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[Assistant] It's a talented team, it's a talented roster. Like I said all last year, they could go 10 and 6, 10 and 7, you go, yup. They go 7 and 10, you go, yup. Like nothing would really surprise you. Now, 7 and 10 would, would certainly be a surprise.


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[Assistant] Heard that again yesterday at the Guardians game, talking to people, it all comes down to four.


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[Assistant] I mean, I said it a hundred times, and everyone kept telling me I was trying to devote.


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[Assistant] Is the check down that you saw out of the Sean.


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[Assistant] That's where I'm trying to get at, like, are all check downs the same? Were his check downs because of his shoulder or because of his uncomfortability with the offense or because that's what was there for him?


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[Assistant] Tackle and guard both I think could be areas to look at. They got the 5th year option on Jed Wills and you're not really sure what you're going to do there. Right tackle is a little bit of a concern because it's a DeJuan Jones size I think and injuries could always be a problem. They've got two aging guards in the middle that are making about 34 million combined, a Betonio and Teller. Anywhere across that line really sort of makes sense. Is there guards or tackles you like at that spot?


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[Assistant] I'm not even an Ohio State fan, like I'm totally unbiased in this, but I mean Marvin, Marvin Harrison Jr. to me might be the best college football receiver we've seen come out and I can't sense Randy Moss. Like seriously, I think he's that good. Am I crazy?


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[Assistant] I want to ask you about the quarterbacks. JG McCarthy seems to divide a lot of people on whether or not he's any good at the NFL. I wonder where you fall on that and just in general, what quarterbacks do you like in this draft?


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[Assistant] I mean, you're going to hold your breath every time he pitches, right? Under the circumstances, he's got the torn ligament in his elbow. Uh, pitchers are falling left and right having surgery.


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[Assistant] I was concerned with him coming off his first start. His velocity was down. His, his fastball velocity was around 90, 91. And that's trouble if he stays down there. It was up a tick yesterday. He was 91, 92. He had better command of his fastball. Threw a lot more fastballs yesterday, threw a ton of sliders in his first start. So that's good.


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[Assistant] Two strikeouts is concerning against a really bad lineup. And I think he only had, I think it was six swing and misses all day. So he's not really fooling guys. So that's a problem. So, I mean,


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[Assistant] The White Sox are a terrible lineup and his next time out is against the Yankees and I think that will, I think will really have a better handle on where this is and where he's going when he faces that lineup. I mean, he, he, he did what he needed to do. He pitched, you know, into the sixth shutout innings.


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[Assistant] That's, that's really good against a major league lineup, but if you look a little bit deeper...


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[Assistant] You know, again, the velocity was a little bit higher. Still not quite where you would like it, but improving, so that's good. But the swing and miss was down and only two strikeouts is a little bit concerning.


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[Assistant] It didn't feel like he was dominating. It felt like...


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[Assistant] Again, you're going to hold your breath every time he's on the mound. But this is where it gets complicated. Baseball is in a crisis right now.


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[Assistant] In terms of pitching and injuries, and we've seen Bieber go down, we've seen Garrett Cole go down for a couple of months, Justin Verlander's down, Spencer Strider's down.


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[Assistant] One of the top young pitchers in the game. Now he's down. Shane McClanahan last year saw a young winner. He went down. He's out all of this year and it goes on and on and on and on and on. And I've talked at length about like the Rays. Well, it's not just the Rays anymore. It's all across baseball.


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[Assistant] Guys just don't have enough time to recover. You're throwing the ball as hard as you can, 94, 95 miles an hour, you get it back, and now you gotta do it again.


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[Assistant] Then it's the clock. Baseball says no, it's not the clock. We have this study from Johns Hopkins that says it's not the clock. Well, it's one study and it's still in peer review. But baseball is clinging onto this study as the gospel.


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[Assistant] So is it the pitch clock? Is it the way that guys train now with these weighted balls? Is it the way that they're throwing sliders and sweepers now that's different than before? Is it a combination of all of that? I don't know, but I know something is different. Something has changed in the way that these guys train, in the way these guys throw, in the way these teams want them to throw, and it's hurting the game ultimately in the long run.


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[Assistant] Because the best pitchers and the best stars are no longer out there.


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[Assistant] And they're, they're not gone for 6 weeks. They're gone for 12 to 15 months. And it's really 15 to 16 months now. And that has got, they've got to get a handle on this or it's going to ruin the game.


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[Assistant] A lot of it is the UCL, not all of them. A lot of them it's the... He called it a crisis. It is.


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[Assistant] But, I mean, Tyler Glasnow made the argument, it was the spider tack, it was taking away the sticky substance, and they went from,


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[Assistant] Using Spider Attack, the really, really sticky stuff with just outrageous spin rates and everything else to, okay, you can't use anything at all. And then Glasnell goes down and has to have, has to have Tommy John a couple years ago, and he pointed to that and he said, you went from giving us everything to nothing.


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[Assistant] Of course it's going to make the strain on guys arms different. So there, I don't believe it's just the pitch clock. But I also don't believe the pitch clock has nothing to do with it. I think it's foolish.


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[Assistant] Well they did that with double headers during the...


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[Assistant] But you just lose the time through the lineup and... You lose the time through the lineup, you can hide, if you have a bad bullpen it's easier to hide it with 7 innings. You get exposed over 9 if you need that extra reliever or two.


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[Assistant] Uh, I just think it changes the game too much. I, I, I love the pitch clock. I think you asked me last week, what do you think about the pitch clock? I love it. And like, you can watch, I love baseball and it's watchable again.


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[Assistant] And it doesn't, and we don't notice the clock as much as we did last year. Last year, there was a lot of focus on the clock. This year, no one's really mentioning or talking about it.


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[Assistant] But you can't run from all of these injuries and think the clock has absolutely nothing to do with it. I think that's naive.


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[Assistant] So is there, is there a, is there a happy medium here of, let's have a clock, but let's give them an extra 5, 7, 8 seconds. Will it really make that much of a difference? If you're still keeping games at 245, 250, is that okay? As opposed to 230?


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[Assistant] Yes, to me, yes, that's okay. It's when you get to 315, 320, three and a half hours, and I talked about it before, there's a clip going around of Secretariat runs the entire Kentucky Derby and the time it takes Zach Granke to throw one pitch. That's what you're trying to avoid. But there has to be some sort of


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[Assistant] Negotiation point between that and between


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[Assistant] Where we're at now, where you can build a little bit of time back into it.


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[Assistant] And, and Ken Rosenthal for us did a really nice job. Ken and Eno Saris, two of our best baseball writers.


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[Assistant] Talk to the Rangers team physician who actually is the one who's going to be operating on Shane. It's the guy who's going to be doing Shane surgery.


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[Assistant] Specialist guys have their own preferences. Shane dealt with this guy last year, so there's a comfortability factor. Cause he's signing with the right person. There's a few guys that are always like,


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[Assistant] There's a few guys that are always the top of their field and everybody goes to those guys.


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[Assistant] Dr. Neil Eltrash in LA is a big name. It was like James Andrews back in the day. James Andrews back in the day. Dr. Thomas Graham who's affiliated with the Guardians does a lot of elbows. He did burros elbow. They cross sports and do. You get, you get your specialty. It's whether it's finger, elbow, shoulder, whatever it is. So.


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[Assistant] But anyway, so Ken and Eno talked to the Rangers team doctor who said like,


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[Assistant] This is, this is a full-blown crisis right now. And it's what teams want out of these guys. Wouldn't it be better?


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[Assistant] Whip is walks and hitters per inning's pitch. Basically how many baserunners do you have?


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[Assistant] And wouldn't it be better if you pitched a contact a little bit more and maybe it's your whip is one and a half or 1.2 but you're lasting the entire season.


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[Assistant] And you're lasting deeper into games, or you're lasting 162 games rather than always falling prey to...


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[Assistant] These surgeries. So that's why I sort of hesitate to say with Tristan, well,


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[Assistant] He only had six swing and miss, he only had two strikeouts because the answer may ultimately be...


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[Assistant] I was about to say like. There has to be a happy meeting today too. And that's why, that's why this is so complicated. There is no one great answer. It's a really complicated issue. One more thing in gestures today.


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[Assistant] It's also the training methods and it's everyone has bought into the Trevor Bauer driveline philosophy of using weighted balls and everything that they've never done before. Gavin Williams is out right now because he hurt his arm on a weighted ball. And that's why they had to shut him down. That's why he's missing basically the first month of the season.


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[Assistant] And I see it, I see it with my own son. I take him to the, they do a phenomenal job with these kids, but the way that they teach pitching is totally different than the way they taught it 20 years ago. It's completely different.


