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[Assistant] I'm on Raw St. Brown. I'm trading Lamb. I'm cutting Nakua.


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[Assistant] It's going to be fascinating. They get Cooper Cup back I think this week.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, it's Jason in the press box following the 28.3 loss to the Ravens. Really not a lot of good things to say about this one. Uh, I was talking to a couple of guys in the locker room. One thing I found interesting.


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[Assistant] You know, I kind of assumed it was gamesmanship and these guys knew all week that the Sean.


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[Assistant] You know, DTR obviously the game is just too fast for him. The speed of the Ravens defense, the speed of the game, processing things. Uh, he was overwhelmed, made a lot of mistakes, threw into terrible coverages, made bad decisions with the football.


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[Assistant] You know, in a loss, but this time I think it's fair to ask why they didn't run the ball more and really.


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[Assistant] You know, he's just not that guy. So I don't know what they're going to do, but you know, they got two weeks now to figure this out before the 49ers come with, you know, arguably the best defense in the league.


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[Assistant] Bigger concern for me is this run game, and where you go with it going forward. The NFL has done a really nice job of trying to devalue running backs.


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[Assistant] And I thought the Browns gave up on the running game a little bit too early. They fell behind in the second half. Yes, you couldn't run it, you know, at some, at one point, but there were other opportunities where you could take a little bit of the pressure off DTR and they really didn't do that.


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[Assistant] So it's all right there in front of them still, but a really big game looming with the 49ers in a couple weeks. And I will see you guys when I'm back in studio on Friday on UCSS. Thanks.


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[Assistant] I will say this, after the fantasy league results last year, the last place person had to do a 5 minute stand up routine at a 4th street comedy club and McNuggets knocked it out of the park. He did. Knocked it out of the park. He was genuinely funny.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's dive in and we're going to start with the matchup that really is the brain trust of this matchup. Kevin Stefanski versus Mike Vrabel. Vrabel's obviously been in the league longer as a head coach. We're familiar with Mike.


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[Assistant] A local product from not far in, uh, I think Stowe he went to. Walsh Jesuit. Walsh Jesuit. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Uh, Stefanski in his fourth season now, he's been around 500. Guys, even though they've played just once and Stefanski won that matchup, I think it was 41-35 back in the year that they made the playoffs, 2020. Who has the coaching edge in this one? Is it Stefanski or is it Vrayable?


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[Assistant] If this were a court of law, I would have to recuse myself. I've known Mike for 30 years. Uh, I was a young anchor at Channel 10 in Columbus when he was beginning his college career at Ohio State. Um, I got to know him very well during that four year period and I've stayed in contact with him and I've known him very well in his post Ohio State career, both as a player and as a coach. I love Mike Vrabel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, all that being said, I'm not gonna recuse myself. I'm gonna try to be as objective as I can. And I have to agree with you guys too. I like Stefanski. I do. I'm not a Stefanski critic. Uhm, I think he's given us a lot to like. He's also given us a lot not to like.


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[Assistant] But in this case, you'd be crazy if you didn't put in the check mark of head coach advantage, Tennessee, because again, his body of work, what he's done, and you mentioned he hasn't lost here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Don't underestimate how important it is, Mike coming home. He's gonna have a lot of people at the game on Sunday, and he definitely, I mean, he wants to win every game. But this is one that's a little extra special for him, so for that reason I said, Mike.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go to another matchup and I think this is probably maybe the second most important matchup and I want you guys to tell me what that is aside from the head coaching matchup. Which position group matchup or one-on-one matchup in Sunday's game will decide it?


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[Assistant] I think it's the Brown's wide receivers against the defensive secondary, not just the safeties.


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[Assistant] of the Tennessee Titans. If, I always, Bill Belichick looks at a team, what's their strength? Try to take it away. What's their weakness? Exploit it. That is the Titans deaf, uh, weakness on their defense is the back end of their secondary. They're near the bottom of the league when it comes to pass defense. So Deshaun, we're, we're waiting.


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[Assistant] We're waiting. It's gonna be nice weather. You've got the home favorable crowd behind you and a bad defensive secondary.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be pent up about that. Kareem Hunt is back on the roster. What are your expectations from the crowd, Jason?


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[Assistant] Great idea, and I think he's gonna get that anyhow. I don't think they're gonna give it to him because they think he needs it. They're gonna do it because they think it's gonna help the team win. I think walking into the Brown Stadium on Sunday is gonna be like walking through a minefield. Here's what I mean by that. As long as your foot goes in the right place, you survive. But to your point,


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[Assistant] If he throws a pick six early in the game, if he has a fumble that turns into a touchdown, if he's constantly missing open receivers or just throwing the ball at receivers feet, that's the equivalent of stepping on a landmine and that place is going to explode. Because I think in the last couple of weeks,


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[Assistant] We have seen the fan base that is firmly behind him go from in the 80% tile to around the 50% tile.


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[Assistant] Another bad game in front of the home crowd in a game that they're expected to win and that number is going to turn really fast. Big time. We've seen it here a million times. Okay, we're going to take a break. When we come back.


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[Assistant] Coach Tyvis, he was the defensive MVP of a national championship game for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He breaks down some critical film. Is that Stefanski? Given the side eye to Tyvis? Stay with us. The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on WKYC is coming right back.


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[Assistant] I think it puts pressure on all the other guys, uh, on the back end of the defense, particularly Grant Delpit, who I think we all agree has played absolutely lights out through two games of the season.


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[Assistant] Well, speaking of Grant Delpit and all of those guys really having to step up their game with no Greg Newsom, Tyvis broke down some Grant Delpit plays from last week and I think it's going to make all of us smarter. Tyvis, take it away.


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[Assistant] That was good. That was so good. That was really good. Alright, we're gonna take a break. When we come back...


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[Assistant] Fence Riders, it's a segment where we definitively pick a side on all kinds of matchups for Sunday's game between the Browns and the Titans. Stay with us.


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[Assistant] And we welcome you back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show WKYC Style. We're here every Friday through football season 1230 to 1. Thank you so much for spending time with us. Alright, this is a segment called No Fence Riders. If you watch us regularly, you're familiar with what we do. If we're not, here's Mikey McNuggets to sort of explain it.


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[Assistant] But watch, three carries means a carry every 20 minutes of clock time or a carry an hour.


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[Assistant] Not this season. Yeah, so I'm just going with the eight game track record I have. We have eight games to prove.


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[Assistant] one touchdown for Henry. I'm exactly the same spot. When I started figuring out how this game is going to play out, I love the Browns run defense. I also love Derek Henry, but Miles Garrett, even though he wasn't recording a lot of numbers, he was impactful on so many plays that opened up things for other guys. I think this is the game.


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[Assistant] That he finally breaks out and he's gonna get to Tannehill a couple of times. McNuggets, why you know on this?


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[Assistant] Alright, very good. Taking a break. When we come back, we tell you 48 hours in advance how Sunday's game plays out. It's unwritten headlines when the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show on WKYC comes right back.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. 48 hours from now, we'll have our favorite beverage in hand, sitting on our sofa waiting for kickoff.


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[Assistant] That's right. Let's stay with the U.S., uh, UCSS Times and go to my headline. And by the way, I love our little, um, subheads up there. Yeah. We always throw a couple of interesting nuggets. This one, uh, is thoughts about Nick Chubb. That's right. Uh, let's go to my headline if we can. I think that we love our defense. We know that. Um, I have Brown's bounce back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the defense dominates in revenge on the Titans. Now, why would it be revenge on the Titans? We beat them the last time we played them. The last time they came in our house, they stomped on our, what we thought was going to be Freddy Kitchens great season. Remember that? Our team rolled over and quit.


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[Assistant] I want revenge for that home beat down that we suffered to start the year a couple of years ago. So that's the revenge I'm talking about and the defense leads the way.


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[Assistant] I kind of liked it. All right, that's it. Uh, 48 hours. Here we go. Let's get this win. The Browns desperately need to go to two and one. We are the ultimate Cleveland sports show. You can watch us every day 11 to one live on YouTube. The beauty of that show is you can do it on demand. If you're busy from 11 to one, you can watch it when you get home from work.


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[Assistant] It is a glorious Victory Monday. It is a lot of fun coming into work on Victory Mondays. The atmosphere of the city as someone who lives downtown.


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[Assistant] After the game, as people are leaving Brown Stadium, walking back to their cars, going out, it's like...


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[Assistant] Contagiously electrifying in the best way possible. And it's the first time in my life I've lived, you know, two miles from a stadium where people are literally walking out back out.


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[Assistant] And it's hard not to have like a giant smile on your face in like a cheesy way, just absorbing the energy from the 70,000 people leaving Brown State. You're right. It's a lot of fun. Uh, if you guys missed it.


