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[Assistant] The reason we were, part of the reason we were more excited about Flacco is because Flacco had no expectations and played well. Sure. Watson has high expectations. We should have high expectations for him. He was a great player in Houston. We want to see him be great here. There shouldn't be anything wrong with that. Right. No, there's not. I still expect him to be great next year.


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[Assistant] I had shorts in there. I'm surprised shorts did not make the list. Didn't make it. You and me.


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[Assistant] So basically they took G Bush's list cause I was with McNuggets when I picked these. So this is the perfect list to want, I want to go for not needing the first one. Let's go to the third one. Dewan Jones. Wait, can you put the list back up there again?


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[Assistant] I mean, that's the biggest bright spot we have. You talk about people who you didn't expect. It's like getting a gift to somebody and you're like, I didn't expect to get this gift and it can be something like a bag of popcorn, but the popcorn is free.


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[Assistant] She'll go take it and be happy to eat it at lunch. Yeah. Dewan Jones is the bag of popcorn and rye tackle that took over and is awesome. He, we found a, a future Stallworth in the draft on a flyer. Shout out to Dewan Jones.


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[Assistant] When I heard, when they had, had Hopkins, you go back and we looked at his kicking from, I believe, the Chargers, and he wasn't terrible.


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[Assistant] If you, if you look at it, J. O. K., could you, if you squint it hard enough, you could argue you had a better year to miles carrot.


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[Assistant] There was media members doing victory laps on this playbook where Elijah Moore is going to be a scatback and a receiver.


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[Assistant] I did. I did. I did. I did. I didn't think he was that big of a disappointment at all. Well, I thought when you look at the plays, I was expecting more splash plays. I thought Ronnie Hickman made more plays than he did.


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[Assistant] He underwhelmed me this year. He left a lot of food on his plate. You know, there's a lot of games where you see one cut here, one cut here, that's 20 more yards, 15 more yards, or even short yardage. Just ramming it in there and just making sure you get the first down. I think he needs a little bit of work, but he was a little bit underwhelming after Nick Chubb went down.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore, we were sold that he could possibly be the heir apparent to Mark Cooper. I don't think so. I think Mark, I think he's a three or four receiver. Three or four, he's a guy that you can, you know, check it down to. But as far as all this dynamic playmaking, I didn't see it. The skill set is there to


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[Assistant] I was gonna shake the world up and make uh, Nick Chubb the MVP.


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[Assistant] The most valuable person. I'ma keep it real. Cause here's the way it happened. I say if you could add, cause I saw it over on the internet, if they said add one person out of all the guys that's injured and you add them to the team with Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] How much would that person, what team would be the best? And I say, well, give me Nick Chubb, put him with Flacco, and I think the Browns could have really done something. That's a little telling that nobody picked the shot.


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[Assistant] That's the guy you can't lose if he's playing well. I think we don't mention him because we, we mentioned a bunch of other people who had extraordinary seasons outside of the norm. So Flacco comes in, has a crazy season. So it minimizes the, like the, the shock that Deshaun got hurt. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas running back, nobody played great.


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[Assistant] Hold on. Shout out to Earl. I just thought about this. The reason you could vote for Joku


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[Assistant] When the Browns two tackles started to go out, Kevin Siefanski switched the protection program.


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[Assistant] And you had David Njoku standing in a lot of routes helping those tackles so that the routes could get open down the field. David Njoku was their best blocker when it comes to pass catchers, best blocker tight end. And also, he was the most dynamic when you had Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] He had a breakout year. Some could argue that Mario Cooper had already stamped himself as a guy up here. The second guy to come along and offer a passive target was in Joku. So I can see where you can say David and Joku should have been a little higher. I think you're out of pocket.


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[Assistant] Well, there could be another player that is better on the defensive side. No, but usually the MVP is the offensive award. If a quarterback wins the MVP, he should by default be the offensive player of the year.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right. You're measuring value. I don't get it. If I'm the most valuable player at this position and I play offense, you can't tell me the running back is more, more, uh, he's the offense player. I should get both of those, right? You're welcome, McNuggets. You can make the argument. It's totally different. Totally different because in this


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[Assistant] Hey, hey listen, I'm going to the worst game day swag. I'm all into the wristbands, everything.


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[Assistant] You got a ski mask, a durag, a bandana, and a headband all under your helmet. And it is big. I don't understand. We need to get you back to the regular Rydell's and get it together, uh, uh, get them together. Hey, does that ward fix you, guy? Get your man's, his helmet. He looks like the great kazoo. Yes, the great kazoo.


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[Assistant] Be doing a lot of stuff, you have no clue what he like. Oh gee, I just noticed the haircut. Oh you like that? Right? He's sharp as a tack. Woooo! You like that man, you know, so shout out to Jason man, shout out to Jason. He hooked you up? Yea, that's clu- Tyvis! He said come see him!


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, he does, you know, I run some things, I run a couple little things on my own stream, you know what I'm saying, shot him out, so. Right, very good. You know, he got a nice little shot, man. And by the way, best thing I like about it, family friendly.


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[Assistant] Their heart was hurt, like they, but a lot of people want that thing right where it's at. Like they want it on the water, they want to walk down there, they want to drunk, to get drunk from West 6th and stumble down there. I get it. And here's the big thing.


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[Assistant] That's a prime time for real estate. You know, uh, McNuggets gotta be around, around the action. He's, he's two steps away now. You're moving to Brook Park anytime soon?


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[Assistant] So are- Concerts, year round. So what the heck are they gonna do with the IX entertainment?


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[Assistant] No, I think on Wednesday we were talking about uhm, was it uh,


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[Assistant] This is, uh, this is very interesting seeing that it's political season now. I'm a very, I'm all over, you know, into politics and people think that's a nasty little word. Uhm, politics to me is just, uhm, likability. Uhm, and when you look at this story and the way things set out with narratives,


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[Assistant] Hey listen, uh, Joe Flacco could have been Ron DeSantis' uh, you know, campaign manager. He should have been like, this is the way you do it!


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[Assistant] Guys like you, when they like you, you can put up some numbers and it's all about the narrative and the feel good story. If you look at Joe Flacco, he came back from sitting at home and came and just dropped dimes and this year,


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[Assistant] The Browns, uhm, went from a team that a lot of people didn't like.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the preseason to all of a sudden, a very likable team. Uh, we, we were arguing back and forth with the national media about, you know, people were saying from Brady Quinn to, to guys on the NFL network, people saying the Browns just aren't a likable team because Sean Watson was the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Sean Watson goes down, the Browns still have a great defense, and now you put in Joe Flacco, who is a guy who has a completely different image than Deshaun Watson, and is playing well.


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[Assistant] So now that looks like, you know, wow, this guy, this guy really came out of nowhere. Then you have to take in consideration and say, okay, well, Stefanski was already going to be a coach of the year candidate, but you, you mix him and Flacco together. I knew those two were going to win off top.


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[Assistant] Now Miles Garrett, I thought that was gonna be a little shaky because of the way the season ended. And whether we like it or not, we put a lot of...


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[Assistant] We put a lot of pressure on Miles Garrett for the entire defense. If defense plays well as he gets the credit, he's almost like, he's so popular, he's almost like a quarterback. If the defense plays well, he's gonna get the credit. If they don't, he's not. And I think that Miles Garrett is the, is the beneficiary


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[Assistant] Uhm, throughout the regular season. So as a quarterback, you're going to get that credit for that, especially the way they looked last year.


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[Assistant] So I, I thought he was gonna win it. And then finally, uh, it just goes in tandems. If Miles Garrett is the, is the defensive player of the year, and you look what the Browns did under Joe Woods, who's the coach that got Miles Garrett in the defense to look great now this year? It's, it's Jim Short.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I didn't know they would sweep it, but I thought each of them had a really, really, really good opportunity to win it, and uhm, I'm happy for them.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes, listen, you know, awards are funny, man. Like, uh, if you want to see adults act bad, just put a name on a trophy and say, the winner gets this trophy. You don't see people go crazy. I don't see people fighting bowling leagues. Like, I'm like, dang, you wanted that trophy. But I will say this, man, uhm, you know, when you look at the awards, in, in, in,


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[Assistant] There's a, I think Miles Garrett winning this award, I think this will do something to him. Like, now that he's won it,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think that he'll start to think about other things.


