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[Assistant] I think they're gonna come out and they're gonna play their best game of the season. I think they'll come out and play inspired football. You'll see the best game from Zedaria Smith. I think you'll see. He doesn't have a sack yet. He doesn't have a sack today. I think I got him.


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[Assistant] You did nothing! I think, I look, when you, when you watch this game, I'm already putting it down. Uh, McCaffrey, you're done. You're done. Debo Samuel, not getting no money off.


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[Assistant] And, and if you- But how, don't th- I mean, the Ravens game happened, we saw that. But guess what? Jim Schwartz had two weeks. That's a fact. To be in that film room like, oh no. And I did not know-


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[Assistant] And we haven't heard very much. We heard all the quarterback stuff. We ain't heard nobody on the defense say nothing.


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[Assistant] I remember watching it, and I'm not saying these guys were on the same level, but I remember LeBron James when they played the Pistons, and there was no reason that they shouldn't even have been in those Pistons games, and he scored 25 in a row, and everybody collectively was like, oh though, he's the best.


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[Assistant] If Miles Garrett ever wants to be known as the best player in the world right now,


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[Assistant] I'm with you asking the questions. I'm going to go along with y'all. Like I got, I listen, I got shirts to sell. I can't be like killing them too much. I'm going to go with y'all.


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[Assistant] Okay, listen, see y'all been asking for it. You wanted to Kool-Aid mafia in brown's color. Now here's what I'm gonna do. This is my answer.


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[Assistant] We're ready to go. 3pm to 4pm. By the way, Steve Becker.


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[Assistant] Here's what I think you do as well. People may think I'm crazy for this. I've been looking at the tape. Hey man, you need to go ahead and start Kareem Hunt. Go ahead and start him.


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[Assistant] I like the Browns running in between the tackles. The outside game is not working.


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[Assistant] It's not, you, you don't have enough to get it. Run inside behind your strength in the three guys up front. And I think it's a game Kareem Hunt could get some of those tough yards in the middle. By the way, I, you know,


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[Assistant] By the way, Quiet is Kept. These receivers, we just talked about it. I mean, if you haven't seen that this is regular, but I've seen more receivers. Give me Sutton or Judy. I mean, either one. And get Pete Ryan. Go get Pete Ryan too.


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[Assistant] Well, no, cause you got Cooper at least. We greatly, we greatly exaggerated this skill level and these receivers. It's looking like one of the worst


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[Assistant] Besides Cooper, it's one of the worst receiver rooms in Italy.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, Stephanski won't do it. He'll come out of 5 wide.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna do it since you know it's coming first try.


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[Assistant] We know you feel like you a bell cow back. We feel like you still a starter. And, and look, we gonna need you to come out here and do your thing. And you know how hard Kareem Hunt will run? He's gonna play angry. Always play.


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[Assistant] I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have triple option plays.


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[Assistant] I'm running, hey, read option quarterback, draw all, cause if he gets hurt, I really don't care. We can go to DTR. All hands on deck. If he passes out in the field, screw him, keep moving. Get him up, smelling salts. You know what the fun thing about this is?


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[Assistant] Uhm, this game will actually be kind of fun as I twist my head in here and all the things moving.


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[Assistant] We will be watching this game and it'll be fun because there's no expectation.


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[Assistant] If you want to go down to Ohio State or Michigan and have a, uh, uh, uh, upset, which here's what you gotta do. You gotta return something on, on special teams, either a block.


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[Assistant] Or they fumble a snap or you block something or you take a putt to the crib. You got to get multiple sacks on the impression on the quarterback. You got to get it some turnovers. You got maybe a pick six. You got to slow the game down slowly and then take the air out of the football. You want them to be on the sideline like dang. They can't get the ball. They've had it for nine minutes. I'll tell you this.


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[Assistant] And the 45 yard touchdown that I got is not by the offense. It is by, it's either a punt or a fumble return or a pick six of some magnitude.


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[Assistant] And go to a Super Bowl. Oh yeah. And the Browns are going to the Super Bowl. Oh my god. People would cry. It would matter if they won. Gee, I will cry. I can't, I can't, I can't imagine. Well it matters.


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[Assistant] How, how, how would we do shows? With tears. Like, I mean, like, we would be doing these shows during the week. G. Bush joins us from UH, Jay's sitting by,


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[Assistant] I literally, I literally was in my house. That was crazy! I was literally in my house and I've never heard the voices.


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[Assistant] Of so many people just outside scream at once. Oh really? I was outside, it was outside people were screaming. Yeaah. I was like what? Like, like they just, like the whole neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't like punting on stuff bro, like if I'm like, I'm still invested in like trying to win and-


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[Assistant] Well here's the thing, if you get a defensive head coach, I think you'd finally get...


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[Assistant] A guru. Give me a mastermind. Give me a, just give me somebody.


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[Assistant] I have a pole, a backdrop, um, I have a barber shop pole. Yeaah. You gotta be careful what you say.


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[Assistant] I was sitting here and we were talking and we've been kind of down the last couple of days and then it just hit me like...


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[Assistant] I don't really have any expectations for this game. The quarterback is gonna be a new guy, a rookie, or a veteran who hasn't played well. But, I mean, is it crazy to think that, like, hey,


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[Assistant] You got a really good defense. Uhm, let's run the ball a little bit, see if we can keep it close to the muddy game and see what happens. Is, is, is it crazy that the Browns could come in here and make a game out of this?


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[Assistant] See, Kevin Stefanski can show me something in this game because sometimes it's not about the plays that you called it or huge plays that are 40 yard bombs or whatever. It's just about the sequencing. And that's why I'm, I'm really, uh, I really feel that they should be running the ball or inside zone plays because


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[Assistant] They can't get behind the sticks. When you have a quarter, you're right. Don't get off schedule off schedule. You're done. You know, first not against a team like San Francisco and not with their ears back and here comes


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[Assistant] I thought one of the biggest issues was, there's been times where Jerome Ford will have a nice run, I thought he had a run, a really nice run against the Baltimore Ravens to start the game off, and it's holding.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you guys this question. Are you guys airing on the thought process that


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[Assistant] I'm under the belief now that uh, I'm under the belief now, uh, as a coach, you almost gotta, you almost have to actually start coaching as if this guy is not coming back.


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[Assistant] You, you gotta, you have, because here's the thing, you can't do the week to week thing. That hope that you get, oh, maybe, maybe, maybe I could take off a little bit, or maybe I don't have to play above my head because Deshaun's coming, no, no, no, no. Deshaun might not be coming back through the door, and we don't know it.


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[Assistant] Uh, when I was a kid, I used to wear bald heads.


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[Assistant] Mostly. I don't know why that is. Well, the reason being that I can shave it and won't really care is cause 99.9% of the time.


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[Assistant] Nah, nah, nah, you just, you just, you gotta rock, you gotta bang the beard and you just gotta...


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe the outside world has finally crept in in his mind. Because, you know, the last time he dealt with this situation, it was the Baker thing. And it was like, everybody was like, well, as the head coach,


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[Assistant] You're supposed to say, don't let him play or if he's not good enough to play, you should be the one that says no. Right. So I think for him, he want to be transparent with this one. I haven't gone through that and he's like, listen, I left it up to our quarterback and he said he wasn't, he didn't feel like he was good enough to go and I respect that. So we didn't, we didn't play him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, sign me up. Hey. Oh, go ahead, Davis. Sean, you had a season, I think it was in your first season, you had 10 sacks, and then the next season I think you dug back with 17 sacks. What was the difference in your off season that helped you get to those extra seven sacks?


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[Assistant] The two leading receivers from last year is the Buckeyes.


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[Assistant] Around, I'd say around four o'clock. You know, I'm looking at my fantasy. As you know, the UCSS we have.


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[Assistant] Let it play out, I got a couple of players still going, you know, he got some players that are still going. Comes down to Monday Night Football. I have Gino Smith and Darren Waller, they have Tyler Lockett. So at this point, they were winning by .24. So I'm thinking to myself, as long as Gino throws the ball to Tyler Lockett.


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[Assistant] No, I tell you what, we got, our office got booed by 2015 because they were that great.


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[Assistant] It's uh, it's uh, at the buy week, you know, I thought we'd be more happy, but it, it's, it's, to it, to be 500, to be, you, yeah, you still got everything, but, but what sucks is


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[Assistant] No, the Ravens had 8 starters out. So what? They had time to actually...


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[Assistant] I think y'all post this left tackle for the Steelers posted this grade and I just need to know if it was a typo or not. What was it? What did he do? It was like 3.4%.


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[Assistant] Sam, how much of an influence do you think PFF has on whether or not an organization decides to pay a player?


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[Assistant] Yo, Stephanski might be gone at the end of the year. They came down to the coach in the quarterback. Well, they can't get rid of the quarterback. That's what I'm saying, so.


