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[Assistant] Houston's defensive team has had number two circled in the, in the film room of you can't let that happen again. This to me feels like a David Njoku find a soft spot in the zone and destroy him. I agree. And so I think it could be a big Njoku game. I don't think Amari is going to have a monster game just because I think Houston is going to pay so much attention to him.


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[Assistant] Play action I think is going to be huge on this. We've talked about it all year. Joe's so good at it. Kevin loves running it.


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[Assistant] I think that they will run it, but they're not gonna set up, they're not gonna run it first. I think they're gonna throw it to set up the run. It's what they do all the time.


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[Assistant] Tim, you mentioned Amari and we were talking earlier about obviously he had a huge game against Houston the first time around and expect the defense to pay close attention to him.


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[Assistant] Joe throws it in double coverage, he's throwing it in a triple coverage. As a quarterback, what makes a good throw in a double coverage, when is a good time to do it, and when is not?


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[Assistant] Hopefully it's one week, hopefully Hopkins can be back next week, this week being in the Dome.


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[Assistant] And we'll see, but yeaah, of course you're going to be concerned.


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[Assistant] What kind of effect has he had on this team? Because it wasn't that long ago.


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[Assistant] Houston was about as toxic and dysfunctional as Cleveland.


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[Assistant] G and I think alike. But I haven't flipped. I haven't flipped. I absolutely, positively believe the Browns are going to the Super Bowl this year. I believe it. I do. They have everything they need to go to the Super Bowl. They've got a defense that gets off the field on third down and creates turnovers. They've got a quarterback who can make every throw. They have everything they need to go to the Super Bowl. I think they're going to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco is on the type of heater. It's possible. That's right. It's, it's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] And Joe's not making those types of turnovers. I wish the Browns could run it a little bit more effectively. Granted.


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[Assistant] But if I look at that team on paper, they have everything they need to go.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so this was a cartoon, this was a picture turned into a cartoon, real quick, 2002 Ohio State Michigan game, I'm an Ohio State beat writer, I'm on the sideline for the last couple minutes, Jim's play sheet was in his back pocket, and so I was staring at it, and they got this picture of me staring at Jim Dressel's ass.


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[Assistant] I know we come to sports to escape from the crazy realities of real life, but can we talk for just a minute about preparing for real life? According to the FDA, pharmacies are running out of antibiotics, like amoxicillin, right in the middle of the worst flu season in over a decade. This is really scary. I can't imagine a more helpless feeling than one of my loved ones or one of the kids might get


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[Assistant] One of my kids, I don't have kids, got sick while a supply chain issue kept them from life-saving medicine they needed. Thankfully, we'll be okay because of Jace Medical. The Jace case is a pack of five different antibiotics to treat a long list of bacterial illnesses including UTIs, respiratory infections,


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm just trying to gather myself, man. This show, this show is off the rails already. So look, no more one more things going forward. Cause off that tangent, I ended up going on the tangent. I'll be pissed off at you. Y'all don't know that. Like.


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[Assistant] No, seriously though, because like, what y'all don't understand is,


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[Assistant] Like, it's a method to my badness as well. And so when the, the conversation goes for an extended four minutes, now I gotta start over what I'm doing. And that puts me 10 minutes behind, which puts the social clips that's getting out on X 10 minutes behind, which puts, pushes everything else beyond. So just shut up and let's get to the topic.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like I'd like to see who has the first commercial. Will it be Doritos or Chevrolet this year? We gonna find out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had a question for Jason. So I've heard Brad Doherty speak about Evan Mobley a lot. And this was maybe about a year ago.


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[Assistant] That he talked about Evan Mobley's development and him being this unicorn and reaching this full potential. And he's somebody that believed that Evan Mobley doesn't have to develop this consistent three point shot.


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[Assistant] Alright man, that was great. So before we move on to our next topic, I just wanted to tell y'all about a conversation me and Mike had the other day. I hit Mike up. I said, hey bro, I think I want to go see the Cavs Kings game.


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[Assistant] Uh, wanted to show Jawad Williams some love and support for being-


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[Assistant] A local Cleveland dude that's on the Sacramento Kings coaching staff, he was like, ay,


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[Assistant] I just, I don't have the clue. Uh, this is per fearthesword.com. This is a quote. Uh, Donovan Mitchell will be participating in the three point competition, but he isn't his or his teammates preferred option.


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[Assistant] This is from Donovan Mitchell. Sam Mero didn't want to do it. I tried to get him out, but he just wanted to chill with his family, so I figured why not go out there and win it for him.


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[Assistant] There's more though. There's more. This is what it says. This is what the article says. Merrill hasn't seemed interested, citing not ever taking part in a three point competition before and his golf game as two reasons why he should take the weekend off.


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[Assistant] You thought I was gonna say Tyrese Halliburton was gonna come win the three point shootout? Donovan Mitchell gonna win, he gonna hit every damn shot and every damn round and he's gonna set a new record for the three point shootout that'll never be broken. I love that.


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[Assistant] That kinda would be fire. I mean, I kinda like that the more I think. I think four-five should probably, uh, I mean he'd wear four-five because of Michael Jordan. Maybe...


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[Assistant] I don't know, a throwback for it. No, they ain't Andy. Where's some Larry Bird related? Larry Bird.


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[Assistant] Alright man, so the NBA trade deadline is Thursday, but before we talk about that tonight, the second episode of the ultimate Cleveland Cavaliers show with yours truly, Mike McNuggets.


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[Assistant] Jason Lloyd premieres tonight at 5pm. What you guys talking about?


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[Assistant] This team has all the pieces. They're just young. They need to grow. Do I have that correct?


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[Assistant] So I'm tying, I'm tying this into a few more points. Mike, you pointed out you had the data to back it up that the Cavs best lineup is what it is. You had the plus minus, et cetera.


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[Assistant] It's the best move for the Cavs internally trying to figure out how to create a second lineup as dominant as the lineup that you put together.


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[Assistant] All the pieces that you have and try to construct a second lineup that's just as potent as the lineup that you talked about.


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[Assistant] We've talked ad nauseum about his work with Cam Newton, his work with Josh Allen. So the question in this poll today is, the playbook that he designs for Deshaun Watson, would it be tailored more towards Cam Newton or Josh Allen? Tyvis, you want to start us off? You weren't here yesterday.


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[Assistant] I'm taking an under on Deebo too. Uh, Isaiah Pacheco is a dog. I mean, he a flat out beast. He gets it done. He's been going up against good defenses, all playoffs, and he's yet to let the Kansas City Chiefs down. I think Deebo Samuel under 16 and a half will be mine.


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[Assistant] I like it. I mean, I just said it earlier, like, like Pacheco is a dog. Like he-


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[Assistant] No, I just, I think Kansas City's defense is that good. I think Christian McCaffrey is the lead horse, of course, but I just don't think Kansas City's defense is going to be letting Deebo run side to side like that.


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[Assistant] Alright man, so it's Black History Month and anytime that I'm in this chair this month, I am going to take it upon myself to highlight somebody.


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[Assistant] And it was Ernie Davis who did so. Following in the footsteps of the great Jim Brown.


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[Assistant] All American, I'm sorry. Running for a total of 2,386 yards and 20 touchdowns, Davis was selected first in the 1962 NFL Draft and fourth overall in the 1962 AFL Draft.


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[Assistant] But was diagnosed with leukemia before playing a diet a year later. So today for Black History Month, UCSS will spotlight Ernie Davis. Before you all go off real quick.


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[Assistant] We work, in my opinion, in the most diverse Cleveland sports media entity. 100%.


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[Assistant] Kudos to us, right? Like this, that's what makes it fun to come to work. It's because not just with UCSS, but in this building here at Channel 3, it's a lot of diversity here. And that's what we need more of, more inclusion. Great. Divas?


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure man, like, uh, like the history is important and just to hear like, you know, a lot of what Jason said, like, you know, there's a lot of people like Jason Lloyd out here and I think sometimes people of color give too much attention to the toxic people.


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[Assistant] Who don't want to see this, this country continue to move forward. Like we all need each other.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like the number one obligation here on earth.