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[Assistant] Because, you know, I can understand why he did so, because the Browns, if you're one of the Browns' teams during the time that he's been here, you just, the only thing you could look forward to was individual awards. That's true. It wasn't like you would normally complain. But not recently. So recently, you know, they've had some pretty good teams.


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[Assistant] My hope is, you know, and I know he'll do it because if you go watching how he takes care of his body is, is, is world renowned.


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[Assistant] I want to see him go in and talk to his people and say, okay, how can I, how can I hit my peak in November?


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[Assistant] How can I, how can I hit my physicality? How can I stay healthy?


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[Assistant] It is, uh, and he has, he has the connections. I know a couple of people that look like that. LeBron James is one. LeBron James is able to give you, in the playoffs, LeBron can still give you turn back the tables and get, turn back the time and give you 30 and 8 and 9 and still carry a team 40 minutes.


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[Assistant] Again, again, I'll throw out this. The reason why Stefanski is a coach of the year is because of where the Browns started. We talked about during the big meeting of the year, everyone hated the Browns. Nobody liked the Browns. Nobody wanted to even say the Browns' name.


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[Assistant] Right? But they did have expectations. They had some expectations, but those expectations were people rooting against the Browns doing anything. Right, but people in the beginning


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[Assistant] That's right. So then, you gotta take a look at this. Then on national TV, one of the most beloved players in the league gets hurt for the rest of the season. So when you get done with that blow, it's like, woah.


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[Assistant] And then your quarterback who had not been, uh, stellar up to that point, he plays against the Ravens. You think they turn in a corner. Here we go.


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[Assistant] The way that the league saw you with all these awards and then the way that the front office looks at what they have.


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[Assistant] Because it's, it seems as if, right? Oh, I see what you're saying. It seems as if, it seems as if they, they, they are not as impressed, uh, what, what they did last year as what some of the journalists and media members are because they obviously swept the awards.


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[Assistant] There is a very, that's why I was so shocked when you say one. There's a reason you don't show up for the awards, right?


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's a silent protest. Hey listen, I'm not going up there getting no word. I'm over here talking with Dorsey right now to figure out what we gonna run next year.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I thought it was, I think it was very odd. So you think a silent protest is why he wasn't there? Yeaah, why would you, like, that's the pinnacle of, like, besides winning the championship, right? That's like saying,


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[Assistant] Now, Chris, Chris had me on, uh, with Rob Parker and, uh, uh, uh, right before the Browns played, uh, the Texans and, you know, I was, I was in my bag. I was talking my talk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, y'all, y'all gonna lose this game. And, uh, he was right. I gotta give it to you. We got smashed. They got all them awards, Chris. They didn't do nothing against the Texans. I gotta take my licks.


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[Assistant] You know, Brew, I gotta get to this cause, you know, I talk to Jason Lloyd all the time, and uhm, I've been trying to start these rumors on my own. Uhm, I need some, some guys to jump on the bandwagon. I'm looking at the LA Lakers right now. Lakers make no moves at the deadline.


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[Assistant] You take a look at LeBron, AD, they actually are playing games together. They actually, AD has been relatively healthy and it's still not mattering.


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[Assistant] You know, they got Reeves, they got those other guys, and my thing is, if you look at the Lakers, I just don't think that they're in contention anymore, especially for winning championships, but I will say this, I'm looking at LeBron and I'm saying, look man,


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[Assistant] That a landing spot, the cushy landing spot in the narrative is back in Cleveland from LeBron. What are your thoughts?


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[Assistant] Hit me up on the hotline. The hotline number is out there. Hit me up when you have questions and comments. For G. Bush, we're going to be talking about the stadium. We're going to be talking about some of these same topics tonight, but we got the hotline. Leave a message for your boy and we'll put you on tonight. That's wonderful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty impressive. It's pretty impressive. I mean, the way, Donovan Mitchell, I was watching the interview and he...


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[Assistant] Uhm, said, you know, about the trade deadline. He said, you know, I think we're good. I think we, we fine. We didn't need to make a move. Uhm, and that says a lot.


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[Assistant] I look at it, the way he's playing right now, I mean, he's playing, I don't wanna sound like Earl. I mean, but he's playing dominant, I've not seen nobody dominate like this except for Lebron, and that includes Kyrie Irving. Wow.


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[Assistant] Night in, we just said the other day that Kyrie Irving, better than Donovan Mitchell. Night in, night out Kyrie, night in, night out Donovan Mitchell was on the floor. He's tenacious, he's playing defense, he's getting deflections, he's making his other teammates better, and


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[Assistant] There's times where he could take games off. There was times when I'm seeing him play Memphis or he's playing Orlando and I'm like, okay, they can lose this game. They down by six or seven and he just won't let them lose.


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[Assistant] Now, eh, eh, when you're talking about overall and the whole overarching thing, you talk about career, whether he's better in career, obviously you have to do it, uhm, in, in the postseason and get your money off that way and win a series. But what I'm saying is,


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[Assistant] Night in, night out, in terms of who he is as an individual basketball player, he's doing great.


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[Assistant] I seen Evan Mobley take the ball coast to coast, finish with the left hand. He didn't shoot any threes though. No threes last night.


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[Assistant] Two out of three. No, no, two out of two the night before. Yeaah. He's five of his last six from three. He's taking the threes now. Uh, he's, he, I, I was always on Evan Mobley a little bit because he would get seven, eight rebounds. I said, I need you to get ten, big fella.


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[Assistant] Not only that, what they struggled in last year was the fact that guys couldn't hit a three point shot. You look at it now, you take a look at Sam Merrill, he's all mad, he gets in the game, he's automatic almost. The guy that really has gotten better, and this doesn't happen a lot in the league,


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[Assistant] I don't know where he went to a camp. Isaac Okoro has gotten better. I don't know if he went to ABCD camp or I don't know if he went to the Bowling Green camp. Shout out to Bowling Green. Coach Dachich is always at Bowling Green camp. Listen, this dude is his threes.


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[Assistant] And the thing that he's, he's really good at is being a multiple Swiss Army knife when he's guarding the one, two, and three position. And if you switch off of him and he catches a stretch four, he's not giving up because, that much because he's strong. The fact that he's looking at the basket, shooting it with confidence, and I'll even give guys credit like this, Dean Wade,


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[Assistant] Like, McNuggets is not, he, McNuggets, you know, he said, I ain't gonna put words in his mouth, but he said, like, look, they playing well, but I don't know if they better than Boston. I don't know if they can play with the Heat. I don't know if they can play.


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[Assistant] The one thing that was very impressive though, I will say is, I mean, when you make the all-decade team, that's kinda, that's, that means you was the best player.


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[Assistant] You know, I think there was one thing that you can say in Cribs' favor is the fact that you go back and look, first of all, he's an undrafted guy from Kent. Like he, you know, comes in as a quarterback, doesn't really have a position, uh, starts playing special teams. Not only did he do that, but he went down on special teams and was a good special team player.


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[Assistant] were terrible. They didn't score any points. If there were games where the only way the Browns were getting points or field position was if Josh Scripps gave them the football in decent yards or took it to the house.


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[Assistant] That's the question I'm asking. Well, I answered the question. There's a difference between plays and impact. You can play 70,000, 70,000 plays.


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[Assistant] Everybody wants a kicker, right? You're kidding. So you'll keep it with the day. They count then at the biggest buffalo bills, not just


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[Assistant] And then I just ask people, go back and wa- like, that is a skill set. Like, let's keep it real.


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[Assistant] And I don't even think it's something you could teach. You just, you just born with that vision and ability.


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[Assistant] He would have to, to me, for him to get a touchdown, they'd have to throw a screen pass. They'd have to, it would be probably under 20 yards. Yeah, sure.


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[Assistant] So if everybody in the studio puts a hundred bucks in, we would essentially split 18,000. Well, are there 10 of us?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Facebook's is dead, I don't even know that, like, it's only grandma's and, um, knitted sweaters on there.


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[Assistant] That's true. Yea, but Paul Brown owned the Bengals and they have cheerleaders. He was getting older in his age.


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[Assistant] Not no sprinkle cheese. Your cheese have to be melted. Don't put no little, don't, don't nuke a bag of shredded mild cheddar and call them nachos.


