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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Front of the Podium podcast and

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Speaker 1: Happy Victory Monday. I'm Jason Gibbs. The Browns get their

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Speaker 1: first winning the season yesterday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. They'll

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Speaker 1: get to work this week at the Cross Country Mortgage

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Speaker 1: Campus in Maria as they prepare to host the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants this coming Sunday. On today's episode, you'll hear

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Speaker 1: from head coach Kevin Stefanski, quarterback Deshaun Watson, and All

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Speaker 1: Pro edge rusher Miles Garrett. We start with coach Stefanski,

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Speaker 1: who emphasized that while it wasn't pretty, winning was the

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Speaker 1: only priority on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, injury front, David Bell dislocated his hip, which is

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Speaker 2: a tough injury. He's a tough kid, so he'll he'll,

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Speaker 2: we'll get him up, He'll fly home with us and

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Speaker 2: then I'll update you guys on him. Obo was getting

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Speaker 2: evaluated for a head injury. I've not heard anything there.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm proud of that football team. We were

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Speaker 2: not perfect, wasn't pretty, but we fought and uh we

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Speaker 2: needed all three phases needed, the offense needed, the defense needed,

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Speaker 2: the special teams that play there. Corey pinning them deep

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Speaker 2: getting to sack the next play by a Wright was outstanding.

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Speaker 2: So a lot to clean up, and we have to

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Speaker 2: stay committed to getting better.

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Speaker 3: That's what I just told the football team.

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Speaker 2: We have to uh continue to get better in a

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Speaker 2: bunch of different areas and and we'll work at that.

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Speaker 2: But with that, I'll take any questions whatever. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: every game is whatever it takes, uh expletive, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's we go into it Tony. Just who's available to us,

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Speaker 2: what maybe gives them some conflict those type of things.

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Speaker 2: He was pretty darn good. I didn't give him a

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Speaker 2: game ball, but I will acknowledge him tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Even on that first drive.

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Speaker 5: You know, and all your receivers, I think out there,

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Speaker 5: why was that part of the play?

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Speaker 4: How nice you gottached?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're light on tight ends right now,

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Speaker 2: so that's kind of one answer. Just getting the tight

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Speaker 2: ends on the field, excuse me, getting the offensive line

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Speaker 2: in the field and some tight end spots. But we

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Speaker 2: want to be able to use all our guys. We

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Speaker 2: we we feel strongly about the bunch of guys that

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Speaker 2: we have, and you know, the big thing for us

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Speaker 2: is who's available week to week because it changes. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna be with that. Dave gotta pivot and go

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Speaker 2: somewhere else. Ye, injuries, just keep Yeah, that's the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Mary Kay, it's a week to week.

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Speaker 3: It's hard.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard to win.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You got good teams, good coaches. But we have a

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Speaker 2: mindset that we're just going to try and do our part,

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Speaker 2: do our job and try and get a win. Like

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, wasn't pretty. Penalties, injuries, Uh, didn't take advantage

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Speaker 2: of a few opportunities there at the end of the half, especially,

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Speaker 2: But we'll learn from it and we'll get better. Just

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Speaker 2: easy for Tony to say sitting up in the press box.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting we have never gone into a

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Speaker 2: game saying we got to possess the ball. Sometimes you

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Speaker 2: play great offense and you end up possessing it. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're always trying to just move the sticks.

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Speaker 4: I mean you were.

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Speaker 2: I give them credit. That's a very good defense. And

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Speaker 2: then again it kind of goes back to not capitalizing

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Speaker 2: on some opportunities. I can think of a couple plays

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Speaker 2: in particular where we need to We need to capitalize

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Speaker 2: on the look, whether it run or pass. We just

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Speaker 2: need to need to be better and that's on me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it has a shoulder that he was feeling a little bit.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of in an aut line up, but he'll

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Speaker 2: be okay. Yeah, I mean he was on the injury

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Speaker 2: report with a shoulder injury, so just felt it throughout

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Speaker 2: the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say comeback performance. That's just that's a

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Speaker 2: starting quarterback out there making plays. He's not perfect. H

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Speaker 2: I got mad at him at the at the end there,

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Speaker 2: but didn't stay mad at him.

