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[Assistant] I would just give him the day off.


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[Assistant] Here's, no. Like, you gotta- You're not changing either way. You gotta think about it like this. Like, there's a lot of, the reason I'm not even going for 33, if Donovan Mitchell was playing today, I wouldn't say he was getting 33.


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[Assistant] Today, if he was fully healthy, and you said, I'm betting on this game, would you bet Donovan Mitchell gets over or under 30 points? I would. I'm all the way under. I'm definitely going over. The first game, guys play less minutes maybe? It's the first game after the All-Star break. Uh, and Orlando is not no really pushover. They play hard as a young team, and two,


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[Assistant] Like, Donovan Mitchell, you got a lot of other people that get buckets. Why Donovan Mitchell been playing? You look at what Evan Mobley be getting. He getting about 15, 16. There's nights that Jared Allen is getting 20 points. And not to mention, they got people, Karis Levert coming off the bench with the green light. You already know Strews is jacking up three. Everybody shoots down. So,


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[Assistant] It ain't like, it's gonna be like, yeaah, it's just my show and I'ma droop, droop, droop, droop. Nah, like every, like it got a lot of bunch of people coming in and shooting. Alright.


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[Assistant] 10 and 19, if they lost Donovan Mitchell and Jared Island for the rest of the year and it was good to come back playoffs, they still wouldn't be 10 and 19.


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[Assistant] Take it from the guy who does, is, is, uh, my name is 20 or more parlay.


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[Assistant] 20 or more. Now look, you know how many games Evan, like, you get Jared Allen who get like 25 points, 9 rebounds.


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[Assistant] Like, it don't, it's like, for the regular eye, it's like every time he shoots, he goes in. That's how high 45% is. And if he starts slow...


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[Assistant] That's correct. So, and you, you look at it, and then now they put it on the Bally's app, right? You gotta have Bally's.


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[Assistant] The Bally's app is trash. It crashes all the time. But last year was the same thing. Why, why is it down from last year if that was the case? Because, not only last year, ahem,


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[Assistant] Cavs had some excitement. They got Donovan Mitchell in the beginning of the year. They had a really good year. Then they got smoked in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Then this year starts and the, the Bally's app is horrible. You're like, man, like there's no, there's no bells and whistles to it. Bally's ends up folding and closing. There's games where I tried to watch it. I purchased the Bally's app, right? Can't even open it.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't even open it. Like it's crazy. And I'm like people, like it's just, it just seems like an empty app where they put no infrastructure into it. There's no IT and like, you know, I bet you the, I bet you the guardians stuff is down too.


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[Assistant] Before used to be able to watch all the local teams, right? They make you choose now.


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[Assistant] So, we talked about it before the season started. DirecTV didn't have the Browns. Right. So, it forces you to pay the $100. Well, it didn't have the Sunday ticket. Didn't have the... Right. So, the Browns are blacked out, so you had to pay the $100 for YouTube TV. Now, YouTube TV doesn't have the cash. Right. So, are you gonna pay DirecTV?


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[Assistant] I think unemployment is a difference between being unemployed and undereemployed. Fair. When you're undereemployed and you gotta work two jobs to make what you should have won, it's tough.


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[Assistant] The way I had to do it was, uh, I had, I had for the longest time to direct TV stream, right?


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[Assistant] And, uh, for the longest time I had it, and then one day I, it was a preseason game or something. And then it was like, yeah, the Browns game ain't on TV. And I was like, oh, that's unacceptable. Like that's what, bye. So.


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[Assistant] But I, so I pay, I pay the cable in the sports package, you know what I'm saying, so for my, uh, my dad, like they're on a fixed income, like he's not about to spend $300 a month on just watching games. That's all the heck he want to do. He retired. So it's 1999 for the ballies package, right? So you pay that to watch the Cavs game.


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[Assistant] Youtube TV is probably about $89 and that's just a regular package. That does not include the guardians. That only includes the guardians.


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[Assistant] So you, and then I'm doing what you're doing now. You actually have to be active. You can't just sign up for something and just take it. You gotta like, right now, there's a lot of people who say they don't want baseball, but


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[Assistant] The Bally's app gave you more bang for your buck because for 1999, think about how many Guardians games you can watch. I don't know that you can watch the Guardians on the Bally's app, believe it or not.


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[Assistant] Last year, last year, I got the Bally's app and I was able to watch it. But- The Bally's app sucks. It's the worst.


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[Assistant] YouTube TV, okay, you ain't got it, but YouTube has the best thing in the world. You can, you can watch a 10 minute recap of Major League Baseball games or a 12 minute recap.


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[Assistant] I never understood, this is what we need Jay Crawford for. I never understood if you're a billionaire and you control this team and the messaging, why would you not have your own channel?


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[Assistant] But, but I never understood why.


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[Assistant] Right, on TBS. And the Cubs. And the Cubs. So I was, so I was confused, like to me, like there was games where we couldn't like, if, if we wasn't watching something, that's why everybody knew what the Braves was, like everybody knew the Braves roster. Like, I'm like, why is the Braves and the Hawks on all the dogs?


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[Assistant] Maybe it's just the mindset. If you have four billion dollars,


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[Assistant] Why are you still talking about making millions? You're a billionaire.


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[Assistant] Like, would it, like, it doesn't, like yeaah, you don't need to make money on everything. Like, regular people, we go to work, they give us a check.


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[Assistant] Did that, well I asked you about baseball, didn't that hurt? Do you believe that hurt?


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[Assistant] I got him at 20, I got him at 24, I got him about 22 home runs.


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[Assistant] I can't believe they wasted that man's career like that.


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[Assistant] Big dude. I need at least 27 from there. Look, you need to get on some creatine or some pre-workout or something, dawg. But don't get suspended. Let's say, look, hey, the baseball players. Hey, you need to go get some NO2s. Get on that Barry Bond stuff. Yeah, get it. Now we ain't gonna do the clearing the cream, but we gonna get you some creatine. We need 27 home runs out of you, Josh.


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[Assistant] He has, he has that, that Kung Fu Panda archetype. Yes. Like he, like he geek out. He one of them baseball players that don't look like they play baseball? No. Yeah. Yeah, just.


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[Assistant] And these are gonna be accidental home runs. How the hell you make a half a home run? Yea, swinging like, yea. Slice it down the right field line. They be killing me with that half. Next!


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[Assistant] But I would like to see this, like listen, I've been working with Jason Lloyd for like three years.


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[Assistant] He says 33. We got a lot of dudes in the 20s, right? Not a lot.


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[Assistant] Why the hell am I looking at Nolan Jones stats and Nolan Jones played minimum ski for the, for the guardians in 2022. They ship, they dig, they lose him for nothing. He hits 20 home runs last year with the, with the Rockies, 20 home runs.


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[Assistant] And I bet you he has 30. Now listen, and he batted 297. That's 300, like, 300 and


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[Assistant] Y'all a little happy. Y'all got, y'all got a little excited. Uh, Bo Nailer bring that down by, by 17, 16. You got him? Okay. Well, that's not that far from where I am. 18 to 20. I'm out of pocket.


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[Assistant] But baseball players get the most clout for doing nothing.


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[Assistant] It's like you're projecting college football players. Like McNuggets ate it. Basketball is so bad now. They been, they be scouting middle schoolers. They guys be, they be to their second year, they be like, oh, he ain't no good. They told Mike he wasn't good.


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[Assistant] Down the line. I looked at, listen, I was watching these little like blogs and this dude was telling him why, uh, why the dude, uh, Ivy is done. Like the, the, uh, what he getting for, for the joint. He's like, he's already washed. Look at his advanced analytics. I was like, dang, he done already?


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[Assistant] Nah, Steve is definitely, he's definitely an eraser.


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[Assistant] His risk statement for that? No. He ain't got the risk game.


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[Assistant] And special guest, special guest, drum roll please. Quincy Carrier is on.


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[Assistant] Uh, the senior bowl. He was at the senior bowl. So we're going to talk a little Brown's draft senior bowl. Uh, so check that out. And by the way, if you want to check that out, make sure, make sure you get me on the hotline. I'm going to get a hotline number out real quick. Mike Mcnuggets, 216-345.


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[Assistant] I need you to start, I need you to start, uhm, this wave. People that's running around talking about this defense.


