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Speaker 1: We welcome you to the Cross Country Mortgage Campus here

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Speaker 1: in Maria. I'm Jason Gibbs and this is another episode

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Speaker 1: of the best podcast available. Coming up on the program today,

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Speaker 1: second year running back Jerome Ford sits down with us

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Speaker 1: to talk about OTAs, his off season, and new special

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Speaker 1: teams coordinator Bubba ben Tron. First and foremost, some takeaways

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Speaker 1: from OTAs so far. We are in week two of OTAs.

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Speaker 1: There are only two weeks, shortened by a week mandatory

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Speaker 1: mini camp coming up next week and then at summer

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Speaker 1: vacation for the football staff in anticipation of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three regular season. From QB one to Shawn Watson

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Speaker 1: earlier this week at the Browns Foundation golf outing last week,

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Speaker 1: really the first time actually on the field throw it

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Speaker 1: full speed routes against defenders, he said, The timing is

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Speaker 1: going to come. They've been spending a lot of time

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Speaker 1: in the film room and outside of the building. Chemistry

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Speaker 1: and connection of just being around each other and knowing

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Speaker 1: how we're going to react to certain situations is definitely good.

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Speaker 1: QB and the wide receivers working on getting up to

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Speaker 1: speed and that's what OTAs and mandatory mini camp are

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Speaker 1: all about going from the classroom to the football field

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Speaker 1: and executing things. Head coach Kevin Stefanski in some other

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Speaker 1: notes as well, offering the positive updates on the recovery

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Speaker 1: of Pro Bowl wide receiver Amari Cooper, who underwent core

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Speaker 1: muscle surgery earlier in the offseason, said Stefanski he expects

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Speaker 1: Cooper to be ready for training camp. He will start

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Speaker 1: doing some things with the team as early as this week.

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Speaker 1: A good sign for the Pro Bowl wide receiver and

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Speaker 1: for this Cleveland Browns team, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 1: getting on that same page with QB one Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of guys that have stood out this

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Speaker 1: week at OTA's well, Marquise Goodwin has definitely made his

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Speaker 1: presence known a lot of openings and taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: certain mismatches and situations. Marquise Goodwin had a great first

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Speaker 1: week of OTAs that has carried into week two of OTAs.

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Speaker 1: Rodney McCleod looking right at home in his new defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Jim Schwartz's defense. Not really his new DC. They

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Speaker 1: were together in Philadelphia and won a Super Bowl, but

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Speaker 1: McLeod coming over from the Colts, looking right at home

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Speaker 1: in terms of captaining this defense as they get ready

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty three. Also Nick Harris, fourth year center,

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Speaker 1: rookie center Luke Whipler, both guys playing some guard learning

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Speaker 1: the interior offensive line positions. Obviously with Ethan Posik playing

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Speaker 1: center here, those two looking for some playing time. It

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Speaker 1: could come in the warm up the guard positions, especially

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Speaker 1: in training camp and in the preseason, just adding more

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Speaker 1: depth to that vaunted Brown's offensive line. And then tight

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Speaker 1: end Jordan Akens another guy worth watching. He's made his

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Speaker 1: presence known early on a big favorite and a big

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Speaker 1: target for one Deshaun Watson. That is a look at

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Speaker 1: what has been happening here at OTA's time. Now for

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Speaker 1: a chance to meet Jerome Ford and get to know

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Speaker 1: Jerome Ford a little bit better as well. The second

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Speaker 1: you're running back thirteen games in his rookie campaign, eight carries,

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Speaker 1: but made his presence known on the special team side

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Speaker 1: just thirty attempts in twenty twenty two. He's a guy

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Speaker 1: that I know Bubba van Trone is excited about. I

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Speaker 1: know Stutt Mitchell and Alex van Pelt on the offensive

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Speaker 1: side are excited at what he can do as well.

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Speaker 1: With Kareem Hunt not coming back, Jerome Ford number two

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Speaker 1: running back on that depth chart, and he's gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot of work here in the off season. Here's his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on his new special teams coordinator Bubba van Trone,

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Speaker 1: his goals going into twenty twenty three and year two

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Speaker 1: as an NFL pro. Have a listen all right here

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Speaker 1: on the best podcast available with running back Jerome Forge

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Speaker 1: second year my friend, and how nice has it been

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Speaker 1: to actually have an off season because college wise, there

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Speaker 1: is no off season between college and when you get drafted, essentially,

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Speaker 1: there's not really a lot of downtime. How's the off

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Speaker 1: season been your first as an NFL veteran?

