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[Assistant] I almost think for D tackle, I would, I'm fine with trade, but I don't want to do it through the draft anymore because we've proven that we're getting two seconds when we do it that way.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's had great success with interior defensive lineman. So, from that standpoint, he's got a great track record there. Now, he's had much better talent to work with. Sure. And Domic and Sue, he didn't need much coaching up. Uh, nor did any of the other pro bowl talent that he has coached on the inside of the defensive line.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about the coaches because I was somewhat surprised to see that instead of going out and hiring an additional quarterbacks coach,


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[Assistant] They just added that duty to offensive coordinator Alex van Pelt. Is that?


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[Assistant] Bill Musgrave. Bill Musgrave. But what was the title? He's an analyst.


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[Assistant] Those are always interesting to me because it's typically when you want to bring a guy in and have his brain, but you don't want to rattle everybody on the staff and give them a whistle. So I don't know exactly how that's going to work.


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[Assistant] As to how it's supposed to work in theory. Theoretically, yes. So we talked about the situation in Tennessee where Schwartz was brought in. It was the exact same situation. They had a young defensive coordinator who needed help.


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[Assistant] So what did they do? They brought in Schwartz as an advisor, and though he wasn't on the field every day during practice, he was the eye in the sky that was helping formulate the defensive strategy.


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[Assistant] And I'm sure he was a threat there to the young DC. And now that he's gone and here in Cleveland, now the young DC can spread his wings and fly. I wonder if that's what's going on here with Musgrave in the office.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right. You're right. And you've seen it in pro sports. You're right. We've seen it in this business and


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[Assistant] Freddy? No, who was the OC? You just mentioned him. Todd Haley. Yeah, Haley. You had Todd Haley and Greg Williams picking over the live carcass of Hugh Jackson while he's still there. They were fighting to see, well, is it going to be, am I going to get the job or are you going to get the job? There was a time where they were fighting in practice, the two of them.


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[Assistant] That was it. That wasn't a joint workout. That was a boxing match. Indy just didn't know about it when it started.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're thrilled right now to bring in, really, when you think about it, one of the most successful Cleveland Browns in team history. I mean, what's the idea of football? To score points, right? Nobody did that more than Phil Dawson.


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[Assistant] There were no skill position players. He's too good and too valuable to move. Fans love him. The problem with the Browns is we all have this. We have 45 jerseys in our closet that we wore for one year.


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[Assistant] He was. Now he's the head coach of, uh, it's a high school in, in Texas, right? In Texas, correct.


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[Assistant] There he is! Great build off. No U-turns, no U-turns here. How are you, Phil? Great to see you, man.


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[Assistant] But hey, one of the things that we've talked about for the last four months on the show is it's, the, the, the sport is football. Whether anyone likes it or not.


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[Assistant] Kicking decides a large percentage of the games.


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[Assistant] Why is it that every single team doesn't have, not, not a special teams coach, but a kicking specialist to help these guys, pro golfers, Tiger Woods for crying out loud, has a swing coach. Why isn't it with so much riding on the results, every team doesn't have a kicking specialist on staff.


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[Assistant] Hey Phil, uh, top three most difficult stadiums to kick in, and if Cleveland's not in the top three, where does it rank?


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[Assistant] Phil, what is it about, uh, maybe I'm just making this up. Uh, I've been longtime friends with Jay Feely. I've golfed with him a lot. I've talked to him about this. Are you a big golfer?


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[Assistant] It seems like golfers, or excuse me, that so many kickers are also great golfers. And I'm wondering what the correlation is. Obviously, you're swinging something and you're hitting an object that's standing still.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this. I imagine it's different between every kicker and every kick, but


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[Assistant] If you had to, as a baseline rule, what percentage of kicking is physical and what percentage of kicking is mental?


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[Assistant] Interesting. McNuggets, our producer, has a question for you. He was a wannabe kicker. He's very small, little guy. So really the only sport he or the only position he could play in football was kicker. But I'm sure he has some kind of question about that.


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[Assistant] Phil, two questions, and it might be the same answer. Greatest kicker ever, and you've got one kick, the biggest kick in the world to win a Super Bowl. Who do you want? Is that the same guy? And who is it?


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[Assistant] You tell us when, we'll do a 50 at 50 and we will telecast it live and we will help you raise a ton of money for whatever charity you want.


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[Assistant] I think he made it too. I don't know what the hell that was, but we'll get it right. 50 at 50.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, the great Phil Dawson. I bet, I wouldn't bet against him either.


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[Assistant] You know what's interesting is he said that when back in the day when he came in the league, 75% was good. Where was Kate York? 75%. There was a lot of talk this year about the holder for the Browns.


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[Assistant] And that's why you have a designated snapper. Right. Like that's all Charlie does for the Browns. If he was busy running reps and practice, that's taking away time from that unit.


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[Assistant] Why don't all teams have specialists coaching these guys? I was fascinated to hear him say there's probably only three guys in the world that are qualified to be able to do that with any kicker. And it's the same thing with swing coach by the way.


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[Assistant] When Tiger Woods was with Butch Harmon, I don't want to get too down with this rabbit hole, but when he was with Butch Harmon, he had by far the most success he's ever had. Then he fired Butch. And what happened?


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[Assistant] Now, he's been great since, but he's never been the consistently great golfer he was. And Butch takes great pride in sitting back and saying, I am the magic bullet. And he is with the golf swing, widely regarded as the guy.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now, I think the one reason he's, he is a homebody. He wants to stay in Texas. He probably could find something to do with the NFL. He's clearly articulate. He knows the game.


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[Assistant] And we gotta stay on the 50 at 50. I'm telling, I know it's two years away. That would be amazing. That could be a huge fundraiser.


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[Assistant] By Atlanta, a team that they should have no problem. I don't care where the game is played. They should win that. They gave 136 points. So apparently defense was optional for the Cavaliers that night.


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[Assistant] That was their third straight loss, which was troubling because it carried over through the All-Star break. They lost the game before the All-Star break. Then the next two. Then yesterday they come out and I know Toronto was playing on very short rest.


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[Assistant] Well, Toronto was 3-0 against the Cavs, though, for not being a very good team. They were hot coming in, and they had the Cavs' number, and the Cavs made that one look pretty easy. So, at the top of the show I said this, I think in the span of 48 hours, we saw the, the, the ceiling.


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[Assistant] And we saw the floor. How good this team can be and how bad this team can be. Brad, what


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. But that's what they need. They need everybody to be at their best with this team. You, I don't know. You said that Donovan Mitchell was the closer and it's easy to close a game when you're up by 20. No, I want to, I want to see him. Brad, I want to see him close a game against a top tier playoff team. That's a one or two point game. The last two minutes. That's what I want. That doesn't count.


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[Assistant] And what bothered me is, and I don't know how true this is, if it was you just kind of


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[Assistant] Trying to jump in his mind, but if he is really trying to prove to people he should have been an all-star, that's not what you should be doing right now. You know what? You can prove everybody wrong by taking this team on a playoff run.


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[Assistant] While you're doing that, by the way, uh, off topic, but don't look now. The Lakers are three and a half games from the four spot.


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[Assistant] Well, what's interesting about the Lakers now is, I mean, I hate to say that he wasn't engaged, but when LeBron said at the All-Star break that these last 23 games are the most important regular season games I've ever played, it told me one thing.


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[Assistant] Russell's out of town. I'm ready to ball now. Let's go. You don't want to go out. I would not want. I would not want to face the


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[Assistant] Yes. No. I mean, Denver, I think is starting to separate itself more and more. But are they? They always flame out the playoffs though. Well, what I'm saying in the regular season right now, they're separating themselves from everyone else. Now, if history holds, they won't, they won't have playoff success, but I would not want to see LeBron and the Lakers in the West Conference playoffs.


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[Assistant] Wow. Seven points scored after that in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] Let's turn the page to Major League Rules Change. Do you have a read first?


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[Assistant] Right on. Uhm, we wanna just go right to Major League Baseball.


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[Assistant] On one hand, yeaah, but I want you to go further in that because I think you're dead on. Uhm, on one hand, I love these new major league rules. On the other hand, I hate these new major league rules.


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[Assistant] And here's why. I've got two clips to exhibit A.


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[Assistant] This is what the new rule was intended to do. Now it's Max Scherzer, it should be pointed out, is perfectly suited for this rule because he works fast. Guys, he has a three pitch strikeout that lasts all of 27 seconds. You're seeing the entire at bat.


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[Assistant] 27 seconds. This is the game Major League Baseball wants. Now, I can appreciate that. It's, there's no downtime. There's no time to look at your phone. There's no time to get lost in a conversation. 27 seconds. Good morning. Good afternoon.


