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[Assistant] Chipping in with a tight ender running back, and that was leaving Zedarius one on one. And Zedarius just made mid-smeet out of the Texans right tackle. So this was a game that the stat sheet may not show up for miles, but his impact was certainly felt. JOK with another interception off a tip pass from Shelby Harris, who I thought played a pretty good game. Dalvin Tomlinson once again. Emerson had a couple penalties, but overall,


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[Assistant] The Texans were unable to mount any sort of consistent offensive drives going. And I thought the secondary, especially the safeties who have been called upon into action in Harmon and Hickman and Bell.


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[Assistant] Did a pretty damn good job holding their own all things considered against an offense in Houston that has proven to be explosive this season despite some of their better players being out on, on Sunday.


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[Assistant] By the way, I thought played a good game to another guy who's a rotational piece who had another sack and it's, I mean, it's a testament to Andrew Barry stacking talent and a testament for Jim Schwartz for being able to get the most out of this defensive talent. But outside of those two games bowl.


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[Assistant] Like it really hasn't mattered who's been in. They've played at a level that is as good as any team in football. And today, one thing, or Sunday, excuse me, one thing I want to point out.


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[Assistant] This was a road game and I showed you guys on Friday, the home road splits and the Browns on the road have been averaging 31.7 opponent points against. They'd only had 11 sacks and six road games.


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[Assistant] They stepped up, showed out, and played one of their better overall performances on the road, and granted CJ Stroud was out and they were missing some key pieces on offense for Houston, but


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[Assistant] The Browns are missing key pieces too, so I don't want to, I don't want to hear that as any type of excuse. It was a dominant defensive performance on the road, which is something we hadn't seen yet from this particular unit.


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[Assistant] Uh, so let's talk a little special teams here guys, because it is the, the one thing we don't have answers on. Dustin Hopkins tweaked his hamstring, chasing down Damian Pierce, Corey Bjorkes, somehow, somewhere got hurt. And I'm not sure if anyone knows exactly when the injury was sustained, but first I'll start with this.


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[Assistant] How big and how word are you that either of these injuries are something that's going to affect Hopkins or Bjorkes? Not necessarily this week on a short week, but substantially down in the playoff run.


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[Assistant] Is it his kicking leg or his plant leg? And I'm not sure how much of a difference that actually makes, but I would assume if it's his kicking leg, if it's his right leg, there'll be even more cautious working him back in. And you know, I think if you've ever played sports, you've pulled a muscle and hamstrings are the one especially finicky one because the only real way to heal it is to rest.


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[Assistant] There's no – there's not STEM or PT or anything. It's just – it's a rest situation. And some people heal significantly faster than others. Kickers sometimes are great athletes. Sometimes they're ordinary joes with a massive boot.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know which one Dustin Hopkins is, but I agree with you guys. They need somebody.


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[Assistant] Jason, you mentioned this in the group chat, but...


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[Assistant] You know, one of the things when Hopkins went down, we were all kind of surprised.


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[Assistant] Didn't have an opportunity to kick a 36 yarder towards the end of the half when Flacco ended up throwing his second interception. I'm assuming that means he just.


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[Assistant] Doesn't have that in his arsenal, but also I hadn't thought of this and you mentioned it. He's the holder.


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[Assistant] And if he's kicking, they showed shots of DTR on the sideline.


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[Assistant] Practicing is holding, who knows the last time DTR actually held a kick in a game, but.


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[Assistant] It just throws a little wrinkle into the equation for the Browns, but I'll be honest.


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[Assistant] They've overcome so many injuries at significant positions, found guys like Joe Flacco out of his living room to come in and do what he's done that I'm not too worried about Andrew Barry being able to scour the depths of the United States to find somebody who could make a kick if needed, especially just for two weeks before hopefully knock on wood.


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[Assistant] Dustin Hopkins is able to come back and resume his duties as the Brown Starter Kicker.


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[Assistant] He was the one that had the Yips last season for Dallas, but I can't trust him in the playoffs. I can't do that.


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[Assistant] It is crazy and I put this in the group text. The Chargers had Dustin Hopkins and Cameron Dicker this off season in a kicking battle and Cameron Dicker in his career is now 101 of 103 in kicks. So they,


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[Assistant] I have to do, I have to do some digging. Actually, I think he's on the Patriots. I'm pretty sure he's on the Patriots. The Patriots drafted a kicker there. I'll do some digging, but we'll get some injury update from Kevin Stefanski later today on the severity of said injury. And I think we're all in the same boat that by Thursday, it'll be okay. But for the postseason, you need D Hopper at least have some contingency plan.


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[Assistant] Moving forward. I want to ask one more question on special teams and we'll get to Amari Cooper's record breaking day, but they gave up a kick return touchdown. They allowed an on-site kick to be recovered.


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[Assistant] Is it just, uh, the special teams have been pretty damn good. Just a fluke bad day for the Browns or anything that we should be a little more concerned about as we get to the final two weeks of the regular season.


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[Assistant] And if they need a punter, let's call Tyvis because I'm sure Tyvis in his mind could be the next great Browns punter. Uh, speaking of great Browns performances guys, Amari Cooper, 11 catches, 265 yards today said a new a it's the highest receiving total for any player in a game this season. He broke DJ Moore's record.


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[Assistant] He also set a new Browns record for most yards in a single game, breaking Josh Gordon's record. Jason, I'll start with you. Where does Amari Cooper's performance against Houston?


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[Assistant] Rank among the all-time great Browns performances, single game-wise, you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Couple of the time, distance and downs of the catches. I mean, the, the fourth down catch on the sideline you referred to, Jason, was the fourth down play. They don't have a punter, so you're going for it. Not to mention.


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[Assistant] Incredible. He also had the fourth down catch on the last drive of the game that sealed the deal when the starters had to come back in.


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[Assistant] He had a couple, you know, the first play of the game that sets the tone. The 75 yard touchdown, that whole play design. If you go back and watch.


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[Assistant] Flacco had Enjoku wide open 15 yards across the middle. Could have been an easy toss though Enjoku probably would have picked up an extra 10 yards in the act.


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[Assistant] He runs a double move on the backup cornerback in an already banged up secondary. The rookie grabs his shirt, yanks him.


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[Assistant] Still gets away from catches it. Flacco has the innate ability to loft the ball up there, like it's coming down from the moon into a bucket. And it's just perfect.


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[Assistant] He's not the fastest. He's not the most athletic. He's not the most explosive. He's not going to make the wow catches.


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[Assistant] In the same way as Justin Jefferson, he's not gonna moss people like even David and Joku can.


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[Assistant] But he does everything well, and he might be the most well-rounded receiver in football without having one skill that is, I guess I take it back, his one skill that is absolutely elite is, as you guys mentioned, the body control and the situational awareness. But as far as a guy who has a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] There may not be a guy that's more well-rounded than Amari Cooper, and I tweeted this out jokingly, and as I've sat on this for a night now, I-


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[Assistant] But the best quarterback receiver combos in football right now are Tyreek and Tua. They're number one. I think you got Dak and CD at two.


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[Assistant] And I think Flacco Amari could be in the conversation for three with Jalen Hertz and AJ Brown and...


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[Assistant] At the moment, you mean? At the moment, like healthy. So like burrow chases out cause hurt and hurt, but like at the moment.


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[Assistant] No, I'm talking strictly, I guess you would go in there, but I'm saying like right now, receiver wide receiver quarterback. I think you could have a legitimate conversation.


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[Assistant] I think right now you can make a case that they're the third best quarterback receiver combo in football. And, and you could tell me AJ Brown and, and Jalen Hertz, like, yeah, but right now.


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[Assistant] I think there's a real argument to be made and I know it sounds crazy, but I'm a little crazy.


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[Assistant] Tyvis, I tweeted at Tyvis during the game and his response was, Amari's making G. Bush's wild preseason predictions come true on one night.


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[Assistant] He needed a game like that to kind of reach the loft, the expectations we had, and we made those expectations thinking it was going to be Amari as the number one receiver for a healthy Deshaun Watson returning to prime.


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[Assistant] And for a little bit, we saw he had a great game with Watson against Arizona.


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[Assistant] But he's had his best games with Joe Flacco and throwing the ball more. That's not an anti-Watson thing. I'm just, I'm just saying his best game, the best receiving game in Brown's history.


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[Assistant] He came with Joe Flacco and Joe Flacco is putting up these crazy numbers and part of the reason Flacco is putting up these crazy numbers is he's getting the most out of Njoku and the most out of Amari Cooper. It's been a perfect cohesion of offensive talent.


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[Assistant] The Joe Flacco effect, Flacco fever, it's spreading so rapidly through Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Is this gonna be a bigger line in the sand than the Baker situation?


