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[Assistant] I wonder if, uh, especially before Chubb comes back if he's not ready for week one.


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[Assistant] If they would even have Foreman and, and, uh, Ford in the, in the backfield at the same time. No. Yeah, they've never, they're not really doing it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was a good year to be a free agent runner. First of all, it was a great running back class in free agency, like one of the best we've seen. And as you said, the consensus from the draft expert seems to be that this is not a good running back group.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say there's no chance they draft a running back. I think it's unlikely. I don't think they're just gonna, I don't think they're going into the draft saying, well we'd never draft a running back in that spot. It just doesn't seem like there's a running back worth drafting in that spot necessarily.


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[Assistant] Uh, do we, would we be shocked if they drafted a 54? Obviously quarterback. Yes. Running back, I think we're all in agreement.


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[Assistant] Any other position? That we would be absolutely shocked at? I'd be shocked, I'd be surprised if they drafted a corner at 54.


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[Assistant] Uh, obviously, I would not be surprised by an offensive lineman. I know it doesn't seem like an obvious need. I wouldn't be surprised. But with two, with, with older guys in the middle of that line. You would be? You said you would be? I would not be. Oh no. If Dave... If it was a left tackle, I wouldn't be shocked. Right. And there's, supposedly there's a lot of good offensive linemen in there.


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[Assistant] Uh, I wouldn't be surprised. What about tight end? Would you be surprised if it went tight end?


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[Assistant] Or, not most, well yeaah, most are older guys on short contracts. And so, in the end, I can't be shocked, because you can keep 10 defensive linemen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, the Steelers, as you say, and the Ravens have done that for years. In recent years, the Bengals have been able to do that. Draft guys high and let them sit for a year because you don't need them right away. We're used to so many years, the Browns


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[Assistant] forcing their draft picks into the starting lineup even when they didn't really earn it because they just had nobody else to play. And that's not the case now with this roster now.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, they haven't had a lot of high draft picks in recent years, so it's not like you're getting the premier talent to, you know, but this year you do have a second round pick and, you know.


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[Assistant] Unlike last year where your first pick was in the third round, so, uh, hopefully, they can, whoever they, right, cause like, who, there's nobody that drafted that's gonna start right away, or unlikely.


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[Assistant] No, I mean where would you, you know, where would somebody start?


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[Assistant] Again, I get, I think we talked about this a little bit. I think Mike mentioned this, he's probably right. If you got a receiver of 58 that


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[Assistant] I mean, Odell's thousand yard season was the most fraudulent thousand yard season in the history of football. That was fraudulent. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Where did Tank Del, before you do that, where did Tank Del get drilled? What was his drip? He was early third round, right?


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[Assistant] Where does he rank on the all time Collin Wood football player list? Is he number one? First.


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[Assistant] I would be disingenuous if I said for sure I agree, because I don't know every other team's pass rush well enough to be sure about that.


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[Assistant] But I certainly think they belong in the conversation, and I'm not surprised that they were number one, because obviously Miles Garrett's as good as anybody.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now, I'm not as confident in Zedaria Smith as others are, but like Earl who mentioned him earlier, I really like what I saw from Alex Wright at the end of last year. I thought he made


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[Assistant] So, while I'm nervous about the Darius Smith being a big factor, I think Alex Wright


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[Assistant] Uhm, and even Hearst, if he's healthy, is not bad either, so.


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[Assistant] On paper, without knowing the other teams, as well as I know the Browns and the Bengals, I think the Browns probably should be number one.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, it doesn't, it really doesn't matter if they're number one. It only matters if you're in the conversation. Right. Because whether you're two or three or one, you're really good. Just be in the conversation. In the end, it doesn't matter. You know, who's number one, it's an opinion, but go ahead.


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[Assistant] But you can't just go by last year. You, it's, it's some, uh, guys don't put up the same numbers year to year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, here were the SAC leaders last year, by team. The Ravens led with 60.


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[Assistant] The Dolphins third with 56, the Bills were fourth with 51, and then the Cults, I'm sorry, the Bills were fourth with 54, and then the Cults were fifth with 51.


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[Assistant] So, that, that's, now, they still may bring those guys back.


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[Assistant] And maybe it's different, but when you're doing an article like this, first of all, it's just probably one person's opinion. Maybe it's a couple of guys, I don't know, but you're-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm some random dude from Bleacher Report. Uh, you're trying to project ahead. You know, if you're gonna just do it based on last year, what's the point of having a list?


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[Assistant] But uhm, I was surprised that the Bengals were that high, because they didn't have a, you know, obviously Hendrickson's an excellent pass rusher, but nobody else was a really good, Sam Hubbard's a good run-stopping defensive end, but he's not much of a pass rusher, he was hurt last year. But they did add uhm,


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[Assistant] Rankins, who's a, who's a really good... Do you want to hear the Bengals little write-up? Yeah, I'd love to hear it.


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[Assistant] That's true, although the Ravens kinda shit the bed too in the playoffs. They do. They do.


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[Assistant] By the way, the funniest thing about that is that we're playing it from a Nick Carden's tweet.


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[Assistant] Nonsensical, idiotic, moronic conspiracy theories. I'm not gonna go through them all. But,


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[Assistant] Brown's fans in particular, when it comes to fan bases, and there are other fan bases that think leagues are out to get them and whatever, it's not unique to Brown fans.


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[Assistant] But I feel like every year we have to do this nonsense. There's always something that a segment of the Browns fan base has to point to and say, see the league's going to screw us. Now it's to Sean Watson. Before it was...


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[Assistant] You know, because they sued the league to get the rights. There's always some excuse.


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[Assistant] First of all, I don't understand how them going to Brazil screws the Browns. Like, teams go to England all the time. Browns, have the Browns even gone to England? If they haven't, it's a long time. And it was a while ago. Other teams go all the time!


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[Assistant] Do you think this guy's actively in the NFL office saying, Alright, how are we going to screw over Cleveland this year? I mean, come on, that's just silly.


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[Assistant] Times as a player, I don't know, I obviously never played, I would think as a player I'd be excited about it, would you be or no?


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[Assistant] Time zone, I think it's the same time zone as us, or maybe one hour different. It's not like going to England where you're, you know, six hours ahead and you're all screwed up time-wise. Yeaah. I think Brazil, I think Brazil might be central time zone.


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[Assistant] I think it's only one hour behind Cleveland, I believe. Either one hour ahead or one hour behind.


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[Assistant] Okay, one hour ahead. So like, from a time perspective, it's not a big deal. I'm sure it's a long flight, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know how long a flight it is, but it just, I would just think that was an amazing opportunity, and I'd much rather, if I were a player,


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[Assistant] Especially because nowadays with the no fourth preseason game, you finish the preseason 17 days usually, 16 maybe, 17 whatever, before the regular season starts. So you can, they can go out there.


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[Assistant] And it's a Friday, so even with the travel...


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[Assistant] You're still going to be back at least by Sunday. So you still have a week to end, and, and, you know, the Browns will play Sunday the following week.


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[Assistant] So, I'd love the 30% who said yes to explain to us how the Browns are being potentially screwed in this situation, but what's the argument that they're being screwed? Because we haven't been able, as a trio, been able to come up with anything.


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[Assistant] First of all, the Eagles would have to do the same thing. The Eagles lose the home game. And now we're going to make it worse by saying they're going to assume the league is purposely going to give them a tough game the next week, which we have no clue.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can't count nobody out there. No, no. Who do they play? That's terrible this year.


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[Assistant] I don't even know that the giants are, I say, I make fun of them, but I don't know that they're terrible. I could see them being better.


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[Assistant] Their skill position talent is not good.


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[Assistant] By the way, I'll be on live in the bullpen 2pm. Join me on YouTube live at 2pm.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, the games will be going on, so we'll keep you up to date on that and we'll talk more about Brown's stuff as well, Coop.


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[Assistant] Wait, don't we have to talk about Tyvis's Terry Rozier situation?


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[Assistant] Guys, I never thought he'd be this good, as well as he's played this year. I know yesterday, you know, a lot of guys are out, but...


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[Assistant] I remember when he made the All-Star game a few years ago, I was like, I thought that was the best, I thought he was a good player, nice player, and that was the ceiling.


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[Assistant] I didn't think, you know, we talk about Upside from Darius, we talk about Upside from Mobley.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, Donovan Mitchell's already a superstar, but...


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[Assistant] I thought Jared Allen just was what he was, but I, I really feel like this year, cause,


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[Assistant] But he's still really young, and while he's got some flaws as a player as, you know, most players do, uh, I think he has clearly taken his game up another level this year. I didn't expect it, but it's been a pleasant surprise. He's great. He's been great.


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[Assistant] Agreeing that Jared Allen has taken his game to another level. If you look at the stats, I just brought it up now.


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[Assistant] And that stunned me. The only significant difference is the one aspect of the game we didn't even talk about, and that's his assist. Two years ago he averaged 1.6, this year he's averaging 2.6.