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[Assistant] And good night, take a seat. I'll see you, homie. Now that's, that's the great side of this new rule. Now I'm gonna show you the absolute worst possible scenario of this rule. Bottom of the ninth, games tied, bases loaded.


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[Assistant] There's two out and a full count. Now, the hitter has to have his eyes looking at the pitcher when the shot clock gets to eight seconds.


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[Assistant] In this case, the hitter, Cal Conley, was not looking at the pitcher, so the umpire jumps in and calls strike three. Game over. It was tied 6-6. That game ended in a tie and if I paid money, I want my money back.


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[Assistant] No, I'm more than 50-50. I just, I just, that's the worst case scenario. We can't have an important game decided on that. I think this is the first thing.


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[Assistant] These are spring training games. There's no tactic. Nobody's going to the mound, talking to the pitcher. Nobody's making two pitching changes. Playoff games are still going to be three hours.


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[Assistant] Well no, they still work. Everything, the TV breaks are all the same. They're the same like, I think they're 90 seconds. They're the same. What you're doing is you are rapidly speeding up pace of play. You saw the Scherzer at bat. He gets it, looks in, nods yes, throws.


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[Assistant] No, listen, I can honestly tell you from pitching my entire life.


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[Assistant] You want to work fast. I have always worked fast. I've had games where I'm pitching against another pitcher who's a starter who works fast that have been 2 hour and 20 minute games.


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[Assistant] As a fielder is to stand out there behind a pitcher who's going 25 seconds, 30 seconds between pitches. The clock is 15 seconds with no one on base. At first it felt a little fast, but that's about how I've worked my entire life.


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[Assistant] 15 second, get the ball, I hate it when the guy ste throwing one under his chin


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[Assistant] Guys that pitch in rhythm like to pitch quickly. And by the way, now there are exceptions, but most of your great pitchers pitch quickly. They get in the rhythm and they go.


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[Assistant] Did you see the percentage what the bigger bases did in the minor leagues? No. Oh, it was huge. 25%. It was an unbi- I thought it would be like single digits. Right. It was. It was like 20 or 25% of the attempts were more, were successful with the bigger base and it's barely bigger. That tells you how bang bang everything is.


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[Assistant] So I think this is a big, big, big step in the right direction. Now you're going to have your diehards and your long time hardcore fans. I hate this.


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[Assistant] There is a clock that starts, if, if a golfer is taking too much time, it can be


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[Assistant] But if your pace of play is behind what it should be, then there, and I, what the rule is, I don't know. I don't know if they dock you a stroke. I'm not quite sure on that, but you've got to maintain a pace of play in the game of golf.


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[Assistant] The bat hit the ball. It, uh, it's got me fired up. I leave the 7th, the 6th or 7th for spring training. So I'll be coming live from Arizona for spring training for a couple of days. So I'm looking forward to that.


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[Assistant] Well, they're crazy if it does. A combination. We have a baseline set of data. Agreed. From the minor leagues. But it may take time for them to adjust in terms of personnel. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, no, no, yeah, absolutely. And they still will have to pick value.


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[Assistant] Is do we want to continue to be all in on the power like the Yankees are? Right. Or do we want to be a team that has four power bats but also has four guys that can blaze and steal bases whenever we need? Right.


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[Assistant] That way when you call them up, they're sharp, they're ready to go. And Brad was going like this. That is the reason that the rosters are set at 26 because the way the money is distributed is there's a percentage uhm, that likely in the future


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[Assistant] There's going to be a percentage of the total gate if they ever get around to this that goes to the players like it does in the NBA and the NFL. If that, if we ever get to that point, the veterans aren't going to want 30 guys on the roster because it's going to, it's going to cut into their, their total take. Do you want to go to the top five first baseman?


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[Assistant] Oh, that's the control alt delete word. When you drop that.


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[Assistant] See now, I already know your top five because we talked about it in the gym on Friday. So I'm really similar to yours, but I think I've got some differences.


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[Assistant] Vlad could swing and hit a ball over the fence that was at his eyes, and he could also swing and hit a ball over the fence that was at his ankles. He was probably the best bad ball hitter in the history of baseball.


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[Assistant] Uh, where? Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask you. I've got him 50. I've got him middle of the pack.


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[Assistant] You were skinny and wier- which hell, Brad, you're still skinny and wiry, but, I mean, you know- No, he wasn't. Ryan Howard was never skinny.


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[Assistant] That's very good advice. I had to tell my mom, turn off the TV. Stop watching the news. Cause at the end of the day, it impacts your day to day life. Almost not at all. Everybody's in a tizzy.


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[Assistant] And the reality of it is, it doesn't really impact your day to day at all. Uh, I'll be quick. Jimmy Haslam is now a minority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. He spent 875 million of his hard earned dollars to do that.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's fine. It's America. You can buy into whatever you want. He won't have a voice in what the bucks do.


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[Assistant] Uh, as a long time suffering fan of the organization that he is the majority owner of.


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[Assistant] I will say I wish he would have put that money into winning a championship here. We have now become.


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[Assistant] Not the only child, but we're now one of three. He owns the crew, and he owns a piece of the Milwaukee... Good for his portfolio. At the end of the day, I think bad for Brown's fans. We need someone's full attention.


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[Assistant] That's it. We're out of time. We're gonna do overtime. We're gonna take viewer questions that we didn't get to on Friday. We'll see you tomorrow.


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[Assistant] I gotta say I love G, but that sounds very fishy.


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[Assistant] Nobody, nobody has more power outages and traffic to Jeep.


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[Assistant] By the way, today is a great day. It is? Do we know what's happening today? What is happening? Friday.


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[Assistant] And remember the Bent River Sports Book coming to the Hall of Fame Village later this year. A lot of things going on at the Hall of Fame Village.


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[Assistant] I still have an exact start date. We don't know yet. Okay, a couple weeks though, maybe. I'm hoping March 6th, but I'm a little frustrated we don't have an exact start date yet. Okay, we should have soon. Well, we'll get that ironed out. Okay, now to the bet.


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[Assistant] What's your bet? So I'm doubling down on the Cavs after losing with the Cavs yesterday, which I probably shouldn't because the Cavs haven't been very good on the road, but Atlanta's a bit of a mess.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Cavs have surprisingly, maybe not surprisingly, they're a young team. They've actually done very well on the back end, the back to backs. They've, they've covered, they've won eight of their last 10 on the back end, the back to back. So I like the Cavs to, on the money line, straight out win in Atlanta. Now for those that don't understand it,


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[Assistant] That means if you bet $100, you win $108. Right. So it's a slight underdog for the cats to win.


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[Assistant] How you doing? You're 24 hours in. It's so bizarre because, so obviously this diet was really, really strict and I called my guy, uhm, Dr. May.


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[Assistant] And that was it, and I called my guy yesterday afternoon and I was like, I don't know that I could do these shakes, because I find them really gross.


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[Assistant] When I took the afternoon shake, I was like nearly throwing up. I was so, just cause I found the taste. So I just don't like shakes. I don't like, I don't like that type of stuff. And he was like, okay, we're going to switch this up. The reason I suggested shake is because almost all of my clients like the,


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[Assistant] That are high in protein, very low in calories, blah blah blah. So, I'm replacing the shakes already with either white meat chicken, shrimp,


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[Assistant] Yes, so this morning I had three ounces of like shrimp cocktail shrimp, little shrimps. Yeah. I had one small chicken tenderloin. It was like an, I think it was an ounce and a half. Right. And then I had lettuce and cucumber. And that was my breakfast. Okay.


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[Assistant] I, because I had done this with the shakes, and I had my meal, and my meal was, tasted like the greatest meal ever. I bet. It was a frozen, it was like two frozen meatloaf with some mashed potatoes.


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[Assistant] I can't, it was about 800, I'm not going over a thousand in a day.


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[Assistant] And what day did you have the shot? I feel much better today though. I'm shaky yesterday, but I feel much better. What day did you uh? I took it yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I don't know how much the Wigovia has taken effect in, you know, 26 hours at this point, but I don't feel hungry, even though I was actually, I had my very small breakfast and I was full at the end. So I, I, maybe it is playing a role already. Maybe it's a mind game. I got a long way to go. Let me ask you a question.


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[Assistant] I did, yes, I did, I, you know, and that's been a challenge too because my knees have been hurting and whatever, but I did a 45 minute walk yesterday, which was good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna go to the, I'm gonna go to the gym, the rec center in Rocky River, and I go walk around the basketball court. Nice. But uhm, I did 45 minutes, and then my son and I had a catch for 20 minutes. And then I was, then, well then he was hitting off a team. I wasn't doing much for that.


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[Assistant] I've kept track of my calories in the past, but for the past, you know, six, eight months, I haven't been dying at all. So I haven't really kept track, but I, I mean, I got to imagine four or 5,000 maybe. Yeah, maybe more there too. I'll tell you.


