CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns coach Hue Jackson knows We Are All Witnesses, but he wants his players to do more than watch LeBron James.

He talked to his team about the James' impassioned defense of his teammates after Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday, an 87-79 victory over the Celtics.

"I thought it was tremendous," Jackson said after OTAs Wednesday. "I thought what he said about his teammates and how they are a huge part of it and people that haven't played the game or wore shorts or been in the locker room [don't] understand what it takes to win, I thought that was sensational. So I said that to our football team."

The King's speech, delivered to ESPN's Doris Burke after the game, wasn't lost on quarterback Tyrod Taylor.

"He's never selfish about his accomplishments," Taylor said after the second OTA practice open to the media on Wednesday. "He realizes that it takes a team for him to be the person that he is, and he appreciates his teammates. How that can relate to us is no one person is bigger than the team. We're going to need each and every person on the team healthy, first and foremost, but doing their job right to be able to execute and go win games week in and week out."

James, who's hoisted this embattled Cavs team on his shoulders, lashed out at his teammates' critics.

"I think what people don't understand, people that never played the game of basketball and never played team sports, is that in order to succeed, it has to be a team effort,'' he told Burke. "I know I get a lot of the headlines - win, lose or draw, whatever the case may be - but in order to be successful, it's a team game. I learned that from since I first started picking up a basketball to play organized basketball at age 9.

"So, you get all the doubters and people - who have never stepped in an arena, who's never played basketball, who's never put on a tank-top and shorts, who've never played anything organized - always want to try and kill my teammates. It's unfair to them. But I'll always stay true to the game of basketball because the game of basketball always stays true to me. That's why we're going to another Finals because my teammates played a hell of a game."

It was the perfect message for a Browns team featuring more than two dozen new players this season and one that most experts are counting out again after going 0-16 last season.