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[Assistant] And real quick, the 374, according to stat boost, that's the 11th most passing yards by any quarterback of any game this season. So Flacco was out here balling. Good God. That's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Houston plays Tennessee after they play us.


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[Assistant] So they play the Niners, the Dolphins, and the Steelers, they last three. I'm assuming they would have to lose to San Francisco and lose to Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we was gonna move to a topic that actually we was gonna move to...


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[Assistant] A topic that we're not gonna do for overtime. The topic is basically how ironic on a wet and windy day.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying. I'm just, the math is math into me. But, uh, we're going to get into some super chats, man. Uh, before we get into that, a couple of things we need to take a look at.


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[Assistant] Catch The Barbershop Mondays and Thursdays, 3 to 4 p.m. Gee, I'm pretty sure you got a fire show lined up. Who you got coming on, man? Any guests tonight? Nope, it's just me.


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[Assistant] Plus you get full benefit packages, paid time off, signed up bonuses, and signed up bonuses applied online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. So we got a bunch of people in here that gifted, uh, some, some memberships. Phil Bowman gifted five.


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[Assistant] Scott Woods gifted five. We had King Truly gift a membership. Actually Phil Bowman gifted 10, I'm sorry. Then we had, uh, Michael Roberts. He gifted a membership. I gifted five yesterday on the post game show. Just gonna put this out here. Uh, so I've gifted like 20 in the last three days.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dave D said forget the cardiac kids. They are the misfit toys of the NFL and Santa Flaco swoops in and saves them.


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[Assistant] Kenny Moss says, the last three games we've been penalized 24 times for 209 yards. While our opponents have been penalized 18 times for 104 yards. We gotta clean up our game.


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[Assistant] Uh, says need a throwback jersey number game. Flacco would be 17, Sype. The joker would be 82, Newsome. Cooper would be 33, Rucker. And Hopkins would be 12.


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[Assistant] Dank the Nasty Ass Master. Dank Nasty Ass Master. Oh, he's our favorite. Check, I don't know who made this take, but he says,


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[Assistant] For the 2023 UCSS Worst Take of the Year award. Who made that take?


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[Assistant] Anyway. That's a hot take. That's a hot take. Donnie Stewart. How important do you think the last game of the season will be against Cincinnati? I think we've talked about that a lot. Uh, Exhale says my wife has been a Browns fan since we began dating four years ago. Says she wasn't shocked about the comeback because win-lose is a heart attack every week.


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[Assistant] We got, uh, Michael Ribovich. I hope I got that last name right. He says Cardiac Flat Kids.


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[Assistant] Bart Z says, Jason, how do us, uh, fans of UCSS get our hands on one of those good old right handed UCSS coffee mugs? My wife made them. She should sell them on G Bush's


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[Assistant] Rebel vets, Rebel vets, man, spent 150 bucks on Superchats. First one says, Flacco is the second NFL hit, second QB in NFL history to roll playoff wins behind Brady.


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[Assistant] Then his next one says Raven fan here. Check out the NFL record for role playoff wins. He said it again. Flacco had the record for most in the NFL history until Brady came out of retirement with the Bucks. Maybe Flacco can pass Brady again. Whacko for Flacco, man. We got two minutes. Final thoughts.


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[Assistant] And I think due to the injuries, you know what's really on the table now too. Coach of the Year is on the table.


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[Assistant] And I didn't think about it. An extension might be on the table too. Jason said, give them an extension three weeks ago. I thought that was a little premature. But if he does, if they could get in with this, this ragtag group.


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[Assistant] Now the best thing about this, I believe this is a F-R-E-E event.


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[Assistant] Like this is, listen, this is guys, if you didn't get your girl nothing for Christmas bad on you, you could get her, you could smoke screen her right now. And they say, babe, we're going to go out and see the guys. We got a big night plan. Night plan. Get a bottle of that, that, that boons farm.


