[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ugly loss yesterday. I'm not quite sure there's another way to phrase it other than ugly and frankly unacceptable. We'll talk a little bit about the Browns and I have a keep cut trade for you guys at the end that is sure to get some laughs, some thoughts, and maybe even a tear or two from one of you guys. I'll tell you about that in a sec. But first,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Say goodbye to busted brackets because FanDuel lets you bet on every single game of the NCAA tournament. Whether you're betting on a big upset or a one seed, it's time to go dancing on America's number one sportsbook.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right now, new customers get $200 in bonus bets if their first $5 bet wins. That's 200 bucks to use on point spreads, money lines. You can even pick who's gonna win it all. Just visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Bet on college hoops until they cut the nets down.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And today's winning ticket was just submitted 13 minutes ago by so live $10 into $1,600 on this same game parlay between the Detroit Pistons.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the, uh, Brooklyn Nets, excuse me, and Washington Wizards hit the over, hit the under, hit the points, hit the rebounds. All 10 hit and SoLive turned $10 into $1,587. So shout out to you SoLive. That's a hell of a, and congratulations on the dub.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Make sure you tune into that on the bullpen today. We got four guardians topics we're going to run through today. I want to start with this one though. We did the overrunners on props on Tuesday with you guys, individual player props. Let's go to the win total for this team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Zero and zero, they tweeted out the road to 162 and zero starts today. Vegas and Fanville specifically has their win total set for 79 and a half wins this year, guys. You have to bet on one side of the equation, the over 79 and a half wins or the under. Which side would you take? We'll start with you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So you guys all mentioned the rotation. You guys all took the over on the wins.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] MLB.com released their top 10 rotations for 2024 and I thought this list was pretty interesting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Mariners at one, the Braves two, Phillies three, Dodgers four, Giants five.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, then the Cleveland Guardians at 9 and a few teams tied at 10.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A, do you agree with the rankings? And B, how they do with the guardian?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Also, the guardians just made some trades. Bunch of nobodies, but they traded cash considerations for Peter Strzelecki.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So I looked it up. Now this is an article published yesterday in the Mercury News Times, which is a... It's in the Bay Area. Yea, Bay Area newspaper. This is written by Jason Mastrodonato. I want to read you the first three paragraphs. Short.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ready or not, here come the Oakland A's fans. As soon as, as early as noon on Thursday, fans are expected to begin lining up to enter the parking lot at the Coliseum. But many won't actually buy a ticket to the A's opening night game against the Cleveland Guardians, a sign of protest against the team's pending move to Las Vegas in 2028.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] While 26,805 people went to the team's opening game at the Coliseum last year,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Almost as many have already signed a petition agreeing to show up but not enter the game on Thursday while boycotting the owner said Brian Johansson, founder of A's group, A's fan group, Last Dive Bar and one of the organizers of this boycott. Quote, this is going to be like Burning Man, but we're not going to actually set anything on fire.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] After this weekend's series against the Oakland A's, make sure you check out the Ultimate Guardian show with Paul and Zach Meisel.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As we move forward throughout the season. And speaking of those Guardians Bowl, I asked you guys to send me in bold predictions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Each one of you guys give us a bold prediction. I want to start with Tyvis as we work our way around the horn.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tyvis, do you want to give us your bold prediction? For the Cleveland Gardens, and to give everyone a context, Tyvis will go, Jason will go, Bull will go, then I asked Twitter to give us some. Okay. And I got a bunch of good answers from Tyvis. Alright. We're gonna go through a bunch of bold predictions. So Tyvis, start us off.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We didn't, but we got a bunch of fan ones I want to get to because some of these are really good. So I tweeted out this morning, it's opening day. Drop your boldest predictions. We'll share some of them on air. Here's the first one. We got a bunch of these. So Steve, take tag board full and we're going to run. First and foremost comes from Jordan Ligas.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our guy Eddie says one of Josh or Bo Nailer will not be on the team past the trade deadline.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, it was a bold prediction, so at least it was. Alright, next up, speaking of Kyle Manzardo, Andy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Pachoni says Manzardo wins AO Rookie of the Year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Next ball prediction comes from Billy Baller II, who says the Guardians have the most regular season wins in baseball by the end of April.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This next one is a multi-part prediction, and it is quite bold. Are you ready? Yes. Kyle Erickson says, Jose hits 35 dingers, Josh Naylor hits 25, Bieber wins Cy Young, and the Guardians extend him. That's pretty bold. The last part is the one that...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I got one more via tag board. I'm gonna read two more than Anthony has one. He wants to chime in, but then we'll hit our last Guardian. That's gonna be, that's gotta be


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm not giving anything away. Uh, Maddie Ice 13 says Paul Dolan will spend more money on fireworks than actual payroll by the end of the 2024 season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm gonna read a couple others that came in after we grabbed the tag boards. Just gonna read these. Brett.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At try to be says the guardians won't completely suck due to the crappy central division but still trade beaver at the deadline of cut payroll.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, back into the playoffs to be bounced in round one. Again, new skipper, same old trick.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Brian Rokeo, 15 plus homers this season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tim, the Timinator 45 says guardians run away with the division. Young talent sparks a playoff series win.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jeremy says, 95 wins, you can book it, that is Jay-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Two more real quick, two more, and then I'll let Anthony chime in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our trusty EP Steve Becker says, my bold prediction is that Bieber will remain with the Guardians and sign an extension.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because it's against the Oakland A's. And on the road, obviously.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Does it still have that same opening day feeling it should have, or it has in the past? Or does it feel like the real opening day for the Guardians this year is April 8th for the home opening?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And tomorrow with Jay back on the show, we'll break down everything that happened tonight. We know Jay will be up watching it. Yeah, Jay will certainly be up watching it. So we'll have your full recap.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, uh, today at five o'clock, Earl the Pearl back with part two of his conversation with See So Short, the ultimate 216 show. Part one was phenomenal. Part two.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm expecting even better and bigger things from that. So make sure you guys tune in five o'clock. Earl of Pearl and his boy Cecil shorts, the Cleveland native talking all things about his career, what he's doing now and some interesting decisions he's made throughout his life. So make sure y'all tune into Earl on the two one six show today at five o'clock. We'll get to the Cavs loss in a sec.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's coming. Don't worry. We are not avoiding it. We're just trying to push it off as long as possible because it's hard to talk about.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There are grades and there are reports and there are analysis that come across every day from our


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So you have to generate it. And the 33rd team, and one writer in particular, Dan Pizzari, wrote his off-season grades thus far for each AFC team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So they gave out grades based on the off season moves thus far. And I'm not sure...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nope, it was just a tweet. So we're gonna have to make a, make out of this. I'll show you every team in the AFC in a sec, but we'll start with the Browns. Steve, take it full. We gave the Browns a C- on their early off-season moves. Before we get to the rest.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] C minus. Does that seem fair? Too low, too high.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And no one gave him a C. What did I give him? A B minus? Give him a B or a B minus.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is from Dan, and there actually wasn't, the tweet did not include the link, but they did write an article.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Cleveland Browns biggest, and this is from the article, I'm reading this off the phone. Okay. The Cleveland Browns biggest swing was acquiring Jerry Judy on the fifth year option for two late round picks. This could be a low risk trial period to see if Judy could develop as a number two receiver next to Mark Cooper. However, Cleveland signed him to a three year extension, though the exact details remain unclear.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To avoid quarterback crisis from last season, Jamis Winston and Tyler Huntley were brought in on cheap deals to serve as a second and third quarterbacks on the roster. Bringing back to Darius Smith might've been the biggest win of the off season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Defensive depth was also added in Jordan Hicks and Quinton Jefferson, but here's what's still needed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A few of these moves matter if the quarterback play is not good, which is the Brown's reality right now. To a lesser extent, they did something similar with the Judy contract to ensure that at least one receiver was locked into the roster for 2025. But Judy is disappointed during his career and Cleveland has already priced in, priced in the improvement the team hopes to see from the former first round pick.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I hear Earl laughing this other side because it is funny that I didn't see the article, had I seen the reasoning for the article. Yeah, that was ridiculous. Uh, I was trying to think of the reason why he would give it a C minus just playing devil's advocate to your point. Yeah. Maybe he thought the depth of the defense. No, he.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When you look at this in totality, and if you want to include the Judy extension, sure, if you don't want to, you can take it out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are the Browns a better football team today than they were on January 11th, the day after the playoffs?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's time to go dancing on America's number one sportsbook and right now,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] New customers get $200 in bonus bets if their first $5 bet wins. That's 200 bucks to use on point spreads, money lines. You can even pick who's gonna win it all.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS and bet on college hoops until they cut the nets down. If you have a winning FanDuel ticket, especially from March Madness, make sure you guys send it to us via Twitter or email so we can feature it on the show in the coming days. It was ugly. It was unacceptable.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's really not any other words I had to describe what happened last night in Charlotte between the Cavaliers and the Hornets. Jason, I'll ask you first. We texted before the game. I said it would be the most Cavs move ever.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To hear the news of Donn back friday to have the mo