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[Assistant] You know what's also up for him is strikeouts, which is unusual. Zach and I were talking about that in the press box yesterday. His strikeouts are up. And he said,


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[Assistant] If funny, he spent the winter working on swinging and missing. And it sounds counterintuitive, but he is so obsessed with contact at all times that he needed to mentally get okay with swinging and missing. Trying to find, trying to get to more power. Ultimately, it's one of the ways of trying to get to more power. And.


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[Assistant] He, he's having a remarkable year, uh, off to a great start, I should say. We're not that far into it, call it a remarkable year, but he's off to a remarkable start.


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[Assistant] And, uh, he just looks like he's gonna be a fixture at the top of the lineup. He is what he is, you know what you're gonna get. We talked about it before, I think there is more power in there. If you, I think we talked about it on the show, if you look at his splits, Altuve early in the year, I don't think he's ever gonna become Altuve in terms of home runs.


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[Assistant] He is. Yeah, he is. I don't know if that's necessarily Quan's game, but I mean, he could get to 10. I think Quan could get to 10. He drove. For whatever that's worth. It has to be the right 10. You know, just, just cause a guy can hit 10 home runs, well if he hits one, if he hits a solo homer in an 8-0 game, it's really not doing you a whole lot of good.


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[Assistant] But if he hits a three run homer in a two to one game, that, that matters. So it's not just the numbers, it's when are you getting them. I, I think Kwon is a terrific player all around. Uhm, and it's, he's in year three now, so probably he's got three to go. Cause if he was gonna sign extension, probably would happen already.


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[Assistant] You hurt my heart with this. You know that. I mean next year, next year he gets to arbitration. Once you get to arbitration. It's hard. It's really hard. Like the time to do it is now. And they offered him last year and it didn't get done.


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[Assistant] No, there is, there is no date on it. You mean when Blitzer takes off? Yeaah. There is no concrete date. The only thing that I've been told is it's years, it's years out.


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[Assistant] And I totally, like I've sorta come around on this, I didn't feel this way a couple years ago, but when we talk about the pitching...


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[Assistant] Crisis going on in baseball. I don't think the guardians should sign extensions to starting pitchers. Like, why would you?


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[Assistant] Bybie would be next. Bybie and Williams would be next, but Williams is a Boris client, so you're not signing him. Bybie got an extra year of service time for winning the Rookie of the Year.


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[Assistant] So his clock's already sped up. So you're, I mean, the last chance to get him probably was right now, was this season. That's a shame. But I, I mean, the way I would look at it right now, and I was a big proponent a couple years ago of, hey, Bieber's a perfect extension candidate, because like Trevor Bauer made 7 million.


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[Assistant] Oh, they try. No, they try. But, but a lot of their deals are very team friendly. Like Jose. Jose.


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[Assistant] In a different way. I mean, they tried offering, and now they've dodged a lot of bullets. The Guardians have. They tried signing Mike Clevenger, and he rejected him. And that turned out to be a save for the team.


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[Assistant] She tried Sainton Bieber, tried Simon Bieber. He rejected him. Turned out to be a save for the team.


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[Assistant] Well, you can have that luxury because they've done such a good job. But also, there's peaks and valleys in this. And, and, Bybee and Williams made it up. Espino was supposed to be with him. We know he's had a ton of injuries. But now there's a little bit of a drought waiting for that next wave. So there's risk to it.


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[Assistant] What about Logan Allen? He's, he's not in that class. He's a 4 or 5 starter. Like he's just not in the class of the other guys. But I think if you just approach it as, we're not signing, hitters are different. Hitters are different. But pitching,


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[Assistant] Man, I have to see the list. And maybe Cole can, like, Cole's shut down right now for two months.


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[Assistant] Than what some of these other guys have, but we'll see. I mean, he may come back in May and have to have it.


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[Assistant] And now, and now his this year and next year shot for him. So, and when you, your question earlier, that's a good question. I'd have to go back and look at that. Uhm, I would consider Tanner by being the ace of the staff.


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[Assistant] And, and they, he didn't recover the right way. And Chris Anthony told us he wanted to stay on track though. He wanted to pitch the second game. When his turn came up. And then reevaluate, right? And then, and then he, excuse me, he knew something wasn't right.


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[Assistant] Then he went for the MRI, then he went for the imaging and testing, and then they had their answers. But nobody thought this was going to be the outcome.


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[Assistant] The way it was explained to me is that he felt okay through the winter training.


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[Assistant] But then, as you know, game reps are completely different than practice reps. And that's true in baseball just as much as it is in football. So with the added force and the added pressure and the added intensity of the game is when the game was when the pain came back. You didn't feel it.


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[Assistant] Training, but he felt it in games.


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[Assistant] That's a good point. I don't know what they're going for in right field because they took out the shipping containers. But now it almost looks like solar panels. So they took the top seats out.


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[Assistant] And they've got these like panels now over the seats that remain and there's this big gap between like the pan, the solar panels.


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[Assistant] And the top of the stadium. It's, it's very, it's not what I was expecting. But it will, he's right, it will change.


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[Assistant] Progressive field, I mean we've got 30 years of data now, the ball doesn't travel well usually in April, early in the season, but it's a true park and in the summertime the ball can really carry when it warms up.


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[Assistant] That's, I hadn't thought of that, but that's a really good point Jay made. I wonder how that'll change.


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[Assistant] The flight patterns of balls without that stuff there.


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[Assistant] He's obviously in danger, right? The water is as hot as it can be and I think everybody over there knows that right now.


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[Assistant] No, he's retired. I think he actually, he might be back at Michigan or in the college range. I don't know. But, but he lasted, he made it all the way to the all-star break before he said, you know what? Keep the money!


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[Assistant] So JB was his lead assistant, that's how he first came here. So that would have been, what year was that? So 18...


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[Assistant] So then John would have been hired 1920, so JB would have taken over the all-star break of 1920. So he hit all of 2021, all of 2022, so this is four and a half years.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's funny. But back to the original, I mean, they'd have to go on a pretty dramatic run here. Like, they absolutely have to win a series for sure.


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[Assistant] At minimum. And like, if you wanna make the case, if they win a series,


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[Assistant] To the first round, lost the first round, and if they win a series...


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[Assistant] Is the Donovan situation. That's what hangs over- Donovan is leaving!


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[Assistant] He had some really bad teams and he's had some pretty good teams.


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[Assistant] I think that's, I think we can definitively say that by now. Donovan and Darius, it seemed to work okay last year, it's not working this year.


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[Assistant] And Jared and Evan is the same way, like they just, it just doesn't look like they fit together and that's why they have to keep staggering these guys. And when your best players can't


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[Assistant] Be on the court at the same time together, that's a problem. And so there's... So do you trade them? You're gonna have to make some... Let's let this play out.


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[Assistant] Because I don't want to be over dramatic. It's obviously not training in the right direction. Obviously. But let's give it another week or two and let's see how this goes.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be massive changes. Yeah. Massive. Okay. Roster. Coaching.


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[Assistant] From the top down, there will be massive changes. If they get swept again. If you trade for Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] If you, if you trade for Donovan Mitchell, and you don't win a playoff series in two years, There's a lot of chances.


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[Assistant] And then if they get swept in the second round, you know, I don't know. But again, it's progress.


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[Assistant] I don't know what coach can fix some of the roster fit that they have. I don't know if that's a coach fit. I'm not saying keep them or fire them either. There's plenty of a case to fire them. But I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] I don't know that a coaching change fixes roster issues. Some of the roster issues. I think that they're going to have to make some trades this summer. If it continues trending this way.


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[Assistant] And I'm not disagreeing with you at all, by the way. But I can't, like, wha- wha- like-


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[Assistant] They are notorious for trading back. They are, but do they have the roster spots available to trade back?


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[Assistant] I would be surprised if they, how about this, I'd be surprised if they traded back for picks in this draft. That would surprise me.


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[Assistant] I mean how many rookies are on the 53 next year? Three, four tops.


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[Assistant] Jake, can I ask one question real quick? Shoot. G Bush, this, the outfit's 10 out of 10 today. Big fan.


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[Assistant] I just want to say as someone who worked in TV and had to wear suits and dress up, Jay, you know the life, you know, before we came here, it was very...


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[Assistant] Those kind of fits and make it look cool because I have tried and I have failed and I've tried again and I've failed worse and it pisses me off.


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[Assistant] Jay, we spent a bunch of time during yesterday's show discussing the rework deal between Nick Chubb and the Cleveland Browns. They cut down his base salary, it's incentive base so we can earn it all back.


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[Assistant] We came into this offseason thinking to Sean Watson, was number one on AB's list of contracts to restructure to open up cap space. We are now at April 12th. It hasn't happened. Free agency has passed. The draft's coming up. They've already made trades.