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[Assistant] It's the spread of love, no matter what your race is, what your gender is, what your creed, what your religious backgrounds is, et cetera. Like, it's just that simple, yet somehow some way we feel like that more often than not, so.


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[Assistant] You know, I know I can be better. I'm pretty sure it's a lot of people that would take accountability and say that they can be better in that department. But if we just learn to spread more love, we'll be all right as a country.


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[Assistant] No, that might be fact. Uh, the last one comes from Donnie M. He says, do the Cavs give you vibes like the A. Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars Pistons led teams? The bad boys?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, we could talk about that. Our audience would probably lose interest very quickly because of the sports show. I want to start, yesterday we started the show with a close up of G. Bush.


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[Assistant] Congratulations quickly to the Cleveland Browns. Last night at the Cleveland Sports Awards, they won the Sports Moment of the Year, and it was basically the Thursday night win over the Jazz.


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[Assistant] It was a great crowd and it was a fun evening and it's always a great event to see all of the Cleveland sports folks in one place and you're celebrating all of the different athletes and the moments of the year.


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[Assistant] And had a funny line at the beginning, which I think, I think he was really well received by the crowd. Cleveland loves Andrew Berry. And I do too, I think we all do. But it was good to see that their reaction to him was super hot.


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[Assistant] Glad you cleaned that up. There was one thing that I, during the process of the conversation, I hadn't seen the interview. Right. So I, I'm glad that we let you paraphrase it, which by the way, I think you accurately paraphrased what he had to say.


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[Assistant] The one thing that I think if we go back and we look at the clip.


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[Assistant] I'm fairly certain at one point you inadvertently said Cam Mitchell.


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[Assistant] Shout out to Karen, by the way. Yes, absolutely. Uh, because it certainly, gosh, it was not intentional for any strategy. And normally,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but if we were in the news breaking business, and we broke a story,


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[Assistant] With a guest, through an interview or whatever, if anybody grabbed that clip and used it, even though we did not use the clip.


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[Assistant] I think very highly of all my colleagues in the media. I know how tough this job is. It's not easy. It's really easy to sit at home and watch us do this.


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[Assistant] And to throw darts. Uhm, but for those of us that have done it for an extended period of time, and we're all in the game for a while now, we know there are a million pitfalls, there are a million things that are difficult that the average viewer would have no idea of, and quite frankly, it's the you don't want to know how sausage is made thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, it needs context. Like, was the coach joking? Was he serious? Either way, it wasn't a smart move, but I also don't love the fact that Giannis flexed and said he's got to go.


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[Assistant] And you can do that when you're at the end of your career. Sure, of course. I also thought he showed great


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[Assistant] insight. Everything he said is true. I've had conversations with quarterbacks in contentious rooms.


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[Assistant] And they'll tell you things off the record that they won't tell you on the record. I think he's transparent. He's open. Now the one thing that I'm sure you guys touch on it


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[Assistant] Right. And what I want to know is whatever interactions Joe had with Deshaun, I'd love to hear him talk about those experiences.


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[Assistant] How, how do you characterize Joe Flacco now that you spent 30 minutes with?


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[Assistant] He's actually done a lot of self-reflecting on personal Deshaun Watson and professional Deshaun Watson. He's smart enough to know that this guy has something that can help me. And it's up here. It's knowledge of the game. How invaluable would it be for Deshaun Watson to come over on the sideline?


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[Assistant] Right. And have a conversation with Joe Flacco about what just happened on the field. Or maybe Joe's seeing something on the surface. On the pad. He's looking at something saying to Sean.


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[Assistant] Eyes, different sets of eyes, see that? We saw that with the DeMarco Ryan clip where he tells his linebacker. D'Amico. D'Amico, I'm sorry, it's called D'Marco. Where he said, just get in front of Joe. Just get in front of him. Then almost immediately after that, there's a pick six.


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[Assistant] And the player did exactly what the coach said. And I think that Deshaun...


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[Assistant] There's no doubt Deshaun is a driven, motivated, and wants to win. There's no doubt about that. Anybody that's ever doubted that has not been paying attention. He doesn't like the fact that he's been


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[Assistant] Sure. He hates those adjectives. The adjectives he wants are winner, champion, hard worker. Joe Flacco can help him get there. And I think Deshaun's smart enough to realize that. I hope he is.


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[Assistant] So Paul, this goes back to something that we asked, I think the beginning of last year, I can't remember, about pressure. And we talked about


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[Assistant] How much pressure is Deshaun Watson under? And I think you said a lot, everybody said it's a lot of pressure. And I sat in this chair and said, none.


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[Assistant] He's, he's got no pressure whatsoever. You know what he has? He's got a 230 million dollar guarantee. If he sucks, he's got a safety net. If he's replaced, he's got a safety net.


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[Assistant] I didn't like that. I think, to your point, I was always motivated by that as well. I was motivated more, I hate to fail. I hate to lose more than I love to win.


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[Assistant] And so what always motivated me in the dark hours, not in the games, but in the dark hours when I was working by myself was I was asking myself, what was the competition doing? What are they doing right now to be better than me? And that drove me. And you know what? I'm not, Deshaun Watson is a motivated person. I don't want to make it, if you followed his career in college and you watched him,


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[Assistant] closely. You know that he is motivated. He wants to be great. Sometimes human nature, not a Deshaun Watson flaw, human nature. When we are crowned champion of the game, $230 million contract.


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[Assistant] We lose that motivation. We lose that spark. So I love your argument counsel that you want to use Joe Flacco as a fire starter. I think that's, I haven't heard anybody say that yet. He's also an insurance policy. Bring Joe back.


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[Assistant] When we speak to the greatest individual rivalries in sports history, obviously Ali Frazier comes to mind for me. I'm a big fight fan and their fights and their personal relationship was amazing. They came to grow to love one another much like Larry and Magic have. But you're absolutely right.


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[Assistant] We, as the fans, were the benefactor of Magic Hating Larry and Larry Hating Magic. It created magic for us to watch for more than a decade between college and the NBA.


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[Assistant] Bull, did you get a sense from Joe, and did it even come up, about what his post-football life looks like? I think coaching is an option, I think all of that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Brock Osweiler was the quarterback in Houston, by the way, and which, you know, Deshawn knew coming in, he had the keys.


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[Assistant] And you said something during your answer a moment ago where you said, players are okay with competition, they like it.


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[Assistant] But I will also say, and I remember, I think, I didn't experience this in any other sport but wrestling, and here's, it exists in track and field too, and swimming, and things that are measured definitively. A lot of this is just subjective. I look at my eyes and I think you're better.


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[Assistant] But when there's a watch or there's a head to head competition in wrestling, we had wrestlers every week. And I'll never forget it. As a freshman, I wanted to be varsity.


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[Assistant] I had a good junior high career, but they had some good high school wrestlers that were my weight class. The beauty of wrestling was why I always liked it. You find out. If you didn't put in the work.


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[Assistant] Meaning the tape measure and the stopwatch never lies. You always know where you stand and where you stand in reference to your competition. In wrestling, two guys come to the middle of the mat and they would wrestle a three-minute period. Winner gets the varsity spot.


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[Assistant] I did, but you know what? After week one, wrestle off again.


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[Assistant] Now there was a time when there were no wrestle offs. If you were beating every guy in the weight class and you were beating them easily, then it wasn't an issue. Particularly if you were winning your matches. But if you weren't winning your matches,


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[Assistant] I've gotta get the best wrestler at 98 pounds. So we're gonna have another Wrestle Off. Now what that did...


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[Assistant] Was it kept everybody else in that weight class motivated? Oh, Jay's in a weight room after practice?


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[Assistant] Guess I gotta be in the weight room after practice. But to your point of athletes love competition, it makes us better. You said this earlier. It makes some cower. Yup. That's your answer.


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[Assistant] Kobe's in here, or Tyrod. Tyrod's in here, before you, and after you're gone.


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[Assistant] And so it changed Baker's approach. He realized, oh, I can't, I can't college this. I can't Oklahoma this. This is a new level. I'm getting paid.


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[Assistant] I think that we'll find out. This nonsense and Jason is adamant about this.