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[Assistant] I don't care about defense. I'm gonna start, I'm just gonna devalue it. I'm just gonna devalue it. Like if you can catch a fly ball, great.


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[Assistant] If you, if you, if you give up a couple of hits or bloops because you got a terrible start, a jump on the ball, baseball, okay cool. But I'm gonna value 20 home runs over a goal. I got a hit.


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[Assistant] So we'll see. So you telling me you potentially with that move could have center fielder hitting 20.


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[Assistant] I don't know. So what do you got for Cody? What are you giving Cody Bellinger in addition to two million dollars? Unlimited corned beefs at any, at any establishment. Unlimited corned beefs? That's worth something. Unlimited, that's worth some, unlimited corned beef at any, and I'm giving him, baseball players, I give him my F-150, uh, Ford truck, uh, deal. No private plane? Private plane.


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[Assistant] And the hood chauffer and the bodyguard, the same thing. Right. Okay. You know, Earl is protected at all times.


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[Assistant] Now that you just said that, I'm just, anybody that is against NIO or talks about the transfer portal is a bad human being. I'm going directly to your morality points.


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[Assistant] In America, it's easy, it's very easy to make up rules for young minority kids. Let's be honest with it. Like, we don't never hear nothing about no tennis players making no decisions or no golfers making no bad decisions. It's just about, it's just the football players that want to go play.


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[Assistant] Is very special and worth your, your bottom dot to stick around for. So I can't wait for that to be played here on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. We're getting into our first topic, but before that, a quick word.


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[Assistant] In free agency with the Cleveland Browns and we're going big game hunting guys. We spent a few days talking about receivers. We did Mike Williams yesterday. We did Mike Evans early in the week. We did the blind dating game. So for the sake of this discussion, none of the receivers.


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[Assistant] are included. I picked some of the biggest other upcoming free agents. Some of these guys will probably be tagged, but for the sake of this, we're going to pretend they all hit the open market and I need you to tell the viewers and tell me


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[Assistant] Yesterday you said we could- Yeah, you can say a yes to all of them. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. But I'm just saying yes to players.


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[Assistant] I didn't phrase that wrong. Yeaah. Would this player be a great fit in the browns? And is he worth backing up the Brinks truck? We're gonna go one at a time. So I'll give you a player. You guys tell me if this player would be worth giving a massive contract to in situation. Good plan. Go ahead. Okay, we'll start. Yeaah. The biggest fish out there.


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[Assistant] Chris Jones, if he were to hit the open market, is this a player you'd be okay with Andrew Berry backing up the Brinkstruck four and him fitting seamlessly in this Cleveland Browns defense.


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[Assistant] So we all agree on Chris Jones. He was the biggest fish. I assumed everyone would say yes. The next six.


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[Assistant] Maybe we'll all agree on, but I, I think there'll be some more dissension. We'll stay with the same position though. Justin Matabeke, who we'll talk about a little later on the TV show as well. If he's not franchise tagged by the Ravens, would Justin Matabeke be a good fit for the Browns and a player you'd be comfortable Andrew Barry giving a giant contract to?


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[Assistant] He was a third round pick, so he had a four year contract. Five or twenty-six.


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[Assistant] So before we move on to the next position, those are the only two D-Tacos on the list. Okay. If the Browns were to make an acquisition at D-Tacos, not one of these two but just...


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[Assistant] Saquon Barkley will not be back with the New York Giants next season. They have said they are going to let him test the free agent market. G. Bush, I'll start with you. Saquon.


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[Assistant] Moving on, back to the defensive side of the ball. This player...


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[Assistant] Uh, it's looking more and more unlikely. We're not at Emerson here, Mike. I know. It's looking more and more unlikely if you read the reports out of Carolina. But Ryan Burns, the young, talented pass rusher.


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[Assistant] Teaming him up with Myles Garrett on the other edge. Jason, is that a match made in heaven or would that be too much to pay for an elite pass rusher on a contract that as a 26 year old, 25 year old pass rusher is gonna be, uh, quite expensive.


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[Assistant] So I got one thing to say that I got a secondary question on burns.


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[Assistant] Uh, I do think Burns is a stud, a legitimate bonafide opposite end pass rusher that would compliment Miles Garrett. And Earl asked me this this morning, those are fascinating questions. If I said you have a choice between one of these two, who would you take? Burns or T Higgins?


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[Assistant] But he just led the NFL in touchdowns at 1,255 yards.


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[Assistant] No, we're all on the same page. Okay, this next player will most likely be franchise tag, will probably not actually hit the market, but I'm assuming because you said yes to Brian Burns, you would also say yes to Josh Allen if he were to hit the free agent market. This is the Jaguars Josh Allen, not the quarterback.


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[Assistant] I think they're the same tier of passion. I think Josh Allen is a better Allen.


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[Assistant] Earl and Anthony have a mic, and no matter how much they know they have a mic here, when they chime in they just yell. They don't use it.


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[Assistant] Also, well, I appreciate you guys being a little patient on that exercise. Some good discussion. And I do think there's a chance that one of those seven lands in the Cleveland Browns. Which one?


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[Assistant] If I'm Andrew Berry, like I'm selling out for Brian Burns. I really think he's a perfect.


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[Assistant] In overtime yesterday, we talked about the...


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[Assistant] All state teams that NBC Sports put out. There was a team from California, Georgia, Louisiana.


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[Assistant] And it made us start to think about Team Ohio. So we're gonna build our own Team Ohio here with the parameters.


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[Assistant] And I'll show you guys the other teams real quick. Did you guys hear a delay now? What's that? Oh my goodness, this delay is terrible in my ear. Steve, you don't hear that? Did you hear that? Pull it together, Mike.


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[Assistant] Unless we want to make Denzel Ward a receiver, do we think Denzel could be a better NFL receiver than Paris Campbell?


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[Assistant] So we'll wrap this up real quick, but we all decided yesterday that Team Louisiana was the best with the wide receiver trio of Chase, Jefferson, and CityLand. What's the line? Team Ohio versus Team... Can I see Team Louisiana again? They're playing a five on five game? Five on five game. What's the line? Louisiana versus Ohio. I mean, who's playing defense? Those guys. Seven on seven flag football. I mean, we don't have


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[Assistant] Oh, G. Bush, you're right. Yo, some of these guys who are currently in the league, LeBron Steff, Karis LaVert,


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[Assistant] This is uh, just players from California. Yeah. Jared Allen.


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[Assistant] Kevin Love has played in 44 games, plays 18 minutes a game. Oh, okay. So he's playing.


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[Assistant] They did, Cleveland also shot pretty well if you look at the pure numbers, but G Bush, we have a tweet from your, uh, post game immediate thoughts afterwards I want to bring up here. I don't want to let you address what you had to say. Steve, take tag board full. This was G Bush, last night.


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[Assistant] Well to Jason's point about two ball dominant guards, theoretically it works together and I'm not ready to sell my stock on the Donovan Darius pairing, but you look in Atlanta, they thought De'Jonte Murray and Trey Young can play together. Those two clearly can't and they're going to end up trading De'Jonte Murray this off season. That's been a disaster in Atlanta. But one thing I did take away from yesterday is,


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[Assistant] Without Donovan. And maybe the thing that Donovan does best that doesn't show up in the stat sheet.


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[Assistant] It's constant aggression, whether he's attacking and scoring for himself and or attacking, drawing the defense, kicking to the corner. The defense can never really get set. They're always in constant motion trying to figure out how do we cut off Donovan? What's he doing? And last night,


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[Assistant] It felt like in just a one game sample size, Darius was kind of playing with his food and going more east to west than north and south. And it allowed Orlando to kind of set up their defense. And Orlando is a big team too. Like across the board from point guard to the center, they have long.


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[Assistant] They have length, they have athleticism, which is a bad matchup for an undersized cat's backcourt. But one other thing I want to point out and Jason, I'm curious. I know you didn't watch it last night. Gee, I know you did, but Evan Mobley.


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[Assistant] Was aggressive early and then kind of disappeared for a little bit and then got aggressive again late, but I thought without Donovan in the lineup, this was a chance for...


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[Assistant] Kind of the calves to not necessarily change their entire offensive philosophy, but allow Evan to be a little more aggressive in the focal point of things. And it looked like that was the case early.


