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[Assistant] It's a beautiful question and a awesome mindset to have as a quarterback. I love our Cleveland Brown teams of the eighties. I, the, the dog pound era teams, we had a really good defense and when I had a good defense like that,


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[Assistant] I actually could take more chances with the football. And I would make sure I would take more chances with the ball. And if I made a mistake, I knew that my head, my defense had my back.


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[Assistant] And I knew it wasn't like a life and death situation to where the defense will bail you out from those type situations. I felt like that with the really good Brown's defenses, the mid eighties.


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[Assistant] I love the elite defense that we're having now with Jim Schwartz. So it absolutely lets a quarterback be a little more aggressive with his, with his play, with his play. And then if he makes a mistake, he doesn't have to get down. I don't have to get down on my


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[Assistant] You know, when you got games like this that could be a trap game, especially when you're feeling good about yourself. The great coach Bill Parcells.


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[Assistant] Uh, the great coach I had, Don Shula, never wanted you to feel comfortable within yourself. So, organizationally, head coach wise, Coach Stefanski, he's attuned to these trap games. And just stuff like yourself, Mike, talking about the trap game.


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[Assistant] The coach, players, making sure you're cognizant of that, uhm, your quarterback, your leaders of the team, they have to talk to your young players about that. And at this time of the year, in October, you don't, you are susceptible to these trap games.


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[Assistant] I gotta cut you off real quick. G. Bush, I see you messing with that earpiece. I have never wanted to fight you more than I do right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I was the last one in at 1030. People don't think me and G actually have beef. Uh, the earpiece is, he has a generic earpiece. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I gave him four weeks ago a molded earpiece kit. Boy, you're now wearing a molded earpiece kit that you returned. We got made, got sent back to us. So is Tivus, so is Jason, so is Jay. And G keeps like, yo, my earpiece sucks. And I'm like, G, I gave you this a month ago.


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[Assistant] Steve's family's here, and then they're going to lunch with their mother for her 101st birthday.


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[Assistant] We'll do, hey, this is a live IFB check. Can he hear you? Yeah, it is.


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[Assistant] I got some facts I got to read and I want to tell the people out there. We are monitoring very closely a situation with the Cavs and we don't want to have a certain conversation about the Cavs until we feel we are fully justified and right in saying that. So anyone who's like, you guys ignore the Cavs? We are just not jumping the gun on a certain conversation. I think we all are on the same page.


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[Assistant] There's some things before we put a man's job on the line that we just gotta make sure we are. We're not putting his job on the line. So we are monitoring that situation. I think we're all thinking along the same lines as you guys are. And we will have that conversation, uh, very, very soon if need be. Before we get into the Browns defense versus the Ravens defense,


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[Assistant] Alright Bull, we mentioned it off the top, let's get into something that's here. We're talking Ravens vs. Browns.


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[Assistant] Which team truly has the number one defense in the NFL this season? I'm gonna let you guys get into the discussion. I just wanted to point out some stats here that I think will help give a little context to how good these two defenses have been. So let's start with the first stat. The fewest net yards allowed in a game this season.


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[Assistant] No team in terms of yards allowed has been better than the Cleveland Browns this season. We go to the next stat, Steve. How about touchdowns allowed?


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[Assistant] The Ravens have allowed 9 touchdowns on defense this season in 9 games. That's 105 drives, 9 touchdowns allowed. The Browns defense, which we all know has been phenomenal at its own rate, they're tapped with the Steelers for 5th with 15.


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[Assistant] That is 40% more than the Ravens have given up this season. Nine touchdowns in five jobs. Let's go to the next stat, Steve. How about fewest first downs allowed? Cleveland is only allowed 96 first downs in eight games. Baltimore 149. The difference between one and two. Dallas at 134.


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[Assistant] That's the same difference from Dallas to the 20th team in the league is the 38 first down difference. No team allows fewer first downs. We talk about sacks, a very important defensive stat. Well, the Ravens lead the league in sacks this season.


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[Assistant] But in sacks per game, they're tied for first at 3.9. I wanted to give you the per game because not every team's played 8 games. The Browns, tied for third with 3.4. But here's the caveat to that, Steve, you go to the next one. Highest sack percentage, so sacks per drop back.


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[Assistant] Top. The Baltimore Ravens. 11.3. Essentially every 10 times the opposing team drops back to throw the ball.


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[Assistant] They're getting sacked, that is the highest rate in the NFL. Couple more here, just some advanced analytics.


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[Assistant] Pro football reference has this really cool stat, and I don't know the exact formula, but before I show you it,


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[Assistant] You'll see where these two teams rank compared to the rest of the league. It's called expected defensive points added. So how many points your defense got a three and out led to points. Short field led to points. I don't exactly know the formula.


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[Assistant] But look at three, four, and five. That's a fifty point gap.


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[Assistant] Between those two. Impressive. Let's go to DVOA which both does take into account a little bit of the, uh, opponent you played. This is the top DVOAs ever.


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[Assistant] DVOA essentially takes into account opponent time and measures your success on a certain play versus the league average on similar plays. Obviously that's the third highest DVOA through nine weeks of all time. And here's success rate, which counts this season, how successful a defense has been in stopping teams is that they only started tracking this since 2016.


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[Assistant] Look at the top two teams, the Browns this season, 69.4% success rate. This quarter, next gen stats, the 2023 Ravens, the second highest, or I guess tied for second highest ever tracked at 63.8%. Those are still the numbers. Guys, in your opinion, do the Browns have the number one defense in the NFL right now?


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[Assistant] Two things real quick. We just mentioned a bunch of really good defensive players on the Baltimore Ravens. And I agree with you guys. I think it's 51-49 Browns. I think this may be the closest discussion or topic we've had where you can make a damn good case for either side.


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[Assistant] He has a sack in six straight games, which is a new Baltimore record. You want some scores real quick, Tyvis?


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[Assistant] The Ravens held Houston to 9 points, and that was CJ Stroud's first game ever.


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[Assistant] They lost in overtime to Indianapolis, 22 to 20, uh, 22 to 19.


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[Assistant] Uh, they beat Cleveland 28-3. They lost to Pittsburgh 17-10. They were up that entire game. Kenny Pickett had that weird crazy fourth quarter. They held Tennessee to 16 points. They held Detroit to 6 points. They held Arizona to 24. And I shouldn't say they held.


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[Assistant] They changed their grading system this year, and they're gonna go, I already heard Sam Monson saying a podcast, they're gonna go back to last year's grading system, because these grades...


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[Assistant] What has taken his game from really good to, I mean, he's been elite in the past, but consistently this season.


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[Assistant] Kind of scheme to stop that. We're going to have a coach type of segment tomorrow on stopping the read option.


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[Assistant] But today, let's talk about Lamor vs. the Browns, uh, the Ravens running backs, excuse me. They have a stable of running backs, and it seems like whoever's in the backfield has been productive for the Ravens, but if you're looking from a Browns perspective,


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[Assistant] What's a more dangerous facet of the Raven's rushing attack? With bar and design scrambles.


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[Assistant] Or whoever the hell is in the backfield who seems to pick up four and a half yards per carry.


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[Assistant] Guys, we have a couple no-fence rider questions to get to, and only one of them is not.


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[Assistant] Mosey on through these pretty quick. Let's start with the first one. Steve, are you ready?


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[Assistant] Number one, will a kicker in this game, either kicker, Dustin Hopkins or Justin Tucker, miss a kick on Sunday, it can be an extra point or a field goal. This was a 4-3 split. Three people said yes, myself, G and J, duly there'll be a missed kick, while the rest of you guys, the angry side of the fence, says no. That's true, all the angry people.


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[Assistant] Excellent there, Mike. Justin Tucker versus the Browns.