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[Assistant] So if you didn't get a chance to go check it out, Earl had a great testimony on the post game show. It's on our YouTube page. And then outside of that testimony, we went for an hour and a half on why the Browns absolutely can't ass whooping on the Titans. Tune in, check it out. It was a lot of fun. And last thing, the blue Kool-Aid, as you see out there.


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[Assistant] From now to the end of the season, we're going to let one person who's in the live chat of the post game show pick what kind of Kool-Aid we are pouring and making for the next day's victory.


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[Assistant] So according to his NFL bio, it doesn't tell you. So I went back and looked at his college bio.


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[Assistant] 39 catches, 608 yards, 10 touchdowns, 138 tackles, 11 sacks.


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[Assistant] One thing that we didn't touch on with Watson real quick, that we asked what's the most impressive thing, obviously accuracy was beyond impressive. Right.


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[Assistant] You have something else that was most impressive? Yea, I think actually to me the most impressive thing of what we saw from Deshaun yesterday was his ability to rebound. Now they get the field gun in the opening drive and then later in the first quarter we have the what the heck are you doing play, he throws it backwards.


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[Assistant] He followed that up immediately with his best throw to date of the season. It was a pass interference call down the left sideline to Amari Cooper. He gets hit.


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[Assistant] Late hit, rough in the passer. Gets right back up and that kinda clicked on Superman version of Deshaun Watson. There were so many times yesterday, especially early.


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[Assistant] Where I thought Deshaun Watson could have crumbled, reverted back to Pittsburgh Deshaun, even week one Cincinnati Deshaun 2022 Deshaun. That never happened. Right. Anytime he got.


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[Assistant] Hit, made a bad throw, whatever the case was.


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[Assistant] He came back the very next play, but I thought the mental toughness he displayed yesterday to me was even more impressive than his 82% completion percentage, his accuracy, which is, as Jason alluded to, it's been the most accurate game any quarterback's had this entire season. And I thought that was second most impressive on how mentally tough he was yesterday.


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[Assistant] Later this week on Wednesday, we'll have our next edition of Behind the Glass. Myself, Earl, Anthony breaking down anything that's left on the bone from the Browns dominant win over the Titans. Looking ahead to this weekend's first place matchup between the Browns and the Ravens that is Behind the Glass Wednesday night coming to a YouTube screen or TV screen near you soon.


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[Assistant] I have some numbers for you guys on this Brown's defense. I did a deep dive into the analytics realm of Twitter.


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[Assistant] And found a couple stats that blew my mind and then I have a question for you guys after. We're gonna run through a couple of tag boards real quick. Anthony?


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[Assistant] Uh, last week. He doesn't really care about yards anymore. It's about what you do in the 20s. Right. So more than ever, in the NFL, teams are piling up yards at an unprecedented rate. Because they're allowing teams to go up and down the field. Sure.


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[Assistant] So this is from Dan Murphy, who works with the Browns. He's one of the PR people for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Dan Morricks for the Browns. He's very helpful to us. The fewest yards allowed after three games since 1970.


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[Assistant] The Buccaneers allowed 430 and 99. The Lions...


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[Assistant] Since the Buccaneers in 1999 and football is played quite differently.


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[Assistant] So far this season, the Browns have only allowed 21 total first downs in three games. That's seven per game. What team do you think has allowed the second fewest and how many? Dallas. Incorrect. They didn't play great yesterday. San Francisco.


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[Assistant] It is Buffalo, who is avera- uh, not averaged, who is allowed 41. So-


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[Assistant] That's 20 more. I'm going to say this again, and this is going to bring up the next stat. The Browns have allowed 21 first downs. Second in the NFL is Buffalo, who's allowed 41, which is 20 more than the Browns have allowed. And to remind you again, the Browns have only allowed 21, which brings us to this next stat.


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[Assistant] The three single best defensive performances of the NFL season based on success rate. How about the Browns in week one?


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[Assistant] The Browns yesterday and the Browns against Pittsburgh on Monday Night Football. These are the three best out of every game played in the NFL this year. Uh, the Jim Schwartz era in Cleveland is off to pretty damn good starts.


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[Assistant] I can tell you this and we'll reveal more later in the week, but Lamar Jackson has only played a Jim Schwartz led defense once in his career. And I'll tell you how that went later.


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[Assistant] And a poll question that I know we're all excited to hear the answers of. I gotta tell you, who brings us the poll? And it is our dear friends at PCC Airfoils. Looking for a job with career advancement and great benefits? PCC Airfoils is a leading manufacturer in Northeast Ohio. All locations of PCC Airfoils in Eastlake, Mentor, Wycliffe, and Minerva are hiring for all positions starting at $18 and up. Plus full benefit packages, paid time off.


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[Assistant] And deciding bonus, you can apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. We asked our YouTube community tab.


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[Assistant] Sly 0422's. Okay, let's knock it out of hand. That defense was super bold. Really got motion. Says imagine the 85 bears trying to stop an RPO though. Single Terry's head be spinning in circles.


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[Assistant] G-Bush, I got a question for you and you specifically only as the king of the Kool-Aid, as the king of the Blue Raspberry.


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[Assistant] What has a more dominant hold on this city right now? The Cleveland Browns defense or UCSS on the media market in post game shows and day after reaction shows.


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[Assistant] Can you explain why that call is not reviewable? Just for the people out there.


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[Assistant] We are gonna move on to the Kareem Hunt situation. And by situation, I mean return. Situations sounded bad. He had a triumph and return to the Cleveland Browns and the running backs. Before we do that, shout out to everybody in the chat. You asked for likes. I'm not sure if it's a record.


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[Assistant] We just got a thousand likes and that doesn't happen often. And also reminder real quick, next Monday, a week from today, we are doing a normal UCSS 1101 unchanged.


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[Assistant] There's also Cavs Media Day on Monday and we're doing a second show on top of the regular UCSS.


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[Assistant] Separate in the show, we're gonna do two hours of reaction of the Ravens game and then two hours from Cavs Media Day. So make sure you guys tune in, tap in and check out.


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[Assistant] Not just, I don't often look, but we were at 300 likes when we asked for people to hit the like button. So we got 700% or no, 250% more than that since you guys are the best. We appreciate you guys. You really are. Kareem Hunt made his triathlon return to Cleveland yesterday. What'd you guys think about number 27?


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[Assistant] Before Jason Notebook, I got one more read to remind everybody that after


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[Assistant] Every Browns game, Win or Lose, we do a post game show. Myself, Earl, G. Bush and Anthony breaking down, giving you all the analysis and reaction to whatever happened on the field. Yesterday's was an absolute banger. We have over 25,000 views on YouTube. That is the number one viewed post game show in the city of Cleveland. And frankly, it's not close. So shout out to you guys for tuning in and watching and making that fun.


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[Assistant] His dead money. Big I bet. If you cut him next season, he's 19 million.


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[Assistant] We gotta get these super chats in, and these super chats, I didn't even ask permission for, but these super chats are brought to you by the Kool-Aid Mafia. Gee, I hope you don't mind me using that. These super chats are today sponsored by the Kool-Aid Mafia. The first one comes from DC.


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[Assistant] Love the win. It's still cringeworthy though, watching JW Johnson's kid post-game locker room. Please just stop JW. Let the team win by itself.


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[Assistant] Simple says, hey guys, the Titans did get in the red zone, but Miles sacked Tannahill before halftime to not allow a field goal. Either way, dog check, let's go.


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[Assistant] Uh, next up is from SetapartLaz. The brown should get fined for not jumping.


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[Assistant] Uh, BDDog21 says, it's very telling how Wen asked, what's the difference with the defense with Schwartz this year? He said, quote, well, he knows what he's doing first off.


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[Assistant] Says, Deshaun Watson's facemask gets grabbed. Lack of defensive pass interference?


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[Assistant] Whatever that means. All right. Uh, Roberto L. Presidente said G. Bush after-


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[Assistant] Said, Gee Bush, after every win, can you take that pitcher of Kool-Aid to the head and drink it all down at once?


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[Assistant] I am legitimately terrified that's gonna happen. Like that is not a joke. I am actually objectively horrified. James Cosby says, the entire team, especially the quarterback, showed mental toughness and resiliency. It's that kind of stuff that I'd love to see go brownies.


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[Assistant] Uh, shout out to KR Thunder for gifting five memberships. Shout out to Phil Bowman for also gifting five memberships today.


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[Assistant] It was nice to see a couple more real quick. James Bowen says, I haven't seen a Brown's defense put up numbers like this since I played Madden and put everyone's stats and sliders at 99. He's actually not wrong. That's actually, that's pretty accurate. Uh, hyper frosty, which is a great YouTube username.


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[Assistant] Let's go Browns. On the 24th. Yes sir. I think we got four more real quick. Anthony Medina says, Buckeyes fan here, loving CJ Stroud's progress. CJ Stroud look crazy. Wow.


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[Assistant] And then Phil Bowman gifted five more memberships. So Phil gifted 10 today. Shout out to Phil. Shout out to everyone in the chat. You guys are the best.


