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Speaker 1: in Barrie, Ohio. Is Cleveland Browns Daily on sp in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Bo Bishop and Nathan Zigura. Welcome

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Speaker 1: in to Cleveland Browns Daily. I am merely bow. He

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Speaker 1: is the great z on this special Friday Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: edition of the program. When you think Memorial Day, Sir,

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Speaker 1: that weekend one of my favorite weekends, official start of summer.

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Speaker 1: I do believe, even though not technically, what comes to

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Speaker 1: your mind? What do you enjoy most about the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day weekend? My friend? Well, first of all, blossom time

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Speaker 1: comes to my mind. The big festival, I would say,

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Speaker 1: in Chagrin Falls, and you get to have the parade,

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Speaker 1: and you get the old guys on the little teeny

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Speaker 1: cars scooting around those love them. It looks like so

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Speaker 1: much fun. Why can't I get one of those? I

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Speaker 1: of those cars. So I think of that. I think

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Speaker 1: of barbecues, family friends, ribs, and uh, you know, and

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Speaker 1: the Ray Hinch bloody Mary, which is the finest bloody mary.

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Speaker 1: He has his own mix. He won't tell anybody the recipe.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. If you're if he was feeling very good,

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Speaker 1: you know, he might drop you off one for a

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Speaker 1: You might get a craft of it, but that's it.

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Speaker 1: He will not give you the recipe, but you get

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Speaker 1: to have it a memorial day. Wow, I love the

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Speaker 1: sounds of that. That sounds fantastic. Do you love? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you hit it. I think it's family. It's

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Speaker 1: it's ribs. Will probably spend some time up at the lake.

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Speaker 1: The official started summer. You hope for weather, you know,

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Speaker 1: looks like the end of our weekend will be better

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And um, yeah, it's it's kicks it

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Speaker 1: off right, I mean we it's like, okay, we made it.

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Speaker 1: We made it through it all. We got through the winter,

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Speaker 1: we got through springs. Spring largely sucked. Maze been pretty good.

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Speaker 1: May has been pretty pretty good. Pretty day pretty good, um,

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Speaker 1: and so you hopefully you close May out strong and

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Speaker 1: us obviously, oh t a s this week, minicamp in

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and so uh some real business

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Speaker 1: that we have to get to here. Among the items

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Speaker 1: of business on this very special show, you are going

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Speaker 1: to get to meet a lot of our rookies. As

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest interviewers in all of the business,

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Speaker 1: the Great Z gonna go one on one with a

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys, including this conversation right now with

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Speaker 1: our first pick, our top draft pick, cornerback m j Emerson.

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Speaker 1: Let's have a listen. Let's go back a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. The Miss w W Superstar goes out there

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Speaker 1: the call before that. What was that moment like for you,

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Speaker 1: It was a great moment in my in My mom

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Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm ready to get to work. Honestly ready,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to play football again, you know, and just

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Speaker 1: Are a lot of these concepts similar to when I

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. So what's this been like? We've

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Speaker 1: the questions we have from our fans is, you know,

425
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Speaker 1: what is the biggest difference from you being a pro

426
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Speaker 1: versus a college player. That's from Jason K College College

427
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Speaker 1: college college. I take classes classes because I was so

428
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Speaker 1: used to you know, how how it was set up.

429
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Speaker 1: We would have practice, you know, go to classes in

430
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Speaker 1: the morning, lunch, practice, then we're right back to you know, studying. Uh,

431
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Speaker 1: there was like you know, there was as much football

432
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Speaker 1: with exception of film, I mean film study. But you

433
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Speaker 1: had classes, you had tests, you had work, you had

434
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Speaker 1: study hall. There was just so much. Just now is

435
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Speaker 1: like when I get home from practice, like I have

436
00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,880
Speaker 1: so much free time, so much free time. So that's

437
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Speaker 1: one thing that taught me, you know, just just handling

438
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Speaker 1: my time, and it me a little bit more because

439
00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,240
Speaker 1: I had so much doing college. Now I don't have

440
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Speaker 1: as much to do with the exteps in the football,

441
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,520
Speaker 1: but you know, watch film, you know, and do sports.

442
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Speaker 1: So I just say, just the time, and it's just

443
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Speaker 1: the biggest difference. And now your class, right, just learning

444
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,240
Speaker 1: the playbook and studying the film and all that. So

445
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Speaker 1: I know that that's what you're doing with the majority

446
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Speaker 1: of your free time, But what do you like to

447
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 1: do for fun in your free time when you are

448
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 1: not in the playbook and studying film. I like, I

449
00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,359
Speaker 1: like video games. What's your favorite game? Uh? Two K

450
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,119
Speaker 1: two K NBA two K okay? Right now, it's kind

451
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 1: of it's kind of a race because you know, war Zone,

452
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Speaker 1: College Duty. I'm more of a college Duty type of player,

453
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Speaker 1: Like I played College Duty, I play mad and I

454
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Speaker 1: played two K usc w DEWE. I'm one of like

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Speaker 1: I'm sports with this w w E game. Yeah, I'm

456
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Speaker 1: glad it's back. It's a good game. Yeah. I I

457
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Speaker 1: was saying videos and stuff like on take time and

458
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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I might have to end up getting

459
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Speaker 1: that game again because I was big. I was big

460
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Speaker 1: on w W when I was small, so like, you know,

461
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,119
Speaker 1: just SmackDown versus raw, w DEWE, twelve W two K,

462
00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 1: twelves stuff like that. And then I took like a

463
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Speaker 1: a break from it. And then when I started seeing

464
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 1: the game, players like I gotta get this game. Big

465
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,880
Speaker 1: wrestling fan. I like that. But now do you know

466
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Speaker 1: that there was back in the day a wrestler in

467
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Speaker 1: w c W named Alex Right. Yes, this I do.

468
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Speaker 1: I do that. You ever did dance yourself? That's That's

469
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Speaker 1: one thing I would see. I've seen people, you know,

470
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Speaker 1: I've seen people would tag me and when I got

471
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Speaker 1: drafted and I would look him up because I was

472
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Speaker 1: interested also, So it was like when I've seen it

473
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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he was in w c W. He

474
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Speaker 1: was you know, he was wrestling like Alex Right. But

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Speaker 1: you know that was even before I remember the times

476
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Speaker 1: before where were even you know, just being you know,

477
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Speaker 1: in high school just lit myself up, you know, and

478
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Speaker 1: he would prop up, So I was like, who is this?

479
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Speaker 1: So other than that, it was just it was just

480
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 1: like wow, like okay, okay, well there's two there's two

481
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 1: people out there. There's two people now there with Alice right,

482
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Speaker 1: just just think about it, just one time, because there

483
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people who know that Alex Right,

484
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: just one time, one sack and you just get up

485
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Speaker 1: and you do some of that. People lose their minds,

486
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Speaker 1: they will, they will, and I'm just think about I'm

487
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Speaker 1: already knowing, already know I don't I don't know if

488
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Speaker 1: I might think it would be hilarious when I when

489
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Speaker 1: I when I do say quarterbacks, is like, I don't

490
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Speaker 1: even think about a celebration. I would say I would

491
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Speaker 1: tell people I have a celebration, but it would never

492
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Speaker 1: come out. So it's like when I get to say,

493
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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta refresh my rat soon as soon

494
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Speaker 1: as I get up, I gotta hit I gotta hit

495
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Speaker 1: the dance. Well, I know you've already talked him out,

496
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 1: so maybe you're all about the business. Maybe we'll get

497
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Speaker 1: Miles to do the Alex Right dance for you. If

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Speaker 1: you get that for your first one, man, I think

499
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Speaker 1: it'd be a special moment. It might it might be,

500
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Speaker 1: it might be. I gotta ask him to see if

501
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Speaker 1: you do it first. So we're gonna we're gonna see.

502
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Speaker 1: I know we've already talked to him. What's that like

503
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Speaker 1: getting on your Hey, I'm coming right in the league.

504
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to play with one of the best

505
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Speaker 1: in the game. It was just, you know, that's just

506
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Speaker 1: a moment for me, you know, to take in, because

507
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Speaker 1: I've been watching him out since he was in college.

508
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: So and that's somebody I try to model my game after.

509
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Speaker 1: And it's gonna be even better experience for me, you know,

510
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 1: not to watch him, you know, online, but you know,

511
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: but watch him in person, and you know, I can

512
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Speaker 1: have the access you know to asking questions, you know,

513
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 1: ask him, how do you do this, what's your approach

514
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Speaker 1: to this, what do you do in case this happens,

515
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: and stuff like just you know, just picking his brain

516
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Speaker 1: a lot, a lot more than usual. So it's just

517
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Speaker 1: just I'm I'm I can't wait for that experience. You know.

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00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 1: Already talked to him a little bit, just just with

519
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: simple stuff off the field, you know, like get in

520
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Speaker 1: touch with a dietitian, you know, getting tips and whatnot.

521
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Speaker 1: So just just that's just the start of it all

522
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Speaker 1: right there. We are excited to have you here. This

523
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: has been a blast. Can't wait to see out there

524
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 1: on the field, and they will see a little bit,

525
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,919
Speaker 1: a little bit from the Cleveland Browns Alex right on

526
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Speaker 1: the other side of this quick time out Zegoes one

527
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Speaker 1: on one with the guy I absolutely loved in the draft,

528
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Speaker 1: but not quite as much as Kevin Stefanski receiver David Bell.

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Speaker 1: edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily, here's the one on one

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Speaker 1: with rookie receiver David Bell. First of all, congratulations are

537
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Speaker 1: in order on your graduation from college. I know you

538
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 1: got to do that over the weekend. What did you

539
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 1: major in? Major financial counsel and planning? Okay, all right,

540
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: so you're ahead of the game. You're gonna have sedimentars

541
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Speaker 1: right where they get you. Guys ready for that? You

542
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: are you gonna go up there and teach those for

543
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Speaker 1: bru U. No, I'm gonna live brewed to his job

544
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: and he can teach us and and I'm gonna just

545
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Speaker 1: continue to learn. Why was it important to you to graduate?

546
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Speaker 1: It was definitely important, though I think it's only been

547
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Speaker 1: a selecting a few of my family to accomplished college graduation,

548
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Speaker 1: So I just wanted to be added to that. Listen,

549
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Speaker 1: it's not just a good song for me, but It

550
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: gives a light in the community that you know, we

551
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Speaker 1: can go to college and we can graduate and be successful.

