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Speaker 2: Still coming along, still work to do.

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Speaker 3: This is the Coach Kevin Stefanski Show. Tonight you'll find

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Speaker 3: out how the Browns are preparing for the season at

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Speaker 3: team headquarters in Berea. You're listening to the University Hospitals

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Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns Radio Network. Here are your hosts, Steven Zegura

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Speaker 4: Good evening and welcome in to the Kevin Sefanski Show.

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Speaker 4: All along the University Hospitals Cleveland Brown's Radio Network Nathan Siger,

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Speaker 4: alongside the three time, three time three time Super Bowl

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Speaker 4: champion Gerard Cherry and Girard.

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Speaker 1: We got to see a game last week. It was

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 4: None of the starters obviously, but it was fun to see.

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Speaker 4: But before we get into breaking that down, Juanna le

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Speaker 4: everybody know, we're gonna hear from the head coach here,

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Speaker 4: Cleveland Brown's Kevin Sefanski in about twenty minutes. We're also

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Speaker 4: gonna hear from Brown's wide receiver and one of the

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Speaker 4: stars of that Hall of Fame game, Austin Watkins, an

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Speaker 4: interesting young man, an interesting story, and obviously a familial

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Speaker 4: connection of the NFL. We're gonna go around the league.

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot coming up for you. But Gerrod,

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Speaker 4: first and foremost, how the heck are you, brother? It's

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Speaker 4: great to see you.

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Speaker 5: I am doing great, Nate Doug, no complaints. Is still

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Speaker 5: sunny outside. We're not dealing with minus thirty two degree temperature.

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Speaker 5: So until that day comes, you'll hear and have no

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Speaker 5: complaints for yours Truly.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 4: Listen, Gerrod, as I know, as a man who spent

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Speaker 4: many years on the sideline, you're now the sideline report

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Speaker 4: for the cleveld Runs. Good weather is an absolute premium.

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Speaker 4: That is what you want, that is what you crave.

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Speaker 4: You don't want any of the madness. And we did

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Speaker 4: have a little inclement weather here in Cleveland yesterday. We

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Speaker 1: But let's go back to the Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 4: Let's start there, twenty one to sixteen Browns against the

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Speaker 4: New York Jets and young guys playing for their NFL lives.

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Speaker 4: And I thought quite a few of them made impression,

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Speaker 4: especially the draft picks in the twenty twenty three draft class.

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Speaker 5: Druck certainly, and I felt our twos and threes were

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Speaker 5: ultimately better than the Jets twos and threes. And that's

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Speaker 5: the backbone of your football team. So you want to

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Speaker 5: see what takes place on the practice field transfer to

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Speaker 5: the game day like conditions, which it was because of

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Speaker 5: the preseason game, and it doesn't count in the big

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Speaker 5: scheme of things, but obviously from an evaluation standpoint, it

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Speaker 5: was tremendous. You saw dtr you saw Watkins as you

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Speaker 5: just mentioned, You saw some other guys like Felton as

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Speaker 5: them the note to the coaches and evaluators that are

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Speaker 5: have an impact on this football team, not in the

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Speaker 6: So I was definitely encouraged.

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Speaker 1: By what I saw.

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Speaker 5: And then on defensive side of the ball, too, you

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Speaker 5: was certainly a very physical play to say the least.

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Speaker 5: So I like what I saw and the fact that

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Speaker 5: we won the game. And for me, I care about

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Speaker 5: love the fact that in the second half, even with

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Speaker 4: You're exactly right down at the half sixteen to seven.

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Speaker 4: The Browns beat the Jets fourteen to nothing in that

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Speaker 1: Great job.

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Speaker 4: The defense you mentioned Charlie Thomas. He goes out there

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Speaker 1: I can't. I only can tell you what I've heard.

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Speaker 4: It looked like Charlie Thomas kicked it into another gear.

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Speaker 4: What he told me was, this was shown in the

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Speaker 4: when anybody lays a hit like that, it's called a Charlie.

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Speaker 4: So number one, take me into the room as another

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Speaker 5: It seems so apropos. Yeah, gonna call it a charlie.

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Speaker 5: But more importantly, for Charlie, he's he's there. But what

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Speaker 4: It's a Charlie. You love it, and that I think

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Speaker 1: He holds them all to the same standard. But he

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Speaker 5: That's the type of effort you're gonna get from a

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Speaker 5: Miles matters. Guess what, Charlie, you matter. Will you have

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Speaker 5: And when you have that type of sentiment building in

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Speaker 5: That's how you get guys buying into this idea that

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Speaker 4: back last week kind of a special week for this

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Speaker 4: Did you come out of this weekend learning anything about

439
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,760
Speaker 4: Joe that you didn't already now? Because I know you

440
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,359
Speaker 4: knew he was a great player, and he'd been around him,

441
00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:13,600
Speaker 4: he was a great guy. But was there anything that

442
00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 4: maybe surprised you or made you go, oh, that's pretty cool?