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[Assistant] In 23 career games is 40 for 48 and 52 for 53 on extra points. He has missed 9 kicks against him.


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[Assistant] 83%. That's not for him, that's for good. But. But.


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[Assistant] In his first three games he missed four kicks.


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[Assistant] So in essentially the last 19 games, he's missed four kicks.


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[Assistant] And, G. Bush, if you remember last year. He missed one, right? He missed two.


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[Assistant] So there was a stretch where he 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. He went 10 games in a row without missing a kick. Essentially sandwiched. Bad start. 8 straight, no misses. 1 miss. He was 4 for 3, then 10 straight without missing before last year, so.


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[Assistant] Next one, will Elijah Moore have more receiving yards than OBJ in this game?


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[Assistant] Myself. Both these guys are not him. G, Tyvis, and Earl, all said yes, bull. You don't think so.


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[Assistant] It's- Bull, you told me last week I gave too much away in a tease.


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[Assistant] This is how quickly I learn in G. There is one of my 5 stats tomorrow.


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[Assistant] That is going to make anyone who said no to this question, change their mind. This is my lock of the century. Elijah Moore, more yards than OBJ. And there's a stat tomorrow and McNuggets five stat segment that will make you believe that I'm the smartest man in the world for making a lock on this.


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[Assistant] In week one, will it happen again? Or week, first match at week four? Will Lamar Jackson have more rushing yards than Jerome Ford? Yes or no? This was not a Ford. This was a 5-2 split. Tyvis, you and Jay said no.


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[Assistant] By the way, uh, Jerome Ford at 26 in the first matchup divas, just so you know.


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[Assistant] And he said we're gonna have to see how practice goes today and tomorrow. Not even he's sure at this point. So how their offensive line will be aligned.


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[Assistant] They haven't practiced yet. They're just speaking to the media. Oh yeaah, it's early though. So yeaah, that has not been released. As soon as that is, we will let you guys know. But that is something we are monitoring very close. Let's move on to the next one. Alright.


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[Assistant] Will Brown's receivers, excluding Amari Cooper and Njoku, so that means all other wide receivers, all other tight ends,


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[Assistant] Next up, we have two left. We're going to read some super chats. We're going to bring in our guy who's sitting backstage with us. Will any Bravens running back? Any Baltimore running back?


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[Assistant] Uh, Taylor had 57, uh, Taylor had 75, Moss had 57. Okay. Uhm, let's go through the rest of the games real quick.


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[Assistant] Alright, last one, Mike. Last one. Kareem Hunt is leading the NFL.


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[Assistant] Will he get number five in a row? What happened? McCaffrey lost his streak? Well, he has receiving. He's not had a, he scored a touchdown, not necessarily rushing.


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[Assistant] This guy, this guy worried about his first question. It was Kareem Hunt. It was will he score a rushing touchdown in his fifth straight game? A pretty even split. Jason, G, Tyvis, and Earl all said yes, bowl me, you and Jay. Don't believe it'll happen.


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[Assistant] Gee Bush, you know as well as anybody, Kevin Stefanski loves a little play action on the goal line. And then there was ever a time with a quarterback now who's capable of making some of the throws required to score on those tight window situations. It is Deshaun Watson as opposed to who the Browns have had back then before. I think the decoy.


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[Assistant] Or the tush push, but I think Kareem Hunt has been so effective down there, this is the weak, he's the decoy and someone else gets that goal.


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[Assistant] Is that what you mentioned earlier, both seven butad? He can't wait to try it.


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[Assistant] Charles T said Stefanski 100% should get extended. He's 4th and wins in Brown's history, 4 games behind Belichick and 12 behind Marty. He has stabilized the Browns through COVID, Baker, OBJ, Watson, PJ, Chubb, Injury, JW, and Jimmy, Professor Kajak.


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[Assistant] Next one comes from Professor Chaos, he said Michigan is trying to dry snitch on the rest of the Big Ten. Big facts.


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[Assistant] Two more Charles T says people were screaming to go get Sean Payton and Josh McDaniels to replace Defanski. What a mess in Denver and Vegas right now. And our guy Daryl says the Jim Schwarzenegger defense, they beat the Ravens 37-20 on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're bringing Coach Thomas back and me and Thomas are gonna go shoot that right now.


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[Assistant] That's a big one. See y'all then. And happy birthday to Anthony, I mean, director Steve's mom.


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[Assistant] We gotta do this quickly before we bring in Tim, but Jed Wills, guys, was limited in practice on Wednesday, did not practice on Thursday. His status is TBD for Sunday.


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[Assistant] Jack Conklin's out to Juan Jones is filled in admirably. If Jed Wills can't go, it is James Hudson who will have to line up at left tackle for PJ Walker and protect his blind side. I can't believe I'm asking this after all we've talked about Jed Wills throughout the season, but gee Bush, how big of a loss would it be for the Browns on Sunday if Jed Wills is unable to suit up?


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[Assistant] Tim, we have spent a lot of time on the show watching you.


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[Assistant] Probably justified, but we do have a game this Sunday against Seattle. PJ Walker's quarterback won here, and he is going to lead an offense that just scored 38 points, 39 points, excuse me, into a...


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[Assistant] Pretty tough environment to play in. As a quarterback on the road who's not a traditional starter, what does Coach Defanski and Walker have to figure out as far as either in-game adjustments, audibles, like how does a backup quarterback


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[Assistant] Handle that environment on the road, especially in Seattle where the 12th man is as crazy as any fan base in the country.


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[Assistant] For the Ohio State Wisconsin game. So make sure you guys check that out on WKYC Saturday night, the post game show also on WKYC. Guys, there are some fascinating one-on-one matchups in this game on Sunday between Seattle.


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[Assistant] For to particularly watch and you guys let me know who you think has the edge in these one on one matchups. So I'm gonna give it to you.


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[Assistant] You guys tell me which side you think is the advantage. Let's start with a Browns DB versus Seattle receiver, DK Metcalf versus Denzel Ward. If you're picking between a one-on-one matchup here, who are you giving the advantage to?


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[Assistant] It's a 2-2 split there. If I had to pick, I'd actually go down. I think Denzel's a better cornerback than DK's better receiver by a smidge, so.


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[Assistant] Tire drill, you know, high steps, not necessarily contact, but that's six days removed from a high ankle sprain.


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[Assistant] Next individual one-on-one match, let's switch sides of the ball here. How about Amari Cooper versus the fifth overall pick and rookie sensation who Corbin Smith this week said was already the best player on the Seahawks defense. Yeah. Devin Weatherspoon, the wily vet or the highly tatted rookie. Weatherspoon is


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[Assistant] So, this morning, I watched the All 22 film twice each week. Right. And you watch it the first time you see some stuff, you watch it the second time and you pick up some like- See a lot more.


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[Assistant] A lot of nuances, and there was another play we could talk about later with PJ Walker and something that happened to benefit him that he didn't do right, but whatever. And there was the play when PJ Walker threw the interception, the arm punt down to the three yard mark. If you go back and watch the route Amari Cooper ran, it is one of the most beautiful,


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[Assistant] Ballet-esque, make-a-defender-fall, he had 50 yards of separation essentially. Well, not 50 yards.


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[Assistant] Easy touch now. When you see it from that behind angle where you can really see the space and you don't see it on TV.


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[Assistant] Alright, what's next? Who's next? Next up, we're gonna go into the interior of the lines here. Joel Pletonio, an all-pro guard for the Browns, and Jaren Reid, one of the more underrated defensive tackles in football. He leads the Seahawks with four sacks this season and has had a sack in each of the past two games. But is that enough to edge out Joel Pletonio?


