Dee and Jimmy Haslam - Coaches - Players - From the Podium - 7.29.25 - From the Podium

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the From the Podium podcast, where we feature
all of our daily press conferences rolled into one podcast
to help you get ready for the twenty twenty five
regular season. I'm Brock Danny Heath, and on today's episode,
you'll hear from owners D and Jimmy Haslam, running backs
coach Douce Daily, safety's coach f from Bonda, rookie running

(00:29):
back Dylan Samson, cornerback mj Emerson, and head coach Kevin Stefanski.
First up, Owners D and Jimmy Haslam gather with the
media for their annual training camp State of the Team
press conference.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
First of all, all, welcome everybody. Glad to see you.
I think I would miss We didn't start out acknowledging
what happened yesterday at the NFL headquarters. You know, our
thoughts from prayers are with all the families that have
lost their loved ones, and we honor the policemen that
also died in the line line of duty and our

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person with the ones that are injured. So I'm glad
to take a few minutes to acknowledge the horrendous acts
of that yesterday. Well, welcome to camp. We're always excited
to have a new season to get started. We're really
excited with our young players and our new coaching staff,

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and you can see the energy around the building. We're
all committed to making this just a tremendous year. So
we're glad to be back at camp, and we're also
really excited about the new Dome Stadium. A lot of
progress has been made. I mean we started out thinking
what can we do for the fans in this community
and what can we do for northeast Ohio and for Cleveland,

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And I think the Dome Stadium is a transformational project
that will deliver a world class experience for our fans
and also for our economic growth and conversation on what
a great place is is to leave.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So, Jimmy, not a lot to add.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I think it is exciting when the players are back,
and for those of us are here most of the year,
it's just a much different energy level. I think you
can tell we're working hard in camp. It's been hot,
which I think is good because it'll be hot during
the season, and they battled through that well two straight
days in pat So this'll be a good test for
him today.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
But off to a good start, certainly. Kate that Kenny
got a little dinged up, but hopefully he'll be back quickly.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
And I would echo what d said, Really excited about
brook Park, most appreciative of the state of Ohio and
all the work they did. Governor Dwine, Speaker Huffman, President
of Senate McCauley, Senate Financial Cheer Jerry Sereno all did
a tremendous job in helping make that happen.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
And we're excited.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I think sometime late this court, late this year, we'll
start moving some dirt. There'll be significant construction starting in
the first quarter, and I think now it's the time
for this community to really work together to create a
tremendous situation here in brook Park, as well as along
the river front, a r a re envisioned lake front,
and uh.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Potentially in almost new airport.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
So lots of exciting things going on here in Cleveland,
and we're happy to be part of it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
And we'll start with any football questions you all have.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Jimmy Yuh Susan after it started yet in the Browns
or and you are already being linked in arch manor
is this your comment about the buzz and the tactual
buzz as the season goes along.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, Tony, you know, you're in the business and you
get paid by how many hits you get, Okay, And
I think if you know the Manning family, I would
bet that.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
And I don't know Arch at all. Okay. I bet
he stays in college two years.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
So that's good.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't even think that's worth discussing.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
So, Jimmy, back in March, you talked about being patient
about the quarterback. Does that patience also kind of extends
to your allowing Kevin the opportunity you when you find
that guy, have the opportunity to work with him.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (03:58):
Absolutely, Jimmy, what in terms of wins, what would be
a successful season?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Jeff, do you really think we're gonna answer that? You know, Listen,
we gotta do better in free okay to put a
number on it, and I don't think we will ever
do that. Everybody coaches, players, personnel, ownership all knows that
three and fourteen won't cut it.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
We've got to do better. I think we'll know what
better looks like.

Speaker 9 (04:24):
Jimmy, can you address how can you help fans to
understand that you guys do care about the health and
safety of women. You know, since you've had three UH
guys since last year with domestic violence incidents.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, great question. Let me say, it's extremely frustrating. Okay.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Obviously we're not communicating as well as we should UH,
and we take responsibility for that. We talk intern we
have internal resources, we have external resources. We talk about
it continually, and it's something that we need to do
a better job on.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
But it is frustrating.

Speaker 10 (05:00):
Yeah, j It's a big focus for us in the organization.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
So thanks for asking the.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Re repeated instance, three different players of the your Is
that reflective of your continues.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
From vetting process?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, that's a question I ask.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, let's go back and let's look at Kushan, let's
look at UH DEV, and let's look at Michael Hall.
And there was the best of my knowledge, and we
talked about this yesterday with Andrew. There was nothing in
any of their backgrounds that showed anything like this.

Speaker 11 (05:28):
How these is it has maybe changed your approach or
you maybe prompted more resources that you.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Guys were looking at you.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, I think whenever you're not successful, you got to
take a step back and say what can we do better? Okay,
if you'd asked me a month ago, I would say, no,
we're all over it, and we talked about it continually.
We've got outside speakers, inside speakers. We talk about it
a lot. But clearly we need to look to see
what else we can do.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It's not acceptable.

Speaker 12 (05:52):
Do you expect quitch on Junkins to eventually sign.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
And play for I do, but that's you know, we
all understand the process, the law, and the law does
not move quickly.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
But yes, we're cautiously optimistic.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Did you ever tell any contact with uh quinchehn in
the in the last one?

Speaker 6 (06:07):
I know we haven't talked to you since the draft.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
So can you explain a lot of grounds an ane
to drive to shoot you.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
To drive in your quarterback in the ground.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
And adding to gog Well, I I I think that's
really more of an Andrew question.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, but I think what what was that pick one?
We thought he was good value at one forty six?

Speaker 12 (06:27):
Jimmy, there was just been kind of like a national
or a narrative.

Speaker 13 (06:30):
Are the person who works in the shore or pick.

Speaker 12 (06:35):
Or maybe us people have carded corner him?

Speaker 14 (06:37):
What?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
What would you say?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, listen, we have good process, okay, and if you
just told me, let's see we picked him on Saturday,
right fr Friday night, driving home, you are gonna pick shador.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I would say that that's not happening.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
But we had a conversation early that morning, uh, and
then we had a conversation later that day. I think
we had the right people involved in the conversation. At
the end of the day. That's Andrew Berry's call. Andrew
made the call to picture door. Just like who's gonna
start or what play we're gonna call? Is Kevin's call,
but that's uh, that's Andrew's call.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
He made the call.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
And you obviously side off on the trade.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Of was just having the crowd or like correct what
was Uh?

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Was it a tough sell deal or an easy sell?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Those are hard decisions. Listen. Travis Hunter is a special.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Football player, and I do think he can play both
ways and I think he'll do well. He's also a
great kid, not a good but a great kid. So
we were locked in on that, and then the opportunity
came up and you go back three places and we
thought there were really good players and we think we
got a good one, a really good one in Mason.
And then to add really almost the first round pick

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with a thirty six pick and to have a number
one next year, we just thought.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Was too too good to pass up. Time will tell
whether we did the right thing or not.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
Jimmy, last time we talked to you, you at the
UH owner's meetings, you delivered the quote UH heard around
the NFL that Deshaun was a big swing and a
miss and uh, you know he's here, he's on pup
and UH, you know, do you see a world in
which he ever can play football?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
For you guys?

Speaker 4 (08:15):
You know, I think it's premature. I don't think anything's
changed on the Sean situation since we were together in March.
I will say this, he's working hard and rehab and
that's our focus is to get him well and healthy,
and then we'll make decisions after that.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
What have you learned about look like a team that's.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
That you balled?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Hm, thing doesn't look like very much.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
No, I'll say it's hard, and you know, you make mistakes.
And the business world we come in, UH, you can
hire any time you want to. Okay, there's no seasonal
there's no draft, and so you can build a team
over a period of time.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
You know, almost at free there's no.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Draft, there's no free agency, there are no CR controls,
so it's.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Obviously not easy.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
You know, we made them the decision last year to
take a step back after last year's disaster and looking
at our roster and knowing that we needed a quarterback
to do this over a two or three year period.
You know, it's too early to say, but we like
our rookie group. We'll know a lot more, you know,
after we played two or three exhibition games and young
guys get to play a lot.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
We like the group, and particularly if Q can come back,
we like a lot.

Speaker 15 (09:22):
Jim jimly just with four quarterbacks battling it on. I mean,
I know Kenny's hurt now, but it's so rare to
see this many quarterbacks competing for a starting job on
a team. Just how do you think Kevin and Andrew
and everyone has sort of handled out.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
In the early fortunate of King really well, and that
was a concern we had, like how do you make
sure everybody.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Gets enough plays, enough looks, et cetera.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And I hate it for Kenny because he played really
well the two or three days before we got hurt.
And there's nobody that wants to be part of the
team more than Kenny. He's working hard and I know
he'll get back quickly. But I think so far they've
handled it well. And something that Kevin and Andrew talk
about weekly. Here's the plan for this week, and I
think one to Carolina and scrimmaging and then playing, and

(10:02):
then we're going to Philly and have two days of
scrimmages and then playing. The young guys will get a
lot of looks, as will the veterans and the scrimmages,
so we'll know a lot more in the next couple
of weeks.