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[Assistant] But it's funny because two years ago, Jerry Allen averaged 16.1 points and 10.8 rebounds. This year, he's averaging 16.3 points and 10.8 rebounds. It feels like he's much better than he was two years ago, and you get the stat. In fact, his field goal percentage is down!


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[Assistant] In the All-Star season two years ago, he shot 68% from the field. This year he's at 63%. He's shooting more.


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[Assistant] He averaged 9.7 field goal attempts per game that year, this year 10.5. His free throw percentage is up a little bit, he was...


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[Assistant] Everything's the same, except for the assist, which is weird. So maybe we just underrated him two years ago.


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[Assistant] 10.6 rebounds, so slightly less than Jarrett.


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[Assistant] He shoots way more. He takes 15 shots a game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, listen, I don't know enough, but Mike answered that like I answer baseball questions when people try to question me.


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[Assistant] I mean there are no statistics. Jerry Allen has a slightly better field goal percentage and is averaging slightly more rebounds, but an insignificant difference.


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[Assistant] I did say it wrong, out of the blue, I don't know why I did that. Uh, 3pm on Monday.


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[Assistant] More promoted now and more and easier to do, but I was betting on sporting events.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, wow. I committed some minor crimes in my early, early years. Nothing, no, the statute of limitations is up on all of them. I didn't commit murder or anything. Uhm, uh, but, uh, so,


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[Assistant] They're insane. Those people are crazy. There's gonna always be crazy people like that.


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[Assistant] Threaten people over politics or, or sports gambling or fantasy. It's unfortunate. You have to find a balance. You know, I'm very much a supportive of gambling being legal, but I don't gamble. Now technically you could argue I do because I play fantasy and we could dicker on the


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[Assistant] Why I have a line of delineation. But I had a gambling problem. I went to Gamblers Anonymous.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for a number of years I stopped going. I, I, I think it's very good for people. Uh, and, but, but I used to, when I was in my late teens and early twenties, I played cards all the time. I played the horses all the time.


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[Assistant] And I, you know, did some sports betting. At that time it wasn't as easy to do because it wasn't legal. But betting on the horses was legal. You had to know somebody. Yea, yea, yea. So betting the horses and playing cards, I did it all the time. I had a problem.


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[Assistant] Again, besides fantasy, which is a controlled situation. It was May of 2009.


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[Assistant] I had gone to Atlantic City for the day, I lost a thousand dollars in Atlantic City, which is a lot of money, especially at the time for me was a lot of money, I wasn't making


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[Assistant] I stayed up all night at 3 o'clock in the morning, I emailed all my friends and said, don't ask me to play cards, don't ask me to go to Atlantic City, don't ask me to go to Vegas, I'm done, I'm never gambling again. And I haven't since that day, which is crazy. But, it can be a problem.


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[Assistant] I happen to be someone that believes in personal responsibility, which is why I, just because I have a problem with gambling,


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna tell other people not to gamble. I'm not gonna tell other people not to drink. I don't have a problem with drinking. Uh, I don't have a problem with, with marijuana.


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[Assistant] And, and, and so, you know, but, but where would, where would you, if we're gonna ban everything that could potentially be bad for you, then we gotta ban soda, then we gotta ban meat, then we gotta ban, you know, where does it end? So I don't, I'm not for banning anything, and yes, there's probably more people getting into trouble with gambling and doing stupid things like this since it's become legal.


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[Assistant] Like, in our job, we have to be on social media to some degree. He doesn't have to be.


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[Assistant] Acknowledging that there are a lot of fans that do tree players with respect and, you know, fortunately it's not all fans, you know? But yeaah, you're right Earl, and, and,


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[Assistant] Athletes can be, can have mental health issues just as much as anybody else.


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[Assistant] That's when you have a problem. I agree. If you're trying to change your life, as Earl says, by gambling, that's not gonna...


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[Assistant] The best Sandler movie was the one where he's a basketball coach. Hustle. Hustle. That was great. But recently he just had a new movie come out on Netflix called Astronaut or something like that. I watched the first 15 minutes, it was unwatchable and I shut it off.


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[Assistant] Let's put it off because I just, I feel like I need to dive into it a little more.


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[Assistant] By the way, let me just comment on that for a second, because on my podcast yesterday, I interviewed Jim Ducat, former Big League GM, he now does a show with Mike Ferrin, who's a friend of mine on MLB radio. Uh, check out the podcast, The Bullpen with Adam the Bull on YouTube. But he didn't have a problem with The Guardian's


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[Assistant] Sending those guys down, especially De Lauder, he doesn't think he's ready to play in the majors yet. And, uh,


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[Assistant] But he understands why fans are aggravated, and he does think that Guardians made a lot of mistakes this offseason in terms of how they allocated money, but.


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[Assistant] He, he has no problem with man's art and he was trying, he argued that it's not necessarily about


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[Assistant] Uh, service time because of the rule changes, because if Manzardo, and he's right in this vein that if Manzardo comes up and finishes top, ends up finishing top three for Rookie of the Year, like the Guardians lost a year of service time for Tanner Vibey because he finished top three Rookie of the Year.


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[Assistant] But they also gain the draft pick, so there are advantages to the team as well.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to say, you know, say that from his perspective. I thought it was an interesting point. So go ahead.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's hard, uh, Tyvis and I were talking about this early. I rattled off like 15 minutes. Yeaah. And one of the guys you thought I was going to say was Larry Doby.


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[Assistant] And I think Larry Doby, and he's not my answer, I do think he's been...


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[Assistant] Really underrated for much of the time he was here.


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[Assistant] But my answer is Corey Kluber, and here's why. Because...


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[Assistant] Cory Kluber is one of the, for a time, was one of the best pitchers the Guardians, the Indians at the time, have ever had. He had a stretch of seasons that, one of the best


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[Assistant] Five year stretches in the history of the franchise.


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[Assistant] And in the playoffs in 2016 when the Guardians or the Indians went to the World Series.


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[Assistant] Court, everybody talks about, remembers Andrew Miller that year because he was magnificent and dominated for most of the playoffs. But in game seven of the World Series, Andrew Miller struggled.


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[Assistant] But nobody really criticizes Andrew Miller for that, which they shouldn't, because he was overworked and even Terry Francona said that. But Corey Kluber,


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[Assistant] It's like revisionist history, people look back and kinda shit on Corey Kluber, cause he pitched terribly in game seven of the World Series. But, he was so overworked, remember, Trevor Bauer had the accident,


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[Assistant] Busted up his finger and couldn't pitch in the playoffs. Carlos Carrasco was hurt that year. The guard, the Indians, their number two starter in the playoffs was Josh Tomlin.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know if Faith remembers that. Josh Tomlin was not a good pitcher. So, Corey Kluver. Never heard of him.


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[Assistant] The Indians do not sniff the World Series that year. They probably don't get out of the first round. He was so lights out, and I remember


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[Assistant] Game one of the World Series when Corey Kluber pitched against the Cubs at, in Progressive Field and I was at this game and I was, I never sat down the whole time. I wandered around the stadium the whole game.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I remember at the end of the first inning, because the Cubs got a little rally going with a couple little...


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[Assistant] I think Dinks and Dunkson had a chance to score in the first inning. Kluber got out of it. And I remember saying to myself, oh, that's it. That's it. They're not going to score against him.


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[Assistant] And then he was lights out again in game, in game four.


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[Assistant] When he gave the Indians a 3-1 lead, by the time he had pitched in game seven, he had been going on three days rest for the third time. He was shot. It was miraculous he was able to lift his arm. And by the way, his career pretty much went down the tube soon after that. And I, when I spoke to Frank Kona a few weeks ago,


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[Assistant] And I told him that fans were critical of Corey Kluber, like, he couldn't believe it. I guess he didn't realize that. Corey Kluber...


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[Assistant] Was the toughest SOB that I've ever seen pitch for this team.


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[Assistant] And, you know, he and Sabathie, I'd say. And, uh, and the fact that he's discredited...


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[Assistant] After that is a disgrace and so he went from being fairly rated for much of his career to being now underrated big time when we look back. But that guy was an absolute superstar and for a few years was the best pitcher in baseball. So Corey Kluber's my guy.


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[Assistant] What's, what's more, what's a more fraudulent statement?


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[Assistant] World Series Champion Austin Hedges or Pro Bowler Tyler Huntley?


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[Assistant] Because even though he was like the 12th choice, he still shouldn't have been picked.


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[Assistant] That was the weird, I'd like to actually know, I wonder if every other quarterback said no, like secretly, they went down the list, including Jacoby Brissette, and like 25 guys said no, and Tyler Huntley's like, alright, what the hell. I'll do this.


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[Assistant] How many times did James make Pro Bowl? Once? Once. What was it, the 30-30? No, it wasn't.