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[Assistant] But he made a field goal with about six minutes left in the first half, in the first quarter, excuse me. I don't think his next field goal make came until the last minute of the third quarter. And I was a little disappointed that he wasn't a little more aggressive with the extra opportunities that the offense allowed him to get without Donovan in the play.


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[Assistant] One last stat to kind of put, just this is one number that kind of shows you the difference of Donovan vs. No Donovan. The Cavs attempted 22 three-pointers last night. That's their fewest since November 17th. Just weren't generating the open looks. They've been averaging close to 35.


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[Assistant] Go ahead. Uh, one quick thing before we get to SuperChats. We put a poll up during the interview. And the ex- I wanna say this exactly how I worded the poll. Only one can live. Who are you saving? Anthony or Austin Hedges?


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[Assistant] We have super chats, I gotta get to you. Real quick, let me do super chats to save your avatar.


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[Assistant] Halim also says, I'm not saying don't go out and get a big time wide receiver, I just believe the Browns won't spend huge money on it because they love the upside of Morin Tillman. Morin's got no upside.


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[Assistant] Uh, next super chat comes from Matthew Dinkus.


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[Assistant] Matthew says man, between Bull saying the brown safeties are overrated, G saying the Cavs are soft after one game, and Jason, well just being Jason, y'all are all out of pocket today.


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[Assistant] He played at DeMatha, no, he played at DeMatha, then he went to St. Anthony's. Then he went to Oak Hill. Oak Hill, not St. Anthony's, sorry, Oak Hill, not St. Anthony's.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not gonna match velvet, but it'll be as close to velvet as I can get.


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[Assistant] I would be honored to chip in. Aunt Earl, Steve. No, I don't mean anybody to chip in.


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[Assistant] No idea if there was any bad blood between Watson and Flacco, if Deshawn looked at Joe as legit competition, if he was deterred by fans thinking Joe could possibly be his replacement. I have absolutely no idea. Do I think it played some factor, as you just alluded to? Probably.


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[Assistant] It probably did. I just don't want to make too big of a deal of it because I think there are more important factors at play here in this decision. I think the reality at the end of the day, and I said this when they rested him in week 18.


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[Assistant] Whatever Joe was doing on that five game stretch was magical.


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[Assistant] Incredible. It defied all logic. It defied all previous data points we had on Joe Flacco. He had rejuvenated his career to 2012. Went since that, he'd been just kind of okay and especially from 2019 to 2022, he frankly wasn't very good.


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[Assistant] Now the playoff game came out, there were two pick sixes, obviously it was bad in the playoff game. I think the Browns looked at this decision and said, okay,


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[Assistant] Are we going to re-sign Joe and get Joe from 2023? Are we going to get Joe Flacco for essentially the last decade? Was what we saw in that five game stretch and then 60s if you include the playoffs.


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[Assistant] A magic lightning in a bottle situation? Or is that Joe Flacco now? And I think when you look at it big picture,


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[Assistant] The Browns kinda came to the conclusion I'd come to that as good as Joe played and it was incredible.


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[Assistant] So I was on the mindset that because of the off the field stuff too,


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[Assistant] It brought too much of a distraction. I wanted to roll with DTR. If they said DTR, you're QB2.


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[Assistant] I would have been fine with it because I think DTR showed stuff last season. And at the end of the day, if Watson gets hurt...


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[Assistant] We know what the ceiling of this team is. They can win a few regular season games. They can't compete with Mahomes and the Ravens in the playoffs. At the end of the day, you need Deshaun to be healthy.


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[Assistant] So I do think there are some off-field factors that did play into this. I just don't want to make that the only reason why they didn't bring Joe Flacco back.


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[Assistant] The last time he started games, 2021, he threw 14 touchdowns, 3 interceptions. He was a turnover machine early in Tampa Bay. Then he got LASIK surgery.


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[Assistant] And after being able to actually see, people forget about that, he was legitimately legally blind playing the quarterback position. He won the Heisman.


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[Assistant] situation. Jamus has the arm strength, the arm talent.


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[Assistant] That's a bargain when you look at the rest of some of these contracts backup quarterbacks have gotten around.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't want him on my team. He quit on, uh, Atlanta. Atlanta quit on him. Uh, yeah, that's so for, you know, bargain deals, considering what the other back of quarterbacks had to add into this. And I mentioned yesterday,


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[Assistant] From 2020, uh, 2019 to 2022 comes in last year and rewrites the record book. He's in the record book with Mahomes. Jim Kelly and Peyton Manning is the only quarterbacks that throw for 1300 yards and 16 touchdowns or 1600 yards and 13 touchdowns in a calendar month. Like what he did was incredible.


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[Assistant] But it was incredible because the expectations were here. And he played at this level. And I don't want to overlook that because Joe, you brought an amazing amount of joy and happiness to the city.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, the winning hit some of the warts around the fact that Joe, and you look at a couple games, ready? Against his Rams, first game. First three quarters, brilliant, right? Fourth quarter, late pick, late interception, he gets sacked for the safety, by far his worst quarter. The game against Chicago, it took a historic fourth quarter. 245 passing yards in the fourth.


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[Assistant] To be the Chicago Bears team. He threw an interception that got brought down to the one yard line. Miscommunication with Cedric Tillman. But he had some fatal flaws that because they won games, we were willing to overlook because they


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[Assistant] No, the only, the last player the Browns have signed that we've seen the money for is Nadine Hines. So, the Shelby Harris deal, the other offensive tackle, whose name is, uh, Blankon. Uh, Akima Deniche. And, uh, Bjorkes, we haven't seen him. We haven't seen him. And Michael Dunn, those four. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, last year we talked about Bjorkes in our ideal free agency plan. I know, Paul, you didn't include the re-signings in yours. Right, but I would have had you. You would have. Jason and I both had him in ours. He was top ten last season in average yards per punt.


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[Assistant] Punts down inside the 20, longest punt. His one issue heading into last season was, uh, we know he has a cannon for a leg.


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[Assistant] Can he coffin corner teams? Can he place it with enough depth and touch inside the 20 yard line?


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[Assistant] I'm not an expert on punting, but you finish top ten in the league when you have the fifth most punts.


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[Assistant] Doing something right. So he took the step forward in that category.


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[Assistant] And outside of having a strong leg, the ability to directional punt.


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[Assistant] We learned holding wasn't his issue, so what's the complaint? I'm not sure if you could upgrade that position.


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[Assistant] If he's not a top 5-6 guy, I don't look at all the punters in the league, I apologize, but based on what my eyes tell me, he's one of the better punters in football.


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[Assistant] To bring it back in a two-year deal, I'm all for it. Loved it. He's a weapon, by the way. Specialty is a weapon.


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[Assistant] And a guy like Harris, I was digging through the numbers and Jake Burns put these out. And this, this blew my mind. So, we know Christian Wilkins is a phenomenal player, right?


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[Assistant] Maybe one of the best pass rushing defensive tackles in all of football.


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[Assistant] When you look at the pressure rate, now, Wilkinson got 85, or Wilkins got 85 million guaranteed. We haven't seen the money on Harris.


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[Assistant] What's it gonna be? Three, four million? Something like that? Let me read you their pressure rates the last three years. Now.


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[Assistant] Last year, Wilkins 5.2% pressure rate, Harris 8.3%.


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[Assistant] So do you think, let me ask you this. It could be. So they re-signed Harris and Hearst.


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[Assistant] You think that takes them completely out of the picture for a DJ reader or... Yes, 100%. There's no way they're spending that money.


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[Assistant] Could you see them? And I don't think the answer is yes.


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[Assistant] If I had to pick a position where I think they could still sign a veteran guy, I do think it's running back in a more traditional downhill runner role, but I don't think it's likely.


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[Assistant] PFS not everything, since he entered the league in 2018.


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[Assistant] So if he signs before 12 o'clock today. 4 o'clock today. 4 o'clock today.


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[Assistant] Do you think they draft at 54 or do you think they move in and out? Cause I wouldn't be shocked to see them move down. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I seen a couple of places that say he might slip. If he falls to 54, that's an intriguing prospect for the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] He was one of the guys who, like, midway through college football.


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[Assistant] Like top 10 pick potential. And now he's looking at like a mid-round because the testing did not come out well. But I kinda trust the guys who have the tape.


