Welcome into another edition of Building Brownstown. Very happy to be joined by the general manager of

your Cleveland Browns, Andrew Barry. A.B., good to be with you. Hey, thanks for having me, Nate.

Absolute pleasure. Let's go way back to when you broke into this business in Indianapolis,

the RCA dome, for those people who remember are going all the way back before, into Lucas Oil Stadium

there. So you kind of came in the league with a dome team.

Was that a focus?

What were the advantages?

What was it like with a dome team?

So I'll say the first advantage was just honestly how loud it got in an indoor stadium.

Like open air stadiums are great.

There's no disrespect to open air stadiums are great. There's no, you know, no disrespect to, to,

you know, open air stadiums, but there's something about being able to capture the noise of,

you know, 55, 65, 75,000 people, you know, on, on third and 10, you know, if we're on defense,

and it makes a huge impact.

You know, opponents would come into Lucas Oil and talk about how loud it got,

playoff games, Sunday night games, and it was a real advantage for us,

especially when we had two premier pass rushers, and Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis,

you know, tackles were trying to, they were trying to get off the ball quickly. I can think of the amount of negative plays, sacks, things like that, that, you know, that volume, that loudness had a direct impact on. So knowing that, let's just focus on the defense side of it, knowing that, does that change at all how you would want to build your team? Because if you have speed, and I know every team wants speed, but if you have speed off the edge, when they have to go on a silent count, if you can guess that, you have a chance to be there quicker than even outdoors. Yeah, I'd say this. You know, when we were in Indianapolis, we were predicated on speed on both sides of the ball. you know we it's it's not that we didn't want size, but when it comes

to, you know, picking through players when, you know, you're not in the top 10 and you have to pick

pick through weaknesses or flaws at that point, we would prioritize speed over size. And, you know,

with Lucas Oilers, we felt like we had a fast track. We had a, you know, a generational quarterback.

And on offense, you know, we were, you know, we were really a spread team that wanted to

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