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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the From the Podium podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Bullseye Event Group. For award winning game day experiences,

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Speaker 1: visit bullseyeventgroup dot com. I'm Gabe Klea. Today was Coordinator

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Speaker 1: introduction day at the Cross Country Mortgage Campus in Maria,

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Speaker 1: as we got to hear from our oc DC and

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Speaker 1: STC for the first time today. And you've come to

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Speaker 1: the right place if you want to hear those pressers.

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Speaker 1: So today you'll hear from offensive coordinator Travis Sweitzer, defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Mike Ruttenberg, and special teams coordinator Byron Storer. We'll

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Speaker 1: start with the offensive coordinator Travis Sweitzer, who laid out

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Speaker 1: his vision for the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: Thanks everybody for coming. Appreciate everybody being here. I just

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Speaker 2: want to start off by saying how excited my family

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Speaker 2: and I are to be here in Cleveland. As I'm

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Speaker 2: sure most of you guys know, I went to the

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Speaker 2: University of Akron, so Northeast Ohio is no stranger to me.

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Speaker 2: I understand what football means to this area the country,

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Speaker 2: and I understand what the Browns mean to Cleveland. So

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Speaker 2: that's something we don't take lightly and we're very excited

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Speaker 2: about just a couple of thank yous. I would like

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Speaker 2: to send out first of all to the Haslums and

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Speaker 2: j W forgiving us opportunity to come here. Coach Monkin Okay,

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Speaker 2: Andrew Barry for having the trust in me and the

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Speaker 2: belief in me to bring me here. Coach Harball, who

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Speaker 2: I work for for nine years in Baltimore give me

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Speaker 2: really a chance in coaching, you know, and having a

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Speaker 2: vision for me. And then, last, but certainly not least,

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Speaker 2: my family, my beautiful wife Rebecca. You guys see a

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Speaker 2: little bit of our schedule. It takes a special person

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Speaker 2: to be married to us, A very special and strong person.

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Speaker 2: See she is certainly that, and a lot more. And

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Speaker 2: our two sons, Lewis and Archie, who will probably watch

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Speaker 2: this after they get off school today, So listen to mommy,

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Speaker 2: do your homework. But yeah, with that, uh, open it

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Speaker 2: up to questions.

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Speaker 3: You've been around Todd the last three years.

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Speaker 4: How much is that sort of do you feel like

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Speaker 4: you sort of developed like a same like wavelength, I

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Speaker 4: mean you feel like you've gone on to say wadele

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Speaker 4: with him, and how much does that kind of allow

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Speaker 4: you to maybe push I don't want to say push back,

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Speaker 4: but you know, kind of a little bit more give

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Speaker 4: and take when you know, when you guys talk about

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Speaker 4: you know, philosophy, play call, you know, those sorts of things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Coach Monk and I were great from

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Speaker 2: day one, and our relationship has certainly built, uh from that,

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Speaker 2: you know, get a little more comfortable with each other.

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Speaker 2: I think how he thinks, you know, and the more

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Speaker 2: we can kind of do that, the better the operation

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Speaker 2: all that, like, that's not really how he operates him.

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Speaker 2: He's a collaborative guy. He wants to listen and then

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Speaker 2: we decide together, you know, and he believes that with

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Speaker 2: him and I the whole staff. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 2: that's his philosophy. And it's been like that I met him.

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Speaker 5: You know, So were you're the run game coordinator of Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: So now you're the offensive So how much role do

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Speaker 5: you have as a creation of the running game here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's kind of a refer back to

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Speaker 2: be a collaborative approach. Monk says this all the time.

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Speaker 2: Obviously as the guy who's calling it. You know, you

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Speaker 2: have good players, you have a great staff. He feels

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Speaker 2: like he can call it freely. So that's our job,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And we're all going to

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Speaker 2: work together so that we all feel that way, including

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Speaker 6: Have you studied the Browns quarterbacks here, and if so,

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Speaker 6: you said each of them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. Obviously. That's something we started when

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Speaker 2: take a job if you're not excited about quarterbacks that

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Speaker 2: we're excited about doing We're excited about DeShawn. You know,

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Speaker 2: anytime you have a guy who has had the success

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of a lot to be

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Speaker 7: What is the data like, speaking specifically to your role

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Speaker 7: as what does the day to day look like? And

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Speaker 7: how do you think that that will just what value

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Speaker 7: you developed brain as you really take on this larger role.

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Speaker 7: Because I remember like Niking Daniel, game coordinator of the

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Speaker 8: Was like just in his office drawn up plays, But

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Speaker 8: what did the day to day.

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Speaker 9: Look like for you?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean it was like I said, it

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Speaker 2: you know of other parts of the game as well,

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Speaker 2: a little bit more than I did. But yeah, as

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Speaker 2: far as the day to day, I mean, we're all

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Speaker 2: when we all get together, you know, to figure out

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Speaker 10: Of quarterbacks and what stands out to you. Obviously there's

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Speaker 10: going to be a lot of new additions on the

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Speaker 8: Through the draft and free agency.

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Speaker 10: But as the roster as it stands, with the guys

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Speaker 10: excites you, the things that excite you about taking this

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Speaker 8: Running this offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we have there's pieces here that we

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a lot of pieces here to be

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Speaker 11: Said, what are some of the traits and things that

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Speaker 11: you guys philosophically kind of want in a quarterback and look.

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Speaker 3: For a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's got to be an elite leader

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Speaker 2: and decision maker. I mean, that's where it kind of starts.

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Speaker 2: Somebody said this, I remember hearing it years ago. It

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Speaker 2: you've got to be able to throw four picks in

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Speaker 2: you know. So that's one of those things that you

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Speaker 2: think it certainly helps. You can develop that through preparation

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Speaker 3: For the combat.

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Speaker 12: Todd talked about bringing the offense you guys ran in

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Speaker 12: Baltimore to Cleveland. Say, if you believe in the things,

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Speaker 12: you just had to stick with it, what would you

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Speaker 12: say are the most important traits that you say the

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Speaker 12: Todd Munkin Switcher offense will happen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's that can be a very broad thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's certain non negotiables, if you will, which

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Speaker 2: when you start to look at it, there's not a

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: We want our guys to be tough, physical, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be built around who you have. That's

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Speaker 2: where it starts. And that's where I think coach Monk

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Speaker 2: has succeeded in multiple spots that he's had. I Mean

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Speaker 2: there's been people who said, I mean, what system does

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Speaker 2: And I think that's why, because he's able to mold

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Speaker 13: Go back to your time in college.

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Speaker 3: And reading about your career and maybe.

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Speaker 8: Thirty six consecutives starts like how may your.

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Speaker 13: Time as a college athlete and your time and a

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Speaker 13: kind of inform you as a coach, now, do you

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Speaker 13: think and just your.

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Speaker 8: Path getting into the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when you're at that age in life,

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of growth that happens in

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Speaker 2: Was able to grow into a man there. Obviously, playing

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Speaker 2: you know, in Division one football, it teaches you a

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Speaker 12: I want to talk about that.

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Speaker 14: You're excited about the quarterbacks that you guys have in the.

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Speaker 15: Room right now when you look at what you have

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Speaker 15: the street you fill learning these guys if nobody else

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Speaker 16: You have what you need to accomplish your offensive goals

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Speaker 16: for twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean certainly. I mean those things that they

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Speaker 2: it's an open competition, and the decision of when that'll

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Speaker 2: be we don't know. But those those things, they have

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Speaker 2: a way players win spots and they have a way

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Speaker 2: of kind of working themselves out. But yeah, we're excited.

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Speaker 2: That's that's here in the building.

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Speaker 3: How is it that you never became an offensive line corp.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that this coaching thing is weird, man.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think you kind of find a niche

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Speaker 2: and you just try to ride the wave, you know,

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Speaker 8: Couple of times already. And you guys are so good

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Speaker 3: What does he why does he get so exciting?

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Speaker 12: If you learned about him, and obviously he's stepping into

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a collaboration of me in

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Speaker 11: Your run game to to an offense that doesn't have

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Speaker 8: Keep play and come back.