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[Assistant] I got a couple of things. I got a couple of rally flags, a couple of things. I also got some barbershop wristbands. You get a complimentary VIP barbershop wristband. Are those the very popular color? Yep. And one is a glow in the dark. One's an orange. Oh, I need one of those. Yeah, they glow in the dark. That way I can find my way through them.


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[Assistant] You know, I woke up and, you know, my, my, you know, range of motion in my neck wasn't that good. And I'm like, okay, man. So it took me a little while to warm the right arm up and, and you know, I'm going down, getting my clothes on. It took me a little bit longer to put the hoodie on and like,


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[Assistant] That's, that's a football life. Like that's, listen, when you sign up to play football, you make a deal with the devil. You really do.


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[Assistant] When you sign up to play football, you understand that you can die on the field, you can


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[Assistant] You could be injured permanently, you could be paralyzed. You could lose movement, yeaah. You could lose, you can have an injury that ends your career, or you're going to deal with something that gets you the rest of your life. And it doesn't have to be just NFL guys, it's just countless college guys or high school guys who've had the same thing happen.


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[Assistant] That is what the game is and a lot of fans and sometimes the media and some people who just enjoy the game don't realize what they sign up for because it's so entertaining to watch these guys play.


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[Assistant] It is part of it. It is almost like bi-weeks or winning and scoring touchdowns. It's bread. It's baked into the game. So when somebody says we would have been doing this if it wasn't for injuries, no.


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[Assistant] You can't say if it wasn't for injuries. That's the only thing that is guaranteed is you will be injured. It's just about when in your career you're going to have it. And how bad. And how bad it's going to be. So all these injuries here.


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[Assistant] They know what it is, and I think for a lot of them, I feel bad for them because it's just knowing that you gotta go through that level of rehabilitation. I heard what Maurice Hurst said. He's like, Maurice Hurst's like, man, we got some special going here. I'm sad for the fans. However, once you see your people go down like that, the guys behind them now have to take that mantle. You, your comrades are falling.


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[Assistant] You pick the flag up and you carry it as long as you can carry it. And that's the model you gotta have. Now they gotta have some young guys. Alex Wright.


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[Assistant] Siaki Ika, there's linebackers, uh, uh, you know, that fields is going to have to play. One man's injury is another man's opportunity. That's your chance. Think about it. We said it yesterday.


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[Assistant] How many of those individuals have been sitting at home and their family been waiting? Hey, you think you're going to dress this week? Hey, you're thinking of winning the special teams this week? You can't tell me. And they're hungry. They're hungry right now. And you're hungry on a team that you know can be in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] That's a great opportunity. And it'd be a chance to be a contributor. That's a great opportunity.


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[Assistant] I would not want to play. I just wouldn't want to play these 7-6 teams. Like, think about it. Like, if you're a team who you have your quarterback, if you're Baltimore, don't you just want to be like, can we fast forward this to the playoffs?


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[Assistant] Sure. Patrick Mahomes, can you say, because we've already lost our quarterback.


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[Assistant] We've already lost our best playmakers. Baltimore is the only team in the division that is currently playing their starting quarterback. Yes, so you got them in my homes and then obviously the, uh, the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] If you're those teams, you have to be thinking, let us just get to the playoffs without no injuries. Because if you look at the Browns, the Bengals, I wouldn't really want to play the Bills either because they still got Josh Allen. But if you're playing the Cleveland Browns, they have nothing to lose.


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[Assistant] And you could tell that it takes a toll on his body because after these hits, there's not, you know, you don't, the kind of mindset you gotta have going against eight, nine man boxes and he won't be denied on the goal line. And I think, I think, I don't know if this could be something other teams use, but I do believe since


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[Assistant] He is such a, he is such a big part of, just the heart.


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[Assistant] He's such a huge part of the team, man. It's just, like, you can see it. Like, when he got back in here and he got an opportunity to get back playing.


