Welcome to this week six Thursday edition of the From the Podium podcast. I'm Gabe Kalura.

The Brown's continued preparations today for their first matchup with the Steelers of the season this coming Sunday.

On this episode, you'll hear from offensive coordinator Tommy Reese, defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, special teams coordinator Bubba Ventron, offensive guard Joel Betonio, and

linebacker Carson Swessinger. We'll start with offensive coordinator Tommy Reese, who discussed

what he saw from Dylan Gabriel in his first career NFL start.

How would you assess Dylan's performance? Yeah, I thought he did a lot of positive things. Obviously,

unique week to prepare for.

Flores and those guys do a great job defensively of giving different looks. So there was a lot that went into it on the front end. I thought he did a nice job, getting himself ready and prepared.

There's always things to clean up. You know, you can be a rookie, you can be a 15-year

vet. There's always going to be, you know, plays and things to clean up. When you look at it, probably in its totality, took care of the football, you know, did a nice job for us coming out a half, did a nice job on the second drive of the game. You know, that third or nine play in the red zone was really a good job getting through his progression and then you know

there's some things later that we want to clean up and continue to work on, but, you know, positive feeling after his first one. What happened on that third down play on the second last drive there? Was that, it was kind of hard to tell what that was? Which, which one? The incompletion to Isaiah. To Isaiah Bond. Yep, okay, on the right side. Yeah, just not on the same page of the timing of it. And those are, you know, throws that we expect to time up and to connect on. But, you know, slid a little bit to our right. There was a little pressure ball. probably came out a little bit earlier than we wanted and, you know, just, just misfired and mis-kewed with him and I-B on that one. But I felt like we had a chance there to convert and keep it going there to close it out, but continue to improve on that. Tommy, how do you get more out of the receding core than you guys have gotten so fun. Yeah, I think it's all of our jobs, right?

It's a total group effort there.

We've got to put them in good positions to have success. You know, we got to be on time. We got to be accurate when we have opportunities. We got to make contested plays as part of the NFL. But, you know, as a staff, we just, we want to make sure that we're putting them in the right spot and giving them the best opportunities to have success based on what they do best.

And whether it's use of motion. want to make sure that we're putting them in the right spot and giving them the best opportunities to have success based on what they do best and

whether it's use of motion or use of variations and formations you know we got to be on it to make sure that we allow those guys to go out there and play their full potential

on those lines when you look at the lack of explosive plays in the past game that you guys been able unable to generate do you think's more a byproduct of the way teams are, our defenses are aligning or playing you guys? Do you think it's more self-inflicted stuff that needs to be cleaned up? Yeah, there's a lot of probably factors to that. We always try to look as internal as possible, right? Like what can we do? What are we doing that we need to improve on? How do we make those plays? How do we get them in the right spots? How do we make sure when we have them that we're connecting them? So we're not going to look very outward on that. I mean, there's certainly schematic things that you might call a play and they're in soft shell and it's not the right look for it. That happens. But when we have the look and we're not able to capitalize on that, we're going to

look inward and figure out how we improve those things. Was it by design in London to try to keep

Gabriel in the pocket as much as possible? Or do the Vikings want to keep them in the pocket?

Are you talking about them defensively? Yeah. I mean, I think that's how they rush. You know,

they do a nice job of trying

to condense things inside, you know, keep wide edges to them. You know, he stepped up on the one

scramble backed up on an early third down. Probably a couple opportunities there, you know,

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