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[Assistant] We do have one more. I appreciate that, Jay. Last up, J. Okay, who's been way better than any of us could have imagined Jim Schwartz's defense this season, taking that next step forward we had hoped and anticipated. And Kenneth Walker, who has quietly been one of the best running backs in football.


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[Assistant] A little Kenneth Walker nugget for you guys before we get to my five stat team. He was a Michigan State guy. 49% of his rushing yards this season. 49%.


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[Assistant] Have come on stretch plays beyond the outside tackle. So with an extra blocker, he does not run up the middle.


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[Assistant] With the near, with nearly as much efficiency as he does outside.


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[Assistant] What that equates to is he breaks a ton of tackles. 63% of his missed tackles have come outside. So when he gets on non-defensive linemen,


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[Assistant] Very difficult to bring down, but 222 of his 450 rushing yards a season have come on stretch plays outside of the most eligible task.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, well here are the five things you need to know. Five stats you need to know heading into this game against the Seahawks. And before I give you the first set, I have a question for you guys.


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[Assistant] Where do you think the four-man pass rush unit for the Browns of Myles Garrett, Zedarius Smith, Ogbo, and Dalvin Tomlinson ranks among the league's best four-unit pass rush groups?


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[Assistant] Is that four man pressure group, or that four man pass rush group of Miles, Zadarius, Ogbo, and Tomlinson?


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[Assistant] Of all the combinations, that four, where do you think it ranks in the NFL in terms of overall pressure rate? I would say very high.


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[Assistant] And Bull is actually damn near spot on.


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[Assistant] They're getting to the quarterback at a 46.43% pressure rate with that four-man pass rush group.


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[Assistant] In Dallas, Micah Parsons, Lawrence Armstrong and Dante Fowler in 19 pass rush opportunities have a 90.1 pressure rate with that four person unit. That is 30 points higher than everyone else.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's good. Well, that 86 is good, but my bottom line of seeing that is I think this unit has been good. 46.6% pressure. We'll take that.


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[Assistant] It still is a chance to be even better. And against the Seattle offensive line that is playing without, potentially, they have the same situation as Jed Wills. They have one of their tackles has not practiced this week. He may not be on the field on Sunday. There's a chance to get a lot of pressures on Geno Smith.


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[Assistant] You know, translation, but at the end of the day, that four man group for the Browns is getting to the quarterback, or at least affecting their timing half the time. Which is pretty damn good. Yeah, that's really good. Especially without the extra rusher. Okay, good stat. We talked about Devin Weatherspoon.


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[Assistant] And how Bull mentioned he is the highest graded cornerback in the NFL, according to PFF. Second straight year, by the way, PFF has had a rookie cornerback as the highest graded sauce gardener was next year. He's not just good.


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[Assistant] This dude's stupid good. His last three games against the Bengals after being called out by DK Metcalf, his own teammate saying he's gonna shut down Jamar Chase.


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[Assistant] Cardinals threw his way twice. They attempted 41 pass attempts. They threw his way twice. He gave up zero receptions. Against Carolina. Against Carolina. They threw it at him 13 times. That was the Andy Dalton game when he threw 56 passes. They threw it 13 times. He allowed five receptions for 31 yards. 13 targets, five receptions. His seven combined interceptions and pass breakups this year.


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[Assistant] Starting the NFL. This dude's really good already and I cannot wait to see him versus Mario Cooper. That is must see TV in my mind.


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[Assistant] I can tell you, Steve, real quick, if we go to 63, if you go to 63, we have those stats, and Steve will pull it up, he'll take it full so we can see. They have 14 giveaways on the season, which according to ESPN, if you sort that,


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[Assistant] Speaking of the offense, and we talked about Jed Wills earlier. Well, there have been two unsung heroes on this offensive line the last couple weeks. I want to give a shout out to you real quick. In the last three games, Ethan Pochich, the center,


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[Assistant] I said 92 pass blocking snaps, he's giving up zero pressure and zero sacks.


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[Assistant] DeJuan Jones in those same times, man, three games, 123 pass blocking snaps, four pressures, just one sack. You combine those two together, that is 215 opportunities to allow pressure and North sack. Those two have combined to allow four pressures and one sack in 215. They have been the unsung heroes on the offensive line. They deserve a little bit of kudos. Shout out to Bill Callahan.


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[Assistant] Even 100% of what you could ask for and then about 10,000% on top.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up, we keep talking about the Seattle crowd, and there's a good reason. The Lumenfield advantage, the Quest field as it used to be, the 12th man, is legit. This stadium, which has had a bunch of names,


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[Assistant] It currently holds two world records for the loudest outdoor stadium at two different individual events. It reached 137.6 decibels.


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[Assistant] Which according to Wikipedia, and I'm not an ear doctor or whatever, it's like someone shooting a gun in your ear. It's the same sound at that. So this is a very loud stadium. In week three against Carolina with Andy Dalton at quarterback. It's not a rookie with Andy Dalton.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm just saying it's not a rookie quarterback. They had eight false starts. That's the most false starts caused in any stadium since 2011 with the Bears. The last time the Browns won in Seattle was 1989. Do you know who the quarterback was? Bernie Kozar. Who's coming up in our 1230 WC champ.


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[Assistant] And I'm, I'm, you know, I used to work on the sidelines shooting the game. I know. You could hear.


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[Assistant] And they shoot the cannon on the field and that was the worst one that would score. Earplugs were a necessity if you're shooting on the field. And LSU was the same way.


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[Assistant] All right, last stat here, guys, and G, you just talked about the tackles. This is interesting. We talk about Seattle.


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[Assistant] Now I know you can't take a game out of the equation, but just for comparison sake, I wanted to know what that number would be like if you took the 11 sacks out against the Giants and it drops down to 2.4 sacks per game, which is 19th in the NFL.


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[Assistant] That number 19 is way more indicative of the pressures the quarterback hits and the quarterback knockdown Seattle gets throughout the entire NFL.


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[Assistant] They are 21st in the league in QB hurry rate and 16th in overall pressure rate despite ranking second in total sacks or sacks per game because of that Giants game. So it is a good pass rush and I totally understand you can't take one.


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[Assistant] So they would average 2.7, which would be 14th in the NFL.


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[Assistant] So middle of the pack, which lines up with their pressure rate, their QB knockdown rate and their QB hit rate. So essentially what I'm saying is they already good pass rush.


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[Assistant] They do generate pressure, they do not generate pressure at the rate that the second team in Saks per game.


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[Assistant] Real quick, we only got three super chats and then we're going to send everybody off to the WKYC note on a high note. 30 seconds on why the Browns are going to beat the Seahawks this week. But first, M. Vine says Haslam has a responsibility in this situation.


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[Assistant] And Don Tavius Winston said, why did the Browns give up on DTR so fast? He was put in an impossible situation against arguably the best team in the NFL. DTR should be starting, he's 100% better than PJ.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna guess they've actually thrown for more yards. I'll pull it up right now.


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[Assistant] So they have thrown as a team for 991 yards this season. They have rushed as a team for 735.


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[Assistant] Even if you're not in Cleveland, but from 1230 to one, we leave YouTube head over to WKYC. And with that.


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[Assistant] We'll be breaking down everything you need to know from the Browns Colts game. Hopefully it is another celebration like last week was if not.


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[Assistant] It'll be a therapy session, just like it always is after losses, but win or lose, we are there for you. The number one rated Brown's post game show in the entire city. So make sure you tap in with us. How many we do last week? How many we do last thing a week? It's a record. It's over 35, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Mary Kay just tweeted, same thing that Zach said except she added eyeball test, and this is according to her. Eyeball test, looks like a go for the cult scheme.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna skip the trap game cause Bernie Kozart touches on it in the TV version of the show. We kept burning around and did a little interview. We're gonna go to the six pack and McNuggets stats here because there's a couple of these that I think are gonna lead to a little longer discussion and we have an extra stat today. Before we do that,


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[Assistant] I need a six piece. I need a six piece of McNuggets. Let's get it. This is a good one. I had five and then I found one more yesterday and Jason, I found the pre-motion snap stats that I was looking for. I asked Jason to dive deep into the athletic. Even the athletic guys couldn't find it, but I found it. We'll get to that one last.