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[Assistant] And I love Jason in every one of his takes because he does come at things in a very cerebral way. But this particular take where, oh, he can't come back.


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[Assistant] He can't come back. That could make for a volatile situation. Hell with that. These are gladiators. These are men.


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[Assistant] It will happen, and that's human nature, but there's one thing that we haven't discussed in talking about Deshaun Watson's comeback, and it hit me yesterday, but I didn't want to take this tangent, but we can now because we're talking specifically about Deshaun. We talk about Nick Chubb as, oh, we don't know what he's gonna be when he comes back.


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[Assistant] And if it, if it does, then that's why this hiring hasn't been made official. Maybe.


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[Assistant] That's why I was too, because you've made the assumption that most OCs don't call their own plays, even though we know there are some that do. There are some, yea sure. There are some. I would love to know the


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[Assistant] If I'm gonna do this on enthusiasm level, like I'm begging for the Cincinnati job. I'll go there and I'll say, can I please have this job? I'm gonna go to the charges and say, I really want this job.


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[Assistant] This is, I can be here forever. This is a great situation. I would say the same in Philly.


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[Assistant] I would not beg for the Browns job. I think it's probably fourth in that list, but I think it's the top three and then everybody else is just kinda...


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[Assistant] And by the way, Andy Reid's answer to the media was 50-50. It later came out. It may have been, was it Darren that told us?


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[Assistant] Shout out to Darren, by the way. Darren's an OG. And, and there were guys that were with the Chiefs, they were not with the Chiefs at the time that that comment was made.


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[Assistant] But there were guys that had previously played in that offense and they chuckled at that. Andy Reed isn't letting anybody call 48% of his plays. Andy Reed is calling the plays. So it was pretty definitive what went. And then I love what Eric Bieneme did. I know it didn't work out for him.


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[Assistant] Nobody here is a sidekick. You're right. It is a mix. We talked about it earlier this week about how, whether it was planned and I don't think it was, sometimes you just get lucky. But the way we all come at things, player perspective, deep media member perspective when Jason's in that chair.


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[Assistant] We all have something different that we bring. Nobody's a psycho. Somebody asked me not long after we started this show, there was someone that said, and I, and I,


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[Assistant] Fought it vehemently. I said, you're wrong. It's not gonna work. There's too many guys. We want you to come do a show. There's gonna be two of you. There's too many voices on your show. I said, I wouldn't do a show with one other person.


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[Assistant] I ran into Sam Pines last night at the Cleveland Awards. He runs ESPN Cleveland in LA. And I said, he hadn't even heard the rumor. I said, wow, what the hell are the Lakers doing? Talking about Donovan Mitchell, what are they going to give up?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. God, I didn't realize it was 28. I didn't think it was that far.


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[Assistant] I think that this is realistic. You guys may laugh at me.


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[Assistant] What I think is realistic is if I'm the calves, there are two great assumptions. The first great assumption is, is that Donovan Mitchell is gonna at some point soon be gone. The other, I think, assumption


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[Assistant] To get a piece that you could well get anyhow.


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[Assistant] Bro, if I had my way, I would leave fingernail marks on the pitchers mount. Let me ask you this.


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[Assistant] It's one of our competitors. Yeaah. I mean, let's flip it this way. What if he bought the Detroit Tigers? Yeaah. We'd be furious. Yeaah, right.


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[Assistant] He will write a check to build the new stadium, and he's going to pay for it.


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[Assistant] Haslem? Yeaah. There were conflicting points early on. It was like he's a minority owner. Then I think after some digging it came out, no, no, no. He owns a big share of the steam.


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[Assistant] Super happy for them on that front. In fact, I actually think that was a good PR move.


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[Assistant] Good for you. Right. Well done. But when you go and buy a big piece of the Milwaukee Bucks, that, did you, it's almost like they didn't read the room before they did that. Nah, that was terrible. I've yet to talk to a die-hard Cleveland sports fan that has said this, man, I'm so glad that Haslam spent whatever on a team that we're competing for a championship with.


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[Assistant] Of course. I do now. Buffalo's going one. They are? They are. Okay, yeaah. I think, I think the governor, uh, Governor Hokel has, uh,


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[Assistant] Cleared the decks and signed the whatever that they are their new stadium.


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[Assistant] Have you guys seen the tents that are popping up in downtown Cleveland? Have you guys seen that?


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[Assistant] When you come downtown, it breaks your heart that this was a San Francisco problem.


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[Assistant] This was a San Diego problem, a Seattle problem. That problem is on our doorstep.


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[Assistant] But what's happened in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, when they didn't properly address that treatment of that problem, it expanded and ballooned into


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[Assistant] Unimaginable situations. If you've been to these cities, and I have, if you've been to these cities and you see it, your heart breaks. This is the United States of America. And people are living that way. It's a disgrace that we allow that to happen. And for some reason it hits me really hard when I see it in my town. It's very sad. It is, and you're right Bull, the thought that half a billion or a billion


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[Assistant] Could go to build a rich owner's retractable- Ugh, disgusting.


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[Assistant] What kind of society are we living in that we can ignore the plight of the unfortunate and the disadvantaged and the homeless? We had a situation where we had on our property, on Channel 3, we had to tell a homeless person who had taken up


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[Assistant] I have a, you know, she was living on our property, but you can't do that. Where? It was on our property. Really? Yea. 200 yards, 100 yards from where I'm sitting right now.


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[Assistant] So figure that responsibility becomes to help and to share and to give what you have and the notion that our city and state could write a check.


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[Assistant] Corporate America could pay for that, but they're gonna ask


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[Assistant] I am the biggest sports advocate you will find. Our society's priorities.


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[Assistant] Wildly skewed if we're gonna do that. When we have now in our city, an estimated 250 people living on the streets in this weather, intense, within a half mile of where we're sitting right now.


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[Assistant] So even if you don't have money in your pocket to help share, you can go down to the food bank and you can help them sort food and get it into packages that can be delivered to now a growing number of Northeast Ohioans who don't want this food.


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[Assistant] This is their lifeline. There are people in Northeast Ohio in the tens of thousands that are relying on this organization and their food, which comes from donations and volunteers to eat to survive.


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[Assistant] It is obvious, but sometimes it's worth saying again out loud and you hope that the people will hear it.


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[Assistant] I have thought a number of times when I drive by Lakeside of, of you guys, and I've thought,


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[Assistant] One day, I want to organize a UCSS trip where we go down Lakeside. Doesn't matter what time of day you go, what time of night you go.


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[Assistant] Saying to as many people as we can fit in our vehicles, who wants to go, go to lunch with us?


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[Assistant] You can offer an NIL deal to an incoming freshman. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] They got the number one and I watched it in the All-America game and it's rarely that you see someone separate in that game because they're playing against all elite players.


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[Assistant] I watched him consistently getting separation.


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[Assistant] And that's fair, and I typically look with a squinted eye at recruiting, ranks, and all of that nonsense. You're rating 17 year old kids, that's kind of sick.


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[Assistant] I've seen high school tape from a kid from Idaho playing seven on seven. Yea, right. Like, it does nothing for me. Playing against a bunch of clubs. I need to see you against elite competition. That's what I'm seeing. And that's why I watch that game with such great interest. Every year I'm fascinated in that game.


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[Assistant] I watched that game and from the very first play of the game, because I was looking at him most of the time, I'm like, okay, a lot of what I read on this kid is now has more credence with me because I'm seeing it with my own eyes.


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[Assistant] And Smith was chewing him up. And this was like one of the top rated DBs in the country.


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[Assistant] They are. They are. This was, uh, you know, I think within the week we're going to hear that Jim Harbaugh has taken an NFL job. Yep. Some, some say it's going to be the Chargers, but there are others who say there are some big names, Mike Vrabel is one of them attached to that job.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he did invite a kicker. He had a sleepover with a kicker. Yep. That he stole away from Conor Stallions. Just got hired by the Chargers. Is there coincidence? I don't know.


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[Assistant] That's a given because the game's at home. I just expect us to win when it's in Columbus. I expect us to lose when it's Ann Arbor. It's a rivalry. That's the way they work.


