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[Assistant] Help hitting others for open shots. I was digging through some, uh, NBA.com tracking stats today in preparation for the Ultimate Cav Show tonight, which we'll preview in a sec.


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[Assistant] This is Darius Garland's potential assist per game over the last four years. You ready for this? In 2024, so this season, it's at 11.3.


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[Assistant] Last season, his first year at Donovan, 12.9. His all-star season, 15.6. And the year before his all-star season, his second season in the NBA was 11.4. This is his lowest potential assist per game since his rookie season. And with the amount of shooters they have on this team, you would think that number would be up.


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[Assistant] Coming off pick and rolls, drive, get a defender to help, kick in the corner, Sam Merrill shooting. That's not assist made, that's potential assist. So passes that lead to shots.


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[Assistant] And, you know, assists are kind of finicky because you can make a perfect pass to an open guy and miss the shot. You don't get the tally, well this tracks the potential assists.


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[Assistant] And you would just assume that with the weapons around him, that number may not be 15.6 like his All-Star season. Right.


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[Assistant] But at least in the 13 range where he was last year in his first season with Donovan.


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[Assistant] It's the creating opportunities for yourself and others.


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[Assistant] 11.3, which is the lowest, the lowest since his rookie season.


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[Assistant] By the way, that's not a bad number by the way. 11.3 is still in the top 50 in the NBA. It's not a bad number. He's better than that. He was top 15 the last two seasons. I don't know what it is with him. I have, I have a theory and potential, so the cats move the ball.


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[Assistant] More than they have last season. Their passing numbers across the board are way up. Great. So.


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[Assistant] In the pick and roll situations, when Darius runs pick and roll, especially with Mowgli.


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[Assistant] I don't have the numbers to back this up, it's a working theory, I'm not saying this is a fact, I'm just saying this is something I think I've noticed and I'm gonna continue to watch for the next couple games. He almost always takes two dribbles.


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[Assistant] Not even in a bad way because mobile has been efficient with it, but it's just kind of become predictable.


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[Assistant] And against Washington at least, you saw them send that backside help, and then Mowgli was kicking out. So like, just another reason that number could be down.


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[Assistant] But when Donovan's not on the court, there's no excuse. And that's what I want to see. When those minutes get staggered, like, Darius go back to being that catalyst, that engine in this offense.


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[Assistant] When you watch him play, he does things on a nightly basis that it's hard to believe. And Donovan Mitchell does some of the same things, like some of the passes they make, but when there are guys that come through Cleveland, especially on the Western Conference, they don't play, uh, more than once or twice a year and you get a chance to watch 48 minutes of that dude play basketball. Uh, I just want to say I highly, highly, highly recommend watching tonight because Luka Donjic has a chance to do something.


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[Assistant] I have never seen Luka live, yes. That is, that is the reason I'm going. I mean, I love going to Cavs games too, but, uh, having the chance to see Luka. I've actually never seen.


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[Assistant] Tonight at 5 o'clock, the Ultimate Cavs show, myself and Jason Lloyd. We're gonna dive into some of the DG criticism, what's fair, what's unfair, what's real and what's not. We're gonna unpack that, we're gonna talk about Kyrie's homecoming.


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[Assistant] We're gonna spend some time on JB's rotations down the stretch. What we've liked.


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[Assistant] What we haven't liked and what we hope to see in the final 26 games for the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's gonna air tonight.


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[Assistant] At five o'clock, make sure y'all tune in on the UCSS YouTube channel.


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[Assistant] I'm not a FS1 guy, I didn't get into the Drive to Survive, uh, Netflix series.


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[Assistant] I think Verstappen may be close and they may be able to have the goat conversation.


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[Assistant] Lewis Hamilton? Yea, I think you did it. He's in that conversation, and once again, I am admitting to knowing nothing about FS1, but I know Lewis Hamilton, and Max Verstappen, and that's the only two in the conversation. So, kudos to you, that's a hell of a conversation. END!


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[Assistant] I've heard him in an interview once or twice, seems like the coolest dude you've ever met too. So.


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[Assistant] Anytime Anson on top 5 has been good, so I'm hoping this is up to snuff at.


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[Assistant] Let me get a picture of the pants. Okay, so I'll give you guys a little backstory before we do the top 5 ant. Love you, but this is a bad job, buddy. We should have started with the pants here.


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[Assistant] The names on the back of the jerseys, the font is very small, and it's scrunched together. It looks like a shirsey.


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[Assistant] And the most probably problematic part of the panzer see-through. And during photo shoot day, uh, this became a big issue.


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[Assistant] Yea, panzer see-through. Why would they do that? It's a great question, Thomas. It's a great question.


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[Assistant] It's uh, if it rains it's gonna be quite a problem.


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[Assistant] Yes, and they are under a lot of heat and scrutiny for this.


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[Assistant] They look terrible, uh, I talked to Jason and Jay, who asked them, the Guardians players out there, none of them are fans.


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[Assistant] It is, uh, it will probably be changed by the start of the regular season because there has to be that much backlash. But Anthony, now that they have the proper context to your top five, if you want to run through your top five.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, pretty much. I mean, they made the games faster.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's print a bunch of these. SpinZone, this is the most anyone's talked about baseball in February in the last 20 years.


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[Assistant] Ty, we got, we got two minutes real quick. Did you see the, the court storming at Duke? One week before it would be Duke over the weekend?


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[Assistant] Duke's best player is a top 10 pick. I don't know the severity of the injury, but.


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[Assistant] Bang, bang, bang. They stormed the court before the buzzer sounded.


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[Assistant] And that's, that's kind of, I'm all for court storming, but I think it has to hit zeroes first. I think it has.


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[Assistant] Nah, he was leaving the court and the kids were running on and...


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[Assistant] That is crazy. You see they put her, uh, Clark's name on the Iowa court now?


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll see you in overtime in 15 seconds. For Steve at Tyvis & Earl. Peace!


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[Assistant] And he texted me this morning at 10 15 saying, hey, I can't come in. I'm sick and my throat's bleeding again. His throat's what? Bleeding again. And he sent me a picture of a few tissues that did not look very good. He did not need to send. I trusted his word. I did not need visual evidence.


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[Assistant] No, they actually gave this out at a game last year. It was under my pile of hats.


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[Assistant] A season and a little, season and a half old, not in the daily rotation per se, but...


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[Assistant] Uh, figured no better day to break it out than to start a free agency and bring good vibes to Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Terry and Judy, because we are just a free agency, plenty coming up, but the Browns did start off the off-season by making a major splash on Saturday.


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[Assistant] Kind of came out of the, out of nowhere. I mean, we had talked about Jerry Judy in multiple iterations last off season at the trade deadline in 2023, but now


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[Assistant] For a fifth and sixth round draft pick in this upcoming 2024 draft, the Browns have acquired Jerry Judy, a former first round pick. Bull, you did a podcast on it. Earl, you and I went live. Jay, we haven't heard your thoughts. Initial impressions, initial thoughts of the Browns acquiring Jerry Judy. Yeah, real quick.


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[Assistant] Hey, Jay, real quick on that, it goes back further than just Bama. They're both from South Florida. No, I know the tie. And Judy idolized Amari since his freshman year of high school. That was the guy he wanted to emulate his entire game after, brought him to Bama and then emulated what he did at Alabama almost to copy and paste success.


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[Assistant] We're gonna turn the page, right? Yeah, we're gonna talk Cavs for a few minutes. Then we'll do some more other NFL topics as we get you all ready for the start of free agency. The Cavs are home tonight against the Phoenix Suns. And if you want to go.


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[Assistant] Guys, the Cavs have had quite the up and down last few weeks. They beat Dallas on a buzzer beater. They lose to Chicago the next day. They beat Boston in a heroic 20 point comeback in the fourth quarter led by Dean Wade. They lose to Atlanta the following night. Then they beat Minnesota on a Friday minus Max Drews and Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] And then they come out on Sunday and lose by 20 to the Brooklyn Nets.


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[Assistant] I'm not quite sure how to quantify the highs and lows of this last three week stretch here. So I'm curious how you guys are looking at this team now, knowing even without Donovan, they could beat the best in the NBA and they could also lose to just about anyone on any given night.


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[Assistant] Mitchell sat, Struz sat, Mobley sat, 3 or 5 starters out.


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[Assistant] Last night's game I was there, weird energy, it was really low energy from the entire, from everyone on the court to the people on the upper deck.


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[Assistant] If outside of talking about this for five minutes, I wouldn't look one second further into this loss. I really wouldn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think one thing we overlooked in that 18 and two stretch and then we'll move on and talk a little more football was during that 20 game period, Donovan Mitchell was playing the best basketball of his entire career and was playing like top five.