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[Assistant] We're going to move on. We can do a whole other three hours on that by itself and we will spend plenty of time this off season. Uh, one last thing before we look at the playoff positioning for the Browns and what needs to happen and whatnot, but real quick, five minutes tops.


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[Assistant] They've become one dimensional, and I think a lot of that's because the offensive line is just struggling to create room. They went to the Wildcat early to try and solve the running back, running game issues. Is this situation salvageable guys, or is this just a one dimensional pass first team?


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[Assistant] And before it, Flacco's earned the right to throw the ball as much as he has.


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[Assistant] But it's obviously harder to win in football when you're a predictable offense and right now the Browns are pretty predictable.


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[Assistant] And Stefanski started to use the screen game and some quick passes to get them involved in Pseudo.


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[Assistant] He's found ways to make the quick passing game, the short passing game an extension of the running game because they haven't had the success handing it off. And it's shocking to me that the play action game has been so successful considering how disappointing the running game has been because they still


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[Assistant] Time in time again, the touchdown to Amari, play action. The first play of the game, 53 yard bomb to Amari, play action. The touchdown to Njoku, play action. That's still working despite the fact they can't actually generate any consistent running game. And my fear is, at some point teams are just gonna say,


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[Assistant] Try and run the ball, like we're just not gonna fall for the play action fake, but it hasn't happened yet, so keep doing it. Guys, you know- Don't stop.


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[Assistant] We're not afraid of your run game, then you don't just commit the same resources.


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[Assistant] That's fair, we're gonna wrap up this Christmas edition of UCSS in one sec, but bull.


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[Assistant] The Browns have all their aspirations and goals still ahead of them. And the one seed is still technically in play. The division title is still technically in play. And they need some luck. They gotta win out and need some luck. But...


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[Assistant] If I had asked you before the season that on Christmas day, we'd have Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] At the starting quarterback of the Browns and a one-seat division title, we're still on the table. Would you have believed me or would you have slapped me aside the head?


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[Assistant] On a Tuesday, a secondary victory Tuesday, but it's a short week because the Browns hosted Jets on Thursday night football. That means Friday, our TV programs, a reactionary TV program for the first time ever. We're going to have to turn our minds and attentions to the New York Jets. And guys, there's a chance that we have.


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[Assistant] A clinching playoff game to celebrate this week. And I just, I didn't think that was possible with all the injuries that the Browns have sustained this year. It's a testament to the whole organization, everyone up, down from the GM to the custodian.


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[Assistant] And it has been a fun Brown season to cover and be a part of. Uh, any last thoughts before we bid farewell on this Christmas Monday, this victory Christmas Monday?


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[Assistant] And that's, that's my thing. Enjoy every second of this. There are people from all different corners.


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[Assistant] On Thursday night football on national TV against the Jets team that frankly they should be able to beat. It's a Joe Flacco revenge game and I cannot wait. I cannot wait.


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[Assistant] To sit here on Thursday night, fingers crossed, celebrating a playoff for these Cleveland Browns. Guys, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for spending your Christmas morning with us and everyone who tuned in. We appreciate you for spending a little bit of Christmas.


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[Assistant] On the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. For both, for Jason, I'm McNuggets. Merry Christmas to all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I'ma be honest with y'all. At this point, it's just, what's up?


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[Assistant] I'll be like, I'll be feeling like bull on that, man. Just imagine if he just would have put $10 on that.


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[Assistant] This is my thing. So it always starts that way. Yea, I know it. What, what? Dalvin Cook, if you're telling me I'm getting number 33 from the Vikings, like, cool. Like that's a, yes. The old Dalvin Cook. Yea, we get him tomorrow.


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[Assistant] But it's a reason that this guy's numbers is like this. Like...


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[Assistant] And people like, well, he had Breeze Hall in front of him. Listen, if he was that good...


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[Assistant] There's no way you're gonna tell me that they're gonna keep him off the field. Why would you keep a productive runner back off the field? If anything, you would want that so you could take hits off of Breeze Hall so he could be more healthy towards the end of the season. You can go with a 1-2 punch.


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[Assistant] It just ain't the same. It ain't the same. And I'm looking at our running back room, okay. Jerome Ford, Kareem Hunt, Pierre Strong.


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[Assistant] What does he bring to the table that you can't get out of those three? And that's what I'm having a hard time with. Like, Jerome Ford, he kinda...


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[Assistant] He kinda had bad vision and he kinda tiptoed a little bit. But the Jets game, he actually ran pretty hard. He broke some tackles, found some creases, and made some nice moves. If he gonna continue to play like that, I'll take that any day of the week. So I don't, I don't know what he brings here that we don't have already. That's my, that's where I'm struggling.


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[Assistant] Well I said, that's why I said number 33, not number 3 from the Vikings, number 33. How old is Dalvin Cook? Oh, he's not Dalvin, like 27? I think he's under 30.


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[Assistant] I get so many hits. About him, if I'm the bronze, I'd sign him to practice squad. I'd put him on the practice squad. As just a body. For insurance. Just in case. Yea, insurance.


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[Assistant] Wait, you had the same agent? Yea, me and Rodger had the same agent. That's how I got my agent. Oh, nice. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] He just said that he was an alternate. He said, but he think he is just a little late in his career. He said he agreed that he should have been playing because the Jets line is not good. There you go. That's just the Jets.


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[Assistant] You know what I like about him though, Leroy, about Blake, cause you know I did the, you know I was with the Big Ten this year so I had to, I had to cover them. I went through the season when we did the Big Ten Championship, I did not know, he did not fumble the ball one time. Nope.


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[Assistant] And he was right then. No, we said that we, we asked you about that like three weeks ago. Well, no, Leroy said.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know if he's at that game, but they had a meeting or something like that.


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[Assistant] Leroy, let me ask you a Browns related question. Dalvin Cook is a free agent. Are you in or out? Out.


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[Assistant] That's an easy one. I mean, I would start Jeff Driscoll because for the simple fact that it's a bunch of reasons why I actually won. If he wins the game, Kevin Stefanski starts five quarterbacks. It's a great thing. The first coach ever to win.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. That's not how it works. You let Jeff Driscoll go out there, you start him off, and when it doesn't work out or things is close and he's not playing up to your liking, you say, Phil!


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[Assistant] Well, I thought it was two obvious choices, but I went with one. I went with Andrew Berry. I thought Andrew Berry completely changed my, my opinion of him. Before this season, I thought he was a guy that didn't draft well. He didn't get the right talent in there and he ignored glaring issues on the team.


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[Assistant] And this season, his draft picks, even his undrafted picks, they're doing pretty well for themselves. He's actually got meaningful people in there that some people might have thought, who is that? Maybe he's not the biggest name guy, but he's come in and he's contributed and helped some of the issues that we had.


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[Assistant] What was my, what was the other thing? Uh, uh. Trades. Trades, yeaah. He made some trades this off season and they've come in and they've worked and they've done well. Zedarius Smith, Shelby, getting Shelby Harris off.


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[Assistant] On, uh, the active roster, uh, Moe Hurst. Even a guy like Jed Wills are signing a guy like David Najoku where everybody's like, why are you doing that? They've actually...


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[Assistant] What Cam Newton say after he scored that touchdown in Carolina and took his helmet off?


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[Assistant] Right. So no, no, no. What happens is you, you have to play three games gets you more money, but six games get you closer to free agency. And that's in a crew season. So he hasn't played six total games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if he hasn't played six games, that means that they can offer him a deal and he got to take, he'll be a restricted free agent.


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[Assistant] They say that the great rise come after the fall. That'll have to be next week.


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[Assistant] That's not, well I think that the one thing that it, that you said that makes a ton of sense is that Donovan Mitchell does stunt to grow for the other guys. Because you had a young Darius, you had a young Evan, you know these guys needed, they needed opportunity to grow and when you got Donovan out there,


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[Assistant] See, Donovan's not gonna sit back and be like, I'ma let y'all go tonight and let y'all do your thing. Donovan's gonna look at it like, I gotta be this guy because, and I'ma carry us as far as I can, you know, you guys will get better as the thing going. You'll figure out how to play off of me.


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[Assistant] To where it's like a guy like LeBron would sit back and say, you know what?


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[Assistant] It's on you tonight. I'ma give you the ball, I'ma set you up and let you do your thing.


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[Assistant] Get their attention and put them in position to score in some type of way. And you gotta let them get better. You gotta let them grow. But taking the ball out of their hands all the time and doing it yourself, that's not gonna help them in any way. They just gonna look at you like a


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[Assistant] You gotta make a change. My question about Donovan Mitchell, and McNuggies, you probably would know this, how is Donovan on defense?


