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[Assistant] You have to put your foot down and trust that that guy is going to stop the play if you don't move back. That's why Nick Chubb is so brilliant. When you watch Nick Chubb


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[Assistant] It's like before the guy even beats the offensive guard, he already sees what it's looking like. He's like, mmm, I'm not even going to try that. He cuts it back and now he has three yards right now.


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[Assistant] 12 with, 12 with Hunt. No, I would go with 12 with Kareem Hunt to see if he got it. I would go with 7 with Pierre Strong.


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[Assistant] Alright. And then uhm, what is it? Six for four. Six for four. Okay. And I'm, I'm using, I'm using four more on the third down place. Maybe one for Harris and Bryant? Maybe. No, one for, one for Marquis Goodwin. Maybe one or two.


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[Assistant] If you got Flacco, and this might be tricky, Flacco's playing, you put DTR in instead of him coming in for one or two plays. If those one or two plays work.


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[Assistant] When you throw in that football, you can't think. No. It's almost like you can hit the ball at third base. Who would we have as the thrower? As the receiver? Jarvis Lane? No, Jarvis Lane is not here. Jarvis is gone. I don't know.


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[Assistant] That's Kelsey. People should use laterals more. Yeah. Laterals are a sneaky part of the game.


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[Assistant] Very good. Barbershop's at three o'clock. I almost forgot about that. You got a barbershop today?


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[Assistant] I'll be hustling because I've got to put a lot of graphics in. So it's hard to go again.


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[Assistant] The consideration is always, this is why I get angry when you talk about the Cavs. The consideration is always there. If you have a player on your team, these executives are crazy. Like you just look


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[Assistant] Like at the, the way the NBA moves with young superstars in their prime.


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[Assistant] There's always a threat you're going to roll out. There's always. He didn't sign his contract.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have to. And I think the Cavs and people are wondering when is he going to show outwardly that he doesn't want to be there, right? Because usually LeBron or Kyrie, we've been through this quite a few times.


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[Assistant] They'll give you some inkling by their body language or they'll back door channel it and leak some stories that they're not happy. Have you seen any of that yet?


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[Assistant] Not, not with Donovan Mitchell. Well, there's been stories leaked. Not, not necessarily that he's not happy, but that he's gonna leave. So, so here's the thing. I, that comes to, he's never gonna tell you straight up, I don't wanna be. Right, right.


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[Assistant] He's never gonna, because he's too savvy and his father works in an administration somewhere. Like, he knows what to say and what not to say. Well, not just somewhere in New York. Yeaah. And he understands what you, what you should and shouldn't say to keep your reputation at bay. If anything, Donovan Mitchell's stock goes up.


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[Assistant] So he has the leverage. He's never was going to sign that deal. And you have to think about it. He got traded from Utah. He got here.


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[Assistant] He's like, what's the difference between Utah and Cleveland? Am I going to be able to win? We can be a top four seed, but do I have enough here? And the answer is no, he does not have enough. They can go to playoffs, maybe win a round, but if you're not going to be a championship caliber team.


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[Assistant] I-I would do this. Uh, I look at what the Guardians did.


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[Assistant] And the Shohei Otani thing, I'm not waiting, bro. I'm not waiting. All that, wait till next year. No, I'm not waiting. I'm gonna go get you me somebody today. Cause the price today is gonna be higher than the price next year. We all know that. Don't fool yourself.


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[Assistant] And you can, and look, listen, I ain't saying that Porter Jr. or Sam Merrill or Imani Bates is gonna come in and give you what he's giving you, but one thing you can do,


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[Assistant] You could give them the playing time, you could recoup some assets, and you could get somebody back like a Tyler Hero. You could get that back and some picks. You could get that back and RJ Barrett and some other different things that'll help you out. But my thing is,


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[Assistant] If you keep them as constituted, we know one thing, you're not winning no championship.


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[Assistant] Why could Chahonga shoot like that? Hold on. Right. Wimby takes the ball up and down the court at will. You're like, dang bro, let's just kind of, just kind of, uh, or you look at guys like, uh, Ben Carrol. You're like, man, Ben Carrol ain't seven foot, but he sure is every bit of 6'10", doing what he want to.


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[Assistant] That's why, that's why I was asking myself, why was I watching every game last year? But this year, I can't even force myself.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, you know, you called your own plays, and right now the Browns, I saw what you saw, uhm, they just, they were just, they were outmanned up front. They couldn't get, the penetration was killing them, the momentum. Uhm, as a quarterback, hey, if you don't mind me


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[Assistant] If they can't run the ball, say, say for instance, you know, they have trouble running the ball the next couple of games.


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[Assistant] We've heard people say Joe Flacco is older, we can't count on him to th-


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[Assistant] I said maybe us throwing the ball in certain circumstances, in certain situations.


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[Assistant] Is the best opportunity for the Browns to win. To put the ball in his hands and say, alright, we'll win us a game, man.


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[Assistant] You know, it's weird, like you, you mentioned that I remember you in high school playing in just state championships and.


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[Assistant] It's, it's Thanksgiving and Christmas and all states coming out and you know how it is at Youngstown. You're looking around who you're going to play. You're looking at your rankings and you just feel this like you, you feel like you could do anything. How, what is the difference in that locker room?


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[Assistant] When you know you are a contender and you feel that confidence level compared to other things.


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[Assistant] Good luck to all of you all because you're gonna need it. And it was funny because I'm looking at the messages and I'm like, oh, Cory's a funny guy. And then I go check the schedule in the playoffs and I play.


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[Assistant] What happened was this. Flash poll. I was never gonna get on Cameo. But what happened was, my boy Cardell, we was on the phone one day and he was just like, he was like, you know what, you should get a Cameo. I'm like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] He said, he said, don't worry about it. What I'ma do is I'ma have, I'ma have this lady reach out to you. You just give her your information and she gonna put you on cameo.


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[Assistant] But I think that Martin Emerson has been such a vital piece. You know, you don't see a lot of passes getting completed on that side. He had two picks last week, which really paid to them winning the game. And he's gone. I don't know who their replacement is. Cause you got G Nuhu gonna be outside for Denzel. Cam Mitchell's in the slot. Mike Ford's gonna be outside. Yea, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you why I say Martin Emerson. All those people was out.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's the case. We lead the league in turnovers.


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[Assistant] Realistically, I mean, they're sitting at the fifth seed right now and they're playing so well. If the playoffs started, would you consider them to be the most dangerous team in the playoffs?


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[Assistant] I was gonna go same thing but flip, uh, flaco. I afford over hunt. Yeaah. No, no. Hunt's cool.


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[Assistant] So you said, you said Najoku Teller Flacco Hunt 4.


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[Assistant] What do you got? I agree with that. I think I might agree with that. Let's go with it. See what it is.


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[Assistant] I look at it like this. When I, when they say like he's inefficient, I mean,


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[Assistant] I think we take that all into account. His numbers is exactly what his coach said. He's not afraid to fail. He's gonna take the shot and sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't. But I mean, you gotta take that. You gotta take that chance. He's playing good football. I think


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[Assistant] I always give it to you from a safety standpoint. Right. You telling me that you gonna stall plays for Martin Emerson.


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[Assistant] I'm not going against Miles, I'm sorry. I'm not going against Emerson.


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[Assistant] Myron Kay, when you look at this secondary, I mean, you got Juan Thornhill who goes out, I think in the pregame, Denzel's been out for a couple of weeks, hopefully he comes back, but they're still some, they're still managing to get production. It, well they all get healthy again, and what's the status on Grant Dale Pitt? I hear he's going to the IR.


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[Assistant] Mary Kay, I need your unbiased opinion on this question.


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[Assistant] You have one vote and your vote matters and it counts. Who's Coach of the Year this season?


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[Assistant] There's top three. What I'ma say right now, the reason I would make the case for Nick Chubb over Deshaun Watson is because if Nick Chubb was in right now.


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[Assistant] You got half of what he wants, half of what Kevin wants, and then you gotta try to compromise in the beginning, and they just haven't been on the same page. It looked good for a while, but there still seems to be something missing where those two just aren't connecting 100% right now. But with Joe Flacco,


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[Assistant] He's doing exactly what it is that Kevin Stefanski envisions his quarterbacks to do. You give him a great running game. This team is a Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. There is a one thing in this whole argument that makes me go with Joe and Nick. Joe's did it.


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[Assistant] Yes. And everybody talks about Eli Manning's performances when he went on the road and did a Joe Flacco Super Bowl performance. His run in the playoffs was up there.