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[Assistant] He still takes good shots. He's just not shooting as well as he was when he makes 45% of threes versus 40%. It just opens up more. He was playing the best he ever played in his career and Jared Allen was playing the best stretch he's played. So you had two players. You think that's coincidental.


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[Assistant] And I, I've changed my opinion. I'm all for 4 out 1 in. I don't think Mowby and Allen fit together in crunch time anymore. I'm all for that. I've changed my opinion on that. Wow. But I do think in the 18 and 2 stretch...


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[Assistant] We didn't give enough credit to how well Donovan specifically was paying during that 20 game stretch and Alan. And that's just an unsustainable level for anyone not named Jokic Janis.


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[Assistant] He was a couple seconds behind and then he saw it. He got the exact same matchup in overtime. It's not agreed that he got stuffed on the... Yes, I know he did. And Donovan Mitchell is just better at doing the ball.


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[Assistant] No, his crunch time stuff's legitimately concerning. It's legitimately concerning. But the good news is when Donovan's in the game, crunch time runs through Donovan. And Donovan goes back to what he does best, which is a secondary playmaker.


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[Assistant] Yep. It was the catalyst to get them into the second seed in the east. Now they gotta hold on because Milwaukee's. What are they? Are they half game up? They're half game down now. Half game. Oh, they're half game down. Yeah. They have one few, same loss to Milwaukee. Milwaukee is one more win. Milwaukee's 42 23, Cleveland 41 20. The Gavin Williamson got


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[Assistant] One of us will fill in. There'll be too much news breaking that I'm sure we will have someone at five o'clock hopping in for the Ultimate Brown Show, so be ready for that. Still today, I would suspect, er, expect, excuse me, one of us, myself, Earl Bull, somebody to be on the Ultimate Brown Show today at five o'clock. Speaking of Brown's news.


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[Assistant] And former Browns News more specifically. Baker Mayfield J got a three year, $100 million deal from Tampa Bay.


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[Assistant] Offensive coordinator head coach. No, OC is the new head coach in Carolina.


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[Assistant] O.C. Left? He's the new head coach in Carolina. So that'll be...


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[Assistant] That'll be some awesome, Anthony's got a 30 second delay. So when you hear Anthony say, let's go in 20 seconds. We are eight minutes away from the start of NFL unofficial start, excuse me, a free agency. But as of right now at 11 52.


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[Assistant] Not sure college football in line at SEC vs Big Ten there for the championship. Speaking of overnight moves, Russell Wilson was the first


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[Assistant] We have not gotten any deals yet. Uh, Christian Wilkins, according to Anna Rossini, top target for many teams, including the Browns, the Texans, Lions and Vikings. So as soon as we get any official news, we get to it. But well, we got the Higgins.


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[Assistant] That's what I was getting to, Bull. Speaking of other AFC North teams, T Higgins, your guy, Bull.


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[Assistant] The franchise in southern Ohio does not have the money Jimmy Haslip does and now it looks like T Higgins could be on the move.


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[Assistant] Full, what about Carolina pick 33, first pick in the second round?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you guys this, uh, no free agents have officially agreed to deals yet, or unofficially agreed to deals yet, there was a report


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[Assistant] That said Calvin Ridley is a top target for the Patriots, Titans, and Panthers also in on the market. And our first deal of the day, Ian Rapport, backup quarterback Brandon Allen signing with the 49ers. So that's the first official deal. Is that below the line?


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[Assistant] It didn't say the money, it just said he agreed to a deal with the 49ers. Uh, let me ask you guys this question though. After the Jerry Doody trade, knowing how Andrew Berry operates on the edges, in the fringes, in the draft trades, is it fair to call Andrew Berry the most aggressive general manager in the NFL right now? How would you decide that?


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[Assistant] Situation. If DeAndreSwift's getting 8 million.


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[Assistant] Is Belichick not there? But he was gone. Mac Jones was the last one taken when they picked the 15.


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[Assistant] His former offensive coordinator, Luke Getzi is the new OC in Las Vegas, so that would be a reunion between them.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no. They voted it was Josh McDaniels.


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[Assistant] No, he wasn't in it. This was voted before the season started when Josh McHale-


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[Assistant] Yeah, do the survey from like, they said August through October is when it's conducted.


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[Assistant] Uh, next question guys is we continue to wait for some more moves to come through. We saw the Jaguars trade a 6th round pick for Mack Jones. Just to compare, the Browns got a 5th and 6th for Jerry Judy. The Jaguars gave a 6 for Mack Jones. The backup quarterback discussion across the league, not just here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Is a position that's getting way more attention, notoriety, and frankly value from general managers.


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[Assistant] Earl tweeted out he thinks it's a top 5 position on a team now over the weekend. Right? Is that exactly how you worded it?


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[Assistant] Brilliant. It worked. Uh, I got a signing guys. Oh, okay. Jonathan Grenard. How much aware is a Minnesota Viking?


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Earl. Uh, we'll discuss the Jonathan Grenard signing.


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[Assistant] On Friday, no, no, I got swayed by, uh, by T.A. Who's great, by the way. T.A.'s awesome. Uh, but yeaah, we're waiting for the deals from, uh, the numbers from the Gennard deal. A new report out, though, from one minute ago. The Browns are showing interest in Zach Moss. So not Gibson.


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[Assistant] Break the news real quick, sorry, sorry. Tony Pollard to the Titans, replacing Derrick Henry.


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[Assistant] Pollards off the board, we'll see what happens next, but it was announced the last night that Eric Armstead, the defensive end slash tackle hybrid defensive lineman from San Francisco, uh, is likely to be released. They could not agree to some sort of contract restructuring. Right.


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[Assistant] He's older, but has been very productive and versatile on the line. Thoughts on the Browns potentially going after Eric Armstead.


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[Assistant] And the numbers for Grenard according to Adam Schefter, 76 million over four years, 42 guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Who just says, let's go dog pound. Skilly says, it's been a while since I've been able to watch a show live. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Jerry Judy. That couple will be posted here in just a second.


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[Assistant] Anthony Womack says we need to discuss the lack of ball movement after initial play calls resulting in nothing


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[Assistant] Players for the Cavs standing around, allowing the defense to get set.


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[Assistant] Patrick S says, keep an eye on Jay. I thought he was going to jump on Bull at some point. Uh, two more. Zane Lopez says, how about Ohio State and their March Madness tournament chances? How far did they go in the tournament, the Big Ten tournament, to get one of the last bubble spots? I have no idea. Semifinals at least.


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[Assistant] Michael McGee says, I'm married in a UNC family and the great debate with me being a Buckeye, what's a better rivalry? UNC Duke in basketball or Ohio State Michigan?


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[Assistant] Old, injured, when he plays, still very good. I can't imagine the Browns having any interest, but something to keep an eye on. The Jets, whose offensive line was terrible last year, have his former quarterback and very good friend Aaron Rodgers. That would make sense.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think this is mainly due to, to, uh, you know, when you look at the roster, it's Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell is playing his career best right now. You take a look at his free throw, not for his free throws, he's getting to the line a lot, but 6 per game.


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[Assistant] Uh, career high. You look at the rebounds per game, career high. You look at how much he's averaged at almost 29 points a game, he did it without Garland or Mobley. And the thing that I think is most oppressive is he comes out every single game and look at the game, the last game before the All-Star break.


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[Assistant] He looked around and that game could have been touching gold with the Bulls. They came out ready to go. White and DeSumo were hitting shots, but guess what? They were down 17. Donovan Mitchell said nope.


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[Assistant] Get on my back, we gonna carry him to the promised land. And he plays games like that. They no longer concede games where they start off slow. Donovan makes sure, makes sure that he's a spark plug, drags him to the finish line. And I think they should get an A plus right now. A second team in the East. Well, we can't have a


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[Assistant] And the reason I say that it does matter, the regular season matters, you add, you bring it in strews.


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[Assistant] You bring in Yang, you're trying to work those guys in. Plus you're playing a different style of basketball and you're trying to incorporate Darius Garland into this play style when he does not have the ball as much because Donovan Mitchell has the ball.


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[Assistant] That's the reason this year it does matter a little bit more in the regular season because of the new parts the way they play. That's fair.


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[Assistant] I think it's a five. I'm, I'm like, oh, okay, let's, yeah, it's halfway between. Because what they've told you, the front office has told you, the main objective is a high-powered offense. Deshaun Watson looking like he did in, in Houston.


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[Assistant] And the Cleveland Browns going out looking to be more explosive overall and getting receivers, getting people for this offense. And if you look at it, they haven't done it yet. They haven't got, they haven't bolstered the receiving court. Deshaun Watson does not look like he was, was when he was at Houston.


