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[Assistant] Well that's G, G real quick, that's a perfect segue to this next one. I missed this earlier, but Andrew Berry on whether or not Stefanski will call plays next year said part of that depends on where we land with the staff. It's one of his traits.


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[Assistant] So yesterday we saw the Ravens, actually Saturday excuse me, we saw the Ravens handily take care of the Houston Texans. Before we talk about the other playoff matchups, I want to talk about


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[Assistant] Baltimore versus Houston and how it made you reflect on what happened the previous Saturday when Houston beat the Browns. Do you feel better or worse about the Browns loss against Houston in terms of who Houston was as a team and how the Browns performed?


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[Assistant] Seeing how they competed against the one seed Baltimore Ravens.


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[Assistant] It is crazy. Let's talk about the rest of the playoff games real quick and ball let you start on this one. If you're watching, we appreciate it. Make sure you hit the like button, hit the subscribe button. It is totally free. Well, you can start wherever you want between the three other playoff games. If you want to start with Mahomes beating Allen on the road. I mean, we are, we can't talk.


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[Assistant] And I think it goes to show that just sometimes a quarterback and a coach.


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[Assistant] I'm looking it up right now, but even if you're out on Tua, he hasn't been a bust.


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[Assistant] We got about five minutes for super chats, but no, no, you're good. But I want to make sure you got a chance to touch on this because you tweeted a bunch about it this weekend and we don't talk a ton of Guardians in the offseason, but GuardsFest was this weekend.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we can play the clip, and if you wanna get up, it's two minutes long though, so... D-don't play it!


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[Assistant] Yeah, lowest OPS. So I did the math real quick. In 441 games, what their outfield played in totality, which is pretty healthy. Between Straw, Quan, and Will Brennan played 136 games in right field. So, a relatively healthy outfield.


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[Assistant] Quan had five, Brennan had five, Straw had one. Alright, we got two super chats before we wrap up here. Charles T sent them both. His first comment is, guys, you're killing Stefanski for firing AVP. Like he's proven he came to the Browns after being a career quarterback coach for five teams.


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[Assistant] The second one comes from Charles T as well. He said, we're killing the Browns for trying to get better, more creative offensively and we're, uh,


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[Assistant] Let me start over. We're killing the Browns for trying to get better slash creative off that we were complaining about. Ford couldn't find the whole pause. Wide receivers never develop.


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[Assistant] It's awful. I mean, first of all, why a store like that still exists is weird to me. Uh, isn't it like a discount store a bit? I don't know, but the whole place, it's like, I was like walking into a shopping mall like Macy's in the 1980s. Why don't you go to Target?


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[Assistant] So I see this hat, and then a woman comes over, she's like, I'm checking out the hat, she's like,


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[Assistant] There was already a Sammy the Bull, you know, I'm kind of stealing from him. But, uh, I don't know, I gotta work on my mob name.


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[Assistant] Now I'll admit, I cheated a little bit. This is 2000, not 2002. That's even better. It's the closest I could find.


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[Assistant] Uh, this was right before I graduated college. I went to college a little later. Let me ask you a question. Were you the guy who had all female friends?


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[Assistant] Oh, good. Okay. I feel very good about a Browns win. Listen, it's the NFL. The Browns are only a two point favorite. They're on the road. It'd be silly. And that's getting smaller. Yeaah, it's gone down to two. Yeaah. Uh, even eight and a half may be overly aggressive. I'm surprised. I am too. Is it too aggressive? Well, I felt it was. I just feel very good about this game. Okay. Not a short thing.


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[Assistant] Certainly the Browns could lose it. I'm not gonna be like blown away if they lose, but I'll be surprised if they lose. I feel like they're the better team.


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[Assistant] I feel like even though CJ Stroud is probably the better quarterback, I think for right now I'd rather have Joe Flacco in this situation versus a rookie in his first start and I look at and I compare the teams and I think the Browns


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[Assistant] Uh, and I, I don't think the Texans are gonna be able to run the ball against the Browns. I don't like their back, even though he's been decent. And I think if they, if you become one-dimensional against the Browns, you've got no chance. Yeah, for sure. And so that's why I feel really good about it. Eight and a half.


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[Assistant] So it's not like I have a blowout in this game, but the Browns all year have been the hardest team to do that against.


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[Assistant] Well, his PFF grade is the thing. Of course. It's the 6th biggest differential.


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[Assistant] Guys, we got Tim, so let me get in here on my game plan. There's one word that sums up the game plan on both sides of the ball, and that's aggressive.


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[Assistant] Forget this nonsense about shutting down Amari Cooper. If they could shut him down, they would have shut him down the first time. What? They didn't know the first game that he was by far the best weapon on the Browns?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna trust Amari Cooper against a double team to make a play, I don't care. And defensively, no way I'm letting CJ Stroud get comfortable. First of all,


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[Assistant] They, uh, against past defenses, I don't know for sure if it's... No, I'm talking about schedule. Opponents record. Yeaah. But...


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[Assistant] He, he faced three good defenses, three good pass defenses, and he didn't play great in any of those games. I know one of them was his first game, I don't care. The Browns, forget this nonsense, sit back.


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[Assistant] I don't want nothing. The rest of their wide receivers, they're just slappy Jones. I don't care about them. We shut them down and, and you, I want J.O.K. Blitzen.


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[Assistant] Tim, to your point, I mean, rookie quarterbacks making their first NFL playoff start.


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[Assistant] Win less than a third of the time. There's a reason for that, right? I mean there's a new level of pressure, isn't there?


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[Assistant] They went from being a team that ran the ball.


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[Assistant] 23rd or 8th most I think it was on first down to being the team that throws the ball most often on first down. They were more balanced against the Jets, but overall they've been lopsided passing. Should they stick with that because that's what worked or do they have to be more balanced to win in the playoffs?


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[Assistant] 97. It's a good stat. You screwed that part up. It's a little weird that you're calling him Mr. Flacco. Mr. Flacco.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, where does he actually rank? Not, not in the biggest drop-off. Yeaah, because- Kay made a good point, he's got a high bar that he's starting at.


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[Assistant] You definitely want to get. Where is Flacco in those rankings? Do we know?


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[Assistant] By the way, Jay mentioned they had the 30th strength of, strength of schedule. Right. But C.J. Stroud didn't play against the Browns, which is one of the best teams they played.


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[Assistant] No, but my point is, it was, I said it was the wor- he played the worst schedule. Well, you're saying it's 30th, so there's two teams that are worse. However,


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[Assistant] I can't either. I mean, that's almost identical. That's 68th grade under pressure. I bet you it's top 10. Right, Mike? Oh, it has to be.


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[Assistant] Those stats to me aren't as impressive as they sound because until this year, the AFC South has been trash. Horrible. Yes. And the Texans have been trash since Kevin Stavanski's been in the league, except for I think


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[Assistant] Uh, his first season, Deshaun Watson was still at Houston, but they were bad in that year. Even though he played well, they were a bad team. So, to me, those stats don't mean much. Maybe the one argument, I don't know what you guys think, is you could say,


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[Assistant] There's something to be said for the fact that many of these Texans players have never beaten the Browns.


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[Assistant] For me, I feel like if the kick's 45 and under, I feel good he's gonna make it. Anything more than 45, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be confident. That's the line.


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[Assistant] You have any intel on why he was let go by Detroit? He only attempted four field goals over 39 yards this year.


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[Assistant] The bottom line is, I think for them, they had another kicker there, and they said, hey, if we need a long field goal in the playoffs, we don't trust this guy to make it.


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[Assistant] I know you tell, all I know right now is if you tell me the Browns need a 48-yard field goal to win the game, if Dustin Hopkins is the kicker, I have zero concern. With this guy, I'm not sure. I have concern. We'll see, that's how I feel about it.


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[Assistant] Yes, in terms of possibly next week. He is kicking. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] He said the same for Delphi. You're playing in a cold weather city next week no matter what happens. Yes. There's no...


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[Assistant] John, I'm curious, uh, Nico Collins, his first two years in the league, he was fine. He was okay, but he didn't put up any numbers.


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[Assistant] But this year, obviously, and especially, you know, Tank Del was great before he got hurt, but Kyle, he's been fantastic. Is it just that he has C.J. Stroud, or has his game as an individual gotten a lot better this year?


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[Assistant] Damien Pierce was starting, uh, running back last year. He had a decent season. He was starting running back in the beginning of this year. Their running game has been a lot different, Jonathan. You would know better than anybody else since Singletary has become the guy. And Singletary was kind of disappointing in Buffalo, but he's been, he's been good. I mean, he's played his best football.