Speaker 13 (10:12):
I know you said it's Kevin's decision who played, But organizationally,
do you think it's important. Do you talk about we
need to see these rookies in game situation before you
have two first round picks in twenty twenty six?

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Absolute absolute, So, But I mean that's Kevin is aware
of that. He knows how important quarterback is, and he
and Andrew talk about those kind of things all the time.
I mean, it's a daily, ongoing conversation.

Speaker 16 (10:38):
You've only talk about patients as an organizational value.

Speaker 12 (10:41):
What does what does that look like?

Speaker 6 (10:42):
What is what does patients look like? For the desision?

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, I think it's it's what we've just talked about.
We realized that when we went three and fourteen, there's
great uncertainty a quarterback. You probably weren't gonna go fourteen
and three. So let's try to build a team the
right way. And I'm repeating myself and it's premature, but
I like the guys we've pi okay, and time will
tell how good they are. But Mason, Carson, Vannon, chadur Dylan, etc.

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Look like Dylan Samson look like not only really good players,
but really good people.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
And I'll say this for the two.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Quarterbacks coming in And I know everybody has a vision
of Shador, but he's come in in the building and
worked hard, kept his head down and done what he's
supposed to do, as as Dylan, which was is no
surprise for either of any How do you feel.

Speaker 11 (11:29):
About how this organization has wrapped around the developmental part
getting guys for any the.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Depth when he's yeah, that's a great question.

Speaker 12 (11:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
And that's the challenge in sports because if you're head coach,
you're charged with winning every week, but you also want
to develop young players. And I think Kevin has this
period after I think because.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Of the hundred hungry dog period.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
I might be your own about that, but after practice,
where it might be six plays might be ten plays
if they get plays in or extra work.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
And I think that's really important, really important to the developed.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Young guys, cause you know, we saw with two or
three quarterbacks, not everybody, particularly quarterback, makes it.

Speaker 10 (12:05):
The first year or two.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
And this is a big jump.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Going from college to NFL, whether you're a call, whether
you're a quarterback or not.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
So I think we're doing a good job there that
timonna tell anything else.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
Football lies it j Jimmy, just kind of going.

Speaker 14 (12:17):
Back, you can mentioned that two to three year window
and kind of player development is.

Speaker 15 (12:21):
Is there kind of an understanding that maybe this might
take time for you guys to.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Get back to ok Yeah, we talk about it. Opens,
we talk about Oakland. Could we take a big jump
in one year. Yes, but we talk about we're not
gonna panic, We're gonna draft good players.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
We're gonna build through the draft.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
And next year we have nine picks, including two one,
so that should help us.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
You know, I think you have to realize that we
went three years with no ones.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And I think at least one of those years we
didn't have a two and maybe two of those years
and that that hurts you roster wise, and it just does.
And the players that are available in the first round,
the chances of them being successful way better than second, second, ceteran, third,
et cetera. So we're gonna continue to stock pile of
straft picks.

Speaker 8 (13:02):
The philosophy ends that, you know, to get your message
across of them, that this is a building process, cause
you know how loyal they are and how presently.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Well, uh, listen, we're frustrated too, and and we share
the fans paint, okay, and we he says this right
all the time. We're stewards of this uh franchise, and
we need to do a better job, and we wanna
win for a lot.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Of different reasons. The main reason we want to win
as far fans, they really do. We have great fans.

Speaker 10 (13:31):
Where do it?

Speaker 9 (13:31):
With that type of philosophy, uh, sort of a little
bit of a patient attitude for this season? What does
that mean for Kevin st Stefanski Because people are already
asking me if he's on the hot seats.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I as listen, I don't ask you all.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
We talked to you all fairly frequently and we're very
supportive of Kevin and Andrew now that they need to
do better. Yeah, but so to D and I, you
know what I mean. And these are high pressure jobs
they have, but we really like them in their roles
as coaching, and we really like.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Them as people. And I say this all the time,
they're thirty eight or forty two years old.

Speaker 12 (14:05):
How much has that patient approach?

Speaker 16 (14:07):
How much of you guys kind of going about your
disre owning the team?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
How much you you kind of learned that the hard way?

Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, I think it's I think we I think we
did a poor job early on and hopefully we're doing
a better job now. And listen, we talk about it organizationally.
This isn't just ownership that we talk about it. All
Andrew's staff, all Kevin's staff, everybody is aware of the planet.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
And that's that's how good teams work together.

Speaker 17 (14:32):
All Right, we'll take some stadium questions then, So, Jimmy
and d what can you tell us about the last
six hundred million dollars you've said you needed for the dome?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
The county says it won't pay.

Speaker 17 (14:42):
Where will that money come from?

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Do you know yet?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah? Really good question ed for uh.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
First of all, most appreciative State ohiose we said earlier,
what we said all along is we hope there were
six hundred million dollars available locally. I think through Brook
Park and the mechanisms we put in place, that's three
hundred so that leaves you three hundred short. What I
would say this big picture and we never I know
it frustrates you all. We never want to front rain

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run the people, and so with the State of Ohio,
we never talked publicly about how things might get financed.
And by the way, our plan is what they used
to come up with the six hundred million. I don't
want to do the same thing with the county. What
I would say is now is the time to work together.
Maybe it doesn't work out with the county, but now
it's the time to sit down and see if we

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can't work together. This is an important project. I don't
think many other entities are spending two billion plus.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
In this community, and we are located in the county.
So we will be working with the county.

Speaker 9 (15:40):
And the mayor of Cleveland has said that he doesn't
want his lakefront left, would be all out of getting anything.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Have you reached on to the mayor and yeah, I mean,
I mean, I think we started with the vision of
the lakefront a long time ago, and we believe strongly
that the lakefront needs to be developed. I feel like
we have put a lot of input and energy into
what that vision could be. So we have not had
up further conversations recently, but you know, we care about

(16:09):
this community so deeply and I think the lakefront is
a really important part of that.

Speaker 15 (16:14):
How confident are you that you'll be able to make
the Brook Park project happen?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
At this point, We're very confident, excited about We can't
be more confident. And let me say, these projects are
really hard, okay, and the state's a hurdle.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
You know, there's other hurdles.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
You got to work with DOT and Rapid Transit, you
got to get your financing, You've got to control costs.
These are big, complicated projects. This is either the second
or large project largest product in the state of Ohio history.
So this is a complicated project. There's stuff going on.
It's three and a half years till the stadium opens,
and we will have to work hard every day to
get everything to come together.

Speaker 10 (16:53):
Roundbreaking will be sometime next year.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's like February next year, so we're hoping sometimes.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that's that's fair for.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
Two point nine on this can to get to that
ground break early next year.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
What in your mind's a timetable.

Speaker 12 (17:07):
To know one way or the other, whether the count.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
To be part of this, whether the authority is.

Speaker 12 (17:10):
Gonna be sup the brook Park.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, let me say this, the timetable to get teach
that ground break.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, so we're gonna have the groundbreak regardless. Okay, l
let me say this, and I try to be very
respectful of everybody.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
What we said is we can do the project without
the county, Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
I think it's best if the county and HSG work together, Okay, And.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I won't say anything more than that.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
I just think it's helpful in this community to work
with the city, to work with the county, and to
work with the other sports teams Jimmy and do.

Speaker 14 (17:42):
One of the the chief points that the opposition is
a work part of the project kept making was that
it it would harm downtown Cleveland. Obviously there's big plans
for the riverfront now the lakefront opening up. Just from
your perspective, how confident are you that this region can
support all three major developments and four densities.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, they're all three very different. And we believe in Cleveland.
We believe in a growth mindset. We believe in economic development,
and we believe that this could be that one of
the greatest communities out there. But you have to have
that vision and you have to have that growth mindset,
and we believe that we can take care of our
fans and provide economic development by doing the brook Park

(18:28):
project you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Let me just say one more thing.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Excuse me, I think this thin come as four different projects. Okay.
The riverfront project that Bedrock's doing is already underway, right.
You've got a good, good start with their practice facility
in the clinic facility.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
That's probably a fifteen to twenty year project.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
The lake front, due to the fact that we're going
to be playing there through twenty eight probably and you
have to get the infrastructure in place, doesn't start until
twenty nine or thirty, which is, you know, basically five
years from now.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Our project will start late this fall early next year okay,
and the airport will start about that same time too,
So you'll have going on in brook Park and the
airport that'll happen simultaneously. We're open in twenty nine. They're
supposed to be opening thirty one. Okay, Bedrock is I
don't want to say things was running. Marathon will be
ongoing for the next fifteen years. The lakefront will start

(19:28):
in five years, so it's not like all four of
them are starting at the same time.

Speaker 10 (19:32):
Here.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Again, those are complicated, not easy projects.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
I would say one of the things is think about
being additive, like, let's try to add to the pie.
That's what growing successful companies do. Let's try to add
to the pie.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
And that's what I.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Think we're all trying to do and hopefully that will
happen if we will work together.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, we can write a great story for Cleveland that
people from everywhere will look to what Cleveland's doing and
how exciting it is with all these projects. So that's
the story that really needs to come out.