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[Assistant] One last thing before we move on here, as far as the offensive tackle they signed, the guy from Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] People want to argue that, look at the other first round receivers from that class. C.D. Lamb, Justin Jefferson, and Jerry Judy. And then Henry Ruggs, but for different reasons. Henry Ruggs is not part of that. Right.


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[Assistant] If you don't do nothing, then you move on. And another thing with Judy real quick.


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[Assistant] His ability to pick up yards after the catch.


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[Assistant] Is something that, you know, Amari's a very good route runner. His yack yard's not top of the league. He's more get open, get the ball, go down.


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[Assistant] Judy's a guy, and he's had, obviously, plays where he's created after the run, but that's not his forte. Judy's a guy who can turn a three yard slant.


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[Assistant] But there's been no signs of his play deteriorating. Not at all. It's just a health issue. Not at all.


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[Assistant] Because it is appointment television. We're like, hey, check out Earl and Lil Titties on YouTube at 5 o'clock. That's appointment television. So you gotta get, I see what both trying to come from.


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[Assistant] I think that's one of the addition by subtraction, which he's clearly a good player.


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[Assistant] What he brought to the locker room, they already have a head case that received it with George Pickens. Yea, but Pickens is better.


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[Assistant] I think they got a lot better. Patrick Queen fits the Pittsburgh Steeler motto so well. It's just one of those signings, just like Derrick Henry going to Baltimore, like that fits new team, new personality. Plus Mike Tomlinson, a contract year. Last year was deal just likes to fancy, no extension yet.


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[Assistant] He's gonna go balls to the wall to make sure that if this is his final hurrah in Pittsburgh, it's going out his way, which goes back to running the football, playing defense, and back to the Russell Wilson point.


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[Assistant] I don't think Russ is that good. I thought Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] As a defensive lineman, if Baltimore calls some sort of read option with Derek Henry and Mark Jackson, what the hell do you do? What do you do? That's the, that's the thing. On like a third and two, right? A fourth and one. What the hell you do?


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[Assistant] Raiders are sneaky, and they can find- Titans have no chance.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Browns and Steelers can both be better than they were last year and have worse records in 2024 just based on how difficult the schedule is. Same thing with the Ravens. Well, the Ravens won't be better.


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[Assistant] I'm just, any team in this discussion, I'm just using those two for an example, who were 10 and 7 and 11 and 6. It's tough. Like, the schedule is way more difficult, not just for the Browns by the way.


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[Assistant] This is taking a lot of assumptions in here. Of course.


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[Assistant] Let's assume health and best of their abilities. Nick Chubb's back. You got Chubb, Watts, and Cooper.


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[Assistant] We'll take the top three running back quarterback receiver for each team in the division. So Watson, Chubb, Cooper. Wilson, Pickens, Harris.


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[Assistant] Lamar, Derrick Henry, Ze Flowers, Burrow, Moss, Chase. How would you rank those four? Oh my god. And I'm putting you on the spot, I literally just thought of this as we were talking.


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[Assistant] And I think that's probably my answer too. And even though I'm saying you're assuming healthier.


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[Assistant] Having a thousand different conversations on the Browns to end everyone with. Well, if the Sean doesn't play. That's it. That's the bottom line.


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[Assistant] Is the water too big to play guard? Physically?


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[Assistant] You know, you have to make a decision on Will's upcoming free agent. You can't cut Conklin right now, but you can cut him next year to Eve.


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[Assistant] It's still a big dead cap, but you could still eat that if he's not playing.


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[Assistant] The only other things I noted in the overall free agency picture, uh, the big losers in my mind, Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] They have no idea, like, I think at this point, a fifth or sixth round.


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[Assistant] And one more thing on the draft with the Browns, by the way. So this is a weird draft.


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[Assistant] Because of the COVID year, yeaah. There's way fewer older players. Older players.


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[Assistant] We know Andrew Berry doesn't follow these on every draft pick, but we've learned he has a couple of guardrails that he likes to abide by. I was telling this to Earl, uh, I think on Sunday when we did our show. Andrew Berry may be looking at this draft.


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[Assistant] And say there's only like 85 to 100 prospects that even fit what I would draft. Right.


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[Assistant] I don't need 789 picks because A, we don't have roster spots for them.


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[Assistant] The pool of guys I'm looking at is tiny anyway. He's right. So he may, he may even pack, I wouldn't be surprised if he packages another five, six and move back into the fourth round. Right. And pick a few specific guys he likes. And we may come away from this draft class with three, four guys total. And that's where the problem might


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[Assistant] They don't have a blocking tight end right now. There's not a guy, I can't see a scenario. And Joke is a blocking tight end, excuse me, I wanna make sure, but I'm saying like another guy you bring in as a secondary. Who's just a blocked guy.


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[Assistant] If they draft the running back in the second or third round, he beats out forward in training camp. And Chubb doesn't come back till mid-season. Yep. That's the...


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[Assistant] They actually have versatility with Moore, Cooper, and Judy.


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[Assistant] They all can kind of shift around and play inside outside, which gives them a couple different options to kind of hide formational, uh,


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[Assistant] Not a free agent yet, but something that could come about. Uh, the Indianapolis Colts have signed Grover Stewart, resigned him.


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[Assistant] They signed Rayquan Davis, they're paying a lot of money to their defensive tackle room, and DeForest Buckner could be a guy that ends up


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[Assistant] Browns fans and people in Cleveland, their affiliation with the Browns is a part of who they are. You nailed it.


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[Assistant] G, you go to the Newny lot, and we won almost every game this year. The passion, the dedication.


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[Assistant] The pure diehardness you see from people in the mini-lot on a Sunday morning.


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[Assistant] That no matter how much we as fans care about a team, they do not give a shit about you on the back end.


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[Assistant] No matter what happens. No. Not the Browns specifically. That is all 32 NFL teams. Yea, of course. All 30 NBA teams. Every Major League Baseball team.


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[Assistant] I think it's 30. I thought it was still 28. No, 30. No, 30. I don't know how many hockey teams are. Maybe 30, 32? No, they added one, so I think 32 now. But, big picture.


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[Assistant] We care so much about these teams. On the flip side,


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[Assistant] These teams do not give a shit about us. No, that's true. It's a harsh reminder, but it's the reality of the situation. And Jimmie Haslam is looking to build a new stadium in Brook Park, potentially. No, he's not. He's just using that. Come on now. You can say he's just using it. You can say it's true. Whatever you want. If he does, it's going to cost him at least a billion dollars.


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[Assistant] And these prices, they raised the muni lot last year, G. Yup, remember. Raise the ticket prices. Your money's going to help Jimmy pay for that.


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[Assistant] So not your Moony lot, take that back, your Moony lot raises, blame the city.


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[Assistant] But these ticket prices do go to Jimmy, and that's gonna help him, in some way, shape or form, pay for a new stadium.


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[Assistant] And it's bullshit, by the way. I will, I will. Let me clap for all that we're saying, it's bullshit.


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[Assistant] Uh, Raven just traded Morgan Morses, Morgan, Morgan Moses to the Jets for a 4th round pick and a 6th round pick. Was he a starter? Must have been. He got a 4th round pick.


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[Assistant] Uh, Schefter says the Jets have their new starting tackles.


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[Assistant] And figure out why Darius has struggled late in games. So I did the best I could.


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[Assistant] And I kinda dug into some of the numbers, went back and watched some tape and...


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[Assistant] Before we get into any of this, let's preface with something. Darius isn't the reason they're losing these games. Like this is not blaming everything on Darius. This is just showing-


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[Assistant] But, we did this on the ultimate cap show yesterday. He scored 30 points last night. How are you blaming him for the loss? We're not blaming Darius for the loss. We're just saying he needs to play better when it matters most. And these numbers are going to back it up.


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[Assistant] February 28th. That was the game they played Chicago.


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[Assistant] Double overtime. Donovan Mitchell did play in that game. That was the last game he played, but. This is not a huge sample size that he'd given us. Eight games. But this is since he's been the primary closer. This is DG as the lone closer, because in that Chicago game on February 28th.


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[Assistant] That's when Donovan was under the weather. He just played the game against Dallas. It was the last game he played, so Darius was the guy they relied on to close the game. So it's eight games. Not a huge sample size.