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[Assistant] Uh, since becoming the Texans back, what's been the difference to you between those two guys?


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[Assistant] I mean, this Joe Flacco story is crazy, right? I mean, this is nuts. Could you have ever imagined


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[Assistant] Hey Johnson, speaking of, speaking of the Browns passing game, uh, Mari Cooper ate the lunch of every defensive back on the Texans last time. How, what's their game plan going into this game? Cause he killed them.


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[Assistant] I hate this because I didn't pick the Browns. I want, I really want the Browns to win the Super Bowl and hopefully I'll change my mind. Uh, and I hope I'm wrong, but I've actually got the Bills. I, I, I, I think the Bills, uh, they're a very dangerous team right now. I think Josh Allen, like Joe Flacco, there's too many turnovers, but


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[Assistant] When he's not turning the ball over, I mean, he's probably the best quarterback in football right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, the guy's magnificent and he does it on the ground and through the air. He's asked to do so much for that team. I don't trust the Ravens in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Uh, I have, in my mind, I have the Browns losing to the Bills in the AFC Championship game. I think if we got there, I'd probably pick the Browns to win, but today...


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[Assistant] I'm picking the bills and I'd be so shocked if anybody with the Niners comes out of the NSC.


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[Assistant] Hey, how you doing? What's up Mary Kay, how you doing? I'm doing great, how are you guys?


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[Assistant] Was the only good, really good elite quarterback.


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[Assistant] Six weeks out of football, he was completely not ready to play football in that game and it was also a weather game. So that one for me kind of, it doesn't go into the battle tested category.


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[Assistant] Was Lamar Jackson. And when they ran into


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[Assistant] Another one in CJ Stroud in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] They did not handle it well. And I think they, you know, they thought they were the number one defense in the NFL and they're going to have to pick it up a notch next year because they are facing a whole bunch more really good quarterbacks next year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the heat of the moment still. These guys are still in grieving mode. They feel like they're supposed to be moving on and they really should be moving on. Uhm, but you know, it didn't go the way anybody expected and sometimes think people don't handle that well. You're right. He should probably, like I just said, I've decompressed and I've stayed off of Twitter for a couple


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[Assistant] Uh, that one's a tough one because he's going to have to get healthy.


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[Assistant] Andrew Berry does not part with his draft picks very easily, and I think they felt like Harrison took a step up, so I think they'll find a way to bring him back.


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[Assistant] Cory had a great season until he got hurt. So, yes. Maurice Hurst.


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[Assistant] Uh, now, and he's another one. He's coming off of a torn peck, so they're going to have to see how he does health-wise. But from a football standpoint...


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[Assistant] Uh, he was a really nice contributor during the season, so they will make an effort to bring him back.


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[Assistant] Kinda means that, you know, he'll probably go out there, he'll test the free agent waters and if he finds an opportunity, you know, he should take it because there's nothing guaranteed here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, including your very own Jason Lloyd say that


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[Assistant] Or a Joe Flacco. And if Joe doesn't find a starting job out there somewhere, uhm, or at least an opportunity to start,


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, you know, Nick Chubb, it will be dependent on his health and when he's ready to come back. So I think what's going to happen with Nick...


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[Assistant] Well, you guys probably remember this offseason, uh, I thought that they should have signed DeAndre Hopkins. I thought that.


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[Assistant] That Deshaun Watson needed a guy like that, another Pro Bowl caliber, can't miss elite receiver to go along with Amari Cooper. Now Amari Cooper also has a $24 million cap hit in 2024. $24 million cap hit. So.


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[Assistant] I want to look at that and see if they can't bring that number down. I'm sure they're going to have to do that. Uh, especially with, uh, Deshawn right now having a $64 million cap hit. I mean, you've got to, uh, you know, you've got to trim somewhere. But anyways.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, I do think that they need to target an elite Pro Bowl caliber receiver, either to pair with Amari, or if you can't work something out from a financial standpoint, then you know, perhaps that person would replace Amari, which I think would be really unfortunate.


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[Assistant] Best receiver I've ever covered. He's amazing. I think he, you know, they've got to do what they can to keep him around. I think you need two guys.


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[Assistant] And everybody else I think they're, you know, they're pretty, pretty set with. So as long as those guys come back healthy from their injuries, I think they'll still be in really good shape on the offensive line.


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[Assistant] So first and foremost, I have to give a shout out to Mikey here and tell him, tell him thank you so much for swallowing up my cranium with so many of those trivia questions right there.


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[Assistant] Here's some of those cool records as you kind of relive that and almost relive your youth, which transitions me into


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[Assistant] When you hit that first bomb, like he did against Indianapolis, boy, your confidence, your enthusiasm, the bleep on the sideline is, goes through the roof.


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[Assistant] Which is all that matters now. This time of the year is somehow some way end up with a W. That's one of the best ways I think to somehow some way we're gonna get a W on Saturday.


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[Assistant] Anytime I got a chance to come out in the meaningful games, I wanted to meaningfully be a part of what happened. So that old, let's start slow, let's run it, let's see what happened. There's no way that's what I'd be doing.


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[Assistant] That we've been using, that for sure, what did we do against them, uhm, a month ago? And how do we evolve off of that? Uhm, you know, the Houston Texans and D'Amico Ryan will be practicing and preparing for what we have already shown on film.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco and the tentative play, that's the least of my worries. That's the least of my worries going into this game.


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[Assistant] I love this organization. Um, I love the city of Cleveland. That was such a, such a great atmosphere. 31 years in the NFL. That was probably.


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[Assistant] That was one of my top five atmospheres. Uhm, you know, that Thursday night, we needed to share that with the players. You know, we got a lot of energy from them. We needed to give them a little energy, pay them back.


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[Assistant] Not many chances you have to be able to clinch at home, so.


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[Assistant] You know all that, but I'd say this, like in any job that you do, you always aspire to the top of that profession, and I'm no different there.


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[Assistant] Everyone has defied logic. It's always been the quarterback. You lose your quarterback, it's typically over with.


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[Assistant] And the Browns lost everything, especially offensively. And you know, we've all, this league has gone to being an offensive league. And this year the defense has carried them. So I would, I would like to say it's the quarterback, but at this point it might be the kicker.


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[Assistant] Well, I thought that the most interesting thing about this season, and it was something that I was going to pay attention to is, you know, when a team goes through and you're making that culture change, the first thing is you're going to face adversity at some point. And it's so easy for you to be like, you know what? This is what we did. This happened all the time. Let's just go ahead and revert back. It's the same old thing.


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[Assistant] It truly means that the guys that's, that's twos and threes, they really go into practice. Like let me, I need to know my playbook because


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[Assistant] I need to know the game plan, I need to know the adjustments because there is a strong chance that I'ma go in this game and play because how this season has been. To whereas other teams, I've been on other, on teams in this league where you know you don't got a shot at playing.


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[Assistant] And you just go through the week, you go through practice, you go through the motions, and if game time comes and you go in, you really don't know what's going on.


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[Assistant] But I think the Browns have done a great job of getting all their young guys and all their twos and threes up to speed, that they prepared themselves to be starters.


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[Assistant] The biggest difference with him this year is the mindset. I think he now truly believes.


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[Assistant] And it's a DB. He thinks to himself, dude, you, you don't train as hard as me. You don't work as hard as me. So I'm going to just run straight through you. That's why it's so hard to get that man down. How many times have we seen him make, get a catch and as he's getting tackled, he keeps his feet moving on contact and he picks up those yards. I remember the one game.


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[Assistant] Where he got the, where he drove the guy 10 yards down the field before they could even tackle him. It's a mindset thing. When he gets that ball, he thinks to himself, I'm scoring a touchdown.


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[Assistant] See, what you said right now is something that I harp on, you know, when I was a player, you know, and so many times that you hear guys be like, oh yeaah, we're gonna be good for years to come.


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[Assistant] And that, don't get caught up in that. The only thing that's guaranteed is right now. Don't let this moment pass. Yeaah, you might be good next year or you might go off the cliff and it might not never happen again. The only guarantee is this year. But I will say, I was at home this morning when I woke up.


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[Assistant] This season just kinda gave me, you know, it's been a magical season. So I was thinking about, I went back and I watched when the Cavs beat the Warriors. And I was watching it and I just seen all the emotions on it.


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[Assistant] And how magical of a season this feels like that to me for some odd reason where nobody really gives them a chance. It doesn't really make sense how they getting it done, but they find a way to get it done.


