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[Assistant] I don't know, but uh, one player I know that played well both by our eyes and by the PFF grade will start with him and that's Myles Garrett. He wasn't actually the highest rated guy, but man, he was feeling himself.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't think I've ever seen him, like he's obviously had great games, but he was so confident, so cocky, he was like thrilled, the kid in the candy store to have all that talent around him, and he was tremendous leading the way on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Mary Kay, G and I have been crushing Jedrick Wills. I know you've defended him. Jason on our show has defended him a lot. We both thought he played a terrible game this past week. And I know he was looking for injury there. How concerned are you about him? Are you still confident he can at least be average? And is there any injury concern with him?


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[Assistant] I don't, listen, I thought, I'm not going to change my opinion on any of these teams. I thought, I had predictions for all these teams when the season started.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna, the only team I've changed my mind on in the NFL after week one is the Jets because Aaron Rodgers is out for the year. To me, unless, I thought the Browns were gonna be good, I still think the Browns are gonna be good. I don't think they're gonna be better because of how they played in week one. I certainly don't think they're gonna be worse. No, it's one game. You can't allow, I think


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[Assistant] I mean, I picked them to go ten and seven. They won seven games last year. That's a pretty huge improvement. It is. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, Steelers beat the Bengals. Joe Burrow threw four picks.


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[Assistant] A 49ers loss to the Bears. Bears finished with the worst record in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And then he got hurt. They lost to the Bears, the worst team in football. The Eagles won, but their defense, which was the best in football, has to give them 35 points in that game. Who'd they beat? The Lions.


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[Assistant] Wow, the Lions put up 35 on the Eagles last year. The Jaguars, who played great the second half of the year and were one of the hottest teams. They were horrible the first half. Lost to the Commanders.


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[Assistant] Oh, just ignore what happened. I'm saying that I thought the Browns were going to be a good football team coming in.


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[Assistant] I've watched football for 50 years. I understand that week one is not who you are. Now, in some cases, it may turn out to be, like, if we're four or five weeks in, and the Browns defense is playing like it did against the Bengals, every single week,


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[Assistant] I'm buying the Lions to the same degree I bought them before the season. I thought they would be a wild card team. I thought they'd be a decent team. They'd be like a nine win team. You don't think they'll win the division though. Who's going to win that division? I have, uh,


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[Assistant] And I'm not diminishing what the Browns did at all. What they did was extremely impressive. Extremely.


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[Assistant] Maybe the calf affects him all year and he doesn't have a good year. It's all possible. I'm just saying we can't, I can't make a sweeping judgment about any team, good or bad, based on one week. Do I think the Browns defense is a lot better than last year? Of course I do, but I already thought that. Now, in one week it backed it up even more than I thought.


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[Assistant] What an impressive performance by the Browns, blah, blah, blah. Normally, with nine minutes to go, I would have had hundreds of fans yelling at me on Twitter saying, you're jinxing it, blah, blah, blah. I didn't get one of those. Not one person said that because that's how in control the fans felt.


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[Assistant] By the way, it is funny, you said like, some fans saying, oh, Burrow's gonna suck this year or whatever, he's been passed. Wishful thinking. Which, what's funny though is...


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[Assistant] When you kick ass a good opponent, you should revel in the fact that I just beat a great team. Not try to diminish the players because you're better if you think they're good and you still beat them.


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[Assistant] They can move him around. The Bengals were not prepared for that whatsoever. Exactly, how could you be? And Luana Ramos is one of the five best defensive coaches in the league and he was completely unprepared for that. Uhm, by the way, another thing that really stood out to me with Myles Garrett, think about this.


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[Assistant] I got three things. First of all, in that picture, Mike looks like he's wearing hospital scrubs.


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[Assistant] For the Steelers is Pat Friarbuth got hurt too. Is he out? I don't, as of now he's... Well he finished the game though, didn't he? So what happened was, he got hurt, he left.


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[Assistant] And Friar Mute took a huge hit to the chest. Supposedly, if he doesn't have a fractured rib, it's, uh, just a pain tolerance, but that's something they could flare up.


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[Assistant] See, and Deshaun Watson knows he didn't play well enough. We know the rain was a factor. Of course it was. But guys that are great quarterbacks, as you say, they don't make excuses. If Tom Brady played like that, he'd be pissed. Peyton Manning pissed. All of them.


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson has got to be pissed. I agree with you 100%. He's thinking, the defense was great. Special teams was solid. Nick Chump was awesome.


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[Assistant] So let me ask you this. That's a character flaw. Has your sister and or your daughter


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[Assistant] Have they gone over to the steel side at all? Never. Okay. Ever. Very good. No, cause, you know.


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[Assistant] My sister married a Yankees fan. And I was like- And did she switch?


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[Assistant] She's not a die-hard sports fan. Right. So she roots for the Yankees and the Cubs, you know what I'm saying? But like, she wasn't a die-hard, you're describing your daughter and your sister as die-hard fans.


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[Assistant] That was another level. That was like, we talk about Miles Garrett had one more level in him.


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[Assistant] I know you haven't been all in on Deshaun because Baker was your guy. Are you finally all in on Deshaun now?


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[Assistant] Uh, Jason has four, G has three, Bull has two, and J has one. One, two, three, four. I love it. That's crazy. You're- I love your-


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[Assistant] Hartman's the far superior quarterback in the matchup, I think it says. Not just a lot about, you know.


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[Assistant] The Notre Dame team, but the state of college football as a whole. However, the one thing I think about this game is, is, and I'm sure Tyvis has alluded to it. You can still win the big 10 and make it to the college playoff with a loss.


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[Assistant] Nothing dumber from college football polls, except I'm a believer that the college football polls do whatever they can to make the matchups as close as possible, whether it's a top 10 matchup.


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[Assistant] Stuff like that happen every year, but I'm a little surprised that they didn't make these teams at least a little closer in the rankings for, for this matchup.


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[Assistant] Yes, maybe Notre Dame struggles with the run game, but if Ohio State's getting cute early on and given multiple guys carries and not really...


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[Assistant] Heading into week four that, you know, Ohio State seems to have their offense established. How mad are you if you're Marcus Freeman and last year you played Stroud week one and this year you had to wait until week four to play a team that had, you know, a quarterback


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[Assistant] At Ohio State, week one, CJ Stroud, who has more 300 yard games than fields and in two NFL games already. So if you're Marcus Freeman, you're like, hey, you know, this is the best opportunity we're ever going to get to beat Ohio State, but I kind of wish we were playing them week one.


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[Assistant] Which they haven't played necessarily teams that you'd expect to put up a lot of points, but everything I saw and everything I read was Western Kentucky is going to give Ohio State a game. They're going to score. They're going to get up and down the field. They have, I think the quarterback, their quarterback last year led.


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[Assistant] With Marvin Harrison, you have a long defensive drive that results in a stop or, you know, three points. And then all of a sudden it's two plays and Marvin Harrison is, is in the end zone and the defense is running back out there. I, I wondered you is, are you more pumped up when something like that happens? Like, Hey, we get to go back on the field. We just scored a touchdown. Are you like, come on, we just.


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[Assistant] But it's got, it's gotta be Kyle McCord. If this is the game that he proves, I'm here, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joel Klatt said, hey, you know, the Ohio State fans and the Ohio State media, which is all of us, treat it like they have to win every game. If they lose, they get killed. If they play close,


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[Assistant] To bad teams, they get killed. So even last year after the Notre Dame game, they won. It was the season opener and everyone was like, why didn't they score more points? JSN got hurt. The season's over. It's just.


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[Assistant] Smart man. You can come back! You were fine! Prediction! Prediction! What's the prediction? Ooh, ooh, Ohio State.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're building, uh, they have plans to build a new practice facility in the flats. This has been in the works for quite some time. The news was released today, but they've been going back and forth. I mean, I saw renderings on this six months ago, seven months ago on what was going, you know, just.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, it was, uh, it's between downtown and where LeBron lives. So this is where we're gonna put it. We're gonna put it in independence because it's 20 minutes from now.


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[Assistant] No, because it's gonna go on land he already owns. Oh wow. It's my understanding. This is, it's in the flats and this is where


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[Assistant] Uh, phase two of the casino was supposed to be when there was a phase two. Remember, the casino that we have now is only supposed to be the start. There was supposed to be this more exotic piece that never came. Right. So this is the land that he already owns. What's the benefit? Is there any benefit to the fans and to the city?


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[Assistant] There is, it sounds like there's going to be some public use space for this. The rendering I saw had a rooftop court on the place. Now whether or not that makes it to the final product, we'll see. Cleveland Clinic Court says it exists in downtown right now, I'm sorry, in Independence.


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[Assistant] Practice the facility is about fifty thousand square feet. What becomes of that?


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[Assistant] Knock it down, pro. I don't know. I don't know what they're gonna do with it. But this new one is gonna be, as of now, three times the size. It's gonna be 160,000 square feet. Now that could change. Construction costs right now are nuts.


