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[Assistant] Well, that doesn't, I mean, so does he have more potential than Ahmaud Rossaint Brown then?


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[Assistant] How many yards would he have to put up for them to pay $25 million next year? $1,100? Yea, I don't think it's a crazy number. You think if he got $1,100, he's getting $25 million next year.


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[Assistant] He had 1,250 yards. Right. Okay. You're right. It is his, it is his most...


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[Assistant] Uh, per year, but not significantly. He had an 1189 season with Dallas. He had an 1153 season with Oakland. He had an eight touchdown season with Dallas.


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[Assistant] They had a bad year with Dallas the last year, 865 and 8. But the two years before that he had 1189 and 8 touchdowns and 1114 and 5 touchdowns. Basically the same he's done a year.


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[Assistant] He's acquired how many wide receivers via trade, draft, and free agency? A bunch. Okay? A handful. And the only one that's been good is Amari Cooper who was already proven. That's a fact. That's a fact. Now you want to say he had more yards? That's true. You're right. It's a fact. He had more yards.


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[Assistant] His last, and his last year in Dallas for whatever reason was a down year was a weird season. But the two years before that were basically equivalent to what he's done here, here. I'm pretty sure last year in Dallas.


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[Assistant] Amar Cooper, for most of his career, outside of the last year in Dallas, had been a very good receiver. And he's still a very good receiver.


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[Assistant] Jerry Judy, to this point in his career, has been a disappointment. Not a bust, not a bust, but he's a disappointment.


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[Assistant] And again, that's predicated on if, if all the 50-year extension money is included in that deal.


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[Assistant] It's not our money. So I, you know, I don't really give a crap in the long run. He just, you know, the thing is, as much as I agree that the cap is a minor factor and not a major factor, if Jerry Judy is not good, that will hamper them in trying to spend


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[Assistant] They signed me back. They treatin' us good. To your point, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give a shout out to my man Dr. Jake. Uh, so I got a team of people working with me. I've lost 13.4 pounds in 15 days. Uh, cause this is it. Um, um, it's, it's save my life operation here. So I got a team of people I'm working with and one of them is a scientist.


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[Assistant] Who specializes in doing research on weight loss.


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[Assistant] But the reason I met him is because he's originally from Cleveland and he's a huge Browns fan.


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[Assistant] And he and I meet via, he lives down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, doing research there. And he and I talk every Wednesday morning mostly about weight loss and stuff like that. However,


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[Assistant] He's also a big Browns fan so we always spend a few minutes talking about the Browns.


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[Assistant] And he's a very analytical, like, you know, he's into all analytics and stuff, and he was excited about the Jerry Judy contract.


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[Assistant] Because he said, because he's always talking about research and stuff, and he said he was reading this study that when you're, as you were alluding to, when you pay people preemptively,


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[Assistant] It empowers them, it makes them feel better about themselves, it makes them feel loved, and in most cases, they will work harder and be more committed.


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[Assistant] Right? And I get that. I can see that. I know if, if, if our boss has said to us, Hey, we're giving you guys a five year deal. You're locked in for the next five years. The show's good for five years. We're paying you this money. We would all be feeling, we feel good, but we'd feel even better if we had a five year contract.


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[Assistant] If Jerry Judy is that type of guy, then yes, it will hopefully work. There is talent there. I don't think it's, I'm not saying it's the worst contract in the history of football. And if this


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[Assistant] If the total numbers do include the fourth year option, then I'm only slightly against it as opposed to my original thought.


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[Assistant] All I'm saying, my only, ultimately my two biggest complaints are, I'm sick of every time you say anything against the Browns, you're a hater.


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[Assistant] I'm sick of that, it's pissing me off. I haven't been bothered by stuff, but this is pissing me off. And number two, we gotta stop acting as if everything that Andrew Berry does is right no matter what. That's just silly.


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[Assistant] But if we're saying, like, money's not an object, then, then, you know, go get an even better player. I don't know if that was possible. I don't know. Right now. When you looked at it, I don't know if that was possible. You could have gotten Keenan Allen. He's 100. He's better than Jerry Juni.


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[Assistant] Keenan Allen is 31. He's about to turn 32. And DeAndre Hopkins, he'll be 32 next month, is uh, Keenan Allen. You missed a lot of games last year, Bull. No, we didn't. How many games?


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[Assistant] How many games did he miss last year? He played 13 games, had 1,243 yards in 13 games and 7 touchdowns. And part of the reason he didn't play at the end is because they were done anyway so they didn't try to bring him back. He was incredible last year.


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[Assistant] I think Jerry Judy has a chance to be a good player, but let's remember, now I wasn't one of these people, but there were a lot of people who thought Elijah Moore was going to have a thousand yards later. That was ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Now, I think Jerry Judy, I'm much higher on Jerry Judy's potential than I am on Elijah Moore.


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[Assistant] I'd say a thousand, at least a thousand yards and five touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Nijoku, Judy, and Cooper. That's it. But they're gonna run the ball too.


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[Assistant] I got it. Anthony's telling me something in my ear. More or less than 150 targets for a Mark Cooper.


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[Assistant] I feel like every other play was good. We talked about, listen, Nijoko had a tremendous season.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, with Deshaun, he didn't have as big an amount of targets. That'll be interesting. Outside of that one game, the Baltimore game, he had a lot of targets. Nine, I think.


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[Assistant] His biggest problem with Denver was the drops. He was bad with the drops, one of the worst in the league, and that's gotta be cleaned up. That's one of the, yea, and his consistency in general.


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[Assistant] I always believe, unless it's a quarterback, that you always take the best player. That's how I feel.


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[Assistant] I don't, I always say, I was listening to NFL radio. By the way,


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[Assistant] None of their shows are any good. The hosts on there are really unbelievably bad. It's amazing. You'd think a sport with this much money could have better growth. They never talk about what's going on. It's always like,


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a big story in the NFL. Let's break down the Carolina Panthers today. Uh, but anyway. Yea, they do do that oddly. Like readily, they just pick a team and it'd be like out of the blue. And they have guests on all, too many guests. It's just ridiculous. Uh, but why did I bring that up?


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[Assistant] I now talk, I was too busy making fun of NFL Network.


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[Assistant] So, they were talking about the draft yesterday, about how many quarterbacks are going to get drafted. I put it on for a second because I wanted to see if they were talking about the Bengals signing Trent Brown, and then I got pissed off that they were talking about the draft five weeks before, and all these quarterbacks that are about to be bussed that are going to get drafted in the top ten. Uhm, and the one host there goes,


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[Assistant] Well, you know, Minnesota's gotta take a quarterback.


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[Assistant] I never understand this mindset of gotta take a quarterback.


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[Assistant] If you don't have a quarterback, yes, you have to at some point find a quarterback.


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[Assistant] But a lot of times these teams, I think, talk themselves into ignoring the downside on these players. Because they're so desperate to get a quarterback. And that's just dumb.


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[Assistant] But at least with quarterback, I can understand it to a little degree. With any other position to me, it's stupid.


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[Assistant] This idea that, well, let's look for the Browns' biggest weakness and we have to take that position. No, if there's a guy not worthy of your draft, when you're drafting, and listen, by the time the Browns pick in the second round, if they stay there, okay, you'd think there's, maybe there's equal talent at many positions, but I'm not going to take a wide receiver


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[Assistant] But in that situation, if that somehow happened, if I were the Browns, I would trade out so somebody else could trade up and get more things.


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[Assistant] They don't have to, again, they don't have to. There's other ways as we've seen.


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[Assistant] It's likely at some point they will draft a receiver. However, you've drafted receivers. None of those guys, if any of those guys were any good, you wouldn't be worried about it. Well, that's why I'm hoping.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's boring. Alright, let's switch up to quarterback. The Browns are apparently signing Jameis Winston today as an official now.


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[Assistant] Got it. Jameis Winston is signing his one-year contract today worth $4 million, plus...


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[Assistant] Another, up to another 4.7 million incentives. A league source tells Cleveland.com. There you go.


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[Assistant] Well yesterday we did a topic about is there something going on with this James contract? Obviously not. So they are, they do now have four quarterbacks under contract. We talked a lot about that Tuesday. I don't know if there's anything further to go with that, but all the,


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[Assistant] So uhm, what's his name? J.B. Smoove plays like his roommate, essentially. Yep. And he's fantastic in that show. And their chemistry together is just phenomenal. Unbelievable.


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[Assistant] So Larry and, I can't remember what J.B.Smooth's character's name is, uh, Leon, Leon. Larry and Leon are at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. And Leon keeps getting like a thousand...