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[Assistant] It was just like, you, you, you, you felt the team be rejuvenated. Like, they was like, that's the impact that we need. I wanted to ask you guys a question, uhm, because we talked about the tackles. Uhm, going into the playoffs, when you only have one game, you, you, you play in must-win games at that point. Yes.


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[Assistant] At some point, do they look at it? They threw a, they threw a smudge screen at us earlier. At some point, do you say, Joe Blantonio left tackle, Nick Harris at guard,


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[Assistant] Poachers at center and we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll have one bad tackle in Hudson and figure out if he can figure it out on the right side.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. You're right. You're right. You move when they move. And guess what? If they move, it's a false start.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Justin Fields to me has been playing a little bit better. Uhm, but like any other quarterback.


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[Assistant] The planned runs that are going to get you yards and scrambles. To me, the planned runs that get you yards are more dangerous because off those planned runs you now have other things you move to in your playbook.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's, now I'm gonna do RPOs, now I'm gonna set it up off the screen, now I'm gonna throw it quick, or, now, now, all those things are great because it's within the schedule of the plays.


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[Assistant] I'm not necessarily worried about him running around trying to make plays. Cause at the end of the day, we love that.


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[Assistant] That's when your strip sacks come around. That's when, that's when you get guys putting the ball. That's when he's loose with the football. That's when he's throwing against his body. That's when he's throwing without his base being set. I love a quarterback, especially a younger quarterback.


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[Assistant] That wants to move around and make plays because it gets excitable. It's just like having a check on Friday when you're young. You get that check, you'll be forgetting, man. I got bills to pay. You'll be right at the mall. They're like, yeah, I'm out here creating. No, you're not.


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[Assistant] That's when it's, no you're not. Listen, and think about this.


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[Assistant] He was throwing off target. He was throwing the football. Guys throwing the ball up for chance. Three interceptions. I like that type of energy. So if it's me...


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[Assistant] Oh hey, I invite him to run around a little bit and see what he gives up. Mind you, this is the same Justin Fields that got sacked, I believe, not this last year, but the year before. Ten times or something. Miles Garrett had five sacks on him. Now, granted, Miles is a little injured right now.


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[Assistant] This is where, this is the difficult thing. I, I would love to be in these meetings because I was, Jim Schorch is probably sitting there saying to himself, okay, we got two options here. We're losing pass rushers.


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[Assistant] Oboe is out of the game, one of our best. Now, at D-Tackle, Hearst hurts, but you still got Shelby Harris, who will probably end up starting Dalva Thompson.


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[Assistant] He's one of you. But, do you want to take him out?


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[Assistant] Of, of the coverage, because one thing he does- Keep him in the middle and follow him. And follow him. Do you want to rush him or keep him back there? Because if you spy him, you do a really good job of making sure that- giving some time for your ends to get home. However,


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[Assistant] If your ends aren't getting home early, he may be wondering, hey, can I go ahead and blitz Jay, okay? By the way, he loves to blitz the safeties too. Dump it blitz to lock these last few games, he's out now too.


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[Assistant] One of the things that I look at, and I had to go back and get into my bag,


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[Assistant] When we saw the Rams and they were using the jet motion and handing the ball to the receiver or reversers in quick little read option plays.


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[Assistant] Where it just looks like they don't have assignment football. The ends come crashing down. Quarterbacks is outside of them getting outflanked. No leverage on the jet reverses and different things like that.


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[Assistant] This is almost like the equivalent of basketball pick and roll. There's a lot of things you can do off the pick and roll. You can double, you can hedge and get back, that's kind of a little old. You can ice it, you can do a lot of different things, little jargons to kind of switch up the look and the coverage on the pick and roll. My thing as a defender now is, if you're Miles Garrett,


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[Assistant] You know, you have the superstar ability, right? You have the understanding and the knowledge of what teams are trying to do to you. And if you don't have contain, which Miles Garrett does not have contain responsibilities, sometimes you got to mix your look up. They think you're crashing.