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[Assistant] How did the Boston Red Sox, you're a big market team. It's not like it was the Guardians. How did the Boston Red Sox let Mookie Betts get away? And how is he a shortstop?


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[Assistant] So, he was gonna play second, so last year they moved him to second base because they didn't have a second baseman. So, this year he was gonna play mostly second base again.


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[Assistant] Their shortstop is a kid named Gavin Lux. Been a good prospect for a number of years. He was supposed to be their starting shortstop last year. He had a really bad injury. I don't remember what it was. And he missed all of last season.


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[Assistant] So, when spring training started, Lux was gonna play shortstop, and Mookie was gonna play second. Well, Lux...


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[Assistant] Was getting like the yips at shortstop, where he was making all these terrible throws. And they're like...


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[Assistant] Well, I guess we'll move them to second so the throw's not as hard. Yeah, Mookie just plays short. Like-


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[Assistant] It's absurd! Do you know how hard that is to do? Shortstop is the hardest position in base, well, or catcher. No, no, no, no. No, because third base, third base is tough because the ball gets on you quick, but you don't need great range to play third base.


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[Assistant] You do gotta have some rage at shortstop. At shortstop, you gotta have crazy rage. You gotta be a fantastic athlete. And Mookie Betts who's never really, I mean, maybe he's played it in his career. I don't think, if he has, not a lot. Like he is just a freak of freaks. He play everything. I love him. He literally could play any


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[Assistant] And the fact that he, Otani, and, and Freddie Freeman, three of the ten best players of baseball. All on the same team. Are batting back to back to back. Oh really? Yeaah. T-34 in that lineup. That's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Hence the pitcher ever to make his first major league start on opening day. Very rare.


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[Assistant] White Sox, A's, Nationals, and Rockies are the four worst teams.


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[Assistant] The athletic does this thing every year. They call it the, uh, I can't remember what it's, it's like the fan support meter. Basically they ask for fans of every team to say, and they ask them, are you optimistic or are you pessimistic about the season?


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[Assistant] Guardians fans on this poll were extremely pessimistic. No wait, I'm sorry, 2022. Were extremely pessimistic.


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[Assistant] Like, 70% pessimistic. And the Guardians had a really good season in 2022, made the playoffs. Won a series.


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[Assistant] And it was like 70% pessimistic again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pull up the win totals for the five teams in the, in the, uh, in the AIS. I know every game.


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[Assistant] By the way, real quick, you mentioned Ronald Acuna. He had the best fantasy baseball season in the history of baseball.


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[Assistant] Twins 87 and a half. Alright, I'm leading under on that. Go ahead. Royals 73.


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[Assistant] Jason's much higher on the Tigers than I am. Mickey off the books. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're gonna be right around that number. I'll say over by a tiny bit.


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[Assistant] Hmm, so there are, so there are eight, Vegas has what, eight games back of the twins?


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[Assistant] Sixty and a half, they'll lose more than that. They'll lose over, they're gonna lose a hundred games.


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[Assistant] No. I have to admit I have done it. Not a long time, but I have.


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[Assistant] Uh, even if it pisses me off, which still does once in a while, if somebody says something nasty, I pretty much don't respond to the nasty tweets anymore.


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[Assistant] By the way, I saw, so Barrett Sports Media posted a tweet today saying that today is the two year anniversary of me announcing on the air


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[Assistant] I do have a spreadsheet. In fact, I do have a spreadsheet for important dates, but I didn't write down the day that I announced it. I thought it had been earlier.


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[Assistant] Because I had no, like my last date was April 1st and I announced it on whatever today is March 21st of 2022. I had, I had already discussed it, you know, my bosses and I had to come to an agreement because I was leaving my contract early.


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[Assistant] And it had been decided in January, so I had known for two months that I was leaving, but they wouldn't, my bosses wouldn't let me say it on the air. I wanted to announce it earlier.


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[Assistant] But they wouldn't let me, uhm, but anyway, so, and then somebody responded and said, the fan's never been the same. I can't disagree with that.


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[Assistant] I did. Look at you. Because two people I trusted, Gee Bush and Jonathan Petelin, both spoke highly of him. I didn't know Earl was about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, but G had, like, you know, spoke highly of you and then I remember calling John the Peterlin and asking him about you and he spoke very highly of you. So I called Steve and said, hey, I'm hearing great things about Earl.


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll see y'all on overtime, or Earl, you're not excited for overtime. Nah. Well you'll see Tyvis and I on overtime, and then we'll see you tomorrow on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Peace. See ya. The weather was bizarre.


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[Assistant] I'm more of an elf dude, but the logo is decent. Oh wow, I hate the elf.


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[Assistant] Ultimate 216 show coming at you live at five o'clock episode seven. It'll be me. I'll be joined by Quincy Carrier, you all's favorite, uh, Browns podcast and host. Uh, we'll be talking about the moves that the Cleveland Browns has made over the first four days. Talk about a sleeper move that the Browns deal could make.


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[Assistant] Touch on the Cleveland Cavaliers a little bit and of course wrap up with a little Q&A.


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[Assistant] The NBA really ain't my thing. You know, the stuff that you watch or that you really good at, you really do terrible when it comes to like betting on it.


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[Assistant] Oh, you slow grind. Yea, I'm slow grind. I can't go up top on y'all yet, like. I mean that's smart to me.


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[Assistant] And I'm picking that game. Tyrus balled out. So how could that not be the Tyrus Power all-white alternates? The Coke Boys is what we call it. The Coke Boys. Yeah. Come on now. Act like you know.


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[Assistant] We couldn't get visors at OSU unless your coach checked off on it. And my coach would never check off on it. Right? So look, this is what happened. Check this out.


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[Assistant] After we lost to Michigan State in 2015, that's what everybody on the team said, bleep everybody on the coaches' staff. I'ma do what I wanna do. So, team up Northgate in 2015. Guess what your boy had on.


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[Assistant] But it's no way to like tell if you lying or not. So when you go reapply for it again, they gonna give it to you every time cause it shows that you persistent and you might be telling the truth. So you got that off? I didn't do it.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's definitely going to come close. That's what it makes me think. If he's getting, if he's transitioning to more football oriented drills.


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[Assistant] Yo, that's kinda like to step right before you get back to full speed. So uhm, that tells me he's got a shot to be out there game one, if this is in Brazil, which we'll find out.


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[Assistant] I like it. Obviously nobody expected anything differently with Nick Chubb being the guy that he is. You know he's gonna work hard and he's, it's probably his mission to try to be back for that first game, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it just speaks volumes to the guy who he is and how serious he's taking this recovery process. And I salute him for doing that because with that injury, it's a lot of people that it could go left. You know, you could think, man, maybe my career is over.


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[Assistant] But he's like, nah, I'm not about to let that be my last carry. That's not about to be how people gonna remember me. So I respect him for going out there and, you know, trying to get back for week one to help this team. G. Bush.


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[Assistant] Work that out. Work it out in Brazil. I'm not doing that. See here you go.


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[Assistant] Is that a wire type? That's a holy crap. That's a wire. That's a microphone for the people to hear.


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[Assistant] David Najoku. David Najoku benefits the most from this, uh, hip drop thing the most because, first of all, David Najoku is a very strong guy from doing his workouts, I understand why.


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[Assistant] That's my point. You see how, see how you don't know? See what I'm saying? So that's why they shouldn't even did nothing like that, but I'm not gonna go back into that. But that right, he benefits the most from the hip drop, the band of the hip drop tackle, so. So it's funny.


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[Assistant] David and Joku and Nick Chubb, if, I don't care who you are, you going, you going.


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[Assistant] Tackling is still going to be tackling, you know. I know that the Nick Chubb thing was different because it might have seemed like it was lower.


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[Assistant] But that's, that's how DBs tackle in open field. You know, when you're going up against these running backs and these bigger guys, you always are taught to shoot them out. Shoot the leg straight from up under them, which he might have shot a little bit too low by hitting the knee.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit too low by going for the knee, but like I said, obviously a lot of times you're looking to go through the thighs and you just shoot right through the thighs and boom, it usually knocks their feet from up under them. So that's going to happen even more anyway.


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[Assistant] But the days of trying to wrap up, the other way you wrap up, you gotta stand there and hope everybody come jump on the pile because you can't drop your weight anymore. Do you have that same fear as I do G? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] For the need, the defenseless need.


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[Assistant] Because there's a strike zone. The strike zone is the top of the picks to the top of the knees. The bottom of the picks to the top of the knees.


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[Assistant] As long as you make contact between, from here to the knee, top of the knees, it's good. Anything else is a flag.


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[Assistant] I know, that's why I always went for a show. Shoulder, you wanna do same foot, same shoulder, right to the chest. BOOM! You hit it, ooh, they gon' fall, trust me, they gon' fall.


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[Assistant] Well, he gotta do something because I still think that's a phase that's...