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[Assistant] So let me say, and obviously Elijah Moore wants to break some big ones. Obviously he wants more yardage and not just eating up some grass to get to that first down marker. That's a given.


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[Assistant] But I'll say this, I talked with this young man last year before the Jets came in to face the Browns. We spent, I don't know, a good 20-25 minutes together. I obviously was with him during training camp and I talked to him again now. He is genuinely


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[Assistant] Everything. He loves how Kevin Stefanski has this open line of communication with him about the different ways that he can be used. And it's not just lining him in the slot and there you go. I think I looked up the stat the other day through his first three years with the Jets. He had 10 carries this year so far. He's got eight and he's like, I love it.


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[Assistant] When I spoke to him, week two last year, you could see that he had already lost patience with what the Jets were doing offensively. The word that he used with me today is I just need to keep being patient. I know it's coming. He is being involved. He is being used just because it hasn't broken yet.


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[Assistant] I'm here to tell you, I talked to Elijah Moore a year ago when he was not a member of this organization. I've been around him as he's learned, acclimated, gotten into this organization, and I just talked to him half an hour ago.


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[Assistant] He's in a different place and if he tells me that he feels optimistic and he feels there's a reason to be patient and he feels that those big splashy plays are coming, I'm buying. I am, sorry.


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[Assistant] Let's see, does he indeed get out on that practice field? Does he feel that he can drive the ball? Does he come out of practice feeling good? I think that that's sort of a greater indicator. And I, I just, I don't see the drama and the scandal that sort of was alleged by certain


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[Assistant] And if not, how about PJ Walker handling business? You know, if, if it has to be another week, that's a young man that certainly, you know, had confidence and has even more confidence this week, wouldn't you? If you would just be in the San Francisco 49ers, wouldn't you have some extra confidence?


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[Assistant] Pro Football Talk had done a comparison of how much further the Browns defense ranks from the second place team in various categories and how the Browns are that much better.


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[Assistant] Let's look at who the Browns have played. They played a Steelers team with a horrific offense. They played.


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[Assistant] Well, and that's what I said, I said, you know what, and I, but I said that you play who your schedules to play, you know, you line up and you play, and it's still doing it, but to that argument,


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[Assistant] You know, it's like Steelers Browns. You, you don't know what's going to happen. It's Steelers Ravens. It's Browns Ravens. These are teams, they know each other as well as anybody could possibly know each other. And so,


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[Assistant] That adds just a completely different dynamic to the whole thing. I don't know that it's even really about a matchup or a scheme or an individual player. It's just...


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, think about it, over the last decade, how many crazy, bizarre things have we seen happen in AFC North games? I can think of a million examples of one team headed to like a four-win season, another one headed to the playoffs, and the four-win team winning with a backup quarterback. You know, it happened.


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[Assistant] If you can shut down a great offense, then there you go. And I think right now that yes, the Dolphins offense is doing stupefying things. I actually, I have their game next week. I have the Pats at Dolphins week seven, so I'll get to see them up close. I saw them up close last year twice.


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[Assistant] But I just think that the Browns defense, the way that they're playing, the speed with which they're playing, the motor and the energy, you know, it's funny, I was a couple minutes late because I was just talking to


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[Assistant] Colt's veteran center, Ryan Kelly, and we were talking about what jumps out about that Brown's defensive front, and he said it's their motor on first down and second down.


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[Assistant] You know, you see a lot of teams get very amped up on third down when they can go rush the passer. But these guys play the same way, even if it's first down. And that's really, really fun to see. Really fun to watch.


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[Assistant] But, and then, not to make excuses, the whole point was that the best part of the Eagles defense was mitigated or handcuffed by that horrible field.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Exactly. But we can argue that the Browns maybe just haven't had as much practice.


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[Assistant] No, I think that Kareem Hunt finally looked sort of


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[Assistant] That his pads had warmed up, that was the phrase he used with us, that he needed to warm his pad.


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[Assistant] He finally looked pretty good. I think that Jerome Ford, all things considered, is indeed coming along. I think that they are feeling good about the way that they can and will run the ball. I disagree with you on the wide receiver room. I think that they're fine. I still believe in Elijah Moore. I'm not writing him off after five games.


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[Assistant] Don't the Browns only have one wide receiver touchdown entirely?


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[Assistant] I, I feel like that's not an area of desperate need.


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[Assistant] I think you just need to get better at doing what you do. I don't love the left tackle situation. So that would be it? He is coming off his best game of the year now. Who are you getting right now? You're not getting Trent Williams. Who do you think you're getting?


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[Assistant] Green apple. Don't sleep on green apple. I like sour. Yeaah. It's good. It's nice. Listen, I could never drink green apple sorak again.


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[Assistant] And, and, and, and just saw Lamar Jackson play horrible against the Colts. And I come out here with one of the best defenses that we have ever had, and I'm gonna switch it up.


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[Assistant] To the left side, he scrambles out to his left hand side, right? So that means he's a right hand quarterback. He has his daughter against his body. There's no way he's completing those passes. And he turned the ball over at the end of the game.


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[Assistant] You don't need to rush him that way. All you gotta do is put Miles Garrett on that opposite end and rush him right to his right hand. He can't throw over there.


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[Assistant] What's even more dangerous and devastating is when you do have a spy like J.O.K. that's sitting there waiting, waiting for you to rush that way and he meets you at the junction point. See, the best thing about chaos is this. You know, it works in regular life and real life and football. Chaos don't really care where you split to.


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[Assistant] Right? He ain't got time to think about a brush lane where he's gonna go to because he got somebody in his face over here. He got somebody over there coming to get him. He got somebody looking directly at him, mirroring every movement.


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[Assistant] He does not have a processor like that.


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[Assistant] The Lamar Jackson is a quarterback that need to see it. See it come open.


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[Assistant] Couple years ago. Ryan Flores had the whole, and at that time Lamar Jackson was rolling, offense looked great. Ryan Flores comes over with the Dolphins and says, well you know, do you want better? We gonna stand everybody up. So now you gotta pick where the blitz is coming from every single play.


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[Assistant] The reason why I say this is brilliant because he's right. Like when you statistically look at the numbers of right-handed quarterbacks and where they throw the football, most quarterbacks are right-handed. If you let them run to their left,


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[Assistant] To find somebody deep downfield, it's almost impossible to throw backside. But if you let them roll to their, to their strong arm, they can look backside, they can look frontside, they can throw against the grain, they can throw down on the sideline. So here's the thing, if you give them an opportunity, and especially for a quarterback like Lamar Jackson,


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[Assistant] We saw what Deshaun Watson looked like when the quarterback gets frustrated and is not able to do what he does best. So when you look at him and he getting sacked and he's looking around, he's not gonna be looking down the field to throw and get guys open and catch. He's looking to get out to make first downs.


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[Assistant] Cause one thing about Lamar Jackson that if you look at Ryan Tannehill and some of those other receive, uh, other quarterbacks, how frustrating it is to go back to the sideline.


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[Assistant] And tell your receivers, I didn't see you, or I didn't have time, and you got three, four, five first downs. In his mind, he's gonna say, forget all that, I gotta get it where I can get it. That's a fact.


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[Assistant] You could be a company guy if you want to. Everybody done worked their jobs and you come in and hype you up. Yeah, we love you. You're going to come in and change things. You go in. They promise you incentives. They promise you overtime to pay your guys, training, all this other stuff. You get here two weeks in and they say, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't got the budget for that training package. Three weeks later, what about the incentives I was going to give for these extra overs?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't got that either. And you say, okay, fine. Cause you knew. And then guess what? They bring you in another year later and your little review and say, well, you know what?


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[Assistant] What was the change in this game when you played this best from what you were seeing in any other games? Time. Time. Time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when I tore my ACL, uhm, I got cut by somebody.


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[Assistant] That was coming in the line of scrimmage. It was a running back on a crackback.


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[Assistant] And I think they eliminated that play. You can't go low against somebody on the outside of the tackle box. And it blew my knee out. And I never thought about it in a way of being a running back.


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[Assistant] And you're turned held up defenseless because you're holding the ball and somebody come low. I would rather you come high and just wrap me up. I kind of changed my mind.


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[Assistant] When they came up for Jerry Judy, yes. When they came up for DeAndre Hopkins, yes. To me still, if you extrapolate over the long haul and you look at what the Browns have, you have DPJ? Question mark.


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[Assistant] Way too early for that. What we saying is, if I'm looking, if I'm looking at down the line and I say the Browns got a lights out defense.


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[Assistant] The thing that you say is now you're going to have to manufacture something in a running game. I don't think you're going to just be able to hand it to one person and they're going to get you what Nick Chubb got you. So, so now you're looking at it, if you're looking offensively, if you're a team, a top notch team, you come in and you play the bronze, you say,


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[Assistant] Does it, so this is why nowadays, I don't know if this is a thing, it seems like there's a, a thing in the NFL where you go into bigger corners, right? You got bigger, bigger guys at 6'2". Sometimes I look at guys that are smaller in stature. Begging you to work.