552
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Speaker 1: I know when we had talked last time that you

553
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Speaker 1: know one of the reasons you had chosen Perdue was

554
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Speaker 1: to stay close to your grandma. What was that day

555
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: like your graduation for your grandma? Saw the pictures everybody together. Yeah,

556
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Speaker 1: I think she was more excited about the graduation than

557
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Speaker 1: me actually getting drafted. So it definitely was good I had.

558
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen my grandma on my father's side from

559
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: Detroiting about four or five years, and she had the

560
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to come up. So just being around them at

561
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Speaker 1: a at a very minimum moment was definitely a good

562
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: enough definitely bus for opportunity. Was it kind of cool

563
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: to to be able to have that time with your family.

564
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Speaker 1: You get drafted, right, a couple of weeks go by,

565
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Speaker 1: you get to have rookie mini camp, you had the

566
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Speaker 1: two days to Friday and the Saturday, and then you

567
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Speaker 1: get to go do your graduation. So it wasn't like, oh,

568
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Speaker 1: you just got drafted. They could you can actually talk about, Hey,

569
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Speaker 1: I've actually done this, put the helmet on and all

570
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: of that. Was that kind of cool to be able

571
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Speaker 1: to have a little bit of activity in between. Yeah,

572
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: it definitely was cool. You know, getting no kind of

573
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: uh not shipped off, but you know taking off and

574
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Speaker 1: coming here to Cleveland and then being able to go

575
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Speaker 1: back and celebrate graduation was definitely a cool experience. What

576
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Speaker 1: were those first couple of days of mini camp like,

577
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Speaker 1: And I know you're a guy who loves to play

578
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Speaker 1: the game, so it actually get there While I wasn't

579
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Speaker 1: full on football, but you did get to put the

580
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Speaker 1: helmet on and run some routes. It was good to

581
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Speaker 1: be back out there, you know, being able to go

582
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Speaker 1: out mingle with some of our teammates, be able to

583
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Speaker 1: learn some of them and understand their background and stuff

584
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Speaker 1: like that, and just have an opportunity to work. But

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Speaker 1: that was just a good thing for me, being able

586
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Speaker 1: to get back on the field and get my feedback

587
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Speaker 1: onto me. And when we talked to you said, look,

588
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Speaker 1: I know that I'm gonna be playing more inside here

589
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: than I did in college. How am I gonna learn that?

590
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: How am I gonna adjust it? That's what you're curious

591
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Speaker 1: to say. After a couple of days, how would you

592
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Speaker 1: say you did I think I did? I think I

593
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: did okay. You know, it's not up to my standard yet.

594
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: It's definitely room for improvement. Uh just still got to

595
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: get into the playbook and make sure that I know everything,

596
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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's inside outside, what everyone does, because

597
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to, you know, be

598
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: using a lot of favors so they could just throw

599
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: me in and I'll be able to know what to do.

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Speaker 1: We talked about coach oh and you guys that initially

601
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: liked him right out of the gate. Now you got

602
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: to go watch them tape with them break down what

603
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: you did kind of what's that, how's that relationship evolving it?

604
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Speaker 1: And what did you take away from his kind of

605
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on your rookie Minicamp performance. I was definitely evolving

606
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Speaker 1: each and every day, each and every day, and the

607
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Speaker 1: receiving room or not just myself with all the other receivers,

608
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Speaker 1: all the other receivers in my rookie class. Uh. We

609
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: until he's a genuine guy, you know, being able to

610
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: sit down and ask some questions and you know, he

611
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: shoots a straight and make sure that we're you know,

612
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: on our p's and q's and just watching film and

613
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: just give me a few points here and there, so

614
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: so I can be the best football player that I

615
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: can be. I want you to hold your hand up

616
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: for the camera because I feel like I have pretty

617
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: big hands. You have huge hands. How what's did you

618
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: get measured at the combine? Yeah, I got measured. I

619
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna be a little bit bigger, but

620
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Speaker 1: I think it like nine and three fourths. Okay, I

621
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: was gonna say ten, felt like ten. They're very strong hands,

622
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Speaker 1: by the way, and I'm sure I'm not the first

623
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Speaker 1: person who's told you a very powerful handshake, a very

624
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: powerful drip. Is that something people told you for they

625
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: have and would be broken any hands? No, I haven't.

626
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: But my grandma taught me that this how to you

627
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: gotta be You gotta be firm, because when I used

628
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Speaker 1: to shake her hand, She's like, why are you chacking

629
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Speaker 1: my handsw soft? You know, man is supposed to And

630
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: ever since then, like it's just been yeah, there's no mistakes,

631
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Speaker 1: there's no mistakes shake. So yeah, she she taught me,

632
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: you know some good things. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt,

633
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: I would say. And my time here with the Browns,

634
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: I'm putting you second in terms of the most firm

635
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: handshake behind only Kevin Zeisler, who was a guard, very

636
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: good player, very big guy, very strong guy. Rarefied air.

637
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: You're like the second person where I'm like, okay, I'll

638
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 1: be maybe a little tentative when I'm going in there

639
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, I'm not afraid to shake hands.

640
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: But it's a strong grip. Does that help you? I mean,

641
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: clearly a very strong hands that help you catch it

642
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: definitely does. Being able to uh make contested catches, you know,

643
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: when people grabbing on you and just have those strong

644
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 1: camerass definitely is a benefit in today's game. We got

645
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: a fan question from Zack Ass what Kerner, former NFL receiver,

646
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: did you emulate? Did you want to model your game

647
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: after or just somebody that you enjoyed watching because you

648
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: enjoyed the way they played the game. That's a handful

649
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: off the top. I would to say Allen Robinson. I

650
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: was a big Allen Robinson guy, Stefon Diggs, Amara Cooper.

651
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: I've been watching uh a lot of Keenan Allen too.

652
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: I've been watching him for a few years. So I

653
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: probably have to say those people, I'm gonna throw a

654
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: name match you. This is that you remind just from

655
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: talking to you remind me of this guy a little bit,

656
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: and I think your game reminds me of them, just

657
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: because both Really An Kwan Bolden has everybody ever given

658
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: me any An Kwan Bolden comparisons for Yeah, yeah, so

659
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 1: I met with a GM of a team and that's

660
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: who he compared me to. So really it's a great compression.

661
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: I know it is for niners ings. Yeah, he's a

662
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: very very good He's a good player. So I mean,

663
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: if my career does paying out like his, when did

664
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: you develop that mentality, the ability to just be like,

665
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna catch the ball no matter what the situation

666
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: isn't and trust yourself to be able to protect yourself

667
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: and make the catch. I think the fearlessness came from

668
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: literal league. I was always running back. I didn't play

669
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: receiver into my freshmyor in high school, so of course

670
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: you got a run between the tackles and all that.

671
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: So it was just like hit the whole and then

672
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: take the hit. And getting hit from a defensive linement

673
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: is way different getting here from us safety or a corner,

674
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: so it's less of the impact. But I don't really

675
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: think about the fear when you're on the on the field,

676
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: because I think when you think of it, then that's

677
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: Tennessee of getting hurt not playing as fast as you can.

678
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: So do this guy to go out there feelless and

679
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: just make sure you know you're assignment. Just yeah, maybe

680
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: have a lot of great catches in college that were

681
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: very much in contested situations. Also a lot where you

682
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: got pretty darn wide open. And that's what things the

683
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: coaches like about you. And what's speaking of. I mean,

684
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: it's all now it's going viral, right, Kevin Defence. We

685
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: gotta get this guy how much he believes in you.

686
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure that makes you feel good. I know what

687
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: makes you probably want to prove him right definitely. Uh.

688
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: You know, with that that much trust he has in me,

689
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to come in every day work,

690
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: make sure I put my best foot forward and just

691
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: do my job at a consistently high level. You know,

692
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to learn the playbook and now we

693
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: want to play to learn my way around the building

694
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: or learn people names and put the name of the faces.

695
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: But you know, I think once I get everything down,

696
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: pat Uh, I think I can you know, prove them right,

697
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: like you said, all right, this is a question from

698
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: Sherry Ellen said, if you had the opportunity to sit

699
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: down and talk with any NFL player, dead or alive,

700
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: who would it be and why I would have to

701
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: even though he was in our division. I have said

702
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: Red growing up like that, it was a big I

703
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: read and Troy, I have to say, a read just

704
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: the way that he always had that dog nonstenees on defense,

705
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 1: but the ball is his and on special teams, you know,

706
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: being able to go out there, play aggressive and stuff

707
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: like that. Just to see how you know he did

708
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: his daily routine and what it made him be so successful.

709
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: We're certainly excited to have you here and hope to

710
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: see you reach that full potential. I love you putting

711
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: the work and I had great talk to you. Listen,

712
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted to be here the whole time.

713
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: So he's smiling just like that. On the other side

714
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Speaker 1: of this quick time out, the one you've probably all

715
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Speaker 1: been waiting for, Z one on one with Perry and Winfrey.

716
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Speaker 1: He stole your hearts at the draft. He'll steal your

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Speaker 1: is the one on one with Perry and Winfrey. Perry

723
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: on we got to talk your draft night. What you

724
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: did that night incredible. It's still everybody and he said,

725
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: there's no love like the love from Cleveland. You caused that, man,

726
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: You caused that with that energy, it was infectious. When

727
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: you go back and relive that night. What do you

728
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: think about it now here a couple of weeks removed.

729
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change the thing. I'm blessed just to be here,

730
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that this is the team that drafted me.

731
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: And I'm grateful to have such a crazy fan base.

732
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: I love everything about this organization. So so going to Oklahoma,

733
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: You've played in front of a crazy fan base, right,

734
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: you have dealt some big games, and so when you

735
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: come here and you feel this fan base, now, were

736
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: you surprised, Like did you have any idea what it

737
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: was gonna be like coming to Cleveland. I'll always be

738
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: a Sooner but the Browns fans are way more crazier

739
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: than Oklahoma fans are. It doesn't even come close. Like

740
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think about how crazy they are about

741
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: the sport of football at this and this they they

742
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: love it, they love it. They live for you. The

743
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame is here in Ohio because

744
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: that's what Ohio is all about. And so now you

745
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: get to come in here to this team, this city.

746
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: You've already felt the love for the fans. People are

747
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: already getting to the airport to get you to sign

748
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: many but a lot of you know, we heard in

749
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: the energy and I'm like excited to sit here with you.

750
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: I have a lot of energy to you. Bring it though,

751
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: on a whole another level. Right now, you're nice and

752
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: subduing here. You hear about the business, about the work.