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[Assistant] At this point, do you still think the Browns have a need to restructure Deshaun Watson's contract or are they better off suited just letting the last three years ride out and then evaluating what to do with Deshaun's future?


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[Assistant] You mean, I guess in theory you could restructure it down to, I'll say 30 million just for example, cut it from 64 to 34 and then add 15 million to his cap hits next season so his cap hit would be 79 million in the last two years.


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[Assistant] That's untenable. That number is untenable.


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[Assistant] They dropped the cap number, then they added in boydears. Yeaah. So, if they restructured Deshaun again...


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[Assistant] That number in 2027 would probably go up and it'd probably be another void year in 2028 where Deshaun is either on the team or not. We don't know what he'll be in 2028, but they'll be paying him those extra years.


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[Assistant] This is a crazy stat. For 2024, cash spent. Which is not salary cash, but the actual cash spent.


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[Assistant] Once again, Cleveland, 338,190,000. And what is San Francisco? San Francisco, 284,840. Guys.


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[Assistant] It's almost 50, it's a little over 50 million more on cash spent, and we can say a lot of things about Jimmy Haslem. Criticism, fame, his willingness to spend.


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[Assistant] We're going to skip the Cavs and go to the Guardians because we have a guest coming on in five minutes, Jay. So I want to just ask this question. Uh, we'll make it quick. They'll move on to Eric Boland who covers the Yankees, but is a Cleveland guy.


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[Assistant] It's a 9 and 3 start for the Guardians. The roster is almost...


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[Assistant] Almost identical to what it was last year in terms of players. They brought some young guys up, they called Miles Straw down.


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[Assistant] Is the hot start beginner's luck for vote or an indictment on Francona last year for not being able to get the most out of the guys on his roster? We'll see you.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. We're gonna bring in our guest here to help us preview the Yankees Guardians weekend series and that is Eric Boland, covers the Yankees for Newsday. But he's a Cleveland native and a John Carroll grad. If you missed the Ultimate 216 show yesterday with Earl by the way, make sure you go check that out.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be fun, yeaah, we're gonna play What's More Likely, which we've done before. Yeaah. I'll give you two scenarios, you tell me what's more likely, and these are all crossover sports. So they're all involved with Cleveland, but a little crossover. So I'm gonna give you two scenarios, you tell me.


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[Assistant] What's more likely? Okay. And then we got three fun ones that have nothing to do with sports at the end. Oh good!


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[Assistant] Steve, let's take the first one. What's more likely, before their careers are over, what's more likely? Does Sean get MVP votes?


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[Assistant] 2024 is Amari Cooper's last season with the Browns.


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[Assistant] I sent these to Bo this morning and he responded, these are all effed up. So just so you guys know what's coming.


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[Assistant] He had two different team moves. August 10, you're head coaches right now. Tomlin 17 years, Harbaugh, uh, Harbaugh, excuse me, 16 years, Andy Reid 11, no one else over seven.


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[Assistant] Got fired. Exactly. Alright, next one up. What's more likely? Donovan Mitchell re-signs or signs an extension with the Cavs this summer, or someone on the Guardians hits 35 home runs this season.


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[Assistant] Outside of Boston is a giant pile of dog crap.


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[Assistant] What's more likely to happen? Jay throws a no-hitter in a 9-ending game this summer.


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[Assistant] Or Bull coaches his Little League team to an undefeated season. Well, Bull is saying that he thinks he's got a championship team. Bull on a hussy. He's not a good head coach.


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[Assistant] He's not a good head coach. He says he's feeling the pressure already. It's all on him. Oh, yeah, that's not.


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[Assistant] What's more likely to happen this summer? Ant scoops Mary Kay Cabot on a Major Brown's breaking news story?


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[Assistant] Alright, we got one last one here. What's more likely? G. Bush quits UCSS to partner with Deshaun Watson to open more lefty cheesesteaks across the country?


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[Assistant] Or I saw an endorsement deal with McDonald's. Oh that one.


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[Assistant] We see the super chat from Mike Rodriguez. He says get Jack Duffin on. Great for explaining the cat. We'll see you on KYC in three minutes. Peace.


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[Assistant] Shock delivered. Provide chest compressions and rescue breaths.


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[Assistant] Man, I was down there, I was in a resort, and the resort had to go, my ex-wife forgot to tell the bank.


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[Assistant] That we was out of the country. And then, oh, we didn't have no bread. So then they go, she gon' sign me up. She gon' sign me up. It was me and this Chinese dude and an Indian dude in this van driving back to the center of the city to get this money out this ATM.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, I'm a civilian, I don't got no gang ties, and I will tell you in a heartbeat, I'm a civilian, I'm not going to jail. They dropped me off though. Your tail? Yeah, I'm telling everybody. He's gonna wet snitch. Why is your homie? It was him. Really? He was an accomplice.


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[Assistant] I signed the statement. But nah, they dropped me off by this burger team in this ATM because this, I felt kinda slighted. He said, hey man, I got to go pick up the uh, the Asian guy. I said, so you gon' drop me off?


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[Assistant] I don't like people coming up to me. I don't, like everybody wanna come up to me, amen? Hey listen, I got, hey come over here, I got something for you. No you don't, got nothing for me.


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[Assistant] Did you eat at the Burger King though? No, I was not. I don't, I, listen, I didn't eat nothing off the resort. I got back to the resort, barricaded myself in.


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[Assistant] Don't tell on other criminals. Okay. And if the cops ask anything, even if we enemies, I'm not supposed to say anything. That's right. But, but here's the way it works, Bull. When they offer you, when they offer you football years. Yeah. They offer you football years, 86, 87, 90 years in jail. People usually snitch. That's right. They usually come out. That's a fact. That's a fact.


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[Assistant] I had a little parlay out. I ain't hit you since you're done.


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[Assistant] Yes, we have a, we have a podcast. Y'all can go check it out. Uhm, we have a, uh, we have a, it's a, we have a, uh, reality-based, uh, kind of skit thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't, you know, check out the latest episode. Uhm, we went to, I took her on a really nice date. You'll never, you'll never guess what. Alright. McDonald's. Nope. Damn.


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[Assistant] Man, listen, when I came out and started screaming, uh, you know, Operation Stockpile, I didn't know they was really gonna take it to heart like that. They really took my notes and ran with them notes, man. And what you watch is, what they're trying to do is, they're saying, all our chips are in.


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[Assistant] But let's look at some of the small little corners and parts and pieces of parts of our roster where if something go wrong,


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[Assistant] You are correct. This is about, this is about DTR and whether or not he's going to be, obviously. What was his injury? DTR's injury. I don't remember.


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[Assistant] No. No. Here's what I think they worried about. Here's what I think they worried about. Deshaun Watson, I'm gonna let y'all know something right now.


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[Assistant] This man, if he gets hurt in any preseason games, The whole organization is getting fired.


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[Assistant] You gon' get him to camp, and you gon', and, and you got to break him in easier, because you don't even know if he's gonna have, uh, the, the, enough stamina in his, stamina in his arm to throw consecutively every single day. Gee, you not paying attention.


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[Assistant] Now you stuck. And what is your excuse?


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[Assistant] Let's just be clear. You got a guy who has not played traditionally the whole time he's been here. Instead of making sure you get him to the regular season where you can see and evaluate him, you play him in meaningless games and in playoffs.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's a possibility. It's a possibility that he maybe want to hold out for a job where he may be able to perceive that he can win a starting job somewhere. That may be a thing. But I don't think this is about DTR. I just think it's about this. Listen, when you're dealing with your franchise quarterbacks arm,


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[Assistant] You're gonna be very cautious. You're not gonna force him to do anything. If he has any pain, any swelling, any of that, they're gonna walk it back. They're gonna take a look at what they did during the regular season and say, look, how did we handle this last year?


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[Assistant] Couple games we put him in, he wasn't ready. We have him in the practice, he was throwing, he walks off with his shoulder. They're not gonna do that this year. If anything, there are gonna be some scheduled days off, there's gonna be some scheduled weeks where he's not doing nothing but mental reps, and I look at it like this way.


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[Assistant] They want three quarterbacks in there that are gonna be running the offense in a specific type way. Jameis Winston has started games in it and I think he's gonna be taking predominantly the number of the first team snaps when you're talking about install.


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[Assistant] When I heard Tyvis, I'm like, okay, uhm, my thing was, we was doing the Ultimate Browns and I was like, I like it from a standpoint of being like, again, Operation Stockpile.


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[Assistant] Again, thank you Cleveland Browns for listening to your boy G. Bush. You stockpiled quarterbacks, now you stockpiling coaches.


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[Assistant] I like the mindset, right? Look how many people they brought in here that has...


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[Assistant] A very strong mindset, right? You go get, you got Grable. You already got Jim Schwartz, right?