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[Assistant] But I'm gonna give you the quarter by quarter numbers, and you can pull up the tweet so people can see and follow along. So in eight games since then, I know it's small for you guys if you're watching, if I don't redo these numbers, in the first quarter,


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[Assistant] He's averaging 6.3 points per game, shooting 43% from the floor, 44% from three,


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[Assistant] Is averaging two and a half assists per first quarter and just shy of one turnover.


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[Assistant] In the second quarter, he gets red hot. Seven points per quarter.


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[Assistant] 53% from the floor, 65% from three, two assists, and less than half eternal. Great first half number. You can live with that every day of the week.


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[Assistant] In the third quarter, still pretty good. 5.6 points per quarter, 47% from the floor, 53% from three.


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[Assistant] 2.1 assists and just over half a turnover.


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[Assistant] But in the fourth quarter, this is where it kinda falls off. Now, granted, a lot of players' numbers drop off in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] It's not, not completely out of question, but these dips are extreme even for, these are extreme dips. He drops from the first three quarters being around 45 to 50% and 50% from 3 to 27% averaging fewer than 3 points per quarter.


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[Assistant] 29% from 3, more turnovers than assists, which that does not-


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[Assistant] That, that trend does not qualify and in clutch moments.


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[Assistant] Which are the last five minutes of a game of a five point game.


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[Assistant] So overtime, last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter, 5 point game. This is where it's been extremely difficult for DG. He's shooting 21% from the floor. He's 4 for 13 in these moments since February 28th. 1 of 6 for 3.


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[Assistant] It's actually the most field goal attempts of any player since February 28th in the clutch time moments of any player in the league. Any player in the league? Well, they've played in two over, three overtime periods. They've come down the stretch against, uh, Phoenix. So small sample size, but actually big sample size for this specific metric.


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[Assistant] In 4th quarters in total since then. He's played 74 minutes, has 9 turnovers, lead the NBA, he's got 27 total points, 7 assists to 9 turnovers, he's a negative assist turnover ratio. The numbers don't look good. So two things. To me, it proves most importantly,


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[Assistant] That they need Donovan Mitchell back, which we all knew from the get go. That is not some sort of giant.


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[Assistant] But Darius, when counted on, and considering this year he's just been a little...


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[Assistant] Finicky on his two point shots. I do think the lack of strength he has from when he lost 12 pounds with the jaw injury.


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[Assistant] Do we know if he's gained it's so hard to put back o


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[Assistant] It's so hard, so hard to put on weight. So I think that does prohibit from getting to the paint. But two and most importantly, I just think he's a bit hesitant.


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[Assistant] Are you settling for a sidestep three with four seconds on the shot clock? Or four seconds on the game clock? Right. When you know you can get by him, you did it twice in overtime, teams are doubling him, they're sending traps off the high pick and roll, they're not getting a ton of movement from the other guys in the court. To me, this screams one thing.


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[Assistant] If you need Darius to be your closer, it's probably not the guy gonna get the job done more, more frequently than not. As a secondary guy,


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[Assistant] His fourth chord numbers prior when he plays with Donovan Mitchell are pretty damn good. Even this year. Even this year.


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[Assistant] Kinda solidified in my mind. Jason Say doesn't think he's in the final five yesterday.


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[Assistant] I think as a secondary guy, who can create 4 on 3 after they blitzed Donovan, more than capable of, but as the lead guy,


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[Assistant] My confidence two weeks ago was, yeah, he could do it.


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[Assistant] Eeeeh, I'm not so sure that's still the case.


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[Assistant] He could come back in the next game or two. Just one thing to keep an eye on as...


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[Assistant] From JV Bickerstaff and the Cavs as they close. And this is Donovan N. Darius relying. How can you kind of fix this? I'm not sure there's one fixed, but I go back and look at the end of the Phoenix game and the Minnesota game. They were going.


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[Assistant] Three on the baseline, high pick and roll with Darius, everyone standing still.


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[Assistant] Is if you have Donovan on the court, he could be the creator when they get out of his hands, alright now Darius goes and attacks the secondary defense. Well without Donovan, it's Darius up top.


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[Assistant] Let's get some movement, JB. Let's have some guys coming off screens instead of just running pick and roll and having Darius have to create against two defenders with three guys standing still and him having to kind of pick and choose where I can and can't go based on where the defense is.


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[Assistant] I'm not, uh, letting Jade be off the hook for this either. Because there are too many possessions where, even if Darius doesn't get something going,


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[Assistant] He just has, he just has one guy in the corner, one guy in this corner, one guy standing on the wing, and there's really no space to even operate. So, I don't want to put it all on Darius, like he needs to play better in the crunch time, don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would much prefer it. I think they'd be better suited.


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[Assistant] If they weren't playing Darius create, three guys stand around and you're on some sort of set to get somebody coming off some weak side action. Just so even if it is a pick and roll and you're just disguising what's happening on the weak side, the defense isn't just set like


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[Assistant] You mean like when they were 18 and 2? When they was 18 and 2? Well there's, there's spacing, but if no one moves, spacing doesn't really help you. So, so how- The difference is Donovan was playing like a top 5 player in the league, and Darius is not that.


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[Assistant] Okay, and here's the thing. That was the best stretch of Donovan's career.


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[Assistant] And real quick, you're talking about spacing in this situation. I know we got super chats.


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[Assistant] Donovan drives, gets in the paint. Guys have to help. That opens up the shooters.


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[Assistant] Darius does not have the finishing ability of Donovan and just frankly isn't as dynamic once he gets to that spot so they're not helping off as far which cuts off passing angles and the shooters aren't as open.


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[Assistant] We're gonna, we're gonna talk about the game and the weekend itself and I'm gonna tell you how we can fix it and I suck at sleeping. Are you confident that this is gonna fix it? I told Earl this morning, Earl, preview real quick. I think I, I think I sold you over on a couple. Is it working?


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[Assistant] And we're gonna talk about it all, then I'll give you my fixes. We're gonna talk a little Brown's Championship DNA, the Guardians.


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[Assistant] Trying to explain to us why they didn't spend a lot of money, a little Imani Bates and LeBron James as well, but first,


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[Assistant] I got a five pack of questions for you guys on All-Star Weekend, then we'll get to my fixes bullets. Start with the five pack of questions. Donovan Mitchell in the All-Star game itself.


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[Assistant] Scored nine points last season at Salt Lake City. He scored 40, played like his head was on fire.


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[Assistant] On Tuesday's Ultimate Cav Show, Jason and I talked about one of the differentiating factors between Mitchell and a lot of other stars in the league is he plays hard every time he's on the court. Last night, decided to mail it in just like most players did.


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[Assistant] I'm not mad at Donovan, not necessarily disappointed, but I'll be honest, I was a little surprised that he didn't take it as seriously as he had in the past. Where you guys? Question number one.


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[Assistant] Were you guys also surprised that Donovan played with as little effort as he did last night?


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[Assistant] Were you, of Donovan coming out in the three point shootout, with the money merrill throwback?


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[Assistant] Who's the guy that writes in doubt? Stein. I think it was Mark Stein from ESPN and said all the narratives of Donovan wanting to leave are coming from rival executives. All the narratives that Donovan loves Cleveland are coming from inside Cleveland, which makes perfect sense. Sure. Inside Cleveland.


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[Assistant] They're gonna push the he's happy narrative outside cleave and they're gonna push the he's not happy. Pick and choose what you want to believe. Who knows the truth. But always when you see those reports, look where it's coming from and you can kind of see the agenda behind anything.


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[Assistant] That's the, that's the bottom line. Cavs lose in the first round, everything's on the table. We make a deep run, I'd be surprised if Adam doesn't re-sign. Alright, next question.


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[Assistant] With 5.4 million viewers during the 10-10 to 10-15 window, which was the Steph vs Sabrina 3-point shootout. Earl, we'll start with you. Was that the best part of All-Star Weekend and should it become a mandatory event at All-Star Weekends moving forward?


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[Assistant] They gave Sabrina the option to shoot from the women's three point line. She said no, I want to shoot from the men's. And kudos to her. I thought it was great. She put up the second highest score of anybody. Right. The only person to beat her.


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[Assistant] But she doesn't practice with that. That, that's completely, it's one thing to shoot a three where you step back. If you're used to shooting with the women's ball, the men's ball is heavier, it's bigger, it's a whole different configuration on shooting. So. Absolutely. It's, I think it's more, like I said, a more natural step back.