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[Assistant] And the, the guardians went through that with progressive field. We saw the renderings of what they were going to do and they were talking about flipping the clubhouses and putting the.


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[Assistant] And there's not going to be any public money that I'm aware of going to this project. This is all funded by. No, nor should there be. This is all funded by Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland Clinic and maybe they have some other funding, you know, but as of now, those are the two that I know of. Okay. So they need the space because once they move the charge out of Canton,


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[Assistant] All of the charged people are now in independence and they are busting at the seams. This is an organization that went from firing everyone every two years to now knowing it gets fired.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't surprise me if he got back into baseball. It wouldn't surprise me at all.


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[Assistant] See it as a general manager. I could see him as a front office consultant somewhere. Just the grind of being the manager and on the field every day and everything else and the travel and all that.


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[Assistant] It takes a toll on these guys, man. And all the health problems that he's had. So I could see him doing something. He's not going to know what to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's not going to know what to do with himself. He's been in baseball his entire life. He's, the way it's, he gets to the stadium at like noon, walks around in his underwear and his slides and reads the paper and like just has his case. Yeah, it's, it's like, that's what he does. So he's not going to know what to do without baseball.


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[Assistant] Yes. And the blocking thing is silly. It's just silly. Because he, they blocked all the riders when he first got here. They blocked most of the riders.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I'm still not blocked. I don't know why, but I might be the only writer that's not blocked. I don't know. I mean, whatever. Let's see if you're blocked by the end of the show. But Twitter also has a mute button, Deshawn. Just mute it.


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[Assistant] This doesn't really move the needle for me. You know, he's a backup. He cannot possibly be in shape. He's not in football shape.


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[Assistant] I think we have a Fence Rider question coming up. I'd be surprised if he has any sort of real role in this game just because... You don't think he's gonna play at all? Well, it's a short week to start with. He just got in the building on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] Well, but, but I, for the team, it's a short week. He didn't get the building until Wednesday. I, I mean, if he plays, I think it's very, very, very, very little.


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[Assistant] I don't know how big of a role he's actually gonna play. I guess we'll wait and see. I don't think there's a lot of- I mean it'll increase as the weeks go along, you would think. Of course, but I just don't think there's a lot of tread left on those tires.


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[Assistant] Well, you bring up an interesting point on Jerome and I think he has until the bi-week to prove if he's the guy. And if he's not, you have to go get Jonathan Taylor.


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[Assistant] I absolutely believe you have to go make that move. You have to make that move.


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[Assistant] It's not even that. Listen, you have 52 guys in that locker room right now that are looking at you saying, what are you gonna do? You gave up on us last year and you punted the season.


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[Assistant] When the suspension went, that's it, that's it. When the suspension went to 11 games and they rode with Jacoby Percet.


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[Assistant] Everybody in that locker room, for as much as they loved Jacoby, everyone knew they were punting on the season.


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[Assistant] And if, and maybe Jerome Ford does it, maybe he handles the job. Nick Chubb needed an opportunity. We didn't know Nick Chubb was Nick Chubb until he got an opportunity and then he became Nick Chubb. Maybe Jerome Ford, this is his opportunity. He had a couple of great runs Monday night. Maybe this is it. He takes the opportunity, runs with it. I'm just saying if he doesn't,


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[Assistant] And you have an all pro, it'd be different if Jonathan Taylor wasn't available. You have an all pro running back available. Now you do have to pay him. But my point is, you have 52 veterans in that locker room saying, what are you going to do to fix this? I just don't buy that.


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[Assistant] In the locker room after the game, I was talking to a veteran who said we're going to find out how much they value the running back position. They are watching.


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[Assistant] Is the guy. Maybe he's the guy. And that's great if he is. It solves a huge problem. And now you just, somebody's calling me. And now you just go with it. But if he's not, you have a real problem because you have veterans that know that, this is my point, they punted on last season and the other guys in that locker room know that. So if you have another gaping hole.


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[Assistant] They rolled with what they had. Now they have Jerome Ford. If he's not as good as what they need, and there's someone out there better, in two years in a row, you punt on an opportunity to make your team better. What message is that sending to Miles Garrett, to Joel Batonio, to Denzel Ward, to all of these veterans? You have an opportunity right now. You think you're going to win. If you don't take advantage of it,


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[Assistant] It's the biggest contract in the history of quarterback contracts for one year. That's why they're trying to roll over 34 million. I get it. I'm just telling you.


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[Assistant] If he's not, they're going to lose veterans if they don't do anything. If this is the best that they do, is they run out a Kareem Hunt with three wheels left on him and a Jerome Ford who's not as good as they thought, they are going to lose veterans in that locker room. I'm telling you now. What do you think, what do you think you have to give up to get Jonathan Taylor? I don't know, I'm not part of those discussions, but they have their number one available the year after next.


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[Assistant] I don't know. No, I'm just saying. It's not like they don't have any draft capital. They do. They do have draft capital.


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[Assistant] Let's say Deshaun, you said if Deshaun doesn't play well, they're screwed so it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] But there is a move you can do in season right now and that's go get Jonathan Taylor. And I understand it eats into the cap space you're trying to roll over and it creates all sorts of problems for next year. I'm actually working on a piece for the athletic on.


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[Assistant] This and contract restructuring and the Eagles went through it. The Falcons went through it. The Falcons were in absolute cap hell because of Matt Ryan and they made a couple of really bad decisions on restructures and this eats into that. But I'm just telling you,


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[Assistant] To appease the guys that are in there, you have to show them that you're willing to back them up. And I hope it doesn't come to that. I don't want them to have to trade for Jonathan Taylor. I want Jerome Ford to take this opportunity and run with it and go be that guy and it will solve a lot of their problems now and into the future. I'm just pointing out if that doesn't happen,


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[Assistant] Jonathan Taylor doesn't make up a playoff team. I agree with that, but you're screwed anyway. My point is you have to show the other guys in that locker room. You have to show Miles, Betonio, Wyatt, Denzel Ward, Anthony Walker, whatever veteran you want to name. I'm particularly looking at like the pillars of the franchise. You have to show them that you are all in and you're not.


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[Assistant] Teresa, defensively, they really got after Justin Herbert last week and the Browns have not handled pressure well. Deshaun Watson's been under duress in both of these games, really.


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[Assistant] My pleasure, thank you guys. Anthony keeps asking us for headlines and I haven't given them yet because I'm kinda leaning.


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[Assistant] Her way. And even, even if the Browns won that game, I was still kind of leaning Tennessee just because


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[Assistant] I mean, the Browns got beat up in that game physically and beyond the chub injury. That was a really physical game on both sides.


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[Assistant] It just, it just had a feel one of those games of the hangover week coming on a short week. I think they're in trouble someday.


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[Assistant] And, and I'm glad you mentioned that because they were talking that way post-game, Sunday. Right. I, I think Miles told me like, we can't let this go for naught. And Miles said like, Nick's my guy. Like, I love Nick. And, and I was sort of telling them, I said, you know, they could hear on the cameras.


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[Assistant] On television you could hear them screaming in agony when he got hit and I was like...


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[Assistant] Cringed and it, it, it really affected him. He said like.


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[Assistant] And it was, I mean, Sunday in a different way, like we go back, we talked about the Jets game last year in week two and what a, just a demoralizing crushing defeat that was.


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[Assistant] This felt like that being there for different reasons obviously. That was a game they never should have lost last year and they threw up all over their shoes and we know how that went.


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[Assistant] This had that same gut punch feel to it though. And last year they bounced back on a short week and they beat Pittsburgh in week three at home. And now here we are again, short week, really tough loss, demoralizing gut punch of a loss for different reasons.


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[Assistant] They could bounce back and win this for sure for Nick. I just, I look at the physical play that they went through on Monday night and I'm concerned about Sunday.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sure it is. But think about that. Deshaun is second worst at .44, negative .44. Picket is negative .62. Like everyone else, there's like 4442, 4038, like they're all tightly bunched. And then here's Picket.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know what Jay's saying. Can they do that? Well, it's horrifying to think that way. I know it is. Everything that you've given up. And here's, here's how I would answer that.


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[Assistant] That tells me, and everyone thinks I'm a shill for Stefanski, I get that.


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[Assistant] But if you got the best out of Baker and Jacoby Brissette and Deshawn's playing like this, that's a quarterback problem. It's not a system problem. It's a quarterback problem. He puts them in the best position to win and gets the most out of them. Whatever talent they have, he squeezes out of them. We've, we have proof of that of multiple quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] But yet it's not working with Deshaun. That tells me it's not a coaching problem, it's a Deshaun problem. That's terrifying.


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[Assistant] Kevin has proven he can get the best out of quarterbacks. This is a Deshaun thing, as far as I'm concerned.


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[Assistant] And Zach Jackson was the one to practice going, guys, this doesn't look good, guys, and something's wrong here.


