard and he's like, yeah,

1622
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: So we've been we've been hanging out, chomling it up.

1623
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,759
Speaker 1: And it's cool to be with him too. Um and

1624
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 1: he's a down earth guy, real real, like funny dude,

1625
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: and you get to know him and he's like he's cool,

1626
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: fitting with all the guys. He's got me. After one

1627
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: of the interviews I did with him, and he said

1628
01:11:36,479 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 1: his thing is that he likes to at the end

1629
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: of a shower cold water for over a minute and

1630
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like freezing, but you just turned down cold.

1631
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: And then he said, you're gonna get a voice that

1632
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: starts talking to you in your head. And when you

1633
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: hear that voice, and he said, just sit there, listen

1634
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: to it, see what it tells you, and then you're

1635
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: ready to come out. And I've been doing it for real,

1636
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: he's looking like crazy you get you get a real

1637
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: energy when you get him. Actually, yeah, it's natural energy.

1638
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: And like you could do it with the sauna and

1639
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 1: you can kind of go to coach because kind of

1640
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: what I do too, you know what I mean. We

1641
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: have to sign it for like twenty minutes and you

1642
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 1: get in the you literally get in the coat tub

1643
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: and you go all the way head under and then

1644
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 1: come out and you probably stay to like your neck

1645
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 1: go for like about a minute thirty. Then get out,

1646
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: go hit the sign again. Then you finish with it

1647
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: exactly what I told you, and do natural energy. And

1648
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: if you're into that stuff which chases, he knows the

1649
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: su you know what I mean, he knows a sub.

1650
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 1: You get a natural fill. You're not sluggers for the day.

1651
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: It's like kind of like a natural coffee, like you

1652
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: wanted to go the other way. You want to go

1653
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 1: to the cold into the warm and shot out of

1654
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: the cannon at the end. And it does, like it's

1655
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: amazing how quickly your body adjust to it, like the

1656
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: initial shock wears off, and then you're kind of like

1657
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: sitting there in your thoughts and you get you do

1658
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: you get, like to say, when you walk out, you

1659
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: have this kind of a little bit of an energy

1660
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: buzz going. For sure. How's coach Tarber doing? I know

1661
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 1: his bag has got to get the neck is he's

1662
01:12:58,000 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's been a little bummed. Tar

1663
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: has been a little bum because he can't throw the

1664
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: ball to the linebackers. What happened? What's wrong with the

1665
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 1: next so that he can't sling it? He had something

1666
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: pretty bad happened to his knack. He had really Yeah,

1667
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: I haven't even figured out the whole full story, but

1668
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: I know that he had a little neck injury. But

1669
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: he's tough. He's tough as nails. Though he's out there,

1670
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 1: he'll he'll still be pointing things around, throwing the ball.

1671
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he's clear to throw the ball,

1672
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 1: but he's throwing the ball already. You know that guy.

1673
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,640
Speaker 1: He's fired up? How how hungry is this team? I

1674
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,599
Speaker 1: mean a couple of years ago, you guys, you know,

1675
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: you you go to Pittsburgh win a playoff game, you're

1676
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: a stop from going to the a f C Championship

1677
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:41,639
Speaker 1: game winning down in Kansas City last year. Disappointing obviously

1678
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 1: from from all points, but you've tasted it, and you

1679
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: know what it takes to get there and get to

1680
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: the precipice of it. Do you feel that in the

1681
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: in the room? Does it feel in the building? Does

1682
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: it feel like we know what we're capable of, we

1683
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: know what it takes to get there. Now just applying it.

1684
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 1: They messed up by giving us a little taste, right

1685
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:00,639
Speaker 1: because now that we know what it, what it feels

1686
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: like kind of like we're saying we want it and

1687
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: we that's what we want, that's what we can we're

1688
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: capable of doing. And so last year obviously was was

1689
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: bad for everybody. Everyone's fired up for greatness right around here.

1690
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 1: So to have that last year coming into this year,

1691
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,679
Speaker 1: everyone is fired up to get back on on tracked.

1692
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 1: You know what we did two years ago, because we

1693
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 1: got a taste of it, we know, we're excited for that.

1694
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: We know what we can do, and so this year

1695
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: we'll build on it and get back to that stage

1696
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: because we we we know we're capable. We have the guys,

1697
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: we have the coaches, that we have, everybody in the

1698
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:32,680
Speaker 1: building who was behind us. You got everybody, you know,

1699
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: So we just can't wait. Man. Obviously we could talk,

1700
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: we could talk all day. Yeah, but it's about putting

1701
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: the work. So back to the work, that's really what

1702
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:42,760
Speaker 1: it is. But we're excited. We're living large having here.