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To lay an egg and lose that game and it came to fruition. So if you want to say I jinxed him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My bad hand up, but there's no excuse to lose to Charlotte on the road, a team that hadn't scored 100 points in five games in two full weeks. They had a hundred after three quarters offensively down the stretch. The Cavaliers were non-existent. It was frustrating to watch and with the loss.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The guys have fallen into the fourth seed, surpassed by the Knicks. What the hell did you make of that performance last night?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Was that they were built and we had the same conversation probably a month ago.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Maybe not with the Bossons and the Milwaukee's, but that should be a middle of the road NBA team to take Donovan out of this roster.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Darius for not being as consistent as they need him to be. It's on Evan and injuries have played a part of it, whatever, but he has not taken the leap people have expected in year three. Jarrett's been everything you could have asked for.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the collection of guys, if you want to blame coaching for, if you want to blame whatever reason you want to blame, without Donovan, this team is not good. And it should be significantly better.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It feels like Cleveland is starting their offense way too late in the shot clock, Jason. Like time after time, they're running a couple of dribble handoffs before they get into their pick and roll action. And by the time Darius or Keris or whoever it is gets into their pick and roll set, there's like 12 on the shot clock. They run the option if it's not there immediately, they're kind of stuck with four or five seconds left. Yeaah. And they have to get a bad shot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Has JP always done that and I just had it noticed or is that something they've tried to add maybe without Donovan in the lineup that just hasn't worked?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah, just something I noticed last night. Possession with Karras, where he turned the ball over late in the game, that was out of a timeout. And we've talked time after time, Jason, how good Tylou was at drawing up those plays coming out of timeouts to make sure you get a good shot. Last night,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, just sometimes I think there's, this is all fair criticism, but it just sometimes feels like it comes off a little harsh.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, but the, the Karis play last night, it's an ATO, he gets the ball, he dribbles in a circle for 10 seconds and then...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's nothing to do, like I, I just can't fathom that was the actual play. And I'm curious too, on the very first play of the game, the single first possession, Kaz won the tip.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They come down, there's miscommunication, Darius thinks they're running horns, Alan wasn't ready, throws a turnover on the first play, and you can see literally from the first possession, they weren't on the same page, and that's just an unacceptable outcome in my opinion of how you prepare yourself for a game. You're not, like, I played D3, not the NBA.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We knew the first play of every game going back to like eighth grade. You go over it 77 times before you walked out of the locker room. I'm not sure if it wasn't communicated.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not, not getting, not taking the bait here, ball. It's just that it's an unexcusable situation on the first play of the game to not have the communication on the first pass. It's not like this is the back end of an action.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's been six times this year bowl where a team has overcome an 18 point deficit in the fourth quarter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, I'll show you the video one sec, but last thing on the calves, then we'll do a Steph. Don't play keep cut trade. But, um, I think right now, if you look at the Eastern conference.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Cavs are looking at, all right, who do we want to play? Who do we want to avoid in a first round matchup? I feel like every team below the Cavs are like, how can we get in a matchup with Cleveland right now? They're the team that every, every other team in the Eastern Conference wants to play. And that's a hard reality to accept knowing how good this team could be.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Warriors ended up winning the game, but this was his reaction, Steph Curry.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So a topic on first take today real quick. And the only reason I'm telling this is it'll put a bow tie on the staff. But a topic on first take today was...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, about Steph's leadership in candy control Draymond and Jay Williams, who's on first take today said that high level people in the NBA have been asking him and questioning Steph Curry's leadership abilities for not being able to control his teammate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want everyone to hit the like button, hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. It's free, takes two seconds, helps a lot in the back end. We got an email response from Dan Pezzuta, the writer of that 33rd team article.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I did not, no, he emailed us at 1217, so 8 minutes ago. Uh, I wanna read this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hi Steve, sorry for the delay. Getting back to you. I've been swamped. Unfortunately won't be able to join you guys today. Appreciate you reaching out. Hopefully we can work something out in the future. What I would say about the grade is I approached each team with a C as an average offseason. Most teams in these grades hover around the C. So a C minus is slightly below average. I was a fan of bringing back Zedaria Smith.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I thought the trade for Judy and the extension was reaching on a player who has not shown an extensive history of being productive and it was a move slightly overcompensating for the overall lack of offensive production.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On the team last year and the fact there was no receiver signed beyond this season. With the contract, the Browns are essentially already paying for the best case scenario with Judy as a high end number two. There was really no discount on getting the deal done now, signing him to future years as a player the Browns hope he'll become, but hasn't yet.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Proven was a bit of an unnecessary risk in my opinion. Thanks.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So we are going to play Keep Cut Trade Cleveland Sports Edition 2.0. It's a mixed bag of current players, former players, baseball, basketball, some non-sport related at all. So we'll start with this one. Keep Cut Trade. You know how it works? We'll start with some second baseman. Andres Jimenez, Nico Horner, or Gleyber Torres. Keep Cut Trade Bowl.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, you like that one? Alright, move on. We'll go to some, uh, number two receivers in the NFL. Keep Cut Trade. Jerry Judy, Tyler Lockett, Christian Kirk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We'll go a little basketball here. How about three point guards? Tyrese Maxey, Trey Young, and Darius Garland. Keep cut, Trey.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Daniel Jones as a quarterback is the biggest fraud. Yeah. I'll trade Trey Young cause some people clearly see him leaving him. And Isaac's not a fraud. So Isaac, you get cut, but that's the best situation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know if Trey Young's trade value is as high as you think. He's put up good numbers on bad teams. He's tough to play with. They traded for De'Jonte Murray. It's gone terrible. Maxey and his first chance to shine without Harden is going to win most improved players. Averaging 26 and six this season on 45 and 38% splits. I really like Maxey.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But like, like Trey Young is going to get a max contract. I don't think you can build a team around Trey Young. I'm not saying you can build a team around Tyrese Maxey as your star either.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You guys mentioned Magic Johnson. He's actually in our next Keep Cut Trade. We're going historical NBA guys. Keep Cut Trade. Magic, Larry, and Kobe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When they were put in the bubble, I've heard some stories about how tough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we got some more, so let's run through these. Also, the Cavs have signed Marcus Morris for the rest of the season, just FYI.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, no shock. No shock. Alright, next up we're going back to current NFL players. Keep Cut Trade, this tight end trio. TJ Hockinson, David Njoku, Sam Laporta.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Listen, I'm keeping Laporta, that's not, but I think the Hawkinson one is legit. No. Hawkinson is a block. Getting a great block.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, Steve, skip this one, we'll come back to this one in a sec. Alright. Next one. You have to win one game. You have to win one game. Oh lord. This is a very one game scenario.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, it's Marvin Lewis, not Hugh Jackson. Ignore the picture of Hugh that it's supposed to be Marvin Lewis. And if you read this email, replace Hugh Jackson with Marvin Lewis.