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[Assistant] If you're not precise, he has a very small catching radius. There's a couple of plays in the first game or the first few games where he had his hands and his feet was in it. It's like, ooh, six inches to the left. He would have got two feet down. He'd have been good. But it just seems like he has a very low catching rate or radius.


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[Assistant] So this is why, this is why I always, I used to operate like this. Sometimes I used to think I was being a good fiscal husband and leave the money in the account, but I realized one thing. You know what? If you don't spend it, she will. That's a fact.


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[Assistant] Like this is, this is a really mirror match right here and this is the first time I've ever heard you talk about the Browns defense like you talked about the Ravens defense.


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[Assistant] I don't know where my mom got this from. My mom also acts as my lawyer. Uh, she is my accountant and my agent. She's my stylist. So I don't know where she got it. She just pull up with brown stuff and be like, I got this shirt. Salute. I don't know where you got it from, but I love it.


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[Assistant] Congratulations. Hey man, what do you gotta say, Thomas? Uh, you saw what Jay was able to bring to the table, bringing the championship home to his area. What do you have to say for the people of Columbus and Pyle, Ohio, and how you gonna handle this?


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[Assistant] TJ Watt had four tackles, a sack, two tackles for loss, a pass defended, four quarterback hits, and a touchdown. Miles Garrett, according to the box score, had one tackle and one quarterback hit.


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[Assistant] Tuned into the post game show last night. We didn't start till just before midnight. We went till 1am. We've been here since 6am turning out graphics, but we had over 3,000 people watching at once. It was the most watched post game show on the internet in the Cleveland, uh, market. So we appreciate you guys and it feels weird.


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[Assistant] Kinda talking about anything right now as Jay alluded to after the Nick Chubb injury. I tweeted out yesterday after the game, or after the injury that for about an hour and a half.


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[Assistant] If you guys need some athletic or leisure wear this fall,


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[Assistant] We can get into the Watson talk. We'll get back to Nick Chubbin a little bit. We'll get back to the defense. We'll talk about everything else that happened last night. But Deshaun Watson is something we have to touch on. We spoke on the pregame last night, myself, Earl and G that there's really no way to sugar coat it.


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[Assistant] Sean Watson wasn't very good last night and these are the moments that you would hope a quarterback who


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[Assistant] That's what I was gonna say. In Houston, that 2020 year, he led the league and Zach's taken.


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[Assistant] He led the league in yards per completion. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] You asked about the Shawn Watson splits from the 2020 season? Yes. Well, guess what? This stat is brought to you by the YouTube chat today. And if you are in the YouTube chat, one of the many people out there watching, we appreciate you guys tuning in, hit that like button, hit the subscribe button. It helps us go a long way on the YouTube algorithm. So according to pro football reference.


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[Assistant] Here are Deshaun Watson's splits from that 2020 season. One of these stands out and it's not what I expected.


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[Assistant] When the Texans were leading in 2020, Deshaun Watson threw for 963 yards, seven touchdowns, three interceptions.


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[Assistant] He did not throw a single touchdown, only through one interception. They were barely tied, only through 70 passes in tied situations.


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[Assistant] This is in 2020, that whole season. When they were trailing.


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[Assistant] Which once again, they were trailing a lot. They went 4-12. Right. He attempted 367 passes through for 3,445 yards, 26 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Which is what you'd expect. So they were down.


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[Assistant] What games that season did they lose by more than one score? Well here's what we're getting to next. This is the final outcome of the game. So unless I go through play-by-play, you can't get into everything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how many? Nine games. Okay. That's half a season. 75% of their losses. Now that could be garbage time. Scores late that make it a one score. You're right. You don't know. We don't know really. So this is right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So once again, not perfect, but when you look at it, this gives you a little bit of context of what we're talking about. In 8 to 14 point games, there's only two of them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's nine of them. I can see if there's a per yard or per game. We'd have to look at the play-by-play. Okay, so in the one score games, he threw average 310 yards. In the 15 or more, he threw for 297.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got a couple more reads. We've seen all the super chats you guys have sent. We will get to those at the end of the show. We have at least like 10 to 15. We will do that the last 15 minutes of the show. We'll get all your super chats in. Tomorrow night where there'll be another edition of Behind the Glass, myself, Earl Anthony talking about


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[Assistant] Tyvis, we'd be remiss if we didn't ask you. This is the number one thing that we're seeing in the chat right now. It was the number one topic of conversation on the internet last night after the Nick Chubb injury, but you played safety in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You know this better than anyone else considering you actually did that and did what happened last night on the highest level or played that position. You didn't ever cause a, you know, career potentially to de-habilitating injury. No. Do you think it was a dirty hit like plain, foremost simple? No.


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[Assistant] Just before we go to running backs. And we have that coming up, but real quick with Chubb being out, let's just assume it's for the season. Kevin Stefanski speaks at 12.30 today and I'm sure he'll officially confirm that.


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[Assistant] And it was the Kansas City game in particular that there just seemed to be a timing issue with Watson and Moore. He threw in the third down pass in the preseason game against Kansas City.


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[Assistant] We had that, the chemistry between him and Watson just doesn't seem to be there like I would have anticipated it being there at this point. Which is surprisingly.


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[Assistant] We gotta remind everybody that if you need leisure or athletic wear for the fall or winter, check out Bird Dogs. They have shorts, joggers, sweatpants. They are extremely comfortable and fashionable. You can check them out at birddogs.com. Guys, we talked about the defense and how much of an improvement it's been from last year.


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[Assistant] Full benefit packages, paid time off and decided bonus you can apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. Uh, we got about 20 of them.


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[Assistant] Uh, Phil Bowman gifted five memberships. Shout out to Phil. Wow. Thank you, Phil. Levi Robin. Levi. You guys always say that Miles is better than Watt, but every time the Browns and Steelers play, Miles is silent and TJ goes off. TJ is defensive player of the year, a sack record, and better stats than Garrett almost every year.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one's from Buff Gaming. He says, Bull, I love you bro, but Jay's right on this one. Also, how many drop passes were there last night? Too many bad throws. Jay's right about what? Still, I'm not panicking because of a loss.


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[Assistant] Well, that's, that leads right to the next one. This next super chat comes from Bill Roedewald. Roedewald, is there a charity we can support Nick Chubb's name in to show our love and support? I saw. Let's make something good out of this. Sir Yacht. Sir Yacht tweeted something.


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[Assistant] We are about to drop the link to that Chubb charity. Oh good.


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[Assistant] It is at first candle, spelled exactly how you'd expect an organization he has supported in the past that is committed to ending sudden infant death syndrome. And that's also, I could actually confirm that Nick has worked with them because on the back of the Nick Chubb cereal.


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[Assistant] There's a tribute to First Cats. Actually, can you guys reach it? It's over there. But on the side of the cereal box, there is a little tribute to it.


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[Assistant] A couple more super chats from DynieM. He says, Hey guys, is there a reason we didn't chip TJ Watt on every play, regardless of what side he was on?


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[Assistant] I think Seattle did. Wow. He's 41 years old. That's crazy. I mean. And we got, we got 10 more. So we got to go ahead. Sorry. From KR Thunder, Bubba Kevin and all the team captains need to, to answer honestly for last night. It's not just Chubb they lost, but the hopes of the Cleveland fan base in achieving greatness.


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[Assistant] Uh, Brody's bottom line says Deshaun actually had a real offensive coordinator in Houston.


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[Assistant] What are you guys thoughts? I felt like Pittsburgh was targeting all game and then no pass interference call in the last play.


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[Assistant] Bob Byler says the reality is we can't pass right now, we might not have a running game, the Chubb injury changed everything for the worst, and last but not least, Daman 4x4, he gave us a what's more likely, or what number is higher.


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[Assistant] As it could've. They believe in him. They have long-term plans for him. You think throwing him out against the 49ers defensive front is going to rebuild him or repair him or make him feel good about himself. So I think that you're stuck.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe the feeling was that he could do things this year if they had actually prepared him to do things, if they had come up with a plan for-


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[Assistant] This is finally the first year that Kevin Stavansky has a somewhat normal year, as opposed to year one was COVID, year two was the Odell Baker drama, year three was the Jacoby Deshaun thing. Finally,


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[Assistant] No, but I mean I think that your starting quarterback being adamant that he's going to play all week and perhaps not being completely honest about how much pain he was in or what the true nature of that injury was, I don't know, I mean you expect your players to tell you how they really feel.


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[Assistant] And we've all been in locker rooms. Look, we've all been in locker rooms where players have not necessarily been truthful about how much pain they're in, whether they're concussed or not, how, you know, everybody sort of, they're gladiators. Everybody thinks they can play on a Sunday.