1703
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: It's great to see again. Thanks for appreciate you guys

1704
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: for having me. Seriously, great hair, great human, just tough

1705
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: as nails and an absolute asset to this organization. And

1706
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see c A this year and to

1707
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: think about him and a Walk and j Ok who

1708
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: we heard from earlier and Jacob Phillips, this is a

1709
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: ashal opportunity for that mid level of our defense. We

1710
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: know you got Miles and Clowney up front. We've got

1711
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: guys competing Jordan Elliott and Tommy togy I, and you're

1712
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: talking about Taven Bryan brought in the former first round picking,

1713
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: perry On Winfrey and Sheldon Day battling it out the

1714
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 1: middle of the defense for playing time and to be

1715
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: on this roster and make plays a consequence, but you

1716
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 1: think about the solidity in that middle level and then

1717
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 1: the greatness on the back end. This has a chance

1718
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: to be a very special defense. Now. The Browns want

1719
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: to be special on offense. They want to address that

1720
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: passing game. So they go out and they get to

1721
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson, They bring in Amari Cooper, they draft David Bell,

1722
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: last year's third round pick. Anthony Schwartz started off great

1723
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:38,600
Speaker 1: against Kansas City, but he's somebody they are counting on

1724
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 1: take a big leap forward in year two. He has

1725
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: the speed, one of the fastest guys in the NFL

1726
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: to absolutely take the top off of a defense. The

1727
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: Browns are counting on Anthony Schwartz to be a guy

1728
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 1: that provides not only Chunk plays with the ball in

1729
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: his hands, but clears out room and space for Bell

1730
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 1: and a joke. Who and Cooper to work? Can he

1731
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: and Donovan People's jones? He can do that? The Browns

1732
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: are excited. He's had a great start to his offseason.

1733
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: We want to see that continue when we come back

1734
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: for training camp, and you're gonna get to hear from

1735
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: the young man himself when we return. On this special

1736
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:17,400
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Speaker 1: with a special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily, My conversation

1752
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: with wide receiver Anthony Schwartz. Let's have a listen. How

1753
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: you doing, man, I'm doing really good. This has been, Uh,

1754
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: this has been really cool because it's um when you

1755
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: think about this is a true off season that's being

1756
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: allowed to happen here, Like we haven't two years of pandemic.

1757
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 1: We haven't had what it is traditionally an off season.

1758
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 1: We've seen the numbers of the guys who are here.

1759
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: They're here in droves. You guys are here in droves.

1760
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: What has it been like to be part of what is,

1761
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, in the old days, a traditional NFL off season.

1762
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's been great, you know, especially because this

1763
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 1: is actually my first true football off season as well.

1764
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: It's mixed with track and college and high school all

1765
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: to this level. So this is it's been like an

1766
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: eye opener. But and it's great to have pretty much

1767
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: everyone in the building, you know, being able to connect

1768
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: those bonds and being able to build on what we

1769
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: made last year and try and improve, and we all

1770
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: know we have a lot to improve on. So it's

1771
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: been great seeing everyone, all the guys just being in

1772
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: and and pretty much everyone's trying to get better. So

1773
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: this you you mentioned that, of course, your speed is

1774
01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 1: the stuff of legend. You've You've been on a track

1775
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: team every spring except for this one up until this one.

1776
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, up until the past year. Other

1777
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: than that, you've always been on one. Let me ask

1778
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,719
Speaker 1: you this, when did you know you were fast? I say,

1779
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 1: probably like an eighth Well I already know it was

1780
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:19,639
Speaker 1: a little bit fast, But I say, like in eighth

1781
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 1: grade is when I knew, like, oh snap, like I

1782
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 1: can actually can be a little fast. And then around

1783
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,719
Speaker 1: tenth grade is when on my track times I dropped

1784
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 1: down to like ten threes, ten to ten three. And

1785
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: that's when I was, like, I asked, because I had,

1786
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, like a little little boy. I had three

1787
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: little boys, and they all when you like one of

1788
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 1: the things that's like the biggest The worst thing you

1789
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: can say to them is that one of their classmates

1790
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: is faster than them. Now, rest assured some of them are, um,

1791
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: but but one of the things that they constantly, Like