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[Assistant] Let myself get so heavy. We're gonna make it so you fall in love with yourself again. But I feel good and I feel, I was glad that I felt like I, you know, I gotta get used to eating different foods. I have no, right now, listen, it's early, it's easy for me to say it, I have no desire to eat any bad foods, like, and you know, it's an adjustment. Think about,


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[Assistant] two or three weeks, it's gonna be stopped. Yeah, I mean, I'm, my weight, my starting weight, I'll say it was 359, which is the heaviest I've been in a very long time.


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[Assistant] When I was like 35, I weighed 375 pounds. But this is the heaviest I've been, so I'm expecting to lose 20, 25 pounds in the first couple of weeks. Maybe I won't, that's what I've done when I was heavier before, but I'm much older now, so maybe I won't lose that much.


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[Assistant] My dietician, uh, has, basically, is creating a five year plan for me. Wow, great, great.


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[Assistant] I thought five was a tough call. One through four was pretty easy. I thought, well, whatever.


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[Assistant] Mowgli had a nice night. He had a great night. That's crazy. I'm trying to think of, I'm trying to rack my brain to think of a comparison to Jokic. What was the name of the guy who came over from Europe later? Arvita Sabonis. Arvita Sabonis. That's him.


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[Assistant] I agree with that. I bet he's better suited for it. By the way, fans are starting to go crazy. We're already, I'm already starting to see people like, we shouldn't have traded for Donovan Mitchell. Oh no, that's not. Oh, that's stupid. By the way, no, that's stupid. Good, good, uh, good tweet by our guy, Anthony Lima. Since November 1st, so the Cavs, you may remember, first few games in October, were red hot from three.


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[Assistant] Since November 1st, so this is most of the season, the Cavs are 20th in the league in three point shots. Three point percentage. 20th in the league.


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[Assistant] During that same time, Philly's 4th, Boston's 7th, Milwaukee's 12th. That's the difference. And this NBA...


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[Assistant] It's hard to win consistently when you're 20th in the third quarter.


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[Assistant] Well, my guess is though that they didn't, that Carmelo Anthony not being signed by the Cavs has nothing to do with the money. At this point, they can't. You know, I'm just guessing like nobody signed. No, no, I'm not saying that. I'm not.


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[Assistant] Right, I mean, the only one who could be a starting player period is Laverte. The other guys aren't starters at all, shouldn't be. But even Laverte, you don't want him starting on a good team. Like he's like a bench guy and they don't have, you know, it seems silly to complain because their other four starters are all high level players. But what we're talking


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[Assistant] And I want, to me it has zero to do with Kevin Love, but I want nothing to do with the Heat just because they're a playoff-tested team and they have experience.


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[Assistant] Mike, before the quiz, I want to ask the guys a question real quick. Just a rapid fire answer so we can get the Mike quiz. If the Cavs lose in the first round, do you think JB should be fired?


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[Assistant] If Dan Gilbert was still in power, he'd be gone if they lost in the first round.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think he does. Alright, let's get to your quiz there, Mikey.


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[Assistant] Who's the third guy in Philly? Oh, maybe, uh, what's his name? New York.


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[Assistant] You're putting Steve Nash over John Stockton? Yes. I wouldn't. No.


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[Assistant] He got his first game tonight for the Clippers. By the way, somebody we embarrassingly left out with big men is Charles Barkley.


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[Assistant] Big man of all time, because he played with so many great players, was the Chief, Robert Parrish.


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[Assistant] This should just be an NBA Hall of Fame. Not a basketball Hall of Fame. I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's funny because I was just looking at Hoops Hype did a list of top 10, you know, top 20 centers of all time. Yeah. And they had Moses Malone number eight. They actually have Jokic at, uh, at 12.


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[Assistant] Probably done before this season. Was it done before this season? Uh, let's see. It's from, yeah, beginning of this, right before the season. Willis Reed too.


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[Assistant] Justin was an intern at the radio station years ago, right Justin?


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[Assistant] First year to second year success. And another part of it is the schedule has changed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be interesting. And I would just assume that the White Sox will be better this year too. I mean, you know, maybe with a new manager. I mean, who knows? You never know from year to year. I think the Twins will be better. I think the Royals... White Sox lost a big piece though.


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[Assistant] Justin, let's talk about, uh, we talked about the new additions here a little bit. Uh, Josh Bell. Well, I, I, I think there's another gear to his game. How good do you think he's gonna be this year?


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[Assistant] I am disappointed though that the Guardian didn't do anything with the pitching staff.


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[Assistant] I mean, I, to rely on Savali and Plisak in the back of the rotation.


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[Assistant] I would have loved to see them go out and spend a little money on a veteran starting pitcher that's more reliable. Uh, even Quantrill, like, I'm not that comfortable with Quantrill pitching in the playoffs. I'd like them to have a steady, solid veteran that you're comfortable throwing as your third or fourth starter in the playoffs, and I'm disappointed they didn't do that. Are you worried about that?


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[Assistant] Go sign a veteran pitcher, maybe they should have traded for somebody instead. Because they do, I mean, first of all, they called up a million pros, by the way, they have 17 guys make their major league debut last year. And now they got all, they still got a ton of young kids, you can't, they can't keep them all. That's why they basically


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[Assistant] Given away Will Benson and Nolan Jones over the past six months for free. And so it's, it is a little surprising that they haven't made a significant move. And why, Justin, I think they still might. Hopefully. Whether it's now or at the trade deadline.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. I think part of the reason, I mean the guardians are a put the ball and play team. They are. They're not a home run hitting team. So if you put the ball and play and you can't shift as much, it should help you.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't agree, I don't agree with Jay a lot that you couldn't possibly do it. It hasn't happened in a few years. It used to happen all the time.


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[Assistant] I do think it's hard to win the way the Guardians are doing it. However, what I would say is that the Guardians in Raze are the only good teams that don't have that big time power. And that's been the case for a while. They're built the same way. And so we don't have enough data yet to know if you can win that way.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, they both have great bullpens. Yeah, but the Guardians rotation is not great. They've got Shane Bieber as a top 10 pitcher. Tristan McKenzie was excellent last year, but he's only done it for one year. The rest of their rotation is average or below. Oh well, I'm talking about over the sample size.


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[Assistant] I had the feeling he was going to... And he's a leader, and he's a great defensive player. Not as great as he used to be, but still, I had him 6, but I thought I would consider putting him ahead of Olson. I would put him at 6, too.


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[Assistant] Hey Charles, Brad says all the time Steph Curry could not play.


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[Assistant] When you guys played not to that level or not. Okay.


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[Assistant] By the way, I remember, remember I was telling the story, how I was the security guard, like the school security guard. Yeaah. For Nick's rookie camp, because you guys, when you were with the Knicks, Charles, you practiced at SUNY Purchase, right? SUNY Purchase.


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[Assistant] I was a freshman at SUNY Purchase in 1989. I went there for one year. I got kicked out of school after one year. I was not meant for that school. But I got to be like the security guard.


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[Assistant] Like the fake security until all you guys came with Patrick and everybody with the real security. But I remember shooting around


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[Assistant] For just those two guys. And I was telling the story because it showed you how great NBA players were. That guys like Quenette and Butler who were last, you know, end of the bench guys who didn't play in the league that long, they were knocking down threes in practice and then they were hitting everything.


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[Assistant] Here we go, Pete Byers, 86-87 Bulls, 87-88 Rockford Lightning, 88 Spurs, 88 Sixers, 88 Zaragoza, 88-90 Dicks, then the Nats, the Spurs.


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[Assistant] What's the context of him, like,


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[Assistant] I'm really torn about this, guys. There's part of me that's like, that's his guy, he's a Hall of Fame player, they should go get him. The other part of me says,


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[Assistant] The Browns, if they make a move for a big time wide receiver, they can't get it wrong.


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[Assistant] And Hopkins is going to be 31 at the beginning of this year. He had a PED suspension this year. He got, he missed time due to injury this season before. But when he came back, what did you see? He was good. He was great. I don't know that he was, he wasn't the player he once was. He's no longer super elite. I think he's still very good. My concern is,


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[Assistant] Wide receivers don't generally age well.


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[Assistant] How many really top-notch 31-year-old receivers are there? What's the alternative?


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[Assistant] But is he, at this point in his career? Name a better option and I'll listen. I mean, I, well, I, I think there are, I mean, I don't know who's gonna be, end up being cut here, doing cat casualties, but I think in terms of like free agency,


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[Assistant] Uh, I think Keenan Allen might become available, and at least with Keenan Allen, I don't have to give up assets to get him.