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[Assistant] Like, I love Deshaun, but the last time Deshaun, I can't get the Kansas City, the Texas vs. Kansas City game out of my head. And that thing, that bothers me a little bit. Where I know with, at least with Joe, at least I know he's done it and he's won it all, so it's like he knows what it takes to get there. I don't, Deshaun hasn't-


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[Assistant] Mcnuggets. Mcnuggets, I don't like the way you intro'd this because you, you said it wrong. That's World Series Champion Austin. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Well, why, they need to, it's only one person that can save them. Fran Mel Reyes.


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[Assistant] That's, you know what, that's despair. That's despair.


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[Assistant] Chief Bush leader of the Kool-Aid Mafia, I'm gonna tell you right now, you don't wanna miss it. Bernie Kozars breakdown of Joe Flacco. Keep it locked, Jason.


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[Assistant] I think there's another layer to his playbook and I'm gonna tell you why. I think one of the things as a coordinator, what you wanna do is you wanna get


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[Assistant] Your quarterback in the right position where he feels comfortable. Joe Flacco only had one week preparation under his belt.


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[Assistant] What do you like to do? Where you want to throw the football and different things like that. To Jason's point, you can move.


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[Assistant] Do some more motion, get guys open, get some easy little quick rub routes or even pick plays. I think that there's more progression because A, he'll have more time. And B, we saw that he still has an arm. He can push the ball to any part of the field that he wants to. He has a lively arm, an elite arm, and I think that leads to more plays in the playbook, Jay.


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[Assistant] Well, Mr. Jet, him, former Jet himself, Elijah Moore. Welcome to the big leagues. He looked good last week. He only caught four of his 12 targets.


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[Assistant] You did see him catch a ball on a sideline. You did see him get open. And it looks like they got a little chemistry with him and Joe Flacco. They're familiar with one another. Now listen, you can't take, you know, Amari Cooper and say Elijah Moore is going to, you know, be the guy. But if you're looking for a guy who has some chemistry, Elijah Moore is a guy that is


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[Assistant] Hey, you're supposed to be ready for any smoke, right? You know, whether it's Trevor Lawrence or, uh, Beathard. I don't know. For me?


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[Assistant] As much as I like Denzel Warder, I think he's gonna help with the pass game and overall defense.


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[Assistant] I doubt that he's gonna come back and fix everything with the defense. When you go back and watch the film, you watch the All 22, you know, it's not the corners that are, you know, missing tackles, not the corners.


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[Assistant] Who aren't changing the line of scrimmage. Uh, those guys are out there worried about defending guys. The guys that are going to help the overall defense and stop the run are up front. Jim Schwartz's defense is predicated on pass rush. It's predicated on getting, uh, getting home with four, not blitzing and then having strong coverage and man to man coverage and sticky coverage.


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[Assistant] And the secondary, so to stop the run, it takes the four guys up front, it takes them penetrating, it takes them being in the backfield, and go back and watch the games where they were dominant. The games against the 49ers, the game against the Bengals.


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[Assistant] They're dominant because those guys up front get penetration, the ball has to bounce and they get after you on third down. That is what's going to make the overall defense better, not did Zell Ward. Agree.


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[Assistant] That worked out perfectly. Yeah, I think, uh, anytime you talk about the Browns and touchdowns, it's hard to project that. There's no way I could guarantee.


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[Assistant] You already know I'm drinking a Kool-Aid on the Cleveland Browns and I'm drinking it especially


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[Assistant] For Joe Flacco. I think the Browns come into this game. It's a must-win. A lot of people think it's not. Flacco cages the Jags. Flacco Velli cements his position as Brown's starter with 300 yards in a 24-13 win.


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[Assistant] Amazing, excited that two weeks ago he was on the couch and here we are on the first, third down of the game. Here we are, look at the safety at the top of the screen there. Looking like a two deep coverage, gonna double Amari Cooper at the snap. Joe Flacco, the veteran quarterback, sees him coming down into man coverage.


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[Assistant] Inside technique by the cover, by the corner on a Mario Cooper. But look at number 15 here. Set his feet. Make that throw before a Mario Cooper comes out of his route.


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[Assistant] That route in a perfectly thrown team that could do this at will, uhm, is a 20 to 22 yard completion. For Joe Flacco to be on the couch and to have that timing.


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[Assistant] Look at the same pre-snap read by the defense. Showing to the bottom here that 2D.


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[Assistant] Not rotating to the middle of the field like they did. So here now you want to work the middle of the field, not your outside receivers, in that same 20 to 22 yard area. Look at the man number 15. Use his eyes to keep that middle linebacker right over him, making that little step to the left.


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[Assistant] That gives him just that window to carve that beautifully carved spiral right in that scene right there. Again, at that 20 to 22 yard area where it's almost impossible for a defense to stop.


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[Assistant] Stopping throw like that. To be able to squeeze in that throw to Harrison Bryan on massive timing. Once again, that ball's thrown, Mike, for Harrison Bryan, just like that ball's thrown before Mario Cooper even considers coming out of his route. So that takes, that takes usually, uhm,


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[Assistant] A whole off-season training camp, a whole season of real football to do it. Again, for the man to be making those throws after being on that couch two weeks ago, Joe Flacco, you matter, brother.


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[Assistant] Here we are. Thursday! We've got just a couple of days to game day. Big one this weekend. Huge one.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, I think you said it yesterday, they're all winnable and they're all loseable.


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[Assistant] Well look at the eagles, they went from the one seed, where are they now, the five?


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[Assistant] You go from the 1 to the 5 by losing a game.


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[Assistant] True, but contributors, like it's guys that, you know, that we've had as major contributors this year. Aditi's here. Bernie's here.


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[Assistant] Well, so not only is it free, we're paying people to come. That's right. We're giving away tickets. I mean, what's the value of an average Cavs ticket? 60 bucks? Somewhere in there. I don't know yet. So this is like a $120 value to show up. I mean, it's gotta be worth at least 500 bucks to meet us. If we don't get 5,000 people out there tonight, I would be disappointed.


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[Assistant] I mean, the product, the product between this level and the NHL, the trained eye obviously can see it, but if you're a hockey fan and you go, are you not entertained? It's quality hockey. It's quality hockey and well done. Alright, uh, McNuggets, what else do we got in business do we have to take care of before we dive in?


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[Assistant] Great, I mean, you see, he tugged on the quarterback, had it pulled, and you immediately see him grab it.


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[Assistant] And he can't, you know, he knows it's bad and all of his teammates are saying get down, get down, get down. He played after that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's not cursed. Uh, it's bad luck and that's really the only way you can explain it. Uh, when you look around the league, there are teams that have


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[Assistant] Similar number of injuries. There's only one that has more. I think what's hit particularly hard is because all these injuries are to contributors. They're all the guys that you don't want to miss on the field. Uh, it's just bad luck.


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[Assistant] You know, you can try to say, well, it's the fact that you can't hit anymore. Neither can the other 31 teams.


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[Assistant] You can try to say that it was an early bye week. Yes, the Browns did have an early bye week, but there have been teams that have played.


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[Assistant] 9 weeks in a row without getting a buy that haven't suffered this kind of attrition. I think the only way you can, and I know a lot of people are trying to say the strength coach isn't doing his job. I mean, it's just one of those things. It's a flippy thing. Injuries are like


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[Assistant] And also, those guys, uh, will have more experience when the playoffs roll around. Obviously these games are all big, but you said yesterday when you start playing against teams that don't have noticeable weaknesses, like it's fine when you're playing against Chicago.


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[Assistant] It's fine when you're playing against teams that you should beat on paper. Right. But when you see a team, the one thing I can promise you, whoever does get the ticket punched in the AFC,


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[Assistant] They are going to have won the battle of attrition. There's 11 teams vying for those very precious seven spots. That means four really good teams aren't going to make it. But that also means all of the teams that make it are survivors. They don't have weaknesses. They have depth. So it's really going to become apparent


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[Assistant] When you start lining up left and right tackles that are not good, when you start lining them up against teams that have waves of pass rushers that can come at you, and you can't get help from a tight end or a guard on a particular one-on-one matchup.


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[Assistant] Right now, there's a mountain and there's seven flags to be planted in that mountain. And there's 11 teams that are two thirds of the way up that mountain and can see the path to the top.


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[Assistant] I saw three or four different power rankings yesterday. Not that they're the end all be all, but most of them had the top three teams in the NFC.


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[Assistant] And the Browns are, we talked yesterday, there's a pathway for the Browns to get the number one seed. There's a pathway for them to miss the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Nothing! House money, really, when you think about it. I mean, I know we had playoff expectations, but we all sat here and said there were going to be nine and eight before the season started. We all, you know, I mean, I can't remember what you had.


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[Assistant] You know, they win this weekend, they're at nine wins. One other thing I wanted to throw out there real quickly, uhm, uh, there's a melt that someone sent me yesterday of Miles Garrett plays, uhm, from NFL films. So it was, there was sound on it.


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[Assistant] And literally the sound, it's the initial collision, as you know, at that point of contact on the offensive line.