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Speaker 2: So like that's that's kind of goes back to what

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Speaker 2: I was saying earlier, just about the way the system's

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Speaker 2: built from day one, so that you're able to kind

441
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Speaker 2: of go down these other avenues when you have to

442
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Speaker 2: to highlight what your guys can do. You know. That's

443
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Speaker 2: that's something that coach says all the time, like hey,

444
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Speaker 2: what can he do? You know? And something Harves used

445
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Speaker 2: to say the guys too, like everybody's here for a reason.

446
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Speaker 2: Let's make sure you're elite at what you're elite at.

447
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Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna work on everything else, but let's

448
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Speaker 2: be elite at what' you're a lade at because that's

449
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Speaker 2: what we're going to use you for, you know, in

450
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Speaker 2: the majority of the situations.

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Speaker 18: What kind of influences that you just mentioned John Harbad,

452
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Speaker 18: just what kind of influence has he had on you

453
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Speaker 18: as a coach and in the way you kind of develop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need a longer time allotment here for for

455
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Speaker 2: that one. But yeah, he's got so many things that

456
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Speaker 2: I've taken. The biggest thing I would say, and he

457
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Speaker 2: used to say this all the time, is like be you,

458
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Speaker 2: but be the best you. You know, everybody else is taken,

459
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Speaker 2: so you've got to be who you are. I think

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Speaker 2: that can be. It's easier said than done sometimes too,

461
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Speaker 2: like it really is, you know what I mean, that's

462
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Speaker 2: a good reminder just all the time. Hey man, be

463
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Speaker 2: you you know, be you have confidence in who you

464
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Speaker 2: are and go about coaching and really life that way.

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Speaker 3: How do you the balance?

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Speaker 7: You know, we talk a lot about the mobility and

467
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Speaker 7: the quarterback position and obviously the horders making the perfect

468
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Speaker 7: sample of that.

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Speaker 3: But how do you strike the.

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Speaker 7: Balance of you know, allowing those of these things so

471
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Speaker 7: those mobile athletes and strengths to shine, but also understanding

472
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Speaker 7: that like you also do still want to quarterback at

473
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Speaker 7: the position and you want them to you know, run

474
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Speaker 7: the offensive play from the pocket, you know MOSTZSA not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, another great question. I think that that that part

476
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Speaker 2: starts with knowing the situation and when we can take

477
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Speaker 2: a little more risks, you know, and when you can't.

478
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Speaker 2: But it's hard, especially with guys who can run around

479
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Speaker 2: a lot of times they make it right, you know.

480
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Speaker 2: So I think you just got to continue to talk

481
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Speaker 2: to them about, hey, when are we in Superman mode?

482
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Speaker 2: And when are we in like, let's take the profit mode,

483
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, because you don't want to

484
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Speaker 2: take that away from guys. We just talked about, Hey,

485
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Speaker 2: make sure you're a leader at what you're a leader

486
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Speaker 2: at that is a lot of those guys superpower. It's

487
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Speaker 2: just how do we channel that and harness it or

488
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Speaker 2: harness it into you know, something that is good for

489
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Speaker 2: the team and for the offense.

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Speaker 3: You were at the combine all week, so what did

491
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Speaker 3: you do that? What was your wrong? Were you in

492
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Speaker 3: the interviews? What was your wrong?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? In the interviews watching workouts and the way the

494
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Speaker 2: combines structured now too, you have a lot of dead

495
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Speaker 2: time in the afternoon, so like I had the computer

496
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Speaker 2: set up in the hotel room, we're able to watch

497
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Speaker 2: them tape, you know, and kind of go through things

498
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Speaker 2: that way. But yeah, that's basically what it was.

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Speaker 16: Thoughts on Sean where he is right now? Maybe you've

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Speaker 16: seen some of his practice film from last December or

501
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Speaker 16: maybe some of the workouts that he's doing right now,

502
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Speaker 16: But what.

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Speaker 14: Are your thoughts on where he's at the skill set

504
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Speaker 14: and what he has left the standpoint?

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Speaker 2: You said to Sean, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's something

506
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Speaker 2: that I think we're all very excited to find out

507
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Speaker 2: when he gets in the building. But I don't know

508
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Speaker 2: the details him. I know that he said he feels good,

509
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Speaker 2: and we'll just we'll just kind of see how that

510
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Speaker 2: all goes. But yeah, obviously anytime you have a guy

511
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Speaker 2: who's had that amount of success and put on tape

512
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Speaker 2: what he's put on tape, you're very excited about it.

513
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Speaker 7: When it comes to your like your your time as

514
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Speaker 7: a center specifically, how did that shape the weight.

515
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Speaker 8: To offense and maybe keep an offensive line?

516
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the center is the communicator, you know,

517
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Speaker 2: and and all the calls and and uh, everything starts

518
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Speaker 2: with with him. So I think that outlook on it

519
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Speaker 2: helped me to maybe be a little bit more big picture,

520
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Speaker 2: but at the same time having to be really focused

521
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Speaker 2: on the four guys that were around me. Yeah, so

522
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Speaker 2: I think I think that's kind of the the extension

523
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Speaker 2: of much like the quarterback, you know, he is the

524
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Speaker 2: tip of the spear up there. So yeah, that's a

525
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Speaker 2: huge position.

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Speaker 8: How much of a relief of it, But you don't

527
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Speaker 8: have the game plan for.

528
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Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, and I mean you can't you can't underest

529
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Speaker 2: or can't over state how much of a relief that is. Yeah,

530
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Speaker 2: it's a pain. We'll just have to watch a record

531
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Speaker 2: practice now every once in a while. But yeah, yeah,

532
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Speaker 2: thanks guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Up Next, bringing the energy in only a way that

534
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Speaker 1: he can. Here is your new defensive coordinator, Mike Ruttenberg.

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Speaker 19: What's up everyone.

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Speaker 6: I didn't write an opening statement, but my heart has

537
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Speaker 6: an opening statement. I just want to tell everybody and

538
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Speaker 6: everybody in the organization in Cleveland that I couldn't be

539
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Speaker 6: more excited to be here. Our family couldn't be more excited,

540
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Speaker 6: excited for this opportunity to work with this organization, a

541
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Speaker 6: great historic organization, work with these great players and coaches.

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Speaker 6: Of course, want to thank the Haslams coach Monkin Andrew

543
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Speaker 6: Berry for bringing me here and everybody else involved with

544
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Speaker 6: that process, and also thank all the people who help

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Speaker 6: get me here, the different coaches along the way, the

546
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Speaker 6: different mentors I've had. I've had some incredible ones. And

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Speaker 6: then of course my family. First my parents, my sisters

548
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Speaker 6: who I grew up with, and then my wife Stacy,

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Speaker 6: my wife Laney and Luke, my children.

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Speaker 19: Probably like all of us, if we have kids or

551
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Speaker 19: significant others, why we do it?

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Speaker 6: So beyond fired up to be here, excited to meet

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Speaker 6: you guys and get rolling. We have to win over

554
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Speaker 6: the players who were so fond of Jim Schwartz. How

555
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Speaker 6: does that any new opportunity is about building relationships, right,

556
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Speaker 6: and relationships come from the heart.

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Speaker 19: So we're going to build relationships.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to learn about the players, learn about the coaches, share.

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Speaker 19: My story and learn their story, and whatever is important

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Speaker 19: to the players, I.

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Speaker 6: Want to learn about them, whether it's their families, whether

562
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Speaker 6: it's football, any outside interests.

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Speaker 19: I'm going to dive right in and build those relationships.

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Speaker 6: But do you think that is a challenge because Shorts

565
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Speaker 6: was so nice. I mean, obviously tons of respect for

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Speaker 6: coach Schwartz and admiration.

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Speaker 19: Any time you go.

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Speaker 6: Into a new opportunity and meet new people and meet

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Speaker 6: new players and coaches, it's always about building those relationships.

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Speaker 6: And I can't wait to start those relationships with all

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Speaker 6: the players.

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Speaker 10: A situation from Todd mentioned that you can only see

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Speaker 10: a way forward where the system the scheme is the same.

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Speaker 10: With that defensive pass rush being so prominent, what's your

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Speaker 10: plan to keep things the same, but also maybe put

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Speaker 10: your touch on what this.

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Speaker 8: Defense needs to be.