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What's, why could you have Hugh Jackson? Win what? Cause no one's picking Hugh. Tyva said it was too easy to cut Hugh there. So Marvin Lewis, Doc Rivers, Jon Calipari to win one game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just a championship game. It can be bocce ball championship. Need one coach. Bocce ball championship. Alright, well you like this one, next one better. Okay. Keep cut trade. John Elway, Peyton Manning, Steve Young.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, next. Speaking of Steve's, keep cut trade. Take it please.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] EP Steve, Steve Harvey, or Director Steve.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Keep cut trade. Doing the laundry, mowing the lawn, or building IKEA furniture.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, we do have one more, uh, so this is from a fan perspective. You're gonna see the pictures, the pictures just emulate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The situation, it's not these three. So as a fan, let me pull up real quick, let me pull this up exactly so I read this correctly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Some shenanigans going on here. No, it's not shenanigans, I just wanna make sure I'm reading it correctly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A top 10 draft pick, or a really enticing young prospect who wasn't-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not a top 10 pick, like a guy you drafted in a late first round, or a Dewan Jones type, a fourth round pick who showed a really good rookie season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is just generic from a fan. Would you rather have Capspace, a top 10 pick, or like a prospect like Dewan Jones or Amano Bates? I'm keeping the Capspace.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So we're just gonna keep coming up with some more, oh we do, we just got a super chat.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mudalu says, can we get Earl on the mic to tell Bull he's out of pocket? Earl, the mic is yours.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For next season. And this, I'm gonna assume he means...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How would you take them in terms of their potential at championship? Next season, Kaz Brown's guards.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, we just got one more real quick. And we have two more. Derek Parslow. And we love all three.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No. You're out of luck. We're out of luck today. Wow. I did have the office to myself. That was beautiful. You know, I had rap music blasting this morning as I was getting the work done. So now let me ask you this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's get into it. Say goodbye to busted brackets because FanDuel lets you bet on every game of the tourney. Whether you're betting on big upsets or a 1C, it's time to go dancing on America's number one sportsbook.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right now, new customers get $200 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. That's 200 bucks, use on-point spreads, money lines, you can even pick who's going to win it all. Just visit Fandual.com slash UCSS and bet on all college hoops until they cut the nets down. Is anybody daring to bet against UConn?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You're all good, man. So if you're trying to get down to progressive field to see the Cleveland Guardians this year, take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Game Time. All you have to do is download the Game Time app, create an account and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. So make sure you download Game Time if you're trying to get down to the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jay, Gee, you all were not here yesterday. Uh, Boy, Jason and Tyvis gave their big bold predictions for the Cleveland Guardians this year. So we are curious to know what you, uh, got cooked up for your big bold predictions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I got a question. Okay. If I was to say Gabriel Arias and Bo Naylor combines for 40 home runs this year, is that like a bold prediction? Yeah, that would be very bold.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My bold prediction is once the Cleveland Guardians make the playoffs.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You can watch, uh, Guardians post-game shows with my man Adam Naboor and Zach Meisel. Don't forget to catch The Ultimate Cleveland Cavaliers show with, uh, Mike McNuggets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jason Lloyd and then my man G Bush with the Ultimate Brown Show. I think he has an episode coming today. And you're doing a show. I did my show yesterday and I had a part two conversation with a former NFL wide receiver. Here's a little snippet of that so you all can go back and watch that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, we went the full hour, a very spirited conversation about, you know, the career ended injury that almost altered his life, what he's doing now and what he hopes to be doing in the future. So check out all the ultimate shows on the UCSS YouTube channel.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right. And then we got the audacity to give people sports life and culture too. We have the most diverse, like, like stable ever. We are the one stop.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm flying this ship. This, this next segment, if this takes us all the way up to 1230, and we get to channel 3,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I think one of the reasons you were okay doing so is because Amari Cooper is here to help him develop to be a pro. That's a good point. So it doesn't make sense to make the investment in Jerry Judy and then not make the investment in Amari Cooper who's been proven to be a quality product on the football.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, say goodbye to Buster Brackets because FanDuel lets you bet on every game of the tourney. Whether you're betting on a big upset or a one seed, it's time to go dancing on America's number one sportsbook.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right now, new customers get $200 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. That's $200 bucks to use on point spreads, money lines. You can even pick who's going to win it all. Just visit fandoor.com slash UCSS and bet on college hoops until they cut the nets down.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now Jay, I'ma let you go ahead and set this up. I got some strong opinions about this whole stadium thing. The one thing that I see off, off top.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mayor Bibb is unique. You dealing with somebody, me and him is the same age. He's 36 years old. Traditionally, mayors are not 36 years old. No. And his approach to this particular issue is something that I've never seen before.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I touched on this on one of my episodes and I actually know somebody that served as part of city council for the city of Cleveland for about 10-12 years.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't think that's hyperbole. There's no, there's no current place to put a new stadium and there's no place for the Browns to play. We got a few minutes. Jay, I thought you laid out your argument very well. I just want to read this and give you my thoughts.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The median household income in Cleveland for 2024 is $33,678. This information comes from Rent Cafe. The average annual household income in Cleveland is $49,942. With the median wage for residents ages 25 to 44,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At $38,993. Okay, Cleveland ranks top three as one of the poorest major cities in all of America. Jay, you wanna know where our mayor is from?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But if I'm a young black mayor in a poor city and I grew up in a projects and I know that most of the season ticket holders are not even residents of the city of Cleveland, I just have a hard time telling my residents that you gotta help foot the bill for a stadium, but you can't even afford to take a family of four to.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's why I, in my opinion, if I'm him, I'm looking at this like, like how? How can you ask me to co-pay for that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we'll get to a lot of that and all of these things. We got the whiteboards out today because we got a new game. And Mike's honestly been slacking. We haven't had a new game in a while. And maybe he did when I was away or something, I'm not sure. But I feel like we haven't done a game in a month at least. I don't know what it is. Well, he won't tell us. It's a trade secret.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But a lot of things to get to today. The Cavs shocked us all not by winning, but having Donovan Mitchell back. Yeaah. We'll get to that later in the show. Possibly Nick Saban or maybe we push it off yet another day if we have time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, that's true. I want to get to that. So, but we begin, obviously, there's a lot of Brown's conversation to have as they've continued to add to the roster. Well first, let's go to Mike.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, that must have been a bunch of things where they were likely to hit, right? Because the only one is $600.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's get right into it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, the Browns have kinda, what they've done in pre-agency, outside of wide receiver, where they had a glowing need, on the defensive line, they brought back all the guys that were here, except they lost Jordan Elliott, and now they've replaced him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know what's interesting here, guys, and Jason, you go next, but, but, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You look at the defensive line and what they have now, I, I, I see, I count nine guys that I don't know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know that you can bring anybody else in because in the middle you now have Jefferson Tomlinson