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[Assistant] So my question is, if he's, if we're struggling right now as a team because we have what you call two small guards, he wants to go to the Knicks. Ain't that essentially the same situation?


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[Assistant] And the Browns have done, I mean not the Browns, the Cavs have done nothing but put themselves in a situation where they'll be a good regular season team. They might win maybe a series in the playoffs, but that's as far as they're gonna go.


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[Assistant] Who would play who? I said George Clooney for Kevin Stefanski. I said Chris Evans for Joe Flacco. Uh, The Rock cause he's so big for Miles Garrett. And I don't know who I have, but who's the last person?


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[Assistant] Joe Wood, uh, no not Joe Wood, Jim Schwartz.


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[Assistant] His presence, and Jace, you probably see it a lot more than some of us in the locker room, is so dominant right now. And the way he's really galvanized, I believe, that locker room, and then playing is a tight end. This is...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I love Kittle and I love the Kelseys, uh, Travis Kelsey and that. No question. But he, he now, I believe, can be talked at in that level and


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[Assistant] His physical presence with our tackles. We talked about this the last two weeks here on the show. Man, I mean this to be funny is I really don't exactly know who our tackles have been the last few weeks. Okay, they've done awesome, man. It's unbelievable how awesome you guys have done. But having this tight end next to you right there.


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[Assistant] And for Dave and the Joker to be making plays like that with his athleticism, but then being a stone cold tough guy blocker at the end man of the line of scrimmage is one of the really big keys, I think, to this Joe Flacco resurgence of our offense and stuff. He's doing a lot.


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[Assistant] In the passing game for sure, we see. But he's more impressive to me in what he's doing blocking in and around the line of scrimmage. And that makes him one of the best, if not the best all-around tight end in the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] This is sort of a joke, but me and him have been so close over the years, that's all I talked with him about is the presence that you're supposed to have with your quarterback and how you develop that relationship with your quarterback and Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] And back in the day when you're staying in, in this system, the tight ends and the backs, they tend to block a fair amount and then leak out into pass protection. He's really a check down on that first third and fifteenth conversion. That was just a check down into zone.


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[Assistant] Him understanding the macro of it and then developing a rapport with his QBs. Flat out talking and knowing that you could always count on me. So in the old days, I like to...


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[Assistant] But man, when I know that David Najoku knows where to get open, like I'm looking at you Adam, but I see the camera to the right, I really should never look at you in the eyes. So now, when the quarterback knows that David Najoku will find that void, and then they have that little communication, he's always this security blanket.


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[Assistant] Almost like, not what Travis Kelsey, I believe, is doing.


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[Assistant] In, um, Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes and kind of the freedom to ad-lib, but there's a little bit of ad-libbing within the check-down principles that are able to find those voids. And then like Joe Flacco's really adept at using those tight ends and having that check-down to


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[Assistant] I've been, I've been so excited coming in on this show the last few weeks that I'm calling you to come in to talk about how fun it is at this time of the year to talk about Brown's playoffs, Brown's fun, Brown's W's, and then flat out just Joe Flacco's, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's not, you know, this is not false enthusiasm. This isn't kind of, let's hype our team.


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[Assistant] Nobody wants to play us right now. No. And we are as dominant with Joe Flacco and him understanding, um, understanding, um, the check downs and the system. And we were talking about the last couple of weeks how he's getting better with it. And, and this is, this is something where no team wants to play the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] So the atmosphere, the excitement, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is that such a tilt level? So just a shout out and congratulations to the fans, to the organization. Heck, the guys like Jason who's had to go into the locker room every day for, you know, decades where...


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[Assistant] It's been hard to do. It's been hard to follow. I mean, heck, we're doing a December 29th show, holiday season.


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[Assistant] Nobody wants to play us. I'm confident with us going on the road. It's even better if we'd be able to be at home. And last night,


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[Assistant] As much as I truthfully just wanted to be a fan and just be a student of the game and be able to articulately go back and forth with X's and O's.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with people and knowing I was going to do this show today and be able to be intelligent about the plays I saw, I didn't see any. And, and, and I, and to your question it was because the fans, it was so special to them. I had guys, guys older than me crying.


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[Assistant] You know, to meet people for 10 or 15 seconds and be able to see that love and excitement and see so many dads who are there with their 20 year old or 15 year old little boys and that kind of father son bond. It was, it was super awesome to see the people enjoying it this time of the year.


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[Assistant] It wasn't fabricated. It wasn't just for TV. They genuinely are good guys bonding with the community and stuff. And to see, and almost to your point, Ty, is that


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[Assistant] Our question was, you know, the fans and the excitement and the comparison of it, it really brought back kind of emotional memories of


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[Assistant] Of being able to, to, to live that, to live those fun moments. Man, how many times have we had Christmas and New Years where you couldn't give away tickets to last night. I couldn't get a friend to go with Bernie Kosar to a football game now. And be all Steelers fans celebrating another trip to the playoffs. Yea, making fun of you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I heard that, I also heard this the first time, the second time in Brown's history that we had 12 wins, the only other time was with me I think in 86 or 87. And actually,


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[Assistant] Maybe this is a thing to maybe talk about myself or talk about Joe Flacco's presence, but


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[Assistant] He's always been special. I mean, he's been in the playoffs the first five years in his career. He's got a super bowl and stuff. He could see, he could adapt and learn and he's, he's being able to, he's being able to kind of galvanize us and ride this emotion.


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[Assistant] Time, sometimes rest, uhm, you lose your in-sync-ness, and Joe...


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[Assistant] The, the weather is getting better. Why David Najoku's making big plays and getting yak yards after catch is in this, you know, it was a nice night last night, but it's still a landfill, Cleveland Stadium. It's still a mud pit down there. And it's, uh, understanding guys that are kind of tough.


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[Assistant] Mindset guys that could work in between the numbers and Jarvis Landry fits into that. Nobody fits into it like Amari Cooper and stuff, but those may be kind of options that


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[Assistant] If we're gonna make a longer run in the playoffs, then we should be planning on that. Yep. You know, to put, to start having an extra guy or two like that on practice squad that could move up if Omari.


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[Assistant] We want that, optimally, but if those guys can't go, we can, okay, we can go to Kansas City.


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[Assistant] And okay, we could go to Baltimore, we did it. So, now having that belief and having the guys that actually could do that and


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[Assistant] Of course Chief is a tough guy in there doing that. You want Elijah Moore and you want Amari Cooper, but if you don't have that, I'd feel, I'd be really comfortable with a tough guy like Jarvis Landry, you know, cause that kind of guy's been there and done that.


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[Assistant] I love, and it has nothing to do, I love them coming out. I'm a Frank Wright fan.


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[Assistant] Dude, this isn't marketing, this isn't feel good time, okay, this isn't, I don't care about your feelings right now, this is win or go home, okay, and it's, this is why he goes to the playoffs, this is why his first five years he's in the playoffs, this is why he's a Super Bowl champ and an MVP, god and that, so that guy,


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[Assistant] We all say that we're independent. We all say we can make decisions. When he goes like that, he's telling his guys what to do.


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[Assistant] It crystallizes to them what they need to do too. And you can see that they have so much respect for them. Oh yeaah. That they, they take the advice as opposed to human nature saying, oh why are you telling me this? They take it, implement it, and then you can see it working moving forward.


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[Assistant] Belief. If I was going to go on a macro homily of belief and being positive and genuinely having a belief in yourself.


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[Assistant] That makes a positive difference in anything you do. And I think this team really believes they can win. They really believe they're good.


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[Assistant] And now, and I, and then philosophically, you match that up with the Kevin Stefanski, Andrew Barry kind of physical running game that we're trying to do and be in a physical presence. I think that com, uh, that combination is, has a convergence for us of why we're seeing this success.


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[Assistant] And that coupled with, with play action pass, that Joe's doing under center, you can keep an extra back and a tight end in, and then you saw genius level movement, like Joe Flacco doesn't, isn't


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[Assistant] I mean, and he's got this, I don't want to go too much into it because it is giving up a game plan or a strategy of how you dice up a defense and you, I eat up the linebackers and DBs on scramble drills, like how he,


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[Assistant] He had no intention of running that ball on the touchdown pass to Ford, okay? He knew Ford was over here and he's running at that first downstack. He's gonna go, I'm gonna get that.


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[Assistant] I'm getting a first down. I'm looking at it. He knows Ford's there and he just does that flip.


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[Assistant] One yard in front of the line scrimmage. You are in such a bind. The D.E. linebacker, the savvy veteran, like that flips the whole game.


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[Assistant] And Joe Flacco, albeit not mobile, he's coming up, we're coming up with this scheme in playing action, passing, that you can create those check downs, even if it's not there. By the way, he pretends to move, or pretends to run, to get the D.D. to believe I'm gonna...