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[Assistant] Let's just, this team now, uh, their defense is Brown's like to me. Let's see how far their defense can carry in them with a, with a, uh, with a really


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've talked to guys, I've been on the field with the guy that tore it and he said it felt like somebody hit me in the back.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's kind of freaky. Yeaah, very wild. Busy show today. Uh, I told, the last thing I said to Tyvis before we started the show, we're on a big roll. Don't screw this up.


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[Assistant] We're glad to have you back. He's gonna break down some plays, as he always does. Coach Ty back in the building. Uh, Mary Kate Cabot's gonna be here. Also Cameron Wolf of the NFL Network. I've been a fan of his work for some time. Uh, he was formerly at ESPN, now he's been at the NFL Network for the last couple of years, I think. Uh, DJ Hazmat.


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[Assistant] has his video, his inaugural Brown's video hot off the presses. You'll see the world debut right here later on the ultimate Cleveland sports show. We're huge fans. DJ has Matt. His work is incredible. He's such a talented guy. Thrilled to have him here. Also, Mikey's going to tell us the top five things we probably missed Sunday.


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[Assistant] We don't miss anything, Mike. We've seen it all. But if you want to go through with this crazy little deal, we'll, we'll humor you. And our first good morning of the day to you.


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[Assistant] We're gonna dive in, uh, and we look ahead now to Monday. Victory Monday was yesterday. We celebrated the big win. The Nats are buzzing all over Titus today.


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[Assistant] We can add to this conversation, and I don't know if you want to do this as a marriage package, I think we should, because now, we knew yesterday that Cam Heyward ruled out from Monday night's game against the Browns. That in and of itself is a big difference maker. Obviously, he supports the defensive front, he helps TJ Watt put pressure on opposing quarterbacks,


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[Assistant] I felt just this move on its own was a big, big deal for this football game. We'll talk about what that means and how that impacts Monday night, but also now we can throw onto that the fact that Deontay Johnson


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[Assistant] One of the Steelers top wide receivers is also out for Sunday's game. He was hurt in the loss to the Niners or to Monday night's game. He was hurt.


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[Assistant] I'm always so nervous when folks start putting something in the dub column before the game is played.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody thinks this is a guarantee. Not at all. No, but I've heard a lot of fans yesterday saying, well, hey, you know, we should start 2-0. We should, but you know, I know now in the meantime, G. Bush had announced that as soon as Johnson was hurt, that he is going exclusively on a liquid Kool-Aid diet this week. All he's drinking.


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[Assistant] So we want to show the Kool-Aid shirt one more time. I had people asking me about this yesterday. They said, is this a real thing?


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[Assistant] You thought, here come the rolling credits. Then all of a sudden you hear, ding, ding, ding. And here comes Jason out of the barn with the pickaxe stuck in his forehead. He's got a double barrel shotgun. I don't kick dirt on these guys and I just never, ever declare them dead or out.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. See, now that's what I'm hearing. He's talking about past tense. Pittsburgh, which all used to be, was great. There's no excuse for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Cameron, what's up man? Listen, uh, by the way, big fan of your work. I remember when you were at ESPN. I've also been watching you at the NFL Network. You do a great job. You were here for the game. What was your headline takeaway from it?


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[Assistant] Cam, top N for this defense. What's, what's the ceiling for them? How good can they be?


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[Assistant] In fact, at one point during the telecast, Buck and Aikman were talking about how they had talked to Allen in the lead up to this game, and he had said himself.


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[Assistant] I can't, I can't go for the long ball home run at downfield, yet he can't wash that out of his DNA. To me, it almost looks like, you know, I'm not ready to say that it's going that far yet, but right now it looks like he's turning into Carson Wentz.


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[Assistant] He's typically the reason the Bills win. Last night and there were times last year where he's the reason they lost and he can't become that. Carson, before we let you go, we know that success and failure in the NFL


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[Assistant] Is renewed almost every single week coming into this year. If you ask.


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[Assistant] A hundred NFL fans, give me the top three in the AFC. I think 95 of them would have had, in any order, Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati. All three racked up L's in week one.


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[Assistant] I know we always say don't overreact on week one, but right now that's all we have to go on. And I won't ask you to do the new power structure in the AFC because that gets too confusing.


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[Assistant] He's really good. I like his style. He's very good from the NFL Network, formerly from ESPN. I know you guys are looking at me like I'm nuts on the job. No, I said it. I was saying last year. I said it last year too.


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[Assistant] I just don't like the way he's blending. And Carson Wentz may be a little strong, but I'm telling you, I had him as the elite quarterback in the AFC with Joe Burrow and with Patrick Mahomes. And right now, I don't think he belongs in that class.


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[Assistant] I almost look at it as the grading scale. It's pretty in line. That's a little harsh because if there's only 92.5 set the curve, you know that probably is a little harsh.


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[Assistant] Because I think his running probably boosted that. His passing grade is going to be in the low 50s.


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[Assistant] It's almost exactly his running grade. So it's almost as if they washed out his 63 passing grade. Yeah, I don't know. It's not my grade.


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[Assistant] And by the way, something that Cameron said, we talked about this yesterday, Cameron said that Zach Taylor said that's the biggest rain game he's ever coached in. We had said yesterday, we didn't know what kind of weather that Joe Burrow had played in, but he certainly had played in other rainy days. This was the worst rain game that Joe Burrow has played in. I guess so. At least as a pro. For comparison sake,


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[Assistant] Tyvis, you've played it. You've looked at these PFF grades. How much stock should we put into these grades?


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[Assistant] Let's focus on the pass block grade for a second. That is very impressive. Very, very good pass block grade.


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[Assistant] And that's what we really want here. I mean, obviously you've got a guy, Nick Chubb, that can erase a lot of mistakes by linemen. Because so often, you'll see it, Nick starts to the hole and says, no, no, not there. Put his foot in the dirt and cut it back against the grain. And that's when he's, to me, at his most stable.


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[Assistant] What will the loss of Johnson on the offensive side and Hayward on the defensive side?


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[Assistant] If what he saw, how what he saw in week one changed his thinking of a hierarchy in the AFC North. And I know obviously your focus is on the Browns exclusively, but you saw what happened to Pittsburgh, you saw what Baltimore was able to do, and we don't want to overreact, but


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Boy, J.K. Dobbins to Terry and the Achilles for the Ravens. Yeaah. And the Steelers coming out obviously gets a very good night. I mean the Ravens had a


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[Assistant] Yeah, but well, based on what they, and I don't want to take up Mary Kay's time here with this discussion, but based on what we saw out of that defense, and the atrocity that we saw on the defense last year. Right, but like, it's one week. It's not enough of a sample.


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[Assistant] We liked that. Mary Kay. Mary Kay, thanks. Great stuff. We'll talk next week.


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[Assistant] I want to go back to the conversation that you and I were having about, uh, at what point, Bull, do you start to make changes? Because we know that the standings at the end of this year aren't going to be what they were last year. There's going to be surprise teams, there's going to be surprise disappointments.


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[Assistant] How many games, like is it the quarter poll of the season? Will you start to change your opinion?


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[Assistant] They lost to the Bears. 49ers lost to the Bears. Now, what was the deal with, they did not have Christian McCaffrey yet.


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[Assistant] I'm just surprised that what you said was nothing that happened in week one changed the way you view any of this. Except for the Aaron Rodgers injury.


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[Assistant] That's what I think. There's enough hay in the barn. It's a quarter of the season. Can a team completely change directions? Jacksonville did last year.


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[Assistant] It was the tools in the game. They still did it. I actually do agree with Bull in that,


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[Assistant] I do think it is very important to try to drill down on that point in that


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[Assistant] Did we see things that we absolutely love? Yes. However, before I start pouring cement,


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[Assistant] And we've seen too much over too long of a stretch of time to know that, you know, they're not just gonna fall off the table. That organization doesn't do that.


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[Assistant] But the other thing that I would warn on is, and I heard a lot of Brown fans doing this yesterday, is some sort of coronation that Joe Burrow now isn't Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] Part of this magic that we're seeing so far in the, in the Browns defense.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett, who's clearly the linchpin to this defense, sees exactly eye to eye with Jim Schwartz's vision of what he wants. Him standing up over the center.


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[Assistant] They all have the liberty to do their thing. And the key part too about this, Miles wasn't able to do that last year. He didn't have the support staff up front. Now with the pieces all along that defensive front, if he feels that he's got a mismatch on the other side of the ball, on the other side of the line,


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[Assistant] He's free to go over there and wreak havoc there. And I have such high hopes for what this defense.


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[Assistant] I thought it was appropriate. Bull said don't expect this every week. Because 17 weeks of that effort is unsustainable. And when they lost their only game of the year to the Dolphins, that world-class defense looked like they forgot how to play.


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[Assistant] You can do it, but it's very difficult.


