And we welcome you into the dog bowl here in Berea, Ohio.

I'm Jason Gibbs alongside Brown senior staff writer Andrew Gribble,

episode 7 of the best podcast available,

making our march now slow and deliberate, I feel like, Gribbs,

as we get ready for the 2020 NFL draft coming up at the end of April in Las Vegas.

Yeah, this is definitely the calm before the storm

kind of week we have not had much in terms of free agency activity trade activity

that it's kind of a lull between the combine and pro days which are starting to ramp up and yeah I mean

it just kind of this is the hurry up and wait period but next week is where it

really gets going. Finally yeah because I feel like we are literally spinning our wheels.

We're all sitting and waiting and it's not just even at a team standpoint,

it's at a national standpoint.

You talk to national people and everybody is just waiting and now

with deadlines being pushed back regarding the CBA this is all going to come at one time.

And this is going to be about a 72 to 96 hour sprint

to the start of the new year on next Wednesday at 4 o'clock and obviously we'll keep you posted on

everything that goes on on Cleveland Browns.com and all of our platforms

including Cleveland Browns daily but all these deadlines getting pushed back.

It affects free agency, transition tags,

franchise tags, everything affects every team and it ultimately trickles down to the draft level as well.

Yeah and I think the biggest thing that's been affected is probably the free agents or the players who are expected to be who can be free agents

starting Wednesday I feel like this has affected the teams that want to

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