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[Assistant] Right at the line of scrimmage. Get there. And then the David Najoku's Ford last night. Cream Hunt's really good at finding open voids. It was my Leroy Hoard. Leroy was the best at doing what Ford did last night. And Joe Vlako has implemented that.


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[Assistant] I break even. Now, if you win, if I win, if I win this first round game.


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[Assistant] And you start to have an example of what we're going to do in front of you.


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[Assistant] You, you gotta say when people start to get to the point where it's next man up and then the next man go in and play well and then he out and then the next man go in and play out.


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[Assistant] That starts to be the expectation level. That starts to be that, that, that's what we're looking to do. That is what we are about. And right now, the 2023 Cleveland Browns is about that motto. Right now, it's already established. It's already in the pipeline. When you've already had the example placed in front of you,


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[Assistant] We got PJ Walker and he won a game against the 49ers. There's nobody else that's more important than a quarterback. And we won with a quarterback that's really not even a professional quarterback.


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[Assistant] We've been winning that way all year. And what it does, it makes people who are just nicked up a little bit, play harder. It makes people have to step up and say, listen, I know Denzel is out right now.


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[Assistant] But we called Greg Newsom out, right? And Greg Newsom had one of his best games last week, because he said, I gotta step this up. We called Zedariah Smith out. Miles Garrett is banged up. Guess what? He got it in the, in, in, into the column of playing. Right now, this is a, to me, I ain't gonna say this to Team Destiny, but,


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[Assistant] I think what's happening more than I've seen ever in my life is the Cleveland Browns actually think, and they are correct in this judgement, that they can beat any team and they got a great chance to go to Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I got a real question here. I'm a big man player.


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[Assistant] For the Madden game. How did that, cause there's a lot of people that would love to, how did you get that off?


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[Assistant] No, it's like, that's the holy grail. Like, like when you got that call, it was like, dang it.


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[Assistant] Before we go to that, this is the funniest comment I've ever seen. Somebody said, Jay's wife just texted him, when are you going to help me with that Christmas tree display that I asked you last week?


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[Assistant] But I, but I do think, I think there's a difference. You know, we'll see what you think about it. It's a difference between...


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[Assistant] What the analytics say you are as a player based on what you are in real life. See, in real life, you could be inefficient, but guess what? If that's the best that your team has to offer,


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[Assistant] I, I need to score points. So who cares if you're inefficient? If you, if you have no, like in basketball, people say, oh, he takes a lot of shots, he's inefficient. Well, listen, if, if I don't got nobody else on the team, they can put the ball in the hole, I need you to shoot the ball. So it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Do you believe that you can have a safe, I would rather have a quarterback.


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[Assistant] Who is inefficient, but realizes that he has to throw that ball.


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[Assistant] And he has to stretch the field rather than to check down Charlie that looks like his numbers are great. I mean, but he puts, you put your team in a position where you take that all into account.


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[Assistant] Who's that other little corner they had? They had another skit. Mike Ford? Nah, not the, not with the, not with the lot. Khalif Halesi? Yea, yea, yea. He only played two snaps. He played two snaps.


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[Assistant] Uhm, who, who's the next tackle up? Uh, you know, they got uh, they got Hudson over there. He's awful. And he played, he was a little choppy last week. You know, what is your insight on who would be the next guy they call up if they do need a tackle, even if somebody gets injured?


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[Assistant] Why does it look like Joe Flacco is more comfortable with Kevin Stefanski?


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[Assistant] Then Deshaun Watson. Why does it look different? It looks like it's smooth. He's been here two weeks.


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[Assistant] I can't tell him. I'm like, uh, maybe this is the office that Kevin really wants to run.


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[Assistant] If someone asks you that question, why do you feel that it's the, you know, he just got here, he has a 300 yard game, three touchdowns, why does it seem like it just, it just seems like those two are meshing when, when Deshaun and Kevin weren't meshing at that level that quickly?


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[Assistant] Mary Kay, when you look at it, the Browns, I don't know why it is. Shout out to, uh, the fans that go and, and I've been trying to challenge them for a lot of years to get back, to get that home field advantage. The Browns are a different defense when they play at home. I mean, their lights out when they get turnovers at home, the crowd is loud.


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[Assistant] Is there any, I know a small chance, is there any way that you see the Browns could potentially get a home playoff game in the playoffs? They have to win the division.


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[Assistant] On the, on the bad ankle. Bad arm. Bad arm. Bad arm. But he was hurt, he was hurt before, he had an ankle injury too. Did he have an ankle injury?


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[Assistant] And, and, and he did that, and he beat the best team in the league.


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[Assistant] That's the, that's the problem. Cause Nick Chubb, like Nick Chubb gives you something when there's no line, it don't even matter.


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[Assistant] And the trade-off is you gotta go with Flacco at quarterback. Yeaah. I think the Browns will go. I think they wouldn't lose no more.


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[Assistant] I'm not prepared to go that far. No, but I, but I think Nick Chubb is that special to where now it's just, it gives you another offense. What's sad is we


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it just hurts. It hurts. But it's very scu- Listen, lemme just be clear. It's close. It's very close. That Deshaun Washington I seen, that I seen against the Ravens, that's different.


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[Assistant] Like, that's a special. He gets people to play harder. Like, the fact that he came in and they was writing him off. Listen, he, and by the way, the Tennessee Titans, I think four footballs hit the ground. Four.


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[Assistant] Yes, I look, I look, if they make the playoffs, they're going to make it a lot easier offseason, right? Because if you look at it,


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[Assistant] I'm excited. We didn't get to see Deshaun Watsons or Nick Chubb.


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[Assistant] They better start transitioning somebody today. Because think about it, Conklin is coming back, DeWine Jones is coming back, and Judger Williams is coming back. That's three tackles for two positions. Somebody's gonna be a swing.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, like, I feel like when somebody says, that's so bad, I could do it. No, that's not true. That's not true.


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[Assistant] No, I get there, we gotta get there early because traffic is usually just nutty around the stadium. And it's gonna be crazy today. It's gonna be bomb.


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[Assistant] I wonder how many people are not even going home from work. Just set it right to stay downtown. If they're even working, like today's a big, this is a big week.


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[Assistant] So a lot of NFL teams have really cranked it up the last few years, and it's unbelievable. The Browns, no. Are they the worst in the league? I haven't been to all of them, but it's, I mean I'd put them in the bottom half.


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[Assistant] Although they did add an omelette bar this year, which is exquisite. Okay. But they, they, they cook the omelette, they cook the omelette wrong. They do it wrong. What do you mean? I've spent enough time in Marriott M clubs. I know how you cook an omelette. You start with the ingredients. You don't start at the egg. You put the ingredients in the pan. You put the ingredients. Yea, cause you got it.


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[Assistant] And then you put the eggs in. Otherwise the eggs get overcooked. Well, and, and they don't flip. There's one, there's one lady there, you're my girl, she flips.


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[Assistant] Alessia made the egg dish, but I made the French toast and bacon. I'm a big breakfast. I can do breakfast and dinner.


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[Assistant] That's it. That's it. Like chicken nuggets, pizza, pasta. I mean that's not that unusual for a kid.


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[Assistant] He just acts like an ass. Is he your number one disliked ass? No.


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[Assistant] I like Philly, San Francisco, and Dallas more than Detroit. In a playoff game. In a one game playoff game, I would take any of those three over Detroit. It's hard to say Dallas because they haven't won anything, but neither has Detroit. Yeaah, but they've still at least gotten there more than Detroit has.


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[Assistant] I agree with, you're right. The Jets secondary is terrific. The Jets defense is great. I don't think the Browns necessarily needed Mario Cooper to win this game. I just, I don't think the Jets are that good of a team. I think they're out of it. They came back, they had a nice comeback last week. Like they're not, they haven't given up on the season.


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[Assistant] They had a big lead through it. I know, but they fought back in one game. They didn't just roll over and die. They fought back. So they haven't given up on the season. I just think the Browns are a better football team. I think they're a better coach team. I think they're a more talented team. The Omari injury is concerning only because sort of what Mike said, he's dealt with a lot this year.


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[Assistant] And you just want him healthy for the postseason really at this point. So if he can go, he's going to go. I do expect he probably will go. If he doesn't, then I think they can win the game anyway. I really, we were talking about it before we started. We can get this a little bit later, but I really think that they need to try and rest guys for that Bengals game. I know they could still be in it for the top seed and all that. We can talk about that later, but really,


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[Assistant] Some of these guys just need their bodies to rest. They need a week off. But until you clinch, you can't really do that. So if Amari can go tonight, he's gonna go. Uh, but I, I think they can beat the Jets without him.


