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[Assistant] I said Joe Flacco. I am wacko for Flacco. Joe Flacco went for over 300 yards. He look great. Long as he don't turn the ball over, this thing go to the Super Bowl. Wow. Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] I'm not really the runner, this is the first time we can finally, we've already had to overcome all this adversity.


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[Assistant] Let's at least go with at least the core guys that I know can at least make it in the playoff and be successful.


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[Assistant] So I'm not running the risk. I'm not rolling. Nobody out there, the tools and the backups need some reps. These young guys need reps. Just in case something happened, they need to plug and play. We already know it's been next man up, but let's get these young guys some game reps. So just in case something happens in the playoffs, they're not too, the lights aren't too bright. Cause I've heard that one before.


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[Assistant] So, my question for you, McNuggets, would you take- Yes. Would you take 254 yards, two touchdowns as a, as a stack line for the playoff game?


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[Assistant] What's the picks? The one. Two to one. So you're talking about the Rams game.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's his, that's his first game off the couch. Denver don't count. The first game as a starter off the couch, that was his numbers. Why would you, you would take that?


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[Assistant] But I'm not, they remind me of us, to be honest with you. I would actually like to see a game against them. I would love to play with them. I feel like they're just like the Cleveland Browns to where it's, they get a bunch of touchdowns, but they turn the ball over at a high trip too. So, it's literally the same.


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[Assistant] They got winter's fatigue, man. They ready to go home early this year, you know? Every year they always deep into that. And you know what? Here they are again.


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[Assistant] Jarvis brings that passion and energy that's gonna get them going. I'm still cool with Marquise Goodwin because although his numbers isn't great, he missed a bunch of the season with the concussion. Putting him out there still scares the heck out of any D.E. that lines up against him. So that right there is still gonna get, and Joe Flacco's proving that he can hit him on the deep route.


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[Assistant] So let's talk about Jarvis in this coats workout. He worked out, it was eight people that he worked out with and all of them wasn't wire receivers. They ended up signing Jaden Mickens.


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[Assistant] On the practice squad. He's a wide receiver, but he's a return guy. He's a return special. The receivers was Jarvis, uh, Kiki Kuti, Kendall Hinton, Adam Humphreys. That's a DB. That's a DB. Jayden Mickens. Yeah, that was it. To that cattle call.


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[Assistant] What are you asking these receivers to do? Like, it's not like, Amari Cooper's gonna be healthy, and you got, Marquis still got the speed. You still need somebody that can get the tough yards. Like first out. You throw him a drag or something, he gonna catch the ball.


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[Assistant] And it shows this season, anytime you brought somebody back, Kareem Hunt has been, has helped you win.


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[Assistant] I need one. You know what I like about Jarvis? It's because...


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[Assistant] Jarvis, when he first got here, he came out and said, they sent me to Cleveland to end my career. Cause you know, people at that time, Cleveland wasn't really good. He said, Miami traded me here to let my career die. And he did such a great job of bringing them up and bringing light to the city.


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[Assistant] But, it's gotta be in his mind. I didn't finish it. That job isn't done. I wanted to bring a championship to that city. And right now, that group is on the cusp of doing that right now.


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[Assistant] I can be that piece. I can bring that attitude. I can bring that passion. Let me finish what I started. I think out of all the free agent spots, he still hasn't won a ring in his career. I don't think out of all the spots that he can land.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because the thing about Ohio State is even though the coaching stuff is messed up, you might got guys in and out of the lineup. I've never seen.


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[Assistant] And that 6-7 team will smoke them. That's how I feel right now about them. That, that, what they put out there is unacceptable. It's completely unacceptable. The trenches got dominated. And we're talking about a team that wanted to go and play for the national championship this year. You can't even beat a mid-tier SEC squad. Wait, wait, wait, wait, on the mid-tier.


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[Assistant] Let me answer the question, because I never answered the question about Ryan Day. I was disgusted by the performance and y'all threw me off with that. But Ryan Day, the seat is on fire.


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[Assistant] You have to cut that baggage and get guys in there that got football minds that's going to dedicate themselves to getting this program back to where it's at. Let the buddy buddy stuff go. Yes, they're gonna be mad at you. You're supposed to be your boy. You gotta fire your boy. They always tell you never hire your friends or family.


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[Assistant] Get rid of both of them. Anybody that's on the staff that you feel like is not helping these kids, cause at the end of the day, that's what it's about. Developing these kids and helping these kids get to where they gotta get.


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[Assistant] I'm not a huge fan of the scheme, but the scheme did help them win. But at some point, we gotta get some more production from the offensive line. That looks atrocious out there.


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[Assistant] We gotta get some production from the defensive line. We can't get five-star recruits and only get five stacks in the season. That's ridiculous. Uhm, as far as wide receiver-wise, I mean, Brian Hartline... Well, Hartline isn't going anywhere. Yeah, he's not going anywhere, but he's done his thing, but I tell you what.


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[Assistant] You won't notice for me a little bit this year because I give you the JSC and the Chris Olavi and the Garrett Wilson. I give you that. You did your thing on those.


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[Assistant] Marva Harrison, you get no credit. That's the son of a Hall of Famer. He's gonna be pure talent. I need to see something. There's no way that Emeka should have looked the exact same. Julian Fleming should have looked the exact same. Who, by the way, is the biggest recruit wide receiver we've ever had in the history of Ohio State?


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[Assistant] He did not look any better this season. That's why he hit the transfer portal. It's to be no reason why you got all the, a room full of five stars, but you only playing three wide receivers. Where is the rotation at in that?


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[Assistant] Help me figure it out. These guys are supposed to be good. You're supposed to be developing these guys. Why are we going in every game only confident in three guys' plans? So we need to figure that situation out as well.


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[Assistant] I don't know why it's, it's never gonna change. The offensive defensive line tells the story of the team every single time.


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[Assistant] So who do you look at to step up in the absence of Elijah Moore if he can't come back? Uhm, do they elevate like an Austin Watkins or do you think they're just very comfortable with Tillman Bell and my boy Marquise who's a really good player?


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[Assistant] Mary Kay, when you look at the quarterback situation, do you think that they, say they, say that they're resting Bill Flacco for this game? Do they split the, the count between Jeff Driscoll and Phil or does one get more than the other?


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[Assistant] But when you look at the Cleveland Browns, they also had injuries on their team and they're still able to make the playoffs. Has what Kevin Stefanski done this year eliminated the excuse that the injuries is not the reason why you can't make the postseason?


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[Assistant] Make sense, I like it. Speaking of, speaking of, not dank, not him, but I play, I wanted to shout out my boy AC who I played 2K with yesterday in the rec. He found out that I am the 2K version of Tyrese Halliburton.


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[Assistant] I take, listen, I carry randoms all the time, so I take, I get you some wins, don't worry about it. I'm good enough to get it. 2K is trash. It is trash.


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[Assistant] Play like a two hundred and thirty million dollar man that gave, that a franchise gave away three first round picks. I have to look like that guy this season. Have to. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Joe Flacco has came in off the streets and looked phenomenal, so we know it's not Kevin Stewart fans anymore. It's all on you. If it doesn't happen, everybody in Cleveland knows that you are the problem.


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[Assistant] I got your stat though. In 2020, the 2020 playoffs, the road teams in the wild card round, 4-0.


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[Assistant] In the first wild card round. The two road teams. Yea, the last two.


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[Assistant] I wasn't counting that one game, I gotta redo it then. I was just counting the four or five. I see what you're saying. He's looking just the wild card teams.


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[Assistant] I was looking at the four teams in the divisional round, not the... So in 2022, this was last year, all three higher seeds in the AFC one, and two of the three...


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[Assistant] And in 2020, just to throw it out there, this is when there was only two wild card games.


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[Assistant] In 2019, three of the four lower seeded wildcard teams won. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Let's focus on this matchup against Houston though, guys. What are your initial thoughts? We all said on Friday of the three AFC South teams, that was the least one we wanted to face. Now it's the reality. I don't think anyone's scared it's about the tension.


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[Assistant] We'll talk a little more David Bell in one sec, but before we get to our next question, which bowl?


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[Assistant] Bull had asked this last week and I wanted to wait until we got all the matchups and seedings set to actually do this exercise.


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[Assistant] Now that we know the brands of the five seed, we know their matchups, we know how all the seedings in the AFC and NFC are.