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[Assistant] It was a really funny scene, but when you mentioned the crab legs, it reminded me of that.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, so let's talk about, uh, Deshaun Watson. He is going to start throwing this week.


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[Assistant] So he's, he's out in L.A., uh, David Najok who has joined them out there. P.C.A for his quarterback coach.


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[Assistant] I guess it's, I mean, it's a positive that he's throwing now. I don't know what the timeline was supposed to be. I've heard some people say he's ahead of the timeline, but I don't remember hearing a timeline.


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[Assistant] No, that's really four months. The training camp starts in four months.


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[Assistant] I could be wrong. April, May, June, July. Yeaah. Four months.


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[Assistant] Man, it's gonna be late July in four months. That's depressing.


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[Assistant] And he sent a question for this topic, and he said, let me just read.


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[Assistant] Watson could begin throwing this week. Report from Mary Kay. He could be throwing to Joku and Quincy Avery.


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[Assistant] You know despite Quincy Avery, you know, he's the negative in this whole situation.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause I, I, I don't know. Maybe he needs a new quarterback coach. Should he be working with a different quarterback coach? Do we trust Quincy Avery? Does Quincy Avery work with other people besides him? Yea, ton of other quarterbacks. Really? They trust him? He comes off as such a buffoon in these, in these podcasts to me. Well, see here's the thing. Now it's per- I don't like him because he was really nasty to Aditi for no reason.


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[Assistant] And so I got a beef with the guy, I mean, you know, whatever. And, uh, actually somebody pointed out to me that they me- reminded me that they mentioned on the podcast, which I don't care, but his- the way he attacked Aditi was disgusting, and so he can go F himself. But, uh, so that's why I'm taking shots at him, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yeaah. Okay, so you're not getting the truth. Now people don't want the true story anymore when it comes to sports or anything else. No. That's why everybody goes in their silos for politics. They don't want to know the truth. No. They just want to be pampered to and catered to. And so they want to have a problem. In every aspect of life and that's bad.


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[Assistant] Right, so this started with me bringing up Quincy Avery, who I admit I don't like because of what he said, because he was really nasty.


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[Assistant] But why, it was an unprovoked attack of Adina, for no reason. She didn't even say anything, it wasn't even like she said anything about Deshaun Watson. In fact, what has she said bad about Deshaun Watson?


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[Assistant] Aditi doesn't say controversial stuff. Aditi's not like me coming on here and if I think somebody sucks I'll say it. She doesn't do that. Like to attack her it was just out of line.


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[Assistant] When players say they don't care, they do though. They care what people say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I just didn't understand why he attacked her. There's plenty of people in the media that I would get why he would attack them, but her it didn't make any sense. But anyway, we'll keep it moving from that.


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[Assistant] There's nothing that Deshaun could do, I agree. Now, you want him to look healthy, because if he doesn't look healthy, well then none of it matters. But assuming he's healthy, that's fine, but that's not gonna make me feel better about his season.


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[Assistant] That's right. Beyond stupid that any fan would pay attention to a pro day. It's mean- the only thing meaningful in the pro day is the conversations that the players are having with the members of the team. That- and we don't know about that stuff. That's meaningful. Watching- what we see on TV them throwing or- It's choreographed. Is nothing. It means nothing.


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[Assistant] The Sean Watson could do between today and the first regular season game that is going to change your opinion on how he's going to perform this year.


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[Assistant] Like, I am where I am on Deshaun. I still think there's a chance he can be good again. He, I think he's gotta prove it. He hasn't been good these two years. I'm not gonna believe, my, my percentage chance of him being good again is not going up a single point until I see him play in the regular season.


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[Assistant] Right now, I don't feel that way. I'm not, I'm not saying it's not solved. I'm saying I don't know if it's solved. And I thought that was over. I thought the conversation about the Brown solving the quarterback problem was over. For a decade. And now, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. And I... Now fair enough.


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[Assistant] And I think that's a fair place to be right now. And maybe the reality is he's never gonna be what he was in Houston, but he's gonna turn, he's gonna end up being just a pretty good quarterback. Which is fine, but not what you paid for.


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[Assistant] For six months. September 10th. Right? Little less than six months until the first game. In Brazil?


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[Assistant] Thought that Peter King was saying it for sure, that's what happened. Yes. So people thought Maurice Hurst broke the news that they're definitely playing in, I was about to say Japan.


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[Assistant] And he was just going by what Peter King said. Peter King was speculating that it could be the Browns, but he doesn't know for sure. Or at least he didn't say he knew for sure. Maybe he does know.


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[Assistant] How many teams- Who says no? How many games do the Browns have?


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[Assistant] Where they're playing a team that you think is more likely than not to finish under 500. You think the Chargers are more likely to finish over or under 500?


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[Assistant] Uh, Chiefs will be over, Cowboys will be over, Giants are under. Yep. Dolphins over.


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[Assistant] If you had to bet your house, they win nine or more or eight or less. I bet nine or more. I bet less. They lost one.


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[Assistant] Their defense got gutted. I think you guys are out. Linebacker. Uh, alright, Broncos under. Yup. Commanders under. Yup. Eagles over. Yup. Jaguars over. Yup. Yeah. Raiders under.


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[Assistant] Yep, that's the, like, extra game. 17th game, so. Their home schedule in particular is tough, I mean...


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[Assistant] Well, to do that, you gotta win the division. Got to. You gotta win the hardest division in the entire league. They gotta get it. Far.


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[Assistant] What's the closest, what's the second best division in football?


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[Assistant] Are there any other divisions with three good teams? Let's see. AFC East? AFC West?


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[Assistant] And winning it, like, not in a South situation where it's like, well all the teams suck so anybody can win.


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[Assistant] They're not gonna fall off until Patrick Holmes gets hurt or retires. So that's about it. It's depressing.


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[Assistant] Take Travis, and last year I said that at one point I might be moving towards the joku over Kelsey. That was dumb, I was an idiot for saying that.


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[Assistant] Travis Kelsey was still the best tight end in football last year. Yes. And Pacheco was a really good back.


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[Assistant] You're out of your mind. Where do you think their roster is minus quarterback? 13th? 20th? Are you crazy? No, it's probably like 8, 9, 10. First of all, that's not, that's, you said they were not good. I never said they were not good. If you think they have the 8th best roster and the best quarterback, how are they not good? I said not a championship roster.


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[Assistant] The Browns? I saw the Browns get smoked by C.J. Stroup.


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[Assistant] How'd CJ Stroud do against... He didn't play the Chiefs. Oh that's right, lost to the Ravens. Yea, so get your facts straight, come on.


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[Assistant] Then you said they weren't good. Then you said they were the 8th best roster besides quarterback.


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[Assistant] No, the first you s- go play the tape. You said they were not good last year. I said they weren't good. The first- that's why I got worked up, because the first thing you said was they were not good. Which was absurd.


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[Assistant] I stand by that. I stand by that. And you have not given me a position besides wide receiver where they're not championship caliber. I don't think their running game was terrific. Their running game was, what are you talking about?


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[Assistant] If you take a good quarterback of any roster, their record's gonna... Okay. What's their record? Who's the quarterback?


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[Assistant] You just can't help but want to punch him in the face when you watch this video.


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[Assistant] But he took, he took, he attacked the city too, which is funny because Miami is like the soft, you think, like, it's a soft sports town. Their team is tough, their basketball team. But you think of Miami as like the weak, I think of Miami as the...


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[Assistant] Like all the Florida markets is the softest sports towns in America.


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[Assistant] Don't you think if you date a Kardashian, you're automatically a fake tough guy and not a real tough guy? Is Tristan a real tough guy or a fake tough guy?


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[Assistant] Everybody go listen to Chris Rock talk about the Kardashians. It's one of the funniest bits ever.


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[Assistant] Well, Putin killed the guy who was like the most vocal person against him. He like poisoned the guy.


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[Assistant] It was like, when Darius and Mobley came back, who first came back from injury, it was like, everybody's healthy, and it was only two months or whatever till the playoff, and they've had so many injuries since then, it's like, now they're getting the injuries at the wrong time.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that's though because of... Isn't it funny? Men's Final Four still gets way more coverage. And I think women's basketball is more popular right now than men's basketball.


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[Assistant] How many seats in, cause they don't sell all the seats in a football stadium, do they?


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[Assistant] Cause I remember when I used to go to Syracuse games at the Carrier Dome.


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[Assistant] They would, they'd close off half the arena for basketball.


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[Assistant] College is five, which is also an issue yet. That causes good players to be off the court.