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[Assistant] They absolutely have to beat Michigan. Michigan's going to be down. They're going to have a new coach. They're not going to be, you know, they're not going to know all the plays that are going to be called. They're just, they are definitely on the decline.


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[Assistant] But to say they have to win a national championship, they're also saying in Georgia right now, oh, we have to win it this year.


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[Assistant] It's also over for Ryan Day. Yeaah. He's gotta run the table, which is a tough.


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[Assistant] Well, and by the way, we say it can't be what it was this year. Just to remind everybody what it was this year.


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[Assistant] The last two years they've lost to the eventual national champion. They lost on a missed field goal at the end of the game to the eventual champion Georgia. They played Michigan closer than anyone else and scored more points against Michigan than anyone else.


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[Assistant] There's now going to be 12 teams. Right. Ryan Day is going to have to win two big games. That's right. Likely two, unless he's in the top four. But he needs to do that. That's right.


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[Assistant] He's on record saying this. CJ Stroud just wrote a half a milli check to Ohio State. We're not talking six figures, right?


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[Assistant] They've got a great coach there. They've got some nice momentum. Now that you can just out and outright checks and they've got a guy who we know


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[Assistant] wants this program to be great and on the map, I would think they're well positioned to become one of the teams that was a team that you always knew about and looked at, but I think they can in the, in the future become a team that you're like, Oh, okay, Maryland's doing it like that.


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[Assistant] But you're absolutely right. What he has done for that school is, is unimaginable and there's gotta be other guys grabbing the rope.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the variable thing is, man, everywhere he goes, toughness follows. And you're right, the menu is loaded with incredible ingredients.


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[Assistant] I think that the biggest jump from last year to this year is going to be the Chargers, whoever takes the job, because I felt the coaching staff was holding this team back from its true potential. They're going to need a new running back though.


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[Assistant] Sean, he uh, he does a little gimmick where he uh, competes against athletes at Ohio State and other sports.


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[Assistant] And I'm a former wrestler, so I watched with great interest when he decided to get on the mat with a very renowned Ohio State wrestler. And if I say he got his ass kicked, I'm being nice.


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[Assistant] The only reason that scares me, Ty, is I know that Giannis is probably going to play the most motivated game that wasn't in the NBA Finals of his life. Because he just got the coach up out of there. And he wants, not a win, he wants to boat race the Cavs like they boat raced the Bucs last week. My only concern is this. The Cavs are playing defense.


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[Assistant] At an incredible rate right now. Their efficiency rate, are they number two? Number two overall in the NBA. Yea, but they don't have anybody.


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[Assistant] You know, I like that I'm more of a spontaneous guy. Like you kind of take it as you go. I had some ideas, like kind of a base guideline.


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[Assistant] But I'm not organized enough to do that. But if you think about it, a vacation, depending on how much you take in a year,


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[Assistant] Is really your getaway for at least a six month stretch. And I know you said you haven't done this in a very long time.


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[Assistant] That sounds like a TV show. What we've always done, and we just, when we were in Florida in November for the baseball tournament, it was a little different because we were very busy playing baseball, but we tried to maximize our evenings and do fun stuff. I have a very simple rule. If we can all get on the same page and everybody wants to do the same thing, lovely.


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[Assistant] No harm, no fault, go do you. And, you know, as it worked out, probably of the eight or nine nights that we were there, four or five, we did group things. Are they in the same home as you? Yeah, well, three of them were. Okay. Because it was a big house. Big house, right? A lot of space. That's what I was going to ask. Except for the main kitchen. Are you guys staying?


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[Assistant] We can do that. And then every night from 7 to 10, we flip the switch inside the home and it's just


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[Assistant] I think when you- You can do it with two- I was- with Burrow I was there probably even before two.


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[Assistant] And you know what, it's, it's, I think that's becoming more the rule. The, the, the guy, like the Mahomes and the Borough who really didn't have that, most everybody else has that at some point. Cause the league is reacting.


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[Assistant] So are we, if we had to go right now, just based on the limited knowledge that we have with Johnson, are we thumbs up or thumbs down on Johnson?


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[Assistant] Coming off the year he came off of though with the tools that he had there, maybe not so much.


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[Assistant] I had even advocated that he should become the CEO and bring in someone and he should manage the whole thing and let someone else handle the play calling and same thing with the defense as he does on the defensive side.


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[Assistant] I've changed my mind because this year with what he had to work with, one wide receiver, five quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Cause I agree with you, I think that it should be up to him. But they've already said if Kevin's not calling plays it's because Kevin doesn't want to. Well we know what play calling means to Kevin. So I'm not gonna buy it if Kevin suddenly steps forward and says, you know what?


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's separate, and this is hard for you because you deal in the world of fat.


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[Assistant] And in the media space what we've seen more often as we've moved along the continuum is we've gone as an industry away from facts and into takes and opinions. So let me ask you strictly an opinion now. I'm not asking you as a reporter who is supposed to dig for facts. Your opinion.


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[Assistant] Do you think he will be the play caller? Do you think he should be the play caller?


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[Assistant] What do we need Kevin Moore for? Especially coming off the season that he's coming off of in LA. It's not like he set the world on fire. He had all the assets. All the tools.


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[Assistant] They answered the extension contract.


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[Assistant] But it's happened. There are examples of GMs that were brought in after the coach that later got rid of the coach.


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[Assistant] Do you think it should be AB's decision? Cause I do. I think that falls under his job description. A good owner hires good people and then gets the hell out of the way.


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[Assistant] Last year, the guy who was the offensive coordinator but didn't call the plays got fired.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, that's a great point, G, because Jimmy Haslam's legacy is in the balance here. Yes! His legacy to this point is unsatisfactory.


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[Assistant] Actually there's only a handful of examples in recent memory where an organization picked the coach.


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[Assistant] Which is why I was so surprised he got the contract. Well typically the resume comes before the contract.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. You're right, there's a big scope there, but when you hone in on the dynamics and the cities that were touched by it. Right. Carolina, LA, tangentially for a minute, Tampa, Houston, Cleveland.


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[Assistant] There is so much going on with the fallout from the Baker-Dashawn decision.


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[Assistant] I think before it becomes a 30 for 30, Baker has to solidify himself as a starter into his 30s, because if he disappears, people will forget.


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[Assistant] And I think Deshaun has to have some kind of a turnaround here. And it's gonna be one hell of a 30 for 30.


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[Assistant] What's a little troubling to me about that is none of those four franchises.


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[Assistant] Are known, although Atlanta maybe I would throw out, but the other three, and Atlanta was his hometown.


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[Assistant] So I think the other three, they're not known for making great decisions. Carolina right now can't get out of its own way.


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[Assistant] Yes. It was after word came out that they were making a strong play because Baker said he was lied to. What's the truth on that? We may never know.


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[Assistant] Or look at it this way. What if he had the year that he had in Tampa this year?


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[Assistant] See what was interesting to me, and this was just on the sidelines and watching it from a distance, not calling or talking to anybody. To me, I thought the worm turned when


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[Assistant] And Baker had come out and said, I want out of there.


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[Assistant] To me, I'm like, uh-oh, Deshawn's gonna get the bank and Baker is out. Because at that point,


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[Assistant] Cleveland couldn't continue the marriage with someone that they had already, that, that found out through a friend that you were cheating with you.


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[Assistant] And I do, and I'm just supposition, but I would suppose that Baker, even if the Deshaun thing fell through,


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[Assistant] Because he would have had to, contractually, would have gotten over it and would have said, would have come back with this chip on his shoulder.


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[Assistant] Do you think that if he is stripped, Kevin Stefanski is stripped of his play calling duties?


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[Assistant] That he gets to the point where he says, you know what? I can't remain here. I can't, I can't do this anymore.


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[Assistant] And, and the person that I asked that very question said, I'm not gonna rule it out. I wouldn't rule it out.


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[Assistant] I would walk. I would walk. I would too because to your point, even if he doesn't win Coach of the Year this year, he's the finalist, he's one of two right now, if he doesn't win it.


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[Assistant] The line to hire Kevin Stefanski will form immediately.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Wow. I think so. Absolutely. I wouldn't be surprised either.


