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[Assistant] Knowing the Browns have a guy capable of doing what previous quarterbacks in that situation in Cleveland were unable of doing. Taking a circumstance that was far from ideal. You're down two tackles. You're down Nick Chubb. Two of your top four receivers are out. You're on the road in Baltimore. You're playing against arguably the best team in football. Your kicker had just missed an extra point.


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[Assistant] And he made plays with his arm. He made plays with his legs. The defense came through in the clutch and Deshaun Watson led the Browns on one of the more improbable victories of 2023. And it's a damn good feeling to wake up on a victory Monday.


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[Assistant] Knowing you have one of those guys in the league, cause there's only a handful of them, that give you a chance to win.


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[Assistant] In any game, in any situation, Deshaun Watson in the second half last night, proved he's one of those few guys.


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[Assistant] Among qualified quarterbacks with a minimum of 100 passing attempts. So someone who has to have played at least a decent


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[Assistant] Ends of the spectrum. PJ Walker could not be lower on completion percentage over expected in the second half of the season. Deshaun Watson could not be higher. So the Browns have had the highest and the lowest in the same season.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you guys one more question about Deshaun Watts before we move on. This has been a long time coming for Deshaun.


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[Assistant] Been some trials and tribulations, plenty of ups and downs in Cleveland, but to do what he did yesterday.


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[Assistant] To lead the Browns on a game-winning drive in the fashion he did. There was the fumble he comes back from.


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[Assistant] There was the false start. Two times in that drive they were in negative down in distance positions. How badly did Dashawn need that?


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[Assistant] I thought I played it pretty- It wasn't great, but I played it admirable without filling in.


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[Assistant] And then there was this whole play, and I loved him flexin' over after Taylor comes in pancakes, olafe, or op, olafe, however you pronounce his name.


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[Assistant] It was a physical game. And the Browns were the physical initiator. And that's something I don't think we've seen from a lot of Kevin DeVente games.


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[Assistant] We'll wrap up Stefanski with this, then we'll talk a little defense, then get to some unsung heroes of the Browns.


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[Assistant] We said before the season, didn't really have that true signature win because the playoff win, he had COVID, he wasn't even on the sidelines and some people don't really credit him for that.


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[Assistant] Then he beat San Francisco and we're like, that could be a signature win. And then he did what he did yesterday in Baltimore, come from behind victory.


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[Assistant] Of those two options, which one was the more impressive victory from Kevin Stefanski's standpoint?


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[Assistant] The record we just broke was set on yesterday's post game show, which right now is the number one viewed post game show in all of Cleveland. It's the number one viewed show in ultimate Cleveland sports show history until today and you guys are making a push to get this.


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[Assistant] Defensively speaking, against Seattle, the Browns defense had a chance.


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[Assistant] To get off the field and leave Seattle with a win. Instead, Geno Smith led the Seattle Seahawks on a 57 yard game winning touchdown drive in under a minute and a half. This time around after Dustin Hopkins missed that field goal, I know there's some people out there, including myself, who are like,


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[Assistant] You gotta be kidding me, the Browns are gonna lose 31-30, Lamar is gonna run the clock out.


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[Assistant] But then the defense, when they had a chance to get the ball back, to give Deshaun the opportunity to do what he did and lead that team down the field, showed up when it mattered most. They needed that.


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[Assistant] Not very high. Uh, real quick. Well, I looked that up. I do have a question for you. Yeah. For you guys. It is funny that we talked about, or you just mentioned snap counts.


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[Assistant] He actually is playing 80% of snaps, which is higher. He played 77 last year. So sim- similar, but it is slightly higher. Yeaah, but that- But the rest of the guys-


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[Assistant] I was saying, so outside of Miles though, this is what I was kind of alluding to. Yeah. Who's right around what he was playing and you're right, Miles.


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[Assistant] No, he played in 2021, he played 78% for a full season, so about 80, so in the same range. Alright, go ahead. Everyone else on the Browns defensive line,


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[Assistant] Is right in the sweet slot about 60%, 60-61%. They have so many guys, I mean I'm counting right now and I apologize for counting on the air, but this just came up, but Zedarius 67%, Tomlinson 64%, Ogbo 61%.


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[Assistant] Jordan Elliott is at 55%, Mohurst at 40%, Shelby Harris at 37%. They have so many guys they rotate in and out. Right. That in the fourth quarter, and we mentioned this earlier, physicality on both sides of the line, especially on the trenches.


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[Assistant] They just look way fresher and that's a testament to how Jim Schwartz runs his defense.


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[Assistant] Jared Allen's not a Hall of Famer, but he's been a Hall of Fame finalist three years in a row. And he was just short of the percentage to get in last year.


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[Assistant] Eleven sacks, which is tied for the league lead with Danelle Hunter of Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And much, much more so visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. Fans do an official partner of the NFL, an official partner of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. And our guy, by the way, yesterday, Dan Berger, great name.


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[Assistant] Won three hundred and twenty dollars on two separate bets yesterday. He bet the Browns money line after they went down at plus two thirty five.


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[Assistant] But also Jordan Elliott, I know we touched on it in a second, but Elliott, you had all the ups and downs with special teams. You had the penalty, the muff punt, the mixed extra point.


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[Assistant] That took three points off the board for Baltimore. Yep. And directly led to three points for Cleveland because they converted that change of possession into three points, which they weren't able to do on the forward interception. That's true. And Jordan Elliott, once again, they have found, I think that's three different ways now the Browns have blocked a field goal. They had Miles Garrett jump over the defensive line.


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[Assistant] They had Jordan Elliott in the more traditional sense, and am I thinking correctly that Denzel Ward came flying off the side on one play to get a finger on a field goal this year?


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[Assistant] Did someone miss a field goal? Did he force a miss by somebody?


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[Assistant] And they- Yeah, 50-50, one more run play, 36 rush attempts, 35 passes.


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[Assistant] Who filled in a right tackle for Dewan Jones. Not the pass blocker Dewan is. And probably will never reach even where Dewan is now.


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[Assistant] But he's a more physical run blocker and I can't wa- I tracked it myself, but I'll wait to confirm his numbers.


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[Assistant] Almost all their big runs came behind James Hudson. Yea, they were running to the right. To the right side a ton. And I don't know if that has more to do with Jaron Christian. I don't even know how to pronounce his first name. That's how impressive. Jaron Christian. I'm not sure what his run block status is. Petonio's obviously really good, but behind Taylor and James Hudson, they had the majority of their success on the ground behind them.


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[Assistant] It's not even the last month, by the way, it's since the facial injury. It actually started in that Baltimore game the first time around when he was the only guy on offense who really did anything. So alright, a little more than a month.


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[Assistant] I kinda loved it. I know it's a rookie mistake, but. Oh, it's a big hit. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] I have, real quick, real quick. This is just in from Ian Rapaport. Yes. And nothing, nothing big, but just want to update. We mentioned to Sean, he walked out in the walking pool. According to Ian Rapaport, he is scheduled to have tests on his ankle today. So we weren't exactly sure what part of the foot was being looked at.


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[Assistant] In his career, real quick, I just have your number. Yeaah. So he has 12 this season in 9 games.


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[Assistant] Like, Lamar never gets hit hard. He is maybe as good as any quarterback ever.


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[Assistant] Taking hits, but kinda having him glance off as opposed to getting squared up. And J.O.K. squared him up on a read option where he knew the play was coming. Even uh, Vilma, maybe the only good thing Vilma said all day yesterday was, he had seen that play on film, he read it before the play even developed.


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[Assistant] And he laid the hit on Lamar, Lamar got up, and I don't know if you guys remember, maybe we can find the play, maybe we can't. He looked around like, who the hell just hit me?


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[Assistant] And it was J.O.K. standing there and that was maybe his most impressive.


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[Assistant] And he's had two big games and rushing across, no one in the league is averaging more than 84 rushing yards per game. Like, no, it's not a single running back in the league.


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[Assistant] It's all down. Real real quick, we got a ton of super chats we gotta read, but we have not shown this yet.


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[Assistant] And to me, I think back to last year's game at Baltimore and how that game ended.


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[Assistant] And it was a little bit controversial and I remember Jason came in the next day and said there was some, you could hear.


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[Assistant] The Browns locker room gotta argue with each other after the game. Fast forward a year.


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[Assistant] And this was a scene in the locker room yesterday. And I think this can end any pre-con patient.