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[Assistant] Then you get Tommy Reese, who used to be a offensive coordinator. You go get Dorsey, right? So now you got all these mixes of thought processes.


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[Assistant] And I like it because it reminds me of what smart companies do.


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[Assistant] Smart companies always have think tanks and always have consultants come in to give you some outside influence or outside thoughts that you may not have had. And plus I just think it's a little bit of a, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. A couple of years ago, Jim Schwartz was out of football.


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[Assistant] Guess what? Mike Vrabel had him on as an especial assistant, right?


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[Assistant] Now it's an opportunity for him to give it back to him. You know how it is, the good ol' boy system. But I don't mind it being a good ol' boy system if the boys is good. I like Grable in his case.


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[Assistant] I think there was something to be said for this and I would ask the question why.


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[Assistant] I don't know why people try to make it seem like, oh, there's some special timing that they gotta have, and this is the reason.


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[Assistant] It's perplexing a little bit at this point, because like, come on, this is stretching out a long time and you can see they bring in other people, they make the moves in other places, they're doing different things in the organization, so it seems crazy.


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[Assistant] And I know, I know, I know this is- So, yes. 31.


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[Assistant] If Deshaun Watson doesn't play well, and there's always seasons that happen like this. Teams that are supposed to be good, that get off to a really bad start in spirals.


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[Assistant] I'm wondering, and I'm not saying that I don't think this will happen.


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[Assistant] So, so that does make me feel really bad. Let me think, I'm trying to think of a, I'm thinking of a real good analogy, right?


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[Assistant] Well here, no, here's what I'm, here's what I'm saying. So we doing this show right here, we doing the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. This is crazy.


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[Assistant] So we all doing the show or whatever, we moving along, everything's good.


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[Assistant] But we had an impasse, right? So one day, we come in, we go ready to sit the show, then we sit in the show, and they say, hey, uhm, we wanna let y'all know, uh, Tony Rizzo's on the show.


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[Assistant] He just gonna be here like once a day. His name is too big to be here once a day. So now they like, okay, well hold on, who be leading shows around here? Oh, Bull lead shows, Jay lead shows. So they gonna have Bull, Jay, and Tony Rizzo. That's crazy. What you gonna do? Somebody got something, who's


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[Assistant] You add somebody. So, so, so. So when you add somebody, who going? Like, so you add Mike Vrabel, right?


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[Assistant] You already got Jim Schwartz who got a lot of experience. You already got Kevin Stefanski. You already done told Alex Van Pelt, he gotta go. You brought in Dorsey. You bringing in all these other different people. And now it's like, well, okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, you don't just bring in really top big names just to hang out. Like, top names work. Well, and the same, and the same.


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[Assistant] And says, you guys are just stirring, I hate the word stirring the pot, you're stirring the pot.


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[Assistant] What is the reason he doesn't have a contract extension? That's what two coach of the years and four years. If you could tell me that and come up with a good reason that he does not have an extension or Andrew Berry does not have an extension, I'll leave it alone. I won't say nothing. Yeah, I agree. And I'm, I'm not, I'm not saying


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[Assistant] The equivalent is like saying, I'm, I'm signing.


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[Assistant] We just talk about Ohio State, right? The equivalent is they talk about, we signing Coach K as a consultant. What?


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[Assistant] If we not saying there's a problem, because I would hire him. Any good coach, any good football organization can never have enough good people in place. I understand that. My point is this. You open your coach up to unnecessary stuff like this.


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[Assistant] When he wins Coach of the Year, he didn't show up to the awards ceremony.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I was supposed to have Tyves on, but then Tyves showed up to this. So I don't know if he's gonna be home in time, like he's gonna be on the road. So it might be just Solo G. Bush. We might just talk tabloids. Like, nah.


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[Assistant] We're not gonna get it. We'll get into a little bit of, uh, you know, this Brent Huntley thing. And, uh, Tyler.


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[Assistant] And that guy, tall skinny dude. And I thought he played, he played for UCLA too.


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[Assistant] You heard what he said, he's like, you know, once we get healthy and we all get an opportunity to be out there ready to go for a whole season. I'm like, that's a lot of ifs.


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[Assistant] That's a whole lot of, that's a whole lot of just. Like I never liked that. That sound like your mom when she tell you, uh, hey, if I get straight A's, you can get that playstation. She say, we'll see. So you know how hard, you know how hard it is to get straight A's and you talk about we'll see?


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[Assistant] Listen, I'm not saying he can't, but I would be refreshed to be like, oh listen.


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[Assistant] Anybody want to debate? I'll give you those, those are correct. Earl, Mike, anybody? And I think French teams like the Jets and the Chargers. We'll get to those.


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[Assistant] Now, this is, in your mind, is there any way that you would think at the end of the year you would say?


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[Assistant] I would say that he was the best quarterback in the division. Percent chance in AFC. I would say five percent.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow, let's be clear. Joe Burrow, I don't like that little, I don't like that, I don't like how the fact he couldn't throw and his wrist was limp. I don't like that. I don't like it either.


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[Assistant] I don't, like, when he was, when he had that robocop, a bowling sleeve on, I was like, what's going on? And he could, I was like, man, look, at what point are you gonna say, bro's injury prone too?


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[Assistant] Not about the calf injury, bro. The calf injury was, like, I'm like, okay, he'll get better with that. And the reason why I don't really go that difficult and go that hard against people that want to say that, you know, they, they myriad Deshaun Watson with injuries is because of this.


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[Assistant] I just get freaked out by that. You know, like when you looking at his shoulder, nobody's had it before.


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[Assistant] And so the only reason I'm saying that I can see 30% is because...


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[Assistant] If it takes them a little bit to get back and Joe Burrow ain't in sync the first few games, and Lamar Jackson is, you know, a little inconsistent, offensive line has gotten worse, more sacks.


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[Assistant] I can see where Deshaun Watson is playing good football and continues to get better each week.


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[Assistant] I'm not very, like, if we playin' the Ravens, I didn't see him mess up too much. I didn't see him be too erratic. He did do that. Like, I'm not scared to go play the Ravens. Like, if you playin' a playoff, like, Mahomes, playoff, this new playoff, Mahomes go in the road and beat you. And don't turn the ball over.


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[Assistant] Who, who, who has the skill set, the skill position?


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[Assistant] So who has the best skill positions? Between who? The Browns and the rest of the AFC North.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, Jamar Chase is still Jamar Chase.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. But there's other positions that's tied in, there's one in back.


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[Assistant] I like, I like them too. But I'm, I'm gonna- The Bengals is last. The Bengals are last, but they're


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[Assistant] I'ma have to go with the Steelers too. I just talked myself out of the Ravens. Ravens 3 and the Bengals 4.


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[Assistant] You know, I'll go back to this. You'll remember.


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[Assistant] Back in the day when they had Cordell Stewart. Yeah, sure. Uhm, and they were mixing them, mixing them kinda in. Charlie Batch and Tommy Maddox. Yeah, with, with Tommy Maddox. Yeah. And they're gonna go back to that game plan, man. And I just don't, man, I just don't think people understand. It's gonna be like,


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[Assistant] Trail mix when you're dealing with the Steelers now. Like, they got a quarterback. If you go back and watch what, um, Russell Wilson did against the Browns last year. That team was not very good offensively.


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[Assistant] But you saw what Russell Wilson was able to do. He was able to get people to play action. They was, he was keeping the ball on certain plays. He was audible. He audible into this one play where basically he just walked, people's walking almost into the end zone. He's going to be able to do that. And it's a lot of people, I don't understand it. Maybe you could tell me.


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[Assistant] Besides the fact that Russell Wilson is like, uh, you know, a light skin, pretty looking dude and his wife is bad. His wife is hot. People love hating on it. They love hating on this man. It's weird. And it's crazy. Like when they talk about the off field stuff, why off field stuff?


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[Assistant] They went to the playoffs with No Name Gangsters. Right. And to me... This is the best field team in five, six years, I think. A lot, and they're gonna get...


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[Assistant] Now granted, he threw 40 touch, 30 touchdowns to 30 picks, right?


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[Assistant] In a very, like in a very controlled situation.


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[Assistant] These numbers isn't bad, man. Like 150 and 100, yeaah, that's, you know, almost 150 touchdowns to 100 interceptions. Yeah. Completion percentage is okay. Quarterback rating is okay. But here's the thing, when you got Jameis Winston, Jameis, here's how I like my quarterback, backup quarterbacks. I don't like game manager backup quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] The bone bruises, the bone bruise is terrible because when you get the bone bruise, you can feel like certain things it's like, okay, my knee is just, it feels like it's, it's like out of some fluid on it.


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[Assistant] Bone bruise is like, oh you feel that. It feel like.