443
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,199
Speaker 2: I would just say being able there to I was

444
00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,960
Speaker 2: able to sneak down to his party that night after

445
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,160
Speaker 2: the enshrinement just to really show my respect, he shake

446
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,520
Speaker 2: his hands, to congratulate him. He had about four hundred

447
00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,879
Speaker 2: other people that he had to make sure he saw,

448
00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,440
Speaker 2: But just to see his young kids and to see

449
00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,439
Speaker 2: him share that with his family, I thought that that

450
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:38,360
Speaker 2: was pretty special.

451
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 7: He shared a cool story with us.

452
00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,479
Speaker 4: His son loves Kurt Warner, watched the movie about Kurt Warner,

453
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,399
Speaker 4: and so brought Kurt Warner's card to Joe's party, and

454
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,120
Speaker 4: of course kurta Hall of Famer himself, came and immediately

455
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 4: went over to Joe's son, and Joe was like, that's

456
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,040
Speaker 4: just like he thought.

457
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:52,680
Speaker 7: That was the coolest.

458
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:53,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, how cool is that?

459
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm standing there and there's Kurt Warner, there's

460
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,679
Speaker 2: Calvin Johnson. So me, you know, I'm a fan of

461
00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 2: this game. I grew up loving this game. And to

462
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,159
Speaker 2: be able to see different legends of our game, you know,

463
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,640
Speaker 2: just to be a fly on the wall was unbelievable.

464
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 7: Boe and I were sitting by the lake.

465
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,960
Speaker 4: We're getting ready for the fireworks US and the car

466
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,719
Speaker 4: pulls up and from the distance, it looked like all

467
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,080
Speaker 4: these guys are all wearing gold jackets. So I kind

468
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 4: of walked up behind him, and sure enough, it was

469
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:24,200
Speaker 4: Walter Jones, Steve Hutchinson, Baselli, Tim Brown, Megatron, Leroy Butler,

470
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Speaker 4: and Andre Reid, just like walking in as a Hall of

471
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 4: Fame group, just walking together.

472
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Speaker 7: I'm like, this is nuts.

473
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Speaker 2: You feel it's surreal. But for me, I wish I

474
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,639
Speaker 2: could have stayed. It was a school night, so I

475
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,119
Speaker 2: had to hustle home head up the road. But just

476
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:39,680
Speaker 2: I would have loved to have stayed and just hear

477
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,920
Speaker 2: those guys talk to each other about their past, about

478
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 2: what they went through. But again, just for me to

479
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: be a part of that, I was humbling.

480
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Speaker 1: By the way.

481
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 4: Megatron still looks like he could play right now.

482
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 2: See I was in the division with him, so I

483
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 2: was with the Vikings when he came in. I'll never

484
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 2: forget he caught a shallow cross and he was coming

485
00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 2: at our Viking sideline. He turned the corner and it

486
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 2: was like a gazelle just running up that sideline. He

487
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,400
Speaker 2: took I think like two steps to go twenty yards.

488
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Speaker 8: It was unbelievable.

489
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: Pretty darn good player there.

490
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about that Hall of Fame game,

491
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 4: because it's always an opportunity.

492
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,640
Speaker 7: You know, the starters did not play.

493
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 4: An opportunity for some of the young guys, and I

494
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 4: thought a pretty darn good accounting of themselves in many cases.

495
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 4: What did you kind of big picture takeaway? Then we'll

496
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Speaker 4: talk some specifics.

497
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, big pictures. It's get to see you guys compete

498
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 2: and it's not practice and it's they're keeping scores. So

499
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 2: we told the guys, hey, listen, they're keeping scores. Anytime

500
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 2: they're doing that, we're gonna try and win. So I

501
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,120
Speaker 2: love to watch them compete. It was far from perfect.

502
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 2: It was sloppy, and we expected that really for where

503
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 2: that game is and when they're playing that game and

504
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 2: where you are as a team preparation wise, it's going

505
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 2: to be sloppy. Probably more flags than I wanted, and

506
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 2: I'm sure that the people watching at home wanted wanted

507
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,959
Speaker 2: to see. But those are those are great teaching moments

508
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 2: and some of the things that happened in that game,

509
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 2: although it was with some of our backups, our starters

510
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 2: can learn from that. So the tape of watching that

511
00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,120
Speaker 2: game versus another opponent was so vadaluable because we've spent

512
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 2: a lot of time against each other now to go

513
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 2: up with some different schemes, and there's enough, as you know,

514
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 2: nuanced to different offenses and defenses where you can really

515
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time on one place, say all right, here,

516
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,360
Speaker 2: let's go watch this. Look at how their safeties play.

517
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 2: This totally different than our safeties. Maybe it's the same coverage.

518
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 2: So I think we can learn from all that.

519
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 4: Let's get in some specifics. I thought your rookie class,

520
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 4: A lot of them had very nights nights. We'll start

521
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 4: with Dorian Thompson. Robbinson, the quarterback comes in eight of eleven, leads,

522
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 4: two touchdown drives, the more than seventy five yards, including

523
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 4: his first one where he went ninety three yards, showing

524
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 4: the throws, the legs, and the blocking ability. I'm not

525
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 4: sure if you said, great, don't do that again. But

526
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 4: what did you make of dtr.

