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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
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Speaker 3 (00:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:58):
We have a training camp practice in the books. Yeah,
we have quarterbacks at podiums. We could have a guest
here in studio at any moment. And in fact, if
you're on the YouTube stream, you will see that there
is currently an empty chair next to me. That chair
could be filled at any moment by an active Cleveland
brown How are you living, buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm good man. It was fun out there yesterday. Gibbet
and I and Ceciliano had a nice perch up above
and we took all the action and it was it
was great to see gott He even got a little
eleven on eleven. The throw of the day belonged to
Kenny Pickett on a nice crossing route to Jerry Judy.
That was right in rhythm. That was just beautiful nice
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Hilin Gabriel had a bomb down the field Flacco through
one to Mike Woods where he when he threw the ball,
you're like, there's no way his guy's open. He it's
one of those where you watched he threw him open
like he threw the ball where Mike Woods had a
really effort to get to but only he could get
to it, and he did. Chador had a great throw
like that as well, to the outside. That might be
the pick at the judy right there. Look at who's
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on the ball right now. Wow, that's on it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Let's go right on it, go right on it. If
you're watching on the YouTube, you would have seen that.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Watch here's gonna be this when I met. This is
to gauge number eighty four on the outside where it's
a tight window throw. Look at the ball placement there.
Oh no, that's a quick the one I was it
was really tight on the sideline. What do we have here?
Dylan Dylan and Dylan hit a bomb to a gauge
Larivian who when the defender fell down. This is a
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little boot and a little run. Look at this little
b ro there Jordan the background right there, saw but yeah,
the throat there, everybody kind of had a highlight should door.
I know the numbers. I was there. I'm telling you
you know. He had two that were tight windows that
should have been caught, and one where a guy kind
of had a collision on the first one, and so
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the next time he went back to him that tight window,
he got a little bit of the uh, alligators a
little bit. It was yeah, I hated to see that,
but all in all, Soliday, they got some good work in.
I thought Kenny threw the ball well, you see Jamari
Thrash for those watching on the YouTube stream right there,
Jamary Thrash, It is a clear to me that he's
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the one. If Flacco throws us to the left, it's
got to be the Mike Wood ones. He looks right,
comes back left, comes back left. No, nope, staying right. Gosh,
he throws a nice licking ball.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He does.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I feel like it's sixty he can oh.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The crosser to DeAndre Carter had a nice catch. It
was really it was good to see everybody kind of
had their their good moments throwing the football. Again, it's
a lot of seven on seven. There was one period
of eleven on elevens in the eleven on elevens. Joe
Flacco did not get any reps yesterday. I really want
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this one to be the one of Mike Woods because
it's so sick. This has to be it. Looking left throws,
you're just not gonna really get the context. But yeah,
that was it.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Yeah, that's tight.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Or it looked like Miles Harden was gonna be able
to undercut that and you can see he's like, how
did he get that ball in there and catch by
Mike Woods? That was the one from flat go there.
But yeah, some some good work yesterday. You did not
have David Njoku's out there. I got to see him
and express condolences on behalf of myself and the program
on the passing with his father. He wasn't out there.
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I say, Jerome Ford's nursing a little bit of an injury.
Wasn't out there yesterday. Jordan Hicks was not there for
personal reasons yesterday as well. Starting defense. What that was
out there again? That was out there? You had Sweesssinger
was in there. That's that ball again right there? Yeah,
Jered Judy, you had Swesssinger in there. You had Mason
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Graham in there with Malie Collins McGuire a lined up
opposite of Miles Garrett to start, but your defensive ends weren't.
That was the other thing when Chador was in there
kind of at the end, and you have guys like
Joe Tryon Shoyinka and you've got Julian Aquara and Cam
Thomas against the third string tackles. That did not go
well for the third string tackles. There are two plays
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that you door had in his five You had five
plays and eleven and two of them were over before
they began. Yeah, because Julian Acquara was in the backfield
as the ball was being snapped.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, And honestly, it should be that way, honestly, like
these are pros, it should be that way. And our
our defense should be significantly ahead of our offense. So
that's the way it ought to look. That's the way
that I think this team is kind of being. That's
how this team has been built is defensively first, and
so the defense should have their way with our offense
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a lot of the time. I mean, that's Kevin ain't
gonna like it, but that's the reality of it, is
that the defense should be far ahead of the offense
at this moment, usually as anyway, but especially in this
camp where so much has been invested on that side
of the ball, especially when you get.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Those things going in there are no pads. That's tough. Yeah,
guys getting that speed off the edge, you know, offensively
and seven on sevens right, that's where the offense should
look good. I thought the offense did look good in
those periods, and it's going to continue to ramp up.
You know, that's day one. You know, today you'll get
a little bit more than you got yesterday, and then
you'll have that first open press to the fans tomorrow
and then Saturday as well. Now what's interesting to me is,
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you know, it's hot. It's hot. It's gonna be the
nineties when they take the field. And Kevin's fancy is
kind of a word that I had used a few
times talking about you know, this team needs to get
calloused and hardened. And I don't know if you saw
the clicks they put out, yea, and that's the word
got to callous your body, callous your mind, And that's right.
This team has got to be able to hit the ground,
not just running sprinting, because it is going to be
an absolute sprint to try to deal with the Bengals,
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with the Ravens, with the Packers, with the Lions right out.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Of the dealers.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, I mean it's a it's a full day and
it's Yeah, I think the one I don't know. Did
you look at next week though? It is supposed to
be like in just the mid seventies, so really hot
today and and hot kind of this weekend, but then
next week it gets it goes down ten degrees. It's
like mid seventies next week. So usually coaches want they
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want it like it is today. Yeah, that's what you want,
is you want the heat, the humidity and all that
kind of comes with it to get into work.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Did you notice anything different in terms of the process
of practice from previous years.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, it certainly seemed to. Well the two fields, Yeah,
that's different where you're you're running simultaneous seven on sevens
on both fields. That obviously we saw that in Ota,
saw that mini camp because of the four quarterbacks. So
that's new from a training camp perspective. I've not seen
that before. And then the other thing I would say is,
and Gibbe, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but
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it felt like there is the official start, but felt
like it was just longer. It was longer they were
out there, like if well today it says four to
twenty five, I guess yeah. I thought by four o'clock
like they were it was going.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yeah, when coach came to the podium just a few
minutes before four o'clock, there were a number of guys
already gone.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And that's I think individual stuff that's not like part
of the actual but it felt it it honestly, gibbet
I was surprised because I remembered kind of like the
ramp up days that happened at the Greenbrier. Felt like
the day one was just like just individual and position
group drills and then like this was a this was
a practice.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
It was it was day three or four of the
ramp up before we saw any eleven on eleven or
seven on seven.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So they're getting into it and they're doing obviously what
is allowed. Yeah, I think that they're gonna go. I
think in years past there was what was allowed and
then what the brownstot was, you know, judicious or as
it feels like this year, we're going to go with
what is allowed. We're going to that the max of.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That, I asked because so much has been made this
offseason about the changing tone and obviously you know the
two fields. That's a very college thing to do. Yeah,
but and that's we saw that in mini camp when
we had felt like one hundred people here at rookie
Mini Camp. Because you you've got to get it's just reps.
It's a reps game that has to get done. So
all of those things are different than what we've seen
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in the past. And then I like how you phrase
that about this is what you can do and we
would be judicious, and now we're taking it right up
to what you can do. And so it has to
be that the way. Look, folks, there's one way that
I think as we sit here in late July, mid
to late July, that this team can be successful this year,
and it is about being physical defensively, turning other teams
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over and in a way kind of nursing it offensively
and long drives with the run game and play action.
I mean, that's that's the recipe for success. We are
not We do not have the offensive firepower to keep
up with the other teams in our division without our
defense providing that we just don't just don't our investment.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was not on that side of the ball. And
so there's a way to win.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And I think the direct correlation between this is the
way to win and the way to win is going
to be toughness.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And I like that. I heard that too. I picked
up on it that to use that word callous as well. Yeah,
that's that's who we're going to have to be. You
are going to have to be a tough football team.
You're going to have to be ready to go right
out of the gate, and you are going to have
to really be efficient and ready for the demands, the physicality,
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all of it that are gonna take place and transpire
once this season kicks off. And I think for the
Cleveland Browns, you know right now, this is gonna be
a team that's gonna win games the following way. We're
not gonna win a lot of forty eight to forty
two shootouts. But to your point, you have got to
be efficient. You have got to be excellent in execution.
You have got to avoid shooting yourself in the foot.
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Those crippling mistakes, whether they are offensive penalties, whether they're turnovers,
and then your defense is gonna have to be elite.
We're gonna have to really be able to run the ball.
We're gonna have to take advantage of the shot plays
when they're there, and we're gonna have to play good defense,
and our special teams is gonna have to be plus.
You know, we've got to be good kicking, we've got
to be good covering, good returning. Hopefully, you know, DeAndre
Carter finally can get a returner to the season and
then that would be great. But that's how that's the recipe.
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And when you think about the fact that you know,
the Bengals recipe is gonna be to score thirty five. Yeah,
the Ravens are a team that can kind of do
it all. They can score and they can can shut
you down. You know, you're going to have to be
very committed to that identity, and that identity is going
to have to be one that is physical because the
play great defense and be a team that is hangs
its hat on running the football. You've got to be physical.
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And I think Kevin Stefanski is thrilled that Mike Bloomgren's here.
They see the run game the same way and our
offensive line players are thrilled that he is here and
we need to see that manifest And obviously we have
a big off the field question mark at that position,
but that's where you know this team is going to
kind of make its hay.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
In my opinion, Practice number two will be today at
four to twenty five. Obviously it will be heated out
there this afternoon at the Cross Country Mortgage campus, and
then tomorrow at two o'clock will be the first practice
that is open to the public. And when when do
we When are we in a full pad situation?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What is the ramp up? Do you guys just curious
not giving you when the first day full pads? Is
it a week? No?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
So, I mean you get there's five days of ramp.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Up, so that would take early next week.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
I'd say Monday or Tuesday, because Thursday is not a
training camp day, okay, Thursday is just a walk through day.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
A week from today.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Yeah, okay, So I would think do you go in
pads the day before that?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Probably?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Right right, So maybe on Wednesday, I would say Tuesday
or Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, I think we're about ready to have a
luminary joint, all right, Joe's ready to ready to get
on in here. So you want to take a break,
It's up to you or you can just do it live.