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[Assistant] That's the problem. I think players should be allowed to go straight to the NBA from high school. Attitude. And NFL, too. That's coming, by the way. But it's also bad for college sports, which, you know, whatever. It is what it is.


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[Assistant] This is, see, I was making fun of my man Nick Karnes before, of all his like silly tweets, where he finds like a wormhole to make everybody look better. This is, this is Nick's tweet.


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[Assistant] Amari Cooper led the division in receiving yards by a wide receiver. David Najoku led the division in receiving yards by a tight end. Jerry Judy is dynamic and finally in position to thrive. The Cleveland Browns have the best receiving trio in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Uh, he and Xavier P, man, you can't say any, Xavier P and I are really cool, but he, you, if you say anything bad about the Browns, you're a hater. He's gonna tweet you right now. Yes, he is. And I love him. He knows I love him.


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[Assistant] He gotta be high. That's right. Alright, let's get to the Guardians now, guys. Uh, there's no apologing, uh, apology. There's no apologing for the, uh, for the Guardians or apologizing either.


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[Assistant] The Guardians did what they do, which is take two young players that


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[Assistant] First of all, there's not a lot of excitement about the Guardians right now. We're talking about them minimally because they did nothing in the offseason to get us to talk about them more.


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[Assistant] Uh, they, if they had made a sexy free agent signing, there would have probably been a day we spent a half hour on it or more.


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[Assistant] If they had made a big trade, we probably would have done a sp- We've spent time on the Guardians here in the last month, but it's been minimal time because there hasn't been that much to talk about. The season is starting in eight days. By the way, the first official game of the Major League Baseball season was this morning at 6 a.m. in the Godres.


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[Assistant] Once again, the Guardians wasted money on Matt Dolan's Senate campaign, which he lost in the primary yesterday.


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[Assistant] Matt Dolan has run for, to be the Republican, to be a Republican Senator for Ohio twice in three years. He's lost both times. They've spent millions of dollars, that family, on that campaign that could have been spent on an outfielder. Hundred percent.


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[Assistant] 17 million this year from Matt Dolan, who couldn't be more boring if he tried. Nobody was gonna vote for him, they're gonna vote for that nitwit Marino, which they did, so there you go. So, alright, here we go. Uh, aside my track with my slander of Republican politics.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I went on a rant that did not say who the players were. Kyle Manzardo and Chase Pilato.


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[Assistant] What possibility did they see? What did they see?


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[Assistant] Now, it's actually more egregious that they're not calling up Manzardo because Manzardo has played at the high, like, in fairness, his spring training numbers


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[Assistant] You gotta take spring training numbers with a grain of salt. They don't really mean that much. But he's always hit everywhere he's been hit. He has. He looks like he's ready to hit the majors. Now to be fair to the guardians on the lauder, he's only played six games above A-ball.


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[Assistant] He didn't even play a double A. It's very rare for a guy to go from A ball to the majors and have success. That almost never happens. So I'm, I wasn't expecting the Lauder to be on. Like I didn't, going into spring training, I knew they were going to send down Manzardo.


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[Assistant] I can kinda understand why they're sending him down. I know people are frustrated.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and in the end, because they have such crappy options, I would have kept them up. But I can, I understand that from beyond, they're not just, with him, I buy that it's not just about service time. Because, again, he's, he played six games of double A last year.


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[Assistant] So he has not played a lot in the minors. It's not like he's Bryce Harper. He's not an all time prospect. They don't have anybody.


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[Assistant] You still don't want to rush a guy, maybe, I, I would, I would, No, no, no. Well, some guys are negatively affected by failure at the Major League level. I would have put him on the roster. The Manzarta one,


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[Assistant] Is worse because he is clearly ready to play at the major league level.


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[Assistant] He is a major league ready player and there's no excuse. The only reason they're putting Manzardo in the minors is because of service time. That's it. With the Lauder, there's a little more to it. There's a little more to it.


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[Assistant] I don't judge you guys based on batting average. What are you talking about? Look at his home run numbers.


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[Assistant] Bryce Harper didn't go from A-Ball to the majors, and he's one of the greatest hitting prospects of all time. Every team would have done what the Guardians are doing. With Chase DeLauro, every team would have done.


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[Assistant] Then sign JD Martinez for a year. Yeaah. Sign Adam Duvall for a year. Don't tell me you have no spots on your 40-man roster. I don't believe that.


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[Assistant] You have spots on the 40 man roster. You gotta be smart about it. You can't, it's harder to sell us on sending Manzardo and De Lauder to the minors when your other options suck. You shouldn't force guys to the majors because of that.


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[Assistant] Whatever, like you're a football writer, what are you wearing? He played, he put a video of some clip on the Boston News where they randomly interviewed four people on the street.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's late April. Well, it depends. They changed the latest collective bargaining agreement.


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[Assistant] Should we expect to see them by May? There's two things they mess with. One is this extra year of service time. That's late April or the first week of May. I can't remember what it is now.


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[Assistant] The second thing is when they're going to be eligible for arbitration because some guys are eligible for arbitration after their second full year, some guys it's the third depending on how much you played those first two years. So they manipulate with that too because once you go to arbitration you make more money.


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[Assistant] Your first couple of years in the majors, you're making essentially minimum salaries.


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[Assistant] Arbitration is awful. What is that? So what happens is, if you can't set, so,


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[Assistant] Once you're arbitration eligible, but not yet available, uh, eligible for free agency, you're what's called arbitration eligible.


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[Assistant] What happens is every year, unless you sign a long-term extension, every year you're arbitration eligible, you have to negotiate your contract for that year. Before you're arbitration eligible, the player has no say in their contract. The team pays you whatever they want, which in most cases is the minimum salary. That's crazy! That's the first two years, okay?


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[Assistant] By the third year, or in some guys' cases, the fourth year, depending on, I mean, at that point, it is a negotiation. So,


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[Assistant] Either four things can hap- or three things can happen. Either you negotiate a long-term deal and then you contract set for the next bunch of years.


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[Assistant] You can negotiate a deal just for that season, which with most guys arbitration eligible, that's what happened. You come to an agreement on what you're gonna get paid that year.


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[Assistant] But for 10 to 25 guys a year, they actually go to an arbitration hearing. And what happens is, the team


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[Assistant] And the player and his agent, they give an amount of money that they think they're worth. And they go in front of an arbitrator,


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[Assistant] And the arbitrator decides who wins. Who pays the arbitrator? I don't know. But the, I think the league does.


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[Assistant] But the players do win. It's not like the owners win that all the time. It's a mixed bag. It's probably 50-50.


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[Assistant] It's terrible. It's a weird system. They need to get rid of it. It doesn't happen with that many. I don't think the Guardians have gone to arbitration with anybody in a while. But there were some players, in fact...


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[Assistant] Corbin Burns of the Brewers. What's bad about it is...


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[Assistant] Yes. It's, it's, it's bad. It's sour, Corbin Burns who got traded this off season from the Brewers of the Orioles. Part of the reason he wanted to get out is because he went up in arbitration last year. He'd been one of the best pitchers in baseball and he got bad mouthed in his hearings. So he's like, I don't want to play for them anymore. Screw them. All right, then I'll catch you later. Now the Guardians have done a good job avoiding arbitration though.


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[Assistant] Delauder is starting a triple A, a double A. Now, once you're above A ball, double A and triple A these days doesn't really matter. You could go from double A to the majors. It used to be like you went double A, triple A. Yea, step by step. For most guys. Sometimes you'd hop.


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[Assistant] Now guys go from double A to the majors all the time, but De Lauder only played six games of double A last year. So at least you could argue somewhat he should play some of double A. Because the competition


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[Assistant] I think if their pitching stays healthy, I do think the Guardians could possibly win a World Series. Uh, the Texas Rangers only made the Texas Rangers and the Diamondbacks both barely made the playoffs last year and they played each other in the World Series and the Rangers won.


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[Assistant] Now, part of the reason the Rangers won is because they made trades for pitchers late in the year, which the Guardians probably will not do. But the Guardians have a good pitching staff. If they stay healthy and perform, they'll have a chance. And unlike basketball, and to some degree football, in baseball, if you make the playoffs, you can win. Alright, Super Chats.


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[Assistant] You told me you're a huge NASCAR fan. You never talk about NASCAR.


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[Assistant] It was good. I heard that. It was a really good segment. Good job out of you for doing that. Thank you, thank you.


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[Assistant] We don't know if the Browns play well at home. They played well at home last season. That doesn't mean they'll play well at home this year.


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[Assistant] I've said all along, if that includes the fifth year option, then I'm only


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[Assistant] Slightly think it's an overpay. If it doesn't include the fifth year option, I think it's a way overpay. And you agree with me.