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[Assistant] That's not unfair. That's not unfair. So I'm not disagreeing with you on that, but I also am still sitting here and saying it's a bit early to hit panic.


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[Assistant] Why is it crazy? Why, why can't that be possible? We're talking about a defense that's supposed to be one of the best, most aggressive, most game-changing, most disruptive defenses in the National Football League. And I know that


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[Assistant] Guess what? They're 30th in the National Football League in total yards. They are averaging one touchdown a game.


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[Assistant] Why can't Myles Garrett carry this team for a week? Why can't Myles Garrett go and make Brock Purdy's life so miserable? Why can't this secondary lock up those receivers and George Kittle? Why can't this defense carry the day?


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[Assistant] A friend of mine who is a coach of an NFC team this past week and we were kind of just, he's a really big Mike Tomlin fan and I'm very much a


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[Assistant] You know, Mike Tomlins won three playoff games in 12 years. Like, how long do you, and it's sort of the same argument that we always have, is there, does consistency matter, or does like, actually winning the big prize matter?


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[Assistant] And, uh, this coach was saying to me, I said to him,


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[Assistant] Exactly, what happened with the Browns. You can't sit here and feel like you're going in the by as a Steelers fan or as a Steelers head coach and be like, oh yeah, we love where we are. But this coach was saying to me,


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[Assistant] The Steelers play team football. The Steelers play all three phases. And so he was making the argument exactly that


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[Assistant] Even though the offense isn't playing well, the Steelers got their special teams to block a punt, and the Steelers always get their defense, TJ Watt, to come up with a big play when you need a big play. And so, while I'm sitting here and saying,


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[Assistant] I can't believe Mike Tomlin's head is in the sand, that he's like, okay with this offense. He's saying, hey look, Mike Tomlin's getting everything that he possibly can out of the entire team. So if that's what the goal is, why can't we sit here and say that this Brown's defense needs to play better than it's ever played? It needs to play better.


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[Assistant] But again, this is, well, I completely agree with you, and this is every single time we have this conversation about Myles Garrett versus T.J. Watt, and we sit here and we talk about everything that Myles does, and all the pressures, and how he's built like a football god, all of that.


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[Assistant] And so, it's not necessarily about giving me 12 pressures in a game, it's giving me the pressure that changes the game. And so, my point is that


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[Assistant] If we want to talk about Myles Garrett as one of the three best defensive players in the league.


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[Assistant] If we want to talk about this defense as one of the best defenses in the league, then the best defense in the league should be able to take on one of the best offenses in the league. Why do we just seed that?


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[Assistant] Why do we just say, oh well the San Francisco 49ers though have a great offense. The 49ers offense is much better than the Ravens offense or the Steelers offense, so whatever. So what? We're saying that the Browns defense is one of the best defenses. And we're saying Miles Garrett is one of the best players. So go ahead, do it. Do it. They should, you're right.


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[Assistant] Ramon Foster, who I actually saw in Cleveland, he played for the Steelers for 11 years. His favorite line was,


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[Assistant] Why in, why against the Browns could that not happen? Why couldn't this Brown's defense force that sort of confusion that


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[Assistant] Welcome! Here we go! Here we go! Here we go! It's game day. It's game day in Cleveland. Are we ready for the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight on Monday?


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[Assistant] I think that's obvious. I think what happened was, I think the one thing that someone sent me that bothered me was,


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[Assistant] Journalists, but particularly wannabe journalists with a couple hundred or a couple thousand followings on Twitter and now all of a sudden you think you're Edwin R. Murrow.


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[Assistant] Don't twist it, okay? This is why athletes despise the media. And this is also why a guy like Jason has built the career he's built. Because over his entire tenure, what he's, what he's shown by his actions with athletes, he's never gonna quote them out of context.


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[Assistant] He's never gonna violate a trust. He's never gonna use them as a source if they've asked not to be used. So it's that kind of-


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[Assistant] Who think you're gonna get a lot of clicks with clickbait headlines saying Cleveland Sports Talk Show host wants Steelers players injured.


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[Assistant] Be very careful how you use that because it's also the words that you didn't use in the body of that story that tell the whole story. So if you're gonna tell a story, just tell it start to finish. Don't leave the good stuff out because it fits your narrative.


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[Assistant] Today's show, Final Thoughts leading into the Monday Night Football Game. Did anything happen over the weekend that might change our minds?


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[Assistant] Pittsburgh's opponent in week one, San Francisco, looked very good again.


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[Assistant] On route to near East 15th. Probably, probably. So we're probably going home.


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[Assistant] My friend, sometimes maybe that's not available. Today, no excuse for you.


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[Assistant] That's a career ending injury, if you ran. Uhm, was there a hit and run? That's career ending.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, again, the circumstances. If it was a dinner after work, a dinner and drinks with friends after work, not that it excuses it, it doesn't.


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[Assistant] We've all been there, so I'm not throwing stones. We've all asked this question.


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[Assistant] God, I don't know. I had three over two hours. I don't know.


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[Assistant] But we've all been there, and we've all, unless I'm, I'm speaking for myself, I have been close, I have made the decision, I'm okay, and I've driven. I'm throwing no stones. Now, I know you haven't, we've talked about this before, if you're close,


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[Assistant] It's Amari Cooper, guys. Yikes. Amari Cooper, we left here Friday. That wasn't on our radar.


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[Assistant] He got hurt in Friday's practice. It's a groin. I've read different things. I've read minor.


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[Assistant] But also, I think it was Adam Schefter, used the word.


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[Assistant] Unexpected to play? I always thought it was not expected to play. Unexpected, I guess, could work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the preferred is that he plays. And I've also seen reports that because it's not so bad that he could go. So I don't know where we are on this.


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[Assistant] No, I know it's tough, but for the sake of this conversation, because the most recent report was he's not expected to play, and as you said, that's coming from a guy who's one person removed from the player himself. What impact does it have on the Browns' game plan against Pittsburgh tonight if he doesn't play? Clearly he's wide receiver one.


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[Assistant] But, but. Those are hard to, I can't, I can't forget those.


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[Assistant] I agree with you. I mean hopefully he can take that slot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's hard to, you know, I think, like, you blow, I don't think it's gonna be one guy that replaces his production. Look, he had three catches for 37 yards last week.


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[Assistant] So it's not like you're gonna look at that and say, oh my god, where are they gonna throw the ball?


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[Assistant] Uh, what I loved was he completed a pass to all three of his tight ends.


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[Assistant] That means that the Browns and Watson have faith in all three of those guys being interchangeable.


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[Assistant] And I think the pedigree is there, and I think that, I think he is going to be a productive wide receiver in the NFL. Is this the game that he steps forward and shows that pedigree? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Trying to figure out just how much removed Patrick Peterson is from Patrick Peterson. If you know what I mean. Like how far has his star fallen? I didn't watch them closely enough last week against San Francisco. I don't know. He clearly can't be the same guy that he once was.


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[Assistant] But he's, he's experienced and I think that's telling. But I think Marquise Goodwin


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[Assistant] Having Minka Fitzpatrick back there for the Steelers probably changes the Brown thinking on just taking deep, deep shots with Marquise Goodwin. We saw he was open twice last week, he got behind the defense.


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[Assistant] What that told the other 31 teams in the league, oh, okay, this guy still has world-class speed. We can't forget about him. There may have been a little bit of write-off factor last week to Marquis Goodwin because a week before the season started, we all thought his career was over.


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[Assistant] So maybe perhaps opposing defenses did too. So I'm not sure that Goodwin will be a factor like he was last week. Not that he was a big factor, but he had a chance to score two touchdowns in that game if the ball was on target.


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[Assistant] So I think, again, yes, I do think that Deshaun Watson's gonna have a good game. He completed, we remember all the short throws in the misses last week, he completed 55% of his passes in a game where the conditions were constantly wet. The ball was wet and heavy the entire game. So he wasn't awful.


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[Assistant] I think he's gonna be markedly better tonight. He's gonna continue to spread the ball around. I took my Browns point total.


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[Assistant] Down three because of this. So I don't think it's a huge deal. I think there will be points in the game where we need to move the stick where he would ordinarily look for Cooper. He won't be there. He's going to have to find someone else.


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[Assistant] That's not good. No, it's not, but, but would you take 55 yards tonight against the Steelers? Sure, but. As opposed to losing it?


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[Assistant] Okay, so maybe he loves the home crowd and the adulation. I wonder if there's a number for prime time games out of Mari Cooper. Does he, does he love to step up in the big, in the bright lights and, and, uh, when the crowd is, you know, the national crowd is there. I don't know. Mikey, we threw two questions out, not sure on numbers and you said you looked them up. What are they?


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[Assistant] No, I know. No, I know. He's got to worry about Devo saying he's got a lot of things to worry about with San Francisco.


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[Assistant] Well that's 50 fewer. Over 60 games, that's not even one catch a game.