Do you want to take a break? Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 2 (13:27):
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Joining us live in studio, New Defensive End Joe Tryan,
Shayinka joining us.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Joe, good to see you man, Welcome to town.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
One day in day two practice, coming this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
How did it go?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Are going so far? How do you like town? How
do you like the facilities, the building, the team, all
of it.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I'm loving it all. Just we have a bunch of
hungry dogs out here.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
We all got a mindset that, you know, we're trying
to be the best, and it seems like the just
the whole atmosphere. The team has got a lot of
focus and a lot of emphasis on tough and it's
just been a it's been a test, but I think
you can't really get changed without being challenged. And it's
definitely a positive opportunity for all of us to go
out and just start the season the way we want to.
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You know, Day two defense, we gotta fly around, we
gotta we got a lot of goals we want to,
you know, lead the league and take away sacks, interceptions,
all those things. So we got to just continue to work,
put one foot in front of the other, and you know,
just have fun.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
But it's been it's been good, Cleveland.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
I appreciate y'all welcoming me, and you know, I didn't
think it was gonna bring this topic heat, but you
know I'm ready for it.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It won't last. Yeah, by the way, there will come
a time you're wishing it's back. I promise you that.
Although you played in Washington in the Pacific Northwest, you
know a little bit about when it gets a little cold,
little gray. What was it like going back to kind
of your free agency process, you know, for the first time,
probably since you went to Washington, being recruited again and
going through that and deciding and getting to decide as
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a free agent, Okay, this is the right fit for me.
So what was that process like and what led you
to the conclusion that, yeah, Cleveland is the place I
want to be.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Just trying to just get as many opportunities as possible.
And Cleveland has a great defense Schwarts has an amazing philosophy.
It's just a lot of defensive line to basically just
pin their years back and attack and not really read.
So just the whole process was pretty simple. I sat down,
I just kind of just watched the film. I've seen
the Browns defensive film over my career and they always
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pop out, flash out, So I thought it was something
I want to be a part of for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
How nice is it that you don't have to worry
about dropping and maybe they'll be able ringle here or
there because you've done the past. But you're just you
can stand up on the two points stands, put your
hand during and just go forward.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It's definitely, it's just it's a it's a good feeling,
but it's although it comes with a lot of responsibilities.
We're the if we're not producing and our DB's are
in a bad position. But that's that's why we're putting
someone's emphasis in messing the coverage with our pastor us
so it can be a dominant defense like we're supposed
to be.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
The investment that's been made by this organization on the
defensive side of the ball. Obviously, Mason Graham Cone is
a fourth round pick. Second round pick was a linebacker
in Carson. Obviously, Miles' contract gets done. This is the
identity of this team. And we've talked about this a lot.
Whatever this team is, it's going to probably be.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Set by you all.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What are you sensing in terms of the tone from
the defensive side early on here and how appealing was
that for you and your decision to come here.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Uh, just overall tone, just I think it was just
a great, great opportunity for the defense to just lead and.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Push each other.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
You know, when you have a great defense going out
and attacking the offense every day, it rises the level
of competition throughout the whole team. It raises expectations for
both sides of the ball. So, I mean, that's just
a great opportunity. And like you said, we got to
be able to lead and then it's going to just
keep bringing everyone else up in the building.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
How do you feel about two things, Austin, two different questions.
The first is you're not going to get double teamed
and most likely, if you're on the opposite side of
Miles Garrett, protection will be sliding away from you. Has
to be appealing. Knowing that it's just gonna be one
on one pretty much every time we rush the passer.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
That's an amazing, amazing opportunity. I don't know who else
in the defensive end position would want to be anywhere
else out of that situation. Just you can't really explain
a better spot. So definitely an amazing opportunity for any
any defender here. And I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And then the other part is different than some teams.
Some teams are like these are our starters, and they're
gonna play ninety percent of the snaps and you know
when they need a rest, they'll come in. Jim Schwartz,
at least in the years that he's been here thus far.
It's Waves, And I'm sure Jax's are has told you
that everybody's gonna play. So when you are playing, you
are going to be fresh because everybody's gonna get those opportunities.
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Is that something that you've experienced before and is that
something that's appealing as well?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I've experienced it to a sense.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
But the whole Waves things is a bunch of fresh
legs ready to go out and attack the offensive line.
And then we're just gonna keep doing it, keep doing it.
We're all hungry to impact the game. We all want
to do that. So that's what these couple of days
in camp we gotta we gotta continue to grind and
and just put that work.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And so it shows up in the fall.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Pretty good Iron versus Iron two with that offensive line
that we have in terms of and and as as
now that you are a veteran, you're this far end
of your career, how do you balance the You got
to go as hard as you can every rep counts,
but also you have it's a long camp. You have
to take care of yourself too. How is that balance
like for you? What have you learned in your career
on that front?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
It's is you got to lead by example.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
There's a bunch of people, a bunch of young dudes
watching and they're trying to figure out they're they're they're way
in the league. So as a veteran, you got to
be able to put your best foot forward. You got
to continue to show your best side and even when
you're tired, you got to to show them that this
is what it's like to be a pro.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
This is what it takes, and it's not going to
be easy, and we don't want it.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
To be easy. Like I said, you know, he didn't
go get changed without being challenged. So it's kind of
where I've seen it.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, is it wild in your NFL life that you
blink and here you are? I think Miles is obviously
the veteran. Julian may have one year on you and
then you're one of the older guys in the room.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
All the sudden, it's surreal.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
It's like, dang that the whole league round. It's just
you grow up quick. Man, You mature quick, and then
you learn quick. So yeah, I'm excited, but I'm I'm
blessed to be to be where I'm at, and I
think that the young guys are all hungry, so I'm
I'm in a good position to even have a have
the right mindset where I know I could be speaking
to these guys and they're actually taking it in and
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something that's going to help them in their career.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It kind of feels like the perfect fit for your
game here. Yeah, I mean really does.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I mean, the more we the talk and the more
you kind of figure out what we're going to be
and what you're about as a player, kind of a
matchmate in heaven thing here, it seems like.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Man, I mean kind of going towards I'm excited. I'm
definitely amped up thinking about that the whole way. You know,
I got to think about the waves right now.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It's it's such an interesting thing, you know in the
league where you come in someplace and you were there
drafted in the first round with Tampa for the four years,
and now you walk into a new room and you
have goals for yourself and you have goals obviously for
this team. What's it kind of like just coming into
a complete new locker room because you've really only known
one way of what camp has looked like and one
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way of what the locker room has been like. And
people change every year obviously that's the nature of the NFL.
The roster turns. But this is a totally kind of
new experience for you. What's kind of just been your
impression of coming in the facilities, you're working with everything
and coming in and how it's been for you kind
of acclimating.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, it's definitely been an interesting process for me. I
love it.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Some Something about me is I'm cool with change. I'm
not really worried about my process staying the same. I
want it to be elevating. So coming here, the strength staff,
they got a great program. They're they're working this hard.
They're specialized in soups, certain things that you know, help
us out on the field and that they're no, they're
they're really excited to even do that. So having to
personalize opportunities with you know, the trainers, strength staff, nutrition
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is they all put it in place and they want
you to to use them for for what they're they're
used for. They have all the all the resources, all
the knowledge, So coming here has just been.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You came in a good time too.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Wet through. Yeah, I go in there.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
We got like a walkthrough like virtual kind of thing,
like put the film on the wall and walk through
the plays like it's in front of you. So, I mean,
it's pretty state of art and I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
What do you know about about these fans and a
Sunday in front of the dog Pound? That's the dog
Pound fortieth anniversary logo there, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
It looks great.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
What do you know about what it means to be
a Cleveland Brown or what this organization means to these fans?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Man, it's everything. It's definitely everything. And I've seen it
on TV. I've watched all those games where it's like
a Thursday night game, you' all playing in the snow,
is super windy, but the fans are still there, they live,
they loving it. It's an atmosphere I want to be
a part of. So I definitely am embracing the Cleveland
you know, dog bound for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
They're gonna bring it all right. I have to ask you,
what's something I grew up on the West Coast as well? Yeah,
you went to Washington. Like, how can we be living
in a world without the PAC twelve.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
I'm looking around, like the Big ten and where we're
traveling and thinking about all history in the PAC twelve
and just packed ten, Pack ten, freaking all the all
the greats bro.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
So, I mean it hurts my head to think.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
About agree totally.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
I'm like, so I'll play college football twenty five and
I was like, I'll make the old Pack twelve. So
I'm like, I'm running my dynasty trying to get back.
I'm like, man, I gotta get back the old.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Did you grow up wanting to go to Washington?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I was just a packed yeah, Pack ten, Washington Col.
All those schools, Okay, I loved it. I know cool,
you know what I mean. So we get to go
up to like Utah and all those cool schools. So
it's just something weird just to think about.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
It doesn't exist.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
My community exist, but like Texas State or somethings in
and out.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I don't want to hear about nothing against Texas State.
But I'm just saying that's not the PAC twelve.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
No, and the Apple Cup down.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Yeah, the year like they're doing that like it was
Week three or something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
So now you guys close with or again.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, which I know you guys hate them, but that's
another it's a big time rival.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
But yeah, it's crazy. That's a big time Uncle Zago,
may you rest in peace, was a professor at the
U of A. So I was a packed pack ten
guy my whole life. Yeah, it's just sad. Well what
happened when he was there and the mismanagement all happened there.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I know there was a window where they should have
that league should have never ever fallen apart, but it's
some of the worst leadership in the history.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Of sports led to it. It's crazy what happened at
the top, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
It was definitely one of those things like the players
didn't want it to happen, No fans wanted to happen.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
In the last year they were playing in the National Championship. Yeah,
Washington was in the Nationals.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Want to pack twelve two years.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
In a row.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
So I don't know it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Before we get you out of here. What's one thing
I was like to ask people when they come to
the team, what's one thing you want Browns fans to
either know about you or to think about when they
see you, know, try and shrink on the back of
your jersey. What's one thing you want them to think
about you, whether football related or just you as a person.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yeah, shoot, you know, I'm human just like you guys.
I love my family. I try to take care of
my family the best way I can. I try to
to wake up, put one foot in front of the other.