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Speaker 2: Now, it's been great in my opinion. Like you said,

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Speaker 2: you get that time off, and you got a little

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Speaker 2: bit more money to spend, so you go on vacation,

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Speaker 2: a lot of vacation, see family, friends, hang out a

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Speaker 2: little bit more. Not too many obligations to keep your

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Speaker 1: I believe our strength guys probably wouldn't let you allow

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Speaker 1: you to get out of shape too much. The buffet

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Speaker 1: tour can be too long. So but a little fun.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned you did a little vacationing. So far, Where

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Speaker 1: have you been.

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Speaker 2: I went to Mexico in March, Houston in January, and

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Speaker 2: I've been back and forth from here to Tampa all

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and Tampa because I believe you have

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Speaker 2: I'm from tow born and raised in Tampa, and my

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Speaker 1: Now she you told me she's one one going on

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Speaker 1: like twenty one.

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Speaker 3: I'm a swimmer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she got. She like this tall, she got. She

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Speaker 2: like her bucket hat. She wears shades. She walk up

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Speaker 2: to you. If her shad's falling off, she'd be like,

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Speaker 2: you know, fix my shades. She point in shades, put

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Speaker 2: them on her. She walk around like she cool.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like my nineteen year old. I still ask She

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Speaker 1: still wants me to do those things. I tell her politely.

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Speaker 1: You're an adult. Now you deal with this. You went

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Speaker 1: to Houston. Where in Mexico did you go? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Can coon with the all inclusive or all inclusive? The

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Speaker 3: only way to travel all inclusive.

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Speaker 2: Definitely all inclusive, and we kind of just like we

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Speaker 2: stayed on the resort for the most part. A couple

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Speaker 2: We took like a shady like voat across to this

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Speaker 2: island Islam You head airs, I think, yeah, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: I think, No, that's I did that. It ends up

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Speaker 1: being a booze cruise. Yeah, there's a lot of multicolored

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Speaker 1: drinks you should definitely avoid. Stick to the stick to

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Speaker 1: the beers and you'll be fine. Otherwise you don't get

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Speaker 1: talking with jer own forward running back here second your vet.

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Speaker 1: Biggest difference from year one to year two.

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Speaker 2: Confidence. I feel like I'm a lot more confident in

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Speaker 2: what I'm doing. I don't I'm not a sure. I

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Speaker 2: kind of know how to move around the facility. I

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Speaker 2: know how to handle myself for meetings. It's not as

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Speaker 2: nerve wracking, like everything isn't new. So now it's just

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Speaker 1: Need, Stump Mitchell in year two, what are his expectations

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Speaker 1: and how much do they change from rookie year to now?

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Speaker 1: Like you said, you know where you need to be

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Speaker 2: Coach Dump, You know, when I first got here, I

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Speaker 2: think it's like a thing with the new new people

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Speaker 2: and rookies. You know, he on you tight everything, and

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Speaker 2: I think this year he kind of backed up off me,

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Speaker 2: let me, you know, do what I do and he

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Speaker 2: coached me up and like it's been really fun, you know,

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Speaker 3: Got a new guy in there, so.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a pretty good running back room too.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you definitely there's always a fight for

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Speaker 1: the opportunities and what are the biggest things that you've

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Speaker 1: off season as we count down the days to training.

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Speaker 2: Camp, past bro knowing who the block were to go

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Speaker 2: route running and like you know, like Coach Stump always

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Speaker 2: tell us, we know you can run the ball. He

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Speaker 2: tell us all you know, you know you can run

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Speaker 2: the ball, Just do you know what to do? What

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Speaker 1: So as you get more and more comfortable in this offense.

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Speaker 1: You have a quarterback now that is here for the

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Speaker 1: entire season, and last year, I mean it was a challenge.

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Speaker 1: Jacobe did a great job, but then you know, eleven

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Speaker 1: games in you got to make there's a quarterback change,

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Speaker 1: and that changes the philosophy on things a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What's it been like to have a little more stability

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Speaker 1: and having one guy at doobts his back as well

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Speaker 3: It's fun.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, in the last few games that he

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Speaker 2: he real strong in the pocket. He almost looked like

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Speaker 2: just when he's scrambling making sure that we, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you just feel good to know that like throughout

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Speaker 2: the season, it's going to be the same thing throughout.