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Speaker 2: He made some plays and and you know that's who

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Speaker 2: he is. I thought his pocket movement making plays off

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Speaker 2: That's that's a tough crowd that he's out there with

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Speaker 2: and we're backing up and there's penalties and and the

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Speaker 2: kid never blinked. Yeah, he should take a sack. But

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Speaker 2: I'm very very proud of him.

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Speaker 6: Years did.

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Speaker 4: The university.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and.

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Speaker 2: I thought he and we talked about this last week,

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Speaker 2: Mary kay, but I thought he handled uh the week.

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Speaker 2: I thought he made sure he was prepared for his

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Speaker 4: Miles was a foot a little bit like he was out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was also hot, so we had to

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Speaker 2: rotate the guys in there.

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Speaker 6: How about at times you know you're done or whatever.

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Speaker 4: And three third and four tackles.

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Speaker 6: With the fe and and James, how.

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Speaker 4: Do you think everybody?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we battled, and we knew Amery Kay coming down

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Speaker 2: here that they were gonna have to battle and in

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Speaker 2: the run game battle, in the past game battle, because

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Speaker 2: that's a very good front. There's some very very good

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Speaker 2: to it wasn't pretty all the time.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't have to be.

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Speaker 2: It just has to be a team committed to getting better. Yea, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't want to get into specifics, but

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Speaker 2: we called the plays from the sideline.

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Speaker 4: We thought to former I.

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Speaker 2: Think he had to carry in the op he comes

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Speaker 2: up start, Yeah, that's I want you know, I did

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Speaker 2: a poor job of getting him in there in that

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Speaker 2: understands what we're doing, So I just need to do

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Speaker 2: a better job. And then Deuce does a really nice

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Speaker 2: job on game day of getting those guys either out.

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Speaker 2: So nothing more than just I wanted to get him going.

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Speaker 2: I haven't had a chance to talk.

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Speaker 3: To him yet.

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Speaker 2: That was that was I'm sure it was no fun

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Speaker 2: for our fans to watch. Wasn't fun from my vantage

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Speaker 2: point either, going backwards like that, that was insane. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'd have to look at it. But sounds like he

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Speaker 2: got his hand stuck in there. He's he's trying, he's

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Speaker 2: running hard. We'll we'll try to correct that. No, he's

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Speaker 2: coops pro, he he'll be just fine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought Jerry had some really nice moments down the field,

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Speaker 2: especially made some big plays when we needed it. But

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Speaker 2: there's I really feel with everybody there's room to grow.

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Speaker 2: I really think we can get better. Really, Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: can only get one each week. So got on the airplane,

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Speaker 2: figured we could get one this week if we played

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Speaker 2: good football.

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Speaker 4: Is the relief to get that first one out of

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Speaker 2: Got a game next week, Scott, And that's you know,

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Speaker 2: that's the point of this whole thing is NFL.

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Speaker 3: This is hard.

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Speaker 2: This is a hard league, and there's tough games every

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Speaker 2: single week. We have to continue to get better and

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Speaker 2: try and get one at home next week. I think

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Speaker 2: we had trouble. I wouldn't said, the quarterback had trouble.

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Speaker 2: We had trouble, so I gotta look at what I

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Speaker 2: can do better, uh to give those guys an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to go move the ball. Weird, Yeah, that was That

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Speaker 2: was one I won't forget, Mary Kay. It's just the

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Speaker 2: different things that came up, uh, you know, a safety

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Speaker 2: strange things. But I thought the team handled them well.

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Speaker 2: Obviously not ideal to be whatever it was. Fourth and

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Speaker 2: twenty six was an ideal in some of those situations

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Speaker 2: we put ourselves in, but I thought the guys battled

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Speaker 2: like crazy.

