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Speaker 1: Hi again, everybody. Jason Gibbs with you. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: From the Podium podcast, and coming up on the podcast

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Speaker 1: today you will hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski, defensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Aiden Huntington, wide receiver Gage Larvadan, and new kicker

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Speaker 1: Andre Schmidt. The Browns took to the practice field at

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Speaker 1: three point twenty. The final roster cut down for the

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Speaker 1: initial fifty three man roster had to be in by

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Speaker 1: four o'clock, so we obviously had a pretty good idea

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Speaker 1: who was in and who was out for the initial

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. Practice wrapped up around four fifteen

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and it kicked things off in the post

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Speaker 1: practice session with the head coach of your Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski.

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Speaker 2: Kevin's decision on Dustin, What did that ultimately come down to?

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Speaker 2: I mean, or was that something that you guys sort

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Speaker 2: of felt like? When did you sort of make that decision?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? First of all, these are tough decisions.

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Speaker 4: They're not easy, uh, And we work through these with

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Speaker 4: a lot of information and in this case, Andre has

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Speaker 4: done a really nice job. He really won that job

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Speaker 4: by by being very consistent. Really Dustin somebody that I

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Speaker 4: really admire as a person, admires a player, doesn't change

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Speaker 4: any of that how I feel about him. But really

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Speaker 4: felt good about the work that Andre's put into this

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Speaker 4: camp and really going on all the way back to

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Speaker 4: the spring.

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Speaker 5: I know it was a whole body of work for him,

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Speaker 5: But how important is that last field known?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think all of it matters, Tony.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it's hard to replicate a game winner, as you know,

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Speaker 4: so it all matters. I think the big big thing

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Speaker 4: about these decisions is these are ongoing evaluations that we

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Speaker 4: try to take in as much information as possible. And

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Speaker 4: that's going back to work that we did in the spring,

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Speaker 4: work that we certainly did in the summer. But to

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Speaker 4: your point, uh, Tho, those are moments in in football

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Speaker 4: games and uh where you want.

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Speaker 3: To come through for your team and and Andre did?

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Speaker 6: What about Andre?

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Speaker 7: Just the fact that it's never kicked in an NFL game, Like, like,

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Speaker 7: how do you go about evaluating that body.

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Speaker 4: Of working at until you've done something? You haven't done

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Speaker 4: it type of thing. So, UH have a ton of

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Speaker 4: confidence in him. Uh, He's a young man that's been

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Speaker 4: through a lot, uh and we trust him can they just.

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Speaker 5: Final Now in retrospect, how important was it for you

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Speaker 5: to set that up? The Huntly thing and and and

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Speaker 5: then to set up that pressure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish I was that talented Tony. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I I guess it goes back to this is

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Speaker 4: a evaluation that is ongoing and it it encompasses a

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Speaker 4: lot of things.

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Speaker 8: Kill it would have went into the trade for cann

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Speaker 8: You thinket and what does that make me say about

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Speaker 8: the faith that you have in your your bookie quarterbacks

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Speaker 8: to back up to this year?

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm honestly those uh type of things you

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Speaker 4: can't predict them, and got a strong offer for Kenny.

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Speaker 4: Kenny's a guy I think very highly of and and

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Speaker 4: so do so do they. So I wish him well.

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Speaker 4: He's a great person, he's a really good football player.

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Speaker 4: But those are the type of decisions that you have

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Speaker 4: to make on who will back up the John Dylan

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Speaker 4: will be the backup you have.

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Speaker 9: A Bret might be the wrong word, but that Kenny

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Speaker 9: didn't really get a chance because of that intery.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, definitely disappointed for Kenny uh in that he

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Speaker 4: was out for all that time. Like I told you guys,

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Speaker 4: he performed well prior to that, remained engaged all throughout

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Speaker 4: that So disappointed for him, but he's a you know,

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Speaker 4: somebody that I think very highly.

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Speaker 3: Could you reassure your.

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Speaker 5: Fans that there will be will be more than two

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Speaker 5: running backs on this team.

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Speaker 3: There will be more than two running backs on this team.

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Speaker 10: Ken with the decision to treat Kenny, how much of

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Speaker 10: that is it impacted by Dylan giving you the trust

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Speaker 10: that he can be once never waving.

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Speaker 3: To get some bread.

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Speaker 4: I think you factor in everything, Scott, Truly, you look

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Speaker 4: at it from a bunch of different angles. So certainly

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Speaker 4: we made the decision and feel comfortable with Dylan serving

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Speaker 11: Michael saw Michael and asked his physical what does that mean?

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Speaker 12: You know?

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Speaker 6: And when can he start field?

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Speaker 4: He's I don't know the exact day that he's gonna

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Speaker 4: be back out here. I mean he's doing great. I

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Speaker 4: got to watch him work out yesterday. He looks really good.