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Speaker 2: You know, we don't have to worry about too many changes,

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Speaker 2: and we out here pretty much building that connection to

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Speaker 1: All right, best moment from your rookie season. Best moment

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Speaker 1: from our rookie season, tough questions, beating the Bengals, beating

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, I'm in on that Halloween night yep.

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Speaker 3: Beating the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: The show in the stands almost as good as the

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Speaker 2: My girlfriend's family is like a from Cincinnati, so they

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Speaker 2: have big Bengals, big Bengals fans, and like we go

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Speaker 3: They in the stands taking pictures of me with my

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Speaker 3: Like we talk trash every day about the Bengals, Browns.

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Speaker 1: Well, and here we go week one. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. I mean, the schedule maker

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Speaker 1: right off the get go h three or three of

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Speaker 1: know where you stand pretty.

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Speaker 3: Early here, right.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be fun, a good challenge. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're probably one of the best teams in our division.

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Speaker 2: I think did they win the division last year?

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Speaker 1: They did?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And Joe Joe Burrow Jamarch I think it's gonna be good,

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Speaker 2: good players, good team.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, I think we're pretty good too though. So as

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Speaker 1: we take a look at things and you're moving forward.

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Speaker 1: We've got a couple more weeks OTA's mandatory mini camp,

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Speaker 1: and then it's a shorter vacation because we're back early.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit longer of a preseason. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to Joe Thomas for continuing to overachieve and forcing us

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Speaker 1: all to come back early. I always take a shot

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Speaker 1: at him every week about that. What do you want

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Speaker 1: here for those six week period. I know it's a

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Speaker 1: chance to get away and decompress and really relax a

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Speaker 2: I want to be like one hundred percent on everything

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Speaker 2: that I know and solid, so that when the time

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Speaker 1: Well, a place you contributed to the team a year

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Speaker 3: Heat Ie been here.

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Speaker 1: How important is it? Maybe it's not important, But do

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Speaker 2: I think it's really he actually going to show off,

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Speaker 2: All right, favorite food chicken, any kind of chicken, fried chicken,

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Speaker 1: Uh Chick fil A Breakfast highly underrated?

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Speaker 1: Uh go to spot here in town outside of Marble Room?

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Speaker 1: All right now fishing Tampa. Yes, favorite fish down there

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Speaker 3: And eat, catch and eat. I like flounder, okay, saltwater

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Speaker 1: Anything else we should know about you? Maybe a little twitch?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I got a twitch stream.

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Speaker 1: This is your chance to, this is your chance to.

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Speaker 2: I pretty much stream any video game, scary games, fun games, Madden.

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Speaker 2: I play myself on Madden sometimes. My twitch is Rome

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jerome, we appreciate the time. Congratulations on a great

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Speaker 1: first year, looking forward to much more here in year

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time, Enjoy some downtime, enjoy that little one,

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Speaker 1: good luck, put a fitbit on her. Yeah, got of

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Speaker 1: your steps that way. That's what I did with my grandson.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate the time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Jerome Ford. Wishing him all the best here

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Speaker 1: the rest of the off season through mandatory Mini camp,

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Speaker 1: get ready for the twenty twenty three season, and right

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Speaker 1: now Jerome Ford number two on that depth chart. It'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how things transpire here for a

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Speaker 1: and on special teams. OTAs they go through Friday and

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Speaker 1: then Mandatory Mini Camp Monday June fifth, Tuesday June sixth,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday June seventh, and Thursday June eighth. Everybody will be here.

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Speaker 1: It is the dress rehearsal for the twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 1: Everybody getting some work. Most of the work will happen

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday and Wednesday Thursday, some finishing touches before everybody

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Speaker 1: disperses for summer break, which will be about five and

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Speaker 1: a half six weeks long. Reporting back the week of

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Speaker 1: July seventeenth, and then July twenty second. Everybody's down at

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Speaker 1: the Greenbrier in West Virginia, and away we go for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season. Thanks to Anthony Baccofral of

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Speaker 1: his hard work, Thanks to Yellows for all his hard work.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Jerome Ford for his time. We are back

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Speaker 1: next week with the latest from Mandatory Mini Camp. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jason Gibbs, and thanks for listening to the past podcast

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