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[Assistant] And I imagine he's played a lot of primetime games because cowboys, it seems, are always playing with lights on.


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[Assistant] TJ Watt has a number of times in his career when I've been playing him, been in heavy pass runs.


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[Assistant] And when the ball is released, immediately turns around, runs up field and makes the tackle. Cause his motor never stops. So he is a guy that will double back and get you from the back side.


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[Assistant] But let's, how confidence, how confident are we we'll break out our confidence meter 1 to 10. What's your confidence level in these receivers in this core minus Amari Cooper?


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[Assistant] So if you're given manual ratings before to the Browns Receiving Corps, what was it then? What is it now?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would have had before, I would have put it in the 75 to 77, you know, not quite 80 range, mid to high 70s. Now I'd say it's low 70s. So I'm not, like, I'm not digging them 15 percentage points.


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[Assistant] Like now he's gotta be sharper, he's gotta be better, he's gotta find his receivers.


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[Assistant] Right. But you know when you're alone with your face when you're shaving in the morning, you're looking at the mirror going, oh damn. I mean, this isn't actually a natural man up scenario.


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[Assistant] Save Baker till later. You know, we have, we've developed a move the needle list on the show. Baker still moves it.


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[Assistant] We know Bernie Kozar is, you know, one of the more legendary Browns players in our lifetimes for sure. Uhm, he did a lot for this franchise. At the end of the show, a message from Bernie Kozar to Steelers fans that no one's gonna wanna miss.


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[Assistant] So I know as you're watching us, you might think, you know what, I gotta get back to the gig at 12 o'clock, I'm taking an early lunch, or at 12.30, I gotta check out because my boss is looking over my shoulder, I gotta get back to work. You better put in an earpiece, you better keep listening to us because at around 12.55,


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[Assistant] We're gonna give you a message from Bernie Kosar to all Steelers fans that will make Steelers fans and Browns fans go, Whoa, what did he just say? I like it.


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[Assistant] I don't know if he was like in the dugout of Old Municipal Stadium waiting to come out, but I have an image of Bud Carson ripping heat on the field.


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[Assistant] What's it called? Vaping. You know, there's something about him, I don't want to get off track, but he's a genius, but he is annoying.


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[Assistant] He's got motions and stuff that no one else in the league does. We're gonna, we're gonna talk about that as well. It's gonna change the game. It's gonna change the game. I'd never seen that before and, uh, they tried it again later on a very important field goal and the Miami Kickers saw him coming and he pushed it the other way. It was a big miss at the time. Okay, uh, next up. Mr. Thornhill is back.


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[Assistant] I think what he brings to this team that might have been missing, it's just that, it's the winning edge, the winning attitude. There is a palpable feeling in the locker room


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[Assistant] of winning teams. When you walk in there, whether it's after practice, whether it's after a game or before a game, there's just a different feel to it.


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[Assistant] And I think because he has been a winner in Kansas City, he knows what that feeling is, he knows what leadership looks like, he provides leadership. I just think...


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[Assistant] And they move him around too. I'll give you a quick baseball analogy, Bull. Let's say you're playing a game against a Cy Young caliber pitcher. All nine on the other team are gripping.


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[Assistant] Because every pitch is a leverage pitch. Pressure on him, yeaah. I give up one run, I can take the L. Nah, that's right. And with, I think with Thornhill out there, here's what I'm hoping for.


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[Assistant] Do what San Francisco did. That's the perfect blueprint to how to beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] They hit him in the mouth so fast that the crowd was not a factor at all. It was one of the few games I can ever remember watching where I said, I kept waiting for a point in the game where, okay, now the crowd's gonna come back. They didn't. They were, they never showed up because it was such a, you know, wide margin early and they never made a point because


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[Assistant] Steelers never gave them a chance. Get up on them early and if you force them to throw, Thornhill becomes an even bigger threat.


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[Assistant] Is there any reason of concern for the injury? We saw him using the Theragun on his calf.


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[Assistant] The extra day always benefits the team with the better coach. It just gives them one more day to game plan, one more day to dive into film.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty big. It's glaring. We talked about Canada last week and how the Steelers basically, according to Aditi,


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[Assistant] The notion that they would sabotage, not sabotage, but they would sacrifice another season because they don't want a coach to draw a paycheck from them and he's not working for them.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean they don't normally make them, uh, this one's a glaring one.


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[Assistant] The answer, the correct answer throughout this will be before or after? Before or after.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just hold on one second here. You guys talk about something important.


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[Assistant] So basically he played a game, he played his last game, let's say that, before or after.


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[Assistant] It's so funny how certain things seem so much further away than they really are. And other things, it's exactly the opposite.


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[Assistant] Ah, this is easy. Jason's being true to his strategy. He's very smart.


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[Assistant] You know what though, I like, I'll say this, and we're gonna talk about Baker later, like, I think it's so funny how the fan base operates. We were not diminishing that win in the moment.


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[Assistant] And also I think even though they had to see a backup quarterback for much of the second half.


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[Assistant] That water costs about $10 a gallon.


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[Assistant] And we complain about the cost of gas, right? I don't complain about the cost of gas.


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[Assistant] Right, but I'm just saying, to get a gallon of gas, you've gotta drill two miles into the earth, you've gotta pump crude, you've gotta ship it, you've gotta refine it, you've gotta ship it again, and we pay $3.50 a gallon for it.


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[Assistant] Today, before the game. I already know it. Did a news conference and said, it's a wrap, I'm walking.


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[Assistant] Which one's more likely to get to Canton? Errell, uh, Nick Chubb. Wow.


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[Assistant] If it was, if it was Amari Cooper and Deontay Johnson, one of them, neither one probably will make it, but.


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[Assistant] He's been, he's been consistently. And he's in there. I can't say Nick Chubb is one of the top five offensive players in the game for all of his career. If I go specific to his position, I can do that.


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[Assistant] So let me ask you this, and I don't know the answer to this. Who'd you rather have as a teammate? Did the NFL rank, they usually rank the top 100 players every year coming into the season.


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[Assistant] Does anybody have TJ Watt over number 2? Cause I have Chubb at 2 over Watt at 3.


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[Assistant] Well, like I said, what I did for my exercise, and everybody can have a different standard, that's okay, I'll just explain what my criterion was, was if you look at the percentage, the number of seasons that he's been considered,


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[Assistant] Top player on his unit on the defensive side of the ball. Cause that's what impact, that's how impact is measured.


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[Assistant] And use all defensive players for Miles Garret. You're still gonna have, they're gonna be very, very, very close.


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[Assistant] And what I saw last year and one game out of Mark Emerson, Emerson is trending way up and Ward is trending down.


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[Assistant] See, I had, I had Amari Cooper, but we can't use him now. S7? So. S7? He's out.


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[Assistant] I got, I had Watson 9, I'll give him 8, I'll concede here, and I'll vote for him too, so it's a unanimous sweep.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm really curious to see like who comes in at 9 and 10. I had so many different names up for those positions.


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[Assistant] Guys that we could have mentioned for the Steelers obviously that we didn't. Johnson and Hayward are out.


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[Assistant] George Pickens was a guy that I thought about at the bottom, but when I heard that he might not play, I'm like, well, if he was


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[Assistant] Now, let's look at this. Steelers that we could have put on the list that we didn't, that aren't hurt. Uhm, I had Patrick Peterson.


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[Assistant] I downgraded each team a couple of points. I'm 24-14 Browns.


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[Assistant] Guys, who was it this week? Because there's so many national pundits. I saw a clip of somebody


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[Assistant] Talking specifically about Martin Emerson. I think it was an NFL Network guy, but I can't remember saying that, oh, this guy's a Pro Bowler this year. He's a Pro Bowler.


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[Assistant] I had some numbers just for the week two. This really jumped out at me.


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[Assistant] There's only two teens in the AFC left to and on. Now the Browns could get there. So, but the fact that after two weeks, only two.


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[Assistant] The AFC's tough. It's the Ravens and the Dolphins. Over in the NFC, this is fascinating.


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[Assistant] Three of the four in the NFC East are undefeated.


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[Assistant] The Eagles, Washington is the surprise 2-0. Obviously the Giants are what they are, but Dallas is a 2-0 with an asterisk. They look phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Nice comeback win yesterday. Nice, so did the Giants. This is crazy to me.


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[Assistant] San Francisco 2-0. New Orleans could move to 2-0 with a win tonight. That or the other Monday night football game.


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[Assistant] I mentioned San Diego and Cincinnati as being 0-2 because that's, that's huge for the Browns. These are teams that one way or another, you gotta finish above if you wanna make the playoffs, whether it's in the wild card or the division.


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[Assistant] When you know you don't, there's no room for error. And they, to me, played with the Aaron Rodgers for a panel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I expected the Dolphins to look great. I did. Their offense is scary.


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[Assistant] And it's a race to 11. 11 gets you in.


