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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of building Brown Town.

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Speaker 2: And today I am joined by the two time NFL

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Speaker 2: Coach of the Year and the head coach of your

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns, Kevin Stefancy coach.

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Speaker 1: Good to be with you, Yeah, great to be with you,

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Speaker 1: Nathan all right.

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Speaker 2: You always talk about the fans taking care of the

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Speaker 2: fans having that home field advantage.

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Speaker 1: When you think.

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Speaker 2: About being able to put the best fans in the

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Speaker 2: NFL into a world class facility, the enclosed Huntington Bank Stadium,

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Speaker 2: what does that mean to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I just can imagine, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think about, obviously the visuals of it, and I've

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Speaker 4: seen the renderings of how close our fans are to

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Speaker 4: the field, which is an amazing thing both for our

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Speaker 4: fans and for our football team to get them closer

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Speaker 4: to our opponents. But my mind goes right to the

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Speaker 4: decibel level of what that creates. And I was blessed

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Speaker 4: to be around when they built a beautiful stadium in Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: US Bank Stadium. It is really loud, and I can

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Speaker 4: tell you I can remember being a young coach in

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Speaker 4: the Metrodome, which was loud, and they built this beautiful,

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Speaker 4: world class, first class facility, and I I was thinking

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Speaker 4: to myself, is this going to be as loud as

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Speaker 4: the Metrodome? And I think the first game of the

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Speaker 4: season that year was versus the Packers maybe Sunday at Football.

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Speaker 3: Not positive about that.

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Speaker 4: But I remember the first third down of that game

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Speaker 4: and the level went to a decimal level I'd never heard.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I never heard.

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Speaker 4: In playing football, whether it's at or coaching football at

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Speaker 3: It was ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: And talk about an advantage for the home team when

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Speaker 4: it's really hard for the other team to operate and

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Speaker 4: get in and out of the huddle and do checks

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Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage on third down, it is

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Speaker 4: such a huge advantage. So my mind immediately goes while

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Speaker 4: beautiful and I'm sure there's great bathrooms and concessions and

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Speaker 4: all that, but that noise level is such a huge

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Speaker 4: advantage for that home team when you can have it

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Speaker 4: bouncing off the walls like it will be at our place.

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Speaker 2: Thanks people talk about already come into the dog Pound.

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Speaker 2: It's difficult to deal with. It is a tough environment

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Speaker 2: to play and because of the crowd, and now that

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Speaker 2: sounds not going to be going out, it's going to

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Speaker 3: It's just going to be amplified.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the dog Pound has for years been just

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Speaker 4: the core of who we are from a fandom and

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Speaker 4: their effect that they have on the game. Already, it's

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Speaker 4: a rabid group in that Dog Pound, And all you're

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Speaker 4: doing in our building is just now turning up the.

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Speaker 1: Dial, which is going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Now when you're on offense, that's great for the defense, right,

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Speaker 2: all that noise when you're on offense, ideal conditions, This

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Speaker 2: is kind of how you came into the league, right

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Speaker 2: in beautiful conditions. You knew that, hey, whatever we put

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Speaker 2: wreck that. Just kind of from a coaching standpoint, from

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Speaker 2: an execution standpoint, all of it. What's it like, nohen

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Speaker 2: going into every home game, we are going to play

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Speaker 2: under ideal conditions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the skill players love that. I back

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks love that. And you look around the league and

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Speaker 4: you know playing indoors has its advantages and it certainly

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Speaker 4: does for that offense, for the quarterback, for the kicking game. Now,

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Speaker 4: there's always going to be elements that you're dealing with

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Speaker 4: of course, even within the game, it doesn't mean that

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Speaker 3: Be physical leaves you. You can be and you can think.

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Speaker 4: About the teams that play indoors now and have played

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Speaker 4: I don't think you don't lose that just because it's

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Speaker 2: You and I had an opportunity to do an event

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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago where you brought out some

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Speaker 2: notes from Brett Farre's time in Minnesota when you were

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you those guys, I think they take

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Speaker 1: Well later career. It could be a great recruiting.