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[Assistant] Some people compare it to feeling like what it feels like when you need a knee replacement. Just feels like bone on bone. And it's crazy because he don't got enough game.


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[Assistant] I didn't have this before. He threw out 15 games. When I found out it was a bone bruise and it's just not no eating, just regular neat situation, I said, oh, they're going to shut him down.


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[Assistant] Again, how many points did Derris Garland have in this Rockets win? Loss.


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[Assistant] My thing is, and I have a problem with this, and this is tough, they put in these games where


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[Assistant] I understand, like, if I was watching some of these other teams, if I was watching the, say for instance Clippers, they got Kawhi.


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[Assistant] Uh, they got your boy Paul George and they got Harden. If one of those guys is out, I expect Paul George to step up. I expect Harden to step up. If I was looking at the Bilwoppy Bucks and Damian Lillard is out, I would expect Yonis to be like, yo, Chris Middleton, what's up?


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[Assistant] I expect that type of, I expect that type of energy from my, from my max guy.


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[Assistant] I do want to ask, I do want to ask a question, and this is not a backhanded question. How did it, how did this happen? How, how did Caitlin Clark become


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[Assistant] The face of all college basketball, not just women's, but like if I was watching Paul Pierce and I was watching Kevin Gardner and they said, if you told, if you asked us as NBA players, who's the best player in college football, college basketball today?


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[Assistant] But give me, give me the name of a team that, that, that is, is off the beaten trail, but seriously has the right mix of seniors and leaderships and all those good things that help underdogs advance in the tournament and that could, that could cut down the nets.


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[Assistant] Hey John, I got one more before we get you out of here. What way would you, like, so right now you look at the tournament, this is best time for college basketball to just, you know, it don't matter who's in the tournament, what it is, you just go watch or you gonna, you gonna put a little wager down. What way would you change, um,


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[Assistant] The regular season or conference tournaments or anything or would you just leave it as is? Cause right now people check out during the regular season. What would you do?


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[Assistant] If, if Sefasi gets to the playoffs and loses, at what point are we going to say he is your starter coach?


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[Assistant] We got the pieces, you feel me? Uh, I think we just gotta put it all together. And, you know, once we all get healthy, and we get that opportunity,


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[Assistant] Are we all out there on the field at the same time for, you know, a full season?


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[Assistant] We got the culture, we got the fan base, we got everything for it to do it. We just gotta go do it now.


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[Assistant] When the news hit, and now guys, the big question is, what are the Guardians gonna do to cover for the loss of Shane Bieber?


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[Assistant] Gavin Williams injury has kind of, uh, delayed his start to the season, so he's not coming, uh, in the immediate future. Um, Zavion Curry had a nice, uh, start down in Columbus. It looks like they're trying to stretch him out a little bit, so maybe he could be another starter. For now, it's Carlos Carrasco who


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[Assistant] Watching the game on Saturday, you kinda had a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach that...


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[Assistant] You know, without your ace, things are gonna get dreary at some point.


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[Assistant] I'm watching with fascination today, Bull, to see what Tristan McKenzie does, because as you know, in his first star of the year, he was not Tristan McKenzie.


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[Assistant] He too had some elbow issues in the offseason. He too, like Shane Bieber, decided to opt away from going for the surgery. He wanted to get back to the field sooner. Whether or not that's going to blow up in the Guardian's face and Tristan's face or not, we don't know. But when you look at the velocity that he was throwing with in his opening start,


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[Assistant] That's concerning to me. So I'm going to be looking at the radar gun to see what he can top out at. And I mean gosh, what's crazy to me, Bull, is in watching Shane Bieber every pitch of his first two starts, there wasn't an inkling to me.


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[Assistant] That there was anything wrong. Which really speaks to how much of a gamer he is. He went out there in his second start and he had to be in pain. He had to be.


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[Assistant] And yet you never would have known it. He went out there. He looked great. He struck out, I think, nine guys in his, in six innings. He had 12 Ks in his first start. It just, it speaks to the level of toughness that he has. But next, I'm kind of holding my breath with Tristan McKenzie because


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[Assistant] If they lose Tristan Mackenzie too, it's a repeat of last year. Remember last year they lost Beaver and Mackenzie early on and that was pretty much the season. They cannot withstand losing Tristan Mackenzie like they did last year. It would be a devastating blow to this team.


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[Assistant] They knew it was gonna take two years to completely renovate stuff. Now, one of the interesting things, and I'm gonna have to move my camera here so you can see it. If you look over my shoulder here, in the right field seats, do you notice, do you notice now? I gotta get it, I gotta get the angle right.


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[Assistant] Uh, on the lower concourse. That's pretty much was the focus of what they wanted to do this year. They added a couple of bars. It seems to me like a bull. We've talked about this. Baseball is almost becoming


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[Assistant] Uhm, but a lot of the changes I'm told, the cosmetic changes that fans will really notice when they come in, are gonna happen after this season, into the off season, and then when we walk in for opening day 2025, it's gonna look much different in here, I'm told. So, we'll kind of see how all that shapes out, but really it's interesting,


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[Assistant] I think that one of the shots that will go viral across the country


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[Assistant] Is when you have 50 ballplayers on the field behind me, 25 White Sox, 25 Guardians, all with their solar eclipse glasses on, looking up to see the eclipse. And I'm told from the folks at NASA who supplied the Guardians and all of their staff with the eclipse glasses,


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[Assistant] Of today's opening day. So it's a big day, a lot of excitement. And uhm, hopefully that right now it's all sun.


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[Assistant] At least for now, it looks like the weather gods have smiled on progressive field.


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[Assistant] All around the gates, all the way around progressive field, there are huge crowds waiting to come in. And I can't remember, I've been to a number of opening days here in a row now, I can't remember a time where I saw crowds that big waiting to get inside six hours before first pitch.


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[Assistant] Now remember, when I came to you guys live from surprise, I told you that


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[Assistant] I felt, and it was one of the things that you can't measure with a statistic, I just felt that there was a real buzz in this Guardians Clubhouse.


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[Assistant] But it's gonna be a real test to this clubhouse now, how they hold together in the wake of the, uh, uh, the, the Shane Bieber injury. Because I firmly believe that


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[Assistant] Team chemistry and camaraderie can overcome a lot. It's not gonna make up for a bad team. You've gotta be a good team.


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[Assistant] But that camaraderie and that chemistry can carry a good team to become a great team. It can, it can carry a great team to become a historic team. And I think it's more the good team to the great team with this club. But Bull, the hitting has been there.


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[Assistant] Jimenez and Roquio look like they've been playing this position together their whole lives and it just really speaks to the level of athleticism and skill level that these guys have. Roquio has stepped in at shortstop and hasn't missed a beat and Freeman out in center field has been


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[Assistant] And it looks like this Guardians team is going to be just fine defensively up the middle. So if the bats can stay hot and somehow they continue. The bullpen, by the way, on Saturday, despite issuing one free pass after another, they worked out of jam after jam after jam. Thanks in large part to some.


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[Assistant] Well, I appreciate that. As you know, you know, that locker room is, that's you, that's you guys, that's not my locker room. I trust the leaders in our football team, uh, the things that you do in that locker room. I think it gets lost on people. Everybody sees what goes on on Sundays, but man, there is so much hard work. Think about in the meeting room, in the, in the weight room. I mean,


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[Assistant] That, that is so much that leads up to those games on Sunday. And I say this, I'm gonna give you your flower.


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[Assistant] You know, like, hey, I mean, they both like the ball in their hands and stuff like that. So I do think there's a market. I'm not saying, he's not viewed as a superstar, of course, but yeah, a lot of teams that, that are in the market for a point guard. Garland is, can play. And so I do think there would be a market there for him.


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[Assistant] In some breaking news in the last 5-6 minutes, the Cleveland Browns have hired Mike Vrabel as a consultant for the upcoming season. Now this is something we, I don't think anyone saw it coming. Mike Vrabel is in.


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[Assistant] The running for head coaching positions with the Chargers, with the Falcons. He was even rumored to be interested in the Ohio State job.


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[Assistant] No one thought he'd come to Cleveland of all places as a consultant, but that is where the news has landed. Adam Schefter, I'm gonna read this tweet just verbatim for you guys from Adam Schefter.


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[Assistant] The Browns are hiring former Titans head coach Mike Vrabel as a coaching and personnel consultant. Vrabel now returns to Ohio where he was a standout linebacker.


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[Assistant] At Ohio State. Earl The Pearl's gonna come back. He was driving home. He's heading back in to talk about this. I'm gonna read and go over the chat comments with you guys in a sec.


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[Assistant] This happened within the last 10 minutes, so it's a whirlwind of thoughts. Here are my initial thoughts. From a purely football perspective.


