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Cleveland Browns Radio Network- Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta Interview

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Browns Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta recaps day two of the NFL Draft with Ken Carman and Nathan Zegura on the Cleveland Browns Draft Show presented by Bud Light.

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He actually texted me, maybe midway through the second round and just said, David Bell, 99.

0:08.1

So a lot of people here really, really like the player. I think he fits the kind of team we want

0:13.3

to be, the kind of offense we want to be. He's tough. He's physical. He's got great hands.

0:19.7

I think he'll compliment our wide receiver room really well.

0:22.3

He's kind of amazing. You go through his game logs and you click on there and you say,

0:26.0

okay, well, what did this guy do against, you know, good competition? You think about Michigan's

0:29.8

state. You think about the Ohio State Buck eyes and he put up monster numbers in those games.

0:35.7

So you maybe do some scouting of those guys and Iowa 11 for 240 when they were number two in

0:39.9

the country. Michigan State 11 to 17 when they were three in the country and 11 for 103 against

0:44.8

the buck eyes. Does that do those games count a little more in an evaluative process when you're

0:50.2

looking against teams that are producing NFL caliber players? Sure. I mean, absolutely. We do

0:55.5

our best trying to understand what the competition is, not just on a global basis. Like, oh, he plays

1:01.2

in the big 10, but on a play by play basis. You know, who is he actually lining up against,

1:06.0

you know, every week and he certainly had some of the harder competition out there.

1:10.9

So he said he was asked who the toughest cornerback that he faced was and he said,

1:15.1

our own great news. In a situation like this, when you guys are in the weeds and coach

1:20.0

the fans, he's very into this guy. Did you talk to Greg? You say, what did you think of him?

1:23.7

Because I know Greg has said that he was a great challenge as well. Well, that's good to hear.

1:28.8

I didn't talk to Greg about there may have been, you know, someone here in the building who did,

1:32.3

we've certainly asked our guys at different times about different players that either they've

1:36.9

gone against or even teammates they've had. You know, in the past, but we also try not to put

1:41.8

him in an awkward spot. Absolutely. Yeah, but yeah, I don't think Greg had much problem with many guys,

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