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[Assistant] The messaging from inside the Browns was, wait till you see this. Everything's awesome. Everything's great. A lot like Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh. Wait till you see this. And the people who were seeing it every day were going, the emperor's not wearing any clothes. He's got a head.


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[Assistant] I don't have the dead cap thing in front of me, but next year, again, $64 million!


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[Assistant] Oh, for the team? I don't know off the top of my head. I don't know. But that's why, and again, I'm working on something. Hopefully I'll have it out next week on, on kind of looking at this. I was talking to somebody yesterday who's like, they're following the Eagles model, which makes sense because AB came from Philly. A lot of them came from Philly, but you have to be very careful on which contracts you restructure because once you restructure a guy, you're stuck with them.


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[Assistant] In terms of cap and dead cap money, if he turns out bad, it really kills you on a restructure.


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[Assistant] It's not a daily topic, but I promise you there has been a worst case scenario exit strategy of what do we do?


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[Assistant] But he's not gonna come out and say we gotta move on from 6. He's not good enough. He has to say that in the moment. I do think internally they all were in agreement. We have to try and do better than this.


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[Assistant] No chance. He's dying with that in his portfolio. No, he's not selling. There's no, he keeps, they keep accruing teams. I know they do. So they're not, they have, that is never gonna happen. As bad as he has them is the owner of the Browns, and then whenever there's a transition, it'll probably be JW.


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[Assistant] Well, but he, but I'm saying, like, he's involved in the, he's involved in the decision making now.


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[Assistant] Being there, you're referring to the Baker year in the playoff game. Of course. But being in that building and knowing enough of what I know.


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[Assistant] Nobody thought he was like, it was too many excuses, it wasn't good enough, he wasn't good enough, in pressure moments, I had all the stats, I can go back and find him and pull him up.


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[Assistant] It's that bar of consistency that, that separates. Everyone can have a good 300 game here and there.


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[Assistant] Baker played well two games in a row and full credit to him. He's had a great start to this year. I have no faith that it'll last all year. And if it does, I have no faith that he can repeat it next year because we have enough evidence of who he is. Like this is who he is. He's, and I got killed for saying this when Baker was like rolling and everyone loved him. I said he's Derek Carr.


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[Assistant] There's some years where he could be like top eight and there's other years he's going to be 15 to 20.


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[Assistant] And that's just, and that's, Derek Carr's had some really good years. He's had some really bad years. And how many playoff games Derek Carr's won? Yeah, I know. I know. But I'm just saying, he's had some really good years.


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[Assistant] You know how? I missed the most obvious answer. The COVID year. The COVID year. The most obvious answer, nobody was in the building. And people like laugh when I say that.


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[Assistant] It was that big playability that, uh, that he showed that he has in him. And, you know, he can catch a couple passes out of the backfield. So, 99 to me, that felt like a comfortable number. Was that total yards? Total yards, correct.


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[Assistant] I think the Browns want to know, and we talk about diminishing the importance of the run game and all of that, but I think they want to know sooner than later. What they have. What they have in Jerome Ford. I think they're going to give it to him early and see what he's got. Because they got to know.


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[Assistant] Strong. I'd give Ford 17 or 18. Okay. And I mean, I guess I'd give Kareem two or three, like. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I just don't think Kareem's in shape. I'd be surprised if he gives him anything on Sunday. I think he needs a week to, a week, a full week.


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[Assistant] I'm with Bolo on Tan Hill. I'm not a believer. I know he played well last week. Boy. I mean the Titans are the team. I don't like him at all.


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[Assistant] And they've had a ton of success being the Tennessee Titans as well. They win a lot of games in the regular season, not in the playoffs necessarily. They have a lot, they got a great coach, they're well coached, they're disciplined, they've got a sound running game and a great defense. So you can win a lot of games playing that way. Not a bad formula. Totally nothing like that question, so I don't know why.


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[Assistant] I changed my, I had this as a no, and felt like I was being too negative, so I flipped it the last second. The fact that we all said yes, it's gonna be a wrong. They don't have one yet, do they? They don't have one yet, right? I mean, it's gotta happen eventually, I guess.


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[Assistant] At least twice. At least twice. Oh, twice? At least twice? Yeaah. He was under, he was under heat.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah. And how many against Pittsburgh? Four? Five? Six? Six. Six. He's due to have a lower second.


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[Assistant] I actually, I hate this question because I like two. I did too! So.


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[Assistant] I think he throws, I think he throws a pick and no fumbles.


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[Assistant] Well, for anyone. I think he probably throws, I'm hoping for one interception.


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[Assistant] Well, I told you guys Friday when we thought Cooper was out that I thought David Bell would be the next up. So I'm not really surprised you got a couple of targets. Tillman's a mid round pick with third round picks.


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[Assistant] I can't find the camera. There it is. With third round picks, middle round pick guys, a lot of times it's middle to end of the season before they really make an impact. So I'm not really surprised. It's only week three. I think Tillman will have an impact on this team, but probably not for another month or so.


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[Assistant] It's not me, it's you Jed. I'm sorry. You know, listen, all I said was I thought he got a bad rap because I thought he was average. And in the past he has been average. This year he has not been average. This year he's been awful. He's been terrible. And it was really disappointing last week because you have DeJuan Jones on the right side and they were


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[Assistant] Shifting so much help over to Dewan's side to help on TJ Watt, you really needed Jed to bail you out and to hold his own. He had the lesser assignment in Alex Highsmith and he still couldn't get it done. Now the last play, the strip sack, was a bad angle. I think it's asking a lot of him.


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[Assistant] I mean, I was really frustrated with him last week just because you knew what you had going on on the other side. And let me tell you something. I paid close attention to Dewand and Wyatt Teller. Wyatt had to tell Dewand


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[Assistant] And, and then Wyatt got beat, like Wyatt gave up an inside pressure to Ogunjobi and, you know, I, it's fair to wonder if he was so concerned with what was going on next to him that it took away from what he was supposed to be doing.


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[Assistant] And, and by the way, that was the concern on Dwan Jones. Yes. I've been saying it all, like it's the mental and the maturity with him and he's in a position they never thought that they were going to need him this early, right? I think we can all agree on that at week one check. I think everyone thought Conklin was going to get hurt.


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[Assistant] I don't know that we would have said it's going to be season ending in week one. So he's obviously been thrown in the fire. I think the wine could be fine in time, but


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[Assistant] Jed has been worse because the fact that he's a veteran and he should know better and you should be able to expect more out of him than a fourth round rookie. And the fact that you can't and the fact that they had to shift so much help over here and he let them down.


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[Assistant] I haven't asked specifically about the tackles, but I told, I said last week coming out of that game, I called Mike on the way home after the Bengals game and said they got a real problem at tackle. Like they got a real problem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this, and it's not, it's still not. They're, they're gonna have a massive problem all year. And now we talked about like the fact that the tackles were poor against the run, but at least we have Nick Chubb. Well now you don't have Nick Chubb. So now you got tackles who can't run block and a running back that is not Nick Chubb.


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[Assistant] Well, but he had TJ Watt, who's much better than Alex Heisman. And he had tight ends all around him, and he had Wyatt Tell. He had plenty of help on him, and I'm not defending Judge. That was awful. But Alex Heisman made much more of an impact.


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[Assistant] I just think, I just think after a full off season program, after a full training camp into week three now, I know he wasn't expected to be the starter. Wyatt Teller shouldn't have to tell him where to go.


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[Assistant] They didn't take the colors. But they took the history. Yeaah. So that's, that's kinda weird. Yeaah. I forget the, I just read about this, or someone just told me why they didn't take the colors.


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[Assistant] That was an easy one. Conklin was the harder one. I get a half point for Conklin. I'm writing it down. You get nothing.


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[Assistant] He played one season in Tennessee. And I'm the one who said for years variable gave up on him twice. I should have known that.


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[Assistant] I'm going to say... Jason says true. I'm going to say true because they wouldn't trade with a divisional opponent. You must be remembering a specific trade. I think I do. I'm going off the fact that they wouldn't trade with a divisional opponent and I don't remember any trades since then. So, two falses. Didn't Dr. Mays, remember?


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[Assistant] I got a couple things I have to mention real quick. First and foremost, we mentioned Tyvis and yet tomorrow, Tyvis is going to give us a Coach Tyvis segment on MJ Emerson and his


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[Assistant] We had a thousand people waiting for us to launch this stream this morning. That is a testament to you guys out there, the Browns fans, for making this phenomenal. We are going to get into everything else in the show coming up, including kicking, Deshaun Watson, the weather.


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[Assistant] It's a big deal. I don't want to spend too much time. No, I know because we have so much to get to. Uh, we gave some overall thoughts. Let's dig a little deeper into the defense and I want to call it. Didn't we? I want to call it one more play. We talked about Miles Garrett's dominance when Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] But it worked, it led to an ogbo sack. Give me the alternate angle, the second one. Watch it from the back. That is swaggy to the extreme.