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[Assistant] No, please don't, please don't Jay. Great talking with you guys, thanks for having me on. Always good Chris, always good. Thank you Chris.


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[Assistant] It's Friday, but we don't have a Browns game. That's okay, we're still pumped because we have two really, two of the biggest three football, three of the, two of the three biggest football games of the year. I'll get it out.


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[Assistant] I love this weekend. This weekend for me is probably the apex because the Super Bowl for me never really lives up. It's just one game. There's eight hours of pregame shows. There's only three and a half hours of games. Down to eight hours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, then you gotta go outside to watch a performance from, uh, three doors down.


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[Assistant] Great question. I can easily host a Super Bowl party if that's the way we want to go. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] 30 minutes of never before seen browns coverage. Yup, yeaah. Browns content. You haven't seen this before. Some of what you're gonna see here today, you've probably seen before. But coming up at 1230, this is all virgin browns material. Yes, I said it.


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[Assistant] Which person in the organization had the best 2023?


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[Assistant] That's gonna be a great discussion. I can't wait to see how my colleagues voted. We voted one, two, and three on all of these awards and Mikey, uhm,


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[Assistant] pulled out his calculator to make sure that the math was correct and he tabulated and he's gonna have the aggregate results of who wins, who was second, who was third.


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[Assistant] We're gonna each give us a Prolative Award. And that's whatever we want it to be.


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[Assistant] Can I nail that? Like, you know what it was. Do you think that that was that moment of the year?


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[Assistant] The bar to reach isn't as high, but the odds aren't as long.


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[Assistant] So you know what, that might not be a bad way of doing business because you're taking, there's really no long shots or even like reaching their averages.


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[Assistant] Which position is the biggest position of need for the Browns next year? Receiver. I think that's easy. Which position group is there the least depth at? Wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Which position is most critical to our most important players success? Wide receiver.


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[Assistant] All answers to this question


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[Assistant] Point two, you have no choice. And I know you said you could let it ride. But Jay, and I do, and I do, I share your fear of what's coming.


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[Assistant] I think the years 26, 7, and 8 for the Browns are going to be really difficult years.


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[Assistant] There is one way to get around it, and that's if you're drafting like the LA Rams.


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[Assistant] But we haven't done that. That's not our track record. We can't suddenly expect us to start nailing fifth and sixth round picks when our track record is we can't nail third round pick.


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[Assistant] We all agree that after the Rams won their Super Bowl, it's going to be some lean years because of the trade.


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[Assistant] Because how do you rebuild your team? Drafts, if you have space under the cap, or if you have draft capital, that's the only two ways you can do it.


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[Assistant] The Rams, I thought, executed this whole thing perfectly. That's them picks.


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[Assistant] You look at what they did with those fifth round picks, it may be the best back to back fifth round picks that I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Because they're both not good. They're both excellent players. You can argue Pooka Nakua is already a top five receiver. So for me,


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[Assistant] When you ask all these other questions that lead up to the big one, I am so with you on the cap fear. It's coming. The day of reckoning is coming.


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[Assistant] But what we have to do is we have to look at, my look at the window now is 24 and 25.


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[Assistant] You always look at a window. Oh, they're windows right now. There's no question. I think their window is next year, because I mean, obviously it's closed from the 22, 23, but based on the Deshaun trade, to me, I felt like, okay, they've got to do it the first four years because all of those can kicks on the cap restructuring deals.


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[Assistant] As long as they have Patrick Mahomes, it's open. And you could argue that Burroughs, Burrough as well, I mean, as long as Chase and Burrough are in Cincinnati, I think they're windows.


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[Assistant] I didn't think coming into this season that even if everybody had stayed healthy, Chubb and Watson had a better year than we expected. I still just, I didn't have them at my top four.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's get Alan Mahomes and Burl right out of the way. We're taking all three of those and no one's even going to debate them.


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[Assistant] I know what Tua looked like before his results. Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] I turned on him last year. I thought, okay, maybe this guy is what everybody told me he was.


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[Assistant] I need all of that. You can't punt on a Mari. You can't. Uh, he had, I don't want to call it a career year this year because that would be unfair.


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[Assistant] Think he had a career high in receiving yards, but he had 17 games to do it.


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[Assistant] That's really impressive. I would say this though, on the yards, he did have a 17th game to get him there. But he didn't play the 17th game. Well, but how many times has he missed a game or two here or there?


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[Assistant] There has been no decline. No. Not measurable yet. And if you go off of that information, it's, I think it's in the discussion for a career year. So because of that,


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[Assistant] I'm even more inclined to bet that it's not going to happen next year. It may happen two years from now, but. Well, that's what you're extending them into. I know it is. However, the way I'm looking at this, if I'm Andrew Barry, I'm looking at my realistic window based on all the other contracts, the age of all my other superstars, where we are and where we're going to be two years from now, three years from now.


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[Assistant] I think, look, the window may well still be open in 27. It might be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or 26, because I think it's going to be open 24 and 25. I think you've got to win in the next two years. Maybe it extends to 26, but you touched on the other of my points.


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[Assistant] The Browns don't have the luxury of not having Amari Cooper on this roster for at least two more years because they didn't get it right.


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[Assistant] How his, how he was underutilized because of the other receivers the Lions have.


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[Assistant] Because then if you sign T Higgins for four years or three years, then you have a bridge.


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[Assistant] I don't think the Colts are gonna let Pittman go. I don't think the Bengals are gonna let T Higgins go. I just don't.


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[Assistant] Your, uh, mantra, your new hat for next year is Operation Overkill? Operation Stockpile. Okay, Stockpile. Operation Stockpile. Based off of that,


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[Assistant] I think you have to draft a receiver with your 100% first pick, which is unfortunately not until 56 or 58. Hey, and if they have to be aggressive, move up if you can. Yeah, well, possibly.


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[Assistant] I believe that the Browns this off season have to do at wide receiver what they did last year on the interior of the defensive line. You have to address that. No more we like our receiver room. They lied to us when they said that or they are even worse than we thought at assessing talent at that position.


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[Assistant] I think you gave some numbers when we signed him.


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[Assistant] And I put those out because I didn't want to believe that that was true.


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[Assistant] Disaster in year two, but I asked this at the time when they released him. Is it a chance that he's got this right and the Browns are at fault and everyone's like, no, he's gotta go. He's cancer. He's gotta go. And at the end of the year, Joe Woods went.


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[Assistant] I read a piece this morning. The Ravens are in the championship game in large part because Jadavian Clowney's rebirth.


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[Assistant] I don't think that much. And we know the Browns don't really value linebackers. They don't spend a lot of money at that position. If I'm talking talkie, I want to come back. I want to play another year in the


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[Assistant] Talked to Jim yesterday about some different things off the air. I do think that the Browns would like him back. I just think there's gonna be too big of a market for him.


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[Assistant] toxic for the, for the locker room, then that tells me that he does not have a strong opinion of Deshaun Watson's mental strength. Or, because a good quarterback wouldn't give a rat's ass. He's making 60 million dollars. No one should be looking over their shoulder less than him.


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[Assistant] Based on how he's played, I always say this, fans don't care about anything but wins. In Pittsburgh, they didn't give a rat's ass that Ben had a bad track record with some outside the game stuff.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett wouldn't have a right to say if Deshaun is performing poorly. And I'm not even saying-


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[Assistant] I would say worse than he did last year. If Deshaun played at the level that he played this year, no one's screaming for Joe Flacco. The Baltimore game, Deshaun Watson on the Monday after the Baltimore game before we heard the news of his shoulder.


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[Assistant] There's other options that you can get without being flabby. You would know better than me. I think we're rolling with DTR. We drafted him. They may feel different after the way the season went.


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[Assistant] And the way the locker room embraced Joe Flacco last year was all well and good. But trust me, on that first day of training camp 2024, this will unquestionably, as it should be, be Deshaun Watson's team. And if Joe Flacco's in camp, everybody would look at Joe completely different. That's our, that's our insurance policy.


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[Assistant] But when a team has a Super Bowl window or a play, a, a, a window to win.