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[Assistant] That it's the same team. This is Amari Cooper, who you don't see smile, you don't see do anything but catch footballs, hand the football to the ref, pick up first downs, and we could have picked any number of these. They almost all went live on Instagram. Kareem Hunt was doing the same thing. The joy of motion, and just to see, I mean, I've been in basketball locker rooms after Big Wins G, football ones. You can't manufacture that. You can't fake it. It's all truly genuine, and to see them kind of


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[Assistant] Matthew Coppa says, can there be a segment this week on Myles Garrett vs TJ Watt so I can show a family member who's a Steelers fan that Garrett is better and hopefully shut him up. We will definitely talk TJ vs Myles today.


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[Assistant] K.W. Outdoors said someone called Waffle House, they served up some pancakes yesterday, peace out rappers. Levi Mayfield said, here we go brownies, here we go. James Cosby says, love the team showing grit on the road.


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[Assistant] Time for the winning streak to get going. Let's go Brown. Skilly said, let's go. Love a good victory Monday. Bart Z said, Jason's shirt is fire.


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[Assistant] Browns bounced the Ravens like McLean bounced Hans Gruber on Christmas Day. Peter R said Bull's recap was amazing, a roller coaster of emotion.


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[Assistant] And one more before we go back to bowl from Edwin Young. He said, I accused Stefanski of coach Malfeason a couple of weeks ago on here. He has my support for the rest of the year. Shout out to Watson, the defense and DHOP tone setting win. Great show. Best in the media. Uh, we appreciate that Edwin. And we'll get to the rest of those here after bowl's announcement.


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[Assistant] Uh, Devoid Archangel said that Block Tillman laid on Van Noy was fire. Setapart Laz says, Steelers count your days, Kool-Aid Mafia we believe. Armac Dogg says, Adam the Bull opening comments were perfect and priceless. Miles Garrett is that dude. He's Superman and Defensive Player of the Year.


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[Assistant] DeMatteo says if Hopkins doesn't miss the extra point, I'm not sure we win that game. He actually tweeted at me, and I meant to ask this earlier and I forgot, man, I apologize.


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[Assistant] He said if they, missing the field, missing the extra point may have been a blessing in disguise.


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[Assistant] Set apart lad says this team likes each other and plays for each other. It's obvious. Halim Youssef says don't forget my stat. Every team we played lost the following week except one. Go Bengals, beat the Ravens. We beat teams up.


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[Assistant] Ryan Oftenberg says big shout out to the left tackle Christian dude stepped up.


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[Assistant] Michael McGee says, the Browns team, the new Cardiac Kids, love the win. My favorite, Danknasty Ass Master. Signature effing win, LFG Browns, LFG UCSS.


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[Assistant] But, but no, no, hold up, but real quick, real quick, if he makes the field goal and the defense still gets to stop, okay, right? So now it's 31-31.


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[Assistant] There's a false start, there's the fumble. There's no guarantee Stefanski dialing up a 17 yard in route to Amari Cooper on 2nd and 19th as opposed to running the ball with Jerome Ford.


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[Assistant] Alright, Mike, Super Chats, go! Okay, next round of Super Chats. Uh, James B said Ravens did try to block that last kick, but they ain't no Miles Garrett. Sly says the Browns beat Steelers, Eagles beat Chiefs, Bengals beat Ravens, and next thing you know, the Browns are tied for first in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Ray Smith says we have a real team in Cleveland, go Browns.


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[Assistant] AggieFury101 said, I'm smoking on that Deshaun Watson haters pack today. Chris Boswell said, not the kicker. I would assume it's not the Steelers kicker in our chat today. Ironically, Watson earns his $230 million contract after 2.30 PM.


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[Assistant] Yes, my real name is Chris Boswell. No, I don't kick for the squealers. Oh, I didn't even read the super chat before. I'm glad. Chris, I appreciate you clarifying. Runner2327X says, no more brown pants. I hate the look.


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[Assistant] Isaac Tolbert says G should livestream his reaction to the games every week. It'd be a must watch.


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[Assistant] So we have, so it turned into, because close games, Anthony's ahead of me, I'm ahead of Anthony, to avoid any spoiling, they want to watch it themselves. I got it. They come in right after the game, man.


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[Assistant] We actually did break Restream, by the way, yesterday. You broke Restream? Yes, so if you ask for a question from the chat, if you have enough people like we did yesterday, shout out to UCSS Nation for, uh, for coming out in troves.


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[Assistant] It actually came in too fast for Restream, which goes through YouTube to keep up with so shout out to UCSS and the people out there watching from all around the globe.


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[Assistant] Over 2,000. I don't know the exact number, but we are currently sitting at 2.4. No, I got a couple more. Couple more. Uh, Exhale says walking the dog is what we should call our version of the tush push.


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[Assistant] Mark Nikolenko says, is that number 6? It's that number 6 on JOK jersey that transforms his play?


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[Assistant] Daryl says, I predicted a Browns win, that's how we do it. Kool-Aid Muffin in the building, DHOP, game MVP, UCSS on fire. Our guy Kenneth Yavo says, both are getting very little, national pub, it's all about how the Ravens lost.


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[Assistant] Dan Caruso says, even more impressive than trailing for 59 minutes and 20 seconds and winning. We didn't have a lead at all in regulation. The kick was good after the clock hit zero. Charles T says, the team plays hard for Stefanski. That should not be overlooked amongst all the ups and downs. They still play hard for him no matter what. Go Browns and love Grossa. So why do Browns, why do the Browns game?


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[Assistant] I'm Gee Bush, leader of the Kool-Aid Mafia, and I will tell you that there might be a Cedric Tillman sighting today or on Sunday. Let's go, McNuggets.


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[Assistant] Well, listen, I look at this situation with Deshaun Watson, and I'm looking at it like, hey, look, if you come back and you want to mess around,


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[Assistant] He can be hurt again and if he does come back and he does get hurt, I think that Cleveland Browns need to put him on a four game IR. Uhm, I think the team deserves to know who's going to be at quarterback. I think they also


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[Assistant] He hands the ball off a lot. He may get a couple yards, maybe a touchdown, but the goal is to make sure that he comes out of this game unscathed and does not have any setbacks in his shoulders. So I think that's what we should be all hoping and praying for in terms of expected from Deshaun Watson Bull.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, Jason, you look at it. One of the things I think that might be spurring this on is the fact that you look at a guy like Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Who has not had that many reps. One of the problems we came in here, we suspended 11 games last year. He had the six games. He did not play that much in the preseason. You get to the regular season. You've only seen one really solid game for the Sean Watson. We say, okay, that's what we paid for it.


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[Assistant] So now he's had another six weeks off basically. So now we can't expect him to come in throwing strikes and darts now, can we? So I think they wanted to get him out there against the Cardinals and work off a little bit of the rest before you do get to a Ravens and a Pittsburgh game that may judge whether or not you're going to be going to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I think this is a specter that will be hanging over the Browns and fans the rest of the season. It's not like he's gonna be 100% at any point. I think he's really gonna have to deal with the fact that he could get hit, he could fall, he could throw the ball, and his shoulder could be re-injured.


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[Assistant] You gotta take that risk a little bit, but the Browns are too good not to go into this season, and the rest of the season, not going for it all.


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[Assistant] Especially from a decision standpoint. I mean, you think about one touchdown and, and, and PJ Walker had five, six turnovers, but he could have had more turnovers than that. It could have been easy, easy, more turnovers. The guys dropped the interception or, or he got lucky in different places where guys dropped picks. But, you know, I look at it like this. I will, I will give you this.


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[Assistant] This game is much more entertaining on paper right now. Yeah. Listen, I was, I had the straight face. I was not drinking a coupé at all. But one thing Deshaun Watson always brings to the table. He does bring that cache, that star, that star power. So now I'm interested in seeing, can he bounce back and get the Browns back on track offensively?


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[Assistant] I want to see, you know, Jason said it earlier. If you thought Deshaun Watson was, was rusty after him coming off from the season, Texas, yeah. Kyle and Mary come on, coming off of ACL with no preseason, no training camp, no nothing. He's coming. He might throw you two or three interceptions and get a couple of sacks. I like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you got DTR back. I would expect him to go back to DTR if Deshaun Watson was long-term.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, here's the reason I don't, I'm not looking too far into it. Cause there, all those teams that Jim Shortz had, they ain't handle Miles Garrett. So, uh, you know, and plus you look at those.