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[Assistant] And they don't necessarily like the office that they were running. So if you think about it, you luree the tea leaves.


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[Assistant] They've, they've actually gone more to change the team than to acknowledge them and to say, okay, that was a great job. Let's, let's keep things going. They've actually gone out of their way to, to tell us in their moves, ah, that was a nice year. It's not duplicatable though.


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[Assistant] This is what your objective is. Yes, you had 112 games, and yes, you played, uh, an easy play with the Texans, but I also think they take credit, they take something away from them because of the fact that you lost that bad to a rookie quarterback in CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] You guys, you being baseball guys, you messed up. I'll just go ahead and take this one down the pipeline because you're baseball guys. This is easy. Opening day.


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[Assistant] At Jacobs Field, are you serious? Bill Clinton throws out the first pitch.


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[Assistant] Look at this Banny Ramirez footage. Look at this. Listen, the game goes, I think the game goes into, uh, uhm, into extra innings. 11th inning. 11th inning. And guess what? The Indians walk it off. Now look at this.


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[Assistant] The field is, is pristine. You have the best ballpark in the world. You have Manny, you have Albert. Manny was skinny then. What skinny Manny? Jim Tomey. You take a look. That was Randy Johnson pitching. And guess what? At the end of the day, that was, that's when everybody was locked in to what the Indians was doing. There you go.


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[Assistant] Play up a bunt for a home run. Uh, yeaah. You'll have to score some runs, and I like to cast. Don't get me wrong. I think they are second. I think Jay is correct. Here's my problem.


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[Assistant] I need to know if Darius Garland is a Max player and is he going to be able to show up in a supporting role of Donovan Mitchell. I'm sold on Donovan Mitchell. I think he'll come up and show up and do his thing this year.


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[Assistant] But I don't know necessarily about Darius Garland. This is an easy one. The Browns are the top team that is closest to winning the championship. They got the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Tito leaves, Stefanski is the best coach in town now. You know, you've got a defense that's been either one, two or three dominant defense. Miles Garrett is a cornerstone player. You got a dominant corner in Denzel Ward. And now you got, all you got to do is get it together and get you a couple extra pieces to augment what you got.


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[Assistant] David and Joku coming off a career year. And yeaah, they did, uh, they didn't really make it to the second round like we thought they should.


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[Assistant] But they beat the Baltimore Ravens, they've beaten some of those teams, and they beat the 49ers. And those guys were on the highest level of where they were. So the obvious answer is the Cleveland Browns are the closest to getting done.


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[Assistant] Shout out to Major League, this is Omad Schick. Check this out, this was on Twitter. I think these uniforms is crazy. You got the guards on the front, you got the baseball, they're black, we got some black uniforms trimmed.


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[Assistant] I love those guardians uniforms right here. These are the homage.


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[Assistant] Like my father was a big Jeff Gordon fan. Yeah. My brother was too. I was a Dale Arnhardt Jr. fan. So we used to like watch the races on the weekend when my dad would come on. So that's how I got into it. Dale Arnhardt.


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[Assistant] Alright, so being very honest, he was a great Bush series driver. He was a two time Bush series champion, but he was one of those kids who never really, you know, held up to the standard that is not by his father.


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[Assistant] But if you trigger somebody's emotions or if you piss them off, I feel like you've done your job. That's, that's what, everybody has a different job description. Exactly.


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[Assistant] I mean, if the Browns make this move and Mike Evans does they big offseason splash out wide receiver, I'm cool with it, I guess. It ain't the- It ain't the most-


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[Assistant] Simply for the simple fact, it's an upgrade over everything that we already have in the wide receiver room outside of Omari Cooper. Like to put a positive spin on it.


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[Assistant] I mean, the dude is a big play threat. He, you know, he gets downfield, he's a big play dude. I think he averaged like 15.5 yards per reception since 2017 or something like that, so.


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[Assistant] He's a playmaker. I'm like you. I kind of thought he was more injury prone to what he really is. Outside of last year, he's played at least 10 games in each season of his career.


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[Assistant] Inconsistent player can be more consistent as a full ball player, but if the Browns was to say, okay, we're going to sign Mike Williams and you carry him with Amari Cooper and then you got Elijah Moore possibly playing in the slot. I mean, it looks better on paper. You know what I mean? But I don't know if Mike Williams is anything that would get the fan base excited.


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[Assistant] But no, I agree with what Bull is saying. I definitely think it's an upgrade. You definitely will upgrade to number two wide receiver on your team. Like when the dude is healthy, you know, just from what my eyes have seen when I watched the Chargers play, like this is the dude that


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[Assistant] You know, he was the downfield target for Justin Herbert all the time whenever he was going to take a big shot. Hell, he torched the Browns a couple years ago when we went out there to play them. So like we see firsthand that when he's healthy and he's on top of his game, he can be a difference maker. He's a really good player.


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[Assistant] That ain't bad for 6'4 or 228. I know, but I don't like


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[Assistant] It's funny because like Bull alluded to, I got big dreams for the Wild Cougar position. Like I got the guys that I know I really really want, but at the same time in my mind I know it's probably not gonna happen. Like if I had my pick of the litter, give me T. Higgins first, give me Michael Pittman Jr. second.


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[Assistant] Once a Mari moves on, they can turn into your number one wide receiver. Then you kind of figure out the rest of the room from there. But to your point, like when we start peeling these layers back and we get down to, okay,


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[Assistant] Who are some legit, realistic options that can be a difference maker. I think Mike Williams' name will pop up there probably top three. Because if you look at the dudes who realistically option that can make plays and score touchdowns and put points on the board, then that dude is one of those, one of those guys.


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[Assistant] When it comes to the wide receiver position, if we look at Andrew Barry's track record, he's had the most success when he's traded for a wide receiver.


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[Assistant] No success drafting the guy. You tried to sign a couple guys in pre-agency and it didn't work out either. So it'd be interesting to see how he attacked, like trying to like acquire talent. I'm going to try to like trigger some thoughts later on with that. But I mean, if we was to end up with Mike Williams, like I said, I'm not mad at it. It's just not my first option.


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[Assistant] Can we please possibly leave Pitman owner?


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[Assistant] So am I being biased? The only reason I don't want Marquis Brown is cause he's short. And I feel like we already got that dude. He, like, he, like, Elijah Moore is a slower version of Marquis Brown.


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[Assistant] Aw man, come on man, you shoulda, you shoulda checked with me first man, you got me lookin' bad out here.


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[Assistant] Alright, so when I seen this in a rundown yesterday, I was trying to figure out the best way to answer this question without like trying to sound like I was avoiding it.


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[Assistant] I guess they out of line, but I really don't even give a damn about the MVP odds. I can care less about Deshaun Watson winning MVP or even being in a race. I just need Deshaun Watson healthy.


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[Assistant] I'ma go ahead and go more likely that Darius Garland scored 33 points, right? Because I did see a report that I think Donovan Mitchell is questionable with an illness. So if Donovan Mitchell don't play...


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[Assistant] That's a big difference. If Donald Mitchell doesn't play, then it's easy Garland. I think uh, I think Darius Garland over the last week


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[Assistant] Or so, before the All-Star break, was doing a damn good job of kind of getting yourself re-acclimated to playing inside this new system, and as far as getting yourself into game shape, you know, I kind of said, I put money on him last week that he was going to have his highest scoring output, and he did, so why not?


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[Assistant] I bet on the Cavs all the time and Donovan Mitchell is always on my ticket. I ain't saying he's a lot every night, but I usually have Donovan Mitchell 30 plus points on every ticket and I bet on FanDuel every day. I'm just saying like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, bar major injury is more likely that they go 25 and 4. I think anything other than that would be like,


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[Assistant] Massly disappointing. A mentality change has taken place with this team. I think they're very confident. They're rolling right now. Uhm, I don't see them really kind of like losing a swag to the point to where they go 10 and 19.


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[Assistant] I gotta go with the 4. I'm going more than likely that Donovan Mitchell scores 60 points in a game than Evan Mobley makes 4-3. Donovan Mitchell doesn't score 60 points before. Evan Mobley has never hit 4-3.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm with Boa. I'm still going 27. I'm gonna go fewer because Boa just, Boa just struck a nerve. The Cavs gonna be locked into this two seed. They gonna be out there trying to play. They gonna be trying to play D-Way. You might see Imani Bates getting some minutes. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go fewer. I'm worried about that.


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[Assistant] It's easy. I'm going to Coral. I'm going to tell you why I'm going to Coral. I think a Coral could get there by shooting less 3. Like a Coral keep going like 3 for 5.