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Speaker 4: He's he's right where he needs to be. Uh and

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Speaker 4: he's he's worked extremely hard in this rehab. So I'm

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Speaker 4: excited about where he is. And we'll see where he

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Speaker 7: I know it's a body of work for Dylan going

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Speaker 7: all the way back to when we first got in here.

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Speaker 7: But did that two minute drive at the end of

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Speaker 7: that game sort of convince you that you guys could

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Speaker 7: cart ways with Kenny?

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Speaker 4: You know, it kind of goes back to the previous discussion.

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Speaker 4: It's it's such a all encompassing evaluation. So everything the

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Speaker 4: guys did in and the games was important. We also

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Speaker 4: saw a lot of them out here in practice and

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Speaker 3: Their craft, and he's certainly somebody that that we think

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Speaker 9: You're in the business of winning games, not so much

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Speaker 9: in the feel good stories, but you have one engagement

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Speaker 9: the Martin way he was able to, you know, make

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Speaker 9: this team. Just what have you seen from him and

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Speaker 9: just what does it say about him? And also the

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Speaker 9: organization that you know, this guy's able to make an

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think there's examples every year, and Gauge is certainly

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Speaker 4: a great example of guys that maybe come in and

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Speaker 4: aren't as highly touted and you're undrafted sometimes or you're

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Speaker 4: at a tryout sometimes, and there's guys that have been

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Speaker 4: through different things in their collegiate career. And the beauty

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Speaker 4: of this sport is that you get guys here and

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Speaker 4: they make plays, and you can watch a guy develop

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Speaker 4: and he's somebody really from a jump that has made

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Speaker 4: plays in every practice, in every game, So we're excited

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Speaker 4: for him. He's a quiet kid, works very very very hard,

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Speaker 3: Better, so that those are the type of kids that

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Speaker 3: you're rooting for.

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Speaker 9: You and as a coach and your staff, do not

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Speaker 13: That when you have ninety guys.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about skill.

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Speaker 4: I think for me, Jeff, there's so much practice time,

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Speaker 4: there's so many meetings, there's so many times to evaluate

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Speaker 4: our players. And sometimes when you see a guy that

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Speaker 3: It's cemments.

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Speaker 4: What may be your evaluation of the player, Kevin, who

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Speaker 4: did the fact that Deshaun Watson is coming along really

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Speaker 4: well in his rehab, how did that factor into maybe

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Speaker 4: you guys feeling comfortable with letting Kenny go.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't comment to say or that, Mary Kay, Deshaun's

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Speaker 4: doing awesome. I mean, he's doing great. I'm excited for him.

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Speaker 4: I get to watch him work out as well. I

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Speaker 5: How much I say several influence you have with the

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Speaker 5: practice squad, Like can you tell Andrew I need two running.

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Speaker 3: Back because I need some work? I mean, we see

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Speaker 3: it very similarly, Tony.

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Speaker 4: We have those conversations of what do we feel like

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Speaker 4: we need to to have the best practice squad where

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Speaker 4: you can get your work done on the field, but

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Speaker 4: also you have developmental guys, so we're we're in lockstep

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Speaker 3: Kevin, how big is this.

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Speaker 2: Kind of gap week between the end of the preseason

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Speaker 2: of allow guys like you know, you Ethan or Blake

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Speaker 2: immediacy of a game coming.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, having this week and then going into the weekend

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Speaker 4: with the time off is helpful with injuries and guys

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Speaker 4: getting fresh over the weekend. But we view this week

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Speaker 4: as an opportunity for us to get sharp as a

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Speaker 4: that's in our fundamentals. So the guys are working very

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Speaker 4: hard yesterday, today, We'll have a couple more days out

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Speaker 4: here this week. So this is a big week for

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Speaker 10: We talked about Aiden an Engage earlier. What stood out

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Speaker 10: about Easton, Domindanovan, a couple of other undrafted guys that

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Speaker 3: To stick out enough to make it. It's been a

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Speaker 4: It's been a really impressive rookie class in terms of

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Speaker 4: their preparedness, their professionalism. Each one of those guys kind

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Speaker 4: have been trustworthy. We've put them in some tough spots

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Speaker 5: Given Schmid's inexperience, you think it'd be wise, pricial squad

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Speaker 5: kicker working through all those things.

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Speaker 8: What about Giant was he someone that was that a

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Speaker 8: tough decision for you guys, considering he.

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Speaker 11: Was a bulbul receiver.

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Speaker 4: There are all tough decisions. I really like Heay. I

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Speaker 4: was impressed with the work that he put in. These

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Speaker 4: at her Okay, yeah, the expectation that SAMs movie started

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Speaker 3: We'll see. Yeah. I like the group we got.

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Speaker 11: Is there any update on Twinch on Jolkins?