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[Assistant] But first. Who's first in the end? We'll get to it. It's the last one.


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[Assistant] We're gonna start today with the six pack of McNugget stats you need to know. It's a little homage to Amari Cooper. Did you know that Pert...


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[Assistant] NFL's next gen stats. Maury Cooper leads the NFL.


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[Assistant] In sideline receptions this year was 6. Receiving yards on sideline receptions with 158. Receptions over expected.


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[Assistant] .8 yards of separation and the ball traveled 40.4 yards in the air. We give Amari Cooper a lot of credit. He stepped up in the biggest games the Browns have played, but what he has done, especially on the sidelines against San Francisco and that Pittsburgh game.


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[Assistant] Is better than any other receiver has done in that area of the field this season.


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[Assistant] That's a perfect segue to the second nugget here. You said man-to-man coverage. Bull, you mentioned the cornerbacks. Well, how about this? It has officially been the no-fly zone for the Browns secondary this season through five games for the Browns. They're playing the sixth highest rate of man coverage in the NFL.


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[Assistant] An opponent QBR. A 7.5 opponent QBR.


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[Assistant] In the 63% of snaps against Browns in man covers. The opponent quarterback's completion percentage first in the NFL at just 44%. And their average, this is not yards per completion. This is yards per attempt. The NFL average in yards per attempt is 8.9 yards per attempt this season against the Browns in man to man cover.


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[Assistant] Oh, is it? Yes. That's just the league average in Europe. I'm not sure if that's men's. I thought you said it was eight point. That is, that is the, that's against all coverage. That's just this quarterback's throw. Right.


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[Assistant] The number one percent is sixty-seven percent. And what are the Browns? Sixty-three. Sixty-three. So it's four. It's, it's minimal. It's pretty close. Who is, but who is leading in Lantau? Uh, Detroit's up, I have to pull up that, hold on. That's alright.


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[Assistant] The next stat you have to know is really two stats tied into one player. It's Gardner Minshew, who is starting at quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. And I'm going to set this up to bring to the big point here. Gardner Minshew has been a productive quarterback in the NFL. His career touchdown interception ratio is 47 to 18. That's 2.6, which is right on pace with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Here's the issue, and this is where the cults are gonna get in trouble. Last week against Jacksonville, Gardner threw three interceptions.


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[Assistant] All three came under heavy pressure. The Browns had the 5th highest pressure rate in the NFL at 28.1%. Gardner Minshew has the single lowest.


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[Assistant] He's played in all six games this season. Yea, he's played in everything. He played in every game this season. Here's what you have to know though. More than just a PFF, right? PFF tracks turnover worthy throws. So throws into coverage. Throws that could have been picked off that didn't. Which is a very, very valuable fact. He hasn't played all season.


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[Assistant] So he played, yeaah. I said he threw a pass in every game this season.


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[Assistant] Gardner Minshew, no matter who he's played, this is this season.


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[Assistant] 12.7% of his passes under pressure have been considered turnover worthy. It's the highest rate in the NFL. That's awful. Overall, his overall rating.


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[Assistant] Here's a 6.7 turnover throw ratio, which is also first in the NFL. If you can get to Gardner, mentioned he was going to give you opportunities to create turnovers. We have spoken all week long about how this Brown's defense is good as it's been the one area they have not been elite in.


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[Assistant] I was wrong. Uh, the ESPN game log showed he played five games. In my head, they had only played five games. Oh, I see. So both. I would like to apologize.


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[Assistant] Something we have all noticed, and when you see the numbers it kinda hurts even more, but the Browns are dead last this season and yards after catch as a team.


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[Assistant] As a team they have 430 yards after catch.


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[Assistant] Second last in the NFL is Tampa Bay with 478. Wow. Does Tyree kill? I have that number.


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[Assistant] Tyree Kill has 323 by himself. Mike, you're in my brain, I love it. No single grounds player is averaging more than 4 yards per catch after reception, or yards after catch, that have actually played. David Bell has a 5.0 on the dock, but he has like 3 catches, so I didn't count him. Yeah. Cooper 2.8 Yak.


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[Assistant] More 3.1, DPJ 3.3. Essentially, the Browns catch the ball, the Browns get tackled, end of play. That's an issue.


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[Assistant] What you say, Mike? We did a stat last week about quarterback Yak in terms of Brock Purdy and he, Tua.


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[Assistant] And ironically Kenny Pickett because of the 71 yard catch against the Browns were 1, 2, and 3 in quarterback yards after catch. So I think there is a little more quarterback initiative in, in what Genesis has had.


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[Assistant] Browns continue to run it behind Willis. His 78.1 run block rating in San Francisco is highest of the season by 21 points. They had 10 attempts.


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[Assistant] rushing against San Franc side around Jedwills, ea or his right. 10 carries in a touchdown. By far area of run against the 4 10 carries for first down for 10 or more yards. J week, attacking the left


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[Assistant] The Jaguars best runs against Indy last week was also behind their left tackle, so I would expect them to do it again. And Indy's two defensive ends, who switched, they don't line up either side, they both have sub 50 tackling grades. Last stat you have to know. And this is more big picture.


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[Assistant] It doesn't seem to me, watching them around, that they use a ton of pre-snap motion.


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[Assistant] And it turns out the stats actually back it up. They are 17th in the league and using any kind of motion pre-snap. 47.3% of their snaps, they use some sort of motion. However,


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[Assistant] They only use motion at the snap. A guy in motion when the ball is hiked on 13.3% of snaps that is 27th in the league. Snaps especially with a young quarterback or an unproven guy like


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[Assistant] Uh, PJ Walker could open or lead to some easier throws, easier reads because it makes a defense move. And there's always outliers, but for context, listen to the top teams in the league that use the most motion. Miami, 81% of the time. San Francisco, 78% of the time. The Chiefs, 69% of the time. The Rams, 65 and the Lions, 63.


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[Assistant] Well hey, more motion, I think everyone wins. I gotta read Super Chats and then we gotta get ready for TV. But if you ever find yourself in an emergency situation and need it.


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[Assistant] Guys, we're heading over to TV in four minutes. I'm going to fly through some super chats here. The first one comes from Skilly, who also gifted 10 memberships. So shout out to Skilly. Shout out to Skilly. He says, I love your shirt, Jason. Any chance we're getting an updated UCSS shirt? I was looking to pick that one up today. Noticed that two of the guys were on it. We're working on it. Brody's bottom line said, would you try to play PJ and DTR?


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[Assistant] Like the Saints do with Derek Hart and Taysom Hill, uh, I do not imagine a two-quarterback system if the Sean can't play. Uh, Tay the Goat says Turtleneck on Friday is insane.


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[Assistant] I like that. I like the look. Do it for Chubb says, G dressed up like the host.


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[Assistant] Uh, defense Schwartz can stop Henry and CMC. We can stop anybody. Daryl says the Browns dominate 27-10. Unfortunately, our defense is so good. Schwartz will be highly talented as a head coach next season. Kool-Aid Mafia in the building. Love you guys from Daryl.


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[Assistant] Kleej440 says Tyron Taylor plus this defense wins the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] That's, that's a stretch. Maybe we'll talk about that next week. I had to wake up, hold on. That just inspired a topic for next week. I appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Would we all agree that generally there's a lot of stupid people out there?