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hearst and Shelby Harris, all back, right? Jefferson's new, but the other guys are back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, the Browns are in a position now with such, you know,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Miles Garrett's the only elite player on their defensive line, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like a good solid player. There's a lot of good solid players on the defensive line. Yes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, and then you got like the unproven guys, Alex Wright, who showed you something last year and Eco showed you nothing. Right. But guys 2 through 7 on their defensive line are all good solid players.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Two years ago, they had maybe one guy in that group. Now they have six guys in that group. And that's the key. Like, you need to have your superstars to win in the NFL. We all get it. But the best teams...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the good teams have a lot of good solid players. And the Browns have the ability now to say, okay, it's a pass rushing, uh, down. We're going to have Quinton Jefferson out there. Yeaah. Alright, so it's a run stopping down. We're going to have Maurice Hurst out. Whatever. You know, you have guys that have their strengths and weaknesses.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And especially because Jefferson Hearst


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're not. They're gonna be fresh, they're gonna be good, and probably you'll play better because they're rotating in and out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But you mentioned, uh, Jason, that they haven't had an interior pass rusher, right? Yea.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To me, the big deal there is certainly like, if you get pressure up the middle, well now the quarterback's getting out of the pocket quicker, and maybe he's running right into Miles Garrett's lap. You know?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the Bengals, to your point, the Bengals just signed Sheldon Rankins, who's a good pass rushing DT, to help Trey Hendrickson. Yes, you want that pressure.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah, I, I mean that's huge. Even Miles Garrett, it may sound a little counterintuitive, but...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Miles Garrett plays such a high percentage of the plays, if you cut him down a little bit...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He probably don't want to. He probably doesn't want to, but it probably would benefit him because what do we know about Myles Garrett? He's, he has consistently played his worst football late in the year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, I don't know that any of us were expecting the Browns to sign another defensive lineman. I know I really didn't think they would because they had so many and now they've added another position.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Where I'm not really expecting the Browns to add but maybe they will surprise us after they've already done something and it really is their biggest move and that's at wide receiver. We know the Browns have traded for Jerry Judy, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and so their wide receiving core is certainly better, a lot better than it was. But!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Could they be in the market for another wide receiver or do we think that's impossible? Mike Williams, we've talked a lot about him. Mike Williams was cut by the Chargers as yesterday officially became the first day of the 2024 football season. Uh, Mike Williams on the books for a $32 million cap. Is that right? For a $32 million cap?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, no, no, no, that was a fake account. Fake account. Gotta be careful this time of the year. A lot of fake stuff. Bunch of people got busted by the fake Adam Schefter on the, uh, on the Patrick Queen tweet, I think it was.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just in the AFC alone, Kansas City would be the number two option. In Pittsburgh, he'd be the number two option.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the end, yes, obviously I like Mike Williams on the Browns, but Jason makes an excellent point. It makes no sense unless the Browns overpaid him, which as I agree with him, they're not going to do. They're not going to do that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I think if you're gonna go get another veteran wide receiver, if you're the Browns, you get a guy who's like back, you know, who's not


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A guy like I mentioned in Tyler Boyd, who's used to being the third receiver on a team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's keep it moving. So, I want to move to the next subject and that's, when you look at the Browns defense, right, we've talked about the defensive line already today, doesn't seem like they have any obvious roster spots. You look at the secondary for the Browns, doesn't seem like there's any obvious roster spots. They got a lot of players in both safety and defensive fact.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The one position group on defense where they don't have a lot of proven talent is linebacker.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Obviously they just added Jordan Hicks. They have J.O.K. The only other linebacker on the roster right now that was drafted, period.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Is Tony Fields who, you know, that guy could easily be gone too. So they really only have two legitimate linebackers on the roster. Now we understand the Browns don't.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Maybe value linebacker that highly, just in general in the league the position is less valued than it was in the past. And you don't have to have a ton of


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's what I'm getting to. That's a long build up, Mike. I'm doing a long build up. So, Devin Bush. Two hours to film. Yeah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, meeting with the Browns today. You know we're past the main crux of free agency when the guys are starting to meet with teams. Most of the top 100 free agents just sign without meetings. Yes. But once we get to like day four where we're at now, now it's, now you gotta meet with a few teams. You know, so anyway, Devin Bush, what do we think of Devin Bush?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, well Hicks has been, uh, well Hicks is a run guy too, more.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So all the linebackers or just the linebackers that helped in those situations were called?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, that's very dismissive. Calling somebody a jag.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He'll turn 26 this summer. He's a Michigan man. I know. What do you think of that? I know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, played 13 games last year, 17 the year before, 14 the year before, and five the year before that. So he's missed a decent amount of time due to injury. Only started three games in Seattle last year, played in 13 total. We saw the, the rest of the numbers. I mean, you know, whether they sign him, I mean, he's just, he's a veteran. He's fine. I'm not excited.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One other thing I wanted to promote here real quick, uhm, my friend Erin was here before the show. She was taking some photos of me. I wanted some new photographs, right? And, uh, she is a professional photographer and top of her game. She's actually, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Your dad's from Jamaica, right? So there you go. Maybe your dad will be at the wedding. He might be. Is she going to runaway bay? I have no idea. She didn't tell me exactly where she's going. But anyway, if you're interested in hiring a top notch photographer for weddings, uh, christenings, bar mitzvahs, whatever,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I probably wouldn't. Once I was reminded of Tony Brown, I remembered that he was on the Bengals for one year and I like vaguely remembered him being like a solid special teams guy. Wasn't Nick Charlton like a left-handed closer for the... Norm. That was Norm Charlton. I know. In fact, there's, uh, I just saw this yesterday, there's, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's a parody account on Twitter that's very funny, with his picture, and the name is Norm Charlatan. And he just, you know, makes fun of everybody. But, uh, yeaah, part of the nasty boys, right? It's him, Rob Dibble, and Randy Myers. But, well, I'm sure these guys have never heard of any of them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so, Charlton, whatever, what's his first name? Nick? Nick Charlton.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, he, there's some of the stuff. He was the offensive court at UConn, the youngest head coach in division one college for the Maine, I believe they're the Maine Black Bears. Is that the name of the team? The Maine Black Bear? Uh, I believe they're the only division one team in all of Maine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] From twenty-nine, twenty-one. Twenty-nineteen, twenty-twenty-one. So I, I know nothing about him. I never heard of the guy before. I'm sure nobody here has heard of the guy before.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, unlike most of you, I've actually done play-by-play in the state of Maine. How about that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, okay, so the other, the two players they signed. Tony Brown is a special teams guy. He played for Ray Ventrone in Indianapolis in 2022. So obviously there's some familiarity there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, I think he's a defensive back by trade. He's really a special team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I think he's a defensive act, right? Yeah. I think so. Uh, I guess it's a good guess based on his number. Although, it's, it's like a Mike Ford replacement. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Whatever. There's not much to say. Anybody any thoughts? He was fine. He's fine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, like, he's a half tight end, half full back type of guy. The Browns haven't had a full back since, uh, what's his name? Uh.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anyway, listen, these are just moves the Browns have made. They're, they're back end to the roster, guys, but it is what it is. There's not much to say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Also, uh, what's his name? The linebacker we mentioned yesterday is gone. Who? Who's always hurt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so, well, we're gonna move on, because, uh, by the way, folks, uh, we announced it yesterday. We did, but, Bull, let me hit this button first.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so I just want to tell people that starting on Monday, March 25th, Zach Meisel and I, the ultimate Cleveland Guardian show every Monday. Uh, the time may vary unlike our other shows because Zach travels with the team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so, you know, the like opening day, we might be a different time and the Guardians are playing every year in April. There's the Patriots day game in Boston. That's an 11 a.m. game. The Guardians are playing in that game. It's probably that day. We'll go later.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Most weeks it'll be at 3 p.m., but there will be some fluidity. We will let you know every Monday what time the drill is going on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's gonna start the Monday before the season starts.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right. They didn't make any significant. Exactly. Any, any difference maker players on defense.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I personally don't have a problem with how the Browns have done it now. I do think...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Browns defense when you, when you look back at the season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't, it wasn't as good as I think we thought it was. Does that make sense? Or no?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are you laughing because it sounds funny or because you disagree? No, it sounds funny. It does sound funny.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It wasn't as good as we thought it was. I think on the other hand, it wasn't as bad obviously as how they played against Houston.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The season ended with a sour taste because the defense was embarrassingly bad against Houston.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Is how you feel about what they really are on defense. Because if you think they're really a top five defense, then yeaah, run it back. If you don't, if you think they were a little fraudulent,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I agree with you guys, I mean, I'm comfortable with essentially running it back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I like the Jordan Hicks edition, I like the Quentin Jefferson edition.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What do you make though, Tyvis, like, I know it's been a while we talked about it, but, like, thinking back now, a couple months later,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What happened in that game against Texas? Like, how was the defense that bad in that game?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, so many times, guys, we've had conversations in the last two months about, you know, on the offensive side and said, well,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can talk about wide receiver, whatever. The bottom line is if Deshaun Watson doesn't play, well, then it doesn't matter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It all comes down to Miles Garry, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, no, but what I'm saying is, for the first three quarters of the season, even with the Holman Road splits, for the first three quarters or the first two thirds of the season, the defense was dominant almost every game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, and, and that was because Miles Garrett was playing at an MVP level for the first two thirds of the season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Miles Garrett was still okay, but he wasn't playing at that elite level at the end of the year. And if nothing else, he certainly wasn't getting to the quarterback. Now you want to say there was more double teams and he was, he was getting the pass rush win, whatever. The bottom line is he wasn't getting to the quarterback at the end of the season and the whole defense suffered for it. I mean, he's gotta be great.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The whole season. I mean, and for the best players got for the Browns, they have, they have.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] JLK is a very good player, had a good year. The Browns have two superstars on defense. Miles and Denzel. That's it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right. Maybe. That maybe. It also shows you how important home field advantage is. Yeah. And it really is big. By the way, I gotta say, I still hate the New Browns logo. The dog? Put it up again there, Mike, please. Will ya?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, but I wear, I got my browns t-shirt. I don't know what I wear around my house.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know, but he deserved the job. And I'm glad he got it. And, uh, it's interesting because obviously the starting quarterback in Indy