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[Assistant] Like, I would go with Curl, cause he's not gonna shoot him at the volume that Struz does.


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[Assistant] For his career, the highest 3-point percentage that he's ever had for a single season is 43.7.


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[Assistant] If I told you Spider going to score 52 points Friday against the Sixers, would you believe me? Is Imani Bates going to play enough?


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[Assistant] What do you got Earl? How I see it, I look at it like this.


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[Assistant] And everyday households, the cost of living is going up. Meanwhile, like the money that's coming into your household is not meeting where the cost of living is. And so families are prioritizing and budgeting on what's important. Valleys is trash. You gotta pay to watch your team locally. That's, that's, that's...


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[Assistant] But I'm getting to a point. That's BS. So I think it's down because like how you said you had to pay forever, but the world is changing, man. Things cost a lot of money, like just to...


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[Assistant] Survive, make it everyday, feed your family, get back and forth to work. Like, people don't often spend that extra 10, 12, 13 dollars a month on valleys no matter how much they might want to watch the calves. Boy, when I grew up, I didn't have cables.


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[Assistant] As a matter of fact, we didn't have cable in my household until I was like 15, 16 years old. There was other things that was more important. The Cavs struck a deal to return to WUAB for five games this season. And that's where the Cavs used to play it all the time.


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[Assistant] I honestly believe that the Cavs should be able to be viewed on local television all the time, right? I do. I think all their games should be on like 19 Action News, which is the new WUAB. That's where all their games should be at. Or even better, be on WKYC, man!


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[Assistant] I just think it's unfair for this team to be this damn good and the fans can't even engage in it and take part in the excitement because they possibly can't afford to do so.


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[Assistant] So now you still can't watch, right? And so I just think, to me, I think


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[Assistant] And I could be wrong. I just, from where I stand, I think the economy plays a large part.


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[Assistant] I also got T-Mobile and then like T-Mobile dudes, uh, does these like T-Mobile Perks, T-Mobile Tuesdays. And I know last year they gave away a free year of MLB TV. They've been doing that for a long time. And typically like the local games are blacked out, but the Guardians games were not blacked out.


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[Assistant] No, real quick, I remember, like I said, I didn't have cable, so I used to watch the cast of WUAB all the time, and Mike Fratello was the head coach, and he used to do his little segment, and you would see Jeff Phelps sitting up there doing the whole cast pre-game show, like. No more Jeff.


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[Assistant] Yo, if you are, uh, uh, high school sports fans though, man, Warrensville High started a playoff run looking to go win the state championship this Saturday. One o'clock at Warrensville High School, they play Northwestern. I will be in the building.


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[Assistant] And your daughter is playing how much? Uh, she, she plays a significant amount of time. You know, she gets some steals and some rebounds. So she was in the, she was in the lab early this morning.


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[Assistant] Nah, they don't have a clear number one. This is a great group of young talent. It's like a balanced squad. Yeah, last year though, they had like two or three standout players. Are they playing in college? Yeah, they're playing in college right now. They don't play D1 ball, but I'm really looking forward to, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, but I'm just looking forward to this playoff run. I'm looking forward to them going like to win state. These girls is excited. Alright, good luck.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, you gotta, you gotta pay. It's about $10 at the door. Oh, just cause it's playoffs? No.


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[Assistant] We'll help you out here, because I heard an interview with Steven Vogt, and he talked about, you know, having the guys be more aggressive and actually taking more swings to hit home runs, being more aggressive early on in the count, so. I like that. That's why I said that.


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[Assistant] Man, he look like he work at Chase Bank with Sam Mero. He do. I'm dead serious.


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[Assistant] Well, I would be honest with you, the baseball dudes that I know, they ain't been praising him, he been cussing Chris Antonetti ass out.


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[Assistant] I'm going over. My man hit 11 home runs and 67 appearances. Boy, I don't know baseball like that. I'ma go ahead and jump out the gym right now, right? I got my man Bo Naylor at 30 home runs right there with Jose this year. I got him at 30.


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[Assistant] I can't think of the dude name, but a couple years ago, it was a kid who went to Solon High School, who left there to go play with, uh, play for Ted Ginn at Glenville. Oh really? So like, it's real like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, most athletes in the city of Cleveland, when they come here, they typically stay on the west side, if you're not Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I mean, these young kids making these type of decisions, on one hand, I appreciate the freedom to be able to make your own choice, but on the other hand, I think it's like a crutch mentality, just because you don't like something or something ain't going your way, I'm just gonna quit and move on to something else, like, you'll never learn. That's what the coaches can do though. But that's what they do. Yeaah, but that's them.


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


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[Assistant] Y'all could get it off. If I was, if I was as slim as Mike McNuggets, I wouldn't have a check.


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[Assistant] I'll be all, I'll just be running around just buying stuff, bro. Buying clothes the whole time. Like, you know how much fly stuff come in his eyes? I know he can buy off the rack. We can't buy off the rack. Mike McNuggets can go to every single store and be like, give me that, give me that, give me that, give me that. It almost broke, it almost broke me and Earl's relationship apart.


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[Assistant] Like for real, like I was so petty for like three weeks. Like I was just so mad because like he was able to get these shoes that I wasn't able to get. And he would order them off the internet and they was like sure. Well what size are you?


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, little did you know, you was already out of here. Like, it was already done at that point, right?


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[Assistant] Like you could do well in this game. I hope so. When the doctor told me, the doctor told me, he was like, yo, this is like probably 2006. And just after I told my patella attendant off my right knee, he said, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like, he was like, bro, I was hooping, he was like, uhm, yeaah, you can't hoop anymore. You're done.


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[Assistant] Uh, he said you probably should never play basketball again. Damn. And I'm like...


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[Assistant] As far as cardio's concerned, there's nothing better than having that air go through your lungs and you in shape and you run a pick up and you run nine, ten games and you leave and you got that good sweat going, you get in the car, your ease is feeling good.


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[Assistant] Bro you can, it's just, it's nothing like it. It is nothing like playing pickle basketball. And he was like, yea, you should probably never play again. When was this? How many years ago? 2007. Have you not played since?


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[Assistant] I wish to look forward to football season being over so I could play basketball. It was just, so yeaah, but I know today, I'd walk out there and just tear every knee.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, you know my throat being, you know, I be trippin', you know, saying, saying. So, you know, I woke up.


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[Assistant] And I wake up and I'm like, yeah, like, so I'm going, and I never know my voice is out.


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[Assistant] And there's no one there but me because my wife's not there. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, but, and I'm like, oh, I ain't got no voice. I go to the bathroom.


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[Assistant] I go to the bathroom and then you just, I know it because then it's like, oh, there's like blood in my throat and my mouth. So it's just, it looks like somebody punches me. So I always send Mike the, uh, you know, the little napkins and be like, yeah, I'm out of here.


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[Assistant] I say yea man, uh, so no, listen, but uh, it's just because I be having scar tissue and it's scarring, uh, in my throat from talking a bunch. So, you know, it stopped the other day. I was good. So I just shut up. It's all, it's good. Cause you know, every time I do it, my mom thinks something's like, she, she, she tells me.


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[Assistant] It's because you're drinking too much pineapple juice. She looks on the internet to try to find things. You know it's funny. I'm not saying-


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[Assistant] And I did and I felt better. You know what's so funny? Now that my mom, when she watches the show every day, she's going to be all over. Now it's over. She's like, yo, I told you.


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[Assistant] Oh, I love juice. I used to go to, I used to go to, I used to beg to go to church on Communion Sundays just to drink the grape juice. Oh yeaah. They'd be like, yes, we're doing Communion. I'm like, yeah! I get some good bread!


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[Assistant] He was Flacavelli. I was Flacavelli, man. I talked to him. You know what the crazy part about this is? Do y'all want the real answer? Or do y'all want the fake answer? No, give the real answer. You want the real answer? We keep it real. Okay, we'll keep it real.


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[Assistant] Politics does never really have anything to do really specifically with, it's just, you know, voting or whatever you care about. Political nature, this is a Game of Thrones move right here. And this is very evident. The second that Joe Flacco won that award, his time was done here.


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[Assistant] The second that he won that award, he was off the board.


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[Assistant] And the reason that he was off the board is not because he can't play or threw two pick sixes or he, he, he washed out and flamed out or he, he had an expiration date. Joe was going to be Joe after he threw the ball that many times. And you know, it is what it is. It's because that Joe Flacco had already won a large group of the fan base and


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[Assistant] I would say about 25-30% of the fanbase.


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[Assistant] Really felt like Joe Flacco was the dude in waiting.