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[Assistant] He did, but uhm, that's Miles Garrett though. It's at that point where we start to put some respect on Miles Garrett's name, because he's shown that he can wreck a game by himself. And I don't know how many of the old jars came when they were down and they were throwing the ball a lot. Was it garbage time? Did they throw the hat to throw the ball? I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't look too far into it. I think that this defense is a different place at a different time and I think they get it done. It is interesting. It's fascinating. The numbers.


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[Assistant] I would, I would lean towards a no. Here's the reason why. Look, that Brown's defense can get after you quarterback wise.


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[Assistant] They don't have to officially have to take him off, I believe IR or whatever until Wednesday. I think they give him all the rest of this week. They give him to Wednesday, they activate him and he makes his first start next week. And I don't think they want to do that on the road today. I would see, I would lean towards Clayton too.


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[Assistant] Yeah man, listen up, G Bush up next. Listen, let's get this Kool-Aid out. Listen, it said no Watson, no offense, no problem. Listen, Deshaun Watson decided to show up and go ahead and get on the team. So let's go ahead and do that.


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[Assistant] But it's not about Deshaun Watson, it's about the defense. Brown's defense smothers the Cardinals in a 17-9 win. As Bull said, three field goals only for the Cardinals, and it might be a couple more points now that Deshaun Watson's on the train. McNuggets, what do you got?


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[Assistant] 189 and zero. I'm going to go with the price is right, one dollar.


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[Assistant] Plus, ba-da-da-da-da, you're loving him. Mikey McNuggets.


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[Assistant] It was cra- I had never saw this before, so I was watching, uhm, the fifth quarter. I usually watch all the post games. After our post game is done, I do another post game. It's called the fifth quarter. I think, uh, Josh Cribbs is on there. 1990 News. I think somebody else is on there. Is that the one Metcalf is on? I think he might be on that one too. It's on Channel 13.


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[Assistant] It's on 19? Yeah. Okay. So what happened is that we were playing a press conference


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[Assistant] And I noticed that they were, they were scrolling like comments at the bottom of the screen. I had never saw that before, like from like Twitter or whatever. I usually see that on Facebook. We used to do that for a little while on first tape. Right, right, right. And so the comments, I'm not watching it and I'm noticing like the 20 minutes, I'm like,


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[Assistant] They're like, Deshaun Watson's a bomb, uhm, Deshaun Watson's still hurt, he's garbage, this is, this is a, uh, this is a travesty, and I was sitting there looking like,


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[Assistant] Hold on, maybe it's the wrong, did I see the wrong game? They did win 27-0. He was a little shaky in the first half.


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[Assistant] 107, I think I thought his rating on ESPN had him at 107.5 was his rating. Now, I don't know, like, so my thought process was, yea, he didn't play like, like, lights out, like, it wasn't like he was in mid, mid-career form or something, but a lot of the comments, man, was very, uhm,


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[Assistant] I was looking at something where... They lost 27-0. They lost 27-0 and two more allegations came out. That's how I was like, dang. And so I started thinking, I told McNuggets, I said, look man, and Bull said this, he said, you know, there was a point in time when Baker was here.


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[Assistant] That it got to a point where you was on one side or the other.


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[Assistant] It didn't got so bad, even if Baker played well, nobody would admit it.


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[Assistant] So this was the crazy thing. At least Baker had both, right?


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[Assistant] What I would look at, what Twitter was saying, it was negative. But gee, it's trolls. People don't run to Twitter to spread good thoughts. You know, it's a dark place. Or on YouTube, the YouTube comments was crazy too. So I'm like, maybe it's just the internet, right? On our post game, sir? On UCSS post game?


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[Assistant] Because I've gotten caught, I've been caught in that a couple times. Well, I was, see, here's the thing, the week, the prior two weeks, I was very harsh on Deshaun Watson. I would say that, I was telling people, I wouldn't even. Well, he wasn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I told him I wouldn't, I would not play him. And on top of that.


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[Assistant] You can't expect anything over 150 yards or nothing. Like, I haven't, I haven't seen him play well enough that I could go to the podium.


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[Assistant] Listen, I was with Tyrus. I thought he made three big time throws that signified like, yo. So once you see he can do it once, you know that the ability is there. It's in there. Yeaah. So when I'm going to that mic, okay, 27 nothing. He made a couple throws. Listen, we, we gonna get our stuff together, go to Baltimore. And it was, I'm looking at my, okay, that's, I'm like Twitter is kind of.


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[Assistant] Like, a lot of people on time are going crazy. Then I'm looking at comments on, uh, on- Post games. Post games. And then I'm going to 19 Action News, and I was like, well, hold on.


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[Assistant] Usually news outlets don't really have people that critical. Usually you get a lot, especially if you're gonna get some Kool-Aid drinkers, right?


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[Assistant] And think about it like this, on the opposite end of the spectrum when Baker did


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[Assistant] Some people say with Baker, I, I mean, we ain't never been to the playoffs in years. If you just get me to the playoffs, I'll be good. And then when he won it, then it got greedy. Then the team he won it against happened to be the Steelers in Pittsburgh. It was like, oh well, what are you talking about? Why would we even think about getting rid of it? I don't care what happened. And look how close they


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[Assistant] I loved, I loved that you said that because the games that you got Deshaun Watson for.


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[Assistant] Is these next two weeks? Yes. So don't judge. It's at Baltimore. We'll judge him fairly or not after that. And, and, and, and the fans, like to get that cache, there'll be a lot of people that if he goes on the road and beats Baltimore and then comes back and beats Pittsburgh, there's a lot of people that say, okay, well listen, forget all that other stuff.


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[Assistant] Punitive guys. Some would say this and I don't even know if this is, this is, this analogy works, but somebody said it's a, it's a, it's a, it's something to be said about having your own child versus having stepchildren or versus having, you know,


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[Assistant] I gave up a lot to get him. And every man, every man or woman that marries somebody and wants to indoctrinate that person into their family gives up a lot.


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[Assistant] That's a lot. Or, or, or you marry somebody and you move from an apartment to a brand new house that you built because the family is bigger now. Yeaah. You get invested in a house, you get invested, hey, you putting money away for this kid to go to college. I think there's a big difference in saying that because the analogy goes,


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[Assistant] When you draft somebody, that's your kid. It's you. You made that decision. Well, I look at him as mine. I didn't draft him.


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[Assistant] Good. But some Browns- But you do have to keep your standing. But some Browns, here's the reason. Say for instance, I believe Baker Mayfield, check my numbers, 59 games, total games he played here. I don't know. It's in the 50s.


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[Assistant] We go through stuff with Baker because we drafted him. You get more leash. You get, hey, Brian Hoyer, 16, 17 games, right? You look at Brandon Wheaton, 19, 20 games starting for the Browns. When you draft them and you get, you're going to give them a little more leash because you're going to put time, resources.


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[Assistant] And even the Baker detractors after a while, the Baker detractors didn't happen year one.


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[Assistant] The Baker detractors came back. Like everybody was in on him. It wasn't like there was even split.


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[Assistant] Those people couldn't even got the lighter day either. Cause a lot of it they jumped on was the way he said it. Or the way he carried himself. And so when you have those little things, people can pounce on you.


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[Assistant] When LeBron came back and you went to four straight finals, what did we say after a while? Cavs are so good, we ain't watching no regular season game. Right, it doesn't matter. All I'm watching is Christmas Day, I wanna see if you play the Warriors good. Other than that, we don't care.


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[Assistant] And so now it's, it's, it's very fascinating that we have the same kind of thing happening with the new startup calves with the younger kids. And I'm like, wow, they only like three years into the today, like, you know, trying to build this thing up.


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[Assistant] And we still telling them regular season don't count. Now we already done that. Think about the Indians and the Guardians.


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[Assistant] Guardians or Indians sold out everything. Everyone, 94, 95, those people left. And people were like, I only remember the old Indians. I don't know about the Guardians. Uh, that's the way it happens at Cleveland. When you come after a legend, ask Jeb Wills how hard that is.


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[Assistant] What was it? Man, first of all, listen, I don't like this. First of all, Tyrus, when you start scheming like that?


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[Assistant] When did you start, when did you get your, when did you get the story telling badge?