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[Assistant] Well, and Earl, I know you're gonna hop in on this in a sec, but in the WNBA All-Star game this previous season, she set the all-time three-point shooting record with 36 points shooting from the women's three-point line. So she can do it from the NBA range, WNBA range, shoot or shoot, she can shoot. And uh, kudos to her.


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[Assistant] None of the NIL numbers are officially released, but she is making in the seven figures.


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[Assistant] All I know is Sabrina broke the three-point record because I saw it on Twitter. I didn't watch it. I, I, I feel like any...


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[Assistant] One sec, two things on the last, yes or no answer because I want to fly through this. Don't contest officially dead, yes or no. Yes, has been.


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[Assistant] It was different colors. It was green for the three-point shootout. It changed colors for the dunk contest. Were you a fan of the LED courts?


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[Assistant] I thought it was a cool feature. I don't know if I want it on a daily basis in the NBA, but for halftime entertainment and stuff, I definitely think there is potential benefits down the road integrating it in.


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[Assistant] Jay, you alluded to this before. I just slept like crap last night. I was thinking of ways to make NBA All-Star weekend better. Right. And in the Olympics, I always thought in the Olympics, they should always have a regular dude participate in all the events just to show how much better


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[Assistant] The Olympians are than a regular person. So my idea to save the dunk contest.


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[Assistant] And you guys chime in, let me know how we can tweak this. I'm not sure exactly how we pick the joe for this example, but I'm going to a pros vs joes. Right. The joes have to dunk on an 8 foot rim.


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[Assistant] The pros have to do it on an 11 foot rim. So G. Bush, for example, let's say Earl's a high flyer.


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[Assistant] Earl's gotta do a dunk on an 8 foot rim. Jalen Brown has to match whatever Earl did on the 11 foot rim. And there's a chance that Earl Malden.


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[Assistant] Well, we've already seen they've done every dunk possible on a 10 foot rim. Let's raise the stakes. So it's an average Joe, regular dude, versus a pro, 8 foot for the, maybe 9 foot, maybe to raise it up, versus an 11 foot. The NBA player has to match the Joe, and that's how they win. Earl, what's your question?


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[Assistant] Next up, the three-point shootout is the best part of NBA All-Star weekend right now, but here's how they make it better. Instead of racks that they just take the ball off and shoot,


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[Assistant] 50 foot rainbow shots. You had Steph hit it from the crowd. Just play horse. That'll be more entertaining. Trust me. We don't have to talk about that. The all star game. It's never going to be a race completely in a perfect world. It'd be a one V one tournament.


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[Assistant] And then Dave came back with a half court step back three. The one on one thing is the real fix. The NBA will never do it, but that is the one real fix. So because I know they're never getting rid of the game, I have four suggestions to fix the game.


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[Assistant] These aren't chucks anymore. I'd watch that. They can stand there and shoot these things and make them. You're on my wavelength, Jay. Trust me, I'm getting at that. So this is how you fix the all-star game itself. It's not going to go where you want to make it better. I have four ideas. One.


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[Assistant] You allow players to gamble on it and they have to tell you what they gambled on before.


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[Assistant] I bet over 32 and a half points for myself, but they have the tickets up on the bottom of the screen. So you know exactly what they bet on. All right. Let's say Dame's playing defense on Tyrese Max and he bet Tyrese Maxie under 14 points. It's in the fourth quarter, Maxie sitting at 11. We get some built in defense. If you knew what these guys gambled on and they had to publicize, make two bets each.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm for using that to replace the skills competition, the dunk competition. Okay. But these next ones are just on the game itself. Alright. To make the game better. Second idea to make the game itself better. We saw the in-season tournament work because they paid everyone half a million dollars. It was part of the regular season. I know it's not apples to apples. How about every player on the winning team gets a million, the MVP gets nine million.


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[Assistant] 9 million to the MVP, which gives you a massive incentive to try hard to win MVP.


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[Assistant] Maybe a sis counts more in the uh, in the voting. I don't know. But if you had a 9 million dollar pot for MVP. It's every man for himself. I'm just saying, I'm trying to think of ways to make this game better. You put 9 million dollars in the line for the MVPG, I think we're gonna see a much better product.


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[Assistant] I want four point lines and five point lines. I'm down with that. Four point.


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[Assistant] So this year, so this year, for example, based on all-stars this season, team USA would have been LeBron, Durant, Steph, Anthony Davis, and Donovan Mitchell, versus Jokic, Luka, Janis, SGA, and Embiid. That's your starting five sir, team world and team USA. You're telling me you're not gonna watch that, and granted it's an all-star game, they're not gonna play super hard.


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[Assistant] But I have to imagine if it's Team USA vs Team World, they give a little bit more effort, and...


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[Assistant] They did World vs Team USA for the Rookie Rising Skills or Rising Stars Challenge a few years ago. They got rid of it and now they have the G League. They want to incorporate the G League and they end up getting more players this way, uhm, but they did it for


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[Assistant] It was more competitive, but the Rising Stars challenge is always more competitive because it's young guys who are in the All-Star game. So I'm not sure it's an exact apples to apples, but I do think especially with how much talent there is.


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[Assistant] I think it was pretty back and forth to be totally honest. I'll double check by the end of the show. I don't have it in front of me, but I think it was back and forth. There have been some really good, like, Luka played on


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[Assistant] Uh, the international team when he was 16 or whatever and that's when the NBA scouts got their first. Holy crap, this guy's gonna be special. Look, but there's so much international talent right now. I think if you did split it up, there'd be more competition and who wouldn't want to see?


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[Assistant] The best Europeans and around the world players versus the best the Americans have to offer. Like it'd be kind of fun. So those are my options. My idea is to fix NBA All-Star weekend. They'll never happen, but always fun to speculate. We're gonna talk a little Browns now guys. And before we do that, if you're looking to gamble,


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[Assistant] So last week, Daniel Jeremiah, who does a podcast with Bucky Brooks, Bucky's come on the show. Bucky's been phenomenal. If you guys don't listen to the Move the Sticks podcast, I would highly recommend it for your football needs. They do a great job covering the NFL. They started their championship foundation.


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[Assistant] Offseason movement. And they just did the AFC East. They have not done the Browns yet. And Steve, you take tag board fold just to show everybody.


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[Assistant] What we're going to face our next exercise off. So they ranked individual players. This is for the dolphins on a four part scale to determine if they have a championship foundation or not. They use colors. Blue is for a blue chip player. Green is for good.


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[Assistant] Yellow is age, injury, or contract concerns, and pink is unproven. Red, which is not on the key, is, we have, we don't have an answer.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna do this for the Browns, except instead of doing it for specific positions, we're gonna do position groups to make it a little easier so we're not gonna go through 56 players. But do you guys understand the parameters of how we're grading, or I guess categorizing,


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[Assistant] The Browns and their Championship Foundation. Jay, G, Earl, we all on the same page on how we're going to do this.


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[Assistant] So we'll do it together. So we'll start with the quarterbacks for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Let's do it this way today, and later in the week we'll do a point system, and then we should do actually compare these to other AFC North teams, just to see where the four teams in the AFC North go.


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[Assistant] So today we're gonna follow their lead. So we're going colors.


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[Assistant] So blue is blue chip. Top of the line. Green is a good player.


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[Assistant] Yellow, age, injury, or contract concerns? So question marks.


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[Assistant] And then pink is unproven. So pink's the worst, blue's the best. Essentially one to four. Gee, if you want to do one to four, we'll color code it for you. We'll color code it for you, but let's start with the quarterbacks for the Browns. It's the Sean Watson, it's DTR and it's insert third quarterback if they decide to sign one.


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[Assistant] On this championship foundation scale, would you grade the Browns quarterback room as a blue chip room, a good quarterback room, an age injury contract concern room, or as unproven and young?


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[Assistant] Uh, we could try to get him, and, and sort of tag-board through this, so we're, we're short-handed.


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[Assistant] The running back room, you have Chubb right now, you have Jerome Ford, Pierre Strong, Cream Hunt is no longer part of this running back room, he's a free agent, so for the sake of this, Chubb, Ford, Pierre Strong. Is that a blue chip running back room?