I try to be assumed and as I can. You know,
it's kind of hot. I look at it.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Just a much larger, more athletic Cuban. That's us.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Y'all could do it too, man.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It is great media, it's great seeing you here in studio.
Good luck this season. I think it's gonna be a
great one for you and this defense show.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Thank you so much, Blention, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
All right, we'll go around the sports world, including a
monumental passing in the in the sports entertainment world. Coming
up next, you listen to cleveand Brown Dally on eight
fifty ESPN.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Cleveland Cleveland Browns Daily presented by bally Bett, an official
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Speaker 2 (24:43):
All right, a couple of things around the sports world
and around the league. First Jets quarterback Justin Fields. This
was scary. I was on the air this morning when
this initially happened, and when you saw the social media reaction,
it was Justin Fields cartered off the field, Oh my god,
is it an achilles?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Is he done? Are they trading for somebody? What's going on?
And then in relatively short order that they were going
after Jeff George maybe within an hour, it was kind
of cleared up that it was a toe injury.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Aaron Glenn saying afterwards, you think someone stepped on his
foot and then and then I've heard people reporting that
it dislocated non big toe during during practice this morning.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
So mister Tarbar just walked by and waved, and it
was giving you, like the high cell we were working
locked in, I'm reading, we're dialed, just telling you. I
just wanted to make you aware coming back.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Reading we're looking. I guess I'll by the way, here's
my thing. If you're I understand precautions and totally all that,
but I feel like if you're going to get carted off,
it's you gotta like you can't be giving people scares
like that, I would agree my hunch it. I mean,
(25:52):
I have nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
My guess is somebody with the Jets said you're not walking, Yeah,
get on the cart, let's go check it out, as
my guess, but it led to panic for twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I do think though, it should be no, like somebody
should know or be well aware, like yeah, this was
not an Achilles, like he's yeah, my Achilles is still.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Here, like I know he's hurt. I ain't here, but
he would know.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That, he would know my Achilles it's there. Yes, he would.
He wasn't run around like my dad. Somebody kicked me,
which is what he said. Were you there?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
There?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Were you?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Were you there when Petro we were playing basketball at Showberts,
which was a club in Fremont, California, and you were
and he just went against him? Was it you against him?
The same team? It was like run like a run
run you played they had some that's a good sweet leagues.
And the funny thing is I couldn't even imagine doing
that right now like ever again, well you will, I
(26:46):
mean I did that last night with the boys, So
that feel you'll be do a little bit different than
when I was like home from college and there's like
college D one players and.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That is but rigors as young Luca a it will
become closer to that as I now a thirteen year old.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But no, yeah, I mean that's established some lawn order on.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Right windsor gets his aar P card. It'll be good.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, okay, pee paw top shelf, look at it. Just
dance around. You're a grandfather, that's right, and you love
Pittsburgh and they're also true. What do you think are
the best which are the best food in the best
food in the league, which is melt like out of
a bag, some plastic bag where they dump semi liquid
(27:32):
cheese out of it and it's like tostitos rounds just
dumped into a vat liquid gold. Yeah that's what it is. Yeah. Anyway,
the Packers released They're the last one. They released.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Their throwback uniform included a helmet design to look like
old school leather helmet, so it's it's very similar to
the ones they've worn before, except instead of just a
brown helmet to make look like leather. They and Illinois
did this first. Illinois had a fake leather helmet that
they wore in honor of red grange.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't. I don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I don't like it. It off. Yeah, I think sometimes
you can just do it. I think.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I think you're the The thing with that you could
do in some of these is almost like a faux
throwback that you could accomplish a similar a faux back.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Nailed it? Love it, you like it? Go ahead, you're
plugged in.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I'm just using this as an office. I'm not trying
to crash your show. I think it's great. I thought
when Illinois did it last year was a fan you
like plastick.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I think it looks really cool.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
By the way, that is not a reference to our
helmet yesterday, which I also love. I do like the
faux leather look.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Is there anyone you don't like helmets of the new uniforms?
Speaker 8 (28:40):
I mean the Saints look like they're like in gold lay. Yeah, Vegas.
I don't care as much about uniforms. I mean, I
care about the browns uniforms. But you you guys always
talking about classic uniform all this. It doesn't move me
nearly as much as you. I know what it looks
at the joint, I know what looks bad but like
you guys will be talking about the Monday night game.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
But these are two bad teams, but the uniforms are
so good.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Like no one's choosing to watch the game based on
the uniforms.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I couldn't care less.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Interesting, you have no soul sicilian.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
No, no uniforms. Yes, the other teams whatever, who cares?
I beat them?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I like uniforms.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
The uh but yeah, so they all got them done,
both them and the Steelers went with the ultra throwback
the thirties era. The Steelers did not go with the
leather helmet. They went with the yellow one. So there
you go on that.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Well, now, Steelers, those are awful, like they used to
wear those gangs in New York one.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You just said you don't care, but they're the Steelers.
It doesn't matter. We don't know that you can selectively care.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Those were uglee and and remember they're they're they're going.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Back different than Green Bays. They're the same.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
But like with like the oh no, go back and
look at the Steelers. Those are awful. I agree, and
they harkened back to an error where they were like
the worst team in professional football for four decades.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, but we can also hearken back to an era
where the bucks weren't good. But darn those creams they're beautiful, beautiful,
They're beautiful.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Anyway, I'm sorry as you were, thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And know all yellows for the Chargers. No, not at all.
It would be.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I am sitting next to one of the most passionate
UH fans of professional wrestling I've ever met. I know
how much it means to you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So when you I like how much it means and Andrew,
it's great professional wrestling.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
That's when you when you hear of when you hear
that the Hulkster has uh has passed, Sir, it's hard
to I mean, I have some thoughts, but yours are
far more dialed in.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I mean, my earliest wrestling memory was watching WrestleMania three
at Roberto Floats House on Rivercrest Lane and Hayward, California,
when he slammed Andre the Giants you know, say your prayers,
(31:13):
do your train and all that. The houltzure was he was.
And we live in a different world now because there's
so many entertainment options and there are so many programs
and this that it is harder than ever I think,
other than something maybe that goes viral, which has a
short shelf life, right like for example, that Coldplay concert
(31:34):
that was I think is going to go down as
a top ten vinable moment in our lives, but now
it's already gone. Yep, he is one of the last,
and there are I'm sure some well it could be
this and that. He was a piece of Americana for
decades and then reinvented himself in the nWo. He went
(31:58):
from being the biggest good guy in the history of
wrestling main evented basically every WrestleMania one through eight nine
comes back even at that, to going to that WO.
But he was Americana. He was, you know, the first
guy that he crossed over from wrestling, and then he's
acting and he's got his shows and you know he's
(32:19):
in go back to we're talking about Rocky Oh yeah, Thunderlips. Yeah.
He was truly larger than life. And if you think
about the great wrestling legends before him, so whether it
be a Gorilla Monsoon, they just yes, they were big,
but they didn't transcend wrestling. Hulk Hogan was on the
cover of for the For the Older People out There
TV Guide. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
(32:42):
In the heyday of both of those publications, he was
larger than life, truly, but was a piece of American
like if you were to say some of what are
the biggest things of the eighties, like Hulk Hogan is
one of the biggest things of the eighties, and then
reinvented himself and became one of the biggest things of
the late nineties at the ultimate peak of the the
(33:06):
industry as a bad guy in the nWo. So he's
arguably the greatest good guy ever and the greatest bad
guy ever, two different companies, two different eras. I think
what's very unfortunate is as are we have become very
polarized that his who he was as a person down
(33:28):
the end, has created, i think, tarnished a lot of
what people will necessarily think of him. And he's done
a lot of not great things. But if you're talking
about Hulk Hogan the wrestler and Hulkamania and the cultural
movement that it was at its peak, he's, you know,
one of probably the most well known people in my lifetime,
(33:48):
you know, And without Hulk Hogan, there isn't the Rock
doing what the Rock's doing. There certainly is not John
Cena doing what John Cena's doing, and it's sad like
it was one when I it was what I was
a full body s when I like read it, like
just like, oh my god. The hul Cogan was such
a part of my life. I think about, like I
said early on, when he's in the WWF and you know,
(34:10):
whole Comania's run Wild, the Red and Yellow, real American
like people my age know that song by heart. Yes,
then he goes in thenbo that's like me in college
and wrestling is cool and it's like more adult product now,
and he was still with it and was at the
forefront of that. I got the opportunity to see him
(34:30):
wrestle at WrestleMania in nineteen against Vince McMahon, which is
a crazy match when you go back and you think
about it. And then my favorite match of all time
is still WrestleMania eighteen Toronto SkyDome two thousand and two.
B Rossy just told me that he was in the
house for that one in Toronto and it was him
against the Rock And I got to, you know, have
(34:52):
my little foray into wrestling last summer, and the opening
sequence in my match was the act opening sequence of
Hogan and the Rock. Yeah, so I did with me
in the role of the Hulkster, and it was that
was like a little homage to my favorite match. My
gear was my pants were with the lightning bolts and
(35:14):
the airbrush was exactly his pants basically over didn't have
his face on him obviously, but was basically his pants
that he wore at WrestleMania eighteen. So yeah, huge, huge influence. Again,
a piece of Americana. I will choose to remember him
for that, Yeah, not the bad things that have happened
(35:35):
outside of the ring with him. And you know, sometimes
the performer and the person aren't the same. My experiences
with him and I had I've had the pleasure of
meeting in Multiplans. Could not have been nicer, Yeah to me, Yeah,
could not have been nicer, you know. And there's that
video of the kid who goes in there and it
is like, let me tell you something, brother, his Hogan
surf shop down there in Clearwater Beach and he has
(35:57):
a great report. But just this is like a pillar
of I was trying to think of who would be
like somebody that would have given me that visceral of
a reaction and unfortunately somebody from just from wrestling obviously
the macho man, a mister perfect and things like that,
ravishing recruit or are not with us anymore, but just
(36:18):
from like like to me, it's kind of like he's
on Arnold Schwarzenegger's level to me in terms of my childhood,
larger than life, transcended whatever genre they were originally in.
I mean, you think of Arnold from bodybuilding to movie
star to politics. I was trying to he's he's like
for sure, probably on the Mount rushmore of the biggest icons.