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[Assistant] So just start checking the Ws. You can get to 11 one way or another hook or crook and go to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's been a minute. That's okay. We haven't won a Super Bowl. We're not going to talk historical trash because we can't. I want to keep it on tonight's game.


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[Assistant] Tell us why we're all wrong for picking the Browns, if you can.


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[Assistant] That's legit. If you were a swimmer at Texas A&M, you'd be far more impressive to me that Mikey rode the bench at Emerson. Can I read a text? Take those quotes off of that.


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[Assistant] See ya. Hey, thanks guys. That was fun. Uh, as promised, we've got a message from Bernie Kozar to all Steelers fans. I hope Cameron stays on the line so he can hear this. This is Bernie Kozar with one of the, one of his stories that he loves to tell. I've heard it many, many times, but here it is. Bernie's message to Steelers fans. Roll it.


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[Assistant] And, you know, Mike tried diminishing, uh, all those wins by sending me some stats. He wasn't so great against Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Basically, UCSS all day long, right? All day long. That's true.


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[Assistant] Make sure that you watch The Post Game Show. Make sure you watch, uh, G. Bush's, uh, Barbershop Pre Game Show at 6 o'clock. And whatever you do, don't be late. Tomorrow at 11 o'clock on The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, we're gonna break some stuff down.


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[Assistant] You feel, you feel better? Uh, I feel great. Especially the Browns got that dub. The Browns got that dub. I'm ready to get into it. I, this, this is beautiful, beautiful thing. I was jumping up and down. Post game went well. Uh, we, we, we gotta- Just go, G. Go. We, we gotta something, we gotta something ready to go.


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[Assistant] First impression with the win is listen, this is what you've been waiting for. This is what you wanted to see.


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[Assistant] I'm the king of the Kool-Aid mafia and it was getting kind of sketchy for me. I'm like, come on Deshaun Watson, I had to get on my knees and pray a little bit. You're supposed to pray for your people. And I said, alright, let's see what we're going to do. Comes out, decides to backwards lateral pass.


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[Assistant] That man was cooking. Everybody should now be at least at ease with knowing that from here, people could get better and the Browns will continue to do their thing. Kareem Hunt was a warm fuzzy blanket for me. I'm like, oh, this is a heartwarming story. We got Kareem, but look, he's jumping over people again. And by the way, this defense might be.


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[Assistant] One of the greatest defenses I've seen and it might be of all time. Wow!


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[Assistant] I'm so gracious as being the leader of the Kool-Aid Mafia. I would like to donate and give away one free t-shirt every single week. Kool-Aid Mafia to one of the people in the chat or whoever watches. We'll figure out how we do it, but I'll make sure they get it.


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[Assistant] We have numbers yet? They stopped and then they went right back through the roof because the Browns won. So right now- Isn't it funny how that works? I done sold- this is crazy. This is testament to y'all. I think I done sold probably about


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[Assistant] It isn't quite at a thousand, but it's probably like around nine. Last time I showed was like nine nineteen. Okay. And this is the first time you've worn it on the show to my recollection. No, I had a black one on last time. Oh, you did. Okay. But I got this one. You see how it matches with the Kool-Aid man. I love it. We had a picture of it.


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[Assistant] And we got some for big people too. We got three X, four X's, five X's. Smart.


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[Assistant] This performance to me. I haven't seen it yet. This performance for me is an 80's Transformers movie. Optimus Prime dies.


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[Assistant] He passes the Matrix of Leadership to Rodimus Prime, who was Hot Rod, and he turned him into a monster that beat the Decepticons. Eventually, Optimus Prime comes back and he lives in Monocleda. But for all y'all in the chat, you know what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] This right here is the Matrix of Leadership passing on from Nick Chubb to Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I think Deshaun came into that building and he understood the type of leadership that Nick Chubb provided and he understood it was the void. That made him step up.


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[Assistant] That made him step into the, to the leader and perform on the field because there was no Nick Chubb to lean on. You have to now lead for the front.


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[Assistant] So when Deshaun, if you look at his whole career, he's always been a guy that steps up in adversity. You know, Clemson shouldn't be beating Alabama back in the day, but Deshaun just refused to lose. Then you fast forward to this game, no Nick Chubb.


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[Assistant] And you can just see the confidence with every single throw. The confidence when moving around. The vintage, uh, Deshaun Watson, shaking people off. The guys have him, he shakes him off somehow, looks over and finds somebody. Side line passes, precision.


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[Assistant] Everything, his demeanor, and here's how I knew they was ready to go.


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[Assistant] At the end of the game, when you see the chest bump between Deshaun Watson and Kevin Stefanski,


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[Assistant] You've never seen a motion like that in Kevin Stefanski since he's been here. He looked at him and said, this is the guy that's going to save my job.


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[Assistant] That's what that look is. That's what I'm talking about. You gonna save my job. You keep playing like this. And I was excited to see that, man. You know, that right there was like, yeah, that's the dude we've been looking at. That's the guy in the meeting rooms that I'll be telling people. This is exactly why the Cleveland Browns could go very far. That picture right there.


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[Assistant] Last week we had a blog, I had a blog on a barber shop on UCSS, y'all can check it out. Uhm, I said the key to unlocking Deshaun Watson is the Baker Mayfield Playbook.


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[Assistant] But when you got into the blog and what I was trying to explain was, one of the reasons that Baker looked good in his best year was, they pared it down for him, right? The only problem is, Baker has limitations in certain areas where teams caught on to that, and it made it a little more difficult to run the bootlegs and stuff and play actually.


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[Assistant] But Deshaun Watson has upgraded in accuracy, upgraded in arm string, upgraded in mobility size. So the things that Baker Mayfield did in his playbook.


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[Assistant] That was shortcomings. Deshaun Watson elevated those type things. So when you look at it, I felt like when you watch Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Why not give him some of the easier throws to start cooking?


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[Assistant] Give him some of the deep outs or comeback routes that Mario Cooper does well. Run the ball multiple formations and pair it down. So, so now you give your offensive line chance to actually run block.


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[Assistant] I think half his problem was when you get a $230 million quarterback, you naturally in your mind, you want to see 230 million plays. Like, so you want to see deep outs, verticals, touchdowns, deep balls everywhere.


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[Assistant] But that's not necessarily what it's gonna be best conducive for him to get it on the road. You see when he gets in rhythm, you throw the ball, dink, get hit guys underneath, and what happens is now that helps your receivers.


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[Assistant] That helps the offensive line and pass blocking, and now all of a sudden Deshaun Watson has confidence moving forward, and you can always add stuff to the playbook. I think that pared it down a little bit. Isn't it funny that he had


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[Assistant] I think the defense, I think one of the reasons Deshaun also gets a little bump in the bonuses because you know the defense is coming to him like, listen, hey we got you.


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[Assistant] Go play free. Go play free. Look, we're not giving up no points anyway. So think about, think about the level of confidence that you have when you know you got a defense that can shut people out. Now you can play within yourself, right? Now you can say, okay, well we don't worry about it much, much because they're not going to get no points.


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[Assistant] Not 70. Until it got hurt. Until it was healthy. They're legit. Offensively, I would like to see us play the Chargers, too. The Chargers, I think, when they got it rolling with Herbert. Hey, the Browns are not.


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[Assistant] I'll give you a, I'll give you a metaphor. Shout out to DeQuille. Uh, Anthony Walker, I called him just a guy. I had to apologize. Anthony Walker's playing like he never was injured. And then just even, even Grant Delpit. Grant Delpit looked like


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know, I'm not gonna call him Ed Reed or nothing, but this dude is, is, he's not missing tackles. Playing the best football of his career. So far.


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[Assistant] Well, J.O.K. looks like a football player. This is a testament to management and being a great manager of personalities. A lot of times, coaches come in and it's my way or the highway, or, hey, act like you've been here before, or we need to be doing it this way, this is my system.


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[Assistant] The crazy thing about Schwartz is he came in and he showed you what somebody who's thinking outside the box and does not have an ego can do. He says, you know what? Let me show you something, Joe Woods. You had the best defensive player in the league on your team and you made him line up just right there the whole time. Let me show you where I can be innovative. Now, and this is in three weeks.


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[Assistant] And they did it in a very different way. They had the Tampa 2 and they did it being dominant in a different way as far as their scheme goes.


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[Assistant] They understood. Don't let him get it rolling. It's hard to get him up to speed. Never hit him before he can even get two, three yards. So it's just difficult.


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[Assistant] It just kind of off the beaten trail, but I think they're using Elijah more like, uh,


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[Assistant] Like, like a short passing game for a run game. Like, he had, I think he had like nine catches last night? He had nine catches. Nine catches for 50. Nine catches for his targets. They were all short. They were 53 yards. I think it's like the West Coast game, just using that as an extension of the run game if they don't have them. So like you said, we haven't seen Elijah Moore. I think his role being involved into that.