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[Assistant] So now that- Well, that was Belichick out there, Vrabel. It is, but I'm just wondering, I'm hearing that Vrabel might take a year. You know what?


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[Assistant] Don't be surprised if, I said, did Mike say that? He said, we've talked this through a million different worlds.


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[Assistant] I don't know that Mike does because the way coaching in college has changed in three years.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, just, just. Yo, it's crazy. And I want you to circle back and talk about those comments. How surprised you were.


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[Assistant] A. That he did an interview. You never see that. But B. What he said.


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[Assistant] I have a bet with Tyvis, I think he'll get another carry in the NFL. Tyvis said he is done. Oh, he's done. He will never carry the ball in the NFL again.


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[Assistant] All of the criticism publicly now. It's out there on boards and on video.


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[Assistant] What if Kareem finally, with this come to Jesus moment, gets in the lab, works his ass off, drops 15 pounds, and comes back and


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[Assistant] Here's the problem, the story that he was allegedly fired for leaking.


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[Assistant] He was one of six or seven that had told media members the exact same thing. What was the story?


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[Assistant] It appears to me that all of this was done


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[Assistant] He is a friend of the show. I've known him for years. You covered him at Ohio State. The one thing I'll say about Maurice Claret that I think people are starting to realize now, he is not just an intelligent human being.


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[Assistant] His football IQ, and I had guys tell me this when he was a freshman at Ohio State, they were saying three or four games in, he's gonna break every record that's ever been set at Ohio State. And they kept saying the same thing. Not only is his natural football IQ off the charts,


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[Assistant] I had coaches there that were telling me, this kid can't learn enough. He's a sponge. He asks all the right questions. He'll reach out blindly to anyone just to pick their brain about running the position.


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[Assistant] For me, I know everybody says it goes back to Fran Tarkington, but if you go watch it, watch Old Tate. Fran would be an average quarterback today when it comes to scrambling. He and Randall Cunningham. Randall Cunningham, when I watched his game, I said, I've never seen that before.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised it wasn't even a bigger wall shot than 350 to 1. You know, you could corner that market though. You know, there's a way that you could just hedge that bet.


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[Assistant] Okay, so. 100 times 2 is what, 400 bucks? Yes, but at 250, you could still make.


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[Assistant] $500 have you bet $200? I'm going to get into this because I love numbers and I think, I think you could, that might be a back door to cornering bets. Well, but the score could end up 98, 96. Well, here's the variable.


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[Assistant] What you would have to do is look at what the average, what I would do, I would look at the average point scored.


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[Assistant] We had a conversation on the show where I believe it was Ben Baby. Yeah, but that was like five weeks ago and I don't think, I mean, do we, do we know that's that? Well, it was before the Bengals came.


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[Assistant] Like I don't know why I buy QBR, but according to Ben Baby, ESPN has developed a stat that is a combo of all things defensive end. And he said, again, I don't know, maybe you can look into this. In fact, Garrett was way ahead on this one thing. There was Garrett and then a huge gap and then everybody else.


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[Assistant] It's only happened, I think, once in the history of the NFL, of the Super Bowl, where the MVP was on the losing team. If I'm not, if I'm not mistaken, my memory tells me that that's happened one time. I think it happened one time. Was it Ed Tuttle Jones or?


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[Assistant] It seems to me that, now remember, when you vote for that, and you've done that, Chuck Howley. What's that? Chuck Howley. Yeah, you're right, Chuck Howley. Forever a guy.


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[Assistant] Yes. Now, now, sometimes because of when the time frame is, we don't know who's gonna win.


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[Assistant] Oftentimes that's the case. Think of all the Super Bowls that have been decided in the last five minutes. I think that's the, I think at the Super Bowl it's five minutes. I could be wrong on that.


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[Assistant] But I just remember times where I was putting my pencil in that and my hand was shaking.


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[Assistant] He didn't play well at the end of the year. And Bull, what are the most, what's the most important stretch of any season? The end of the season, that's it. And, and, and, and it's not just this year. We've shown with the graphic that we have that Miles Garrett is a


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[Assistant] Absolute first ballot Locke Hall of Famer in the first half of the first quarter of the season. He is a Hall of Famer in the second quarter of the season.


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[Assistant] In the third quarter of the season, he's probably gonna have to wait a couple years to get in.


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[Assistant] You're gonna scratch your head and say maybe he's not a Hall of Fame. To me, the most important, that's why my knock on miles has always been this. I don't see the splash plays in the biggest moments of games.


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[Assistant] I will always and forever think of how he won a Super Bowl for a team. He literally won the Super Bowl because the two biggest plays in that game and those numbers are just, they're jaw-dropping.


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[Assistant] He made two back-to-back plays in the biggest game of his career that sealed the deal for his team. And both of those plays were incredible human athletic achievements.


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[Assistant] Miles is capable of that. We've seen that throughout his career. I need to see that in December. I needed to see that in Houston. I needed to see that the last six weeks of the season, and I know he was hurt, but I just can't vote for him this year.


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[Assistant] We were, Jason, in real time, to be fair, we were saying, what's happened to Miles Garrett? The shoulder must be a lot more serious than we thought. Because his production went from here to here.


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[Assistant] I didn't watch all of, Max Crosby to me when I watched him. And again, I didn't watch every game. So if you just dropped in on four games from Miles Garrett, you may say, my God, was he even playing?


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[Assistant] I would have to really sit down and do a lot of film study and even talk to folks that cover those teams to see because I cannot forget the last five to six weeks of the season.


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[Assistant] last three. No, no, no, no, don't even throw january in there because in most months, it's not a full month, right? And he's probably played six games in his career.


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[Assistant] So he's got more in the last half of the season, the last two months as he does the first two months. Yea, gives January also.


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[Assistant] Wow, 36 and a half in December. To me guys, that's what separates all of those that are Hall of Fame great and really, really, really good from the yardstick. And to me, Aaron Donald is the yardstick and he's doing it at a much better rate in the most important part of the season.


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[Assistant] It's wild. It's not a statistical anomaly. It's not just a little bit less. It's not just one year. His production is almost cut in half. Yes. And that is dramatic. And we can't find another top rusher who's


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[Assistant] I will say this, he, like Miles, he's invisible in the playoff game. And I thought Dallas was going to win that playoff game more than anyone else because of Micah Parsons.


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[Assistant] And I'm told that he's not developed the shot for lack of trying


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[Assistant] What I heard was he worked on it in this offseason. It just came back and it looked exactly the same.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike, I agree with that. And to me, I guess my takeaway from all of this would be, as we've talked about, what are the Cavs going to do moving forward? Are they going to just blindly hope that Donovan decides he wants to stay here?


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[Assistant] Or are they going to be proactive and try to put his feet to the fire and say, are you going to sign the extension or are we going to move on? What are we going to do? What I did learn last night is, and I'll say it again, I've been saying it for a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] They took the best team in my view, the best team in the conference. And you know, you can argue based on where things are right now. I still think Milwaukee is my team to beat in the East.


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[Assistant] They took their best shot last night. Giannis was completely motivated because the coach is up out of there because of Giannis. He wanted to come back and say we didn't need him, see?


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[Assistant] So I think the Cavs took their best punch. And if this is the yardstick in the East, and even if you disagree with me that it's not, I don't think you can disagree with me and say that it's much below Boston or even if you have Philly. I don't think, I think they're all right there together. If this Cavs team, without Garland, forget Mobley for this conversation, can take their best punch and play a relatively close game,


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[Assistant] I'm encouraged by that. It was on the road. I did say yesterday I want to see what happens in the two games. My expectation is they should win one, the other one should be close. I want to see what happens tomorrow night.


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[Assistant] And that's always the tricky part. Did we, have we held Bieber too long? Probably.


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[Assistant] I know. Brandon Phyllis. Remember that deal? Oh yeaah. Okay. So there is, and, and we don't- They didn't hold on to him too long.


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[Assistant] You're prospecting. When you draft a guy, you're prospecting. I, I, I expect this player's gonna be, I will say this about Mowgli. For me, my expectations for him have come down every year. They haven't gone up.


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[Assistant] I was so excited about him, his rookie season. I thought, oh my God, that's what it looks like.