(36:41):
Like he was for what he did. He was like
what Joe Montana was to football in the eighties, Oh, Jordan,
And I think he's the most like that.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I mean, you know the history better than me from
my vantage point, and this is when I watched wrestling
a lot was in that era when he was I
wasn't a guy.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
I didn't find him interesting.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
The bad guy.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I liked those guys and I liked and I you know,
IgA powers explode, Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I just I wasn't a Hogan guy.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But I would say this, he's without question the most
important professional wrestler of all time. He is Yes, he
transcended the sport, as you mentioned, he also legitimized it
in a way. This used to be something that like
you kind of watch and shame a little bit, and
he made it mainstream.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
And he did it by.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Showing up in Rocky three as Thunderlips. He had several
movies in the eighties. He was the star of a
cartoon that that was.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Out there all the time, and then he had Thunder
and Paradise was his show. He had like a show.
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Well there was another movie that he did with where
he was like the lead with Zeus was in it
or something.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Do you remember this, I mean he wrestled Zeus. Yeah,
but there there was a movie, yeah that that.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Was No Holds Barred.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah. So it was like something with where he was
a nanny.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
So there's all this stuff that he did. So to
to me like, to me, he's Ruthian.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, so it's funny you say it. That's what I
would say. My favorite match, as I mentioned, was Wressell
Many eighteen, which was the Hulkster against the rock and
that's Jim Ruscal. He's the babe ruth of professionals.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I didn't know that that's what it is to me,
Like I think he just he if there was for
in that moment, he was bigger than the sport for
a while.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
He's on the Mount Rushmore wrestling. Whether you like his
style doesn't matter whatever. He's the George Washington on the
Mount Rushmore wrestle.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
A lot of people that's exactly it. A lot of
people won't wouldn't say that that.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
You want to hear a lot of people say, is
Babe Ruth the best baseball player of all time?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It's just abro He's Babe Ruth. And that's what this is.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Like I that's that's what he is. That that's what
he is to me, is that like he just was.
He just legitimized it.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
He was the face.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean when you're right, when you think about our childhood,
you and I have similar age. When you think about
you think about Arnold Jordan, like all of that stuff
was they were all kind of on the same level,
like Wayne Gretzky, Jordan Hogan, like they were all kind
of in that same spot, occupied the same space.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
He elevated wrestling, yes, the way that I would say
Tiger Woods elevated golf. That's fair. I think that's fair.
And when you think about it in those terms like
that is a massive lift, massive massive lift. I mean
without Hulk Hogan, you know, they don't sell out the
Pontiac Silver Dome for Wrestle Maybia three in the eighties
(39:30):
and they're not today, you know, doing back to back
nights in football stadiums for multiple events a year like
That's he paved the way. And obviously vincmcmann has a
hand as the promoter and the genius that he was.
But Hulk Hogan made wrestling. He did two things. He
made wrestling mainstream in the eighties and then with the
(39:51):
nWo he made it cool. That was it.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I mean it's really still where nWo one of the
hardest things to wrap your head around that that happened.
If you were watching the night that that happened, like
wit what, Yeah, who's the third man?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah? Wild? But I mean think about it, people, You'll
still see people in nWo stuff. I mean, I all
my wrestling stuff was ZWO. I always talked about the ZWO.
Like nWo, that logo is still everywhere. If you see
a wrestling fan and you're walking around, you see somebody
in an nWo short. You know you give him a
little too sweet. Yeah, that's right, brother. People say brother,
oh brother, because of the Holkster. I mean, it's it's wild.
(40:28):
I was on a text with a few of my
friends who are in the business, and it's like he's
the George Washington on the Mount Rush. You know, I say,
he's the best wrestler ever. You know, he was the
best promo. But he's most important, the most important. Yeah,
all right, it's a rough week, dude, it has been.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
By the way, I went home last night, I'm gonna
have to do tonight. I'm gonna have to watch Wrestleman
eighteen again. It'll be Luca's second viewing of the match,
since that was the first thing he one of the
first things he watched on television. I watched the first
the first episode of The Osbourne's Last Sight's on Amazon Prime.
Is it really free? Okay? I watched the very first episode.
(41:09):
I made my kids watch it. I was howling and
it looks like it's crazy. There was two thousand and two. Yeah, okay,
two things are nuts about number one. It looks like
it was shot in the seventies on like a handheld
camera that it does.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
The quality is I don't even think they had themselves, Mike,
I don't even like he is hysterical and such a
good dude. And then the other part of it is
he was seventy six I think when he passed. Yeah,
I think that's right. Yeah, so take twenty three off
of that. Fifty three, Yeah, not that much older than No,
(41:50):
and I no, he moves and there's a lot about
him that would suggest that he was seventy six in
the Osborne.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
That's why I couln't believe when I saw when I
saw that he was just I assumed he was in
his mid eighties.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I thought, there's no way I would have thought he
was a hundred yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and by the way,
he probably was in terms of life lived, yes, one
hundred and fifty. Yeah, that's probably fair. All right, Well,
go to the I do recommend like if you will
love it. Did you watch it when? Oh, of course, okay, no,
I said this. It is every bit as you did say.
(42:24):
It's the best reality show. No, and I think it
ith you said the newly Wents too, it's great drug. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Those two both kind of laid the groundwork for famous
wealthy people. Here's what happens when they're and this paves
the way for Kardashians and the Paris Hilton Show, all
of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Paid.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
This paved the wayless very likable On Newly Wents.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
He was, yeah, yeah, her dad not as much less so,
and that that proved to be pressed, proved to be yeah,
very all right, we do, Kenny from the podium, What
do you want to do next?
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Give so?
Speaker 6 (42:55):
I think we'll probably get a stack in because otherwise
I got to do a legal idea in the middle
of picket.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Oh, we don't want to do that.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Yeah, all right, we'll kick pick it off maybe a
little early here before two o'clock, but that's fine. We
got picket, We've got Flacco, We've got a lot of mail.
Big by the way, get your Bobby Is on it.
He's got seven months by the time.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Last week was a goot it Bobby good God give
me voted Bobby too.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
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official Fan Experienced Package to day for the Ultimate Game Day.
Here's quarterback Kenny Pickett. What is your mindset as this
open competition gets underway.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
Here in training camp?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
I remember in that off seation you've really talked about, Hey,
you know, you came from here a start and that's
what you plan.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
And do it.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
How do you feel about at that that work?
Speaker 9 (44:11):
Yeah, I feel great about it and and right now
it's just taking it a day at a time, you know,
let everything else play out. But you know, going back
through the installs, having a chance to train the system
over summer and work the footwork and everything I think
helped me a lot. You know, I felt a lot
more comfortable yesterday just having a chance to rep a
lout of those things over the last five weeks.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
So really just taking a day at a time. And uh, yeah,
I'm curious from your perspective.
Speaker 10 (44:34):
I mean we've talked about how like though it's so
unusual I have like a four man quarterback competition, and
maybe you're not getting as many reps as you wouldn't
like a normal training camp practice, But like, what is
before practice? What does after practice look like? What does
like the data day look like? To make sure that
even though you might not be throwing, you know, twenty
five times in a practice, you know, you're you're you're
s locked in, you're getting as many reps in the experience
(44:55):
experiences you need.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
Yeah, I think, uh, you gotta find ways to steal reps,
whether that's you know, on the field watching you know,
when you're not going, watching the other guys in there
after practice, staying and throwing the spots that you may
not have gotten to, the plays that you weren't able
to run, you know, put receivers in spots and just
throw those routes, work the full work and work the
timing that way. Film room watched everybody's reps in film,
(45:18):
So there's multiple ways that you can do it. You know,
I think it's big to get the mental and the
physical reps as well. You know, staying after and doing
the extra stuff to get those reps is huge.
Speaker 11 (45:29):
How this is going to play out over the next
few weeks as far as how many reps you're gonna get,
who are you gonna go with when he even might
make a decisions, he talked about that.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
No, I mean, we don't.
Speaker 9 (45:37):
It's really like I said, a day at the time,
you don't know like what you're gonna get that day.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
You're just kind of showing up and prepared to.
Speaker 9 (45:43):
I mean, I think every guy here is prepared to
go play the entire practice.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
You know. That's how kind of how I look at it.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
You don't know what you're gonna get, so whatever whatever
schedule for that day, I want to make sure that
I know everything inside and out, so whatever reps I
do get, I can take advantage of it.
Speaker 12 (45:56):
Kenny and you couple in this offense are Is it
a lot different than when you've been in the past.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, I am comfortable.
Speaker 9 (46:04):
It's it's a little bit more understanding than I've had,
you know, to do in the past. Kind of bouncing
back to what I said earlier. Having the five weeks
in the summer to really rep more of it. You know,
going into the spring, I had an idea of what
we were gonna do, but then get into experienced spring
and get those reps and then go home and work
on you know, those things and really hone them, hone
in on them.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
You know, I think helped me a lot and I
felt a lot more comfortable.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
What specifically did you did you do like during your
time more to kind of really hone in on you know,
whether it was you know, just you know watching fil
home or you know.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Was there specific things that.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
You felt like really were bliss and official for you?
Speaker 9 (46:38):
Yeah, I think I would go home and you know,
throwing two or three times a week. I would treat
those days that I would throw like an install day, so,
you know, install one. I would go home, watch the tape,
study it, and I would write down all the routes
and the footwork that I wanted to do, and that
day was like install one day. And I did that
throughout the summer and all my throwing sessions to kind
of like you know, almost cheat a little extra practice,
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you know, to to look at the scripts from the spring,
look at all the installs, put plays together, say the play,
run the play, throw the route, you know, just trying
to cheat the reps because, like like we've been saying,
you may not get as many as you like. You
just got to take advantage of what you get.
Speaker 13 (47:13):
Y yesterday, you started things off on you alone on
eleven two ndeals.
Speaker 14 (47:17):
I know that's obviously gonna change with Kevin, Smoothy said,
but for you getting those extra repsol Joe kind of
sits in the side. Have you seen that help you
create chemistry? Get those maybe extra reps that you were
talking about as you try to get acclimated in.
Speaker 13 (47:28):
Get yourself ready.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah, those are huge.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
Whatever you can get with the guys in live speed,
especially going against the defense, you know, full eleven on eleven,
you know, calling the play in the huddle, breaking the huddle,
lining up, knowing where guys are gonna be, the timing
of the play, how each guy runs his route, it all,
it all plays into playing quarterback at a high level.