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[Assistant] It's going to be a testament to the, to the Browns defense and how they deal with a really mobile scrambling quarterback. Does this work? Like against a guy that can. Yea, cause you can over pursue.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cleveland Browns. They would take Cleveland Browns over people's parents, their children, like.


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[Assistant] If you're a beat writer, if you do radio, come on over here, we'll get you some views. Just stand beside us. Stand beside us. Stand on the umbrella.


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[Assistant] So this is my thing, like, referees are human, right?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of times when you hear about Cleveland Browns, it is, Cleveland Browns are a dumpster fire. You know, they're waiting for us to say, oh, this is it. No continuity. They're fire coaches. Can't find anybody. Look who they traded for.


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[Assistant] They try to make it a laughing stock. And so what I believe happens is referees are humans too. When you're used to seeing a team be terrible, fumble the football, not really be good, there's a small part of you in the back of your mind that be like, come on, that's the Cleveland Browns. He ain't standing bounce. Or did he really do that?


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[Assistant] They went to Gene's territory. He said that the reason that he did this was because he thought Amari Cooper went out of bounds and was the first one to catch the ball and it was illegal touching. He blew the whistle so they can bring it back. That is patently false. You're covering for your boy.


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[Assistant] But here's what I would do. I would also make that reviewable. If that happened and you look at it, he calls him out or whatever he said.


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[Assistant] Here's what I, the silver lining is, it would have been so brown for them to melt after that call. And they didn't. And they didn't. And they came and said, listen, it don't matter what that happened, we'll put more points on you and finish you off officially. And I thought, I think that shows growth in the team is.


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[Assistant] Love him. I know he got some crazy plays. He does have crazy plays. I mean, he got people, he runs this wheel route with this tight end and like they do this action. They'll run like four different actions off of it. And I think he, he's funny because his post game interview, his halftime interview last week was hilarious.


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[Assistant] He's the guy that if you've worked at a factory or something, he's like the foreman's son. And he got out of college and he just comes to the plant and he's like, yeah, guys, we're going to do it differently. And these guys, these guys have been doing it for 36 years and about to retire. It's like, yeah, we're going to do spreadsheets and data stuff. They're like, what the heck is going on?


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[Assistant] Listen, I believe he's playing 10 pounds lighter.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think he's gonna play hungrier. DB talked to him and he said, you know, hey,


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[Assistant] You know I wasn't all in before because I was looking at this big contract.


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[Assistant] It's remarkable. It is a testament to his quad and his hamstring strength. You can't strengthen the ligament by the way.


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[Assistant] You can strengthen everything around it. I've torn, I've torn my ACL in my left knee. I've torn my patella tendon in my right knee. I've torn both ACLs. So I've had two ACL surgeries and they come do the test.


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[Assistant] And they pretty much know, like, and when I saw him get hit. The tough test you mean? Yea. And then when I saw him with that hit, I said aw, he got all, he tore up everything.


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[Assistant] But the fact that he only tore an MCO, to put it in perspective, you could partially tear an MCO and brace it and play on it.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. And you can also come back from that way quicker. Six month timeline. Watch this. This is crazy. I'm not gonna lie. Y'all might think I'm crazy. Sixty eight timeline.


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[Assistant] Break all his ankle and be back playing in the Super Bowl. Listen, some people just hear it freakishly crazy. I took my ACL.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's- Jason, you said it earlier, no one knows what the office is supposed to look like. It all depends on what-


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[Assistant] Gee, I cut you off. I'm sorry. No, well, you can talk about what I want to talk about now. Forget that. If you can get Taylor.


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[Assistant] You gotta make that move. I don't think the price will be


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[Assistant] And especially because you just saw what Deshaun Watson just did. You just saw that it looks like he's on a cusp of being good. Can you imagine giving him running back with home run hitting capabilities like that? I think it would rejuvenate the whole offensive line and you become very formidable. And I think you can't underestimate the fact that if you got a defense like that. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Make sure you tune in, we'll be on. And shout out to two new, uh, Kool-Aid mafia members, Robert and Tina. They have their shirts. As you can see, they have the G Bush one on today. So shout out to Robert and Tina. Hey, and if you listen at three o'clock, you'll get an opportunity to win one. I'll tell you how. By the way,


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[Assistant] We're gonna talk more about Kareem Hunt in just a little bit. First a little bit of uh, housekeeping. I know on the slate leading into the show we had Aditi at noon. We're gonna call an audible at the line. We're gonna check out of that play and we're gonna bring her down at 1230.


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[Assistant] I'm curious to see which plays you've selected and how you diagram and tell us exactly what happened. We're also going to play a new game. This is called match the grades. Last week we did it. I thought this was good segment. We did the PFF grades.


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[Assistant] And this week what we're gonna do is we're gonna give you a Browns player, a Steelers player, and then a PFF grade. We've gotta match the grade to the player. Was it the Brown or was it the Steelers? We'll do that.


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[Assistant] This is far from a science. You've always said that. Players don't buy into it.


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[Assistant] Okay, fair. You can't proveably true that Jed Wills was a whatever. Fair enough.


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[Assistant] I was covering the Buckeyes then, so I went to Notre Dame for the Notre Dame game. I covered the game in Columbus. I was there from 93 to 98. I believe those games were 95-96.


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[Assistant] Well, you did stun us, and I think we're now very, very close to eclipsing the over-under for the entire calendar year on WNBA Talk. The over-under was 45 seconds, and we're at 22 now.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's a couple of months ago. These guys can drop 15, you know, you guys can drop that 15 in two, three weeks of intense marriage.


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[Assistant] That's the hope. I thought it would be cool to do the best thing about signing Kareem Hunt and the worst thing about signing Kareem Hunt. And for me the best thing, obviously familiarity. I'll add your point in because I think that's a great point. He has a relationship with Nick Chubb. By all accounts the two are very close.


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[Assistant] And I think he will not, you know, everybody tries their hardest all the time, but if there is another gear to find, he's likely to find it because he's trying to honor a very good friend and now teammate.


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[Assistant] In, uh, in Nick Chubb. I think the worst thing about signing it, and I hadn't really thought about this bull, you've been driving this point really since the tail end of last season when we were talking about did they keep him, did they let him go. And you kept saying his production is down, his production is down, and I, by my eye test,


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[Assistant] I don't see a different player. I see a player that gets the ball a lot less. And so on that note, I wanted to go back and look and see what he's done from a production standpoint from when he came in the league in 2017 to today. I just think it's good context for today's talk. First of all,


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[Assistant] This is what I love more than anything. He's touched the ball over 1200 times in the NFL. He's lost one fumble.


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[Assistant] I think that's very, we cannot afford to be giving the football away. So on that vein, you need your running back to protect the football. He does it as well as anybody.


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[Assistant] On the touch side of things, obviously his rookie season when he came in and shocked the NFL, he came in out of Toledo. And I remember week two of 2017, every fantasy owner was scurrying to pick up this guy they'd never heard of named Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] He had quite a splash, 1300 yards running, 455 receiving yards, but a lot of opportunity, a lot of opportunity. I'll just give his average yards per carry as his career went on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I mean, are you surprised they wouldn't have kicked the tires on trading for Diernes Johnson? We wouldn't have to give up much to get him back. But you gotta give up a pick.


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[Assistant] Are we not seeing Cedric Tillman though because of DPJ? Because if that's true, the team's making a mistake.


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[Assistant] So Ty, on that point, defensive coordinators aren't worried about that. Really, we said it yesterday and it's the mantra for the rest of the season. I don't care what anyone says. All eyes on four. That is the bumper sticker for the rest of the season. Because our running game, which was elite,


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[Assistant] What does that do to the degree of difficulty for Deshaun Watson finally returning to Deshaun Watson Houston?


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[Assistant] Well and look, that could be why his opportunity was down because the coaches saw in practice he's not the same guy. Exactly. And they gave it to him less. I don't know that that's necessarily the case, but one, you know, they're mutually intertwined. Opportunity and production. Because if you're producing, your opportunity is going to go up.


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[Assistant] And if you're not, your opportunity is gonna go down. That's just common sense and that's probably what happened last year. Okay, now we can turn it to the... I always like doing this, Mike, because I run hot.


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[Assistant] I'm Italian. I run very hot. And a lot of times, there's a mantra that I try to live by, but I never do. And the mantra that I try to live by is don't let the passion of the moment degrade your intelligence.


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[Assistant] And I know that to be true, I think we all do. However, we've all lost our cool, we've all said things we wanted back.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't want anybody fired over their performance on Monday night. Uh, I didn't say that I did, but I'm just, I'm just saying a lot of times when we're watching the game, you're like, fire the bomb. So now we've had 36 hours, sort of a buffer to.


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[Assistant] Monica Robbins on Channel 3 told us that last night. She said she talked to a Cleveland Clinic specialist and said he's likely looking at you. It's horrible.


