Welcome to the From the Podium podcast. I'm Brock Dannehy. The Browns have completed the second

joint practice with the Minnesota Vikings from the cross-country mortgage campus. On today's

podcast, you'll hear from starting quarterback Deshawn Watson, defensive tackle Maurice Hurst II,

Pro Bowl Guard, Joel Betonio, and head coach Kevin Stefansky.

First up, QB1, Deshawn Watson, talks about how valuable these joint practices with the Vikings are.

It was good. It was good to get out there and compete against a different opponent. Very

versatile defense and what flow do in Minnesota. It was good to go out there and see different

loads and just compete. What were some of the things you liked versus some of the things you

dislike? I know that the offensive line had their problems yesterday, but what were some of the

things that you liked and dislike? Yeah, I don't consider any of those are problems. It just comes

down to communications, different looks. You know, this is a joint practice usually, you know, going

through the week. You kind of have preparation, looking at film, things like this, things like that.

But in training camp, you know, you kind of just show up and you kind of try to do the base rules

and sometimes the base rules you know the defense might have tendencies that

might override those base rules that what we what we talk about as an offense so yeah I'm

very confident in my office line each one of those those guys, they work hard, they study hard, they try hard. So all that stuff can be fixed. And that's why we go through training camps and we practice against different teams. But, yeah, overall, you know, some good things out there. Keep stacking these days, keep learning, keep growing from it. It's not going to always be perfect. but, you know, we always strive to, you know, be perfect. And that's why we, you know, we call it practicing training camp. It seems that there's an audition going on at left tackle, is jet is still out. What do you think's going on at left tackle? Yeah, whoever's in is going to play hard. They're going to compete. You know, and that's all we

ask for is just to be able to be the best you and communicate with all the other guys up front

to make sure we all on the same page. And, you know, we know our standard when we step out on the field.

It's true. You're so hard on yourself all the time and you are perfections. We've seen that the whole time that you've been here. There's been a few times along the way of this practice where you can tell that you might be getting a little bit frustrated or at least that's what it has looked like.

You might be more frustrated with the way things have gone.

But maybe it's an incorrect perception.

How do you feel about how it's all coming together

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