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[Assistant] I will see you on overtime for Ask the Show on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Peace!


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[Assistant] Alright, welcome on in to a very bizarre edition of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Uh, this has been a wacky morning. We have no idea where G. Bush is.


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[Assistant] And we were saying to you, park outside the building instead, because we all park in the garage. Right. But we were like, park outside, but you hung up, I don't, we don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. I got disconnected, yea, I was too pissed to call back.


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[Assistant] So, meanwhile, I gotta go with like two pillows behind my back because I'm getting these like Charlie horses in my stomach. Bull has PMS. I have PMS today.


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[Assistant] Right. And we still get freaked out every time he talks because of his ridiculously deep voice. And I don't have my wallet, I don't have my wallet.


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[Assistant] But I gotta go, uh, I'm meeting my wife a few blocks from here. She's got, we're buying soil for some, you know, she's putting a garden in. Wow. So I gotta go buy soil with my wife, but it's pretty close by. What a day. What a day, right? Well, we'll try to put it together and talk some sports. Eventually G. Bush will join us out of his stupor. I don't know what's happening, but.


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[Assistant] Miwa, Miwa, and throw in that there are three, uh, topics on today's show that Mike needed us to send information, like, Mike's, like, you gotta send us your Projected Guardians opening day lineup, your free agency plan, if you were Andrew Berry, and the one guy Andrew Berry's gotta get in free agency.


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[Assistant] You said it at 6.30 last night. Now, I'm usually reliable getting back to you. Jason's usually, I think, reliable getting it back. I cut it close, but I get it. You cut it close, but you always get it. Gee Bush is the least reliable guy on the show in terms of getting it back. So I, even for me, I was late cause I didn't respond till about eight this morning or something like that.


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[Assistant] Did you, when Mike called you, did he wake you up? No.


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[Assistant] Guys, I think it's pretty simple. It's just opening up cap space. I don't think we should read anything more into it.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess the one thing you might be able to read into it is, it doesn't seem like they're interested in an extension, or at the very least, they couldn't come to any kind of agreement on an extension, because if you were going to do that, you could have lowered the cap number that way by getting an extension. But in terms of him changing positions, no, I'll be surprised if he's not the left tackle. No, he's left tackle next year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't even realize you could, like, because, I didn't, I guess I didn't even think about his contract, G, because, because it was on the 50-year player option, I didn't even know you could.


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[Assistant] I think it makes sense, uh, obviously from a financial standpoint, now you, now the Browns have about 13 million in cap space and again can still potentially do things with the guys we talked about yesterday. But also, I, I didn't, I didn't,


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[Assistant] Like the idea at all, and I don't know if they were actually even thinking about this, of extending Jed Wills. I want to see him play the position one more time. I do think he played better right before he got hurt, but I think overall he's been a huge disappointment for a top, what, 15 pick, whatever he was.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to commit to him long term unless he clearly gets his game to another level this year.


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[Assistant] 12? Yeaah. Yeaah. And the cap is going to go up again next year, and they're going to restructure more deals next year.


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[Assistant] And need at least one offensive tackle in that situation. I wouldn't be surprised, by the way, even with all, it seems like depth, it would not surprise me at all if the Browns drafted in the middle rounds here some more offensive linemen this year. Never have enough. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Keep rotating them, I like it. You know, obviously they did well with Dewan Jones, they liked Luke Whippler who they drafted, what was he, 7th round pit?


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[Assistant] Sixth. Sixth? Sixth or so. So, it wouldn't surprise me if they dive into that pool again, Mike.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go to the bigger picture now. So yesterday we were talking about possible restructures and all these types of things, and we came to a number that we thought the Browns would have


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[Assistant] So here's why I got a big plan for the Browns in free agency. I got five players being added in free agency. Jonathan Grenard, we saw him against the Browns in the playoff game. This guy is a young up and coming star, I think, on the, on the defensive line. But because he hasn't proven it for more, really more than one year,


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[Assistant] I mean 17 million here is still a lot of money. It's not the top of the, the past rush market, but it's that next tier and I think that's a perfect spot for him. If I gotta go a little more, I'll go a little more. I think this guy's a special player and would finally


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[Assistant] B, the guy you could have for a couple of years at the other end with Miles Garrett. And then you got Agbo, uh, as the third guy. You're in great shape at defensive end if you add Grenard. Next is a guy I talked about a lot yesterday. We were talking about wide receivers. Marquise Brown.


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[Assistant] Two years, 24 million from Marquis Brown. I think he's somewhere, maybe even get him a little less than that. I'm not sure. I think he's in the 10 to 14 million range probably. I want two years, 24 million from Marquis Brown. I think wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Is the most important thing they gotta do this offseason of the guys that are available. I think Marquise Brown has the most upside and he's young and he's the youngest of the guys.


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[Assistant] Three, Tony Pollard. This is a change for me that we talked a little bit about Wednesday, G. I had not been in favor of the Browns going to free agency and running back, but I changed my mind on that because I'm, because I don't trust your own Ford, and I'm a little worried about Nick Chubb being back. So if I could spend five million a year


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[Assistant] Even if Nick Chubb's back, Tony Pollard is a perfect compliment for Nick Chubb. He's a great pass catcher, he's a better version of Jerome Ford, and I can get him five million a year, it's probably only guaranteed for one season. If I, and if Nick Chubb's great again, I can move on after next year. And then two smaller deals, veteran linebacker Devin White,


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[Assistant] I get, take him, he replaces Anthony Walker, I re-sign Taki Taki, and I bring in White to replace Walker, and then I go, I, I, I do need to address defensive tackle, but I've spent a lot of money here, so I go with a guy with some upside, off the Jets, Quentin Jefferson, a small two year deal from him, that I can get out after one year. So there you go, that's my, that's my breakdown.


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[Assistant] I did, I did go over the limit, and so mine will be unfairly, probably deeper than everybody else.


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[Assistant] But I, I, most of the guys I thought the Browns would re-sign, even though I wasn't considering it for this, I thought were kinda on the low end of the money. I don't think there's anybody to spend it big on that they're re-signing.


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[Assistant] I like your list. I think you did a good job here. Obviously I spent a lot more money on my list. You know, so obviously it's going to be a little better of a return because I spent more money. I like getting Grenard better than Chase Young only because Grenard's arrow is pointing up and Young's is...


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[Assistant] We don't know, but, but if you're gonna spend less money, I like where you went because at least there's a lot of upside with Young.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you might even be able to get them cheaper than that. We just- I would think that's the most you'd have to pay them.


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[Assistant] Wilkins is a tackle, right? Yes. I just can't see them spending huge money on a tackle.


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[Assistant] When they spent huge money on a tackle last year, that's 40 million a year for two defensive


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would just rather spend the bigger money on an end than a tackling. I get what you're saying than a tackling.


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[Assistant] The problem with Antonio Gibson is he was a wide receiver in college. He's, he really struggles at like pass pro. I get that. And so I'm not a fan of him. I like the rest of you list though. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] I think we're all, I think the bottom line is we're all on the same page. We all want, think they need a receiver. We all think they...


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[Assistant] You know, there's a lot of interesting veteran tight ends that you could probably get for very little money out there. But can they play backup quarterback?


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[Assistant] There's, uh, there's no trade out of left field that we're not expecting from wide receiver. To me the only guys


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[Assistant] Like, to me, it's gotta be one of Ridley, Brown, and Williams. I think it's gotta be one of those guys. Anybody, I know there's some people that like Gabe Davis also and would put him with that group. I don't like him that much. I don't either, but if he was the last resort, I'd take him. Yea, but I guess he's better than what they got, but. Who? Gabe Davis. Gabe Davis.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 2022, he was, what were his numbers in 2022, Mooney? 21 was his big year. Oh, 21? Yeah. He's done nothing the last couple of years. I would throw up. That would be disappointing if that's the case.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's done nothing the last. Now, they haven't had particularly good quarterback play, and I want Marquise Brown. He's only had 1,000 yard season. Elijah Moore did nothing. This place went nuts. Not this place.


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[Assistant] You know, listen, I, I, it's, again, it's better than nothing. I think he's better than Elijah Moore, but I don't feel great if that's their best guy they had.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he has a, it's like once a month he has a big game. Twelve games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I get it. It could end up that Gabe Davis or Mooney end up being the best guy they bring in. Again, I think they're both better than Elijah Moore in my opinion, but...