So whenever you can get those reps and that experience
is huge.
Speaker 13 (47:49):
Did you get together with Joe Flacco or any of
the Browns receivers.
Speaker 9 (47:52):
No, I had some family things going on over summer
and we didn't get a chance to do it, but
you know, luckily we have a six week camp to
make up for it.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Kenny, when you've got traded to Cleveland, what was your first.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
Reactions then after that?
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Least like flock and dropped.
Speaker 9 (48:06):
A bunch of quarterbas Yeah, I was just excited. It's
an opportunity to compete. I mean, that's all you can
ask for. So, you know, having an opportunity to compete
against these guys, and it's a great room. We're having
a lot of fun already together. But really it was
the opportunity that I was most excited about.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Say go back, even just two years.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
How much different now are you now as a personal quarterback?
A lot?
Speaker 9 (48:25):
I mean it's you. You experienced so much of life.
I think being an NFL quarterback, you you.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
Experienced the highs, the lows.
Speaker 9 (48:32):
You know, I have an unbelievable support system that I
can lean on, but you just go through so many
trials and you know, adversity you learn a lot about yourself,
a lot about the people around you. So I'm grateful
for forever experience that I've had. I feel like it
may be you know, a better person, a better player today.
Speaker 11 (48:47):
When you talk about about yourself as a players. You've
gone through this going from Pittsburgh anti Philadelphia and now
you're here in Cleveland.
Speaker 8 (48:54):
Just what do you learned about yourself as a player
that can make.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
You a better time?
Speaker 5 (48:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (48:59):
I think the the ability just to buy into whatever
system you're in.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
I've been in different systems, you know what.
Speaker 9 (49:05):
I feel like I have the ability to play in
a lot of systems with what I can do inside
the pocket and outside the pocket. So buying into the scheme,
buying into what the coaches are telling me to do,
and then just you know, leaving it all out there,
working hard every day. So it's not gonna be done
in one day, it's not gonna be done in two weeks.
It's you got to show up and be your best
every single day. So that that's really what I'm focused
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on doing.
Speaker 11 (49:25):
When you're talking about the opportunity that have the chance
to start, So how important is it to you at
this stage and your career to capitalize on an opportunity?
And does it feel more real in training camp than
it did maybe and made you that time.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Yeah, it's definitely more real now.
Speaker 9 (49:40):
Obviously the season's you know, almost here, but you know,
like in the spring, you're really you know, it's kind
of trial and air thing. You're feeling out the offense.
It's a new system for everybody here, So we were
kind of working through the.
Speaker 5 (49:53):
Kinks of it.
Speaker 9 (49:53):
I'd say, having the five weeks to train and work
at what I know that we were gonna do to
come back now and now it's time to sharpen.
Speaker 5 (49:59):
Every up and get ready to go. So I think
you know that the.
Speaker 9 (50:03):
The springtime was a great time to work things through,
and now it's time to go.
Speaker 4 (50:07):
Playing some offen me just I have a little confused.
You talked about those five weeks.
Speaker 12 (50:11):
When you're you know, who was that between Mini camp
and now?
Speaker 5 (50:16):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (50:16):
Yeah, right after Mini camp. You know, I have my
quarterback coach in New Jersey. Those five weeks, you know,
being able to go through the playbook and installs all
over again and treat those days like practice, making like
a mini script up to go out there and practice.
I think it helped me a lot. And then who
are you throwing all receivers around the area.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
Feels like Jr.
Speaker 13 (50:35):
A guy he's been able to really do network out
there a lot of plays with you to involve each
other's name and maybe what what has he gotten out
of you one of you?
Speaker 9 (50:44):
Yeah, no, he's got my full trust already. You know, Jerry,
you watch him on tape, it's one thing, but to
go out there and play with him is another. His
route running, his technique, his ability to find space and zone.
You know, he's a he's a full package receiver and
he makes you know, our job as quarterbacks a lot easier. So, uh,
he's also a great guy to work with. He comes
with a great attitude. You know, he wants to win,
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he wants to work hard. So it's it's really easy
to work with the guy like Jerry.
Speaker 5 (51:11):
All right, what you up?
Speaker 4 (51:14):
What do you have to do and what do you
have to show to win this starting job?
Speaker 5 (51:19):
Consistency? I think that's what you know.
Speaker 9 (51:21):
Coaches, you know, are looking for the guy that's consistent,
that's the same guy every day that they can count on.
They can call any play. They know that we'll get
him out of a bad play. If the shots called
and it's not there, we'll check it down. So just
you know, good quarterback play that can help his team
win games, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 5 (51:38):
You know, we're all here to win and that's all.
That's all I'm concerned about.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
Is it different coming into a season.
Speaker 12 (51:44):
As your third team rather than as a first round pick?
So is it different for you coming to a new team,
your third team, than it was being their first round pick.
Speaker 5 (52:00):
I wouldn't say so.
Speaker 9 (52:00):
I mean just you have to attack the day and
want to be the best player that you want to be.
So I think as long as you keep that mindset,
whatever the outside perception is of your situation, you know,
as a player, that doesn't really you know, hinder my
you know, ability to go out there and play at
the level that I know that I could play.
Speaker 12 (52:15):
Out What does you like about this system that that
really helps you if the way you put quarterback the way.
Speaker 15 (52:22):
Is set up.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Yeah, I think it's very versatile.
Speaker 9 (52:24):
I think we do a lot of different things, whether
it's under center, in the gun, the play action game,
to drop back game, some movement things where I can
get out on the edge. There's a lot of things
that I think you know fit how I like to
play quarterbacks. So yeah, I have been, Yeah, I have been,
not at the level or the amount that we are here.
Speaker 8 (52:40):
Now though, Kenny, obviously you have Joe Flacco if you
talk to about this.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
But I was wondering, have you been able to talk to.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Any quarterbacks outside of the building who played in the
system before and picked their.
Speaker 9 (52:51):
Brain, not not specifically in this system. There there's a
couple that are like this system. But really, you know,
Joe the best, gotta ask you know, the guy, he's
been around, he's played in the system before. So having
him in the room and on the field, you know,
to bounce questions and talk and talk through some things
has been beneficial to all the guys in there.
Speaker 5 (53:11):
How is your relationship within.
Speaker 9 (53:13):
The though it's been it's been awesome, Like it feels
like you're almost like talking to like an older brother
or something when here and there.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Like he he's a great guy.
Speaker 9 (53:19):
We're we're from you know, about an hour from each other,
so you know, from the same area.
Speaker 5 (53:24):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (53:24):
He trained at Test Football for the Combine. That's where
I trained as well, So there's some there's some crossover
in our past. You know, he went to PIT I
know a lot of guys I know him a Pit
and everyone you know raved about him, and you know
everything's held true, you know to this day.
Speaker 5 (53:36):
He's a great guy, great guy, to have in the room.
Speaker 13 (53:38):
Can you in terms of your mobility, do you feel
like that's when you will have an opportunity to really step.
Speaker 4 (53:44):
It up in this competition.
Speaker 3 (53:45):
Can you have a chance maybe in.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Two minut drills or practices against the even games where
you can make some off schedule plays.
Speaker 9 (53:51):
And show what you can do in nasty Yeah, I
think it's another element that that I can add, you know,
from the competition standpoint, you know, I can't control you
know what other guys do. Just focus on what I
can do, and I know that's something that I can bring,
you know, to the table, to this offense, and we
do a lot of it, which I.
Speaker 5 (54:08):
Like Kenny Lit. This team is put in an emphasis my
creating pressure of the middle.
Speaker 11 (54:13):
You know, we just talked to Mason Bream.
Speaker 4 (54:14):
What does that do to you?
Speaker 11 (54:15):
What kind of problems ca?
Speaker 9 (54:17):
Yeah, you just have to operate fast. You have to
know where your answers are. You know, if you're in
a play where they're bringing pressure nowhere to get the
ball out.
Speaker 5 (54:23):
You know, it helps sharpen your skills as a quarterback when.
Speaker 9 (54:26):
You're playing against a caliber defense like we are every
single day. You talk about just the guys up front,
you know, the front seven, but that's the secondary can play.
You know, there's a lot of really good players there.
So I think it's it's huge for you know, as quarterbacks, backs, receivers,
tight ends to go against this level of competition every day.
It'll only make us better. And I'm excited. You know,
it's only been day one. We're on day two now,
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but it's been good so far.
Speaker 3 (54:48):
Is interior pressure harder to deal with the pressure off
the end?
Speaker 9 (54:51):
Yeah, I mean, listen, if they're getting pushed back up
the middle, there's nowhere to step up, you know, if
it's if it's on the edge, you can step up
in a pocket and make it throw. With the interior
pressure as an element of you know, trying to find
an escape lane if there is one, and you know,
we got some guys that are going to cause a
lot of teams problems.
Speaker 13 (55:06):
So with the trend in the NFL towards more past rushing,
defensive tackles and you know, having everyone across the board
that can.
Speaker 12 (55:13):
Get to the quarterback, is that where your mobility will.
Speaker 4 (55:16):
Probably come in handy just in terms of being able.
Speaker 9 (55:19):
To get out of there. Yeah, yeah, I mean that
can help, but you really just want to you know, know
where your answers are. Like you know I said earlier,
you want to get the ball out of your hand.
You want to help the offensive line. You know, you
don't want to sit back there holding the football too long.
But I also know that I have ability to extend
and make plays down field. So there's a fine line
between both. You go out there, you play fast. You
just kind of read and react and go from there.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
All right, there you go, Kenny Pickett from the podium.
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Speaker 4 (55:53):
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Speaker 2 (56:36):
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here's quarterback Joe Flacco. So, I think a camp we've
talked about, you've taken puriods off.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
And then you start yesterday and you took that period off.
Speaker 6 (56:50):
Do you expect that to change as the closer we
get to Carolina?
Speaker 15 (56:56):
You know, it's tough to have expectations, you know. I
think there's been some some communication between probably all the
quarterbacks and Kevin. So I, yeah, I guess I know
a little bit what to expect, at least for the
next week, but you can't ask me. It's it's hard
for me to tell what it's gonna look like, you know,
two three weeks from now.
Speaker 11 (57:16):
When I know Kevin said he's looking to make a
decision sooner rather than later. But is there a date
in your your mind where if you're the guy, you
want to know.
Speaker 4 (57:23):
That you're the guy.