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Speaker 6: It's always going to be style over scheme, no matter

579
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Speaker 6: what the way we play, how hard we play, playing

580
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Speaker 6: for each other, how fast we play, and how violent

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Speaker 6: we play, and that's always going to be over scheme

582
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Speaker 6: us going after the ball and then putting our players

583
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Speaker 6: in the best positions to be successful. It's always going

584
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Speaker 6: to start with the front if forever, it always will

585
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Speaker 6: in the history of football, and we're going to continue

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Speaker 6: to do that.

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Speaker 14: How about Miles Scared have you had a chance to

588
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Speaker 14: Have you heard from Miles yet? Or have you guys

589
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Speaker 14: connected in any way?

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Speaker 19: We have not spoken face to face.

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Speaker 6: We've both been traveling a lot, and I cannot wait

592
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Speaker 6: to meet him and learn from him. Obviously amazing amount

593
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Speaker 6: of respect for him as a player and all the

594
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Speaker 6: great things I've heard about him as a person.

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Speaker 16: And how you stop sited?

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Speaker 14: I guess, are you to continue what he's already done

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Speaker 14: and maybe even help him elevate his game or just

598
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Speaker 14: you know, tweak his game a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Totally. I don't think I could be more excited. I'm

600
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Speaker 6: beyond fired up. I can't wait to see all of

601
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Speaker 6: his superpowers, learn about his superpowers, and figure out what's

602
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Speaker 6: best for him to help you help him continue to

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Speaker 6: achieve those superpowers.

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Speaker 13: Part of Miles just looking at this defensive front, I

605
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Speaker 13: know Tods' so adamant about baking the way they attack

606
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Speaker 13: with what do you see when when you see how

607
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Speaker 13: this defense has performed the last three years in.

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Speaker 6: That regard, keep attacking, keep getting downhill, keep attacking, keep

609
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Speaker 6: getting downhill. Like you said, not only Miles, You've got

610
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Speaker 6: great players across the front, Malik, Alex, Isaiah, Mason, Graham,

611
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Speaker 6: I could keep going across the front, you know, and

612
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Speaker 6: and the backers behind him who were involved with with

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Speaker 6: Carson and you know, obviously Dev had a great year

614
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Speaker 6: last year and Mood had a great year, and the

615
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Speaker 6: safety is behind them with Grant and Rocket. Everybody's involved,

616
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Speaker 6: but it's always going to go back to the front.

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Speaker 11: You obviously have a lot of experience working with Robert

618
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Speaker 11: Soul over the years. You know, he mentioned at the

619
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Speaker 11: combine that if Gus hadn't taken the job, you were

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Speaker 11: in the mix, and he was something he was considered him.

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Speaker 8: So just what's it been like working for him?

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Speaker 11: And you know what have you kind of learned from

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Speaker 11: him along the way that you bring here totally.

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Speaker 6: He's one of those people that I mentioned who's helped

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Speaker 6: me along the way. I started in twenty and fourteen

626
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Speaker 6: when he was the linebackers coach and I was the

627
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Speaker 6: assistant dB coach at the time, and what I've learned

628
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Speaker 6: from Robert, and I'm going to speak on football. He's

629
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Speaker 6: a great person and a great friend that goes out

630
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Speaker 6: saying but he taught me how to prepare players. He

631
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Speaker 6: taught me how to get players to play hard, to

632
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Speaker 6: play fast, to play violent on Sunday. He taught me

633
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Speaker 6: how to prepare players for what's coming, how to help

634
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Speaker 6: them anticipate what's coming, to help them respond.

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Speaker 19: Not have to think or act. And I give him

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Speaker 19: a ton of credit for that.

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Speaker 6: I'm forever grateful to Robert for what he's done for

638
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Speaker 6: my career.

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Speaker 3: How about can you just.

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Speaker 14: Talk a little bit about don Dom Capers and how

641
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Speaker 14: he might be able to help you. What does he

642
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Speaker 14: bring to the table.

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Speaker 16: And I think you were pretty instrumental in making sure

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Speaker 16: that he's here.

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Speaker 19: Sure, well, everybody was involved in getting him here.

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Speaker 6: And I really appreciate the organization for allowing us to

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Speaker 6: bring bring coach Capers here. Our relationship goes back to

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Speaker 6: twenty eighteen and nineteen. We actually for a time being

649
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Speaker 6: shared in office, which was the defensive staff room, and.

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Speaker 19: He gave me his manual for Kevin Green.

651
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Speaker 6: I mean, like that is like gold to any coach,

652
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Speaker 6: the manual for Kevin Green, and Dom was obviously instrumental

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Speaker 6: in coaching Kevin and all those great defenses.

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Speaker 19: But what hasn't Dom seen? What scheme? Hasn't he seen?

655
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Speaker 19: What style?

656
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Speaker 6: Has any scheme seene? What technique? What evaluation process? So

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Speaker 6: we're all going to rely on Dom to Z and

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Speaker 6: Z to A and And what's amazing about Dom is

659
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Speaker 6: he does it literally from his heart. He just does

660
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Speaker 6: it to help and all the people he's done this

661
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Speaker 6: for in previous roles.

662
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Speaker 19: Would echo that. So cannot wait to keep working with

663
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Speaker 19: coach Capers.

664
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Speaker 7: When it came to your time with the Falcons last year,

665
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 7: what did the role of defensive pass game coordinator look

666
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 7: like for you on a day to day basis? And

667
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 7: how you're approaching you know, the secondary and because this

668
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 7: is a unit that's really built.

669
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Speaker 8: On playing man defense man and man covery.

670
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Speaker 7: But you see maybe an avenue to maybe diversified that

671
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Speaker 7: in place and more different coveranes.

672
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Speaker 6: Sure, I couldn't talk about the Falcons without talking about

673
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 6: Jeff o'brook First, Brick and I he's my brother and

674
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 6: coaching Brick taught me about style over scheme. Brick taught

675
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 6: me about leading through relationships and him and his family

676
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 6: are super super important to our family, and I want

677
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 6: to make sure Brick, I love you and I thank you,

678
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 6: and I couldn't talk about the Falcons.

679
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 19: Without Raheem Morris.

680
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 6: Had known raw and got the chance to work with

681
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 6: Raheem Morris and thankful for the opportunity he gave me

682
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 6: to become the past game coordinator. That role helped me

683
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 6: see it globally from the past game and also tied

684
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Speaker 6: into the front as well because of some of the

685
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 6: things we did, and I'm grateful to those guys. I'm

686
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 6: grateful to the players there who helped me in that role.

687
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 6: And I learned a ton not only about front to back,

688
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 6: back to front in that, but also how to manage

689
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Speaker 6: the different situations and situational football.

690
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Speaker 19: I'm forever grateful.

691
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Speaker 6: I don't know how much secret sauce I'm going to

692
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 6: give you on where the system's going, but I promise

693
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 6: we're going to attack and play as hard as possible.

694
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Speaker 5: Mike, What's just thought often that the first time coordinator

695
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Speaker 5: in inherits the unit like you're inherited. Who was coached

696
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 5: by pod coach for three years, so is there any

697
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Speaker 5: pressure on you to keep it going and to even

698
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Speaker 5: approve on it?

699
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Speaker 6: First of all, I feel very fortunate to be part

700
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 6: of this unit, and feel very fortunate to work with

701
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 6: the staff who coach this unit, and then feel very

702
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 6: fortunate to work with these players who have achieved great things.

703
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 6: Similar to the previous question, anytime you go to a

704
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 6: new job in this profession, it's about building the relationships,

705
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 6: getting us to play as hard, as fast and violent,

706
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 6: which is part of our heart mind fest as possible.

707
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 6: And whether we're at the Jets, Falcons, going back to

708
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 6: the Jaguars, coming to the Browns, my year at the Niners,

709
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 6: I'm just bouncing around. It's always going to be the

710
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 6: same approach of building the relationships and helping the players

711
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 6: be as successful as they possibly want to be.

712
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 19: On Sundays, I think.

713
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 12: Staff, what's lake walking in to a staff as largely

714
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 12: established and then how can that help you transition to get.

715
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 3: In those plays.

716
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Speaker 19: Yeah, once again, it's very lucky.

717
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Speaker 6: I've been fortunate to have some previous relationships with some

718
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 6: of the guys on the staff. I've known Jackson's Airs

719
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 6: for a long time. Our time goes back to the

720
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 6: university of San Diego. We did not work together. Don't

721
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 6: quote me on this. I was only there ten days.