1792
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: my youngest boy is constantly he'll constantly say like as

1793
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: he's running and be like sonic speed, and then he

1794
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: tries to run even faster. So I've always curious, like,

1795
01:18:57,120 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: as an athlete, when do you realize you're special? Uh

1796
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: so for you, it was eighth grade tenth grade dinner

1797
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 1: at that point, it's got to be just a waterfall,

1798
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: right Like it starts coming fast and furious in terms

1799
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: of your abilities. It transitions onto the football side of

1800
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: things as well. That speeds to speed. Hey, these two

1801
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 1: things mary pretty nicely. When did you start to dream

1802
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: about this type of life? Well, I've kind of I've

1803
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: always dreamed of about the NFL since I was like

1804
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: six or seven, and then of course growing up, getting

1805
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: to high school, getting those first college offers. That's kind

1806
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: of when it's like the dream gets you move onto

1807
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: the next step. Like my like your first your dream

1808
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: is the playing in NFL to manly, but you have

1809
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: to make those steps. So getting those deep college offers.

1810
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: Just now I'm playing the next level of being able

1811
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: to play and then getting into college. I say, going

1812
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 1: into even though it's crazy. The whole COVID situation. Going

1813
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 1: into my junior year. I kind of trained like like

1814
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: I was going into the draft pretty much. So try

1815
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: and try to train in that way so I go

1816
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: into my junior year and be able to do what

1817
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 1: I can and show what I can and showcase myself

1818
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: to the NFL and so where that I could come

1819
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:01,639
Speaker 1: out of that next year and get hopefully get drafted,

1820
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 1: which I was able to do. Win And now I'm here.

1821
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 1: What you got here? Um? And you you you see

1822
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: so many familiar and it's like SEC light out there.

1823
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: There's so many SEC dudes on this roster week we

1824
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: tend to like and make sense. It's the best conference

1825
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 1: in America. I think you see that, Uh, pretty straightforward.

1826
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: It's been that for a while now. Um, what it

1827
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: was it like seeing guys that you had competed against

1828
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: and now you're all wearing the same uniform. It's kind

1829
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 1: of it was kind of crazy, but it's a kind

1830
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 1: of funny, like going against guys like Greedy Grant Richard

1831
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 1: account like those are especially account Like we used to

1832
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: go like back and forth on the field, did you

1833
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: really talking talking? And now we're just we're on the

1834
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: same team, and like we're all supporting each other. It's

1835
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 1: like there's no like bad blood between which is like

1836
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: the best thing is Like you know, you hear about

1837
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: stories about like people coming in and like having like

1838
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: kind of grudges, but we came in and kind of

1839
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:51,559
Speaker 1: we all of us atain, we all have a goal.

1840
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:53,320
Speaker 1: We all want to be good, and we all want

1841
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: to win, and so we all came together. It's kind

1842
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: of just like kind of like banded together kind of almost.

1843
01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 1: It's funny. People appear, certainly are well aware of the

1844
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: Iron Bowl. Everybody is aware of the Iron Bowl and

1845
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: what that one means. But I don't know people up

1846
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: here aware of how much victory all there is between

1847
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: Auburn and Georgia too. That that is is it is.

1848
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 1: It's it's the deep soundse oldest rivalry. I believe it's that. Yeah, Um,

1849
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of dislike between those people up here,

1850
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:19,639
Speaker 1: and unless you look at the map, you don't realize

1851
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,640
Speaker 1: how close Auburn is to the Georgia line. And and

1852
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of dislike between those two programs as well. Yeah,

1853
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:28,679
Speaker 1: it goes really deep, like there's some like Honestly, probably

1854
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: for me, I probably hated Georgia more than I hate

1855
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: Alabama just because just because of I didn't grow up

1856
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: in Alabama. So that's mainly what what it is. But yeah,

1857
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,840
Speaker 1: like going into our our model was every year, like

1858
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: you come to Auburn to beat Georgia and be be

1859
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: Alabama and b L s U. Yeah, so those are

1860
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: three rivals, and of course the three teams you play

1861
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,040
Speaker 1: every year, so it's always of course it's great going

1862
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: against NFL talent in college and and now being able

1863
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: to play with those guys. It's like, it's kind of funny,

1864
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: but it's also like crazy. It doesn't make it, I

1865
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:02,600
Speaker 1: would be very frank with you, It doesn't make a

1866
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:04,560
Speaker 1: lot of sense, um when you think that you have

1867
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 1: to play those three teams every year and then the

1868
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: X base expectations to beat them all. Because if you

1869
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: think of the most talented teams in college football over

1870
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: the last decade, those four are always in the top ten.