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[Assistant] I owe it to the fan base and all the other guys on the roster to put the best player in that position I possibly can, with all the constraints being factored into the equation.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, but I see Jacoby play this year. I can tell you, based on the Jacoby we saw in the Browns offense in 22 and the Flacco we saw in the Browns offense in 23, yeaah, there's a huge difference.


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[Assistant] He had a moment, he gave us one moment. The Bears game.


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[Assistant] I'll say this, we need someone with that kind of speed. Yeaah. But who can play more?


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[Assistant] And, and who can be a legitimate threat. Yea, all the time. Like when you saw number three on the field, there were alarm bells going off on the defense because everybody knew what was coming.


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[Assistant] He was in there for one reason. Either to take an end around two reasons or to take a deep shot and stretch the field. That was it.


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[Assistant] And I, I think he, uh, who said the renaissance? Was it you?


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[Assistant] And got better at directional kicks and touchbacks late in the season. Or before he got hurt. The last couple games for him were not good.


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[Assistant] But before the injury, he showed signs of getting better at backspinning it and putting it down inside the fire.


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[Assistant] The evidence that we sh- that we have seen leads us to believe more likely than not, it was a participatory thing on her behalf. On this one. On that one case, she was-


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[Assistant] Essentially. And also a better track record though.


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[Assistant] Old times, he, he, it was like the first preseason game and the first practice. You know what will happen though, my prediction, Cincinnati will sign him and he'll be a Pro Bowl putt returner and he'll score two touchdowns against us in the two games he plays.


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[Assistant] I agree. That well has been very fruitful for the Browns. I wish they could have had


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[Assistant] How many guys took snaps? Because I know Kareem Hunt took a bunch. Harrison Bryant took a bunch. At quarterback? Yeah, so that's seven.


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[Assistant] And by the way, uhm, I don't know that we've talked about this, but we did all of the postpartum that we were gonna lose.


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[Assistant] Now, the difference here is, it is in Nashville. Nashville's a hell of a city.


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[Assistant] They've really been, they've been protective of him. He's had opportunities.


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[Assistant] Bull couldn't even get it out fast enough. Now, if, if he can punt, if we take that picture one more time, if he can be a backup to Borges, and it looks from this picture like he could, based on his extension, he does have to point his toe a little bit more. There's too much bend in that ankle. But perhaps he could be a backup punter.


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[Assistant] He just came off as the most likable guy of all time.


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[Assistant] Again, again, we've got to upgrade in key positions. I bring him back. And I think we can do better. I don't know why. He had a couple of instances where he didn't catch balls that he should have that cost us a lot. Yea, I'm moving on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but when he was called on, I thought he played well. And I think what this year taught me more than anything else, you better have depth at the offensive line.


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[Assistant] Dishon- I mean, uh, this drives me nuts. Uh, especially with Philip, we came to know that that's what-


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[Assistant] Tyvis calls him. Tyvis sent something in the chat the other day about Derek.


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[Assistant] I forgot his name, The Kicker, in here for you agent.


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[Assistant] Getting, I think it's his first starting spot. Ever. Which was, I mean, he played in the west before, now he's in the east.


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[Assistant] Always stuck behind Steph and it's a tough team to make anyhow, no matter it was west or east, but he just was never going to make it out west. I think this feels like a lifetime achievement award to me because Donovan Mitchell's having a better season


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[Assistant] You could argue a career season because in a lot of his categories, he's having his best year.


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[Assistant] Think it was gonna be an issue. I thought he's definitely gonna be named to the starting team.


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[Assistant] That he isn't, I think, was a miss. Is it egregious? Am I going to scream and yell and shout? No, but I just think that Donovan Mitchell, now here's what kept him off the team. I don't know how many players Lillard's missed, but I think Mitchell's missed close to 10 games.


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[Assistant] Probably. And that's, I think that's what kept them off the team.


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[Assistant] I think you're splitting hairs. I think to me, I know you're saying it's not a big difference, but for anybody that glances at the two stat pages,


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[Assistant] To me, the games played, you can't be an All-Star if you're not playing every day. It's harder to be an All-Star if you're not playing every day. And because Lillard has played 8 more games out of, where are we in the total number of games played so far? About halfway. Not even halfway, I don't know. No, we're halfway. No, some teams have passed half.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you're basically halfway through the season. When you miss eight of the first 42 games, that's a big portion of the schedule.


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[Assistant] But do you remember the fear? This is how far we've come. Do you remember the fear from the other players? Of course. What if he bleeds? Of course.


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[Assistant] I'm ride or die with Sam Fran have been all year. Uh, unfortunately I had Sam Fran and Buffalo in the Super Bowl, which I thought it would have been great because earlier this year when I insisted that Brock Purdy was the top five quarterback, Bull asked me who I was taking out. I said Josh Allen. Thought I was nuts.


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[Assistant] I wanted to see that in a, in a Super Bowl. I really did.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, this is a bit of bad news for the Baltimore Ravens. I read this this morning and I'm like, uh oh. You know all these conspiracy theories with the NFL games and the storylines? The head referee


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[Assistant] And this isn't a statistical anomaly. This is a landslide. Is his crew has called by far more penalties against the home team.


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[Assistant] He didn't know the questions, he gave me the random order. He gave me the random order. You missed it yesterday, we don't have time to rehash it now. So this is not the hottest question, this is one of the 10 questions.


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[Assistant] What's the first question the Browns have to figure out this offseason? It's very simple.


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[Assistant] Essentially that is the question. That answers the question. There we go. Okay, one down. Question number two.


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[Assistant] What do the Browns do with Nick Chubb this offseason? He has a 16.2 million dollar cap hit coming off a reconstructive knee surgery. He's obviously one healthy, one of if not the best running back in football. So what do the Browns do with Mr. Chubb?


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[Assistant] The year after he had his injury, he rushed for 1,485 yards, 11 touchdowns. That was the third highest total of his entire career.


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[Assistant] Are we 100% sure Kevin Stefanski is the right coach to lead this team to the promised land?


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[Assistant] And that question comes only asked because there has never been a better free agent coaching class than there is right now with Belichick. If you want to throw Nick Saban in there, Jim Harbaugh, Pete Carroll, Mike Frable, those guys are technically available. Jay will start reviewing. Are you 100% sure Stefanski's not a coach?


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[Assistant] Three years in Cleveland? I don't know, I'm asking. I thought it was four. It may have been. It may have been. I can't remember. Belichick was in Cleveland 91, 92, four years. Okay.


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[Assistant] Crimes of passion here. This next question is going to involve a lot of passion from the fans.


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[Assistant] What should the Browns do with their backup quarterback position next year? Joe Flacco, DTR, someone else, Tyvis, start us off.


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[Assistant] It's not Trubisky. No, I know it's not him. Was the Browns defense actually that good this season?


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[Assistant] Or do we fool ourselves into thinking it was better than it was because of the teams they faced and the quarterbacks they faced?


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[Assistant] At Cincinnati. They lost at Pittsburgh to Kenny Pickett. Yep. They lost at Seattle to Geno Smith. They lost at Denver to Russell Wilson. They lost at L.A. to Matt Stafford and lost at Cincinnati to Jake Browning and in the playoff game. Now that's the backups.


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[Assistant] Really bad quarterbacks at home. It happens. Alright, next question guys.


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[Assistant] And this one we can do quickly. How concerned are you about the combination of the age, the salary and the injury history of the Browns offensive line heading into 2024?


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[Assistant] I think it's second. I look at the Eagles. I think it's slightly more. Who is? Philadelphia, cause Kelsey makes a ton of money. But Kelsey's retiring.


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[Assistant] Over 30, I would guess, is, hold on one sec.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one guys real quick and a quick reminder if you're in the chat, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button. We appreciate you guys with Behind the Glass coming later this week. As always, content never ending here on UCSS. We'll do this one quick. Each person gets a minute to answer. But what is the number one thing, the number one area of need Andrew Barry needs to address on this Brown's roster for 2024?


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[Assistant] Want my name real quick, Bull? Yeah. You're not done. Mike Williams of the Chargers.


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[Assistant] Ridley finished 76 catches, 1,016 yards, 8 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, we're hopping back into our 10 questions for the offseason. This one, pretty simple.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? 100% confident? Or what level of confidence do you have that Deshaun Watson can be that guy that Browns need him to be in 2024?