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[Assistant] And so when you got Deshaun Watson here, and I always tell people this man, don't, not so fast, always look behind what's going on behind the scenes and people think it's conspiracy theories or knee-jerk reactions, no.


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[Assistant] Half of the fan base going into the season with Deshaun Watson and the idea of the fan saying, we'll take anybody but Watson.


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[Assistant] Or a guy that you think ain't gonna be about nothing. But if you, if you try and make nothings to get this guy over the top, and you trying to get people to believe in him,


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[Assistant] You can't, they made the, they made the calculus that look, we got Joe right in here, and we upgrading his roster, and what happens if not just he plays bad, but what happens if he gets banged up one or two games?


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[Assistant] Joe come in and light it up for 300 again. You know what that's gonna look like?


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[Assistant] They just couldn't do it. And at the end of the day, they brought in a guy, Jameis Winston, if you look at it, he's a non-threatening guy. He's non-threatening. If Jameis Winston balls, you're like, it's Jameis Winston. Like, he can throw 40 touchdowns, he can throw 40 picks too.


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[Assistant] He's not the long-term answer, and we all know he's not the long-term answer. He is a Jacobi Brissette with better arm talent, right?


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[Assistant] And it's on a one year deal where it's not even looking like it's anything crazy where it's threatening. So if you bring back Joe Flacco, I already told y'all.


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[Assistant] That's competition. And it's not competition because Joe gonna rock the boat or rock the room.


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[Assistant] Joe can play the game and Joe is a leader of men.


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[Assistant] So you got people in that locker room that's like, well listen, if you fall off of it, like, joking, we like jokes. So the Browns and AB, you know what they did? They took that piece right off the table.


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[Assistant] We ain't even, we ain't even gonna give you no opportunity to love Joe no more. Thank you for what you've done, uhm, and congratulations. Here's your parting gifts, uhm, and tell him what he's won.


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[Assistant] If it was, let me ask you this real quick. What if they felt, just say, just bear with me, that it was replicatable?


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[Assistant] You go look on, you go look on the internet, he's always throwing, he's throwing, I think he's throwing every single day, like it's crazy, he's throwing with young receivers, he's throwing with guys, nobodies, he's just out there just in some part, just throwing, working out.


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[Assistant] So he, he has that aspect to him as well. Like, and like you said, like people forget, Jameis Once is a first overall pick.


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[Assistant] As an habitual dater, and I've dated multiple thousands of people and I'm terrible at it, I'm great, I'm great, I'm good, I'm married, but here's the thing, Joe Flacco came at a point


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[Assistant] When we were vulnerable and we needed somebody. Right. We were down, the season was over, we had everybody was going down around us and that's just like, you know, you dating somebody.


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[Assistant] And you go through a bad breakup and you, you, you know, maybe it's one of your friends that you just happened to, you guys were cool and all of a sudden you started dating for like three months and you turn in after three months, you turn around and look at each other like, what are we doing?


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[Assistant] It just, it just worked for that time period. And so Joe, I think Joe knew that too.


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[Assistant] A lot of people don't like, right? It was always gonna come.


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[Assistant] They started, uh, Deshaun Watson off with the baby steps.


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[Assistant] He, the hitter, he's, you know, he's behind the scenes, he's working on his life, he's doing another thing.


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[Assistant] At some point in time, Deshaun Watson was always going to be, become the most important person in an organization.


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[Assistant] And what you've seen in the offseason, with the quarterbacks, uh, that are in the room, with the way that they're gonna call offense, with who's gonna call the offense and the way they're gonna play.


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[Assistant] You are seeing now that Deshaun Watson has the keys to the franchise. He's always had them, but now...


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[Assistant] It's evident, right? The moves they made have made it evident that they're going to roll with what Deshaun wants to do. It's no coincidence that Deshaun is more vocal. He does podcasts now and he tells you what he feels.


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[Assistant] And guess what? That's just the way quarterbacks act. That's the way, that's just just, we said we wanted to line it up like that. That's just the way it is. All he, but now,


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[Assistant] We can look around and see around the league. We're gonna go with Operation Replenish.


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[Assistant] We're gonna replenish this situation. Just refresh it a little bit. Like sometimes you don't need a bunch of extra, you just like, let me throw a coat of paint on this, let me switch out an accent chair, and all of a sudden I got a brand new living space. Look at the refresh rate on that. They bring back Zendaya Smith.


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[Assistant] You know, Hearst, they got better, I believe, with Jordan Hicks. They got better, I believe, as backup with, uh, with Winston. Hines is a third down back. Uhm, and then... And returner. And returner, Michael Dunn. And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh


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[Assistant] And you got Shelby Harris back in. So now look, you brought back all those pieces and parts, and now you don't have to fill those with rookies.


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[Assistant] You're starting to see it now, like, you're starting to see the trickle down of the influx of money, because now you talk about positions that never really get money, running backs got paid, D-tackles are getting paid down, or guards are getting paid.


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[Assistant] He better get some money, bro. Like, and here's the crazy thing about it. I still think, I was just looking around, this is the deepest receiver draft I've ever seen. I mean, there's- I still think they drafted a guy.


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[Assistant] I'm infatuated with Xavier LeGette. Where's he supposed to go? Second round. Right around that ring. There's a bunch of receivers that are supposed to go second round.


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[Assistant] I like him in the second round. Oh, okay. We'll take him in the second. Yeah, I think if you got, there's got, the two dudes from, uh, the two dudes from LSU.


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[Assistant] Kion Coleman, former basketball player, 6 foot 4.


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[Assistant] He, he didn't run too fast at the combine. He only ran, I believe, in a, in a force, low four sixes, high four fives, cause that's why it may, may slide. But his, his catch radius, his go up and get it is crazy.


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[Assistant] Uh, listen, Jerry, Judy, Ben, listen, first of all, like,


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[Assistant] When it happened, we were super, super pumped. We did a bunch of views. And it didn't just saw, it almost seemed like the Denver people was like, hold on, hold on, hold on.


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[Assistant] Y'all, y'all way too excited. Then you, you, you, you got Mark Slarif that comes out and then I listened to his whole interview. I'm like, dang, Slarif, I get like, he's like, the kid's immature. Like, but you could, I, I went back to just take a look at what,


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[Assistant] People talk about his character issues. He was a straight A student.


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[Assistant] He entered Alabama early, uhm, his sister died, uhm, you know, she was a miracle child, died early young, uhm, you know, dedicated his career to her. Uhm, you know, the dude seemed to have a lot of, like, positivity around him.


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[Assistant] Then we get to the point where we always hear this mythical thing as the maturity.


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[Assistant] The mythical maturity. And I'm just like, listen man, ain't nobody mature when they come into the league. When I think of the Jared and Judy move, I look at it and say, okay, you already got Amari Cooper. It's what you just added better than what you had. Yes. It's what you just added


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[Assistant] Yes, anything under 20 bucks is free in terms of me, like I go to albums spending at 20 and not forgetting. Anything under a third round pick to me is free. Them dudes don't make the team anyway. Uhm, and the fact that you got them when they wanted to have them the year before for ones and twos and threes and all that.


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[Assistant] Nothing. We were talking about trading a second round pick for a win. We would have done it. And here's what I like. I love this the most. I like a bunch of people on contract years.


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[Assistant] I love all of them. I wish y'all all was year to year. In y'all mind, now I'm a capitalist, like I want y'all to get y'all's money. But come on, he gon' come in here and be focused. He gon' come in here, he gon' get another opportunity. It's a fresh start. He gon' play with a quarterback that got some better upside than, in my opinion, the Russ.


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[Assistant] He gon' come into a situation where he's playing with a guy who he loves and a Mark Cooper. He already, he already clicked up. He already got the big bro little bro thing going. And now you got him, Elijah Moore, and a Mark Cooper.


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[Assistant] On, on deals, right? Andrew says you're gonna throw the ball a bunch. What is there not to like about it? You know, you, I can't, I can't go in and say he's gonna have 1500 yards, but at minimum.


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[Assistant] I expect this man to have at least 800, 900 yards and four to five touchdowns, which is better than what I was getting for my number two.


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[Assistant] And one thing that he can do, the boy can run routes.


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[Assistant] Hey, the Browns got two of the best route runners in the game right now. You gonna hear it, watch. Mary Kay.


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[Assistant] I tell you what, they make it our defenders look crazy. Greg Newsome, get your helmet tied up. Get that, tighten that helmet up, Greg. You got, you got receivers out here now. And the great thing about it is they can potentially add to that with another rookie receiver.


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[Assistant] How to start your career back when somebody gave up on you.