753
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: But when you get into those places, when you get

754
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: that amped, where does it come from? When is it?

755
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Have you always been like that? I mean, it's just

756
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: been in me, Like it's just something that's always been

757
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: a part of my life. I feel like that's something

758
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: that I've always tried to bring into my game. I

759
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: feel like I'm not the same period player when I'm

760
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: out there, just going through the motions like I'm always

761
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: one of those guys who's gonna bring juice and energy

762
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: and gonna be on the sideline bark and losing my mind,

763
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: making sure all my teammates ready to go. What Kevin

764
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: Stefanski would say, if you're juiceless, you're useless. You will

765
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: never be useless, right, certainly, not because I know, but

766
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: you say, no, Pope, all kinds exactly because concentrate, and

767
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: you certainly are when you come in here, and it's

768
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: one thing right to come in and you're you're a loud,

769
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: you're fired up, and you want to you want to work,

770
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: and you're gonna push everybody to work. You go from

771
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: being you know, the guy in college right to coming

772
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: into the NFL and now it's like, Oh, I'm in

773
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: a new locker room. How do I fit in? How's

774
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: that been? Kind of that transition coming here, beating the coaches,

775
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: meeting your teammates. I feel like I've always been a

776
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: people person, so people just migrate to me easy. So

777
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: I've I've already um built a lot of relationships with

778
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: people on the team, and I just can't wait for

779
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: the veterans to come in and see how we all

780
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: mowed in together. But I feel like I won't have

781
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: a worry about me and then I feel like all

782
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: of our personalities are gonna come in and we're gonna

783
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: be able to baud right away because we all have

784
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: the same common goal and we all dogs. So that's

785
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: that's right. Literally the Dog Pound. Did you feel like

786
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: that was something that chind of you know, I know

787
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: you said it was destiny nine seven you get the college,

788
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: you can get number ninety seven. You felt like that

789
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: was destiny. You said, your mom was done, your dad was,

790
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: You're born to dog. You had no choice but to

791
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: be a dog, and now here you are with the

792
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: dogs of the NFL. It's crazy. Yeah, it's definitely a blessing.

793
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: I feel like this was the perfect organization for me,

794
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: if you're being honest, Like, just for everything that I

795
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: stand for and just like the principles that I live

796
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: by and how did I how I move in my

797
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: day to day life. Just to be able to be

798
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: a part of the Dog Pounded just a blessing. Well,

799
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: he said that the principles you live by. What are

800
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: the principles you live by? Uh? Definitely a strong family man.

801
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: I show a ton of love to everybody that has

802
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: ever shown love to me in my life. Kind of

803
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: like you said, I'm always do stuff, ready to go,

804
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: and just making sure that anybody around me that's trying

805
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: to do good things in their life, I'm making sure

806
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: that I motivated them to be the best person they

807
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: can be every day. I like that. That's good. So

808
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: when you're fired off, you go through a game, for example,

809
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: how do you kind of wind yourself down? What do

810
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: you like to do to wind down? Because you gotta

811
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: you can't be here all the time. You gotta be

812
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: able to come down a little bit. I probably say

813
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: I'd take a cold shower, to be honest, and I

814
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: just sit in my room, turning lights off and just

815
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: meditate because I put turn my phones off, get away

816
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: from everything and just focus on myself and just meditate

817
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: for like probably fifteen and thirty minutes. And then after that,

818
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: I'm calm, so ready to go, all right. So two

819
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: things then to get to start to get fired up?

820
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: To start the fire process, what do you like to

821
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: listen to? And I that was one of the songs

822
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: Pat said, what's your go to pregame song to start

823
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: to get you in the zone, right, So I probably

824
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: I probably start off with a lot of rap music

825
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: and then like I say, like an hour before the game,

826
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: I go into like arm bere like old school, like

827
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 1: I listened to Ray Charles or something just to give

828
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: me like medal it out and calm. And then like

829
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: right before we go out, then I'll start to listen

830
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: to rap music again just to give me juice uff

831
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: in ampton ready to go. Favorite artists or a favorite time.

832
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: I probably seen my favorite artists right now is a

833
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: little baby, but I won't. I don't have a favorite song.

834
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: You got too many goods, many good ones. The whole

835
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: catalog beautiful. And then so when you go to do

836
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: your meditation, is there anything that you listen to? Is

837
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: there a mood you try to set for that or

838
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: do you have you manstered it or you just start

839
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: breathing and all. I usually I used to listen to

840
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: like ocean stuff and stuff, but I like I started

841
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: to like more like the piece and quiet just listening

842
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: to my read the more. So that's what I usually do,

843
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: all right. And then you mentioned also the cold Shower

844
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: Chase Wine bitch who plays on the defensive line with

845
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: you a veteran. You'll meet dude. I just met him

846
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: in the locker room like a great guy. Yeah, he

847
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: was like, you gotta be juiced up, bro, I'm ready

848
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: to go. Let's do it. He's a big guy. He

849
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Speaker 1: told me about this. He loves he likes take a

850
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Speaker 1: shower like normal and then at the end he likes

851
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: to turn the water cold and just like staying there

852
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: in the coldness. And he said, then I'll send your

853
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: heir voices in your head and you walk out you're

854
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: all fired up right again. Yeah, so there is and

855
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: there's science behind that, folks. You can write that down. Ye,

856
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: write that down. What's it been like with Coach Kiffin

857
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: so far? I honestly have a great relationship with Coach Kiffin.

858
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: Like I'm a big fan of Coach Kiffing. We came

859
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: in and bond it right away. I feel like he's

860
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: a great coach and he's teaching us a lot of

861
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: stuff that I can see that's gonna apply to the

862
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: game right away. And I just love how we're practicing.

863
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: I love the jewels that we're doing. You can definitely

864
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: tell he knows what he's doing. Take it easy on

865
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Speaker 1: those dummies like cow it's like flying across the field there.

866
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: What was it like to get the helmet on, put

867
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Speaker 1: your uniform on? And I know it's not the game uniform,

868
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: but to put that on for the first time? Was

869
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: that kind of a cool movie? Just to take a

870
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: brief deep breath and just to finally realize that I'm

871
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: part of the NFL team was definitely crazy. And then

872
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: just to see myself in the NFL helmet and just

873
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: knowing that I'm finally a part of a team. It

874
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: was crazy just to think about and to think about

875
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: the type of players that I'm about to be playing

876
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: against and with. So, yeah, all right, I want talking

877
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: about something that was real because when we got after

878
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: we talked to you know, then you go and you're like,

879
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's watch them tape on this guy

880
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: Iowa State. That's one of the biggest hits I've ever seen.

881
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: When you're coming around and chasing him down from the

882
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: back side, did you have any idea because he ducks

883
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: into it, which makes it even more violent, But did

884
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Speaker 1: you know at the time, like this is going to

885
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: be one of those I kind of That's why I

886
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: pushed the ref out the way a little bit if

887
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,959
Speaker 1: you watch the clip, because I knew something was bad

888
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: was about to happen. I honestly pissed off that he

889
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: didn't fumble. I wish I could have hit him a

890
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: little harder, but yeah, so you hit him right there.

891
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: What was your What were your teammates saying? Like, because

892
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: that was one where that's everybody on the football fields.

893
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: I like, no, they were losing their mind like I've

894
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: never seen, like some of my teammates on the sideline,

895
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: Like it's funny looking at their reactions, Like the quietest

896
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: people on my team were going crazy, squirting the water bottles.

897
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: Coaches losing their mind. It was crazy. All right to

898
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: be as juice s up as you are and have

899
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,479
Speaker 1: this energy, it requires fuel. What would be your favorite meal?

900
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: If you could say, this is what I want right now,

901
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: it's parrying win free day, this is the meal that's

902
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: being served, I probably say chicken, chicken and shrimp, Alfredo,

903
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: chicken and trig. You did, you're a big alfredo guy.

904
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: What's your favorite kind of pasta? Um? Like from the

905
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Speaker 1: noodle standpoint, I probably say I fet a CHENI often

906
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: goes well with an alfredo. Yeah, I probably they you

907
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: were in there earlier this week they had the feta chini.

908
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: They don't learn were you trushing? Of course you are,

909
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: of course you are all right. Last one because my

910
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: first opportunity to ask this question. I always like to

911
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: let asking you guys this. There's a lot about you.

912
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: Are fans already now you put it out there. You

913
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: got the energy, we know the mentality. We know you're

914
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: gonna bring passion, we know you're gonna bring it on

915
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: the field. But what's something about you that you want

916
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: the Browns fans to know that they probably don't know,

917
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 1: like maybe something just could be off the wall, anything,

918
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: just anything about you. So when they look out there

919
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 1: they see ninety seven, they're gonna know all the dogs stuff,

920
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: they're gonna know all about that. What something you want

921
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: them to think about when they see you playing, see

922
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: me playing anything? If you if you're around me, like

923
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: you could be around me for like an hour, you're

924
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: probably gonna black about fifteen times. Like I'm constantly cracking

925
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: jokes and stuff, so you're gonna love it if you're

926
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: around me the amount of time. So are these natural

927
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: jokes or do you have like a routine like because

928
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: I don't like when people like trying to force funny.

929
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm naturally funny. Like I don't

930
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: got to know. It just depends like what I see

931
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: or what what's happening like just some observational kind of

932
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: exactly like a new like Seinfelder. All right, I like it. Well,

933
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Speaker 1: harry On, this has been a great, great pleasure. So

934
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: happy to finally get an opportunity to sit down with you.

935
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: I've been wanting I've been wanting to do this since

936
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: the day you were talking the phone. Man you're by

937
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: to come through the phone. I'm like, let's go, let's go. Well,

938
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: welcome to the Browns once again and excited to see

939
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: you go this year. You already coming up at the

940
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Speaker 1: top of the hour's e goes one on one with

941
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Speaker 1: a guy that is going to be counted on kicker.

942
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Speaker 1: Katee York joins the program. You listen to a special

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Speaker 1: edition of Clee the Brown's Daily on a fifty ESPN

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Speaker 1: And now here's the one on one with our new kicker,

966
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Speaker 1: kde York. I'm thrilled to get to talk to you.

967
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: I talked down the phone. I've seen your interviews. Dude,

968
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: your cool is a cucumber. Are you always just kind

969
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: of like a very steady person and everything you do?

970
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: I mean that guess that's kind of part of the gig.