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[Assistant] Ken Bell says, Bull talking about Baker sounds like a fifth grader with a crush on a girl in the playground, so he kicks her in the shin.


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[Assistant] Matthew Culpa said, what about getting Austin Eckler? Uh, Eckler was watched this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think Eckler's on the Browns Raider. Uber driver says, why do you guys say we need a big draft? This team is close and did what it did despite lots of injuries.


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[Assistant] But if, but if he is booboo again, 2025 draft, we need to get baby prime time. So those are the super chat. We're going to keep the stream going. We're going to answer the last question.


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[Assistant] How many games did Chase miss? Jamar Chase this season played in, uh, 16 games. Oh, he had 1,216 yards. Yeah, he didn't really


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[Assistant] Oh Bull, they're coming at you for your tweet. I can't let this go. Your tweet information's wrong. About how many playoff wins since 2018.


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[Assistant] Which of the veterans who are going to be free agents this summer do you think the Browns need to bring back?


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[Assistant] And which one should they let walk? I put these guys into two different lists. Uh, just randomly named one 70 60. If you go right to one 76, we'll go down the order in which they are listed. But it's Darius Smith is up first. Darius Smith, bring them back. No, let them walk. Let them go.


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[Assistant] We have three defensive tackles who are all set to become free agents. They were Rotation Pieces, Mohurst, Shelby Harris, and Jordan Elliott.


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[Assistant] Can I make a counterpoint real quick? Sure. So the Browns rotation of defensive tackles this year was Dalvin Tomlinson, Elliott, Harris and Hurst when he was healthy. Right. So three of the four on the, on the block now. The one thing Harris has, which I think is, is


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[Assistant] Tyvis, coaching's not an option in this scenario. Nope. This is to be a backup quarterback or QB3 or if you want to make a start. I'm out. Nope.


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[Assistant] In the division and he came back the next year and was flipping us off and people were throwing money at him and...


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[Assistant] All that sort of stuff. So I actually got introduced to Albert. Yeaah, I'd seen him before. It's spring training and things of that nature. Uhm, but I got kind of reintroduced to him last year and...


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[Assistant] Remember how great you were. There's a whole generation of people who've seen some snippets of highlights of you on YouTube and that's about it. And so I just thought it was really good to get a bunch of stories out of him. It seems like he's in a really, really much better place than he was during his playing days and probably for a few years after that. Uh, is he a perfect human being? He is not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we talked about regrets, we talked about the way he left Cleveland, we talked about a lot of different things, but he was very open. Because I'll be honest with you, Jay, I was...


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[Assistant] It is. So on our, on our JM Baseball YouTube channel, it's right there, the Chris Rose rotation. You can just go to our Twitter feed at Chris Rose Sports and there's a link there and it's well worth it. I've heard from a lot of Cleveland sports fans that didn't even know it was coming out and they've just really, really enjoyed the hour.


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[Assistant] But that the lasting memory for him was turning the franchise around. Not going to the playoffs for 41 years and then not only getting there, but making a run all the way to game six of the World Series is something that he's really, really proud of and rejuvenating a city.


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[Assistant] I still remember the first time I ever walked into Progressive Field, which was Jacobs Field back then, and I remember I went with one of my brothers and I turned to Pete and I was like, can you believe this is in Cleveland? And it was just amazing.


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[Assistant] And I did ask him, and I think we've got a clip available here, uhm, whether or not there was a realistic shot of him coming back to Cleveland at that time. Yeah, I'd love to hear that. Yeah, here's how that one went. Let's listen.


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[Assistant] John Hart did a lot of great things. I mean, he helped, he helped build a franchise to a point where, you know, as Clevelanders,


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[Assistant] The first 23 years of my life, uhm, the Indians never finished higher than third in the division. I mean, you have to think about that for a second. Like, you couldn't have tripped yourself into a third place finish. Like, that is...


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[Assistant] That's hard to do for a quarter century. So I want to give him a ton of credit for all of that, for handing out those contracts to the young guys, real forward thinking. There are teams that do that in today's day and age because of the blueprint that John Hart put out there. But if this is the case and Cleveland ownership did not step up to the plate,


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[Assistant] If you wanted to stay and keep that team together, that is, but that's rough.


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[Assistant] I would agree with you, but I think there's probably two different things. There's the, we don't believe you that you've got that deal on the table.


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[Assistant] The way I look at it is this way. I think there are guys on the mound who intimidated, right? Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Martinez, all those guys were intimidating because they had a baseball in their hand. They can control it with pinpoint accuracy and throw it 100 miles an hour. So I think that caused intimidation.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we weren't, we weren't used to that sort of stuff. So it's, you know, it was fun. I'm happy I did it. Uh, I know that some people, whatever, would say, hey, why didn't you cover this? Why didn't you cover that? Like I said, we had an hour and it flew by.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised that Kenny Lofton fell off the ballot as quickly as he did. Crazy. I know. I think it was one year and out. Uhm, and I think, you know, I've done enough Hall of Fame shows with writers.


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[Assistant] And I don't think that they intentionally leave them off. I think they think like, well, there's somebody else that's going to vote for him. So he'll get his 5% and whatever. But when you look back at Kenny Lofton and game changers,


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[Assistant] He's, he's one of them. He just changed, you know, some people say, well, he played on too many teams and he was like a hired gun. You heard that a lot with Gary Sheffield in addition to some other stuff, but he just fell off the ballot this year after 10 years on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if I had to rank those guys in order, it'd be really close between Kenny and Albert. I would give Kenny just a slight edge over Albert. You mentioned the hip injury. He was out by 33 or 34. You know, if he had kept going to 37 or 38, I think he gets to those big time counting numbers.


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[Assistant] And makes it, you know, he was not a plus defender and obviously that sort of stuff hurts him, especially in the way that the categories are weighed these days and how much defense factors into it. But I don't think that that should be the end all be all. It doesn't have to be the most complete player in the Hall of Fame.


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[Assistant] I mean, you would have a hard time arguing that Albert Bell wasn't the best bat in the American League from 91 through 99. I know that you could say Frank Thomas. I know you could say Ken Griffey Jr., who certainly missed his share of games during that time.


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[Assistant] But Albert Bell was as dominant a guy. I think he had 8 straight, 30 in 100 seasons.


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[Assistant] And the only other guys who did that were Ruth Gehrig and Jimmy Fox. I never saw any of those guys play. I heard they were pretty good.


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[Assistant] Sure hope that voter isn't on a jury anytime soon. Yeaah, really? Listen, you're right about that. That is ridiculous.


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[Assistant] You know, like, when I'm listening to you talk about the Ravens,


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[Assistant] Essentially asking why more owners don't look at special teams coordinators for head coaches and that it's actually special teams coordinators that have the best training to be a head coach to run a whole organization. That's a separate conversation, but I talked to John Harbaugh about that because of course he was a special teams coordinator for nine years and in this article I was talking about how


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[Assistant] John Harbaugh's really good friend was Cam Cameron, but he felt that Joe Flacco would just respond better to Jim Caldwell than he would Cam Cameron. He made a change in the middle of the season, and guess what? They won a Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] He went and got a guy that's not a system, Todd Monkin, and look at what that offense is doing. When you talk about Zay Flowers, of course Zay Flowers deserves credit for who he is and how he works and having a teammate like Odell Beckham Jr. pushing him along, but it's also on Todd Monkin and how he uses him. So like when you talk about the Browns right now, and everybody knows how much I love Alex Van Pelt as a human being, I hope that there's an opportunity for him to go somewhere and call plays, which is something that I


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[Assistant] We've been expecting a lot out of Deshaun Watson for two years now. We still haven't seen what that $230 million is. If you get more of what you got this year, then okay, you look at the Browns that way. If you get who the Browns thought they were getting when they gave him all that money, it's a totally different thing. So it just,


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[Assistant] I know that this is part of the fun, Jay. I know speculating and ranking and guessing and all of that is part of the game. It just feels like it's so hard to lock yourself in right now.


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[Assistant] I do think that so much of it, yes, is what the quarterbacks have shown us up until this point, but you could argue, also argue, I mean, who thought last year that it was going to be Brock Purdy that came out of that quarterback room in San Francisco and would have his team as the best team in the NFC. So there's also.