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[Assistant] I have soft spot in my heart for Takitaki. I like, I love that he did something with his, his career. Like, he was a guy that didn't look like he was being much. He turned himself into a pretty good football player. Uhm, he got paid somewhere else, but I think Hicks is a, is an upgrade.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, he's gonna be, you know, he's a solid guy. Uhm, but look what he, look what you, what you're getting from him. Like, he's gonna be a guy that, that's getting over a hundred tackles. I don't know if they're gonna- And that's been missing four games last year. That's crazy. So he's a machine when it comes to tackling. You got J.L.K. next to him.


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[Assistant] And, you know, if the Browns find somebody, you know, another linebacker.


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[Assistant] No, he's, uh, no, we got, we runnin' that back with Tyvis. Yes. On Friday? Gotcha, okay. We'll run Tyvis.


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[Assistant] You still, you still got, uh, Highsmith, you still got Watt, you still- Hey, we're still there. Hey, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, this is crazy. Once again, uhm, this is gonna be Murderers Row. And by the way, the Brown schedule is brutal.


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[Assistant] Maybe one game you look at as like a, oh that should be a pretty easy opponent. Brutal. But it's tough. I mean, when you're playing those two teams back there, like they just got exponent, they got got exponential, but they're a lot better. Like they can get back to what the Pittsburgh Steelers want to do. Mike Tomlin is going to have his aviator glasses is going to be big as mine.


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[Assistant] He's gonna be, them boys is gonna be looking like windshields. They gonna, he have his dog tags on, and he's gonna be running the football with Harris and Warren, uh, muddying the game up, Russell Wilson, you know, being Russell Wilson, you know.


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[Assistant] Does it mean, and then you go back to the Baltimore Ravens and get Derrick Henry?


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[Assistant] But Derek Henry's better than Gus Edwards. I mean if Derek Henry can give you...


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[Assistant] 1100, like see now it's not just about Derrick Henry, it's like maybe are you guys getting back to being physical? Because what you were doing all last year was physical and working off that and you got to the playoffs and got cute. We didn't understand it. Maybe they looking to say, no, no, no, we're going to go back to that.


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[Assistant] They have, they have the three things that defense alignment hate. They got, they got Andrews.


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[Assistant] Take it handed to em, bro. Like you gotta respect that in the middle. You got to. You gotta have guys tackling.


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[Assistant] On the goal line, they're gonna be, they're gonna be different. They're gonna be, because, because as soon as he does this, you have to, it's Derek Henry, you need 17 dudes up there. It's, I mean, this is, man, this division got really good.


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[Assistant] What would you give up besides Higgins for Jefferson? Um, whatever it took. Would you give him a first round pick? Absolutely.


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[Assistant] I would say this, I would say this, the way, the way they, the way them dudes be liking Joe Burrow, I seen Jamar Chase hugged up like his girlfriend at the game, just all up underneath him, just like, yo, what's up, Joe? Can you imagine what kind of chemistry he's coming out with with Justin Jefferson?


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[Assistant] And so, and here's the thing, they won't trade them within the AFC North.


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[Assistant] There is no, there is no, like, you can't, you can't go into a game and just chalk nothing up. Like, I don't know, like, every game's a toss-up. Like, you know, you can, like, everybody can beat everybody.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, you know, this is the most competitive, and we, you know, shout out to, uh, you know, Jay's son. He's like, yo, is it the greatest ever?


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[Assistant] The Texans, the Dolphins are still good. Dolphins took a step back defensively. They lost a guard too. They got completely


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[Assistant] I don't think the Colts got shot either. No?


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[Assistant] You know, I will say this. I don't know how it looks and what it looks like.


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[Assistant] But I will say this, if Nick Chubb is Nick Chubb,


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[Assistant] It's neck and neck and even, even if I, like, extrapolate it out and say, okay, well, throw the tight ends in, right? You got Enjoku and then you got, oh boy, from what's that? Edwards. Andrews. Andrews. Andrews. That's a wash.


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[Assistant] He is the lowest ceiling. But then you look at, you look at, you know, defense.


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[Assistant] The only thing that helps you with Chubb is Chubb got hurt the second game of the season.


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[Assistant] I think it is going to come down to quarterback play.


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[Assistant] And they got, I mean, and then you just, I mean, they got


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[Assistant] Right. Quiet is kept. Like if you think about it, you, you got, I, this is one thing that we're gonna talk about. Yeah. Who's starting these, at these tackles?


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[Assistant] Now I don't know if, now for me, it can, uh, it can one of those guys kick down to a guard?


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[Assistant] Don is a backup, Whipler will probably make the team. I think Whipler's a lot now.


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[Assistant] Second. I mean, you got Akins, you got in Joku, I don't know. We get a blocking tight end.


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[Assistant] I think, so the poll question was, do you think the Browns pick at, stay and pick at 54? I say no. I think it's either a trade up or a trade down. And a trade down looks like they might do it because you gotta think about it. 54 for like 72 and 88.


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[Assistant] You know, there's a lot of contract years, right? So you might look at tackles, you might look at receivers, uhm, you might want to look at, but here's the thing, maybe a defensive tackle, but yeaah, I don't think they'll stay at 54 because those picks are, you know, good. The Browns are going to be one of those teams where


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[Assistant] You know, we'll talk to the beat reporters and they're just gonna be not very many raps, many raps are supposed to be available. Like, and you can't sneak some of these guys, even the whole DTR thing. They're even set at quarterback.


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[Assistant] Even if it's a really good receiver. He's not, I mean, he's not beating out Elijah Moore. He's not. He's at most rotating in with Elijah Moore on certain packages. At best he's the third.


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[Assistant] Absolutely best. Absolutely best, yeaah. And that's unlikely. Now I can see it tied in that he was really good taking Jordan Akin's spot.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore is a complete slot receiver, like he's not, right now when you sign Jerry Judy, those are the outside guys.


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[Assistant] You know, David and Joku was going to not have his hand in the dirt all the time, and he could be right about that.


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[Assistant] He's a damn good blocker though. He really is a damn good blocker. I'm excited, see to me, I'm excited to see how this thing looks. I want to know, because I think the elephant in the room is, what the hell are we running?


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[Assistant] What are we doing here? Like who's, like when we talk about these plays and what we're running and what we're doing?


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[Assistant] The same position? Well, if you think about it, like the running game that Chip Kelly runs out of the gun is very different from what Ohio State, and Michigan is a more traditional handball off, under center type team.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, Ohio State like, yo, we got three, four receivers on the field. Like, you know, it's a little different.


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[Assistant] Chip, I can't believe Chip Kelly is at Ohio State. It is weird.


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[Assistant] If DeForest Buckner is any, I remember watching the, the coach the one year that we went 10 and 6 or whatever, or with Baker, and I remember DeForest Buckner and them dudes just shutting down Chubb and Hunt like it was nothing.


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[Assistant] They got Saquon, and uh, okay, I see what you did. I like to move. You know, I get it. Y'all load it a little bit. But my problem is, and I tell them like this, it ain't about them your other dude.


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[Assistant] I think, uh, I'll be interested to figure this out. Uhm, I actually think, uh, the Browns are like, you know, things that they put syntax on, right?


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[Assistant] The Browns of the NFL, I think they've already had economists and people, course numbers.


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[Assistant] And they go back to the owners and say, they're going to show up regardless. That's true.


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[Assistant] That is a stamp. So that means the first thing, this is my resume. Yeah. So here's what I'm about to say. You can't tell me nothing. Cause I've been here since so and so and so. Yeah. So some people ain't never given, some people, you know, pass them down to their kids. They be like, yo, there's a guy, shout out to my man in North Vegas, man. Um, he says, uh, he, he goes, I told my kids, if, uh, if, if you're not Brown's fans, you're not, you're not in the will.


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[Assistant] That's serious. He's like, no, I'm not playing, I'm not joking. I told them what it was. Like, I'm in Vegas. He's like, I gotta call up these people. The crazy thing ever is, and there's a lot of cities like this.


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[Assistant] The NFL, this is why the Salar Cap is, is basically, uh, non-existent. Non-existent. There is nothing. Because people, we saw Earl's cousin. Earl's cousin was at the Muni lot.


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[Assistant] She said, I've been down here since 1999, bruh. I ain't going nowhere. These folks will still keep coming. Now, I hope the hasms don't be gouging no prices. Like, I'm with you. If it comes to like the corporate people and the box people,


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[Assistant] I tell you what. He ain't paying for it all himself. I tell you what, you know.


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[Assistant] I will say that, I will say the Browns, uhm, I think they are, the fans did a good enough job of


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[Assistant] The team will never go anywhere. Like, I think they're entrenched. It's not the same as the Packers. I still don't understand how the Packers fans own them. It's weird, strange. But, I think the Browns are right behind them. You can't get rid of anything. The Browns are here forever. So, I think she's good with that.