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[Assistant] The grunts and the absolute volume of the sound of the collisions of two massive men with strength and speed coming together play after play after play. When I see melts like that, it really does drive home to me.


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[Assistant] Just how physical and violent that position in particular can be.


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[Assistant] My answer will surprise you guys. I would say hunt.


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[Assistant] Just because he's proven to be the short yardage. Think about the drives he's kept alive with third and one, third and two, third and three. The goal line situations. What does he have? Seven touchdowns?


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[Assistant] Listen, you know, I know Bull always says efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. He's the guy in baseball terms that you would bring in to steal a base late in the game that's one run.


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[Assistant] Like, it doesn't seem like it's a critical spot, but if you don't think it's critical, ask the Boston Red Sox how big Dave Roberts' stolen bass was. He wasn't a guy that ever, and nobody would have picked him as the most important guy on the roster.


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[Assistant] But you can make an argument that that first world series doesn't happen if they don't have him deep on their bench. And so for me, I think it is Hunt because those yards that he churns out


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[Assistant] Are invaluable at moving the sticks, controlling the clock, keeping drives alive. And most importantly, the exclamation point on a drive, the Browns were challenged in the red zone.


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[Assistant] The only reason I would say that I would have pause on that is because remember, Pochitz is a replacement to a guy that Brown's already had penned in as a starter. So if not Ethan, you've got Harris in the wings who's proven to be a pretty good center.


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[Assistant] Their running styles don't fit that mole. You know, you called him a kamikaze, that's a great word for him. Those guys that are, that are, they're warriors and they are sacrificing their body. And I love how angry and violent and determined he runs in those situations. When we talk to Kareem,


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[Assistant] At the, uh, at the event around Thanksgiving.


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[Assistant] at town hall. The one thing that you could tell he takes great pride in is the fact that I want the ball in that spot. I am going to get you the couple of yards that you need and they're going to have to basically kill me


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[Assistant] To not, to keep me from getting either the first down or the touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but when you look at their team numbers, they're not, they're not among league leaders and getting after quarterbacks. You, you mentioned the, the early starts went up. Lomas Brown told me this once he's


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[Assistant] Later in his career, his role was as a mentor, and he would tell young tackles, particularly left tackles,


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[Assistant] He said the propensity to move early was when they knew they were outmatched. They were trying to get that particularly in passing downs. They were trying to get that.


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[Assistant] From, from position A to position B where you're swung out and you're back a couple of yards and they knew they were outmatched and they were nervous about it. So they were trying to get the advantage and he would just say, just in those situations, you don't move until you see them move.


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[Assistant] And forget about the ball, forget about the snap count. You know when they move, the ball's hot. Right. And you're just gonna have to make up for your deficiency with quick feet. That's it.


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[Assistant] It's okay, it's the pedal. It's the SOU. Yep, you drew him and you got the, you get the flag.


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[Assistant] I think Bull's question is actually the answer. Uhm, the way I look at this game is, uhm, I always love how Bill Belichick builds a defensive game plan.


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[Assistant] Let's put, let's look at the other team's hand. What are their strong cards? And no question, Justin Fields is their ace. He is the guy that can hurt you. When he's playing well, this is a pretty good offense.


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[Assistant] When he's not playing well, he's typically running when he shouldn't, maybe a little too much, and then trying to do too much with his arm when it's just not there. J.O.K. has, and I'm not saying he's a pro bowler, I will say this with confidence.


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[Assistant] There have been times this year where he absolutely has played at a Pro Bowl level. Whether or not his season and his body of work justifies a Pro Bowl nod, I don't know yet. What I do know is I've seen him play at a Pro Bowl level against some really good teams.


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[Assistant] I, what he does is particularly kind of the kryptonite to what Justin Fields does. Put him in the middle, use him as a spy to make sure that he goes horizontally on the field wherever Justin Fields goes.


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[Assistant] In the case where the pocket breaks down and he decides he's gonna run, JLK has one job.


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[Assistant] Be a heat seeking missile and bring down the quarterback. So I know you lose a little bit in the middle of your defense when you take one of your resources and you pre-assign him for every play. But I think this team demands that kind of attention and this quarterback.


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[Assistant] He is. And by the way, quickly before McNuggets jumps in here on the whole situation with Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] He knew that this year was, this was his make it year. This was it.


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[Assistant] And with the recent changeover in Bears front office and the fact that they're sitting on these incredible resource draft picks, they've got a big, big decision to make.


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[Assistant] And I have to say, coming into this season, I didn't think it was gonna be a difficult decision. I had not seen enough from Justin Fields to think that this is the guy I'm gonna plant my flag in. I just, I don't, I didn't think he was there.


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[Assistant] Watching him a number of times their entire games and watching him very closely.


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[Assistant] He has really matured as a quarterback this year. He has turned a corner for me.


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[Assistant] Whether or not he's the guy that the Bears want to say, we're not going to take a quarterback with those early first round picks, that's up to them.


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[Assistant] But if they decide to go a different direction with those picks and keep him as their franchise guy, I think I'd be okay with that, where at the beginning of the year, I never thought I'd get to that point.


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[Assistant] Beef up that line, give him the protection that he needs. If you buy this guy a half second on average for drop back, it changes the entire dynamic of their offense.


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[Assistant] The fact we're asking the question was when the best linebacker the Browns have had since their rebirth sat on this show and said, I'd cut bait, I'd be done with it.


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[Assistant] De'Quel Jackson was almost never critical. And he just came right out and said it, guys, he's not worth keeping around.


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[Assistant] And that's play recognition. He knew at the time of the snap where


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[Assistant] One of the most criticisms, I think, was he's thinking. You don't think at linebacker. You react. And you let your natural instincts take over. And I think that's what he's doing now. And that's probably because Jim Schwartz came in and gave him the license to play freely.


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[Assistant] The official is yellow, black letters. I'll say this, I see aunt in the gym every once in a while.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You really did, you really did say no. Yeaah, no.


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[Assistant] Every single time. I don't know what our coin flip rate is of win, but it seems like every week we're getting the ball to start the game.


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[Assistant] Can't count on him. Uh, the reason I think that Fields will is to your point, Hunt being hurt, you know, he's one big hit from being sidelined. Uhm, and


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[Assistant] So that's not good. Here's his game logs for rushing yards this year. And he did miss four games. He had 59 yards, three yards, 47, 25.


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[Assistant] 57, 46, 104, 59, and 58. Here's what stood out to me about that. Justin Fields made a comment early in the season before he got hurt. Why they, why they putting handcuffs on me?


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[Assistant] Why? Right. And a lot, he took a lot of flack for that in Chicago in particular. I remember that. And I will tell you that to the Bears' credit, they listened to him.


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[Assistant] Including a game over a hundred. I only bring that up because I think the Bears said, you know what? We are kind of taking away Superman's cape.


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[Assistant] Let's, let's, that is what made Justin Fields who he is and what he can do. So let's see what happens. And if he gets hurt, it makes our decision about what we do with our early draft picks next year easier. We know that that's not sustainable. We don't want a running quarterback. We go back to the well.


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[Assistant] But to his credit, they've won some of those games. He's looked better passing the ball in all of those games. And as a result, I think his comment kind of backed the Bears


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[Assistant] But to me, I think the other thing that jumps out at me when I look at his numbers is his passing grades have gone up.


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[Assistant] So it's not like, you know, he's stealing from one of his skill sets.


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[Assistant] To put a spotlight on one of the other. It's the skill set that he used most to become Justin Fields is now enhancing his other skill set.


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[Assistant] So I, I would think that he's, the Bears know that. The Bears are going to continue to say, run where you think you can run. And if he continues to put up those numbers, I don't know if the Browns can have a 60 yard runner just because when was the last time they did?


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[Assistant] I don't know. I'm not sure I'm asking that question rhetorically, but I think it probably was bull. I mean, they just haven't, they haven't had that, you know, they've had, I think,


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[Assistant] Uh, against Denver, Ford averaged, was averaging like nine yards of carry. I think he had 12.


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[Assistant] Carries for over 50 yards, but I can't remember if he won over 60.


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[Assistant] I'm going to look it up right now. So I, I would just think just, just on the law of averages and the way things have been going the last couple of weeks. And also we talked about this yesterday, the Bears ranked 30th in pass defense. So I'm not going to blame the Browns this week if they're more pass heavy than run.


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[Assistant] You said that with your chest, our three bills. Yeaah. I mean, I'm going to be surprised if he doesn't throw for 300. Look, I mean, the haze in the barn as to what they're going to do with Joe, the last two games, they've thrown it 65% of the time.


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[Assistant] So if they do that again, and I expect they will.


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[Assistant] I just think he's been accurate enough, picking the right receivers enough, finding holes.