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Speaker 1: Up next, quarterback DeShawn Watson took the stand to praise

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Speaker 1: the team's ability to take things one play at a

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Speaker 4: Ye, that's a case of case of whatever put offensively

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Speaker 3: Of the day.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's every week. I think. You know, we started

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Speaker 8: We had some opportunities to you know, continue to continue drives,

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Speaker 8: but you know, set to flicted penalties, some holding calls,

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Speaker 8: of get back into field range put us in, you know,

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Speaker 8: a tough situation, and then in the second half, we

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Speaker 8: just got to continue to you know, keep pushing forward.

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Speaker 8: You know, we got to pay a little bit more

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Speaker 8: points on the board to help our defense, the special

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Speaker 8: do that, then you know it'd be a hard team

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Speaker 6: Everything that went on over this week and just really focusing.

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Speaker 8: On this, Yeah, I just keep everything the main thing,

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Speaker 8: and the main thing, like I told you guys before,

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Speaker 8: I know who I am, but the ultimate I have

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Speaker 8: a job to do, and that's to play quarterback for

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Speaker 8: the Cleveland Browns and be the best I can be

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Speaker 8: when I step on the field. So you know, just

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Speaker 8: keep my lord and save it first, keep my support

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Speaker 8: and then just keeps you know, keep more glory.

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Speaker 7: And that's that's the ultimate ultimate thing.

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Speaker 4: Show what are the emotions getting back to what after

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Speaker 7: That's the job and that's part of the NFL. The

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Speaker 7: job is to be want to know each and every week.

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Speaker 8: So if we can be want to know each and

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Speaker 8: every week, then you know that mentality, you won't focus

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Speaker 8: on last week or the week after so, you know,

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Speaker 8: after we watch the tape on Monday, we flushed the

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Speaker 8: Dallas game and got focused on Jasonville. And we'll do

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Speaker 8: the same this week Tomorrow. Watch the tape, fix the

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Speaker 8: you know, correct the mistakes, fix everything we need to fix,

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Speaker 8: and when we come back, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, we

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Speaker 8: get onto the New York Giants a little.

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Speaker 6: Bit together, just trying to find your rhythm.

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Speaker 2: Or your way.

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Speaker 6: Uh, what's going on kind of there and how about the.

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Speaker 4: Pull together?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean sometimes it takes.

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Speaker 8: It takes tom and it depends on how the defense

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Speaker 8: when those opportunities come, we got to capitalize and that's

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Speaker 8: when both of us. But you know, there's nothing to

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Speaker 8: get frustrated with, you know, as part of the game.

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Speaker 8: And once we find our way and you know, we

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Speaker 8: can be very explosive and.

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Speaker 5: Sure you see View and Jerry especially kind of when

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Speaker 5: the place broke down, Jerry was.

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Speaker 4: Was we sort of became kind of your your outlet guy.

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Speaker 5: I mean, just the development of relationship with you and

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Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I have confidence in all the guys,

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Speaker 8: and Jerry just does a he does a great job,

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Speaker 6: How you guys want the university in that game? Just

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Speaker 8: Kevin always preaches always the next play, whatever happened to

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Speaker 7: It was closed. I didn't get to really see it because.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we had heard about it, and you know, it

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Speaker 4: You talked about the pot on Friday and something you

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Speaker 5: But part of the game working with them all the time.

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Speaker 3: But you know, us being on the work together rush

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Speaker 9: You know, him him working off of me, me going

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Speaker 9: So you know it's just great to see him uh

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Speaker 5: What kind of relief is it to get that first

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Speaker 9: That, you know, just I wouldn't say there's any relief.

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Speaker 4: You men, perfect satisfying the where you started.

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Speaker 6: We watched you through a lot over years what seemed

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Speaker 4: A choice of how you want to down play through it.

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Speaker 5: A couple of those red zone stops, especially that one

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Speaker 9: And then we gave some some big ones for them

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Speaker 9: they got to continue to, uh no, stand firm. Once

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Speaker 4: We'll take care of everything.

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Speaker 9: No way at all. I knew guys had us, so

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