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[Assistant] Andy Reid at the punt pass and kick competition. Now look at all of the guys that he has pictured here against. And I know you see the ass of the Michigan player there.


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[Assistant] Even the picture where he's going against NFL players, particularly the one where he's lining up against Jackson.


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[Assistant] It's time to start getting more and more concerned about is this guy going to be the guy that we're paying him to be. Especially if he's the guy that said, I'm going to be better than 2020. That's right. So we're going to, we're not going to judge you on the 2022 standard. We're going to judge you on the 2019 standard or whatever the year was when he put up all the stats, whatever season that was 2020.


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[Assistant] So, uh, we're looking, uh, with, with a very sharp eye. I know you've got some reads to do before we do our, uh. I haven't.


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[Assistant] I'm not being dead serious. I just, I would never do it. My sister who's a diehard Browns fan married a Steelers fan. My daughter who's a Browns fan married a Steelers fan. I don't understand that.


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[Assistant] Was this, was this an easy video for you? Was it difficult? Take us through the process.


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[Assistant] So, so good man. Now, what are your thoughts on the win? Like, we expected the defense to be really, really good. We were all shocked at just how good they were.


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[Assistant] I saw a quote here moments ago from, uh, Mike Tomlin. He said, to be blunt, I thought their corners won the game for them last week. You agree with that?


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[Assistant] The Jim Brown jersey in your closet. And you working that into the video. Because I think that's going to be an underlying theme. Nick Chubb said I'm dedicating the entire season to 32. And he's not one to scream at the mountain tops about anything. When he says something, it's real. And I love that you had the jersey in there in the video.


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[Assistant] Everybody's very excited, obviously. We're gonna sign off on YouTube at 1227 and then we'll be back on WKYC. We hope that every single person watching us now joins us at WKYC.


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[Assistant] We do. Eventually that last half hour will be on YouTube, but we want you to watch live with us at 12.30. It's gonna be mostly the same show that we normally do with a little twist to it. A little twist. Yeaah. It's brand new content.


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[Assistant] And please join us again on channel 3 for the final half hour, all of you watching, and we're hoping to get everybody who's watching us on channel 3 to join the rest of you on YouTube, the other, uh, 19 and a half hour, or 9 and a half hours that we're on, uh, during the week. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Yes, everything points to the Browns dominating this game. If you look at what happened in week one. Sure. But as we all know, all the time in football, things happen and you're like, well how did that happen? Right. I didn't expect that to happen.


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[Assistant] Guys play poorly one week. They play well the next week. Sometimes you can't even figure out why that happens. You know, in my mind, I'm like, well, I'm expecting the Browns to dominate. I think we're all expecting the Browns to play well. I think we're all expecting the Browns to win. You can't guarantee it. There's no guarantees here in life. Football, football more than anything from week to week.


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[Assistant] All the time things will point to one thing and it'll be like, well this is so obvious. This is going to be a low scoring game or whatever it may be. The Browns D line will dominate. They dominated last week against a much better opponent. Why wouldn't they dominate this week?


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[Assistant] And yes, I am, just like most people, expecting that to happen. But to say it's a guarantee, certainly based on one game, is ludicrous.


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[Assistant] I don't know that there was much of an adjustment to make. The Browns didn't have any talent to stop it, so.


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[Assistant] Against a brown pass rush that should be, should be.


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[Assistant] And I will say, in terms of the Steelers' PFF grades...


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[Assistant] When you have information that confirms what you already thought, then you believe it more, right? You do, yeaah. I thought coming into the season that the Steelers had a bad offensive line. They had a bad offensive line last year. I thought it would be bad again this year. So, against the Niners, they played poorly. Well, I'm gonna buy into that. Right, no, I got it. You know, now I, I,


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[Assistant] The Browns had a bad defensive line last year. I think it's gonna be good this year. What I saw in week one backed up what I thought about. Exactly. I still need to see it a little more before we're sure it's 49ers quality and that's why ultimately I put the 49ers ahead for now because they have more of a track record. Right.


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[Assistant] They've done it with players. They're equivalent to me for a baseball comparison of the St. Louis Cardinals.


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[Assistant] So many people this off season, Kenny Pickett, he's looking great. Is Canada the problem of the offense? I mean, I don't know, I don't watch the Steelers.


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[Assistant] I mean that's just, some of the stats with the Steelers here in Cleveland are, are,


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[Assistant] Part of it, you know, the Browns in recent years have never really thrown to the backs all that much. Not as much as they could. It's a good weapon that a lot of teams use. If you would have any criticism, fair or not, of Nick Chubb's game, the only thing would be is that he's not much of a pass catcher. I would argue they haven't given him the opportunity, rather than it being his fault.


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[Assistant] However, they did make him a, you know, sort of focal point in the passing game as well this past week.


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[Assistant] Uh, he led the team in receptions. Do you expect, we're about to talk about this, I'm curious, your take. Do you expect that to be a much bigger part of his game? Or do you think it was an anomaly in game one, uh, that Chubb was heavily involved in the passing game?


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett early in the game doing the crossover dribble. I mean, he was, he's looking loose as a goose out there. He's got more talent around him by far than he's ever had. Are you expecting him to have his best season ever?


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[Assistant] Guys, there's something very important that we need to discuss for a minute, and I'm not joking, I'm really serious here. The Browns, the Steelers represent


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[Assistant] The Browns have been in misery for 30 years essentially. They have. And the Steelers, more than any team in football, represent that misery.


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[Assistant] Because the Steelers have not only beaten the Browns more than any other team during this 30 year stretch.


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[Assistant] But they've humiliated the Browns. Sure. Time and time and time again, not only by beating them and beating them up on the scoreboard, but by beating them up physically. How many times? Kicking the punter! Kicking the punter! Kicking the punter in the face! How many times have we seen the Steelers humiliate the Browns? Colt McCoy!


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[Assistant] Beating the tar out of Colt McCoy, nobody did anything. Not only do I want to see the Browns win on Monday,


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[Assistant] I want the Browns to humiliate the Steelers. If they're up 30, go for another... Jay lives in his fears. Don't listen to Jay. He lives in his fears. If you're up big...


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[Assistant] Keep your foot on the gas. Score another touchdown and another. And the Browns, gee, they need to play with a physicality that we haven't seen from this franchise in a long time. I'm not saying play dirty or take cheap shots or hit knees, but every tackle, hard.


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[Assistant] Tough, nasty, they need to send a message that this is not the same old Browns, that the Browns ain't the Browns anymore. They need to be the more physical team, they need to dominate this game, and really send a message that we are finally here.


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[Assistant] I need Steelers players to leave the game and need help to get off the field. Make all the cringe faces you want. I don't want anybody disabled or hurt permanently. Kick there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, nah, his play declined. That's why he's not on the roster right now. But, but anyway, I think Nick Chubb is capable of this. I always thought he was capable of this. I never understood why they didn't use him in the passing game. I don't think it's an anomaly. I think it's a part of the offense, Jason.


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[Assistant] Uh, averaged more than like two receptions per game.


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[Assistant] And I'm expecting him to average over three this year. And he's never really averaged even two.


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[Assistant] I also think this year is not comparable. You've talked about this team is way better. This team is not comparable to any of those other teams. He's got a, like, they're, they are in right now. If Deshaun Watson's the real deal, then they can win the Super Bowl this year. They've had no chance to win the Super Bowl. Why would you waste his carries? What they want to do?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'm not worried about it this year. I'm really not. I think they're going to use him differently. I think I haven't had as much complaint. You and I both have not complained about his usage as much as they have.


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[Assistant] I don't think we should look at numbers in the past in terms of Nick Chubb. It's a different team, it's a different time. This is the first time they go into a season with a franchise caliber quarterback starting the year. It's the first time they legitimately have a chance to win a Super Bowl in 30 years.


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[Assistant] Well good for those people, they were wrong. I, I was never saying that because I never thought you could win a Super Bowl with Baker. And I, I thought he was decent in the beginning, but I never thought you could win a Super Bowl with Baker. I think he can with Deshaun, and that's it. I mean, that's the bottom line, so the training just has to come up.


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[Assistant] I thought, I mean, these helmets are so awesome. The uniforms are great. Looks a little like the Miami Hurricanes from the distance. Are we wearing the white cleats too? Oh, they got the old white cleats.


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[Assistant] That number seemed faster because only fat people get them.


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[Assistant] We're gonna pretend that this is trash-talking by the Ravens. Not trash-talk.


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[Assistant] By the way, before you get into anything else, Jay, I've got two complaints I've got to share with you. Shoot them. Number one, we've, we've, it's been a big ongoing issue here at the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, the Tainted Water. This has been a continuing problem.


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[Assistant] And Anthony said, well, we got a new case of water. Check it out. Tell me what you think. It was even worse. That's what my crew. It tasted even worse.


