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Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns return to practice at the Cross Country

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Speaker 1: Mortgage Campus on Wednesday. As the team prepares for its

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Speaker 1: toughest game of the season. We hear from two players

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Speaker 1: and the head coach as they give us their thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the San Francisco forty nine ers. I'm Jake Untik,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to the From the Podium podcast. First up,

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Speaker 1: it was the players they spoke in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: and wide receiver Dotovan People's Jones went first. He talked

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Speaker 1: about what he sees and newly minted backup quarterback PJ.

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Speaker 1: Walker and what the mindset was last week when the

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Speaker 1: team had to play without starter Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 2: Well, Dad, you expect to be a quarterback Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what.

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Speaker 4: Are the challenges that go with that. Start the practice

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Speaker 4: week not knowing who your quarterback is going to be.

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Speaker 5: Just go throughout the week, you know, focus on what

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Speaker 5: we control as an offense, each individual player, and focus

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Speaker 5: on executing our whole assignment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you look at San Francisco defense, what stands

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Speaker 5: Uh, definitely their front Definitely their linebackers. So uh, physical team, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not sure how much you've actually worked with the DJA,

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Speaker 2: but if you know, if you really got started that game,

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Speaker 2: you know, what what is it about?

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Speaker 4: An amazing game over there?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 3: It's a great player.

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Speaker 5: Uh, very instinctual, very smart, can make very good reads

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Speaker 3: And and how do you seem to wear any better responsive?

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Speaker 2: We he had kind of coming back and so trying

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Speaker 5: I think you're responding, Well, it's head down. He's just working,

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Speaker 5: folks on getting better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are playing in some physical games already.

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Speaker 2: But when when you watch that San Francisco's defense, did

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Speaker 5: Uh, They're definitely an individual team. You know we played

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Speaker 5: other teams, but you know they're they have a unique

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Speaker 6: Did you happen to watch the San Francisco game live on.

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Speaker 3: Sunday night and if so, what were your impressions of

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 5: They're a good team, physical, they're playing well and a

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Speaker 5: big challenge for for our teams.

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Speaker 2: Because of what.

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Speaker 8: DeShawn means to this team.

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Speaker 9: If he's not able to play, how do you how

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Speaker 9: do you prevent that from becoming deflating to everybody else?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he definitely means a lot of this team, and

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Speaker 5: like I said earlier, we're just focused on what we

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Speaker 4: I know it took some people by surprise when he

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Speaker 4: for the team since then, de shaunk I gotta said earlier.

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Speaker 5: Like I said earlier, we all just you know, trying

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Speaker 5: do our best each and every week.

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Speaker 8: I've been been through a couple quarterback uncertainties in your

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Speaker 8: time here being a receiver. Is is it any easier

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Speaker 5: I really just try to stay ready, try to stay prepared,

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Speaker 5: never know what happens.

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Speaker 1: Linebacker and defensive captain Anthony Walker Junior was the other

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Speaker 1: player who spoke today. He talked about what he sees

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Speaker 1: in the forty nine ers quarterback brock Party and what

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Speaker 1: the game plan is to face this talented forty nine

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Speaker 4: All the things that offense like what jeps hope you hear?

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Speaker 7: Uh, just complete team ball. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 7: just selfless. You know, they do a lot of all

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Speaker 7: the dirty work. All the receivers block, running backs block,

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Speaker 7: So just even spread, even killed.

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Speaker 4: When you see what they did to Dallas and Dallas

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Speaker 3: You see that.

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Speaker 7: We gotta be exal, We gotta be fundamentally signed. We

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Speaker 2: Your vision's a pretty ben. It doesn't look like a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, just clean, clean in the pocket, you know,

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Speaker 7: to do as a quarterback. I don't care if you're young, old,

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Speaker 7: the you know, the key of the game is getting

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Speaker 7: your play makers and you know, allow them to you know,

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Speaker 2: What they different options like obviously Caffrey and kill. How

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Speaker 7: Yeah, fundamentally sound tackle. Uh, be in your spot, you know,

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Speaker 7: everybody running to the ball. And we gotta we like

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Speaker 7: I said, we just gotta be fundamentally sound on every

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Speaker 2: Along those lines. You know they line up deepo every

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Speaker 2: like that, what does that do to you guys?

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Speaker 7: As how does that stress here heightens our fundamentals?

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Speaker 7: We gotta do like I said, we gotta be fundamentally

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Speaker 7: We can't let that distract us. They they motion a lot,

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Speaker 7: you know, all that stuff. We can't let that distract us.

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Speaker 7: We gotta be on our p's and q's and we'll

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Speaker 3: They walk.

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Speaker 9: You guys have to live by next man up. When

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Speaker 9: there's uncertainly about the starting quarterback. How do you make

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Speaker 9: sure that that doesn't breed down and.

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Speaker 7: Become deflating to the whole Yeah, I I don't you know,

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Speaker 7: that's not my job to worry about. You know, uh

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Speaker 7: who's playing. Obviously that's you know Kevin, that's uh, you know,

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Speaker 7: ready to go defensively no matter who's that quarterback. And

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Speaker 7: yeah we'll be fine. We can't worry about that. We

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Speaker 7: gotta about what we have to do on defense first. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: just the versatility, you know, being able to catch the

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Speaker 7: you can even throw it, you know, like Boobie Miles.

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Speaker 7: Uh yeah, he's just he's all around man. He does

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Speaker 3: You know, really good back. So yeah, we got our

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Speaker 7: Quarterbacks get out of here?

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Speaker 2: The quarterbacks come out of no word for them.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what do you see you again?

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Speaker 8: What do you see when you see uh look at uh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, like I said, as

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Speaker 7: And he's done that. You know, he's done a great job.

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Speaker 7: He I mean, obviously a great ball placement, you know,

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Speaker 7: great reads, quick reads. You know, he he's never rushed.

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Speaker 7: You know, he has a great poise obviously to be

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Speaker 7: like I said, just getting the ball to his playmakers,

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Speaker 8: As long as you've been in this slave, would you

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Speaker 3: There are that's an offense you skin So.

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Speaker 7: I'm biased. I think the Browns is the best offense

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Speaker 7: I've seen so, but no, they're They're great, man. They

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Speaker 7: Like I said, it just it makes your fundamentals have

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Speaker 7: to go up, especially as linebackers. It's a huge task

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Speaker 8: It seems like he likes to attack the middle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 7: You know, yeah, you move, You move guys, you know,

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Speaker 7: I said, just goes back to our fundamentals of our technique,

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Speaker 7: our us being in the right spot. You know, don't

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Speaker 2: You have when you look over at Fred Warner and

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Speaker 3: An incredible year. I mean people are talking about him

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Speaker 3: sent Uh what do you see out of what? You know?

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Speaker 3: What do you model your own game? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: No, uh, much respect for that whole linebacker crew. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: have a great they have a great core you know,

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Speaker 7: we understand that we were it, but at the end

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Speaker 7: of the end of the day, we play against their offense,

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Speaker 4: What you're talking about shating him a little bit using

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Speaker 4: he's a play collar. When you watch it film, it

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Speaker 4: looks like he's able to get guys running open next year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's just a testament to him, a testament

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Speaker 7: lot of interchangeable guys. And they execute really well.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about that emotion that I can staying in

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Speaker 3: the front, So why are they able to kind of

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Speaker 5: There, get away from this forever.

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Speaker 7: They execute really well, you know, they it's just the

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Speaker 7: I'm not gonna speak on any other defense. I just

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Speaker 2: If it has to be PJ.

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Speaker 3: Well, how would that would just pass? Don't call that,

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