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[Assistant] Now in fairness, those numbers would not be as high for the Browns, because the Browns, remember, the cap, whenever you,


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[Assistant] Mike brought up this topic, this next topic here, uh, on the last day or two, and he said, man, it seems like there's more talk about the backup quarterback here in this situation with Joe Flacco than I ever remember anywhere, wherever he's been.


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[Assistant] And I said, well we've been talking about outside of the Baker years until the last year of Baker.


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[Assistant] I said, I think we've been talking about the backup quarterback every year. It's always been a conversation, but Jason, you disagree with me. Yeah, I disagree. I hear what Mike.


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[Assistant] I think it's unique for the Browns at least in terms of what should you do in terms of signing that guy. We've had plenty of conversations when Johnny Manziel got drafted. When should he play? When should he play? When Baker Mayfield got drafted. Remember Tyrod Taylor started those first two games and then he got hurt?


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[Assistant] So, those conversations have been had, but okay, if you're taking it from this angle of, how much money should they spend on the backup? Who should that backup be? That is something that, no, we have not had that conversation, but this is a unique situation. The Browns spent a ton of draft capital and a ton of money


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[Assistant] On a quarterback that they thought finally solved their problem at the position. And to this point through two years...


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[Assistant] We're now hoping that he has solved the problem at the position, but we don't know that he has solved the problem at the position. And that, and the fact that he got hurt last year,


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[Assistant] And the fact that, as you said, Flacco played as well as he did. Those three things have combined to create a pretty unique situation here. Where, because the Browns won games with Joe Flacco, I think the assumption is, like,


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[Assistant] But when Watson got hurt last year, the Browns continued to play very well. Now we could argue that, well in the end, they lost in the playoffs because they didn't have a good enough quarterback. You could argue that.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I still think there's a feeling that if Watson got hurt again, Flacco could win games for us in the playoffs potentially.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's true or not, but if you believe that, then certainly it's, or whether it's Flacco or anybody else, then it is an important decision.


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[Assistant] And I'm, I'm pretty sure that in the last four years


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[Assistant] That was two years ago. No, they lost in the first round. That was the first round? Okay. Yeah. Thigpen, right? Wasn't Thigpen the starter?


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[Assistant] So last, think about it, last year. That was a long time ago.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm saying less than four years. Uh, last year, the only backups that started the playoff game were Flacco and Webster from the Steelers, and they both lost. Uh, the year before that, they were a couple, but they all lost except for Purdy. And now Purdy's a starter.


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[Assistant] I mean, out, Joe, uh, Nick Foles is the only backup to make a run in the playoffs that was a career backup that, for a while, that I can think of.


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[Assistant] Perdias clearly shouldn't have been a backup. He should have been the starter. You know, and now he is.


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[Assistant] That's where it matters. That's where it matters. That's where it matters. If it, if it's not really about, I think it's more about if my quarterback misses a month of the season, not if he misses the whole season in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] If it's, hey, the AFC is so loaded, could be the difference between the two-seat and the four-seat. Two weeks. He, he has a two-week ham, whatever, hamstring ankle.


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[Assistant] We don't know yet. I would be in the end okay if they went with DTR. I didn't celebrate Josh Dobbs being traded, nor did I rip the Browns for not signing somebody initially.


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[Assistant] But once Deshaun got hurt, my only criticism of the Browns last year is they should have signed Flacco earlier. Once Watson had the first injury, they should have done something. But that's old news at this point.


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[Assistant] If you had to, I would take the veteran linebacker over.


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[Assistant] It'll be the first Cavs game I can legally watch in my house, uh, tonight since I got FuboTV.


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[Assistant] For the first half of the season, I was like, call me for the playoffs, call me for the playoffs, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. And then I got interest, more interested as they played better, but I was still like, eh, whatever. And the Dallas game was exciting at the end, and obviously the Boston game was really exciting at the end.


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[Assistant] They've been overall for much of their history and franchise. Terrible. Terrible.


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[Assistant] And so it's weird to see them as the number one scene. Are you excited about this game, G?


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[Assistant] Trying to get inside your head about if it's surprisingly low or surprisingly high. I'm gonna say seven.


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[Assistant] You're not locked into the Pelicans? What's the matter with you? You guys own some basketball? Would you trade it for Evan Mobley? No.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And are we just doing it, like, in the last ten? You can do every one, every one.


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[Assistant] Right, Josh Gordon is certainly a huge one. I didn't even have him on the list.


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[Assistant] That's how many there are. Yeah, I mean, they're so ridiculous. For me, I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I've admitted it many times. I thought Brandon Whedon was going to be a good player. Obviously I was wrong, so Brandon Whedon should be on the list, no doubt about it. Corey Coleman, Justin Gilbert. Although I don't know that I thought Corey Coleman was going to be that good.


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[Assistant] From a baseball perspective, uhm, you'd have to say Matt Laporta, right? That was a big deal when they traded for Matt Laporta.


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[Assistant] And I would say Swisher and Bourne. Like that year we were all excited. I know I was excited. I thought they'd both be really good here. They were both total disasters. So that's some of the guys on my list. Gene, you got some guys? I got a strange one.


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[Assistant] I took plenty of L's in my predictions. One of my biggest W's was when the Browns traded Trent Richardson for a first round pick. Dustin and I were on the air. We were at a bar and he and I were like high five and we thought it was the greatest trade by the Browns and 90% of the fans thought it was awful. Really? Yes.


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[Assistant] I think that was, they didn't, whoever they used it on, it didn't turn out to be a good player. Uh, Dwayne Bowe, by the way, another one, uh, when it comes to, there was some hype when he came in and excitement. Go ahead, Jason. Who have we left out?


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[Assistant] He was. He was. Cause Puig was just a rental, but Puig's career just went down the toilet after that. Larry Hughes.


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[Assistant] I can't wear the glasses, I'm gonna get a headache. Am I that blind? Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Only Anthony Lima. Lima loved him. He loved Anthony Bennett. That's right. Nobody else was excited about Anthony.


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[Assistant] But yes, and that's a separate category of what could have been, guys who got hurt or died or, you know.


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[Assistant] Didn't have the... I mean, I thought, we thought he'd be better than he was, but... Yes.


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[Assistant] The biggest what if ever was the fact that they had a deal for Pedro Martinez. Yea, and they didn't want to trade Jarrett, right?


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[Assistant] I remember that trade happened. We were, Dustin and I were at Brown's training camp and I started screaming like a mad man about the trade. That's right. I wrote the night it happened.


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[Assistant] Well, you could think of what might have been the trip, you know, the guys they got rid of, as we've talked about, like Nolan Jones and Kamenera. By the way. And the last two.


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[Assistant] I work with these people. By the way, maybe you guys know this, I have never talked about this and I didn't know this until recently and I read it a couple of weeks ago and then I forgot about it again until we had this subject.


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[Assistant] But apparently, the Herschel-Walker trade, between the Cowboys and the Vikings, before that happened, the Browns had a deal done.


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[Assistant] For Herschel Walker. I don't think I ever heard that. I read that recently. It was a done deal. Herschel Walker was being traded to the Browns. Not as big a package as they ended up getting, but for a massive haul of draft picks.


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[Assistant] The GM of, uh, the Cowboys, who was it? Was it, was it Jerry Jones at the time? No.


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[Assistant] Whoever it was, the GM said, you know, if the Browns are willing to give up this much, let's see if we can go to some other teams and stir up more interest. And within 24 hours, the Vikings offered more and the deal was done. But according to this thing I read, I don't remember where I read it, but.


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[Assistant] But it was such a long story that why would somebody make that up all these years later?


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[Assistant] I mean, the Browns, if he plays great the next three years, the Browns will want to keep him. They'll probably try to extend him and, you know, that would be great. But no, he's not going to feel any kind of loyalty, I'm sure. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. We're not him. I can't say for sure, but.


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[Assistant] No, cause he's still, if he plays great for three years, he's still only 32, 33. He'd have like a Kirk Cousins type of market, which is going to be decent. I think, you know, go ahead.


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[Assistant] So who ultimately are the core four in this? I think it's gotta be Odell. I think Odell, Johnny Manziel. Yeah, that's a good one. I mean. Swisher? I think Swisher could be on there.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Yeah. Swisher slash Bourne. And then who's the last guy? Josh Gordon? But Gordon didn't have the hype coming in, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Do that. But when you, anytime you get up in that public eye, you can't be asking people to be quiet or could you guys sit down and you're sitting in the student section. Right. I don't understand.


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[Assistant] Well, I do have two stories. By the way, I went and, uh, I think Earl hyped me up for this one. I took my parents to Sweet Port Wilson's. Oh, you did.


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[Assistant] Did he say Earl was there? I said, oh hell no. They went, they crept up in here without me. So I go in there. It was better than I remembered.