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anthony Richardson missed most of the season last year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's a lot of mixed feelings about Anthony Richardson. People either love him or they hate him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, so anyway, what do you guys think about flak? I mean, people are s-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But here's the thing, I'm fine with Jameis replacing Joe Flacco. I would have been fine if Joe Flacco was back. I don't think it's that big a deal who the backup quarterback is. I don't think the difference between Joe Flacco and Jameis is meaningful.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And you don't, and with very few exceptions, if your starting quarterback gets hurt, even if you make the playoffs, you don't win. That is, you know, we all could point to Nick Foles. I get it. It's rare. That's a, that's not the rule. That's the exception. What, uh, what I, what is baffling to me?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You're, we're all entitled to our own opinion. Fine. Okay. But you still, even within that world, have to be realistic. There are people, there are fans out there, I know it's not a lot of them, but there are, there are fans that think not only that Joe Flacco should be on this team, but that he should be the starting quarterback of this team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I mean the top three, you know, but Jacobi Brissette, I mean not... Who is Drew Lockback enough? I don't know, where'd he go?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He like anybody else that wanted Joe Back is making way too big a deal of it. The insinuation that a 30, a turning 40 Joe Flacco would be able to capture the lightning in a bottle that was not as great as we thought it was because he still turned the bowl over a million times.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His arm was terrific. We love him. I don't want to say anything bad about Joe. He was great. He did interviews. He was fantastic. Love him. He was great in that short stretch. But the odds of him being able to repeat something like that are minimal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you look at James' career, touchdown interception, it's actually better than I thought it was. It is.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. I think he has like 35 more touchdowns than picks, which listen, his picks have been way too high in his career. But it's not, there's some people that talk about him as if he has more picks than touchdowns in his career.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 42? Okay. This is a complicated thing. It's not just about Joe Flacco. Most of this is not about Joe Flacco. This is about the fact that a lot of people don't like Deshaun Watson. And I get it. And most of those people would have come around had Deshaun Watson played well.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because everybody gets up, up in arms and I get it. What Deshaun Watson was accused of is awful. It's awful. And I get, and people are not.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm not going to kill somebody for thinking he did what he's been accused of. And I'm not going to kill anybody for thinking he didn't do it or whatever. You believe whatever you believe because none of us know for sure.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what Deshaun Watson was accused of is awful. And Jameis has some of that in his background too. So people are like, we've already had to put up with this Deshaun. Now you're bringing in another guy who's a questionable character in the same vein.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ultimately, this is about how Deshaun Watson plays. Deshaun Watson, for the most part, has been a, most part, outside of the second half of the Ravens game, has been a massive disappointment in Cleveland. There's no other way around it. He has not been good here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And ultimately, the 40% of the fans that hate the fact that Watson's the quarterback, none of them are coming around. In fact, that number's growing because he hasn't played well. And if he plays well, then it goes away for most people, and none of this other stuff matters.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You need that. You don't need that. Even without Flacco on the team, if that happens, they'll still be champions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, so, that's, what's that? You say Espino, I'll look it up for you. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, how many innings has he pitched to the Miners in the last bunch of years? I, I, I can't imagine he's pitched many. Uh, but, for this year's team, he wasn't gonna be a part of this year's teams. I don't care about it from that perspective, but I mean, at this point, you have to, I'm gonna just assume he's never gonna play in the majors.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he pitched 91 innings in 2021 and none in 2020. So he's pitched.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that, you know, I think this is his third surgery, like arm surgery.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, considering with the injuries, the fact that he's still that high, but he was supposed to be one of the key pieces in the Sean Murphy deal potentially, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, in the end, catcher's not a problem, or I don't think it's going to be a problem, so I guess it doesn't matter. Uh, yeaah, that sucks. It sucks, but the Trevor Stephan injury is big because he's a key part of their bullpen. Big part of their bullpen. Big, uh, eating guy. One of their late inning guys. Yeaah, yeaah. He's been a good reliever.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anyway, that sucks, but we'll leave that for now. Mike, what are we moving on to?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Titans don't make any sense. So the Titans have no quarterback. Does anybody think Will Levis is going to be a good starting quarterback? Yep. You do?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now if you believe in Will Levist, then I get it, because you signed Tony. But Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley are both towards the end of their healthy years.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, there you go. I was stunned when I saw the mo- money on, uh, Calvin Ridley.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I always assume that's like the, the white right guard that's wearing the camouflage suit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Neither known for their education. I actually don't know if that's true or not. I just assume everybody in Alabama is stupid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which is really unfair, but. Yeaah. Mike, I mean, look who they voted for for Congress. What's his name? The football coach is the senator there, isn't he?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tuberville. Yeah, I mean that guy's just, you know, he's dumber than my underwear.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So if I have a different answer than the two of them. It's tied. And I'm right, it's a three-way tie. Last one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Before we talk about the game, we've got to talk about the fact that Donovan Mitchell played.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think the highlight of the night is the re-emergence of Mikey Mcnuggets favorite player Sam, Mr. Merrill. 5 of 10 from 3, Mikey. Your guy is back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Darius had a great game. He was four assist, uh, four rebounds away from a triple double.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So IAM was good and then, uh, what's his name?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, that's how you end up with three guys with like 30 assists between them. Guys, I thought it was like, you look at the stat sheet after the game, and it was like everybody that played


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Was a factor in every aspect of the game. Like there were a lot of guys with four or more rebounds. There were a lot of guys with four or more assists.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Would they have 7 players score at least 14 points or 6, something like that? I mean, it was just a really, it was a really well-balanced game. It seemed like everybody played. I think Acora was the only guy that didn't have a really good offensive game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Everybody else was hitting their shots. Oh no, LeVert didn't have a good game offensive.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like he was- Right, just scoring. I mean, he didn't have a good game. Right? But that's it. Like everybody, it was like, it was a really, it was a great game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, put it together, together, in this last month, that in a perfect world, we have...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, we don't know when he's gonna be back anyway, but it's clear they can't have Allen and Mobley on the court together at the end of the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I think Wash, uh, uh, Milwaukee plays Philly, I believe, tonight. I did not look, I don't know. I think I remembered seeing that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're still in very good shape to at least finish as the third seed, I think.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, three games at this point of the year is, is pretty significant.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean they played really well the entire game. It wasn't like, oh they had to make a comeback. Right. Like they, they got a big lead and they, you know, in other games they've had some big leads. Against Phoenix they were upright and they let the game get away. Uh, in this case they took that commanding lead and they never, like how close did the Pelicans even get?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was a good game for him though, for sure. Alright Mike, what else we got on the Cavs?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean it was really exciting to see him back on the court.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The key now for the Cavaliers is, you know, as they have all these banged up guys, including Donovan, who clearly wasn't 100% yesterday, is getting them healthy and ready. I mean, part of winning in the playoffs is being the team that can survive all the injuries. Especially in recent years, it seems like


