We tried to be very smart about how you put the plan together. Obviously, I had an offseason this year, so that was different. But I feel like the guys have a good understanding of what we're doing on all three sides of the ball. Now's the time to compete. This is the Coach Kevin Stefansky Show. Tonight is your chance to get a detailed peek behind the scenes from team headquarters in Berea. And you'll find out how the Browns are prepping for this week's game.

This is the University Hospital's Cleveland Browns Radio Network.

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Oh! Here are your hosts, Nathan Zagura and Gerard Cherry.

Welcome into the Kevin Stefansky Show all along the University Hospital's Cleveland Browns Radio Network, Nathan Zaguerra, along with the three-time, three-time, three-time Super Bowl champion.

Gerad Cherry looking spectacular tonight in a suit and tie as he is a multimedia superstar.

And for the Browns, the season finally underway this Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.

A new look Carolina Panthers team, certainly on the offensive side of the ball is a familiar face.

And Christian McCaffrey returns.

They get a new quarterback and a new offensive coordinator in Baker-Mayfield and Ben McAdu.

But Gerard, finally the offseason is over.

Finally, we get to play games of consequence.

And for a player, how hard is it to manage kind of that long off season

and then get ready for this first game and not just go too crazy, right?

Because it's just one of 17, but just to get up for it, but also be appropriate in how much

you stock you put into this first game.

Well, Nathan, that's definitely the right approach that you want to take in which you want to

pace yourself in a sense because the season obviously is a marathon, but I must tell you

that that first game of the season, the intensity and what that represents and how you go about

it with that level of emptiness and excitement that you have, you really don't find that again through the course of the regular season unless you're playing against one of your rivals.

And you really don't find yourself that height, that ready to go until you reach the playoffs.

So for the first game, it's easier said than done to relax and not try to take it as if, you know, I've got to pace myself.

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