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Speaker 1: Wait. Welcome you into the Cross Country Mortgage Campus in Barrea, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: home of the Cleveland Browns. Episode fifteen of the Best

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Speaker 1: podcast Available, presented by Cross Country Mortgage. I'm Jason Gibbs

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Speaker 1: alongside Andrew Gribble. Coming up in just a few minutes,

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Speaker 1: you'll hear from Nathan Szigura and Brown's offensive coordinator Alex

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Speaker 1: van Peltz on what he's seen through the Browns offense

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Speaker 1: here through the first two weeks of O T A

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Speaker 1: S and of course through the offseason workouts. Gribbs the

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Speaker 1: big news of the week, in addition to week two

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Speaker 1: of ot AS officially being in the books, the Browns

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Speaker 1: signing tight end David and Joku to a five year

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Speaker 1: extension through the twenty five year old hundred forty eight

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Speaker 1: career receptions over seventeen hundred yards fifteen touchdowns, had a

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Speaker 1: really good year last year. The Browns reward that and

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Speaker 1: the pots central again that they continue to see in

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Speaker 1: him is verified here by the contract extension. Yeah, definitely

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Speaker 1: a very forward thinking contract. And I think that of

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Speaker 1: all those numbers you just rattled off, the big one

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Speaker 1: is that he's only twenty five, and I think some

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Speaker 1: truly do grow into it. And I think when you

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Speaker 1: heard from him at the press conference, he talked about

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Speaker 1: and then that's kind of becoming a complete tight end.

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Speaker 1: And then it's hard to avoid this, but you you

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Speaker 1: wonder it's it's what does he become in an offense

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Speaker 1: with DeShawn Watson at quarterback and clearly as the number

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Speaker 1: the seventy five year of touchdown catch, It's like, how

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Speaker 1: do you get the guy the ball more? And I

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Speaker 1: think that's gonna be something that you think about, like

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Speaker 1: how do you get him as a as a regular

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Speaker 1: has done in the past, saying you've seen the flashes

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Speaker 1: And I think now it's it's making a more consistent thing.

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Speaker 1: Where early in his career he might have been a

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Speaker 1: Uh and now you can get him fully involved in

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Speaker 1: Alex Van Pelt talked about it in his press conference

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Speaker 1: now he becomes really a primary UH ball catcher for

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Speaker 1: this football team with a young wide receiver room and

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in the passing game for David and joking.

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Speaker 1: And he's clearly the most talented and arguably maybe the

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Speaker 1: most productive tight end that Deshaun Watson has gotten to

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Speaker 1: work with. And Deshaun's gotten some great production of guys

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Speaker 1: like Darren Fells went over from Cleveland to there and

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Speaker 1: So a guy that can become a quarterback's best friend

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Speaker 1: and someone that you know, Najoku is someone who will

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Speaker 1: Deshaun can extend some plays and you want to see

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Speaker 1: what Najoku can do on those kind of plays and

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Speaker 1: the sky is the limit that year old. Again, a

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Speaker 1: to see it get done. And again, the primary reason

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Speaker 1: to buy you a little more time to to negotiate

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Speaker 1: So I think David's contract, wherever it ranks him now

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Speaker 1: that's where this market is going right now for a

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Speaker 1: Mike Preefer. The trade the positioned the Browns to take

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Speaker 1: Kade York left him with tears streaming down his face.

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Speaker 1: I think might be one of the biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 1: it's just Newsome is probably the front owner for that

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Speaker 1: Speaking of that, a little bonding time coming for the defense.

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Speaker 1: The offense went to the Bahamas a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: is training camp. Offensively, this is a passing camp, per

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Speaker 1: Alex van pelt He said, by the time this is

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Speaker 1: all said and done, three hundred fifty passes versus live reps.

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Speaker 1: Not too shabby. For more on how the offense has

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Speaker 1: How's this offense coming along? Still growing? That's the good news.

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Speaker 1: You know. We've had good days, we've had some rough days. Um.

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Speaker 1: The most encouraging part is we don't make the same

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Speaker 1: his shows today. You talked about it in your press conference.

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Speaker 1: This is a passing camp. You want to get maybe

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Speaker 1: three fifty reps on defense. Well, guess what, we have

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Speaker 1: a pretty good back seven. So are you getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of good looks and a lot of good work

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Speaker 1: against good competition? Oh, there's no question. Let that back

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