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[Assistant] Not bringing a lot of energy. You know, they're not, they're not winning games. Now I will say,


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[Assistant] From Dustin Hopkins last year and Corey Bohorkas, the way he punted and flipped the field. Yea, you can say that they did their part, but as far as the return game goes, we haven't had nobody good since Josh Grips. I think, wait, is Travis Benjamin the last person to return a punt? Uh, DPJ did two years ago. Did?


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[Assistant] Because Jace is like, get rid of it. And I think they realized fans still love that. Like the opening kickoff is still one of the best moments of football because it's a tone-setter.


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[Assistant] For offense or defense. You know, if the defense goes out there and make a big play, that gets the whole defense and the whole stadium going.


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[Assistant] The returner makes a big return that sets the offense up and everybody's rolling so I think they don't want to lose that aspect. Bubba Ventrone being a former special teams guy who made his niche, he's going to be passionate about it and he wants to find a way to help this team. The offense looks good, the defense looks good, now we need to get that special teams going because it's going to come a time where you're going to go up against a team that's superior


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[Assistant] And you have to have that phase that's going to help them win the game.


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[Assistant] Because, I think that, you like that word? That's good. You like that word? Nice SAT word. I said I was going to, uh, implement new vocabulary.


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[Assistant] I mean like, don't get me wrong, I know that the Browns schedule next year, they're playing some really tough teams, but you know, when you think about all the guys that they're getting that's coming back, and you think about the momentum that they had last year,


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[Assistant] To me, it makes you think that they said it was fool's gold last year. And I don't think that's the case. Uhm, I think that like I said, I keep continuously saying that it's a culture change that happened last year. And I think that they got the recipe. You know, when I was there on Monday and I was talking to Rodney McLeod, he had me fired up in the radio room because we was doing an interview with him.


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[Assistant] He was even saying like, first of all, this is his last year, this is his last go year, and he said that they going for it all this year. You know, anything less than the Super Bowl is a failure to them, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think, I think that they'll eclipse the eight and a half. I think they'll win more than nine games. That's ridiculous. The worst team in the division had nine games last year. I think that everybody coming back healthy, you know, Jerry Judy does what he's supposed to do and Ken Dorsey does have this offense or Kevin Stefanski.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna know. If you smash under, first of all, you might have hit it by mistake. You just wanted to see, you just wanted to be, you know, see what the ratings was, cause you can't see it unless you vote on it, so you hit the under just to be that guy.


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[Assistant] But if you actually truly feel that, can I, I might get in the chat just to see what you said is the reason why you took the 100. I don't wanna make sure.


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[Assistant] Even if you don't agree, he was 4-1 last year. As bad as he played, he was 4-1.


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[Assistant] Do that same thing. I'm still taking the over. Seven and five, you're two games away from the over. Well, the reason you go under is you don't think it's repeatable. That's ridiculous. Let it move on.


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[Assistant] I looked good that last year, and I know they got four guarantees.


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[Assistant] And the Cavs like to do this thing where they get so inspirational against some of these better teams and they gon' pull it off. So I would say yeaah, they gon' get the 50 mark, but I would, I could care less about that at all.


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[Assistant] What are you doing? Like you got to show, and you, and the funny thing is everybody knows you got the ability to do it because you did it. Like a couple weeks ago you had like 26, 28 point games.


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[Assistant] And the good thing is that he learned from what Miami did. When Charlie came and he saw it again, he was able to make better decisions this time. So it shows you that he has the ability and he's learning. Maybe this helps him become better in the playoffs because they're going to blitz him in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] He's like, no, we're gonna double team you because you got 40 points. He was like, I wanna know what you gonna do when we send this double team to you. Now you gotta speed your mind up and make decisions.


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[Assistant] And he was like, all right, I got to get rid of the ball. And he was able to make the right decisions. And now once you blitz somebody and you able to make the right decisions, you need that other guy, like the oop to Mowgli that Jared Allen threw. His mind was sped up, which we talked about a couple of days ago, that Jared Allen is actually really good, a good pastor this year. So he actually knows what to do with the ball.


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[Assistant] Obviously when you have Donovan Mitchell out there, you'll always have that outlet. Cause they're gonna, that's what the Knicks did, they blitzed Donovan.


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[Assistant] But it's nice to know that if you are the guy that they decide to blitz, you know what to do and you get your team ready. That's what it's about. Seeing these looks now, trying to get it going against all these looks and let your teammates know how you're going to respond to this. So when the playoffs come, it's not foreign to them. Everybody's like, what is it? What are you doing?


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[Assistant] We need to know how you're gonna play towards this in the playoffs, so we know how to react as a team. We know how to get to these open spots, so we'll be better for you in the playoffs. And it's nice that the Cavs is learning these things.


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[Assistant] Towards the back end of their season. So when they go against these teams in the playoffs and they do things, players know how to react to it.


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[Assistant] Andres Jimenez because he had a terrible season last year after he got paid and I don't think he's that type of guy.


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[Assistant] I think he knows that, listen, if we gonna be good and wanna make a playoff for us, he gotta be much better than what he was last year. I mean, he was a gold glove, what, two years ago? So I expect him to have a big season. I know Jose gonna do his thing. I need somebody else to ride with Jose. And the second best player to me is him in this.


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[Assistant] 11 o'clock the TV going off though, so, unless they, unless they out there just hitting home run after home run, but 11 o'clock TV going off, but I do want to see it.


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[Assistant] They better win. I can see, I can see them dropping the first game. Like, my gut tells me they ain't gonna drop the first game. Why? Cause it's just what they do. That's just what they do.


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[Assistant] You know what? Nah, they gon' win. They gon' win tomorrow. Beaver on the mound. They should, they should win that.


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[Assistant] It's a different game. No, Joker. Joker would, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Listen, this is the ultimate team game, okay, like.


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[Assistant] One dude ain't just bout to just do it like that. Like LeBron is special. Giannis is special. Jokic.


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[Assistant] They did that with Ohio sports now, you can't bet on the props for like football games now.


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[Assistant] College. You can't bet like, like I can't say a mecca of buccas will have over a hundred yards. Like, you can't do that.


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[Assistant] No, I think that they're doing it because kids are receiving death threats from veterans.


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[Assistant] Cause you can't get Jah, cause he's out. Portland has nobody, and Wimby's the only other player that's for San Antonio. So you can go to Lloyd Marketing, Colin Saxon, or Jalen Green.


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[Assistant] Who? Yes. Devin Booker's the point guard? No, Booker doesn't count as a point guard in that conversation. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell's killer instinct.


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[Assistant] You know what we shoulda did? We shoulda looked at.


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[Assistant] We should have went this year and looked at the quarterbacks that's going to be drafted. Let's say the top four. Let's leave Caleb Williams out. Us three, we all should pick a quarterback who we think is going to succeed and see next year who won. Well, who would you take? We got two minutes.


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[Assistant] As long as he throwing that rock. I have no issue. Listen, if you putting the work in, and you doing all, and you saying the right stuff, and you helping us win, you can be a leader. I don't care about all that, all that extra stuff at all. I mean, everybody says, what do you call this weirdo?


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[Assistant] Russell, they say Russell would do all this weird stuff, but at the end of the day, he was a great, he was a good leader.


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[Assistant] Whatever you want. Hey listen man, I, I want- Did you send it in? Listen, I didn't. I won a hundred.


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[Assistant] It was like, it was like, but you know what I'm sayin', I immediately lost 25 right back, betting on hockey. Hockey? You bet on hockey?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, what happened to those, uh, those, those goons you had sapped out?


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[Assistant] Guys, I lost, I lost some bread, cause Wagner, I don't know how you lose with seven. Wagner had seven people, and Howard lost. I shoulda known. Kamala, uh, uh, Harris went there. Kamala Harris, sorry.


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[Assistant] With the Howard? Yea, with the Howard. She was one of the... They do this nice, cool thing where they give you these famous people on the NCAA.


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[Assistant] Well, I was gonna go there. Listen, David and Joku signed a four-year deal, 54.75 million contract with the Browns, 28 million in guarantees, and 17 billion fully guaranteed. I went back and rewound the show. We were, people was, they was up in arms. All hated it.


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[Assistant] And I said, well listen, they're paying him for his skill set and what they think he can do with possibly Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] And the thing is, you go and look at it and you go back and you rewind time, you say, okay, it makes sense. Because the Browns are operating in a different way. If you look at what the Browns are doing, the Browns aren't necessarily going out and hitting home runs in the draft.


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[Assistant] They're, they hit their home runs on trades. They're best players they put, they, they do a good job of saying, let me take a look at this player that's playing for this team, let me evaluate him, let me forecast what he would do in our system. They bring him in and it seems to work. Wait, but where, give me the examples of that.


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[Assistant] Because he was making a boatload of money though.


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[Assistant] What I'm saying is, it's not Apple's Apple when we talk about their specific career, but it's the framework of what their idea is. Nobody would have gave David and Joker that money and now nobody talks about it because it worked. I think when you watch it, I gave the example earlier and we were laughing and joking.