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[Assistant] If they did end this season with the Super Bowl, it really would not be that surprising because this season has just been that magical. Oh, for sure.


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[Assistant] Wild times, man. It's a really good time to be a Browns fan right now, and like I said, this season, no matter how it ends, it's gonna go down as one of the best seasons in Browns history in my personal opinion.


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[Assistant] Cause I said it on YouTube, but I need to say it on TV so they understand. This earlier this week, I kinda gave Joe Flacco some asterisks over his performances because he did it against a 29th ranked pass defense, a 27th ranked pass defense, and a 25th ranked pass defense. So I'm like, yeaah, he's supposed to throw for 300 yards. Those guys are the bottom of the barrel.


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[Assistant] Last night he did it against the second ranked pass defense where he had over 300 yards and they haven't given up a 300 yard pass or since.


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[Assistant] It was Tom Brady in 2021. Yeah. So it's been a bunch, a long time and he still got it done without Amari Cooper. Yeah. Joe Flacco, you are the real deal. I am officially wacko for Flacco like the rest of Cleve.


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[Assistant] All he needed was Kevin Stefanski. That's all he needed. That's right. Peanut butter and jelly. Joe Flacco and Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Well I think it's come down to him and uh, Michael Parsons I think are the like two heavy favorites. Obviously you gotta see what Michael Parsons is.


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[Assistant] That's true, that's true. But both of them really have direct impacts on the game. I think what I like about Miles is that he's playing the run game really well. Obviously he didn't have the sacks for those, what, three or four games, but he still was very heavily involved in the run game. And teams still have to game plan around Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] He still has, last night just completely lived in the backfield. I mean, some of the plays that he was making, he definitely looked back to his old self. He continues to play, well, we don't know, seeing how this game goes with Baltimore and Miami, we don't know if he's going to play next week or not. If that was his final performance and that's the last thing that these voters see, I would definitely say he would win DPOY.


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[Assistant] Also like top of the list or close to the top of the list on TFLs, forced fumbles, win rate, double teams. All of that. All of those things factor in. I know sacks is the big thing that we look at.


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[Assistant] And he's not that far out of first place on that as well, but I think just overall his game is at the top of the list. He does so much and every offensive coordinator starts their game plan saying, how do we stop 95? We can't do nothing until 95 is taken care of.


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[Assistant] My game ball goes to Myles Geard. Obviously he's had a phenomenal game, but the conditions that he was playing, he just recently had an uncle pass away Christmas night. He played with a heavy heart and he still had a passionate game out there. So game ball goes to Myles Geard.


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[Assistant] And the timing is great. I mean, as much as we've bemoaned all the injuries and rightfully so during the regular season, the hope was all along, let's get these guys healthy and ready for the real season. And it looks like they're getting as close to that as they have been at any point


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[Assistant] In, in recent memory anyhow. Uhm, I might, I have one question for you guys. Can Grand Elpit kick?


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[Assistant] premature and maybe it's I don't know what they woul Houston think we're not go But I just felt that was o that is we know is week t on Tuesday, you're already


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[Assistant] They're going to be doing construction in the parking garage, so we had to put something up that would keep the reflection from coming in. Why is it a brick wall? It was, I was like.


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[Assistant] People are kind of brushing this off. They were yesterday in the newsroom. They're like, hey, we got another kicker. It's not like we don't have another kicker. We don't have that kicker.


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[Assistant] At the end of the half, no, because you don't want to risk a return. Right. You know, when you're kicking from that distance, that's a returnable kick.


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[Assistant] Stats up again? That said that those were his 2023 stats.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at that, why was he cut?


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[Assistant] You know what? It's one of those moves that if you're a Lions fan, you better hope you don't lose a playoff game on a late kick. Cause that's a question mark to me. I just don't know. Usually there's glaring evidence to cut a kicker. We had it.


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[Assistant] You know what? After seeing those stats, I trust him more now than I did. Perfectly honesty. All transparency.


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[Assistant] Typically when a kicker is picked up off the junk heap, there's a reason he was there. I don't know that I can ever remember an instance where a kicker was cut mid-season.


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[Assistant] Without missing a plethora of kicks, it's, I mean, we've seen it a million times. Yeah, I hear you. Guys get, you know, in the rut where they just can't make, by talking about kickers, the Dallas kicker who hadn't missed a kick in his career, missed two in his last game. Sounds like what happened to them, uh, two years ago.


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[Assistant] It definitely changes Kevin Stefanski's mindset. To Bull's point, there's certain times you're gonna go for it if you don't feel your kicker has the leg, and there's certain times you're gonna kick if you feel that your kicker's gonna be good from inside of 58 yards.


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[Assistant] Gee, wouldn't you agree it's easier to be aggressive with the defense that Kevin Stefanski has? You know, I'm okay going with it. Typically, I uhm,


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[Assistant] The ESPN analytics say you've gotta go for it. What the analytics don't tell you are the things we just mentioned. It's got to be analytic and situational driven. And when you marry those, by the way, I think Kevin Stefanski does as good a job at that as anybody.


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[Assistant] He does a really good job of marrying the situation with the analytics, and I love the way he uses all of that. But I do expect him to your point to be aggressive.


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[Assistant] I can't, you know, maybe situationally they just weren't set up to kick a lot.


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[Assistant] What were the touchdowns for each team? Detroit scored a lot more touchdowns. I would guess double digit more touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's, that's not bad. Which is, which is why we're surprised. If you're 67% from, I know it's very small sample size, but.


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[Assistant] Well, we're gonna have to, he's gonna have to do kickoffs for us. Right, he did, he has. That might be a factor in the game. And he did it for Jacksonville too. How many, how many times did he reach the end zone during his kickoffs? How many were touchbacks?


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[Assistant] But maybe I misread the question. Are we projecting forward like this is the best year


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[Assistant] Are you, do you feel that way? Okay, so yeaah, when you, okay.


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[Assistant] And I think the window typically doesn't stay open very long.


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[Assistant] Uh, just depends on, you know, a lot of different circumstances with player salaries and your quarterback situation and how much he's making and how long you have him under contract for. My hope is that the window is now at its peak. We felt like in the past few years that our window of opportunity was opening.


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[Assistant] I would like to think now that it's at its peak, but I would like to think that we could maintain that for at least another year and maybe two. And the biggest part of this equation is what is Deshaun Watson going to be?


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[Assistant] If Deshaw Watson plays up to his contract, then absolutely not this isn't our best year.


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[Assistant] Because Deshaun Watson, I'm told, has elite ability and can play at the level that can bring a championship to town. So it better not be our best chance and the window better not be closing. If so, the Haslums wasted a whole lot of money and a lot of draft picks.


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[Assistant] I think to G's point, the Chargers will too. I mean, we saw what Harbaugh was able to do with an NFL style offense in San Francisco. He took that team to the Super Bowl. He's got a Super Bowl caliber quarterback. I think the big, if they get Harbaugh, I think the Chargers might be the team that makes the biggest jump next year.


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[Assistant] And I, by the way, I do think he was showing maturation. But not like this. I mean, you know, to the, to the level that Joe Flacco has played, you're absolutely right. And I, again, I mean, it's so funny how even when he's not in the conversation, he's in the conversation. Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Because you cannot project this team's future without trying to figure out what you're gonna get from a guy that you have no idea what you're gonna get from. That's right.


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[Assistant] There is a little bit of sample size to work with here, though, because after the 11-5 playoff season in 20, and we thought then, you know, we were talking, well, they're going to be, you know, an AFC contender, if not the number two or three favorite based on how they played Kansas City.


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[Assistant] Baker was hurt and the quarterback play was bad, but Stefanski was still the guy running the offense and running the show and they went from 11 to 7 in one season. It can happen, but I, to your point, I totally trust Stefanski. I want to ask you guys quickly, this is off topic, but I read about it this morning and I really want to get your thoughts on it.


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[Assistant] There is a real rift going on with the New York Giants between Brian Dayball and Wink Martindale. In fact, when


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[Assistant] Dable fired a set of brothers that were Wink Martindale's right and left hand man on his defensive coaching staff that he brought with him from Baltimore. It was against Wink Martindale's suggestion. He did not want them fired.


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[Assistant] Dayball felt that there was a power struggle going on in the organization and he felt like the three of them were trying to assert their power over Dayball. So Dayball fired the two brothers.