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[Assistant] And it worked, and it led to a sack. G. Bush, you played defensive line on division one level. Could you ever imagine doing this? What would your coach said if you tried to pull this out in a live game against one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL? Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] It's 62 a month. They break it up in installments. Okay, so do the math.


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[Assistant] We're gonna read all the super chats at the end of the show. Okay. We got a bunch. We're gonna get a bunch more. So at the end of the show, last five, 10 minutes, we will read all your super chats. We have gotten them all in.


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[Assistant] I'll just give a quick shout out to some of the people who sent them in already, but Skilly, Jarell Jack, Preston.


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[Assistant] What's our number right now? I know we were over 3,000. Yeah. Yeah, we're at 3,200 and growing. That's a record. We've never done 32 concurrence. So shout out to you guys. And Brown says right. There were shows in the first


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[Assistant] We yeaah, and we do it for you guys. I was in the Muni lot yesterday. I saw you yesterday. Thank you all for, uh, saying what's up. I'll be back next time they have a home game. Make some more content. Very good. We got a bunch of things to get to. Let's talk Kevin Stefanski real quick.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we have breaking news real quick. I do have to mention this, but Schefter just reported, and Mary Kay confirmed, Jack Conklin out for the season, torn M.E.L. and A.C.L. Not a surprise after what we saw. That means Dewan Jones, as G. Bush predicted before the season, will be thrust into action a lot sooner than we expected.


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[Assistant] On Conklin, just before you guys go into Dewan Jones, his contract situation is an issue. And just so we're all on the same page, his contract for this year, his guaranteed money is 14 million. Next year, and he signed the extension.


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[Assistant] If they cut him, which he's injured, so I'm not sure you can cut him, but his day cap would be 22 million. He's due 13 million. And then in 2025, where they have a potential out, the guaranteed money goes down.


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[Assistant] We are gonna get to Watson, but I have one thing first. I got a reed, and then we got a bridge, and then you'll see what I'm gonna do here. But before we do anything...


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[Assistant] If you guys haven't had enough browns content between the post game show, today's show,


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[Assistant] There's a lot of reaction going on. I'm not sure he has any more Kool-Aid to take, any more Kool-Aid to drink, but guess what? What do you got on the table, G. Bush? Steve, let's drop the graphic. Let's show G. Bush. He's got...


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[Assistant] We're going to talk Watson after the announcement, but before that and Jason, it ties it all together. You wrote an article this morning about the Sean Watson, especially specifically his touchdown run. And there's a member of the offensive line before we get off the offensive line. I think this is a nice transition into that. What made that play call?


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[Assistant] A certain player could have executed and then we're not talking about the Sean Watson, a certain offensive lineman couldn't have executed that the way he did yesterday last season.


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[Assistant] And we are going to talk more about the offense and the Sean Watson in a second. But before we dive into a topic, look at the clock.


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[Assistant] And that means we have an announcement to wait. That's right, it's coming up on noon. And we have been teasing this, and we're gonna do it right now. Before we mention the announcement though, the last pause in this major announcement.


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[Assistant] I just want to say from the bottom of everyone's heart here at UCSS, thank you guys, the people on YouTube who have made this show a success. We do this for you guys. We have fun.


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[Assistant] With that being said, are you guys ready to break some news here? Jay, do you want to do the honors? No, I think you should. So we're a little YouTube show.


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[Assistant] At least we were a little YouTube show. I don't think you can put the little in front of the YouTube show anymore, but also, starting this Friday.


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[Assistant] We are a top 20 TV market television show as well. From 1230 to 1 o'clock.


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[Assistant] On Fridays for the upcoming football season, the ultimate Cleveland sports show will not only be a YouTube show, we will be a channel three broadcast television show. Wow. We made it boys. Very excited. That's incredible. Made it. Now for the YouTube people out there.


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[Assistant] The last half hour of Friday show will not be live on YouTube. It'll be live upstairs on channel three, and then we will post it immediately after to YouTube.


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[Assistant] In case you missed anything. For you guys out there, it'll be a lot of stuff you've already seen because it's a new audience that we haven't tapped into yet. But we are not forgetting about you guys.


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[Assistant] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, YouTube only. The first 90 minutes of Friday.


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[Assistant] YouTube only and then we go to TV for that last half hour. It's going to give us an opportunity to tap into an untapped market of Cleveland sports fans who may not be as familiar with YouTube.


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[Assistant] And that's going to make the numbers on the YouTube show even better. It's going to make us more money, which means we can make a lot more things for the YouTube program even better. It was a goal of ours when we started, we want to be on TV. We want to reach that 2 million person audience that we are not able to tap into through YouTube.


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[Assistant] And it is the start of the UCSS rocket to the moon, but we don't take off without you guys out there supporting us on YouTube.


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[Assistant] I can tell you our latest metric report, and we're gonna get back to Sean Watson in 12 seconds.


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[Assistant] We got a couple more things to get to. Real quick though, if you're not already a member of the Ultimate Cleveland Sportsroom, now is a great time to join. For $1.99 a month, you get all these starters to your perks, which are loyalty badges, custom emojis, and members only community posts for $4.99 a month.


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[Assistant] You get all those same starter tier perks, plus overtime videos, member shoutouts. You can text with select members of the UCSS panel during Brown's games. Jason did a phenomenal job informing the UCSS members.


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[Assistant] of what was going on during the Brown game from the press box. Jason, thank you for that. That was a very insightful little nugget for our members there and we appreciate you. I think you have fun doing that too. So for $4.99 a month, that is another perk. We're going to continue to do that for select games.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's actually a great point. You may be giving that content out for free. I'll double check on the back end, but I did not get yelled at for that. By the way, Steve Becker made a good


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[Assistant] Somebody's gotta get targets for the rest of that Cooper Cup. We talked about all preseason.


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[Assistant] And there were no kicker problems yesterday. Dustin Hopkins looked phenomenal in his Browns debut. I asked this to G on the post game show. So G, I'll let you go last year. I want the other three guys to chime in. But how good did it feel to have a Browns kicker?


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[Assistant] Essentially call the deals. And then in his post game, he uh, he kinda doubled down on those comments. Here's Jamar Chase after the game yesterday.


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[Assistant] That's it. That's the walk off mic drop. That's it. This probably won't happen, but who is most likely on the grounds roster to say Cincinnati is Cincinnati during the pregame press conference leading up to it.


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[Assistant] And we got 10 minutes, uh, we're going to talk about Dewan Jones officially starting, Kevin Svansky confirmed it, how he matches up with T.J., uh, T.J. Watt. Coach Tyvis breaking down MJ Emerson. We're going to look into whether or not the Steelers getting beat down.


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[Assistant] Helps the Browns for week two, or hurts the Browns for week two with a national televised game coming up on Monday Night Football. But we got a bunch of super chats we're gonna get to these guys real quick and once we get to the people out there who are still watching,


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[Assistant] 3,800 people still watching. It's absurd. Y'all the best. We love you guys. I truly cannot say thank you enough. Oh, also tomorrow, my muti-lot experiences. Got a little collage and video I put together from the muti-lot. Oh nice. That place is... That was like your first muti-lot. Very first time. Very first time.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm going to save all the specifics for tomorrow, but hi, I had a blast. Uh, we got some super chats. We got a lot. First one tomorrow guys, Skilly.


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[Assistant] He said our defense is for real. Burrow looked absolutely lost. It didn't look like he even wanted to be on the field anymore. I know it's early.


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[Assistant] But this definitely isn't a team to be reckoned with. Hopefully Watson has a better game next week.


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[Assistant] After the game, I thought I saw Joe Burrow get hit so many times, his nine turned up down, turned upside down to a six in the fourth quarter. Oh wait, he just got benched. Go Brownies. Next one's from Joshua Heisler. This defense is nasty.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, actually Earl, Earl yesterday was like, I got the Canva title and he sent it to me and it was Brown's Elf the Bengals. And I was like, that's really clever. That is really good. Good job, Earl.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up is from James Cosby. Jim Schwartz is such a huge influence. Schwartz. Schwartz, yea. What'd I say?


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[Assistant] I said Jim Schwartz is a huge influence on not just the team, but everybody in the building, including Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Uh, Professor Chaos says Dewan coming in looked great. It'll be a good early test from against the Steelers. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Professor Chaos, what a great name.


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[Assistant] James Cosby says, gee, I need that Kool-Aid t-shirt. I think we dropped a link to that in the chat.


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[Assistant] Rob Kavase? How much are you charging for those? Ah, 25 bucks. That's nothing.


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[Assistant] Uh, next comes from SquidVetOhio. He says, DeSean led a scoring drive at halftime, put the game away in the fourth. That's a franchise quarterback. Damn the stats.


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[Assistant] Bdog21 says the shot to the ribs woke Watson up, throws were much better after, and he said he was having full body cramps even in his arms.


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[Assistant] And last but not least, we have one from Russell DeGaff.


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[Assistant] He says, congrats, you guys truly have a diverse viewership. Shout out from Manawadja, Canada.