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[Assistant] A good running back room, an unproven slash injury concern slash age room, or is that too young to be able to be graded?


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[Assistant] So the yellow category, according to the move the sticks chart, age concerns. Jay, are you concerned about his age?


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[Assistant] We asked the chat about Deshaun Watson, 56% agreed with him being in the yellow category. Oh, interesting. So, I'm gonna put up the chuckle, we'll get you the chuckle.


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[Assistant] Don't give me green. I don't know what that means. Speaking of numbers, Jay, let's go to the wide receiver room, who outside of Amari Cooper left a lot to be desired. Tight ends are its own category. So David and Joku is not, this is not pass catchers, just receivers. Is this a blue chip room? A green room, which is good.


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[Assistant] Man, see this is such a mixture. This is where the numbers come, I like the numbers more. This one's a tough one. This one's really tough.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, you're definitely yellow. It's like- But with Amari Koo, I see it that- I'm able to go, we'll adjust this, we could go greenish yellow.


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[Assistant] And just so everyone listening, if you're just tuning in or you clip this later, we're gonna compare this back to when they released the Browns. So that's why- What are they doing this week? They did all four-


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[Assistant] AFC East teams on Thursday. Okay. It's a once a week pod, so it could be, I'm not sure what division's next, but I'm sure they'll do division by division.


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[Assistant] Okay, we'll take 16 and then we can plan. It's not enough. Uh, we'll make this one quick cause I think we'll be in agreement. Tight end. Is that a blue chip position group for the Browns?


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[Assistant] The Browns offensive line at one point was certainly a blue chip group.


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[Assistant] Guys have gotten older, there are some injury current concerns. Heading into 2024, how do you evaluate the Brown's current crop of offensive linemen on this scale? Blue is blue chip, green is good, yellow is age, injury or contract concerns, and they're certainly not pink, which is unproven and young. So really, of those three,


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[Assistant] I thought we nailed it, guys. And uh, chat, by the way, Earl was with you. 47% blue chip on Nick Chubb, so.


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[Assistant] They were with us as a panel on Watson. They were with Earl on the blue chip for, uh, for Nick Chubb, excuse me. And we'll do defense tomorrow in these same categories to move the sticks podcast with Daniel, Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks doesn't come out till Thursday. So we have a few days to go, even if.


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[Assistant] They do release the AFC North rankings this week. Tonight though, five o'clock, you want more Browns content? G. Bush got you covered on the ultimate Brown show. He had Jerry Ball with him on Friday. I'm not sure what he's got planned today, but as always G. Bush talking Browns at five o'clock, the ultimate Brown show on the ultimate Cleveland sports show.


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[Assistant] Jay, you're going to Arizona this week for spring training. Jason Lloyd's out there already. He'll be joining us on the show tomorrow or Wednesday, we're not sure, but Chris Antonietta, The Guardian's GM.


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[Assistant] G's giggling like a child over there. G, I mean, uh, Jay, are you buying what Chris Antonetti is selling here?


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[Assistant] You know what's hysterical? I would be able to pick, I've interviewed him, but. The guardians tweeted out, uh, three pictures saying, expecting big things from these guys.


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[Assistant] And I almost made it a game show today of who are these three. Because I only knew two of them. There was a guy I-


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[Assistant] I gotta think, go ahead. We deserve better than that. Before I say something, go ahead. Yeah, I'm just frustrated. So they tweeted out this weekend, and Jay, you're our baseball guru.


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[Assistant] They tweeted out three pictures of guys and the quote on the text on the tweet was, big strong men. I'm gonna show you these three. Let me know if you guys can recognize who these three players are. Let's take the first one, Steve. Do you know who this is?


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[Assistant] I know this one for a fact. This one is the only one I'm fully 100% confident.


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[Assistant] The next of The Guardian's big strong men, Anthony Takit. Do you know who this is? Is that Valero? That is not Valero.


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[Assistant] I am 43% confident this is Devison De Los Santos, the guy that picked up in the Rule 5 draft from the Arizona Diamondbacks. I thought that was, uhm... Every reply to this tweet was, who the hell are these three?


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[Assistant] Uh, in relation to how to fix the all-star game, no play in game. Seventh and eighth seed of the losing conference is banned from the playoffs and replaced by the ninth and tenth seed.


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[Assistant] Speaking of young kids, G, Amani Bates was a bright spot in the All-Star weekend. He led both his teams in their Rising Star games in scoring. They lost in the finals. Amani continues after our interview to prove people wrong. G, at this point,


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[Assistant] Has he earned a shot on the NBA level? Has he earned the right to get some minutes here down the stretch?


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[Assistant] That's accurate right now. Right now. Right now. Yea, it's accurate.


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[Assistant] And then you see what happens in the conference finals, but losing to the Magic would be a tough way to go out for the Cavs. I don't think it would happen, so.


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[Assistant] And that gap is just far too great. They were like 175 home runs fewer than the top teams. So,


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[Assistant] How was the mindset different this year from last year? Last year you're coming off all the inertia and excitement of a little playoff run. And then obviously this year things didn't end or go really the whole season the way the team wanted last year. What's, how's the vibe different?


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[Assistant] Obviously it's a power game and everybody talks about the lack of home run production last year from the outfield. You guys have to hear that. You have to, I'm sure you work on it in the off season. What are you feeling in terms of, uh,


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[Assistant] What you have to do performance wise. Do you, do you feel that you have to become a home run hitter because that's what the team needs?


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[Assistant] Have you seen a shift in philosophy and like, okay, look, contact's great, but let's take some swings.


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[Assistant] It's interesting that you say that, that the team has embraced this change in philosophy. A lot of times teams are slow to change, but I think this was so obvious. It's as a fan, it's refreshing to see that the team and the organization has said, okay, we tried it. We had some success with it, but you got to keep up with the Joneses too.


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[Assistant] What a staff. What a pleasure. You're too young to remember the 90's Braves, but Maddox, Glavins, Smoltz, they had guys that were going to win Cy Youngs, they were going to win 20 games.


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[Assistant] We had a conversation on the show the other day about which one is most likely to win the Cy Young, and all five guys came up. That doesn't happen very often.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, you're too young to remember the 90's Braves staff, but they had, it was the same thing. They had four guys that were easily capable of winning 20.


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[Assistant] And they always talked about how they slingshot one start into the next. If Glavin went and threw a four hit shutout complete game, then Maddox felt like he had to come back and go the distance and give up three hits and no runs. Is there some sort of competition? Do you feel that there's a competition that way with you guys too?


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[Assistant] And I actually asked him yesterday if, uhm,


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[Assistant] He is your twin. He bought a Hedges jersey and wears it around town. He's pretending to be


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[Assistant] What's scary is he has the same beard. He's trying really hard.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, he can't spell. His name's Anthony. We call him Anthony Cantispelli.


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[Assistant] Can't spell bro, we make spelling errors on our graphics all the time. Can you give them a little...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so this one Bull, I want you to pay particular attention to this one. Bull, you have been extremely hard.


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[Assistant] But Bull, again, Jason, you see it, you're out here. I talked to 10 players yesterday. I asked them about the clubhouse and the vibe and how's it different from last year.


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[Assistant] I took myself to barrio and it was $75. Did you get hammered? Uh, I had three margaritas and five tacos, so not really, but...


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[Assistant] You have Apple Music? I do. So if I share, if I share my playlist with you at the work. I will give it a try. Give it a try for the rest of the day.


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[Assistant] I'm listening to Lil Boosie latest album. I'm listening to a lot of Big X to plug. I don't know any of these people. I listen to a lot of Lil Baby. I listen to Young Dolph every day.


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[Assistant] Which one was that? The transfer portal commercial.


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[Assistant] It was like towards the beginning. I didn't see that one. But that, but that's old though, ain't it? It was like, we're losing that quarterback.


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[Assistant] Last year's performance and what I think that person will do this upcoming season. So for me, what Deshaun Watson did in Houston is irrelevant. You wear orange and brown now. Uh, I will probably have Deshaun Watson somewhere between 15 and 18.


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[Assistant] If it was me, because I've seen him for 12 games in the Cleveland Browns uniform, and he has a winning record in those games. Now, the performance has been subpar, but the last time I seen Deshaun Watson,


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[Assistant] He was 14 for 14 in the second half with a bum shoulder. And throughout the season,


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[Assistant] You see spurts of Deshaun Watson really showing he still has the athleticism. He still can make the crisp decisions and he can still like put points on the board.