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[Assistant] He's bugged, he's bugged Berea. You talk to some, you got sources now?


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[Assistant] But you can't be on somebody every other day like that.


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[Assistant] And I had to go back to the tape and it was correct because, not the fact that he didn't mess up on those places, he did.


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[Assistant] But, if you mention the three plays he messed up on, but don't say nothing about the five that you thought was decent. Yea, you're being one-sided. You're being, you're being like, so I was like, you know what mom, she's my PR person as well as my lawyer. So, you know, she do the same.


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[Assistant] Look man, y'all cats got like a little swag to you.


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[Assistant] Tell me how it was growing up. You know, you grow up, you got an athlete, you got an actor, you got, uh, Tony, the black Tony Stark over here. He got the Iron Man suits. How was it growing up in that, in that house where y'all got a bunch of people? Who was the alpha dog? What was your upbringing like?


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[Assistant] Hey, always lean on your family, bro. You lean on your family.


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[Assistant] And ripped. I hope I lose. Hey. I don't want to. You better not come in here with no baby oil and some apricot and fish joints above the belt line. We don't need to see that.


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[Assistant] Mary Kay. Before we start, since you're a Hall of Famer, Mary Kay, did they give you a gold jacket or a ring or a bracelet or anything to let people know or a license plate to say I'm a Hall of Famer? What did they give you for that?


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[Assistant] And uhm, this game against Baltimore, uhm, we talked about the fan base actually getting behind Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I think this is, this could be a marquee signature win for Deshaun Watson. Uhm, that really shows, you know, the people of Cleveland, what type of quarterback he is, especially given the way they're playing defensively in Baltimore. And you get a share of the AFC North lead if you do go in there and win that football game.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, one guy that we talked about, you talked about the Baltimore Ravens line game, but Bruce Brown's rushing attack has been, uhm, you know, consistent. Still missing the punch that Nick Chubb offered.


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[Assistant] I, I like Pierre Strong. I, I, I think that he's deserved more carries. Uhm, he did his thing in Seattle, and then the next game against Arizona, it seemed like he only had three, three carries, and the bulk of the load went to Jerome Ford. Is there a reason Kevin Stefanski, uhm, is invested in Jerome Ford?


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[Assistant] A lot of people are saying Pierre Strong looks like a guy that can be a back that really runs hard between the tackles and picks up some nice yard.


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[Assistant] We haven't talked about this a lot because, you know, the season is upon us and in the middle of the season, we really, we really game the game. But when you look at, uh, Kevin Stefanski, um,


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb and him being out and Deshaun Watson being out as well and the job he's doing. If the Browns were able to make the playoffs, do you think, uhm, he is in, in, in due for an extension or extension talks, which haven't happened with very many coaches since 1999?


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[Assistant] Why? Cause they gave up after the interception, they gave up the, the three, four plays in a row.


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[Assistant] That's good. And you know, they got that right. The great part about it, McNuggets was, and this is what I've been asking for forever, Seattle game, we believe he should have ran the ball on third and three.


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[Assistant] You notice I didn't say nothing about, uh, uh, uh, Jerome Ford having 2.2 yards per carry. Right. Right, he got 20 carries for what, 40 yards, 2.2 yards or something like that. Yeah, I just saw that. Yeah, uh, but here's the pro- here's the part. They did what they were supposed to.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you run it and you run it just because you need to establish that I'm here, I'm gonna run this football. Yea, you can't be one dimensional. This is what we doing.


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[Assistant] Necessarily true. You can get into a position where the run isn't there, and the run might not break long runs, but what you're doing is you're keeping your quarterback out of harm's way.


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[Assistant] And when you, and when you go back, listen, when you go back and watch, uh, the All 22, uhm,


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[Assistant] Some of the throws that were very easy, the little dink and dunk ones we was missing.


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[Assistant] But they weren't even that bad. There was one, the one to the tight end, uhm, he threw it way too low on a stick route.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a couple of them, uhm, he threw one at Kareem Hunt who was running like a shallow cross. He threw it late when he was on the run. But some of them weren't that bad. Like, Joku actually dropped one of those passes that was a little off or whatever. But when you go back and look at it on a second thought from the end zone, the passes aren't as bad as you thought.


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[Assistant] How many, how many plays did he play?


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[Assistant] I like that. I had to go back and check that. I like that. A on that one.


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[Assistant] I thought his get offs was much better, like the first few weeks of the season.


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[Assistant] He didn't have the level of get off he was having in Seattle. I thought he did a good job starting to party off with the pass rush. He was in the backfield and his penetration looked very well. And here's the thing.


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[Assistant] You notice he's getting more playing time now because Maurice Hurst is balling. He is playing. He's playing. Jordan Elliott is balling. Yeah. Uhm, so for Shelby Harris to be getting this many snaps.


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[Assistant] And didn't take advantage of him. He had to strip sack against the quarterback. He had to tackle for loss. I thought he was disruptive all game. All right, very good.


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[Assistant] This is so high, but I think everybody is inflated across the board. Uh, they did have seven sacks and two pigs.


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[Assistant] That's it. You can't get any worse. Because you don't know how hard it is for a nose tackle to get any sax period. Right. This man had three, like his name was Miles Garrett. Like he's seeing...


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[Assistant] He wants no parts of that. No, I can't nitpick him because, I mean, he catches touchdowns is what he does. But DPJ was the guy that was having out there taking them charges. So Cedric Tillman better get it.


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[Assistant] Cedric Tillman missed one, no, Cedric Tillman missed a crazy block on the Nick Chubb, uh, direct snap fake reverse. Nick Chubb. This dude was supposed to block back side, he just walked right up to the dude and was like, place over.


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[Assistant] I remember him being upset that this guy kept hitting. I'm like, who's this guy? Catchers are not supposed to be clutch. Why is he always on base?


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[Assistant] It is, it is different. Uhm, I went from, in one year I used to be a person that was in a hospital or whatever on a team, right? And then I was promoted to a team lead and then all my peers


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[Assistant] You gotta have boundaries at that point now. You have to reestablish the rules of that relationship. Yes. You can still be a person that wants to hear people out and be a great person, but then there are certain things that you gotta hold people accountable for. Right. And sometimes writing somebody up that's been your friend that you didn't want to happy hour with and hung out with. That's tough. That's tough. That's difficult. But here's the thing.


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[Assistant] It's easier if you do it outside of where you've been at. So I was at the hospital.


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[Assistant] At UH. I moved from UH to the office. So in the office setting,


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[Assistant] I was managing people that were in the office now. So it didn't have to be like, oh wow, I've seen G. Bush hanging out with the people all the time. So just in the case of the vote, it would be, I would feel like it's more difficult if he was in a race organization or whatever the case. And then became the manager.


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[Assistant] But he could go somewhere else and I think it even works better for him because he got the cachet to say, I know what it is. I know what the grind is. Well, 60% of this guardians roster.


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[Assistant] Now do you, and I was going to ask you this question, Jay. Do you believe that the front office


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[Assistant] I feel like if they gave him a name, we don't usually do this, but we gonna go out and get you a name back or somebody. So at least it ingratiates himself with the fan base. Because at this time for me, if I'm a season ticket owner,


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[Assistant] I'm looking for any other way to see how the team fell off. Cause you know what they're saying. When Tito was here, this didn't happen. When Tito was here, this, this, that, this happened.


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[Assistant] Because it's not gonna look, it's not gonna look good and you don't want your fan base turning on a guy because he's not Tito. Give him an opportunity to show him he's a different person than Tito and that they can still be successful in their own way.


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[Assistant] Of course the Bulldogs got a chance this week. Wait, who they playing? We just beating Nations. We got Saint As this week. They got about four Big Ten linemen up front though. Shout out to McKinley. Uhm, all, all dogs.


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[Assistant] You know, honestly, it was, it was complete mayhem growing up. Uhm, you know, you have, uh, you have nine kids in one house and everybody is just off the wall, you know, so it was, it was, it was chaos, but.


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[Assistant] You know, it's weird, it's a little bit of a conundrum because...


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[Assistant] You know, we've had, we've had very few years where you look at it and say, listen, this is a must win or we've even seen ourselves in this type contention. And what I try to do, what I try to do is go to all different platforms throughout the week and find out the other different shows and figure out what the temperature is.


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[Assistant] And it's amazing because the Cleveland Browns fans are for once.