Speaker 15 (20:02):
You're talking about three and a half years to build
a stadium, which isn't that much longer than it took
to build the current one, which I know people have
described as hastily built. So what's your confidence level that
you're going to be able to build a quality product
on that timeline.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Really why, Well, I would say this. I don't know
if it was hastily built or hastily designed, but I
think common sense would dictate you would not have two
thirds of your seats in the upper deck and the
third and the lower deck. So and remember, we've been
working on this. We started working helped me out there
or Peter.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
When do we start working on five years?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
And we're seriously working on stadium plans three or four
years ago?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
So it didn't just all come together, right.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
So we've been working on it, and we're continually working
to refine.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
How much of a concern is that legal?

Speaker 17 (20:51):
You know, we have all we have these two lawsuits
hagging over everything. How much of a concern is the
legal fight that you're still having to do.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
You know that the state would need to come in
on the unclaimed funds, Well, I don't mean fund.

Speaker 17 (21:03):
Don't talk about like the city.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Listen, we're I'm not an attorney, but I don't think
the intention was to keep a team from moving twelve
miles to live up to the little east they're in and
to contribute to to three billion dollars a community. I
don't think that's what the modellaw was for. We're cautious
that we can work there, cautiously optimistic we can work
things out with the city.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
Jimmy, are you guys being so busy with your project
here and with the stadium? What do you think your
involvement will be with the lake front when it comes
time to do that.

Speaker 13 (21:34):
Are you guys going to be what will your role?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
We We don't know that because we haven't been involved
in the conversations of what they're planning on doing. And
but you know, obviously we care about Cleveland and we
definitely want to see the lakefront done.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Are you know.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
In state sixty sixty five, sixty six for the room
to go to sixty eight to seven.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's SQUALLIFU super Bowls, I don't know about that.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
I think what I think what the commissioner said when
he was here is or maybe it's when we were
in Columbus, I can't remember, is listen.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
The super The stadium is gonna be super Bowl ready.
The question is if does the community have enough resources, hotels,
et cetera. To support the Super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (22:17):
And listen, I think Nashville will get a Super Bowl
in the next four or five years.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
If you'd ask me ten.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Years ago, would Nashville get a Super Bowl, I'd said no,
So I we don't rule out anything.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
Morning on the uh, you would, you'd have to be
more willing to get involved in that Lake From project.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
If the county yeah, Well, couple said yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
We shouldn't invest this.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
We're happy to sit down and talk with if anybody
Jeff that wants to to figure out how to work
together at the community for it.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
It's part of the late friend.

Speaker 16 (22:51):
Are you willing or or contemplating to get contributing cassy
or up.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Front or over time to help that happen?

Speaker 4 (22:57):
If you people, that's great question. I would say what
I said, We're willing to t if to sit down
with anybody and try to work through I don't think
you can comment on one issue in a vacuum, but
we're willing to sit down with the city, and I
think we can work with the city really well on
a lot of different issues.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
But you got to sit down and talk first.

Speaker 12 (23:17):
There's such a cash out for Anthm's made.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yet there were offers made earlier. The talks will put
on the hold. Hopefully the talks will put up again.
It will pick up again shortly and it be inappropriate to.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
The same thing.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Are you willing to pay to demolish the existing stadium?

Speaker 3 (23:31):
You don't. I don't want to make that comment.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
In a vacuum.

Speaker 10 (23:33):
I mean it's having to sit down.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, let's sit down and see what all the needs are.
How else we're gonna be able to help, et cetera.
I mean, I don't think you can fault our involvement
in the community.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, the talk here is centered on the huge costure.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
Points for a billion to build a stadium.

Speaker 12 (23:49):
Where are you in terms of how we see the
builds on the gateway to come up? You know, when
it's twenty thirty years old?

Speaker 6 (23:54):
So yeah, where's that money gonna come from?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, and we read you call them yesterday.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
I'll say this, and I know it sounds like sound
like a rog curric. If all three teams will work
together on a quote syntax, that.

Speaker 10 (24:06):
Can be solved.

Speaker 16 (24:08):
You talked about not one putting anything over on the
people of Cleveland, Northeast Ohio. How much do you envision
GSMS being part of taking instruction once you get.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
To that, you know, good question.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
The whole pricing of the stadium and marketing in the
stadium is something we're working on and I think we'll
have a better feel for that in the next six
or twelve months.

Speaker 17 (24:30):
This might be a better class or who addressed this briefly.
You know a lot of people, including the county executives.
I shouldn't say a lot of people. Some people including
the county executives, are saying Doom's going to be a
plot with a what's your response to about?

Speaker 2 (24:44):
You know, we have the really smart people involved in
the process, and everybody is very excited about it, and
we're getting calls on people wanting to be part of
the development around it. So we feel really excited about
It's kind of a front door to clean and when
you look at it when you land at the airport,
when you drive in, you're gonna be passing by that

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development in the Dome stadium. It's going to be the
only one in Ohio. It's really one of the few,
the few dome stadiums on the East Coast. So we're
incredibly optimistic and excited about it.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Next, running backs coach Duce Daley talks about the running
back room, losing their pajamas and practicing in full pads.

Speaker 18 (25:27):
Obviously with Quinn Seawn not here and Jerome kind of
quayting coming back from that injury. How have you had
to kind of adjust things there in that room over
the first few days camp.

Speaker 19 (25:36):
Yeah, the rest of those guys have been working their
ass off, and I'm super proud of them. From two
rookies dealing money and Pierre picking up the slack and
also taking Troy who's our fullback and kind of playing
I'm gonna have back a little bit.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Those guys have been doing great.

Speaker 18 (25:51):
Is anybody I mean, how much have you noticed the
you know, a guy like dealing specifically, you know, a
young guy kind of grabbing the you know, bull by
the horns and making the most whose opportunity.

Speaker 19 (26:01):
And that's what he's doing, making the most of all
opportunities that's given to him. Being able to play him
in slot sometimes, be being able to put him in
the backfield, kind of moving him around, kind of dumping
a lot on him to see how he adjusts.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
And he's adjusting well.

Speaker 10 (26:13):
And how do you see him in the round?

Speaker 12 (26:14):
I'm sorry, how do you see Dylan growth?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Crom N.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Yeah, he has really grown.

Speaker 19 (26:21):
Just looking at OTA's and where he came from kind
of learning the system and like I said, kind of
moving him around. Now we're into camp where you put
the paths on and protection is important. Making sure he
understand who he has, uh, understand from the the point
to the read and what he has on the responsibility
of his routes.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Uh. It's a lot on him. But he's doing well.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
Don't you see where we.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Talked to you in a sprint and you talked about
Dylan kind of with ther hab roll receiving back things
like that.

Speaker 10 (26:47):
Does does that change with Gwinschohn?

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Nothing? You already have to sort of change.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
His his mission, I guess here and no, what he does?
Why not at all?

Speaker 12 (26:55):
Is Junior told us about the jamus how you yeah?

Speaker 19 (26:59):
Yeah, out pajamas a little bit, right? Yeah, yeah, There's
only been one day though, right right, So.

Speaker 12 (27:03):
What's your message now is we go to day two,
day three of of of the real stuff.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
U h.

Speaker 19 (27:07):
Let's stay out of pajamas. Let's get back to the
hard stuff now. And of course a coach is doing
an awesome job with the schedule and being able to
put these guys in those situations and to see how
they gonna react. And yesterday of course the first day
in past, I thought that those guys did well. You
wanna continue to build from there. It starts there, but
you wanna build. And today we have uh, of course
shells on, so it won't be in the past. The

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next day we come out here, hopefully we get little
tackling going on.

Speaker 12 (27:31):
When the guys are dooing the thirty five pert bag.
Then when you think in those days, but where does
that company, I've never seen that.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Yeah, well old Lineman has been doing it for a
long time.

Speaker 19 (27:39):
And the sand bags of what you're talking about, and
sand bags are used for protection, so you able to
take the sandbag and hold it in front of your
chest maybe about six seven inches off your chest. You
able to move your feet without crossing over, and the
weight of the sandbag represents the defender.

Speaker 12 (27:55):
You seem to enjoy that more than the guys there.

Speaker 19 (27:58):
Well I I n I enjoy it every time I'll
come out hevery between the lines cause I can't do
it no more.

Speaker 12 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, you said he said that.

Speaker 11 (28:04):
Uh, things didn't really change for killing. But in is
when he's out there with him and shown out with
drow Mount, have you maybe seen more from him that'll
maybe changes your perception of what you can do. Maybe
not just the one two punches for two punches.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Is he's showing you anything extra?

Speaker 19 (28:19):
Well, yeah, it picks up for the reps of course
when you started to put him out there and give
him more reps and in those situations, no matter of
a third down, no matter if it's it's first or
second down, being able to see him more, it's it's
definitely a a a blessing for him and for us.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (28:34):
I think that just going forward, Uh, we'll continue to
give him the ball cause he was a hell of
a runner in college.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
So we're looking at everything right now. When it comes
to dealing, did you mention you.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
Can't come out here and doing the ones?

Speaker 12 (28:46):
Why you like?

Speaker 3 (28:48):
What did you manage the identity?

Speaker 10 (28:49):
Should player to coach?

Speaker 6 (28:51):
What do you? Yeah? It was tough at first. When
I walked in.