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[Assistant] Evaluating and picking wide receivers in the draft, right? I said that's the equivalent of you in high school. You're in high school, you don't have no abs, you don't play anything, you're not, you don't got a basketball, football jersey. Hey, you ain't even in the band or the glee club.


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[Assistant] And the, and the cheerleader, the worst looking cheerleader invites you and asks you to the dance. That's what you gonna say. Heck yeah, I'm going to the dance. No questions asked. You don't care about her personality. You just doing it. The Browns are like, hey look,


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[Assistant] Schwartz, David Bell did not look good. We got it out. They've been coveting Jerry Judy, as he said, for two years. Two full seasons. Two full seasons they want to have. And what was the, why did you have to sign him now? Just to potentially save money if he has a breakout year? Because, because we playing, because we playing gymnastics with this cat.


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[Assistant] They doing gymnastics with this cat. They restructuring everything, moving stuff around. They're like, listen, if I could get him now for this price.


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[Assistant] Rather than him play well this year and then I gotta pay him 10, 15, 20, 30 more million dollars as a free agent. I get him on the cheap. All I know is, and this is a fact, it better work.


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[Assistant] Below average, average, above average, good or excellent. Where would you put them? Jerry Judy? Yes.


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[Assistant] It's personality, maybe it's, it's, it's the, you know, the makeup, the DNA, right? Think about it. You know, Jerry, Judy, in Denver, if


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[Assistant] Mark Slarrith and, and, and, and the other, uh, other was Brandon Stokely. And if, and if they saying that about you.


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[Assistant] I'm guessing the way I know media works. There's a bunch of lower level people saying the same thing, local guys saying the same thing about him and his play, his character, his headspace. Right. And so the crazy part about it is, I look at it like this. When you get him here, he was just happy like, yo, these guys wanted me for two years, right? It's just something to be said about it.


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[Assistant] Like, Andrew Berry came in and said, look, we've been targeting you, we got you, we gave up assets to get you, and before we even, you played it down in our jersey.


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[Assistant] We gave you, we ripped up that contract and gave you a brand new one. Do you know how hard people will play for you because they gave you a shot? I'm like, man, listen, this dude, like, I ain't Mr. Work. Like, it's something to be said of you.


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[Assistant] That leaves a good taste in your mouth. And then other guys like Zedaria Smith and Maurice Hurst can say, hey look, they signed me back. They signed me back.


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[Assistant] And the crazy part about it is, I think they did it strategically.


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[Assistant] Listen, I called him up for not having defensive tackles for a whole doggone year. And people's like, you're a broken record, you say the same thing, Jay. I'm like, listen, I'm gonna keep saying the same thing. And here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Don't they understand, like, a lot of people don't because they do other things for a living. That's like if I went to somebody else's job and said, listen,


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[Assistant] I'm just so tired. Every time I see you, you're putting the mail in the mailbox. And he was like, yeah, I'm a mailman. That's what I do. Rain, sleet, or snow, this is what we do at McNuggets. This is, this is your job. So like when you say stirring the pot or our job is to come up with, even if we ain't got nothing, we supposed to make something up.


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[Assistant] It's supposed to, at least it's supposed to be entertaining. Like, we gonna speculate. That's part of what we do. We speculate, we do it, and we're gonna do it well.


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[Assistant] You can't get mad at people for saying certain different things, and you can't say every time you disagree with something, you're a hater.


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[Assistant] I still like it. You know why? Cause you still, I don't care.


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[Assistant] I don't care how much it costs. I'm outta here in eight years, six years anyway. Six to eight tops.


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[Assistant] Right, but wouldn't I want to spend it on a better player, is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] The evaluation is, he was the best player at that price.


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[Assistant] Well then you go get somebody else. You make a trade at the deadline. There's always somebody available. If money's not an object. I, I, but here's the thing. I like, I like the fact that I'm with Mc, with McNugget said.


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[Assistant] There's no way you could go into next year with all your, all those receivers being free agents. Well, you could assign them next year.


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[Assistant] He's, he's right. As always, he was right. Six weeks. He was right. Six weeks. I'll say this. Give me your projection. If we gonna talk about how good or bad it was, what are you, cause, cause there's a thought in your mind what you think he gonna get. I feel like you feel like. Yeah.


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[Assistant] He's gonna be more on the line, on the stance of a DPJ rather than...


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[Assistant] He does that, I'm good. I need to see the receptions around 70. Now, but it's tricky though, because we, you know, what's the quarterback play?


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[Assistant] This is what I need. I'm sorry, listen. I gave you reprieve on that 5,000.


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[Assistant] Deshaun? Yea, let's go. You, you owed me at least 40, 4200. You owed me 4200. That's a big difference.


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[Assistant] I've been holding it down. I've been taking a lot. Banker could throw 4200. That's what I'm saying. I've been holding it down for you. What is that per game? 4200. And I need both of your receivers to have a thousand. And I need a joker to be hitting on a nine. I want to hear this Mike Lucas nonsense.


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[Assistant] Well, generally speaking, you going, like, if you playing against, you know, Sean Watson wanna go down for you.


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[Assistant] And so usually they gonna, alright, I could check it down if I'm playing a good defense, you know what I'm saying? They not gonna give me time to go downfield. But other than that, I'm going up top. So that's another thing why I like the Jerry Judy move is because he's not a burner.


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[Assistant] But when you watch his little highlights, he, he, he. He's a guy that can move after the catch. The guy can go up and do some, some things. Uhm, you know, he's bigger body, bigger target.


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[Assistant] Right. You have one on each side. Does this move prohibit the Browns? Would you say from, is it more likely the Browns draft a receiver or not draft a receiver with this move?


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[Assistant] No sense. It's like Desmond Ritter. You're like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Except for, except for say for some reason there's some crazy something happened and say Jaden Daniels falls to you for the Browns.


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[Assistant] You're not going to take the best available player. He'd obviously be the best available player. Well, he'd be the best available player. You wouldn't take him though. Oh, well, okay. Yes. The best available, except if it's a quarterback. Yeah, right.


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[Assistant] Stop. You know what it is, when you gotta do, listen, when you doing these, when you doing mock drafts, you just gotta switch it up. You can't have the same mock draft. Yea, it's boring.


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[Assistant] Man, listen, it's gonna be fun to watch, uh, not fun to watch, but...


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[Assistant] Fun to listen to. He gonna be giving you- Great quotes. He gonna be giving you all kinda quotes. Yep. All kinda joints. And like I said, let me be keep it real. I'ma stick to it.


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[Assistant] Jameis Winston going to be playing a lot of football this summer and in the camp. A lot.


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[Assistant] You gon' hear a lot of these. Definitely, definitely in these like off-season camps. Oh yeaah, let's see. They gon' start talking about how good in the locker room he is, how great the guys around him like him, he's a real true leader. All the stories that, you know, I didn't, I didn't gave away half the storylines for Beat Reporters.


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[Assistant] What happened? Now listen, I- Crab blaze is crazy.


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[Assistant] I just can't get over it, like, the sea creature-ness, like. You don't eat crab legs. You don't, it's right, you and Jay don't eat them. I'm allergic, I'm allergic to shellfish. Oh, well okay, then I don't blame you. And, and, like, y'all eating crawfish. Like, you eat crawfish?


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[Assistant] My wife took me to a Korean barbecue, right? And all I wanted to do was just go home and put my shoes up.


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[Assistant] I just got this thing, as soon as I get my shoes, I gotta go put them up.


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[Assistant] So we go to the Korean barbecue, we sitting down, and she fooled me. At first, they brought all these nice little fresh vegetables and stuff and you cooking it. I'm like, this is good. You did a good job, man. Shout out to you. And then she waited me out. She said something in this foreign language to this little waiter.


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[Assistant] And she just nodded and just ran, ran back real quick. I'm like, what'd you say to him? Don't worry about it. She thought I was gonna be gone, like she was gonna get this off. Bro, they came back with all kind of sea creatures.


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[Assistant] All kind of tentacles. No beef, no pork, no chicken. No tentacles. And you wouldn't eat it? Wouldn't eat it. I'm petrified. I don't like that.


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[Assistant] I literally was like, listen, we just can't be together. I said, when you get home, you better wash your hands and brush your teeth. Alright, so Jameis is QB2.


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[Assistant] Shout out to Jameis Wilson. You know, maybe he'll clear that up. Have you ever been kicked out of a Chinese buffet? Anybody?


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[Assistant] I've got the town in a Chinese buffet. I mean, the town.


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[Assistant] I got kicked, I got kicked out of, in college I got kicked out of restaurants, but. For what? You need too much? No, I was just with an unruly crew. Oh yeaah, okay. It was whatever, I was with a bunch of white guys and they were drunk. White guys are out of control. Stupid white guys.