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[Assistant] Well, that didn't sit well with Wink Martindale. He set his piece in a private meeting. This is according to a report in New York. Pounded the table, got up, left the room, slammed the door, flew back to his home in Sarasota and the Giants haven't heard from him. I only bring that up because we know the draw and the mecca that New York is.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's going to be a huge market for Jim Schwartz as a head coach. He's not been connected to any teams. And I've talked to a couple of people, and again, we've mentioned this on the show, look at the hot names even now. They're young, offensive minds. That's the de jure, you know, the coach de jure in the NFL right now. I'm asking you guys this because


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[Assistant] The peep, the Giants have some pieces. Clearly the, the defensive unit of the Giants was their strong point this year. I, I, when I read that I'm like, uh oh, Martindale's gonna walk.


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[Assistant] And Dave Ball is gonna call Jim Schwartz to be his defensive coordinator. I'm not worried about it at all. I don't know why he'd leave.


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[Assistant] I think for him it's not about pay. I think, and you guys will understand this because we lived it in Cleveland with Greg Williams.


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[Assistant] Oftentimes, coordinators will move to jobs where they think the coach there is on his last leg.


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[Assistant] Because then the ascension is, it's a natural progression, particularly if that move happens in season. And Brian Dayball is on his last bit of oxygen in New York. You're not going to fire him this off season, but I'm told he's dangling by a thread. So if I'm Jim Schwartz,


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[Assistant] He might have the same problem. We don't know. I can't jump in his head, but I do know the motivation of coordinators is to ascend to be a head coach.


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[Assistant] And I thought it was really telling last week when talking to the media that


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[Assistant] Jim Schwartz could have answered that question a million different ways. He went the way he did because he wants his name out there. Now, I did some poking around. I'm sure you guys did as well. His name is not out there. On all of the vacancies that are currently open in the NFL, his name is not being whispered about any of them.


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[Assistant] I wonder where you are because you've experienced it. I feel like because C.J. Stroud played


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[Assistant] At a blue blood university where he was a part of massive games with hat that had 100,000 people in the stands. He played in the national championship game against Georgia.


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[Assistant] 23 of 34, 384 throwing, 4 touchdowns, no picks. I feel like he can take something from those experiences.


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[Assistant] We played at Delaware and we went through his playoff, uh, resume yesterday and it wasn't until his sixth game where he had any kind of success.


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[Assistant] I mean, that was the moment for me where I said, okay, it's not a fluke, his success so far, this kid is going to be a superstar. And the whole time he's like this. I know, never broke a sweat.


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[Assistant] Can I ask what you were grou- What were you grounded for, Chris? Do you even remember?


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[Assistant] Chris, you work at the NFL, I'm sorry, you work at the NFL Network, so you know all the narrative. You know, the conspiracy theory over the last couple of years is, well, the league just writes the storylines. They do that in like August, and then they play out.


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[Assistant] So let's just play that game for a second. Would there be a better narrative than Joe Flacco in Baltimore against the Ravens in a playoff game? I mean, that's like storybook stuff.


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[Assistant] As we sit here today, who are the favorites in the AFC and the NFC? It seems obvious San Francisco and Baltimore, but it isn't always the ones that meet in the Super Bowl. Do you have anything outside of those two teams that you think you could see making a run?


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[Assistant] And most importantly, enjoy watching it with your boys. That's the biggest, that's why we watch, that's why we love sports. Our parents introduced it to us and that relationship is, uh, is one that, uh, you have to experience it to understand it. Chris, thanks. Appreciate you.


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[Assistant] I like that rule. I like that rule. That makes sense. Yeah, it does. I mean, you go on, you know, everybody's got little superstitions that they, if you're sitting in one chair and the team is doing well, you can't, you can't move. You can't get up. If your kids are in the house and they lose a playoff game, I guess they can't come back.


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[Assistant] I think that a lot of teams though, Bull, are looking at the Saturday games in particular. Tuesday is the normal off day.


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[Assistant] And because the schedule is moved up. Right. But I think a lot of coaches still honored that and said, look, everybody could use a rest. Maybe so if you're nursing a ding, you're going to, you're going to take a seat on Tuesday and go through your regular work week. The point is they're dinged up on that line. I'm not saying


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[Assistant] I, I agree with you guys, but I think it's, I think, uh, my philosophy in football is pretty simple. Uh, the more balanced you are,


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[Assistant] The better chance you have of winning regardless of what defense you're going against, what your offense looks like and what it's built like. Uhm, balance is the key. You have to be able to do both. So I think it's important to both teams that they do have a running game. However, I think it is more important to the Texans for these reasons.


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[Assistant] The Browns have shown that if there's an area you're going to beat them, it is on the ground. So I think if I'm Houston, I really want to establish, you know the pass game is going to be there.


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[Assistant] And that will be there late if they need it. C.J. Stroud has proven that time and again.


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[Assistant] I think what they're going to try to do early on is run. Establish the run game and prove to yourself and to Cleveland that you can move the ball against them. If they're able to establish a good ground game, I think it could potentially be a long day for the Browns. I really do. If they are only pass forward,


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[Assistant] I think the Browns win the football game. So, uh, but I also think I can make a case that I think it's very important that the Browns establish a run game too. You made a great point. The Browns have been able to win with Flacco, where ignoring the run, that is not something that they can do and continue that, particularly in the playoffs. I don't think, I think that will be hard.


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[Assistant] When you're in the playoffs and with each round you advance, obviously the quality of opponent


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[Assistant] is better. You know, you each week. The Texans are team all the way around o be in the playoffs. So b think they're still gonna just go out there and let


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[Assistant] I think Leroy Horde's point is the point that we should focus on this week and moving forward. You made a great point. We've all said it at various times of the season.


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[Assistant] I've believed all year that their fatal flaw has been the turnovers. I mean it should bite them.


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[Assistant] As I'm looking forward and figuring what is the headline of our season ending loss, it won't surprise me at all if it's the Browns give the ball away too many times. Sure. If, to Leroy's point, the Browns take care of the football over their next four games, if they're able to do that,


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[Assistant] The Browns can win a Super Bowl. Their fatal flaw will be interceptions or fumbles. And with Flacco, we know the interception gene is there. We've seen it.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb is healthy. Can you imagine how effective the play fake would be if they were faking it to 24 instead of 30 or whomever?


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[Assistant] I don't think it's the same person that we know that's a neighbor. Probably not, no. But I've, I've heard stories about just the most pleasant. He's the best. Kind. Yeaah. I've said before, if you could, if you could have 53 Nick Chubs. You win the Super Bowl every year. Every year. With work ethic.


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[Assistant] And mindset and approach and, and just.


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[Assistant] If any team has come to embrace the next man up mentality, it's this team. Like it doesn't matter who goes down, you just, you, you at some point realize that to an extent, they're replaceable.


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[Assistant] He subjects himself to, whether he's on the sidelines or he's up in the booth.


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[Assistant] He's gonna see a lot of Texans fans, and they're not gonna have nice things to say to him.


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[Assistant] You remember the Bobby Brister's mom storyline where when Bobby Brister was playing for the Steelers, for some reason, the producers of those games


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[Assistant] I thought uh oh, here's our next, you know, just like, I'm so done with the cutaway shots, and I hope my daughter's not watching, I'm sure she's not, but when they take these cutaway shots in Kansas City. Yeaah. Of Taylor Swift. Your daughter's a Swiftie.


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[Assistant] I think everybody in the building, the joke was, you know, uh, what's the difference between the NFL game and the Golden Globes? Well, the Golden Globes don't have as many cutaways as Taylor Swift, and they immediately cut to Taylor Swift, and she looked like if daggers came from eyeballs,


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[Assistant] Nobody's going to surpass Taylor Swift. Although it depends on how the Chiefs are doing. They only show her after a big Travis Kelsey play or, you know, touchdown. Yeah, right. Yeah. If he maybe, you know, drops a big key pass, they might show a reaction. I think they have a camera.


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[Assistant] Fixed on her in the booth at all time, routed into replay, because


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[Assistant] I saw on Taylor because they're in the, they're at the goal line. It was the middle of field play. He had a nice catch and, you know, got a handful of yards and they immediately cut to her reaction, you know, celebrating. I'm like, why would you be fixed on her unless you're not fixed on her for the whole game? Which is what a waste of a camera.


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[Assistant] Is it likely? No. I would pick either of them. No. But is there a chance? I have stopped saying there's no chance. Because I said there's no chance the Browns would beat the Niners. And I was wrong.


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[Assistant] I agree. I agree on both counts. I think the Dolphins are better than the Steelers and the Chiefs. I've said it all year. They don't scare me this year. They don't. Now they can flip the switch. Their defense has been good. It's been better, but their offense is just pedestrian.