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[Assistant] I know that, but at least I'm not with DeAndre Hopkins. I've got to pay him 20 million a year because he's owed to 20 million a year. Plus I got to give up pretty good assets to get him. Definitely.


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[Assistant] Guys, can we name 31 year old wide receivers that are still good?


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[Assistant] Devontae Adams, he old. He's 29. That's a big difference in wide receiver years.


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[Assistant] Those are rarities, okay? Well, they met.


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[Assistant] Get old! Those are bad comparisons. Russell Wilson. Those guys aren't bad because they're old. The Sean Watson.


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[Assistant] I never met her before. We had passed each other. I was doing, I think, like, Enter the Cage on Saturday Night Live. Remember that thing? And she was the musical guest and we were like five feet from each other.


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[Assistant] Years ago, but after that, no, I was at this cancer benefit that Sean Parker was throwing, and she sang La Vie en Rose, which is a song in the movie, and just decimated the room. And then I went and saw her the next day, I asked if I could meet with her, cause I really didn't even know what she looked like, or at all.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and she was so, uh, present and open and kind and it was just, and it's one of those things, it just, I was hungry, she made me food.


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[Assistant] But she had made it the night before and she heated it up and I was eating it with her and it was insane. Right. But she made me feel so comfortable and I was like, when I was driving up to meet her I thought, well if we don't, cause we sing live, we sing, everything's live in the movie and uh, you know that song Midnight Special? Yep. The folk song? Yep. Yep. And uhm, move it along.


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[Assistant] No, I know the song, I know that song well, I love that song. Uhm, and I said, hey, do you wanna, maybe we could just, let's see if we can sing together, cause I noticed the piano in your living room when I walked in, and you know the song, she said, no I don't know it, so we printed up the lyrics, and next thing you know, after I'm eating pasta, we're singing in her living room.


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[Assistant] It was crazy. And she said, has anybody ever heard your song before? I said no. And she said, well let's record it. So I recorded it on my phone. And that was actually one of the first things when I was trying to pitch this movie to Warner Brothers, I showed them that video.


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[Assistant] But I'm still gonna need your phone. Thank you White Lady.


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[Assistant] Can't tell who they're calling the cops on. Excuse me, sir.


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[Assistant] Uh, one of whom checked with one of our security people about whether it was a phishing email was told no, it was real.


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[Assistant] My emails, they didn't occur, uh, until October. An hour.


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[Assistant] After the Access Hollywood tape became public. So clearly, I think this was done to somewhat extent to distract, uh, the press to get them off the Access Hollywood story.


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[Assistant] Fall out from atop American diplomats, very undiplomatic, exletive, hurled at the European Union.


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[Assistant] It's a revenge and it's an equalizer. It was retribution.


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[Assistant] It's you interfere in our politics, we're gonna show that American democracy is not so solid. That American exceptionalism is not, uh, so pristine.


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[Assistant] And that you too, uhm, can be vulnerable to interference and chaos and embarrassment in your political processes.


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[Assistant] And I just go ahead and upload this QI.


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[Assistant] So I just, I gotta tell you, I can't help you. Well that seems like a defeatist attitude. My phone's basically new, can't you guys send me a new one or something? You know what, for you Kevin, anything you want. Thank you, I very much appreciate it. Actually, while I have you here, I'm making a game about being a tech support specialist. I was wondering if you were balancing multiple tickets right now? Don't I know it, yes. Yeah, that makes sense, I bet you guys get a ton of calls. I'm sure your system allows for macros to answer customers quickly to help alleviate the load. No.


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[Assistant] Then they can leave their trace in the necessary time and place, or even someone else's trace.


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[Assistant] It's still a small farming community surrounded by corn fields. Its population is still under a thousand. And it's still all white and all Christian.


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[Assistant] And though Jane Elliott has continued to teach her lesson in discrimination, there has been little outward local reaction. No objections from school authorities or the parents of the 300 odd students who have by now been through it.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the most unusual use of it is here at Greenhaven Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Stormville, New York.


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[Assistant] Yet even here, minority groups account for more than 20% of the prison population.


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[Assistant] As part of the lesson, the corrections department employees took a written test.


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[Assistant] After a break for lunch, Jane Elliot helped the corrections department employees analyze what had happened.


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[Assistant] And what does the manual provide? You have a manual for your car. If you didn't have that for your car, there might be things you would never learn how to use in your car, right? I spent $100 million on a platform, the most in history.


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[Assistant] It made sense for them to be there to help us make sure how we spent it right and did it right.


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[Assistant] What I recognized was the simple process of marketing. I needed to find the right people and the right places and show them the right message.


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[Assistant] Micro-targeting allows you to do is say, well, these are the people most likely to show up to vote. These are the right audiences we need to show up.


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[Assistant] The numbers were showing in the consumer side that people were spending more and more hours of their day.


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[Assistant] consuming Facebook content. So if you have any best place to show your content, it would be there. It was a place where their eyes were. That's where they were reading their local newspaper, doing things.


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[Assistant] And so we could get our message injected inside that stream. And that was a stream which was controlling the eyeballs of most places that we needed to win.


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[Assistant] No one ever complained about Facebook for a single day until Donald Trump was president.


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[Assistant] The only reason anyone's upset about this is that Donald Trump is president and used a system that was all built by liberals.


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[Assistant] When I got on TV and told everybody after my interview of what we did with Facebook, it exploded. The funny thing is, the Obama campaign used it, then went on TV and newspapers and they put it on the front of a magazine and the left and the media called them geniuses for doing that.


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[Assistant] Putin is deciding the fate of American elections. He is taking as a sign of Putin's greatness and of Russia's greatness as well.


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[Assistant] Was there a realization inside Facebook as to what the responsibilities would be of becoming the main


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[Assistant] A headline during the campaign was Pope endorses Trump, which was not true, but it went viral on Facebook. Was it known within Facebook that that had gone viral?


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[Assistant] Would that have been a red flag inside the company that something that's patently false was being propagated to millions of people on the platform?


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[Assistant] Over the course of the 2016 election, there was a lot of news about misinformation. I mean, there was famously the, the Pope endorses Trump. Do you remember that?


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[Assistant] Was there any kind of sense of like, oh my goodness, Facebook is getting polluted with misinformation. Someone should do something about this.


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[Assistant] How could it be surprising that if you're becoming the world's information source that there may be a problem with misinformation?


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[Assistant] Is he not recognizing the importance of his platform in our democracy at that point in time? Yes.


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[Assistant] To others in the company and up to Mark and Sheryl for instance.


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[Assistant] But there were warning signs along the way in the trajectory of the company.


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[Assistant] Were you given an explanation as to why they weren't acting?


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[Assistant] There's a problem in the Philippines. We've heard about it from people on the ground there that Facebook has been to some degree weaponized by the Duterte regime there. What are you doing to, to stem this problem in the Philippines?


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[Assistant] I'm curious what it's like when the UN comes out with a report.


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[Assistant] Facebook was warned as early as 2015 about, uh, the potential for a really dangerous situation in Myanmar. What went wrong there? Why was it so slow?


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[Assistant] Should there be any liability or any legal accountability for a company like Facebook when something so disastrous goes wrong on your platform?


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[Assistant] The choices that are made. Do you regret choices going backward? Decisions that were made about not taking into account risks or not measuring risks.


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[Assistant] Were those things even considered at the time to kind of amp up safety and security, but there was some reason not to or?


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[Assistant] Has there ever been a minute where you've questioned the mission, you know, internally? Whether anyone has taken a second to step back and say, alright, has this blinded us in some way? Have you had a moment like that?


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[Assistant] Why wasn't that part of the metric earlier in terms of how do you minimize the harm?


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[Assistant] Is there going to be real time monitoring on election day of what's going on on Facebook and how are you going to actually find things that may so distrust in the election?


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[Assistant] What is the standard that the public should hold Facebook to in terms of solving some of these seemingly enormous problems?


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[Assistant] But we're dealing with such consequential issues, right? We're talking about


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[Assistant] Do you think Facebook has earned the trust to be able to say, trust us, we've got this?


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[Assistant] It's the way we worked with bombshells. You gotta be even more tough with bombshells. Hey man, listen, you look nice and all, but you ought to turn that alarm off. You're messing my whole flow up, bro. You two look pretty to be out here messing the game up right now. You know that's a party foul. What's going on, bombshell? Give it a shot. Knock on the door later tonight.


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[Assistant] Or you could go to Jujo- To Far as Quintenton.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I'm retired now, so I just wake up at the same time every day.


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[Assistant] Listen, I got, I got five alarms. I got regular alarms. I got alarms on the watch. I got a wife. Like, if I don't show up somewhere, she calls to make sure I didn't die. Yeah, that's true. We know that.