Speaker 15 (57:26):
I think there's like ideal situations, obviously, and then there's
just like the reality of the situation, and you know,
it's one of those things that I really don't have
any control over. So I'm really not worried about when
anything happens. Obviously there's advantages to knowing you know earlier
than later, but it's just part of the game.
Speaker 16 (57:46):
Joe, I asked this, and it feels a little more
relevant to you because you know we've seen you, you know,
maybe not take his many snaps during practice, But like,
what does the day to day look like for a
practice after practice where if you're not getting as many reps,
you're still you know, stand backed in a stand preparenting game.
Speaker 15 (57:58):
Well, it's the same. I mean, like you're still out
here grinding and going through a lot of individual I mean, yesterday,
come on, I mean we ran like twenty plays total. Anyway,
you know, it's not like we we had a heavy load.
So yeah, it's just staying locked in and focused during
the meeting time, which is a lot of what we're
doing right now. Anyway. The thing for me is if like,
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if you're not getting a ton of reps out there,
and you're only getting a certain amount of throws through individual,
it's just like maybe keeping an equipment guy out and
just playing some long talls or something like that just
to make sure your arm's still getting the load that
it's kind of gotten over the last three or four
weeks as you're kind of getting ready to come back,
what you've seen some of.
Speaker 7 (58:35):
The points.
Speaker 13 (58:37):
Hows you ask how how determined are you to win
this starting job and what.
Speaker 7 (58:42):
Do you have to do?
Speaker 15 (58:44):
It's tough to look at it that way. I mean,
I'm I'm as determined as ever to just be the
best quarterback that I can be. And I got it.
Speaker 4 (58:52):
You know.
Speaker 15 (58:53):
It's so easy to and I do it. I'm guilty
of it. It's so easy to like look ahead and
like picture yourself as the starter and hearing that news
and things like that. But I really like second day
of camp, you know, I think the best thing for
me is to just stay in the moment and come
out here and have fun and like compete and just
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do what I love to do. I think that's going
to be the best way for me to show what
I can do and all that stuff. So, you know,
I think there's a lot of self motivation in order
to be good at this in this league, and that's
always there. So I'm just gonna continue to approach it
like I always do.
Speaker 4 (59:29):
From what you know of this system, this year is
play action.
Speaker 10 (59:33):
More Penblum than twenty twenty three in West Brokline or
the second.
Speaker 15 (59:38):
I would think it's it's it's very similar, Like it's
a big part of what we want this offense to
look like. And I you know, I wasn't here in
training camp and the first half of the season in
twenty three. I know it was a lot of what
we did, and it's kind of a lot of what
this offense typically is just from talking, you know, the
way we're talking about it in meetings and stuff like that.
Like it it's a big part and it's important to
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us to be good at it.
Speaker 12 (01:00:01):
So Joe, you obviously you've you've done this a long
time in your process.
Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
How does it change between what you uh the end
of many camps to now what? How did you kind
of approach it this? Does it you approach me differently
now compared to to get ready for this point?
Speaker 15 (01:00:18):
I think you'll learn probably little things. Every year it's
based it's generally been the same. It is the most
important time, you know, like you're you're at home and
then you and you and you get three months from
January to April or whatever it is February to April,
and those are important to kind of get your body
back going and get back in shape, and then you
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kind of show up here and and you put the
work in with your guys, but it's still a decent
time away from training camp. So the the the the
trap that I think you can fall in is just
not having something in place when you're young, going back
home for five weeks and being left to your own devices.
If you don't have that schedule, at least for me, like,
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if you don't don't have like a kind of a
set schedule, then things start to lack and you start
to like you just slowly, Oh, I'm gonna work out
two today, I'm gonna work out at four, I'm gonna
work out at six. Oh shoot, the day got by.
You know, it's just immaturity. So like, just as my
career is going on, just finding people to hold you
accountable and and make sure that you know it's not
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just you like it. Believe me, being holding yourself accountable
is a huge part of it, and you'll learn how
to do that. But it's it's for even the guys
that are at the very top, Like it's very helpful
to have other people that can kind of keep you
to that and make sure you're ready. But it's just
giving your arm that load. Like I don't necessarily throw
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a lot and before before we come back here for
the off season, but leading up to this, I love
I listen, I love to throw. So it's a lot
of fun. And the one thing that's changed this year
is I'm out there with my family and I'm trying
to teach my boys three step, five step drops and
I'm freaking out on them because they're not getting it
right away and stuff like that. But I'm throwing a
lot in those five weeks.
Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
And that's what you talked about, staying in the moment.
Speaker 12 (01:02:06):
How much is easier to do that in your eighteen season?
Speaker 15 (01:02:10):
And as a rookie, it's always a battle, man, It's
always a battle. It's always one of those things I
think you learn a little bit about. We were having
this conversation yesterday in the locker room with a few guys,
like just because guys are looking for advice and I'm
not a great giver of advice, but staying in the
moment is very important. And you do realize that as
you as you mature, and like you realize the moments man,
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like that, why was I in the zone there? And
I still don't know if I have the answer, like
the perfect answer as to how to stay in the moment.
I know staying in the moment is super important, but
like the how to actually do that is the grind
of it all. And I think the biggest thing to
do is just keep your head down, you know, go
in that meeting and attack that meeting, just like remind
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yourself of being present and really divvying it up and
doing one thing at a time.
Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
You're historically your sack totalsip relatively luck Cimamar was.
Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
In twenty three and five years you play, and you
know Lamar.
Speaker 15 (01:03:08):
Jackson Eaders, So what's your philosophy on affording sacks?
Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
How have you done it?
Speaker 15 (01:03:14):
Listen, I think you can look at every single sack
and it's very team oriented and at the same time,
the quarterback is very responsible, you know. Like I think
you could make both arguments, you know, depending on what
you're trying to say. But the biggest thing for me
is being on time and playing in the rhythm of
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the offense. And then I think even in twenty three
you saw it a little bit. It wasn't like I'm
just standing back there completely Like I think when you
are in good rhythm, and you do have the benefit
of having five guys up front that are really good
at their job. That's when your feet can kind of
tell you, okay, it's time to get out, you know,
and it's time to do those other things. It starts
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with me with playing in rhythm, being on time with
my feet, and then therefore being on time I'm the
throat to get the ball out of my hands. And
then the added benefit is when you are really good upfront,
even a guy like me who is not like my
number one priority will be given chances to kind of
get out and make some plays with those in those
kind of conditions that you have five children that are
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expecting you when this starting job will be the starting Yeah,
I mean I went home and I went home in
the beginning of junior, like are you the starter yet?
Like what you know? So, yeah, it's not added pressure.
It's honestly a lot of it makes it a lot
of fun. It's it's almost like takes pressure off because
you're you're.
Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
You.
Speaker 15 (01:04:36):
That almost helps put me in the moment and see
it for what it is. You know, you wish you
could see it as from a twelve eleven twelve thirteen
year old's eyes. So when you when you hang around
them and you see the questions they ask and the
way they phrase things, it honestly kind of helps. It
helps put things in the moment and kind of really
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really remind you of what's important and why this game
is is so important to you, you know, So it's
it's just a good reminder.
Speaker 12 (01:05:05):
So at the end of last year, was there any
sort of fear that I'm gonna end up on my
couch again, always.
Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Gonna call or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (01:05:12):
There really wasn't.
Speaker 15 (01:05:13):
Like I I feel like the last two years, I
really kind of went in pretty optimistic into the off season.
But then you know, the time comes up where you
get where you start signing guys and you don't necessarily
hear from people, so of course that that goes into
your that kind of enters into your mind. But I
don't really think I have like a negative outlook on it,
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Like there's only so many things that goes back to
that there's only only so many things you can control,
and like you can go out there and play the
best you can in hopes of giving people that like
that vision of what you can do for them. But
if nobody bites, as long as I can look at
myself and and like have an idea that I did
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the right things that I and I'm happy with what
I did. You you, you learn that that's what matters,
and you can't worry about the decisions of other people.
Speaker 12 (01:06:05):
When you heard from right, when you heard from Cleveland,
then what kind of your emotions and all that? Because
you were out there for a while before.
Speaker 15 (01:06:13):
Yeah, sure, yeah, and and and we had talked and
not talked, and you don't you don't know. I'm very
excited to be back here. So to get the call
from these guys and and learn that they actually did
want to bring me back was very exciting and felt
very good about it, obviously, did you Everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Throws interceptions and get it.
Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Jameis Whinston last year.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Would pray to God to make it stop.
Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Yeah, they roll off your back. What's your philosophy on picks?
Speaker 15 (01:06:44):
You don't want to throw them. You want to be
aggressive and you want to be smart. You know, I
have thrown some picks recently, I feel like, but I
do still pride myself on not and making good decisions.
And having said that, you know that they're going to happen.
At some point you want to be aggressive, but that's
not necessarily an excuse. Like being aggressive is not an excuse.
(01:07:06):
The goals of quarterback is to make good decisions, be accurate,
and take care of the football for your team. So
ultimately that's what you want to do, and you have
to find that balance of being able to be yourself,
be really aggressive and not turn that damn ball over.
It's very important. It's just one of those things. They
(01:07:27):
affect me. Yeah, they maybe I don't show it. I
hope I do a good job of not showing it.
But man, like, yeah, there's times where you turn the
ball over. And there's definitely times in your life as
a forty year old where you wish you were like
six years old and it was acceptable to just cry
about it. You know, you can't hide on an NFL field,
(01:07:51):
and there's times where you definitely want to, but you
got to deal with it. You got to deal with it. Man.
Speaker 13 (01:07:57):
You went through in twenty three and having to wait
for these guys to call you, like, does.
Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
That give you a different tour?
Speaker 13 (01:08:02):
Did it give you like a different outlotk or appreciation
for things like this that going through a.
Speaker 15 (01:08:05):
Position battle now, And yeah, it definitely did. And like
especially right in the moment, like when it was fresh
like that, it does give you that outlook now that
only goes so long, but I think I can look
back on like that was an experience that I got
to go through myself. So I so it's that's not fresh,
it's not in my mind necessarily, but when you're going
through when different thoughts are rattling around in your brain
(01:08:27):
and you don't really want them to be there, that
is one of those experiences that I think that I
can draw on in my life and and kind of
remind myself of what I was feeling at that time
and why, and and that's part of just you know,
learning through experience.