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[Assistant] I think it's an appropriate time to ask this question. If you were to simulate from right now to the end of the Super Bowl a thousand times, a thousand simulations,


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[Assistant] Yeah, who's the odds on right now to win Coach of the Year? It's still Stefanski, but I don't, let me phrase this properly. I feel a lot, I don't feel as comfortable as I did last week.


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[Assistant] Okay. What are the odds though, just for curiosity here.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you the updated odds to this minute, but before this weekend, Stefanski was like a 10,000 to 1 favorite or a 1,000 to 1 favorite and no one was even close. But as of this minute right now on FanDuel, the coach of the year odds are as, uh, popular picks.


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[Assistant] Stefanski's a seven to one favorite and D'Amico rides is plus 250. There you go. I still, he's still.


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[Assistant] I know, what was that about? They could have technically got the two seed. Yea, but they needed both.


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[Assistant] We're gonna pivot to something from yesterday's game, but first...


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[Assistant] Tonight's the national championship in college football. We'll all be watching, including our own, our own Tyvis Powell, who'll be watching alongside some former Michigan and Washington stars like Devin Bush, Miles Gaskin. Yes, he did.


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[Assistant] And more college football greats and a free live virtual watch party from Hang. You can register live for a VIP ticket and talk with Tyvis and the guys at letshang.live or check out the live show on Hang's media and YouTube channel.


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[Assistant] He is 25 years old. That's amazing. He did the Ohio state Notre Dame game earlier. He's getting some big time assignments with NBC. Question for you guys though, based off yesterday's game.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we all, we all got our thoughts out on Drisco vs Walker. Bull officially on the record, who you taking?


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[Assistant] We're gonna move on, I gotta read an update and then a much-


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[Assistant] More fun question to discuss than the Browns backup quarterback woes if it comes to that. But first a quick reminder that


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[Assistant] Earl the Pearl and Steve Becker who in total gifted 55 memberships this morning. We were all gonna give 50 if the Browns went 5-0 Wacko for Flacco like Earl projected.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you guys this though real quick. So in yesterday's game, two guys did stand out.


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[Assistant] Despite playing against the Bengal Starters, I thought Alex Wright played a very good game.


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[Assistant] D'Anthony be- three guys actually, D'Anthony Bell and David Bell, the Bell brothers.


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[Assistant] We'll touch on that in a sec because we're going to hear from Stefanski in about an hour. So hopefully we'll have some injury updates. So tomorrow we may talk about which guys the Browns need back the most. But I did want to say one thing on Alex Wright.


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[Assistant] Then we can move on, but he has four sacks and four games now. Yeaah. And he has filled in, not just filled the shoes of Aglo, but he's played as well as Aglo has kind of played all season. Right. And you look at those two in particular.


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[Assistant] The way Ogbo got to the Browns, his early career trajectory with the Rams and the Houston Texans, really good analytics guy, not huge sack numbers, but he always, he never played enough snaps to put up a double digit sack season.


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[Assistant] Alex Wright is in like almost the exact same path as Ogbo and the fact that they have him under contract for another two years on top of Ogbo and Miles and the rest of the past rushes on this unit.


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[Assistant] I think he's going to continue to develop into a guy that for the next two, three, four seasons in Cleveland will be talking about Alex Wright as a pivotal contributor to getting to the opposing quarterback. I think that, I think he's really special. He has a chance to be special.


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[Assistant] Anyway, AFC North on top. Hell of an accomplishment. Real quick.


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[Assistant] Guys, we got 10 minutes before we want to talk a little cash, but let's look at the other playoff matchups around the NFL. Baker and the Buccaneers made it much to Bull's dismay. The Steelers somehow crept their way in despite a three heading quarterback monster of trash, trash and more trash. Uh, what are you guys overall thoughts on how the matchups have played out and what we're going to see next weekend in the playoffs?


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[Assistant] It's not time yet. I was saying Andrew Luck might have been in the last rookie quarterback who, who could have been in that conversation after his sole rookie.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Anthony's not here, so give me a sec. Oh, okay. I got you, give me one sec.


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[Assistant] I'll look it up. Let me do a read real quick and we do have to talk some casual with Jason here real quick because after today we probably will speak.


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[Assistant] Guys, the Cavs were playing at the same time as the Browns yesterday.


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[Assistant] The one time Wemby comes but they beat Wemby. Jared Alex playing out of his damn mind right now.


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[Assistant] Is what they're doing right now sustainable? From what you guys have seen over the last two weeks, they've changed their offensive philosophy, they're playing faster, shooting more threes. Gee.


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[Assistant] They're winning without Garland and Mopley. They're not better without Garland and Mopley, but it's working right now. Is it sustainable?


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[Assistant] Can I push back a little bit on the Mobi thing? Sure.


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[Assistant] There are certain players who, just by their natural development,


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[Assistant] Force the coaching staff and their teammates to get them more involved. I look at Austin Reeves as an example. In LA, on a winning team. He was an undrafted guy.


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[Assistant] Incorporate them in the offense more because it'd be basketball malpractice not to. Evan Mobley hasn't taken the steps to where Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Bickerstaff, whoever's making those decisions have forced him into more of an offensive decision maker position. And I do think that's where you can look at the Cavs and Mobley and be like,


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[Assistant] And we expect a little more in year three from a guy. Now yeaah's been hurt and his offensive numbers have been better this season.


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[Assistant] But even when he was playing with or without Allen, he was never a focal point in the offense, like some other guys who have forced their way into being played.


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[Assistant] We got a couple super chats here in the final minutes. James Cosby said, do you think Schwartz and our defense has a few wrinkles safe for the playoffs? I think G alluded to that earlier with Myles Garrett and saving some stuff, not showing anything on tape in week 18. DBDog21 said,


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[Assistant] The key is can Stroud do it again after DCs have a full season of film on him to analyze what his strengths are. They will make him have to adjust his game.


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[Assistant] SCR says, who can we expect to get off IR this week? Jason, you said Delphi. Is anyone else scheduled to come off?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean he said that it's, it's something we talked about last time.


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[Assistant] Kudos, we see it. Good job, Dom. It has to do with Stefanski. Great research. And then Daryl, our guy said in Flacco, we trust Brown to the Super Bowl. UCSS is the best. Who cares about the rest? CoolAid, Mafia. Love you guys. Love you, Daryl. And also Dominic, great stat. Great stat. I see you. What's it, what's it pertain to? That's the Fanski and the Texans. Oh, okay. Interesting.


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[Assistant] Alright, very good. We got a minute 20. Overtime previewing the national championship. G. Bush, I know you gotta run.


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[Assistant] By uh, phone calls asking if I'm injured. What happened? Some idiot re-rended me.


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[Assistant] Was it like you were sitting still when he hit you? Nah, I was turning into a driveway and he tried to come around me and hit me. Going pretty good to do a lot of damage.


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[Assistant] I gotta bring my car to the inspector today at 430. So I was able to drive it. No dings, nothing. Oh, it definitely got dinged up. It definitely, yeah, there's some damage, but I'm fine. What about you? I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Plus, ba-da-da-da-da, you're lovin' him. Mikey McNuggets. And so many big names, it would take me hours to say all of their names.


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[Assistant] Did, probably had eggnog and all of that. And now I gotta get up and go to work today.


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[Assistant] I was, I was driving because I did the Browns game. So I was driving back to, to Worcester to go be with my family because we stayed at our in-laws and they have a lawnmower.


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[Assistant] How does that feel, you know, when you, cause I'm not going to ever get to this moment because there's no way that my kids is going to beat me, but at a point in time, you used to be very dominant in your kids in sports, video games, when they win now, how does that make you feel?


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[Assistant] We decided to play a game and I completely destroyed her to let her know that this is not that.


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[Assistant] Which is unbelievable. Have y'all seen my team? I don't know how I'm in the championship.


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[Assistant] They're absolutely Super Bowl contenders. I mean, like I say, given through, given the things that they've been through and where they're at, and you look at the landscape, there's no dominant team in the NFL outside of maybe Baltimore. Baltimore do look legit on all phases of the game.


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[Assistant] But what I like about the Browns the most, where the Browns have the edge at over a lot of these things, is that...


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[Assistant] They've dealt with so many injuries, that when something happens in the game, it is what it is. Like alright, next man come in there, same results. Right. Where, to where as you see other teams, when somebody gets hurt, it's a scramble. Let's take the Texas game for example.


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[Assistant] You know, they didn't have CJ Shroud in there. We already knew that. They didn't have Will Anderson in there. And then a couple of guys get banged up in the course of the game. Jimmy Ward goes down. They lose some corners.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and they lost their other pass rushers. So they lost like three guys in the course of that game and everything just fell apart. Nobody knew what to do.