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[Assistant] Are you saying you don't want to play the random? No, no, no. He's saying it's tricky for Baltimore. You asked Chris the question. Frankly, I thought it was a perfectly fair question. Yeah. And you're 1000% right. The last thing, if you were to sit down and say, what are your likely, the scenarios that you most want and most.


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[Assistant] Are hoping don't happen for the Ravens. The nightmare is the Browns in Baltimore in the AFC title game.


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[Assistant] I mean, if one of these upsets, yeaah, if there's gonna be a big upset because they've beaten them there already and, you know, Chris talked about it and we haven't, but it was a thing that, and it's not, it certainly wasn't a Joe Flacco thing. This happens often in the NFL.


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[Assistant] When they drafted his replacement.


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[Assistant] That was the narrative at the time, was that Joe was not big brother to Lamar. Let me show you how it's done. Just like Aaron Rodgers wasn't that guy to love and Favre wasn't that guy to Rodgers. There's a million examples.


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[Assistant] And it's human nature. It's human nature. If, if I told one of you guys or I was told tomorrow, hey, we're gonna bring a new kid in and we want you to sort of mentor him. We think he's got great potential. We've put a lot of resources into him. We'd be like, oh, okay, that's cool. I guess I'm,


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[Assistant] Training my replacement. In TV, that's a real thing. I'm training my replacement because it happens a lot. But


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[Assistant] Even though Joe Flacco wasn't great about all of that.


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[Assistant] Can you think of a better scenario when Joe is sitting at home in late October, late, into November? If someone would have said, well, looks like you're done, you're out of the league. Write your fantasy comeback finish. Well, I come back for a team and knock Lamar Jackson and the Ravens out of the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Like the Browns, they're peeking right now, too. Well, to that point, and I asked Chris this question and I was hoping he would give me a more definitive answer. I said, obviously,


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[Assistant] Everyone's choices are the one-seeds. It always is that way. Everybody says nobody's playing better than the Niners and the Ravens.


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[Assistant] Truth be told, it's not, it doesn't always happen where the ones meet in the playoffs. In fact, more often than not, it's not two ones that meet in the Super Bowl. So what I would say is, the team that I would pick as


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[Assistant] The biggest disruptor would be the Buffalo Bills. I think the Buffalo Bills have championship pedigree. I think like we're salivating here that a lot of the good teams are gone. I think no one is salivating more than the Bills because Patrick Mahomes is gone.


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[Assistant] If you guys had to pick one team not named Niners or Ravens, who was your biggest threat to win the Super Bowl? Bills. You do? Yeaah. Uuuh.


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[Assistant] I'm worried about that too, but here's what always, I always come back to with them. McVeigh can scheme for any opponent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know your boys when you can bust each other's balls and everybody understands this is just for the betterment of the group, not for, and, and


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[Assistant] I, you know what, I can't believe you said that because when Leroy was talking about experience and then he said, you know, they've got veterans, but nobody, you know, not a lot of experience at the Super Bowl. What I said was, I, I hope at some point before Saturday, I wanted to bring this up, is that,


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[Assistant] About how this is different, how this is possible, and how it changed their lives. In particular, how it changed their lives. Is, is McLeod, is there anybody else on McLeod?


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[Assistant] Randy Moss' rookie season was incredible. And they came damn close. They came within a missed field goal. And he was their best player. Of them going to the Super Bowl. But I can't ever remember in time what was happening.


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[Assistant] I think it was Pittsburgh and Seattle against Detroit.


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[Assistant] My eyes tell me he's one of the best right now and you know I have nothing to believe, make me believe that he's not going to be one of the best going forward.


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[Assistant] They're going to have to re-do it. They're going to have to re-do it. Particularly because he's a major unknown now coming off as a ACL tear.


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[Assistant] He did, but that's not completely uncommon for the kind of injury. I mean, the severity of that hit and that injury, that was my goodness. We were all stunned when the initial MRI said no torn ACL. I've said his ACL then is made of rubber. There's no way he couldn't have torn it. But when the swelling reduced and they got a better look at it, it was torn. So, okay. We'll see you on overtime.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright. The gist of it is, he just basically said that Texans are a bunch of kids.


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[Assistant] And they have no experience and no one on their roster scares them. And this is going to be an easy one, you know, pretty much.


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[Assistant] It caught fire. And gee, on the call this morning said, I don't get it. What did I say? Look, if a Texans fan, or excuse me, a Texans media member went on his show,


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[Assistant] So uhm, I was just saying that G was kind of surprised on the morning call, like I didn't even know why it blew up like that. And I said, if a Texans media member went on their show and dumped all over the Browns,


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[Assistant] Brown's fans would get their teeth in it. It would make its way to the Brown's locker room for sure.


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[Assistant] But, and Flacco, you're right. I mean, you're comparing a puppy to a canine German Shepherd that's been on the gig for 14 years.


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[Assistant] with the Browns have two games. That's it. Uh, we're getting much more talk on that. I promise. But the big, the headline to today's show is no backpedal from G. Bush. In fact, he's digging in and going forward. You gotta double down at some point.


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[Assistant] A Cleveland guy went to Collinwood High School, played for the Texans in 2015. He's gonna come and tell us what we're in for. He's a Texans fan. Cecil's gonna be good. By the way, Jonathan Wells, who, of course, Ohio State Buckeyes.


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[Assistant] He's, he will not back down. He's a long time friend of mine. Great, great, great uhm, mouthpiece. He, when he gets on a roll, he is as funny as G. Bush when he's on a roll.


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[Assistant] He currently works for the Texans. Uhm, and so he, he's coming back from a trip that I think was Texans based. He was in Doha. I think he does this every year for them. He's coming back a long flight. Uhm, what is Doha? I don't even know what that is. Uh, I believe it's over in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, the big city that's blowing up. Uh, Dubai?


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[Assistant] He's gonna be here later in a week and he's gonna, I know he's gonna talk Texan smack because he texted me.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Uhm, notables, RG3, big injury. Uh, Colin Kaepernick had a lot of success early in his career. Uhm, who else?


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[Assistant] They had, well, Carson Wentz, hell, Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz had, Baker Mayfield's like this, you know, every other year he's up, he's down, he's all over the place, but, uh, for the most part, the guys that we mentioned, RG3, Collin and Carson Wentz, they never really, they washed out of the league, pretty much.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I agree. Flacco's 5-0, uhm, in his, in the, in first playoff games, which means he's, he's never been bounced in a first round game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the moment will not be too big for Joe. He's played on the biggest stage and played well. And all while betting on himself. We've talked a lot about this little five week run of his. About how it's, uh, kinda house money. And he's playing loose and free because he thought he was done.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, we've seen a time in his career when everything in the world was on the line.


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[Assistant] The Ravens offered him a contract going into their Super Bowl season and he said, you know what? I'm gonna let it ride. He put everything into the middle of the table. I don't know that you can have more pressure.


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[Assistant] And he played great. And he not only played great, he won the Super Bowl and was the Super Bowl MVP. So, uh, I don't think pressure's going to affect Joe. How it affects CJ Stroud, we'll see. I went back just for fun and looked up his numbers last year. This is the biggest game he's played in his career, was last year against Georgia.


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[Assistant] The Buckeyes did not lose that game because of CJ Stroud. If you remember, they had a big double-digit lead for most of the fourth quarter. Georgia put up 18 points in the fourth quarter to come back and win.


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[Assistant] C.J. Stroud in that game was 23 of 34, 348 yards, four touchdowns, no picks against the number one defense in college football. So that stage was as big a stage as he could play on up to that point in his career and he didn't blink.


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[Assistant] Last week was essentially a playoff game for them, and he played great also. Exactly. 20 of 26, 260 yards, no picks. The one thing that gives me pause, guys, make me feel better about this if you can. I don't know if you'll be able to.


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[Assistant] In an entire season, Stroud through for three fewer interceptions than Flacco through in five games. That scares me. Because I think we all agree


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[Assistant] Peyton Manning in his rookie season threw like 26 interceptions.


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[Assistant] But I think what it shows though, Bull, I don't think the psyche and the mental part of it change much. And I think what that shows is he takes care of the football a little bit better, at least the comparison, the ratio is better in the postseason than it was for him this year.


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[Assistant] To the turnovers and you I want to touch on something you said on the speed of the game. I've talked to a lot of NFL veterans about the arcs of their career and they always say, you know this and you've heard this guys have said this all along. They thought when they were in college, how much faster can it get? I mean, it's football and then they go in to the preseason.


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[Assistant] And they kind of fool themselves because the speed is half speed and they're like, yeah, it's a little quicker, but it's not. And then that first NFL regular season games happens and they're like, oh, okay. There were more gears to go in the transmission.