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[Assistant] At the very end until the last few years. So he did have several years with Ben Roethlisberger when Roethlisberger was still allegedly playing well in...


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[Assistant] 2017. He's never won a playoff game. How crazy is that? You know, and it's funny because


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[Assistant] I mean, here's another crazy one. Baker Mayfield has won more playoff games since he's been in the league than Mike Tomlin has. So what is that? 2018? Is that when Baker was drafted?


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[Assistant] I mean, I think there's two sides to this, right? I think that when you are a beat reporter, the person who asks the question is the beat reporter, you learn


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[Assistant] Who you are asking the questions of. Who your subject is. The chances of getting a good answer there and knowing.


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[Assistant] I don't know that I would have chosen that as the time and place for that.


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[Assistant] A way to handle that, that would not have felt so...


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[Assistant] Anybody has a right to ask anything that they want to. That is a reporter's job. A reporter's job is to ask questions. And head coaches make a lot of money to have to deal with the media.


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[Assistant] Well, I will just say this. From what I have been told, and I take this word very personally, fire is a very strong word. And we might be talking semantics.


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski is not the ultimate boss of the Cleveland Browns organization. Even he has to report to people. And my understanding


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[Assistant] And to your point, the title of OC did not involve calling plays, as many OCs do.


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[Assistant] There was a conversation about whether Alex van Pelt would like to manage the quarterback room, for instance, and perhaps have a


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[Assistant] A quarterback's coach to bring in new ideas. You might not be able to get a tight ends coach to bring in new ideas. You might need to offer this title of OC. And perhaps Alex Van Pelt, who's been a coach in the league for a long time and has had a desire to call plays, would have had the opportunity to call plays elsewhere.


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[Assistant] So firing suggests that we are done with you within our organization. We want nothing to do with you. Your time has lapsed. I don't know that that is entirely a fair way.


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[Assistant] Of course, that is the wording that was first used by the first reporter to report it, and that's what we run with.


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[Assistant] Let's say if the Browns wanted to keep this quiet out of respect. And again, this is pure speculation, okay? So we're just having a conversation here since we were speculating about the AFC North before.


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[Assistant] What if the Browns wanted to keep it quiet so they could quietly go talk to let's say a deuce staley so they could talk to other people but also give Alex the time to go seek his own job?


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[Assistant] I think that, I mean at this point, instead of quibbling over the way that that was all released, it's more sort of intriguing to think about what the Browns will do now.


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[Assistant] How that will affect where they're going is as we keep talking about Deshaun Watson the answer. And if Deshaun Watson is constantly talking about how much he likes playing with Kevin Stefanski, yet what we saw out of Joe Flacco


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[Assistant] Under Kevin Stefanski versus what we've seen from Deshaun Watson. You know, what, what is the infusion of ideas? What concepts would you like to see more of?


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[Assistant] What the Browns do is indeed collaborative and not.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here's where, here's where I'll once again kind of throw out a different idea and I'll refer back to this conversation I had with John Harbaugh last week.


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[Assistant] There are certain coaches that are slaves to scheme. Okay? They run a scheme and that's what they run. And it doesn't really matter who their players are. Their scheme is their scheme is their scheme.


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[Assistant] Principles on defense that come all the way from his dad. But in general, John Harbaugh is not a slave to a scheme.


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski to me has some core principles on offense.


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[Assistant] That he believes in, but he has never struck me as someone who I only will do what I want to do. And in fact, it's the opposite. He goes so out of his way to say my favorite play is what the quarterback wants to run.


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[Assistant] Is what the quarterback feels good about. Not that he's afraid to push back or expose a quarterback to new ideas, but he has never ever ever struck me as a man who is so


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[Assistant] So I think, I believe that in my personal experience with Kevin Stefanski, he's a man that would be open to ideas.


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[Assistant] But even then, you know, it's funny, I was talking to our good friend Jason Lloyd this morning and he was referencing something Kevin said about using the pass to set up the run. When if you would ask me, I would always say Kevin's the type of guy that uses the run to set up the pass. Well, he's willing to look at it both ways. So I don't, I have a really, really hard time.


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[Assistant] Believing or thinking or being willing to say that Jimmy has them coming off of a season like this, Jimmy and Dee has them coming off of a season like this would say, this is the guy you're hiring and that's that.


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[Assistant] They have the privilege of doing what they want to do, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt at the moment.


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[Assistant] But you know, Jay, what my real takeaway from the whole thing was?


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[Assistant] This is a while ago now, five, six, seven years ago, and the Steelers had played multiple bad games out on the West Coast. And it might have even been the Raiders two years in a row. My memory isn't perfectly right. You could look this up.


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[Assistant] But they had gone out, they'd faced a very bad Raiders team and lost. Then the next year they'd gone out, once again faced a very bad Raiders team and lost. And I knew that the Ravens had been going west a day early. Now I know more often a west coast team will fly to the east a day early, but it's not without precedent.


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[Assistant] So I had asked Mike Tomlin, uh, if he had considered changing his team's travel schedule to account for the time change. And he gave me a very, um,


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[Assistant] I hate to phrase it, but it wasn't a, it wasn't quite as warm an answer. The answer was, well, the way that the time change works is that they're behind us, so we gain hours when we go there.


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[Assistant] And that was his answer, explaining how time differences work to me. And lo and behold, I come to find out that these dealers, while not going out a day early, were indeed scheduled to fly hours earlier than they usually did for any road trip.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the history, I don't know what the history of the Browns organization and how they handle coaches. I do, they never get to the last year.


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[Assistant] It is smart to do an extension because he absolutely deserves one. I don't know that anybody else has proven that they are, uhm,


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[Assistant] The best one is McNuggets. We'll do mine last then. So let's go through, then we'll get a read. We'll start a shot. McNuggets is fantastic. Uh, the first one is G Bush. This is 2002 G Bush. So you can take tag board full here if you want. This is 22 G Bush in the flesh live. A little less dapper, but still.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So that was G. This is J in 2002. J? Yeaah. Still an old man, I mean still a regular age man.


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[Assistant] We're gonna go into what we think the perfect game plan would be for the Browns tomorrow, but real quick, a word from Jace Medical. I know we come to sports to escape from some of the crazy realities of real life, but let's just take a minute to talk about preparing for real life. According to the FDA, pharmacies are running out of important antibiotics right in the middle of the worst flu season in over a decade. I can't imagine a more helpless feeling than someone I loved,


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[Assistant] Guys, if you're Kevin Stefanski, Andrew Berry, anyone in the front office, coaching staff at the Cleveland Browns, in your opinion, what is the perfect offense defense special teams? Run me through the whole gauntlet. The perfect game plan for the Browns to have tomorrow in order to knock out the Texans from the playoffs.


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[Assistant] WKYC has a full plate of pregame covertree. It starts at 2 30 with the pregame huddle. NBC's football night in America is at three. The game kicks off at 4 30. We'll have two UCSS videos in the morning for you guys on the YouTube channel. Jason will be texting with members. So if you're not a member, become a member.


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[Assistant] Okay. We have Jonathan Wells in 15 minutes. So we've got six stats. We're going to fly through these pretty quickly. But first,


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[Assistant] We gotta start with the playoff Joe Flacco numbers. We've talked about him all week, but just to hammer home and emphasize how impressive he's been in his playoff career. He's 10 and 5 overall.


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[Assistant] in the playoffs. He has five wins in the wild card round. That's the most ever. He's 6-0 in his first playoff game. He's never gone one and done in the playoffs. He has seven road playoff wins tied with Tom Brady for the most ever. If he beats Houston this week, it will be Mr. Flacco at number one.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady moves to number two, and here's my favorite Joe Flacco playoff start.


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[Assistant] Between tomorrow and his last playoff start, there will be a 3,290 day break.


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[Assistant] Between his last playoff start and tomorrow. That is the second longest in NFL history. Only behind Drew Bledsoe 4,382 days from 1987 to 1999. His last playoff start for Mr. Flacco was January 10th, 2015.


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[Assistant] I thought it was great. Really, really well done. Mr. Flacco. Okay, second. Let's start with the highs and lows of Joe though in this offense. So since he's taking over for the Browns, the Browns are averaging 5.8 yards per play.