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[Assistant] I just think that, uh, Darius Garland, uhm, I don't think he has an elite trait. That's not a knock against him. Like, like, like, I think he's really good at pretty much everything, right? But when it comes to, you talked about that game in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] He's not an elite finisher like Kyrie Irving. That's why Kyrie Irving is so good. Kyrie Irving can finish left, right, foul, hit him on the hand. He's not getting the call. He's still finishing that. He's not really a, uh, uh, you know, if you're a point guard, he's not an elite.


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[Assistant] Oh, after pick and roll, I'm shooting the ball. He can hit threes at a great, nice clip, but he's not Steph. He doesn't have the size like Luca, who's 6'7", that can be a maestro. He's not an elite, like, passer, like, that's gonna give you 10, 12 assists like Halliburton.


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[Assistant] And he doesn't even have the, the like, even when you look at it, Devin Booker is not a point guard, but Devin Booker is solid. Devin Booker got, he get to his spot right mid-range, I'm knocking that down every single time.


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[Assistant] Booker and Garland is apples and oranges. Right, but here's the thing.


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[Assistant] I don't know if he's an elite finisher. I don't think so. I think he's a really good finisher. I don't think he's an elite knockdown shooter. Can he shoot well? Yeah, sure. Uh, is he an elite facilitator? No, he can get you five, six assists.


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[Assistant] So what happens in crunch time is when they blitzing you and they bringing in these pressures and they bringing traps, you gotta be able to do something. Straight line dribble to the rack, I'm finishing.


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[Assistant] I have a problem with JB. When you see games like that, like you said, games like that when Lebron was tiered the first time.


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[Assistant] And they come out of timeouts, or they need something, or they need to call a timeout to stop something. They're coming with their best plays. They, I need to get KD, and KD was unstoppable the other day. Him and Booker, nobody else, we're gonna run our action, KD boom. Open shot, we're knocking it down, back up to 12.


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[Assistant] Right when we should be cutting the lead. There is Garland played that well. Seven to ten from three point line, thirty points, he has some assists. You know what that means? That means that they was okay with him getting that.


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[Assistant] When, when, when, why is it different when, when we saw, okay, you got one point guard, one big, one ball handler, while all of a sudden it's Darius Garland, when he got the rock, you can't run what you was running before. You still got shooter. What happened to that movement? What happened to the overspacing? When they were 18 and 2? When they was 18 and 2?


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[Assistant] If you say we don't talk enough baseball, you gonna get the nerd baseball. This is Inside Out Nerd Game.


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[Assistant] Uh, no. You played Fortnite? I did. I can't picture you playing Fortnite. Oh yeaah. Well I think I told the story of I got hooked. I played it here and there, but I really got hooked when my son came home from the Olympic Training Center one time and said, Dad, we gotta hook it up in the golf studio.


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[Assistant] And it was like I was actually in the war. Right. And the surround sound and people were shooting behind me and I'm turning around. It was great. But when I go back after a long absence, I'm like,


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[Assistant] Maybe, that could be, but even with other video games, you know, like, I bought a Donkey Kong machine because when I was in the eighties, I probably paid for five machines with quarters.


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[Assistant] I bought one and I played it like the first week I had it and mostly it just sits there now as a decoration of the man cave.


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[Assistant] Like wait a minute, come on. Yea, how's that happening? No matter what the task is, there's someone in the world that can do it so well it will blow you away.


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[Assistant] Great suit, like the black with the pink. Thank you. Very nice. Very sharp. Uh, Bull's Beard, I just noticed. It's out of control. This is as long as it's ever been. Ever been in my life. That's what I thought. I have never seen you with that.


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[Assistant] To be clear, I don't think he's legally obligated to do it, but here's what happens. You're defending yourself.


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[Assistant] Scrutiny is far lower in a civil case than a criminal. In a civil, it's 50% plus one.


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[Assistant] It will look horrible on his, on his behalf.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That's not news. I don't know why that was being parsed around as news yesterday. Right. When the Leaf announced their 11 game suspension.


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[Assistant] As, as an addendum to that, or as part of that actually, they said, we of course reserved the right to further punish


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[Assistant] The young kid that tweeted that out, when I first saw that, I thought, yeah, that's been out there in the public sphere for a year.


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[Assistant] Evidence, no, but the other thing, if you read the wording carefully, it's also based on the outcome of the case. That's true.


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[Assistant] So if he loses the case, even if there is, cause you're right on the evidence part, like if there was evidence.


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[Assistant] of a crime, then this would have been handled in criminal.


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[Assistant] But it's civil at this point, so civil typically comes down to his word, her word.


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[Assistant] Who do they believe? Who does the jury find to be, in this case, more credible? And the really tricky thing about this, remember, this is a case that, I always use this example when I'm talking to folks about this. O.J. of course was acquitted of criminal charges, but lost the civil cases filed against him by the Goldman family.


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[Assistant] Again, the bar is much lower. I don't have to look at the situation and say,


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[Assistant] Hmm, I have doubt. You just have to, it has to be more reasonable that a crime was committed than it wasn't. And that's a low bar. That's a relatively low bar.


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[Assistant] And the truth, that case won't have finality because of the appeals. So there's always a higher court. In this case, I have to be honest, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I would imagine that any verdict can be appealed to a higher court, even a civil case. So at some point he could lose this and he could kick the can down the road just as Trump and many other people that have been found guilty originally and then upon a second jury in a different jurisdiction,


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[Assistant] No, I didn't see anything that was newsworthy out of this other than the fact that it was dredged back from the past.


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[Assistant] Do you think that that would become a distraction again to the team?


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[Assistant] Whatever check he has to write, and I think the lawyers of the two litigants here that are, that have their cases pending, I think they looked at the settlement offer and, and


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[Assistant] They said no. Either A, I was egreged.


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[Assistant] at something that is worth a bigger price tag than that. Or, I know you can't let this go to court. Their lawyers are very smart. They know there's no, cause you're right, the last thing Deshaun Watson wants to do, and I hope for the sake of the Cleveland Browns that he doesn't do this.


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[Assistant] Yes, there should be justice. If there was a crime committed, of course there should be justice.


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[Assistant] And also, you touched on something that was very critical in your early comments. If he's found to have a negative result in this, then he opens himself up to further suspension by the lead. Nobody wants to go down that route.


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[Assistant] Whatever the number is, he's gonna have to bite the bullet.


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[Assistant] Write a very big check or two and put this in his path.


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[Assistant] You agree that he can't let this go to a jury?


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[Assistant] He wasn't charged with the crime. Right. He wasn't convicted of a crime. To me, the league in their 11 game suspension already baked into the case that he had done something wrong. Right. And even more than the judge that they had picking in more than the judge. So what happened in real time was


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[Assistant] He couldn't get indicted. There wasn't enough evidence to even indict him, which is a very low bar. It's the lowest bar in our criminal system. Right. No indictments. No conviction. All of the cases settled.


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[Assistant] Did a wonderful interview. Uhm, a buddy of mine, John Sable, uh, over there did the interview. It was, uh, a Skype interview.


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[Assistant] But it was, it was well done, and the interview basically was talking about Omar trying to repair his reputation.


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[Assistant] Infamously was accused by his ex-wife of some domestic violence.


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[Assistant] And then in a bizarre case, which I still can't get my mind around, a couple of years ago, I think it was 2020,


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[Assistant] After being with the Tigers for years, and being let go, he was then with the White Sox, he was managing the Barons actually, which was Michael Jordan's old team, and Tito Francona's old team, he managed that team.


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[Assistant] He, we have seen his, he was almost, he was, he was trending to get into the Hall of Fame. His vote total every year was going up and I think it peaked at like 58%. I could be wrong on that number. 56, 58%, something like that. Then these allegations came out from his ex-wife.


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[Assistant] Which, by the way, there were no charges and, you know, it was looked into and no charges. And then this, uh, civil suit came.


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[Assistant] I don't want to talk about that. It just was a, it was a bad look, I felt. Right, right. It was just uncomfortable to watch it. Same thing, G, I think.


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[Assistant] In the court of public opinion, you're right. Deshaun Watson will wear this scarlet letter forever. Everybody's decided. Everybody's made their decision about what he


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's not the case here. Because there were so many cases, I think for me, one is an issue, two is a problem, three is a trend, twenty-seven, whatever it was, that was, to me it was like, this is really damning. This is a lot of women


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[Assistant] I think in your example you were like one, one accuser. Yes. Does it matter to you the number of accusers?


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[Assistant] Before I wrap this up, I want to try to get a little clarity on this and I should have looked this up before the show.


