Welcome to another special offseason edition of the From the Podium podcast. I'm Gabe Kalura.

With the start of the new league year, players were officially in the building in Berea for the first time, and you'll hear from some of those guys today.

On this episode, you'll hear from quarterback Kenny Pickett, defensive end Joe

Try on Shoyenka, and defensive end Miles Garrett. Up first is quarterback Kenny Pickett, who discussed

his excitement for the opportunity he's receiving in Cleveland. How do you feel about coming over to

the other side of this Pittsburgh Cleveland rivalry? And what kind of an opportunity does this present for you?

Yeah, it's going to be great. The ABC North obviously is very competitive and, you know,

playing in it for my first two years in the league. I understood that quickly. The games that aren't

always pretty, but it's a violent, you know, style of football. You know, and I'm excited to get

back into it.

I just think it's a great opportunity to go compete again.

That's really all you can ask for.

And that's what I was told here, you know, coming in here, I'm having an opportunity

to compete again.

So I'm very excited for that.

Did you have any idea that this was in the works that had Halley or anybody, the Eagles told you that, you know,

they were, that this potentially could happen? Yeah, after the season, you know, in exit meetings,

you know, I felt like, you know, having those conversations, you know, knew that there was a

possibility that I was going to get traded. We felt like, you know, the two games that I got in there,

you know, I had some pretty good tape through those two games. You know, I did not know that

it could have been Cleveland. You know, that was that was a little bit of a surprise based on

the team that they were telling me early on in the process. But, you know, I'm extremely happy to

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