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Speaker 3: No update? Good? Okay, thank you guys, appreciate it. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Up next, defensive lineman and phenom from the preseason, who

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Speaker 1: worked his way from undrafted rookie free agent to a

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Speaker 1: member of the initial fifty three man roster. He's one

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Speaker 1: of our favorites. Here's defensive lineman Aiden Huntington.

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Speaker 3: The team.

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Speaker 8: Uh, it's a blessing, you know, overall, it's a you know,

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Speaker 8: it's just a great feeling. It's like I said, it's

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Speaker 8: just a blessing to come out here that had opportunity

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Speaker 8: to not only play football but hopefully helped the team

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Speaker 8: win games.

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Speaker 3: Who was the first people I get told the reaction?

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Speaker 8: Actually a lot of people told me, Uh, I really,

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Speaker 8: I really didn't know. After the game, people send me

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Speaker 8: the screenshot, I really didn't know if it was real

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Speaker 8: you know, hysterical, she was crying, and then uh, I

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Speaker 8: really wasn't even on social media. Then I got on

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Speaker 8: Twitter right after the game, and then I saw the

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Speaker 8: video and I just I just had to hit my

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Speaker 8: for the blessing.

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Speaker 1: How about, uh, the opportunity you forget to play some

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Speaker 6: What kinds of things can you do there?

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Speaker 3: And how cool is that?

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Speaker 8: I just think the opportunities, like you said, it's just opportunity.

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Speaker 8: I just like to play football. I played full back

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Speaker 8: high school, in college, and then you know, have an

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Speaker 8: You know a big thing for me is just you know,

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Speaker 5: Did you have other offers to to sign after the draft?

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Speaker 8: Make sure that I stay in Cleveland, not just not

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Speaker 9: How doesn't such a close to the best type of

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Speaker 9: So what did it mean to you that after that

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Speaker 13: Like I said, it's a blessing.

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Speaker 8: You know, when God's able to work through you and

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Speaker 13: It just was a blessing.

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Speaker 3: Did your phone blow up after that game?

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Speaker 13: It's just beginning. So whatever I did to get here,

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Speaker 8: To continue to do that, And that doesn't matter if

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Speaker 6: It looked like you were posted.

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Speaker 8: down there and he and he actually blessed me. He

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Speaker 8: blessed me. I had opportunity, like I said, to stay

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Speaker 8: at his house, got up, worked out, and I got

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Speaker 8: to had a full the full Miles Garrett experience.

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Speaker 14: So manyd linemen pride themselves and putting Miles on on

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Speaker 14: their bag of past rush moves and created or unique

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Speaker 14: to them.

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Speaker 7: What does that look like for you?

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Speaker 14: What are you hoping to add to your bagg er

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Speaker 14: develop now that you have made this team.

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Speaker 8: I'll just say for myself just sharpening my saw. You know,

455
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Speaker 8: I gotta sharpen my saw every day. I just gotta

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Speaker 8: continue to work on my process. You know, it's not

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Speaker 8: really about adding different moves. It's just about, just like

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Speaker 8: I said, sharpen thing the moves that got me here.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 8: If that's uh the power and that's a cross chop,

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Speaker 8: if that's an inside move, and it's about you know,

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Speaker 8: Coach Jock and uh Amo continue developed me as into

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Speaker 8: a player, cause I'm not a finished product that I

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Speaker 8: still have years and years and years to go to

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Speaker 8: the places I wanna get to and the man I

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Speaker 8: wanna be in a football player I wanna be. So

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Speaker 8: I have to dive deep into what they're telling me,

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Speaker 8: working on my pad level, working on my hip rotation,

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Speaker 8: and just being humble enough to hear that and not

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Speaker 8: and not have any pride in being like, well what

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Speaker 8: I did before works, But I just gotta.

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Speaker 13: Continue to grow. I have to continue to get better

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Speaker 13: and work on that.

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Speaker 3: And you guy ask one more follow up, Crusn real quick.

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Speaker 3: I'd stay with myles.

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Speaker 13: Was this just like you and Miles in.

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Speaker 4: Some kind of a hons or townhouse or is this

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Speaker 4: his parents house?

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Speaker 3: Nah?

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Speaker 13: That l Yes, this this he blessed. You know, he

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Speaker 13: had to.

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Speaker 8: I had the opportunity stay at his house, and you know,

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Speaker 8: like I said, it just was a it was a blessing.

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Speaker 13: You know, he didn't have to do that.

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Speaker 8: You know, like I told him after, I'm forever and

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Speaker 8: debted to you, I'm grateful for this opportunity cause, like

487
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Speaker 8: I said, I'm gonna draft the rookie. He didn't know

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Speaker 8: me but from three days of a mandatory mini camp

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Speaker 8: and he let me come out there train with him.

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Speaker 8: So and I was blessed. It had that opportunity eating.

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Speaker 2: Your uh your past from Kent State to Ulm to Tulane.

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Speaker 2: How did those kind of you know, stepping.

