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Speaker 1: The Browns are one to zero after their big win

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Speaker 1: over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. Welcome back to from

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Speaker 1: the podium. I'm Jason Gibbs here at the Cross Country

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Speaker 1: Mortgage Campus. No practice on Monday. The players were in

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Speaker 1: the building though, going over tape, getting a little lift

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Speaker 1: in and getting ready to turn the page to the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Two players and head coach Kevin Stefanski spoke

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Speaker 1: to the media on Monday. Up first, coach Stefanski, who

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Speaker 1: recapped what he saw from the team in their twenty

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Speaker 1: four to three win over the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: On the injury front, what we thought. You know, Jack

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Speaker 2: does have a major injury there, so he's going to

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Speaker 2: miss the season. That will require surgery. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: like I talked about yesterday, very very disappointed for Jack.

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Speaker 2: Spent some time with them yesterday, spent some time with today.

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Speaker 2: He's just he's a huge part of this team. And

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Speaker 2: when he gets this surgery and when he's ready, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna be back in this building helping us because he's

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Speaker 2: just again a big part of that offensive line room.

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Speaker 2: You guys know how tight that room is just for

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Speaker 2: this team. What he provides so disappointed for him, but

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Speaker 2: you know, classic football, you never know when these things happen,

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Speaker 2: and it's going to be a next man up type

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Speaker 2: of thing. On the game yesterday, Really the tape confirmed

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Speaker 2: what we all saw out there. Dominant defensive performance. Really

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Speaker 2: proud of the guys and executing the game plan. Tough

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Speaker 2: conditions for both sides, but I thought the defense was outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Offensively moved the ball, made some plays again in non

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Speaker 2: ideal conditions. There's still plenty of opportunities in that game

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Speaker 2: to make some big plays, as we know, and that

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Speaker 2: that's the good news moving forward as we hope to

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Speaker 2: make them and then special teams. You know, I thought

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Speaker 2: Dustin was was really good in his opportunities there. I

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Speaker 2: thought Mike Ford played really well. A bunch of different

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Speaker 2: guys playing well in that phase. So good to get

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Speaker 2: that one, but it's really onto the next one once

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Speaker 2: the guys leave the building today. You got to that one,

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Speaker 2: go win, loser, draw, you got to let it go,

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Speaker 2: so we'll be on to the next one. But really good,

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Speaker 2: good start, So with that, I'll take any questions.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Jordan, Thanks Kevin. That's sorry. By Jack, that's really cruel.

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Speaker 3: What happened to him. Not surprised to hear that he'll

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Speaker 3: want to be back around And how helpful will that be,

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Speaker 3: especially to a young guy like Kiwan that he can mentor.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hugely important.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to describe if you're not in

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Speaker 2: the building every single day, the impact that guys like

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Speaker 2: Jack have on your team.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And it can be very very subtle. It can be

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Speaker 2: in meeting rooms, it can be in the weight room,

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Speaker 2: it can be out on.

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Speaker 4: The practice field.

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Speaker 2: So we'll miss him while he's getting healthy, but then

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Speaker 2: we're gonna need his butt back here to help.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Kevin, can you just talk a little bit about

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Speaker 6: you know why Dewand over James Hudson and now Dewand

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Speaker 6: is going to draw the tough assignment of t J.

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Speaker 6: Watt in Pittsburgh, and how do you think he'll handle that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Dewan has been constantly working with coach Callahan,

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Speaker 2: coach Peter's, coach DeCosta.

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Speaker 4: To get ready.

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Speaker 2: There are no red shirts in the NFL, so you know,

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Speaker 2: you never know when that opportunity is going to come.

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Speaker 2: It happened in the first half of the first game,

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Speaker 2: and you have to be ready. He will continue to

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Speaker 2: get better and then you know, as it pertains any

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Speaker 2: matchup moving forward, it's it's you know, the NFL every

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Speaker 2: week is going to be very difficult. Obviously, going into

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is tough on every team that goes into that place.

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Speaker 4: So we'll have a plan and we'll move forward.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, coach, when you went back in looked at the film,

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Speaker 7: you mentioned there were some opportunities offensively, especially in that

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Speaker 7: first quarter. When you went back and looked at it,

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Speaker 7: how much is some of those misfires deep down the

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Speaker 7: field in the passing game will result of timing? And

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Speaker 7: how much do you think we're rather related?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think the ball was heavy and wet. It was

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Speaker 2: a constant missed. It was strange. Like I mentioned you

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Speaker 2: coming down in some weird sheets without rain drops. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it, but it was to

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Speaker 2: put some points on the board. Our defense played really well,

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Speaker 2: but it definitely had an impact on the passing game.