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[Assistant] And there's another level to this. And they've all said the same thing with the playoffs. The jump from the regular season to the playoffs is similar to college to pro.


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[Assistant] Now, if you go back to Stroud's early games as a Texan, he had some success, but he also struggled. And I think it took him a minute to adjust to that speed.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. I mean that's how you open a game. Especially a meaningful game. And I want to make this point. When you're playing on the road, as they were.


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[Assistant] It was, it was brilliant, I thought, for them to draw that up. If you miss on it, you miss on it. You gotta miss deep. You can't under throw it.


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[Assistant] But if you miss on it, fine. But if you hit on it, and they did, and they talked about it on the broadcast, the energy was just completely left the building. That place was on fire to start the game. Same play. 100%.


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[Assistant] That was a really tough time for anybody in the AFC, not named Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] He's a Hall of Fame. No, but their runs were stopped. Same with Roethlisberger. A lot of his playoff losses came to Tom Brady. That's right.


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[Assistant] You know what, let's just talk about that comment. I love Ray. But honestly, I think that's an unfair shot at Joe Flacco and here's why.


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[Assistant] When our quarterbacks are overly emotional,


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[Assistant] The quick critique is, oh no no no no no, I need him being on an even keel. Too high, too high. And when they're on an even keel,


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[Assistant] We say, hey, show like you care. Well, we do that with coaches too. We do that with coaches as well. We do it with players in general, but specifically I think with quarterback. And I just think that's an unfair character assassination on Joe Flacco. Look, no one was as passionate as Ray.


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[Assistant] He's playing for redemption. Remember, he called the Jets and the Jets were like, no, we're good. We're straight. And they weren't.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's playing for a Super Bowl ring. Yep. He's playing for a gold jacket in my view. And the reason I say that is because


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[Assistant] What is the list of quarterbacks that have won two Super Bowls, particularly with different franchises that are in


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[Assistant] I think that the reason he's the sexiest story in the NFL, and he is by the way, look around. When you look, when you're on the internet, you're reading NFL playoff articles.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of guys using pen and paper to talk about this Joe Flacco story. With each win,


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[Assistant] Off the quote unquote couch? That's, that's worth something. It's next level. We'll ask Cecil Shorts. He's going to join us right now. But before we get to Cecil, really quickly, because we touched on this yesterday, and I think Cecil will be a good guy to talk about this with, we mentioned that at the highest level on the collegiate stage, C.J. Stroud was spectacular.


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[Assistant] Does the OSU experience mean anything at all coming into an NFL playoff game?


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco, which documented, it took him six games to get his playoff legs. He didn't play a game like that in college. He went to Delaware.


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[Assistant] You know, he probably played in front of 15,000 people was the biggest crowd. CJ Stroud's a different pedigree. So we'll see, you know, and again, it's going to be a friendly crowd for him, not hostile. A road playoff game is the real test under fire. Okay, uh, McNuggets, we ready to bring them in?


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[Assistant] See, so, if you would, we talked about this earlier on the program. Uhm, I'm not sure if you played in playoff games. I think you did.


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[Assistant] Sort of compare it to the difference between, you know, high school to college. Big jump. College to the NFL regular season. Big jump. NFL regular season to the NFL playoffs.


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[Assistant] He went viral yesterday for saying that the Texans have a bunch of young kids with library cards and still living with their parents. That got posted on some Texans websites and someone said, who is this Bobby Brown lookalike? So he decided today to come in and look like Bobby Brown.


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[Assistant] See, so one thing we've talked about on the show throughout the season is the fact that it feels like the pendulum is swinging from offense to defense.


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[Assistant] Do you see that trend? I mean, just a few short years ago, we saw playoff games that looked like pinball games.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 300 yards, 400 yards, touchdowns everywhere. Uh, it feels like general managers, front offices and head coaches have put a higher priority on defense to slow that offensive train and it feels like it's, it's happening.


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[Assistant] about the impact of a home crowd. Look at the points that were scored in the COVID season with no fans in the stands and it was clear


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[Assistant] The offenses, I remember watching the games and a lot of those networks have good parabolic mics. CBS has the best on-field parabolic mics. Fox's game is coming up there, but you could literally hear conversations between coaches and players picked up on the side mics.


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[Assistant] And what it showed me was when the offenses can operate in a vacuum and they can communicate and sound isn't an issue, they can score a lot of points.


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[Assistant] What the Eagles did and I've talked to general managers asking them that question. How do you prioritize your team? And most of them will tell you flat simply it's what's the most important position? Quarterback. Okay, you must have a quarterback. Other than that,


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[Assistant] If the quarterback is the most important position, you better have someone that can chase down and catch a quarterback.


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[Assistant] Let's see, from 2018, 19 was when the homes and the bills and they were just going bananas. If you take


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[Assistant] Over the last two years. Doesn't sound like much.


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[Assistant] I would have too, and at one point this year it was. I think it picked up later in the year. It did pick up later in the year. At one point it was, wasn't a full point, but it was like eight tenths of a point.


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[Assistant] The defense has been terrible this year. And what did they do? They went out and drafted. Everybody said, oh, this is going to be, this isn't fair. They just went and got an all-world pass rush right? And they have just completed. They drafted the defense.


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[Assistant] Yes, but when you have a quarterback that takes a terrible franchise to a home playoff game?


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[Assistant] He was pretty quick and definitive on his answer. Can the Browns rattle CJ Stroud? They're not going to rattle him without their full compliment of defensive lineman. They need everybody. They need to bring out all of them.


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[Assistant] And the strength of this Brown's defense is what the strength of the Eagles defense was last year and that's that you can still have fresh legs in the fourth quarter because you can rotate six and seven guys in and out.


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[Assistant] And there's only, CJ Stroud's gonna be on the field for every offensive snap.


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[Assistant] The defensive lineman will be in and out and hopefully more fresh in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I still do. I think it's morbid. That's a very fine articulated very well.


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[Assistant] There's somebody that could, if Agbo can't go, we've got others that can fill his spot. If Elijah Moore can't go, I think that's a big problem for the Brawls.


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[Assistant] Crazy we found consensus on something that ranked 8.


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[Assistant] And as good as they are at defensive backs, they're that bad at wide receivers, at projecting talent and drafting. Cause they've drafted no wide receivers that are life changing. No matter where they take them, they just, they just can't hit on that position and that's a critical.


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[Assistant] Is there a better acquisition than Amari Cooper? On Browns? Yeaah, I know DHOP has made a big difference at Kicker, Flacco signing late, but Amari Cooper, without


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[Assistant] Now imagine if next year they do that at wide receiver.


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[Assistant] If they upgrade that position like they did this year, the defensive line.


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[Assistant] Well look at the Eagles in the course of the second half of the season. They, they went from being the one seed to


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[Assistant] I know, so it seems like CJ Stroud is the key that unlocked him.


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[Assistant] It's really hard for a great quarterback to continue to be great, see Kansas City, with a group of middling wide receivers. When you throw, when you throw Tyree Killen there, and I know they won the Super Bowl last year without him, but the league has figured out how to stop that Kansas City offense now without wide receivers.


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[Assistant] Look at Lamar Jackson. They brought in two quality wide receivers for Lamar Jackson. Ze Flowers, them hitting on Flowers. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I know, but remember two years ago we took a big drop, a big step backwards.


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[Assistant] To build a, a, to, to raise the play of a wide receiver than it is for a great wide receiver to raise the play of a quarterback.


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[Assistant] I read some advanced analytics on Micah Parsons too that I wasn't aware of. I probably see the Cowboys play five full games a year because they're always on primetime.


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[Assistant] His impact on the game, we said this about him last year, we're like, man, the guy is everywhere and he's versatile, which I really like. I think Miles is versatile too, but I think Micah might be a little bit more versatile. For me,


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[Assistant] I'm with you. I won't be screaming, yelling, and stomping my feet if it doesn't go to Miles Garrett. However, all that being said, Miles Garrett is the Defensive Player of the Year.


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[Assistant] And I'll go to Ben Baby, the ESPN writer from the Bengals that we had on last week.


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[Assistant] When he talked about that combo stat that ESPN has created to sort of measure all the things that a defensive end does. And it's, it is more than sacks. And that's why, don't get blinded by the sack number and that Miles Garrett is down the list now. Don't get blinded by that.


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[Assistant] That position has a bigger impact than just tackling quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage. How much does he help his other teammates get home?