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[Assistant] Trouble the Browns tonight. It was the one thing that we talked about when PJ Walker was a quarterback. You can't have turnovers. You can't have turnovers. You can't give them a short field.


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[Assistant] With Joe, there was a little bit more room for error that if he did turn the ball over, he's going to get it back going the other way. If Amari doesn't play tonight, I think the turnover concern becomes real. Because it's going to be harder to take, to get the big chunk plays down the field.


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[Assistant] Although I think Dejoku could be a massive mismatch for the Jets tonight. Because you're not going to put a cornerback on him, he'd kill him. And are there linebackers really capable of keeping up with him?


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[Assistant] So I think Nijoku could be a really good mismatch for the Browns tonight against a really good Jets backfield, defensive secondary.


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[Assistant] But, I do become a little bit more concerned about some of the turnovers Joe's had.


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[Assistant] If Amari's not there to sort of get it back on the other side.


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[Assistant] He gives you more depth, it's a positive. It's crazy because I remember when he first went out, I thought, man, this is a big deal. This is a big loss back there. He's done a nice job of keeping the big plays.


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[Assistant] Uh, in front of him and he goes out and I think McLeod missed one or two and he let a couple out of the gate. But the two guys have been in there, D'Anthony Bell, uh, and Hickman, Ronnie Hickman have been terrific back there.


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[Assistant] He triggered my ADD with that, so I had to go look up, I had to go look up Simeon's ADOT last week. 3 yards. Averaged up the target last week against Washington was 3.3 yards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how many times have we seen teams try and beat the Browns with these quick passing games? It doesn't really work. It never works. The only way to really get them is on deep shots down the field. They have given up a few of them.


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[Assistant] You're right, the deep shot down the field. Okay, that was him. I thought he could have put up a little bit more of a fight on that, actually, on that interception.


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[Assistant] But that's why he's not on IR yet. If you put him on IR, then... But they could have brought him back after four games.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but I'm just saying, at this point, if you put him on IR now, he's out for the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Well, if he's healthy, it would be four weeks. Right. Was Jacksonville, was it really four weeks after Jacksonville with the four games?


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[Assistant] If you have a chance to win the division, you have to go for it. You have to go for it. I'm just saying it's not the worst thing if Baltimore clinches it before then so you can rest guys the last weekend. If you're not going to win the division. Because so many things have to fall your way. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So you, if you have it in front of you, you have to, you have to go for it. You have to go for it. I do agree with that. I'm just saying, I don't think it's the worst thing if that's wrapped up ahead of time and you can rest Amari Cooper. You can rest. I mean, Flacco shouldn't be that banged up. He just got here, but it's just eliminating the risk of injury.


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[Assistant] Ravens this week. Give t them off their feet for a know they've had a ton of the worst thing in the


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[Assistant] Prior to the Bengals game so that you can just rest everyone for the last game.


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[Assistant] against the Bengals and I wouldn't play. I wouldn't play anyone. I would, I would not play. I'd sit Petonio. Yes. I'd sit Teller.


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[Assistant] I know, and he's gonna fight you tooth and nail. No, he doesn't play. But I'm not playing him. That's ridiculous. I'm not playing him. Denzel Ward, no chance. No way. No chance. No. I don't want Denzel playing in the preseason. I definitely don't want him playing in the 2017.


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[Assistant] But your argument would have to be the one seed to lose in the first round. That would be the argument.


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[Assistant] And the reward of getting these guys off their feet for a week when they did have such an early bye week outweighs messing with the rhythm.


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[Assistant] You're either getting a home playoff game or you're getting the AFC South champ. I'll take either one of those.


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[Assistant] I would be... Well then they better lose to Cincinnati so that they can keep playing and not get the week off. That's what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Long time ago. I forgot, Mike Tomlin's a terrible coach too.


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[Assistant] He's young though. I don't think, I don't think offense defense makes you a good or bad head coach. I don't think it matters. By the way,


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[Assistant] Well, and just because you're a good play caller doesn't mean you're a good general.


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[Assistant] It screw ups all the time. But it's also like what else are you supposed to do? You're supposed to find a linebackers coach to become? Well why not? Because that's an enormous jump in responsibility where you go from


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[Assistant] Six guys to 53 guys. I hear what you're saying and I agree with you.


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[Assistant] But I mean, I guess that's why I think maybe special teams guys, but other than that, like, it's hard, there's no great...


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[Assistant] It's also the locker room. The locker room's gonna look at you like, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] Well, I guess- And eventually you can win him over. Yes. Because I mean, to the Browns' credit, nobody's looking at Kevin Stefanski. I wrote that at his introductory press conference. I'm like, well, here are the Browns outsmart themselves again because nobody else is looking at this guy. Right.


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[Assistant] They speak the same dialect. They're all pulling on the rope the same way. I have heard countless stories.


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[Assistant] Over the years of GM's throwing this guy out of the building or out of the room and you're not allowed in our meeting.


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[Assistant] That is no way to run, uh, you can't run a healthy franchise that way. You can't have success that way when the GM doesn't trust this guy and when that guy doesn't believe in that guy and it's Game of Thrones, right? Everybody's trying to cut each other's head off. That happened with the Dorsey regime. That happened with Ray Farmer's regime. It happened with all of them. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to get into specific things now, but it's every regime prior to this one. It was some sort of, and Jimmy was a big part of it because Jimmy would go to this guy and say, what do you think of that guy? So whether it was intentional or not, he was almost the one pitting them against each other. So, and that for now,


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[Assistant] I mean, uh, Kwesi left this front office to become a GM in Minnesota. When's the last time the Browns ever had one of their executives plucked to be a GM elsewhere? Drew Petsing, former quarterbacks coach.


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[Assistant] He never wanted to retire. He got thrown out. Nobody called him. And I'm sure when Rogers went down, he was expecting a phone call. And the, the Jets were in a weird spot because the Zap Wilson thing. And here's this guy that they invested a lot of draft capital in. It was another opportunity for them to get a look at this guy. So I kind of understand it.


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[Assistant] But you have to have regrets if you're the Jets. If you're seeing the way Joe's playing now, now there's no guarantee he's going to play that way. I think Kevin's system in play calling has a lot to do with why he's having this success. But you can't help your human to look at this and go, man, I wonder if we missed


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[Assistant] You thought you was gonna be your guy. He was a disaster. The Rogers injury gave you another opportunity to go back to him. He was a disaster again. Now it's over, over, over, over.


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[Assistant] When Rogers went down, the Jets had an opportunity to get a definitive answer on Zach Wilson. Agreed. If Wilson came in and balls out, you move on from Rogers at the end of the year because you've got this guy and he's young.


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[Assistant] Agree. But now you know definitively Zach Wilson cannot come back to New York. Yeaah. You're probably going back to Rogers if he's healthy next year. Yep. And you at least got your answers from, uh, from the Jets perspective, they at least have clarity on that.


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[Assistant] To really ball out, I think. Flacco's been around a long time. He's a veteran. He's not gonna get.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's the Jets. The Ravens, I think, mean far more to him, probably, personally. He was in New York for a couple of years, but I think Baltimore is the one that really holds a special place in his heart, more so than New York. So I think you're right, he's a veteran, he wants to stick it to him, no question about it, but he's not going to let emotion overcome him.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore is the one I think that really wants to punish New York tonight. And hey, if Amari doesn't play, he's going to have his opportunity.


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[Assistant] No one wanted to hear it at the time, but I mentioned it at the time. The thing that really kind of turned people off to him in New York was


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[Assistant] I forget who it was now. They had a huge win last year. He was coming off their big win and he has to be traded. Coming off their best season.


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[Assistant] Especially if Amari's out tonight, which we all think he's gonna play, but if he's not out there...


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[Assistant] It's Elijah's, you know, he's got the relationship with Flacco. He's got the history with him. He's got the motivation against his former team. This could be his moment.


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[Assistant] I actually think it's more of an advantage for the Jets, knowing Flacco's weaknesses and knowing how to.


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[Assistant] Scheme him and come at him and blitz him and everything else. I actually think it's more of an advantage for the Jets going against Joe, but it absolutely Joe has insight and knowledge that he could share with Kevin on.


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[Assistant] The thing I, I'll take this back, I don't know if it's a great comeback or not, but.


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[Assistant] That knew Houston was vulnerable and they were going to attack early in the game. Yeaah. And it hit. First play of the game. Boom. 53 yards. Deep down the field.


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[Assistant] And that's where, where Joe can be very helpful I think with Kevin of


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[Assistant] In certain situations that you almost know to be true, typically, unless there's a turnover or something weird, you're gonna get the ball, first time you get the ball, it's gonna be between, you know, your 20 to 30, somewhere in there.