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[Assistant] Okay, here's the, here's a card. Alright. Love it. Love it. So, we're playing Family Feud. When we play Family Feud, my son likes to be Steve Harvey. So he's the host. He likes, he says he's Steve Harvey. He does the whole thing as Steve Harvey. He walks out, he does what Steve Harvey does.


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[Assistant] So, so, we're playing this game, right? Yea.


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[Assistant] Name a guess. Mashed potatoes. Applesauce. Applesauce is, there's five answers. Applesauce, believe it or not, is not on this list, but it was a good answer. Mashed potatoes.


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[Assistant] No, that's not on the list, also a good answer. Soup! Soup is number four. Banana!


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[Assistant] Banana's not on the list. Bad list. Alright, I, but, it's people that- Well, they ask 100 people. We've surveyed 100 people. Four of these answers are reasonable. Ice cream. Pudding.


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[Assistant] There was no, but there was a person working behind the counter who was missing some teeth. Okay. And it kinda made me not want to get the food. Is that wrong?


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[Assistant] I would stick with DTR and here's why. First of all, if they don't, but either way, this is a real, this whole situation is a real indictment on the Brown's ability to


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[Assistant] Realize what talent they have, like their, uh, their ability to, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?


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[Assistant] Recognize, thank you, that's the word I'm looking for. Recognize talent. Because...


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[Assistant] My brain is like fried at the moment. They traded Josh Dobbs. Thank you. Okay. They traded Josh Dobbs. None of us thought twice about it because he's Josh Dobbs, whatever. And because DTR looked so good.


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[Assistant] That's right. Now, some people were more excited about it than others, but I didn't really care because I was like, well, Josh Dobbs is nothing with nothing. I still think he's not nothing with nothing. And, and, uh, PJ Walker's thrown roughly the same amount of passes that Josh Dobbs has in his NFL career and had thrown more coming into the season, obviously. But,


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[Assistant] If, if you were, if you're gonna bench DTR after one game where he was not properly prepared and had very little time to get ready, as opposed to having two, they have two weeks here to get him ready.


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[Assistant] Two weeks. PJ Walker, yes, he's a veteran in comparison. He stinks. He's not any good. Yes, he stole Baker Mayfield's job last year because he played like two decent games and maybe he'd be a little better.


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[Assistant] I just can't imagine he's any better that you wouldn't want to stick with a guy you drafted. And you said we could trade this guy to Arizona for a meaningless probably fifth round pick.


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[Assistant] Because we're confident in this guy. That's what you did. When you traded Josh Dobbs, you said, he's not that good, and this guy's better than Josh Dobbs. And now after one game where he wasn't prepared in a tricky spot, we had to throw a ton.


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[Assistant] You're gonna say, well, we're done with that. We're gonna go with a guy who's shown nothing in his little NFL career.


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[Assistant] Let him play because your chances of winning the game without the Sean Watson are negligible. You're right. Even if you agree that because he's a veteran, it gave you a pinch, a .001% chance better. Who cares? I'd rather develop the other guy in a long shot situation anyway.


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[Assistant] I don't want to hear about this. Every year we hype up this team and then we think we think they should lose at a mediocre Seattle team. Your coach is mediocre to below


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[Assistant] By the way, not only, you saw the stat that Mike put up 5 touchdowns and 11 picks, he's also fumbled 4 times.


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[Assistant] Again, what I don't understand is, a week ago, before they lost, nobody was having anything bad to say about Stefanski after the offense looked its best against...


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[Assistant] All I know is the last time Watson played, the offense played great.


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[Assistant] You know what's so funny is that if you had asked that poll last week before the Ravens game, it would have been 99% DPR. You're absolutely right.


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[Assistant] When you look at difference-maker offensive coaches, to me, there's only four.


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[Assistant] Sean McVay. McDaniels is the fourth. He's got to do it longer, I think, before he have, I mean, he's only done it, you know, they, they were lousy without Tua last year.


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[Assistant] Now, what's interesting though with McVeigh is like people gave him credit for Jared Goff, but quietly Jared Goff's been really good the last two years in Detroit. He's been really good.


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[Assistant] I think that he's lucky he's got a great quarterback and he has two good coordinators.


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[Assistant] How good do you think he is? What you mean? How good a quarterback is Brock Purdy?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. If, if we were starting an NFL draft today.


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[Assistant] If the NFL teams were drafting, do you think Brock Purdy would go in the top five? There's no chance. No, top five overall? No, top five of quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Well, Mahomes is the best quarterback in the league. And then Burrow, Herbert, Allen, and Hertz are two through five, whatever order you want to put them in. There's nobody else in conversation in my mind for those top five spots.


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[Assistant] Brock Purdy is 8th, is 8th at PFF, he's the 8th quarterback, and just pass a rate, just the pass grade, he's 12th. The QPR is 1. Well, okay, that's a four step.


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[Assistant] You know, we were talking about, while we were talking quarterbacks before, we were talking about Jared Goff and it's fascinating because when he was with the Rams, like they went to the Super Bowl and a lot of people felt like they got there in spite of him and then he struggled after that.


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[Assistant] I've watched him a lot in Detroit, of course, because he's on my fantasy team. And I think he's played great since going to Detroit. You know, like borderline top ten right on that edge of the top ten quarterback. I mean, he seems really good right now. Are you a full believer in Jared Goff?


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[Assistant] You know, we've had Joe Thomas on the show, obviously, another great left tackle like yourself. Yes. And Joe talks about, like, when I talk, when we talk to Joe, it seems like, I don't know that he's ever actually said this, I don't think I've ever asked him this question, that's why I want to ask it to you. How important is


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[Assistant] The film study, the knowing, okay, I'm going up against this guy this week.


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[Assistant] And Reggie White, and I know he likes to do this and he likes to do that, versus the actual practice on the field. How, what's more important?


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[Assistant] Like how important, because I feel like we as fans think, oh it's all about the practice on the field. But the film study and knowing the traits and tendencies of the guys you're going against, is that even more important?


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[Assistant] And he was deciding whether he was going to come in or not on Monday.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I said to G, I have no idea if I'm gonna be...


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[Assistant] Of course they did that, jeez.


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[Assistant] I don't care, I've been told I look like Fred Flintstone before.


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[Assistant] The Petonio one is interesting because he was on crutches, supposedly getting out of the locker room in the last game.


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[Assistant] Scope. Between what's the fansky set after the game on Monday.


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[Assistant] What Andrew Berry said, uh, Wednesday to DTR sounded like ridiculous this week. Throw in there, Friday, Deshaun Watson telling reporters. It's all bad. That he was going to play.


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[Assistant] And if they get killed this week, which they're going to, if one of these, if one of these guys besides Watson plays, we gotta start having a serious conversation about Stephanie.


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[Assistant] Uh, room with the trainers getting, um, you know, getting treatment, those kinds of things, keeping ice on it, doing, uh, you know, the massage, everything that you can possibly do to get your arm in as good a shape as possible for Sunday. So.


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[Assistant] A lot of guys try to play through it and they battle it all year long. Deshaun has taken, uh, some extra time off it seems like. So hopefully, you know, he feels like he's ready to go and we can see him back out on the field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, definitely. So, you know, the coaches I had did anyway, you know, I think it's, um, you know, it's one of those things where you obviously, you know, when you're falling, the first thing you want to do is kind of put your arm down to brace yourself.


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[Assistant] You know, he did a couple of times with turnovers, but you know, they were able to, uh, to overcome that.


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[Assistant] You know, it's actually like I went to the production meeting and, uh, cause I wanted to mention today with Veterans Day, uhm, this Saturday, November 11th.