Speaker 19 (28:54):
I never forget getting a phone call from Andy Reid,
and I remember Andy said, hey, man, I I thought,
you know when you could be a coach, and I
was like, nah, not me, you know, But being able
to come in and do the minority coaching program and
getting a chance to spend time with coaches that was
on that staff when I was there, so I was
able to come in and immediately you know, see some

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coaches that I had a.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Relationship with, UH, built a relationship with and was.

Speaker 19 (29:19):
Able to go out there and watch them do it
for so many years coaching me and also coaching the
young guys that were there, I was able to catch
on rather quickly and I understood how to do it.

Speaker 12 (29:28):
As a coach. We don't know a lot about him money,
and he's obviously getting more reps than if he was
supposed to. What what is your suppression and what's your message?

Speaker 19 (29:35):
I love him money. I love the physicality that he
brings to the game. He takes this thing seriously and hard.
You know, he's harder on himself, uh, which you love
players like that. Sometimes you gotta back 'em up a
little bit because they're so hard on his stuff. But
he's one of those guys that it means a lot
to him no matter what position he's playing.

Speaker 11 (29:53):
Why do you stand back drill? You're asking up stand
back drills and another drill out you guys talk about.

Speaker 12 (29:58):
There one of the more vocal ones that resistant and how.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
How the guy's respond to that? What do you though, uh,
they hate it. They hate it.

Speaker 19 (30:04):
I love it of course because one of the things, uh,
with the resistant bands, you you getting ball security, cause
the band is kind of like pulling the ball. But
what people don't know those balls are like twenty pounds.
So the got the band in the ball. So that's
why you at the end of the and when you
see him done, they start crying a little bit because
their arms are hurting.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Dude.

Speaker 18 (30:23):
So you you talked about Amani's physicality, you that was
something that was kind of seen as kind.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Of maybe gonna quench on strengths.

Speaker 18 (30:30):
Is there a place do you do you feel like
he could be the guy that kind of filled that
physical role or or do you feel like that's something Pierre?

Speaker 3 (30:38):
I mean, is there a guy another guy in the
room with that physicality.

Speaker 19 (30:41):
You feel like, Well, here's how I think all of
'em gotta be physical, no matter if you're two o, two,
two thirty, it's all about the mentality. It's all about
what you got in your chest. And every guy out
there and that's in the running back room has it.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
You just gotta go show it.

Speaker 12 (30:55):
Why did y'all see yourself as a coach A first?

Speaker 6 (30:57):
I'm sorry why did you want you see yourself as
a builder man? At first, it was so many hours.

Speaker 19 (31:02):
All you ever heard as a player was some of
these coaches spending nights in the building Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
sometimes Thursday.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
And you was like, nah, I don't want any parts
of that.

Speaker 19 (31:14):
So technology caught up, you know, and I think, I
wa the timing was right for me, so I was
able to come in and definitely learn from uh A
lot of coaches. Of course I played for and also
learned from Andy Reid giving me that opportunity, and I'm thankful.

Speaker 12 (31:27):
How would you how would you stay with a player
like playing or do you stay with the coach?

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Oh, he wouldn't like it, he would not like it.
Duce the Quart situation.

Speaker 16 (31:36):
Kevin and Andrews talked so much about how much emphasis
they taught out, like the educational piece, especially for young
guys coming as you know, to understanding where they at and.

Speaker 12 (31:44):
Not giving you trouble on those sorts of things. But you,
being a former player, how much are you able to
sort of try to.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Share your experience with guys and hopefully we get into avoidance.

Speaker 19 (31:55):
You know, it's the situation itself, Like you said, Kevin,
and they be already addressed and they talked about it.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
So I don't really have anything else to say on it.

Speaker 19 (32:02):
But I'm constantly talking to the guys in my room
and constantly talking to my kids about all situations. So
that's a part of being a parent, that's a part
of being a great friend and a coach.

Speaker 10 (32:12):
Fort Fort Quinn Shawn though obviously not knowing when he's
gonna be back.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
Here, not knowing when he's even gonna be a quiet
How hard is that for a young guy, a rookie
to have a catch up or you know, whenever.

Speaker 12 (32:21):
He does to get back here.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Uh, that's my job.

Speaker 19 (32:24):
That's my job to get him caught up, to make
sure that he's you know, in the building and showing
him all the film that he missed, of course, and
would do a install from day one all the way
up until he's there.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
So yeah, that's that's that's no problem.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
Why you.

Speaker 19 (32:40):
Well, honestly, man, I I always tell people this, and
I'm be redundant when I said, I remember, you know,
some of my playing days, I was a average player
with a cool name, So that mean I had to
try to outwork everybody that was out there and now
knowing that going against some of these guys that's here now, uh,
I wouldn't do too well. So of course that coach

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will kind of put me in some situations to probably
show me.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Up, as they say, and it wouldn't be good.

Speaker 12 (33:07):
Do you have any you bring that players mentality or
a player's excitement out here that trade can't feel.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Said that one or two?

Speaker 12 (33:13):
Do you still bring the players mentality and players excitement
level to them to trade?

Speaker 19 (33:16):
Oh, without a doubt, Without a doubt, man, I get
a chance every day to live vicariously through these players, offense.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Defense, special teams, no matter what it is. And just
being able to do that.

Speaker 19 (33:28):
And I told those guys that today, I said, every
time you make a move, I make it too. Every
time you make a tack or score a touchdown, I
just made it too. So being able to go out
there between the lines compete and being able to feel
the energy and the juice from a coach giving it
to them and being able to see it second or nine, what.

Speaker 10 (33:48):
One is a seeing a lot of inside runs yesterday?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is that there?

Speaker 7 (33:54):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (33:55):
Geared also to promote physicality and toughness.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
Of the day. Yeah, I don't think it's the scheme.

Speaker 19 (34:00):
I think every scheme should promote physicality and toughness when
it comes to football. So no matter what you do,
from play action to protection to inside runs, outside runs, no.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Matter what it is, you should think physical first. What
do you think is the yeah, you need to get
a damn passed down good job?

Speaker 15 (34:23):
What does it impact you?

Speaker 11 (34:25):
Do you find them running back, whether it's impacting these.

Speaker 19 (34:27):
Guys as the players or to feel you know, one
of the things that I always constantly try to hammer
home with them is the love and the relationships that's
in the building, and the love and the relationship that's
in the room. You know, when they come through the
door right before tha start, we get a chance before
we pick the remote up, it's to talk about our wives.

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I give them my why and I hear their wise,
because what I know about this game is they're gonna
come a time where the ship get a little rocky.
There's gonna come a time where things are not easy
and it's gonna be hard. And then that's when I
got to come along and remind you what your why was,
to make sure that we're on the same page. So
just that part of the relationship and having that relationship

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is the most important work.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Safety's coach e f from Bonda discusses the leadership of
Grant Delpit and the depth of his talented room.

Speaker 9 (35:19):
We talked to Grant a.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
Little bit the other day.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
He talked about how he doesn't feel like he's done
enough for this team. So what are the conversations like
that you're having a Grant and what do you think
he needs to do?

Speaker 20 (35:28):
You know, I think that's the answer you should you
probably get from a man like him, hard working guy,
always looking to do more, always looking to improve, always
looking to develop.

Speaker 10 (35:39):
For me and for him, the conversation has just been
what can you do to.

Speaker 20 (35:44):
Affect others more positively and to make the ones around
you better? And it doesn't have to necessarily be physically
on the field, you know, through your actions and how
you operate, and continuing to polish and shine up that
part of his game because there's a diamond there and
it's all about trying to get that thing to shine
as possible, as bright as possible. And I feel like

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that's gonna be a big emphasis for him, I and himself,
the team as a whole.

Speaker 15 (36:13):
Takeaways that times over the last couple of years or forever.
But the Safeties just seem to to really want to
matchize especially what what needs to happen there.

Speaker 20 (36:25):
I mean, you know when you talk about attack defense,
you know no no, no seat belts, no handcuffs, attack
and be aggressive. It all works together, you know, from
the first, second, third level as a group. You know,
obviously we gotta we gotta take advantage of the opportunities
when they come. Uh, you gotta be careful overdoing it

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and trying to create something.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
But we when they do come, need to make those plays.

Speaker 20 (36:51):
So for us, it's just focusing in on those opportunities,
trying to re create those on the practice field so.

Speaker 10 (36:58):
That when they do come it's not the first time.

Speaker 20 (37:01):
So I'm constantly hunting different body positions and situations that
they were in that they could have made, and I'm
trying to duplicate that out there.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
So that when they do come up, we have a
chance to make them.

Speaker 13 (37:13):
We saw I saw it looked like Chris Asmond is
out there yesteray with the ones when Grant he was
just watching. Yeah, what kind of development have you seen
out of Chris and what kind of role do you
think you can come off there.

Speaker 10 (37:25):
That's a great question.