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[Assistant] Green's was crazy. Sweet Port Wilson's. I'll tell you what, if you want a great experience, go down there.


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[Assistant] Earl didn't come the day we went. He didn't, but he came back and he said Earl was here. And I got one more thing, shout out to, uh, my brother's occupational therapist. My brother's having a little trouble, you know, so he's, my brother's actually learning how to walk again.


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[Assistant] Which brother? My middle brother. Oh wow. So he had a lot, he had a back injury.


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[Assistant] He's just howling. Bro, this dude. I said, oh, he hit one of them. I said, oh, no, listen, he, listen, he act like, he act like he knew that was going in. He shot that second one. I said, oh, listen, he might get hot like shrew still. He, by the time he hit the third one.


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[Assistant] It was NBA Jams. It was, I got the NBA Jams tournament edition on RK coming to the house. And it was like, he's on fire! And then all of a sudden...


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[Assistant] He comes out of nowhere with the put back dunk. I said, no, he's having the best year of his freaking life. His brothers are in the stands, the Kelsey brothers.


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[Assistant] Atlanta just beat the Knicks by 16. Talk about this though, I, you know, I can't, I can't, you can't talk out of both sides of your mouth, right? It's very easy to do, but it's sort of a faux pas. I don't like hypocrisy, right? This was a terrible loss for the Celtics.


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[Assistant] The Celtics have been looking like they were the team to beat. If you go look and see how they emasculated the Golden State Warriors and Steve Kerr, they've been putting people out of their misery early. They blew the Knicks out in New York.


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[Assistant] Now they come into this game. They are full strength. They got Przingos back. They're ready to go. They were dominating this game. How many have they won in a row?


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[Assistant] Yes, they are. So when I go back and I examine as they say, I say, okay, well, the Cavs lost to the Knicks and the Knicks had four starters out.


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[Assistant] It just goes to show you, uh, I still don't like getting embarrassed. I still don't like getting blown out.


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[Assistant] But in the game of basketball, yes, there are some things that could happen that are like from night to night. You're like, whoa, how did that happen?


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[Assistant] See, it's gonna take some heart, and it's gonna take some foresight by JB. I don't know, uh, if he, if he has the heart to do it. One of them gotta come off the bench. See, I disagree with that part of it.


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[Assistant] Well here's the thing, I don't think they could both be on the floor for major minutes at a time. Right? Because when you look at it,


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[Assistant] This just, just so happens that you have a complete sample size. You're watching the beginning of that game. I don't even know who this guy was. I thought it was Tyler Zeller or something.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, he was looking like one of Shredder's foot soldiers. I'm like, where this foot soldier coming from? He blocked everything moving. Darius Garland, get that out of here. Evan Mobley, he was blocking shots back to back to back. And I noticed, I'm like, how is he getting to all these? He was like, well,


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[Assistant] Well, Evan Mobley and Jared Allen are four feet away from each other.


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[Assistant] And neither one of them is comfortable shooting the 15 to 17 foot jumper consistently. And that's a bad shot now.


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[Assistant] They're letting him have it. And whenever Mobley would get the ball around the arc, he's not even comfortable putting the ball on the ground that many dribbles, right? It's just, he does to me, and I just, I've come to it, I don't know why we were fooled, maybe we, you don't just get,


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[Assistant] Presence and awareness and, and, and awareness in space.


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[Assistant] He does, to me, does not have the athleticism to play those positions. When you look at Wimby, when he does his Euro step, when he's crossing over, when he spins through, when he comes off the pick,


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[Assistant] He's comfortable with it. Whenever Mobley's got the ball in his hands, he's stinking. Alright, well where do I get this ball to? He doesn't have the skill set to take the ball.


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[Assistant] From the three point line, pump fake, and take seven dribbles. Two, three dribbles. He just don't have to, he just don't have it. So you have to ask yourself, what's the best way to incorporate him? Well, obviously for me, it's splitting the two apart. Now, if you want Evan Mobley to be the unicorn,


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[Assistant] Garland, and you still gotta split, uh, Donovan Mitchell. Now you can have them start the game and have them finish the game. I'll agree with Mike, I'll take Darius Garland at the end.


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[Assistant] But for me, I think that this is going to show you in this next stretch for the two weeks, two, three weeks, Evan Mobley is out before the playoffs. You're going to see the Cavs get back to what the Cavs were doing before, and they're a lot better.


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[Assistant] Today, yes I do. And here's because I don't know many teams that have this. The Cavs have shown that they got three or four dudes that can hit ten threes. Struce has hit seven, eight threes. Dean Wade has hit seven threes.


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[Assistant] You look at, uh, uh, not only him. Meryl. Meryl can hit 10 threes. Uh, uh, George Neyanga's gotten hot and had 30.


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[Assistant] He's, the last, yeaah, I'd say six, seven games, he's been really distributing the ball and playback and creating and all those things. I actually like it. Uh, I would give, I would give Donovan Mitchell mad games off. I don't care if he comes back in 15 games, whatever. And then still, now we can get Darius Scarlett. Let's see if we can get him to move the basketball.


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[Assistant] You gotta look at it from a strategic standpoint. This is a Game of Thrones move.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you could be the hand of the king and that turned out very well because you called it a shot because you perceive that you got a king that needs your help that's like 12 years old and you're like, I'm really the king by default. I'm really that guy over time.


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[Assistant] I'm really that guy over Joffrey until he got old and direct. Joffrey was such a piece of crap. Worst character ever. See, this is why you watch this show because you get those little references.


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[Assistant] He came in, he's beloved in the city now, he's the comeback player of the year.


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[Assistant] He's comfortable with the people in the locker room. They're gonna give him a bag.


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[Assistant] Right? They're gonna give him a bag. He's played games. And, let's just be clear about it. He's backing up a guy.


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[Assistant] He's throwing the ball, but who knows what happens with that. Has not particularly played well in the last two to three years. And you feel like...


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[Assistant] The Browns are already going to upgrade the offense. They're already upgrading the receivers. They're going to get a bunch of stuff ready for the, then you got Chubb coming back? He's like, listen, if something happened or he don't play well,


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[Assistant] I think D'Anthony Bell brought it up. He said, man, look, I said, what do you say when people say, you know, you've got controversies in the locker room and all this good stuff and who should start it, who should play and then so-and-so got in trouble. He said, man, I'm just trying to not go back to the hood. That's it.


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[Assistant] The crazy thing about it. Flacavelli is like...


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[Assistant] I love it from, from this competitive standpoint. I love the fact that next year, I thought it was, I thought it was an error when you say, okay, we got DTR.


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[Assistant] And he's a rookie, you're not going to be pressed by no rookie.


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[Assistant] Like you're not going to be. And last year for the first couple first few years,


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[Assistant] The goal was not to press to Sean Watson. It was, ay, let's get him acclimated.


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[Assistant] But we right here are three, four years. I think there's nothing more, more impressive and there's nothing more different from having a brand new coach, because that brand new coach don't know you from nobody, right? So he just coached, he learned about everybody from day one. A brand new offense.


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[Assistant] And you're playing against a guy that is not a rookie or a young dude. You're playing against a veteran. So when they in there going X, Y, Z, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Joe Flacco in there like, ah, yeah, we used to run a variation of that in different. We used to run a variation. So what you're saying is this is X2C Jet 34C.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, same thing. And Dajon in there, and Dajon is very smart. He'll pick it up quickly too. But I love the idea of Joe Flacco coming out.


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[Assistant] And Deshaun said, that's a nice ball. He threw a nice one.


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[Assistant] Every throw now has something on it. Now, Deshaun gotta lock in and say, listen, I got a dude underneath me.


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[Assistant] That is, that is a bona fide thrower to football. So I gotta lock in. It ain't gonna be no like every game, every practice is competition. And I think Deshaun needs to have that competition to bring back that fire because he's not gonna just go out there. He, DTR and PJ Walker ain't behind him. This is Flacco with a ring.


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[Assistant] And even though he's not no crazy threat, like he's not gonna, he's gonna do it in a professional way. He's not gonna rock the boat. Flackle understands he's been a backup and a starter in this league. He's been out of the league before, so he knows what the role is.


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[Assistant] The thing I like best is the fact that it's going to push him and it gives the Cleveland Browns the best chance to win in the event that Deshaun Watson goes down. Because if you ask the team, they like Jacobi Brissette.


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[Assistant] But listen, that's why I threw that in the chat. We were talking the other day, I said, listen, I feel very comfortable with Flacco winning me some football games. If you got a chub, that's 90 to 95 percent.