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[Assistant] Going into this thing saying, we got a good enough thing to win this, and people are expecting to win. People are expecting them to play well, and it's, it's, I shouldn't be surprised by that. You think it's the majority of people? Because I don't feel that way.


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[Assistant] As we do the radio show and then, you know, did a barber shop here on UCSS. One of the things the comments are saying is this is what we got Deshaun Watson for. This is the game. These types of games because the Baltimore Ravens have their quarterback. The Cincinnati Bengals have their quarterback.


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[Assistant] We, this is supposed to be our guy and we are supposed to be able to compete in games like this. And so I was like, okay, I'll go with it. Let's, let's get it done then. Like, but I was a little surprised, Bull, that they, that the fan base is fired up about this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, second of all, if you got Jim Schwartz, I like to believe that Jim Schwartz is going to make corrections based on the tape he saw. That's the one good thing, uhm, that came out of that game. DTR played that game.


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[Assistant] DTR went out there and threw the ball 40 times as a rookie with no, with no type of game plan. He knew right before the game, they were like, oh, all right, you're going to play DTR. He said, hey, I didn't know I was playing until 10 30 on Sunday. So my perspective is now the Cleveland Browns should understand who they are.


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[Assistant] The running game is, is, is priority. What we need to do is into coming out here to win this football game. And, and throwing the football 40 times in Baltimore is not going to be a, a, a setup for a win. That's an L. And if they throw 40 times, that's an L. So especially given the line, we don't know who's playing left tackle. We don't know who's playing right tackle.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have to run the football. And my thing is, Jim Schwartz went to that game and went into the last game, not knowing what type of game plan Baltimore was gonna have. The great part about it is,


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[Assistant] They got be-gashed a little bit. The runs, the court read options be-gashed them.


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[Assistant] Uh, the inside zone runs, they've been gashing them. So now they've had an opportunity to look at that over a number of weeks.


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[Assistant] And now you get Baltimore again, I think they got a couple of wrinkles ready for them. And I don't think they're going to get 28 points. And in fact, I think this is going to be a defensive low scoring game and it's going to come down to who turns the ball over.


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[Assistant] This is, this is a team that got beat at home by the Colts. It did.


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[Assistant] I watch every single week where these games is, you wouldn't think it was going to happen. We lost to the Seahawks and then they come in and then, you know, the Baltimore Ravens destroy them.


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[Assistant] This is a, this is a league where every single week there's gonna be a team that jumps up, wins a game that we didn't think that we were gonna win because they played out of their mind. Now the Browns have done that multiple weeks. The Browns have done that not only in the most improbable way, I think that they've done it in a way when you talk about watching the team, watching these this year,


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[Assistant] I think the biggest game they won was the 49ers, and they had no business winning that game. No one gave them a game. PJ Walker, and you got the 49ers coming in here. What was the line for that game?


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[Assistant] You know, it's so, you know, I wouldn't say frustrating part about it is if you go back and you just, you watch, you know, Deshaun Watson play.


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[Assistant] If you rewind the clock and you just take a look at the way he plays and how he played back when he was with Houston, you say if that guy is anywhere available, anywhere, if there's a remnant, if there's a scrape, a scrap of that type of energy moxie talent,


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[Assistant] These games are completely winnable. If you go back to Houston, you're like, all right, Lamar Jackson versus Deshaun Watson, you'd actually have to drum yourself up and say, how is the Lamar Jackson going to get the plays to make the, to beat him? Like that's crazy. It's almost topsy turvy.


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[Assistant] And so it has to be a thing where you look at Deshaun Watson and at some point, like we say with Kevin Stefanski, you have to have a signature win.


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[Assistant] What's your signature going to be? Which one of these guys did you beat that you buried? Did you beat Burrow? Is it San Francisco?


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[Assistant] We could say that Miles Garrett has had his signature win. He stopped somebody. We could say that Jim Schwartz has had signature wins on this season where his team has not let you get over 50 points, 58 yards or whatever. We talked about Safanski.


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[Assistant] These next two weeks are signature type performances that Deshaun Watson, he gotta have one of them.


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[Assistant] If it ain't, if it ain't, he got it, one of these next two, gotta have it. You can't lose both these games. Because the next week, if you lose this one, it's all about, oh you gotta keep us in contention.


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[Assistant] You know, Tim, I was, I was looking at, uh, you know, before you came on, I was looking at, uhm, there was a Monday night game where,


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[Assistant] Nobody had y'all winning the game. I think you went into Pittsburgh and y'all blew them out.


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[Assistant] And it was kind of one of those things where people around the country was like, what the heck? They never beat the Steelers. And they went in there and blew them out.


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[Assistant] What type of, you know, what type of mindset, when you go out and you pull off those types of upsets, you know, during that week of practice, could you tell something was different before you went out there and played? What was the mindset and how does that feel?


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[Assistant] Uhm, when you're going through that, that type of game because a lot of people don't have the brows when in this game. They have not played well against the, uh, uh, Ravens and, and, and so I'm trying to figure out, you know, does the quarterback see something special during those weeks of preparation?


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[Assistant] Now look, I like this Miles Garrett. I may be, I may be reading too much into this, but he's saying, alright, well listen, I'm gonna go ahead and take Joe Burrow. Why? Because Joe Burrow sits back there and delivers the ball from the pocket. Look at his arm strength. He throws the football against his targets and balls.


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[Assistant] I literally, I'm a Scorpio and all Scorpios understand this type of anger.


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[Assistant] God's been working with me. He's been working with me, boo. But I be one bad stuff that happened to the Ravens.


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[Assistant] So Scorpios are vindictive? Listen, I want them to be delayed at the airport. I want them to go into financial ruin. For poisoning, maybe? Well, I can't say. I'm not going to go to the health, because then there's... Let's not go that far.


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[Assistant] There's no guarantees anywhere. You can't go in with that. I don't want no positives for them. I'm not gonna cry that I see people in their injury report. It's part of the game. I don't want them to, I don't want them prospering. If they never won another championship.


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[Assistant] I'd love it. If a small child today grows up, and he's two years old, and the Baltimore Ravens never win a championship her entire life, I-I- Well doesn't everybody feel that way?


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[Assistant] Some people, I don't know, it's not, to me it's not enough that it's real against, we, we focus way too much on the Steelers.


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[Assistant] We, we let the ravens off the hook. For me, the ravens are almost worse than the Steelers, in a way. Because at least, at least the Steelers, they've been your enemy forever. It's like, it's like fighting your clones. Yeah, I'm with you too on this.


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[Assistant] But the Ravens is a different type of vitriol because we waited our whole entire lives to go to the Super Bowl and to have us be shot in the foot by the Broncos.


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[Assistant] Since the Baltimore Ravens have two Super Bowls. And think about it, even when they got Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco had a great record against us, right? He won a Super Bowl. And they got him in the second round. And then when we all are hanging out where we're bad and, you know, we get the first overall pick.


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[Assistant] And the bangles are kinda like, uhm, China.


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[Assistant] And Bull, I appreciate that. When I got really mad. When McNuggets was like, Bull wanted to get his baseball off.


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[Assistant] Wow, all the way at number three. Five for 139. He just gets, all he does is catch passes from bums. $230 million quarterbacks for whoever in the middle.


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[Assistant] I feel he's, I feel he's the only, he's the only offensive threat that the Browns have in the passing game, and he still continues to put up numbers.


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[Assistant] I could argue, besides the quarterbacks, I could argue Mario Cooper is the best offensive player for both teams on the field.


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[Assistant] But guys don't get six interceptions anymore in a season. He's got six halfway through. But I looked at it and I'm looking at it this way. People won't even throw over Martin Emerson's side no more. He had no targets.


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[Assistant] I did a word of five. So is that everyone's vote? Well, I have done.


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[Assistant] I had Gino Stone 5. Yea, let's go Denzel 5. And then Denzel 6. Yea. And then my, and then my sixth guy I shouldn't have put on there. Because he is having a down year. I did, I did the thing that, that, that, uh, I hate when journalists and analysts do it. They just do it. I know what you did.


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[Assistant] Betonio gotta go. Yeaah. Betonio out of them long ones. You gotta go. I thought about your...


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[Assistant] No, that's very uncharacteristic of Boyd. Very. I would say Mark Andrews or Stone would go where, where S6.