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[Assistant] To where as Cleveland has it where we've been dealt with it this whole year so the next person that goes in there is still, everything still clicks like that. And I think that right there is the advantage that they have. The one thing that I'm really interested to see with Baltimore


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[Assistant] At some point of this, he's not wishing it on her, but at some point, it's just the nature of this game. Injuries is 100% gonna happen to somebody in this game.


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[Assistant] They're gonna deal with an injury and I need to see how they respond to it because they haven't had to deal with it outside of Mark Andrews, which Isaiah likely has been doing a really good job of coming in there and expelling it. But over the course of the playoffs, somebody's gonna go down.


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[Assistant] I need to see who the next person that comes in does the level of play drop off. We know with the Cleveland Browns, they can handle it because they've been doing it.


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[Assistant] So I think that's the one key advantage that they have over every other team in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco's been doing some, he's literally been.


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[Assistant] The way he's doing it, it's funny because he goes out there, he'll give it away. He like, you know, he reminds me of a little bit like Jameis Winston back when he had that 30 for 30. He'll go out there and turn the ball over, but he also going to get you a bunch of touchdowns. So it's like, it'll make up for the interception.


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[Assistant] What I mean, I still think it has to do with the flow it off.


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[Assistant] Right, but when you think about Deshaun Watson and when he thrived, it was always five wide shotgun and let him do his thing. And we got to start seeing that towards the end when he got hurt, but for the most part, they were still trying to figure things out. And I think with Kevin Stefanski and Joe Flacco, it's Kevin's stuff.


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[Assistant] So you have to ask Kevin Stefanski. Kevin comes up with that stuff. I don't, I just run what he calls. I don't know, you know, that Kevin's the genius behind all of that. And I'm just like...


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[Assistant] Exactly, and I think that's why, you know, it looks the way it looks. And when things go wrong over the course of a game, or when things need to be tweaked and adjusted, it's easy, cause Kevin's like, this is my stuff, I can go out there and fix that easily.


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[Assistant] But when you're trying to mix and you're trying to, you're trying to do what Deshaun likes, you're trying to do what I like and trying to mix it, it's like, ah, I don't really know how to fix it 100% like that yet because it's not my stuff.


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[Assistant] Same thing, same problem I think Joe Woods had last year on defense. I think that the reason the defense looked bad is because, and I told y'all this so many times, I would come on this show and I would look at some of this stuff and be like, oh that's easy, we can fix it just by doing this, this and that.


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[Assistant] But it's like I know that defense. Joe Woods, when he was in Denver, they was a...


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[Assistant] Two man under team, like they ran a lot of man to man. When he went to San Francisco, he inherited that defense because Robert Sala put it in, it was successful, they kind of taught it to him and he just...


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[Assistant] Took it and ran with it over here. So he really don't know the ins and outs of that defense to be able to fix it like that. And I think that's the same thing we were seeing with Kevin Stefanski and Deshaun Watson trying to mix their, what they like to do on offense together.


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[Assistant] But you know what, you know the interesting thing, we talked about, you know how back when it was all about, Kevin needs to give him a play call and he's calling his terrible play. Did you watch the Chiefs game? Did you see the reverse that got fumbled and got taken to the house?


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[Assistant] You can try to give it to AVP. I don't know if AVP is, I'm not going to say he is or if he is, but I think it would be totally interesting to watch him go out there. Like yea, we're going to try to run your best stuff with these twos and threes that we got out there and see if you get it done.


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[Assistant] That's what I was going to say. This year, I think this year what happened was, he realized what you're saying is right. You know, with a lot of great offensive minds, the thing about great offensive coaches, some of the best offensive coaches I've been around,


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[Assistant] Don't really know how to handle defense, so that's why they go get some of the best defensive guys, mind it wise, and say, you run defense, I'm not, you do your thing over there, I don't really want to be bothered with that, I trust you to get it done.


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[Assistant] So I can focus on this offense. Same thing with Kyle Shanahan. I don't really know too much about that defense or what you running over there, but do your thing.


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[Assistant] And I think Kevin finally got that with Jim Schwartz. He was like, I trust Jim. Jim's gonna get it done. Anything that happens, Jim, it's Jim's defense. He knows how to make the checks and adjustments. It'll get corrected like that. Which we see a lot of the times. And the next step he took was


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[Assistant] I want this team to become closer. I want to build it as a family atmosphere because...


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[Assistant] Like I say, that, when you do it for somebody outside of yourself, you tend to do it, you go harder. Because it's like, I don't want to let my team make that. And I think, for him,


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[Assistant] He's been so buttoned up and been so Bill Belichick where he don't let nobody in. Media, nobody. And I think this was the first year he was like, he started opening up a little bit. And once they went to Greenbrier and they spent more time around the team, I don't think he did it on purpose. I think it accidentally happened where


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[Assistant] He started really connecting with guys. He started really learning about them, getting to know about these guys. And he opened his heart up. It's accidental when you spend time with somebody. It's like a relationship. The more time you spend with somebody, the more you open up to them. And he's become to the point where it's like,


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[Assistant] Listen, if those are your answers. Listen, I believe in, I believe in Kevin. I'm like the only person in this world that kind of believes in Kevin. I love Kevin. You know that. Y'all don't believe in him like that. You believe that Kevin would


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[Assistant] I'm taking Miles because this is why the Browns have won a bunch of games without Joe Flacco. They've won a decent amount of games without Joe. I think if you take Miles off, we don't know what the Browns look like without Miles. If you take Miles off, that opens up play cough.


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[Assistant] Plays that get, a lot of the plays that, and Kevin said it last week on his press conference, a lot of the plays that we don't see.


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[Assistant] You telling me I don't have to spend a double team or a triple team? I can actually have more guys go out in coverage? You telling me I can do all that offensively? Oh, absolutely. Now we're going to be much more effective offensively because we don't have to sacrifice two or three guys to stop one guy.


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[Assistant] Offensively, they've been able to get things done without Joe Flacco. PJ Walkers came and done well. DTR is one game.


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[Assistant] That's fine, but this is what, this, y'all, y'all so hypocritical, and I gotta put my phone down. Oh, look at that. Listen, y'all, eh, alright, Steve, let me see that, thank you.


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[Assistant] Y'all know that this season, uh, anything, uh, any other season in the NFL, y'all can literally sit there and tell me that this year proves that you might be able to win with an average quarterback. Okay, quarterback, we might've been overrating it a little bit because there's been so many different quarterbacks that's got hurt this year and yet these teams are still finding ways to win games, right? True.


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[Assistant] You can say, you can say pretty much this season that the teams with the better defense are pretty much the top of the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] So you would be, so I, I don't think I'm stepping out on a limb by saying that this year that I think that more times than not, defense probably gonna win championships. No, but you stepping out there saying, Philip, you, you. Wait a minute, answer the question.


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[Assistant] He, his stuff is similar to what, what, uh, Dustin Hopkins was. And I gotta, you gotta trust that Bubba Ventrone, which, boy, you better fix that kickoff team. I can't believe you gave up that to a backup running back.


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[Assistant] Let me ask y'all this question, cause I don't know the answer. So you know how Dustin Hopkins was like 5 points away from Jim Brown's record? If he kicks him in the pole season, does that still count? No.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes. The only, I mean, you, you're gonna appreciate


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[Assistant] Ah, no, I think if it's the kicking leg, I think obviously.


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[Assistant] That's a no go at all. But the plant leg, I mean, that's very important. I mean, you see a lot of guys really working on their steps, making sure that they're straight and all of that. But I think you can still be able to kick. I think it might on the follow through. Maybe that probably be where I think it'd have messed them up the most.


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[Assistant] But I think Dustin Hopkins would be, I don't think he's going to win.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute. It's been a while. Okay, so you know how you got your 53 and you got your practice squad.


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[Assistant] When you elevate somebody from the practice squad, right?


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[Assistant] That means you gotta sit somebody on your original 46, 48, whatever it is, right?


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[Assistant] So that means one less player had to sit, but you could keep this guy on practice squad just to elevate him for the game.


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[Assistant] So in theory, you can elevate a kicker for the game.


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[Assistant] And just sit like a four-string linebacker for the game.


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[Assistant] You know why I'mma flip your argument. You know why you want the Jags?


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[Assistant] That's the thing that the reason, I was glad that they put this on tape because now, moving forward, now Dee Dee's is like, oh, he can go deep for sure. But Amari Cooper is special because Amari Cooper does that thing where he comes out, he makes every route.