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[Assistant] And then they drafted Tim Duncan. That was luck, right? They was like, okay, Dave Robbins was hurt a year. They got Tim Duncan. They started off winning. But Tony Parker wasn't that good when he came in. Tony Parker and Janobly were both second round picks. They was low picks. He developed him. They got Kawhi Leonard. They developed him. So he developed three Hall of Famers like back to back to back to back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I will. I won't do it, but I'll bring my brother. But I think the Browns are in the right spot. What do you guys think? Uh, I could have him lower. I told him, I told myself I was not going to do this.


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[Assistant] Because I'm looking at these other teams and I can't put you over nobody you lost to, right? I just can't say that. Now look, I'm looking down there and I'm looking with the quarterback situation.


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[Assistant] I don't think they're going to be able to fix these holes, man. These holes are very disturbing. You look at the defensive line room, they don't have enough money.


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[Assistant] We talk about the Cavs cat room and the Indy or the Guardians cat, the Browns cat ain't like that.


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[Assistant] Ethan Poachers, I don't know if they're going, they talk about, well, we might figure out, no, Ethan Poachers is going to get a deal on the market. You need to prophesy him back.


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[Assistant] When you gave Conklin the money, I'm like, okay, well, now, for sure, it does not look like you're getting a high-priced defensive tackle. They might have to do some one-year gaps to fill in a deal if there's a line. Maybe you get to flex your cock. Maybe. But he might want 14.


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[Assistant] Burrow's better. Allen's better. All these dudes is better. Hey listen, even the kid in Jacksonville, the level of Lawrence is better. He not only has to come out.


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[Assistant] He gotta play to a level, because when he was playing like that, wasn't no guy, wasn't no guy named Jalen Hurts. It wasn't none of those guys. He gotta play better than he did in Houston. Now, I don't know if that's possible, uh, if he plays better than he does in Houston.


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[Assistant] It takes a little bit of time to develop that. When I was watching Joe Burrow against the Kansas City Chiefs, and they ran that little out and up in between double coverage, bracket coverage, and he threw it up there and Jamar Chase went up and got it. He just knew that. He just knew he was throwing that. I said, Amari Cooper. He's not doing


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[Assistant] Am I, am I, am I getting, am I, am I crazy guys that I, the more this season goes through the off season, that I just keep looking at them and saying, man, we, we might need a, it's the receiver.


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[Assistant] I don't know why I keep looking at it. I'ma de-tackle. We were terrible up front, but when I keep watching the playoff games, I don't know why these receivers just stop. We watch the Super Bowl and I'm like, man.


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[Assistant] Here's the, and I never really thought I would come to this because I'm a more of a talent guy. I'm more like, okay, if you got talent, you win.


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[Assistant] I just think they need to be around each other. They need to be, like, I wouldn't, all of them, you know, Maury Cooper and Joku. You mean like bonding team bonding? Yes. They need to be practicing, then going to eat, then going to go read books together, then going to hang out and then do it all over again. They need to be like,


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb, I never thought I'd see, he tweeted, hey I'm tired of this. No, he didn't say I'm tired of this, he said I'm tired of watching.


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[Assistant] Like, during the Super Bowl, which is so crazy because like, man, I feel you too, Nick Chubb. I'm tired of watching these teams.


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[Assistant] It was like you knew that had no chance of winning. It was like, like really?


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[Assistant] Oh well no, I mean, just, I mean. Did you go with, I see you got the little Drake chain on right there, you got the little Drake joint, you know what I'm saying, like the 12 centimeter joint. How did you go with the OVO neck, you know what I'm saying, the, the, the, the, the, you know, the neck warmer plus the chain.


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[Assistant] You can run routes. You can run the routes without having the quarterback. If they were running all kind of creativity and the quarterback just couldn't get him the ball, fine. But we don't see anything like this from these other guys.


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[Assistant] He lost a lot of his cachet when he let Joe Woods hang around.


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[Assistant] I need, I need, I need, I need to get that together right there. Yeah, I need, I need to keep that. Like that was a really nice way to blow people off. I didn't feel bad. I was like, oh.


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[Assistant] The diplomatic solution. I used to have this, I used to live, well I still live upstairs at this apartment, right? And so one day I came out, bro, and it was just like some random homeless dude sleeping in the hallway.


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[Assistant] Just in the hallway, bro. Just in. Blanket, pillow, or just on the carpet? No, just, it was like, it's wooden stairs. It's only like three apartments. He was like inside. See, but I'm a nice person. It was like negative, I don't know, 30 or something. I just let him chill.


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[Assistant] I let, I didn't feed him or nothing. Like you can, I'm, we're not gonna have, this is not gonna be a YMCA, bro. But he wouldn't be any homeless people in a country that's billionaires. So he was just in there and I'm like, so my wife was like,


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[Assistant] I was like, well, I'm gonna leave him there. I mean, if he goes outside, he might die or something. That's on my conscience. He just came in to get out of it.


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[Assistant] I saw a documentary just last week about the homeless problem in Seattle. It's unbelievable. It's on the drugs and it's just like there's people that go there and that just hold communities now of just homeless people and they're young.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't turn, I don't, I, I find out who's good in the mat by the time they go to the queue. Or the Rock and Morgan Fieldhouse. The Rock. Yeah, the Rock, yeah.


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[Assistant] We, uh, what's the name, uh, the old boy from, um, Washington. What's his name?


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[Assistant] Danny Shove is pretty big. He's wide. But he's not as tall. He's, he's wide. Joe Taylor's like 6'5", 6'6". Big Baby was big. Sean Rodgers is, Sean Rodgers was huge.


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[Assistant] And online speech, the first thing for us to do is actually understand the landscape.


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[Assistant] There's a fundamental question, which is what should our role be? And as we're identifying misinformation, should we be telling people what we're finding? Should we be removing that content? Should we be downranking that content? And we now have a team that is focused on how to deal with exactly that sort of situation.


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[Assistant] Well, this would be important to me, even if I didn't work at Facebook, given my background. My background is as a federal prosecutor, and I worked specifically in Asia, and specifically on violent crimes against people in Asia. So something like that really hits home to me.


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[Assistant] We met with civil society organizations in Myanmar far before 2015. This is an area where we've been focused. I think what we've learned over time is it's important for us to


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[Assistant] Build the right technical tools that can help us find some of this content and also work with organizations on the ground in a real-time fashion. We are in the process of building those relationships around the world on a much deeper level so that we can stay ahead of any kind of situation like that.


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[Assistant] There's all sorts of accountability, but probably the group that holds us the most accountable are the people using the service.


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[Assistant] If it's not a safe place for them to come and communicate, they are not going to use it.


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[Assistant] Information and a pulse, uhm, on what was happening in Southeast Asia.


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[Assistant] And so one change that we've made along with hiring so many more people is that a lot of these people are based internationally and can give us that insight that we may not get from being here at our headquarters.


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[Assistant] Not having 20,000 people working on safety and security back in the day, yes. So I regret that we were too slow.


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[Assistant] I just, it's not that we were like, wow, we could do so much more here and decided not to. I think we, we just didn't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I still continue to firmly believe in the mission.


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[Assistant] But in terms of stepping back, in terms of reflecting, absolutely. But that isn't on the mission. The reflection is really about how can we do a better job of minimizing bad experiences on Facebook.


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[Assistant] You know, it's possible that we could have done more sooner and we haven't been as fast as we needed to be.


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[Assistant] Mark has said this, that we have been slow.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what I'm focused on is amplifying good and minimizing the bad.


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[Assistant] And we need to be transparent about what we're doing on both sides. And, you know, I think this is an ongoing discussion.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, this is the number one priority for the company. Mark has been out there. Cheryl is out there. You're talking to me and a bunch of the other leaders. That's what we mean by having an ongoing conversation. This is something that we need to, as you said, this is serious. This is consequential. We take this extremely, like we understand this responsibility and it's not going away tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Big and powerful. There's a instinct to either regulate or break up, right?


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[Assistant] But the brown-eyed one, he's real outgoing and he plays in sports and that. He's pretty good at it. And uhm, he just seems like a better kid. So if I have kids, I hope they have brown eyes.


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[Assistant] I kinda forgot everything once I got up there.


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[Assistant] When we got those early returns, the exit polls that I actually got at about 501, we all had a little bit of a gut punch.


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[Assistant] Even for him, it was an overwhelming feeling to see yourself be elected President of the United States.


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[Assistant] Trump is going to be Trump. This idea that you can make him into something else, that's not what the people voted for. They voted for Trump as he is. That's the way they want him to be. And nobody's going to remake him. He will either succeed or fail being Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] In fact, his nomination was the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. In this case, the Republican Party is just a vehicle.


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[Assistant] To get his name on the ballot, but his reach was always greater than the Republican Party's reach.