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[Assistant] For like the first three sips, so I thought it was okay. I dunno, it's gross.


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[Assistant] But we have an epidemic of people who are inappropriate parkers in many ways. But I want to talk about one specific type of inappropriate parker. When you park in a garage, like we park in a garage here at the TV studio, or outdoor, indoor, it doesn't matter, you go to the mall, whatever it is.


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[Assistant] When you park, guys, do you make sure that A, you have enough room to get out of your car? Absolutely, you better. And B, that the people, that the person next to you has room to get out of the car so they have room to be nice and they don't smash into your car trying to get in? Yeaah, I mean that's a karma repay.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, the only time that has happened, there was twice that that's happened. Fortunately my wife was with me, so she gets in the car, backs up the car, and then I get in the drive. I always make sure that the person on both sides of me, especially if somebody else backed in or whatever, that they can get into their car without a problem.


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[Assistant] That is a tough spot. There are circumstances, but most of the times that's not the case.


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[Assistant] And he said, teams want to do it to us when they come to us. And, and, uh, he also said, they're a really physical football team. We love that. You know, so like, there was no insult there.


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[Assistant] Earl, you put the tweet out originally. Do you still think it's trash talk?


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[Assistant] Well, now let me ask you this. When the Browns went after Jamar Chase talked trash. Right. Browns kicked their ass. Yea. And then the Browns talked trash after the game about Jamar Chase talking trash.


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[Assistant] Do the bangles get to, do they get to use that as bulletin board material?


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[Assistant] So they're bitter. They're a little bitter about that. And in the end, they would have had to pay that much anyway, whether John Watson, all the other quarterbacks were going in that direction anyway.


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[Assistant] Sure. Your friends become enemies. And in terms of the history, I think that's big for the fans. I don't think the players care about anything. No, they don't care. They don't care. They don't care. They don't, yeaah.


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[Assistant] And if the Browns do win, like yesterday has, and I'm sure a lot of other fans were like, well the Browns are getting no national recognition.


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[Assistant] Guess it'll be 4-0. Yea, I'm not sure who they have this week. I can't remember who they're playing this week off hand.


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[Assistant] Pick em. Yeah, well, it depends where the game is. Yeah, we just don't know. We don't know what they are yet. But, uh, by the way, uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you guys saw this, but the Bears and the Broncos who were the two worst, like,


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[Assistant] Put together two of the worst performances we've ever seen in football last week, while playing each other this week. Wow. The toilet bowl on TV.


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[Assistant] You got A. Jamar Chase. Yup. B. Sam Weisch. But the worst of all.


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[Assistant] Was what some of the Bengals players said last year about the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] I don't like pre-game trash talk. I think it's dumb. There's no benefit to it. None. There's nothing good that could come out of Jamar Chase talking trash about the Brown. Nothing.


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[Assistant] And I feel like JW Johnson, that nitwit started this whole thing.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but you can't force it, as you say. It's got something else, you can't pick a nickname for the defense. No. It's gonna happen, maybe. The Bash Brothers are gone too. Whatever, yeaah, right.


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[Assistant] To me, Seattle has the best home field advantage. I mean, it's just always so, last week I was watching some of their game, I can't remember who they were playing now, but it was like,


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[Assistant] And some of it's probably the dynamics of how the stadium is built. It could be. And just the way the noise stays in there.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any way to predict for sure. We know the running game won't be as good because


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[Assistant] You just can't replace Nick Chubb. I don't care who you put in there. It's not going to be as good. They didn't run the ball very well last week. They didn't need to really because they threw the ball really well. But there will come a game again, even if Deshaun Watson is back to Houston, Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] If we're lucky enough and that's happened. There'll still be a game or two.


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[Assistant] Or three, where they're gonna need to run the ball. Well, we don't know if they're capable of that right now. I think that's fair. We could hope, we could, you know.


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[Assistant] Yes, but we haven't seen it, so I don't know yet. Uh, and I think they'll be tested these next couple of weeks again. You know, Baltimore's defense, I don't know where their ranks are through three games. Their defense is, you know, good, but not great, I think. San Francisco's got a great defense, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and maybe, you know, listen, who knows, maybe Watson would have had a break out this week even, even with jump. We'll never, we'll never know that for sure. Is it coincidence or is there something to it? In the Odell case, you know,


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[Assistant] The Odell case is, is different than, than Nick Chubb in terms of, Odell was being a pain in the butt. He was. Nick Chubb's certainly not a pain in the butt. Never. So, that, that's a factor there.


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[Assistant] And now the Titans happen to be a team that's really good against the run and really bad against the pass. So we'll see if that changes as the weeks go by. But you would think that, you'd think as an offense now, or as a defense, your first priority was Nick Chubb, now it's Watson the Cooper. That's what you're most worried about when it comes to the Browns.


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[Assistant] Let me throw something out there. I don't know. I'm just throwing this out there. You never know. Maybe there was something with the combination of Watson and Shub.


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[Assistant] That when Nick Chubb was on the field, there was some sort of tell that the defense was picking up on. Were they occasionally or always? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Had a better idea of whether the Browns were running or throwing.


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[Assistant] There's probably guys that study everything and pick up on something, who knows, and maybe that, and maybe Nick Chubb is just so damn good that even when they knew they were running, he was able to overcome it to some degree. Who knows? That's probably out there a little bit, but you never know.


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[Assistant] Maybe there's just some sort of freedom mentally of not having to worry about getting the ball to Nick Chubb. Because you're not worried about how many touches Jerome Ford is getting. Nobody's worried about that.


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[Assistant] And that's not fair. You know, you, you're, you and I are older. We're in our 50s. He's 25, 26. He may be rich, he may be famous, he may have people saying horrible things to him, but


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[Assistant] Maybe it gives him pleasure to put out the videos to, for his fans, the people that like him and maybe he doesn't read the comments or doesn't read, you know, maybe he has somebody that filters them for him. I think when


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[Assistant] When he's winning, y'all, you love it. Look at that cocky baby. When he's losing, it's like, what the hell is he doing that crap? And we do that with all players.


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[Assistant] And it's really unfair, but you know, that's part of the beast. The reason players make so much money, and the reason there's so much...


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[Assistant] I can't even imagine, G, like I'm thinking back to when I was like 25.


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[Assistant] We can't. Mike's face in that picture looks like Brad just farted.


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[Assistant] No, I, I, I think Jadavia and Clowney speaking at talk trash talk should be worried about Myles Garrett. He's lucky he doesn't play offense. Remember, Jadavia and Clowney had some not nice things to say kind of about Myles Garrett when he went out the door. Some very not nice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it wasn't just about Joe Woods. And of course, Junaid Lani tried to make it seem like it had nothing to do with Myles Garrett, but it did. And we know this about Myles Garrett. He doesn't, he's like an elephant. He doesn't forget.


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[Assistant] He's gonna remember that and I think he's, I think he's gonna take it out on Genevion's teammates in this one.


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[Assistant] I think you can, G, bring in a mercenary, but you can't bring in a mercenary to a group that's not good already. Yes. Like, remember when the Rams traded for Von Miller? Yes, yes. And Von Miller's a much better player, but like, that defense was established. They were good.


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[Assistant] It's not a single player on defense for the Browns right now. That I can think of.


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[Assistant] What's up Aditi? Aditi, I gotta start with a very hard question. We have no time for pleasantries right now. We love you. It's good to have you here. But I have a very serious question. Very serious. And you're gonna think I'm joking, but I'm not. It's a tough one. Today, you have to make a decision.


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[Assistant] Who would you rather have as your quarterback going forward?


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[Assistant] Lamar Jackson or Deshaun Watson. You gotta make that decision today.


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[Assistant] You broke up for a second. Did you say why? Why do I have to? You're starting a team. Yes, those are your two choices. Lamar, forget the off the field stuff. Just on the field. Just on the field. Who are you taking?


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[Assistant] You gotta break the tie. I'm putting you in a tough spot here. No fence riders.


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[Assistant] I betcha, I think if you ask people nationally,


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[Assistant] I think, dude, I think Lamar Jackson would win that vote.


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[Assistant] Didi, yesterday there was a rumor, uhm, about Devonte Adams being traded. The Browns were mentioned as a team.


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[Assistant] On this show we've talked about the possibility of the Browns trading for Jonathan Taylor. We know that the Browns are going to be looking at CapHel at some point in the next two, three, four years. However many years they decide to continue to kick the can down the road, right? Do you see any scenario where the Browns who have been aggressive


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[Assistant] You know, first of all, I am giving him a chance. I'm just saying, he's unproven. We don't know that he's better than a guy. And Garrett Wilson had a thousand yards with him.


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[Assistant] I think everything you say is fair, but it is fair to say, at this point in their careers, David Njoku and Elijah Moore have never shown they're better than average. Isn't that fair? To this point?


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[Assistant] Not saying they might not at some point, but to this point. Bull, it is fair, cause it's true. Right, I mean, you know, what have they done?