Speaker 14 (01:08:40):
Just mentioned that the offensive having a strong offensive line
and strong front.
Speaker 13 (01:08:44):
We know that they're going through some changes to one
Jones playing with tackle being up there. So for you
as a quarterback, how important is the communication and the
work you do on these fields and getting them ready
for that week? Wanted to be a strong front that
you need.
Speaker 15 (01:08:57):
Yeah, it's great to be out there with those guys
and doing all that to get and at the same
time you have just I have the utmost confidence in
their coach and those guys cause I've I've been with
them and I can see him working that they are
on top of their stuff. That's the last position group
that you're gonna have to worry about on this field.
So even if you're not directly working with them, you
know they're getting in their work and and dotting all
(01:09:18):
their eyes, crossing all their teas to make sure that
you know they're on it.
Speaker 11 (01:09:22):
Can he Pickett when he came in here and when
he first was appointed, he made it abundantly clear that
he's coming.
Speaker 6 (01:09:28):
In here to start.
Speaker 13 (01:09:30):
He doesn't want to sit and I know you feel
the same.
Speaker 8 (01:09:33):
So just between you two guys, how you know what
is that like to be out there every day?
Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
You know that you know that you have to beat
each other.
Speaker 7 (01:09:42):
Out, and what mindset you haven't?
Speaker 15 (01:09:44):
Yeah, I listen. I think we're all aware of that.
And you know it's not necessarily talked about between the
two of us, but you obviously know what you have
a little bit of insight as to what they may
be thinking and and those things. But it goes back
to like that's just focusing on Like when you're focusing
on Kenny or Kenny's focusing on me, and then we're
(01:10:05):
super focused on that. In general, it's kind of the
wrong mindset to be in to be at your best,
so you try to It's natural for those things to
come into your head, but if you try to do
your best to get them out and just go out
there and be with the guys and be in the
moment this.
Speaker 7 (01:10:20):
Game was last season, we'll give you confidence, and you know,
coming back you can kind of recapture.
Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
What happened to do.
Speaker 15 (01:10:28):
I'm not trying to recapture. You know, every years a
new Every season is new in this league. And listen,
I've been in the locker room with these guys. I
know what they're all about. And it's obviously not the
same exact locker room, but there's a lot of really
good guys in there that know how to win football games.
So that's what gives you the confidence that you can
come back here and win games. I don't think it's
about trying to recreate anything. It's just it's a new season.
(01:10:51):
Everybody has a fresh mindset, and a lot of the
guys in there have a really good one to begin with.
They know how to win football games, and that makes
you feel good about lining up with.
Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
Them, Joe, there's got time for one more.
Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
You're ready about just the intensity of training camps here.
Speaker 11 (01:11:04):
I know you have to the work here for that
twenty twenty three, but you've.
Speaker 16 (01:11:06):
Also been, you know a handful of other places where
you've seen how camping run.
Speaker 12 (01:11:10):
I know you talked about your two days back in
the day earlier in the spring, but even taking back
to the spring, you kind of sense that there's different too.
Speaker 15 (01:11:17):
Yeah, listen, I think we're talking You can talk a
lot about how practices are actually structured, but I think
what we're talking about is just the mindset you know,
of a winner and a winning football team and what
that takes. And it doesn't matter if you're out here
for an hour or three hours. There's a way that
a winning team takes a field and approaches their craft.
And I think there's definitely a focus and you can
(01:11:40):
definitely tell that we're locked in too, you know, make
sure that that happens, Joe.
Speaker 12 (01:11:46):
You touched on earlier, but get into involving your kids
and getting ready for training camp.
Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Like where did you guys typically.
Speaker 15 (01:11:53):
Go what you know, throwing session with Yeah, and it
looked a lot, Like you know, September October before I
signed here, going going out to a local high school
field with my brother, my dad and my kids and
having them spot up and throw to them and kind
of me do my thing, and then at the end
bring them together and and have them, you know, have
a little bit of fun and uh, you know, they're
(01:12:14):
gonna they're gonna be playing football here in the next
month or two months, and I'll probably miss some of it,
but I'll have a lot of family back there kind
of checking it, checking in on them for me, and
it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
All right.
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Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
Good here from you.
Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
You need to zoom zoom out as well. We gotta
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Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
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Speaker 8 (01:13:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
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Speaker 6 (01:13:29):
Gria doesn't know to turn his arm off.
Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
All ight on.
Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
I haven't spoken yet, so I don't see what the
relevance he.
Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Is taking shots.
Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
That means when it comes time to talk, it'll be honest.
Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
It was.
Speaker 8 (01:13:41):
It's only day two of camp, right there.
Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Zoom out there you go to getting fists, getting a
little feisty. Only with me, How are you giving?
Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
I'm fine, feisty?
Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
What do you guys?
Speaker 6 (01:13:57):
Is there one thing you're looking forward to seeing today
a training camp?
Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
It's quarterbacks? Quarterback counter.
Speaker 8 (01:14:02):
I want to say who the number one quarterback is today?
Because we were told, yes practice that that it is
going to be different today.
Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Bill the Great Bill, Yeah, William Wallace.
Speaker 8 (01:14:15):
By the way, Gibby, when your significant other says fine,
like when you say hey, how are you today and
they go fine, you know something's wrong, right you know
that maybe it's something you did, but there's something lingering,
So would you like to unpack it? Like what's actually
wrong when you say fine.
Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
Five on the to do list?
Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 6 (01:14:35):
Otherwise it's that time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Man, when did fine become negative? It's the tone because
fine dining, yes, as a kid, meant.
Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Elite, let's go white table class does right. But now,
like my wife will say, like, how how was how
was your day?
Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
Fine?
Speaker 8 (01:14:53):
Well, but but you you came up on that at
the end fine, Like yeah, yeah, fine, fine, I'm fine
like somebody that you're.
Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Like, so I should if she asked me how it
is and I go, it was fine, I'd like to go.
Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
I'd like to go play some golf with Big Z
and and have some cocktails, and she's like fine.
Speaker 8 (01:15:14):
Right, But if she says, but why did that start?
Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
How did it start that way? Then it became a
negative when for the longest time it was the pinnacle
of positive.
Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
I think it's texting in the world we live in,
because you can't tell tone via text, and often I
would get fine meaning okay, I'm lying to you.
Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
I also think it's like it's like all kinds of
things like pal.
Speaker 8 (01:15:39):
Oh yeah, that's a negative, but it.
Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Can also be a Britain cole Quit the great coal.
He will give you a genuine pal. You'll throw a
genuine pal Outal is very affectionate for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, agreed.
Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:15:53):
We had a former executive I guess you can call
them at NFL networked back in the day that would
use like pal buddy, like Champ and they're.
Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Like Champs bowl it's they call you chief. Chief.
Speaker 8 (01:16:08):
He'd used chief as well. The persons no longer than
that working, did last longer than that worked, But it
was always a you don't know my name, so you're
just going to one of those and that's how little condescending.
Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Yeah, buddy, buddy, that was Bowden. Bowden was everybody was Buddy.
Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
First time I met him, it was like buddy, buddy, Buddy,
I'm like, wow, he loves me.
Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
Then I realized everybody's buddy the Pump, the Holts for
everybody's brother, the Pump brothers, Dana and David. In the
college basketball world, everybody's coach. Hey, coach, Hey coach.
Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
I love a coach.
Speaker 8 (01:16:35):
Everybody is coach. Everybody's co coach.
Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
How you doing, coach? Good to see a coach you
even throw a NBC was coach for a while he
was coaching he was little. Yeah, he was the coach
when he was little.
Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
All right.
Speaker 6 (01:16:46):
Tweet your questions to us at Brown's Underscore daily at
his time for the mail bag.
Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
Fine first and foremost.
Speaker 6 (01:16:54):
Listen, you get sass coach Jay Uh, hungry dogs and
leading the league in takeaways. That's exactly the mindset Cleveland
needed on defense. Reacting to our interview from earlier day,
was Joe try and Shank really likable?
Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Joe was fun. It was good having it in here.
Speaker 6 (01:17:12):
When a player immediately embraces the city and talks championship
goals instead of individual stats, you know, he understands what
dog Pound.
Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
Is all about.
Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
Love a dog today and remembrance of the Halkster. What
is your tag team? Mount rushmore?
Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
So then you need four tag teams? That's easy, Yeah,
that's easy for you.
Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
It's interesting in those days, like they wouldn't just put
people together like they were. It was rare that they
split them, you know, So I'll go all from my
I'll go obviously, you're gonna do Road Warriors Number one,
and so that that would be number one.
Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
I would probably go Heart Foundation.
Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
I would go.
Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
I would be third there. I like the Rockers.
Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
That was kind of fun. They were all right, Seawn
Michaels and Marty Jeannetti. Yeah, the fourth. Who would be
the fourth? I'm trying to remember from that era because
a lot of demolition.
Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Yeah, demolition. Demolitions would be my fourth. Yeah, my four
are road Warriors, Demolition, Heart Foundation, Rockers.
Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Mine would be the Hardy Boys. Sorry, Boys is the best?
They are the best edgend Christian Demolition and Mizz and
Morrison the greatest tag team of the twenty first century.
Speaker 8 (01:18:36):
I am completely incapable of answering this question. Can I
go like Hans Solo and Chewbacca? They are a great duo?
Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
No, like Nathan.
Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
You could put your hand in your head or your
head in your hands all you want. I'm incapable of
answering this question. I don't believe that. No, I don't. Okay,
I'll give you one true story because I was thinking
about it, so I watched What If? I If I
give you a couple of names, Can you tell me
what year this was?
Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Jump?
Speaker 8 (01:19:00):
Get serious like Coco, be Ware and the Bridge Bulldogs,
the Bridge British. That's what I was gonna say. What
year is that?
Speaker 9 (01:19:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
Give me early uh late late eighties?
Speaker 8 (01:19:12):
So that is the only those are the only five
minutes of my life I've ever watched.
Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Nasty Boys were kind of like British only it.
Speaker 5 (01:19:23):
Gun to my head.
Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
It would have been the only tag team I could
have been a.
Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Dynamite shocked the Demolition over Road Warriors though so Road
Warriors when they were they were really like you to
doom in The Road Warriors was all happening outside and
like Demolition was as a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
They were, their song was in retrospect. A lot of
choices were made with those outfits that a child. Yeah,
hey guys, bring.
Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
The demolish walking disaster. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
Breaking news, you have to breaking news sound or something?