722
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 6: He came after. But we worked for a man named

723
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 6: Dale Lindsay who was a Cleveland Brown actually and told

724
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 6: me stories about is it Doug Degan?

725
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 19: Is that right? And Mojeleski is that right? He told me.

726
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 6: Stories about these guys for years and he's not doing

727
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 6: very well.

728
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 19: But when I walk into that indoor and.

729
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 6: I see those pictures, I think of Dale and his

730
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 6: wife texted me and said, I saw you at Cleveland.

731
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 19: So that's a little part of my heart and history

732
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 19: with Jock.

733
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 6: I've known Tarv since we both coached on the field

734
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 6: linebacker drills. He was actually one of Brick's assistant position

735
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 6: coaches at the Niners. I'm sure he must have been

736
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 6: like nineteen when he was doing that. And we've been

737
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 6: able to put our brains together over different things over

738
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Speaker 6: the last couple of years.

739
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 19: F and Efram and I.

740
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 6: Crossed over and we got into the league a little

741
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 6: bit and had spent some time together. So fortunate to

742
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 6: have history with those guys. And as you go through

743
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 6: these processes, you naturally do research. Everybody can read a

744
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 6: bio but you dig deep right on the humans, and

745
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 6: everyone spoke so highly of the guys who are here

746
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 6: as human beings and football coaches.

747
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 19: And then I get here and to meet Zach Dunn.

748
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 6: I mean, this guy is a wealth of knowledge and

749
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 6: is going to help us a ton a ton.

750
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 19: I meet Brandon Lynch, superstar, sees it very globally, highly,

751
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,479
Speaker 19: highly detailed.

752
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 6: Can see why him in the corners have such a

753
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 6: great relationship together. And then we were fortunate to bring

754
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 6: a couple of people Ralph Street, our assistant d line coach.

755
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 6: He brings a passion and energy that I think we're

756
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 6: all going to be proud of matching with jocks, and

757
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 6: then our defensive line we're gonna be attacking.

758
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 19: And a couple guys who I worked with at the Jets.

759
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 6: Paul Warlow and Shaq Wilson combined, could not be accept

760
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 6: more excited about this staff.

761
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Speaker 19: Make sure I didn't leave out anybody. Coach Capers and

762
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 19: going back to.

763
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Speaker 3: Your time, all the way back to the beginning.

764
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Speaker 20: How did you get connected with Coach Gibbs and what

765
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 20: were those that you know at the very beginning of

766
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 20: that opportunity, you know, what did that kind of.

767
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 6: Establish for everything, not a lot of sleep, had really

768
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 6: no idea what I was doing, but it was unbelievable.

769
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 19: Vinni Stiado gave me my first chance.

770
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Speaker 6: And it goes back to all these people who came

771
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 6: before us, who helped us along the way. I'll be

772
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 6: forever grateful for. And Vinnie gave me my chance first

773
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 6: as an intern. Then he promoted me to scouting assistant.

774
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 6: It's like the greatest promotion of my life at the time.

775
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 6: And Coach Gibbs gets hired and basically needs someone to

776
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 6: do whatever he asked, and Vinnie volunteered me, and it

777
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 6: was awesome.

778
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Speaker 19: It was unbelievable.

779
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 6: We could sit here for hours on what any person

780
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 6: has learned from Joe Gibbs.

781
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 19: But what I really learned is true work ethic.

782
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 6: Everybody says work cards, Coach Gibbs was true work ethic.

783
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 19: His answer was to keep working and keep fighting, and

784
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 19: keep working and keep fighting.

785
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 6: And I saw that as we went from I can't

786
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 6: remember our first year record, but into the second year

787
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 6: into the playoffs, and it was truly through work ethic.

788
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 19: And keep fighting and keep swinging and keep fighting. He

789
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 19: called me on face.

790
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 6: I facetimed as secretary as executive assistant Cindy, and then

791
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 6: I FaceTime with coach. All I could see was this

792
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 6: side of his head because I'm not sure he knew

793
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 6: that to put the phone right here. But he reminded

794
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 6: me about football takes great athletic skill, it takes violence,

795
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 6: and it takes intelligence.

796
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 19: He told me, don't forget that, Rudy, And that really

797
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 19: was my start.

798
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 6: And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Dwayne Walker,

799
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 6: who I met, who was the dB coach when we

800
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 6: were in Washington, who literally taught me out of coach

801
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 6: and brought me from Washington to volunteer intern at UCLA,

802
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 6: to secondary coach in New Mexico State, to Jacksonville Jaguars,

803
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 6: who a kid now is basically just.

804
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 19: A freak consultant.

805
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 6: Every time I call him now and so Dee Walk,

806
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 6: I thank him, and I know he was here and

807
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 6: built some great relationships here.

808
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 9: I know the overlap was brief, but what were you

809
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 9: able to learn about this organization from the coaches who

810
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 9: were here and are now in Atlanta.

811
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 19: Yeah, the overlap was brief.

812
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 6: Everyone speaks beyond highly of this organization in Cleveland.

813
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 19: It was really cool to hear them rooting for me.

814
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 6: To hear them speak so fondly of the people in

815
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 6: this building, the people in Cleveland, the players, the coaches,

816
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 6: the organization, it was awesome to hear.

817
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 5: I think, like everywhere you've been, you know, your players

818
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 5: really sort of gravitade towards you.

819
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 6: Why do you think that is goes back to the

820
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 6: first question, like life is about relationships, marriage and parenting

821
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 6: is about relationships. And that's been my approach to find

822
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 6: out what's important to the players.

823
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 19: I've told this story when I first met CJ. Mosley.

824
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 6: The first question he asked me is what's the close call?

825
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 6: I said, to the tight end. He asked me a

826
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 6: couple other questions. I don't want to give away too

827
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 6: many answers, but I answered them in football, and he

828
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 6: basically walked away from me.

829
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 19: I was like, I got no chance with him. He's

830
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 19: my brother. Now.

831
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 6: We just had breakfast at the combine. But what I

832
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 6: learned is CJ. He ticked my football, and then we

833
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 6: built a bond of brotherhood. And now we talk about

834
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 6: being a great father and being a great friend. He's

835
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 6: in business now and we're able to have those conversations.

836
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 19: I go to Quincy.

837
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 6: Williams was in Jacksonville with Quincy and we drafted him.

838
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 6: Quincy and I connected from the heart from the start.

839
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 6: It went heart to football, and we spent a lot

840
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 6: of time on our hearts and then a lot of

841
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 6: time on football. And I used those two examples and

842
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 6: had amazing relationships with Jesse Bates and Xavier Watts, Kayden

843
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 6: Ellis Jamie and Sherwood. Richard Sherman taught me so much

844
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 6: about being a football coach, and now we get to

845
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 6: discuss what it's like being a man and a husband

846
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 6: and a father, And it just goes back to finding

847
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 6: what's important to everybody, finding out their.

848
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 19: Why, sharing my why.

849
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 6: Maybe their why is football, maybe their why as a hobby,

850
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 6: maybe their why.

851
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 19: Is their family.

852
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 6: And if we can find something to connect, it'll always

853
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 6: come back to the heart. And when that happens, in

854
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 6: my experiences, it's unbreakable bond.

855
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 19: When things get hard, you thrive in those moments.

856
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 14: We play calling, defensive play calling.

857
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 21: What has been your experience so far, whether it should

858
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 21: be in preseason games or whatever the case may be,

859
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 21: and how do you feel like you will transition to

860
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 21: that full time hall of doing.

861
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 6: I've been really fortunate that at the previous two stops,

862
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 6: my bosses have given me opportunities to call plays in

863
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 6: numerous different experiences preseason games, call it periods, scrimmages, and

864
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 6: obviously there's no substitute for doing it, but that was

865
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 6: a huge help. And then not only that, they offered

866
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 6: great advice, suggestion, criticism at times of how to improve

867
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 6: that and for me any new experience I've had Mary Kaye's,

868
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 6: I've just tried to be where my feed are.

869
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 19: I'm not going to sit here and tell you every

870
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 19: time somebody said something I wrote down, I was like,

871
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 19: just what I'm gonna do this.