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Speaker 8: Kevin, I just was wondering with the defense you know

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Speaker 8: they had a strong outing yesterday. Asking a couple of guys,

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Speaker 8: they all said, you know, it's all about Jim Schwartz

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Speaker 8: and they were able to play free. How much of

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Speaker 8: this defensive scheme relies on trust from both the players

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would tell you that's probably true

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Speaker 2: of every scheme, cam and offense and defense and special teams.

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Speaker 2: I think there was definitely you know, I think you see,

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Speaker 2: calls for. We call for the guys up front. You've

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Speaker 2: heard coach talk about taking their seatbelts off. Calls for that.

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Speaker 2: It calls for you to play with reckless abandon It

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Speaker 2: calls for you to have eleven hats on the ball.

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Speaker 2: So I thought you saw great examples of that. It's

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Speaker 2: hard to single guys out because the performance was so good,

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Speaker 2: but you know, if I could, i'd talk about our corners.

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Speaker 2: I thought they played really really well. Challenge a really

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Speaker 2: really good pass attack. I thought Obo played really well,

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Speaker 2: thought Grant played really well. I could go up and

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Speaker 2: down the board with our guys Kevin.

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Speaker 9: Over the course of his career, Deshaun averages about five

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Speaker 9: runs a game at five Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Tell me how important.

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Speaker 9: It is for the threat of his running to open

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Speaker 5: Are you comfortable or you want more?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna be depending on the game, Tony,

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Speaker 2: think if you look at yesterday, you know, Deshaun made

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Speaker 2: a first down. He had made plays and design runs.

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Speaker 2: He made plays, but just by carrying out his fakes

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Speaker 2: you're going to watch on some of those runs where

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Speaker 2: him carrying out his fakes, a lot of the defense

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Speaker 2: So that's a huge part of what we do. Whether

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Speaker 2: quarterback designed run, all of that is part of who

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Speaker 2: we are. I think the game and the different game

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Speaker 10: Hey, Kevin, I wanted to ask you about why Teller,

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Speaker 10: there's that one block he had yesterday. He pushes a

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Speaker 10: has a couple of those plays every year. Just number one,

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Speaker 10: what that can do for you when you have an

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Speaker 10: alignment working that hard. And just how he's looked this

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Speaker 10: year since he dealt with that calf injury for so

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he played well yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's his brand of football when he can

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Speaker 2: lock his hands on you, and he's so big and

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Speaker 4: Dream right there. To be able to do that all

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Speaker 2: I think it speaks to his mentality, which in turn

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Speaker 2: speaks to our offensive lines mentality.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Kevin, I get two more right tackle questions for you.

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Speaker 11: First of all, you said you spend time with Jack.

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Speaker 11: Just how's he doing? This is the latest and kind

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Speaker 11: of a string of really tough injuries that you've had

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Speaker 11: to go through. And then, Dewan, what did you see

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Speaker 11: when you went back and watched the film?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think Jack has a great way about him.

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Speaker 2: He's a he's so conscientious, so mature, so he's you know,

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Speaker 2: he's disappointed and and uh, you know, upset about it.

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Speaker 2: But I have no doubt that he'll bounce back from this,

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Speaker 2: just knowing the person.

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Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And then what was the second part about Dewan?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, just when you went back and watched the film,

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Speaker 11: what did you think yesterday? You know you didn't we're

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Speaker 2: You know, I think some really good moments and some

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Speaker 2: things that he's got to clean up. It's it's really honestly,

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Speaker 2: any young player when when you get thrown into the

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Speaker 2: mix early, there's gonna be time. There's gonna be some

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Speaker 2: time to catch up. And I thought he had some

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Speaker 13: Hey, Kevin, I'm going to ask you about Marque's good

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Speaker 13: when he there was a couple of misconnections there, probably

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Speaker 13: because they have you all. But how encouraging is it

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Speaker 13: to you as a play call when he could get

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know, first of all, how nice was it just

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Speaker 2: for everything that he's been through in the last few months.