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[Assistant] Now before that, they were averaging 5.1 with Deshaun Watson, 4.2 with PJ, and 3.5 with DTR. So their play, we talked about it, looks more explosive, they've been more efficient. In the most simplest term, they average almost an entire yard more per play with Flack than they have with any quarterback.


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[Assistant] Previously, but here's the stat with Flacco that translates to this game specifically tomorrow. On the season, Cleveland finished the year.


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[Assistant] With the 29th third down offense in football, they only converted 31.6 of their third down conversions. Now with Flacco, you would think they'd be better, but they were only slightly better, 33.8%. That would have ranked 28. So one spot better with Flacco than they were in totality with Flacco, Deshaun, PJ, DTR, and that includes Jeff Driscoll.


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[Assistant] Houston on the other hand has the fifth ranked third down defense. They only allow conversions on 35.7% of third downs when they matched up in the first matchup despite the flak that Cleveland destroyed Houston. They're only six for six on third down. They did go for it on a couple fourth downs because obviously Dustin Hopkins and Corey Bjorkes got hurt, but how the Browns do on third down.


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[Assistant] Which has not been great this season against how Houston defends third down. Another key matchup to watch comes Saturday.


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[Assistant] Okay. Moving on to CJ Strout. Some of these we have talked about, but once again, just want to re-emphasize.


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[Assistant] The difference between Stroud and Case Keenum, and this is why we can talk about anything we want, but the difference in that week 16 matchup first tomorrow is night and day. With Stroud, the Texans averaged 5.6 yards per play, just 0.2 yards lower than what Flacco averaged. In 155 plays without Stroud this year,


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[Assistant] They averaged 3.9. That was dead last in the NFL. So almost two yards different per play when Stroud's under center verse, Case Keenum, Davis Mills, anyone else. This season, Stroud, since the Super Bowl era,


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[Assistant] Average 8.2 yards per attempt. That's the third highest for any rookie. The only two higher?


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[Assistant] Ben Roethlisberger and Deshaun Watson. Shout out to Sean. On the flip side, he had a 1% interception rate, the second lowest of any rookie in the quarterback era. So, he pushes the ball downfield, doesn't turn the ball over. Beyond impressive what he's done.


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[Assistant] On the flip side, here's where it helps the Browns. We've talked about this a little bit. According to ESPN's QBR against zone coverage this year, number one rated quarterback in terms of QBR against zone coverage, 73.9. However,


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[Assistant] He's only 27th against man coverage. That drops down to 38.8. And the Browns, as we know,


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[Assistant] Run cover one man, one, whatever you want to call it 39% of the time, which is the third most in the NFL Denzel wards, their best man cover corner. We'll see if he plays it's trending in the right direction. And as bowl mentioned earlier, this is from cleave TA who, if you don't follow cleave TA on Twitter, you should guys a genius. But first time.


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[Assistant] Playoff quarterbacks versus non, first time playoff quarterbacks since 2002 are 17 and 36 straight up. Straub's weaknesses is when he gets pressured. He goes from being one of the best quarterbacks in football to not one of the best in terms of being pressured by PFF grades is the sixth biggest drop off for many quarterbacks. So get pressured.


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[Assistant] So, in the clean pocket grade, he is the third rated PFF quarterback. I would expect that.


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[Assistant] Doesn't have enough throws. But I can tell you his PFF grade under pressure vs not if you want. Give me one sec to pull it up.


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[Assistant] Alright, moving on. Number four. This was the one that came as a super chat on Monday that I wanted to save for today. So shout out to Dominik for sending the super chat. Guys, Kevin Stefanski is 10-0 against the AFC South in his career.


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[Assistant] He swept the division in 2020, he swept the division in 2023, he's 4-0 against the Texans and he's played them every year in his career as a head coach. That's funny. He played in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. He's 2-0 at NRG Stadium where the game will be played tomorrow. The aggregate score, you add all four scores combined, 104 to 64.


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[Assistant] The average margin of victory, 10 points. Only one of them was even remotely close. And that aggregate score looks way better because the Browns took their foot off the gas. It was 36-7. They let Houston score two garbage times touchdown. But he's 10-0 and 4-0 against Texas.


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[Assistant] Alright, two more guys, real quick. We talked about Amari Cooper. We talked about his heroic performance against the Texans the first time. We know he had 265 yards. That's the most any receiver had in the NFL this season. His 94.9 PFF grade that game was the highest they gave to any receiver. But here's, here's my favorite one. EPA.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a simple analytic to show how much you added over expected to a game. He had a 23.2 EPA that game. No other player in the NFL, offense, defense, quarterback, kicker, any player in the NFL had an EPA single game over 20 this season.


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[Assistant] He was three and a half points better in terms of EPA than any other player in the NFL had in any single game this season. Number two was DJ Moore who had a 19.9 against Washington. He had three touchdowns. I remember 30 yards in that game. That was a 19.9. No other player clips 20. I'm already at 23.2 EPA against Houston. That's, that's another way.


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[Assistant] We went through his numbers, and just to make y'all feel a little bit better, if this does, in his career he's played Houston twice, 4 for 4, 3 for 3 on extra points. Career in Domes, which is where this game is being played, 39 for 40, 25 at 26 on extra points, and in the playoffs,


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[Assistant] Also two games, he's four for four, three of three. So he's not Dustin Hopkins. Impressive. However...


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[Assistant] If that's the guy we have to reply on to replace our all pro caliber kicker, it could be worse.


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[Assistant] I know we come to sports as an escape from the real world, but let's just talk about a minute for preparing for real life. According to the FDA, pharmacies are running out of antibiotics right now in the middle of the worst flu season in over a decade. That's scary. Can you imagine a more helpless feeling than one of your loved ones getting sick while a supply chain issue kept them from their life-saving medication they needed?


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[Assistant] Buy a board certified physician. The medications will be dispensed by a licensed pharmacy at a fraction of the regular cost. It's never been more important to be prepared than today. So go to jacemedical.com and use code locked on for $20 off your offer. We're going to read super chats real quick. We're going to make some Super Bowl picks. Then we're going to show you the rest of the pictures of the UCSS staff from 2002, but some super chats.


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[Assistant] Uh, Trey Ball says it's been a wild year. I feel the culture within the team and fan base has officially changed. Hey, let's go, uh, hey, go one and oh, hey, Alexa play living on a prayer. James Cosby says our defense is going to dial it up another notch playoff mode, go grounds.


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[Assistant] Roberto El Presidente said, welcome to G. Bush and Bulls, speak easy now, hashtag drink. Uh, Trizzy T said, I'm calling OBZ big game against this former team.


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[Assistant] And Daryl says UCSS is lit today. Browns win 31-17 in Flacco, we trust. Make sure to tune into the WKYC show Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco wins! What's crazy is, uh, before Christmas we called Jason the Grinch of UCSS and I still think that's pretty applicable, but Jason, your turn to pick.


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[Assistant] Uh, real quick update. The Browns have elevated John Kelly and Riley Patterson from the practice squad. Pierre Strong.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's uh, let's say it's questionable, but if they elevated Ryan Kelly, he's probably not playing. We started the show with some pictures from 2002, the last time that Browns won a playoff game in front of fans. We have the rest of the cast. Here's Jason in 2002. What you can see in this picture is he's checking out Jim Trestle's butt. Yeah, so this was a cartoon.


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[Assistant] We are two days and counting from week 18, game 17, which believe it or not means absolutely nothing in terms of the standings for either team. Welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on Channel 3. I'm Jay Crawford coming up in the next 30 minutes. We're going to talk a lot about the Browns and the Bengals. I'm going to tell you about a


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[Assistant] Position coach for the Browns who says he wants to be a head coach again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're going to rank it. Who we most want to play, who we least want to play. We do know that it will be the winner of the AFC South. We also know that it will be at their place, and we also know that whoever it is, we would have already beaten that team once already this year. That is correct. Alright, we start with Jeff Driscoll. Jeff who?


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[Assistant] That's right, he is the fifth starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns this year, and if form holds...


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[Assistant] We thought that had never been done before, but after much research, Mikey McNuggets, our producer, found out that it was done once before in the strike shortened season.