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Speaker 3: Tool, yep.

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Speaker 4: I can think of some quarterbacks that get in later

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Speaker 4: for how many games? Yeah, So there's something to be

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Speaker 4: well the opposing offense has an advantage, Well, our defense

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Speaker 4: also gets the advantage of the decibels being turned up exponentially.

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Speaker 2: And is there something to the speed that you know

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Speaker 1: And there's a different way.

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Speaker 2: To kind of maybe craft your team to really maximize

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Speaker 2: only the home field advantage of the sound, but of

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Speaker 4: Without a doubt, I think speed becomes paramount when you're

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Speaker 4: talking about offense, defense or special teams. You're talking about

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Speaker 4: constructing a team that is built on speed. And again,

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Speaker 4: I hope that doesn't sound like you're getting away from physicality.

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Speaker 4: There's speed in physicality. We like pulling guards that can

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Speaker 4: it certainly changes the game a bit, but I think

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Speaker 2: So you kind of said anecdotal eight quarterbacks love to

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Speaker 3: They're lying if they say they do.

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Speaker 4: I think those guys like the elements to be you know,

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Speaker 4: the fact that we loved playing at Huntington bank Field

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Speaker 4: be December games that you're playing in January games that

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Speaker 4: you're playing outdoors, but in front of our fans. To

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Speaker 4: think will just be I just I can't imagine. The

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it.

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Speaker 2: That wall is going to be incredible for the dog

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Speaker 2: How did that kind of help in terms of you

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Listen, it's recruiting.

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Speaker 4: We know that when we have this beautiful facility, we're

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Speaker 4: I can picture it already, and you're going to put

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Speaker 4: it's a pretty special thing to think about having those

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're talk about support from the team. I

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Speaker 4: are in this place, and certainly our opponents are going

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Speaker 4: to feel that. But to feel that sense of community,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. I really I'm excited about it now.

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Speaker 2: When you kind of think about you and ab As

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Speaker 2: I talked about kind of both started there. From a

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Speaker 2: to win more often not when you can eliminate some

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Speaker 2: of those extraneous things. Does that kind of shape how

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Speaker 2: you think about, you know, the Cleveland Browns going forward,

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Speaker 2: and really to me, it sounds like it'd be the

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Speaker 2: ideal environment from a coaching standpoint, because we if we

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Speaker 2: execute and we have the better plan, we're going to win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: You do, obviously eliminate variables, but for both teams, it's

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Speaker 4: many of our great Super Bowls. They're played in ideal

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Speaker 2: I imagine as a coach as you assemble this team

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Speaker 2: even to twenty twenty nine, that if we put the

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Speaker 2: than not when we control that environment and we've got

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Speaker 2: the best fans making life hard. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The part that, again from my chair, that fires me

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Speaker 3: I mean it's going to be. Again, you think about

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Speaker 4: I think about Seattle, I think about New Orleans, I

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Speaker 2: People may not understand what are the challenges you're calling plays?

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Speaker 2: What are the challenges when you can produce that kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, as a fan base, we want our

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Speaker 4: used the word before, a rabbit. I mean it's true,

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Speaker 4: they're there, they're in the ear of that defense a

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Speaker 4: second that they're on the field, and that that's a

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Speaker 4: big advantage because on offense, you're trying to communicate personnels,

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Speaker 4: When you get the third down and you're in the

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Speaker 4: shotgun and they're on the silent count and Miles Garrett's

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Speaker 4: silent count. That's a huge advantage for the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 4: I think that's where our fans play such a huge

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Speaker 4: part in that advantage.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be awesome.

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait and coachpreciate the time and I can

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Speaker 2: tell you're fired up about it. We got a lot

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Speaker 2: of work to do in Huntington bank Field for now,

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Speaker 2: but the enclosed stadium that is going to be a blast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks Jasy,