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[Assistant] And putting them in the right play. I think he's done that a number of times. And so I expect them to get 300. I think even if, I think a good game for Fields passing is 200 yards. And even if he gets that and he averages his rushing yards, which is about 50 a game, since he started running it more, I got him at two and a half. And Flacco's


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[Assistant] Okay, so they're both the proverbial number ones and where number two.


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[Assistant] I think a couple of weeks ago when he took the big hit, then the next week he played,


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[Assistant] And the ball was, hit him right in the hands and he dropped it because he felt like he knew the defender was closing in on him. I think I called it PTSD for a receiver. You know, when you, after they take that big hit over the middle or that serious shot that rings their bell.


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[Assistant] They start to hear things and they start to see ghosts and I think he's gone through a little bit of that. But for me to accurately answer this question,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'd have to be able to answer a question that I don't have the answer to and that's Denzel Ward's availability.


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[Assistant] Then, I don't think that DJ Moore has a huge day. Who has a huge day when Denzel's on him? Nobody. The problem is, I don't know if he's gonna play.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett is very smart. By the way, surprisingly, I haven't heard about it. He wasn't fine. I didn't hear nothing about it. Nor was Andy Reid.


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[Assistant] Or, Patrick Mahomes, and here's my takeaway from that, and I'm glad we kind of stumbled into that. Yea it is, that's crazy. When the league knows it's wrong,


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[Assistant] It's right there. Now, I watched a great discussion on the NFL Network this week about that call.


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[Assistant] Somebody went through every play of that game.


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[Assistant] He lined up off-size. Five times. Four times.


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[Assistant] Four top, one was even more egregious. They also pointed out, and this was something that I wondered when I saw that freeze frame of the blue line.


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[Assistant] And that, and, uh, and referees will not.


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[Assistant] It does change the actual line of scrimmage, but they'll let that go. And they talked about this in the conversation on the NFL Network.


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[Assistant] He clearly picks that ball up and moves it backwards. That changes the line of scrimmage. Not to the wide receiver. Now they also show they had a great angle. You guys probably saw this. They had a great angle down the line.


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[Assistant] of Tony doing this and never getting confirmation from the official. He did that nine times in the game and at no point did he ever look at the official long enough to get the thumbs up.


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[Assistant] So in other words. You can't just signal. No, you can't. It's like the hitter in baseball calling for time and stepping out. You call for time, then you get time.


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[Assistant] Well, anybody that watches baseball knows that's not the strike song. And they made the comparison in that instance of him lining up on the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] There were guys that have played in the league that were part of this discussion that said that happens 10 times a game for every team. It's not called. The fact that they decided to call it in that moment, everybody on the panel thought was wildly egregious. The NFL was overreaching. It would be like that, you know, you hear this all the time. There's holding on every


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[Assistant] I don't understand. So they, they talked about that. Because of the ball being moved back? The ball kept being moved back and the officials were letting that go. Now, when you, and it wasn't that much. It looked like it was about four inches that it got the ball back.


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[Assistant] Moving the ball forward. They will stop the play and flag it in that instance. But in the panel discussion, they said that happens all the time. It's basically a center coming up to the ball and then realizing it's not in the proper position. But now he can't move his feet, right? So he hunches the ball backwards. They're not going to call that, right?


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[Assistant] You wanna back up on a free throw? Go ahead. But don't step over the line.


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[Assistant] He will get a sack and my roundabout way of getting to that was I think the reason that Garrett, Mahomes and Reed didn't get fine is because I think the league is aware


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[Assistant] They've, they've not been great in these instances. So they chose not to find them, but it was brilliant for Miles Garrett to say it because now every official that watches him this year is going to be looking for the hold. Are we missing it?


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[Assistant] But their conclusion at the end of this long discussion after they showed play after play after play after play where he was lined up in what technically was past the line of scrimmage. One of the things they pointed out was that the chief center was consistently moving the ball backwards a little bit and it was almost like


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[Assistant] Almost not, I don't want to say a habit, but it wasn't uncommon for him to do that. They said that changed the line of scrimmage. They also found three or four instances where receivers for the other team during the game, Buffalo, were also just as offsides and it wasn't called. So I think


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[Assistant] No, and it's funny because Patrick Mahomes is one of the biggest benefactors of bad missed calls. We won a Super Bowl for crying out loud on questionable calls. But all of that being said, I found it interesting that the league


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[Assistant] When you do something for the bulk of your life, and it's taken from you, and you, I, I, I was telling, gee, when I stopped playing baseball, I actually had dreams.


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[Assistant] Putting on my uniform and getting ready to tow the rubber. And I would wake up and I would almost be on the edge of tears because I would be like, I'm never going to do that again.


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[Assistant] No, but Ryan's not gonna say it on TV if it didn't really happen. I mean, you know Ryan, I know Ryan.


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[Assistant] I better know everything. I better watch everything. So that's, but I just found it interesting that the man paid for it and now he's part of the product.


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[Assistant] He's smart enough, his college coach who recruited him was on the show and he goes, Joe, if nothing else, is a master at assessing the situation. He knows he's not gonna come in here and say, this is my team. He's coming in here saying, I'm a placeholder.


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[Assistant] I would, because someone's going to offer them a contract for next year. Why not us?


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[Assistant] Right, they do have to take that step back before they take that step forward in the macro.


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[Assistant] Well, but you brought it to the table. She's kind of channeling her energy bush.


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[Assistant] Didi, thanks, have a great call, and we'll see you next week.


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[Assistant] Hey, as we bring in Bernie, I wanted, I just talked about Aditi channeling her energy bush with the analogies. Bernie Kozar is channeling his energy bush with product. And watch, watch this commercial. Ready for this? See this? This is Kozar Coffee. And I want to tell you something. You matter.


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[Assistant] This smells great. And I am not saying that because we're friends. I would tell you if I didn't like the smell of it, I've never smelled a coffee that I like. But whatever's in here.


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[Assistant] I'd say 90% of adults drink this every day. I think they would love you on Shark Tank.


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[Assistant] Have you ever seen a team suffer this kind of roster attrition to injury? It almost brings me back. You're 88 team.


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[Assistant] Bernie, when you look at Flacco, uh, the one question that we've asked is sustainability. He started the season last year, uh, with the Jets, had a couple of 300 yard games, the second one was just under 300 yards. He threw for over 300 against the Browns.


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[Assistant] Four turnovers is a terrible game. I'd have to go back and look at all the individual turnovers, but that was it. He disappeared till the last game of the season. And so I just think that, and indeed he talked about this, how there's group think at that position and how the league just collectively had stamped him as used up and done and they put him over there.


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[Assistant] It was just, for me, I saw some uncharacteristic drops and they came after the big rib shot and I've had guys tell me that played the position that you kind of get PTSD, especially when you're going over the middle. I'm not saying that those were the, you know, the source of his drops, but


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[Assistant] You know, I've had receivers tell me you start hearing things that might not be there after you've taken some of those hits.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think that the general fan might not really get their mind around exactly what that means.


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[Assistant] I mean, this doesn't happen if you don't have all those injuries. So sometimes, we talked earlier about how, you know, at some point do you run out of men? Because it's always next man up. Well, are you going to run out of men? Well, the beauty about this, and you'll know this,


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[Assistant] All the injuries have been opportunities for other guys. And one of those guys is Joe Flacco and he's capitalized on it.


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[Assistant] Perhaps, because that's kind of who he reminds me of. We talk about sustainability and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves, but what's the ceiling for this


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[Assistant] I know it sounds crazy, but I would offer him a contract for next year.


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[Assistant] The commodity of the backup quarterback, the value of the backup quarterback this year on what's happened has gone up. Someone's going to offer this guy a job. Why not make it here where he's already got a running start and a little bit of a runway in that season. Look, hopefully we never need him, but the odds are we will.


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[Assistant] I love that charity. I've done a lot with it myself. Uhm, go to just Google toys for tots, go to the website, find out how you can help our chapter here. We are in great need this year. We'll see it tonight. We're going to be there at the rock. All of us in seven.


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[Assistant] Let's just say we're gonna leave it at Jay has educated us on symbols.


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[Assistant] Well my problem is I don't, I don't wake up in the middle of the night.


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[Assistant] Listen, CJ was a, I love playing with CJ. CJ was really a high energy guy, was a dog on the field. Obviously he didn't have the success when it comes to wins and losses but,


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[Assistant] I think he did a really good job of picking up Kyle Shanahan's offense. I mean, you gotta give him credit because Kyle Shanahan is one of the best offensive minds in this game today. To be able to operate that and make plays, I thought he was able to do that. I also thought he brought this toughness to him. You know, he was one of those guys that'll scramble, drop the shoulder. He's from Iowa.


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[Assistant] And outside of the one pick that he threw, that was like the worst play he had.