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[Assistant] I'm just coming from Travis Mills. Travis Mills the Travis Mills Foundation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and his, uh, friend and partner Chris Miller.


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[Assistant] Travis Mills is one of five guys that is living who stepped on an IED as a combat vet over in Iraq and stuff, and is here to live and talk about it. So a lot of the stuff I do health and wellness wise with my YouMatter, a lot of times when you guys have heard me,


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[Assistant] Uh, positive spirit and his happiness and for a guy that's, you know, had all four of his extremities, um, blown off by step, stepping on an IED and it's still be here and be so awesomely positive. So I spent the morning with him. Um, I'll see him again all, all tomorrow and stuff. So, um,


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[Assistant] To me, he's as big a tra- Taylor Swift was awesome how she handled what Travis does on a daily basis.


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[Assistant] God, he was there early before me today and I know what he has to go through to get through his, uh, start his day and, uhm, the other guy was sitting there with, uh, Chris Miller from, uhm, outside of, of Ravenna and stuff.


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[Assistant] And Chris talks cavalierly like, well, you know, when I was serving, I was stabbed once, I was shot twice.


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[Assistant] Fell off a 50 foot cliff. I was paralyzed from the neck down for a couple years. And now I'm incapable of walking and stuff. I mean, I had literally, I'm coming here trying to pretend I'm cool. I had tears in my eyes all morning seeing how awesome these guys are and what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Wow, Bolt, like what you're saying right there and what we have to talk about on this side, you know, with Chris and with Travis and


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[Assistant] You know, they could get a thousand milligrams of Oxycontins and a massive pain pump put in their stomach that will accelerate the deaths.


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[Assistant] And the, the issues inside. We have 22 veterans every day that are committing suicide right now. We can get medication out our backside. You're so spot on and some of, again, that's, this is not a shameless way to transition into what I'm doing.


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[Assistant] But some of the stuff that holistically that I'm doing that isn't covered by stuff like that for our veterans, these guys need this help. So it's imperative to stay, stay aware on these type issues.


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[Assistant] So one of the weaknesses unfortunately on Raven's defense is that they are really playing good. It's a good defense right now. From the top, top, middle and bottom. I mean the pass rush is there.


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[Assistant] We don't want to be here and here in Cleveland. Davey and Clowney is making an influence over there with them. They're putting good pressure on it and they're covering on the back end of it.


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[Assistant] As much as I was nervous for Dashawn playing last week, okay, I'm still nervous that we're not out of the woods with the shoulder.


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[Assistant] We still have to get through, we're basically halfway through the season, so uhm, we want him really to be 95%.


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[Assistant] Throwing velocity in a hopefully a playoff game in January or a playoff stretch run and stuff with that. We got really blessed last week playing Arizona and in a beautiful weathered game. Okay, no wind, which is an anomaly.


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[Assistant] We're supposed to get that again in Baltimore on this Sunday. I think with the great defense they have.


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[Assistant] With some of the uncertainties that we're having in the running game with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, and with the O-line being out, and now Deshaun getting a little bit of confidence under his belt by playing against Arizona, and the weather being nice, we're gonna need the passing game and that play-action game, because unfortunately, I don't see flaws in the Ravens' defense. Yeah. And do you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and hey, so let me ask you this, from the DB, from the DB perspective, so, and this is what caused me into retirement, and I'd like to say this in levity, but uhm,


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[Assistant] The deteriorating arm and the inability to scare you on


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[Assistant] On a Thursday today that you know I'm practicing bombs and I could throw it over your head. As opposed to today on Thursday I'm playing Bernie and his arms were a little raggedy and his skills are diminishing and he really isn't a massive threat to throw it over your head.


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[Assistant] Marlon Humphreys loves to squat anyways. Yes. You know, even on good, on strong arm cues, do you see, do you see them inherently wanting to squat a little more onto Sean with the rotator? I don't think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, God, I'm thinking of the Manning cast and Monday night and I'm watching the Manning cast and Peyton was talking about Zach Wilson and zone defense.


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[Assistant] And how you, even though I know I want to hit the check down, and I'm ultimately answering the question on that draw, but you want to get those backers to expand and get wide and then check down to the back because you get them in space.


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[Assistant] Almost the same principle on a delayed draw, like that we used to, I used to love that with Ernest. One of the things though, we were more of a drop back team, so teams were a little bit threatened of our drop back game and stuff, cause they weren't threatened of me and me and my inability to run and stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this year's round, one of the things I think we're struggling with is our third down conversions, and a lot of that I think is our drop back game isn't really what it is, so they're not really threatened by it.


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[Assistant] If, when Deshawn's play action and a bootleg and a naked, that's gold because he's got the legs and we're running the ball good. But when he's just dropping back for that, to get the backers to expand.


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[Assistant] They're not really worried about us in a drop back game yet because we haven't really heard anybody yet from that perspective of it. So that's where I actually think Coach Stefanski is okay in not going to that.


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[Assistant] Athleticism of the position is really pretty special. I mean, I say it as a joke, you know, I really did run a 5-5-40 and that today, I mean, we look at Joe Burrow and how smooth he's running right now.


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[Assistant] And Coach Stefanski's play calling actually helped that happen. And then Coach Callahan once again with the line issue still to have a really masterful line display with that.


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[Assistant] His timing was out, uh, you could see as he got loose.


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[Assistant] Okay, it looks like it's arm got better, but some of the stuff with accuracy that we're concerned with, and it's tight, you know, even though it's a beautiful day, it's still 50 degrees. You loosen up at 11 o'clock, 1130, then you sit in a locker room for 45 minutes, then you gotta come out at 110 and you wanna be


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[Assistant] So I'm glad he got that, I'm glad it's on film, I'm glad it's, you said what you said, and I really should just check myself there, not that Baltimore, but Ozzy does check these type things, or mouthy type stuff.


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[Assistant] But his, his arm, and I was glad it was there, but you could tell it's not there, there. Right. And, and to be in a good position with a great, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, protection, where you're able to step in and be in good position was, was uhm, it looked like he's close to, close to 90-95%. I'd be nervous and, I'd be nervous though under duress and, and being able to get it more than 45 yards.


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[Assistant] If you've got your feet under you and they're not putting pressure on you, I mean he could let it go. The cross the body and the involuntary twitches and the kind of giving out and stuff, the weakness and the ability to have sauce on the ball,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's absolutely compromised for sure on the run.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm sorry, and that's what leads to, I think he's in a way, he runs the ball more. I mean, you don't like to have that on the camera just yet because...


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[Assistant] That's against that rush. And knowing, like against the Colts when you ran and you tried to make that throw that in your head you think you can make, comes up short so you end up with a pick or a bad play. Now, cause he's got the legs, I can see him running more. And I don't want Baltimore to know that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, gee, great, great point and, and yes, there's absolutely things you want to do and he's smart, he's super smart enough now in the second year into the system to mentally be able to handle that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and again, I love, I'm not coach Callahan's marketing representative. Love, you know, with the injuries and the rest that these guys are under. Like how he keeps them playing that good and dominating an NFL team like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but there's things that yeaah you could do and then there's things you could do at the line of scrimmage that


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[Assistant] On a noisy stadium like Baltimore, with younger tackles could be an issue. So, depending on crowd, boy I'd love to be.


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[Assistant] Be selfish here and have this game at home. But yeaah, the pre-snap and things you could do with helping check right now. Check chip with tight ends and a little full backward. You guys were talking a couple of seconds ago on Nick Harris and stuff. You seen, I think we saw 18 snaps.


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[Assistant] When Nick Harris last week, you know, at the, basically the glorified fullback position, you know, not even the H position. So, you know, you're able to kind of help out from those situations too.


