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Speaker 1: Let's hold off on everything. We'll get back to this conversation. However,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the hotline and we welcome in Carson Swessinger.

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Speaker 1: He is the new linebacker from UCLA. Now to your

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Carson, thanks for joining us tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: What's it I can I can hear the excitement in

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Speaker 1: your voice, my friend. How's it feel to be an

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Speaker 1: NFL football player in a Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Brown Oh man, I'm so excited, ready to get to work.

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Speaker 2: It's just so blessed, blessed to be able to get here.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go, Carson.

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Speaker 4: When you your story on paper is incredible, right, no

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Speaker 4: star recruit walk on worn't ranked, and then you go

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Speaker 4: from that to being a first team All American in

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Speaker 4: your first year, really playing first team All Big Ten,

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Speaker 4: lead Big Ten and tackles lead your team interceptions, you're

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Speaker 4: a team captain, and now you're the thirty third pick

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Speaker 4: in the National Football League twenty twenty five draft. How

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Speaker 4: did this happen?

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Speaker 5: Oh man?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's definitely been a journey, like you said,

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Speaker 3: but you know, just everybody around me, you know, my family,

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Speaker 3: my my, my siblings, having my back and the support

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Speaker 3: I've had through it all is you know, really.

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Speaker 2: Got me where I'm at and and really just knowing

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Speaker 2: that in the at the end of the day, you know,

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Speaker 2: the hard work is gonna pay off and you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get to where you want to go if you're just

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Speaker 2: willing to out work anybody.

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Speaker 5: And Carson, when you saw that unrecognizable more likely area code,

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Speaker 5: did you know something was up with man? And how

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Speaker 5: did you feel once that moment took place and you

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Speaker 5: heard Andrew Berry, Chevins Stefanski on the telephone.

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man, I mean there was there was a good I

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Speaker 2: got a speech for this, There was a good you know,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time where I was sitting there,

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Speaker 2: couldn't even think of the words to say. It was,

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Speaker 2: you know, best.

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Speaker 3: Feeling I've I've had.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just so excited, Carson Sweeshins, you're joining

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Speaker 1: us the brand new Cleveland Browns linebacker with Gerrod Cherry,

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Speaker 1: Andrews Siciliano, the voice of the Cleveland Browns, myself, Ken Carmen,

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Speaker 1: and Nathan's the girl.

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Speaker 4: Nathan go ahead, cause did you have an idea that

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Speaker 4: you were going to be a Cleveland Brown.

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Speaker 2: You know, you know the whole process.

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Speaker 3: You never know where you're gonna go, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you always have feelings.

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Speaker 2: And man, I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to get to work.

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Speaker 4: How excited are you to know you got another Californian

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Speaker 4: out there in that linebacker room. You're linebacker coach Jason Tarboro.

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Speaker 4: So you guys, it feels like you guys are gonna

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Speaker 4: bond very very quickly.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't wait to work

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Speaker 3: with him.

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Speaker 2: I know that with him, you know, gonna learn so

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Speaker 2: much and get yes, you know, become so so much,

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Speaker 2: such a better player. You know, I can't wait for it.

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Speaker 6: And he loves you and he loves his bruins certainly

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Speaker 6: here Carson. I know you guys different different parts of

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Speaker 6: southern California. I doubt you played each other, But with

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Speaker 6: you at Oaks and Mason Graham down at Survey, did

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Speaker 6: your paths ever cross when you were kids?

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Speaker 2: Not when we were kids, but we actually ended up

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Speaker 2: training together. So so definitely excited to see him there

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Speaker 2: and now even just have him on the defense too.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: What do you believe that you bring to this Browns defense.

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Speaker 2: I think I just at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring just relentless, whether it's in the past game,

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Speaker 2: in the run game, there's not going to be a

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Speaker 2: play where you're not going to see me going one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent and making plays. And you know, everybody, everybody

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Speaker 2: on the defense, you know well, we all build off

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Speaker 2: of each other, and so just the energy bringing is

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Speaker 2: is something that's huge and you know, I'm ready for it.

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Speaker 4: You led the FBS last year with ninety solo tackles

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Speaker 4: seven and a half solo tackles per game, the most

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Speaker 4: in the FBS since twenty twenty. What is your mindset?

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Speaker 4: Because clearly, when you're a heat seeking missile the football,

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Speaker 4: but it's one thing to get there, it's another thing

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Speaker 4: to get the guy on the ground. How are you

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Speaker 4: able to do that so effectively?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of that just comes down to

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Speaker 2: being prepared when you when you head into the week,

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Speaker 2: when you head into the games, and being ready for

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Speaker 2: any play you're gonna get and at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, when you run to the ball, good things happen,

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Speaker 2: and you know, just just start every play with with

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Speaker 2: with the thought that I know I'm gonna make a

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Speaker 2: play on this play and and when you, you know,

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Speaker 2: carry yourself like that, you're gonna end up making place.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Carson, I think there's one theme here for the

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Speaker 6: Browns with their picks over these first two nights, whether

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Speaker 6: it's Mason or you or Quinn Shawn Judkins, it's toughness.

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Speaker 6: And that's what this division. That's the style of football

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Speaker 6: in the AFC North. How excited Maybe that's the wrong

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Speaker 6: way to ask it, but how excited are you to

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Speaker 6: play this style of football?

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I mean that's that's football at its core

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Speaker 2: is toughness. It's it's running and hitting and so it

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Speaker 2: is the best division in football for that.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm I'm excited as you could be

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Speaker 3: be for for that opportunity.

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Speaker 5: And Carson, amazing story. Walk on. Now you find yourself

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Speaker 5: being second well it's first pick in the second round

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Speaker 5: being drafted, and I'm I'm a former player myself, and

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Speaker 5: just to tell you, man, keep that same approach, keep

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Speaker 5: that same mentality, because it's got you this far, you'll.

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Speaker 1: Take you even further.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Yes, sir, one.

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Speaker 4: Of the things I love is that you know, when

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Speaker 4: you are the thirty third pick in the draft, a

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Speaker 4: lot of times you come in and you've never played

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Speaker 4: special teams, and yet as a rookie Girod right, one

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Speaker 4: of the best ways to get on field is you

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Speaker 4: want Bubba Ventrone to love you, you want your special

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Speaker 4: teams coordinator to love you, and you obviously hope to

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Speaker 4: get on the field as a position player as well,

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Speaker 4: but that's not the case with you. You've been a

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Speaker 4: special teams demon in college, and that is you kind

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Speaker 4: of have a leg up that's not usual typically for

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Speaker 4: a for a thirty third overall pick.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean yeah, I mean, special teams is part.

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Speaker 2: Of football, right, and I want to be on There's

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Speaker 2: no doubts as I possibly can, so any way to

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Speaker 2: get on the field, that's what I was gonna do.

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Speaker 6: Carson, silly question. Now your forty nine as a Bruin

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Speaker 6: forty nine is available here, but I mean, let's talk.

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Speaker 6: Let's talk, Frankly, forty nine is an odd number for

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Speaker 6: an NFL linebacker. You are you ready to wear forty nine?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to wear forty nine?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, You'll stick with it. You take your guns here.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone's gonna be cool. You are you gonna

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Speaker 1: wear forty nine?

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Speaker 2: That just means nobody's warn it good enough yet.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Man, Hey, that's the perfect answer. Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, Carson, We thank we thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for the time. Congratulations again. We could tell you how

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Speaker 1: excited you are. We're looking forward to having you in Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Buddy, all right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Carson. Swest's you're joining us here on the hotline. A

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Speaker 1: fantastic answer from him,