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[Assistant] Kevin's already really good going on script, we know that. I think tonight even more, especially given Flacco's knowledge of the Jets and how they like to play.


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[Assistant] He's proven that time and time and it drives people here crazy. But that's what he does. He throws to set up the run. He doesn't run to set up the pass. So I expect him to come out throwing tonight just like they always do. I agree.


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[Assistant] I wasn't in, I think I was gone. I wasn't in the day you guys were talking about it.


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[Assistant] I would have liked to have seen him in the building more. I didn't care so much about the sideline. I didn't think it was a great look, but whatever.


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[Assistant] But I wanted him in the building. He didn't need to be in LA rehab and he needed to be in Cleveland around his team. Like we have world class medical facilities right here.


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[Assistant] And I'm glad he's back. I'm not going to make a big deal about it. I thought he could have been incredibly helpful when it was DTR. He needs, DTR needed a veteran. And I think at the time I said, I'm glad Flacco's here. When he first had the surgery, you know, obviously he had it in LA or whatever, fine. But you know, after a couple of days,


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[Assistant] You're okay. It's, it's a shoulder. You're okay to come back to Cleveland. With Flacco, I'm, Jashawn can still be helpful to Joe, for sure. There's nothing wrong with another set of eyes, no matter how long you've been doing something. It's great to have somebody else, another viewpoint, whatever. I just thought it was more helpful with...


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[Assistant] Why? There are specialists, there are different specialists that you go to. That's not uncommon for players to go to a certain doctor when they have a procedure. There are certain guys, just, there are some more famous than others. Sure.


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[Assistant] Yes. Well, he's the new guy, but the... Well, no, but like the guy in Alabama. Yeaah, I know you're talking, but I can't think of a thing. There are certain guys, if you have a shoulder, you go here. If it's a knee, you go here. If it's a finger, you go here. Right, right, right. So, that's fine. You go to LA to have the... And, and, I mean, listen, the, the Deshawn and the Browns Medical haven't exactly been... Okay. But once the surgery's over... Yes. You can rehab here. You can, you...


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[Assistant] I think it was more important for him to be in the building during the week than on the sideline during the game. But again, with Dorian as the quarterback, it's helpful to have him on the sideline. I mean, these guys have iPads. If you watch Kevin, as soon as the drive's over, they're handing him a tablet. And he's watching the plays.


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[Assistant] And it was sort of my thing with Miles and OTAs. If you're going to be a leader, if you're going to call yourself a leader, then lead. And you don't get to take time off from that. If you're a leader, then you need to lead. So I, I like the fact that he's back in the building. I think it's great.


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[Assistant] Not as big of a deal on the sideline with Joe as it was with Dorian. But just be in the building everyday. Just show up everyday. Be in the building everyday. I think it's, I think it's great.


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[Assistant] I think tonight is cool for, it's important for him to see tonight. This is what it can be like in this city.


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[Assistant] Because I don't think we've seen it yet. And they've had good crowds this year and they've been loud and they've been into the games and whatever else. But when you're talking about clinching a playoff spot in front of fans, it has been done in 20 years.


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[Assistant] Tonight is an opportunity to show to Sean who doesn't have a lot of history with Cleveland who


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[Assistant] This is what Cleveland Brown's fans can be like. This is, when it's rolling, this is what it feels like. This is what it looks like.


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[Assistant] And when the Baker Thursday night Jets game, I mentioned this yesterday, I think it was.


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[Assistant] Well, the way that they're trying to build this up is some huge thing that's going to bring the house down. I'm kind of, I'm kind of curious. He already did it. Yeaah. Right?


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco and Dustin Hopkins being the two most important players on the team. Didn't see that coming.


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[Assistant] It's been a blood war all week between Flacco and Miles. And Tyvis said it's Miles. I said Miles until Dorian went down because I have no faith in PJ Walker whatsoever.


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[Assistant] I didn't realize you had the Jets game last week, so tell us something we didn't know about the Jets or tell us something we should be watching for tonight with New York in town.


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[Assistant] I agree. Real quick, I just thought of this.


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[Assistant] Robert Sala came out and said they don't have any regrets, I guess, of how they handled the Flacco situation. Do you think internally New York feels like they missed on this by not bringing them back? We were having that and we were talking about it earlier.


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[Assistant] Joe didn't play particularly well last year outside the Browns game. And I thought they needed to make a decision on Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] Once Rodgers went down, so I kind of understood, but they still could have brought Flacco back as the, as the backup to, to Zach because nobody else was calling them. Do you think that they whiffed on this or do you think that they, they're okay with how this played out for them?


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[Assistant] There is actually precedent to it. I looked at stuff the other day. I just looked it up again.


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[Assistant] Bruce was, yes, Bruce, so it went, Bruce in Indy, Ron in Carolina, Bruce in Arizona, Ron in Carolina. So, there, so, and, I mean, Belichick went three times.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny about this? I was just thinking about this. Give me the parameters again. How are we doing this? It seems to change every week. I know.


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[Assistant] Because actually, I would probably have Dejoku really high if we're talking about value. No, this is the 10 best. Alright, so Miles Garrett's won. Miles is my vote for one, yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I said my guy. I think Sauce is that good. I think he's the best cornerback in the league.


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[Assistant] Well, you got somebody else. That's the lowest we've put Denzel, I think all year. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Antonio. Garrett Wilson. That's Garrett Wilson.


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[Assistant] I think he's been better. Which is a problem because the Browns just redid Betonio's con- They did redid both of them. Well, Betonio's still good. They did redid both of them. Betonio's still good. Joel's older.


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[Assistant] Well, that, I mean, that would be the two I'm... What about Wyatt?


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[Assistant] I put flaco and a joku on there. Uhm, I don't really care the order. It's nine and ten. I don't care. Is that the wrong answer?


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[Assistant] Well, I'll say Nijoku. Alright, so Nijoku's nine. And Flacco's ten. So Flacco's ten. Flacco ten.


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[Assistant] Mary Kate's with the Browns have elevated, both the kicker and the punter off practice squad. Those are the two game day elevations, so Behorcas is out. Behorcas especially, yea. So I just texted it to you Anthony. The punter will be the holder tonight. Like that's, that's a concern that we really haven't talked about at all.


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[Assistant] Not only is there a new kicker, but it's a whole new combination. So how much, I mean obviously these guys have had a few reps this week. Yeaah. And they're both veterans.


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[Assistant] There was something special. You just had to be there at the old stadium to see how close it was to the end zone number one. You were right on top of them. And the fact that you could throw things on the field.


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[Assistant] And people were throwing batteries and dog boat. Like John Elway would be standing in the end zone and fans would be firing fastballs at him. Hitting him with batteries. Go ask all players, they were pinking off the helmets.


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[Assistant] All kinds of objects being thrown at them. It was a different world, man. And it was just, it was the route. I got, true story, I got stoned in the dog pound at like nine years old.


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[Assistant] Secondhand stone, because I was there, it was a preseason game, it was a Brown Steelers preseason game, and my brother took me to the game, and I was, I got just stoned, from the people behind us, so this is like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. And we went down to get food, and I'm under the concession stand, I'm like, I don't feel so good, and threw up all over the place. Well, now you can legally get stoned. Now you can legally get stoned to the dog pound. But, uh, it was just a different, it was cool. The old stadium was just, it was awful.


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[Assistant] But the dog pound version of it, like, it was an actual, the bleachers, it was the center field bleachers. You know it was baseball, baseball football, right? And it was, I think it had a lot to do with just how close you were to the field.


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[Assistant] And I mean it was nuts in there. It truly was like Rikers. And Sunlaw just doesn't get it.


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[Assistant] Hey, how you doing? Yeah, I'll be home in a little bit. I'm just totally ignoring both right now.


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[Assistant] I saw him in the locker room once. How's he doing? We talked for less than 30 seconds.


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[Assistant] A big night on a national TV game when you're the only game going tonight, it could really, gases chances, for sure.


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[Assistant] Jet, I'm kidding. Jet propelled into the postseason. Brown's clinched playoffs with 20 to 7 win over New York. I'll give the Jets one touchdown, maybe on a short field, something like that. Uh, I don't think it's going to be, Tyrus thinks it's going to be a really close, low scoring game.


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[Assistant] I tend to agree with the low scoring. Two good defenses, but I don't think the browns. I think this, by the two minute warning show, I think this one will be wrapped up. Hope I'm right. I usually am.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I would too. I won't be leaving the stadium until 3 or 4 in the morning tonight. And I gotta be back on set. Who is it tomorrow? It's you, me, and Tybus? Tybus, yea, Tybus. Nice.