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[Assistant] But what I've seen is his ceiling has slowly gone down.


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[Assistant] You wanna make a decision on that player when his value is still as high as it's ever gonna be. And for me...


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[Assistant] I don't know that it's gonna be any higher. If it comes down again after this year, like at some point,


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[Assistant] The league consensus on him is gonna be, oh he's never gonna be that guy, and then the ship has sailed, you're not gonna get the most you can for him.


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[Assistant] I think G. Bush said, I think it was you, said, how about we go that Allen gets 24 minutes and Mowgli gets 24 minutes. And you know what? I had never thought.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're kind of, we're kind of licking our wounds right now. But good news is we get them again tomorrow night. And so we get another chance. Okay. Matt Colligan in the house, everybody. What's going on, guys? What's going on? It's good to be here. Hey, your Super Bowl is coming up.


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[Assistant] Yes, Super Bowl racing. Daytona 500. Daytona 500 racing. Yep. Where is team colleague? Because I was talking to you the other night. You've made some changes. How do you feel about your teams and how do you feel about Daytona?


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[Assistant] It felt like full speed. I think it was Bobby Rahal. I asked a formidable IndyCar driver what it was like and the driver said to me, imagine sitting on a sled.


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[Assistant] And going around a track 200 miles an hour because in obviously in those cars, your tail end is about six inches off the ground. You are so close to the ground.


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[Assistant] With the Indy cars, you have to squeeze into a seat that's this wide.


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[Assistant] I never saw that, but it looked good. It was good, I saw it. It was great. Yeah, it looked really good. It looked really good.


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[Assistant] Thanks for coming in. Good luck at Daytona. We're going to be following your teams as we always do and we hope that you have huge success this year and I want to know one thing from Peyton.


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[Assistant] We are 48 hours and 30 minutes from kickoff of the Browns and the Houston Texans. What a big game this is. Hello everybody and welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on WKYC Channel 3. I'm Jay Crawford and I'm going to tell you why the Browns should be where this game has trap game written all


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[Assistant] All right, very good. Thank you, Mikey. Can't wait to see your extra special headline. Jason, of course, a veteran of the newspaper business. Oh, I've been around. This better be good.


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[Assistant] Alright, first up tonight, Flacco's been unbelievable. He really has. He's averaging over 300 yards per start in his three games. Does he have to throw for 300 for the Browns to win?


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[Assistant] I'm very stubborn, but you changed my mind because I was a hard yes on this.


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[Assistant] But you're right. If there's a team that defies logic, it has been the Cleveland Browns. Teams don't win when they're on quarterback number four. This team does. The penalties and the mistakes all over the field. It raises the degree of difficulty, but the defense has always bailed them out.


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[Assistant] Alright, last week there was a surprise contributor that appeared for the Cleveland Browns. All season long we had heard of the myth of Marquise Goodwin. He's fast. He's an Olympian. He's a veteran. And then finally,


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[Assistant] Finally last week, he showed up and made a big play on the deep route 57 yard hookup.


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[Assistant] Who will be the surprise contributor this week against the Texans?


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, you guys are gonna, you love to give me flack for my answers. I know you guys do. And you're gonna kill me for this one. But my surprise contributor this week is Marquise Goodwin. Again. Back to back. Again. We have found a nugget of gold.


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[Assistant] Even though they tried it again with DTR, they couldn't connect.


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[Assistant] They have, they now have the quarterback that can throw the pure, beautiful deep ball to a fast wide receiver. How could it be a surprise if we saw it last week? Well, we've only seen it the one play. I think we're going to see it multiple times on Sunday. The Browns found gold and wherever you find gold, what do you do?


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[Assistant] This game has trap game written all over it. What are your concerns about this being a trap game?


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[Assistant] Okay, here's why it is a trap game, and why they better be concerned about that. Trap game, no one sees coming, right? You don't see a trap game coming.


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[Assistant] You don't see one. You don't see one. You don't see one. I'm hoping the Browns see one. All of the stuff that we talk about when we look at the matchup on paper, they're out with, their starting quarterback is out. Their best receiver is out. They've got other injuries. They're missing players here and there.


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[Assistant] Because of all of that stuff, everything is pointing to a Browns win. I think a trap game is when all signs point to one team winning.


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[Assistant] It's on the road. They have not been as good on the road, not even close, particularly the defense.


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[Assistant] How many times in Brown's history do you say, gosh, they win games they weren't supposed to win, but then they give back that equity by losing one no one saw coming. I'm not saying they're gonna lose. I'm just saying this has all the earmarks of a


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[Assistant] No, I'm not really looking at it. I don't care what the national folks media the betting line is. I don't really look at that. I think a trap game is a trap game because the team itself got caught in the trap of looking ahead.


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[Assistant] One at a time. We have a one week schedule. It's the Houston Texans Take Care of Business. Then you can start thinking about short work week two.


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[Assistant] And that's about what he's done this year. To quote that line of that movie as well, failure's not an option. That's right. You gotta get it done. Alright, what's mine?


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[Assistant] What David and Joku can do and whether that's a product of Joe Flacco is now leading the offense or Kevin Stefanski being the astronaut he is has finally figured out a way to work this square peg into the round hole. Whatever the deal is, this is the player we thought we were getting all along.


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[Assistant] And it came six years late, but I'm glad it's arrived. And we need more of that if we're gonna push this thing into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, you're right. We need him back on that offensive line for sure. Alright, Wednesday on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, the YouTuber edition, Cecil Shorts, a Clevelander who formerly was a wide receiver in the NFL, actually said that CJ Stroud is better than Deshaun Watson right now.


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[Assistant] Raise some eyebrows when he said that. Guys, is he drinking too much, not Kool-Aid, but Texas Tea on this one?


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[Assistant] CJ Stroud has been better in my view. And the one thing, I know you said it's not a signature win, but I watched the fourth quarter of that Buccaneers Texans game.


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[Assistant] And after watching Baker Mayfield take the Buccaneers down the field for what looked like a game winning drive, an impressive game winning drive, there was something like 34 seconds left in the game and the Texans needed not a field goal but a touchdown.


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[Assistant] CJ Stroud completed, I think it was 4-4 on the drive, took the Texans methodically down the field, and scored a touchdown at the end of the game. And in that moment, that's when I said, okay, this is real. What he just was able to do.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're going to break or we're going to do headlines? What do you want to do? We're breaking, then we're doing headlines. Alright, we're taking a break. Won't we come back? Don't watch the game! Well, you can watch it if you want, but you'll already know the outcome because of our pre-written headline.


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[Assistant] Welcome back. It's time for our favorite segment in his pre-written headlines and we're going to change things up a little bit this week. Normally, Mikey McNuggets goes last. We want you to go first this week. It's our little Christmas gift to you.


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[Assistant] Browns get healthy with third straight win. Cleveland, Wrangles, Texans in 27-13 road win. Once again, I have the same final score as G. Bush. Yea, that's crazy. It's two weeks in a row. We almost got it exactly right last week. Yea, we'll see. Jason, you've got something special for us. It better be good.


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[Assistant] When we get to the five stats today, there's a stat on Miles Garrett I'm going to give you, which I'm going to completely bring back to my basketball performance in Jason's driveway. So it's a little teaser.


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[Assistant] I was wearing jeans and old tennis sneakers. AJ came down in a full customized jersey, like head to toe. Oh, he was serious. Oh, he's been talking about this.


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[Assistant] He made a turnaround where he wasn't even remotely looking at the basket, but it went in and I'm never going to take anything away from someone a one on one. You just got to make shots and he made a couple of shots. All right. Kudos.


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[Assistant] If I shot like I did against Jason, you're gonna win. If I made a couple shots.


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[Assistant] So visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. FanDuel, an official partner of the NFL.


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[Assistant] And our guy, Carmen Santana, he sent me three bets. Three little bets, but this one in particular stood out.


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[Assistant] He bet nine cents on the Browns to score exactly 36 points. It wasn't nine dollars and nine cents. That was a, a hundred, a thousand to one return on investment. Nine cents.


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[Assistant] On an Enjoku first half touchdown, Kareem Hunt second half touchdown, Amari Cooper first half touchdown, 15 cents turned into $19. And he also bet 88 cents.