Speaker 20 (37:25):
You know, development is always going to be at the
forefront of Kevin Stefanski's team. It's something he tails us
from the very beginning and the very first staff meetings
of a season. You're always development and you're always growing,
trying to grow players. And for him, it's not just
from a coaching perspective, it's himself. It's also the development
team in this building in terms of the weight room,

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the development group that surrounds those guys, and I feel
like this organization has done an amazing job of surrounding
a young man like him, but also for him to
take advantage of all the different things and development. When
you talk about what you see on the field, I
mean you see a two hundred and twenty pound player
who can move and who can run and you can
play man and play in in space and and play

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at the first and second and third level. But also
a player in the in the in the meeting room
that can retain a lot of information and apply it
out there. So I'm excited to see where he's at
again a testament to the development of this organization when
it comes to their players.

Speaker 13 (38:23):
Because you're searching for that third guy can he be
and that makes it the third tefty.

Speaker 20 (38:27):
I mean for us set, you know, we're looking for
definitely looking for someone to come in and help. It's
it's gonna take a group, it's gonna take a lot
of guys, and it's gonna take him going out there
and doing it out here on this field. But in
those games, So do I believe that he's a candidate
one thousand.

Speaker 14 (38:43):
You're trying to when you watch the film from last year,
you're trying to recreate those situations in the turnovers were.

Speaker 12 (38:49):
Missed or how much do you think it's mentally?

Speaker 14 (38:53):
How much do you think it is just curely physical
when it comes to getting after the.

Speaker 20 (38:59):
Footbay, I think it's uh, you know, give you old
coach answer. I think it's both.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (39:04):
There is a mentality that you know, I think Grant's
doing a great job. Every time we meet as a
group or we break down as a huddle, Grant is
like reminding us of how important that is. So that's
the mental part of reminding the guys that we've got
to have it or what the situation is and why
or we could have had this one. And then there
is a physical component to it that we rep you know,

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we try to duplicate. I mean, Kevin's first thing that
he does in every single practice is a takeaway drill
or you know not you know, letting people take away.
So there's a physical component, but there's a mental component
to it as well.

Speaker 15 (39:39):
Chris, you guys in recent years have gotten so much
undrafted or formally, yeah, guys, so to talk about development,
like what has mean you guys so successful with that specifically.

Speaker 20 (39:52):
You know, I think as a coach you have to
pride yourself on development of players, and as personally, I
take great pride in, you know, taking a player and
whether it's undrafted, free agent, and finding away from to get.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
On the field.

Speaker 20 (40:06):
But it's also a testament to personnel and their identification
of players and giving us a group of guys for
us to work through and and talk about from a
personnel side and coach a side, and doing a really
good job with ab and his staff of finding a
good group and saying, okay of this, you know, group
of mics, I think it's that guy right there, then
taking that.

Speaker 10 (40:26):
Guy and growing him.

Speaker 20 (40:27):
So you know, again, in terms of that, it's a
it's definitely been a great mix of personnel, coaching and
player development, but at the same time picking the right
mic because that mic will take to the development side
the correct way.

Speaker 10 (40:42):
So definitely been a group effort.

Speaker 14 (40:46):
You know, he's really looking to take on more leadership groups.
It's deeper into his career. Just from your perspective watching
him part training camp, what do.

Speaker 20 (40:56):
You seem different from just a sense of urgency and
everything he's doing from the moment he walks into the
building to the moment he leaves, Uh, you know, being
just present and and and locked in with the attitude
of mentality that he understands that all these things are
watching him and around him, but at the same time
going out there and do we all know Grand Delp.

Speaker 10 (41:16):
It's gonna go out there on that grass and and
do what Grand Delpa does.

Speaker 20 (41:20):
But it's the things around the building, the attitude, the mentality,
the communication, the vocal leadership, the more than just the
physical part, but just feeling and hearing him is the
things that I'd say that that are that are He's
really done a great job starting out to the you know,
twenty twenty five season.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
With with Ronnie, what are the next steps for him?
Big way?

Speaker 20 (41:44):
I think the next step is for me, you know,
the next step for him is he knows what to do.
He's a problem solver. He can put fires out and
he won't start them. Now, what I want to see
him do is is go out there and be the
playmaker that we all know he can be. Take advantage
of the things that he does well in terms of
his instincts, his ability to stay ahead, his ability to communicate. Now,

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go out there and go be that guy for us,
you know, go out there and and calm everything, but
then make the crowd go crazy, you know, with what
in the in the situations that he's able to uh
and take advantage.

Speaker 10 (42:18):
Of his of his ability to make place.

Speaker 15 (42:23):
I know it's not your position. Yeah, Carson, everyone's talking
about his coverage. Yeah, Like my question is move to
linebacker safety enticon.

Speaker 10 (42:32):
Yeah, can you tell them that's for safety out there?

Speaker 20 (42:36):
And what do you think about his his ability to
drop well, obviously you see the big smile on my face.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
One.

Speaker 20 (42:42):
The young man's got a great feel for the game, Uh,
pass and run. I mean it's fun to watch him
see it and like get to drop pass drops. Coach
Tarv's done a great job with him in the early
stages of growing his game and gonna get better. But
you can feel when he's in the game from a
safety structure, like you can feel when he's in he
does such a good job on his on his drops

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and understanding and seeing it, so you can.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
See I can see how he played safety. He's got
a great feel for it.

Speaker 20 (43:09):
He's an awesome young player who's busting his butt proving
his toughness every day.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Up next, rookie running back Dylan Sampson highlights some of
the differences between college football and his first NFL training camp.

Speaker 12 (43:22):
So the weekend, what what is the biggest difference between
NFL training camp?

Speaker 3 (43:25):
What pitt for?

Speaker 21 (43:27):
Uh, I'll probably just say the time, commitment and you know,
the intentionality. You know, everybody shows up, comes to work,
you know, ready to put the work in, and you
know every day you can't get a day back, you know,
and everything has you know, great importance, and time is
starting to move fast, so every day matters.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
What's shunned out?

Speaker 18 (43:44):
How much more do you feel like he's on your shoulders,
on your plate to kind of fill the gap and
you know, take on a maybe a bigger role.

Speaker 21 (43:53):
Oh man, I just come in and prepared the same
way I've always came in. You know, I don't really
feel pressure. I just have standards of how I wanna operate,
and you know the standards obviously my coach is set
for me, and that that's the standard I I try
to hold myself to every morning I wake.

Speaker 12 (44:09):
Up, if you're.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
Or the course back in place right, or that three
out better or whatever for the first or many ever
games of the seasons, how poison do you feel? How
ready do you ray over that kind of or something?

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Coach?

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Uh?

Speaker 21 (44:24):
Once again, I'm just a a day by day kind
of person. You know, I got a later foundation down
right now. You know in training camp and you know,
obviously battle it out with everybody we have in the room.
You know, we all push each other. But you know,
being with Coach Duce, amazing coach.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Uh. We got a lot of other great coaches on
this staff.

Speaker 10 (44:41):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (44:41):
You know, if I do things the right way, if
we all do things the right way, you know, we
shall all be ready to be mentally in that spot
to you know, do whatever it takes to go win
football games.

Speaker 12 (44:49):
How much you deduce this personal experience, how.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
Much does he can get that with you bet yeah,
I mean you can feel it every day, you know.

Speaker 21 (44:55):
And it's a different type of connection when you know
he's played the game at the highest level for you know,
many years, so you know he he coaches from you know,
what he knows what works, you know, and and with
a lot of passions. So uh, I love that, you know,
he hard on us, cause ye he want us to
be the best.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
And that's shit, you know. I I I take that
with a grain of salt. Every day.

Speaker 11 (45:18):
The part of training and what do you feel good
about on take.

Speaker 21 (45:23):
Things you get on the field, your friend up there, Uh,
you know, just finally getting back to you know, OTA's
We really weren't allowed to run the ball too much,
you know, just cause the contact and stuff. But you know,
finally get back in the swing of things of you know,
getting behind you know, pullers, getting behind the old lineman,
really getting back into the field of you know, actually
running the ball. I think I'm getting a good feel

(45:44):
for that and just the understanding of the playbook, you know.
I I think I'm putting confidence in the coaches that
I could dissect all the information, whether I'm out wide,
whether I'm in a back field, and I take a
lot of pride in that, just saying about the.

Speaker 16 (45:56):
Alcoholics and bag drill your own bag up and the
will and drill you guys, what's.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
The hardest thing.

Speaker 21 (46:05):
And so he like he's big on just you know,
he he he does nothing extra, Like he says, what
we do is what we do and it's not gonna change,
you know.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
So it's a repetition thing.

Speaker 21 (46:16):
I just think the combination of everything just back to
back in India every single day.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Is what gets you.

Speaker 21 (46:21):
You know, you go from the band to the sand
bags and everything we do is waited, you know, to
put power in that you know, have explosion and stuff.
But like what I what what he does? You know,
he he does what he knows works.

Speaker 9 (46:33):
You looking forward to having your back kids, guys and
how these guys or like maybe starting kid you don't
look some center.

Speaker 21 (46:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously I can't speak too much
on the you know situation, and uh, you know, pray
for everybody involved in it. But yeah, I mean we
would definitely developing that that relationship. Uh but you know,
I'll speak no further about that. You know, I know
as much as y'all don hard on you.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Guys, he was saying that he wouldn't wanna play for
himself as a player. What's your how do you feel
about being coach?

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Sort? Yeah?

