Welcome to the From the podium podcast. I'm Brock Danahue.

The Browns kicked off week two of the preseason with practice on Monday. The Vikings visit Cleveland

later this week for joint practices and a game on Saturday at Cleveland Brown Stadium.

On today's podcast you'll hear from newly acquired center Nick Harris

cornerback M.J. Emerson passing game specialist and

tight ends coach Tommy Reese and head coach Kevin Stefanski.

First up is center Nick Harris who talks about his hectic weekend after being traded from Seattle to Cleveland

Welcome back appreciate it.

How do you feel about this?

I'm glad to have a job, I have opportunity to come back and just compete in a place I'm comfortable

in and feels good to see all my teammates again and see everybody around the building so

you know I can't complain at all.

When did you kind of get the hint that this was this was a possibility?

Two days ago, yeah two days ago I kind of I kind of was talking to some people and you know saw what might happen so

Were you working on at center exclusively? Yeah, yeah yeah. Yep. I was I was running center.

So what have your last like 12 hours been like?

Yeah, I mean I got the news,

packed up my stuff, got on a red eye eye got here this morning at six at the walk through now.

I'm talking to y'all.

Are you from specific?

So I went to I went to school there so but I spent a lot of time out there but

any feelings about having to leave home again not really not really it's what this I mean it's what this business entails. You know, it's got to be ready to move at a moment's notice. So no attachment involves you got to continue to work wherever I'm at so.

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