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Speaker 3: Out of your talking about starting your comfort zone.

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Speaker 2: You know, oh some people would just stayed at right

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Speaker 2: the kind or you know, but you kept sort of

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Speaker 2: climbing the ladder trying to pursue more. How much did

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Speaker 2: that sort of require a little you know, kind of a.

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Speaker 15: Leap of faith as well?

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Speaker 8: I think every every every every uh time I hit

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Speaker 8: the portal, that was me stepping out my comfort zone.

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Speaker 8: I coulda stayed at Kent State and and maybe I'm

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Speaker 8: not the man I am now you know, maybe I

503
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Speaker 8: didn't become the player I wanted to be, but me

504
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Speaker 8: stepping out on faith and me telling my dad like,

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Speaker 8: look this, I think I outgrew this opportunity. I think

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Speaker 8: I need to go somewhere else. I went to I

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Speaker 8: went to Monroe, Louisiana. I'm I'm from Virginia. That's seventeen

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Speaker 8: hours away from home. I remember I took I took

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Speaker 8: about three Duffel bags. I hopped on the flight, I

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Speaker 8: bought my ticket, and I went to Monroe, Louisiana. And

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Speaker 8: that's how I started. I remember being in being in

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Speaker 8: the apartment in my place, and and every day I'm

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Speaker 8: just getting Amazon package just growing and growing and growing.

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Speaker 8: So me having to step out out of my comfort

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Speaker 8: zone and and really you know, build my own foundation there.

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Speaker 8: And then just leaving Ulm too at a place where

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Speaker 8: I you know, made my name for myself, and then

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Speaker 8: going to New Orleans, going in Tulane, going into a

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Speaker 8: different scheme. I mean that's really just you know, they

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Speaker 8: just tested me, you know, testing me mentally, spiritually, uh physically,

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Speaker 8: and I had a lot of ups and downs. But uh,

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Speaker 8: if I didn't go through a lot of those things

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Speaker 8: and a lot of those adverse times, then I wouldn't

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Speaker 8: be standing here right now.

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Speaker 3: And then you talked.

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Speaker 6: About playing with a relentless effort.

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Speaker 13: Where do you sort of think.

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Speaker 16: Along the way of your career you sort of developed

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Speaker 16: that mentality?

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Speaker 13: You know, was it when you were younger playing football?

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Speaker 6: Wasn't row all these different stops you made?

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Speaker 8: Just how did you kind up go the bab Well,

533
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Speaker 8: my dad really had told me. He was like, he

534
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Speaker 8: was like, you gotta chase the ball down. You gotta

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Speaker 8: chase the ball down. And I'm like and and I'm like, nah,

536
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Speaker 8: you know cause I really didn't chase the ball. And

537
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Speaker 8: then you do it one time and it's and they're like, yo,

538
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Speaker 8: that's different, and then that just becomes who you are.

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Speaker 8: D like for myself, I I see ball, I get ball.

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Speaker 8: I gotta I gotta go hit somebody. I if I'm

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Speaker 8: out on that football field, I'm I'm itching. I'm really

542
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Speaker 8: itching to hit somebody. I'm really I'm I just wanna

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Speaker 8: make an impact whenever I can and however I can.

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Speaker 13: That's why I love running down on kickoff. I love

545
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Speaker 13: running down on punt.

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Speaker 8: If I see the ball carrier, if he's if if

547
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Speaker 8: I see him in open space, I'm praying he cuts back.

548
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Speaker 8: I just need that opportunity, you know, just to hit somebody.

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Speaker 8: So you know, that relentless effort, you know it was

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Speaker 8: it was instilled in me for my dad. And then

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Speaker 8: I just took it and I just ran. Literally, I

552
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Speaker 8: just ran with it under street sacked.

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Speaker 11: You uh say you like to have seatball hit ball

554
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Speaker 11: of what is that.

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Speaker 9: Going through your head when you see quarterbacks right.

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Speaker 3: In front of you d be sacked?

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Speaker 13: I said, oh, yeah, he can't get away.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: I I had a couple QB hits throughout the preseason

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Speaker 8: and I had to win against the Eagles, and I

561
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Speaker 8: was upset cause I felt like he got away.

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Speaker 13: And you know, coach Jock always talks about our finish.

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Speaker 8: You gotta finish to the quarterback that the last two

564
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Speaker 8: steps of your rush is the most important. Is to

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Speaker 8: finish sacks, get you paid. You know, I tell myself

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Speaker 8: every sack of d Tacle gets is worth two point

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Speaker 8: five million.

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Speaker 13: So I have to get those sacks.

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Speaker 8: I have to stack them sacks up, and you know

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Speaker 8: it's not about money, but I gotta get them sacks.

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Speaker 8: That's the opportunity, you know, that's I can't leave money

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Speaker 8: out on the field, cause that could change a game,

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Speaker 8: that could change the opportunity, and that could flip momentum positively.