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[Assistant] You think they'll consider doing that? God, how about a shout out to Joel Petonio? And you know, I know he kind of lost that streak and it was super quiet during it, but I don't know any inside information, but, and probably I should, it's probably public information. I just didn't pay attention, but like, you know, to have, I think a scope surgery.


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[Assistant] And to be playing, you know, two weeks later, and still to be playing, he looks great, he looks really good, but that didn't overly heal too, so to make that bounce out move right now, with guys, and again, not that it's easy a guard, but you're really on an island to tackle, and


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[Assistant] If his knee, his knee has to still be bothering him some. I mean, he's not gonna complain, he's a tough guy.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that, that, and that's where I was with you on Marlon and the Pass Rush and Deshaun and then knowing that, and they want to squat anyways, you know.


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[Assistant] And hey, I may want to be positive and stuff too with it, so uhm, but again, again, on the Bill Callahan Love Fest here, uhm,


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[Assistant] And again, how Dewan Jones came out of nowhere and has played phenomenal this year, that we're actually massively disappointed that now he's not in. Right, that's true. A month ago we were like, oh my god, who's Dewan Jones?


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[Assistant] Hudson and stuff, I know we've been picked, people have been picking on him and stuff, but there were elements of him last year where we were saying, damn, I'm okay with Hudson playing and stuff, so now,


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[Assistant] We ain't seen him much lately. It's absolutely not optimal. Hell, we're going to Baltimore. Okay, nothing's optimal there. This is a premier Super Bowl contending team with Lamar Jackson having something to prove. So, you know, this isn't, this isn't, uh, the Arizona Cardinals game.


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[Assistant] You're coming to a guy who had the worst footwork. And not by choice. I mean, I wanted to, I wanted to, I'm just physically, again, I'm not trying to be self-deprecating, I'm physically challenged, so, you know, physically how I would get into certain spots, I wanted to have


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[Assistant] Good mechanics and stuff, but I say that, uhm,


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[Assistant] But because Deshaun obviously is better athleticism and has better mechanics than me. But with confidence and belief in yourself,


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[Assistant] Uhm, just like intelligence comes your mechanics and footwork and with a quarterback position,


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[Assistant] Deshawn's intelligence is absolutely there, but when you haven't played, like, you know, last year we were talking, uhm, he came off of 700 days not playing, 11 game suspension, uhm, now we're talking about the arm being hurt and not playing of it, so it's like, how do you, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's amazing. And then for Amari to get that bomb, that was an 11 up. That was so beautiful to see that. Like, you aren't allowed to do that.


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[Assistant] You guys are, you DBs are so nosy, you're creeping up, you're getting in the action and stuff.


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[Assistant] And then you, you, the reads don't matter. Mamari is your guy, and he's just consistently getting open. And the way he's, and everybody knows they're throwing to him, but the way he's pressing technique and running routes, I feel like I'm working as a DB here. Cause you know, trying to get your hips turned and stuff. So if we could pick up a little bit against the Ravens here,


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[Assistant] And, cause Marlon's gonna be squatting, they're gonna be wanting to make the big play. Him getting those kind of double moves the way he has patience with it, for sure. You can see how elevated I get here.


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[Assistant] Probably. I'm a big- What's your favorite? So, I'm a big fan of competition and stuff, so, you know, it'd probably be off the top of my head to narrow any one down. Probably wouldn't be fair because I like so many different sports and competitions and as-


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[Assistant] As Mike was reading that kind of segment, I was kind of zoning out into, if you ask a sport, I saw good Dr. Innocent Nijoku sitting in this seat the other day, here with Nijoku Strong and stuff, and I actually want to check out some of those bodysuits and stuff.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, what he's doing, uhm, we talked about after the Colts game, and like that wasn't special enough, that's almost cartoon character-ish type things. Ridiculous. Disney.


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[Assistant] Disney type stuff where you say, oh, that's not realistic, that's made up and stuff. Again, it's not, I keep saying about myself and athleticism.


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[Assistant] In my little boy dreams, you don't even dream of making plays like that. And he makes them now start looking so matter of fact, like last week, just whipping around the edge and grabbing the ball, then covering a fumble. I mean, it's, it's like, it's almost, forget game, game, each game he's making a special plays. It's almost like every quarter.


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[Assistant] You spent your whole week understanding he's special, so like that's where like we talk about chipping, check-throughs, really jamming, like thinking Nick Harris would


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[Assistant] Nick Harris would have a personal date with him from the fullback position.


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[Assistant] Week 8 and 9, they're still allowing him this 101 coverage, but I just guarantee you on a Thursday right now, that there would be nobody in a Cleveland Browns organization that would not know they are multiply chipping the heck out of Lawrence Tarr, Miles Garrett type guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I was talking, I was with Harry Carson last week. So think of that. Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, Carl Banks, and Leonard Marshall. Okay, no wonder I got so much TBI. I could count the lights of the metal lands from being on my backside there. And then even to that, because, you know,


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[Assistant] To how cheap you were allowed to be back then. And unfortunately I say those Giants guys, they actually weren't cheap and stuff, but there were teams back then, the ol' Buddy Ryan.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can remember being on the bottom of a pile, 1989, okay, playing the first NFL game in London in Wembley Stadium.


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[Assistant] Uh, Browns, Philadelphia Eagles. On the bottom of the pile, Reggie White, Jerome Brown, Andre Waters.


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[Assistant] And Andre and how he, for people that follow the head stuff, Andre had some issues when he was playing in terms of


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[Assistant] Uh, cheap and some hits and stuff, but a lot of it cognitively was and some of the stuff that happened to him at the end and to literally be on the field.


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[Assistant] Part of why my arm is just this straight, six inches off.


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[Assistant] Got that scrape, got that scrape on the astroturf at the astrodome, and they used to have literally bull fights on Saturday night, I think I told the story on there, and there was bull on the field, so ended up with those scrapes getting staph infection in my elbow.


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[Assistant] This is a tough one for us. Yeaah. Yeaah, this is a tough one for us. That would be tricky.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll tell you why you would. Cause he's Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] Channel three studios. That's awesome. It's always, you know, always great to have you in. We're going to be seeing a little bit more of Bernie Kozar, which is a good thing. He'll be a regular on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show as we meander our way through the NFL season. Busy show because there's so much up in the air.


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[Assistant] We were talking before the show. What are they going to do with Deshaun Watson? Do you play him? Do you let him ultimately make the decision? Or if the coaches see something in practice that they don't like, are they the ones that just say, no, you're not going to go? We're going to get into that. Aditi is here.


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[Assistant] It's not just Deshaun Watson. You look at the injury list, there's a lot of names on it. A lot of guys couldn't practice yesterday. It was good to see that Joel Batonio, who two weeks after having knee surgery, was on the practice field again. That's crazy. So that's a good sign.


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[Assistant] And to your throwing sho you go to the source bec shoulder surgeries, we've is the specific injury tha dealing with and Bernie pl going to talk to him abo


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[Assistant] No Fence Riders also coming up later in the show, but first our inaugural hello of the day to you're loving them. Ba da da da da. Mikey McNuggets. That's so good by the way.


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[Assistant] I think what we could do moving forward is if we get enough of these, we pick one on Thursday and then that person gets to submit to us a five team bet for the upcoming weekend that our viewers might be able to double dip on.


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[Assistant] Make them an expert picker for Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show and Fandle. What a great $5 bet. That's incredible.


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[Assistant] We're gonna keep a close eye on that because it might move depending on what happens with the Sean Watson today. Last week we saw that line grow from, I think it started at


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[Assistant] Two and a half. Two and a half. And it ended up in double digits. It went to ten, actually went back to nine and a half the morning of the game. Before kickoff. But at one point it was double digits. Yeaah. And that was all dependent on, no Deshawn's not gonna play, he's not gonna play, he's not gonna play.