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[Assistant] He does a good job of taking care of the football because he didn't have any fumbles. So I kinda like him over T.J. in this. Now don't get me wrong, I like Calvert Ridley over Sam R. Cooper's out over Elisha Moore. Sure. So I think he's got... But they've lost their other good fighters. Yeah, Kirk is Christian Kirk for the season.


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[Assistant] I think that from the weapons standpoint, for some odd reason, I just like Jacksonville. Before bull goes.


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[Assistant] I just feel like the Browns, this is two years in a row that the Browns have


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[Assistant] Fallen victim to a decision that they made. So last year was, this is a passing league. We don't need defensive tackles because they're going to pass the ball.


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[Assistant] And boom, we fall victim to that. This year, we don't need a backup quarterback. We got a rookie that we believe in. We don't really, who cares about a backup quarterback? And boom, it's not just the Browns. Everybody, it's a lot of teams. It reminds me of both in baseball.


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[Assistant] Leroy, what scares you about Jacksonville saying that if Trevor Lawrence is out, what will be your biggest fear for the Browns?


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[Assistant] And they were, they was in cover too. It was, uh, the middle run through linebacker was Stafford. He dropped it right in the bucket. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Can I ask you a question?


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[Assistant] Thomas. Wait a minute, it was an inverted cover too, so the corner was the half player. Go ahead. But, but I'mma say this.


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[Assistant] Over the, over the, let's say that there are 7, 70 defensive plays in the game, okay? Let's say 60 of them is man to man, alright? So you got, you got 60 snaps a game. This is week 12. That's a lot of plays of playing man to man. That's a lot on the DB's body.


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[Assistant] Yes, you're wearing down a lot. Every now and again, you want what's called a smoke break. A smoke break for a DB is covered too because it's easy for the corner. You can just sit and read the quarterback. Exactly. So they caught them on a smoke break. And a lot of the times these smoke breaks come when it's third and


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[Assistant] OSU is in Ohio State or Oklahoma State.


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[Assistant] When these kids come out, are they better in the pros out of high school, coming out of high school or coming out of college?


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[Assistant] Who went to win that draft, McNuggets?


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[Assistant] So, so now that the guardians have the number one pick and obviously they had a list of the top 10. I don't know where Mikey got that from, but MLB.com. Where, where do they go? What is it? Pitcher? What are y'all hitter? I want to see them go hitter.


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[Assistant] You know coach, when you're dealing with college players, it's a moment that comes where you're like, you know what, this guy could be an NFL player, and I think this guy could be a draft pick.


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[Assistant] Usually I play the field on that, they always say. Wait, can we just talk about this music?


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[Assistant] When you look at, when you look at the Cleveland Browns offense, obviously we on our fourth quarterback, you know, Murray Cooper went down with a concussion, don't know if he's going to be cleared to play. What is it about the Browns offense that kind of worries you a little bit?


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[Assistant] When you look at CJ Beathard for this week since he's probably going to be the starting quarterback, are you confident that he has what it takes to get it done to win this game against Cleveland?


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[Assistant] So, so when I got cut from any place I ever been, I did not take any of the gear. Screw those guys. That's why today you never see me wear any NFL gear.


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[Assistant] When you get, when you get cut, you know, you get the, they give you this big dumb black trash bag. You can put, they pack everything in there and you gotta pack it and then they ship it to your house. And when the box will come, I just take it in, give it away.


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[Assistant] I wanna see that, I wanna see that picture. Who was that picture that I interviewed on the Big Ten? He went to Indiana.


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[Assistant] I thought they said he wasn't playing. He's playing.


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[Assistant] Uh, listen, this is what I'll say. I will say that they have...


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know who's gonna start. I know they're really big on Lincoln Keenholtz. Aaron Nolan's coming in, who's supposed to be a really big time freshman. Uhm, but if I was a betting man, I would bet on probably Lincoln Keenholtz. Unless they get Cam Ward out of the portal, so.


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[Assistant] I don't, first of all, they don't recruit those type of guys at Ohio State anymore. I'm glad they don't. So you really, you'll rarely see that. And two, I look at it from a different angle.


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[Assistant] It's sad that that's where we at. Cause even when I played, we lost, we lost four games in my career and nobody ever did that to us. So it's, it's interesting that they feel like that.


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[Assistant] First of all, stop looking at numbers. Running the football to be effective is more important. Uhm, the other thing is, is that what Joe Flacco has done in the last couple of weeks has taken the pressure off a bunch of different units on that team where everybody's just relaxed and playing because they know they don't have to carry the weight of the team.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're playing free right now. The last couple of weeks they have been playing free because...


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[Assistant] So when you look at numbers and you look at, Oh, well.


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[Assistant] If they make you one dimensional because you're not running the football, then talk to me.


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[Assistant] Now, what Joe has brought to the table is pretty amazing, but I will say this, and Bush, you had a very valid point. I said this last year. Are we going to give Kevin Stefanski credit? Cause Jacobi Percent had his best year as a professional.


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[Assistant] Because this story has had a life of its own. Because one of the things I told Charles was he didn't realize, I didn't, I never knew who was on the call until Twitter.


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[Assistant] 10, 12 years after the play, when Twitter was alive and kicking, and they showed a play,


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[Assistant] When I got to six of those touchdowns, I didn't have a damn plate designed for me.


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[Assistant] And, uh, me and Matt be sittin' next to each other, K-Mac be sittin' there. And they go, you got another receiver touchdown?


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[Assistant] It was a fluke thing, like, it's shocking that it was happening, and then I had a couple of, a couple of long ones that I still hang. One of the, uh, we played Kansas City, and, uh,


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[Assistant] I'm telling, I told y'all one day at practice, or one day before a game, Bill came at me and said, uh, you got enough pads on? I said, there's more.


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[Assistant] So I had, I had the spider pads on and then I had to go like this.


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[Assistant] 50 pounds of pass. Hey, let me explain something. Listen.


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[Assistant] Metcalfe was a Lamborghini. So he had on them race wheels. You know, he had on the light pads, the knee pads, the towels. I was a monster truck. You're a hummer. So yeaah, I ain't, listen, know who you are.


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[Assistant] Right? And so I missed like the first, my first NFL game wasn't until the second week. Cause I broke my hand in preseason.


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[Assistant] They put a pad here and that was the really the first time I had a I didn't wear gloves for like my first two or three years. So I just put tape on my hands.


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[Assistant] In the m- the middle of my hand, cause I broke my hand mate. So, I have a scar right here. And uhm, and they say, well,


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[Assistant] Can I just tell you, I just told the story to get people to understand.


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[Assistant] It's sports. And this is the reason why I get pissed off at the committee for not including Florida State.


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[Assistant] Cause things happen in sport, right? And for you to predetermine what's going to happen in a competition is a joke.


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[Assistant] Right? And that's basically what they did. They basically said Florida State don't have a chance because they don't have their start quarterback. Right?


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[Assistant] They have taken competition out of sports. Which is a joke. But, I played in a game. And I'm gonna tell y'all the game. We played Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] And we were, Jim McMahon was a quarterback for Philadelphia and we were up 30 to, uh, 17. We're like five minutes to go and they were punting.


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[Assistant] They punted the ball, Webster Slaughter decided he was gonna catch the ball on a one.


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[Assistant] Webster, Webster comes back to the, cause you know, early on, people don't realize, now, the players go into the, into the bat cave, and they get to leave out their car with no fan contact.


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[Assistant] When we played, we had to walk the gauntlet.


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[Assistant] So uhm, Webb comes back into the locker room. Hey man, can y'all give me a ride?


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[Assistant] And that's, that's, so, yeah man, I get it, I understand it, but,


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[Assistant] And it was a terrible way to lose. It was a terrible way to lose a game. Cause imma tell you something. As a football player.


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[Assistant] His wife is the brother of, uh, Bacario. Bacar- uh, Bacaro.


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[Assistant] Look, on this team, Jalen Waddle, uhm, Tyreek Hill, uhm,


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[Assistant] Look at the pads I had to wear for football and look at the pads you wore. Who was closer to contact?


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[Assistant] Hey, can I just say this? It was so many times where I wish


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[Assistant] I played linebacker just so I could hit somebody on every play instead of getting hit. I'm telling you.


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[Assistant] You know how, you know how people play multiple positions as a kid?


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[Assistant] You must have had a huge high school.


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[Assistant] I asked. I went to a coach one time in a high school game. I say, tell me what to do at linebacker. This guy sucks. And he said, no, you just do what you do.


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[Assistant] The hardest thing to tell a running back to do is just pour it in there, right? Uhm, and part of that is because every running back sees things differently, right? Sometimes when you're trying to see something,


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[Assistant] You see nothing and you end up in those precarious positions as to where now you have nowhere to go. So a lot of it has to do with what are you looking at in front of you? What are you anticipating? Uhm, when you're not fast.