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[Assistant] It's a great move. You're adding a former coach of the year. A guy who's one of the toughest, hard-nosed, most creative defensive minds in all of football. That might be a little exaggeration on the defensive side. His team's always played toughest, so I'm not sure if he was the architect of those defenses. But a hell of a head coach. A guy that people thought


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[Assistant] He was considered the front runner to have his pick of the litter for jobs next season. Now by coming a consultant for the Browns, by no means, by no means means that he's out of the running for head coaching position next year with other teams, but you thought he'd take a year off, kind of enjoy, sit back.


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[Assistant] So to add him to the staff with Kevin Stefanski, with Ken Dorsey, with Jim Schwartz, with all the other hires, uh, Tommy Reese, Deuce Stanley, Jackie Cesar, like, you're putting together a hell.


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[Assistant] A hell of a staff here, top to bottom. So from that perspective, I love it.


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[Assistant] You add another head coaching mind to the table when the Browns are making decisions on game plans. And I know he's a personnel consultant, whatever. Once he's in the building, I'm sure they're gonna ask him his opinion on certain situations. And as Shephter reported, as you can see, he's a coaching consultant as well. So why wouldn't you lean on a guy who's as successful, as smart,


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[Assistant] As respected as variable when you're going over those kind of decisions. I love it from a football perspective. The more smart minds you have in that coaching room, it makes Kevin Stefanski's job a little bit easier. It makes Jim Schwartz's job a little bit easier. He has inherent knowledge.


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[Assistant] of scouting and going against certain teams and coaches that now he brings to this staff that they may not have had before.


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[Assistant] So from a purely football perspective, I think it's an eight plus home run higher. I love it. I love it. I love it. Now from a non football perspective side.


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[Assistant] It could be a little awkward for Kevin Stefanski now. Hey, you're a two-time coach of the year, Kev. You just won it last year. You made the playoffs with five different quarterbacks, but you don't have an extension yet.


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[Assistant] But now we're going to bring in another guy who has a coach of the year trophy in his trophy case as a consultant. And I'm not saying it means anything. I'm not saying it.


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[Assistant] Pushes me to think in any type of direction. All I'm saying is, you now have another guy that can make things complicated, another potential distraction.


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[Assistant] For the Browns in 2024 from a football perspective as Earl the Pearl walks into the studio. He'll join us in one sec. I love it. I think it's a brilliant home run higher.


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[Assistant] I think it could also lead to some distractions and some difficult conversations to have.


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[Assistant] In the future if things don't go as well. We talked about part of the reasons we didn't think the Browns could bring back Joe Flacco was the Deshaun Watson factor and any potential


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[Assistant] Fan, and not saying fans make these decisions, but any potential...


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[Assistant] Riff or schism in the room if the Sean wasn't playing well. Well guys know, hey Joe Flacco did this for us last year.


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[Assistant] I love Kevin Stefanski. I think he's a hell of a head coach. He just won coach of the year for a reason. In my opinion, he's the top 5 to 10 coach in the entire NFL.


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[Assistant] I also think Mike Grable is a top 5 to 10 NFL coach in the entire league too. So if things aren't going right, what's to say there aren't going to be part of the upper management and front office or part of the players or some fraction of the players. There'll certainly be some fraction of the fan base that starts calling


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[Assistant] 10 out of 10 higher. I love it. I absolutely love it. I don't think you could bring a smarter, more well respected, more well versed and different kind of guy into that coaching room than Mike Grable. From an off the field perspective, I have my questions. Earl.


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[Assistant] You were almost home. You saw the news. I called you immediately, said we're going live. Thoughts on the Brown Tyrant.


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[Assistant] Listen, you're talking about two guys who are considered top 10 coaches in the league. There are a lot of people who think, take, take location out. If you had your choice, Kevin's Fancy, Mike Rabel.


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[Assistant] From a, like I said, from a purely football perspective, you're bringing a top tier elite. And I mean elite.


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[Assistant] He got the one seed in the AFC with Ryan Tannehill. We talk about Deshaun Watson having to play better, well.


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[Assistant] Mike variables led a team to a one seat in a very difficult conference with.


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[Assistant] Mid-tier quarterback play. Now he had a great defense and he had Derek Henry. So that helps negate mid-tier quarterback play. But Mike Vrabel is one of the smartest football dudes in the entire league. And even if it's not the football acumen Earl, his ability to get men to play for him.


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[Assistant] You look at the end of last season, they could have laid down on week 18. Right? In a way, Mike Raible.


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[Assistant] Kinda screwed over the Browns, right? The Titans had to lose to the Jaguars. Jaguars are the five seed, or the four seed, excuse me. Browns played Jacksonville in the first round of the playoff. What happens?


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[Assistant] Allowed the Houston Texans to win the division, and we all know how the first round of the playoffs went.


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[Assistant] But one thing Mike Vrabel does, his teams never quit. They're well prepared, they fight their butts off, and even going back to their matchups against the Chiefs throughout the year. They've been outmatched.


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[Assistant] Top to bottom against Kansas City. Time after time after time. And I remember listening to Andy Reid and Patrick Holmes. They were asking about who gives you the toughest


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[Assistant] Test, every time you play them. They go Tennessee, and it's not close, and the follow up question was why.


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[Assistant] And there, and Andy Reid's response was, nobody plays harder than the Titans do. Nobody. So bringing that into the locker room, however he does it, who, who the hell knows what a consultant's role actually is, right?


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[Assistant] But having that guy in your coaching room makes the Cleveland Browns a better team for 2024.


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[Assistant] That we, that they, I think they played but I'd forgotten that matchup. We did a topic. We know the Browns are more talented.


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[Assistant] But because Mike Vrabel is a better coach than Kevin Stefanski, now this was previous to what we saw Kevin Stefanski do, because we all thought Vrabel was a better coach than Stefanski, could that be the evening out point, right? Now fast forward, what, uh, that was September, so five, six months, half a year essentially.


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[Assistant] Half of the last six Coach of the Year awards are now in the Browns Coaching Room together.


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[Assistant] Let's go. G Bush will be talking about this on the Ultimate Brown Show at 5 o'clock. Absolutely. Uh, and you wanna pull up his tweet?


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[Assistant] But G Bush fired off two tweets on the variable situation. The first said, uh, sneaky good move. I don't know if I call this sneaky by the way.


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[Assistant] This is a big time, I ain't nothing sneaky about this. Yeaah. And then he said, Stefanski is a collaborator, he ain't got no ego behind him, they got a great think tank going in Berea. I agree with all that.


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[Assistant] I don't disagree that he's a collaborator. I don't think there's any question about the room of coaches. It's just a matter of...


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[Assistant] Could this create a distraction they didn't need? And is the upside of bringing variable in worth the potential downside of said distraction? And I guess we'll see how they work together, but you talk about an elite offensive mind and Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Who's a great leader of men. You talk about an elite defensive mind in Jim Schwartz. And then you talk about an elite motivator.


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[Assistant] And culture builder. And they all have that too, by the way. I'm not saying one is just because I said it for one domain and for other. A great culture builder and a guy who gets the absolute most out of everybody in variable. And between a three headed coaching trio like that, and I just don't know enough about Ken Dorsey to figure out where he kind of fits into that pyramid or that puzzle.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure you could ask for a better three-headed coaching attack than Vrabel, Schwartz, and Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Two things. One, we talk about competition on the field, right?


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[Assistant] You bring in all these defensive tackles to weed out the ones who are going to play, the ones who aren't ready, right? You bring in all these defensive ends. Who can play, who's ready. We have options. We never really talk about competition within a coaching staff. But you talk about iron sharpening iron.


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[Assistant] You have a clash that tightens up top, and I mean a clash in a good way, right?


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[Assistant] Jim Schwartz wants to ask Mike Brayboy a question. If you were scheming this, what would you do with this? I was going to do it this way.


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[Assistant] Oh, I see what you're saying, okay. You have a great mind to bounce things off of. From a variable standpoint, defensive guy, right?


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[Assistant] He has a chance now to learn from Kevin Stefanski, one of the better offensive lines in football, from a consultant position to take with him to wherever he goes next. Whether it's...


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[Assistant] A long term position in Cleveland or anywhere else in the league. Here's a chance to learn from Ken Dorsey.


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[Assistant] Take whatever he learns from Stefanski, Dorsey, Tommy Reese, do Stanley, whoever it is on that offensive staff.


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[Assistant] With him to whoever his next job is. As far as the distraction goes, I assume


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[Assistant] And sometimes you can make an ass out of you and me assuming. I assume Kevin Stefanski has signed off on this. Absolutely. I would assume that this was all ran by Kevin Stefanski. He was okay with it. He was cool with it. If it turns out it wasn't run by Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Then my red flag goes up as there's maybe a bigger issue at hand. But I would assume that this had to have been run by him, right?