971
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: So in your line of work, no doubt the culture

972
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: of calm. Have you heard anybody say that since you've

973
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: been here? So that's you've met Kevin Stefanski, You've met

974
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: Andrew Berry, I'm sure I don't if you've met Paul

975
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: Divedessi yet, but the three of them pretty calm. Similar culture, calm,

976
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: very calm. See that. Have you been come your whole life?

977
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: I have my moment um all yeah, I mean it's

978
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: definitely something that it's a mindset kind of locking in.

979
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: I guess, um, there are times that I will not

980
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: be a calm person and kind of take up the room.

981
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: But also, when you're a kicker, you can't always do that.

982
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: So I kind of had to find the balance. Fifteen

983
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: field goals of more than fifty yards in college. I've

984
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: quoted that surgical vile. They said, I didn't even know

985
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: there was a kicker ever even attempted fifteen fifty yard

986
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: field goals in college. Obviously, the faith was there, the

987
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: calm was there, right, your coach believed, and you demonstrated

988
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: in practice you were able to go out there and

989
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: do it in games. We know the big ones that

990
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: you've hit the fifty seven yard against Florida. When did

991
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: you know I'm pretty good at this? Because it had

992
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: to be and I know you're a soccer guy. Initially,

993
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: there had be a moment where you're like, I'm pretty

994
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: this is good, I'm pretty good at this. It would

995
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: have been after the into my sophomore season for sure. Um.

996
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: Leading up to that, it was freshman year, I had

997
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: an okay season, good tides, downsides, um. But coming into

998
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: sophomore season, I went through a pretty strong season, had

999
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: some big kicks, and was able to bounce back after

1000
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: bad ones and those last two games I went like

1001
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: seven for seven and had that big one against Florida

1002
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: and kind of surreal. In the moment, you don't necessarily

1003
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,439
Speaker 1: notice it, but once you move on from that moment,

1004
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: you realize, Okay, that's what people are gonna ask me

1005
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: about for the rest of my life when the either

1006
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: bring up kicking or l s U. So after that

1007
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: I kind of realized, okay, kind of have a shot

1008
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: at this being or going on the next level, and

1009
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: it worked out. So here you are, here, I am

1010
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: here you are. What change do you think between that

1011
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: freshman sophomore year? Um, big time mental game? Um, you

1012
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: only grow so much physically after high school. It's like,

1013
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna grow physically more and get stronger and

1014
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Um, anybody can make it feel if

1015
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: you can. I've been able to kick a six yard

1016
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: field goal since I was a sophomore in high school.

1017
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: My leg talent necessarily hasn't grown exponentially. But what's changes

1018
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: consistency being able to do it over and over again,

1019
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: and then moving into college, when you're kicking in front

1020
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: of a hundred plus thousand people, your mental game has

1021
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: to just go to a new level and grow exponentially.

1022
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: You said you're competitive. Are you a person who's like

1023
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: competitive everything. You're playing a board game you want to

1024
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: win that? Or are you competitive in what you would

1025
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: consider your area of expertise. It's gotten better as I've

1026
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 1: grown up. I know Monopoly used to get rough back

1027
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: when I as a kid, and we sorry in games

1028
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: like that. So board games weren't very common when growing

1029
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 1: up because of stuff like that, me and my sister.

1030
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: But definitely competitive and most saying it is very competitive football, golf, um,

1031
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: anything in the weight room, stuff like that. I'm competitive everywhere. Alright, golf,

1032
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: you brought it up, so I know that you want

1033
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: to go through your career as a kicker, you want

1034
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: to be the next Justin Tecker, And I'm sure as

1035
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: a golfer you want to be the next aldel Greco

1036
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: where you can go win all those celebrity things when

1037
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: you're playing careers over as a golfer. So you're twelve

1038
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: these days, is that about right? Um? I haven't been

1039
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: playing as my just spring because of training usually or

1040
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: last spring, I was hovering around anywhere. Now, what would

1041
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: you say is the strength of your game? Actually, I

1042
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: flushed my irons pretty well and my short game is

1043
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: pretty good. The problem of when I get either like

1044
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: start getting to the mid to low eighties or if

1045
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: I'm up in the nineties is if my driver is

1046
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: hitting the fairways. One of the things that thought was

1047
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: was cool when you said you talk the field Austin

1048
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: that you know, he said, you gotta get used to

1049
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: maybe the ball not going directly down the middle of

1050
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: the uprights. Is that kind of part of a mentality

1051
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: for you of aim small, miss small, so you're always

1052
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: looking to get it right down the middle. Well, that

1053
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: comes from the idea of when the winds get tough

1054
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: here later on the year, it's you've got to play

1055
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: to basically increase your room for air. Um, So if

1056
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: the wind is blowing hard right to left, some people

1057
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: my aim outside the uprights and just hit a ball

1058
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: that plays all end. But if I hit my best ball,

1059
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna play dead straight. But the part about kicking

1060
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: is you're not always gonna hear your best ball. Like

1061
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: in college, maybe hit my best ball like percent a time.

1062
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: It's not. It's not that often, or you want it

1063
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: to be as often as you can, but you get.

1064
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: The thing I've always tried to do is my B ball,

1065
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: which is not my best ball, but still a good ball.

1066
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: It's got to make almost every kick I go out for.

1067
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: So to someone that doesn't know too much about kicking,

1068
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: they might not even notice the difference. But for me,

1069
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: especially in practice, when I look at results, I'm not

1070
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: just looking if it goes in or not. I'm looking, Okay,

1071
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: do I actually like the ball hit? Is that going

1072
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: to make every kick I go out there for and

1073
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So if I'm aiming just inside the upright,

1074
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: if I hit my best ball, it's going to go

1075
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: in by my b ball, the right to left wing

1076
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: might take it, but it will still go inside the

1077
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: left up right. And that's what kind of what he's

1078
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: talking about. You have to be okay with not putting

1079
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: it down the middle every time. Yeah. Well, by the way,

1080
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: for golf, they say it's not how good your good

1081
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: shots are, it's how good your bad shots are, which

1082
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: is what you're saying in here. Mind, are pretty bad

1083
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: in golf sometimes, Well, we gott improve that, and then

1084
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: your score is gonna improve. The logan z S. That's

1085
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: a good one. What's a souvenir you've kept in your

1086
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: football career? That's far that means the most to you.

1087
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't necessarily have too many souvenirs. My

1088
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: dad sent me a picture of my trophy from high

1089
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: school of making the water Burger Super Team and that

1090
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: was a big deal and that happened. Kind of big

1091
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,959
Speaker 1: water Burger fan. Oh yeah, I don't know if there's

1092
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: any around here. If you have water Burgers up here,

1093
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: it's definitely a Texas saying, so it's kind of sad

1094
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: that it's not up here. But I know L. S.

1095
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: Sho's painting up some footballs of some big kicks. I

1096
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: had stuff like that, but like, where's the ball from

1097
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: the fifty seven yard? They have it still, they're gonna

1098
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: painted and for you, yeah, display ball, So that might

1099
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: be it. But I wouldn't say I have too many

1100
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: souvenirs that I cherished, like that last one here, And

1101
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: this is one that we could kind of talked a

1102
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: little bit about as well. But when as you lined

1103
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: from Robert Ps, you line up for your kick, factors

1104
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: are you considering as critical and assessing the success of

1105
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: your attempt? And you said you want to be your

1106
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: A ball or your bet ball and how do you

1107
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: block out the noise? And I guess that would be

1108
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: your mental preparation, But what are you factoring in when

1109
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: you go out? Are you really looking at the wind?

1110
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: Are you really what are the things you're trying to

1111
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: take into That's a big that's a big pregame thing.

1112
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: And yes, I will go out there and if anything

1113
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: dramatically changes, like in the flags or whatever, that's something

1114
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm analyzing on a pretty regular basis, even if I'm

1115
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: just on the sideline. Um. But I would say practice

1116
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: versus game is different on what I consider success. In practice, yes,

1117
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: you want to make the kick, but I'm also trying

1118
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: to hit that a ball as much as possible, which

1119
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: over the time has increase and getting more consistent. But

1120
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: in the game, you gotta be happy with results, because

1121
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: if you hit a great ball that misses, nobody cares.

1122
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: No It's like hitting a smoke of a drive straight

1123
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: into the woods. Nobody cares. Nobody cares so at. And

1124
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: then with when it comes to the noise and dealing

1125
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: with that, I've kind of again with the mental cadence.

1126
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: I've accepted this idea that pressure to privilege and not

1127
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: everybody gets to have these type opportunities beyond the Cleveland

1128
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: Browns and stuff like that. So honestly, when it's pretty loud,

1129
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: it sounds like white noise, and I kind of love

1130
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: it because it's easier than like crickets. And I mean,

1131
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: I've played at LSU with a hundred five thousand people,

1132
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: so there's not many NFL stadiums that are compete with that.

1133
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: And I know the Browns fans are crazy and I'm

1134
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: excited about but I've I've been through the ringer with

1135
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: through college, and I think I'm pretty prepared for the

1136
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: at least the noise part of the NFL Cade York.

1137
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: We're excited to see you get out there, approach them

1138
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: all the same, and just boot them right down the middle.

1139
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: Coming up next to the special edition to Cleve the

1140
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: Brown's Daily, The Ibbs Boys and Jim Donna, the the

1141
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: Voice of the Browns, breakdown our two thousand and twenty

1142
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: two schedule. You listen to Cleve the Browns Daily on

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Speaker 1: Or Yes, sir, I think this time it's Just and

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Speaker 1: Friends because there's no Zagura. It's just and France to

1151
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1152
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: said just the berries, but that just or just Captain

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Speaker 1: crunch sns Berry sns Berry. Same Here's the Ebbs Boys

1154
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: and the incredible voice of the Browns. Jim Donovan breaking

1155
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: down our two thousand and twenty two schedule. Gribbs, I'll

1156
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: start with you. Your your first thought looking through this

1157
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: entire schedule. Yeah, I mean, it's it's one that I

1158
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: I think it's the best I've felt about a schedule

1159
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: at this time in a few years. I think it

1160
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: just kind of works out pretty normally. I like, just personally,

1161
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the more frontloaded schedules in

1162
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: terms of home games that we've seen in a long time,

1163
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: and I think that that's just good for Cleveland. It's

1164
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: good for fans to to get to experience. Uh, what

1165
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: we hope is some some lovely fall weather at First

1166
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium in the in the first couple of months

1167
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: of the season. But on the other side of that,

1168
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: that means you're backloaded with road games, and this is

1169
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: a nine road games schedule, So the second half of

1170
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: the season, that's gonna that's gonna determine the faith of

1171
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: this team. I mean, there's some big, big games in

1172
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: the second half of the season, and a lot of

1173
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: them are on the road, including the last two games

1174
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: in the season, which you don't see all that often.