1871
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: And those three that are your arrivals you're talking about

1872
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: have won the national championships the last couple of years

1873
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: or played for them. So it's it's an absurd thing

1874
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:24,839
Speaker 1: to think that that is just an every year occurrence

1875
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: at a place like Auburn. Yeah, but that's a lot.

1876
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,280
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's why you go there, that's why

1877
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 1: you play in SEC. Yeah, that's it. That's funny. You know,

1878
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,600
Speaker 1: Saban did that a lot. I was down there a

1879
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: long long time ago, and I remember at the time,

1880
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: Florida State was a monster program at that time, Miami

1881
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: was a monster program. But there was always this thing

1882
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: that they could sell in the SEC, and especially when

1883
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: Urban got to Florida, that that this the NFL ization

1884
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: of the SEC. Come here, we prepare you, you come

1885
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: here and you go to the league. And a lot

1886
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: of people say, we've had Alabama guys in here. Remember

1887
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,680
Speaker 1: when Mac was on the team. Obviously we had him

1888
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: on here and he thought, you know, and this isn't

1889
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 1: it's just a different way of doing things. That the

1890
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: work that was done at Alabama in terms of practices

1891
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: and how hard they were, were so much significantly tougher

1892
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: than it is even in the NFL in terms of

1893
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: the meat grinder that the SEC is. Yeah, like I'd

1894
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: say I'd agree with that, especially especially because you get

1895
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,680
Speaker 1: into training camp like not that doesn't get hot here,

1896
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: but and down in the SEC country it gets nineties

1897
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:22,480
Speaker 1: feeling like hundred degrees is out there going hardest scrimmaging

1898
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: at the scrimmaging at the end of every week. But

1899
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 1: it's just as as you do. It's all to prepare

1900
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: you for the season, all to prepare you for the

1901
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: next level. And then of course those four teams, they

1902
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: all have a pedigree of sending gods to the NFL,

1903
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,040
Speaker 1: and it's just as kind of that's why you go

1904
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 1: to those teams. You want to play the best, you

1905
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: want to beat the best, and then you want to

1906
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,719
Speaker 1: go to play with the best. Well, you are among

1907
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: the best now when you're at this level. And and

1908
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: and that rookie season for you, what was it like

1909
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:49,759
Speaker 1: for you burst on the scene in the opener um,

1910
01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: and and then as the season went along, at what

1911
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: point did you feel totally comfortable? At what point did

1912
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: you feel like, I mean, I'm sure ultimate confidence, I

1913
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: got this, but at the same time, it's a big

1914
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:01,719
Speaker 1: transition and to go from where you were to what

1915
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: what last year was. So I'd say in terms of

1916
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: like confidence wise, in terms of like the playbook and everything,

1917
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: I felt by week one, I was pretty confident. Then

1918
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 1: I felt like I got a good game Week one.

1919
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: Of course there was something I want to chop up.

1920
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: But it's just kind of from week to one, I

1921
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:19,600
Speaker 1: was dealing with like many like nagging injuries and like

1922
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 1: just things that like I've never dealt with before, and

1923
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 1: pretty much every week was kind of a battle for me.

1924
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: Just my goal was ended up. Instead of being my

1925
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:30,720
Speaker 1: goal to like contribute to win for the team, my

1926
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 1: goal was to just make it the sun as I

1927
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: can play. And I think that's what kind of had

1928
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: my season goal as like a roller coaster up and down.

1929
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: But this year definitely looking way different. I'm hoping to

1930
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,599
Speaker 1: being being proactive and staying healthy in helping the team win.

1931
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: You you possess the skill set that this team desperately needs.

1932
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: I think we can all look at it and go, okay,

1933
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: and you got you got a Mari, you got some

1934
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: some bigger body guys on the outside. Bell comes in

1935
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: looks aftully impressive, but we need to dude to get deep.

1936
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: That's why you were drafted. That's the type of skill

1937
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: set that you have. Um. You'll also will often hear

1938
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 1: that the biggest jump in a professional football player's career

1939
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: is between his first year and his second. Do you

1940
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 1: feel that happening for you as you're in the middle

1941
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 1: of it. I definitely feel that happening, especially from where

1942
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: I from where I even started this off season, from

1943
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: where I ended last season. I felt so much better.