872
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 6: I just tried to be where my feed are and

873
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 6: absorb as much as I possibly can. I learned a

874
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 6: ton about play calling and hit and coach Olbrick's process

875
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 6: of game planning over the last four or five years,

876
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 6: and that's been huge for me. And eventually, as you

877
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 6: learn and here around people who you really respect, it

878
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 6: just becomes part of you. And I'm excited for that journey.

879
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 13: But just with when we talked to Toot at the combine,

880
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 13: you know, he mentioned in hiring you like he just

881
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 13: felt like it was your time and coach Holberg I know,

882
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 13: made the comment he felt like he did.

883
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 8: A DC job this cycle or next cycle.

884
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 13: I guess is that how how do you kind of

885
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 13: view this, this opportunity and interviewing.

886
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 19: And do you feel like it's time again?

887
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 6: Stock, I've just tried to really really be where my

888
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 6: feet are and tried to kick butt was cursed, kick

889
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 6: butt every place I'm at every second of every day again,

890
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 6: heart mind fists going in that direction every day, bringing

891
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 6: positive energy, trying to learn as much I can, trying

892
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 6: to help the people who I work with, and.

893
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 19: Awesome experience this offseason that it came, and I'm.

894
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 6: Forever grateful to the people who help me here, forever

895
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 6: grateful to the Haslums, coach Monk and Andrew Berry and

896
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 6: can't wait to get wrong.

897
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 22: The games evolved in at offenses has evolved to Obviously,

898
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 22: defensive had to catch up was the last thing you

899
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 22: said in here Defensive Officely I had to catch up

900
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 22: to the way the game has evolved in the offenses

901
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 22: have to How is maybe the way you do you

902
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 22: defense maybe shifted as the.

903
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 19: Game has evolved.

904
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 6: Any off season you start, no matter where you are

905
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 6: or what your scheme is you better get better? You

906
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 6: better find a way to get better in every fast defense,

907
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 6: starting with your style.

908
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 19: Are we playing hard? Are we playing fast? Are we

909
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 19: playing violent? Are we going after the ball? Like that

910
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 19: is first and foremost. We're going to be talking about

911
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 19: that every day.

912
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 6: Our heart, our mind, our fist, the balls out, We're

913
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 6: going after it.

914
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 19: We are going after it.

915
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 6: And then schematically and fundamentally, you have to find ways

916
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 6: to adapt, evolve, and create every offseason. So not only

917
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 6: are you doing that per what the offenses are doing,

918
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 6: you're doing that with your own scheme to continue to

919
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 6: get it better and better and better to put the

920
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 6: players in the best position.

921
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 14: Have you had a chance to meet since he's local?

922
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 14: Have you met Denzel Ward yet?

923
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 11: And yes or no?

924
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 14: But I mean to you, what are your thoughts on

925
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 14: Denzel as a player.

926
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 6: I've tried my best to meet whoever I can and

927
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 6: I was able to talk to him on the phone,

928
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 6: which is awesome. Again, like a lot of the players

929
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 6: we've talked about on the defense, how fortunate are all

930
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 6: of us to be able to coach guys like Denzel Award?

931
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 6: And again, not only the human being he is, but

932
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 6: the player is and all the amazing things he can

933
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 6: do on the field, and that goes for Denzel. I

934
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 6: could just keep naming them right across the board. This

935
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 6: defense is filled with great players and great humans.

936
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 3: Mike.

937
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 10: When you think about the development of young guys Carson

938
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 10: and then guys looking to take leaps like Alex, Right,

939
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 10: what's your philosophy? What can you do to maybe get

940
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 10: more out of these guys and take their name to

941
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 10: a different level.

942
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 6: For sure, I'm always gonna go with what they do well.

943
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 6: Like let's focus on what players and coaches do well.

944
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 19: First, I'm gonna get repetitive and you're gonna get annoyed.

945
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 6: Are we playing hard? Are we playing fast? We play violent?

946
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 6: We're playing smart? Right When I say play fast, guys,

947
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 6: that's playing smart. If we're smart, we play as fast

948
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 6: as humanly possible. Are we going after the ball. So

949
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 6: it's always going to be what we display our style.

950
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 6: For any player, Let's find out what they do well

951
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 6: and keep building on him, keep putting them in those

952
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 6: positions to do well. Same for us as coaches. Let's

953
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 6: put us in our scheme in positions to do well.

954
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 6: And if there are areas where we can improve, let's

955
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 6: make sure they coexist.

956
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 19: With the things they do well. Let's not focus on

957
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,959
Speaker 19: anything that we're not doing well. It's not worth it.

958
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 19: It's negative. Let's go positive and keep building on all

959
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 19: the great things that they.

960
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 6: Do well, whether it's tape walk through drills, themselves doing it,

961
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 6: perhaps somebody else doing it, perhaps somebody on our team

962
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 6: doing it, and just keep building on the positives work.

963
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 8: What makes you trust that Todd Bunkan is the guy

964
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 8: who can turn this franchise.

965
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: In the right direction.

966
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 19: Well, I'm going to tell you exactly what makes me

967
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 19: trust him.

968
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 6: I've known him really well for two weeks now, and

969
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 6: that guy is the right guy for this job. He

970
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 6: is an incredible human, an incredible leader. In two weeks,

971
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 6: great wisdom already deals with solutions, which is awesome.

972
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 19: And then I'll think I need to.

973
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 6: Talk about how good he is as an offensive coach,

974
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 6: because we've seen that so I've been able to see it.

975
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 19: I'm forever grateful to Coach Monk.

976
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 6: We've had some times where we've just sat together and

977
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 6: hung out and I've learned a ton from I cannot

978
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 6: wait to work with him.

979
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 14: For him, one of the things about the rookie season

980
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 14: that Carson sweeshes your band, And how do you feel

981
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 14: about having a guy like that?

982
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 16: To see your green sticker guy on the field?

983
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,280
Speaker 19: Really lucky again?

984
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 6: Yeah again, like this defense, We're going to build on

985
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 6: all the strengths that they have, and we're gonna make

986
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 6: it ours and we're going to find out where they

987
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 6: want to get better, where they think they can get better,

988
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 6: where they want to take certain things. He's gonna be

989
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 6: a very collaborative effort. Carson is unique. He can do

990
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 6: it all. Let's build on the great things that he does,

991
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 6: keep putting him in those positions and help him take

992
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 6: his game to another level.

993
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 11: One of the things that anybody who's word of you

994
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 11: said is just that, like how passionate you are.

995
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 8: I think we're obviously seen some of that today as well.

996
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 19: Damn, let me sit there.

997
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 11: Why is it so important to you to bring that

998
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 11: passion every day in the way that you coach and

999
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 11: players especially?

1000
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 19: Yeah, I don't know any other way.

1001
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 6: My dad always told me, I have a steel chin,

1002
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 6: Chin up, have a steel chin chin, take your shots

1003
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 6: and keep going.

1004
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 19: Be a drill bit. So you just go, you just go,

1005
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 19: you just go, and we go with positive energy. It's real. Now,

1006
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 19: it's honest, it's fair, but it's gonna be.

1007
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 6: Positive, bringing swag, bringing celebrations. And everybody, in my opinion,

1008
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 6: wants to be told they did well.

1009
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 19: That's human nature. So let's tell people we did well.

1010
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 6: But at the same time, when it's time to address

1011
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 6: certain things that need to get better, let's show them

1012
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 6: how good they were, and let's take them there as players,

1013
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 6: coaches and all of us.

1014
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 19: And that's just the only way I know how to be.

1015
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 19: I wonder if my kids think the same way. I

1016
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 19: don't think, So.

1017
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 3: Let's sprint football.

1018
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 19: I wasn't very good at football.

1019
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 6: I really wanted to play D three football and ice hockey.

1020
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 6: It's all I wanted to do, and that was my dream.

1021
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 6: And one day my dad clipped out a roster. I

1022
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 6: believe it was Middlebury College, but I can't remember. And

1023
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 6: there were not a lot of dudes from Maryland on

1024
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 6: that roster. Let's just say there weren't a lot of

1025
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 6: guys from the United States on that roster. So my

1026
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 6: hockey dreams of college went away pretty fast, and I

1027
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 6: was hoping to play D three football. I was fortunate

1028
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 6: to get into Cornell, and then I learned about lightweight football,

1029
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 6: and you can tell my personality.