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[Assistant] But I mean, there is always the inherent, like, we just saw. And I think we can all agree now with how this all played out.


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[Assistant] Brown's made a conscious effort not to bring back Joe Flacco because of on the field stuff first, Jameis Winston being a better fit, but the potential downfall of whatever could have been a distraction with Joe Flacco. The potential, and I use potential- You know he not gonna say that.


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[Assistant] If the Browns start the season one and three, right? We don't know how their schedule comes out. It's a gauntlet. G talked about last year. First four games.


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[Assistant] Steve Becker just asked, are we able to jump on Zoom? Steve, we're alive on air right now. Brother, come on. Tune in.


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[Assistant] I'm saying there's a potential if the Browns start the season poorly. To then.


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[Assistant] So to give you a little example, I'm gonna read you the last five comments on the YouTube chat right now. Ready? Okay. Love the variable hire. Next chat. He's taking Kevin's job.


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[Assistant] Next chat. Vrabel's a good coach, no doubt. Next chat. If Kevin has a bad year, our new head coach is already in the building. So like, like that's what I'm saying. There could be, from a football standpoint though.


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[Assistant] It's a frickin' home run hire, man. It's like an absolute home run hire. You're literally bringing in. If we were ranking head coaches, take teams off the equation, right? Top five coaches in football. Andy Reid's a lot. There's no more Belichick, so I think Reid's a surefire lot. Tomlin's probably in that.


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[Assistant] Actually, McVeigh's 4. I'll put McVeigh 4. And then that 5, 6, 7. Like, Vrabel, Stefanski.


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[Assistant] He had other offers outside of Cleveland and decided to come to Cleveland. So that says something about how much he was valued across the league.


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[Assistant] This is like Thanos acquiring the infinity stones. Like, one time coach of the year not enough.


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[Assistant] Two time coach of the year, 9-11. Let's get that Super Bowl winning defensive coordinator. Let's get the coordinator of the best rated special teams unit in football for two of the last three years. And you know what we're going to add to that, Earl? We may have lost Bill Callahan. We lose one Infinity Stone.


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[Assistant] Let's get a guy that people regard as a top five offensive line coach and his replacement in Andy Dickerson. So, at the end of the day, man.


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[Assistant] I'm calling it a stepping stone, but it's not like he hasn't already been to the top. But for Vrabel, an opportunity to improve his...


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[Assistant] To learn, not improve, to learn something from an offensive genius like Stefanski.


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[Assistant] To work and improve the defensive unit they already had in place and the defensive structure they had in place.


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[Assistant] To get a chance to collaborate and corroborate with Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] To get the most out of the Shawn Watson. We even look at it from this perspective.


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[Assistant] If Mike Vrabel can unlock something in The Sean Watts that Kevin hadn't been able to yet for whatever reason.


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[Assistant] I don't care what the hell else he does. It's a win on that point. And you look at all the players who have come out in variables defense since he was fired as I've never wanted to play harder. This dude connected with me. He's a former player. He gets us. I think that might be his biggest asset as a head coach. If that resonates with the Sean.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Hey, you just, I just got a chuckle out of this. The Browns technically don't have a tight end too right now.


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[Assistant] I think he does have two Super Bowl touchdown catches though. If my memory, I know he caught one for sure. I think he has two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And you look at, you have Stefanski, you have Schwartz, you have Ravel, and Dorsey, your big four, right? Right. Dorsey a player, obviously played high level, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, Juwan Howard just got fired, by the way, if anyone cares about Michigan basketball. Officially fired. So you have Dorsey who played at a high level. Vrabel who won a Super Bowl. Stefanski played in college. Schwartz won a Super Bowl with the Eagles as a head coach. How much more


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[Assistant] High level experience that can relate to both the player side of it and the coaching side of it. Can you find from a head coach, his two coordinators, and whatever variable his position is across the league than that?


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[Assistant] I don't, it may exist, I don't know the specifics of each coaching staff. But when you're looking at all the traits you want to add in here, right? You have Stefanski, the level headed.


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[Assistant] Player, he's a player, everyone we talked to, D'Anthony Bell when he was here told us straight up, like, we love playing for Stefanski. Level headed dude. Dorsey. TBD, we've all seen that video.


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[Assistant] And you look at the linebacker corps they have. Do you know who the linebackers coach right now is? I don't.


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[Assistant] And can you try to look, look who's the specific linebackers code?


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[Assistant] However the consultant role plans out, Earl. If he's simply just helping the linebacker.


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[Assistant] We saw what JOK did last year in the first year with Jim Schwartz. You had Mark Vrabel's expertise.


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[Assistant] We go from pro-bo to all-pro, right? You bring in Jordan Hicks, a veteran who's played for Jim Schwartz forever. He knows that system inside and out.


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[Assistant] Add a little two things from Vrabel, add a little communication, talking, a little pointer here or there. He goes from a guy who's been a 100 tackler player for the last four or five years.


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[Assistant] Another guy, right in the Pro Bowl conversation. They just signed Devin Bush.


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[Assistant] Who better to get the most out of a guy who they just signed on a one year deal? Who's looking to...


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[Assistant] Rejuvenate his career and turn into the player that the Steelers thought he could be in the first round. Then a guy like Mike Vrabel who he already knows gets the most out of his players and knows the position inside and out. Like you just look at that room plus you have Diabate and Tony Fields and maybe they got a draft. Like there's a lot of young,


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[Assistant] Untact potential in that room. Hicks, Alder, the other four guys.


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[Assistant] All clearly, uh, Jason Tarver is their linebacker coach. I apologize, Jason. I, I'm familiar with your game. I'm just assuming with Mike Vrabel they can also add another element to that. It is...


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[Assistant] From a football perspective, an absolute grand slam. I see no downside from the football perspective. And if you tell me, Devin Bush, J.O.K., Hicks, D'Abate and Fields are going to take a 5%


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[Assistant] So that is, like I said, potential. I'm not knocking nobody for their perspective again.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have an extension yet, it is what is needed as AB. We talked in the show today about the Darius Smith signing, right? And I mentioned...


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[Assistant] That once we saw the cap numbers, they had that big cap hit in 2026 when the contract's over.


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[Assistant] We've said it, we said it last year honestly, and we were a little premature on that. But this year we all agree, it's kind of, this is the year it has to work, right? For Dashaun, for everybody. The whole, the whole team, this is their best chance, the roster is going to be loaded. Milestone is primed, he's still at Batonio, Tetley, all the guys are loaded.


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[Assistant] This might be Jimmy, whether or not it's break glass in case of emergency or not, which I don't think, I love Stephanski, I think he's a great head coach, I think to move on with him would be silly, but this could just be Haslem saying,


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[Assistant] Screw it. Th-this is- or-or A, B, or Hazm, whatever, but Hazm cause he's on top.


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[Assistant] Let's sign Nick Saban. I'm not joking. Like if this is the approach, I'm fine with it. Bring in Saban. Bring in Pete Carroll. Bring in Belichick. Let's get as many.


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[Assistant] Football geniuses in that room is possible, right? Because you get as many coaches and consultants as you want. There's no salary cap on that.


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[Assistant] I don't disagree with that, but I also know Nick Chubb's getting older, Miles Garrett's getting older, Antonio's getting older, Teller's getting older, Cooper's getting older. You know, you try to project two years down the road. Right. Most of those players aren't going to beat you.


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[Assistant] That is the bottom line no matter what. And I don't disagree with the premise. I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] In two years, that means you have to draft guys who are better than Teller, Batonio, Chubb, Cooper.


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[Assistant] And there's probably other guys I'm not thinking of. Tomlinson will be gone by that point. So Darius Smith. You know what I'm saying? Like it's a lot of guys who are very, very, very good football players now that you could hit on some studs in the draft. Don't get me wrong. They could sign for it. They'll have a lot of cast space to work with, but, um,


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[Assistant] I'm saying right now, you have the guys who you know are really good. So that's why I think at this point, it's not...


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[Assistant] If they don't win this year, they have no chance. I'm saying this is your prime window because your best players are still healthy and playing at a level that could compete for a Super Bowl. And if that means let's bring in every smart defensive and offensive mind into the coaching room as consultants, as analysts,


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[Assistant] I mean, I think there are exceptions. Khalil Mack's a great one. Hell, Keenan Allen. Somehow the Chargers had two guys last year who are way past their football prime.


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[Assistant] We talked about Kenan Allen's stats this morning. He had like 1300 yards and 7 touchdowns in 13 games last year. Khalil Mack had what, 16 and a half sacks? I mean, there are exceptions.


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[Assistant] But I also think it's a dangerous game to play to just assume a guy's not gonna break down because the history of the sport. I don't think you should assume.


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[Assistant] The roster's loaded right now. Not just their roster, it's just...