Speaker 5 (01:19:52):
Is it real?
Speaker 8 (01:19:53):
It is from Latrobe first snap of Camp Pittsburgh Steeler Camp.
Aaron Rodgers picked off by Patrick Queen. It's on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Must be.
Speaker 8 (01:20:14):
Video. It's not over yet. You wanted to break Sounder.
Our friend tweet the video here it is.
Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Says it is true.
Speaker 5 (01:20:25):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
It's true.
Speaker 8 (01:20:28):
Aaron Rodgers has been picked off by Patrick queen to
open up Steelers training camp and we're off.
Speaker 5 (01:20:34):
That's all I did.
Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
That guy's the best guy. He works for McAfee and
the w W E does he really Yeah? He has
a Steelers correspondent for the McFee show. W W digital
and social contributor Bali.
Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
Said, here's a video of it.
Speaker 6 (01:20:56):
Pick her didn't happen. There's video of it of the
pick rested in tweets at the show. What is the
most petty office beef you've ever seen or been involved with?
Minus parking in someone's unassigned assigned parking spot.
Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
No, that's not a petty beef. That's somebody parked in
his assigned parking spot.
Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
Especial parks tomorrow just to see what happened.
Speaker 8 (01:21:16):
You have a petty beef with me every day?
Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
You have.
Speaker 8 (01:21:20):
Does tenure.
Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
I can't think of any off petty, anything petty. I'm
trying in my life that other than just well sure,
but I mean like I'm just thinking, like of a
legitimate one. No, I can't think of any men. Yeah,
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
I don't have any I don't have petty fights. No,
I canna be bothered.
Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Brownie in ak the ak Man forty two. Advice for
ze Girl at forty six. I thought I'd played a
little three on three last August. I hadn't played in
a few years, but I stay in shape. Didn't think
it'd be a big deal. Two minutes in tore my achilles.
My stupidity.
Speaker 8 (01:21:58):
I was talking to somebody yesterday in l a who
who was in their early thirties, who tore their achilles
playing pickleball last weekend. It's real, man enough.
Speaker 6 (01:22:08):
From the clown says nice to hear and see that
crud Sicilian laugh him all in love Bobby time, give
Bobby a little love. He's got a lot here. What
food makes the best left over?
Speaker 8 (01:22:27):
Day after Pasta's amazing ch with good sauce because it
gets better.
Speaker 15 (01:22:32):
It's homemade good.
Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
A little next day is always a delight. I ran
I ran that back, made it Sunday, ran it back Tuesday. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 10 (01:22:42):
I like.
Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
I like cold pizza. I'm a cold pizza. Not I
like a cold pizza. It's got to be a particular crust.
The crust has got to be able to with stand
the rigors of the cold temps. Yeah, I still like that.
I love a cold pot sticker the next day. Sure,
if I have a left or to give it a
little dunk and a sauce, you know the gullet.
Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
A good don't laugh, A good summer salad where you
have like the cucumbers, the tomatoes, the onions right where,
or a corn salad something like that.
Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Got that.
Speaker 8 (01:23:09):
It's kind of marinating in the fridge for extra day.
Big fan of that.
Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
That's like a watermelon halopenia salad. Yeahave McConaughey was big
on the second day on his famous tuna salad recipes.
Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
Lunch today.
Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
There were eggs salad sandwiches growing up here. Eggs salad?
Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
What would it take?
Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I mean they were out how long?
Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
When they take the egg and the tune and they
make it one? They make it one?
Speaker 5 (01:23:37):
Hey, I got together.
Speaker 8 (01:23:39):
Let's just douse something in mayonnaise and call it a salad.
Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
There's a salad. I couldn't agree with you. More outrageous
more Kabbali Jalen Ramsey is playing deep high safety three
of the first four snaps.
Speaker 6 (01:23:53):
There you go, doesn't Bobby? Can we get a reality
show where not Pedro and the Marlborough Man together in
Ohio or on the Ponderosa.
Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Oh my god, Yes, I think they would just I
think they would just despite having almost nothing in common,
they have almost everything in common. And I think that
they would just sit and talk to each other and
just say, you're right, you're right, you're right. I wish
our kids would listen. That's what I think they would do.
Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
I don't know how Pedro would do on the Ponderosa.
I don't know, but I know my dad would not
do well in the Bay Area that I think that's
what it should be. Remember that, remember that uh that
show wife Swap. Yeah, but in this case, like they're
not white, they're just like we'll call it life swap.
And so it's like you go, no, no, for like
two months, my dad goes to the Ponderosa and gets
(01:24:40):
into your dad's life. And then for two months and
your dad has to go into California, California way with
my dad.
Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Who was thrilled to be living there because loves it,
really loves the state. I think that's I think that
would be. I didn't i'd watch how about.
Speaker 15 (01:24:54):
Like parents Swap.
Speaker 8 (01:24:55):
Wouldn't that be a good winner for kids these days?
Like hey, someone, you guys swap kids?
Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
For the day.
Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
You guys have the time of your life Christmas Carols.
Speaker 8 (01:25:07):
Might not get him back. You might get too bad.
That's part of the show. Like the kids don't want
to go back to mom and Dad. They want to
stay with Uncle Nate.
Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
You know if we did, Uh, if you did, like
the I'm with Beucy and my dad which is an
alzheimer And if you had to, if he had to,
if he went to California and then you were there,
just completely disrespectful, like just not not overtly, but just
like putting him in places that you knew he would
not respond too well. That would be fun and I neither.
(01:25:40):
The same with Pedro and Montana. That would be gold.
Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
Layups, it'd be gold.
Speaker 15 (01:25:46):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
Do you prefer round pizza or square pizza?
Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
Is that even a question?
Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Don't care? Round?
Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
But don't I care?
Speaker 8 (01:25:53):
Okay, there is round, but if it's square, I'm not
going to look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
I refuse to eat that.
Speaker 8 (01:25:58):
If it's good pizza, it's good pizza.
Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
I don't know why they who makes a good square
pizza like a sheet pizza?
Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Sheet pizzas can be.
Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
You know you remember those pizzas you'd get I don't
know if you guys had this, but you remember the
school cafeteria pizza, like.
Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
This big sheet pizza. Ye, there's a place you can
buy those. Someone sent me the link to it. You
can buy though. You remember the ones I'm talking about that.
Speaker 6 (01:26:20):
Hooked me up with a link. You remember fistadas? Yeah,
the Mexican pizza. I had a case delivered when the
kids were in school. They were like this is this
is amazing.
Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
I'm like, yeah really it?
Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Yeah? Old that second. The problem, oh boy, with square
pizza is at some point you run into pieces that
are crustless.
Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
For sure.
Speaker 8 (01:26:48):
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 15 (01:26:49):
That's my issue.
Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
What do you mean It's fine?
Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
No, I like.
Speaker 8 (01:26:56):
The crust as well, but I don't even eat You
don't even eat it, but you need it.
Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
It's a hole. That's where my thumb goes. And then
I fold and then I'm eating.
Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
The crust is like it would be like trying to
golf without like you're having. I don't know how to
hold it. You got to get underneath it.
Speaker 8 (01:27:13):
Then you can't eat a piece of pizza without folding it.
I to fold it, But does it prevent you from
like it it kills your enjoyment so much if you can't.
Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
I just find it gross when it has no crust.
Also when you fold and you're at this angle right
if they're having to be juice as they run back
into the crust, get the walls protector now exist. It's sloppy.
Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
It's totally get it.
Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Larry David's not eating he pizza out of the center
of a square pie. No way, neither am I. It
feels like you're at a bowling alley or you're at
a chuck e cheese like like I want to a pizza.
It doesn't even have to be a perfect circle. I'm
not talking about that could be oddly shaped because it's
made from an artisan who is kneading the dough himself.
Speaker 6 (01:28:01):
Okay, we have like thirty seconds here before we have
to wrap. What's the coolest thing that you still own
from your childhood that is originally from your childhood?
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
Mary Chris to Nathan Merry, Christmas Mark McGuire on a
rollings big stick, a rawlings at around big st I
still have a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
I don't have them in my possession, but they're at
the house I grew up in a lot of the
toys I have as a kid, A lot of the
g I.
Speaker 15 (01:28:23):
Joe's and a lot of that type.
Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
Yeah, read all it, dude. I had so many cool
Star Wars Yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (01:28:28):
I have my old original nineteen seventy whatever Star Wars
cards in a box somewhere. They're not in good shape,
but I have some of them. I don't like the
blue set, the yellow set. They're like five different colored
sets back then.
Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
I have some of them, some of those not even
your childhood. But you have the best action figures out
of this panel.
Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Who me all those?
Speaker 8 (01:28:47):
Yeah? And you're talking about my Eric Metcalf starting lineup,
you know it?
Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
I love starting limp. We have two of them in
here somewhere.
Speaker 6 (01:28:52):
I have a whole bag that was given to me
by someone in security of players not from the Browns.
Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
We used to have them on set.
Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Here. We have our guys.
Speaker 6 (01:29:01):
There's a whole other I've got those.
Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
I got Bernie in white and brown jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
Let's go, hey now, so much more to come.
Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
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Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
All right, there you go, kids, We've got practice number
two this afternoon, not a game, not a game, talking
about practice. And then tomorrow we will welcome all of
you as we are open to the public. Two o'clock tomorrow,
we'll practice number three and away we go.
Speaker 4 (01:29:56):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
So tomorrow we'll have your we'll have copious snow, and
then we're gonna be able to live react to what
we see, Bud, which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
These are my favorite shows.
Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
It's gonna be awesome. It's a good time of year.
Speaker 8 (01:30:07):
We get a field mic and you walking around middle
of the middle of the field.
Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
Can we do that?
Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
I don't know if I'd be allowed out there?
Speaker 8 (01:30:14):
We can ask what are they gonna say?
Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
I like.
Speaker 8 (01:30:19):
The shade, the purchase funniest.
Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Oh we're going We're going back again, run it right back. Yeah,
all right, there you go. It's all happening kids, Day
two of training camp today tomorrow. The public is well.
I got another KOBALI update, give me give you a
KOBALI don't mind.
Speaker 8 (01:30:35):
If I do.
Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
Is the writing the picture sweet and salty Pickle cookie
recipe one cup granulated sugar, one cup unsalted butter, one
half cup chopped dill pickles. Don't mind if I do Kabaliali.
Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
I love that guy so great.
Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Next level is next. Thanks for lest somebody cleve.
Speaker 2 (01:30:52):
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