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[Assistant] Like, I had average speed, well, I guess I ran four or five, right? Which is okay, right? Uhm, it's not burner, but it's not slow. Uhm, and I will tell you that one of my biggest skills


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[Assistant] And so they go, man, he hit it hard, but I was seeing things really well.


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[Assistant] Now Kareem Hunt is a different situation, right? When Kareem Hunt's in the game.


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[Assistant] And so I, I, I hesitate in doing that because, or saying that because when I first started playing, right,


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[Assistant] You got an old man 30 years old and you 22. And the first thing he tell you is don't hit me in the back.


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[Assistant] Right? That's what the old line tell you. Don't drop your head and hit me in the back. And so, you got that?


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[Assistant] But I think it's more of a indecisiveness. Not a, what you, what it shows up as, as dancing with the stars. I see what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Because a lot of guys, a lot of guys that possess a lot of skill, right? So speed, quickness, or whatever.


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[Assistant] They always think they can use that to escape. And at some point.


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[Assistant] No, because here's the deal. Here's the deal. And this is exactly what I said.


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[Assistant] What are you gonna do? Here's why I want Florida State to win against Georgia. Not likely, but again, it's sports. Right? Here's why I want them to win.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna put Pass Interference on a Hail Mary outside the box because that's a very unique situation, but I think you have to call everything consistently. If you don't call it in the first quarter, how can you call it in the fourth quarter? If you do call it in the first quarter, how can you not call it in the fourth quarter? And that's what players do.


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[Assistant] Every crew is different. Every official is different. That's why some teams hire officials to give scouting reports on the officiating crew they're about to see. What all you can ask for in a human endeavor, like officiating, is consistency.


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[Assistant] Yes. Although my guy Jaquan Ripper is with the Browns and he's a Pittsburgh guy and he was so cute to my kids, but anyway, still yes.


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[Assistant] I've never seen him have so much fun. I've never seen him play so loose. I've never seen him play so free. I've never seen him play with


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[Assistant] It's all that cumulative experience. It's all those cumulative reps. That's all that wisdom that he now has. It's the crunch time. Remember, Joe Flacco put together arguably one of the best playoff runs of the last, what, 15 years, that year that they won the Super Bowl. All of that is coming into play right now.


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[Assistant] His body is fresh, as fresh as it can be for an almost 40 year old. He knows how fortunate he is to play with a defense like this, a run game like this, a line, even as sort of beat up as it is, but with the guards that he has. I just...


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[Assistant] I think that this is, I'm just really really bullish on what Joe Flacco can do for this team right now and what a fit he is in this particular moment for this particular group.


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[Assistant] This is the nature of the whole quarterback thing. I mean, there's no more, there's no position that has more group think or wrong assessments or, and you guys know I love Josh Dobbs. He's one of my all-time favorites ever.


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[Assistant] But I think the piece about Flacco that, look, he can clearly still sling the ball. He's still got the arm strength. You're never going to question how he can read a defense or make a smart decision, any of those things.


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[Assistant] The thing that Joe Flacco once got knocked on, he appreciates this moment and his kids getting to see what he's doing. Sure. All of that. You know, it just, again, it, I,


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[Assistant] I, 100%, I think there's a greater appreciation when you don't have something. I mean, look, I feel it this way about my own season. I've been start and stop, start and stop because I'm sharing my crew with someone. And it's funny because two weeks ago,


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[Assistant] Did he buy whatever the Sunday ticket package is now called because he expected his children could watch him? Because eventually he'd be somewhere in some city out of market and so that was-


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[Assistant] You know, like all those years that I covered the Giants and you had a, uh, David Carr, who was smart and heady, had been a starter in the, in the league. All these years that the Steelers with Ben Roethlisberger had a Charlie Batch or a Bruce Grodkowski, guys that could really offer value and not just the young buck that you were developing. I like that. It's why I like Josh Dobbs in this room.


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[Assistant] A good human. He's an Alex Smith who will mentor the young guy behind him, Patrick Mahomes, even though he knows he's losing his job to that person. He's Ryan Tannehill, who's lost his job to Will Levis, but he's still helping Will Levis every week. Joe Flacco is not going to sit on the bench and sabotage Deshaun Watson or sit here and say, I could do this better.


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[Assistant] Running Mike Tomlin out of town. It just means that you need, and I was on the radio yesterday saying this here in town, Mike Tomlin may be A through X, he is not Y, he is not Z.


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[Assistant] And so strong ownership needs to address Y and Z and then you'll have who you want.


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[Assistant] A through X is a heck of a lot better than just about any coach out there, but the things holding the Steelers back right now are Y and Z, the only person that can change Y and Z.


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[Assistant] Or the Steelers owners. And Adam, you and I were both in the New York market when John Marrow went to Tom Coughlin and said, we love you for all of these reasons, but the strict Martin that you are, the fact that you are not showing your players who you are as a grandfather and creating that connective tissue, that's gotta change.


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[Assistant] Or you're not gonna still be here. Tom Coughlin took that under advisement, he changed, and then he won two Super Bowls in what, four years?


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[Assistant] I mean, look, Russell Wilson said it to me earlier this year, week two, we had the Broncos and Russell Wilson said, as awful as last year was, he sat here and he thought, you know what, if you want to climb another mountain in life, you need to get back down in the valley. You have to come down off of one mountain to climb another one. Mountains aren't attached like that. That's well said.


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[Assistant] I think there's value in that. And the Steelers have kind of just been middling for, what, a dozen years now? It's a, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, Texans and Titans, somebody please say a prayer to the concussion gods for CJ Stroud. I'm assuming he's not gonna play. Well, if the Texans have CJ Stroud...


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[Assistant] No, Mike wasn't here. Hit the pause. Final second pause everybody. Yes.


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[Assistant] You know, so uhm, and that's what it was. You know, I got a chance to, you know, uh, work here full time and it was just about the games. But then when I got it found out, I had an opportunity to make an opportunity to make an impact.


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[Assistant] If I actually, I sometimes, I can just feel that when the team can, they, they gotta come, come back in them. I actually feel that energy and there has been times that they've been down by 15, they've been down by 20 or whatnot. And you know, I'll do one loud, rah-rah, rah-rah moment to get the crowd into it and the Cavs have spoke on it.


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[Assistant] That momentum that the cast, the fans give, give them, it means everything. And the fans, they don't, I don't, I don't know how, if the fans know how important that they are to the team. 100%.


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[Assistant] Man, if I see you, anytime a man start off by dribbling with two hands and you go to one,


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[Assistant] There was a chance you didn't get picked up. Who cares if you had winners? If you can't play, we're skipping right over you. And then they were like, you know what, let's just get rid of all the bad people. We're just going to go to AEU and we're never going to play with True Fairweather guys. So they systematically got rid of all novice basketball players. They're still street school young.


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[Assistant] I can't remember. Wait. I thought, I thought Jay, I told Jay he would vote Matthew McConaughey. Right, that's right. No, guys, you don't know me.


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[Assistant] My skin cosmetic line, Bush line, yesterday the 419. Wait, I thought you had that. No, no, but, but I just, I'm dropping it now.


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[Assistant] Just hit me up at gmoj91 at hotmail.com and I'll send you a test, uh, test supply and you tell me how you like it.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, I was, uh, you know, I was doing lighting for, like, you know how to do YouTube videos, right?


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[Assistant] And I got obsessed with lighting. So I couldn't get any of my lighting right. I couldn't find the shadows right. It just looked really JV. It looked like terrible. So what I started doing is watching makeup tutorials because they had the best lighting because you need to see their faces. So I watched all their makeup tutorials and I was like,


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[Assistant] How did that go over? Did you immediately duck? No, it worked. Like, we went and bought some different stuff. I got the pictures or whatever. I took them. Wow. And infamously I said with my last wife, I told her, I said, man, your eyebrows are C+. C plus eyebrows.


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[Assistant] But she, but she let me do her eyebrows, and they got to A minus. She was- When you say do, like what


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[Assistant] Well, you know. How do you do your eyebrows? So basically, you know, you, you have your, uh, you have the mascara, you have the eyeliner, you got a big shadow underneath, maybe you want a smoky eye or whatever, and the best thing, you gotta have a taper.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, and if you're a woman, sometimes you have to pluck the ends, you know, and get rid of them. Some people get them tattooed, but either way- Here's what's beautiful about that.


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[Assistant] Well, just because I think that the Browns are going to win the game does not mean that the Bears have to be a bad team. I actually think they're pretty good. Uhm, at the end of the season, everybody's good. Uhm, you look at it. Except the Chargers. Chargers. There you go.