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[Assistant] Well I'm not saying, I don't think they're making any of those moves.


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[Assistant] I feel like you need to look up the Eddie Murphy, uh, Gumby. That's what I want to see Mike look like. Although what's better, Eddie Murphy as Gumby or Eddie Murphy as Mr. Robinson, aka Mr. Rogers? Yes.


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[Assistant] Which one are you taking? Yes. Taking them both. Either one.


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[Assistant] Mike, I'm calling an audible here cause, cause I'm gonna, I don't wanna, I just wanna annoy you and I don't wanna talk about that. Sure. Uh, let me talk about something else for a second since we only have two minutes anyway. In baseball,


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[Assistant] The winning percentage of home teams, it's a, it's a similar vein.


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[Assistant] Okay, but overall, in baseball, it's the lowest winning percentage for home teams in 24 years. I'm gonna keep an eye on this for football. What could we think of a reason why that would be? In baseball? I can't.


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[Assistant] Well, no, only if it's two good teams. Or two equivalent teams. If Ohio State plays on nothing.


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[Assistant] Jeff, uh, Roquan Smith, uh, I, we heard the whole,


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[Assistant] All the comments of what he said yesterday in terms of going into Cleveland and beating the team up in front of their wife and their kids. A lot of people have taken that part of that text or part of that quote out of context. So of course it's going to be used as bulletin board material.


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[Assistant] By the way, I don't know if he's as good as those guys on the field, but he certainly can't be any worse than those guys in the media, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, in terms of this matchup specifically, I, I, I think, uhm,


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[Assistant] When we look at the Ravens defense, there's always an assumption


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[Assistant] That the Ravens and Steelers are always good on defense. And, and that's not always the case. The Ravens defense in recent years has been a little up and down. Obviously they played


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[Assistant] A lot better last year once they got Roquan Smith. Where are they right now? How do you see them in the pantheon of defenses in the NFL in 2023 through three games?


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[Assistant] I don't care about that, Jay. The Browns always lose them. That's all that matters. They got, well, almost always. Well, they have a better record against


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[Assistant] By the way, shout out to our guy Jerry Ferraro, who threw a solid first pitch. He did. He was worried about it. He threw a ball, but it was a good, you know, it didn't bounce it. He didn't bounce it. It wasn't, it was caught.


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[Assistant] But in terms of Frank Cohen, it's really weird because... I-I...


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[Assistant] I'm just so down on the Guardians right now. I am too. That it's hard to get like emotional.


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[Assistant] The top three homerun hitters on the Braves have more, right, have more homeruns than every single player in the state.


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[Assistant] Fun fact, Tyvis, I actually got hired on, I think before you, because when I started, somebody else was in your spot. How about that? What do you mean somebody was in my spot?


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[Assistant] Immaculate. Immaculate. So good. This is uh, this is Dylan. Dylan, how are the MediaLot vibes this morning? Awesome, man. Awesome. What are you drinking? Little bit of Bud Light. Bud Light, is that the official drink of the Cleveland Browns? It is. It is. This is Kevin. Kevin, thank you for your service. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that. How are the vibes of the MediaLot this morning?


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[Assistant] I felt this, the celebration on Thursday night, uh, when the Lions won, felt like the Lions had won the Super Bowl for a lot of Lions fans. Sure. And it felt the same way last night. Well said. It was a great opening day win. The first time the Browns have won in week one at home since 2004 with Jeff Garcia. They had been 0-10-1 in those situations. It's the biggest win.


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[Assistant] I'm saying since 21. Oh, you're going back to 21. So Joe Burrow has played 40 games since 2021, including the playoffs. Yeaah. He's played 40 games. In those 40 games, the Bengals are 27 and 13. So they've won two thirds of those games. Right. In those nine, in those 13 losses.


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[Assistant] Nine of those 13 losses, including the playoffs, have been by three points or less. So they're right there. So put it in perspective. The Bengals have in 40 games with Joe Burrows since 2021.


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[Assistant] In 36 of 40, that's 90%. They've either won or lost by a field goal.


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[Assistant] I think it was one of, it doesn't even matter if it's number one all the time. It's one of the best performances we've seen by this defense. It's the only one that comes to mind for me in the 12 years I've been covering the team more than any other. I mean it was, it was, because as, as G said and you're 100% right,


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[Assistant] I can't either. How was it? I don't know. It was Charles Davis. I can't even remember. Yeah, Charles Davis. It was Charles Davis. Oh, Charles Davis, who did a good job. But, uh, and I and Eagle, of course, on the call, which was always a great call.


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[Assistant] Miles was magnificent yesterday, and the other guys made plays. Like when he caused havoc in the backfield, Ogbo and Zedaria Smith, they finished.


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[Assistant] Right? They made the plays. They stopped the running game for the most part. They're mixing it up. And it didn't have that help last year. Yea, they had no help last year. So when Myles Garrett last year would bust through the line and get the quarterback out of sorts and get him running around. There's nobody else to clean it up. There was nobody to clean it up. Now they had guys to do that in this game. It was...


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[Assistant] Another thing that is a little thing that I actually liked that Miles Garrett did was there was a play


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[Assistant] When they stopped the play and Joe Borough threw the ball down and Miles Garrett still knocked him down. Now, some people would think that's cheap. I don't care. As long as it's not a dirty hit. As long as it's not to the knees or the head, which it wasn't.


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[Assistant] I thought the Bengals defensively, defensively the Bengals played very well. They ran out of gas at the end. Pratt was playing, that guy was everywhere. When the offense is not moving the ball, what are you going to do? But I thought they completely wore them out by the end of the game. Is this sustainable?


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[Assistant] We all thought they had a good defense on paper. In one week they show they have a damn good defense on paper. I think


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[Assistant] They'll probably be a good defense for most of this year. Obviously it's one week. The Giants are not going to get shut out every week. The Chiefs are not going to lose every week. You can't overreact to one game.


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[Assistant] But all we got is one game of information, and this one game of information by this defense was very impressive. No, they're not going to average giving up three points a game. That's not sustainable. No. But the quality of the talent is there, and so the Browns playing very good defense is sustainable.


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[Assistant] Last year was so vanilla. Last year was so bland.


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[Assistant] To be fair, they have way more talent now, too.


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[Assistant] By the way, shout out to YouTube. I love the four pictures. Oh my god. The sports bottle. It is great YouTube TV. It's unbelievable. The Sunday ticket. Hey!


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was great. And by the way, Vegas will tell you that you should react to week one, but not overreact, right?


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[Assistant] Vegas reacted on the Browns and the Steelers. The Browns looked great, the Steelers looked awful. So the Steelers probably go, before the season I think this game was a pick-em. It was a pick-em even last night after both results went. Right, it was a pick-em. Now it's three.


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[Assistant] And then it wasn't just that day because it was the next few days. I remember walking around and everybody felt like a zombie. It was like we were all, couldn't believe what was happening.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, when I look at the thing, I didn't actually take this domination very seriously until after this game. Because to me, it was, in the games that mattered, it was Brown's two, Bengals one, and the Bengals won the last one.


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[Assistant] The, and then the second one in 21, the Bengals played their backups. It was, it was all bench players. So I didn't care about that. So it was one game in 21 and then they split last year. So I'm like,


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[Assistant] To me, in the games that really, it was 2 to 1. But last year, the Halloween game was very reminiscent of this one. Right, but it was still 2 to 1, but I thought 2 to 1 for me wasn't enough. But now it's 3 to 1, and now it's 3 blowouts, and I'm like, this is crazy. There is definitely something to it.


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[Assistant] The Bengals play with a swagger and confidence. They still talked it. Well, Jamar Chase does. He sounds like an idiot. He needs to shut up. And he's a great player, but he, but he needs to shut up. It's enough.


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[Assistant] The Bengals play with a swaggering confidence against everybody else.


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[Assistant] That they don't, for some reason, they don't have, even when the Bengals beat the Browns last year, in that second game, I don't remember, it was December. I don't remember the exact date. I didn't think the Bengals played that well in that game. Even the one they won.


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[Assistant] I can't explain it, and if you, if you had been in a coma and had only been awake for the Bengals playing the Browns for the last three years, just the last three years,


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[Assistant] And, and, and I said, well the Bengals have been in the Super Bowl, the AFC Championship, and you'd be like, that's crazy, this team's awful. Sure. Because they look like a horrendous team against the Browns. There's just something, you know, styles make fights, right? We talk about this all the time. Yeah, it's true. And, just like the Bengals have had the Chiefs number, right?


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[Assistant] Now they have blown him out, but they had won all the games until last year in the AFC Championship game. Uh, and Patrick Mahomes had not looked great against the Bengals until that second game last year.