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[Assistant] You take one step down. They think you're crashing. You're athletic enough to redirect to get right back out to where you need to go and make that play.


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[Assistant] They, it's almost like hedging it. Like, oh you thought I was crashing down, I'm outflanking, no I'm not. I just picked, I just picked the right play. And a lot of times when they got the wrong motion coming back behind there, also I look at it the way you set it up is,


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[Assistant] I don't like the way they played in the secondary because the safety has to be in that, that gap. Safety has to be there as well to kinda, if Miles Garrett does crash down to make that play. But if you're Miles Garrett, you gotta just switch it up. Y'all got the ability to do it. Uhm, you know, that's something that they're gonna try to utilize for the rest of the season.


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[Assistant] You just have to be like, alright, well listen, I'ma just choose. Like, I'ma just guess. And sometimes guessing works, sometimes it doesn't. But you gotta mix the looks up because right now they feel like you're completely out of the play. You're done.


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[Assistant] Who knows? I'ma give it to them. You know why? I done heard too many times in sports where teams play on teams that are playoff teams or they got the number one defensive unit and guys just make the Pro Bowl. He's got a shot. Cause they saying, okay, well listen, you got a great team. You're going to make the playoffs. You're playing on the best defense in the league. Of course they should be in a Pro Bowl. Like,


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[Assistant] Think about it, Jay. It's not just him. Jordan Elliott was the same way. I know. Right, but Jordan Elliott is not playing at this level. He's playing nicely. But Jordan Elliott is a serviceable, front-line guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if, if you get your hands on them, it's, that's why I say scheme matters. It matters. When they had JOK last year locking up with guards and trying to get off blocks. Mismatch. It's a mismatch. Yeah. You know, Jim Shore says, listen, take your read steps.


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[Assistant] It's just like playing, it's one on one. It's isolation. He can't guard you. Well with the quickness that-


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[Assistant] That's the cheat code. He doesn't have to engage with you. If he knows where the ball is going, he takes his read step, he gets there, and it's you and him, you can't put, you can't block him.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think they do it. You know why? Because I actually think, my game plan you'll see coming up tomorrow when we do the headlines, I think Joe Flacco and the Browns


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[Assistant] They're unstoppable on first drives. They're getting seven every week.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That might be something they try to do.


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[Assistant] I might actually take that back. I just, I got a feeling, I don't know why it popped in my head. I got a feeling that Joe Flacco will mess around and throw this one more sticky time.


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[Assistant] You want to start? Tell us why. Yeah, I think, uh, I think Kevin Stefanski showed at the end of the game. He was excited or super excited. He had Joe Flacco. Now mind you, I thought it sounded to everybody. He's only, he's only been practicing two weeks. That means he's had a handful of times to talk to Joe Flacco. This is going to embolden Kevin Stefanski. He's going to say this.


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[Assistant] My best chance to, to beat these teams coming up is, I'm just gonna bet that my quarterback's better than yours. I'm just gonna bet that I could just come in and throw it on you.


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[Assistant] Because until you prove me wrong, every week he throws for more yards. This is really what I want to run anyway. Uhm, I think Kevin Stefanski, when you go down the back, he's going to, and this is crazy to sound like this.


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[Assistant] He's going to put four games after all these injuries and the running and stuff. He's putting this on Joe Flacco's arm. I'm gonna let you know that right now.


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[Assistant] Listen, I think, uh, I think Amari Cooper's playing Andrew. Uhm, you could tell, like, he's a man of very few words. I think he's battling internally with it. Uhm, just came off the concussion. But, if you just look at it, if Amari Cooper just catches the football that are thrown to him, he's around 80, 90 yards a game.


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[Assistant] If he just catches the football, which he's been probably a guy during his career who's done a good job catching the football. Recently he's had the drop season. He's had, he's had, and the fumble was really concerning.


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[Assistant] That was weird though because it came at the perfect time. He was changing hands. And it was just one of those fluky things. But he always seems to have that receiver neck.