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[Assistant] You know, I look at it like this, you know, the Bears can give you some things. Uhm, you look at the record, five and eight, right?


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[Assistant] One of the three best teams in the league, if you would have asked somebody last week, would have been the Lions.


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[Assistant] The Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. They beat them right now. We gave them an elder nine and four. They're five and eight right now. You take a look at the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] We're eight and five, right? But guess what? You could have taken 49ers. That could have been an L.


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[Assistant] The coach could have been an L. There's plenty of games that we won by a hair that could have easily went the other way, and we could be 5 and 8. When you take a look at what Justin Fields is doing,


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[Assistant] Is his legs and his mobility and that has been shown to hurt the Browns a little bit. DJ Moore, I know is banged up a little bit. That guy can play football and you look at Montez Sweat. You talk about people and their defense. Yes, their defense is not great.


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[Assistant] But look at what he's done. And I, I know Mikey McNuggets, if he's smart, he'll have a Montez Sweat Sitz stat for us. Look at the screen, G. Oh, Sitz, right? There you go. Sitz Montez Sweaters come along.


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[Assistant] They're playing much better defensively. They offer some things to you that you gotta pass for us to get after you. So to me, are they a great team? No.


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[Assistant] But, they're a team that I think you gotta respect, and you gotta come in and play right, and you can't have turnovers, especially given what we got on our roster and our injury problems. They are a pretty, they are a decent team, and you're gonna have to come out there and beat them.


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[Assistant] Marry Cooper don't gotta respect that. Like listen, I've been in this league. What I do is, is run routes. That's what I do.


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[Assistant] And if Mark Cooper can catch the ball and get over the fact that he's been putting the ball on the ground, because I think it's getting in his head a little bit, if he catches the football, he's going to be alright. And the way the Browns are playing offense is, this is the cool thing about the way the Browns play in the style with Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] You're not going to see Joe Flacco just sitting back there, and it's going to be obvious past.


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[Assistant] The way the Browns want to play is, hey, let's be at second and four. Let's keep the sticks third and two.


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[Assistant] Now it's a run pass option. Now you can run play action. And guess what? As a defensive back, it's way harder, more difficult.


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[Assistant] To guard receivers if you don't know if they're running the ball or they're passing the ball. And that's just simple, that's a simple, you know, fact of football. So Amari Cooper's gonna run routes, they're gonna get him the ball if he catches it. I think he's still gonna do what he does and he does that at a high level. I still give the edge to Amari Cooper.


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[Assistant] Cleveland Browns had Jacoby Brissett last year, he played better than they thought. They gave him, he, they got six, came to off-season, he was a free agent, they offered him two more, he got eight.


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[Assistant] Price of the market went up. When you had quarterbacks that got injured, like Deshaun Watson, the Cleveland Browns at the trade deadline, went back to Washington, and they said, can we get Jacobi Percett back?


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[Assistant] And he got more money, and then the market ramped up to a point where he, he, he was, he was bringing back more than you were. No, he wasn't bringing back more because nobody was willing to pay that price. So yeaah. Last year. So. This year. So. So. No. No. Nobody was willing to pay.


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[Assistant] We had a situation where Deshaun Wassey got hurt and it looked like your season was over. There's a lot of teams who have 250 million dollar quarterbacks. They're paying them god knows what.


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[Assistant] That's the reason why I want it. We talk about on the field.


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[Assistant] The man knows football inside and out. I got DTR. Guess what? I feel like DTR can learn from him. You got Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. I'm gonna go with stick. Yea, I'm going with stick. I don't even like saying stick that much. So we gotta tie.


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[Assistant] And it was because of his play. Here's why I'm gonna give it to Gardner Minshew. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna need your reaction, but I'm not a hater. I'm not a hater. He won at Baltimore.


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[Assistant] That might be a good concern. I'm going to tell you about two weeks. This is how this thing works. I know I manufacture Kool-Aid.


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[Assistant] Two more games, everybody else that was off that Deshaun Watson for that Joe Fletcher.


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[Assistant] Hey, you can only play who you're scheduling. No, but of course you can only play. But it plays a role. It's important for context.


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[Assistant] That's a two-week joint right there. Like, like, okay. And a lot of it, hey, let's be clear. You go back and watch that all 22? A lot of busting coverages in there. So, you know, they brought the all-out blitz. The guy slips and falls. Joe finds him. It wasn't like,


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[Assistant] If I was Safeski's agent, I would run right to the front office and be like...


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[Assistant] And, uh, I joked with you guys on the text chat. So we're jogging. It's a 5k. We're jogging. And I'm in better shape than you think. I really am.


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[Assistant] And they make these strollers built for running. Oh yea. But it's unbelievable to watch these women pushing kids and running past that ass.


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[Assistant] And real quick, real quick, I want to give a shout to my brother Ryan, who was hanging Christmas lights yesterday, had a horrible accident at his house. He's in ICU, fell and broke his ribs, fell off the roof, broke his ribs.


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[Assistant] Uh, Crack to sternum, he's in rough shape, so I'm going to see him after this. Get better, Brian. Ryan? Ryan, yeaah, get better buddy. Oh my god. Hope you feel better. I'm coming to see you after this. Yeaah, that is, that is a mess. Yeaah, he's in, he's in bad shape. Just hire somebody to put up the Christmas lights.


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[Assistant] They want a thousand dollars to hang Christmases. How long of a job is that for them? I don't know, but, but like...


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[Assistant] She's got, she's got young kids too. Younger. Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. In the twenties. Yeaah, yeaah, right. So. Yeaah, I gave her three extra credit points.


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[Assistant] Jason? If I'm Denver, I'm watching the second half of that Brown Steelers game and basing my entire defensive scheme off that second half. Brown didn't score.


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[Assistant] Until the last drive, kick the field on the last drive in the second half, because the Steelers knew they weren't going to throw the ball down the field at that point. They're sitting on the routes and putting eight, even nine in the box and saying, go ahead. We dare you to throw deep. Now what makes Kevin great?


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[Assistant] It's a play caller, it's the things that kind of drive people nuts, including me.


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[Assistant] That part was missing in the second half last week. They did exactly what you thought they were going to do the entire time. And we've talked about like,


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[Assistant] Deep shots. I thought at some point I was texting with our subscribers and I was telling them it's coming. They're going to throw a deep shot at some point and it never came. It's going to have to at some point. We've talked for weeks about


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[Assistant] If you're gonna win this way, it's heavy, it's jumbo sets, it's extra offensive lineman, it's screen passes, it's running the ball.


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[Assistant] But it's also play action and taking deep shots on third down. That's the part we didn't really see last week. That's the part I think that they're going to have to incorporate at some point. Otherwise, it's going to be a lot more of what we saw in the second half where defenses just don't fear you.


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[Assistant] Just don't turn it over, keep everything in front of you, and you can win this game. But I do think eventually you have to loosen up that defense, and you do have to take some sort of shot down the field. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] So he'd have to be elevated by tomorrow. Well, they have to put him on the 53 in order to make him the third string quarterback for Sunday.


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[Assistant] Oh, and again, you'd have to be on the 53. So they'd have to get them on the 53 by today. Oh, I thought it was tomorrow.


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[Assistant] I mean, last year the Niners had a ton of injuries at quarterback.


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[Assistant] I saw something, I've been trying to find it. I wish I'd have marked it. Yesterday on Twitter, I saw something.


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[Assistant] There's a scatter chart about the Browns and Broncos, and the Browns defense is in the far upper right tier, as high as you can go, and the Broncos is in the lowest possible.


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[Assistant] So you saw what I was talking about. It could not be more. I thought I marked it because I wanted to send it to you, but at least you saw it.


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[Assistant] And that goes back to the stat we were talking about Monday that I think Mike's got again.


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[Assistant] He's freaking brilliant. Like, he's gotta be the smartest quarterback in the league.


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[Assistant] But no, his ability to process quickly, obviously, like he's brilliant, you know.


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[Assistant] There's not a ton of tape on him. Obviously every week adds a little bit more.


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[Assistant] I mean, he could be the Jacoby Brissette of this offseason. Right. He could be parlaying this and do a starting job next year for a global team. I mean, right now the


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[Assistant] And how many, like, Aaron Rodgers had nothing to do with. Right. It's a soft, you know. He just, yeaah. He's a freak. Now Deshaun.


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[Assistant] Jason, what say you? How much stock do I have to buy? Mine's up to you, I guess. I'm buying a little bit of stock. Can you spend better? Certainly.


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[Assistant] I don't know that he'll be what he was billed to be in the preseason. I don't know if that's realistic.


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[Assistant] But really what I liked on Sunday was he dropped a big pass.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on the last, was it the last ride? Was it?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm trying to remember. It was earlier in the game. He dropped a big pass and they came right back to him on the next play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and he caught it and I think it was like a nine yard, I think it was like a first down pass that he dropped, then he came back on second down and caught it.