527
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dorian, I thought functioned well for the most part,

528
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 2: which can be a challenge for young quarterbacks. As you

529
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 2: can imagine, first time in a game, the plays coming

530
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 2: in through their helmet and they're calling the plays for

531
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 2: ten other guys in the huddle that are looking at

532
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 2: them with some pretty bright, big eyes because it's the

533
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 2: first opportunity for them. So I thought he ran the

534
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 2: system pretty well, not perfect. There's AVP spent some time

535
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 2: with him that next day. Okay, here's where you can

536
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 2: do Here's a read that you could have had better.

537
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 2: Here's a run check that you could have done better,

538
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 2: here's some better footwork. Having said all that, you got

539
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 2: to make plays at that position. And I thought that's

540
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: what he did throughout the night. He made plays, sometimes

541
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 2: with his arm, sometimes with his feet.

542
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 4: How about the ball to Austin Watkins. I talked to

543
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 4: him after the game and he said he had seen

544
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 4: a look and he knew that play, so he talked

545
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 4: to you and then you called it and boom, What

546
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 4: did you make on that one?

547
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, we ran it earlier with Kellen, and Kellen got

548
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 2: through the progression to I think he got to the

549
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 2: running back. Maybe it was a drop, but you saw

550
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 2: that coverage was the same exact coverage that Dorian ended

551
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 2: up getting in the second half. And that's an example

552
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: of what happens in games. You run something, you look

553
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: at it, you say, hey, if you stay with this

554
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 2: primary read one click longer, you may have this throw.

555
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 2: And sure enough we got the same exact coverage. So

556
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: Dorian really took what he learned on a rep that

557
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 2: he didn't get. He took what he learned from Kellen's

558
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: rep and applied it. And I thought Austin ran a

559
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 2: really good route and the guy's connected.

560
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 4: Austin feels like they have a nice connection, and we

561
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 4: saw it at the Greenbrier kind of carried over. He's

562
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 4: got it seems like maybe he's got a little bit

563
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 4: of juice to him.

564
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been impressed with Austin. He runs good routes,

565
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 2: he catches the ball. I know he played in some

566
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: spring league, so he was really in football shape, quote unquote,

567
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 2: and he's made plays in practice, like you mentioned, made

568
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 2: plays in that game. It's a competitive room, and I

569
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 2: think that's the beauty of where we are in training

570
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 2: camp right now. We have some very very competitive positions

571
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: for the starting spot, for the backup spot, for roster spots,

572
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 2: for practice squad spots. So anytime you can go out

573
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 2: there and show what you can do, I think it

574
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 2: helps your resume.

575
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 4: Big than us, went the whole way at right tackle,

576
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 4: did not allow pressure, had some pretty impressive tape that

577
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 4: he put out there, I would say, and showed the

578
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 4: conditioning that the work that he put in this offseason.

579
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 4: What did you think of that from a young man

580
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 4: from Ohio State.

581
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Dewan did a nice job. I think

582
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: there's always room to grow. As you can imagine, he

583
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: knew going in that game with our numbers he was

584
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 2: gonna have to play the entire game, and that's somewhat

585
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 2: easier said than done, especially for are big guys. You

586
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: know up front, offensive line, defensive line, so he pushed

587
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 2: through it again. As you know, with Coach Callahan, he

588
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 2: has very, very high standards, and I think there's plays

589
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 2: that Dewan will get better at with just reps. You know,

590
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 2: there's certain plays that I can still see some of

591
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: his down blocks where they weren't real clean. He wasn't

592
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 2: using the technique. And that's what practice is for. And

593
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 2: if you know anything about Coach Callahan and Coach Peters,

594
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 2: you're going to put the work in. So it's all

595
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 2: all correctible things that you see from young players. And

596
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 2: I say it all the time after these games. Our

597
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: job as coaches are to identify those things and then

598
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 2: together we.

599
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: Work to correct them.

600
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Speaker 4: I'd slip to the defensive side real quickly, pitched a

601
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 4: shut out in the second half. At one point they

602
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 4: were held the Jets to zero for ten on third downs.

603
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 4: Stopped him on a fourth down. Young guys flying all over.

604
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 4: I've heard that now big hits are called Charlie's after

605
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 4: Charlie Thomas sidelined to sideline.

606
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Speaker 7: Decleader, what did he see from this group?

607
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 4: Because I'll tell you what from the booth, it was

608
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 4: fun to watch them fly to the ball.

609
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's our defense. You got to fly around

610
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 2: and you have to attack off the line of scrimmage.

611
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,239
Speaker 2: You got to attack the ball when it's in the air.

612
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: Intercept from there late in the game. So that was

613
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: good to see. Again, I think the stress of playing

614
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: in your first game under the lights and all those things,

615
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: you see technique kind of go out the window, but

616
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 2: I didn't see effort go out the window. So the

617
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 2: effort was there really from snap one to snap seventy

618
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: of guys flying around and really, you know, i'd give

619
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 2: credit to the guys who didn't play in the game.