1030
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 19: I saw it and just dove right into it and

1031
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 19: that was it right there.

1032
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 6: And there's other stories that go into it about not

1033
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 6: being very good and winning the most improved.

1034
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 19: A word too many times and getting hurt.

1035
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 6: But I just tried to be as physical and smart

1036
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 6: as I could because I didn't really have the athletic ability,

1037
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 6: but I was gonna bring the energy.

1038
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: Finally, special teams coordinator Byron Storer gave his thoughts on

1039
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: how to revive the return game here in Cleveland.

1040
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 9: Oh hey, I just want to say first off is uh,

1041
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 9: I'm so excited to be here in Cleveland. Every coach

1042
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 9: I've talked to that I've come around has spoken extremely

1043
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 9: highly of Cleveland and their experience here. They were they

1044
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 9: ranked it as one of their top spots. And that's

1045
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 9: no bs SO and the Browns organization. I'm truly honored

1046
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 9: and privileged to be in this part of this organization

1047
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 9: as a coach in this organization. I'm really excited about

1048
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 9: the players. There's the guys that I am going to

1049
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 9: work with that I'm pretty excited about. And it's you know,

1050
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 9: Andre Schmidt and Rex Sanahara and guys like Winston Reed

1051
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 9: and Nate Watson and Easton Macarane, Arnold and Donovan McMillan

1052
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 9: and Chris Edmonds and Aiden Huntington and Malechai Corley and

1053
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 9: Gage Larbonda. And I don't think I'm forgett any of them,

1054
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 9: but those are some of the guys I'm pumped up

1055
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,240
Speaker 9: about the coaching staff.

1056
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: I got.

1057
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 9: I get a chance to learn from a lot of

1058
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 9: new faces. I don't have a lot of experience with

1059
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 9: the guys on staff, so it's an opportunity for me

1060
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 9: to learn from those guys, so that pumps me up.

1061
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 9: And then I also want to mention my assistant, Keith Tandy.

1062
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 9: Super excited to work with Keith. He played for seven

1063
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 9: years in the NFL and he's going on his seventh

1064
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 9: year coaching, so I'm pretty excited about him and having

1065
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 9: him with me. He's a huge resource for me. He's

1066
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 9: been in multiple different systems, so I'm fired up about Keith.

1067
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,280
Speaker 9: And and then the fan base. Now I've been around

1068
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 9: town a little bit and learning the areas, and you know,

1069
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 9: I get a feeling from the people I've talked to

1070
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 9: that the fan base here is pretty special and I'm

1071
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 9: coming from Green Bay Packers and the fans are pretty

1072
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 9: special there too, but this is a different feel for me.

1073
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 9: I think the dog Pound now is pretty strong here.

1074
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 9: I can feel it already, but you know, really, I

1075
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 9: the next thing I want to say is just thank

1076
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 9: you to Todd Monkin, Andrew Berry, the Haslam family. It's

1077
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 9: you know, it's a for them to have the trust

1078
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 9: and faith in me to run their special teams. That

1079
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 9: means a lot to me. And lastly, but not least,

1080
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 9: I also want to thank my my wife Ashley, and

1081
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 9: my three daughters, Benny, Lulu and gal Uh for their

1082
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 9: unconditional love and support. So with that, any questions you

1083
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 9: have for me, I'll take them at this time.

1084
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 17: What do you see as the commedian pressing needs for

1085
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 17: you guys to.

1086
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 21: Get specialties to turn around here so you can get

1087
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 21: asset to the rest of your team.

1088
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 9: You know, I thought about that question, so I'm glad

1089
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 9: you asked it. The thing about I think the ask

1090
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 9: the the the building blocks are here, the foundation of

1091
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 9: players is here. So like I said, those players that

1092
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 9: I named off I'm really excited about and I think that.

1093
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 19: Really for me.

1094
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 9: It's about starting building a really strong foundation of techniques

1095
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 9: and fundamentals, Like we're going to master the basics.

1096
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 19: We're gonna be.

1097
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 9: Fundamentally and tech technically sound, and then we'll build from

1098
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 9: there and then you know, so it goes by a

1099
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 9: phase now so to be you know, we'll start with

1100
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 9: coverage and we'll drill that down, and then we'll go

1101
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 9: to pump protection, drill that down, return phases, drill that down.

1102
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 9: So it's just gonna be a lot of drill work

1103
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 9: to start and mastering techniques and fundamentals and then going

1104
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,760
Speaker 9: from there. But in terms of the players, I believe

1105
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 9: in a lot of the Like when I went through

1106
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 9: the interview process, I got fired up about the players

1107
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 9: that we have here, and then we're gonna obviously going

1108
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 9: to add more as we go through free agency and

1109
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 9: in the draft. So for me, it's about mastering the basics.

1110
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 18: Yeah, thats rich as rich had on you.

1111
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 3: You've been with him since all the way back as

1112
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 3: a player in Tampa.

1113
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 18: Just how has he sort of molded you and as

1114
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 18: a coach in your philosophy towards question?

1115
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, rich it starts and ends with rich. Now,

1116
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 9: I spent ten years as a coach for rich As

1117
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 9: his assistant, and I spent three years as a player

1118
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 9: for Rich. So everything I really know starts with Rich.

1119
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 9: And one thing about Rich is that he is a

1120
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 9: master and making connections with players, and he is a

1121
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 9: total the best leader of men that I've ever been around.

1122
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 9: So first and foremost, he taught me how to be

1123
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 9: a leader and how to connect with players, because it's

1124
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 9: all about the players. And the other thing about Rich

1125
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 9: is Rich. Now, when I first got with him, he

1126
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 9: was he does everything by hand. Now he drew all

1127
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 9: of his stuff and the first way I helped him

1128
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 9: was just put all of his stuff on a computer.

1129
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 9: And then that was the first thing I did, just

1130
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 9: you know, helping him get his scout report on computer

1131
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 9: to playbook on computer. And as I went through that,

1132
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 9: I read all of his notes. You know, I took

1133
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 9: copious amount of notes in his meetings, and I transferred

1134
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 9: all that into a playbook and scouting report. And then

1135
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 9: as I got further along the line with Rich, he

1136
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:33,479
Speaker 9: let me run drills and run meetings and then put

1137
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 9: a practice plan together, put an install plan together, evaluate players.

1138
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 9: And so I think it all came to a head

1139
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 9: really in twenty twenty one when he became the interim

1140
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 9: head coach. That's when I really got a chance to

1141
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 9: see what this job really is because he was the

1142
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 9: head coach now. So I took on a lot of

1143
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 9: responsibility from Rich during that time in terms of getting

1144
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,280
Speaker 9: in front of the team, presenting the keys to victory,

1145
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 9: you know, putting the plan together a script, and practice

1146
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 9: coaching every day, making the corrections on in the meeting room.

1147
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,720
Speaker 9: So I feel like that experience with Rich in twenty

1148
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 9: twenty one, and then Matt Lafleur did a great job

1149
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 9: too of giving the opportunity to get in front of

1150
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 9: the team and presenting in front of the team some

1151
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 9: of the things we do a ball meeting every wed

1152
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 9: We did a ball meeting every week, So he give

1153
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 9: me the opportunity to get in front of the guys.

1154
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 9: And then, you know, being with Rich for over ten years,

1155
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 9: little things would come up and I I think last

1156
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 9: year we had kidney stones on a Friday and we

1157
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 9: found out at like five am. It's like we didn't

1158
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 9: blink an eye, just hopped in there and ran the

1159
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 9: meeting and got ready for practice. And then Rich, who's

1160
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 9: a stud, made it back from practice. So really, everything

1161
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 9: I know is from Rich And that's that's all I

1162
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 9: have to say about that.

1163
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 15: Screen day.

1164
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 9: I mean, did you know.

1165
00:53:58,440 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 4: That was coming down?

1166
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 14: And you ever think about maybe bringing him here as

1167
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 14: it's like a senior stept running from here?

1168
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 9: Well, I would, Yeah, That's the first thing I asked

1169
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 9: him after he resigned from Green Bay. I said, does

1170
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 9: that mean I get to bring you bring you in

1171
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 9: as my consultant?

