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

It was coordinator day today at the cross-country mortgage campus as the Browns continue to push towards week one of the regular season against the Cincinnati Bengals.

On this episode, you'll hear from offensive coordinator Tommy Reese,

defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz,

special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone,

guard Joel Betonio, linebacker Carson Swessinger,

and safety Grant Delpit.

We start with offensive coordinator Tommy Reese,

who talked about the anticipation for his first game as an NFL OC.

Over these last couple of weeks when he's really had time to spend with the office.

Yeah, you see his intensity continue to show through is great during training camp.

And then it's been fun to like game plan and prepare and get ready for opponents.

A lot of open dialogue on comfort level,

on how we're going to protect things, on seeing different things. So when you have a guy with

as much experience as he does, you know, there's a lot that you can ask of the quarterback,

and he owns that role. And he's still great with the guys, giving them confidence and

providing just a calming, you know, presence for all those young guys that are playing for us.

What he learned about Al golden in his scheme and that I guess it was one year he spent on the same staff at Notre Dame?

Yeah, I really like Al. What a great dude. Did a great job at Notre Dame.

Obviously, I was following it being my alma mater, so happy for what he did there.

But very diverse in his defensive scheme, has answers to try to take away what you do really well,

put those guys in positions to have a lot of success, you know, brought an advanced way to look at defensive football to that group

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