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[Assistant] For just your body, you're not thinking about it. Your body just does it. You just feel the presence, right? You feel the pressure and you say, okay, instead of switching arms, I'm gonna, I'm gonna handle with two or, or be by the sidelines. It just seems like he hasn't had that, that instinctual, you know, catching the football and moving. So I think he's hearing


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[Assistant] Denzel Ward, hey listen, if Denzel Ward is out there, he didn't get no yards.


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[Assistant] But if they put Mark Amberson on them, he'd get on the guards either. You have that high of a regard?


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[Assistant] I mean, Martin Emerson played one of the best games I've ever seen a corner play in a long time. And granted, they don't got superstars out there. I mean, but, I mean, this guy, listen, he was in run support, he had three or four pass breakups, like deep balls, he didn't got two intercepts, and it was not like it wasn't Calvin Ridley and Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think, I... Because you know he would not answer that way. Yeaah. I think, I think, could I see it happening? Of course. If they could continue to let him hold him.


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[Assistant] You know, if they continue to let him, them chip and then hold and grab and stuff, but I think Miles Garrett, I will, you know, this is, I'm just not going on a record, it's not like an earth shattering thing. He's gonna get a couple holding penalties this time.


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[Assistant] Now I would agree, and I agree with them because usually what the league does is they go out after it's over and say look.


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[Assistant] These guys been doing this all year, it's getting egregious, and did they come in the preseason and say, there's an emphasis on lining up correctly. Yes. We will be calling that. But you can't change it mid-screen. You can't do it now.


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[Assistant] Do you believe that there are times in a game where you can't make that call? You're like, hold on, you can't call me off sides right there that you can't make that call. Or pass interference on a Hail Mary. Do you believe it's the letter of law or is it, you gotta wait to see what's gonna happen during the game?


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[Assistant] You know, Dee Dee, let me ask you this. I've been saying it. I've been trying to get in front of it. I don't like this. I don't like the fact that Joe Flacco is playing well and the fact that he has no contracts. I would offer him a two-year deal. I'd offer him a two-year deal right now with a team option.


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[Assistant] How, how, how often, uh, are you eating? What's your, your gap?


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[Assistant] You know, we talk about what Joe Flacco, I told him, I said, listen, the 300 yards he threw for last week, I think he's capable, I think Kevin Stefanski,


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[Assistant] Feels like he got to skip some steps. I compare it to, you know, I don't have any children, but it's like being like, hey, I got a two year old, right? We can skip all the diapers and you just fast forward them all the way until you get to seven or eight. You're like, oh, I could hang out with my kids then, but forget the terrible twos. It's like Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have to tell him where to throw the ball. He doesn't have to tell him what he should be looking at, or his landmarks, or what coverage. Oh, he knows the coverage. He knows the reads. So now, he can just come in and say, alright Joe, what do you want to talk about this week? What do you like? And I think now, would you say,


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[Assistant] He's gonna even be more in-depth with the playbook because now he's gonna find out what Joe likes and what he wants.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it almost seems like Joe Flacco, like, you know, I was watching in the, the All 22 and it seems like,


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[Assistant] He looks at his first read and it's like, oh, that's not there. And so he just knows that like, all right, well my second read on the progression, that's not going to be there given the coverage. The third, I'm not even looking at that. And he immediately goes to the check down.


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[Assistant] The under center play action is almost like a lost art. It's a day.


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[Assistant] No bro, it's an age thing. What happens is as your muscles weaken and this also will happen in your eyes and it will suck. The number one worst thing to me about getting old was I always had 2010 and perfect up close.


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[Assistant] When you turn about 50, the muscles in your eyes weaken and it allows, you can't focus like you could and everything up close looks blurry. Yea, that's why I got a reading list. Old people wear the readers and they do that number right there.