1172
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 11: No.

1173
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 9: I think Rich actually took a job at Clemson, if

1174
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 9: I'm not mistaken. He did mention it to me, and

1175
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 9: it was kind of excuse me. It was kind of

1176
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 9: after I had already got the job in Cleveland, and

1177
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 9: he kind of said, you know, this is I'm thinking

1178
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 9: about retiring. And he's like, what do you think? And

1179
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 9: and I just said, you know what, coach going through

1180
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 9: the process here in Cleveland and uh, you know and

1181
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 9: getting to know Todd Monkin and Andrew Berry and uh,

1182
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 9: you know, Cleveland's where I want to be. And so,

1183
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 9: you know, he did let me know about that, but

1184
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 9: I didn't know for sure if he was to do

1185
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 9: it or not. You know, it was kind of like

1186
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 9: in passing, like this is what I'm thinking. But you know,

1187
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 9: he went back to work, so I thought, you know,

1188
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 9: he's going to go back and running.

1189
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 3: Back another year.

1190
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 9: So but I'm Rich, wish Rich all the best. We

1191
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 9: stay in touch, we talk all the time, and so

1192
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 9: I always have him as a guy that I can

1193
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 9: call at any point in time and ask questions.

1194
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 6: Okay, a special teams coach now community help a kicker

1195
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 6: or a punter when.

1196
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 13: They get into a sub who you haven't done yet?

1197
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 9: Okay, So I'm not a kid can coach as I'll

1198
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 9: tell you guys that first and foremost. But one thing

1199
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 9: I'd like to do is I really study the player. Okay,

1200
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 9: study the player, and I ask him a ton of

1201
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 9: questions okay, and we we get together and decide, Okay,

1202
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 9: this is what it should look like, this is what

1203
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 9: it should look like. And he it's from him telling

1204
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 9: me this is what it should look like, this is

1205
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 9: how I should this is the contact I'm looking for,

1206
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 9: or this is the finish I'm looking forward. This is

1207
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 9: how I should hold the ball, or this is how

1208
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 9: my foot should be, my angle, my approach, angles all

1209
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 9: those different things. He tells me what's good, okay, how

1210
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 9: it should look when things are when he gets the

1211
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 9: results that he wants, and then I hold him to

1212
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 9: that standard. So that's what I do, you know, And

1213
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 9: then if they're I'm not opposed to.

1214
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 19: Them.

1215
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 9: If they a lot of these guys already have kicking

1216
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 9: coaches already, so if they want to talk to their

1217
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 9: kicking coach, I have no problem with that.

1218
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 13: Just reading your bio, was curious about those handful of

1219
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 13: years you stepped away from coaching and went back to

1220
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 13: your family business, Like, how did that like change your

1221
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 13: life and taking that sort of sabbatical and when you

1222
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 13: came back, how it's different.

1223
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 9: Okay, So my story was, you know, I talked to

1224
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 9: Dan about this earlier. I said, I don't want to

1225
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 9: get too long winded with this if I have to

1226
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,760
Speaker 9: talk about it. But so I played three years, okay,

1227
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 9: and my career ended two knee injuries. And so I

1228
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 9: went up to Riches and coach Rich massage his office

1229
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 9: and I said, hey, coach, just want to let you know,

1230
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 9: thank you for the opportunity. It's probably the reason why

1231
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 9: I'm here is because of you. So and I'm going

1232
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 9: to go business school, you know, I might go work

1233
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 9: for the family business. And Rich said, hold on, hold on,

1234
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 9: what do you think about coaching? You know, and so

1235
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 9: I got straight into coach, like the in Tampa Bay.

1236
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 9: I finished playing the year that I was on IR,

1237
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 9: I started writing the write ups on players and like,

1238
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 9: so I wouldn't go on the field and coach at all,

1239
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 9: but I do like evaluations of our opponents and give

1240
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 9: them to Rich and he would give them to the players.

1241
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 9: So I went into that. Got a coaching job the

1242
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 9: next year in twenty ten, and then I had gone

1243
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 9: four years coaching. But you have to understand, like I

1244
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 9: come from a fourth generation bus family. Okay, my great

1245
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 9: grandfather started a bus company in nineteen fifty two. Okay,

1246
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 9: So like none of my family coaches, Okay, So that

1247
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 9: in my vision of like what I was going to

1248
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,919
Speaker 9: do with my life, coaching was never what I saw

1249
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 9: for myself.

1250
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 19: And so.

1251
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 9: My dad came to me in twenty thirteen. The twenty

1252
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 9: thirteen season, we had a good year. I was in

1253
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 9: at the San Diego Chargers, coaching on defense, actually as

1254
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 9: an assistant linebackers coach under Joe Berry and John Pagano.

1255
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 9: Mike McCoy was the head coach, and my dad came

1256
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 9: to me and said, I'm opening a brand new branch

1257
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 9: of the business in San Francisco and it had been

1258
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 9: based in Medesto, California for a you know, forever, And

1259
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 9: so he's I'm opening this new branch of the business.

1260
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 9: Do you want to come help me? And so I

1261
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 9: thought about it all throughout the season, and then, you know,

1262
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 9: we ended up getting knocked out in the division round

1263
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 9: of playoffs by the Denver Broncos, and so he I

1264
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 9: ended up saying, Okay, I'm going to do it. So

1265
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 9: I went and did it, and my dad made me

1266
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 9: start as a shop assistant, would be a safety officer.

1267
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 9: I got my license, I got a STAB certificate I

1268
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 9: got I became a commuter shuttle contract manager for Apple

1269
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 9: and Google. I became the operations manager and the general

1270
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 9: manager in four years time. And I really had no

1271
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 9: experience whatsoever in the bus business besides washing buses. Uh so, uh,

1272
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 9: it was a learning experience. And the cool thing about

1273
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 9: the bus business is that like the bus business is

1274
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 9: exactly like coaching and the fact that it's all about

1275
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 9: the drivers. Coaching is all about the players. Bus business

1276
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 9: all about the drivers. So it was, it was It

1277
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 9: was a good transition in that way, but it was

1278
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 9: a total learning experience with and in a lesson and

1279
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 9: real world managing of people, all different kinds of people,

1280
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 9: single mothers and guys who have multiple jobs, and so

1281
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 9: it was. It was a really big learning experience that

1282
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 9: I that I cherished and I'm really glad I did it.

1283
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:02,919
Speaker 9: And how I got back was Rich Coach Gruden got

1284
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 9: the job at the Raiders. Coach Gruden went to Rich

1285
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 9: and said, you can have any assistant you want. Who

1286
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 9: do you want? And Rich said, Byron Store. So that's

1287
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 9: how I got back in. And that's ultimately, after about

1288
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 9: one or two years in the bus business, I was like,

1289
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 9: I knew that I wanted to be a coach, and

1290
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 9: so I'd always stay in touch with Rich.

1291
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 3: And so.

1292
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 9: When the opportunity present itself, I had to have a

1293
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 9: really tough conversation with my dad, you know, because once

1294
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 9: you get in the family business, already get out. But

1295
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 9: I think it hopefully I made the right decision.

1296
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 5: So the Brown's return game has been kind of dormant

1297
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 5: for years. Without studying why that was, and without studying

1298
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 5: your players, how would you answer how you can revive

1299
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 5: the return game?

1300
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 9: Really, I think that the most important thing for me

1301
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 9: is putting players and positions to succeed. And I think

1302
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 9: that whoever our returner is, I want to play to

1303
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 9: their strengths and also the strengths of our personnel that's

1304
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 9: available to us. So depending on who we have available

1305
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 9: available to us on game day, I'm going to play

1306
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 9: to our strengths in that in that way, so without

1307
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:20,919
Speaker 9: getting the logistics of who's going to be back there,

1308
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 9: but if so we have a guy that you know,

1309
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 9: uh the two guys that I have that we have

1310
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 9: now back there, Malachi Corley and Dylan Samson, and I

1311
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Speaker 9: feel pretty good about those guys. We're going to get vertical.

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Speaker 9: And and then we have Gage Larbndon, who's our put

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Speaker 9: returner or was last year. He's got a full year

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Speaker 9: of experience now, so I expect him to get better,

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Speaker 9: you know. And uh so there's things that are here

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Speaker 9: that we have to work with and if we decide

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Speaker 9: if we if a competition presents itself and people get

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Speaker 9: beat out, then that's probably what's best for the team.