620
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: We really talked to them and told them, hey, you're

621
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 2: there to support your teammates.

622
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 7: They're going to need.

623
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Speaker 2: Your help both when they come off the field when

624
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 2: they're on the field, and I thought the support was

625
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 2: outstanding for the rest of the group.

626
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 4: All right, So we move forward out of that game,

627
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 4: and now we've got a game coming up Friday night

628
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 4: against the Commanders, and I know you're going to talk

629
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 4: to the team tomorrow, but just from maybe without getting

630
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 4: into any specifics, can you give us an idea of,

631
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Speaker 4: you know, what the thought process is on who will play,

632
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 4: and also maybe how long if any of the starters

633
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 4: do go.

634
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 1: We will play starters.

635
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that as a team tomorrow about the

636
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 2: plan on who's playing and for how long. It won't

637
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 2: be for two quarters, but we'll get our starters from

638
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 2: work in this game. I think now's the appropriate time

639
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 2: in training camp to go into a game, get through

640
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 2: pregame warm ups, get come out of the locker room,

641
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: play against a good football team, and then continue to

642
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: get reps for your twos and threes as you try

643
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: to sort out some tough roster decisions. But we definitely

644
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: will play some of our starters.

645
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 7: What's the number one thing you hope you get from

646
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 7: your starters in this game?

647
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 2: Just a continuation of everything they're doing right now. We

648
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 2: are in training camp mode, even though that's a preseason game,

649
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 2: so that means we're trying to accomplish things. We're trying

650
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: to accomplish maybe some different techniques. We're going to put

651
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 2: some maybe new plays that we don't have a ton

652
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: of reps on. Let's go get reps in a game

653
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 2: setting so that the quarterback or the receivers or defensive

654
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 2: backs we can get comfortable with some of our new techniques.

655
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 7: Coach. Thank you so much for the time. Best of

656
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 7: luck on Friday.

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Speaker 8: Thanks Nathan.

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Speaker 7: All right, we'll be back with more of.

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Speaker 4: The Kevin Stefanci Show, all along the University Hospitals Cleveland

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Speaker 4: Browns Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: This is Greg News from the second and you are

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Speaker 2: listening to the University Hospitals.

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Speaker 2: University Hospitals is your hometown medical team and official health health.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Kevin Stefansi Show, all along the

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Speaker 4: University Hospitals Cleveland Browns Radio Network, and very happy I

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Speaker 4: had to be joined by a new Brown and one

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Speaker 4: of the stars of the Hall of Fame game wide receiver,

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Speaker 4: Austin Lockins. Austin, first of all, congratulations on being here,

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Speaker 4: Congratulations on your performance, and welcome.

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Speaker 1: To the Browns.

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go, let's start back.

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Speaker 4: So you came in here a familiar face at least

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Speaker 4: one right, Alex right, your teammate at Alabama Birmingham. How

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Speaker 4: was that coming in and at least knowing that you

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Speaker 4: knew somebody right when you got in the locker room.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just more comfortable.

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Speaker 9: I had somebody there that I knew for a long

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Speaker 9: period of time and we were real tight, so it

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Speaker 9: was very comfortable.

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Speaker 7: What's something funny you can tell us about Alex Right?

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Speaker 8: Uh, I really don't talk that much. He really quiet.

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Speaker 8: Here's a musician.

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Speaker 7: That's why he's a quiet musician.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he really definitely just all work.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about how you kind of got here.

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Speaker 4: So come out of Alabama, Birmingham. He spent some time

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Speaker 4: with the Niners, a couple other teams, go to the USFL,

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Speaker 4: win a championship with the Birmingham Stallions. What was that

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Speaker 4: kind of journey for you, Like until the moment you

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Speaker 4: got to call hey, we need you here with the

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Speaker 4: Cleveland Routes.

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Speaker 9: Uh, everything up to the USFL was just like a

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Speaker 9: lot of upsess and a lot of down and it

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Speaker 9: was just bad. Like I had to just find God

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Speaker 9: and like I find found my why and just put

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Speaker 9: all my faith in God. So when I got to the USFL,

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Speaker 9: I got closer with God, and God just been now

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Speaker 9: I'm here, like just like God just got me here.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 4: So you come in and I remember you come in

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Speaker 4: like basically as we're going to the Greenbrier. Not a

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Speaker 4: bad way to start, right, Let's go to a five

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Speaker 4: star resort for your first week with your new NFL team.

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Speaker 1: What did you think of that whole experience?

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Speaker 9: It was a good experience, man. I had can in Greensborough.

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Speaker 9: I was just shot and then I was playing with

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Speaker 9: my favorite receiver too. So it's just like I'm like

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Speaker 9: out there playing with Coops. So it's just like it

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Speaker 9: feel good to be out there with the man, just

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Speaker 9: learning with a lodger. It just it just felt good

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Speaker 9: like I was in the movie.