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[Assistant] Well, no, I was just impressed by how much thought you put into this because normally...


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[Assistant] And I used to be really good at this. I used to be really quick at getting back on everything. Now I'm like, am I last? Usually am I last? U or G probably. U or G.


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[Assistant] It drives her crazy that I, I just, I legit, I truly, like I make jokes about it, but I truly do have ADD. So my, my brain is just. Why don't you take a medication for it? No, that's medications for quitters. This is more fun.


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[Assistant] I mean, so the one day I was, uh, at the radio station and I parked on the street, I couldn't find my keys.


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[Assistant] So, my keys were in the car, but I couldn't find them. So I had to leave the car, unlocked, with the keys in it, on the street, in downtown Cleveland. Was this the new car? Yeaah. Is this the car I drive now?


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[Assistant] And eventually, like I did, like during a break or something, I think I went down there and- Did you assume the keys were in the car? Yea, because it started, so it's a fob. The keys were somewhere in the car.


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[Assistant] I could, in my car there's like some deep crevices that things can fall into and I found it in a deep crevice and I pulled him out but for probably an hour or two I had a nice car sitting on the street with the keys in it.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's not who I was thinking. I thought it was going to be Bernie. Oh, Bernie's always on one.


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[Assistant] He's doing the guitar. He's done it before. He's done it before. He was week one, I think, or the week of the enshrinement, or whatever. Yeaah. Yeaah, I guess it would have been week one. It could have been an enshrinement week. And Bernie's done it, you said already? Bernie's done it. I think so.


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[Assistant] I remember, I vividly remember that at 87. Like 8? Uh, I was negative 6. I was 11. Negative 6. I thought 86 was the drive. Was it 87? Was 87 the drive and 88 the fumble? I thought it was 86 the drive and 86, whatever. It was all around the same time. Yea, it was all around the same time.


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[Assistant] He gave you, he gave you moments. Alright, alright. So it's Manziel, Hugh, anyone from the Art Modell family? Brady Quinn?


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[Assistant] No. Bill Cowher's claiming the Browns now. Yea, he loves the Browns now. He did play here. Yea. Like, he coached here and played here. Uh, Justin Gilbert? I don't think he was. Brandon Whedon?


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[Assistant] They've already thrown things at him once. Ah, there he goes. Toilet paper on the foot.


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[Assistant] You asked me, of course I didn't know it. That's actually a really good point.


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[Assistant] J has five, G and Bull have four, and Tyvis has two. Alright, we have two more. Tyvis, I'm sorry. Two more. You're not undefeated.


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[Assistant] And let me make something very clear real quick. Just so we're off the hook. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] We put in the chat, so if you're watching, Anthony put the link in the chat. The chat, the link is to Caesar's.


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[Assistant] Which promises the free tickets, that is not coming from UCSS, that is coming from Caesars. We are giving away barbershop swag, UCSS swag, but in the, you can see the link in the chat.


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[Assistant] That is where you get your two tickets. Make sure you guys click the link. Show up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the thing is I haven't lied yet, which is terrible. And yesterday we got news that Grant Delpit, we knew he was hurt, but he's officially headed to the IR. Kevin Stefanski said he may be able to return for the playoffs. That's still TBD and Agbo.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's, he's a warrior. The Browns, they've dealt with incredible amounts of injuries, but these guys are tough as nails and we've seen guys play through stuff that most wouldn't, but I hate asking this question because it's cliche. It seems silly, but with all the injuries that have continued to mount up for the Browns this year, is the team cursed?


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[Assistant] We talk about the guys going to IR. That's only half the Browns issues. They had about 12 guys not practice yesterday who are still game time decisions. These are just 6 I circled because...


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[Assistant] They're important players. Denzel Ward, who did practice, but he's not cleared yet. Jordan Elliott still dealing with the concussion. Pochich with the stinger. Thornhill with his calf. Two running backs. Four with the wrist. Hunt with the groin. Let's take Ward out of the equation because we thought he was going to play last week. He didn't play. They're still winning. It's a mobility issue with his shoulder. It's not a pain thing. But of the five guys under Ward.


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[Assistant] If one of those five couldn't go against Chicago, who would be the biggest loss for the Browns as they get ready to face a major team that's 1-3-4?


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[Assistant] We're going to talk a lot about the Bears defense tomorrow and the effect Montez Sweat has had on the Bears defense. So that conversation is coming. We're going to spend some time on Justin Fields, how the Browns have to slow him down. But if you're watching the chat.


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[Assistant] And do us a favor. Guys, the Browns have struggled against some mobile quarterbacks this season and Justin Fields may be as mobile if not more mobile.


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[Assistant] Then any quarterback in football, he leads the Chicago Bears in rushing yards this season, despite missing a few games, which shows how often he's willing to scramble, how effective he's been. If you were Jim Schwartz.


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[Assistant] If you guys, and G, we'll start with you, if you were trying to figure out a game plan, a strategy, to stop Justin Fields, both in the passing game and the rushing game,


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[Assistant] If they drafted a right tackle last year, you could take Joe Alter, the guy from Penn State this year, who's a top five tackle. Beef up that line.


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[Assistant] McVeigh and Payton were able to design run plays to counteract the wide angles of the pass rushers.


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[Assistant] Is that something? And listen, the Bears offensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] And their offensive scheme is not Sean Payton caliber and not Sean McVay caliber. So let's get that.


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[Assistant] Point blank out of the way to begin with, but is that an area you think Chicago may look to attack with design quarterback runs as Miles Garrett and whoever's lined up on the opposite of him, use these wide angles, maybe not necessarily in trash, but in certain counter formations and ways to kind of take advantage of the space that the Browns intentionally, uh, vacate in order to get past Russia.


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[Assistant] I actually was going through the all 22 and I came across this jok run stuff that while we're talking about it for two minutes, I want to show you guys, Steve take tag board, full play, both angles. This was from the Jaguars first drive and watch jok. You see it even better on the backside.


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[Assistant] Split two defenders and laid the boom on Travis ETN. You literally can't do it any better than that. JOK's in the middle. Watch him split two offensive guards. He gets skinny.


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[Assistant] He, oh, he's the best. That was the guy. We're gonna play a little No Fence Riders. Aditi's gonna come on in about 20 minutes, so we may have to pause. We'll finish him with Bernie. But let's get into some No Fence Riders Bears Browns edition.


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[Assistant] Uh, for the record, G Bush, we sent the questions out yesterday. G Bush sent his answers in at 10.25 this morning, which means we already made the graphics and guessed for G. So G, if you disagree with what you see on the graphic, we have to, you guys, I'm going to give you a challenge to guess if


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[Assistant] I guessed for G, and or just put him on a side to make it more even, or if G really actually answered that way. So, let's get to the first one. Will Justin Fields, who we just talked about, have more rushing yards on Sunday than any individual grounds running back?


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[Assistant] That does bring us to our next question. This is a running passing combo for Justin Fields against Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco is 565 yards in two games.


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[Assistant] Will he throw for more yards on Sunday than Justin Fields accumulates total yards? So Joe Flacco passing yards versus Justin Fields total yards. Gee, I guess for you on this one.


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[Assistant] And I'm guessing after hearing what you said, I guessed wrong, but Jay Earl Ty and Bull said yes, Jason myself. And I guess G would say no, but G it sounds like you're flipping to the yes side of the fence.


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[Assistant] Beautiful. Alright, we're gonna go to the next one here. Let's go to the battle of receivers, the battle of number twos. Will DJ Moore have more receiving yards than Amari Cooper?


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[Assistant] We're gonna talk about it tomorrow, but Jalen Johnson, the Browns' cornerback, is actually the number one graded PFF cornerback in the entire NFL. The Bears, sorry, the Bears, excuse me. Denzel Ward and Emerson, who both have played phenomenal this season.


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[Assistant] We have a Dee Dee and you guys didn't answer. Jay, will Myles Garrett snap the skidless sex streak? Yes or no?


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[Assistant] Yes or no for you, Bull? You said yes? Just for the record, yes, Miles gets a sack.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna zoom Fence Riders when Bernie comes on, but right now,


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[Assistant] No, it's not. So, Joff and Ryan Clark said this.


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. We have three super chats to get to today. Skilly is the first one. He says, I'm sad. I'm going to miss everybody tonight. I'm in Columbus for work, but would have loved to have made it out.


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[Assistant] Any other remote shows scheduled? At the moment, Skilly, no, but if this goes well, hopefully it opens Pandora's box for many more remote shows.


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[Assistant] In the future. Rated R says strong, doesn't have good contact balance. That's why he doesn't get a lot of carries. He goes down on first contact too easily most of the time.