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[Assistant] Bundle it all up. Ben Baby said the metrics are stunning. It's Miles Garrett and then a huge drop off and then Micah Parsons, TJ Watt and others. So for me, Miles gets my vote.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I can see how someone else might think it belongs to another player.


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[Assistant] And it's, I'm not demeaning them for it. What they're reduced to doing is looking up stats. Numbers. And when you watch Miles Garrett,


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[Assistant] I don't think the stats tell the full story on miles. I just don't. But let's be fair, we're a little biased. We are, we are, but what I'm saying is the narrative of looking at numbers and comparing them as if they're apples to apples, you can't do that because some defenses ask players to do different, to do


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[Assistant] And here's what I mean by that. You can set your annual income. Once you're a Hall of Famer, you can say, I'm gonna do a card signing and an appearance every month, and you can set your own income. Because there's a huge market for that.


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[Assistant] The football on the star. The jumping in the Salvation Army. Yeaah. I don't know if you guys remember this, we carried it live. We were hosting a midday show at ESPN. During a news conference.


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[Assistant] This man was working out in his driveway doing crunches and making reporters get down on their knees. And listen, the reporter, they're a petty bunch. They're human. They've got feelings. And I remember at the time,


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[Assistant] Every media member that was on our panel at the time when we were discussing that, we came out from it to say, okay, what are your thoughts? We had three or four media members on the panel at the time and they roasted him. Roasted him. And that was the general consensus on DO. What a jerk.


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[Assistant] And they made him pay for it. And T.O., I love what he did. He said, you know what, I'm good. His college, Tennessee Chattanooga.


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[Assistant] Put him in their Hall of Fame, and I believe they made the induction ceremony either the same day or the same weekend of the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, and he said,


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[Assistant] I think his point is there are judges in the media, but hopefully because there are so many voters that the bias gets washed out and the best people rise to the top.


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[Assistant] I don't know any voters that personally don't look at that as a huge responsibility because to a certain extent, I don't agree with you that it's forging these careers, but to a certain extent, it is writing a sub-narrative of that player's career.


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[Assistant] They are dumb. Wait a minute, wait a minute, Mike. Some things I think are big enough that our non-paying customers deserve our reaction. And I think that's one of them.


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[Assistant] Wow, let me see this. Uh, I'm sure Ohio State is gonna be on it. That's what Jason said.


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[Assistant] I know Mike and I hesitate to say this because it was a mutual friend that we share.


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[Assistant] And wants to go, I think wants to stay in the NFL.


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[Assistant] A couple years can change things. I talked to Mike just a few years ago.


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[Assistant] And he flashed this huge smile on his face, which told me everything I needed to know.


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[Assistant] You know what though, I would briefly disagree with your narrative on Michigan.


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[Assistant] This week, they're going to be holding a news con, well, Michigan won't be holding it. We assume. We assume. From people that I, that I trust and talk to on a regular basis, both in Michigan and in the NFL, it's going to be a mind blowing, a bombshell if he stays at Michigan.


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[Assistant] Also, they're not where they were in 97.


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[Assistant] They are, depending on the recruiting service you look at, they are anywhere from 15 to 20 in the country.


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[Assistant] in strength of recruiting class for next year. Now, I know we don't, I don't want to put all the stock in the world into that, but here's what I'll say to that.


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[Assistant] See, on this one I'm gonna say because I think PFF is a complete, not a complete waste of time, but in general a waste of time.


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[Assistant] And we know with our eyeballs, he's way better than the 21st ranked tight end, but I can see PFF having him right there.


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[Assistant] Was this, it was 68? Yeah, no, what I'm saying is that's, that's the reason.


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[Assistant] Alright, Steve, next up. I think it's real too. Denzel Ward. See, we're going to forget. There's going to be so many of them. Okay. We know that's real because they had


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[Assistant] I do, but I also think that's fake. I'm guessing he's a little bit lower.


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[Assistant] No, I just look at rank. I mean, cause the grade is like, okay, what does the grade mean? Yeah. If 69 is good in real terms, 69 is an F. It's a D. So I can't say that, you know, I mean. No.


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[Assistant] You also have to do this. At the beginning of the season.


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[Assistant] If you went plus wins, the Browns are a plus two for me. I had them at nine, they won eleven.


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[Assistant] For me, the Texans are like a plus six. I didn't see them doing anything this year. And we knew the Browns had a great defense.


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[Assistant] No, that's part of the journey. I'll give you that.


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[Assistant] And, and you're right. If you would have told me all the injuries, I would have had the Browns at six wins. So they're plus five. But I still think at the beginning of the season, I had the Texans as one of the worst teams in the league at a plus three or four.


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[Assistant] Okay, so compared to what we thought they were and what they ended up. Look at, when I watched Carolina, the little bit that I watched them on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Look like the greatest owner in sports history. Thank you for that. I mean, I mean, that, that still blows my mind. Rice, Young, Overseach, and at the time, I guess it was a legitimate discussion like Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning was.


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[Assistant] Intel is very, very big in the draft. Rumors are like the whisper game in junior high. And there have been documented cases of teams sitting at 2.


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[Assistant] That want a specific player that put out dirt and bad intel on the guy that they want specifically so his draft stock falls, and I'm not saying the Texans did that, but if they did,


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[Assistant] But this was really a two quarterback discussion. It was young or it was Stroud. And after the season ended, Stroud started falling on the draft board at rapid. And I'm like, what is going on? There was a, there was a false narrative out there that he wasn't passionate, that he wasn't smart.


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[Assistant] I mean, watch the guy in college. Just watch this tape.


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[Assistant] That is too early. When I watched Bryce Young, the thing I kept saying over and over in my head is, my God, they drafted this guy over.


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[Assistant] No, that's true, but you know what? This Houston team was projected to win three or four games.


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[Assistant] He might, but Trevor Lawrence was a miss after one year.


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[Assistant] They just come out of every crevice in the, you know, and now all of a sudden everybody's gonna be a Texans fan. Where they been?


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[Assistant] Skip almost never flip flops. He puts his flag in the dirt and that's it. But they found enough comments on Aaron Rodgers where he thinks Aaron Rodgers is the greatest ever and think Aaron Rodgers is a big fraud.


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[Assistant] Look at CJ's account. Is he very active? I don't think he is.


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[Assistant] Lots to play for on Sunday. We're going to talk all about the game in specific on Sunday tomorrow and who to root for.


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[Assistant] Five rounds made the Pro Bowl. Six got selected as alternates. Let's start with the five guys who did. We did an overtime yesterday. We tried to predict and none of us had Betonio on there, but Betonio was one of the five. So let's start with the five guys who made it as actual legitimate Pro Bowls to begin with. Who's the biggest surprise of the five and did they get it right?


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on, real quick. This is why I have the biggest issue with this and I understand making a Pro Bowl and I actually am kind of pissed off about this and I understand Pro Bowl nods in the grand scheme of things don't matter. Tyler Huntley is a Pro Bowl, Joe Flacco never happens.


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[Assistant] Exactly, but when you vote for all pro teams.


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[Assistant] T.J. Watt's considered an edge rusher. That's not defensive in the outside line, but the all-pro teams, they're designated as edge rushers, and J.O.K. is not in that category. So you're going to tell me that players and fans and coaches vote.


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[Assistant] That they had four pro bowlers. One guy actually made it and then they had a first alternate and two fourth alternates. Yeaah, right. Like a fourth alternate to the pro bowl. You can't.


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[Assistant] I can't celebrate that, but I can't find anywhere to argue like...


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[Assistant] In the past, the Browns obviously have not had a roster as talented as they have now, and there were four teams last night who were left without a single Pro Bowler.


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[Assistant] The fact that Browns had 11 players at least get recognition. Right. That's 20% of the roster essentially.


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[Assistant] And I do think, and Tyvis did it yesterday, and I think we all agreed. Andrew Berry.


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[Assistant] It's a testament to the roster building here that he has put together a roster where 20% of the roster is getting consideration for the essentially all-star team.


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[Assistant] Sasha Brown. Wyatt Keller was acquired in 2019


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[Assistant] And then one more thing real quick. I guess that fans have voted on this for a while, Bull.


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[Assistant] Quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, quarterback. Brock Purdy had the most votes to a second. Mahomes, third. Prescott, fourth. Allen, fifth. Stroud, sixth. Lamar, seventh. Wait, wait, wait. Is that fans or executives? Fans.


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[Assistant] Uh, Maury Cooper is not in the top 10. Tyree Kill, number one. Brandon Iuke, number two. Devo Samuel, number three.