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[Assistant] Can you believe it's week 12? I know. I know. But, but dawg, like here's the thing, man, I, you know,


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[Assistant] Man, I'm not rushing it. Like, bro, listen, if he, like,


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[Assistant] It does mean no good to have him thrown right now. Like, if he's throwing great, if he's not throwing okay, like, alright, like, we're gonna throw April. Like, as long as he's ready for the season, like week one, I can care less how long rehab takes.


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[Assistant] You know, there's, you know, I talk to me nuggets about that, about this, like, you know, nowadays.


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[Assistant] I declared, like I was sitting there and I said, you know what? Uhm, the regular media is over.


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[Assistant] And I see somebody say, what do you mean with the regular media is over? Like, nowadays...


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[Assistant] Like, athletes finally realize, alright, well, screw it, I'm gonna just do my own podcast. Right.


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[Assistant] It's still better to have decent relationships with people, no? I don't think they, at this point, they're like, look,


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[Assistant] And I can say anything I want. True.


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[Assistant] I think, I think they don't trust the media anymore. They don't trust that they're gonna be fair brokers. Well, that's unfair. I'm just telling you what they doing.


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[Assistant] They all got their own- Well, not all. I mean, you- You- Because they control their own narrative. They control their- Like, there's a lot of times, right? Right. So say for instance you get in trouble, bro. Or you- Something happens.


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[Assistant] It gets broken in local news. It gets put in a paper. It's in a magazine.


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[Assistant] You'd be like, well, let me go out and really say what I did. The team's like, nah, we ain't doing that.


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[Assistant] Your PR people, the publicists, the marketing, they're like, no, no, we'll put out a per- we'll put out a statement. So what starts happening is, is, is players start being like, well damn, I'm getting the narrative in the news.


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[Assistant] I, I just watched the, I just, I just watched Skip Bayless become irrelevant. Well, that's what Dan Levittard said.


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[Assistant] He's irrelevant, he wouldn't be making the money he's making. But once again, we talked about it with players, irrelevant. Just because you're making certain money, that don't mean to match your production.


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[Assistant] Well, irrelevant and good is two different things. Remember I said, can you be good and still be an underperformer, right? Right. Or like, or not meet, so what I'm saying- But what were you getting at? What I was getting at is- I mean, we're mainstream media, aren't we? No.


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[Assistant] I love it, I'm not into pre-media. So a lot of players is like, I see Maurice Claret. He was on, uhm, with Cameron and Mace.


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[Assistant] I say, dang, he can say that? And then I realized, he's on with a rapper, and another rapper, and former drug dealers, so yeaah, you can say that.


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[Assistant] He's speaking as like, I'm a quarterback coach, they gonna come to me as a quarterback coach regardless, and I'ma just say whatever I feel comes to my mind.


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[Assistant] You know, before the NFL machine got up and running, nobody was...


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[Assistant] Sayin' what Bernie is doin' in OTAs, like, that didn't exist. Like, you know, so like, you just, alright, season's over, they start talkin' about it around two days, and then season starts. Now we got this 24 hour news cycle where we're like, yea, Deshawn's throwin', and it's like, but we're not gonna see him throw. But yea, but we don't.


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[Assistant] So for me, when Amy's like, oh, he's throwing in March, he's ahead of schedule. And it's just like, okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is regular season workouts, bro. That's cool for YouTube. Like if he wanted that, once again, I don't hate to go back to this, but if he wanted to put it


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[Assistant] Uh, look, you know, gather the guys. I got David and Joker coming in. Show you going out to eat with the guys. Comrade, Mouse Garrett did something, a little something last year like that. Showing how he gets his body ready and awesome. Well, we saw some of the bronze players in Africa. Yea, yea, yea. Hanging together. Jarvis Landry did that in a documentary a couple years ago. He did that.


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[Assistant] Now we analyze that, right? Because, and I think- Cause we need something to analyze in the middle of nothing. That is good content, like, cause we can break that down and say, hey, I like what he said to that player, or I like what this player said about, but other than that, we don't get that.


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[Assistant] Or he's doing, or he, you know, he's like, yeah, you know, I got her the guys up and we did some community service over here. Yea, you want it, you like that. They can do things to like,


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[Assistant] Really, like make him look very polished and good.


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[Assistant] I just don't know if he's at that point of his career where you care.


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[Assistant] Right, but you see what I'm saying? It comes a time where that kind of stuff, your image does matter.


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[Assistant] But if he, look, here's the thing. If he has five good throws in a pre-season game, I don't care. If they leave him in a half, and he plays, and he sprinkles the football around, and Nick Chubb plays, well Nick Chubb probably won't play. He's not playing. But if he sprinkles the ball around to these guys, Jerry Judy get involved, and he look good,


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[Assistant] Take care of the chains. I remember when the last time we saw Deshaun Watson, everybody in Cleveland loved Deshaun Watson when he beat the Ravens.


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[Assistant] But guess what? When he got hurt and he was out of sight, out of mind, switch like that.


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[Assistant] I can't, I can't. This, this always gets me. I don't understand. I do. I don't get it. He's played 11 games.


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[Assistant] He hasn't played at a high level since 2020. So he sat out a year, right? His choice. His choice. If I'm gonna knock Michael Jordan for sitting out, I gotta knock him. He sat out. That was his choice.


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[Assistant] It's the big, it's the big question mark, right? You know, we always got one, right? We'll see what's going on. Cause I, at the end of the day, that's, you know, we can say that every day. That's just, there's a question mark.


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[Assistant] Oh, they'd be playing Philly there, right? Philly, yea. Dang, they said it was tough. I'd take it to Brazil though. I want it. I'm on the record. I want them to start the game.


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[Assistant] What better way to put up a huge middle finger if you're Deshaun Watson if you go play the Eagles and you smoke them in another country?


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[Assistant] You just, you just, you just, he just set himself up for tearing everything down. And they have no wide receivers.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to be screaming this starting now. Yeaah. Obviously the Browns listened to your boy, Operation Stockpile. They even went and stockpiled me some coaches. So shout out to you guys for listening to, uh, you know, the Duke and knee jerk.


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[Assistant] But I'm telling you this, Brown's got to have one playoff game at home.


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[Assistant] C-Hawks. C-Hawks are decent. Niners are good. Cardinals can be fancy. Rams. That's it. Rams. C-Hawks. Niners. That might be the second best division.


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[Assistant] Because all the teams are good. Yeaah. I guarantee the AFC North will have the most primetime games. Without a doubt.


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[Assistant] Well, and plus there's good rivalries. I mean, there's, there's really like, it's, it's, It seems they'll like each other. It's good storylines. There's very good storylines like in, in AFC North.


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[Assistant] And you get, uh, Patrick Mahomes playing against the FC North this year, right? Yep. Yeah. So there's another boatload of games that, you know, probably will be on the dot.


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[Assistant] I think what he's saying is, if you look at their roster, this wasn't the most talented Chiefs roster that they had during their run.


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[Assistant] No, they're in big trouble right now. They might be in long term trouble too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I know people don't want to, you know, really get to this, but...


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta, you gotta ask yourself a question. Do you have a championship roster?


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[Assistant] If everybody is healthy, everything, all things being equal, there are still four teams that like,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't, I don't think, there's four teams ahead of them by far that are just it. Boston is better, uh, the Sixers are better.


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[Assistant] Um, Milwaukee is better. Um, and New York, I think at full power is better. And they might not be more talented in the calves, but mentally and physically, they just are better. So my thing is,


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[Assistant] Alright, if I don't think I got a championship roster...


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[Assistant] Or I don't have the championship makeup to win it all.


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[Assistant] And give yourself the best punchers chance to do something in the playoffs. Uhm, one thing I will be watching though is this. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be watching, you know, this thing, I think this is a, it's a rough year for Darius Garland, man. It's a rough one, man. Like, you know what I'm saying, the other night, you know, he has these games where he's, you know, he's getting buckets, he gets some games where he gets 12, 13 points.


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[Assistant] And we talk about what people is worth all the time. I mean, this guy makes more than, than, than...


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell. This guy is a, this guy is really like, he is a max dude. And when you don't have your other best player in, when Jordan ain't in, Pippen got it killed. Like, you see what Tyrese Maxey is doing?


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[Assistant] W-w-w-w-and B went out, Tyrese Maxey said, oh, Harden's gone too?


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[Assistant] Let me show you how to do this. Here's how we gonna work this. I'ma get 30 a game. And so, you have to be consistently 30 a game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wanna see what Garland does, I wanna see what some of the other roster pieces do in his absence in the last 14 games, because it'll give you ammunition to say one way or another, because that would mean I haven't seen any growth from that core unit. No growth.


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[Assistant] They got bounced by the Hawks to get in, didn't even make the play in. They lost the play in the next two years, two games and didn't get any money. So now going down the backstreet last year, they kind of faltered. Now this year it's the same collapse. I want to see something different. I'm trying to get Anthony to play this clip.