1175
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: So if the Browns are gonna be playing games in

1176
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: January at at First Energy Stadium, they've got to make

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00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs because they don't have any on this schedule. Jim,

1178
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: your thoughts as you take a look at this schedule.

1179
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: I think that, um, if you were ever built to

1180
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: get off to a quick start and and have very

1181
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: winnable games early and really get momentum going in September,

1182
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: there have been so many times where you come out

1183
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: of September and you're one in three and you're kind

1184
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: of lost. And I know that was in the case

1185
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: last year, but I think the schedule kind of has

1186
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 1: built that you could get off to a really quick start,

1187
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: which is always good, and then I think October becomes

1188
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: a real alluding to what Andrew says, I mean, when

1189
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: it's front loaded all of a sudden, you have to

1190
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 1: pay your taxes after that, and I think in October

1191
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: you kind of get into a bit of a meat

1192
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,959
Speaker 1: grinder and you've got tough game after tough game, whether

1193
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: it's home or away. And then I think, Jason we Um,

1194
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, we we have that typical end of the

1195
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: season bus right over to Pittsburgh, and you always wonder

1196
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: what the mood is going to be going over and

1197
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: more importantly, what's the mood gonna be like on those

1198
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: buses when you're coming back after that. That's the way

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00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: we finished. Been quite some stories about those bus rides

1200
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: home at the end of the season coming back for

1201
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: mahines Field. All right, let's get right down to it.

1202
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: Week one on the road. So the last couple of seasons. Uh,

1203
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: you know last year you opened on the road. You

1204
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: will open on the road again this year. Uh, and

1205
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: you will take a visit to Charlotte, North Carolina and

1206
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: you will take on the Carolina Panthers in Week one.

1207
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: It's Jim, It's a very very winnable football game, it

1208
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: really is. And boy, what a game it would have

1209
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: been if on Draft weekend the trade had been engineered

1210
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield would have ended up with the Carolina Panthers. Okay,

1211
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 1: And and you would have had a magnitude of electricity

1212
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: going into that game because there would have been a

1213
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: lot that would have been a big discussion game if

1214
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: the deal had been done. Um, it's a very winnable game.

1215
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: You're right, And my God, we are overdue to win

1216
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 1: an opening game of the season. I mean, you know,

1217
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: we still are in the planning of putting up a

1218
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: statue outside First Energy Stadium to Jeff Garcia because he's

1219
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: the only quarterback did engineer to brons win on opening

1220
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: day back and I think two thousand four against Baltimore

1221
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: and that's been in so um. We have been owing

1222
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: one too many times, which I always think is a

1223
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: big hole, not an insurmountable hole, but a big hole

1224
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 1: to get out of when you lose that opening game.

1225
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: It really is. It's it's a mental hole that you

1226
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: get in a bunker that you have to get out

1227
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: of very quickly. So this is on the table to

1228
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: really get into the wind. Cow GRIBs. It is tough

1229
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: because it feels like you're playing from behind when you're

1230
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 1: owing one. You're right off the get go. You're trying

1231
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,919
Speaker 1: to get back to five and then eventually get over

1232
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: that five clip. Yeah, I mean, it's just it's something

1233
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: that we've just kind of looked to Week two and

1234
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: then it's almost like this team has been incredible in

1235
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: Week two to start the season. I don't have the

1236
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: unofficial stats with that, but I mean it's just you've

1237
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: had to bounce back. It's almost like you're getting it

1238
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: back against the wall situation and week two after you

1239
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: lose Week one, because then all of a sudden, you're like,

1240
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: can't be owen two. You don't want to be owing

1241
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: suit to start the season. So getting getting that out

1242
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: of the way early would be very good, especially when

1243
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: you you want to build up that excitement. Obviously a

1244
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 1: home opener is gonna be exciting anyways, but if you

1245
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: could come home with a win, then then the that

1246
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: will be an electric environment to start the year. All right, Gribbs,

1247
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 1: I'll go to you then for game number two, week

1248
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,399
Speaker 1: two of the season, the home opener. It will come

1249
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: against the New York Football Jets. And I know we've

1250
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: talked about it on Cleveland Brown's Daily, and Jim, I

1251
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: know you were on Cleveland Brown's Daily earlier in the week.

1252
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: This is a Jets team I think you'd rather face

1253
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: early later in the season. Yeah, I mean, I just

1254
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: think that it's they're going to get better as the

1255
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: season goes on. It's a it's a young team, uh.

1256
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: And I think Zach Wilson has some potential, but I

1257
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: think he's gonna take some time to to work out

1258
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: the chemistry at Garrett Wilson, getting their running back involved

1259
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: Breefe Hall to the second round pick, and defensively that

1260
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some good players, but they're still gonna

1261
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: be rookies when when you face So it's as far

1262
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: as home opener ideal match ups, this was I think

1263
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: going into the schedule, I think that this was my

1264
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 1: top choice, and the Browns get there get my top choice.

1265
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but I like this

1266
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: to to get the season in a good spot. But

1267
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: you gotta take care of business. We we took that

1268
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: home opener two thousand nineteen, for granted, and remember what

1269
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: happened then, So you gotta you gotta even if you

1270
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: win a week one, you gotta take care of business

1271
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: that week too. Jim thoughts on the Jets for the

1272
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: home opener, Well, I think they're pretty excited there in

1273
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,720
Speaker 1: New York, and I think post wrapped, they were very excited.

1274
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: I mean they really They had a lot of picks,

1275
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: and they had a lot of early picks, and I

1276
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: think they feel like they took care of a lot

1277
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: of needs. I think right at the end of the

1278
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: year last year. I think Gripps is right. I think

1279
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the year last year they feel

1280
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: that the light kind of went on for Zach Wilson.

1281
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: He had a couple of really good performances near the

1282
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: end of the season. He's gotten bigger physically this offseason,

1283
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: which they're pretty happy about because he was a bit

1284
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: slight going into his rookie year last ye already paid

1285
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: the price for that. Um it will be interesting the

1286
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,919
Speaker 1: big adjustment. How much does a team take a jump

1287
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: in a coaching second year. Robert Sala had a tough

1288
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: opening year last year's most too in New York with

1289
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,959
Speaker 1: either the Jets or Giants, So um, yeah, that would

1290
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: be that. I think that you know, early in the

1291
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: season is probably the better time could get them, no

1292
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But it's not a game I think

1293
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: you should walk into and just go, hey, listen, we

1294
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: can just roll the orange helmet out there and we're

1295
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. I would agree. All right, here's

1296
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: two weeks down, and here's your first conference game in

1297
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: week three, and it's a big one with the short turnaround.

1298
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football the first prime time game of the

1299
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: season eight fifteen on Amazon Prime this year, the Pittsburgh

1300
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: Steelers come to First Energy Stadium, first conference game, Jim,

1301
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: and it's a big one right off the get go

1302
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: a team that you lost to twice last year, and really,

1303
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: if you want to get going this in the conference

1304
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: and in the division, this is one you gotta get. Yeah,

1305
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you go back till last

1306
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: year and you probably said to yourself, um, what is

1307
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: going to define us, it would be the games against Baltimore.

1308
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: I think going in, I think we thought we had

1309
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: a really good shot against the Steelers, especially after knocking

1310
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: them off at the end of the year the year

1311
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: that the playoffs season, and they won the last game

1312
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: and then beat them in the at Hines Field. So

1313
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: I think that we felt that we had turned the

1314
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 1: page and oh, by the way, they were still there.

1315
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: And I think it was the defining moments of the

1316
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: Bronze season last year because they lost that game at

1317
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: home and then lost at the end of the year

1318
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: when they were mathematically out of it. It will be

1319
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: fascinating to see what the Steelers are all about, and

1320
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: specifically who's underneath center or who's in the shotgun at

1321
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: quarterback for them On that Thursday night game. I mean,

1322
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: is it gonna be Mitchell Trabinsky And does he have

1323
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: anybody in his rear view mirror or does the kid

1324
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, you know, really get a push during training camp?

1325
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: And do they feel that he's not only the future,

1326
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: but he might be the now? Why not go with

1327
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: him right now? So that's gonna be really fascinating because

1328
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: there's a changing of the aren't obviously in the biggest

1329
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: way minus Ben Roethlisberger with him being retired, They've done

1330
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: a lot of work at wide receiver um and and

1331
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: that's gonna be fascinating to watch. But that quarterback situation

1332
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: will be great and it's always electric no matter when

1333
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: you play them here at First Energy Stadium. It's a

1334
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of notes on this game. It's

1335
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: it's interesting the Browns have not played a Thursday Night

1336
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: on the road since, which is just wild. I mean,

1337
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 1: that's that's a blessing from the NFL schedule makers. I mean,

1338
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: you don't want to travel for Thursday night. And the

1339
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: Browns are now six and oh in their last six

1340
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: Thursday night home games. So it's it's a it's a

1341
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: weird environment. Where the Browns have seemed to always thrive

1342
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: and the NFL just keeps giving them home games on Thursday.

1343
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: Oh and really, I mean for Thursday Night football. Week

1344
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: one will be on NBC and that's the Rams opening

1345
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: the season in defense of their Super Bowl championship. Amazon

1346
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: Prime gets the Week two matchups, and right off the

1347
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: bat in week they keep it going with a big

1348
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: one with Pittsburgh and Cleveland. So obviously the league sees

1349
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: a lot of value in putting the Steelers and the

1350
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: Browns on in week number three. We go on to

1351
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: Week four, GRIBs, I'll go to you on this one.

1352
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: A trip to Atlanta to kick off the month of October.

1353
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: And it's a busy month of October. You've got five

1354
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: games here, and uh, it's a trip to Atlanta. Atlanta's

1355
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: got some weapons on offense. Mariota is their quarterback. But

1356
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: right now, the end of around the league, a lot

1357
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: of people would say one of the bottom five or

1358
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: six teams maybe in the league. Yeah, I think they're

1359
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: clearly looking at and beyond in Atlanta, which makes that

1360
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: game very important, especially with the games you got atter.

1361
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: I mean, the last thing you want to do is

1362
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: lose that game and then going to a stretch with

1363
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers, Patriots, Ravens, and Mangles. I mean, that's that's

1364
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: that's a that's something you need to take care of business,

1365
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's just interesting that the Browns get

1366
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: paired up with the NFC South this year because you're

1367
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: just going through a series of teams that were compete

1368
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: eating against you for to Shaun Watson. So it's the

1369
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: teams that ultimately didn't get the quarterback and now are

1370
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: are struggling for answers at that position, coming up next

1371
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: to a sequel that no one has looked forward to.