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[Assistant] And I wanna ask it this way. Is there a chance this will be the most electric home atmosphere the Browns have had since returning to Cleveland in 1999?


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[Assistant] It's a standalone Thursday night football game. A chance to clinch, and the first time a chance to clinch that's not a COVID year where the fans weren't fully able to celebrate.


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[Assistant] It is almost New Year's which means people are taking work off anyway and in the spirit to, uh, have a little extracurricular fun if you get what I'm saying. I think Nick Chubb is my prediction to be the celebrity guitar smasher. Today's his birthday, happy birthday Nick. In an absolute frenzy. On primetime television.


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[Assistant] With everyone being off and completely...


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[Assistant] Invigorate with Flacco fever. And Jason, you mentioned it. People that have sold off the Browns for other reasons are now back in because Joe Flacco has kind of reinvigorated this entire franchise.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to be like a college atmosphere. I think the crowd at the stadium is going to be absolutely bonkers. I think the pregame scene in the muti lot and on West six is going to be absolutely bonkers. And I can hear the stadium from my apartment if I have the windows open.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna have to shut the windows so you would actually hear the TV. Like that's literally the level of expectation I have for this crowd come Thursday night.


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[Assistant] Do you think there's any chance Thursday night lives up in comparison to some of the crazy college atmospheres that you've played in front of?


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[Assistant] No, you got it backwards. They came back and beat the Bears the first time, they lost the second time.


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[Assistant] He has, uh, he's got 8 misses in his career. At Seattle. At Washington.


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[Assistant] The Kansas City game when he missed two kicks was on November 13th. Alright.


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[Assistant] Just bring them all back. Bring all the old, washed up, former Super Bowl winning quarterbacks back.


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[Assistant] One little note on that, then we'll move on, but Ogbo said he is trying to prepare to come back and play in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] No, he's not playing the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, it won't be till the playoffs, but he is working toward, Mo Hearst out for the season will not play in the playoffs with a torn pack.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ogbo is working and trying to rehab to get back on the field come playoffs, assuming the Browns find a way.


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[Assistant] To make it and they have a 99% chance right now. We're going to move on to our next topic, but first a quick word.


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[Assistant] So visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. FanDuel, an official partner of the NFL. I'm gonna give you guys a what's more likely scenario.


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[Assistant] This is what's more likely based on the Jets game. Just one. We're gonna spend about 10 minutes doing this before we move on. But, what is more likely to happen on Thursday? The Jets score more than 13 points.


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[Assistant] Or get completely shut out against this Brown's defense.


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[Assistant] It's Bryce Huff. I hate to ruin your parade, but it's Bryce Huff, not Bryce Hall. Bryce Hall's a TikToker.


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[Assistant] You said Bryce Hall and Bryce Hall. Instead of? It's Bryce Huff. Bryce Huff's good. Bryce Hall's a TikToker.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you some options here. What about Dalvin Cook? Ooh.


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[Assistant] Alan Mazard. That's my point, I'm giving you names that all stink. Alan Mazard, Randall Cobb.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, wait, wait, I have to apologize. I just got a DM. There's a Bryce Hall and a Bryce Huff on the chat.


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[Assistant] 419 just came to your rescue. There's a quarterback named Bryce Hall. There's also a linebacker named Bryce Huff. Bull, I am sorry. You were wrong because you were thinking of the wrong player anyway.


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[Assistant] So yeah, so, so Bo, he had a game, he had 13 carries for 16 yards. Okay. He had 6 carries for 12 yards, 7 for 25, 10 for 23, 13 for 28. His big games have been huge.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And last week, by the way, he had 12 receptions for 96 yards as well. Yeah. He had 95 yards in the ground, 96 yards in the air, two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Uh, last thing on Brice Hall, then we're gonna get to my five stats, but he averaged ready for, this is a game by game yards per carry.


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[Assistant] Thirteen, two, one, nine, eight, three, one, three, two, two, three, one, four, four, eleven. So yeaah, it's been totally hit or miss with this one. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait. What's up, what's up, what's up?


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[Assistant] Jerome Ford, his per game yards per catch. Do it a little slower, Mike, a little slower. Well, I gotta talk, I gotta look this up.


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[Assistant] Then right now the app is easy to use and there's a wide range of betting options including spreads, player props, awards, over-unders, and much, much more. So visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. FanDuel, an official partner of the NFL.


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[Assistant] These stats range, by the way, from the running game to Flacco to a Mark Cooper to Miles Garrett and then to something you guys need to know about the Jets. But we'll start with the running game and I should clarify that. We should start with the lack thereof in terms of the Browns.


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[Assistant] In the last three games, the Browns have 76 rushing attempts for 176 yards. That is 2.2 yards per carry by far the worst in the NFL. And you could say, well, they're not running it. They actually averaging 25.3 yards per carry in that stretch. That's 17th in the NFL.


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[Assistant] But they're 55 rushing yards per game. Dead last. So the flat go.


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[Assistant] He's been wonderful. He's throwing the ball more. Part of the reason he's throwing the ball more is they simply can't run the ball at the moment. It has to be a wonderful offense.


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[Assistant] The most through four games in Cleveland Brown's history. He broke a record held by Josh McCown by over a hundred yards.


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[Assistant] That was set back in 2015. He's averaging 326.8 passing yards per game of quarterbacks with at least 100 pass attempts. So he had to start essentially two or three games. He's averaging 27 more yards per game than number two on that list. Kirk Cousins is number two. He's also hurt 291 yards per game.


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[Assistant] Since he's become the starter, he leads the NFL in passing yards. He's tied with Brock Purdy in most passing touchdowns. He leads the league in play action passing yards too. He is 677 yards off play action. Next on that list.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence at 322, double any other quarterback in football off play action. This was just for fun. If you take his stats through four games and extrapolate them for an entire season, on pace for 5555, five yards, 42 touchdowns and 29 interceptions. We can ignore the intercept.


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[Assistant] It helps to put up, uh, absurd numbers when you have a, a Marty Cooper on the outside. We know what he did, but context is two 65 receiving yards against Houston was the highest single game total in the NFL this season. Also a new Brown single game record since week 10, he has 633 receiving yards. That is the most in the NFL he set.


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[Assistant] A new PFF record according to Brad Esquire, 211 of his arts came through the air, meaning he didn't break off screens. That's the most PFF has ever recorded in terms of in-air receiving yards since the database started in 2006. And you see the four names on the bottom, Amari Cooper, Don Hudson, Marvin Harrison, and Marcus Colston. Do you guys have any idea what those four receivers have in common that no one else in NFL history has done? It's really tough.


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[Assistant] They're the only four receivers in NFL history with at least five receiving touchdowns in each of their first nine NFL seasons. That's it. That's the whole list.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up, this, this stack comes from Cody Suek, so I gotta give Cody credit. But, Myles Garrett, we talked about not having a sack in the last four weeks. However,


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[Assistant] In that last four game stretch, he has 28 quarterback pressures. That's the most in the NFL. He has a 31.6 pass rush win rate. That is the best pass rush win rate in the NFL. He has the second highest PFF pass rush grade at a 92.6 over the last four weeks. And put this in there just for fun because TJ Watt has three sacks during that span. He's getting double teamed.


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[Assistant] Half as often as Myles Garrett. So despite the fact, Myles is not actually sacking the quarterback himself.


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[Assistant] He is still generating pressure and getting the quarterback to move off his spot as frequently, if not more frequently than any other defensive end.


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[Assistant] Uh, two things real quick. So you asked for, according to PFF, total pressure this season that combines quarterback hits, hurries, pressures, and sacks. Micah Parsons leads the NFL with 97, Miles is 6 with 77. So there's a 20...


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[Assistant] Pressure difference. Uh, sacks. T.J. Watt has the most. We know that quarterback hits.


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[Assistant] He's top five and in total hurries, he's tied with Josh Allen for fifth. Parsons is first. So he's in the top five. He trends also real quick before we get to our next one. Uh, Russell Wilson just got benched. I saw that.