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[Assistant] And she seemed emotional. She seemed to have distress. The thing that I would be most fearful of if I'm Deshaun Watson and this goes to a jury.


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[Assistant] If she was able to already tell her story as compellingly as she did and emotionally as she did to the TV cameras, she's ready for a repeat in a court. Right.


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[Assistant] I would not want a jury to see this woman tell her story, because if she's lying, she's doing it very, very well. And because of that, and the low bar to accuse for a guilty verdict,


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[Assistant] That could be a nightmare for Deshaun Watts. So I'm with you. I think a check gets written. I think all of this goes away. I think the checks that he'll have to write, it's estimated that he's already spent in the millions to make the previous cases go away.


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[Assistant] I think that will be a small number compared to the number that he'll have to write to make these two go away. It will cost him dearly, financially, but look.


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[Assistant] He has enough money, it's never, it's not gonna break him, for sure.


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[Assistant] And at this point, the last thing he wants to worry about is another training camp where he's got microphones from ABC News in his face and news outlets covering this story. He doesn't want to go down that road again.


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[Assistant] 35 maybe? How old is Tannahill? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] And look, I think if it was, if you just put the skill sets...


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[Assistant] On the list, and you had no names attached to them or ages.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco would be in the top three or four. Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. But when a team is getting ready to go into the free agent market to sign a contract. Right. Or a quarterback.


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[Assistant] They want a younger quarterback that's going to get them through the next quarterback cycle, which is five to seven years. Now Kirk Cousins is older,


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[Assistant] We don't know what the hell we're going to get from Baker. The thing with, I, I don't expect that he's going, unless it's with like a Carolina who says, we've got Bryce Young, he needs more time in the oven.


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[Assistant] He needs to learn how to come in, give us a year, maybe you sign into a two year d know, you can end it af a lot of money, not a bi how to be a quarterback. An playoffs like you did Clea Yeah, but that's all he's g


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[Assistant] What, what does it say that ca-can we see that list again one more time? I'm sorry. Sorry, Ant. What does it say that one, two, three, four, five of those guys have played with the Browns?


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[Assistant] I think here's what I'll say to it. It shows how little the Browns have valued that position. I talked to an NFL executive last week. What was the Super Bowl?


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[Assistant] And it was something that I've been touching on since going back to the middle of last season when I said, guys, we're going to see the value of backup quarterbacks go up because we've never seen more backup quarterbacks than this year. And what he said was, and I took it back to Cleveland.


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[Assistant] What he said was, well, I can tell you a position that will certainly be and will have added value is the backup quarterback spot. And I said, how did we get to the spot?


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[Assistant] Where we devalued them to the point that we did and he laughed and he said, I've had that conversation with executives from other teams. We're all collectively guilty of it. What we did was we, because you have to value the quarterback, the starting quarterback so much.


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[Assistant] That we inappropriately and wrongly devalued the backup quarterback and Jason touched on this when we had a discussion on it earlier in the year when Jason said you can only allocate so many dollars to each position group.


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[Assistant] And because the starting quarterback eats up so much of the cash, it leaves very little for a backup.


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[Assistant] He was right, but what this executive told me and he said he's talked to others that agree, we got it wrong. We needed exactly what I had been saying, an insurance policy that if our big gun gets hurt, we don't have to rely on a middling to come in and say,


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[Assistant] Okay, that's interesting because I was going to ask this question, but you kind of just answered it. That means that DTR is not the answer.


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[Assistant] I think Minshew is going to be a guy that a team targets as a starter and that's going to put him out of our price range. I think he's going to be in demand. He played very well this year.


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[Assistant] Well, I know it's very early in the new regime, uh, but do you see a philosophical difference in the approach to hitting? Is power being more emphasized? And if there are differences, what are they from last year to this?


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[Assistant] Well, obviously experience has a lot to do with it too. You made a great point about you guys being so young in 22 and you probably arrived a little ahead of schedule. And I think for some fans, it was a little disappointing that there was a setback last year. I think it really drives home the point just how great and how uncommon


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[Assistant] And I watched you a lot last year and I specifically noticed that there was improvement in that area. That was a pitch that you were able to better handle last year than the year before. What, what weakness in your game did you notice and work on this off season and are continuing to work on that you hope to show improvement in this year?


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[Assistant] Hey Will, uhm, what's your early impressions of the new manager, Stephen Vo? And, uh, you know, I, it's really not fair to Stephen. I'm sure he knew this when he took the job.


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[Assistant] There's going to be a million comparisons to a guy that you just can't compare to. Tito is one of a kind and he's really not replaceable. He's got to come in and be his own man. But what has that transition been like so far for you?


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[Assistant] I know you have to leave. Uh, we're going to continue talking Guardians when you're gone. And the question that's next up on our schedule here is a really tough one. And I don't know if you struggled with this bull or not, but it gave me sort of encouragement for how good this pitching staff is.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk next about which pitcher on the staff has the best chance to win a Cy Young, Bieber, Bybee, Mackenzie, Williams, Allen, Closet.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's really, I think all those guys have to be in some sort of conversation because they've all had a great deal of success. What say you about which one of these guys has the best chance to win a Cy Young?


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[Assistant] Nice, alright, very good. Yeah, if they have, I mean, obviously they had success last year in certain levels. Uh, if they have that big jump from year one to year two.


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[Assistant] This team can stick around in a division that is certainly winnable. One last thing before we go, you just slipped in there a little bit that you were a pitcher in college. What was the scouting report on you as a pitcher? What did you have? How hard did you throw? What was your best pitch? Just strike out anybody famous.


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[Assistant] And one might just get away. You never know. Hey Will, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. We wish you nothing but great success in the coming season. We have high hopes for you and high expectations as I know you do. And we'll see you down there next week in uh, in Goodyear. Hopefully we'll have some sunshine and warm weather.


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[Assistant] Awesome guys, appreciate y'all. All right, take care Will. Will Brennan, hey, he'd be my guy. Bring him in. Bring him, put him on the mound in a blowout.


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[Assistant] No, there's not a chance he could come in there. And for starters, I'd say the hardest thrower in our league is probably in the mid eighties. So if he came in and threw 90, our guy, every, everybody in the dugouts would be screaming bursar. Yeah, I mean,


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[Assistant] While you're talking tickets and guardians, today is 216. It is. February 16th. It's 216 day.


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[Assistant] Isn't that Final Four Week- Wait, is- Jay, is that Final Four Weekend 2?


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[Assistant] I believe the Final Four is the weekend before, but I could be wrong. I'll double check that. But isn't it on Monday? Final Four Championship game is on. But the weekend, yea, the game's on uh. It's Saturday and Monday, I think. And then Wednesday. No, that's the guys. Oh, it is? The women's is.


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[Assistant] It is going to be absolutely nuts. Yeah, it's going to be a great time. And, uhm, we're doing a lot of special programming on Channel 3 because we are carrying opening day Guardians game as we do every year where their partner, their broadcast partner in town.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna have live programming really throughout the day. We're gonna be at various locations all through Cleveland reporting on the eclipse. Betsy, five or six years ago when this happened, traveled to St. Louis or somewhere in Missouri where it was in the path of totality.


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[Assistant] And the way she explains it is, it's so weird because it's the middle of the day.


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[Assistant] But as soon as the eclipse gets to be close to total, the birds stop chirping, the insects start going, it basically, they're tripped and they think that it's night time and that it's coming. It's crazy. It gets not completely dark, but it gets like late dusk.


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[Assistant] On that day, they've moved the time. I think one of the images that's going to be seen all across the country when they show videos of everybody observing the eclipse, the image is going to be


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[Assistant] 50 ballplayers on the field at Progressive Field, the White Sox and the Guardians, with the glasses on, looking up at the eclair. And they're opening the gates. That's gonna be the money picture.


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[Assistant] Just out of just respect. He's the experienced veteran.


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[Assistant] At least proven. I mean, it could turn out to be. I mean, I don't follow the National League like you do, so I could be over my skis with this statement.


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[Assistant] Like these, these are three front of the rotation young starters that, if they, the key is going to be injuries.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with Bieber because I go back to his last start of the year last year. We thought that was gonna be it for him in a Guardians uniform. I figured that they would, I still haven't ruled out the idea that they could trade him before the season starts. I hope they don't.


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[Assistant] But I think that Shane Bieber is closer to the guy that we saw at the end of the year when he was fully healthy and completely recovered.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he's a bulldog too. He is a guy that is just a grinder.


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[Assistant] I think that he has the opportunity for a huge bounce back year. He would be my number one pick.


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[Assistant] My number two pick is gonna be Mackenzie, but with a huge caveat, we don't know.