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[Assistant] Make big plays. I think the biggest hurdle for Deshaun Watson has always been the mental, right? It seems like every time, every since he's been through what he's been through and he tries to bounce back from that, it's like another hurdle stands in his way.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Coming off the best game that we've probably seen or the best half we've seen him play in the Cleveland Browns uniform.


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[Assistant] You turn around and then the season is over. And yet here's another hurdle. And I think that the more adversity you go through, it starts to wear on you mentally. And so for me, if he can overcome the mental hurdles, I think then he can return to top 10 form because I still see every other aspects of the NBA still being there for him.


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[Assistant] So what you just said, he's basing this list off of what he thinks of the player.


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[Assistant] Here's the first two sentences of the write up of Deshaun Watson. I'm over it with Deshaun Watson. The only players on this list lower than him are either clear backups or younger players with something more to prove. Mike, can I get that list?


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[Assistant] How the hell you gonna tell me God's like, Richardson?


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[Assistant] If you just look at the list, see we often talk about our biases when it comes to Deshaun Watson, right? We're Browns fans, we work in this city, we live in this city. Naturally, if you've been a fan of Deshaun Watson, naturally you have some biases towards him.


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[Assistant] But to me, that sounds like somebody with a bias towards Deshaun Watson as well. I don't think so. I mean, I think so as well.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That's where you started them back, like today. Like 12. You started off as 12.


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[Assistant] Alright, so if we're basing, if we're basing, Mike, this is our 2024 projection.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna start them off at 11. I'm just gonna go one higher than you, and here's why.


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[Assistant] Here's why. I believe the arm, I believe the arm talent is still there. I believe the decision making is still there. I believe he is still a great athlete, right? And then you look at that, the Cleveland Browns have a great team. You're gonna be getting your running back, uh, back in the backfield. You should, everybody's gonna be all deck, all hands on deck, right?


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[Assistant] If Deshaun Watson is healthy and he can get over those mental hurdles, he is just as good, if not better than a lot of these dudes that's playing quarterback in the NFL. So if that shoulder can hold up and he's really like,


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[Assistant] So, I mean, depending on the argument, I don't think where me and you have him is kind of out of line. Because Bull got him at 16 if you made the argument for 4-0.


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[Assistant] Yo, real quick, Mike, before the read, I can't, I think we was doing one of our first episodes of Behind the Glass, and I told Mike, for me, Deshaun Watson's success in Cleveland will never be measured in stats, right? To me, it's gonna be measured in those key moments and big games.


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[Assistant] To me, a franchise quarterback no matter how the game has went throughout the game.


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[Assistant] But when it's crunch time and when it's winning time, if he can go, go out there on the football field and take us on a game winning touchdown drive, then okay, cool. And you, if you could do that more often than not, that's how I'm going to measure you. Because at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] We've talked all the time. Deshaun Watson was brought here for those few moments throughout the season when you need your quarterback to be a game-changer and make a big play to go get you a dub. And for two years he hasn't been that. And so, Mike, again, when we talk about recency bias, the last time I saw Deshaun Watson, he did that, right?


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[Assistant] When he took us on a game winning drive. But you said a game winning touchdown drive. My whole point, boy, I mean you could try to paraphrase what I said. I spoke, I spoke it proper. I spoke it proper. But my bottom line is, he led us on a drive that ultimately led us to winning the football game, right? And that's what franchise quarterbacks do. But one time in two years is not enough. I don't know how many game winning drives he got for the Cleveland Browns. I didn't do that type of math.


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[Assistant] I'm just telling you how I measure a quarterback. I don't care about the stats and the completion percentage and this, that and the third.


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[Assistant] I personally don't care about that. I ain't saying nothing new. So you care more about one comeback win. I'm just telling you what I said before this last season even started. I will never measure Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Based on how many passing yards and this, that, and the third. Is he leading the Browns to victories? And is he, is he leading us on game winning drives when we needed the most? That's the only thing I care about.


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[Assistant] Uh, Matt, for me, you know, I was, I was a kid, like I was damn near a baby when Bill Belichick coached here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Uh, how do people, I know you said on the coaching aspect, it's kind of like an incomplete or he didn't get the job done. But does he ever speak about like how he enjoyed Cleveland, didn't enjoy Cleveland? Is there some bitterness there or is this like one of those places that you know what, I wish I can kind of, you know, kind of seen it all the way through.


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[Assistant] I mean, like you said, the majority, I feel like this, if you're a Cleveland Browns fan, if you're a true Cleveland Browns fan, and you don't like Deshaun Watson to the point to where you don't want to see him be successful, then you're a fool, because his success helps the Cleveland Browns become more successful.


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[Assistant] For me, it'll be third. I need an impact wide receiver. I need an impact defensive tackle. The reason why it will be third is because he's already under contract.


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[Assistant] But I'm doing everything in my power. I think it's capped this upcoming season. It's 15.8.


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[Assistant] I'm doing everything in my power to rework that deal


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[Assistant] To give him a four year deal to ensure that he retires at Cleveland Brown. I think Nick Chubb is arguably the best player on this team and I think he's one of the best people, uh, inside this entire franchise. You know, they talk about smart, like accountable and tough and hard working and all that other stuff.


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[Assistant] Certain running backs are certain running backs, but Nick Chubb is kind of the exception to that rule. I think how he's viewed in this organization is very, very high. Like to me, like,


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[Assistant] So I will put a third on the list simply because he's already under contract. Go get me an impact wide receiver. Go get me a young stud defensive tackle and then make sure that my running back, uh, is locked up. So for the rest of his career, we've seen a running game struggle.


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[Assistant] You know, as the season went on without Nick Chubb, he's very important inside this organization and on the football field.


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[Assistant] I think, I think, I think what Boyle is saying is strictly from a football player standpoint. I think where me and G is coming from, yeaah, let's take the football and let's add that with who Nick Chubb is the man and how important he is to the organization and so for that reason it's like,


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[Assistant] That's true, all I'm saying is, he gives everybody in this building everything that they need to go be successful. From a financial standpoint.


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[Assistant] He asked your opinion, is this the best nine Lebron? He said that you ever saw, I was not alive to see those other teams. How can I, how can I make a declaration?


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[Assistant] That's what I was trying to say. But you cut me off when I was making my point. I was not born in the 80s. I don't, I don't know much about those teams, but as I look at this team, this is the best non-LeBron team I've seen. I think this team has the potential to be...


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[Assistant] Is there any player currently on the Cleveland Cavaliers that...


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[Assistant] But I think, I think none of them got cash records for most points in the game, most 40 points games in a row. Like, like just certain things like that.


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[Assistant] So tomorrow, uh, I think I'ma talk a little bit about


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[Assistant] We're gonna kinda go back to the conversation we had with Imani Bates. What he talked about, like, basically he heard the noise and he's gonna be a superstar. We're gonna delve back. We're gonna talk about Craig Porter. Craig Porter Jr. just got the contract and how he had an unorthodox path to there just to remind people, like,


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[Assistant] Your journey is your journey. To hell with what the stats say or, or what the non-believers say. As long as you believe in yourself, you can do that. Talk a little bit about the Browns. And then do some Q&A hopefully. So, so have some fun.


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[Assistant] Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is Earl LaPurro from the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. This is the man, G. Bush, the true and false winner. We'll see you next time.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, my, my, my fandom, cause I told them I wasn't using the word crush.


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[Assistant] It's J.R. Smith. Couple reasons, couple reasons. His name is Earl, my name is Earl, right?


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[Assistant] Like his whole swag, the tattoos, just the personality, really don't give a damn what other people think about him. You know, he kinda like marched to the beat of his own drum. If you go back and you watch the J.R. Smith highlights, whether he was in New York, Denver, or in Cleveland,


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[Assistant] His highlight tape is stupid, like JR Smith is just a real one, so.


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[Assistant] I, I, the whole Earl thing and, like, people, you know, go about Earl the Pearl. Did you know who Earl Monroe is? Yes. Yes, I, I know the whole, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yo, he was a really, really interesting, uh, interview. And it ain't really just no, like, stick with me, but I really be interested in the person. You know, I'd have been through a lot myself, like I used to be.