Speaker 21 (47:07):
I mean, like I said, you gotta take it with
the grain of salt. You know, he's not attacking you personally,
you know, and I don't ever feel like he's attacking personally.
He's just attacking the player on the field, you know,
to be the best, uh, every single day. So dam
I mean, like I said, he's act had experience with it,
had experience with a lot.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
Of the great backs. So it's like, you know, why
am I gonna be the one to argue with that?
You know? I I wanna be the best I could be.

Speaker 14 (47:32):
You we asked you about that that he is there
a party that almost likes being hit like that, but
relations that kind of physicality, getting.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
To do that, Uh, I really don't like being here.

Speaker 21 (47:41):
And to be honest, like I you know, if I can,
like I like to stay up on the ground, I mean,
stay up with my feet running. But uh it definitely
like to welcome back to football, you know type. So Uh,
I'm over here telling the truth. I'm'a find him.

Speaker 13 (48:00):
Still.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
How have uh s trail been.

Speaker 15 (48:01):
Here and just kind of provided any try leadership for
you and kind of like you've got you afflemated.

Speaker 12 (48:06):
The know how have they helped you process?

Speaker 6 (48:08):
So yeah, just you know with the actions through the actions, you.

Speaker 21 (48:10):
Know, in the meeting room, we it's uh, I love
our meeting room cause it's just a open discussion.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
You know.

Speaker 21 (48:15):
Coach engages everybody, you know, making sure we're retaining the information.
But you know, Jerome and p have been great. They
had the you knowfesio of years in the league, so
it's it's you know, things to learn from from both
of them, and they've been sharing it, you know at
how they know how coach of.

Speaker 11 (48:30):
Trade yesterday said that his group was looking forward to
the pads on so they could help in the run game.

Speaker 12 (48:35):
What's it been like you working with the white receiver girls?

Speaker 11 (48:37):
How they how they have been a part of your
geys's development in.

Speaker 21 (48:40):
Your room, Bill, Nah, they definitely been putting a great
emphasis on that, and that's a big emphasis just this
team in general, you know everything it's it's a team sport.
So you know, just like the quarterback can't get the
ball off unless we protect you know, big runs happen
when receivers a block down the field, and you know,
it's a big emphasis on that, and I'm seeing everybody's
giving a hundred percent effort in that doing.

Speaker 18 (49:00):
Uh, Deuce was talking about physicality and he's like he
expects that in everybody. You know, it's almost like a
mindset instead of a you know the size.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah, yeah, what can you kind of expound with that?
How you feel like that?

Speaker 18 (49:12):
You you cause you see you mention you did you
didn't like quite getting hit, But uh, how does that
kind of change for you? And you kind of gone
through the last last this process the last couple of months.

Speaker 21 (49:22):
It's not that I don't like getting hit. I just
don't like getting tackled, that's the thing. And I think
that's the mindset that he goes to. You know, whatever
you can to do up to stay on the ground
or to stay off the ground, that's my mindset.

Speaker 6 (49:33):
You know, That's kind of how I've been in college.

Speaker 21 (49:35):
If you go back and watch, I just I don't
like getting tabled, like for real, you know, whatever I
could do to stay up, i'm'a try to do that.
So I don't think it's something I have to adjust
to because that's kind of how I've been playing football
my whole life.

Speaker 6 (49:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you ever hit many reps
in a while else you uh with uh your pads
on levels. But you know, what do you think that's
gonna be like?

Speaker 15 (49:57):
And what if you uh experience that you just.

Speaker 21 (50:03):
Uh, I mean you could see you know, definitely the
just the the technician you know and everything he does.
You know, Tenure Vet has you know a lot of experience.
So yeah, man, glad he's on our team and stuff
like that. But it it's definitely gonna you know, help
me get better. You know, I love going against great
d linemen. You know, it makes me have to you know,

(50:24):
make different cuts, you know, be a little more physical
in the back field. And yeah, I'm just excited to
you know, play with a lot of great players on
this team.

Speaker 12 (50:30):
Dude, you didn't passes last year.

Speaker 14 (50:32):
If you did, probably over the course year college year
catch more with a lot of facts to where do
you think you are with that stage of your game?

Speaker 21 (50:38):
Uh, I think I'm developing real well, you know as
far as learning to playbook being able to do that
with me, you know, whenever they feel whenever they see
the need to do that with me. But yeah, man,
just catching drugs every day, just going out there being
you know, intentional of all my work in that aspect.
You know, that's something that if I could get out
in the open field and you know, b one on

(50:58):
one that you know, everybody wants the opportunity. So that's
what I stry to work for, just for saying that before.

Speaker 15 (51:04):
You guys ever even had the field.

Speaker 11 (51:05):
When you first get here, everyone sits around and shares.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Or why what what is your why?

Speaker 22 (51:09):
What the faces you out there?

Speaker 6 (51:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (51:12):
My biggest one, my biggest why is my faith. I
believe we'll all put on this earth. You know, regardless
of what you believe in, I believe we'll all put
on this earth for a reason.

Speaker 6 (51:21):
You know.

Speaker 21 (51:22):
It's not just you know, by luck that I'm a
part of Cleveland Browns right now, and I don't know
where I'll be in five ten years, you know, I
don't know if I still be in the league. But
all I know is that I got this opportunity right
now and i'm'a give my all to it because it's
a bigger purpose that I'm here for right now.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
You know. Secondly is my family.

Speaker 21 (51:41):
They put everything into me, you know, Uh, my brothers,
my mom, my dad, uh, Grandma and grandpa.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
You know, I have a lot of support. My grandfather
isn't here no more.

Speaker 21 (51:51):
He he a big reason why I do this, Just
living on for the f you know, people who can't
be here right now, and legacy obviously. You know, some
people feel like when you leave this earth, that doesn't matter.
But what you do impacts, you know, people on this
earth even after you gone. Like, if you live a
bad life, it's gonna impact the people that you know
you're around, especially if you have kids, and you know,

(52:12):
if you live a good life, you know, and you
affect positive people, that's you know, gonna hold it, hold
his own weight. So I'm just a firm believer in
all that, and that's why I do what I do
every day.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Cornerback mj Emerson is next and talks about his off season.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
How are you racing my new office year?

Speaker 6 (52:27):
They trying to bounce back this year. You're in the contract.
You just did a lot of soul searching. Honestly this
off season.

Speaker 22 (52:36):
Uh, it was the toughest year I've had, you know,
team wise and also personal performance. So I just got
into the lab man and and work my tail off
and so I can put myself in the best situation
for my team but also my family.

Speaker 10 (52:50):
Why did you say.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Last season did not go as quality thought it.

Speaker 22 (52:57):
I'll probably say mental routine and injuries, also just staying healthy.

Speaker 12 (53:05):
Coach, are interested work putting in a.

Speaker 11 (53:07):
Like ton of work just throughout the whole off season.
What does that work wok like for you? As you
loved to be bounced back too much?

Speaker 4 (53:14):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (53:15):
I could say a lot of things, but I really,
you know, just just let my let my play I
play style this year, Just go have fun and just
cut the tape on.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
You know, they'll see when you say mental in nineteen and.

Speaker 13 (53:26):
Something change can do something different.

Speaker 6 (53:28):
When you say what what?

Speaker 22 (53:29):
What do you mean when you say now, I would
say I always face adversity in my whole career, but
it was like, uh, it was a lot of adversity.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Man.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
Every year.

Speaker 22 (53:38):
I mean not every year, but every week it was
something new. You know, my body it just wasn't holding
up as as much as the previous years. And I
think that probably would go back to the training I
did that off season.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
You know, and that's what I probably say.

Speaker 22 (53:54):
So, what did you want Did you change hit the
waits man way harder, worked on my endurance, you know,
worked on longevity, just everything, just my helps, mobility, my shoulders,
just just everything I could think of that I feel
like I sh I should improve to help my game
translate to the field to be better for the team.

Speaker 6 (54:12):
I did and fund about this.

Speaker 12 (54:14):
Is into this thing.

Speaker 14 (54:15):
I is there anything that you were able to take
away your clean from you know, this early portion of
camp not only just for you, but that secondary when
there's a lot of higher expectations.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
You guys are can make the money places.

Speaker 22 (54:28):
Just be present, you know every day, just have fun
and you know, uh be the best that we can
be for each other, you know, and we hop we
hold each other to a hot standard in our room
and just keep working one day at a time.

Speaker 23 (54:41):
So when you talked about last year were when you
were BacT and watch your film, did you notice the
technique and fundamental issues trouble? And I did you relate
that to getting out of the routine like you talked
about can you ask me that when we give up
a couple of big plays?

Speaker 13 (54:59):
Yeah this year, Like did you think it was technique
that hit slipped for you or were there other things
that you blamed it on.

Speaker 22 (55:06):
I will say, yeah, technique for sure, cause Uh, when
I play my technique, I feel like I'm the I'm
I'm the best corner.

Speaker 6 (55:12):
In the game, one of 'em for sure easily.