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Speaker 13: For the team. What is your dad's name? Uh, David,

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Speaker 13: David Huntington.

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Speaker 3: Nah.

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Speaker 13: He he like to say he could have, but nah nah.

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Speaker 8: But you know if without his jeans, without him and

579
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Speaker 8: my mom's jeans, you know, I wouldn't be here right now.

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Speaker 8: So I'm blessed good anything. Alright, thank y'all. Nice to

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Speaker 8: meet y'alls.

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Speaker 1: On the From the Podium podcast another one of our favorites.

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Speaker 1: He was on Cleveland Browns Daily last week. Made a

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Speaker 1: big impression. He's made a big impression this entire training

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Speaker 1: camp in preseason, both as a wide receiver and on

586
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Speaker 1: special teams, and to be honest, probably why he is

587
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Speaker 1: on that initial fifty three man roster. Here's wide receiver

588
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Speaker 1: Gage Larvaden Describe.

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Speaker 5: The feeling when you were told you made the team.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a real, you know, dream come true for sure.

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Speaker 12: You know, God's good and I'm super appreciative to the

592
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Speaker 12: has them's and you know coach Stefanski ab you know,

593
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Speaker 12: for for them putting their their trust and faith in

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Speaker 12: me to you know, be a be an asset to

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Speaker 12: this team.

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Speaker 7: Being signed in a kind of was the journey than like,

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Speaker 7: you know, over these past few months from being an

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Speaker 7: undrafted free agent to making the fifty.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's been. It's been a journey. My journey is

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Speaker 12: my journey, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

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Speaker 12: I've enjoyed every moment of it. And and you know,

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Speaker 12: obviously it's easy he said, it's a little easy to

603
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Speaker 12: say now that we know let him know, I've you know,

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Speaker 12: I've made the team. But you know, r regardless of

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Speaker 12: the outcome, I you know, I showed up every day

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Speaker 12: and and try as hard as I could, so regardless

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Speaker 12: of the SI, the the the outcome, I think I

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Speaker 12: would have been you know, at Bay without I would

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Speaker 12: have been cool with it regardless. But you know, like

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Speaker 12: I said, super appreciative to be here and ready to

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Speaker 12: ready to move forward.

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Speaker 15: Your favorite part of the uh my teammates.

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Speaker 12: They make it so easy to just wake up and

614
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Speaker 12: wanna play football every day, and so I think that's

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Speaker 12: that's my favorite part.

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Speaker 5: Clarified, did did you have other offers?

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Speaker 13: Had signs?

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Speaker 5: And I'm trying to put the treason or did you

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Speaker 5: just to take the Browns off of.

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Speaker 15: When he got it?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I I I didn't have many. It was like

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Speaker 12: one or two or three. Maybe it wasn't a lot.

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Speaker 10: Was there a point in this off season process that

624
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Speaker 10: you thought, yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Could make this team one?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the day I showed up, you know, because I

627
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Speaker 12: know what I'm capable of, and I just you know,

628
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Speaker 12: I focus on, you know, being the best best version

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Speaker 12: of myself and you know, being consistent every day and

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Speaker 12: then when you like, when you walk into a building

631
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Speaker 12: like this, you know a bunch of hungry dogs literally,

632
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Speaker 12: you know, so I fit right in.

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Speaker 15: No he or anything, no never.

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Speaker 9: You know what the hardest thing to do as a

635
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Speaker 9: young player is You mentioned that consistency.

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Speaker 6: If you just talk the fan skin, he mentioned that

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Speaker 6: you're every day you're out.

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Speaker 9: Here making plays. Just how did you pull that off?

639
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Speaker 9: And how difficult is that to be, uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: a young player and maintain a high level of consistency

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Speaker 9: in this type of environment.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think consistency is is is one thing that

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Speaker 12: you know we can control and so you know, my

644
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Speaker 12: my whole thing is you know, control what you can

645
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Speaker 12: control and then.

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Speaker 15: Everything else will it it'll be what it is.

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Speaker 12: But whatever I can control whatever, you know, and there's

648
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Speaker 12: a few things I can control. Then my time, I study,

649
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Speaker 12: you know, my effort, you know, my attitude. Those are

650
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Speaker 12: things that you can control. And that's at the end

651
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Speaker 12: of the day, that's all. That's all I got. And

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Speaker 12: you know, you stress over stuff that you're not in control. Love, you'll,

653
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Speaker 12: you'll you'll be in a dark place.

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Speaker 10: What about Isaiah?

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Speaker 11: Find what kind of additions he been to your wide receiver?

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Speaker 13: Bring? What's he bringing?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, he's been a great addition.

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Speaker 13: Man.

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Speaker 12: Any time you add a ad a player of his caliber,

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Speaker 12: you know, to a room of guys, you know, uh,

661
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Speaker 12: also a hungry guy.