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[Assistant] The same. So you really can't, you never know what it was. So if I was playing Amari Cooper, my thing is...


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[Assistant] I'ma come out in the game before last week was, he ain't gonna go deep, you know, he might run the bang aid or something like that, but there ain't nothing deep. So I don't have to worry about getting on my horse. And I was glad that they put it out there like, no, he can still beat you deep. And that's why they was, that's why he was so effective in this game. I was shocked that they didn't start doubling this man. I was like, what is going on?


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[Assistant] Leroy, it was a big topic debate today, and I just need to know where you stand.


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[Assistant] Well everybody, when you think of Amari Cooper, the number one thing that, I don't care who you are, whatever DB, I don't care if you're the best DB, the worst DB, when you see that week, you look at your sheet and you say,


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[Assistant] I got Amari Cooper. The number one thing you're gonna think to yourself is, that boy is a route machine. His routes is crispy. Probably the best route running I'ma go against. That's where you at.


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[Assistant] But I thought his chemistry with a lot of people was good. I thought his with Deshaun was good. I thought with PJ and DTR.


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[Assistant] I feel like it wasn't as great with DTR, but for like PJ, it's like when you're a younger guy, it's like, I'ma go to him because more times than not, he gonna win his route. I think the difference between Joe Flacco and the rest of the quarterbacks


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[Assistant] Now maybe not Deshawn, but Joe Flacco and the other two, DTR and PJ, is that with PJ,


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[Assistant] It was get the ball out quick. With DTR, get the ball out quick. Like go through it, go through one read, let him get open, hit him right there. With everybody else, it's more deeper development. You know, I can let things come out because I can see the whole field. I can let go through my progressions. I don't have to have a set


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[Assistant] Standpoint, like, I'm going on Mario Cooper on this play. Like, that's not what Joe Flacco thinks.


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[Assistant] Have you ever listened to Mark Cooper talk? He's very, uh, philosophical.


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[Assistant] The camera guy's in the end zone, so you run to the end zone and you get right in front of the camera and you get a nice picture. That's why.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's a smart man. You know, I tried that before. I tried to, when I was interning at Channel 10 in Columbus, when I was still playing, I tried to do one, and I'm like, I just, I can't do it. It's hard. But the least funniest person on the show is Steve, and that's, it's not even, it's not even up for debate.


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[Assistant] More times than not, and if you don't have a guy that can, that's guaranteed that you can, that you know can hit it, you can lose games. So, hopefully Patterson is pretty clutch. Well, hopefully get some things done. We'll find out over the next course of these next two weeks, but.


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[Assistant] Yes, we got Dustin Hopkins. See, see now what you talking about. It's like the Joe Flacco thing. If Patterson comes in here and actually kicks really well and they go deep into this thing and win it off of a kick because of him.


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[Assistant] Okay, let me ask you about quarterbacks. Don't do this.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That's a big test this week coming up. That's why I kept telling you out of the five games, this the one that can say, alright, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know why? You know why? Because they took their foot off the gas, that's why. They was up by like 27 to nothing or something like that, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] Is that not true? No, it isn't because if I have a defense that's only given, technically they only gave it what? Seven points? Against the Texans?


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[Assistant] Are you, are you insane? So what, so Indianapolis putting up 30 points to win it?


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[Assistant] So until January 7th, my thing is, if you haven't seen someone since the first of the year, you're okay, but not like in February, that doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, so we're gonna do true or false. Uh, Leroy is here. We'll get to listen to him brag and boast about Michigan moving into the national championship. He certainly can't boast about his fantasy.


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[Assistant] I know, but what's really cool about that bet, guys, is you can make a similar bet on any game in the world.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine what happened, what, what was going on in his house when, cause the Jets had the first pick six, didn't they? Or was it the Browns? The Browns did. When the Jets took the second one in, he's probably a Browns fan, he was rooting for the Jets to get a pick six and it happened.


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[Assistant] J, you don't even eat fried fish, right? I don't eat any fish. No fish. No, nothing at all. By the way, I just got a text from wifey and she said that we too, bull, write a check every month for water and sewer every three months. See, there you go. Come on, let's give it a time.


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[Assistant] And I got out of the car and I was like I'll probably have to download an app for their local park. Yes. And it was coin operated. Right. And I looked at it like


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[Assistant] Where the hell am I right now? I haven't used a coin for parking, I don't know since when.


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[Assistant] They just now struck a deal with a company that they're gonna finally replace all of the coin operated meters downtown with the app.


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[Assistant] If they were interested. We know that they have had a problem at running back this year certainly with Nick Chubb going out.


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[Assistant] Tyvis, you're rolling your eyes. I ain't saying nothing. Well, then you're gonna start. Are you at least kicking the tires on Dalvin Cook?


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[Assistant] Okay, that, that though is, isn't that subjective on perfectly blocked runs?


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[Assistant] We're in a situation where we want to do what? We want to go into the playoffs healthy. Loaded. We want to eliminate the number of hits that our big playmakers take. So here's the answer. You call them up. You get them here by tomorrow.


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[Assistant] He comes into the offense and you make him your workhorse for week 18. He gets 25 carries and it's an audition. And here's what you tell him. We're going to arrest our guys.


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[Assistant] We most likely will go back to Ford as our lead pony. But show us. Show us what you have. 25 carries have your name on it this week.


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[Assistant] What if he goes for 157 and three touchdowns? I mean, if possible. I think what that does is that eliminates any questions down the road. Because let's just say, for example, he signs with Kansas City and has that game in Kansas City. What are we all going to say?


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[Assistant] Well, DeAndre Hopkins was a guy that I wanted to-


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[Assistant] Well, here's the thing. You save any hits that might possibly be injury related on your main running backs. And I still want to see Pierre Strong. So maybe I would bring him in, give him 20, give Pierre Strong 10. I don't think it's, I can safely say we're not going to throw it 40 times this week.


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[Assistant] With Joe Flacco not in there. So let's test the run game. Let's, let's use this as a practice run for the playoffs. We have an opportunity to try to fine tune the running game. And guys, every once in a while you scratch a lottery ticket and you hit.


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[Assistant] That's what this is. You never know. You've got it in front of you. You never know. Pay the money, scratch it off, and see what's there. And if he does have a huge game, now you go into the playoffs, every team you face is going to be thinking, at least, wow, Dalvin Cook still got something left.


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[Assistant] I got a question for you guys. Man, this is just a thought. Weird. I wonder if him being from Cleveland, you would think it would be a lifelong dream of his to play for the Browns. I wonder if they didn't have a gentleman's agreement. I don't want to play this year. I'm going to stay in shape.


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[Assistant] But if you guys become a playoff team, I would love to come on board and join the playoff ride for my hometown team.


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[Assistant] That might be one of those under the radar moves that we look back on and say, what a home run.


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[Assistant] It might be one of those moves that we look back on.


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[Assistant] That was, didn't seem like much at the time. Yeah. We didn't think much of the Hopkins signing at the time. We thought, well, who is this guy? Yeah. Doesn't have a huge leg from over 50. He's been great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I learned of this guy on this, uh, this application that you can actually download on your phone so you guys can scout as well. I think it's called Instagram.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, that could be, when did you shave that?


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[Assistant] After or before, oh no, that was before Michigan's win. Before. Wow, that's, that was bold. Yeah, that was a bold move.


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[Assistant] Give us a scouting, uh, report. I think the Browns should sign this guy. What do you think? Let's roll the video again. You can talk over it.


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[Assistant] Tackle. It's called the AFL. Tackle to the ground. Tackle football.


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[Assistant] because it's Alabama. That on michigan's last drive


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[Assistant] That was the game. I felt like if Alabama could come up with a stop there, they're sitting pretty.


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[Assistant] I was like, wow! You know what Leroy, was that Harbaugh saying, I mean, he's wearing the number one jersey at Michigan. You know what that means. Was that Harbaugh saying, I believe in this kid, let's go right back to him.


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[Assistant] Was it true that the owner, the Chargers owner was at the game?


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[Assistant] What if you do this though? It's week 18. You want to save as many hits on your running backs as you can. Later this afternoon, we're going to find out in all likelihood what the Browns are going to do in terms of plays. They're not going to play Ford and Hunt this week. I don't see any reason to play them. I don't see any reason to play your stars at all.


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[Assistant] But what's the harm in bringing Dalvin Cook in and you can speak to how hard it is for a running back to assimilate into an offense. I've always been told it's relatively easy, but you would know better than I will.