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Speaker 2: And I told him that I thought, you know that

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Speaker 2: just him being out there in uniform. Taki Taki being

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Speaker 2: to see. And you know, there's so much work that

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Speaker 2: say that, Yeah, Marquise, his speed is is world class.

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Speaker 2: He can really do it all. He's not just a

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Speaker 2: speed receiver. He will utilize that speed, but that speed

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Speaker 2: allows you to run a lot of different routes. So

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Speaker 2: he's somebody that we're excited to have and looking forward

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Speaker 2: to doing some things with him really throughout the season.

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Speaker 14: Kevin, I know we talked to obviously the weather having

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Speaker 14: an impact on the passing game, but moving forward, what

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Speaker 14: would you like to see in that area, like the

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Speaker 14: growth in the passing game moving forward, especially into Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as you see and we

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Speaker 2: saw it on you felt it in that game and

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Speaker 2: there were opportunities that just we couldn't connect on a

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Speaker 2: few of them. But bottom line is we got to

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Speaker 2: always look for those big plays down the field if

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Speaker 2: they're there. If they're not there, we have other options.

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Speaker 2: But you know, part of this game and part of

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Speaker 2: every game is going to be trying to find explosives

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Speaker 2: in the past game.

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Speaker 12: Hey, Kevin, you know it's hard to be you know,

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Speaker 12: find fault when you win twenty four to three and

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Speaker 12: impress it. But you know the stats seventy percent or

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Speaker 12: more in a negative you know, turnover ratio, You're you're

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Speaker 12: negative too, So how much more does that you know,

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Speaker 12: impressed to come over that when you didn't get the

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Speaker 12: takeaways that you're stressing and you still win dominant?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, being minus two is not a way

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Speaker 2: to consistently win. So we have to take care of

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Speaker 2: there was two good learning plays there. Obviously the ball

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Speaker 2: got tipped on the interception they but we got to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we got these six division games. We

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Kevin, I thought I saw that Jed Wills went

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Speaker 17: Okay, that's it.

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Speaker 11: Thank you here, Kevin.

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Speaker 7: Your defensive front is getting a lot of love this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would tell you Darryl, you know, it

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Speaker 9: Okay, Hey, Kevin, US old timers were encouraged to see

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Speaker 2: That was for the old timers, Tony, I was thinking

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Speaker 5: In the moment. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think every game calls for, you know, a different

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Speaker 11: Very good, Kevin, you mentioned a bunch You mentioned a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it can be really difficult. And I think you

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Speaker 4: So that's that's not going to be unique.

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Speaker 2: It's really based on the opponent and where you think

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Speaker 4: Yeah, MJ.

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Speaker 7: Just when the defensive line is getting after the quarterback

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Speaker 17: Oh man, I took my hat to those guys to

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Speaker 5: Big shout out of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Justin Hey, I'm Jay.

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Speaker 15: We talked to Miles earlier in the week, and you

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Speaker 5: Every game? You know, we're coming out and were on

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Speaker 17: You know, we got no goals and things that, you know,

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Speaker 17: You know, if he didn't say anything, it was going

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Speaker 5: But you know that he did.

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Speaker 17: You know, I don't really I don't want to say

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Speaker 18: So all right, now we'll go to Tom.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Jordan.

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Speaker 4: Hey, MJ.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing at some point along the way, coach Schwartz

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Speaker 5: Uh, his coach style, you know, it's tough brand football. Man.

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Speaker 17: I feel like he bring the best out of his players,

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Speaker 17: it's easy to go play for a DC like that. Man,

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Speaker 17: he coached everybody same. He just pushed us and motivates

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Speaker 5: Trust us.

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Speaker 17: DB's just that the whole secondary, you know, just called

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Speaker 5: We do best.

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Speaker 5: Oh man?

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Speaker 17: Every day you know, coming into this building, you know,

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Speaker 18: All right. Next we'll go to Mary Kay.

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Speaker 6: Uh yeah, MJ. Just wondering if you've had a chance

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Speaker 17: Big robbery game, Division game. Looking forward to it.

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Speaker 5: I did.

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Speaker 17: I didn't actually get a chance to watch the film

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Speaker 5: But I didn't get to watch the film, yeah, or

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Speaker 8: Him Jason you guys yesterday on the field, Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, ma'am, you can. It's the standard, man, you know.

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Speaker 17: So he actually has a system where if you don't

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Speaker 17: It's a loaf, so you know, he wants to celebrate

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 5: M Jay.