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[Assistant] In 1987, the New England Patriots won games with five different quarterbacks. So guys, if this would be the first time that it's happened in a non-strike season, but also it's going to have 17 games to get that done.


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[Assistant] Where does that accomplishment rank for you guys in terms of unbelievable sports feats?


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[Assistant] Yeah, when you think about great sports records that have never been broken, you think DiMaggio's 56, you think about Cy Young 511 victories or whatever it was.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things that you think about in, in terms of great sports moments. This is one that happened because a set of circumstances that has probably only come up a handful of times. How many teams have gone through five quarterbacks in a single season? But I will say this, it's significant for this reason.


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[Assistant] If he doesn't already have his hands on his second coach of the year trophy, if he wins with Jeff Driscoll and completes that


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[Assistant] Bizarre feat. He is the slam dunk coach of the year.


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[Assistant] It's just the last impression. It's not going to be a good look for him. We saw what happened in the MVP race when the San Francisco quarterback had a bad week, but that was a meaningful game. It was. But I mean, I just think in terms of


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[Assistant] Putting that last taste in someone's mouth, in the voter's mouth, that's when they're gonna vote when the regular season's over. It's just, it really is a bizarre accomplishment. Now, who is Jeff Driscoll?


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[Assistant] What should we expect from this guy? Bull laughed when we put this question in the show because he's like, I mean, how the heck does any, do any of us know what to expect?


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[Assistant] You talk about coming off the couch. He may literally have been coming out of the Uber car.


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll see. Uh, I think he'll throw it 25 times. I think he'll be better than 50% completion. I think he'll throw a touchdown.


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[Assistant] He's gonna play well enough where he'll get the nod as the number two over PJ Walker, who let's face it.


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[Assistant] Kevin's already cut once this year. So, alright. Moving on, it's time for player props. This is the top part of the show where Mikey gives us a line, a number that a certain player is set to achieve. We decide if that number is going to be an over or an under. Who do we start with?


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[Assistant] Talk about just the body situation that Kevin Stefanski is in and he can't rest everybody. That means to me that probably Ford and Hunt will get some time. So it might be running back by committee. They'll maybe split the carries between the three of them. And for that reason, I don't think he goes over 62 and a half. Hope I'm


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I just do it, yeaah. I love that. In technical terms, he's a crappy court. Alright, uh, Jim Schwartz said yesterday that his days as an assistant coach, if he has his choice, are done. Listen, play it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so in, in, uh, in technical terms, he wants to be head coach again. Of course. Uh, he didn't say those words, but obviously that's what he said. Will he be a head coach again and will it be in 2024 or somewhere other?


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[Assistant] Or you're splitting time. You're going somewhere to interview and a lot of times teams will say when the playoffs are over and our season is over, you can talk to them.


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[Assistant] But these jobs get filled and get filled quickly once the regular season ends.


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[Assistant] I'd be fine with the Brown saying you're the associate head coach. Here's a nice little bump in pay. Stick around.


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[Assistant] and get comfortable here because I think this is, it's rare that you find that mix of genius offense, genius defense, and the Browns have it. Haslam, write the check, lock it down, and let's move forward. Alright, we're taking a break. When we come back,


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Thanks for spending time with us. Here's the drill. We know that the Browns will face the AFC South winner. It will either be Houston, Indy, or Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] On the bright side, they've beaten all three so far this season. This game will be on the road. I want you guys to rank who you most want the Browns to play with the least team you want to see being first and the team you most want being third.


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[Assistant] I think the difference between Houston and Indianapolis is a lot closer than you make it so. You're like a slam dunk, don't give me Houston. Yea, for me. I don't want Houston, but I've seen Indy at full strength and Gardner Minshew created fits for this defense.


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[Assistant] He's made this defense look as bad as they've looked all year. I don't think there's another offense that has had that kind of success against the Browns. So he scares me.


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[Assistant] And it's mostly with his feet. He threw for 300 yards, but he was running all over that Brown's defense. I just don't want to see that again. So let Jacksonville get, what has to happen for us to get Jacksonville? They win. That's it. And who are they playing?


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[Assistant] Very good. So that's like a playoff game for them already. They'll be ready for the playoffs because they'll be a little sharper. Browns are coming off rest. They're playing a meaningful game.


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[Assistant] Alright, and you've been saying all year the quarterbacks to give the Browns the biggest problem are the running quarterbacks. That's true. And he can do that. Taking a break. When we come back, why watch the game? It's our pre-written headlines. We tell you who wins and how next.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on WKYC Channel 3. We are here every Friday of the regular season. Who knows if the playoffs continue, you might see us next week as well. Time for pre-written headlines. Who wins the


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[Assistant] We're out, enjoy the game, watch the Browns post game show at the Two Minute Warning on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Listen, we all have our, our theories and beliefs and things that we think we know and I'm no different and...


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll see, we'll see where this whole thing leads and where this goes. Uh, I was, you know, it was interesting to me to hear how effusive and praise he was of Kevin's play calling ability and said it was one of his greatest strengths.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we'll see where this goes. The names that they've, you know, I was talking to Zach Jackson about this before the press conference, obviously my partner at the athletic, the names that they've interviewed so far for the OC are not guys you would think


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[Assistant] They could be waiting on someone. Zach made that point. You know, go look at Clay Kubiak, who's on the Niner staff. He's their passing game coordinator, young guy, obviously Gary's son.


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[Assistant] You know, could they just be waiting on someone else to become available for one of these seasons to end on one of these teams that are still going? You know, we still have to let the rest of this thing play out.


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[Assistant] But we'll see, uhm, we'll see where this goes, we'll see how it shakes out. I guess that's all I'm gonna say on that right now.


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[Assistant] When he was in Houston and the people in Houston basically said that's a bad match and they wouldn't do it.


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[Assistant] And we'll see where, how this shakes out with what's going on in Washington. Obviously, I saw Rivera's interviewing today for a DC job.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, I mean yeaah, that could be another name, uh, to, to watch for now.


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[Assistant] You know, after the game when, when at Baltimore and they came back and won and he was great in the second half and, and Deshaun said.


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[Assistant] You know, this is an adjustment for me and it's, it's not that he was saying he


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[Assistant] Wouldn't do it, he's just saying he's never done it before and it's, it's something new to him of going under center and, and working on play action and doing some of these different things that really he's never really done in his career.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, you know, that's where I guess I would follow on that and that's what I would have to say about that until given more information otherwise of...


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[Assistant] You know, they did come this, they, you know, Kevin did say, I can draw up.


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[Assistant] 100 plays. We'll run the ones you like and the ones you don't like, we'll throw them out and we'll come up with 100 new ones.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, like, whatever, whatever you want to do, we can do. And, uh, and so there was some collaboration there, but ultimately,


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[Assistant] He liked some of the concepts and he wasn't familiar with them and he needed more time


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[Assistant] Uh, and to get more comfortable with him and then obviously he was hurt and that time never came.


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[Assistant] If they really want them that badly, then they just pay them a 16 million and we go. But that's not reality. That's not the reality that we're in. So it's gonna come down to can they agree on a number that both sides are comfortable with.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they're willing to go a little bit higher, if they're willing to stretch a little bit higher. He also talked about the importance of the backup quarterback spot. Well, if you're going to pay your starter 64 million and you're going to pay a backup X amount and you're going to pay Nick X amount, you're going to run out of cash at some point under the cap. So they can rework to Sean, I know, and they probably maybe will again.


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[Assistant] But the point remains that there's only so much you can do.


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[Assistant] Uh, so it's, I would like to think Nick will be back next year. And there was a time where I didn't think that was going to happen, but I think the injury sort of showed them how.


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[Assistant] What they thought, he's certainly not what I thought he was going to be in a lead role, in a feature back role. So maybe that, uh, helps spur something along to get something done with Nick to bring him back.


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[Assistant] Okay, well then let's see in September who's calling the plays. Uh, you know, and again, like the names that they've interviewed to this point for the OC job,


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[Assistant] If Kevin's really going to relinquish the play calling, then there's something else in the works here. There's something else that has to fall. Because the guys that they've talked to are not guys that anyone should feel comfortable with Kevin relinquishing the play calling to.


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[Assistant] No, that, I mean that was, that was standard. We're not gonna talk about player contracts. We're not gonna talk about coaches. He was effusive.