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[Assistant] We're worldwide. Canada. We're like the pit full of U.K. Congratulations, Canada. We've been listening since the beginning. You guys are the best. We appreciate you, Russell. And everyone else out there watching, wherever you watch, we appreciate you guys. Record breaking numbers on the show today, as expected. I put a goal out for us pre-show. You said 10, 10,000?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we uh, we're about to hit 14 for the show, so shout out to y'all. And what was our previous record?


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[Assistant] Have you guys ever heard anyone ever call MJ Emerson baby Ramsey? No. No.


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[Assistant] Cause there's a tweet going around talking about his stats.


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[Assistant] If this regime doesn't work, bye bye. Yeah, he's got it. He should go. Everybody should go. Yeah. But he should go.


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[Assistant] You look at the possibility of extremes for what this franchise is going to be safe for the next five years.


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[Assistant] If, if Deshaun Watson gets back to anywhere close to the player he was in Houston.


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[Assistant] And the Browns win a lot of games and go to the playoffs this year. All's good. Then he and Berry and Stefanski will probably be here, you know, they'll be here a decade at least. Yes. All that will happen.


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[Assistant] Well, but Stafford is a lot older than Watson is. So if it works here, you know, I'm saying by the time Watson gets to year five, that would be what, year eight or nine? Well, we're already in year two. Right, right, right.


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[Assistant] Assuming these two guys play, it's the healthiest they've ever been coming out of training. They have nobody here. Wow. Nobody. Do they have anybody?


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[Assistant] I said, I said that, the question I asked was, and this was before we knew Borough was going to play, I said, would you rather the Browns lose 38-35


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[Assistant] When, to, to Burrow, when DeShaw Watson plays his, just plays the game, plays an amazing game, they lose 38-35, or Trevor Simeon at the time, he's no longer the Bengals back quarterback.


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[Assistant] In a division game. The second best quarterback in football, at home, in the division, in a season where they have massive expectations, and in a season where they might have finally, we all think they finally have their first great quarterback.


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[Assistant] They're first even good quarterback since Bernie Kozar. So everything, the season's not over obviously if they lose, but if they win this game.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be, the cockiness and confidence from Browns fans is the highest I've ever seen going into the season.


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[Assistant] Success against the Bengals the last couple of years, as if...


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[Assistant] That means they're a Super Bowl team. Right. No, that means nothing. And so I think the hype for this team, if they win this game, and that's a high quality win, they're underdogs at home. Yeah. Slight underdogs, but underdogs. What is it, two and a half? It went down to two this morning. Interesting. Yeah. I think it's just a


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[Assistant] All I'm saying, of course they want to get a good start. You don't think they're sick of hearing about how the only team they can't beat is the Browns? Of course they want to win. What I'm saying is from a fan's perspective.


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[Assistant] If you're a Bengals fan and the Bengals lose to the Browns, you're not panicking about the season. If you're a Browns fan and they lose to the Bengals, there's going to be somewhat of a here we go again. It does depend how they lose. Right, sure.


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[Assistant] Because obviously I watch every Browns game and I watch every Bengals game.


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[Assistant] The Browns have played better football against the Bengals than anybody. I agree. It's not close. The only time the Bengals have been blown out in the last two years has been by the Browns. That's right. That's it. That is exactly right.


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[Assistant] Well, I think a big, a huge part of that has been two players, Miles Garrett and Denzel Ward.


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[Assistant] It is, because you got Orlando Smith Jr. at left tackle. What I would do if I'm the Browns, is I'm playing Miles, Miles Garrett killed Jonah Williams, who's been the Bengals left tackle. Now he's the right tackle. So you'd switch him. I'd put Miles Garrett on him, because he's killed Miles, Miles Garrett has killed Jonah Williams, destroyed him.


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[Assistant] And even though, Miles Garic could beat anybody, but obviously Orlando Brown is a lot better than, than, than John Williams.


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[Assistant] Guys, we all picked four different people. I was thinking like Jason that as a guy you don't have expectations for, but I think there are expectations for Elijah Moore, but there is a question mark with him, right? I picked a guy who's very important, but also has a massive question mark.


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[Assistant] Probably the biggest on the entire offense. And that's Jendrick Wills. Wow. He's my X Factor because think about this. The most underrated unit in this game in my opinion is the Bengals defensive line. The Bengals defensive line gets no publicity. And they're quietly very good. Because they don't have like sexy guys on there. But Trey Hendrickson


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[Assistant] Top 10 pass rusher. DJ Reader is a top 5 run stopper.


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[Assistant] BJ Hill, their other starting D tackle, is a good solid player. And Sam Hubbard, their other starting defensive end, is a very good player. Plus, they have good depth at both defensive tackle and defensive end and they rotate guys in. They use it, yea. Trey Hendrickson...


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[Assistant] Is probably the best pass rusher in football that gets no conversation. Nobody talks about him at all.


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[Assistant] And he's going to be going up against Jedrick Wills. Jedrick is the biggest question mark on the Browns offense. If Jedrick holds up against Trey Hendrickson and there's no pressure on Watson, the offense should be great for the Browns.


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[Assistant] And that could lead to bad stuff. That's right. And so I got, got him as, I, I, you know, everybody's a good choice. I think Nick Chubb's too big a star for me, too big of a proven thing. I do, I have Nijoko in two fantasy leagues, so I need him to. Oh, wow. Well, you believe then that he's going to step up this year. I think he's going to have his best year. I don't think he's ever going to be.


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[Assistant] This is huge because Denzel Ward has been a nemesis to Joe Borrow like no cornerback in the league. You're right. Denzel Ward is


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[Assistant] I think it's a huge deal if Denzel Ward can't play. I think he's going to play. I think we're all in agreement there. If he can't play, it's a big deal. Not that the Browns' other corners aren't good, but when you have three really good receivers, and like, it takes a special player.


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[Assistant] To slow down Jamar Chase because he's as good if not better than any wide receiver in the game. He's fast, he's tall, he runs good, he does everything well.


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[Assistant] Denzel Ward has played well against him, and Denzel Ward, for whatever reason, has, and I'm telling you, I've watched every game that Joe Burrows played, and I've never seen a corner play better against him than Denzel Ward. End of conversation.


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[Assistant] But, jeez, you're, jeez, got that devious little giggle.


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[Assistant] You know what, you know what this really signals is that for the first time since Bernie versus Boomer, the Bengals-Browns is a rivalry. Yeaah. When's the last time both teams were good?


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[Assistant] Whenever this trash talk of this nature, and it's trash talk and it's stupid, I don't like it.


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[Assistant] His job is that you could always talk about him more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I went with Delpit because I thought about who's the best player on the Browns that we never talk about. And everybody better than Delpit.


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[Assistant] There's a decent amount of guys better than him. We talk about a lot. We never talk about Delpit. There's been a lot of talk about Thornhill. Yeaah. I thought the second half of, remember, Delpit was a high draft pick. And he had injuries and ineffectiveness. Second half of last year, he put it all together.


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[Assistant] And I'm expecting him to have a big season, and especially if Thornhill is hurt, can't play, like he's gonna be even more important. So I, he hasn't, I feel like we never talk about him at all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't have a turnstile there. I agree with G. I think you're wrong. I think he's below average. I don't think he is. I mean, he's horrible, but I think he's below average. The PFF grade, every year, he's been, he's been, one year he's been average, the other three he's been below average. I think, I think you do. And what else can you just use when it comes to an offensive lineman besides the PFF grade?


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[Assistant] Tyvis right as usual saying I picked the right player with Delpit and he says I'm winning the show so far.


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[Assistant] Who am I most worried about? Okay, I'm a little worried about Jedrick Wills. Can Najoku play even better? Obviously Watson, but like, I'm assuming he's gonna at least be good. Most likely. Because I've seen him be good most of his career.


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[Assistant] Uh, on defense, yeaah, there's some questions at linebacker, but if one of the linebackers is not great, alright, they'll survive. A bad kicker can, can,


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[Assistant] Could cost him the season I think more than anything else outside of Watson just not being good.


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[Assistant] And I have no faith in this kicker. He can't make long kicks. Uh, they put all their eggs in the basket on Cade York. Now he's a practice squad in Tennessee.


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[Assistant] So they have not solved a key problem. And you look at this division, Justin Tucker's the best kicker in football, Evan McPherson and, and, uh, Boswell are both top five kickers in the league. That's a major advantage that the other teams have over the Browns.


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[Assistant] That, and I've thought this way, the joku probably is what he is, he's a mid-tight end, and he's just, but. He's above mid. Alright, slightly above mid. Top 12. I'm gonna give him one more chance.


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[Assistant] Because this is the first time in his career I believe that he's going to play with a quarterback that I think is going to be really- 1100 yards you got him for? No, I do not have him for 1100 yards. But I think he could get 800.