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Speaker 15: We're ready to prove to the world that you know,

663
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Speaker 15: he is who he is.

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Speaker 12: I think you know, we're all yelling together and and

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Speaker 12: we're all moving forward.

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00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 6: So so you showed that you obviously belong on this roster.

667
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 6: So now what do you need to.

668
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 15: Prove next to Yeah?

669
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 12: I think you know, just continue to just continue to

670
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 12: prove to myself and then give him a reason to

671
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 12: to keep me around, you know what I mean, And

672
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 12: then prove to the other thirty one teams that they

673
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 12: made a mistake.

674
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 6: How do you make sure?

675
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 16: Uh, the true there was like a satisfy, satisfying feel

676
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 16: like cos he's making but like you alluded to, like

677
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 16: not sort of resting on your laurels from here or

678
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 16: understanding that you know, there's still what we doing and.

679
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 6: You know you're still you know, fighting for yours part.

680
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: Since every day.

681
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, for sure. When we showed up for a community camp,

682
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 12: coach put on the board. The first thing he said

683
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 12: was make the team. The second thing was under roll

684
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 12: And I think, I'm I'm on that that second thing.

685
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 12: Earn the role, you know, just to be able to

686
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 12: go out there and you know, play and just just

687
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 12: be a part of the solution around here.

688
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 15: And you know he help us get some wins.

689
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: So did you slowed down before you?

690
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 15: What was that?

691
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 2: How was the game slowed down before you? Uh?

692
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 12: I think the more you prepare, the the the slur

693
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 12: of the game could become. So that's why I try

694
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 12: to focus on, you know, preparation. That's the thing I

695
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 12: can control, and that's that's fully in my control.

696
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 15: So I try to you know, prepare.

697
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 12: As if I'm go and play all seventy offers of

698
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 12: snaps even though it only maybe you know a little bit.

699
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 10: So did you, like, did you sweat it out just

700
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 10: with nder game?

701
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 3: It was a pretty relaxing.

702
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 12: Nah, Like I said, man, when you I I would

703
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 12: be lying if I sat and sweated out everyone. But

704
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,239
Speaker 12: the truth is, like I said earlier, you know, I

705
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 12: showed up every day and and tried my hardest, and

706
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 12: that's that's all I can give to you. And so

707
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 12: if if that's not enough, if that wasn't enough, then

708
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 12: you know I was. I was cool with it, just

709
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 12: because I know what I can control. I I try

710
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 12: to control every day. Fortunately, it it worked up.

711
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 6: What was the reaction like when you to 'em?

712
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 3: You know some of your family that you you the team.

713
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 12: I I actually haven't told any one yet. I've been

714
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 12: I I'm gonna go back to my phone and let

715
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 12: him know. Kind of it was kind of it's kind

716
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 12: of where I've never like actually was told or you're

717
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 12: on the team. I just showed up today and they

718
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 12: ain't say you're not on. They ain't say you're not on,

719
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 12: not on the team. So I guess I'm one team.

720
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 12: So so I'll go enjoy it when I get back in. No, no, not,

721
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 12: I have not heard from anyone. I'm sure he'll He'll

722
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 12: reach out for sure.

723
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 5: He uh plans to celebrate over the long weekend.

724
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 12: Not not yet, Like I said, just you know it

725
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 12: w it was. This is a a checkpoint in the

726
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 12: journey for me. This isn't enough for me. You know,

727
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 12: I'm not satisfied with this at all. I wanna be

728
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 12: out there, you know, give give, you know, give 'em

729
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 12: my awe, just being being a good teammate and then

730
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 12: but I wanna be out there. Yeah. When do you

731
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 12: think it back to your time at Southeastern Arianna even

732
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 12: back to high school kind of what's uh, they're the

733
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 12: biggest thing you think.

734
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 13: You've learned up over this time?

735
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 12: Damn was deep the biggest thing I've uh, it was

736
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 12: a few takeaway It's just you know, just like like

737
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 12: I said, control what you can control and being consistent.

738
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 12: It's hard for people to can or you know, when

739
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 12: when you come out here and do the same thing

740
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 12: every day and they're like, dang, you know, is he

741
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 12: gonna change?

742
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 15: Is he not? So just controls you controls. It is

743
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 15: a huge thing for me.

744
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 6: Dylan is Dylan is gonna be the number two quarterback.

745
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 6: You've obviously spent a lot of time with him in

746
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 6: two minute drive through that touchdown.

747
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 16: To you what have what have you learned about him

748
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 16: kind of through this these last few months.

749
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 12: Yeah, great teammate, great person, and then when you go

750
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 12: to football, super poised, super confident in himself, which is

751
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 12: super important. And I think you you alluded to that

752
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 12: that two minute situation. I think it was a great

753
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 12: execution by him, you know, and any anytime the quarter

754
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 12: in two minute situation the court quarterback is hard enough,

755
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 12: but when you got the when you're working against the

756
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 12: clock too, it's so it's so impressive to to just

757
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 12: get any points and for him to go down there

758
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 12: and you know, score a touchdown in two minutes is

759
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 12: super impressive.