Speaker 22 (55:14):
So I feel like a receiver never really beats us,
like anybody in our room where the receiver never really
beats us. So did we get be on the players?
Like we already know what we did wrong. It's just
like just trusting the technique and just doing it every
single time. I would say did you add waves muscle?
Or uh, yes, sir, I did add six pounds of muscle,
and uh, I'm typically around the same way that I was,
but it just like more explosive.

Speaker 12 (55:37):
And is any what about the number of change this here?
No one only became available one blin things like why
why the change?

Speaker 6 (55:42):
Brother?

Speaker 22 (55:43):
Uh, it's just so much history in this number. I
wore his number like the whole time I was in
Little League up to high school. I worred in h
I award in high school, also in college. So when
I put his number on, it just means a little more,
you know, to me. And then yeah, that's pretty much
why And uh.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Last year against the White Kings. Yeah, pretty good couple
days against jumping trustin Tripien sit. That was before the
problems you're talking about, right, Just so, did you go
into the season thinking there, this is gonna be a
pretty big year for me?

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (56:11):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 22 (56:12):
Every year I go into a season feeling that way,
you know, cause I did work really hard, but the
endurance it wasn't really there. I feel like I was
trending up work like super early and t t as
the year went along with My body was just like
you know, kind of on a d on a downward spiral.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
So that never happened in college. Uh not really.

Speaker 22 (56:30):
I had a just located shoulder. Uh my sophomore year.
That was one of my best years. So you know,
I feel like it's a little bit of mental too,
But my body was most definitely, you know, not where
it needed to be.

Speaker 8 (56:40):
I tell you should have taken time of off m
you know, with where those injuries that you're at.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
You kind of say, I should, looking back.

Speaker 12 (56:49):
Should have taken a wake up jobs to yell.

Speaker 22 (56:51):
Last year, I could easily say that, But just me,
I feel like, man, if I can get up and
I can walk straight up, I can run around a
little bit. I just wanna be out there with the team, man,
no matter how I look, I'm a tough player. I
always wanna put a team first, you know, but most
definitely I feel like that probably would have helped.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
But it don't matter now. You know, we focusing on
this year and the dr punch on be prustrated.

Speaker 15 (57:11):
So when the season was over and and you get
that break, like, how did you pull yourself down of that?

Speaker 7 (57:16):
I guess.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
Just had to, you know, do some soul searching.

Speaker 7 (57:21):
Man.

Speaker 22 (57:21):
You know, you pray, stay close to guy and just
work my tail off. Honestly, that's the only thing you
know that could you know, kind of get me out
of that slump. You know, what's the work put into
work and just just come back and be ready.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
You know.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
So you talk a lot about the work he did
in the y'all season.

Speaker 15 (57:36):
How do you feel like that's already paid off for you?

Speaker 12 (57:38):
You know, in the first three days of training again.

Speaker 22 (57:41):
Uh, man, just just m being out there with the guys.
You know, guys really can't get away from me. You
can't run away from me. Explosiveness in uh in my hips,
you know, with my loud on quickness, everything. I feel
like it's improved, you know. So I j I would
say I was maxing out my badges this this summer,
you know, working on all my attributes.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
Coach Linz said, Uh, you're more than the training swing
this year, waiting more good Nutrician?

Speaker 6 (58:06):
What was it satisfactor out here? Why weren't you ent?

Speaker 20 (58:08):
For you?

Speaker 6 (58:09):
Is take for granted than you were ready? Is your
birth down out?

Speaker 21 (58:12):
You know?

Speaker 6 (58:13):
Sometimes you.

Speaker 22 (58:16):
Get used to a certain routine, you know, and then
it worked for you, you know, but uh, every year different.
So this year I just wanted to become a pro
in every aspect you know, uh, of my game, you know,
off the field, you know, while I'm in the building
and also like when I'm when I'm not here.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
And Kay, when you had.

Speaker 12 (58:31):
Talked about working on your technique and a seas just
what was that process? You know, what did you do
at you know how did that come about?

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (58:41):
Just hit the waits man, you know, work, just work,
Uh a lot of s a lot of speed training,
a lot of resistance work, and just you know, just
doing everything I can to improve my game.

Speaker 13 (58:49):
Honestly, Greg said he never felt a hundred percent last
year coming off that hamstring and missing training camp.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
How good is he looking to you out here? That's
oh man, Greg, he he look uh great. You know,
I can't wait to see him play.

Speaker 22 (59:02):
He's competing very well at a high level, and he's
he's right where he need to be at this time
of the year.

Speaker 13 (59:07):
And I know you guys, I don't do Would you
consider your guys fighting for raps all out there at
that second?

Speaker 12 (59:12):
I'll take part time.

Speaker 6 (59:13):
Uh, it depends on how you look at it.

Speaker 22 (59:15):
Our perspective is more of just competing to make each
other better, for the for the team good.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
You know. It's never a competition between me and him.
You know, we just wanna.

Speaker 22 (59:26):
Make each other better, you know, so at the end
of the day, and make our group better and make
our team better, you know, and well we we we
never wanna feel how we felt last year, So we
just push each other.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
How much shod then you don have to How much
did danzel have to do with in more professionals this.

Speaker 12 (59:42):
Year than you talk to him about him?

Speaker 22 (59:46):
I always talk to danzel Man. You know, he's my vet,
you know, he uh he get me fruit every here,
here and there. Whenever I aks him anything. I aks
him Hill tell me, you know so, But honestly, I
just had to do it myself.

Speaker 7 (59:56):
You know.

Speaker 22 (59:56):
This year was it was just all me mental, you know,
me and God and my family. You know, so I
just had to go back to you know, you know,
just go back to the drawing board. And I went
back to Pensacola. This off season. It was around the family. Uh,
was around you know, the kids, the youth, just training
the back of my high school. Just having that that
vibe and being in that environment, you know it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
Uh, it was good.

Speaker 15 (01:00:19):
When you talk to that more last week. He it's
obviously so hard for DBS to win that a word,
but do you think he has that that next level
to his game even?

Speaker 6 (01:00:31):
Yeah? Easily? Uh, to one, man, he is the best
coin in the game easily.

Speaker 22 (01:00:34):
You know, just the plays he make and how he
come out his breaks, you know, just a lot of
things and you can't really teach what he got honestly,
but too one he easily could could be the defensive
player of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
Just last year.

Speaker 22 (01:00:46):
I'm pretty sure he probably had twenty plus pbu's. Uh
probably like seven of 'em could have been picked, truthfully,
So he do that. Man, it's easy he easy could
have could win that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Finally, head coach Kevin Stefanski gives insight into the hard
work players have been putting in behind the scenes.

Speaker 10 (01:01:02):
Okay, first, like.

Speaker 24 (01:01:03):
All of you, I'm thinking about the people in New
York City, you know, victims of totally senseless, tragic violence.
So it's it's awful news. So we're thinking about the
people that lost their lives. We're thinking about the people,
uh that that are mourning them and grieving them, and
and that's a that's a tough situation, but uh, that's

(01:01:24):
where certainly our minds are this morning.

Speaker 10 (01:01:27):
We'll be out here.

Speaker 24 (01:01:28):
Today for practice, not in pads today, so we'll be
back in pads tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (01:01:33):
Can't go three in a row.

Speaker 24 (01:01:36):
We'll be doing a lot of situational work today, a
lot of two minutes today as we continue down our
installation schedule.

Speaker 10 (01:01:43):
But with that, I'll take any questions, Kevin.

Speaker 18 (01:01:45):
With the quarterbacks, you expect a rotation being very much
similar along.

Speaker 10 (01:01:48):
The lines of what what what it was yesterday?

Speaker 24 (01:01:51):
Yeah, i'd say similar again, continuing to mix a match.

Speaker 6 (01:01:54):
When you say that's a really correct.

Speaker 24 (01:01:58):
It looks like story wasn't doing the teams it's just
you'll see throughout the camp we're limiting some of our
veteran players for various reasons. A couple of guys will
be limited today, but uh, we'll just Uh they're still
getting good work done, that's right.

Speaker 10 (01:02:17):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (01:02:18):
Some of the guys like Queen John and it's one
of us to handle the redistricts of reps, and.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
Some guys out and some guys like the one more time.

Speaker 11 (01:02:27):
How the guys as a whole, how they kind of
respond to.

Speaker 10 (01:02:30):
The getting more and more plays.

Speaker 24 (01:02:33):
Yeah, Honestly, our guys come out here and I think
their focus is on what's in front of them and
what their job is on every single play. There's a
lot of these training camp practices. As we get in
the dog days of this thing, Uh, they'll start to
run together. For the guys, there's so many walk through
so we're throwing a lot at them even this morning.
You know, it's a there's a lot of newness for
these young players. Some of the older guys have been

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around some of the concepts we're talking about. But Uh,
there's there's a lot of work that's done in the
meeting room, mental work that's done that uh, it can
be a lot for these guys, but they're doing nice.

Speaker 12 (01:03:05):
John.

Speaker 13 (01:03:06):
You see, I know you guys talk about gambler, the
league talks about forty gamble.

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
Do you see something like what the Guardians have. Is
that the cause to epsides of a game?

Speaker 11 (01:03:15):
It is?