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[Assistant] Well, he went from the Bucks to the, uh, from the Bucks to the Falcons, but he, but he also, he also changed head coaches a couple times too. But look, that's why I bring it up. I'm just curious to see what you have to say, but here's my, here's my thing.


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[Assistant] If you bring them in, it doesn't cost you much. You save Ford.


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[Assistant] The wear and tear on his body. Give him 17 full days between collisions to get ready for the big game.


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[Assistant] And who knows? It's like a scratch-off lottery ticket.


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[Assistant] This guy could have 150 yards on 25 carries. I'm not saying he will!


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[Assistant] Alright, now let me bring him back to reality. Leroy, this guy had 1,100 yards last year.


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[Assistant] Okay, he's playing behind one of the worst offensive lines I can remember in New York. If I gave you a lottery ticket right now.


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[Assistant] I'm not just scratching off a ticket. I'm not incorporating a dude. I'm basically the move is to save my running backs a week's worth of hits going into the biggest game of the season.


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[Assistant] Ty, Leroy asked me a question, well where is he now? The point is, the Rams brought him in on a Thursday, he had an all time career great game, led the Rams to a come from behind win, he, he was in the offense one day and he's the quarterback! And you're telling me a running back can't do that?


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[Assistant] Alright Leroy, uh, thanks for the, uh, heated conversation. We love it. Before we let you go, I only got 30 seconds.


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[Assistant] You lost the fantasy, you finished dead last 12th. There is a punishment that goes along with that. Here's what the crew has decided. Last year the punishment was Mikey McNuggets finished last.


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[Assistant] Do the comedy set at the comedy club, which by the way would sell out, we'd raise a lot of money for charity, and I think you'd actually kill it on a comedy mic.


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[Assistant] Leroy, if you agree to do that, I'll agree to do this. We can go to Johnny's. That's your place, right? Yea, yea, yea.


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[Assistant] I'm with you. I want to see what Driscoll can do. I would start Walker.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just because I think it'd be a slap in the face to the guy who helped you immensely at some point this year to tell him, you're not getting the start, we're going to bring a guy in off the street and let him start in front of you. They did that with Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] This is a great what if. What if Jeff Driscoll comes in here, guys, and goes 30 for 32.


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[Assistant] When I don't think other people could. No, I think that's a really good one. I wish I would have thought of that. Quickly, before I give mine or Bogus is, Mary Kay just tweeted this out a half hour ago. The quote of the year. Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] If I messed up in high school, I could be these guys' dads.


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[Assistant] I think that, three great choices. I think what this exercise is going to show, because I'm going to have a different name, but this exercise is going to show is that Mikey asked the question


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[Assistant] Changed our minds either good or bad.


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[Assistant] And to your point about J.O.K., I think he does deserve the credit. He did the work. But Jim Schwartz had the key to unlocking his potential. Oh, no doubt. And I think that, and obviously Jim Schwartz wasn't here last year, so he can't be part of this exercise. But in J.O.K., J.O.K. is a perfect example.


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[Assistant] Of a player being trapped in the wrong system. That is correct. Joe Woods had this guys head spinning.


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[Assistant] Like he put a bag over his head and told him to go play football. Jim Schwartz came and said, no, no, free yourself. Don't think, react.


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[Assistant] He might also have been free to go do his thing by perhaps either a different system or maybe a different quarterback. But for me,


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[Assistant] David and Joe Cooper has become that dude.


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[Assistant] He, I thought he was that guy coming out of Miami.


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[Assistant] I thought he was gonna be that guy in year two or three or four or five and it never happened.


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[Assistant] And when they gave him the big contract, I was very, very critical of that. I said, how can you pay this guy like a top three tight end? His name doesn't belong in the same paragraph as the top three tight ends in the NFL. I can't say that anymore.


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[Assistant] I think David and Joku has become one of the game's best tight ends. I think, I haven't looked at this so I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy and Mike will tell me.


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[Assistant] What are his numbers and then tell me what are Travis Kelsey's numbers? Give me one sec. It's not as good.


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[Assistant] If we had to pick a negative, again, I pointed out that we could have gone either way with this. Last year if we'd have done this, we would have all picked guys whose opinion fell.


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[Assistant] What? Hold on. I know. Oh my gosh. Listen, one day Jason Crawford. That's right. Put the camera on him, Steve. Why he say this? I'm gonna say this. Listen, I try to be fair. If I think criticism is warranted, I'm gonna dish it. If I think praise is warranted, I'm gonna dish it.


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[Assistant] I think this year, I've seen and heard less from Haslam than I have in any other year.


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[Assistant] I think the bottom line of this exercise, I'm glad we did it, was there are bright spots all throughout this roster and all throughout this organization. And let's just take a second to breathe that in and to smell that and enjoy it.


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[Assistant] That's right. As we lower our heads and pray. Yeah. Five seconds for you to hit the like button at home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I thought it would be an even answer because they play twice a year. So I thought that this maybe would be the hundredth game, but I guess not. Wait a minute.


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[Assistant] He's a great guy to bring off the bench to give you three point shooting, but I think his, I think in his mind, he's got it confused now that he's like an A-list.


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[Assistant] No, you just can't win with that guy being the best guy. It's like saying Donovan Mitchell is not LeBron James. Nobody is LeBron James. Yea, no. No one. Period. Full stop. Here's the thing. I think the answer to this question gets complex. It reminds me a lot of the question that we were asking with Odell Beckham. When Odell Beckham Jr. was playing, the Browns weren't winning. And everybody was like, wait a minute.


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[Assistant] And then he goes out of the lineup, and Baker goes bananas, throws for four touchdowns, and everybody was like, is Baker better without OBJ?


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[Assistant] It's fair to ask that question, but sometimes a teen doesn't add up to the sum of its parts.


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[Assistant] The most important aspect to a championship team is something you can't see, scout, coach, teach. It's chemistry. It happens organically.


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[Assistant] We're witnessing it in real time with these Cleveland Browns. Somehow, someway,


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski took 80 players to West Virginia, put them in a jar for nine days, shook them up.


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[Assistant] And the sum result of that is a team that has bonded. These guys love each other. It's not fake, it's real. We've had players tell us either on camera or off, we do things in our free time together. That's weird, we haven't done that in the past. They're getting together on their off time and spending time with one another.


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[Assistant] With this group of Cavaliers, I think what happened was everybody, including myself, and we all did, made the assumption that you're gonna take a top 15 player,


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[Assistant] And you're gonna put him into a group which had unbelievable potential and filled with young players and the assumption was that the reaction of that chemistry experiment was going to be positive.


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[Assistant] Well it wasn't and it hasn't been and I think you hit the nail on the head and I'm glad you said it so it's not my conspiracy theory. I think what we're seeing is some sort of a protest from Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] Because he doesn't like this coach and he does want change and if you go back three


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[Assistant] Two months ago, early in the season, he made comments where it's hard to read between the lines, but when I read the comments and he's saying something's got to change, I think he was talking.


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[Assistant] I do think when you recognize as an organization that your superstar player is done with your coach, as much as I hate to say this. Yea, you're screwed. I hate this. I hate that this is the way it is. Yea. It is a player's league.


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[Assistant] Period. And when you, when you come to the agreement or the, when you come to the assumption or the realization that your superstar player is not playing his hardest for your head coach, you can't fire the player. No.


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[Assistant] Well, how many times though have players wished themselves into a situation that was worse?


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[Assistant] He fooled all of us. At the news conference we said the next day, he won the news conference, he said everything you would want an incoming superstar to say. However, he hasn't said much since, but what he has said with his actions is that he wants to be somewhere else.


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[Assistant] Doesn't that, doesn't that just speak to Cleveland being a football, that we care more about football. When they're good, we care more. When they're bad, we bitch more.


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[Assistant] That's loaded with talent. They didn't win. They put a lot of superstars in the room.


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[Assistant] Some chemistry experiments produce favorable results. The one thing that's, I think there should be a study of teen chemistry. I think somebody should do deep dives, find the teens that over the years had the best chemistry. And we can rattle off a bunch of them here.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's a terrible example. No, it's really not. It is. It's really not Titus. They were, they captivated the NBA for a year. They changed the league. They did. They changed the league and here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Tyvis, even though they did win a championship, and I, there are a lot of teams that have great chemistry that don't win the titles, I'm not saying that...


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[Assistant] Great chemistry equals championship. But what I will say is, if you do a deep dive on all of the teams that have won championships in all the major sports over the last 20 years.