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So many teams get big injuries and that just, you know, seals their fate. And, you know, who knows how far the Cavs can go.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. No, the first playin'. Second? The first playin' spot, yeaah. The 7-8 winner.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So who's the 7-8 team? Indiana Miami right now. So whoever won that game would play the cap.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's something that you'd only probably consider maybe like it's the last game of the season. Yeah. And if you win it, you play one team and you lose that game, you play another, maybe there's something to that there, but that's not like a series of games.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This, this pissed me off when I heard and, and whenever I hear coaches, uh, complaining about NIL or the transfer portal, I get fired up and I don't know where that would, this must have been that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And yet we're wasting time talking about NIL with a millionaire coach, but okay, here we go. This is what Nick Saban had to say. And he's got a tough life, so let's hear his tale of woe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know how many kids have switched schools, like, have gone to three schools in three years. Like, if there's a, if that's a high percentage, I don't know if there's any way we would know that. Certainly it's not something you can figure out right away. Do we think there's a high percentage of players that have switched schools twice in three years?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, that we know. But here's what I'd say to this. Okay, I had a very nasty response to this on Twitter because this is a very deep subject.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, there, there is, uhm, a lot of things that go into this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In tennis, in track, in all these other sports, they can make money.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You have, it's always been, at basketball, not always been, but it's at least a year before you can make any money. Unless you go overseas. And in football, obviously, it's three years. And,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, why is it only football and basketball that people are all worked up about? There's a lot of reasons there. But,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To say, well, all these kids care about is the money. I'm sure that's not true. I'm sure it's not only about the money, but even if it is, who cares? They're 18 years old.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When Nick Saban makes his Aflac commercials with Deon Sanders, is that all about developing kids? How's he developing kids, Mike, when he's doing Aflac commercials? Does he need that money? He's making 8 million a year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's probably the highest paid person in that bum ass state of Alabama, and it's a football coach. What he's doing is not really that damn important.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, and I'm sorry that the kids want money when they come over to his palatial estate when they made him breakfast. You know, I'm sure, I'm sure Nick Saban was sitting in front of the griddle making french toasted eggs.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The kids can make as much money as they want. You wanna say there's gotta be a commitment of a certain amount of years after the first transfer? I got no problem with that. It is stupid if kids are going to four different schools, five different schools, and five different years. That's not good for the kid in reality. It's not good for anybody.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't, they should make as much money as they can. I don't want to hear about the money aspect of this at all. And that's, by the way, we, we throw those things in together, Jason. The money and the transferring. And they're two separate issues.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But all he talked about was the money. And I don't care. Who gives a shit? It's been ridiculous that that's been the rule. That kids got a bagel and cream cheese and they got suspended. That they couldn't make a single dime off their name while this guy's making 8 million a year doing commercials and he's a big shit on top of the hill. I mean that's absurd.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, and by the way, Tyvis, correct me if I'm wrong, when you get a scholarship to Ohio State, that's not a four year scholarship, that's a one year scholarship that the coach can get rid of you anytime they want, isn't that true? Yes. Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's the only way I would accept that. And college football, I have no sympathy for anybody in college football. Because the powers that be in college football who are all getting rich.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shoulda known this was coming, and they did nothing about it. Had they...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] started paying kids or started NIL on their own accord, then we wouldn't be in this situation, so it's completely their fault. And I think every kid out there should make every last freaking dime, and I don't care what Saban or all these other old guys are whining and crying about. That's what I gotta say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The money, I agree. I agree. You should get what you want. I about to say if somebody gonna pay it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's not just football, there are some other athletes making them. I'm sure, what's their name, uh, Caitlin Clark. It's Caitlin Clark, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, by the way, when you put that quote of me saying, James has a fat ass, the only problem with that quote is, out of context,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nobody knows that I said, I can say that because I got a fat ass.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, we are wrong. It was, that trade was in May. Oh wow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay. According to CBSsports.com, Smith was traded to the Browns by the Vikings last May.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, alright. Okay, so no, we're talking about Gavin Williams on overtime.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Thank you. Yeah, I like that. There you go. I have a fat ass. I do. Yeah, I'm proud of my fat ass. Uh, by the way, uh, make sure today at 2 PM, about an hour from now at 2 PM, I'll be doing a live stream.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Of the bullpen with me. And if you could pop, if you want to be on camera and ask a question or make a comment, I'll send out a link to do that right at 2 o'clock, 2 p.m. today on YouTube.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What about what I got going on? Let's check out the fit of Tyvis. There we go. What is that? What cloth is that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Talking a little shop here. Live on air. Yeaah. Uhm, but I did, I did want to wish you a happy birthday.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Busy show today. Cavs, they have an interesting little stretch coming up. That loss the other night, inexplicable. The way they're playing some of these teams, inexcusable.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm telling you, the best version of this Cavaliers team happened to come when Allen and, uh, and, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It is disappointing, but we're going to talk about this little stretch that they have coming up. Uhm, because quite frankly, uh, this is going to be a really interesting stretch. Now they play a very bad team tonight. They should, you know, boat race the Pistons, but they're getting set for a couple of tough games that are Eastern Conference measuring sticks.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what do we want to see tonight out of the Cavs against the Pistons? We're also going to talk, I'm surprised this is on the list, but we're going to talk about guardians power at spring training.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, but we'll talk about that because Mikey Wanana, thank you for saving that from my return. I'm glad you did. Uh, and we're also going to talk about the best college quarterbacks of the 2000s. Were they drunk when they made this list?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm not a fan of his. I, what I do is I, I try to be fair with my assessment of everyone. Okay. Was he a really good quarterback? Yeah, he won the Heisman Trophy going away. But, the best?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay. So I can finally reclaim the crown from Tivus.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Easily. It's about $1,500. Ten racks? And that's all inclusive!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it better be to the most exotic locales in the world. I'm not talking to Western Caribbean crews or Eastern


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it really wasn't even miles-wise, it wasn't even that long. No, it wasn't. Well, the bottom line is you raised 4.4 million dollars for cancer, so that's, that's a great thing. Welcome back from your three week cruise. Thank you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And they weren't just born in Italy, they were born in Sicily, and if you know anything about the geography of Italy,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That is very, very south. That's the boot. It's way down at the tip. Now Morocco is like 50 miles from Sicily. It's very, very close, which is of course the northern tip of Africa. Someone in my either grandmother or grandfather's family


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay. So I'm guessing that somewhere back a generation or two before my grandparents


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There was black ancestry in my family and it's been washed down to 8%, which I think is only six generations. I think I talked to a, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, genealogist about this. And they said yes, it's either five or six generations back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We had two this week. Two pretty big winners this week. Did you guys see the video?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm gonna send this to you, Mike, and I hope you can show this. It's just while we're, just quickly while we're on the subject of betting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is, this is a video that I'm wondering is the NBA going to get involved with this or not. Uhm.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's, it's something that we have to see and at least acknowledge and talk about just for a second. I meant to send you this yesterday. I just sent it to you. I think you can show it on hideboard.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is fascinating and I don't know what the NBA is gonna do about it. If they can do anything about it. But this is what happens when leagues embrace gambling and apps and all of that. It's, it's a crazy video. It didn't go as viral as I thought it would. Uh, but it may today.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's late in the game and he's got a big parlay worth $10,000 on the line. Do you have the video? Yea, we can play it. Go ahead and show it. Watch this. I need two three-pointers. I got you. Bad. Going back in the game. Boom. 10K. Yeaah. What's wrong with that? I would do that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, that's what I said. I immediately said, wow, there goes the fan club. But think about the ramifications of that, guys. We had the bet on the Super Bowl. This was, this was second level genius.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There was a guy at the Super Bowl that placed a $50,000 bet that there would indeed be a streaker at the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm gonna wait until the fourth quarter. I'm gonna enjoy the Super Bowl. You know what? Cause he spent a night in jail and I think he got...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We, there's people in our fan base that ran the last quarterback out of town and he damn near won the comeback player of the year award. Baker just, just missed to Joe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There is something to that. I remember in the Super Bowl in Tampa when the Ravens