1372
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: As money, you gotta go back to Empire strikes Back.

1373
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: This is part two of the schedule release conversation from

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Speaker 1: the b p A. You'll get it coming up next

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01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: right here in this special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily

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1383
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: two of the schedule release conversation from the b p

1384
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: A right here on Cleveland Brown's Daily. After Atlanta, the

1385
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: Browns come home for two games, and there are two

1386
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: huge games and two teams that beat us last year.

1387
01:01:56,520 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: And really you can say those two games probably part

1388
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: of the reason why you got left out of the playoffs.

1389
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: It starts on October nine, which is funny because we

1390
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: played them a year ago. On that I think it's

1391
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: I think we're off by a day in terms of

1392
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: when we played them. We went to l A last year.

1393
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: L A comes here on October nine, Jim, and it

1394
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: is going to be a huge football game at First

1395
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: Energy State. Well, it really is, um can you if

1396
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: you go back? I mean, we had a four teen

1397
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: point lead in the third quarter in l A. And

1398
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: not that I felt that ever that we had the

1399
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: game under control, but I didn't think that they had

1400
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 1: the ability to stop us. I mean it was a real,

1401
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, back and forth shootout game. And I would

1402
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: imagine the Chargers are glad that they're coming to Cleveland

1403
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: in October rather than December. Um. But it it sets

1404
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: up as a you know, just a great game of

1405
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: two potent offenses that could go back and forth. The

1406
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: question will be how are those defenses going to be?

1407
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: And of course, you know by the on that day

1408
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: in l A against the Chargers, the Bronze defense was

1409
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: not put together at that time. I mean they were

1410
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: struggling with the new system. You remember those just huge,

1411
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: you know, breaks in the defense that ended up as

1412
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: these long touchdown plays. Um. That was solved near the

1413
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: end of the year. And hopefully it's going to be

1414
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 1: that way and maybe even better this year. But what

1415
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: a great matchup to to see Justin Herbert and the

1416
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 1: Chargers commit here. Because the ability to stop them, I

1417
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: think we'll define if you're going to be able to

1418
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: win that game. And Gribbs, I mean this, this is

1419
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: you want to be a playoff team, You gotta beat

1420
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: teams like this. This is tiebreaker points here in that

1421
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: loaded a FC. Yeah, and it's it's at home. You

1422
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: want to take advantage of that. They're a team traveling

1423
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: across the country that you know that that that's that

1424
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: these are games you have to win. And I think

1425
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: that the Browns last year one every game that they

1426
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: had to win, but they didn't win any games they

1427
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: needed to win to advance getting past five hundred last year.

1428
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: These are these are those swing games that really ultimately

1429
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: determined the playoff field. If you remember, if you remember, um,

1430
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: you win that and you hang on in l A

1431
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: and you're four and one, I believe at that point

1432
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: in time, and you're really rolling. But when you lose

1433
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: that game, a little bit of doubt comes into your

1434
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: head that you're able to hold onto those leads because

1435
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: it had happened in Kansas City in the opening game too.

1436
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: And then you come home and you really get waxed

1437
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: in the game against Arizona, and that was the first

1438
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: time that you were kind of keeping your finger close

1439
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: to that panic button. Yeah, it will be something that

1440
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: bears watching because the following week it's a team that

1441
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 1: we have not had a lot of success against. The

1442
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: good news is it's here at First Energy Stadium, so

1443
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: hopefully the weather weather is better, because every time we

1444
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: go to Foxboro, the weather just seems to be garbage

1445
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: when we're there. The New England Patriots and Bill Belichick

1446
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: come to town on October the sixteen. Now, just a

1447
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: reminder and heads up for everybody to on this schedule.

1448
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 1: The first eight games, there's there's two games that are

1449
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: in prime time and we'll get to the second one

1450
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: coming up, but everything else is a one o'clock kick,

1451
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: and everything else the rest of the year is at

1452
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: one o'clock. There's a couple of games still TVD in

1453
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: terms of days and times, and we'll get to those,

1454
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: but everything's at one o'clock here in two Gribbs. The Patriots, Uh,

1455
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: this is a this is a football team that overachieved

1456
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: last year. Can they keep it going? Is the bigger question. Yeah,

1457
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's they're a tough team to read

1458
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: because they really didn't do much this offseason. Uh you know,

1459
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of this the same team and they

1460
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: and they tapered off as as last season when they

1461
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: they they're the ultimate peak too soon team and unfortunately

1462
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: for the Browns, they definitely peaked when they played they

1463
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 1: play at the Bronze last year. So it was, uh,

1464
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: you wonder what the second year will be like for

1465
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 1: mac Jones. It can go either way with some of

1466
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: these rookie quarterbacks after good years. So just a tough

1467
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: team to read, but one that you know, is always

1468
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: going to be not easy because it's it's coached by

1469
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick that got the culture there. I mean, it's

1470
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: just it's just not a team that that's gotten a

1471
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: lot of buzz this offseason, to be honest, after kind

1472
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: of an unusual offseason for them last year where they

1473
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: added all the free agents, you know, they've had a

1474
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: very weird offseason, Like Grips mentions, their coaching staff situation

1475
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: has been very very bizarre and some of the moves

1476
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: they've made. I mean, they've brought back Joe Judged, that

1477
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: brought back Matt Patricia. That put that those guys in

1478
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: very very different positions, you know, and that's been a

1479
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: high controversy back there in New England. They are so

1480
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: difficult to prepare for because you don't know what they're

1481
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 1: going to do. They can be completely different when they

1482
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 1: play you as to the way they played the game before.

1483
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: You You don't know if they're gonna come out and

1484
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: they're just gonna run the ball all afternoon long and

1485
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: be very effective at that or if they're just gonna

1486
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: come out and let Mac Jones throw it all afternoon long.

1487
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: They are so specific, you know, game plan specific that

1488
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: week to week. I think that there, you know, if

1489
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: you could say, well that's their tendency, you really don't

1490
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: know what their tendencies are because they can be so

1491
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: different week to week. Well, and I think we've talked

1492
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: about it as Kevin Stefan's he you know, goes into

1493
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: his second meeting against Bill Belichick. The one thing you

1494
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 1: can't be is intimidated against him. You've got to stick

1495
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,480
Speaker 1: to your guns and you've got to run your game

1496
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 1: plan and run into a t no matter what, because

1497
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: it's easy to try to figure out try to worry

1498
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: about what he's doing. I gotta just do your thing

1499
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 1: and that they'll be in a position to win. All right.

1500
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: Brown's then on the road in Baltimore on October twenty three.

1501
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: This is week number seven one o'clock game, the second

1502
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: conference game of the year. It's a big one as well.

1503
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: This is a Ravens team that is going to be

1504
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: I would think a lot healthier. Uh. The Lamar Jackson

1505
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: contract situation continues to just stick out there. You're not

1506
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: quite sure what's gonna happen there and if it could

1507
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: unravel the things there. But they had a good draft,

1508
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: They had a good offseason and they're a good football team.

1509
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: You know, it stills it feels like they're still picking

1510
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: in that draft. I mean it's it feels they have

1511
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: They still have ten picks left in this seventh round

1512
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: and the fourth thrown they had all of those picks. Uh.

1513
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: They had an amazing craft. There's no doubt about it.

1514
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: The first thing, of course, is um you would have

1515
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: to think they're gonna be healthy at running back. Just

1516
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: on the hey, Listen, they had the worst luck in

1517
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: the world last year. It's got to be better this year.

1518
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: Remember they were wiped out on like one day or

1519
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: two days in training camp in the running department. Uh,

1520
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: and that was a problem. They still, I think, fall

1521
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: in the same club with us, probably the Chargers, probably

1522
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: the Colts that say, I can't believe we didn't make

1523
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. Now they have a little bit

1524
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 1: more of a crutch to lean on, and the fact

1525
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: that they lost Lamar Jackson and they lost so many

1526
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 1: other people. We have different reasons like the other two teams,

1527
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 1: but they're still loaded. It is still one of the

1528
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 1: toughest places to go in and win when you're the

1529
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,560
Speaker 1: visiting team. It really is. It is It has a

1530
01:08:55,920 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: college atmosphere as far as crowd noise, be four, during

1531
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 1: and after the game. It's an amazing place to play.

1532
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: You really have to play nice and tight and neat

1533
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: going in there if you're gonna win. Gribbs. Obviously, the

1534
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: Ravens on October the following week, the final week before

1535
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 1: the bye. Bye week comes at the perfect time, right

1536
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, but before the bye week,

1537
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 1: a Monday night game on Halloween. If you thought last

1538
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: year Halloween against Pittsburgh was crazy, wait till you play

1539
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 1: Monday night football against the Cincinnati Bengals at eight fifteen

1540
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: at home at First Energy Stadium on Halloween. Gribbs, It's

1541
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 1: gonna be an electric night at First Energy. Yeah, this

1542
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: has got to be one of the more juiced up

1543
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 1: Bengals Browns matchups we've seen in a while. I think

1544
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: that you're getting them early enough in the season where

1545
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 1: they're still gonna be the defending an FC champions, even

1546
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: if they don't get off to the same kind of

1547
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: start they did last year. I think Monday Night at

1548
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: First Enterstadium is a unique atmosphere. We don't we haven't

1549
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: gotten it too much. The Browns have seemed to get

1550
01:09:58,200 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: go on the road a bunch for Monday Night lately,

1551
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: so good to get him back at home. And the

1552
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: Halloween just kind of adds a different element to it. Obviously,

1553
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: Hollow New Weekend is always big in the NFL, but

1554
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: the fact that's Halloween night, I think that will bring

1555
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: the best out of the Meaty a lot, bring the

1556
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: best out of the dog A big game, Jim, But

1557
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: this is a Bengals team that the Browns have been

1558
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: able to beat over the last couple of years. Yeah,

1559
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can truly say we have

1560
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows number. I don't know if anybody has Joe

1561
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:29,559
Speaker 1: Burrow's number. But he hasn't beaten us, although he's played

1562
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: very well in most of those games. Um, they did

1563
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: a great job against him down in Cincinnati last year

1564
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: in Denzel Ward turned the game around very early in

1565
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: the game with that ninety nine yard pick um. They

1566
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: did not protect him well, um, all year long, but

1567
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,639
Speaker 1: specifically against us and even going back to his rookie year.