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[Assistant] DeShaw did not practice yesterday, so that's obviously not great news. He's to be determined for today.


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[Assistant] So he's day to day, but Stefanski has said if he can't go, PJ Walker is his guy. He's gonna get the start again, and why not? He did just enough to do, uh, to get the win over the 49ers. After weeks of mixed messaging here, and we know the problems that they had with trying to get this messaging on point,


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[Assistant] It appears that they're finally at least on the same page with the messaging. Would you guys agree with that? They've at least corralled that?


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[Assistant] But why, why if you're the general manager then do you come out on Wednesday because now you're more than a week removed from the injury and say he is going to play against San Francisco which at the time was 10 days away.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you a question. I hate to go back to this, but on the messaging point,


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[Assistant] You said you were okay with it because they probably didn't know. Wouldn't it still have been a better look?


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[Assistant] He could have gone, he was cleared, he chose not to. Put Deshaun in a bad light. Two days later, in an effort to dig out of that hole, the general manager said, however, he will play in 10 days. Wrong again. I don't think they protected Deshaun Watson or did him any favors at all. Why not say Bernie on Wednesday if you're the GM?


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[Assistant] We're dealing with a pretty serious injury to the mechanic that he, that is the engine to throwing the football. Our hope is that he's on the field in 10 days from now against San Francisco, but we don't know. So we're going to take, we're going to take a wait and see approach. I just think they, they didn't do him any favors by saying, yeah, he's going to play.


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[Assistant] What do the Browns do? I'm gonna stick to my assessment that I've said all along. He doesn't put a foot on the football field until he is 100%. But Bernie!


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[Assistant] I know, but Bernie also said involuntarily the ball might sail. If that happens at the most critical time of the game, a win becomes a loss.


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[Assistant] Did you ever need surgery on the microtare to your rotator cuff or did it heal and you played the rest of your career and it was never an issue for you?


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[Assistant] Now, I'm guessing is this where they're going to really put the eyeballs on him and test whether or not he can drive those outs outside the number. What kind of throws he can make, what kind of, because it's still early enough. If there's throws he can't make, you can still put a game plan together, like you said, for, for, against, against Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Right. Which probably isn't. And who hasn't played since. You want someone that's at least in practice, that went through a camp, they're on a roster right now, and they're ready today.


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[Assistant] It's been a while since Carson Wentz and Matt Ryan have played. We saw how Rusty Watson was. I don't even know Matt Ryan is an option. Isn't he calling games for CBS?


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[Assistant] Very good. Thank you. Let's talk about some other injuries. Feel like we're on the show MASH. Everybody zing.


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[Assistant] Yes it is. The Browns can use some of that right now. Yesterday, Walker, a no-go in practice.


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[Assistant] Right, he's in protocol. Harrison Bryant did not play, or did not practice. Newsom was out. Hunt was out. I think Hunt's got a thigh. Correct.


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[Assistant] Of those four guys, which of the four


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[Assistant] Would be the biggest loss for the Browns if they can't play on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Well, a couple of years ago with Baker, there wasn't one and they let him go. That's why, you know, I told a joke. What do you tell a guy that has two black eyes? Nothing. He didn't listen the first two times.


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[Assistant] Like, this is a Groundhog Day moment for the Browns. And, you know, if you've got injuries that can manifest themselves and lead into, you know, missing five games, six games a season.


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[Assistant] Your buddy Leroy was here earlier this week, and you know what he said, to your point right there? He said there's, I love the Cleveland fan base.


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[Assistant] But the biggest problem with them is impatience. They don't, it's not a patient bunch.


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[Assistant] Well, here was where he was trending with that comment.


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[Assistant] Everybody's quick to want to fire the coach. Get rid of them. Move on, move on, move on. And when you do that over and over and over again, you set any progress that that coach may have made with implementing his system and his players and you set it back to ground zero and reset it.


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[Assistant] Every time. So listen, I've been a part of this fan base for 50 years. I might be the most impatient one of all.


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[Assistant] I'm running out of years. I don't want someone to put me in the dirt before I see this team win a Super Bowl. So I'm really getting impatient. But I think, I disagree with you, Bull, and I agree with Leroy. As a whole, this fan base wants it and wants it now. But they should! Why should they?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but Bull, those teams that you just mentioned have sat with head coaches for 20 year stretches. Okay, so this fan base sees one little inkling of something out of a coach they don't like and he's gotta go. Nah, I don't buy that. No? I don't buy that. Cause yesterday you were saying Stefanski's needs more time.


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[Assistant] You couldn't keep me off the field. Now we looked, he did miss game. Not because of injury. Not a lot. He was tough. I'm never going to, I'll never question his toughness. I was shocked that Deshaun had to take friendly fire on his toughness.


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[Assistant] I figured it out in time and I would have thought that most former players that are 30 years removed from their career would also say, look, if he can't go, he can't go. He's the only one that can tell us whether or not he can play. I'm not going to throw darts at the guy because he can't play.


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[Assistant] And that's, I think that's the big takeaway. Before we wrap this topic, because I did disagree, I'm going off the idea that PJ is going to be the starter.


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[Assistant] And so as important as Walker is to the defense, I got a lot of other dudes over there. I'm gonna be okay on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] If PJ Walker is the quarterback, the guy I'm missing most is Kareem Hunt. Because I feel like he's just now rounding into shape where we want him to be. He runs hard, we know that. The run game is going to be incredibly important if PJ Walker is the quarterback.


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[Assistant] We need to be able to move the football. And I do know that we've got Pierre Strong. And it looks like Ford is also getting better with each effort. Ford's been better than Hunt. But I just, I need Kareem Hunt. He's versatile. He can catch passes out of the backfield. I love his effort. I think our defense should be just fine missing


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[Assistant] History tells me they won't. So I'm going with history. Actually, history, they've scored five touches.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, look, it's worked for years for other teams. It's really sad that through five games that the team's receiving core has one touchdown. The reason I said yes is opposite of Jason's argument, they're due. Well, how many passing touchdowns do they have total? Four? Five?


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[Assistant] What if the Browns, what's, what, what if they allowed? 3.4.


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[Assistant] I just, again, I'm going on this every time I answer. They're due.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. It's almost unthinkable that they're 0-5 in the turnover battle, but 3-2 in the win-loss column. That defies logic.


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[Assistant] And she said she wanted to get her picture taken with Bernie. That was, uh, 2018.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. It's amazing to see, uh, your transformation too, by the way, because, uh, I knew you in that dark moment. Yeaah, when we first met.


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[Assistant] Dallas, when they had their long runs, they did it with offense. You know, their second run, because they had an early run.


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[Assistant] They did that last year in the playoffs. I think what's happening here is, uh, errors are overlapping. I think that in the NFL, if you chart it, it, it goes like this. And to Bull's point, and I first noticed this last year, particularly at the beginning of the season when offensive numbers were just down league-wide.


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[Assistant] They still finished down for the year, not as down as they were to start the year, but they still were down. I think what happens is it's a copycat league.


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[Assistant] If we want to win, who do we have to stop? Brady Mahomes. Okay? Let's spend our draft capital.


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[Assistant] The outliers were the Buccaneers with Brad Johnson, the Ravens with Trent Dilfer, go back to the 80s, the Bears with Jim McMahon, what were, I think,


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[Assistant] And, and it used to be the old cliche, defense wins championships. I think that's been muddied up the last 15 years by the quarterback play in the offenses, but I do think we are coming back in to the era of the defense.


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[Assistant] There's one other reason that I would pick defense because I, you know, you start to think about the teams where they just won championships just with defense and the offenses were mid. And I mentioned the Bears, the Ravens and the Buccaneers.