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[Assistant] Now, this word get a little sticky. To me, am I gonna put- What about Martin Emerson? Martin Em- Is Martin Emerson better than Marlon Humphrey? Marlon Humphrey got the name.


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[Assistant] But is it that head, shoulders above the next kickers?


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[Assistant] My last two, my last two would be Marlon Humphrey and, uh, Patrick Queen. I'm voting for Oway.


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[Assistant] Man, I think it should be, I think it should be Queen and Marlon Humphrey.


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[Assistant] Queen's already in. Queen's already in. Oh, okay, so it would have to be, I would, Zay Flowers might go in, I think Zay Flowers to me is almost more important to them and what they want to do. Particularly against the Browns. Yea, against, because they, yea.


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[Assistant] Rookies now make a huge impact right away. I mean, I mean, you get 11, 1200, I mean,


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[Assistant] For what they want to do, he's the gadget dude. For what, like he, the screens, the little quick stuff, they did, they're jumping around and getting the first.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'll go with you on Marlon Humphrey. Let's give him 10. So Marlon Humphrey ends up at number 10.


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[Assistant] I just seen him, first of all, he's dominating against a run. I just seen him get three sacks.


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[Assistant] One game, you don't go to the Pro Bowl based on one game. I mean, listen.


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[Assistant] Sinners, uh, nose tackles get like two sacks the whole season. Sure. Taven Bryan had like one.


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[Assistant] Flipping the field, right? No. He has to. They can't go out there.


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[Assistant] And have three and outs and no sustained drive. Sometimes, uh, uh, three first downs and a punt is good.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. I mean it's better than an interception. Because now you can, you, the best part of your team is the defense. You can play to your strengths to give your defense more room to do some exotic things. Right. Maybe to take a few more chances than they would if the team get the ball in the middle of the field. You got a kicker, you got one of the best punters in the league too. You do.


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[Assistant] I would love to play against him. He strikes no fear in anybody's mind. It's the indecision. And here's the thing, long runs are intoxicating. He's had two of them.


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[Assistant] And coaches get enamored with home run hitting ability because they're like, wow, all it takes is one carry. He's a lottery ticket.


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[Assistant] One, one, one ticket, one, one hit, I'm rich for life. I can win a game or I can steal a game with one.


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[Assistant] And it's worse if he hits the home run, and it's 60 yards, and you're like, oh, we ready to go. Now you still, now you're chasing that high. Right. You're chasing it. A couple more characters. You're right, it is intoxicating. A couple more. Just give him, you know,


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[Assistant] Play up there again and I'll tell you exactly why it happens.


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[Assistant] Look at them. They're in this mug technique. How many guys are in the line of scrimmage? There has to be seven. Seven. They drop three back, right? So what you do is when you have seven guys at the line of scrimmage mug technique, which is your linebackers up in the A-gaps,


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[Assistant] Now you gotta change your protection scheme and now you gotta get rid of the ball quickly because you don't know who's coming. Now look at it. Now when you get a clean picture,


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[Assistant] You don't know who's coming and where you're throwing. So now most quarterbacks are throwing with anticipation. And if you're trying to throw with anticipation and you don't know where anybody's gonna be at, it's gonna cause you interceptions. And it speeds your clock up because now guys


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[Assistant] The guys are coming free because they're just fooling you based on alignment. Like, hey, I can show up right here in this A-gap. Are you gonna block the right guy? And so for the Browns, this is a big time thing because you already got Jed Wills out.


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[Assistant] You, Dewan Jones is a practicist, so that means you're both of your tackles are gonna have to diagnose who they're coming, guys moving around. You change your pass pro a lot. You change your pass pro, and now Deshaun Watson is a guy who has not been throwing a ball a lot.


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[Assistant] So he's not gonna be sharp in terms of being pinpoint accurate if guys are diagnosing where the guy's gonna go and picking where you drop. So what they're gonna have to do is they're gonna have to match particularly and like a couple games earlier this season, when you, when you block your tight ends and there's release, check release late, those guys are open in the flat.


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[Assistant] A lot of what they're going to do, like Bull said, your running backs, your tight ends are going to be the guys that are going to be able to work with you. Chip and catch. Chip and catch. And get it to them quick. Deshaun has been


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[Assistant] He's a couple, when I watched All 22, he's been holding a little too long.


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[Assistant] Give your guy an opportunity to catch the ball and make a guy miss. Don't give it to him, don't put it on him and the guy's right next to him. Right, right. Get it to him early so he can make something happen. I think it's a big part of how they're going to move the football. They're not going to be able to move down the field with all these deep passing attacks.


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[Assistant] So yesterday, you know, I hosted a tailgate show and we do a round of AFC North. Yeah. And when we went around the North, um, I called it. I said that the Bengals was on upset alert. I thought that CJ Stroud is playing like outside of his mind and the Texans is playing like


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[Assistant] You know, just, just inspire football and I felt like it was a trap game for Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] And welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Yeah. Ahead of the Seahawks game, the Browns four and two, trying to move to five and two. I'm Jay Crawford. Later in the show, we're all going to give you our pre-written headlines. Not just who wins, but how they do it. Bull. Jay, I'm Adam


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[Assistant] Don't step on McNuggets toes. When he gets mad, he gets mad. Blank around and find out. That's exactly right. And Mikey's ready to do that. So much talk over the last couple of weeks about the quarterback position. Obviously there was more clarity.


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[Assistant] This week, in that we knew Deshaun Watson had been ruled out, and it is going to be PJ Walker, who has been...


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[Assistant] The 30 second ranked quarterback over his time as a starter. Guys.


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[Assistant] The good news is he's got a full week to prepare. He's not splitting reps. They set the table early for him. What are our expectations, realistic expectations for PJ Walker in this one?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's funny, you and I are exactly in step on our expectations for PJ Walker. Look, I have hopes and dreams for the guy. I have hopes that he throws three touchdowns and no picks.


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[Assistant] When it comes to setting expectations, you have to, what can you use for that? Well, previous results. And the previous results, even without the full week of practice, the previous results have not been good, but they have told us that's who he is. You know, his pedigree coming up to this point leads us to have low expectations for him.


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[Assistant] I expect him to be around 50% on the completion rate. I expect him to throw for less than 200 yards. I don't expect him to throw for a touchdown and I do expect him to throw at least one interception. My hope is it's not multiple.


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[Assistant] Alright, one of the things that can help PJ Walker is if Amari Cooper is productive. Last week, it was really baffling because Amari Cooper, who is by far this team's number one receiver, you couldn't find him on the field. It was till, it wasn't I think until the third quarter where he was even targeted.


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[Assistant] They know what his throws are. They know what his capacity is. I'm 100% with you Bull. I want to see him with two or three catches in the first series.


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[Assistant] Go to him, even if it's just a one step off the line and you hit him.


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[Assistant] Get him warmed up early, get him into the flow of the offense. What really scares me guys about this contest is that the defensive backs for the Seahawks are markedly better than the defensive backs for the Colts. Yes, they're really, really good. And in Witherspoon, they've got a guy who as just a rookie.


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[Assistant] McNuggets told us in our YouTube show earlier today, he's grading out as the highest cornerback in the NFL. You don't do that typically. So they've got a superstar corner who's great in cover.


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[Assistant] To go up against our top receiver, we know that the other guys haven't been able to collectively beat anybody this year.


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[Assistant] They might have to step up and have their biggest game collectively if the Browns are going to come out with a victory. This is the matchup that scares me the most. Our wide receivers against their defensive backs.


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[Assistant] No, it doesn't look good on paper. Alright, let's look at Seattle's offense. Geno Smith's career trajectory has been really odd.


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[Assistant] We kind of wrote him off after his time with the Jets. He goes to Seattle. Pete Carroll resurrects his career. He gets a big contract. He's playing well this year. He's not playing at the level that he was last year, but he's playing very well. Then you've got a run game that's centered around Kenneth Walker, who's been very, very good for this team this year.


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[Assistant] What is, what's more deadly to this Brown's defense in your guy's opinion? Is it Gino in the passing game or is it Walker in the run?


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[Assistant] Also, when you look at the defense, yea, they have been gashed at times, but the run defense for the Browns at their past defense has been statistically their strength.


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[Assistant] And so I think this kind of plays into Seattle's run game that they've been a little more susceptible against the run. Baltimore, you mentioned some big ones they shouldn't have allowed.