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[Assistant] And, and for whatever reason, Joe Burrow just looks lost in the soup every time he plays the


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[Assistant] It's difficult. In the end, it's just weird because the Bengals have played teams of better defenses in the past couple of years and yet the Browns have played well. I can't, it's really hard to explain in the end. I don't know, but so fancy he's got to, they got to find a way to translate this to other teams, certainly.


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[Assistant] Jason, you thought maybe he's not ready. I, I, we haven't seen any PFF grades. I'm not watching the Juan Jones on every single play, but it seemed like he did a great job.


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[Assistant] We're, we're gonna find out. By the way, I'm not just saying this because of the injury, because we, you and I both said this last year, I thought it was a terrible, I didn't like it. Browns have made a lot of good decisions, I thought it was a terrible, lately, I thought it was a terrible decision to extend Jack Conklin, because he was always hurt, and now he's hurt again.


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[Assistant] When you have a quarterback like Deshaun Watson who the best part of his game yesterday was his legs. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] He's gotta bail you out when the offensive line can't get the job done. A great quarterback and certainly an athletic quarterback can help you overcome struggles from an offensive line and the tackles are certainly an issue right now.


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[Assistant] I'm just not that worried about it. I know it's a concern. I just feel like, when we get it, are we getting it to Watson here or are we getting it to Chubb? I think both. We'll start with Chubb and then go to Watson.


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[Assistant] That kind of ended the game to me. It had nothing. It felt like it was over. It was a great play. Hendrickson had been having a great first half. So for him, so that's why the Bengals felt confident and kind of leaving Hendrickson alone on that side, basically. And he did just enough on that play.


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[Assistant] Not in yards. No, but in receptions. Well, they didn't throw, I mean, Watson didn't throw the ball particularly well yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. I think we've taken off today, almost 4,000 people watching right now by far the most we've ever had watching at one time. Incredible. And, but being able to be on WKYC, which Jay is every day, is very exciting for all of us because it shows that


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[Assistant] The whole company believes in this show, believes in us and what we've done, that believes that all the audience that we have is going to come with us.


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[Assistant] Uh, even though, you know, most of the shows are still gonna be here, but that will, as Mike said, there's a new audience, especially some older fans who are not as savvy, uh, in finding things on YouTube. Yeah, that's the key. They're not as smart as you guys.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, one other thing I want to say real quick about the WKYC thing is thank you to WKYC and Tegna for believing in us, beli- I don't mean to point to myself, believing in us, and believing in this show and showing that by, by, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, committing to us being on linear TV. It's a big deal. Alright, let's talk about Deshaun Watson here, guys.


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[Assistant] It, it, it's interesting. He didn't play a particularly, like throwing the ball, he wasn't very good. He was completely inaccurate in this game. Made a couple of nice throws, but was very inaccurate. And we gotta keep it real, right? Because we're not gonna do what Browns fans have done for 20 years, is pretend mediocre quarterback play is good. He didn't play very well. But, what gave me hope after this game, was something we didn't see at all last year.


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[Assistant] It was command. It was confidence to the point of cockiness. It was his use of his legs.


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[Assistant] He used his legs effectively well, and he said he was smart enough to know, cause he's got the plays in the huddle, he can switch it up, we talked about him switching up into that play.


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[Assistant] He knows, hey, running game's working. I'm gonna stick with this. I'm struggling, whether it's the weather, whether I'm anxious about the first game, whatever it is, I'm not very accurate right now. Let's focus on my legs and Nick Chubb's legs and let's get this game done. And I thought that was a good sign.


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[Assistant] Long term, he's gotta play a lot better. He didn't play well enough. They won anyway. That's good. Uh, but he's gotta play better. But I thought...


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[Assistant] We still have- But that's where we say it's one game, we don't know.


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[Assistant] But he only gets a C because I thought he led well and he ran well.


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[Assistant] I think Deshaun as just a thrower was a D. Oh absolutely. As overall he was a C because I thought the other parts


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[Assistant] Even though I give Deshaun a D on his throwing. Cause his throwing sucked yesterday. He ended up over 50%. Which is not good.


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[Assistant] But despite that, that game, believe it or not, gave me confidence that he's going to play well this year.


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[Assistant] Because I never saw him look confident last year. He looked scared. He looked out of sorts. He looked not unsure of himself. All six of those games last year. And maybe I'm just counting myself because you're looking at me like you don't know about your dog. I could be wrong.


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[Assistant] By the way, Steelers already frustration, uh, George Pickens already retweeting tweets from people saying he needs to get the ball more. Oh my goodness. And you could tell. I saw a clip of him on the sideline.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Listen, the Browns are going to be 3-0 going into the home game with the Ravens in Week 4. Wow. You can mark that down. That's over. Steelers suck. I said they suck. I said Kenny Pickett sucks. I'm right! Kenny Pickett sucks! You're the one who screams all the time about overreacting in Week 1 and look at you now. I know, it's absurd. I may have victory laugh after Week 1.


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[Assistant] By the way, Steve Becker made a good point. He's right. I was watching, I watched a lot of this game. The Rams over the field. That was very impressive as well.


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[Assistant] But real quick Mike, Puka Nakua, 5th round pick at 15 targets, 10 catches over 100 yards for the Rams. 5th round pick. He's probably available in 80% of the leagues before yester. Puka Nakua, love the name. Wow. Go ahead Mike.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying this guy got to be negative about this guy because he's done a nice job. But so far I believe in him. I'm just saying that I believed in Kate York after week one too. You did. And so, and then it went south. Hopefully that won't happen with this guy.


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[Assistant] He gets a 10 out of 10. For the first game, he gets a 10 out of 10.


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[Assistant] You're absolutely right. Right now he did a good job and I thought overall special teams played well. I thought the putter did a good job. We didn't hear any whining about the putter screwing up the kicks yesterday.


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[Assistant] You play like a young guy there. Anyway, whatever. Well, it's probably coming. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you gotta keep that up. You gotta keep up that attitude and that anger and that edge. And if the Browns need to look for a slight real or made up,


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[Assistant] To help them so be it. I mean, I, I think the Bengals, the Browns were gonna win that game yesterday, whether Jamar Chase made that stupid comment or not.


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[Assistant] How much it factors in, none of us know for sure. You're the only one here who played. It factored in for you, so okay, maybe it does factor in. Maybe it factors in for different guys, different ways. Maybe it doesn't.


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[Assistant] Sometimes plenty, there's plenty of examples of teams that talk trash and then still win the game. If that motivated the Browns, so be it. Once they won, they got to dunk all over the Bengals, they got to dunk all over Jamar Chase, so the winner go the spoils. And now the Browns should be smart and not do what the Bengals did and not


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[Assistant] He only threw one pass, he didn't get touched, I mean. I know, I just don't, you can't, if he, had he gotten hurt, what would the talk be today?


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[Assistant] He, he takes, he should, might as well take out, I know it's early because he disregarded, I know it's early in that.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I was wrong. They had to win five in a row to get over 500.


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[Assistant] Pay this man. It's just money. Jim Schwartz is a coordinator. I just, I don't think he's a coach.


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[Assistant] I'm back in studio. I feel great. I was not sick for all those that reached out. I had COVID, but I never had, I felt like I had a mild cold for a couple of days. And with protocol and having to observe all of that in respect of others, you stay away, you do your part. But, um, I can just tell you this bout of COVID compared to my


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[Assistant] First one, it was night and day. It was no difference. I had the worst sore throat of my life first time around.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have even known I was sick if I didn't see the positive test on this one. So enough on that. A lot to get into today. We're going to talk about headlines, our pre-written headline.


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[Assistant] Who the X Factor is gonna be this weekend. We're also gonna get into, and I love this, the Brown Superlatives. Uhm, and Mary Kay Cabot's gonna join us in the second half hour. She's gonna give us all things Browns and Bengals as we get ready to start the season. Mikey McNuggets, anything from you?


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[Assistant] This season is absolutely an indictment or endorsement on him. He's the sole survivor. He and Jimmy, you can't fire the owner.


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[Assistant] This season is Def Con Red, whatever you want to say. All the alarm bells are ringing in the building and it is a five alarm fire. They have got to win this year. I think it's the most important season they've had in 30 years. That's well said.


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[Assistant] Now, I think there are others that are responsible if Deshawn doesn't work. Sure.


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[Assistant] But it's Kevin's job to make it work. But, you know, he's just got to make the, it's an arranged marriage. He didn't go to management and say, I can't work with Baker. I've got to work with this guy. His hands were tied.


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[Assistant] A beyond horrible place. Yeaah, because not only do they look at another regime change, but they're handcuffed with the quarterback contract, the lack of draft picks, and you said a decade. I think that's way too long. Nothing gives you a decade honeymoon. Look at the Rams situation two years ago.


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[Assistant] His approach on this is just wait until you see the offense. Now, the caveat with that is when you talk in that kind of hyperbole, and it's not coming from Jimmy, this is coming from everybody he's talking to at the Browns. We showed nothing in the preseason. The NFL isn't going to know what hit them.