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[Assistant] Go in and interview the coaches, the players. Get the behind the scenes stories. This is an anonymous thing. We're attaching no names to anything. If you had a problem with a teammate,


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[Assistant] Eric, we're not gonna give any names. I think what you'll find more often than not, and to your point that winning breeds, it's easier to be in a good mood when you're winning.


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[Assistant] But I do think that chemistry, that, that piece of it, you can't buy it, you can't fake it, you can't create it, it happens on its own.


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[Assistant] And the Browns move was made to win a championship. Here the Browns are closer to reaching that goal than any point in the last four years.


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[Assistant] It's possible the Ravens and Browns could play in the FC Championship game.


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[Assistant] I don't know, my husband doesn't really talk fantasy football with me.


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[Assistant] It's like one of his major failings. He's got all this inside information. He's got access.


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[Assistant] Or maybe he just doesn't like hearing opposing viewpoints to what he's already fixed in his head.


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[Assistant] I had no idea what I was doing. My quarterbacks were Joe Borrow and Josh Allen. My running backs were Joe Mixon.


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[Assistant] And both of the Lions running backs at the time. And I got all the way to the Super Bowl against Ambercio Harris. And I think that...


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[Assistant] I really hope, I really hope that in the city of Cleveland right now and the surrounding areas, people are not calling for his head. I hope finally there is an appreciation of who they have there.


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[Assistant] I can't disagree with you. I think that this is one of those things though that sometimes is all about narrative and politics. I think if D'Amico Ryan gets his team in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] That obviously is something that would garner a lot of attention, especially considering the mess that the Texans have been, but I'm with you on this one. I'm obviously very, very close to maybe have a little bit of bias, but I do think that the job that's been done and the bigger piece here is that this team never quit.


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[Assistant] This team never threw in the towel. This team never thought, oh wow, we lost our all-pro right tackle. Oh wow, we lost our...


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[Assistant] You know, and especially since I live in the city of Pittsburgh and culture, culture, culture, culture is all the topic of conversation, culture within the team and who's playing hard and who's not. I think the fact that this team remains so unbowed and went out there every week, whether it was PJ Walker or


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[Assistant] You know, I think that the bigger issue is when you've got a player like George Pickens saying that he didn't block for a running back because he didn't want to get hurt. And then you've got Mike Tomlin saying, yeah, I'm still going to play Pickens. I mean.


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[Assistant] Hothead in terms of someone who'd go to the media and talk when he's talking about bad practice habits when he's talking about


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[Assistant] What players are out on the field and what they're doing when you're not, your guy Tyler Boyd said it, when you're not playing for each other, then what do you have?


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[Assistant] There was a very clear sign, hey, if Mike Tomlin is giving up on Chase Claypool, maybe you shouldn't come after a wide receiver that Mike Tomlin has given up on because just if in Cleveland, you don't remember, the Steelers fleeced the Bears, got a second round pick out of them for Chase Claypool. Chase Claypool spent exactly 10 games in Chicago before Chicago had to ship him


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was there, you know, I wrote this morning about, we talk about,


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[Assistant] Just the next man up and no one actually believes that though, right? Like coaches say it, guys go down, coaches get on the podium and say, well, it's next man up. And everyone's like, yeah, right. Okay. Well, no, the season's over and yet we've got to the point with this Brown season where


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[Assistant] I know, I look at it like it really doesn't matter who goes down next because you just have a feeling that they're going to figure out a way. So I talked to guys, the unknown guys yesterday, the anonymous guys, Jaren Christian, he was at a Halloween party out of the NFL. He was at a Halloween party with his family and his agent called him and said, you got to get on a flight to Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Nine hours later he's on a flight to Cleveland. A week later he's a starting left tackle.


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[Assistant] D'Anthony Bell couldn't even afford to go to college. He went to four different colleges. Undrafted free agent safety last year was out of football entirely because he didn't have a scholarship and he couldn't afford a tuition. So he was working a construction job in 2017 carrying around rocks. Now he's making the interception in the end zone to save the game.


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[Assistant] And continue this crazy playoff march on. Michael Dunn was a surprise cut at the end of training camp. He thought he was in good shape.


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[Assistant] No, they cut them because it's a manipulation of the roster and salary and everything else. They put them on practice squad and tell them, just be patient, you're going to help us.


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[Assistant] And sure enough, Petonio and there's Michael Dunn


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[Assistant] But he also threw the big block on the play that sprung Marquise Goodwin.


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[Assistant] He was the pulling guard helping on the, on the blitzing end.


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[Assistant] And then there's Marquise Goodwin, who, who ever thought he'd even still be playing football right now. He had blood clots. I thought his career was over. He was out six weeks and he's back. He had the nasty concussion.


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[Assistant] Returns, and he came in the game yesterday. I told Zach Jackson, here's Marquise, like they need something. They were at the point in the game you needed some sort of big play to get this thing moving. 57 yard reception down the, down the seam that really I thought was the play that flipped the whole thing. I thought that's really what allowed Joe


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[Assistant] And there's the starting saf and the train just keeps playing. It's been incredi I really enjoyed yesterday minutes with each of these out of nowhere and are now


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[Assistant] Well you said Pivot so much, we gotta go find the Ross clip from Friends. You guys watch the couch?


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[Assistant] Yeah, what? Well, the, with the complication with the lineman.


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[Assistant] Is the fact that how many times have we seen them run heavy jumbo sets with extra linemen? You can't do that now. That's a big part of what they're doing.


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[Assistant] And Michael Dunn is that extra guy. Nick Harris, those are your two extra guys when you go heavy. Well, now Nick's your center and Dunn's your left guard. Hopefully I, I saw Joel in the locker room briefly, but I was busy talking to all those other guys I was telling you about. So I didn't get over to him. He was not moving well after the game. He was moving very slowly, but Kevin said he tweaked it in pregame.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine it's anything terribly serious. Hopefully fingers crossed we'll wait and see how it goes. I'm not making any predictions on Monday as to his availability for next week.


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[Assistant] But that's the crippling part. Like Michael Dunn has played a lot of snaps in the NFL. Nick Harris is, he was the Brown starting center.


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[Assistant] Until he got hurt on the second play of the Jacksonville preseason game.


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[Assistant] He missed some things that were there yesterday. He did. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. He was running very tentatively. There was one in particular where I told Zach Jackson, my partner at the Athletic, Jerome went this way and if he would have just waited a second and cut, there was a lane for him to cut back and he just didn't see it. There was a couple plays that went that way.


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[Assistant] When he actually released the ball and where he put it. In the press box, I thought, that's picked. That's getting picked.


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[Assistant] Say that again, Jason. Because I actually, I wanted to check on this and I haven't had time. That looks like a new route to me. I haven't seen that route before. Like, a lot of times with these route trees, you see them and they might mix a different route tree with a different protection or whatever, but a lot of them look the same. I've never seen that before. That throw is ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is, no, I mean, we don't need to go down this throw. PJ Walker can't make that throw.


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[Assistant] Well, when you talk about the supreme confidence of Flacco, I think when you marry that with the supreme confidence of Kevin, this is what you see. Cause Kevin, Stephanski's the exact same way. We'll get into Kevin a little bit later.


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[Assistant] But it's that supreme confidence and that even keel that I've talked about for years on this show.


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[Assistant] Uh, no matter if it's high or low, he's always right here. And that's what this organization needs. Well, Joe's the same way. It doesn't matter about the picks or whatever. He's always going to be here. There's always this belief that they're going to find a way. And you're seeing what happens when you marry that now between the quarterback and the head coach. You got 52 other guys in that locker room that absolutely believe. Gee, I don't


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[Assistant] I don't want to be prisoner of the moment because I try really hard to never be that guy, but it feels like he never really got the proper credit in Baltimore. Is that fair? Like he won a Super Bowl MVP, but no one ever looked at him as a loo, right?


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[Assistant] I'm not disagreeing with that, but it feels like here, this moment that nobody saw coming.


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[Assistant] I, I wanna be careful. I'm not saying no one ever appreciated him. But it just felt like he was always the, yeah, butt guy. You know? And like, yeah, he's got that butt. Yeah, he's okay. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Shoulder, I mean, look, ask Maurice Claret about shoulder stingers. It screwed up his entire freshman season Ohio State. He was, I mean, it's a different position, but. I think that one's hard to tell. It is. You never know when it's good. It takes one hit on it. One bad hit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean you can make a case for, I think Martin Emerson's a pro bowler. I think J. Okay. Denzel's missed some time, but yeah, I mean he's good enough to be in there. He's been absolutely miles like off this defense particularly. You should see a lot of guys. I think, you know,


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[Assistant] I have to, I'm totally with you. I think it's, I think it's Cedric. He's, he's emerging as someone who they can count on. He makes tough catches in traffic. He's a big body. He still hasn't done what I thought his role was gonna be, which is the high point in the end zone. You know, a fade route in the red zone. We really haven't seen that part at all.


