Welcome to this special edition of the From the Podium podcast presented by Bullseye Event Group.

I'm Gabe Kalura.

Your newest head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Todd Munkin was introduced today, and we'll have that introductory presser and more for you on this episode.

Today, you'll hear from your new head coach coach Todd Munkin, principal owner and managing partner

Jimmy Haslam and general manager Andrew Barry.

Up first, here is your new head coach, Todd Munkin, introduced by general manager Andrew

Barry.

All right, good afternoon, everyone.

Really exciting day.

I am thrilled to announce Todd Munkin as our new head coach.

And before inviting Todd up to speak, I actually wanted to give a little bit of context and background of what led us to this decision.

You know, coming out of 2025, the first thing we wanted to do is say, okay, like, where, you know, where are we from a team standpoint? Where are we from a roster standpoint? And we looked at it and we said, hey, you know, we're coming out of 2025. We have the eighth youngest defense in terms of experience, a group that's very complete at all three levels and that we feel really good about. On the offensive eye of the ball, we looked and we felt like we had a number of young, you know,

pillar, cornerstone pieces, but we envision a world where that side of the ball is going to have

pretty significant turnover over the next several months. And then from a resource standpoint,

we looked at the team and said we're flush with draft resources entering

this off season, as well as the appropriate amount of flexibility from a financial perspective.

So as we looked at everything and we thought about what we needed from our head coach, particularly

in this phase, the first thing we actually looked at is we wanted someone who could lead, develop,

and grow a young team because quite frankly we're probably going to be if not the youngest,

one of the youngest teams in football in 2026. The second thing that we wanted, you know,

certainly in the short term, was a coach, didn't matter the background, that had a very strong and adaptable

offensive plan, given the amount of turnover we're going to have on that side of the ball,

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