1568
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he took poundings in those games they have.

1569
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: You know, it looks like on paper and I think

1570
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: we'll see it on the field. They've kind of rectified

1571
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: that they really went out spend money to you know,

1572
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: fortify that offensive line. But boy, that that's got off.

1573
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 1: That game's got a lot to it. It really does.

1574
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: If both teams are what we think they're going to be,

1575
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: and especially at that time of the year when you

1576
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: start to think about making a turn, you know, it's

1577
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: right around the beginning of November when you really have

1578
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: to start to click in and make a playoff run.

1579
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 1: That game has got a lot to it. And the

1580
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 1: fact that it's at home, well, that's going to be

1581
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: a special, special night there. We hit the bye week

1582
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 1: week number nine, right in the middle of the season.

1583
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 1: That leaves you with nine games left, six of them,

1584
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: as Gribbs mentioned earlier looking at the schedule, six on

1585
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: the road, and we kick things off with four of

1586
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: five on the road right after the bye week. Gribbs,

1587
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: I'll start with you. It's a trip to Miami after

1588
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,679
Speaker 1: the bye week November thirteenth. It's an interesting football team.

1589
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: It's a team that's improved. Not sure they're improved at

1590
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. We're gonna find out on November. Yeah,

1591
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: I think we'll have a pretty good sense of where

1592
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are at at that point. Uh, it's it's

1593
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: you like getting them a little later in the year.

1594
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: Remember we went there pretty early in there, and it's

1595
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 1: pretty miserable. Play used to be in September. It's hot.

1596
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: If you're not used to that, it can be tough

1597
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 1: on your team. So I think that at least getting

1598
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,680
Speaker 1: into in November it will be a nice treat for Thanksgiving.

1599
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's again. It's the beginning of an

1600
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: important stretch. Will be rested, no excuses in that regard,

1601
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,679
Speaker 1: but it's four road games in five weeks. You gotta

1602
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 1: started off on the right foot. And Miami is one

1603
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: of those teams that could be really good this year

1604
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:23,560
Speaker 1: or they could be kind of just stuck in the

1605
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: mud with with kind of a make or break here

1606
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 1: for two of them. After Miami, it's a trip to

1607
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:32,799
Speaker 1: Buffalo and a trip to take on Bill's Mafia November

1608
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: one o'clock in Buffalo, U Jim again, it's another It's

1609
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:40,519
Speaker 1: another big game against a team that a lot of

1610
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,280
Speaker 1: people think is one of the top three teams in

1611
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: the NFL. After the offseason they've had oh I think

1612
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: so um and a lot of pressure on them coming

1613
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: into this season, no doubt about it, because they have

1614
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: been close, uh to to get into where they ultimately

1615
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: want to get to. UM and I think that they're

1616
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to be termed as one

1617
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 1: of these teams. It just could never get over the hurdle.

1618
01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 1: So um and they are right at the They're right

1619
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: at that hurdle. You know, this falls into this is interesting.

1620
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: This kind of has a look of the possibility of

1621
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: being a flex game that that this game, if it

1622
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,640
Speaker 1: really lives up to both teams being again, like I

1623
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: said about the Cincinnati game, both teams being what you

1624
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:23,560
Speaker 1: think they're going to be, and if it you know,

1625
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: at that time of the year, you have a pretty good,

1626
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: pretty good knowledge of where they're going and could they

1627
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: be playoff teams that you would take a look at

1628
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: that game and say, man, that's that's that's got that's

1629
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: got a lot to it. Maybe you know, maybe this

1630
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: the Stars along and NBC would say, hey, we want

1631
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: that game on Sunday Night. But I think it's that

1632
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: good of a game at least on paper. Um. Josh

1633
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 1: Allen is magnificent. We caught him very very early. Uh

1634
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:50,960
Speaker 1: and even though the Bronze ended up beating them with

1635
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 1: a miraculous come from behind victory that day and then

1636
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 1: a missfield goal at the end of the game. Josh

1637
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: Allen was tremendous that day and he's only gotten better

1638
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: and better. So um, it's now we're really heading into

1639
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: the teeth of bullies great quarterbacks both young and old.

1640
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: Which takes us on to November Thanksgiving weekend. We're home,

1641
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: We're not on the road. It'll be an action packed weekend.

1642
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: You've got the World Cup, I believe on Friday, Ohio

1643
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: State Michigan on Saturday, and then Tampa Tom comes into

1644
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: town on Sunday. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1645
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: uh come to First Energy basically the only home game

1646
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 1: for the Browns in November on November Grids, and this

1647
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: will be a big one. This will be a hot

1648
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:38,560
Speaker 1: ticket at First Energy Stadium. How about that between the

1649
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: thirty one of October and December seventeen, you will have

1650
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: played two games at home. So it's it's it'll get

1651
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 1: a little lonely by the lake there, but it's better

1652
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: than kind of the trafective games we've had in a

1653
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: row at that time of year where the weather is

1654
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: awful to beginning. But I think to me that the

1655
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 1: thing that stood out to me most of this game

1656
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: is this is what happens when you don't make the playoffs.

1657
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 1: This is a on a clock game. I mean, I

1658
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: think last year this game was on the schedule, this

1659
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: would be at the worst of four o'clock and if

1660
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 1: a primetime kind of game. I mean, but this shows

1661
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: that the NFL makes you earn it. So if the

1662
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 1: Browns get back in the playoffs, then these kind of

1663
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: games will be put at night. But god, I personally

1664
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: don't mind it. I like being off the radar a

1665
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: little bit and knocking off a lot of one o'clock

1666
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: games on the schedule, you know. And that goes back, Jim,

1667
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: you know, to what you were talking about in terms

1668
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 1: of Sunday night football, not Sunday. The NFL can start

1669
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,600
Speaker 1: flexing as early as Week five this year, so that

1670
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 1: is something that bears watching, especially with this Browns football team.

1671
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: But yeah, let me just throw this line out here.

1672
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: I kind of wish that Tom would be in the

1673
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 1: broadcast booth for Fox that day rather than on the field. Um,

1674
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:51,120
Speaker 1: he's always good for the gate too. If you remember

1675
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: the last time he came into Cleveland. Um. And you

1676
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:56,760
Speaker 1: guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think

1677
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm right on this. The last time he came into Cleveland,

1678
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: of course, he was to pay Creates quarterback and he

1679
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: was coming off suspension. Um. And if you can remember,

1680
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 1: I will never forget the scene when he came running

1681
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel for his pregame warm up and

1682
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: the place it was like we were in Foxboro. I mean,

1683
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,839
Speaker 1: there were more Boston accents in there on that afternoon

1684
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 1: then there were you know, Browns fans that day. So

1685
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: I mean it was amazing the pull that he had

1686
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 1: at that time, and of course he played up to that.

1687
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: He had an amazing day that day. Now he comes

1688
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: in with the new team. To me, it's still a

1689
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: bit rattling to see him in a different uniform, even

1690
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: though I mean he's been in it now for a

1691
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: couple of years and been to the highest point of

1692
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay. But again, another

1693
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: great game, because you know, in the past you look

1694
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: at the Buccaneers and go, oh, it's the Buccaneers. But

1695
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is different though. Yeah, that

1696
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: those are three very tough games in the month of

1697
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: November at Miami at Buffalo, home to Tampa. Coming up,

1698
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: back to the special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily, the

1699
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 1: conclusion of the schedule, last conversation for the b P A.

1700
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 1: You're listening to a special edition of Cleveland Browns Daily

1701
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: right here, ESPN Cleveland, Cleveland Brown's Daily, ESPN Cleveland, Welcome

1702
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: back into this special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily and

1703
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: now the conclusion of the b P as conversation with

1704
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 1: the Great Jim Donovan. Here's our two thousand and twenty

1705
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: two schedule in completion. On to December. We go Grims.

1706
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:28,600
Speaker 1: December four, a trip to Houston, UH could be a

1707
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,680
Speaker 1: homecoming game for our for our quarterback. There could be

1708
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 1: a lot of storylines going into this one on December

1709
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: four in Houston at one o'clock. This is a place that, again,

1710
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: we have not had a lot of success winning in

1711
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I think that, honestly, And

1712
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 1: that's that's my big storyline is like because I think

1713
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: you're underselling it. I mean, it's it's been a place

1714
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 1: where in the last few meetings the bronze haven't showed up.

1715
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just been a tough trip, even

1716
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: when the team, even when the team was cooking in

1717
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: they took us. They had a speed bump in Houston

1718
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: in that year. I mean, that's that's It's just been

1719
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: a weird environment for the Browns. But uh, the guy

1720
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: that caused the most problems is now on your team.

1721
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:13,759
Speaker 1: So I think that's the that's that's that's the positive

1722
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: thing about that. But a game for in this stretch,

1723
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: you gotta win. I mean, the Texans are going to

1724
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: be improved, but you gotta you gotta win this one.

1725
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's with that stretch on the schedule. Um,

1726
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: it was when we went in there and to play them, Um,

1727
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: it was just so exasperated trying to defend him to

1728
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson because you just had no answer for him. Uh.

1729
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: And it was no slam on any on the defense

1730
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: or anything. I mean, not many people had an answer

1731
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: for him. But I mean you played him to pass

1732
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: and he would run and kill you. You played him

1733
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: to run and he would sit in that pocket or

1734
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: roll out and and just take you apart, you know,

1735
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: with his accuracy and his great arm Um. There was

1736
01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: just no answer to it. I mean, he was he

1737
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: just had you just baffled the way he played. So yeah,

1738
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: he was the reason. I will point out this gentleman.

1739
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: In the days of Terry Robiski as the interim head

1740
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,680
Speaker 1: coach of the Cleveland Browns, he recorded his one and

1741
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 1: only career victory is a head coach with the Browns

1742
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: on a final Sunday where Kelly Holcomb did him a

1743
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:20,720
Speaker 1: did him a favor and came off the injured list

1744
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 1: with bad knees and went out and gun him a win.

1745
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: I remember Terry Robiski walking off the field in Houston

1746
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: with that win, with that game ball tucked under his arm.

1747
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 1: He applied to become the regular head coach of the

1748
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: Browns and they said, hold on to that game ball.