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[Assistant] But they're gonna need him, like they're gonna need somebody to emerge from this wide receiver group if they're gonna continue down this path, if they're gonna go far in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] It can't all be a Mari. Like there's gotta be somebody else that they can look to and count on. So I'll buy.


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[Assistant] But I'm not putting everything in my account. He's not going to be the only thing in my portfolio. I'll buy a little bit. I'll buy a little bit.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore breaks a couple big ones just because of the role that he's asked to play. I'm going to say Nijoku, but it's close.


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[Assistant] I would have thought he'd be around 35 to 45 right now.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen, I would look off top of my head, it feels like Tillman's got a lot more reps than David Bell these last couple weeks.


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[Assistant] But he's playing very well. I would, I would go with another Denver player here.


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[Assistant] What about Greg Newsom? I would take Emerson over Newsom.


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[Assistant] I still can't go that high. I would go J-O-K. J-O-K been playing well. He's on my list. I was gonna say Wyatt Teller, so now what do we do?


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[Assistant] Are you going with Teller? I would say, I would say, I think Teller is having a phenomenal year. I do too. So I would say Teller, I mean the Broncos, the Broncos, I mean their leading tackler is pretty good too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's having a great year and they've got a defensive end who's playing well. Yeah, I'm voting for Hopper.


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[Assistant] But man, we got some big names out there still.


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[Assistant] It was like, we had one where it was like 8-2 browns. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they gave up the, I mean, the big play at Pittsburgh, that was what? Sure. 71 yards. Okay. Both weeks, both, both times. The second, the run wasn't as long. But there have not. It was longer. The Browns defense.


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[Assistant] Those two plays against the Steelers are the only two that come to mind in terms of big plays allowed. But even drives that had to go a long time.


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[Assistant] It's also simplifying the reads for the quarterback. It's really one read and go, right? Like you don't have a lot of time to ski in the field and go through your first progression, second progression. When you're getting the ball out that fast, you pretty much know where it's going off the snap.


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[Assistant] And I know, you know, I think I mentioned this Monday, I heard that from some of the guys in the locker room is how appreciative they were of how fast the ball is coming out. Everyone knew where it was going. It was getting out quick and it was going to the right spot for the most part.


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[Assistant] And that's why we've said for weeks, just keep it simple with them. Just keep it simple.


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[Assistant] We don't get to watch practice. And so we, all we have is what we can go off of what we've seen, which isn't a lot. So it's hard to say.


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[Assistant] Pick a team that's gonna play them though, in the AFC Championship game. Like, just throw a dart. You know what I mean? Like, I'd like the Chiefs odds of getting to the AFC title game still.


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[Assistant] That still surprises me though, because I remember Baker's first year with Kevin.


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[Assistant] That's really the only year I can recall that happening, but that still, that surprises me a little bit.


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[Assistant] No. Yes. You know what, to be honest with you, my mother did a really good job with me because my mother- I'll second that. So my mother had this thing where, like when I was in preschool, she would always be like, Ty, do you want to go to school today? If I said no, she'd be like, okay, you don't have to go to school.


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[Assistant] But once I got to kindergarten, it wasn't an option. You, you're going to school. So, so from kindergarten to the day I graduated high school, 12th grade, I never missed a day of school. I didn't care what the condition was. I swear to God. I swear to God. I never missed school. I had perfect attendance.


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[Assistant] I want everybody, I want all our viewers to know that I live in Columbus. What was your commute time? And I was first here today. You were? I left the house at eight o'clock. I got here at ten seventeen.


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[Assistant] That wasn't snowing down by Columbus. No it wasn't. Actually, I was shocked. I got all the way to Medina and I was like, okay, that's the line.


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[Assistant] Well, Miles is likely to play because of who Miles is. Cause he's Miles Carey. Yeah, Miles is gonna go out there as long as he's got a heartbeat, he's going out there. Which he said in the post-game interview, he said as long as he can play,


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[Assistant] He's gonna play regardless. I don't know. I think it might be a little bit more sense because once you hear a pop,


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[Assistant] Like that's. That's different. Yeah, so it's not like a tug or anything. So I don't know the severity of it. It's gonna be something. Obviously, the shoulder's already been messed up. As we can see from these pictures, he's already gotten tape on it and everything like that. So I think it's just gonna be a little bit more weaker. The thing is, if Miles is out there, whether he's 100% or not,


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[Assistant] Offensive coordinators still have to respect him. 95s out there are not about to risk not putting a double team on him. So that still frees up everybody. The rest of that D-line is going to have to pull they weight now.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this thing with that though, okay, he's got a left shoulder injury. If you put him in the middle, like, they gonna chip that. They gonna POW! Hit that shoulder. We're not asking them, we just want... Well, they're gonna hit it no matter what. Well, but you can protect it more on the outside.


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[Assistant] And maybe that's why? I don't know. The person that I think, not to get off of Miles, but the person that I think kind of looks different to me for the last couple of weeks, and I could be wrong, maybe it's because it's the new quarterback, but no, Murray Cooper, man. I just, he just looked totally different to me.


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[Assistant] No, no, not to drop. It's just like, with Deshaun, it was like...


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[Assistant] He would have these big games, he would create these separations, but like, with him, with DTR, it's not like, not happening for some reason. And I know Amari Cooper's one of those guys that he gets hurt, but he won't never say anything. But you can always tell when he's feeling some type of injury because he's not explosive, and he's not-


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[Assistant] I mean, yes, that's true, but it's a, it's a time and thing with him though. He wins his routes at a certain time and you just gotta know to get the ball. Him and Deshawn had that chemistry down. Maybe with DTR he just haven't found it, but it was sometimes he was open and DTR didn't throw him the ball.


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[Assistant] Was it not, was it not high power when Deshaun was in there for the...


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[Assistant] They should have ran the ball, but you know, Kevin's defense, he got this thing where he wants to, he wants to throw to open up the run. So, you know, that's worked.


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[Assistant] Keep running the ball and run down, run down they throw, you're running the clock out, so if you do go and score, they don't have that much time to answer.


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[Assistant] Let me, let me put my defensive cap on. Okay, so as a safety. Yeah. All right.


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[Assistant] When PJ Jones did this play, obviously Wyatt Teller and whoever the right tackle is because they rotate all the time. I can't tell who it is.


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[Assistant] They was to let they guys go and they was going to pin the linebacker. P.J. Walker was going to probably put a set of basketball pick on the defensive end and they were going to get around.


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[Assistant] You know, they thought that a defensive tackle would see Elijah Moore. He knifed. He knifed it. He'd go inside of Wyatt Teller. He goes inside. Wyatt Teller is strong. He'll come around the end and he won't be able to catch him.


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[Assistant] But I think him going outside of Wyatt Teller on that swim move. Blew it up. Kind of, he fell into the play. I don't think he meant to do it, I just think he kind of fell into the play. See, I think, I think he did mean to do it. No, I think he just kind of, I think he was just making his best move.


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[Assistant] Do you know, and this is, this is back in my NFL days, you know when the most.


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[Assistant] You know, you're not necessarily worried about a guy that he can go one...


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[Assistant] Two to check now, cause he's so used to doing it. He can look at, on the snap, he gonna look at that, that boundary safety, boundary safety, gonna tell him where he's supposed to go with the football, he gonna go one, two, three to check now. So, it'll be a smooth thing. The only thing will be, he don't have the chemistry with these wide receivers, so the timing of routes might be totally different.


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[Assistant] But as far as operating, getting the play in, making sure everybody's on the same page, he'll be the perfect guy for doing that because he's done that so long.


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[Assistant] What you gonna do is, you gonna take your two favorite players on this team, David Najoku and Harrison Bryant.


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[Assistant] But you're gonna take your tight ends, you're gonna put them in them grave bigger positions. Right next to those tackles and they gonna do they chip and then they gonna release. The chips gonna buy him just an extra second.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's gonna be people that can't get out in the routes, but those chippers usually become their check down guys. And Joe will find those chippers. Exactly. So I think that's how you address, you know, a line that's not there. That's not all the way together.


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[Assistant] It's always nice to have a guy that can at least go in and run the offense. I mean, at this point, they're not gonna cut him. Allegedly.


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[Assistant] I would look at the tight end. I have man to man on the tight end. If that's, if that tight end blocks down for one second, go right now. It ain't no, you good. If he releases, then you gotta pass. Like you know what it is.


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[Assistant] If your keys will never lie to you, and I think it's to the point where Jim Swartz is like, say okay, this is what you look. You look at this dude right here. He gonna tell you everything you need to know. If you wrong, I don't care. Just go as hard as you can. And so far, he's been right. He looks, he sees the block, he gone. It's not, it's not even a thought.