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[Assistant] He is in Russia right now. I feel like, I feel like he went right back to like wherever he was because like he is really like... Russian army. Yeaah, he might be on the front lines, like he's doing his thing. Trying to poison political, uh, opposers. That's crazy. I didn't say that.


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[Assistant] And we got people who endorse him here. Nevermind. See, this is what I'm talking about. And this is why we can't never have nothing nice. All right. Uh, yeah, no, I like, listen, they've got him obvious, obviously for a reason.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to be, to come in and rough the game up. And here's the thing. I think, you know, the roster is not


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[Assistant] But I think if they played- You think they can go pretty far with Donovan Mitchell in the situation he is? If they played a certain type of way, and they were able to muddy the game up.


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[Assistant] With Mitchell and playing Muddy in the game up a little bit and playing really, really, really strong, good defense. I think they could do something. Now, I don't think they could win a championship, but I think they could potentially go to the Eastern Conference Finals if they had a coach that would be able to turn the switches, right? I felt like a month ago I thought the Cavs could go to the


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[Assistant] Uh, but no, I did see him at, uh, State Farm. I think it was with Caitlin, uh... Caitlin Clark? He did have some... Caitlin Jenner? No, he won with her. She's starting a podcast with Lamar Odom. For real?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, Jimmy Butler said he has some crazy beads.


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[Assistant] Well, the guy's game, you know, first of all...


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[Assistant] There's, there's seven, seven or ten things wrong with, like, why are you doing, why are you doing possession arrows?


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[Assistant] Trash. I like that. I hate the possession arrow. Jump ball. Uh, uh, why do you have two halves? That's trash.


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[Assistant] Why is your shot clock so high? That's trash.


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[Assistant] I don't want to see you sitting around passing a ball around a perimeter, clapping it up. Like, why is every time you touch somebody a foul in college? And there should be, in the NBA, six fouls.


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[Assistant] They let her pull up from half court. She got the Steph Curry playbook.


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[Assistant] When you watch college basketball, these coaches be like, they got the vice grip on them, bro. They play the most, the worst style basketball, like the, the, uh, which, which I'd wanted to talk about if we had time, but we're not going to have time. We do it for overtime.


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[Assistant] That's why I say Trio. That's why you listen. That's why you put Trio. Now I still take the bangles. I still take the bangles over it. He carves, shout out to him, he carves, he said he, the most yards in the division.


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[Assistant] I'm going to apologize. My mom always tells me, no one's a god. Stop saying that. No one's a god. So I'll apologize. I'll say he's an Omega level.


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[Assistant] Not five, but three at the top. Ten for sure. Once upon a time, we used to do things like that in Cleveland, but we don't have any money for the 30th year. Oh, we have money.


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[Assistant] If they drafted me, I wouldn't go there. I'm just sorry.


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[Assistant] Well, you do. You could not sign. If you're a senior in college, you have no choice. Like, I'm going back to college, I'm going... Actually, you still have...


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, because here's my thing. They are not interested


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[Assistant] But hold on, but if you Gavin Williams and Bobby, right? You know it's either me or you. Right now.


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[Assistant] The reason those other teams don't get killed for it? They do.


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[Assistant] What we're saying is the bottom 10 teams don't spend enough. Okay, so my thing is, you're not gonna spin, and you're gonna say we got, we wanna do, we gotta be frugal, we gotta be right with the pieces we got, we gotta get right with this.


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[Assistant] If they had King Griffey Jr., they'd never put him in an outfield as that young of a player. Like, it's, like, that's why when you watch other teams, you see, oh, they got a kid, he's a stud, Bryce Harper's playing, they won. They won. That's, that's, that's pretty unique.


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[Assistant] College players 22 years old. I hear ya. So we gon' stockpile em.


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[Assistant] And uhm, maybe we'll just give them another team, like Nolan Jones. When are we gonna see people?


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[Assistant] I would, I would, uh, I'ma tell you this. I was listening to Wayne, I was listening to the, the King Carmen. He said something that hit me at the, at the end of the show. He said, look.


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[Assistant] But, but what I can say is, Boston is a baseball town.


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[Assistant] Boston is, is, it was hyperbole, yes. But one thing that you could take away from that is, it matters who you put on the diamond. Of course it matters. The Red Sox aren't that good. And the Guardians, they, we've been here for such a long time. You don't have Tito no more.


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[Assistant] Like, you gotta understand that. Their, their calculus is, we can operate as, if we have Tito, who's a big shield, from a lot of, he deflects a lot of stuff. You go to the game because of Tito, he deflects masterfully at the end of games about-


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[Assistant] I still don't, I still don't understand arbitration. I just don't get it.


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[Assistant] He don't care about the money. You know, I was actually just thinking about whether it would be okay if I, like, urinated on myself or if I just...


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[Assistant] I got about a minute thirty left. Do you have to go again? No, I've been having to go since day one. Since like the show started. So like I've been just trying to do this mental gymnastics over here. Didn't you go before the show?


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[Assistant] There's diuretics in that bro, cause I've been over here, I've been over here, my knees been Harlem shaking bro. I have noticed your legs been dancing out. My legs, listen, my legs is over here like, I'm over here like having involuntary muscle spasms.


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[Assistant] How was vacay? It was fantastic. I had a great time. You loved it, didn't you? I just, yeah, it's hard to come back to cold weather, although it was nice when we got back and it's supposed to get nice again this week.


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[Assistant] I was in Naples for one day. Do you like it? Yea, yea, I've been there before because my mom lives in Bonita Springs. Oh, great. So we went down there for the last day and had a good time.


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[Assistant] I probably shouldn't be saying that, but uh, ask anybody there that's going to be honest. They'll tell you. You get harassed if you call in sick.


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[Assistant] Well, even the trades, even those trades, you know, can't happen officially till Wednesday. It's supposed to be a dead period. Yeah, right, right, right. And that doesn't happen. By the way, doesn't this sum up for you and me, especially that love baseball, just why football is so much more popular than baseball. Here we are. This week's going to be bat shit, you know, crazy.


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[Assistant] Real quick, I just want to say, this is how popular the Browns are. That they traded for a receiver.


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[Assistant] And these guys went and did a breaking news show live on Saturday, and last check it had 30,000 views.


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[Assistant] Let's say he has a great season. Yeaah, it'll cost you more to sign him. But if he has a great season, you got first dibs at him. Whether it's franchising him or whatever you want to do.


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[Assistant] Probably not, but I'm just saying, let's say he has a magnificent season, he has 1400 yards, something crazy happened. Then you do, I get that. Then you have, you have some, by being the team that has him,


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[Assistant] If, if they had given up a lot for him, I'd be like, well, I don't know, maybe. But a fifth and sixth round pick to me is essentially nothing. They have other fifth and sixth round picks. They do. He's been a good solid player.


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[Assistant] The potential is the big word. I like that he's with- Amari Cooper was basically his idol.


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[Assistant] He has said that the reason, one of the reasons he went to Alabama is because of Amari Cooper. So I think Amari Cooper who's...


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[Assistant] A rock solid NFL guy and player will be a good influence for him. I agree. Now his inconsistency, I know the Broncos play-by-play guy was on with Ken and Lyman this morning. He talked about, hey, he's inconsistent in terms of holding onto the ball. You don't love to hear that, but he's a good route runner. He's got very good speed. I think worst case scenario,


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[Assistant] He's an 800 yard receiver. Make him number two. Make him number two, no doubt. He is a legitimate number two receiver with I think the potential upside to be a bottom tier number one guy.


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[Assistant] I think he's somewhere probably between 30 and 40 in the NFL, which is way better than Elijah Moore, who's between 60 and 80 in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You looked at what was better. We all said they had to get an upgrade by receiver 2.


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[Assistant] Well who were the options? Mike Williams, Calvin Ridley, and Marquise Brown.


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[Assistant] And I think this guy is right there in that same group. There's a group of like 12 guys, 14 guys, whatever it might be, that are in that tier of upper end twos, maybe if they play at their best, lower end ones.


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[Assistant] I mean, he, he just went, he just destroyed him in a video. Oh, did he really? Yea, I mean, he said, I don't remember the exact words that he used, but he just, he crushed him in a video.


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[Assistant] It's funny to think about the Browns being a good environment because for decades they've been a bad spot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it, cause if he has a great season this year, he's gonna get a huge contract, cause he was a first round pick and he's still very young. But he's right now, like, if I'm Jerry Judy.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking, man, this is embarrassing. I just got traded. I was a first round pick. I've been, I've been, maybe Bust is too strong, but I've been a disappointment in the NFL. He's never had a thousand yards. And I was given away for nothing and people don't believe in me. So I want to prove myself.


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[Assistant] I've never heard of that. Omari's gotta talk, you know, like, it's gotta be about the consistency. Yeaah. He's been an up and down player in his career at the end of the 22 season.