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[Assistant] Uh, last stat, and then we'll bring Mary Kay, and I just texted her to make sure she, uh, she's gonna join us. But, we talked about the Jets defense, Tyvis, you wanted to see Joe Flacco do something against a...


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[Assistant] Top notch pass defense in terms of fewest yards allowed in coverage this season. Jalen Johnson of the Bears is number one. Number two.


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[Assistant] Michael Carter, the Jets slot cornerback. Number three, Sauce Gardener, the Jets outside cornerback. Number nine, DJ Reader, or DJ Reed, excuse me.


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[Assistant] Jaguar's not good against the pass. The Texans...


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[Assistant] Their numbers are good, they were missing a bunch of guys. This will be the first full test, but the Jets are sustainable, susceptible to giving up runs. They're not a great rush defense. Very good pass defense, so it's kind of backwards.


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[Assistant] That's 150 bucks if your team wins. So if you've been thinking about joining FanDuel, there's no better time to get in on the action than right now. The app is easy to use and there's a wide range of betting options, including spreads, player props, over-unders, and much, much more. So visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season.


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[Assistant] FanDuel, an official partner of the NFL, and Mary Kay Cabot now joins us fresh off the press. Amari Cooper is the AFC offensive player of the week, and she has an article on Cleveland.com you should go read after you listen to this interview. What's up, Mary Kay?


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[Assistant] We're gonna get to the Kool-Aid meter in one sec, but as always, even on a Thursday night game, we will have a post-game show. It starts at the two minute warning. On Thursday night, we'll go for an hour, as long as it needs to, to celebrate what we hope will be a Browns victory. If somehow they lose to the Jets, it'll be a therapy session, but


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[Assistant] Thursday night be damned, we will be live after the game starting the two minute warning. Myself, Earl and G with your two minute post game show. Maybe G, he's a mess right now. Maybe G assuming his voice is back in cooperating. Okay.


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[Assistant] We're gonna do the Kool-Aid meter, guys. We're gonna do the what if Kool-Aid meter. And how this is gonna work is I will give everybody a question.


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[Assistant] A what if question based on the Browns 2023 season. The baseline is five.


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[Assistant] Then you have to tell us where the Kool-Aid meter would be, whether higher or lower.


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[Assistant] And remember, the baseline's at five, and you tell us where they'd be if this what if never happened.


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[Assistant] Jason, you're up next, and you have back to back ones, Jason, but first, and remember, it starts at a five. What if the Browns never cut Kate York?


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[Assistant] Jason, you ready for your next one? I'm ready. This is similar to Bull's first one, but what if Deshaun Watson never got hurt? That means no Flacco.


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[Assistant] But you have Deshawn, so where would the Browns be on the Kool-Aid meter if Deshawn Watson, QB1, never gets hurt?


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Ty, you're up next. The Browns had a third round draft pick this year, and they took one Cedric Tillman. But,


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[Assistant] What if the Browns had drafted Pooka Nakua instead with that pick?


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[Assistant] Well, you're last up here, the final what if Kool-Aid meter today.


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[Assistant] So with the Baseline 5, where would the Browns be today if they had signed DeAndre Hopkins as a free agent this past summer?


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[Assistant] We got a bunch of super chats today, so let's get to them. And super chats, as always, are brought to us by PCC Airfoil. So if you're looking for a job with career advancement and great benefits,


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. First super chat of the day comes from Zeek Dog, who says, I attended my first NFL game 59 years ago today at the age of five with my father, the last Browns championship game. Let this season be our repeat.


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[Assistant] Uh, next one, William Slater, in reference to the fantasy question said, Bull, you should take the money. Also, Tyvis, that shirt's fire. Where can I get it? Is that Homage?


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[Assistant] Alright, next up comes from Joe Rizzo, he says, any chance for a Nick Chubb playoff return? No.


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[Assistant] Charles T says, we have seen Stefanski's scheme, guys, wide open. Flacko's play this year shows that with a veteran quarterback, Stefanski's offense is good. And can Deshaun


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[Assistant] Corey McLaughlin says Bullstop Baker is in a trash NFC division, not the AFC North.


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[Assistant] Colin Keith says, boy, you're out of pocket. Chubb is better than McCaffrey.


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[Assistant] Would you rather have Bill Belichick as the head coach next year or Kevin Stefanski?


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[Assistant] I think if Flacco, Cooper, and Joku gets hurt.


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[Assistant] That's the end of the season, or do you guys think we can still win the Super Bowl if any of those four? Flacco, Cooper, and Joku or Garrett.


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[Assistant] What's up guys? Happy New Year. It's good to have everybody back. I feel like we're having a four person show in forever. Couple housekeeping notes before we jump into some topics today, but first off, congratulations Tyvis on winning the UCSS Fantasy Champions. Tyvis won?


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[Assistant] I'll tell Leroy, yea. And the last, last thing I just wanna, I wanna make this public statement very clear. On New Year's Eve, I was out, met some guy,


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore over 40 receiving yards. Elijah Moore anytime. Touchdown. Kareem Hunt anytime. Touchdown. Brown's Moneyline. Breece Hall under receiving yards. And Joku over receptions. That turned $20 into $3836. Good for him.


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[Assistant] You can't quantify rest versus rest by numbers. I went back, I tried finding any, I spent like two hours yesterday trying to dig through to find anything I could find to help. It's more of a gut feel.


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[Assistant] I disagree with you guys, in this particular instance, I tried to explain this before the show, in 99 out of 100 cases, I'm with you guys, you rest, get healthy. But in this particular case, with this particular set of circumstances for the Browns, I disagree. And here's why.


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[Assistant] What we have with Joe Flacco right now, even in our wildest dreams, I don't think any of us could have imagined Joe Flacco playing this well.


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[Assistant] In the Cleveland Browns, in the Cleveland Browns uniform through five weeks. Gee, you're the most diehard, optimistic Browns fan I know. In your wildest dreams, can you imagine Flacco joining Jim Kelly, Patrick Mahomes, and Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks to throw for 1600 yards at 13 touchdowns in a calendar month?


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[Assistant] And because of that, because Joe Flacco, for whatever reason, he's found the rhythm he's in, the practice schedule, the connection.


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[Assistant] I am more scared of doing anything to get Joe Flacco out of the current rhythm he's on with, once again, no analytical or statistical backup to prove that this would throw him off his rhythm.


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[Assistant] Because I think for the Browns to reach their ultimate goal this season, which I think the Browns can win the Super Bowl with Joe Flacco playing at the level he's at right now. Right. I am not risking anything to take him out of that rhythm. And I hear all the risks. Players got hurt all season. Yes.


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[Assistant] You may not have more in Cooper. I get it. I'm not even suggesting he plays the full game.


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[Assistant] In the rhythm he's in right now, because if he's not playing at this level,


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco in this instance is your dad on parents weekend in college coming with you to the pregame at the frat party. And he steps on the beer pong table and all of a sudden he hits four or five shots in a row. And he's like, I gotta use the bathroom.


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[Assistant] Are you letting your dad leave the beer pong table after he just made four or five shots in a row and called island?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, here's the difference, I said this on the show, I did it yesterday. Michael McDaniel thing was coaching malpractice. There was zero to gain by Bradley Chubb being in the game down the third.


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[Assistant] I got it, wait a minute. There's zero to gain. At least in this instance, at least in this instance, and then Thomas you can ask your question, at least in this instance, you can see the other side of not wanting to get out of the way.


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[Assistant] And that's why I think you gotta keep Joe Flacco in this zone. It's like a shooter, Jay. You're pitching, right?


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[Assistant] As we learn more about what's the Fanski plans to do, we will continue to have this rest verse. And actually, boy, I like how you work. We won't find out today because they're off today, right? They're off today, but I'm saying it's later in the week that we'll find out. A new sponsor alert, guys, but Game Time is officially part of the UCSS roster. If you ever had a frustrating time,


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[Assistant] 70 targets, 32 receptions, 347 reception yards, and a touchdown. Who is that?


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[Assistant] If Elijah Moore is not back from his concussion by the playoffs, he definitely will not play in week 18.


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[Assistant] Last year Jarvis Landry only played nine games at 25 receptions for 270 yards and one touchdown.


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