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Speaker 11: I know Schwartz has talked about how much trust he

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Speaker 17: Honestly, I feel like we have the best trio in

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Speaker 17: Honestly, I feel like we started off right and we

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Speaker 11: After the game, Joe Burrow called you specifically you and

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Speaker 17: I mean, I appreciate it. We you know, that's always disrespect.

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Speaker 5: Thanks sir.

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Speaker 10: Hey, I'm j A handful of guys talked about this yesterday,

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Speaker 17: Passionate effort, SLAG three where I can break it out.

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Speaker 17: Passionate effort and slags have fun, play fast, play physical,

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Speaker 18: All right. Next, we'll go to John.

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Speaker 5: M. Jay.

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Speaker 16: Zadarius said after the game that one of the big

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Speaker 16: reasons why you guys at a defense in general have

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Speaker 16: been able to kind of have chemistry right away, goes

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Speaker 16: back to the week at the Green Fire in West Virginia,

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Speaker 16: and then you add that plus you guys buying in

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Speaker 16: the Jim schwartz Is defense as quickly as you guys

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Speaker 16: have just kind of expound upon a little bit about

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Speaker 16: that week in West.

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Speaker 5: Virginia and how you kind of you that now you.

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Speaker 16: Know that's been already a month ago, but you already

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Speaker 16: kind of see you kind of reaping the rewards already

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Speaker 16: after week one.

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Speaker 5: And then how can you guys sustain this going forward?

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Speaker 17: Uh? Just a brotherhood, you know, just taking our relationshipss

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Speaker 17: you know, outside of work, you know, just just bonding

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Speaker 17: doing doing things together as a team, you know, and

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Speaker 17: just just building that trust day in and day out

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Speaker 17: on that practice field and and on Sundays, you know,

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Speaker 17: and just understanding that that's your brother is gonna do

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Speaker 17: everything and his will to win and put his best

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Speaker 17: foot forward for you, so you're gonna do the same.

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Speaker 17: And Uh, it's just you know, it just builds that

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Speaker 17: team chemistry and when you play tough and fast and

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Speaker 17: physical together, and it's gonna be hard to stop us.

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Speaker 18: All right. Up next we'll go to Dan.

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Speaker 19: Hey, I'm Jay going back to the Steelers. I know

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Speaker 19: you and George Pickens have a little bit of a

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Speaker 19: history together. Get a little back and forth this offseason

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Speaker 19: on Instagram or whatever. How excited do you get for

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Speaker 19: that matchup going up against him?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Man, he's a great receiver.

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Speaker 17: I can't I can't wait to play against him and

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Speaker 17: line up against him, you know, and just compete and.

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Speaker 19: And like is he a guy that just brings out

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Speaker 19: the best in you? But like you look forward to

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Speaker 19: matchups like that?

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Speaker 17: I mean, I'm the same guy every day, you know,

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Speaker 17: so of course I look up to a matchup like that,

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Speaker 17: just being a receiver that that came out my class.

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Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of people when we when we.

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Speaker 17: Traded back to uh, pick me up instead of grabbing him,

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Speaker 17: you know, I feel like a couple of people feel like,

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Speaker 17: you know that he should be here too. So obviously

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Speaker 17: it's a it's a it's a little chip on my

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Speaker 17: shoulder when when when that when that matchup comes. But

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Speaker 17: it's it's just a different it's the same thing, you know,

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Speaker 17: just another game, you know, a great, great opponent and

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Speaker 17: just gonna get after Thank you sir, all.

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Speaker 18: Right, and last one we'll go back to Cam.

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Speaker 8: There's that quote going around. You got a lot of

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Speaker 8: you guys are sharing it, but Cleveland is Cleveland with

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Speaker 8: week one in the books, How do you want Cleveland

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Speaker 8: to be defined.

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Speaker 5: As a team.

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Speaker 17: I just want when our opponents come on the tape,

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Speaker 17: anybody come on the tape to just see, you know

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Speaker 17: that we fly around, we play fast, play physical, and

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Speaker 17: play together, you know, and and that you know, every

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Speaker 17: Sunday it's gonna have to scrap up, put your big

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Speaker 17: pass on and come out of play, you know, because

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Speaker 17: we're coming as well. So I just want Cleveland as

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Speaker 17: a whole, you know, to beat just be us, you know,

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Speaker 17: beat the standard we built from day one this off

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Speaker 17: season and just just keep going, you know, and just

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Speaker 17: keep keep taking the week by week, day by day.