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Speaker 7: So, Mariy Cooper is your favorite receiver?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Mark Cooper and Michael Thomas and Ridley.

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Speaker 1: I love it. So how did Amri become your guy?

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Speaker 9: Before I and started playing football, I used to always

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Speaker 9: watch them. I used to watch them on YouTube, him,

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Speaker 9: Sammy Calvin, Jared Judy, all the Florida guy. I used

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Speaker 9: always watching. That's before I even played played football.

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Speaker 4: And I know you mentioned Sammy and they're Sammy of course,

725
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Speaker 4: your cousin, Sammy Watkins. What's the how's he been as

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Speaker 4: a mentor? For you, somebody who obviously very successful in

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Speaker 4: this league, and then I might find out. I hope

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Speaker 4: he gave you some propsaff give us some flowers after

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Speaker 4: that Hall of Fame game. But what's it like having

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Speaker 4: Sammy in your life as a cousin who's who's done

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Speaker 4: it in this league at high level?

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Speaker 9: It's definitely like he's my role model, Like I'm I'm

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Speaker 9: allel like not even my game, but just my life

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Speaker 9: like after him. Like he's such an upright person and

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Speaker 9: he just all about family and hard work, so I

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Speaker 9: try to like model my whole life around him. He

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Speaker 9: gave me hope as a little kid, like the whole

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Speaker 9: city hope for real, because uh he didn't like really

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Speaker 9: the first one that did it, and I seen him

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Speaker 9: like really like work, so like he gave me hope.

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Speaker 8: Like that's my idol.

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Speaker 7: I love that.

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Speaker 4: By the way, does Amari know that that he was

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Speaker 4: your that he's your guy?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 9: He probably do not. I really don't. I'm really a

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Speaker 9: quiet guy too, so I gonna talk too much. I

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Speaker 9: just he probably do how much I watched him, So

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Speaker 9: every time he probably catch me staying at him because

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Speaker 9: like I'm watching everything.

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Speaker 1: He do darn good route runner.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, damn yeah. He a good player. Yeah yeah, the truth.

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Speaker 1: You can learn a lot from him. All right.

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Speaker 4: So you're coming at the Greenbrier, and what I this

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Speaker 4: is what I remember is watching you is immediately I

756
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 4: jumped up. Good size, you got some speed, you can run.

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Speaker 4: I remember when dtr finally got his first team reps

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00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 4: he had to play rolled out to the left, you're

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Speaker 4: smiling already hit you for about forty yards for a touchdown.

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Speaker 4: Was that kind of a play for you where you're like,

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Speaker 4: all right, yeah, I can do this.

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Speaker 7: I know I can. I belong here with this team.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: It definitely like it got me more loose, like okay,

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Speaker 9: like okay, it's just like just like playing ball, Like

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Speaker 9: come on, you've been doing your whole life exactly, all right.

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Speaker 4: So we go to the Hall of Fame game, and

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Speaker 4: you know this is going to be an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Starters aren't playing.

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Speaker 4: This is an opportunity for young guys to come in

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Speaker 4: and kind of steal the show, steal the spotlight. So

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Speaker 4: when you finally got in there, what was kind of

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Speaker 4: going through your mind when you finally got to get

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Speaker 4: on the field.

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Speaker 8: Don't mess up that's only going to my head.

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Speaker 9: Like I was just going through the place I've been

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Speaker 9: studying like every day till like twelve twelve at night.

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Speaker 9: So like I really was just trying to make my

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Speaker 9: weakness and my strengths. So I was just trying to

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Speaker 9: make that playbook my strengths. So I was just trying

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Speaker 9: to like just be correct. I wear really one words

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Speaker 9: about the plays and me not the plays, but the

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Speaker 9: like the nice scoring, making the catch anything. I was

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Speaker 9: just about lining up right and doing what my job

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Speaker 9: is to do.

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Speaker 4: Because you was, I know, you said to spend time

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Speaker 4: at cal shann He's very exactly Chatto Shait's very exact

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Speaker 4: and very detail oriented as well. So assignment in alignment,

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Speaker 4: that's part one. Now part two is you yet to

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Speaker 4: run the routes and you get to catch ball. You

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Speaker 4: did that very well. Two targets, two catches, thirty five

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Speaker 4: yards and of course the touchdown.

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Speaker 7: Le'll talk about that touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful route. You created a ton of separation on that land.

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Speaker 4: Then dtr put it I mean literally kind of threw

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Speaker 4: you into the end zone.

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Speaker 7: You caught it right in the end zone.

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Speaker 4: So when did you know before the place? I know

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Speaker 4: dtr had seen somewhere he thought that play was gonna work.

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Speaker 4: Did you know before the play you were probably getting

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Speaker 4: the ball and this was a chance.

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Speaker 9: Nah, I ain't know I was getting the ball until

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Speaker 9: I seen it. It was like a slat backside, But

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00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 9: I thought he was gonna work. Uh, the two other

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00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 9: two other routes, but I had he was released and

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Speaker 9: d t uh he got trusted me. I got trusted

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Speaker 9: him and it was a great play.