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[Assistant] I think it's possible to get 8 touchdowns, 9 touchdowns. That would be a monster year. If he had 837 yards and 9 touchdowns. Compared to what we've seen, it's not


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[Assistant] If Jay is right about this, it's a disaster. It means the Browns are having a terrible season and everything's gone off the wheels. If we're right about it... Or another tight end steps up. Well, but who the hell's gonna step up? They don't have enough, you know...


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[Assistant] He's going, if he stays healthy and does it for a few more years, he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. He does everything right. He's always about the team. He never causes controversy. He never gets in trouble. He never parties. He never does anything. He stays at his house and plays football and that's all he does. He is the freaking man. You forgot about Tommy Vardell.


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[Assistant] Mary Kay, Jerome Ford, we know he's good to go. What do you expect his role to be or any of the other running backs role to be in this game? How much of a role will we see from those guys?


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[Assistant] I'm just saying the Browns, I've never seen Browns fans this cocky heading into it. I haven't in the years. You've been covering the team longer than me Mary Kay.


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[Assistant] I don't trust this guy at all, Mary Kay. I don't know why. I still don't understand why they haven't signed Robbie Gould. He's still a free agent. He's way better than Dustin Hopkins. Why have they done this and will they correct it if he screws up kicks in the first couple of weeks?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I look at it as, I know it's not guaranteed, that he, I, I, I think too much is made of that because...


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[Assistant] You know, he's gonna get that hole 275. There's no chance. Unless he collapses. The only way he's not gonna get...


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[Assistant] Football is back. Uh, Sean Watson plays well, but Chubb's late score leads to win. The Bengals, you know, Joe Burrow's not going to be at his best. There's no doubt about it. He hasn't played at all. He's coming off an injury.


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[Assistant] And I think he's, I mean, he's fine, but the Bengals, the last two years, Joe Barlow's been hurt. Whatever reason he hasn't played, I don't think he's played a pre-season game. I think we talked about this the other day. First year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's bizarre. So bizarre. So I don't expect him to be the best. The Bengals have, even these two years when they've gone to the Super Bowl and the AFC Championship game have gotten off to


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[Assistant] So So starts, and they've lost their two home openers, or two openers. The Browns have, uh, the Bengals have never, or Zach Taylor's never won in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think the Browns owning the Bengals is a little overstated because it's really, to me, only three games that matter the last two years and the Browns are two and one in them.


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[Assistant] There's still something to that. And so ultimate, but I think it's gonna be a lower scoring game. I think both offenses will struggle. I think both defenses are not getting enough, uh, hype. I think both defenses are really good. In the end, the Bengals will settle for field goals a couple of times, and that will be the difference in the game. The Browns will pull out a 21-20 win.


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[Assistant] You just can't double team him as much as you. Now the Bengals, and I think part of this is,


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[Assistant] I haven't liked the Bengals game plan against Myles Garrett. I don't know what they're gonna do this week, but in the past, they haven't doubled him a lot.


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[Assistant] He can, again, Miles Garrett's a better defensive end than Orlando Brown as a left tackle. But Orlando Brown's a good enough left tackle that he'd be able to hold his own at least against Miles Garrett. Jonah Williams can't, he's gonna eat Jonah Williams lunch if he goes up against him. And so, on that side especially, they should have a tight end.


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[Assistant] Or, or at the very least a running back helping out almost all the time if he, if he goes against uh, Jonah Williams. Alright.


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[Assistant] It sounds like he will. It's amazing. You look at, uh, both these teams.


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[Assistant] For the Bengals, one of their rotational defensive linemen, Joseph Assai, is out.


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[Assistant] And that's it. So both teams are, you know, I know there's some nagging stuff here and there, including Burrow, but both teams are very healthy heading into this game.


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[Assistant] Obviously I was very excited about this because the Bengals had...


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[Assistant] The Bengals, I believe, had never signed a player, even including non-guaranteed money, to even a- I don't think they've ever had a hundred million dollar contract before that can recall. That's insane to me. And you knew they had to do it. I know there were some clowns who were like trying to bust my balls saying, oh they're never gonna sign him, he's gonna be gone.


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[Assistant] I think it puts more pressure on him. No doubt. But obviously it's a different story, G, because...


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[Assistant] He's played great since the moment he came in the league, and since Watson signed this contract, he was suspended and then didn't play well. That's a big difference.


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[Assistant] Number two, Watson has the off-the-field stuff, which Borough doesn't have. That's, that's a big part of it. You may think that's unfair, but that's obviously the reason why. Had Deshaun Watson not had any trouble off the field, and had still been the same great quarterback that he was in Houston, and came to Cleveland, I don't think we would be talking about.


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[Assistant] I mean, listen, per year, the whole contract, it's the highest paid contract ever, he could have demanded the whole thing. He could have said,


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[Assistant] You gotta pay me the whole thing guaranteed or I'm not signing. He could have gotten it. And he would have eventually gotten it somewhere or somehow, but he didn't do that in the end. Obviously it's a great contract.


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[Assistant] Like I love Boomer, I love Kenny Anderson, there was some good moments with Andy Dalton, the Bengals went to the Super Bowl twice when I was a kid. But I've never had more fun watching the Bengals than the last two years. But ultimately, and they got, obviously they got as close as you can get without winning, they lost the Super Bowl on the last, essentially the last play of the game.


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[Assistant] But if they don't win the Super Bowl, it's, it's a massive disappointment in the end. You're right. If you have a quarterback that gives you a chance, the Bengals do, the Browns do,


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[Assistant] At least we think the Browns do. If you don't win the Super Bowl, it's a disappointment. It is.


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[Assistant] And there's four of us from now on to the end. By the way, I had a member of the 92 through the fan staff text me today and say, what an absolute joke that we are not allowed to go on your show.


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[Assistant] Who can't put water or put weight on it in a pool. Yeah, that surprised me, G. When you get to be 34, you just don't turn around and stuff heel right. I didn't see much separation from these receivers.


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[Assistant] They got him. They got him. He was doing it the whole game. Listen, I'll give it to him. Listen, Aiden Hutchison, he was relentless, they stuck to what they were doing, and they played zone, they didn't give up anything big, and to play it again, we're going to pick six on a tip ball.


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[Assistant] And this is why, and this is why this game matters. When you look at the Bengals, the difference between the Chiefs and the Lions and the Bengals and the Browns is A, it's the Bengals and the Browns, and B, this is a division game. Like, if you wanna act like this don't count, well, they may have the luxury of doing that. They can do that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, nah, it's a big, it's a big, it's a big home opener. One, because we look at what the quarterback position is.


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[Assistant] Two, it's a, it's a game that is in the division.


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[Assistant] And four, you've brought in a bunch of new additions that have basically shown that you are all in this season. So obviously you gotta have some success in these first few games, especially when you come back on a short week, you got the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] Think about this, you come in here, if Deshaun Watson looks like Deshaun Watson, and they hit the ground running, Miles Garrett is moving around, the team is playing well, didn't you go into Pittsburgh?


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[Assistant] People gon' be jacked up. People gon' be there. But the white helmet's ready to go. Like, ehm, at the confidence level that you're seeing, Bull, is the confidence level.


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[Assistant] Not in, like, oh, the, the, the Cleveland Browns magic. The confidence level is steeped in, we got ballplayers. I've seen all of these dudes, I've seen Zedarius Smith play well.


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[Assistant] I've seen Daven Thomason play well. I've seen Juan Thornhill raise a Super Bowl trophy. So I'm looking at the players and the pieces and parts. There should be no issues where they come out like a couple years ago and get boat race in the infamous Tennessee Titans game.


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[Assistant] That playbook he had for a half a year and eighteen. Boy, he, that look, remember he was running a full house? He ran a full house back. People was like, we sold. His office looked great. That eighteen year.


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[Assistant] By the way, how many games did, how many games did the Bengals win last year? Lose last year? Lose? Well, they were 12 and 4, weren't they? They only had 16 games. Oh, that's right. 12 and 4. They lost 4 games last year. You can't tell me over in that other locker room, they're thinking like, look,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think I went with, uh, my man, uh, did I go with Nick Chubb? You did go with Nick Chubb. See, this is the crux of the season you're gonna get all year. Somebody said, I forget who I was talking to when somebody said this, they said, listen, Noah's Leroy! Shout out to Leroy!


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[Assistant] He can kill you by himself. You can lose to the Browns just cause Nick Chubb was Nick Chubb that day. Never lose, no, never lose fact inside of that. So now the, the, the crux of the position that you want to put defenses in every single game is


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[Assistant] Do you want too high safeties? Because you don't want Deshaun Watson throwing his football to guys that are route precision guys. Marquise Goodwin's the speed demon is back himself. I won't call him demon. The speed angel. We'll do that. I'm trying to work on myself.


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[Assistant] Let me call him that. He's a solid human being. You can't catch him. And now we got a joker underneath. So now we want to say is it too high safety or are you going to put six, six, seven, eight guys in a box? Which one are you going to pick? Because you can't do both at the same time.