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was lights out. I don't know if Ray Lewis was MVP of that Super Bowl or not. That was probably Super Bowl 38 maybe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For their famous I'm going to Disney World commercial. Went to somebody else. Went to Trent Dilfer.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And they were, the dilemma they were looking at was just the year before at the Super Bowl in Atlanta.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And the suit that he was wearing that night disappeared. They never found it. He said he put it in a box, a FedEx box and shipped it back to his home and he doesn't know what happened. FedEx lost it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He put the league in a really difficult position when he won the MVP. And historically, it is the winner of the MVP that does the famous, I'm going, you just won the Super Bowl. What are you going to do now? Disney and perhaps the NFL.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, but listen, of course you're gonna have detractors from every corner, but by and large, his, he's, now, you know how with artists and musicians, your stuff becomes better the second you die? Yeah. When Kobe passed,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was, it was nothing but a love fest for one of the greatest to ever play the game, yet they could only give the man, they couldn't give the man MVPs?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think the bigger question here is the MVP award. I think if he plays well enough to be considered for a most valuable player, I could see the league instead shoving him the comeback player of the year award as a nice little consolation prize, but we're not giving you the big enchilada.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For him to win the MVP, he would have to be so overwhelmingly. This question don't say that. No, I know it doesn't, but I think G's point is, now I will say this, as much as America, this is what America loves. America loves the Johnny Manziel story, and here's why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He rose from nowhere. No one knew his name. He was fifth string on the depth charts. Within four weeks of the college football season, everybody in America knew his name.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To shoot you down. To tear you down. But what they really love that they didn't get from the Manziel story and they may well get from the Deshaun Watson story is to come back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They, they, they, uh, they like it to go full circle. They build you up. They tear you down. And then you come back from the dead. Michael Vitt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mission on this planet is to help young African American men that did not have guidance in their home. A strong male figure. And he really did an incredible job. And now Michael Vick's name doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth. We like Michael Vick.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To something that he insists he never did. You know what I'm wondering? At some point during his initial months back with the Browns, he had said or hinted to the fact that we're going to tell our side of the story. And the speculation was, oh, he's got a group working on a documentary that's going to tell his side. I anxiously await that documentary.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm anxious to hear it because if you sit in a courtroom and you listen to either side, the prosecution or the defense,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And you just listen to one side, you will leave that courtroom believing what they told you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think, to your point, I think most of America, and by most I mean probably more than 50%,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Believe that the truth is in the middle of what they said and what he said. Did something hanky panky go on in these massages? I think most


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Logically thinking Americans think that something sexual did. In fact, if I'm not mistaken,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Deshaun Watson may have said whatever happened was consensual.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, so now, now you get into the weeds on the details of what happened, and was it, was he forcing himself on these women? We don't know, but I, I do want to hear


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, that's really hard to say. Because nobody would have told you last year that it's gonna come down to Baker and Joe Flacco. Nobody. Clip it. Okay, so here's my answer. My answer is, and I took a different approach. You went strictly on the field. You went public image. First of all, there's an assumption in this question.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The assumption is both are going to play at a high enough level to be considered for this award. That is a huge leap of faith. And some people might not be able to build a bridge to that point. And here's why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nick Chubb had not the first devastating knee injury, he suffered the second devastating knee injury of his career. I mean, when you look at that hit, you can't help but wince and grab your own knee. It is painful to watch. So the bridge to go from that hit


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In week two of the season, to him playing well enough next year to be considered as the comeback player of the year is a bridge perhaps too far for some.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The other bridge for Deshaun Watson might be too far for others. Here's why. We've seen Nick Chubb put


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His last full season. If he was the year before, if Nick Chubb didn't play at all and he played the way he did in 22 next year, he's the comeback player of the year. Nobody's expecting that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, is it, so my question was, which bridge is furthest? The one that Nick Chubb can play that way again, or the one that Deshaun Watson can play that way again?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he is more responsible for his quality of play than the quarterback and there's reasons for that. The quarterback has to have great receiver play. Nope.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Deshaun Watson would have to play at the Houston Texans Deshaun Watson level next year for him to be the MV, or the comeback player of the year. And I just, I still don't know, I haven't seen enough of it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That were screaming he should be the guy. They got real quiet when Carolina caught him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Get your nose out of social media. You wanna shut up the critics? Just win. It works every time. They've got nothing to chirp about if you are winning.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, and one other statement before we move on with this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Deshaun Watson and Nick Chubb are both


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the consideration for Comeback Player of the Year Award, the Browns are making a deep playoff run next year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because there's certain boxes that you have to check before you can say, we can contend for a Super Bowl. If you can check the box that Deshaun Watson's playing at an MVP or a comeback player of the year level, and you can check the box that Nick Chubb returned, because that's one of the biggest question marks coming into the season next year. What will Nick be? If you can check that box,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Those are two of the biggest questions. This team is making a deep playoff run next year if both Nick and Deshaun are in that conversation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Did he have a, did he have a problem where he was suspended?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he did it in eight months, guys. From the, from the tear. To my boy Chris Johnson. To his return was eight months. That's cr- Shout out to Adrian Peterson.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the next 12 games are going to be a real yardstick. We're going to learn a lot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I couldn't be more in line with your thinking when...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Cavs were in the midst of their best basketball that we've seen in years. It was Mobley and Garland.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On the bench. They were out with injury. Yep. And we kept saying, well they're doing this against mostly bad teams.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But then they beat some good teams at the end of that stretch. And then Mobley came back and I thought their play was still at a pretty high level.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They, they were, they were trying to, you know, instead of keeping both of the guys that do a lot of the same things on the floor at the same time, they were trying to go four out one in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's when they've hit their stretch of not such great basketball. Now, Mike, I know that you're saying there's no, there's no scenario where this team can be better without Darius Garland. I understand that that's your, and you're sticking to that premise. All I know is what my eyes tell me when I watch.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I can't get into the nitty gritty as to why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I have some theories as to why, but I just, I'm telling you guys, they're not the same team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But we're comparing apples to apples because the stretch without them was regular season basketball and the stretch with Mowgli back is regular season basketball. So why did they look so good in the regular season?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With Garland out, and they've, I don't want to say struggled, they haven't looked as good.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I understand that. I get that. And that's fair to point out. But those were games against teams they should have been able to beat without Donovan Mitchell. And by the way. I don't disagree with that. By the way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell being out and they're losing to horrible teams. Darius Garland was out and we were boat racing teams. The margin of victory during that 18-2 stretch was double digit. It was like damn near 20 points a game, Mike.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now that question is moot because the roster is what it is now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was bringing up that question before the trade, and what I was saying was, before the trade deadline, and my, my, I, I, at that point I had seen enough. I know what the best version of this Cavs teams looks, looks like.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know what it is. And it's not this current version. So what I was saying was, despite the fact that everybody's saying you're not gonna trade him,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You could have made a trade and got a boatload and got players that could have filled that role that weren't going to take up as much oxygen in the room and could still be a facilitator in this playoff scenario you speak of when teams start taking Garland away. And by the way, Allen and Mobley can step the hell up too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, he's overpaid. I'll give you that. But I still think he's a piece. He was a piece.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mike, I understand what you're saying and I do, and it does sound like we're just dumping all over Darius Garland and that's not really what we're doing. But the facts are what they are. They were 18 and 2 in a stretch where they were without, for much of that time,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mowgli and for I think all of, or just about all of that time, I think all of that time without Darius Garland.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 18 and 2. They're a miraculous 60 footer from Max Druse away from being 5 and 5 in their last 10. And furthermore,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What I would do, and I know he's going to do this because we're getting close now, we're into March. JB needs to use the next 12 games, which is basically the next month.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so it's half of what they're remaining. All of the teams that you mentioned in the next 12.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are either playoff teams or they're in that mix. This is a great stretch to find out what lineup you're going to be able to go. Now, obviously the other teams aren't playing it like their playoff games, but I want to see them go eight and four over their next 12 with good competition. I'd hope so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I, I would hope so. If you were going 18-2 at one point without Darius Garland, I, I, I just think that teams can peak too soon. I'm not saying they did, but I like for teams, if you're gonna have an 18-2 stretch, give me that in, at the end of the regular season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, Mike, we talked about this. They were beating a lot of bad teams by 25 points.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And look, Mike is likely right. You my guy. Mike is likely right. It was, it's, it reminds me of the debate that we were having three years ago.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And there were fans saying, I'm sorry, this team's better without Odell Beckham. The numbers bore that out, but it defies logic.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, and I never, I never subscribed to that theory, but I looked at it closely and I said, well, you can't deny that they're, they're having more success when he wasn't