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Speaker 7: So what went through your mind once you caught it?

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Speaker 4: You were in the end zone, You're like, all right,

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Speaker 4: I just came in first game of the Browns touchdown.

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Speaker 9: It was just a wonderful feeling, Like God did that

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Speaker 9: one for me. Well, he did that one.

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Speaker 7: For what'd your teammates say to you?

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Speaker 9: Uh, they're just telling me keep going like this son.

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Speaker 9: This son told me like it's come and be ready.

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00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 9: It's come and be ready. I was after like all

817
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 9: lights when off the sun, just telling me to be ready,

818
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 9: just be ready, it's coming. So I was just trying

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Speaker 9: to be ready.

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Speaker 4: That's gotta be cool, right that they have just Sean

821
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Speaker 4: could be in these games to see that he's that

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Speaker 4: locked in and cares about all you guys on the scene.

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Speaker 7: I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so d Son real since I've been hit anything

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Speaker 9: I needed him and dog d t or all the

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Speaker 9: monds all they've just been looking after me, putting me

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Speaker 9: on in they wing like the quarterback they real deal.

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Speaker 7: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Well, that means they see something in you and they

830
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Speaker 4: know that it's a relationship that helps everybody. Right, When

831
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Speaker 4: the quarterbacks and receivers are on the same page, you

832
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Speaker 4: get to make plays.

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Speaker 7: They get to make plays. So it all worked. So

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Speaker 7: I've never seen him make play the quarterbacks also making

835
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Speaker 7: a play.

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Speaker 8: Yes, it's good.

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Speaker 4: Everybody wins a lot of winning. That's what we want

838
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Speaker 4: to see. What did Sammy Sadi after that game?

839
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Speaker 9: In the touchdown, he was just telling me to keep

840
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 9: working enough I get satisfied. He would just telling me

841
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 9: that ain't nothing. Just told them to keep going, all right.

842
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Speaker 4: I would like maybe a little more positive, like it's

843
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 4: a nice route, but then also keep going. Yeah, okay,

844
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Speaker 4: all right, good, good, good. What's something you want Cleveland

845
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 4: Browns fans to know about you?

846
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 8: H just on my hardwork.

847
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 9: I put guy first and and I bring my hunter

848
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Speaker 9: tim percent every day.

849
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Speaker 8: I'm just a hardworker.

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Speaker 7: Awesome.

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Speaker 4: It is a pleasure getting to know you. Great scene

852
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 4: out there, had that success. Keep it going, man, everybody's

853
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 4: rooting for you.

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00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 8: Yes, I appreciated. Nice minutes.

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Speaker 7: Nice meeting you too.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we'll be back more.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I have people in the building that

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Speaker 2: can tell me the truth, and I think that's really

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Speaker 2: important because I don't want this to be a place

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Speaker 2: where I don't get the truth from our guys.

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Speaker 4: we just heard from Austin Watkins and when you're a

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Speaker 4: guy you know you've bounced around. You heard him talk

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Speaker 4: about it. At one point his kind of faith was broken.

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Speaker 4: He goes and plays in the USFL. He's the cousin

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Speaker 4: of Sammy Watkins, so he also knows what it's like

879
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 4: to have a family member who's played in the league.

880
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 4: You know, when you hear that kind of a story

881
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 4: and then he's able to come out and have some success,

882
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 4: you know, what does that make you feel? And what

883
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 4: did you see from Austin Watkins? Is he a guy

884
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 4: that you know maybe has a chance here with the

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00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns.

886
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I certainly believe he does.

887
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 5: Nathan and I took notes of Austin Watkins and practice

888
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 5: number two or three in which they were doing gunner work. Yeah,

889
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 5: and I watched Greenbrier and I watched him just run

890
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 5: away from guys and was very aggressive with and I said,

891
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 5: that's how you can make this team right there. And

892
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 5: then I went on to see him make catches in practice.

893
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 5: So he's certainly cut my eye early on, because you're

894
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 5: always looking for that guy who's doing everything the right

895
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 5: way and busting as you know what in the process,

896
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Speaker 5: and he's been doing that and send me gave him

897
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Speaker 5: the best advice.

898
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Speaker 6: That's just the start.

899
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Speaker 5: Do that for the next four weeks and beyond, and

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Speaker 5: you can find yourself in a very advantageous spot. Maybe

901
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 5: you make the fifty three man roster, or at least

902
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 5: you find yourself in a practice squad with the team

903
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 5: who likes you, because it all starts there, just having

904
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 5: someone to like you and want to keep you around.

905
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Speaker 5: But he's certainly so far has done those things, Nathan

906
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Speaker 5: and I love what he had to say, just about

907
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 5: getting his priority straight. Did you pick up where you

908
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 5: had asked her how he's been doing and he said,

909
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Speaker 5: I'm up to midnight studying my playbook.

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00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 6: That's exactly what you want to hear.

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00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: It is exactly what you want to hear.