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[Assistant] I'm curious, Bull said that's impossible. Nothing can be worse than the Herschel Walker trade.


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[Assistant] What was the feeling when the backup came in and led the team to victory? And how did you guys meander through?


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[Assistant] And you know, just about any hitting coach will tell you the surest way to not hit home runs is to try to hit home runs. Just go back to your basics.


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[Assistant] I think for now, everything should be 15 and in. And if the deep ball is there, take it. Take it. But don't force it.


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[Assistant] Because bad things can happen. He's, I think he's thrown six, maybe six deep, deep balls this year. I haven't seen one of them. Five percentage throws. That's what he needs to do right now. Build your confidence. Get that base built and then go to the top.


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[Assistant] I wanna go here. What was the ceiling with Nick Chubb in your mind, and what is the ceiling now?


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[Assistant] So before the season started and you saw everything, or even after the Cincinnati game.


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[Assistant] You had one game in the barn. You could assess that. Were you thinking this team could make a divisional playoff?


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[Assistant] No, I think that's very fair. My ceiling for them coming into the season was they were going to scrap to try to get to double-digit wins. Scrap. But I thought there was a chance they could, so for me that was their ceiling, and 10 could get you into the playoffs. It's not, it's probably more likely to not.


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[Assistant] That you don't make the playoffs, you know, that you're going to probably need 11.


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[Assistant] I thought that they could scrap to get to 10 and they would be in the playoff mix. After seeing Deshaun Watson for two games and losing Nick Chubb, my ceiling is they're no longer a playoff team. However. And that's just my opinion. That's fair.


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[Assistant] The quarterback, that's a seven yard throw. The quarterbacks gotta make a better throw. I blame Watson more. I blame Watson 70% and 30% goes to the tight end.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe that's what's missing right now in his game. Maybe the corners and the safeties have already decided.


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[Assistant] Some pitchers have what's called a towel. Some pitchers, when they're gonna throw a curveball, and I used to be guilty of this, they're digging, they're gripping. And it could just be something just like this, and the hitters in the dugout say, guys, he's digging when he's throwing the curveball. So when you know what's coming, you have a better chance of stopping it.


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[Assistant] He's telling where he's going the second he hits the pocket. If that's the case, of course his completion percentage would go down. Of course he'd be more thrown to throw interceptions. Because the defense knows the second he hits his drop


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[Assistant] On the timeline of when defenses started giving pre-snap reads.


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[Assistant] Do you know when that became the norm? For teams to give a read and immediately, either a second before or at the snap of the ball, they go into what they really want, whether it's dropping a defensive end or whether it's bringing a save.


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[Assistant] You had seven plus days to get ready for your first offensive play against Pittsburgh and you drew it up to your third string tight end. Or I guess your second string tight end.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but here's what was in my mind. Denzel last year took a big step back. He did. A big step back. He did. And I can't forget that. I mean, I don't know what was going on. I don't. Did he have the assignment?


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[Assistant] Which I thought was interesting. So, I mean, the one thing that that gives the offensive coordinator the advantage on, if you don't want to throw to Denzel, and you know he's always on the left.


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[Assistant] I've seen it a handful of times last year. I did watch, uh, uh, Jacoby Percet when Jacoby was starting for them. I watched those games. I'm sorry, yeaah. Yeaah, but he only started one game, I think.


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[Assistant] Let's catch our viewers up. On the call, Mike told us we're going to start the show with confirmation from Jason Kelsey that Travis, his brother, is dating Taylor Swift.


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[Assistant] All the time. I don't believe it. These guys are such cars. And Jason. And cut-ups.


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[Assistant] You know what, yesterday, yesterday I was watching Jason on Channel 3 on their, you know, their, their follow, their game wrap up with Nick Camino. And he said, they were talking about the rookie, Duann Jones. And he goes, listen, I know Brian Balding is out there breaking down tapes saying that he was good. He has all kinds of issues.


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[Assistant] Now, I do think this is a sucker question.


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[Assistant] You know what, David Bell, uh, I, I was kind of making fun of him yesterday because there were certain plays where he was asked to be the chipper and he did a terrible job, but there were a lot of other plays where David Bell's blocking was very, very good. And I, didn't he catch all of his targets? I think they threw it to him two or three times and he was, he didn't drop any.


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[Assistant] Yeah, as I'm saying, this is an elite defense. They played well enough to win on Monday night. And they couldn't do it. They couldn't do it. The Steelers never had the ball inside the Browns 30 yard line. The, the, the snap they took closest to the end zone was the 31. How do you lose it?


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[Assistant] He'll have one tackle and they'll give him a 91.


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[Assistant] Who played better Monday night on your eye test? Miles Garrett or TJ Y? You're gonna miss Miles when he's gone. Listen, I'm saying he's one of the top five players defensively in the league.


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[Assistant] But watch, PFF is going to get this wrong.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett's getting like 90 sacks against me. Can you imagine though doing either one of those? Lining up against Miles Garrett? Or taking a punch from Mike Tyson?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, because you need nine players in baseball.


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[Assistant] I know, it's maddening, but I think your point is the point. The Steelers defense maybe for the entire night.


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[Assistant] Yesterday I asked the guys to use one word to explain the game Monday and my word was gutted. There's no other way to say it. I didn't even celebrate the touchdown, the go-ahead touchdown. Moments after, I couldn't even celebrate it. I was still in shock.


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[Assistant] Interesting. I'm sideways. That's it. No, that's, that's a diplomatic answer from someone who is considered a team reporter. So she's heard things. Aditi, thank you. We'll see you next week. Bye.


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[Assistant] That's pretty simple. Andrew, you're not gonna suck. We know, listen, we know who this guy is. Andrew's a professional. Uhm, give us, give us the treetops of this Notre Dame Ohio State game. I'm a lifelong Buckeye fan. I've got concerns for sure, but I feel the Buckeyes are going to win. Am I wrong?


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[Assistant] I have some guy, a guy in a similar vein. A friend of mine was in a fantasy league. He only needed a half a point from Darren Rogers. Half a point. Which means I think he only needed like three


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[Assistant] No, it's a huge deal. This is massive in my mind. I'm not high on Kenny Pickett, but just still, the quarterback's obviously the biggest loss when you lose a quarterback. But outside of losing your quarterback, and in their case TJ Watt, I mean those are two of the, like if you had to say the top


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[Assistant] I think a big deal with Cam Hayward being out is, you just mentioned, Dewan Jones is going to have to deal with TJ Watt. Yep. I was about to say JJ again. And...


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[Assistant] Obviously, you know, you're gonna, I don't care how big he is, how well he's played, you're gonna struggle with, but because Cam Hayward's out, now Wyatt Teller can help out more than he could've normally.


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[Assistant] So what would you say to the Browns fan that is nervous?


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[Assistant] That Watson has not played at a high level through seven games in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] I feel the same way about him that I did about Trent Richardson. Like a lot of hype coming in. Everybody thought he was really good. He's not been any good. He's helped you and your fantasy team because, because they give him a lot of touches, but he doesn't do much with them.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, but I'll tell you a guy, I wanted to get, I wanted to get back to the Browns defense because Grant Delpit is a guy who they drafted high.


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[Assistant] And for his first few years in the league he did nothing. And then the second half of last year I felt like he really turned it around and finally played the good football we expected him to play. And I thought he was great in this first game. We've talked about so many players.


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[Assistant] Mike, why don't you give the fans who don't know and don't know what PFF is an idea, I'm sure most of our fans do, but an idea of what a good grade is and what a bad grade is, because I don't know that all our audience knows that.


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[Assistant] 80's and 90's is a pro bowler type of player. 70's is good solid player. 60's is kind of average. 50's is bad and worse than that is horrible. I look at 60's as D's.


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[Assistant] That's a little above that. Now what was just his passing grade? Do you have that? If you give me one sec, I'll pull it up.


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[Assistant] I feel like he didn't really do a lot. They're basing that on like his, how do they base that? I don't know. Like, I don't pay, I only pay attention to PFF for the lineman, that's it. Offensive, defensive lineman. Because our eyes, we can judge what the other guys are doing. I agree with that. I don't know, I guess if he wins the route but the ball doesn't get thrown to him.


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[Assistant] No, I know, but it's all we have. It's all we have. It's so funny, cause like, we're watching the game, we're like, wow, it seems like you did a good job. They never called his name. Jason said yesterday,


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[Assistant] Well, nobody's a better decision maker at the running back position. I agree with that.


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[Assistant] That's bad. I thought, well, he didn't have turnovers. That's why it's not even lower. Yeaah. That was the only thing he didn't do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I mean, they have some value, certainly, and to be fair, those guys, I don't know about you Mary Kay, but those guys are watching every play, whoever's doing the analysis. I'm not, I'm not going back and studying what every player did on every play, like they, I assume they are, but,