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[Assistant] And I thought that would be his, the first thing that he contributed to this team. So I think there's a lot there. I think there's a lot more to go. There's more layers to this, as G said. There's more years in there.


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[Assistant] Don was the pulling guard. Don doubled with Nijoku. I don't know if it was sweat, but Nijoku, they had David stay in the block and Don was the pulling guard.


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[Assistant] And they seem to look at, they seem to be looking at like even Harrison Bryant and Najoku and it's a lot of slant and in routes when they're down toward the goal and they really don't throw a lot of fake corner fades, right?


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[Assistant] And to get back to Nijoku, like, the numbers are what they are, and, you know, if he gets to a thousand, that's great, but it just feels like the catches he's made are a huge moment.


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[Assistant] It's incredible that team still refused to cover him. He just finds, he just finds soft spots in these zones.


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[Assistant] He's had a late release. He's had a late release on a few. But there was a couple yesterday where they just lost him. They just lost him in the zone. He ran a short curl and the DB went deep and it was open and there was nobody within 15 yards of him. And Zach and I looked at each other like...


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[Assistant] I want to read this quote from, uh, from Flacco yesterday when we were talking about, you're talking about guys like Amari and Nick and the way they go about their business. And Joe was asked yesterday, like, how do you, how, how do you explain this, what we're seeing now?


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[Assistant] He said I think it just tells you a lot about the kind of guys that this organization has purposely picked to put on the roster and in that locker room.


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[Assistant] And I think it's one of those things that you probably can't quantify, but having hard workers, having tough guys, if you're put in situations where you need to have that resilience, not every one of them is going to work out. So there's a little bit of luck involved in some things like today, but I think it just speaks to the character of the guys in that room. And I think you have to give credit to the organization for probably doing that on purpose.


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[Assistant] I was joking with Wyatt Teller in the locker room and I said, you can't get hurt. He goes, no, I literally cannot go down. There's nobody else. Like Wyatt's like, he's the last one standing. Like he's the last one. That's in his head.


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[Assistant] And, and this isn't, we don't need to spend a ton of time on this. This isn't a Monday post game topic. And I mentioned it briefly before, but we give Kevin Stefanski a lot of credit all the time and I think it rightfully so. Andrew Berry had a hell of a draft last year, guys.


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[Assistant] Rodney Hickman undrafted. D'Anthony Bell undrafted last year. And here's the other thing I would say. We can talk about they've had blind spots and trying to figure out receivers in the draft.


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[Assistant] This team knows how to find cornerbacks and defensive backs. When you go through the list of Newsome.


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[Assistant] Emerson, D'Anthony Bell, Ronnie Hickman, uh, there's more, who am I, like, it just- Grant Delphitt. Delph, well that was a previous regime. But they, this team, this, the guys that they have in there, they know what they're looking for in defensive backs, and they are hitting on these young guys. Well good, let's hope it continues.


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[Assistant] I would, I would try really hard to keep all three of those guys. I'd keep Ward Emerson and Newsom. And you're right, like you can't keep everyone. Right. And eventually you're going to have to make hard decisions. But I think what makes this defense go is having those three guys having three corners that you feel comfortable playing. Well, Newsom is in the slot. He's much better in the slot than he is on the boundary. And he's out of position when he's on the outside.


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[Assistant] That they don't even talk about on a one year deal. Shelby, these guys that came in, the guys on the margins, one year deals, little bit of money. They've come in, the big name guys, you know, Zedarius, Delvin Tomlinson, they get all the headlines, but it's the moves on the margins so often in all sports teams. He's a free agent.


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[Assistant] I would think so. I've talked about it on the show before, like, the more you do something, the better you get at it. And so, you know,


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[Assistant] Kevin had a great first year and then there were some struggles, but he sort of figured it out. Barry, you don't hit on all your free agents. They had a terrible free agent class.


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[Assistant] That's the beauty of stability. That's the beauty of patience. Which they haven't had. They haven't had. When you, when you're emotional and reactionary to everything, you don't give guys a chance.


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[Assistant] And you don't give guys a chance to learn from things that they do wrong, when you have stability, when you have patience, when you allow guys...


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[Assistant] Okay, we missed on that. What did we learn from that? Okay, we're gonna pivot and we're gonna do this instead. When you give them that chance, look what happens. You can have success.


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[Assistant] I think he has, I don't know if it's a nervous play caller, I think he has full confidence in his quarterback right now.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, I, he didn't with Baker and I don't think.


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[Assistant] I think he should win it. I don't think he will win it.


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[Assistant] The thing that I keep saying about him that no one wanted to hear.


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[Assistant] Was the fat, like everyone says, oh, he thinks the Ivy Ligger thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. I'm telling you, dude has no ego, none.


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[Assistant] It may be hard to believe he doesn't think he's the smartest guy in the room. He's very much about


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[Assistant] Hey, let's do this together. Let's figure this out. If you've got an idea, I want to hear it. He's all about bringing people together and just throwing it together. And I've gotten a little bit, or by no means tight, but I've gotten to know him a little bit away from the cameras, the microphones and everything. And he told me like, hey, if I screw up, just rip me. Like rip me. I don't care. Rip me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like he's just, there's zero ego involved with him. It's very much, if you can help, bring it to the table and let's figure this out. And, and I've just, it's one of the things I've come to preach about. He told me last year, especially like it just ripped me. By the way, when did it become a bad thing for a coach to be smart?


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[Assistant] Right. And you know how that works. But he knows the division that he's in. He knows, hey, you got Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh in this division. Like, I'm starting third at best in this division. I'm telling you, there is no ego involved. It's one of the things I've really grown to respect and appreciate about.


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[Assistant] My wife texted me between Stefanski and Flacco. She's very happy these days.


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[Assistant] Is there any clinchable stuff? No, I don't think they can clinch. I'd like mathematically clinch, no. I don't think so.


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[Assistant] If they beat the Texans, maybe they'd do, we'll have to look into that because they'd hold the tiebreaker over the Colts.


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[Assistant] If the Ravens were to lose the right to... We'd have to look at it. The Ravens beat the Rams.


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[Assistant] If you want to put it on me, I'll wear it. I didn't think Flacco should play. I said like, if Joe plays, then something went terribly wrong.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yes. It was, it was a really good environment in that stadium. But it was weird, I mean, I guess it was probably the weather. I drove, I got there early, like early early yesterday, but the beauty lot was like empty when I drove by.


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[Assistant] It is. It's crazy. We are crazy. We really are. We forgot to mention this. Did you guys see the Nijoku quote on the Hail Mary in the end zone? So what was his reaction? He said, I damn near shit myself, dog.


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[Assistant] I hope so. I wouldn't count that get out on any of them. AJ, what do you think? Thumbs up, thumbs down. I brought my son in today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's still in limbo. There's a lot of players that are really in limbo. We know Denzel Ward is back to practice. We know Miles Garrett has been practicing. Is he going to be better than?


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[Assistant] The shell of himself that he looked like Sunday out in Los Angeles, all things we're going to dive into over the next 30 minutes. But guys, I want to start with this. We saw Joe Flacco in this offense and it looked completely different from anything we've seen this year. If you want to compare it to something that we've seen before, it looked probably mostly like Jacoby Brissette last year.


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[Assistant] We saw some, a lot of play fakes. We saw some naked boots.


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[Assistant] Is there another layer, is there another wrinkle that Kevin Stefanski can throw in to Joe Flacco's skill set that we haven't seen already?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm a little concerned because to Bull's point, he didn't reinvent himself in the last six days. He is who he is.


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[Assistant] Now there's more tape on, there's tape at all on Flacco in Stefanski's offense.


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[Assistant] Teams are very familiar with what Joe Flacco did. They just didn't know how Kevin Stefanski was going to use him. Now Jacksonville will know. Here's what scares me. They had a lot of success off of the play action.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's gonna catch anybody off guard anymore because now they know what's out there. So I think Jacksonville's gonna be ready for a lot of play action. Even the two touchdown passes, both came off play action. One was the boop to the, to the naked side and


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[Assistant] The, the, Ford was wide open. So I think they're going to do more of what was very successful and that's about all we're going to see. We're not going to see any, you know, magical difference in the playbook week to week.