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[Assistant] The roster topped up, I'm telling you, we looked at the whole roster this morning, and we'll wrap up in one sec, get back to variable, but we looked at the roster top to bottom.


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[Assistant] They have room for like two or three draft picks, Earl, without having to cut ties with someone we probably like. You know what I mean? Like they, they've done such a good job.


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[Assistant] Jordan Hicks spoke to the media yesterday for the first time. He asked why Cleveland.


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[Assistant] He goes, look at the veterans in here, look at the coaches. This is the team that's ready to win the championship right now. I want it to be part of that. When's the last time you heard a free agent to Cleveland Brown signed say that in particular? They had the foundation in place of a championship. I just want it to be that last piece.


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[Assistant] Legit. And that's a team that just won two Super Bowls. So if you're gonna take a similar contract to come to a contender, not the champion.


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[Assistant] And uh, last thoughts on Vray before we wrap up.


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski should not be on the hot seat, but he also doesn't have an extension, which makes me think something might be fishy. If he had an extension, I love this move in all facets because he doesn't.


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[Assistant] I'm just worried it could lead to something that it shouldn't become down the road. We'll break this down more in depth on Monday on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show when we have Bull, Tyveson, Jason, no, Bull G and Tyveson to discuss. We appreciate y'all tuning into a little breaking news of dust and we'll see y'all Monday.


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[Assistant] Tyvis, like every other defensive player in the world has worked up about this hip drop, drop tackle, which nobody understands and will not be a big factor, but uh. Bulls, bull hurt my feelings. Tyvis, I love you, but my, the reason I was angry, we'll get to it later.


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[Assistant] Uh, it made more than the rest of us though. I mean, you stole in the NFL for crying out loud. You made some big time money. Hopefully you took care of it. Of course you did. Unlike other people I know.


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[Assistant] And you gotta change it. When they left the stadium, the dog pound left with them. Yea. Yes. And For the Land actually is not that bad. I was just on a roll of saying everything sucked. That's okay. But Let Him Know is so stupid.


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[Assistant] Then I don't care. Good for them. It's in the 90s. I'll give Dan Gilbert credit. He's a lunatic. He's a meddler. He's an over manager. But if he pays for his own facility, I got respect for that. Jimmy Haslam, you guys are freaking billionaires. He's looking for a handout from all these poor people living in the city.


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[Assistant] They're introducing it now actually down at the, down the street. We're going to talk about it later on the podcast tonight. Yeah. Uh, it's in the nine figures. No one's given, really seen exact figures to the deal. If they're paying for it, then it doesn't matter. But it's in the, it's, it's, it's going to be unbelievably nice. It's 200,000 square feet, 210,000 square feet.


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[Assistant] It's, it's where the casino is supposed to be, actually. Like, phase two, the casino that never got built, it's the land that Dan, his own, had sat on for over ten years, so they're gonna put this facility there, and they're leaving Independence, they're gonna move to this, and the public component


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[Assistant] If you are a, if you're a golfer, right, you're an avid golfer, you can go in here, I'm sure you gotta pay for it, and they will like,


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[Assistant] Orlando has one, Atlanta has one, San Antonio has one, and you partner with like this.


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[Assistant] 2027 likely, possibly end of 26. They're hoping to break ground this year. Oh really? It's going to move fast.


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[Assistant] Alright, congratulations to Mike. We gotta talk some extension stuff. One other quick note I just saw in the NFL. Despite the fact that Christmas Day, this year, is on a Wednesday,


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[Assistant] The panthers and the titans will outdraw anything that the NBA does.


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[Assistant] That's not true. That's not true. The NFL is like...


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[Assistant] If we w- if we were able to have human beings, at the time of the dinosaurs, there were no human beings, contrary to popular belief. Did you know that?


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[Assistant] No, I did not. Okay. Dinosaurs and humans never coexisted on the earth, right? The dinosaurs were wiped out before the humans came to earth.


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[Assistant] I was told the NBA in-season tournament may, the teams that go to Vegas may have to be there for like five days just because they're trying to avoid playing on Sunday to go up against the NFL. That's the only reason. So now they have to be in Vegas longer.


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[Assistant] That's, what's more embarrassing, hanging that banner or wearing the chain? Well, no, wearing the chain is more embarrassing.


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[Assistant] You can't lose to the Knicks in five games and bring the chain back this year. I was fine with the chain last year. It was fine, whatever. It was a little hokey, but whatever. You can't lose that series the way you lost it and then bring back a tough guy chain.


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[Assistant] He said they're close to ext- I'd love to have heard the actual quote. I don't know, maybe you heard something from Zach there, Jason, but Jimmy DeHaslam said they're close to extending- See, what I don't understand though, how could they be close?


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's the number, if it's the language of the contract, if it's buyouts, if it's, it could be a number of things.


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[Assistant] What's the number, if we fire you, what's the, what's the buyout number? How many years can we stretch it? It could be countless.


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[Assistant] But don't you think Jimmy would have been wise to have this settled and so he could have gone to the owner's meeting and said


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[Assistant] And maybe part of it is they didn't want to negotiate during the season, but you know, I mean, that's what you have agents for, is to handle that stuff for you on your behalf. But whatever.


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[Assistant] Like if it gets done December, March, May, it doesn't matter as long as it gets done. And certainly if the owner's coming out and talking about it, it's going to get done. That's true. That's a fair point. He wouldn't have said that if they weren't on the verge of getting it done. Now, to your point, it probably should have been done before he talked, but it's not.


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[Assistant] But they'll get, okay, so we'll assume it'll get done here in the next couple of weeks, probably before the draft, I would assume. I would imagine. You'd be saying it's getting close. So let me ask you guys this, what, what


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[Assistant] What length of contract are you expecting here? Four.


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[Assistant] Four? I'd go five. You gave him five to start, how do you go less now? Good point.


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[Assistant] He got five years when he was, he'd never coach an NFL game.


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[Assistant] He's a two-time Coach of the Year winner. Yep. And you had to give him five years to come here because you were such a dysfunctional tire fire.


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[Assistant] Like, 5 million, I'm sorry, 5 years, 10 million a year. How much is he getting a year? Do you know right now? I don't know. Six, I think...


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[Assistant] I can probably find out. I think it's like five, six, somewhere in there, I think.


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[Assistant] Whether it's 4 or 5 years, that, that creates a stability in the organism. Now, Jimmy can always lose his mind again, fire, because he's Jimmy.


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[Assistant] But the Browns have not had stability in this organization since they returned in 99. There's been no stability.


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[Assistant] By Baltimore or whatever. Wow. So as soon as Kevin coaches another game. Well no, it's been only four years because this is the 20, 21, 22, 23.


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[Assistant] If he gets through years five and six, he's already the longest tenure coach they've had here like 40 years. Right. And the thing is like, and I said this when it came to Marvin Lewis with Cincinnati, right?


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[Assistant] Before Marvin Lewis, for a while, the Bengals were what the Browns were before...


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski came here, they were total disaster. And then Marvin Lewis right at the ship and made the Bengals a legitimate team. Ultimately got to the playoffs a bunch of times, couldn't win.


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[Assistant] Well forget Belichick. But no, what was Bill at last year, like 16, 18?


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[Assistant] What's Andy Reid making? I mean, you can't compare anybody to Andy Reid either, really. But what, I'm curious. Hold on.


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[Assistant] What he has, what he has done is created what, what the two of them together have done and they, you would assume they get the same length extension. They should. They seem to have a good partnership, right? I mean, do we think they get along well? Yes. And that's the first


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[Assistant] Now, Andy Reid signed that contract whenever he signed it, so money goes up. I wonder how much Andy has left on that deal. If he signed that prior to the two Super Bowls, you know what I mean? I don't remember. I don't know when he got an extension. I don't know either. But I mean, he's, you know, he should be making 20 million.


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[Assistant] It was, even though it still leaves a little mystery, Jason, in the end, you're right. The fact that Jimmy Aslam mentioned it publicly


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, it looks like it's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] That's about it. So we hope it gets done here soon. With the draft right around the corner, Mike.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, those people are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Uh, Andy Reid's contract is up after next season.


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[Assistant] That's, you're right. Well, they can't, they don't pick that high in the draft.


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[Assistant] Chargers? Yes. I thought he might go two now to Washington.


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[Assistant] Or is, is J.J. Reddick the latest in the line of J.J. Reddick? Not J.J. Reddick. J.J. Reddick. J.J. Reddick. He's Kenny Pickett all over again. You think? Isn't he? Cause he has small hands.


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[Assistant] Did you ever watch that guy play in Michigan and go, that's an NFL quarterback? I never did.


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[Assistant] I think he's going to be a total bust, but alright. I hope a bad, I hope a team I hate takes him. Go ahead Mike.