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[Assistant] For that reason, I'm more concerned about Walker and the ground attack than Smith and the passing game.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. The Browns traveled to Seattle. Historically, that matchup hasn't gone well. In fact, the last Browns quarterback to make that trip and win 1989, Bernie Kozar, Mikey McNuggets standing by with hole number 19 now.


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[Assistant] Many thanks. Some numbers for you. The Browns all time 6 and 13 against Seattle. They've won just three times.


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[Assistant] And become a regular each and every day. Alright guys, we do this every week. We try to figure out who are the top five players in this game, regardless of team. Right now. Right now. So we do a player draft. Obviously Deshaun Watson isn't playing. He's not eligible for this.


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[Assistant] And this is odd, I don't know that we've ever done this where we've all agreed easily on who the number one player is in this game.


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[Assistant] It's hard to put him anywhere but number one. So the first player off the board in the top five player draft for Brown's Seahawks is Miles Garrett. But I have to tell you guys, after that,


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[Assistant] Okay, I had Bobby Wagner third. I have DK Metcalf number two. I had him three. He for me is one of those kind of genetic freaks that has both size and speed. We saw last year in the offseason, he thought he could be an Olympic sprinter. And although he doesn't have that high end of a gear,


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[Assistant] He didn't embarrass himself when he got out there and ran with world class sprinters. This guy is big. This guy is fast. And the guy that's most likely going to be on him for a big part of the game is Denzel Ward, who is known for his cover skills, but not his size. So for me, I've got DK Metcalf as the number two. But Bobby Wagner wins.


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[Assistant] I gave the edge to Metcalf just because again, I think I, I feel like he's.


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[Assistant] A really special player. Now sometimes I watch him.


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[Assistant] And I wonder if he's given Max effort because sometimes he just doesn't stand out. Yeah. And then other games you watch him when he f-


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[Assistant] And he looks like he's super motivated. Nobody can cover him and nobody can catch him.


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[Assistant] I might be in the major minority here. Did you have Amari too?


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[Assistant] Denzel, Denzel. My missing guy so far is Gino. I have Gino Smith in there at number five, which means I only had one brown on my entire list.


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[Assistant] And if, if I'm taking a kicker number five, this is coming from a guy who in our chat, the last couple of weeks in all caps 20 times has been, never draft.


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[Assistant] Alright, coming up, who wins this game, which kicks off 52 hours from right now? Well, I can tell you this.


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[Assistant] He has, according to Adam, surprised the Browns with what he's been able to do. Alright, who wins this game? What's the headline? Jason, you're in the business, so you go first.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, I thought about this for about 10 minutes and I did go back and forth. I had the Browns, but ultimately here's my headline. I decided in the end that Seattle's just got too much because of the home crowd. Brown's luck runs out. It's been, let's face it guys, the last two wins. You don't apologize. They go in the win column.


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[Assistant] Not this time. Their luck runs out. They lose this one 24-10.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I know. He looks like he's just coming off a bender for crying out loud. Alright, that's gonna do it for the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Enjoy the game on Sunday. Don't forget the post game show. It starts on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show YouTube channel at the Two Minute Warning. Peace!


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[Assistant] Four and two, and for all you old-timers, cardiac kids come to mind? Oh my goodness. I mean, that's exactly what it's been the last two weeks, is they snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat. Talk to him, Jake. How many of those did you give out?


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[Assistant] What a game. What an absolute crazy game. Uh, if you, if you had heart pressure or blood pressure or heart medicine, you probably took a double dose of it as the Browns somehow, someway find a way to overcome


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[Assistant] The warts are diminished. I think what the Browns need to do after these two wins, how close they were, is focus in on those warts.


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[Assistant] Forget the result of the game. It was a win, and you'd never apologize for wins in the NFL. And Bull, you're exactly right.


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[Assistant] These are games we've watched this team lose for the last 30 years. Just like the ones we saw last week and the one we saw yesterday. Those are L's. They have always been L's.


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[Assistant] How were these victories when they should have been defeats? Cause both of those games, let's face it, should have been losses. In the old Browns, those are losses. So how'd they win them?


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[Assistant] Well we talk about this all the time, and we've always been critical when it's been bad culture.


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[Assistant] Good culture. The team never gave up. There were plenty of opportunities to quit. They never quit. I don't know if Jim Schwartz brought that with him. I don't know if Kevin Stefanski has turned a corner when it comes to culture and attitude, but all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] Don't apologize, but focus on all the mistakes you've made over the last two weeks and thank your lucky stars because quite frankly, four and two could just as easily be two and four. But it's not.


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[Assistant] Give and take. It is. It was really wor- was it- you said at the top, and this was what I thought the second the game was over. This game doesn't make any sense. No.


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[Assistant] Gardner Minshew threw for 300 yards. He's 0 and 8 when he does that. Yeah. If you would've, I did not have this on my bingo card.


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[Assistant] And then a bunch of bad football. Mostly. I mean, when you look at the offensive numbers, just like Pittsburgh had to look at the numbers the next day after they beat us, I'm sure in the meeting rooms they were going,


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[Assistant] Uh, we gotta say our first hello of the day to Mikey McNuggets. Mikey, uh, I imagine again for the second straight week that post-game show must have been an absolute roller coaster.


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[Assistant] And what's crazy is, so he threw five balls. His first one was, you know, a short pass that he drilled into the dirt.


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[Assistant] If the ball doesn't move a half of an inch, it's two interceptions.


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[Assistant] He right now will hurt this football team if he goes under center. And guys, I know that we're going to talk about this all week and ad nauseam throughout the season.


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[Assistant] I think you shut him down. I don't think he's going to get better. I exchanged some texts with my orthopedic surgeon that did my shoulder. I asked him about this micro tear. How bad is it? What could this do? He said, look,


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[Assistant] The way to fix it is inactivity for four months or get surgery. And I don't see either.


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[Assistant] Well, he wasn't good yesterday, and that was obvious from the very first throw. Now, guys, four and two is four and two.


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[Assistant] I know that after you look at what the Ravens did yesterday, I mean the Ravens are clearly starting to establish themselves as the team in the division.


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[Assistant] But you're still four and two, and you've gotta do something, and I don't think it's gonna happen with number four. I just, I don't. And for him to say, we'll see.


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[Assistant] He held it together yesterday. Look, I mean, for as much fire as he's taken, Bull, you're right. I don't think they're 4-2 without Stefanski at the helm.


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[Assistant] He's now made a 50, his weakness was he's got no leg. Remember he's 50% in his career over 50. This is a guy that went back into the lab. He got his legs stronger. He worked on his accuracy. He's made a 50 yard field goal.


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[Assistant] In five straight games now, it's never been done.


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[Assistant] And he obviously threw it. We'll get more of this. I know we'll get more of him later. All of the great kickers. No one has done this. It's amazing. And guys, there's no question. We talked about without Stefanski, perhaps they're two and four. Without this kicker,


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[Assistant] The reason I say it is you're currently looking at the first two years of this $230 million contract. You might as well take in the $100 million, the $89 million, whatever it is, and just set it on fire. You got nothing out of it.


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[Assistant] Now, now all you can hope for is that you can maximize yours three, four, and five. Yeah, I mean. And, and if you, if you misplay this the way they did with Baker.


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[Assistant] Mikey, uh, one of the texts I got from my surgeon and I didn't have time to do it was Google micro tear in the rotator cuff and see what the, see what the diagnosis is and what the injury is. He said, he, he sees mostly athletes, but he said every once in a while I'll see a construction worker.


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[Assistant] Or he says, sometimes I'll see an older person in their 60s. Here's, here's what I tell them. If you're in your 60s, oh, you can heal. This, this will heal. You can't use your right arm. You can't lift anything. No over the head work. And if you're throwing anything, forget it.


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[Assistant] It's, you're going to have to have this repaired at some point. So, with that bit of advice, and I wanted to Google it and I wanted to get more information, I just didn't have time this morning, but,


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[Assistant] From that, he's certainly not gonna rest it. He's gonna have to be throwing the football over the next couple of weeks. If that's the case, and that's gonna prohibit this from ever healing naturally on its own,


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[Assistant] I think you gotta get it fixed and you gotta salvage something out of that 230 million.


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[Assistant] His confidence has to be. I felt if he was confident, he would have been on the sidelines telling Kevin Stefanski, I won in this game.


