QB Jacoby Brissett (11.9.22)
On his bye week:
“It was good. It was good.”
On if he traveled anywhere during the bye week:
“No.”
On if he reflected on how well he has played so far this season during the bye week:
“Did some self-scout stuff and stuff with the coaches. Honestly, I have just been looking forward to getting back out there and playing again. I kind of hate bye weeks a little bit.”
On if his desire to play again knowing the team can play better in the second half of the season:
“Exactly. Obviously, we won a game last time we were out there. It is just like, ‘Man, just can’t wait to go out there and try to get another win and get back to work.’”
On the Dolphins defense this season compared to last year:
“I still see a really good defense. A lot of the guys are back and with more experience in this defense. Guys are playing at a really high level. Obviously, they are winning a lot of games, and they still got a lot of really playmaker-style game-changing players. I think they are playing really well still.”
On if the Browns expect Dolphins LB Bradley Chubb to play more this week compared to last week:
“For sure. They paid him so they better play him, right (laughter)? I would think that he will play a lot this game.”
On the significance of playing in Miami, where he is from and played last season:
“I don’t care. I just want to go win. That is what my focus is. I am not really into the other stuff.”
On confirming there is no ‘revenge game’ aspect for him with this week’s contest:
“They didn’t do anything wrong to me. I am a little too old to hold grudges if they did, but no, it is not my style.”
On Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa’s performance this season:
“Obviously, being friends with him, extremely happy the things that he has done this year. Yeah, I think he is doing a really good job for what they are asking him to do. Hopefully, he doesn’t do it on Sunday.”
On if Tagovailoa has exceeded his expectations this season:
“I don’t make expectations for people. He is just playing really good.”
On what worked well for the Browns during the Bengals:
“We played really good complementary football in all three phases. I think we came out with the understanding of the magnitude of that game. I thought we prepared well. I felt like a little different energy going out of the locker room into the stadium for the first snap, and it held true throughout four quarters. I think we played a full 60-minute game. It was our first time I think of the year ending the game taking the knee. That is huge to be able to do that in the NFL.”
On the Dolphins’ ability to score points causes the Browns to expect a fast-paced game or plan to control the clock on offense:
“The plan is to do whatever we have to do to score one more point than they do however that comes, 3-2 or whatever it is – I wouldn’t [expect that] (laughter). Just go out there and win the game. Whatever we need to do on offense to win the game on our side of the ball, I am sure we are going to do it, and whatever we have to do on defense and special teams on that side of the ball, I think we will do. Play for 60 minutes. That is all it is really going to come down to.”
On if he can share offensive takeaways from the Browns’ self-scout during the bye week:
“If I tell you that now and they watch this, then they get the scouting report (laughter). I think it showed up how much we have hurt ourselves and how much we have stopped us from scoring touchdowns, converting on third downs and big plays here and there. I think that was the main key takeaway that I think we took.”
On the challenge carrying positive momentum following wins into future weeks in the NFL:
“The other team gets paid, too. I think it is so many good players in this league, good coaches and obviously good schemes to where it makes it hard. The good teams find a way to do it, but it is definitely hard. You just have to find a way to do it in practice and just carry the momentum in practice and have a little bit more juice in practice, a little bit more focus and a little bit more attention to detail, and hopefully, that translates to the game.”
On what he shares with others who ask about RB Nick Chubb:
“I sit there and think because there are so many things I can tell you about him. The thing that I come back to is it is no surprise with the way he works – not only the videos that people see him lifting all these weights but every day at practice he is going to the touchdown; no matter how far we are back, he is running to the touchdown and running back for the next play – to where his success is no surprise, his style of running is no surprise and the things that he can do is no surprise. Obviously, you can’t take it for granted because sometimes it is unhuman-like, but then when you get around him, you are like, ‘Dang, man. This is what NFL players should be. This is what a professional athlete should be.’ He does it in day in and day out, no matter the circumstances. He is just that guy who you want in your locker room.”
On what WR Amari Cooper meant to him and how much better of a QB Cooper has made him:
“A lot. When you talk about guys who understand football, hardworking, smart and guys who you want in your locker room, and you listen to him talk about, ‘Hey, man. This is what I am thinking in the realm of the plan. This is what this DB did versus me last time or this thing and that,’ he has opened my eyes to so many different things of trust and things of that nature that the things that he does are incredible. Obviously, fortunate to have him on the team and have him part of my career. Just looking for him make more plays.”
On if has noticed any change in RB Kareem Hunt’s demeanor this week following the trade deadline passing last week, given Hunt may have been emotional after the Bengals game due to uncertainty around the future with the Browns:
“No, I didn’t see him after the game emotional or whatever. Looks the same to me.”
On conversations about continuing to play complementary football after executing at a high level in all three phases of the game against Cincinnati:
“The main thing that Coach said was, ‘This is what it could look like if we do this consistently.’ I think players understood that, and I think guys really looked at is as, ‘Wow, that is right. We did do this right. We did correct this from the week before and the week before that. This is how it all comes together.’ All of our plans kind of play off of each other. What we do on offense is predicated on what the defense thinks and stuff like that, special teams and so forth. I think guys kind of saw it all come to fruition. Hopefully, just doing that again.”
On how the Browns can ‘impose their will’ again on future opponents:
“It is finding the spot – there is always a spot in the game where either the offense or defense imposes their will, and it is kind of is the ‘turning point’ of the game. In the middle of that game, like I said, I felt like we started to impose our will and started to do things at our leisure. For one, you have to be able to get to that point in the game. Maybe it is the start of the game. Maybe it is the second half. You never know when it is going to come. That is the crazy part is you never know when that play is going to be the spark.”
On the significance of defeating the Bengals and if how the Browns won the game provides more hope and optimism for the second half of the season:
“I don’t think it is hope. I think it is more of just understanding that we have the whole season ahead of us, we have a big game coming up this Sunday and let’s go try and do the same thing again and play good football in all three phases of the game, and at the end of the game, see where we are.”
On WR Donovan Peoples-Jones continuing to make big catches in games this season, in addition to WR Amari Cooper:
“It just makes you want to give him more. Donovan is just so quiet – him and Amari are kind of like the same, like they don’t talk. You look up, and you are like, ‘Dang, Donovan had 80 yards. He almost had 100 yards.’ He is making big catch after big catch after big catch. It dates back to the first game of the season. I just always think of that big third-down catch that he had, the ball was behind him, just catches it with hands and plucks it out of the air. He has just done that for us all year, and obviously, finding ways to get him more involved and get him more balls. I think he has been playing really well.”
On WR David Bell, Cooper, and Peoples-Jones being quieter compared to other NFL WRs having big personalities:
“Yeah, it is really all of them are the same. It is crazy. It is different for sure. They find their ways to give you like subtle jabs where I kind of understand their personalities. To have all three of them not talk is kind of bizarre.”
On optimism that there will be more opportunities for younger Browns players like Bell and WR Michael Woods II to contribute during the second half of the season:
“Oh yeah, for sure, I think for those guys to be able to, ‘Hey, look. Let’s see what I have done in practice and training camp.’ They have been going since last year’s season – the bye week is probably their first little break – and see where they fit in and where we fit them in the offense and see the plays that we are asking them to make. The good thing obviously is David Bell is getting more playing time and has made more of the plays from those two. Just continuing ways to grow and help them out. I think they are becoming more professional to where they understand themselves. Excited for them.”
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