760
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 13: Man.

761
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Speaker 1: Finally, today on the Front the Podium podcast, the new

762
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: Kicker for your Cleveland Browns, Andre Schmidt, Andre Kevin talked.

763
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Speaker 7: About your whole body of work being the reason you've

764
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 7: won the job. I mean, just talk about that, going

765
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 7: back to teven last year when you were here for

766
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 7: for that week of practice.

767
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I've been working on my craft for

768
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 6: a while now, so no, I haven't changed, I haven't

769
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 6: changed anything up and steadily working at it and you

770
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 6: know it's some paying off. What was it like that

771
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 6: moment you found out that you made.

772
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 3: The fifty three?

773
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was exciting, of course, but you know I'm

774
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 6: kind of already focused on week one and you know,

775
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 6: preparing and staying staying on my course and my process,

776
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 6: like I talked about when.

777
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 4: You were waiting for that car or how did you

778
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 4: describe that?

779
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, I think it's a little bit it's

780
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 6: a little nerve wracking, but it's also exciting at the

781
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 6: same time. You know, you don't know what the future has,

782
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 6: and you know, you put you put all your work

783
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 6: in and then whatever happens, it happened.

784
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 2: So were you how big was that that last drive

785
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: on Saturday? Just to to at least get to go

786
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: through it and get in a real game or you know,

787
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: a game setting instead of just you know, kind of

788
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 2: fire drill out here in practice.

789
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's exciting. I mean, obviously I've had game winners

790
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 6: before my past, not in the NFL level, but you know,

791
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 6: they're always exciting. You know, you feel the same kind

792
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 6: of like the drawing, but then you're also super locked

793
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 6: in and like game winners are are a special kind

794
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 6: of beast. I mean, you're you're so locked in, you

795
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 6: kind of space out and you just go out there

796
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 6: and you just do your thing and ecided and get

797
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 6: it done. I mean, couldn't have done it without Rex

798
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 6: and Corey and the offense getting me in field goal

799
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 6: range and made my job a lot easier. Did you

800
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 6: know that you were going to have that chance on

801
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 6: that last drive? Yeah, I was aware that I was

802
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 6: gonna be coming into the second half to do the

803
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 6: kicking duty. So I was preparing, got my kicks in

804
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 6: a halftime, got my kicks in pre game, and you know,

805
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 6: I was I was ready to go.

806
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 15: Helped you along.

807
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 7: And how you guys build that chemistry as a unit

808
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 7: and really how important?

809
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's super important. And I mean they're like the

810
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 6: best guys ever. So you have such a tight en

811
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 6: ait group and I'm just super excited to still be

812
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 6: here with these guys to.

813
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 12: See anybody leave.

814
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 14: Dustin obviously in a Contador today can take at the job.

815
00:32:59,360 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 15: So it's gonna be.

816
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 13: What did he mean to you? Like, what do you mean?

817
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean he meant a lot to me. And

818
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 6: he's like one of the best guys like I've ever met,

819
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 6: and We briefly caught each other in the locker room

820
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 6: and we said some nice words to each other. And

821
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 6: I'm always gonna be rooting for him, and I know

822
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 6: he'll be doing the same for me, So you know,

823
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 6: I have nothing but love for him and in respect.

824
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: It was the first person you called when you got

825
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 3: the news.

826
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 6: I called my girlfriend and then my dad and my sister.

827
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 11: Did you you picked that last kid just seeing the

828
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 11: dust and used to one earlier in the game, one

829
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 11: electric point? Did you have any actual rushers, like any

830
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 11: that last kid could be the difference?

831
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Speaker 6: No, I don't really think about it.

832
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 5: You know.

833
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 6: I just treat treat every rep as its own and

834
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 6: going out there, you know, I have one opportunity of

835
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 6: the whole game, so you know, I just want to

836
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 6: capitalize it and make make most of those opportunities.

837
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 5: That last stride the Rams game, were you told to

838
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 5: get ready if you're picking, that's gonna be you.

839
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 6: Yeah. I was aware before the game that I would

840
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 6: have the second half, so I was, Yeah, I was

841
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 6: preparing at halftime and stuff, and I knew, you know,

842
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 6: I was in the net every every drive we had

843
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 6: on offense. That second kick one year job, I don't know,

844
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 6: it's hard to say. I mean, I just try to

845
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 6: put my best so forward and you know, have my

846
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 6: process and just do my job, treat every kick as

847
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 6: its own.

848
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 5: Would you like to change jersey jersey numbers?

849
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 13: Now?

850
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 6: I haven't even a much thought. Honestly, we'll see.

851
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: Maybe it doesn't reach out to you at all.