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[Assistant] Superior knowledge of alternative media, combined with the fact that he's kind of a swashbuckler and a revolutionary, a guy who can think outside the box.


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[Assistant] The FBI announcement was such a break. Certainly not controlled by the Trump campaign, but it really did throw all the cards up in the air at a pivotal time.


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[Assistant] So, yes, I've seen a lot of... As a matter of fact, we used to travel on the Bulls' plane, right? Right. This is before we were on the Bulls' plane. We were on the Flying Commercial United. We had a whole plane.


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[Assistant] They had two leagues and we used to all sit in first class, right? So Michael created these two leagues on the planet.


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[Assistant] Two leagues, two leagues. Tunk league. Right. Big money. You had the major league.


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[Assistant] So, the minor league was the scared, better, scared to put your money down, right? And then every now and then they would jump into the major league with the big boys. Right, right. He, he's standing with a wide like come on in the major league.


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[Assistant] Right? And then their goal was to break you from coming in the major league. You go down to the minor league and stay down in the minor league.


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[Assistant] It's cheap to be frank, right? Yeaah. And these are some new wave dudes, right?


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[Assistant] No question, right? And then so, what I, what I, and I'm not here, I'm not promoting violence here, but I like here.


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[Assistant] There was some reciprocation with Donovan Mitchell last night. That was required, right? The question in town is do the Cavs have a pulse? Right? Right. I can't remember the last time somebody squared up with somebody except J.R.R. Smith around here. Ever. Right. Maybe Tristan one time.


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[Assistant] That's what happened last night. And so what I, what I, I think what everybody in the place was appreciative of was after they saw the video and the replay. Yeah. Oh, he was well, he was well within his right to throw that ball at him.


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[Assistant] Be, be, be clear, you see, you see in the quote here, right? So the line has to be done. First of all, in my day, you knew who the bad dudes were, right? Right. And you knew if you crossed the line, the bad dudes was gonna lay it on you, right? So you knew the horn, the lamb beard, Isaiah and them, they were gonna do you, right? And that's just how it was. Now, this is my, this is my issue here.


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[Assistant] The Memphis Grizzlies, and I think somebody, one of the TNT guys with Sandra, they do a lot of talking.


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[Assistant] It ain't real talking, right? Because you see when they got to the thing with Shannon Sharp, they talking as they walking to the locker room.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. No, Shannon Sharpe showed on the sideline. Shannon Sharpe did not move at all. He said, come on over here and say it to me over here. And then what Shannon Sharpe did tell him was this.


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[Assistant] And this is Bankbrook, same dude, right? He said this, you don't want these problems.


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[Assistant] He wasn't strong as Mitchell because Mitchell threw him down. He did. He saved him because because I'm gonna just tell you Brooks was about to get these prayer hands. Yes, he was.


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[Assistant] He don't want the problems either. You don't want problems. I don't know. No, let me tell you something. Have you seen Shannon Sharp? I know, but Shannon Sharp is old. Let me tell you something. The one thing you see about this, this is how old school dudes know who for real and who's not, right?


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[Assistant] It's a different setup, right? Steven Adam takes up a lot of smoke. Yeah, he does. Yeah. And you start to see that on every team and back to your question about you have to have a tough guy. Yeah, because how many are there?


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[Assistant] You have to establish your territory and be like, this is not going to occur here because what happens in sports when, when, when people perceive that you soft, right? Won't respond. They keep coming.


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[Assistant] NBA has found a way to legislate toughness out of the game because they think it is, it doesn't sell. And it's a part of the game. There's a line. Can you go too far sometimes? You absolutely can. But it's a part of the game. You have to have it.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at like, when you look at like, uh, it's amazing. And John Moran is a talented player, right? He got enough.


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[Assistant] Physical talent that is amazing to watch, right? But this, this raring up, dunking on people? No. Just one time. Just one time.


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[Assistant] We, we, we were taking lumps at first. Yeaah. I'm like, you go down lane, man, do I really want to go down there with them because it's going to be a mess. Right?


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[Assistant] When you cross the line of baseball boys, they will, you gonna answer the bell here. Yeah, it could be.


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[Assistant] Let's say when the pitcher throw one at the baseball guy at the batter head, right? And you see when he flipped the bat and you're like, oh, I'm coming to get you.


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[Assistant] Because you know when you've crossed the line here. But the league has to figure out what it is trying to accomplish here.


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[Assistant] What you see in today's game because they know the rules don't allow for you to get physical with anybody and have some repercussions, right?


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[Assistant] And they know that if you, there's something that happens, there's going to be some major suspension or something going on, some major money loss, right? So the rules are predicated that there's no, so you see a lot of this, tip, tip, tip, keep talking, right? Hold me back, hold me back.


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[Assistant] All right, hold me back. Now real toughness Mikey is this. Pull up those 80 clips when, uh,


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[Assistant] Showing when Mahorn nailed Mark Price in the head. Yeah, before the playoffs that helped us come by and get them right. That's how we got them right in game one and the Bulls came back got the calf in game one because of Price sat out the first game, right? Those are and then you knew there were certain people that you that you did not mess with Charles Oakley was one of them, you know.


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[Assistant] Barclay would do another, right? Yeah. Current time Shaq was another.


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[Assistant] Right. Xavier McDaniel was another. Buck Williams was another. Every team. Kevin Willis. That's it. Every team has somebody that you would have to answer the bell to. Right. If something got out of line. Otis Thorpe sharp elbow. So it was just like and now.


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[Assistant] They've taken that player out of the game, right? The player is really not here anymore, right? And they're not saying that they're not tough. They've just taken that element of the game away and trying to package it, right? Well, but the real fan understood this, Mikey.


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[Assistant] Playoff time, they knew there was a thing called hard foul. It wasn't malicious trying to hurt people, but you know, there are no layups here.


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[Assistant] Hard fire, go to the line, make some fritos, right? They take it out of the way. Now, if you even attempt a hard fire, now you getting kicked out.


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[Assistant] It's a stupid rule. He was provoked. Can I tell you a place where it really does a disservice to? Now when you went into Madison Square Garden, it was tough.


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[Assistant] You had to play tough in there, right? So they've taken all that away. So the backbone of New York is the city of toughness.


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[Assistant] So you just legislated that out of New York. I like, and New York is where the game was really sprung from, right? So now you can't even be tough in New York.


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[Assistant] I think it sets the tone for the leadership in the room. They're still missing a guy. They're still missing a guy.


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[Assistant] After Kareem broke Wilt's record, I didn't think that was, I thought that was like the Mount Everest. It wasn't going to ever be reached again. Yeah. But, uh, the, having the three point, uh,


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[Assistant] Shot in the game. This pace of the game is being played now. The promotion of running up high scores.


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[Assistant] And then the longevity. That's right. That's the other thing. He played for 20 years, right? And he's still playing. Right.


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[Assistant] Well, I think here I'll go a team record. I don't think anybody's ever break the Miami Dolphins record.


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[Assistant] I say, I say this about LeBron's chase here, right?


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[Assistant] The one thing that I marvel at LeBron is this, is the fact that uhm, in order to do what he's done, you have to play.


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[Assistant] A lot. He hasn't missed significant time overall. Right. He is one of the few that show up pretty much every night. I won't say a few.


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[Assistant] He has an old school mentality, right? I don't sit it out.


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[Assistant] Here, don't, listen, I don't do hot dogs but when I did do them.


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[Assistant] Don't give me no hot dog with all that mess on it, right? There's just too much stuff on it. I mean, just. Don't word me that.


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[Assistant] So the borough is equivalent to what? Here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Alright Mikey. Now I do say this. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's, that's a good question. You want me to go first?


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[Assistant] You have the Indian, excuse me, the Guardian sitting in great stead because they just have a great, a good system and a good management play.


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[Assistant] I think the guardians could be knocking on championship door again. The Browns. I'm going to trend toward.


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[Assistant] Uh, finalizing the deal for New Brown Stadium. Uh, the team heading in a proper direction.


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[Assistant] The investments we made now in this year pan out. So I'm going to trend to the fact that at some point the eyes are going to trend towards the Browns being one of the power teams here. It comes around to everybody. Damn, it's got to come back to us at some point in time. One of these days, right? And then finally the Cavaliers. They're set up probably in that fifth year.


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[Assistant] To really be on the precipice of being the elite team if they can add pieces to the three pieces that they have right now. The good thing is here, I was talking to somebody in the gym about it, Kevin Love has got a huge cap number that's expiring at the end of the year.


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[Assistant] Leverton. You can add some pieces here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you could add some pieces here, right? So they could be on the only because they're not that far away because they're not going to do a fifth now, right? So the Cleveland teams could be in a good space. If they don't do what?