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Speaker 1: Finally, on a Monday, Brown center Ethan Posik, who talked

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Speaker 1: about losing fellow O lineman Jack Conklin and the growth

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Speaker 1: of rookie tackle Dewan Jones.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Jordan, Thanks you appreciate your time. How tough seeing

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Speaker 3: Jack go down?

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Speaker 20: Yeah, that's tough, tough, you know, tough on the teammate,

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Speaker 20: old lineman and good friends. So he's you know, he's

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Speaker 20: such a strong individual. He's gonna be he's gonna be okay,

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Speaker 20: but uh yeah, I hate to see it.

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Speaker 18: All right. Next we'll go to Ashley.

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Speaker 19: Hey.

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Speaker 10: Ethan just obviously you guys have Dwan stepping in for

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Speaker 10: you now. I guess just what you think of the

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Speaker 10: job he did and what it's been like getting to

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Speaker 10: know him and kind of integrate him onto this line

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Speaker 10: as a rookie.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he did a great job.

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Speaker 20: He's a competitor and uh he has fun out there

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Speaker 20: and uh he just he lets it go.

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Speaker 5: He lets it. He just goes and plays ball, and

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Speaker 5: uh he's fun to play with.

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Speaker 18: All right.

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Speaker 21: Up next is Mary Kay but yeah he Then Dewand

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Speaker 21: will probably have to see a fair amount of TJ.

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Speaker 6: Watt in Pittsburgh on Monday night. So I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 6: you know, how do you think he'll handle something like

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Speaker 6: that and how do you think his massive size comes

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Speaker 6: in handy against a player like that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 20: TJ is a great player and Dewan's a competitor, So

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Speaker 20: it's just gonna be one of those days where he

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Speaker 20: just come out and compete and play ball and have fun.

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Speaker 18: All right. Next one go to cam.

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Speaker 8: Hey then also with Dewan, you know, from the start

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Speaker 8: of his time here in Cleveland while he was conditioning

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Speaker 8: and things like that. How have you maybe seen him

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Speaker 8: develop over this time to be ready for this moment?

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Speaker 20: Yeah, I'd say he just gets better every day. He's

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Speaker 20: always asking questions in the meetings and you know, I'd

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Speaker 20: say every day he just tries to get better and

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Speaker 20: you can really see and uh, like I said, he

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Speaker 20: did a great job and you know, just happy for

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Speaker 20: him for how good he did.

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Speaker 18: All right. Up next we have Jeff.

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Speaker 4: Aiden.

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Speaker 13: Can you tell us how tight that brotherhood is on

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Speaker 13: the offensive line? And you came here last year and

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Speaker 13: seemed like you fit in right away. So how tight

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Speaker 13: is that brotherhood?

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's very tight.

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Speaker 20: It's we're all best friends with each other, and uh

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Speaker 20: it gets we're so tight. You know, sometimes we don't

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Speaker 20: even have to communicate verbally and we just you know,

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Speaker 20: we're tight on the field, tight off the field, and

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Speaker 20: uh yeah those are my guys.

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Speaker 18: Okay, next we go to Dan.

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Speaker 5: Hey.

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Speaker 19: Then, when you're playing conditions like that, is there a

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Speaker 19: part of you as an o linement that that kind

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Speaker 19: of loves playing in those types of games? And how

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Speaker 19: important was it for you guys to kind of show

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Speaker 19: so you could go win a game like that where

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Speaker 19: like everything just wasn't perfect, everything wasn't set up what

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Speaker 19: you wanted it to be.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, it's fun. Just one of those games you gotta fight,

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Speaker 20: and it's not going to be clean. You know, you

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Speaker 20: might be slipping and sliding a little bit. But just

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Speaker 20: to come out and play physical and have fun out there,

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Speaker 20: it was good.

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Speaker 18: All right. Next we'll go to Darryl.

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Speaker 11: Ethan.

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Speaker 7: How much fun is it the block for a back

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Speaker 7: like you know Nick Chubb who doesn't require thirty carries

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Speaker 7: yet he just makes getting one hundred yards look so

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Speaker 7: easy out there, even though it's obviously not something easy

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Speaker 7: to do on a regular basis like he does.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's amazing.