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[Assistant] It better be good. It better be real good. Because the expectations from the voices that we trust in Berea are ramped up.


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[Assistant] Wait until you see what we've got in store. Okay. We find out in 50 hours. Go ahead Mikey.


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[Assistant] I was surprised last night when Travis Kelsey didn't play. Cause when we heard about the injury earlier in the week, I thought this is Travis Kelsey, this is the opener, he's gonna go. I think that's why he didn't play.


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[Assistant] But I think to Jason's point, just like the game we saw last night, it was clear. It was Detroit Super Bowl. This is going to set the tone for what Dan Campbell hopes is their big turnaround.


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[Assistant] After you come off the high of playing in a Super Bowl or a Game 7 championship and then you have a hangover offseason, that first game is one of the most difficult games to get up to of all time. Because your juxtaposition of that game is what you just came from. And it's the Lions.


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[Assistant] You give Kansas City a short field. Now they had the big drop.


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[Assistant] My mind is, is at ease with that for now, even though Jason, I think it was you that brought it up last week. This is a situation that we need to keep one eye on all year for the rest of his career. He's had a number of concussions at his size and he plays a high collision position.


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[Assistant] Uh, not on every play, but he's involved in very violent collisions at that position. We'll be looking at that all year, but...


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[Assistant] Beyond the massive win. Gee, uhm, can anybody disagree with what Bull said? That this is the biggest home opener for the Browns since the rebirth. Can you disagree?


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[Assistant] And the team gave up. I was there that day. The thing that disappointed me the most about that wasn't the fact that a team with less talent came into our house and kicked us in the mouth. It was that after we got kicked in the mouth we laid over and stayed down. That was really hard to watch.


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[Assistant] That's a surprise to me. That is a surprise to me.


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[Assistant] Right, right. So there will be things they can take from it. But guys, I harken back to last year. This is why I'm really, really optimistic going into Sunday. I watched essentially these same two teams.


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[Assistant] With Jacoby Brousset at quarterback on Halloween night. Boat race this team.


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[Assistant] I mean, it wasn't a fluke. Every time the Browns got the ball, they marched it right down the field. The Bengals were inept. They couldn't do anything. It wasn't a close game. It was a tail kicking.


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[Assistant] What does it signal? I don't like that idea though of running from the dog versus dog matchup. I just, you know what? They're better in left tackle, but Garrett's still better.


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[Assistant] We, it was on here to talk about whether or not this was the last game you want to see Thornhill and Denzel Ward miss. Yeaah, I think we all agree with that. I think we agree they're going to play, and I think it's pretty much, yeaah, you don't want them out against a team that has


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[Assistant] Alright, before we do our Browns and Bengals X-Factors offense and defense, let's get a quick read from Mike.


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[Assistant] I think that he is the X factor in this offense this year, not wearing number four.


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[Assistant] He's been paid like a top five. He's been treated by management like he's a top five. His numbers have never been close to top five production.


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[Assistant] This is a make or break year for a lot of people in this organization. We've gone through that. Deepadesta.


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[Assistant] Stefanski. Andrew Berry. On and on and on. This is the year. But number 85.


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[Assistant] Has got to produce like a top 5 tight end. End of it, full stop, period.


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[Assistant] He has to have an eight catch, 90 yard, one touchdown game, Sunday against the Bengals. Because I think if, if he is involved in the offense, I think it opens so many other things. So my X Factor is David Najoku. God, I have a big game. I'm not mad at that.


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[Assistant] I like your logic, I think you nailed it. Uhm, I went with someone different, but by the way, uhm,


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[Assistant] And by the way, it was somewhat ironic that as NFL season was beginning last night, shortly after that game ended, the Guardian season officially ended.


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[Assistant] It's interesting, but I don't think it's by any accident that I'm also going with a defensive back. Mine is Denzel Ward.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I do, I like yours a lot, I like all of them, but guys I think we're at this stage in this matchup where this is going to be the deciding factor in these games for a number of years.


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[Assistant] The Bengals wide receivers against the Browns defensive backs.


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[Assistant] And I know it's not a huge sample size, but so far advantage Brown's defensive backs. They have won these matchups with the quality of play that they've put on the field against what might be the best triumphant of receivers in the NFL. Can anybody name a team that's got three better receivers? No. The only thing I'll say is I don't


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[Assistant] And they're healthy. Against the Bengals wide receivers advantage Brown's defensive backs.


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[Assistant] I think that is what's gonna decide Sunday's game.


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[Assistant] Who has the better day? The Bengals wide receivers or the Browns defensive backs? And because of that, I'm taking the ringleader of that group, the guy who has been the kryptonite


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[Assistant] To Joe Burrow's Superman and that's Denzel Ward. And whether or not he saw him every day in practice and he has a tail with his eyes or he's picked up something along the way that has allowed him to jump routes and to be effective against the guy that really is considered a top three quarterback in this league.


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[Assistant] Classified it as stupid, it's motivational, it's certainly disrespectful.


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[Assistant] But at the end of the day, to me, it's noise. Here's what matters, and we all know this. His comments are quickly forgotten if they win 35-10. Facts. If they lose and he doesn't play out and the defensive backs win that battle that I spoke of, then he better get used to hearing about Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Because they're already a major thorn in his side.


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[Assistant] They're gonna become an anvil around his neck.


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[Assistant] If he can't and the Bengals can't figure out a way to beat the doormat of the division.


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[Assistant] I don't care if you're going to Super Bowls. I don't care if you're a power in your conference.


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[Assistant] You've gotta take care of the teams that you're supposed to take care of. Well, going to Super Bowls and being power at the conference is more important than... It is, but Bull, ultimately, when you're playing against one of the teams in your division that historically is the doormat. Right. I mean, Jason Statt is still swirling in my head.


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[Assistant] That they haven't finished ahead of their rival since 1989.


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[Assistant] Cincinnati's got a problem if they can't get past one of the doormats of the division.


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[Assistant] And I know that, you know, you're playing for Super Bowls and you're one of the powers, but you, in the NFL, you look at the schedule when it comes out and you circle games that you think you should win.


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[Assistant] I'm getting, I'm tired of hearing all this talk about Cleveland, but then in the follow question, his answer was, I don't really hear it. Well that's a lie.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Every other year. All right. I, so I think the end of the day, the comments are the Browns heard them. They've already made their way to the Browns locker room. You can, you can bet. And the first thing out of the Browns mouths at four 15 Sunday, if they win, we'll be a callback to Jamar James, which is funny.


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[Assistant] Of course not, yeaah. It's silly. That's why it's a, you know, you're damned if you do. Yeaah. Just keep your mouth shut. It's not smart. But you know, you say you hate it.


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[Assistant] You know what, I think you were right the first time. He's trying to convince himself that he's Cincinnati and they're Cleveland. That's what he's trying to do. Because if he looks at the scores of the last six games, you might not think that.


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[Assistant] Uh, should we start in that order? Should I, should I start first?


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[Assistant] I love what you said earlier. Nick Chubb's not regular. Or you quoted, uh, Leroy.


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[Assistant] We have grown to take Nick Chubb for granted and his greatness and


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[Assistant] This new look offense and this Elijah Moore cat who is supposed to be great.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is a proven league. This is a grown man league. I gotta see it before I'm buying it. And I haven't seen it. I know there's a lot of potential there. Potential as Warren Sapp used to say is another word for failure.


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[Assistant] But he's forgotten, he's just, he just doesn't get the respect he deserves nationally. I think locally he's overlooked, he's admired and appreciated and loved. But when you hear people talk about what we have to do to win, it all revolves around Deshaun Watson. All of it.


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[Assistant] What else are we judging it on? But Bull, when you went into this year's camp, this year's camp was much different for the Browns than any other year that I can remember.


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[Assistant] And it's not an easy division to kick in. There are no domes. They're for the most part cold weather cities. So from the last eight games of the season can very well be played on an ice sheet.


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[Assistant] Let's call 24. Put the hunter and kicker in there. Are holding a basket. And you have 100 eggs.


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[Assistant] So, taketaki, you're gonna get four eggs. I'm gonna need you to be available and healthy. And kicker, whoever you are, whatever number you wear, you're gonna get eight because you gotta make kicks. You miss kicks, you're gonna lose games.


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[Assistant] And Denzel Ward, absolutely pivotal player on the defense. You're going to get some eggs too. But the guy that's getting the most eggs in his basket is easily the quarterback, Deshaun Watson. This season hinges on number four.


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[Assistant] We talked about how this is a week to week league. We're going back three years to his. Yeah, I hear you. So I can't go back three years. I'm going to say the same thing I said about Elijah Moore. I hear you're really good. I hear you're tearing up practice. We talk about practice to quote Allen Iverson. I need to see it.


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[Assistant] And I hope to God I see it, because all of my eggs are in number four's basket.