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[Assistant] So the Browns might, if DeShaw doesn't turn it around this year, we might see the same thing with the Browns next year. But yes, with the Broncos, it's over. And with the Broncos, it was an old... See, Sean can still make it good.


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[Assistant] Yes. The Broncos, you're talking about an older quarterback. So maybe they should have known better. With the Browns, there was every reason to believe, but you know, that's it. One more thing on this in terms of


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[Assistant] You know, whether he gets it because of the humiliation and will he be humbled because he could turn his whole career around and become a great player. He could. It reminds me of, I know you're not a huge fan of the movie, but you'll like, you'll remember this part from Moneyball.


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[Assistant] Okay, there was a scene where the players were starting to buy into the moneyball stuff.


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[Assistant] And realistically, what's the downside? Let's, let's say he's just what he's been in his career and he has 783 yards. Well, it's still better than Elijah Moore.


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[Assistant] I think everybody's out of pocket when it comes to the Cavaliers. I heard, I was listening to the, uh, to the fan when, when G. Bush and, uh, and Earl were on Saturday.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and, and Gee's screaming about Imani Bates. He wants to see Imani Bates. I don't give a rat's ass about Imani Bates. I love you, Gee, and I wish you were here today so I could yell at you in person. Not really.


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[Assistant] But I'm like, I don't care about money. First of all, why would anybody care that they lost to the Nets? That's a bad loss. Who gives a shit? It's the regular season against a meaningless team that had half their team hurt. Mike, how many good players for the Cavs didn't play yesterday?


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[Assistant] Playoffs, we won't know until we get there. So if we're gonna say that, well, they've proven they can win, but it doesn't matter, then one of the losses matter. Who cares? You think it wins?


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[Assistant] And the thing is, what they've done in the last couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] It's, it's all meaningless because they don't have Donovan Mitchell, their best player. Well, the Cavs don't have Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] Everybody overreacted to the Knick game. They're soft. They're soft. You know, listen, I don't think they're soft. They played poorly against the Knicks. The Knicks seemed to have their number. We'll see. The Cavs, I believe, beat the Knicks in the regular season last year, and that didn't mean anything in the playoff.


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[Assistant] So, as we say all the time, nothing necessarily translates. I like that they played hard against Celtics. I like that they played hard against Minnesota. They played a terrible game yesterday, but they had a bunch of, they had Mobley's brother play in half the game. That's how thin they were.


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[Assistant] Couple of quickies before we get back to our football topics. One is a football topic. By the way, uh, after, I think in the overtime we may talk about Gavin Williams, which is a little concerning.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, how about this? John Heyman just tweeted, Garrett Cole getting an MRI on his elbow, his pitching elbow. The Yankees will be down the tubes if he has... And Michael Pittman, who was franchise tag, just signed a three-year extension with the Colts.


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[Assistant] 12 quarterback, you keep tacking on to the highest number, highest number. And then the quarterbacks like 13 to 20 maybe, they keep tacking on a little bit to that group. You know, like he just I think topped the Daniel Jones contract.


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[Assistant] Exactly. And the, and the Buccaneers could probably move on from Baker if he had a bad year after one year. Definitely could move on after two years. But for Baker, it makes a lot of sense. I mean, he signed for what, six million last year, whatever it was.


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[Assistant] He's got a guaranteed 50 million, he's gonna get paid 30 million this year, it's all guaranteed. He gets 30 million next year, and I believe 20 of it's guaranteed. The third year of the contract is 40 million, none of that's guaranteed. He also has some performance bonuses there so he can make up to 115.


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[Assistant] Listen, for Baker, he's got a show he can have back-to-back good years. His, he, we talk about lack of consistency. That's been Baker. It's been one year good, one year bad. If he has a second. Now, this, this will be the first year where he


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[Assistant] Where they should be in the mix to win that division. So can Baker have back to back good years? We'll see. He obviously had a very good season last year.


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[Assistant] He goes back to his old ways. And the question is, has he changed as a person? And will that affect his... Do you think he has?


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[Assistant] I think he has to some degree. I don't think he would have had, if he had stayed in Cleveland, I don't think he would have had the success he had. So I don't think, I think he needed that slap in the face. We just talked about it with Jerry Judy. I agree with that. Right? We'll see if Jerry, Baker got the slap in the face and he got humbled last year. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, I love that. I love that. But by the way, it reminded me that this is the first time we've seen each other since you asked Austin Hedges that question, which I was cracking up. And I loved that he was like, yeah, I'm not a good hitter. And you know what? He's hitting, he's hitting 365 with a couple homers, I think. At least one. And spring training counts.


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[Assistant] Well, who was the one big girl that just knocked the other girl on her ass? Oh, she shuts!


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[Assistant] The average viewer total on Fox was higher for women than men in college basketball. I wonder if that's ever happened in any sport before. Outside Olympics or something like that.


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[Assistant] The rumor is that Kirk Cousins may be going to Atlanta and that, and that if, if that happened then Minnesota would have been interested in Baker but it doesn't happen. But obviously Russell Wilson going to Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Certainly that's an upgrade for them. We could, we could crap on Russell Wilson all we want. He hasn't been that good the last few years. But he's clearly better than what they had there.


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[Assistant] He's at least a, and, and really he's perfect for Pittsburgh because they want to run the ball and they want to play, they want to use Russ like they used him in Seattle when he first played in Seattle.


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[Assistant] Or at least in me. Yeaah, yeaah. No doubt, and this is a really smart move by the Steelers. You know, I think it was funny that I saw a lot of Browns fans kind of making fun of Kenny Pickett today. Like, you can't be cocky as a Browns fan making fun of Kenny Pickett. We've had plenty of our Kenny Picketts here in Cleveland. Nah, I'm a Browns fan. That's kind of weird.


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[Assistant] Middle of the road quarterback. Like he's, he's 15, at worst he's 15 to 20.


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[Assistant] If you run the ball as much as they do, he's got two good receivers there.


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[Assistant] They're going to run it. If he's throwing the ball, 18, 20, he doesn't turn the ball over a ton generally. No. It's a, I mean, I think he, of anybody they could have gotten, there's nobody better. Who could they have gotten? I think Kirk Cousins at this point is a better player, but Kirk Cousins doesn't fit the Steelers the way he plays. For the Steelers, there's no better guy they could have gotten.


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[Assistant] The North is lit and I like it. I like it. It's just a great move. I agree. I'd rather it's the Steelers are better off with Russell Wilson because he's a veteran.


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[Assistant] He was on Tony. And they're only paying Russ a million too. So like, they could cut him if it was that bad. I mean, I can't imagine.


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[Assistant] That money just comes out of the Denver payment. It's not in addition to. No. So it just offsets Denver's money to him. A little bit, yes.


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[Assistant] Well, don't give them a pass. They have the money. You know what's funny? The Bengals have actually spent, if you look at dollars spent, more money in free agency the last four years than almost any team in football. I saw this the other day.


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[Assistant] Sure, but I'm saying in terms of dollars spent on guys who were free agents, the Bengals have surprisingly the last few years spent a lot of money because for years they never spent. So I can't kill them. But they also let some guys go too.


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[Assistant] Didn't they lose a couple of guys last year? They lost Jesse Bates and Von Bell. Yeaah. But they had a lot of free agents. But I, listen, most of their free agent signings have been good signings. They signed Trey Hendricks and some of these offensive linemen. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, they feel, now, they could pay both T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, but they've decided they're not going to. That they're gonna just pay Chase. And I'm okay with that in the end.


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[Assistant] T. Higgins wants to get traded. If I'm the Bengals, I don't trade him. What's he gonna do? He's not gonna sit out.


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[Assistant] If, if they're gonna trade him, they're gonna trade him to the NFC, most likely. Yes. And I doubt they would trade him because T Higgins really has no leverage. He's not gonna sit out.


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[Assistant] Replace him eventually, but I don't think he's gonna get traded. I'll be very surprised. We'll see. If somebody blows him away with a first round pick, maybe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wouldn't trade him unless I got a first round pick. If I got a first round pick, especially because the wide receiver class is so good this year, I would probably trade him for a first round pick, but anything less than that, I'll let it go.


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[Assistant] It's an interesting pickup. I thought, I assume, I was thinking Swift would get about 6 million a year, so the fact that he got 8 means, okay, what's Barkley gonna get?


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[Assistant] Just tweeted, not at, nothing definitive, but he said, uh, the Browns and Texans expected to be very aggressive in looking at defensive tackles.


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[Assistant] Which surprises me. I was not expecting to spend big money on D-Tackle when they did already last year, so that's... I know, but some of those were one-year deals, were they not? Well, but they signed, uh, what's his name? Uh, oh god. What was Tomlinson? Tomlinson paid him like $17 million a year.


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[Assistant] 3 for 51. Yeaah, so I usually don't pay 2 defensive line, defensive tackle, big money.


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[Assistant] The Bengals have re-signed third string running back Travian Williams. Huge move. Huge move.