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Speaker 4: And how helpful is it to have somebody in this

913
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Speaker 4: case for him, a resource like his cousin Sammy Watkin

914
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 4: Watkins who's been in the league as a young player

915
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 4: really trying to make it.

916
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 5: That's huge because he can speak to him on the experience,

917
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 5: what he may be thinking and going through at the time,

918
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Speaker 5: and how you overcome those mental hurdles that will present themselves.

919
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 5: And when you do have that symbolism of success to

920
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 5: keep you humble, realize you have not arrived yet. You

921
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 5: have a long way to go in his process. But

922
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Speaker 5: I love the story, the fact that he's in the

923
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Speaker 5: USFL so he's been doing nothing but playing ball of late.

924
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 5: So just keep on grinding. But that's a tremendous help

925
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 5: because again, you have someone who's been through it, knows

926
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 5: what it's all about and knows what to expect, so

927
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 5: you're not walking into it blind.

928
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: All right, let's go around the league, now, Gerrod.

929
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Speaker 4: We're gonna start with the Washington Commanders, the team the

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00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 4: Browns are playing this Friday. Head coach Ron Rivera in

931
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 4: public discuss the fact that multiple players had come to

932
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Speaker 4: him about offensive coordinator Eric b Enemy's intensity, his practice intensity,

933
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 4: the way he had spoken to some of the players.

934
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 4: I guess, you know, kind of really giving them the

935
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 4: business reading the riot Act, being too tough on them. Okay,

936
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 4: number one, what are your thoughts on just players saying

937
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 4: that this coach is too tough on me? Is that possible?

938
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Speaker 4: And you know, let's start with that, and then the

939
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 4: second part we'll get to is the head coach.

940
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: Airing this laundry in the media.

941
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 4: But let's start with just the original players going to

942
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 4: their head coach to complain about Eric enemy.

943
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 6: Cotton Nell Sharman.

944
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 5: What else can you think of the soft I mean,

945
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even get that he's And on

946
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 5: top of that, how hard could these practices really be?

947
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 5: You're not going thrue too double days, So what are

948
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 5: you lamenting and complaining about for starters?

949
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 6: Right there?

950
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 5: So I don't get it, Nate Dogg in the fact

951
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 5: that they didn't go to him but they went to

952
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 5: the head coach, that is extremely suspect.

953
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 6: How you think it gonna build trust between yourselves?

954
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 5: And it had to be starters because no second, yes

955
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 5: and third stream guys are gonna do that.

956
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 6: So right there, that poses a problem.

957
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 4: Agreed, And so I think what's kind of come out

958
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 4: as people have talked, who understand Eric beneme is coaching South,

959
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 4: He's very hard on the players in the sense that

960
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,479
Speaker 4: he will be verbally very abrasive, like.

961
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: Get this right, you peep pee peep? You know. So

962
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: that's kind of I think, and.

963
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 4: I think today's aff leet it's not as and I

964
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Speaker 4: don't think they should be like verbally abused.

965
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 1: I think that'd be awful.

966
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 4: But I think it is a different world than if

967
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 4: you're a coach who has more of a Parcelian mindset.

968
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: It's tough today, right.

969
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 6: It certainly is.

970
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 5: And coming from the Belichickian school of thought, which is

971
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 5: a branch of Parcelingians, I feel the following way that

972
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 5: one don't disrespect me and curse at me. Yep, that

973
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 5: that doesn't have to be the case, right, So that's

974
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 5: something to be said about that. But at the same time,

975
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 5: just because you yelled at me for my mistakes, I

976
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 5: need to be stronger and tougher than that that I

977
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 5: don't fall apoint and go run to the head coach

978
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 5: because I don't like what you're saying. Let me be

979
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 5: a man and go to use a coach. Look, you

980
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 5: can coach me hard, but you don't have to curse

981
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 5: at me, because I find it very disrespectful. And we

982
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 5: do live in a different day and age. Because when

983
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 5: I was coming through, it was clearly evident that there

984
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 5: was no such thing as HR in the NFL world.

985
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 5: But now that may not be the case because you

986
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 5: do take guys feelings into consideration.

987
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: All right.

988
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 4: How surprised already that Ron Rivera air this in public.

989
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 6: Shocked to a degree, because that's what I start thinking.

990
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 5: I start thinking, Okay, Ronnie, you think he's your air

991
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 5: parent trying to take your jobs, so you're trying to

992
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 5: cut him off at the higher one already he hired up.

993
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 5: Well that's the thing though, Why did he hire him?

994
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 5: And yes, you're Alrighty hired him. But we never know

995
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 5: the reasons why people hire people either, you know what

996
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 5: I mean. Sometimes it could be because and I don't

997
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 5: know where they have a track record of coaching on

998
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 5: the same team together. Now granted, Andy Reid and ron

999
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 5: Rivera or on the coaching South together in Philadelphia, so

1000
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 5: I know where that stems from. So obviously andyvouch for him.