Speaker 24 (01:03:15):
I mean it's honestly, Scott, you you you kind of
wanna hit these things every single day, and and we
we really we do hit versions of it every single day.
But gambling is definitely one that we've uh gone above
and beyond to communicate to our guys, as you know,
because uh, it's it's it's something that's real.

Speaker 10 (01:03:32):
It's something that's affecting not just our sport. I mean
it's expecting I affecting.

Speaker 24 (01:03:36):
All sort all sports including college and and pros the coaches, players, officials.
So this is something that we're gonna try to stay
on top of you and.

Speaker 10 (01:03:45):
You listen to worries that I'm pretty sure as well
as it it's on there.

Speaker 13 (01:03:49):
It is Kevin there.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
From the sport because option into as.

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
Uh we really didn't Tony.

Speaker 24 (01:04:05):
Uh, We're in our installation schedule, so yesterday was some
more of our gap scheme runs that typically are are
inside uh runs, but we had a decent amount of
outside runs as well.

Speaker 10 (01:04:15):
We didn't get out there very often cause the D
line was living in the backfield.

Speaker 23 (01:04:18):
Uh.

Speaker 24 (01:04:18):
But uh, yeah, that we're continuing on the installation, uh
with both offense and defense. Really, i'd say over the
next couple of days, and then we'll be through our
installs and uh then the coaches will kind of move around.
But I think you'll see more and more situational football
start popping up here, uh today tomorrow, and as we
go with the you.

Speaker 16 (01:04:38):
Mentioned Dene when there's those plays where it's obviously.

Speaker 12 (01:04:44):
There's a sack on it.

Speaker 24 (01:04:46):
Yeah, I think I pointed out this morning. I thought
our D line has done a really nice job. They're
gonna at times beat an offensive player. They're gonna have
a free path to the quarterback, and then they're gonna
take a right turn and get out of the way,
or a left turn and get out of the way.
Because we obviously have to stay away from those quarterbacks.
But what we asked them to do is put on
tape what what they're doing, we see them win, and

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then get out of the way. So the quarterback, it
may be fool's gold that that there's a play to
be had, but we want the quarterback to continue to
play and then that lets the receivers, the tight ends,
the QB get a rep even though in all likelihood
the player would have would have been sacked.

Speaker 18 (01:05:22):
For instance, Kevin with with Joe not getting more for
any quarterback, but especially you guys better than like that.

Speaker 10 (01:05:29):
How much is that?

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
You know?

Speaker 18 (01:05:30):
Can you maybe get in a little more rhythm and
and maybe do you see maybe the play improved because
of the more extended.

Speaker 24 (01:05:39):
Potentially, Yeah, I think quarterbacks, all of them would love
every rep they could get.

Speaker 10 (01:05:43):
I think that's obvious.

Speaker 24 (01:05:44):
But you know, playing this position and as a backup quarterback,
backup quarterbacks are used to going in a game with
no reps. So uh, that's part of the role of
qbs in general is just to be ready with you know,
at a moment's notice. So but I do think Joe
with with of course more reps, just like dealing with
more reps your door. With more reps that you get
more comfortable as you get more turns at it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:06):
Kevin, Well, you want to use that, you know, that
is a brill for quarterbacks of what.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
You got it?

Speaker 10 (01:06:14):
Hey, you gotta be able to hit the curveball right, kind.

Speaker 15 (01:06:17):
Of weird for tarting today, and he talked about being
frustrated last year and I'm never feeling like he was
necessarily one hundred percent. Just how have you seen him
work through that? And it seems like he's come.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Down with a different.

Speaker 24 (01:06:31):
He's Uh, he's got the right mentality. Uh, he'll have
a bounce back here because he's worked his butt off.
I'm really I'm confident in the young man, Kevin.

Speaker 15 (01:06:39):
We've we talked to DM Jimmy today and they talked
about the importance of seeing his rookie quarterbacks in game situations.

Speaker 10 (01:06:45):
Is that something you guys have discussed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Do you have a plan for that?

Speaker 10 (01:06:48):
Or is that just too far down the road?

Speaker 24 (01:06:49):
He even took about, Yeah, I mean we haven't gotten
too far down the road in uh where we are
right now. Obviously we're discussing preseason games and you know,
the practices versus Carolina and in those type of things.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
Jimmy as a point of mentioning your age, the implication
being a young coach still still developing.

Speaker 10 (01:07:07):
How young do you feel?

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
Yeah? Not very Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:07:11):
I sent my daughter a picture of me the other
day and I said, I think I'm I'm aging at
a exponential clip that she said I wasn't. I have
tried to convince her that this is blonde and not great,
but that hasn't worked either. But no, I mean, yeah,
how do I feel?

Speaker 10 (01:07:26):
I feel great.

Speaker 24 (01:07:27):
I'll feel excited and privileged to coaches football team, and
I'm excited about this practice.

Speaker 10 (01:07:32):
There are you as a coach than you will when
you first took this June. I hope I've learned from
every year certainly.

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
So.

Speaker 24 (01:07:42):
You know, the thing about our sport, which I love,
I know our fans love, is you can't predict this.
It's not scripted, I think, and uh, it's the greatest
reality show there is. So we as coaches and players,
we have to be prepared to navigate anything and everything
that comes our way.

Speaker 10 (01:07:59):
And that's what that's the fun part of our business.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Martin Emerson earlier today, he said that he played injured
last year and perhaps you should have taken.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
A game of so long.

Speaker 13 (01:08:12):
I players, I know you don't do.

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
Guys get hurt.

Speaker 24 (01:08:17):
It's definitely a balance. You know, you always are trying
to protect a player from himself. We'll never put a
guy out there if he's not able to protect himself,
and then that's that fine line where guys play injured,
whether it's injured, hurt, whatever word you want to use, Like,
that's what how guys have played this game for a
long time. We'll never do that where there's a uh
you know something that that would need to protect themselves

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from them. But I'm not surprised a guy like MJ
is gonna play through injuries because the truth is, no
one's feeling one hundred percent once you get through a
couple of practices in training camp.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
During the seat.

Speaker 10 (01:08:55):
Next, he said, absolutely, Kevin, that too, so won Er.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I mean, you've had nine quarterbacks start in the last
two years.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Do you think the natural had the patrician of the season.

Speaker 10 (01:09:07):
You will take care of that.

Speaker 24 (01:09:08):
Yeah, I would tell you I'm really not there right
this minute. It is still July, as as it feels
like July. Uh So we'll just keep the focus on
on that turn any injury.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
Updates and seven up teams kind of Joe.

Speaker 24 (01:09:23):
N I mean nothing other than to say, everybody's doing
a nice job, so we're getting close.

Speaker 10 (01:09:27):
Yeah, still out there today.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
He'll do a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Yeah, the petite that's high to recognize them.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Yeah, so's he's.

Speaker 15 (01:09:39):
What is it guys maybe like Dylan Sampson's of these
younger guys.

Speaker 24 (01:09:45):
Yeah, I mean de springs it every single day, uh,
in the in the rooms, in the meeting rooms, out
here on the field.

Speaker 10 (01:09:51):
He's so competitive.

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Uhh.

Speaker 24 (01:09:53):
He's been a great uh uh resource for me as
a f He's a former player, he's been through all this,
He's played this game at a high level. He's obviously
had different stops at coaching, so I rely on him heavily.
But uh, he's a guy that is never afraid to
share with anybody what's on his mind.

Speaker 10 (01:10:10):
And I think the players appreciate that about him.

Speaker 6 (01:10:12):
He told that it does.

Speaker 24 (01:10:18):
I mean it does in the sense that you know,
he has such a big impact on this building and
not just the running back room. I think he's a
guy that a lot of these guys, when you've played
this game at a high level like Deuce has, and
they have the experience going through a lot of the
things that these guys are going through, I think they
naturally lean on a guy like that.

Speaker 12 (01:10:37):
On Sampson, a lot of the DS hit those Yeah,
what it.

Speaker 24 (01:10:42):
Looks like down through.

Speaker 10 (01:10:43):
Yeah, it was good, clean hit. I mean, that's what
we're doing right now.

Speaker 24 (01:10:48):
We're not doing it today because we're not in pads,
but if we're not live, we're in thud, which means
we're thudding up the runner. And that was a good
rep for Dylan Samson to learn from to keep his
center of gravity as low to the ground as you can.

Speaker 10 (01:11:00):
About player development, how do you how do coaches get developed?

Speaker 24 (01:11:03):
Yeah, it's a long answer, but you know, I try
to be very intentional about coaches development among our staff.
There's things that we do in the off season, There's
things that I do throughout the year to make sure
that I'm doing my part in developing our our coaches.
So in some ways I have a curriculum and and
how we're trying to do that. But the best, the

(01:11:24):
greatest way to get developed, at least as I've been around,
is being exposed of different coaches. And we have some really,
really really good coaches that like to share with each
other and and sit in meeting rooms and and put
the tape on and and and go back and forth
from offensive defensive perspectives. And I think there's there's great
value in a staff that pushes each other both in

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how you see the game and also just maybe some
of your your shared histories.

Speaker 16 (01:11:51):
All those players that are sacks since you know stats.

Speaker 7 (01:11:55):
And all the.

Speaker 10 (01:11:57):
Sure count them? Who cares?

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
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