1749
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: That's your parting gift the Roads. Then after Houston, it's

1750
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,679
Speaker 1: back to back road games. This is the second road

1751
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: game of the two and it's a trip back down

1752
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati UH and Paul Brown Stadium on December eleven. Again,

1753
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 1: this is a one o'clock game, but I feel like

1754
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: once you get into December here, any of these games

1755
01:19:57,120 --> 01:19:59,720
Speaker 1: are subject to maybe move around a little bit. So

1756
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:04,760
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on December eleven at one o'clock and then we

1757
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: get to Week fifteen, could be December seventeen, could be

1758
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: December eighteenth. We're up again for that fabulous NFL Network

1759
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: tripleheader on Saturday against the Baltimore Ravens at First Energy Stadium,

1760
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: So something to watch their time to be determined, day

1761
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:26,560
Speaker 1: to be determined. But again, this whole gauntlet after the

1762
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: bye week at Miami at Buffalo, home for Tampa at Houston,

1763
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati Baltimore a pretty daunting schedule, Jim here coming

1764
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: out of the bye week. Yeah, it really is. There's

1765
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Um. And that Ravens game, Um,

1766
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 1: that those games are just so important, UM, in the

1767
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 1: inside that division because you really, I mean, that's the goal,

1768
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: you know, And I think the Browns are there, and

1769
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: I think everybody is there in the division, because that's

1770
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: the path you want. You don't want to be fooling around.

1771
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: This is the time of the year, um, when you're

1772
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:00,799
Speaker 1: at this point where all of a sudden, every Sunday

1773
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 1: you're watching all of those national telecasts, those pregame shows,

1774
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:06,600
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be in that column that

1775
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 1: says in the hunt, you know, which means you need

1776
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,720
Speaker 1: to on the left side. You need ten things to

1777
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: happen to try and get into the playoffs. You want

1778
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: to be in that column that says currently holding onto

1779
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: a division spot as the division leader, and that's where

1780
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: you want to be at that point in time, and

1781
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: these games will decide that. I mean, you know, you

1782
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: want to build a foundation early. And we touched upon

1783
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: it when we started our discussion about you can really

1784
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: with the schedule, get off to a good run in September,

1785
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: but you have to pay your taxes by this time,

1786
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: and you want to be making that run at this

1787
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: time of the year because the schedule dictates. These are

1788
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: the games that will decide who's gonna win the division,

1789
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: who might be a wild card team, who's not invited

1790
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. We move on. We have three games

1791
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: left to go on our schedule. We don't play on

1792
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, but we do play on Christmas Eve, and

1793
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: it will be a one o'clock game on Christmas Eve.

1794
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 1: It will be home, it will be against Chris Allaby

1795
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:04,960
Speaker 1: and the New Orleans Saints, and it will be the

1796
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 1: final home game of the season. Knock on wood that

1797
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: it will be just the final home game of the

1798
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: regular season, and we'll be playing some playoff football at

1799
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,759
Speaker 1: First Energy in January, but for now, that's the final

1800
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: home game, uh, and it's before January one. I love

1801
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 1: getting NFC South teams at home late in the season, though,

1802
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: I think that that's always a decent thing. I mean,

1803
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:27,600
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even have the stats back this

1804
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: up anymore, but the Saints notoriously tougher at home than

1805
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: than on the road. But yeah, I mean, this is

1806
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: a big one and hopefully hopefully can be as magical

1807
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 1: as the last time the Browns played at home on

1808
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:39,560
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. That's I'll just leave it at that. With

1809
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,919
Speaker 1: the Jamie Meter magic on, I just want to recreate

1810
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: that that kind of feeling at the stadium. Maybe can

1811
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: you can you clinch a playoff birth that early uh

1812
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: in the schedule? That would be That would make it

1813
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: a magical Christmas. Heave ye, Jamie Meter, What a great

1814
01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: moment it was. I'd like a little less drum and

1815
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: we could have a little after the lead and just

1816
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: just coast into Christmas. That would be fantastic. Well, you know,

1817
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 1: the the interesting thing too is, um, the Saints are

1818
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 1: one of these teams that I mean a dramatic change.

1819
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:15,439
Speaker 1: No Sean Payton. You know, they bring Jamis Winston back. Um,

1820
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: you know the whole situation with the Saints, that's a

1821
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: that's a dramatic change over where they have been, uh

1822
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: in their heyday now coming you know, winning a super

1823
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:27,680
Speaker 1: Bowl with that group of Drew Brees too. Um, it

1824
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: will be fascinating to see where they are at that point.

1825
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 1: But Gripps is right, you get them on the road

1826
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 1: late in the year, they're a much different team. You

1827
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 1: get them outdoors, they're a much different team. Now you

1828
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: put them in cold weather and I'm gonna go out

1829
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: on the limit and say it's gonna be a bit

1830
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 1: brisk down there on that on that particular day fastin press. Yeah,

1831
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: I'm hoping. Let's let's hope for that. We move on

1832
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 1: to weeks seventeen, and we ring in the new year,

1833
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 1: literally on New Year's Day, ue a trip to Washington,

1834
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: Jim and uh the Washington Commanders with a lot more

1835
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 1: news probably off the field than on it so far

1836
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: this offseason, but a good defense and they're well coached.

1837
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to seeing Carson Wentz now a quarterback

1838
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah, you wonder will he still be a

1839
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: quarterback at that point in time. Usually at this time

1840
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: of the year, certainly last year. I mean, he kind

1841
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 1: of had petered out at this time. Um. And the

1842
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 1: worst radio booth in the NFL, Uh, is it not?

1843
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: Is it not? The worst radio booth in the NFL?

1844
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: You are correct, unbelievably bad. Um. Anyway, I don't you know,

1845
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't know. Yeah, you don't know

1846
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: what they're are You are right though, a tremendous defense,

1847
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: great pass rush, just really an exciting defense. I don't

1848
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: know what they have on the other side of the ball.

1849
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: I mean, and and you I don't know how what's

1850
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: going on off the field might infect what goes on

1851
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,559
Speaker 1: on the field with that organization. They have been through

1852
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 1: a lot, Yeah, no question about it. And then Week

1853
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: eight team, you're at Pittsburgh, You're at Hines Field. It'll

1854
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 1: either be January, haven't or it will be January eighth.

1855
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 1: Time to be determined to close things out. And uh,

1856
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: let's hope that we can send them all home after

1857
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: renegade plays and make it a negative impact. But it

1858
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: will be what you can only hope that it is

1859
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,679
Speaker 1: a very meaningful game or it's a Hey, we're already

1860
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, we can rest a few guys. Yeah, hey, GRIBs, Um,

1861
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 1: we have to prove that we can beat them in

1862
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:30,719
Speaker 1: hines Field with people in We have taken baby steps,

1863
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we have kind of gotten competitive with them

1864
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: in hines Field, and we won the playoff game. But

1865
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: remember it was Gribbs and fifty other people in hines

1866
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 1: Field that night when we won the playoff game. But

1867
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: when we actually put those towels in the hands of

1868
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: Steeler fans and fill that place and take away the drama,

1869
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: the movie drama of Big Ben's last game, that will

1870
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: be out of the picture because we've lived through that.

1871
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: We have to prove we can beat them with people

1872
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: in the stands. That's the next step. Truly one of

1873
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: the strangest atmospheres I've been a part of, because that

1874
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: was the only road game I went to, and that

1875
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: was a truly empty state. Like the Browns had twelve

1876
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 1: thousand at each of their games. That was empty. I

1877
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: mean that that was emptier than like a practice of

1878
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 1: training camp. I mean, And I was right next to

1879
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 1: the Steelers radio booth the entire time, felt the emotions

1880
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: they were feeling. And I would say, I've told people

1881
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,880
Speaker 1: about this. I wonder what that place would have been

1882
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 1: like with the Steelers mounting that comeback that they did

1883
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: in that game, and how much that could have affected things,

1884
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: because it seemed like we were all even with the

1885
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: twenty eight point lead. It felt a little nervous in

1886
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: the second half when when the Steelers just kept marching

1887
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 1: down the field, but and the Browns put it away

1888
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 1: and it was it was. It's just an incredibly magic,

1889
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: magical and incredibly weird kind of playoff victory. Eighteen games,

1890
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: fourteen of them at one o'clock, two prime time games,

1891
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 1: but both prime time games are at home, one in

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Speaker 1: September against the Steelers on Thursday night, one in October

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Speaker 1: against the since Nanny Bengals on Monday night. Two games

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Speaker 1: T B D. We'll see how it all shakes out.

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Speaker 1: And there you have it, my friend, Would we come

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Speaker 1: back to work on Tuesday. We will be getting week

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Speaker 1: two of the O T A s uh and we

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Speaker 1: will be all building toward that mandatory mini camp which

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Speaker 1: comes up in the middle of June. So gonna be

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Speaker 1: some fun content here over the next couple of weeks. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: as we really start to ramp this thing up, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned getting ready for the mandatory mini camp. I

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Speaker 1: hope that everybody has a very safe and healthy and

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Speaker 1: happy holiday weekend. I hope that I'm able to come

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Speaker 1: back here on Tuesday and tell you that I, along

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Speaker 1: with my good friend Mr Bowen's and Danny and Corral

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Speaker 1: are the two time, two time back to back, first

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Speaker 1: ever Brilo Champions. That's that's taking place Sunday, So they

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Speaker 1: should be selling them. Honestly, with the drama that we

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Speaker 1: produce last time, you can't even script that. Most of

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Speaker 1: the things that you do when I'm not with you,

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Speaker 1: I put on the d v R, So I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna hope that I can DVR this. I think we

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Speaker 1: should send a focus film community somebody on yourthing. Can

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Speaker 1: they hook us up at Yeah? Come on the words

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Speaker 1: out now? Like there could be galleries. There could be

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Speaker 1: a gallery. I'd love to see it be amazing. Supposedly,

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Speaker 1: what would you do if there's like a hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty people there? I had another walk off eagle and

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Speaker 1: say you're welcome, thanks for showing up. How do you

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Speaker 1: think it's what do you mean? It's exactly what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do. Apparently we might have team shirts which I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about. Do you have a say in the

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Speaker 1: design of those coming fruition would be your color of choice?

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Speaker 1: You're black, but I can't. I can't give away what

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Speaker 1: the logo would be. All right, very good, folks. Have

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Speaker 1: a great holiday weekend. We are off Monday. Enjoy your

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day. We will pay back on Tuesday. It'll be

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Speaker 1: week two of O. T as have that to look

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Speaker 1: forward to, which is nice. You have the let next

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Speaker 1: level to look forward to, which is nice. It's coming

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Speaker 1: up next right here in Cleveland. You've been listening to

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