1001
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 5: So that's a foot in the door right there. But

1002
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 5: this definitely fills has all the sentiment and smell of

1003
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 5: a bad situation. What gon't to happen because you don't

1004
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 5: do that. You don't throw your coach under the bus.

1005
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 5: You're coordinating on the bus, and in a lot of ways,

1006
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 5: you threw the players under the bus.

1007
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, not ideal.

1008
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: The Browns will see the Commanders this Friday at Cleveland

1009
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 4: brown Sadam some x Browns in the news. Kareem Hunt

1010
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 4: did not sign with the New Orleans Saints his previous

1011
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 4: year report. He's now visiting Indy, who apparently call the

1012
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 4: last second to offer him more money. Jadevian Clowney, who

1013
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 4: absolutely can still go there. There's a lot that comes

1014
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 4: with that, but he can still go. He visited the

1015
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens today and John Johnson the Third signed back

1016
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 4: with the Rams. Fans the Browns Leader help picking the

1017
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 4: field design for the twenty twenty three season. All fans

1018
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,720
Speaker 4: are encouraged to vote to decide what design and logo

1019
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 4: will be featured at midfield at Cleveland Brown Stadium. So

1020
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 4: visit Cleveland Browns dot com slash field Vote to cast

1021
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 4: your vote today when we come back, stock up, step up,

1022
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: Final thoughts we get ready for preseason game number two.

1023
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Speaker 4: On the Kevin Stefanski Show on the University Hospitals Cleveland

1024
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 4: Brown's Radio Network for.

1025
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: May, I'm just trying to make the right decision for

1026
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: each of our players.

1027
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 3: This is the Coach Kevin Stefanski Show. You're listening to

1028
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: the University Hospitals Cleveland Brown's Radio Network.

1029
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 4: Back by popular demand from your favorite four legged companion.

1030
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,319
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00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 4: ready Friday night at seven thirty Cleveland Brown Stadium the

1034
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 4: Browns the Commander's preseason game number two. Our pregame show

1035
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 4: will get you ready all along the University Hospital, cleveld

1036
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 4: Brown Radio Network at three thirty pm. All Right, girod

1037
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: As we get ready for this. Whos stock is up?

1038
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 4: Heading into preseason game number two?

1039
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 5: It's really easy to assert that you got Dimitri Feldon

1040
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 5: stock up, Kelly stock up, Watkins Austin stock up, and

1041
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 5: DTR stock up.

1042
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of those young guys.

1043
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 4: I'll even add another young guy and a veteran stock up,

1044
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 4: Dwan Jones, big fanos impressive debut for the Browns at

1045
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 4: right tackle. And then also Jordan Kunashik, the veteran. He

1046
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 4: is beloved by coaches, teammates, everybody. He continues to go

1047
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 4: out there and ball out. Jason Tarbor today said that

1048
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 4: it feels like every rep Kunashik takes is teaching tape,

1049
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 4: so obviously his stock is up for the Cleveland Browns.

1050
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 4: All right, step up time, Drod, what do you need

1051
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 4: to see on Friday?

1052
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 5: It's really simple to see the special teams unit do

1053
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 5: a much better job from the kicking game, kickoff return,

1054
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 5: kickoff coverage, punt return, punt coverage, as well as the

1055
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 5: field goal unit.

1056
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 6: Step up.

1057
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 5: You have way too good of a coach, a guy

1058
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 5: who's done it at the highest levels, that knows what

1059
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 5: he's talking about.

1060
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 6: He can teach it. Giving you tuolage.

1061
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 5: You have to step up and put out a better

1062
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 5: brand of special teams play come this Friday.

1063
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, Girod.

1064
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: That was kind of one of the down spots for

1065
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns, and I'll go dive into special teams

1066
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 4: kde York. Everything's got to go through the uprights so

1067
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 4: that we have that confidence going into Week one when

1068
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 4: we open the season in our division against the Bengals,

1069
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 4: than Monday Night Football at the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week

1070
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 4: four against Baltimore Ravens, that we know you are a

1071
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 4: weapon and he's had such a good offseason, he's had

1072
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 4: a lot of promise, a lot of flash. But that

1073
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 4: miss definitely a little concerning Game one. So step up

1074
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 4: to Cade York, all Right, again seven point thirty This Friday,

1075
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 4: the Browns and the Commanders three thirty. We kick off

1076
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 4: the coverage for you with the pregame show All long

1077
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Speaker 4: the University Hospitals Cleveland Brown's Radio Network for our coordinating

1078
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 4: producer Meredith Kane, for our executive producer Jason Gibbs, an

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Speaker 4: assistant to the executive producer who No, I'm Nathan Zegura

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00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: on behalf of Gerrod Cherry.

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Speaker 1: Thanking you for.

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Speaker 4: Listening to the Kevin Stefanski Show all along the University

1083
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Speaker 4: Hospitals Cleveland Brown's Radio Network.

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Speaker 3: You've been listening to the Coach Kevin Stefanski Show. Join

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00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 3: us next week at this time for more from the

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Speaker 3: head coach of the Cleveland Browns. This broadcast is a

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