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[Assistant] You go out and get a free agent receiver, get somebody in the draft, and then get you another stud up front. Now we can let the defense shine, but still, he's gonna benefit from the, cause Joe Flacco can get the football in different places in the field that Jacoby presented.


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[Assistant] Who would have thought, McNuggets, that Joe Flacco would be under Project Stockpile?


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[Assistant] I think more, more now than ever, I'm starting to look at that number two pick over, pick number 54.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they don't have one. That's why that pick would have to come with somebody else or a potential another pick to get another guy. Now look, look, uhm, it's a little alarming.


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[Assistant] You know, it basically just takes off. It's like playing a Powerball, right? You know, you excited the night before, didn't Powerball number come out, and you don't got the winning numbers.


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[Assistant] You're like, ah, I wasn't going to win anyway. T Higgins was all, you know, the Bengals was not going to let that go down. Pittman and then Mike Evans looked like he would got there, but.


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[Assistant] I always say that's far-fetched. To me, the realistic guys was, uh, the Hollywood Browns. The realistic guy is Gabe Davis. And I don't know, I don't even think if Stefan Diggs is really a guy that's realistic. I mean, if you're talking about...


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[Assistant] Because I, because here's what I would do. I would just move either, I'm either moving Conklin, Dewan Jones, or a lot of injuries.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb cares about championships. That's the only thing he talking about right now. And he done seen his mortality. When you have multiple knee injuries, right? He's probably telling them chomping at his best years was with Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] His best years was take these carries so I could get me about 260 carries and do my Nick Chubb thing and get these boys up out of here. He's telling them. Look.


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[Assistant] The guy that they, the guy that I would love to jump up and down is Saquon Barkley. And then there's the medium guy in Josh Jacobs. Now, I want Earl's comment. Earl, who was your guy?


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[Assistant] What happens, what happens if we're assuming here, what happens if Nick Chubb is just a 1B?


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[Assistant] As a running team, when they are healthy.


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[Assistant] Up front, they are one of the best running teams in the game. Period.


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[Assistant] And I think you put him behind a Deshaun Watson that can do a bunch of things with an increased wide receiver position when you got guys that are deep vertical threats and then Joku.


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[Assistant] I, I just think he, he set up for having one or two, for me.


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[Assistant] I want people that is going to buy in when I tell them this is Operation Stockpile and say listen, you might not get all you're going to get, but when you get the ball, you're going to be wide open.


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[Assistant] Take a look at what the dramatic drop in passing yards are. When you go from week 17 to that first week, people ain't throwing for 300 yards, man. Like, guys, you know, the Baltimore Ravens couldn't even throw for 200, 300. Patrick Mahomes wasn't throwing for 300, but what they can do is, if you want to beat Kansas City,


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[Assistant] You gotta pound out them third downs. I need them to be on the field a while and moving the ball down the field and two good running backs is better.


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[Assistant] Interesting skillset. I would, and I would not even have him be a kicker. I would put him back and I'd have a punter to punt.


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[Assistant] Like, take the kicker out, make him a punter. So now, if you want to put him five yards apart,


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[Assistant] He punched the ball really high in the air, and you can't move until the ball hits the ground. Right.


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[Assistant] So think about the odds of this. Okay, if you're a punter, you punt the ball, you sky punt it, right? It lands right in between somebody, hits the ground.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine the melee? You don't know if it's gonna bounce backwards, leftwards. Like, it'd be crazy. Like, that would be the best way.


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[Assistant] They take, they take punts out too. Like, punts is like, you can't hit the, the long snapper makes every tackle. You can't hit him. Like, he's uncovered, like, so he makes the tackle. It's like, punts, they used to be a major part of, of special teams. When people say, special teams wins again. Now, now you're not doing that.


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[Assistant] If you are, this is, if you out there and you got a son and, and you know, you like, he likes sports but he may not have the size, athleticism to play with.


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[Assistant] Send him to a college camp, right, in summer. Michigan, Ohio State, Florida, say wherever it's gonna be.


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[Assistant] They, they give out and if he's there and is able to long snap, he's going to get on the board.


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[Assistant] They just go by themselves. Like they're just like the punter, the kicker, the long snapper. They're in really good shape because they just run.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Alright Anthony, what do you got for us? We're going to switch it up.


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[Assistant] So does that mean technically, would you agree with this then?


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[Assistant] Because baseball is a more popular sport than football in the world, that baseball is the second most popular sport after soccer? Basketball, I don't get it.


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[Assistant] A lot of us really care, but uhm. Because I thought about it, like, you know, in Japan and South Korea, I mean, they're.


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[Assistant] You can tell he's frustrated. It just frustrates him a little bit. Sure. Uhm, and he says, well, he doesn't have any, you know, really good ideas for it. I've always thought that, you know, if there's one or two ways you can get players, you can either resign the guys you got, make trades or, or draft players.


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[Assistant] If, if you're going to not have the same amount of payroll, you want to make things even, you know, more equality and more even across the planning spectrum.


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[Assistant] What about giving, you know, those teams who are under a certain threshold of payroll?


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[Assistant] More picks. Like, more draft picks. Like, you know.


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[Assistant] Obviously, that will give you a better chance at creating and finding guys, because he talked about hit or miss. Like, if we sign a guy and he turns out to be a mistake, then we got two or three years to deal with it.


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[Assistant] Why don't they come up with a revenue sharing system that rewards teams like the Guardians


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[Assistant] If you, if you had a revenue sharing system where it says, okay, the guardians made it to the World Series.


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[Assistant] They get this, uh, uh, absorbent amount of this pie, pie, and be like, hey, this is your reward, and now next year you can spend that money.


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[Assistant] They should have something where you, because the incentive is, hey, if you run correctly,


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[Assistant] We want to make sure that teams that are run correctly and are competitive and bring more money to the market, they should be rewarded with something that they can then invest.


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[Assistant] I would, listen, they don't got nothing to lose. I'd put them out there.


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[Assistant] This is why all those great players that come from Japan or wherever they come that are studs, they don't want these studs going to these small market teams. Cause they small minded. Like, look, we can show here a tiny bit like, nope, he's not pitching.


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[Assistant] I don't get it, like, like, you have, we always talk about these prospects, we always talk about them, and then,


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[Assistant] And I have a really strange baseball question too that I was pondering in my head. Why can't, is it possible


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[Assistant] To teach a pitcher to be left handed thrower and a right handed thrower.


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[Assistant] If, say for instance, you were a left hand pitcher and you could throw the ball almost 100 miles an hour with each hand. It's happened, G. There's been a guy.


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[Assistant] He would have to be, so before he would get 300, 400 million.


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[Assistant] Do you think now, think about it, he could throw theoretically, without getting any arm damage, he could throw 140 pitches.


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[Assistant] Cause I had that same parlay- He's funny. He's funny. With Ty- Tyrese Halliburton who I- How are you- How is that possible? What happened?


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[Assistant] And you missed a free throw. No defense. And you missed a free throw. You gotta hit that second free throw. But listen, I would just like to see swing, swing. Listen, hey, if you ain't got, hey, Darius, you dribbled the ball three times, you ain't got it. Swing it. You get it back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they got DTR last year that I wouldn't waste no time. But Joe Milton, by the way, he's, uh...


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[Assistant] I mean, he's like, he's one of those quarterbacks now. You know, he had a great opportunity in Michigan. He was supposed to be the guy in Michigan, flamed out there. He lost the kind of job a little bit to the one kid that was playing last year at Tennessee. Nico Iamamelele, whatever his name is.


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[Assistant] They cheatin' by the way too. That COVID year, everybody 28 coming into the league. Listen, AIR 29 year, I'm like dang, how long do you play?


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[Assistant] Also, we also got D'Anthony Bell coming into the studio today, which is going to be awesome. He'll be joining us right around 12. I think it'll be the first time a current Brown has joined us in studio. So make sure y'all stay strapped for that. But we're going to spend plenty of time on the Cavs, as you just mentioned. G, but first a quick word from fans that you can get buckets like Max Struse.


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[Assistant] For a win game, or winning game on a shot like that from Max Drews last night.


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[Assistant] It wasn't, it wasn't just the buzzer beater from Struz. In the fourth quarter, he went 5 for 5 from deep, the Cavs were down 10, Struz went back to back from deep.


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[Assistant] The Mavs answered, they come back down. Strews two more threes before the game winner guys. 15 points in the final five minutes of that fourth quarter in the win for the Cavs.


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[Assistant] Going back through all your memories of watching the Cleveland Cavaliers play basketball, where do you think Max Drews' 15 point outburst in the final few minutes of the game, including the game winner from 60 feet?