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[Assistant] If they're running a lot and successfully, which I think they have to do. I've been saying it the last two weeks, I'm going to say it again.


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[Assistant] They need a heavy dose of running the football on Sunday. That will set up the play action and will definitely set up success in the passing game. Run it. Do what you do. Be successful with it and don't quit on it too early. Stay with it. Balanced attack.


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[Assistant] Alright, we mentioned Amari Cooper, still in concussion protocol. That is somewhat concerning, but Bull made a great point. Just because he's still in protocol doesn't mean he can't clear it in the next 48 hours.


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[Assistant] Who replaces his production? Because he's been the safety blanket for this rotating quarterback carousel that we've seen. But Joe's a little different in his veteran eyes and he sees different things. How does the game plan change it if he can't go and who picks up the slack?


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[Assistant] He's had some really perplexing drops in the last two weeks. And that's kind of been the bugaboo that has bit him throughout his career.


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[Assistant] He'll high point a ball that's nine feet off the ground.


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[Assistant] He'll go up in traffic with double coverage and somehow pluck the ball out of the defenders hands and make the unbelievable catch a reality, yet he'll drop an easy squat route or a ball right in his hands as he's going out of bounds with nobody in coverage.


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[Assistant] He cannot do that on Sunday. He needs to be the force in this offense.


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[Assistant] Then run the ball. You can't run the ball if you don't catch it first. And he's so dangerous when he catches it because he's such a great athlete for a tight end. You can get a lot of yards after contact. He's the perfect guy to pick up the slack.


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[Assistant] If Cooper can't go again, the hope is that he can. So Trevor Lawrence practiced yesterday and if you looked at the video, I used that word practice very loosely. He stood in place.


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[Assistant] He threw the football. I never saw him run. A couple of times I saw him go through a drop back. I think a three step drop and two step drop, but he didn't look particularly mobile and he didn't look particularly fast in doing it.


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[Assistant] So guys, would you rather face an injured Trevor Lawrence with a high ankle sprain, or a CJ Beathard who also is dinged, has a dinged left shoulder I believe, non-throwing shoulder, would you rather face Beathard who


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[Assistant] It's not a clean sweep, I'll be the voice of dissent here. Okay. Uhm, you can give me an injured Trevor Lawrence and here's why.


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[Assistant] The Browns were able to beat the Cincinnati Bengals. I know you said it was a calf injury and they're different. They're not. It limited his ability to run out of the pocket, which Joe, that's a huge part of Joe Burrow's game. That is. It too is a huge part of Trevor Lawrence's game. The Browns knew that he was going to stay in the pocket. They were able to tee off on him and keep him from hurting them.


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[Assistant] They'll do the same thing to CJ Beathard. They will bring pressure. They're not as worried about him climbing in the pocket. You mean Lawrence. Or Lawrence, I'm sorry. They're not as worried about him climbing in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Because he can't run. So now he's one dimensional. They were able to beat a one dimensional Borough in the Bengals and I think they can beat a one dimensional Jacksonville Jaguars team if Trevor Lawrence is only able to drop back and throw the football.


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[Assistant] Alright, how good was Joe Flacco last week? When the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show comes back on WKYC, one of the greats to ever do it in Cleveland, Bernie Kozar, is effusive in his praise for a couple of throws in particular. He breaks them down. When the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show comes right back.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on WKYC Channel 3. We all were impressed with Joe Flacco's play Sunday in LA against the Rams. I'm not sure anyone was more impressed than Bernie Kozar, who's here now with Mikey McNuggets to break down two throws in particular. Guys?


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[Assistant] And it took just one game to get a U-matter from Bernie. You gotta love that. Alright, when we come back, Denzel Ward's been out the last two weeks and the defense has not looked good. Is he the guy that fixes all the problems? We'll answer that next when we play I Know, I Think, I Doubt.


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[Assistant] A little more than 48 hours from kickoff at Cleveland Brown Stadium. It is the Jacksonville Jags against the Cleveland Browns who have dropped two in a row. They desperately need to pick up a win this week. Mikey McNuggets, it's time for I Know I Think I Doubt. How does this game go?


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[Assistant] I disagree. I know that Ridley's gonna be the guy that we have to stop on Sunday. Let's find out. I agree. Could be dead wrong. Okay, Mikey, what's mine?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if you wanted me to look at that in total, I would put I doubt for that statement in total because both would have to be true.


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[Assistant] Here's the way I took it. Two different statements, two different answers. I know David DeJoker will have at least 45 receiving yards. That much I'm convinced of. If he doesn't, this is an out.


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[Assistant] Because we still don't know if Omari Cooper is going to be able to go, but they've got to use David Njoku more in their offensive game plan. So I know he's going to have the 45 yards. As for the touchdown,


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, we kinda have a little bit of experience and a body of work to go off of. And he hasn't scored a lot of touchdowns this year. So because of that, I doubt that he's gonna score a touchdown. He's gonna need to.


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[Assistant] But the history and his track record this year tells me I doubt it. That worked out perfectly.


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[Assistant] Alright, next on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, it's where the rubber meets the road. What happens in 48 hours at Cleveland Brown Stadium? We're gonna tell you who wins and how they do it. It's our pre-written headline when the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show comes right back.


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[Assistant] It's our favorite time of the show. Who wins the game and how do they do it? Pre-written headlines. Mr. Kool-Aid. G. Bush, you're first.


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[Assistant] I knew I'd mess that up. Alright, so as the only one on this panel to correctly pick the winner of last Sunday's game,


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[Assistant] You will be loving the fact that I am picking the Browns to win on Sunday. That's right. Browns playoff train back on track. I have the exact same score as G. Bush. That's crazy. 24-13 the Browns moved to 8-5. Jason.


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[Assistant] All right, that's going to do it for another episode of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Remember, you can watch this every Monday through Friday, 11 to 1 on our YouTube channel. You can time shift it and watch it whenever you are free. Just type in UCSS when you go to YouTube. Enjoy the game. Watch the two minute warning on Sunday and Go Browns. Peace.


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


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[Assistant] But you know, it's going to be a little harder as they move forward here. So they're going to have to have a better situation. They do have Alex Leatherwood on the practice squad. They also have Leroy Watson on the team. And so they've got some backup tackles, but you know, certainly nobody like a Dewan Jones. That is a huge, huge loss for them. And it's really unfortunate because he was


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[Assistant] Okay, and Joe, of course he's got 15 years of experience. This is his 16th season under his belt. He knows how to take advantage of those kinds of situations. But if Deshaun Watson had been in there, he was going to have a 300 yard game as well.


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[Assistant] And that's great. That's what you need to do. I'm not taking anything away from Joe. They needed this confidence booster. They built up confidence chips.


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[Assistant] And they are at eight and five. They're the number five seed under very trying circumstances. Uh, and it's just funny because, you know, fans and talk media and talk radio and all that kind of stuff always has him on the hot seat. But he's doing a great job this year.


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[Assistant] Of, you know, was he gonna play? Was he not gonna play? There was just, I mean, it was, it was hard to have to throw DTR in there against that Baltimore Ravens team.


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[Assistant] Should be right up there and maybe if he can collect a couple of more victories, which they will, they're going to win more games, obviously. Uh, you know, once he gets a couple more, maybe he'll start to get in the conversation, but he should be in it right now.


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[Assistant] So I would say that you're probably going to want to be wary of Buffalo.


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[Assistant] To me, just in terms of, you know, what they're able to do with their quarterback situation. But uhm, but yeaah, I mean, Indianapolis, the Bills.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, then you're not going to be winning those games. So they've got to be very careful about that. And also, I mean, you've got, you know, you've got Denver, you've got Houston. I mean, you know, the, you know, these are teams that, um, you know, that definitely could creep up on you.


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[Assistant] You know, if they keep winning, and the, and the Ravens have a really tough schedule coming up, they've got, uh, probably the toughest remaining schedule in the NFL coming up. And they're, you know, they're gonna have to just be in playoff mode from here on out.


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[Assistant] Jaguars and 49ers both on the road is what I think it is, yes. Uhm, so,


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[Assistant] If I'm on my back, yes, if I'm on my side.


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[Assistant] He didn't, Stern didn't give any details when he talked about it. Oh, that's horrible. Yeah, that's horrible. RIP, locally, his family's doing. Alright, we got a busy show today, guys, and we're gonna start.


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