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[Assistant] And Peter G says, Emerson doesn't do well against faster receivers. Notice that's why Newsom and Ward cover the faster guys. Just an observation. The Browns try to protect him, but he does make the most of his opportunities. And those are super chats. And with that.


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[Assistant] Uh, nothing new, nothing new, so no extra. No more IRs. Yea, don't scare us, brother.


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[Assistant] Mary Kay said, Agbo not practicing, neither is Thornhill. Pierre Strong has been added to the not practice list.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, it's the holiday season.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Ho ho ho. Oh yeaah, little faith.


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[Assistant] It's going to ride on his magic carpet the rest of the year. And I'm telling you, every single week.


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[Assistant] Now Leroy, back then, back then, you probably played when they had the Newman's. The Newman's was the gloves. The Newman gloves was like, you wear them, they was paper mache. That's one game apiece.


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[Assistant] I'm more of a soft-tissue injury-wisher. Like, I get two to three weeks. Just make time up with when they play the Browns. Well listen, shout out to the Bears. By the way,


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[Assistant] Them is the worst uniforms of all time, them orange on orange joints.


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[Assistant] Of course it is. I'm talking up here in the earlier meeting. This is, this is what you gotta do. Y'all, we talk about this cap and everything and all that good stuff and y'all like to bring up that you gotta hit on your picks. And this guy is a third, I believe third or fourth.


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[Assistant] He has a run-stopping mentality, and it's time to see what he can do. Now listen, he may not have the upside of a pass rusher like a Maurice Hurst or Shelby Harrison. Probably gonna play a whole lot.


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[Assistant] Stubborn when it comes to certain players, right? I thought Diabate played very well, and they still play fields.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he played very well. I thought that right now you got receivers going down. The kid, uh, Watkins, I thought he played really well in preseason. We see him. It looks like they have a plan. I think he was up.


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[Assistant] He has to work on his pass rush game. To work on your pass rush game, these guys don't be understandin' it. Aaron Donald and Miles Garry and all these dudes is good because what? Hands. They got hands and they got a whole team of people.


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[Assistant] Doesn't Miles Garrett have his own chef? Miles Garrett got his own chef. He got to own everything. He got a sleep specialist. He got a, he got a exercise physiologist that just stretches him, that gets his body in different positions.


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[Assistant] I text, I text this guy when somebody else said it and I know exactly what he's talking about cause two Baltimore Ravens confirmed that when they played with him too.


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[Assistant] This dude has been the man. Siaki, you get drafted, you with the Browns, you got Jim Schwartz, you get Miles Garvey on the other end, you get single blocked all the time. By the time Siaki, he can get in this game.


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[Assistant] He's going to be on another level fired up.


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[Assistant] He's going to be motivated. How could you not be motivated? You a hypocrite. No I'm not. Yes you are. Case to case scenario.


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[Assistant] And here's the thing, I haven't seen E could get an opportunity to do his thing. You still need another one though. You need four. But guess what? I've seen all the receivers do what they do. They've been here years.


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[Assistant] This week, this is what we gotta do. Do you think they doing this because they're like, well, they may be, they may be trash, but we still winning. Do you think that plays a part in it? Cause that's the only thing I can think of.


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[Assistant] You know what, I'm starting, somebody said this on my barbershop show. I'm gonna keep it real, man. If y'all don't start paying these young dudes, I'm gonna stop watching y'all. Because why is Craig Porter Jr. not playing?


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[Assistant] I don't understand it. The dude. So you don't like that Tristan's playing? I love the fact that Tristan's playing well. The bot, it ain't Tristan Thompson. It's, it's, it's the, the, the Jared Allen's of the world.


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[Assistant] I don't care about D.W.A. hitting one thing. Sam Merrill? I like Sam Merrill. I like Sam Merrill. Why? The problem with the Cavs is this. There's no rotation that you can think of.


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[Assistant] It's just like a hodgepodge of guys that go in.


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[Assistant] No different. I do agree with that statement. It's just, it's just, you know, guys come to the gym, they don't know how many minutes they playing, what role they have. Did you get Jared Allen? You forgot, you think we forgot about you? No we didn't. You act like you didn't even want to be there last game. How'd you fall out in like 10, 15 minutes?


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[Assistant] First round. And we keep tropping him out. I just, I just don't like the fact that we just keep giving people credit for being nice dudes that we would like our niece to marry. I don't care about that. Y'all just a bunch of dudes. Y'all laugh and joke and y'all don't got no offense. This is hard to watch, man.


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[Assistant] I'm the Bill Plasky of this thing.


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[Assistant] Nah, I'm always going with the Simone. I'm definitely playing the field on this. Nah, you ain't 36. What gave that away was the number. 36 is crazy.


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[Assistant] He does not have a basketball build at all.


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[Assistant] I don't understand, I don't understand Jay. They should just, if they want to go ahead and expand it, the way it works, you give them four teams, you put them in Europe, put them four teams there, and make them the division, and then they can schedule it better. You can't have one team, why don't they just go on out and give you four?


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[Assistant] But I'm seeing them performing. Did you tape this earlier? Maybe. I just don't understand how the award shows work. Like, I'm seeing a part of your performance. You're like, tune in to the Grammys tomorrow. That's true.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, now he's sick. Well how many of the Packers started since then?


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[Assistant] quarterback to start a game this year. We could get to 60. And the Chargers didn't have a second one in, in all those years with Philip Ruhm.


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[Assistant] Okay, how many did you go back for felts? Uhm, so, 11, 12.


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[Assistant] And it's not like the Chargers have been the model franchise. I mean, they've been a decent franchise, but not-


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[Assistant] You guys? I think it's, the way the Browns are playing right now with an inability to run.


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[Assistant] And maybe that's going to be helped because Posik did play, practice yesterday, and I read something this morning that Petonio is going to try to go even though he hasn't practiced this week. And if they have both of those guys, I would think they'll have a better chance of being able to run at least a little more. But I, I think, you know,


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[Assistant] Hopefully not three interceptions, but I think Joe Flacco, you know, he's in his career, especially in his recent career, he's turned the ball over a lot. That's part of what you're going to get when you're, when you have an older quarterback.


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[Assistant] Who's still got a good arm and is a, he's a gunslinger. He's not afraid to take a chance. Bernie talked about this eloquently yesterday. He said, listen, the guy's not scared, not scared to throw that third pick, the fourth pick. He's going to keep making those throws. Well, he's going to keep making those throws. Occasionally they're going to go to the other team.


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[Assistant] So I think that's part of the mix that they have to deal with with him as quarterback right now.


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[Assistant] I would say limit the turnovers. They can still win games in the regular season when he has 2-3 turnovers, I think, but when you're playing the better teams, no. Like, he can still have one pick in a playoff game, and you can get away with that.


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[Assistant] You give Kansas City two short fields. And again, as you said Jay, not all picks are equal. If I throw a pick at the 30 yard, at the Chiefs 30 yard line and they start driving the 30, okay, that's not the end of the world. But if I'm throwing a pick 6, that's a disaster.


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[Assistant] Because this, this stat, not a surprise stat, but it was, it was kind of, you know, uh, it was a good one here. According to PFF Browns, the Cleveland Browns defenses allowed points on just 45 of 186 drives. That's 24%. So they're giving up points one out of four drives essentially. The average in the league is 35. That's better than one out of three.


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[Assistant] Mike, I would love to know a stat of how many touchdowns


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[Assistant] The Browns have defenses given up where the other team had to go more than 65 yards.


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[Assistant] Remember the movie Remember the Titans? I'm sure everybody's seen that movie. Remember that they were playing that coach who's a racist and the referees were kind of cheating against them? Yeah. And then the white assistant coach, Coach Yost goes,


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[Assistant] Well, think about this. In the Super Bowl era, so since 1969, you're talking what, what are we at, 54 years?


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[Assistant] It's always the same age as me. So in the first 57 years since the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] The Browns have had not just receivers, they've had 13 players.


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[Assistant] Have a thousand yard season. I'm sorry, 12 players, and Ozzie Newsom did it twice. So 13 total times. That's it!


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[Assistant] Remain the 12th player, but do it, become just the second Browns player. Forget back to back.


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[Assistant] Ozzie Newsome, who had a thousand and one yards one year and a thousand and two yards another year, not back to back.


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[Assistant] Is the only Browns pass catcher in the Super Bowl era that's had more than 1000 yard season. They've never had a receiver and Amari Cooper's about to be it. It is beyond stunning that how bad they've been at getting wide receivers.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. I'll give you the rest. Here, here it goes. Josh Gordon, Braylon Edwards, Webster Slaughter, Jarvis Landry, Amari Cooper, Kellan Winslow, Kevin Johnson, Gary Barnage, Odell Beckham.