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Speaker 12: The returner the focused on like that name versus the

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Speaker 12: guys around it.

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Speaker 19: In the scheme.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I mean the scheme is is big. But

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Speaker 9: when I talk about personnel wise, if you have you

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Speaker 9: don't have a ton of speed out there to work with,

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Speaker 9: then you may end up having to be more of

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Speaker 9: a rush unit, you know what I'm saying. But if

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Speaker 9: you have smaller guys that can run, now you got it,

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Speaker 9: maybe be more of a return team. So it just

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Speaker 9: depends on what you have to work with that dictates

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Speaker 9: how good you could be at something. But in terms

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Speaker 9: of you know, a scheme like and strategy of it all,

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Speaker 9: I feel very confident that we can come up with

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Speaker 9: any and all different types of return calls and blocking

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Speaker 9: schemes and all that stuff because we do a great

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Speaker 9: job of studying throughout the league what other people do,

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Speaker 9: what other people have success with. That's part of right now.

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Speaker 9: When you're doing you're doing self scout, you're doing free agency,

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Speaker 9: you're doing the draft, but you're also taking a look

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Speaker 9: at the top five units at every phase, so you're

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Speaker 9: you're also getting ideas for how you can improve the

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Speaker 9: return game by watching those people that did it really

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Speaker 9: well this year.

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Speaker 5: Without any real connections to the guys on the staff.

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Speaker 3: How did you get the job? How'd you get your

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01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 3: foot in the door? Was it through rich? I?

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Speaker 9: Honest to god, I I I've never met Todd Bunk

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01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 9: before I got here. I never met Todd monk In in

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01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 9: my life, never met Andrew Berry in my life. As

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Speaker 9: far as I know, they did not talk to Rich. Okay,

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Speaker 9: I I don't know for they. I mean I think

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01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 9: maybe they maybe Todd called Rich later down the line

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01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 9: once I had interviewed, But it's I don't know exactly

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01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 9: how it all came about how they got my name,

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01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 9: but uh yeah I had because when you get in

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01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 9: this profession, and for as long as I've been an assistant,

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01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 9: I kind of convinced myself like it's maybe it's about

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01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 9: more about who you know versus what you know. You

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01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 9: know what I'm saying, So that was kind of in

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01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 9: my mind, like, oh, I need to be make sure

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01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 9: you put a lot of pressure on yourself to make

1361
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 9: sure you make connections with all these different people and

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01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 9: people are coming up in the coaching world. But I

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01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 9: was able to get an interview with two guys that

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01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 9: I had never met in my life, and then they did.

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Speaker 9: I want to say to them, like the the interview

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01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 9: process that I had here was I believe second, and

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Speaker 9: I don't think I'll ever go through another interview process

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01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 9: like I did here. They I spent half a day

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01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 9: with coach Monkin, I spent a couple of hours with

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01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 9: Andrew Barry and his staff. They went through the entire

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01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 9: process after they called me after where they said they

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01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 9: thought I did a good job, but they had more

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01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 9: interviews to do and at the end of the day

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Speaker 9: they ended up picking me, and so I really do

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01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 9: respect the due diligence that they did. They called a

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Speaker 9: lot of people too. I got multiple text messs were like, Hey,

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01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 9: the Cleveland Browns reached out to me about you. Hey,

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01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 9: the Cleveland Browns reached I mean, it's pretty impressive that

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01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 9: they're going out there and looking for coaches and doing

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01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 9: their due diligence versus just hiring in their buddies, you

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01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 9: know what I'm saying.

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01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 12: So the new kickoff or of two years into this

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01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 12: thing and they've already there were some tweaks from year

1384
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 12: one to you tube, just how you've.

1385
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 11: Kind of seen that impact the game and change and

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01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 11: how have you guys sort of approached that in the

1387
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 11: past and some unique ways to you think it maybe

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01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 11: is most successful.

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, I love the play, I really do. It's the kickoff.

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01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 9: Kickoff return is back and that's good for special teams

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01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 9: coaches and it really honest, the first year that we

1392
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:43,959
Speaker 9: had it was twenty twenty four. I spent like all

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01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 9: summer drawing up all these different blocking schemes that I

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01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 9: thought were possible. So it's like really a great opportunity

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01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 9: for creativity on both sides because the objective on kickoff

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Speaker 9: is how do I create levels of coverage because you

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Speaker 9: had kickoff coverage in the past, like as you ran

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01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 9: down the field that there were they're naturally created levels

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Speaker 9: of coverage. So now you have to find a way

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Speaker 9: to create levels of coverage from five yards apart, you know.

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01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 9: And then on the reverse side of the things, you

1402
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 9: know now that the action happened so much faster, so

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01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 9: we had to come up with all these different types

1404
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 9: of blocks. We've named them different things, and we're basically

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Speaker 9: creating a whole new phase of the game. Like you know,

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01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 9: it's so long. Story short is that you know, I

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01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 9: I think that there is a lot of opportunity for

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 9: strategy and for creativity and innovation in this play, and

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Speaker 9: so we're going to explore all those options and we're

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01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 9: going to we're going to be We're not going to

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01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 9: give our opponents to anything, and we're going to play smart.

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Speaker 9: So that's really my philosophy when it comes to that

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Speaker 9: that phase.

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Speaker 17: Do you think the exercise that you did and spending

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01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 17: that whole summer drawing up all the blocking schemes for that,

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Speaker 17: do you think in this interview process that that was

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01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 17: a big selling point for you?

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Speaker 9: You know when you when you spend that summer, you know,

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01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 9: coming up with these out of the box thinking, Uh,

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01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 9: some of it is just you realize he's not going

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01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 9: to work, you know, because but there is a you know,

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01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 9: maybe five to ten percent of it that are are

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01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 9: it's possible to make happen. But you know early on

1424
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 9: what we did is just and this is how Rich

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01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 9: felt too, is keep it simple and so that the

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Speaker 9: players can feel good about getting their blocks and the

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01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 9: returner can feel good about where he's going to hit

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Speaker 9: the hole. But so, I mean, I think it did

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Speaker 9: teach me a lot about what all the different things

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Speaker 9: you could possibly do. Uh, but you know it is

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01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 9: all of it practical? Probably not, And I didn't bring

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Speaker 9: it up in the interview process.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, record be afraid and do you have to prepare?

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Speaker 12: Do you guys have to prepare that you might have

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01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 12: a young counter act here and what's that like?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Corey, We're still going through the process.

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01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 9: Like I said, we're looking at free agents, draft, doing

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Speaker 9: self scout, so we're totally doing a complete evaluation of

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01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:20,639
Speaker 9: the roster and looking what's out there, and so we're

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Speaker 9: still going through that process. The thing that I would

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01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 9: say is that, yeah, we're exploring all options. But I

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01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 9: do want to say though, that for Corey that I

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01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 9: respect the four years that he's been here and what

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01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 9: he's done here for the Cleveland Browns. And as I

1445
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 9: go through this building and I ask people about him,

1446
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 9: there's nothing but good things that they've said about him.

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01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 9: So I really respect the player.

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Speaker 3: All right. Number One in one of your units would

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01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 3: be coverage. The term.

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Speaker 9: I'd say, you know, it all starts with punt. It

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01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 9: all starts with punt, and so it's really pump protection

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01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:08,719
Speaker 9: and punt coverage that's where you start. So it's really

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01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 9: it's going to be coverage, but also protection, you know

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01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 9: with I think you're asking about coverage our return game, right,

1455
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 9: So I guess it would be coverage.

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01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 8: Okay, why do you say it all starts with punt?

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01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 9: It all starts with punt and the fact that that's

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01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:33,600
Speaker 9: to me, the most important phase there is and and

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Speaker 9: that's kind of where I start with my players too,

1460
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 9: is like where are they going to play on our

1461
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,839
Speaker 9: punt team? Are these guys going to be guards, tackles, wings,

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01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 9: personal protectors? Can they play outside? Because that's that If

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01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,680
Speaker 9: they can't play on punt, there's I'm probably not going

1464
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 9: to be fighting for them on game day. That's the truth.

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