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[Assistant] That's the way I would do it. I would say, well, who's the more solid? Who have I seen more from lately? Nick Chubb, I've seen him destroy teams and game plans. So guess what? Now Deshaun Watson, if he's back.


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[Assistant] That's one on one coverage. You gotta eat on that. So that's the, that's the crux. And if he starts doing that, now our conundrum is there for the other team. Alright, Jason.


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[Assistant] This is funny. This is funny because y'all, you guys are in the right continent, but not in the right state. I went with Greg Newsom. This was not public.


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[Assistant] Ward didn't pick the ball off and took it to the crib. He's, he's, he's been in the game. He, he, he's a hundred million dollar man.


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[Assistant] Martin Emerson, we know he, he came in and was like, nah, that's me. Like, I feel like I'm the best corner. Like, he ain't never gave a, Martin Emerson be practicing. Like, it's like usually when you good and you like, hey, we got Denzel over there, you starting and what, no, he'd be like, no, I'm practicing cause I, I just want, I'm that competitive. Greg Newsome.


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[Assistant] He had the guys that was rumbling about whether you want to play inside or outside. You're going to have a true bona fide receiver, Tyler Boyd, that is going to be a professional. He can run all the routes. You know, they may mix you in on the outside or the inside. You are the guy, if I'm looking at Martin Emerson and Jamar Chase,


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[Assistant] Greg Newsome, we're looking your way. Not to say that you're a bad player, not to say that you can't make a play. You've identified him and many have as the weakest link. Yes, they've identified you as a solid player and picks just not your thing as we see to yet.


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[Assistant] Maybe you get some knockdowns or something, but that's the guy that, that I need to be the X Factor because if he plays well...


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[Assistant] Well, they in trouble then, cause I know what the other two can do. That's that, now our secondary is elevated.


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[Assistant] Browns have always been a little brother. Browns has always been a joke. And guess what? That elf can either be cool or creepy. Elfs put, elves are very powerful in the Lord of the Rings. Elfs and orcs are kind of magical creatures and they be doing kind of, listen, everybody knows you don't mess with Lucky Charms. You don't mess with the Lucky Charm guy. I'm looking at this game and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Well listen, I'ma tell you what, here's what happened, here's what's gonna happen this time, because now it's all about the playoffs.


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[Assistant] And we got, we got defensive ends now that can come get you. And we just talked about three good corners. And we just talked about a defensive line. Look, the Browns got ballplayers. And whether you like it or not.


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[Assistant] Game recognized game. These guys work out with these dudes in the off-season. They work out. You can't, he ain't had nothing to say against Demare Cooper because he know he a ballplayer. He ain't say nothing about Zadarius, he know he's a ballplayer. We got bona fide ballplayers on this team.


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[Assistant] And you just gave us all the motivation we need. Last time I checked, Jamar Chase, you needn't be worried about catching your boy Justin Jefferson past you, homie. You needn't worry about you, but hm, hm. You ain't got no juice.


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[Assistant] And they acted like they got jewelry and fists full of diamonds and stuff. Listen, y'all, y'all still on that track record with us too. Y'all, y'all did your thing. Y'all went to the Super Bowl. We appreciate you. Every year is a new year. You gotta come to the bar. You gotta come to Cleveland and you gotta play.


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[Assistant] Because they was like, oh, it was between the, like, the Rams and, and rooting for the Bengals. Oh, in the Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl. Yeah, Joe Bro's a hard guy to root against. He's a hard guy to root against, right?


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[Assistant] But you start to see when you, when Deshaun Watson says, I'm tired of talking about 2019 and 2020. I could be better than 2019 and 2020. That means he'd feel like, okay,


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[Assistant] While I was gone, it's some of y'all cats that got good. But don't act like I still ain't good. Like,


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[Assistant] They're a guy. Right. You know why every year is so hard? Every year, this is why they didn't fail so hard and people retire. Because don't nobody care about what you did last year. Last year you could be a pro bowler, this year you can get cut. Right. Well, look at the cheese. Well, nobody's done anything this year. Nobody.


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[Assistant] He also did say, he said, you know, you guys, you, you compared to some of these guys, they got you ranked 22nd. He said, well look, I ain't played in two years.


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[Assistant] I mean, for a top 10 pick, we'll see, um, you know, what they do, but I actually think he's the key to whether or not the Browns low-key will be good. You're going against guys that have speed rushers that do their thing. I think Jed Wills needs, and if he just had his effort, I don't mind if you get beat, but just have the effort.


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[Assistant] Every single play, through the whistle. That's, those are the plays that make him look worse than what actually he really is. Here's the thing, you know, I like Dwayne Jones. They've been working him in a lot of different places. Uhm, they got some guys to back him up, but I think this guy is really a key to whether or not


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[Assistant] The passing game looks right, and if they're gonna be able to run the ball consistently like they did in 2020 on with Chubb. So I think we should be talking about that a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Man, easy for me. Taki, Taki. Look at, uh, his injury, uh, last year. I've torn the ACL later in the year, uhm, playing football, like, you know, when it gets to be October, November. I tore mine a little later, December 13th.


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[Assistant] And yea, you're good. You tear that first ACL, you always worry about it. Jay, you know, you worry about the other ACL. Yea, you worry about the same ACL. You worry about the same one. And when you talk about being a linebacker, getting downhill, are you going to trust your leg when you explode left to right? Taki Taki is also a good guy on special teams.


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[Assistant] I thought he was a guy that plays the middle linebacker position very well in your nickel packages. So, you know, they're going to bring him along a little slower, but you know, just for me knowing his injury history.


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[Assistant] That's the key question. How much, that's the talking point. How much slack are you giving him until you need to see it? You could say you're gonna give him slack if he plays poorly.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Easy bruh. He could have been done. He could have been out of here. We was, we was putting him on bubble wrap. Career was over. We saw what happened to, to, uh, you know, guys like, uh, Chris Bosch. That's a serious injury and I think everybody was giving him the thoughts and prayers. You out of here.


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[Assistant] You know, it's like no lie, no lie, you know what I'm saying? You go see your, you know, you see your dude, you be like, man, G. Bush looking sick.


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[Assistant] So I thought that was, but he comes back, he practicing, he got a new lease on life, he changed his number, the dude, you root for him just by hearing his story about his sister. And he's a great dude. And he's a great dude, came on the show, I'm super rooting for him, super rooting for him.


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[Assistant] I've liked what I've seen from JLK so far. Much more decisive, much more downhill, he's hitting the gaps, he's shooting, if they can do that, JLK can go from a guy we laughed about last year to oh my goodness, this is the guy they wanted.


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[Assistant] Uh, Deshaun Watson says that he's tired of talking about, uh, you know, 2019 and 2020, and that it could be better than that.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, before he kind of said, you know, you know, I shouldn't be mentioning those, uh, you know, ranks because I haven't played in two years, but it seems like he's gaining more and more confidence in his, what he's going to be able to do on the field as the days get closer to the game. What are your thoughts?


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[Assistant] Well Mary Kay, uhm, one guy we have not heard of is Nick Chubb. We've heard of him actually, you know, a lot in the past, but we have not heard from him in the preseason. Uhm, is he going to be a big part of what this offense is going to do moving forward, especially in this game?


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[Assistant] You're getting this stuff for him. I don't like that. I don't like that. Uh, Watson delivers the fireworks, uh, Burrow limps, uh, out of Cleveland with the L. Uh, the fireworks is coming. Uhm, now I think the, the biggest point is Joe Burrow running around, moving around.


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[Assistant] The big part of Joe Burrow's game is his mobility. He's an underrated scrambler. He has underrated mobility. Uh, he gets out of danger a lot. He scrambles. He can step up in the pocket. He dips and dives. He throws the ball. And they got receivers that can play the scrambles real good because those guys are in complete sync. However,


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[Assistant] I think we haven't talked about a guy all day and that's because Mikey said don't mention him because he's that good, Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] He's done what he's supposed to do. Nine, nine sacks. I think this guy comes out here and I've been on record saying he gets three. Miles Garrett gets three sacks.


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[Assistant] In this game, I think Joe Burrow limps around and I think Deshaun Watson doesn't quite throw for three.


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[Assistant] He throws for about 289. Very efficient. Three touchdowns. Cleveland Browns win this game and they put, guess what? 28 points on the board. I got him winning 28-17 over Joel Earl. When you said guess what, I thought you were gonna say like 50 or something. No. Wow, 28-17. 28-17.


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[Assistant] If you look just on now, there wouldn't be very many people that would take Deshaun Watson over Joe Burrow. However, you gotta also look, that number for Deshaun Watson at 230 is because of the Browns ineptitude.


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[Assistant] And the national debt is what? We don't care. G. Bush gonna tell you we drank Kool-Aid 30 years ago. That Kool-Aid cost us millions and billions in deficit money. But who cares? We got a ring, right? We won. I enjoyed it. That's it.