1944
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:22,680
Speaker 1: Whether that's because I'm more comfortable with the playbook or

1945
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,559
Speaker 1: just because I just feel more confident, like showing that

1946
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 1: I can belong. And I think like especially going to now,

1947
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: like I'm going out on the seven or seven going

1948
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 1: against Denzel Awards a Pro Bowl that Greg Newsom, who

1949
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: will who I say is that he will be he

1950
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: will be. Greedy Willams was a great corners going against

1951
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: those guys and just being able to compete in like

1952
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: sometimes beating I'm like going back and forth with them,

1953
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: like one play I win, one play they win. It's

1954
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: just like even just building some more and more confidence,

1955
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:53,639
Speaker 1: and I feel I definitely feel that jump coming. Yeah

1956
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 1: you can. It's funny watching you guys out here in O. T. A.

1957
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: S And and just seeing how it Sometimes I I

1958
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,719
Speaker 1: find myself just marveling at the sheer amount of talent

1959
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 1: um in the receiving corps and that the secondary to

1960
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: your point is it's sneakily got loaded. I don't know

1961
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:09,680
Speaker 1: that anybody we know how good Greg Newsom is. I

1962
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: think everyone's gonna find out this year how good he is.

1963
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 1: But a healthy, greedy too, fully healthy, no harness like

1964
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: him being what he can be. So in terms of

1965
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: the iron sharp and irons approach, you're getting that out there, Yeah,

1966
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: for sure. Like those guys, they push us everywhere and

1967
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:26,679
Speaker 1: we pushed them all the time, and it's just again,

1968
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: it's great going against those guys. Like every every rep

1969
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,559
Speaker 1: you going against a great player, and it's just building

1970
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: and building and building. The goal is to where if

1971
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: I if I can get to the point where if

1972
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 1: I can beat Denzel consistently, I means that could be

1973
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: almost anyone consistently Denzel, I say, top three corner and

1974
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: dies league. Yeah, yeah, I think you probably have that right.

1975
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: What's it been like with the Sean uh and and

1976
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: as you guys are in this installed process and UH

1977
01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: starting to kind of put in the groundwork for what

1978
01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: this offense is going to be. Um, how has he

1979
01:26:57,120 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 1: acclimated himself in with the roster? What is the offense

1980
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: look like with him? What is it like just going

1981
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 1: through things with Deshaun at quarterback? I mean it's been

1982
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: great with him so especially as a good down the

1983
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:09,360
Speaker 1: earth guy. He wants to he wants us to come

1984
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 1: to him for help. And then I'd say, like he's

1985
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: been very proactive and like trying to get to know everyone,

1986
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 1: trying to get everyone, see what everyone likes, see what

1987
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:19,880
Speaker 1: everyone does. Then of course the Bahamas trip is like

1988
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: a good kind of way that I felt like the

1989
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 1: whole offense like came together. And I think that that's

1990
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: that was big for us, and I think that it's

1991
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna show once the season starts that what

1992
01:27:31,439 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 1: that meant to us? Do you? Um? So we have

1993
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: we got this week O t S and then next

1994
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: week mandatory. You got any plans for the it's short

1995
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: that couple six weeks or whatever in between that and

1996
01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: the started camp. You're gonna get away. You're gonna do

1997
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: a vacation, you can do anything. Probably just take like

1998
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: a week off, whether that's staying at home doing the

1999
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: theme parks. But after that week, I'm just gonna get

2000
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 1: back at it and just hammer these hammer probably four

2001
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,679
Speaker 1: and a half weeks of just improving on getting ready

2002
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 1: for the see is in doing some more speed work

2003
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: so I can unlock that next to next speed level.

2004
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: That I know I have. And then just at the

2005
01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 1: end of the day, Cash and Casch and Casching being

2006
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:12,600
Speaker 1: able to catch the ball consistently no matter where it is.

2007
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: You don't see your point right, see the point I've

2008
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:20,639
Speaker 1: done it probably like four times now. Top three Steel, Vengeance, Maverick,

2009
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: and i'll say Millennial Force. Well, some big names on

2010
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 1: the show today, John Johnson, the Third d p J

2011
01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: the Chief, joined j Ok from the Golfounding, Denzel and

2012
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 1: of course Anthony Schwartz, who I think could be a

2013
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:36,559
Speaker 1: dude this year by the time all of a sudden done.

2014
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed the special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily.

2015
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2016
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