852
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 13: Uh.

853
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 6: I saw him briefly in the locker room and we

854
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 6: changed some words with each other, and there's nothing but

855
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 6: positive things on both ends. And like I said, I

856
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 6: just wish him the best and everything.

857
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 9: Sorry, but just your emotions of you know, going from

858
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 9: kicking a game winner on Pine Saturday to being in

859
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 9: that situation to finding out today that you're gonna be

860
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 9: the the week one kid.

861
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of emotion

862
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 6: that goes into there's so much uncertainty in the NFL.

863
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 3: You know.

864
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 6: I'm I'm just super grateful to still be here and

865
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 6: gonna take advantage of every opportunity to get and you know,

866
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 6: put my best be forward and something pickers talking about.

867
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 14: The process, What does your process look like to make

868
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 14: sure that you are the same.

869
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 6: Guy, don't Yeah, I mean, just keeping level headed, not

870
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 6: letting the the big moments get too big, and not

871
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 6: letting the bad moments get get too bad, you know,

872
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 6: trying to say even And that's that's what I really

873
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 6: worked on, I mean, growing up and just going through

874
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 6: the kicking journey so to speak. And yeah, just being

875
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 6: older and more mature and just helps a lot, you know.

876
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 7: The offeason, how did you, I guess, work with all

877
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 7: you know, and you guess all kind of and everything,

878
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 7: what you like, what he likes, and how that helps you?

879
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 3: Like?

880
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like every kicker likes their own kind

881
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 6: of lean and stuff and how the hand looks when

882
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 6: it's a snap's coming and everything. You know, we talked

883
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 6: about it. And he's a great holder, and Reck's a

884
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 6: great snapper, so makes his job easy. And then and

885
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 6: that makes my job easy to with the change and

886
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 6: to kick.

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Speaker 3: Offs off more so this year. Just how has that changed?

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Speaker 11: Cause it used to be just good to bat the

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00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 11: end zone start at the thirty. Now with landing zones

890
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Speaker 11: and you know, bounced kicks and everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as much as that.

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Speaker 6: Change, Yeah, it's changed a lot. Obviously. I think it's

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Speaker 6: gonna be interesting to see what what teams do, you know,

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Speaker 6: I think it it's obviously a much more finesse kind

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Speaker 6: of kick now, So well, we'll see what We'll see

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Speaker 6: what happens.

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Speaker 11: Uh, how's Bubba's instruction.

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Speaker 3: It's just been throughout.

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Speaker 6: Camp on just going through all those kickoffs. You mean

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00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 6: there are field goes. Hum, I don't know if I'm

901
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 6: hot to necessarily smell smell just.

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00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 11: You know, how did just going through all scenarios and everything.

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00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean as kickers ourselves, I don't think Bubban

904
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 6: needs to tell us anything specific. We all work on

905
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 6: different types of kicks and mess around with different leans

906
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 6: and stuff and junk balls and balls in the air,

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00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 6: So I think I think it's all kind of unspoken

908
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 6: that we just kind of all work on as have

909
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 6: as many tools in the toolbox.

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Speaker 9: So, I mean a kicker's job, there's not a lot

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00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 9: of security goes with that sometimes. How do you how

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00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 9: do you deal with that?

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Speaker 6: I'll just take it one day at a time and

914
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 6: just try to do my best and not think too

915
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 6: much into the future or worry too much about things

916
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 6: that are out of my control. You know, Cleveland's not

917
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 6: the easiest place to kick.

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Speaker 9: It's great place to kick right now, but just you know,

919
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 9: how do you prepare for for that element?

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Speaker 6: You know something is completely right. I mean, I grew

921
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 6: up in Chicago, so going through high school and stuff

922
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 6: I've kicked in, like in the colder weather and stuff,

923
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Speaker 6: and just being a free agent too, I'm ready year round.

924
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 6: You never know if you're gonna be doing the UFL,

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00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 6: which I ended up doing, or like have a sign

926
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 6: of futures deal. So I've been kicking in the cold weather.

927
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 6: And my rookie year I was in Chicago, so the

928
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 6: wind isn't super friendly there either. So you know, I

929
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 6: feel like I've had a kind of a good grasp

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00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 6: and I've kind of understand how to how to play

931
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 6: my ball in different kind of wins.

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Speaker 3: Did you have to kick it on in the Soldiers field?

933
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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, that's one here in Pittsburgh. That's what I've heard. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: so I'm excited. It's a good challenge. But I think

936
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Speaker 6: that kind of challenge comes even more focus and preparation

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00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 6: that comes in what tex kicking Soldier field? Oh, it

938
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Speaker 6: was just a family fan. It was practice. Yeah, what's

939
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 6: your dad and your girlfriend's name? Said Johanna, My girlfriend,

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Speaker 6: my dad Eric, and.

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Speaker 3: Hey, congratulations, thank you. I appreciate this.

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