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Speaker 20: He's an amazing teammate, amazing running back obviously, and he's

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Speaker 20: he's just it seems like he's just always on it,

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Speaker 20: like every day. He's just consistently great and definitely someone

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Speaker 20: that you know, just he doesn't he doesn't even really

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Speaker 20: talk much, but he kind of gives you that like

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Speaker 20: momentum and it just you know, it gives you good energy.

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Speaker 18: All right, and we'll go back to Ashley.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Ethan, I wanted to ask you about Wyatt because

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Speaker 10: he had that one block where he like pushed his

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Speaker 10: guy twenty yards downfield, and I know, like every year

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Speaker 10: it seems like he has a couple of those. Just

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Speaker 10: what that does when you have a guy playing next

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Speaker 10: to you and your view of a play like that,

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Speaker 10: and how much it can fire you guys up as

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Speaker 10: a line.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, he does some amazing stuff.

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Speaker 20: He uh that was that was a crazy block and

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Speaker 20: uh yeah, definitely, you know, it definitely gets you hyped

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Speaker 20: up for sure.

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Speaker 18: All right, we'll go to tom.

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Speaker 5: Ethan.

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Speaker 3: You face that the Browns defense obviously in practice now

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Speaker 3: for a couple of months when they show so many

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Speaker 3: looks up front, how difficult is the community cation to identify,

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Speaker 3: you know, not only who the who the mic is,

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Speaker 3: but everything else. How difficult is that as far as

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Speaker 3: communication for an offensive line?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, our defense is uh, you know, they it was.

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Speaker 20: It was a good camp and uh you know, you know,

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Speaker 20: they definitely made us better. And uh you know, so

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Speaker 20: in terms of like communication and calls and stuff, we

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Speaker 20: have our rules and uh, you know, just try to

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Speaker 20: follow our rules to the best of their abilities. There's

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Speaker 20: always going to be some what ifs and stuff and

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Speaker 20: stuff that you learn from especially in training camps. So

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Speaker 20: you know, if something you know does get miscommunication something,

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Speaker 20: you just take it, learn from it, and try not

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Speaker 20: to let the same mistake happen twice.

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Speaker 18: All right, we'll go back to camp for this one.

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Speaker 8: I'm just wondering what it's been like for you and

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Speaker 8: some of the other ALIGN guys learning how to block

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Speaker 8: and hold that pocket. For Deshaun Watson with his ability

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Speaker 8: to be mobile, and what it felt like to be

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Speaker 8: able to to get out there a week one and

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Speaker 8: put this off season of work to the test.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, he's a great player. He's uh he does some

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Speaker 20: incredible stuff. So it's definitely fun to block for him.

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Speaker 20: And uh, you know, kind of like Chubb, you know,

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Speaker 20: you see him do some crazy stuff.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it definitely inspires you.

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Speaker 18: All right, we'll take two more. We'll go to Scott first.

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Speaker 5: Ethan.

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Speaker 11: I know you guys were really optimistic heading in the

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Speaker 11: season and had high expectations. But what is a performance

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Speaker 11: like yesterday where you guys dominate a really good team,

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Speaker 11: what does that do for kind of the confidence moving forward?

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Speaker 20: Well, I would just say, you know, NFL is it's

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Speaker 20: all about your next performance, and you're only as good

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Speaker 20: as your next performance. So meetings are over with, that

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Speaker 20: game's over with, so we're moving to the next one.

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Speaker 5: We got a big challenge this week, so uh.

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Speaker 20: You know, that's how I see it, you know, because NFL,

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Speaker 20: you know, anything can happen on Sunday, and you gotta

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Speaker 20: have a great week of practice going into the game.

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Speaker 20: And so as soon as the game's over, good or bad,

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Speaker 20: moving on to the next one.

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Speaker 18: All right, last one will be from Jeff.

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Speaker 13: Actually I forgot to lower my hand. But do you know,

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Speaker 13: did you watch any Steeler film yet? Probably not? But

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Speaker 13: what is your what is your impression of them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 20: Steelers are great. They're tough, tough team, tough defense, you know,

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Speaker 20: great team. Like I said, so it's gonna be a

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Speaker 20: fun one.

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Speaker 1: the Browns Big Week one win. I'm Jason Gibbs. We're

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Speaker 1: back with you on Thursday. Thanks for listening to the

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