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[Assistant] That's it. We talked about it. I don't make excuses. You get no excuse for poor play yesterday. No, no. You threw five passes. They were awful. Four of them were incomplete.


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[Assistant] Or no, two of them weren't complete. Two of them essentially were picked, although the box score said one. Did you get any information on that? On, on what, uh, McNuggets? Did you see, did you find anything at all on the micro tear?


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[Assistant] He's under constant tissue. He said basically you have two options.


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[Assistant] Take a football out of his hand for the rest of the season. Give him an MRI in January and see where it is.


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[Assistant] Or, speed up the clock and do the surgery right now.


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[Assistant] They've got the best doctors working with this guy so something doesn't add up here.


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[Assistant] I'm getting this from one of the top surgeons in the United States who's been an orthopedic surgeon for the New York Giants.


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[Assistant] The American medical orthopedic surgeons frequently asked questions is, it can heal but not if it's constantly under pressure and if you're throwing an object. Well, look, I give him credit for trying to be tough.


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[Assistant] The Browns find themselves on Groundhog Day. The alarm clock went off and you're told that your franchise quarterback has a pretty serious rotator cuff injury. What do you do this time around?


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[Assistant] Do you, do you play it out and watch the losses pile up and bad quarterback play or do you this time try a different path? And I know we're going to get into all week, who's the savior? I think it's possible they could get it done with someone currently on the roster.


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[Assistant] Play a game in which he has a full week to prepare.


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[Assistant] I think the pop quiz they gave him a couple of weeks ago was not fair to him. Particularly when you consider it was his first actual regular season action in the NFL. I know PJ Walker's not it. I know that. And so before I go out and leverage resources and make a trade,


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[Assistant] Didn't, didn't Dobbs win yesterday in Arizona? No. Oh, I thought they won. No, they're awful.


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[Assistant] I know you can't take that out of the mix, but when you do, those numbers become bottom of the barrel. But why would you take out the barrel?


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[Assistant] I like him because I think he's a pretty good player. I've been saying I'd like to see more of him. I mean, we know he's got a very small sample size, but he's also been able to hit the home run. You know, he was able to do that when he was in New England.


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[Assistant] Certainly Baker Mayfield didn't do that here. We haven't seen Sean Watson do that here.


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[Assistant] We have to see, and I'm not saying that this is why you stay with them, but I can see why the Browns think there's something there, but it's just not enough.


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[Assistant] So, eh, we talked about it a little bit. His, he talked about his decision that eh, he just, he was the one that decided Deshaun wasn't going back in the game. And, I, I,


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[Assistant] I think that I just wanted the adult to make the decision. And I think that's what we saw yesterday because we've seen too many times where the player says, no, I'm playing, I'm John Wayne, and that doesn't end well.


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[Assistant] So I give him a lot of points for that. I also give him a lot of points for holding this team together. If we're gonna kill him and batter him when the team ripped at the seams, uh, guys.


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[Assistant] There were moments yesterday where that defense looked like last year's defense.


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[Assistant] The big plays, the poor tackles, the blown assignments. I did not recognize what I saw yesterday, yet somehow Stefanski held that whole thing together and they come out with a victory. Where are we right now on


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[Assistant] Stephanski's job just in the, in this season alone. He's four and two. It's one back to back games. I mean, I know you've been his biggest critic, G, but G was screaming a fire.


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[Assistant] The way he played it is the way you have to play it. The Colts knew what was gonna happen.


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[Assistant] The Colts knew he was gonna throw on first, second, and third down, and they knew that he was likely gonna run it on fourth down.


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[Assistant] And what's crazy is I flashed back to the Ohio State Notre Dame game. It was that close. It came down literally to the last play of the game. You win or you lose. They know what you're going to do. You know what you're going to do. And I got to tell you,


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[Assistant] I had a calm about it saying he runs hard enough, he's the guy I want on this carry in this moment, and he got it by an inch.


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[Assistant] That might be it. Well, but if he catches it, he's in.


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[Assistant] Well to say he's as good as anybody else, you're saying he's...


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[Assistant] He's got a ball of clay to work with there.


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[Assistant] Well, they've turned it over a lot and minus yesterday's game, they'd lost the turnover in all the games prior to that, yet they were still three and two. It's just not sustainable though. If the defense can play, the defense is another question. We got to talk about the defense a lot because what I thought I had


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[Assistant] I know, but what I said in our text chain last night is why I dislike going by a book.


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[Assistant] Because the book. But he didn't go by the book. And I, and I, and he made the right call, and I'll argue why it was the right call. I disagree, but whatever, I'm not getting you. Well, here's why he made the right call. There's two data sets. One of them is the history coming into that game. That's analytics.


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[Assistant] What he used yesterday is the proper use of gut, analytics, and eyes. He used yesterday what was going on in that game.


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[Assistant] And that's the, that's the big thing that teams don't use. You can't punt in minus territory.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it was, in my memory it was either at midfield or in minus. Either way, I'm still not doing it. I'm not gonna do it.


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[Assistant] Because I know what the book said and they even made a point, well, analytics play is that you go for it. I get that. But I love the decision he made. Pin them deep in their territory.


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[Assistant] And let your guys on defense make a play or make a stand at the, because you know what I know, the playbook is wide open if you get the ball at midfield.


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[Assistant] But he's on the road, he's in Atlanta on a recruiting trip, and he was ahead of me. Can't do it!


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[Assistant] No, it's bad TV. It's better if you guys all find out in the moment. You're spoiling it for them!


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[Assistant] I will say, I give everybody a little leeway.


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[Assistant] Here's what I've always said. Yes. And here's what I've always said. I see it out of TJ Watt. I see it out of Aaron Donald.


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[Assistant] I need Myles Garrett to be great when it matters most. I need him to, I don't want a sack in a 27-3 game with two minutes to go and then a pose. I don't need, it does nothing for me. I want impact plays.


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[Assistant] That was exactly the muckepeck guy. So you got him back on top. Here's why. Back on top. Because I know he can do it. He was amazing. I know he's that good. Yesterday, and I'm not going to say it's the first time in his career,


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[Assistant] More than any game that this guy has played for the Cleveland Browns, yesterday he told the entire team, hop on boys, I'm taking you to the victory. It was, where would we be without Myles Garrett in that game?


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[Assistant] You didn't see exotic blitzes like you see now. I mean, the set game is different now, obviously.


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[Assistant] You know how risky that is? If one of the linemen stands up and hits him at the apex of his jump, he's falling about 12 feet. Because he's gonna get propelled up in the air. And god knows what. I think that's a one-off, guys. I don't think he can do that ever again.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's a rule in college or not. I know the rule in the NFL is you can't use an assist from one of your guys.


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[Assistant] Because I remember, listen, when I was in college, I was joking around with somebody, I'm like, man, I'm telling you, if I was on special teams, I literally would have two guys stand here and clasp hands, and I'd have somebody get a running start, hit that, and throw him up, he's going to block every kick.


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[Assistant] Because it's a cheat code. Because you got a quarterback that, what, bench, uh, uh, uh, squats 600 pounds or whatever it is. What, they already know the strong quarterbacks? I mean, come on. Not that strong. I mean, there's a rugby scrum. That's ridiculous. Anyway, they're 100% on that. I don't think they've been stopped all year. I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Where is he now? USFL or something?


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[Assistant] A lot of the, I think he had some success with trick plays yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yep. And there was another one that in the moment I thought that, that's a pretty good play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, four, what do you have? Four catches? Four for fifty-four.


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[Assistant] He had, he had some decent throws in there. I mean, he was 50%, he was just under 50%. That's horrible! It is, it's horrible, but that means he threw 14 completions! That doesn't mean they were all good throws!


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[Assistant] Right. We talked about it Friday that it was a trap game. I think it 100% played out that way. I think the Browns read a lot of articles about their performance against the 49ers. They came in with a


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[Assistant] Obviously false sense of bravado and confidence. Uh, I hope this is an eye opener and that we start to see more of the


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[Assistant] First four, first four out of five games defensively that we had from this team.


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[Assistant] Number one in the NFL this year. Based on what? On statistics. I think, um, yards allowed. I don't care about yards allowed.


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[Assistant] They're both. They're somewhere in the middle. They're not as good as they played against the 49ers. And I don't think they're as bad as they played against the Colts. But I will say, I watched the Vikings-Eagles game last night.