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[Assistant] So the top four in the wide receiver vote, two Dolphins, two 49ers.


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[Assistant] They didn't release that, they just released a fan vote. But this is the exact tweet from Rappaport. Pro Bowl rosters will be announced at 8pm tonight on NFL Network. But before all that, here are the top vote getters by position from the fan voting, which counts for one third of the process. Coaches from the office count for the rest.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, time for a read and then sit or start, right? Yes, sir. If you guys are sitting around tomorrow at 12 30.


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[Assistant] Have seen before it airs on WKYC this TV in the best, most pristine 4K cameras you could possibly imagine and it happens every Friday from 1230 to 1.


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[Assistant] On WKYC. Alright guys, we know Joe Flacco won't play on Sunday. Kevin Stefanski has hinted at the fact that other starters will also rest, although he will not give the Bengals an advantage and tell them flat out


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[Assistant] Who won't be playing or who will? So we're going to take that out of his hands and go with a round of sit or suit up.


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[Assistant] With happy and sad faces. If you think they should play, it's not whether you think they will or won't, whether you think they should.


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[Assistant] In your own opinion, if you were Kevin Stefanski, should this person play, Maddie's will not start happy as you would. We're going to go through some of the other starters. We will run through this and have some fun with it. Are you guys all ready? Let's start with Jerome Ford. Should Jerome Ford suit up against the Bengals?


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[Assistant] A no for J, a no for bull, and a no for G. Very easy. If we all agree, we'll just move on until we get to a disagree.


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[Assistant] I'm Elijah Moore, still in Concussion Protocol, no, we're moving on.


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[Assistant] Alright, now this next one then, this next one is curious. Jaron Christian, the left tackle. Alright, come on man.


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[Assistant] So that means your starting offensive line will be your starting tackles with Christian Hudson, and then Nick Harris, Michael Dunn, and somebody else at the other guard. Maybe Roger Schaffeld. There it is. I love it. Love it. Let's go.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna do tomorrow in the TV show on WKYC that we've never seen before until we do it. Some over-unders on the guys who don't typically get a stolen role in the Browns offense.


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[Assistant] So he released his All Pro teams yesterday, free article on ESPN. The two edge rushers on his first team All Pro were Micah Parsons and TJ Watt. And he is an MVP vote. I agree, I agree he's wrong, but he is an MVP vote. And if he releases All Pro teams before week 17,


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[Assistant] And a guy who we know has an MVP vote, who works with Ben at ESPN and has access to all the same analytics, is looking at it. It just makes me a little worried that some of the other voters who aren't even as smart as Bill and look at the


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[Assistant] Non-traditional box court stats are gonna look at Myles Garrett, who's 8th in the league in Saks, or 7th or 8th in Saks right now, and be like, oh, he can't be defensive player of the year, which is wrong. Which is wrong, but I'm just saying that's my fear.


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll move on. I agree, by the way. I don't think Miles should play. I'm just giving you guys the counter argument to why. If he does play, that's why. How about Dalvin Tomlinson, who hasn't missed a game yet for the Browns this season? I'm okay with him playing. Okay. Yep. Bold no.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go to the defensive backs. No chance Ward plays, right? We're all in agreement. No chance Denzel. No way. Would you play MJ? No. Nope. Greg? No. No.


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[Assistant] I love it. Guys come in and make plays.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna move on and talk a little comeback player of the year, and as always, even if it's all backups on Sunday against the Bengals, G, myself, and Earl, and even Anthony will be on the two-minute post-game show.


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[Assistant] Regardless of the outcome, we will be there. We'll be there for the playoffs. We'll be there every game for the Browns. If they play, we will have a post game show. So make sure you guys tune in to figure out what happened. Instant analysis. We'll celebrate a win. We'll do some therapy for a loss. It doesn't really matter, but it'll be fun. Nevertheless, guys come back player of the year.


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[Assistant] It's a pretty prestigious ward around the NFL. And this year, there are three or four candidates that have a stranglehold on the Vegas odds. Demar Hamlin.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco, Baker Mayfield, and we can even throw Matthew Stafford in there for fun. This isn't a question of who will win the award.


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[Assistant] But who is the most compelling case as the NFLs come back?


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[Assistant] There's two teams over 500 and the Seahawks are 8 and 8.


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[Assistant] Matt Stafford right now on FanDuel is 75 to 1. So no.


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[Assistant] We're gonna bring Aditi, she just texted me, she said she's hopping on any seconds. I'm gonna read a couple super chats here while we are waiting to be joined by Aditi. Then Bernie Kozar, the legendary Browns quarterback will join us here at 12. A couple super chats just for the people while we are waiting. Uh, Michael Hosar says, both show us the email.


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[Assistant] No, they're not locked into the two. If they lose and the Eagles win, the Eagles get the two seed. Who do the Cowboys play though? Dallas plays Washington the Giants play.


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[Assistant] Uh, one more here before we bring in Aditi who just hopped in, but Charles T said Baker is 2-7 against teams that are plus 500 plays in the softest division.


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[Assistant] Watch Murray and Baker last week, side by side. It's clear what good quarterback play looks like. Murray led the comeback against Philly. Baker lost to New Orleans. Alright, I'm gonna do a read. We're gonna bring in Aditi. Let's not base it on one game. And as always,


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[Assistant] And Aditi Kinkawala, an official partner of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, is now joining us live from Pittsburgh. What's up Aditi?


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[Assistant] Brody's bottom line says Bradley Chubb didn't get hurt because he played versus Baltimore. He got hurt because his stupid coach left him in the game down 30.


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[Assistant] Brody also said Demar died on the football field. Devoid Archangel.


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[Assistant] And real quick, bowl, can you name the top 5 reasons you'll hang up on a caller?


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[Assistant] I was a little hesitant to rest flackle because whatever he's doing right now, as you alluded to, is working. He's in the zone, he's in the rhythm. From a quarterback standpoint, when you're in that zone, does an extra week off, can that take you out of the, take you out of the proverbial zone or is, is the proverbial zone just not even real?


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[Assistant] You know, I think you still have the same type of mentality. You get up in these receivers' faces. I think our DBs can lock these guys down. You put pressure on CJ Stroud. You switch up the looks quite a bit on him. You don't just line up in man coverage. You show in man, play zone.


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[Assistant] Uh, the decision making, every, every, every throw, every possession, every play is so critical in these playoff games and it's up to the Browns to create some turnovers. Confuse C.J. Stroud, never let him get comfortable in this game, get the hits on him, confuse, uh, switch up the, uh, the coverages and the blitzes and, and just keep him guessing the entire game.


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[Assistant] That there's a lot of emotions going into these type of games. And I think, you know, the biggest thing, you know, that you take into a game like this is once the emotions settle down and the game starts, you're just playing football and it's about the little things. It's about execution. It's about technique. It's about the things that got you there and the emotions really don't play into it.


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[Assistant] We'll be wide open in this game. He's going to get a lot of touches, a lot of looks. So, you know, just the other guys have to step up and pick up the slack. If they're going to try and take that, take away that one guy, then that's opening up opportunities all over the field for other guys.


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[Assistant] Uh, as, as he's played the last several weeks and, uh, you know, I think the Browns get a huge playoff victory on the road.


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[Assistant] And you're right, this is a team nobody wants to play right now. The way that they're playing, they can...


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[Assistant] I mean, the Flacco story is unbelievable. We'll get into it. Watching the fan, watching the players at the end of the game mingle with the fans. It took me back to the last game in the old stadium when they were hugging and they were crying. The players were crying when the team left and I haven't seen anything like that since. You can go find the pictures if you haven't seen them.


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[Assistant] It's been so long in the making. There you go right there, uh, with, with David and some of the fans of the stands. Everybody, I've never seen, I've only been hanging around this team since 2018. I've never seen the locker room like this.


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[Assistant] Like they've cleansed, they've cleansed everything. They've sanitized everything. They've got all the demons out and it's just, it's a fun time, man. It's a fun time for you to be a Browns fan. Welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland


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[Assistant] I text you guys, it's electric in here. You can feel it in the press box. I agree with you.


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[Assistant] I thought, the Browns have botched some game ops situations before. I thought they nailed it last night with the night game with the LED lights. It was really cool. The fireworks at the right times.


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[Assistant] Uh, the crowd was just jacked from the start. They've got there early. A lot of times at the one o'clock kickoffs.


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[Assistant] I was talking to a few of the New York writers before the game and everything, and they were all, they were like, it's gotta be Kevin. There's nobody else. So that kinda like, that surprised me a little bit that, of course it should be. But we're in it.