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[Assistant] What is that rank among some of the craziest all time individual accomplishments in a single quarter you've ever seen from a cab?


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[Assistant] The replay of it again, my issue was, why is Mobley your trigger guy? You got a bunch of really good bashes on this team. Evan Mobley is capable of doing it for sure.


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[Assistant] Making a make or break play with no more timeouts by the way. And I know there were some people asking, why isn't Donovan on the court? Well, they took him out for that defensive possession.


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[Assistant] And then obviously it worked out in their favor, but he was not on the court because JB opted to go with a more defensive lineup. He had both Bigs in, O'Coro, Strauss, and uh, who was the last person in on that play?


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[Assistant] It worked out, so whatever, but I didn't love the idea that Mowgli was the trigger guy, but I'm not going to let that decision override what we witnessed last night, which was an all time great performance in a three minute stretch by Mesh.


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[Assistant] Vanduul, an official sports book partner of the NBA, an official partner of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show as well. And we started the show today with Tim Alcorn's call of Max Drews, the 60 foot game winner. And now we are lucky enough to be joined by the Cavs play-by-play guy himself, Tim Alcorn from Chicago, where the Cavs are getting ready to take on the Bulls tonight. But Tim, I'll start with this.


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[Assistant] And all the history of calls you've made, where did last night's rank among some of the craziest things you've seen in person?


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[Assistant] Always great talking to Tim. The Cavs had their post game locker room access and they were on the plane about 30 minutes later. So I know they, uh, are still waking up this morning, but it looked like Tim may have been enjoying the festivities with the rest of the team afterwards. And we always appreciate Tim for coming on. He was in studio with us last time, but always good to get him on after a impressive call like that. Oh, you got one more thought for, move on to Denzel Ward.


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[Assistant] Oh, you're in luck, here's why. Because last night on the ultimate cap show, Jason and I discussed what's fair criticism of Darius Garland and what's not fair. What the truth of the situation, and this is before last night's game, and what was kind of premature overreaction. So if you want to see


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[Assistant] In my opinion, what Jason's opinion, what was fair and unfair criticism of Darius Garland, you can go find that out on the Ultimate Cav Show.


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[Assistant] Maybe live, maybe tape, but tomorrow 5 o'clock, Earl The Pearl Ultimate 216 show. Also for the record, Earl, that picture is in the liked headshot folder. So you and Anthony got a discussion.


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[Assistant] About that. Speaking of discussions, Andrew Berry and Denzel Ward had a discussion. They came to an agreement on a restructured contract this morning, opening up about 11 and a half million dollars in cap space for the Browns. So in just one move.


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[Assistant] Guys in one swift move, the Browns are under the salary cap. Do you guys think this is the first of many to come? Or is this just a one thing, one off move from Andrew Berry who continues to prove he kind of knows what he's doing with the cap.


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[Assistant] Tyvis, we could ask D'Anthony Bell about that home road split coming up in about 15 minutes. He just texted me, said he's on his way in, so we will have D'Anthony Bell here in studio.


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[Assistant] of the NBA. Andrew Berry spoke yesterday to the media. Kevin Stefanski will speak today after our show. So we'll react to his comments yesterday, but we're going to kind of dissect and talk about a few of the main things Andrew Berry spoke about yesterday. And the first one is about.


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[Assistant] When asked about Nick Chubb, Andrew Berry called him a one in a million, potentially a one in a billion type player, but said he will not give us an update on any contract negotiations or updates on Nick Chubb's future with the Browns. So my question for you guys today is, after hearing Andrew Berry speak about Nick Chubb,


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[Assistant] Are you still 100% confident the Browns and Chubb


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[Assistant] We'll be able to come to some sort of restructured agreement or contract extension this offseason.


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[Assistant] He got his bread. Also something to keep in mind here, uh, a lot of these deals will be negotiated down the road when they know exactly how much space and how much money they want to spend. So if it doesn't happen soon, doesn't mean it will not happen. I think we're all in agreement. Nick Chubb will be a Cleveland Brown.


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[Assistant] Talked about Deshaun Watson and his progress getting ready for the 2024 season. He confirmed Mary Kay's report from last month that Deshaun Watson will begin throwing next month.


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[Assistant] It is no word yet if he'll be 100% ready for the season, what the timeline looks like, but we do know he is recovering successful surgery and we'll begin his throwing process next month. Tyvis G Earl.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like April to the start of OTAs is enough time for Deshaun Watson recovering from the shoulder surgery to get back to 100% health? And this is pure speculation because none of us truly know. But do you think that's enough time for the injury he sustained to get back to 100%?


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[Assistant] Alright, next one up here guys, Andrew Berry proposed.


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[Assistant] A new rule to the NFL that in my opinion makes too much sense for the NFL to implement it. Andrew Berry wants the NFL to push back the trade deadline by two weeks. So do you think this idea of pushing the trade deadline back two weeks is a good idea and should the NFL implement it? Tyvis, let's start with you.


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[Assistant] Well, it also makes sense too, because if you push it back two weeks, A, you find out who's a true contender and who's not halfway through the season, and it also allows more teams to understand, Hey, we probably aren't going to make the playoffs, so we're not as good as we thought.


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[Assistant] Let's try to sell some assets to recoup and start building for the future. But at week eight, I guess it's technically in week nine divas, like I said, cause it's after the eighth game or eighth week, but.


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[Assistant] You don't know what you are at that point. I mean, at the midpoint of the season, the Browns, Joe Flacco wouldn't play a snap for the Browns yet.


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[Assistant] When you don't exactly know kind of what you're going to get to, you push it back two weeks. It just gives you some more clarity on what you are and what your end of the season goals could be, whether it's higher than you anticipated or lower to give you a little more certainty on what you're going to be buying or a seller.


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[Assistant] He might be the best fourth quarterback in football. Great fourth quarterback acquisition. Practice squad, God.


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[Assistant] I just got word D'Anthony Bell has parked and should be down here in five minutes. So let's get to one more question guys. The Browns announced they will be holding joint practices with the Vikings this summer.


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[Assistant] Because they're not holding a joint practice with Philadelphia again. Does this confirm that Cleveland will open the season in Brazil against those Philadelphia Eagles?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got a couple. D'Anthony, I don't know how long you said you were gonna stop by. You can stay as long as you want, man. As long as you want. You're more than welcome to kick it with us. But I got a couple questions for you real quick. De'Quel Jackson is a friend of the program.


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[Assistant] But, uh, DeQuel is an awesome guy. I told you, you were coming on the show today and he described you as a hard hat worker, awesome dude. You guys are going to love him. And so far he has been a hundred percent accurate. How would you describe DeQuel's contributions as his first year as a coach, helper, whatever his official title was to the Brown staff last year? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the last hour, actually right before you got here, uh, D'Anthony, the NFLPA released its player survey, which was an anonymous survey. I don't know if you participated in it. They said about 75 players on each team voted on different things from treatment of facilities, food criteria, locker room, training staff, all the above.


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[Assistant] And they've spoken the highest of words about Kevin Stefanski as a head coach. But, and, and this is just the anonymous player survey.


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[Assistant] He came in as a 28th ranked coach on this player survey. I'm just a little bit surprised from hearing how highly the Browns players talked about the fancy. He got a B minus, so it's not like he, you know, graded an F or anything. Right. Are you surprised? And like I said, this is completely conjecture. It's based on every teammate votes individually, but.


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[Assistant] He came in 28th out of 32 on player vote for how much his guys liked him.


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[Assistant] How much time and preparation do you guys put into an outfit each week? It's not like the NBA where there's 82 games. It's not Major League Baseball, but there's 162. Only 17 in football. So how much time and preparation goes into the pregame fit?


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[Assistant] There's some rumors that the Browns could open up the season in Brazil against Philadelphia. If it was up to you, if the NFL said, D'Anthony, it's your choice. Do you want to play in Brazil week one? Your answer would be.


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[Assistant] So this is, you can take this back to Jim Schwartz if you want. I'll fully give you credit, but I think the way to stop the tush push is you got to sneak a knife into one of your defensive tackles. Any one of the defensive tackles can have a knife. And then if they want to do a tush push, go ahead, but you might get shanked. It's the give and take. The give and take of doing a push push.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, D'Anthony, by the way, everyone in the comments says you're more than welcome back whenever you want. We have that open invite. So if you ever want to come back, talk some, follow us, you are more than welcome. Let's get to it. How many people saw by my cuffs? Stop playing around.


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[Assistant] I truly appreciate the realness of all you guys. D'Anthony's a great guest, all about the land.