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[Assistant] No, I think he should be able to go against the Bengals. I've been watching him practice. Uh, he looks good. Now we're only allowed now to watch stretching and individual drills, but he's out there, you know, running go routes and


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[Assistant] Austin Watkins didn't make the 53. These guys are similar in body type and they're trying to get an eclectic mix in that room.


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[Assistant] So, uh, you know, I would say SED is gonna get out there and probably have an opportunity to make an impact sooner than later.


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[Assistant] Uh, right now, completely off to the side if you ran into him at the bank or the grocery store, uh, and he would not have an answer for you at all because he just doesn't know.


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[Assistant] But hopefully for Denzel that this is not a serious concussion, hopefully it was pretty mild and that he's feeling great and he'll be able to get back there on the field, not just so that they can beat the Bengals, but for his own wellbeing.


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[Assistant] And, uh, hopefully I can buckle down and get it done in the next day or two, uh, because it was, you know, it was really cool to talk to him.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Jordan Elliott can get out there. Shelby Harris, who is a very experienced veteran, can be out there, depending on how he's getting.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, when I look out there and I watch Deshaun Watson move and throw the ball and make decisions and use his agility and his nimble feet and his legs to run and all those kinds of things that I see, I do see an elite skill set. Actually, I've said this before and I'm not afraid to say it again, I see, you know, Hall of Fame


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[Assistant] And you know, it all has to come together. We've seen other extremely talented quarterbacks where it didn't work out the way people hoped it would. Uh, but when I just, you know, isolate on him, he has unbelievable athletic ability.


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[Assistant] Field vision, football acumen, he's got it all. And now it's just a matter of bringing that to the forefront and the Browns hoping that it all comes together the way they want it to.


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[Assistant] No, absolutely 100%. I mean, if you talk to any of these guys, I mean, if you sit down for a minute with Amari Cooper and you talk to him about Deshaun, he lights up talking about Deshaun. He told me in the locker room the other day that he's never played with a quarterback like this before.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yes, I think that these guys are over the moon, excited about what they think they can accomplish. And uhm, I also asked Deshaun Watson after the final preseason game what he thinks this can be.


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[Assistant] Well, one thing to remember right now is there's so much turnover in NFL teams every single season. So, you know,


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[Assistant] There are 24 new players on this 53 man roster. So every year, you know, you have to say goodbye to players that you may have.


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[Assistant] Talking to him when, when he left, there are a lot of guys like that in that category. Uh, of course, Joe Thomas was one of the best guys ever to talk to and deal with. Now Joel Batonio plays that role of somebody that you can, uh, you know, really kind of have be the face and voice of the team. It will just kind of.


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[Assistant] No, you're correct about that. That absolutely 100% came out of the blue and I think they had determined by that point that


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[Assistant] Uh, that DTR probably would end up as the number two at some point this season anyways and they got something of value for Joshua Dobbs. Something that they felt that they could turn into something because they do a very nice job usually.


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[Assistant] With their 5th round picks and with their 6th round picks.


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[Assistant] So they really have to hope that Sione and Anthony Walker are really ready to go and that they can stay out there and that they can


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[Assistant] So let's see how that goes. Uh, you know, they've got a number of other guys there, uh, you know, that are kind of coming up in the, through the pipeline and that should be pretty good.


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[Assistant] And, you know, in the event that you need to go out there and you need to try to win that game in Cleveland Brown Stadium on Sunday, September 10th, and he's got to kick a 52 yarder to get it done, you know, that's not his forte.


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[Assistant] I got a little push back on a, on a show yesterday about that, but they did. They tried to add Cade York back. He, he opted for greener pastor. Uhm, and then the running back.


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[Assistant] We go back to normal people, we go back to normal life, we have to go back to work.


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[Assistant] Make money because this does not pay our bills, unfortunately. If it did, we'd all be happier people, but it's all volunteer. To meet up with these horses? Oh, it's great.


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[Assistant] All my friends now, they listen to me and other people don't listen to me.


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[Assistant] I'm big. I'm stumped. I like those shoes, Ty. Thank you. Travis Scott's. Nice.


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[Assistant] Memory card is damaged, but I should be able to recover most of the data back at the Batcave.


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[Assistant] That's the plan. Then I've also gotta lead on Enigma.


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[Assistant] What you're doing is no different than stealing. There's nothing refined about it.


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[Assistant] The fire and exposure to the elements make identifying the victims difficult. The male victim is wearing a black mask.


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[Assistant] The DNA here doesn't belong to either of the victims.


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[Assistant] The fight broke out when someone startled the shooter. It's not clear who won the fight. Could have been either one of them.


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[Assistant] This fabric swatch could help identify the intruder, but I still can't identify the male victim's shooter. There's one impact area I haven't checked for clues.


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[Assistant] The level of oxidation suggests it's been here for several days.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'll have the guys over at Evidence Lockup take a look. They can get kinda rough though.


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[Assistant] Talk, or you won't be walking anywhere, ever.


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[Assistant] By now, Gotham PD thinks Roman Sionis is dead. A casualty of a turf war. Murdered by the Penguin.


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[Assistant] Someone spooked Zionas's girlfriend, so he sent her to his safe house, which was anything but safe.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Cyanus had a pacemaker implanted. It says here he had prolonged QT syndrome.


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[Assistant] Anything that raises his heart rate could trigger cardiac arrest. Sionis was having the Joker followed.


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[Assistant] Good. I'll need it. The more I learn about the Joker.


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[Assistant] I need to get to ground level to find the antidote.


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[Assistant] I'm fine Alfred. I've dealt with psychopaths before, but this...


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[Assistant] It appears that whatever this compound is, it reduces mental capacity in several ways, including severe damage to the brain's memory center. Prolonged use could seriously compromise the user's memory.


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[Assistant] No, I can't risk them discovering my identity as well. Just secure yourself in the Batcave.


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[Assistant] I can't do it. I can't stop them


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[Assistant] Captain Gordon's on his way, secure the gates for him, then help him lock this place down. The Joker cannot be allowed out of here.


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[Assistant] All day today, counting fives, tens, singles.


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[Assistant] While we out here, let me tell you a little something what's going on.


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[Assistant] Your man right here, the interview is coming. You know what I do. My interviews is better than your album.


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[Assistant] You know what this is, man. Big body, man. Fault in street's finest situations all day. My man who? Big motherfucking you know who body. Situations on the way.


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[Assistant] Free text on forever, you heard? A lot of imitations, man. Only one, man. He be home soon. And to the other one, you already know, man. I see your security team all around, rolling around, man.


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[Assistant] That's a conspiracy. They was locked up in a lot of the same jails. That's got nothing to do with nothing. That's Alchemist. That's Bobby Valentino. Alright, I told you, we out here.


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[Assistant] Sheboyah House Phone, we out here with No Jumper. We at the Hundreds Family Style Food Festival, presented by DoorDash. We about to, you know, walk around, eat some food, talk to some people, check out some clothes, see what the fuck we got going on out here, man. Real LA shit, baby. Let's go.


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[Assistant] It's the best burger in the world! I've definitely heard that before. We bout to try it out and see what's up with it right now. You feel me?


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[Assistant] But, the combo with the, the pickles, with the fucking coleslaw, with the sauce, all together,


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[Assistant] She tried to shotgun it for me. Didn't get it done. We'll come back, let's just try it later.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't think anybody can make that statement just yet, because we don't know. We don't know exactly what to expect with the quarterbacks. I would love to say and come on here and be like, yeah, they're going to be great. We all know they're going to throw for 400 yards a game. Matter of fact, McCord or Devon Brown.


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[Assistant] We really don't know, we don't have a great sample size on McCord. Maybe a smaller sample size, a smaller, uhm, time of seeing him play Devon Brown. So, McCord's gonna need to start tomorrow, but for me to come out here and say like, uh,


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[Assistant] We don't know, we know what to expect. I don't think I can make that statement right now.


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[Assistant] They might take a step back because you're kind of saying, I don't want to put the expectations on this quarterback and make them super high or the way that, um, Stroud played or the way that, uh, Justin Fields played. I think the one guy that is very, um, key to look at here is Dwayne Haskins. Ryan Day wasn't the head coach.


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[Assistant] But Ryan Day was there the year prior. There was a quarterback battle. Ultimately, Joe Burrows hand got hurt, which set him back in that quarterback battle. Dwayne Askins wins the job in 2018. And we got to see the guy that only had one year at Ohio State really early in Ryan Day's tenure.


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[Assistant] Got to play some really good football, broke records and things like that as quarterback. So from a quarterback to be there for a while, that is true.


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[Assistant] I just don't know if I'm comfortable saying they're gonna take a step back. I won't say you're gonna get CJ Stroud, uhm, or Justin Fields like right away. I can't say that.


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[Assistant] But I do kind of, I have a belief in the guys. I just don't know how soon or how quickly these quarterbacks, either McCord or Brown, whichever one ultimately wins starting job, when they'll become their own end throw for touchdowns in back to back to back games. I don't know that yet, but it's tricky. This offseason, talking about the quarterback battle,