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He got a lot of really good pieces, but it's up to JB to find out how you look just like the Browns had to figure out you got Odell Beckham. You're going to use him. You have to find the way that you can most effectively use him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I'm not sure the Browns ever figured that out. The Cavs better figure out how to effectively use Darius Garland. Cause I know what you guys are saying. And I think Darius Garland is an incredible talent. I really do. I even feel dirty disparaging him and saying maybe the Cavs should have worked a deal for him. If they could have.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But what we haven't yet seen is how JB figures out how to use this incredible talent with all of the other incredible talent pieces he has. It's a good problem to have. He's had some time to figure it out. He's running out of time. He better figure it out by April.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's, let's do this on, as we said on March 1st. I think you listed 12 games.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, so Monday the 25th, that will follow this stretch of really difficult basketball against some good teams that will be in the playoffs. Let's revisit where they are. They went from 18-2 to 6-4.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's see where they are after these 12. And I tell you, that will, I think, will set the temperature in the room for expectations going into the playoffs.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If they're six and six, I don't have high hopes. If they're ten and two, they figured something out. They'll prove something to us one way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's probably gonna be worth more to a team that doesn't have him than to the Cavaliers, which is sad, but I, I'm, that's my fear too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] By the way, Jimmy, if you're watching, how are you going to give a guy a raise when he keeps losing? Just saying. Haslam is not in the business of paying losers. Allegedly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, that's just my line to get in your head.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's exactly what I do. Why you think I'm doing stories on Isaac Okoro?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you look closely, you can see a tear in one of those eyes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Remember the fourth and one that they had that they gave the ball to Lindale White while the Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush was standing next to Pete


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cam did not, but he... Cam had no receipt. No, Cam, I gotta tell you, Cam was so fun to watch. Very exciting. Shout out to Lux and Kirk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, numbers were very solid. His touchdown to interception ratio though was only 3 to 1. Go back and look at, at


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tibos? Tibos was over almost 5 to 1. It probably was 5 to 1. Hey look.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, the Heisman's a regular season award, but to me, he solidified the Heisman with that last second, last minute drive against USC in the national championship. That was one of the best.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I gotta see the 23 in me. I need answers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In some circles around the NFL, they give the, uh, they give the comeback player of the year to OJ Simpson before they give it to Deshaun Watson.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You might be right. Like, come on man, you really think like, like these people do not, there's people that are on fanbase that don't like him. Like, we've seen multiple opportunities and multiple times where people- So if he threw for $5,000- Don't matter. You don't think he'd get- No.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And one thing during polling season they always talk about, they poll people, is that narratives and the way you feel about somebody overshadows what that person does in real life. Like, you'll vote for somebody, it don't matter if they do any bills or do any legislation, they just like the guy, so they vote.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's on both sides, so that's how it goes down. So when you talk about these awards, Comeback Player of the Year is a subjective award given to, by writers and different people in the media, to people that they like. You gotta be likable to win Comeback Player of the Year, right? You like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, Joe Flacco came in and you see how much they liked Joe Flacco. It had a good night's story. It was nice packaging. But do you, you think that they're gonna go into next year and give him either the MVP or the comeback player of the year or the offensive player of the year because they gotta say, they sit in these boardrooms and say, well, what are we gonna do?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We just gonna say he was good. You know, we gotta put a disclaimer at the end about this, this, this, and that. You know, how are we gonna handle these? You know, what do we do about the cases? What do we say about? Nah, listen, give it to Chubb. Chubb's an easy choice.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Kobe Bryant has one MVP. Which is still astonishing to me. Why?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He had to do the charges in Colorado. He had to change his number. He had to cut his hair. He had to, like, he had to change his whole


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That, that, that was, that's one of the reasons. Like, I, I, I listened to, you gotta think about it, during, before the year, before he even started, people were telling you, national pundits, Typhus was like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I just don't, Dan Patrick, and I love Dan Patrick. Dan Patrick was like, you know what, I just, I just, it's not fun. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not gonna watch Cleveland. I'm not, I don't have, I don't have any, any excitement in watching Cleveland.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So if you think they're gonna vote for him, for come back, and they're gonna say, well, where did he come back from?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Michael Vick got flowers when he came back. But! Took him a minute. Michael Vick came back and some would argue Michael Vick was broken. Michael Vick before Mike Vick went in?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cornrows, rap music, dogfighting, he came out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Number one, line up, no dogs, no animals, and chillin'. He wore number seven. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They put him on TV. Tony Dungy got him back on TV. And that's crazy. I thought the one of the biggest, I thought one of the biggest things even, even, see people want contrition, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so it all depends on how your attitude is. So Michael Vick came out and he said this comment like, you know what, for me, uhm, I'm, I'm just hurt because I could never own another dog in my life. And I'm a, I'm an animal lover and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because of what I did, like, you know, that really hurts me. Like, it's just like, you know, and he said, you know, I kind of see that as geese as like my kids or something and I can never own another animal. Like, so he was contrite about it. But here's the thing with Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson has always stated and always said, and he says, I did not do nothing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I, listen, I was, I'm innocent of what it is and he has been steadfast on that. So the thing is, when you, when I put up a post and say, what do you, what do you guys would like to say to Sean Watson or what would it take for you to like him, like you like Joe Flacco and even some of y'all like Baker? And, and a lot of those comments were saying,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If he would just be, if he would just cut the crap and make to what he did and move on. So there's a lot of people that still believe he should admit to these things.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This just proves my point. We started with the Sean Watson comeback player of the year, right? And for everybody that's voting, for everybody that's in those rooms that decide that, right? You can't talk about


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His, his comeback, his MVP is playing the field.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because these are the certain conversations that always tend to bubble up, right? They will. They, like, even if you start at a good place, if you start at a real safe place of, okay, well let's just judge his skill set on the field and his merits of this award.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's gonna be two or three people that's gonna delve into that because that goes into, it goes into their thought process.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm very, to me this is one of the most very interesting narratives or storylines I'll be looking at going into next year. I believe if Nick Chubb comes back and runs for a thousand yards, it's his award.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I would, I would agree with that. I don't disagree with that. Just because of who Nick Chubb is. He's a guy people want to root for. People love him. People love him. In city, out of city, local, national. Everybody loves Nick Chubb and for him to come back, but not, this is, this would be his second major knee surgery.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think he will have a really good year. I really want him to, to press the envelope. I want him, I want him to play so good that they gotta force, they gotta, it has to be forced that we talk about it. Like, I mean, he's, he's playing out of his mind right now.