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 2025 regular season.

I'm Brock Dannehy, and on today's episode, you'll hear from Penny Pickett,

Joe Flacco, Mason Graham, Andrew Barry, and Kevin Stefansky on day two of practice.

First up, Brown's GM, Andrew Barry, gives his thoughts on the state of the team going into the season.

Obviously, a little bit of a different background for us this year relative to last year. We don't have the mountains, but it does not diminish the excitement that we have for opening training camp this week.

I always say it's a little bit like the first day of school because all your players are back in the building, your coaching staff, your support staff.

It's really great to see everyone.

I want to commend Kevin and his staff as well as our medical and performance groups for the off-season program that they put together.

You know, I thought it was it was chock full of competition and really filled with very rigorous work.

And it's been great to see that continue through the early parts of camp and obviously we're, you know, we're really excited for day two.

Before I open for questions, I want to talk a little bit about, you know, Quinshan's situation.

I'd start by saying that, you know, anytime a, not just a player, but a member of your organization is involved in a legal situation.

And particularly one that, you know, involves allegations of domestic violence, you lose a ton of sleep over it.

And you lose a ton of sleep over it not just because of the seriousness of the allegations,

but also because of, you know, the amount of like time and energy you spend you know really vetting any person

who comes to your organization and then probably for us in the past two years

in particular the amount of you know time and resources we spent on you know

the education you know the education part of it, you know,

with our, you know, not just with our players, but with our whole organization.

When this happens with a player, you know, obviously these incidents, they become, you know,

very, very highly public. And our view is our primary responsibility, our initial responsibility,

as an organization is to gather as much information, particularly quality information, you know,

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