BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns been plagued by losing in nearly every season since their return to the National Football League ahead of the 1999 regular season, but with a new front office making more than two dozen changes to the roster since the beginning of the offseason, there is a new mindset in the building.
Although they were not a part of the losing in previous seasons, new players like wide receiver Jarvis Landry are ready to be agents of change for the Browns.
“It’s a mindset,” Landry said.
“We want to change the culture. We want to think about every guy, and obviously, we want to have every guy as well, and if somebody’s going through something, then I’m sure that Joe (Sheehan) our trainer and Coach Hue, they’ll get it figured out, but if it’s something that we can push past and practice, then we should be doing that. That’s all I’m saying.”
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It has been nearly a week since the premiere episode of the HBO Sports documentary miniseries, “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cleveland Browns,” and yet, there still is plenty of talk about the speech Landry gave in the wide receivers’ room prior to a film session.
Landry showed his veteran leadership by letting loose a 105-second rant in a position meeting after feeling his fellow receivers were not giving enough effort on the practice field.
“I think it’s just a mindset for the guy, for the player,” Landry said. “Because there may be instances where a guy doesn’t need a day off but he gets a day off, now does he take it?
“That’s where, just talking in the receiver room, again what I say, I was kinda talking to the whole team, but in a sense, it was just that ‘You know if you can go or if you can’t go, but if you can go, then go.’ That’s all I was saying.”
Over his four-year career with the Dolphins, Landry turned 400 catches into 4,038 yards and 22 touchdowns. He averaged 10.1 yards per catch and 63.1 yards per game to go along with 38 receptions of at least 20 yards, seven 40-yard plays and 220 first downs.
Landry was not afraid to set the example in the room by speaking up, but also, his words seemed impactful for the simple fact that he gave up veteran days off early in training camp because despite not being a part of the 1-31 record over the past two years, he wants to bring a winning culture to Cleveland.
“You can’t be great on the sideline,” Landry said. “I think in all aspects of when you’re tired, when you’re hurting, you’ve got to push yourself to finish. You’ve got to push yourself, I know for me personally, to get in and out of my routes, to focus on the football that much more. That’s when I find my greatness. It’s not when I’m watching or going through the motions.
“Truthfully, I do believe and I hope that it becomes the mindset of this team and in trying to change the culture that this is what the Cleveland Browns organization is about. It’s about the mindset of toughness and the attitude that we want to be great.”
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