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an official sports betting partner of your Cleveland Browns. Please bet responsibly. What are there on everything, the linebackers are making their calls very quickly, you know, that's giving us time to get set. It was alive out there, and I feel very confident in us. I was right, and he's a guy that was out there on the field talking to you a lot. He said that you guys were just kind of talking, not even just football stuff, but just getting to know each other off the field too. Have you felt kind of that welcome presence early on to the Cleveland Browns organization? Oh yeah, 100%. Everybody I see, you know, quickly introduces themselves. You know, I'm terrible with names, so I have to ask people's names a couple times, but, you know, it's good. You know, it feels like home. Like you come in, everybody's, you know, saying hello to you, getting to know you, wants to know about this, about you, where you're from, and it feels good here. I'm sorry, you said what? The senior hearing yesterday said they feel like through DNA for this defense. I guess how do you see that, especially as you go from a three-four to four-three here? Oh, yeah, no, this is an attacking front, and that's kind of my style i'll be uh attack and i want to get to it

i want to you know have a defined situation just be able to do my thing every time without having to

think too much or without having to slow down and read keys and it is exactly that i like it a lot

you use the word upset how much does it motivate you now to kind of like prove them wrong that they traded you?

Yeah, I mean, it's a different type of feeling. You know, I mean, I've always been doubted my whole life. You know, I high school had the one offer, you know, going into college and, you know, leaving college I was less doubted, but, you know, still had the little chip on my shoulder and everything like that. It definitely put the chip on my shoulder. You know, when I was with the Rams, I was still learning how to play D.N.

Still learning how to be a football player, NFL player, and how to play at this next level. And the Browns got me. Now, I feel like they're going to get the best of me. They're not going to get a half-finished project or something you've got to work on. This is work here. This is going to be the best version of me. That's everything I've done this off season.

It's going to be great.

I feel like the fact that you were the key to this whole trade

and the Browns were not going to make this trade in part with Miles Garrett unless they could get you here. I mean, what does that say about how they feel about you? Yeah, I feel like that's a testament to not only me, but, you know, my family, you know, how hard we work and everything like that. I feel like hard work never fails you. And to know that, you know, this wasn't going to go through.

If I ain't, it wasn't a part of it, it's good to know that. Like that was probably the biggest fact that, you know, bought some sunshine into this whole situation for me. I saw that. I was like, yeah, they want me. And it was cool. It was cool to know that. What your mindset stepping in at the same position for a guy who's done what Miles has done?

Yeah, now, Miles is a great player. I watch his film every day. You know, keyed in on a couple things he does, the moves he makes, the technicalities of every small aspect of his game. I very much studied them. And to know that, you know, I'm not here to fill his shoes. That's not my job. That's not in my description and any organization I go to. That's not my job. My job is to be

the best for me. If I'm the best of me, I'm not going to be, you know, Miles Garrett. I'm not going to be Max Gawley. This guy, that guy, the best players in the league. I'm going to be the best Jared and that's going to be the best play in the league.

There's no perfect time to be traded, but to be traded where there's still some time

in the off season to go through minic perfect time to be traded, but to be traded where there's still some time

in the offseason to go through mini-camp, go through, you know, the OT program, kind of learn and absorb a little bit before you jump in the training camp. How beneficial is that going to be for you for the transition? Oh, yeah, it's going to be amazing, you know, not only just the aspect of getting to know my teammates and the camaraderie, but to understand the playbook.

I understand what my job is specifically, understand every key aspect of it, get to know, obviously getting to know my teammates. You know, when you have that camaraderie and everything like that, that elevates you from being a good team to a great team, and we're going to be a great team. Dayton, Ohio, how does it feel just being back in your home state? Will you have family be able to travel

up to Cleveland for some more of your games? Yeah, yeah, they'll definitely be able to make it. Most of my family's in Phoenix now, so my older sister is still in Dayton, though, so she's not too far away. But it's good to be bad. I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. The clear blue skies, I land on a great day. I ain't got enough much to complain about. What did your mindset turn from surprise and discipline into okay new chapter? Let's go.

Yeah, honestly it took me about a couple hours. I got home, Braden Fis, Byron Young, both came to

my house. They sat down with me, each of them individually. I got to sit down with them and talk

to them and say my goodbyes and everything like that.

And it was about when they left my, when Fitz left my house, I was like, damn, like, all right, it's time to work. Like, you know, I don't get to be teammates with, you know, essentially my best friend no more. So that was just the bad factor of the part thing. I know you're still getting to know everyone, but the fact that you're Carson-Sweissinger on this defense in you two or the last two NFL defensive repeats of the year, like how exciting is that potential pairing for you? Man, that boy can fly. He can work. I like that a lot. I like knowing that is that behind I can, I don't got much to worry about if something, you know,

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