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[Assistant] So I mean, those new ownership groups, this is not, this is not, this is not, this is not that, right? So that means in this market, under the right group, with the right capital,


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[Assistant] It's hard to do a four team, uh, professional team sport here, I mean sports in this town.


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[Assistant] You're giving up the dollar amongst the population, which is not growing. It may be leaving the city of Cleveland, but it's still in the area, in the suburbs, but you're still fighting over the same dollar, right? Right. You know, and this is a team that traditionally, the town that really traditionally knows how to support


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[Assistant] In a way, three teams, but only if they're grinding and winning. Yes, that's how it works. That's how it works here, right?


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[Assistant] It's a few, right? It's a few, right? I'll go back to when they had to even had the Barron's here years ago in the 70s, right? And it just never really drew. I mean, it drew a select group of people. You've got some of these high schools that us and shaker and stuff like that. It's feed couldn't Heights feed to the hockey program. But yeah, overall, this is three teams. Yeah, I mean, I


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[Assistant] They put up a good product. They put up a good product. There's no doubt. And so the other thing is that to those sports there, it's affordable.


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[Assistant] Right. You know, this goes back to my thing about the sitting out in the load management. You think about that. I got three kids, right? I got four, but I'm saying I'm using it like I got three, right? And I had to pony up for the ticket for my kid, kid waiting to see Steph Curry.


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[Assistant] I got these tickets in advance. I'm doing a great daddy thing. I'm getting a daddy a year award, right? Pony up this money.


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[Assistant] You gotta go to the game, right? You gotta pay the parking, right? You gotta feed them, right? So this is a big, this is a big production.


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[Assistant] I'm sitting there right now. You doing what? What you doing? You got your JVB.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hello. No, no, no, no. So I'm just saying that's why it's hard. Yeah, those sports there. The other sports there. They have a ticket that's affordable.


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[Assistant] Shout out to Aaron Weaver, sister of, uh, Haley Weaver plays for Northwestern Wildcats basketball and a great family and, uh, full disclosure, her and Cheyenne play together on AAU team, but I mean, he's a graduate of Xavier University. Uh, the 30 for 30?


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[Assistant] I'll give you a 30 for 30. There hadn't been a 30 for 30 on Jim Brown in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Uh, the stories, the alleged stories about Jim Brown here in Cleveland, right? And the days of the Browns.


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[Assistant] That'd be a 30 for 30. The 30 for 30 does some things. 30 for 30 is not just the sports. 30 30 is about the side story that you don't know, right? That's true. And so I'm surprised that it had been a 30 for 30 on Jim Brown.


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[Assistant] You could do some Cleveland 30 for 30s. Here's a 30 for 30 for you. Give me the story of Albert Bell.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, go ahead. The steroids are...


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[Assistant] The guys that take the injections just to get back on the field for that day is only for hours, right?


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[Assistant] Because you could, I'm sure Mahomes took a shot to play in that game and I'm sure at some point during the game he was back to regular pain, right? The steroids have a longer lasting effect. They have a, uh, a well known side effect.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so that's why that's the difference between the two.


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[Assistant] So I, so I will say this Jake, so you're right that the culture issue extends all the way to the top of the ticket, right? Yep. And really if the culture is set, it's set from the top of the ticket down. Irrespective of that, Kevin is in control of the entire ship, right?


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[Assistant] If it's not coming from up top, he at least has to be the one to say through these doors, my way or no way.


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[Assistant] And I think sometimes when he gets himself in trouble is, I don't think you can be, and I'm asking, I don't think you can be successful as a coach in any sport and be hands-off.


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[Assistant] This is what's happening. And if you do the consequences are because if you don't shut it off.


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[Assistant] When it starts just permeates to the rest of the group. Does Kevin understand that?


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's, you know, and coaches and owners are always in adversarial positions. You go through this league, everybody has an opinion. The system...


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[Assistant] That I see so far the collaboration effort is not working, right? When do we change course to be like


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[Assistant] I need somebody to run the program, right? Period.


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[Assistant] Right? And it's a difference between the owner and the coach. There's two different things, right? And the problem with the brows as I see it is just this. When they're, when they're


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[Assistant] No, no, I don't agree with you because I mean, I'm, I'm just giving you what I, my analysis. But you're talking to a guy. So that came from Chicago where


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[Assistant] You had the owner and the GM Jerry Cross and Jerry Reinsdorfer in alignment.


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[Assistant] Where you had Doug and Phil on the other side of it. That were. We dismissed what they were doing.


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[Assistant] And then you had the players that would, depending on what day the flavor was, would dismiss whoever, right? So that dynamic exists always.


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[Assistant] But it still can be managed, but it always requires a person at the helm. The reason Phil Jackson has success because he managed it. He managed the expectations of everyone and like you knew that. I don't care what they say upstairs.


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[Assistant] This is what's happening down here. Somebody has to control the door.


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[Assistant] Long way to go. Not impossible, but long way to go.


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[Assistant] Would you agree that any player is only as good as the tools around him?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but three and three, right? And so the rest of the teams in the league and the division went three and three.


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[Assistant] He said no way. He said no way. The Quill said no way.


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[Assistant] But to DeQuille's point was, I mean, there's basic skill sets inside of linebacker.


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[Assistant] He just doesn't have them. These are things that can't be taught. Either you have it or you don't have it.


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[Assistant] So what's the plan for Watson this offseason? What is the deal? He staying here in Cleveland?


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[Assistant] This is a football state, right? It's just like when I walk into Columbus, right? Yeah, Ohio State basketball will never surpass Ohio State football. I don't care. We win.


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[Assistant] 35 and 0 for 10 years. It's never going to pass the Ohio State football because it is football in this state, in this city. Right. I know he's saying that, but that's the reason. That's the reason.


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[Assistant] It depends on where you are. If I go to the state of Indiana, Indiana is basketball. It's basketball all day. Kentucky all day. All day. Maryland. You go to Maryland. I'm at Cheyenne's game. The sign they hold of the game is basketball is what we do. Maryland. That's what we do. St. Louis.


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[Assistant] And the older you get, the older the fan base is, it is a part of the family. So my dad and my grandpa, that was their team, so that's my team, right? That's who I'm with.


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[Assistant] Give me the hiccups because of that feeling with that sneeze. I hate that. That's the way.


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[Assistant] I'm bringing back Red Fox and I'm bringing back Richard Price.


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[Assistant] It's easy. Me, it's Watson, it's Watson one, and then it's Miles the other, right? Right? And I'm asking them, listen, this, this, this, first thing we're saying is,


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[Assistant] This what we're doing can't work here. You're going to have to come on. You have to up a game here. I'm going to need you to take miles. You don't need to become the leader here, right? And he's lead by example, right and vocal, right and stop putting it off on other people and Sean.


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[Assistant] I need you to be Superman here. I paid you for Superman abilities here. Right. Not for, uh, to be, uh, one of the, uh, Marvel


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[Assistant] The one thing I like about everybody on this panel, even Jay who's not here today, is that


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[Assistant] These guys are genuine. They, uh, have a understanding of the, of the topics. And then they're gonna give you the straight honesty, right? They're never gonna BS you about how they feel. I mean, you should see some of the meetings we have before the cameras click on, right? Cause people are passionate about


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[Assistant] That's the beauty of this, the team that we have here is that everyone is educated enough to know what they like and what they don't like and then they're going to be honest about it and nobody's going to get their feelings hurt if you just play that


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[Assistant] No, the number doesn't bother me at all. I mean, I like to see it flipped around.


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[Assistant] Cause another thing I tell you as a player, you have, you grew up with a number.


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[Assistant] That's how you identify yourself as a player. And when you go to a place that restricts you from being able to do that, some people it takes away from.


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[Assistant] And then for, I think for me, I think I had just retired and I was just working and then.


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[Assistant] And I was doing some stuff at Channel 5 with Andy Baskin and...


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[Assistant] We were doing the Cavalier's updates and NBA updates and then, uh, out of the blue, the Cavalier, Joe Tate, took ill and they needed a guy to fill in for Tate because they were moving Jim Jones up on the radio.


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[Assistant] And so they asked me to stay for a couple months, right? And I stayed for a couple months. Now that's 13 years later, right? And so, and that's how I really got started. That led to other things. I've done NBA playoff games. I've done a bunch of things, right? And so.


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[Assistant] It's just about being in a space where you knew the information and the backdrop and being able to convey it, so. Beautiful.


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[Assistant] It's easy. It'd be the company I started, right? Because we just had the attorney on the other day, right? The NIL deal.


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[Assistant] It's really only gonna work, you're empowering young people to be, basically run their own corporation, their own company, right? The only way you can do that if you are, have hands on control of the company.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, you are now in bed with everybody else selling and doing the work for you and you just happy to take a few kibbles and bits. They come your way. And so Aaron, I'm only signing with my own company.


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[Assistant] And then my own company can be me and G and Bull. We start a company, right? And we'll market that company and you won't come see me G and Bull. Yeah, instead of going to University X to tell me how many kibbles and bits you're going to pay me.


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[Assistant] We ain't got no picks. See, that's what I don't like about this franchise. At least in NBA, they used to have, they have, uh, these, uh, restrictive reagents. Yeah. And you could offer them now and try to price somebody out of the town. That's what the key is. Let me try to price you out of here.


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[Assistant] No. I think this ship is sealed. That's done. Come on. That's done.


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[Assistant] That's actually impressive. Akron and Ken is always a good matchup. Yea, they are.


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[Assistant] They don't like political correctness. They feel like they can't speak their mind at home or at work. So they want something else. Trump strolls in. He says exactly what they want to hear.


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[Assistant] And he owed nothing to the Republican party. So instead of standing there as a member of a party trying to get the nomination, he was there for Trump. That changed everything.


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[Assistant] And he says, Kosta, I've lived life. I've seen so much in my life, business, personal. This is nothing. I've survived everything else. I'm going to survive this. And I kept asking him, are you going to quit the race? There's no chance I quit. He said, not one chance. I am in this to the end.


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[Assistant] In all these steel towns that have carcasses of factories, buildings where they used to have molten metal. No more. But know what was there? Trump signs.


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[Assistant] And the craziest part about it is Kevin Szyfanski could have worked for them. You know, they had the five wives. He had the running shoes. Hey, with Jeffries. Jerry Gladwell.


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[Assistant] I know they really should. They absolutely should. Between them and the Chiefs, the Chiefs is the classic ones because they only got like one uniform, but it's just something. Do you think that the Guardians fans feel like they got bamboozled? Because there is something that says, when you say you're coming into Arrowhead Stadium,


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[Assistant] This is Tomahawk Chop. Like, because, like, the Chop, like, they didn't know, like, I'm like, you do know people, that means scalping. Yeah, that's- And do you know that was one of the most devastating ways to perish? And they're like, don't care. Don't care.


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[Assistant] Oh, what a pass. Listen, this is it right there. This dude can ball though. Oh yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. Listen, Bull had to show his team he was unacceptable, they weren't running the plays right, he said, I can do this, I show you I'm better than you.


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[Assistant] Now watch, my kid might be bigger than me, but. Well, your, your wife's tiny. I imagine most of her family is probably smaller. Yeah, like they're, they're very small. They're like miniature micro machines. You know what though? I mean, if they get,


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[Assistant] I got a little ticket. I'm six foot. I need you to have a lot of range. Pick your toys up from that chair.


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[Assistant] G, you're up first. Alright, here we go, here we go. Where are we looking at yet? So listen, we gotta get to this, man. We looking at it. So, we'll take the passing game.


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[Assistant] Now C plus, now people might be mad at my C plus here. Now let me get my rationale on the C plus. Look, you had some really ups. You had Amari Cooper who had one of his better years since he's been in the league.


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[Assistant] And you did that with a backup quarterback. I also like the fact that Jacoby Brissette is gonna make himself some money on the open market a little bit as well. The reason I had to knock you down.


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[Assistant] Reason I had to knock you down to a C+, and it could have been upwards of a B, is I just don't know how I feel about Jacoby Brissette looking better than Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I didn't see some of the same, I didn't see some of the same type leaps and bounds. And granted, you know, he was out for a long period of time. But my thing was, I was imagining that offense as I was looking at other teams playing this weekend, or playing it later on in the season.


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[Assistant] I, I give, I, I'm, I was on, I give Brissetta all the way up to a B.


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[Assistant] He has all the way up to a B. So then that brings Watson. Watson's like a D. Yeah. The Watson game, the Watson game plan was almost a D. It could have been D minus at some point. I mean the Texans game was ugly. There was a couple of weather games in there. But then at the end of the year, they really could have ended on a, on a,


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[Assistant] High note, but they played one of the worst games against the Steelers who had a backup rookie quarterback. I didn't see, I didn't see.


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[Assistant] The preparation, I didn't see them moving to a point where it's like, oh okay, I can exceed, I can see this moving, I can see this happening.


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[Assistant] Offense was a, offense was a little, passing game was messed up for me.


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[Assistant] Now the rushing attack, I would give it A minus. Now look, a lot of people, shout out to Adam the Bull. I know you're out, he's somewhere yelling.


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[Assistant] They ran the ball the most in the league, third most, right? Yes, we know. 1,500 yards, 12 touchdowns. Anybody would take that type of production, right? Absolutely. Uhm, you got almost 500 yards from your backup running backstick. The Browns ran the ball.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we would, I would have liked to see him run it in a little more, I would say, situational football. Hang on a minute.


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[Assistant] They should have been running more. They weren't. They could have gave me, I could have gave them an A plus. Like there's a lot of thirds in there.


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[Assistant] And I see, like, cause you gotta think about it. We talked about poachers the other day. The Browns at certain points in time, Jason, had one of the knockdown drag out best old lines.


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[Assistant] Plus the backs was moving. Plus Nick Chubb was healthy for every game it seems like. So my thing was that 1,500 could have easily been 1,700, 1,800. Now, I will say this, they threw the ball a little more and then out of retrospect,


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[Assistant] Jacobi Brissette allowed him to throw the ball a little bit more than he used to because he had such a nice year and I like what he did. But for me,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the game has always been an A. It's just nitpicking about how much more they could have got. Now the worst part is this. That creativity.


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[Assistant] That creativity is a deed. Why? And the reason I give them creativity is because I just watched, in the playoffs, I just watched, uh, Chris Jones. They moved him all over the place. They had him over the center. They had him over the three technique. When they needed a rush to get the game over, guess what? He's over the tackle.


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[Assistant] I watched them, I watched the Kansas City Chiefs be down to nobody.


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[Assistant] And you got, they had them fix it. Sky Moore, you're gonna be our number one receiver. Titans had to come in. You look at it, you look at it like this.


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[Assistant] Even when Shanahan didn't have no quarterbacks, they at least still scored a couple touchdowns, right? They still got on the board. But you look at the way that these other teams are being creative. Miami, right? They get on the board. Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] I just didn't see the creativity level. Maybe that's due to the scheme. Maybe that's due to the coaching. But I think it's due to their roster a little bit and consistency. I think I gave them an F because the Cleveland Browns, to be honest with you, at their peaks.


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[Assistant] Can play with any of those teams. Which is, this is wrong, Jason. At their peaks, like there's two, there's five to ten minutes of a game where you put a Cleveland Browns table on and they can play with any team in the league. But it's just, the peaks and the valleys in their gameplay, the non-consistency, if they want to get to where they want to get, it has to get better. I gave them my ass.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if, if Jacoby had stayed quarterback, do you think the Browns would have made the playoffs? No.


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[Assistant] See, I gave him the consistency thing because of the defense. For me, not consistency, but the creativity for me was F on defense.


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[Assistant] That, that, when you mentioned, I was talking to my dad after the game and he said, uh, he was like, it seems like the first half...


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[Assistant] They got so many plays where they, like, it's waves they come at you. Like, the first half is gadgets. You don't know what they're running, it's everybody flying everywhere, and they scheme usually three to four people open.


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[Assistant] Now if you can minimize some of those to field goals, you could be in the game. But usually those are touchdowns and you're done. Then the second half is your adjustments. Then they say, well, okay, we just go isolate our best players. And then you're like, oh God, they're really good. And then if you're still in it in the fourth quarter, they gotta make the plays and just go off schedule.


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[Assistant] Creativity, it's like getting to the boss in Mario World. You gotta, like, you're gonna go through waves of little minions, and then you get to the boss, and you're like, man, we still gotta, they still got stuff in here?


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[Assistant] Just, just the runs and maybe some of the less splash things like, okay, we're going to run this play. We're going to run the ball, but then I have tight ends open. We have formations that you may not choose. You may think we're going to run. You think he does that, but just on a different level is not as flashy as, as Andy Reid.


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[Assistant] They want to get to this offseason where they want to do more things outside of structure. You know, and Clemson Deshaun is one of those guys that he could do things outside of structure and he's great with that.


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[Assistant] If you look at Odell Beckham Jr., it was the first thing people say. He's not going to run the exact same route every time. He's going to do some things outside of structure, but that's what gives you the big plays. We talked about, you know, guys, some guys like Donovan B. Jones, guess what? He can get you to, like,


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[Assistant] Turn around five yards, go downfield, catch the ball, get down. He can give you that, but can he give you that, that improv type game plan where he can move. Oh, I don't see it.


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[Assistant] I mean, my homes, my homes in Reed are so good.