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[Assistant] I used to stop breathing all the time. You know, a lot of people that live alone don't even know they have it. I didn't. I, uh, a number of years ago, one of my college roommates is single.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we met at Bowling Green for a weekend, and there was a snafu with the room, and he said, hey, can I stay in the room with you and Tracy? I'm like, okay, that's kinda weird, but yeaah. So he, he, they got a cot, they threw the cot out there.


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[Assistant] All through the night, I'm listening to him snore. He was a snorer. He would stop breathing. Yea, that's what I had.


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[Assistant] Constantly, like once every five minutes you'd hear a long pause and my wife and I are laying there going, Mark's gonna die in our room.


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[Assistant] You know how Howard Stern is the spokesperson for Squatty Potty? Yes. We need to find out the company, okay?


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[Assistant] That's where we start today. Uh, Trevor, yesterday I thought, I love the gamesmanship. I mean, the Browns are engaged in it right now. The Browns said, yeah, we're not going to make an announcement on who's going to be our starting quarter. They don't need to. You're actually at a, at a competitive disadvantage if you make that declaration now. There's no need to. That's why I wasn't at all surprised yesterday.


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[Assistant] When, uh, the head coach of the Jags, uh, former quarterback, Doug Peterson.


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[Assistant] I was losing him for the year. So my guess is he's not going to play. And so McNuggets question to start us off here is if Lawrence is out, obviously that means CJ Beathard is going to go and the Browns, I would think conventional wisdom is pointing towards Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] If that happens, do the Browns have the definitive quarterback edge in your guys mind? Flacco over Beathard? Yes.


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[Assistant] I will, yeaah, so you know how they are. Yeaah. You're right, that's why I bring it up. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think it makes it a clean sweep. Flacco is the guy that I want starting. So look at it this way. This is the way I approached it. If you had a chance to start, if you're the Browns, you can go get Beathard if you want him for this game.


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[Assistant] Do you want him or do you want Joe Flacco? And forget the knowledge of the system. Right, right, right.


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[Assistant] Clearly, Flacco has had a longer career, he's more experienced, he's won the Super Bowl. I do want Joe Flacco on the team and I think the Browns have a very slight edge at quarterback for Sunday's matchup. But I'm with you Bull, when I watched CJ


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[Assistant] I thought after the limited time we saw him in the game, I thought when it went to overtime and they got the coin toss, I thought, oh, they're going to probably win the game.


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[Assistant] We've talked at length this year, particularly because it affects the Browns so dramatically about the impact of the backup quarterback and the role of the backup quarterback and how much of your salary cap resource should go towards your backup quarterback.


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[Assistant] The Browns have very clearly made an organizational decision that that position for them is not important.


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[Assistant] In large part because, and this was true last year, if you don't have Deshaun Watson, you're not winning a Super Bowl. And I think that's the way they went into this season saying, look, we think that DTR is ready based on what we saw in the preseason. There's a negligible difference between


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[Assistant] DTR and, and Josh Dobbs. So they made the decision to cut bait on Dobbs and trade him.


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[Assistant] I think the luxury of having a guy like that in the system that knows the system and has been there


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[Assistant] I mean, he split time between Cleveland and Tennessee last year, but he was in Cleveland's system. He's a smart guy. He knows how to pick things up quickly.


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[Assistant] I just think that I want a veteran backup quarterback and we've seen that with, and he's not a veteran per se, it's hard to call a veteran a backup these days because you're not going to have a guy that's been in the league 12, 13 years.


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[Assistant] I think the ideal situation is having Browning in Cincinnati


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[Assistant] Who's been in the system multiple years. And he's not, it's not gonna be a crash course pop quiz like it has been for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Bull, you might absolutely, I hope that they go a sustained period of time, three years, that's the length of his contract. Keep DTR in the system, let him understand, where if Deshaun Watson goes out next year, you've got a guy that you can bring in that you're no longer trying to cram all this information


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[Assistant] into his head, which can be very overwhelming, particularly for a rookie.


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[Assistant] In baseball, there's a saying that the ball always finds the new guy.


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[Assistant] Like when you make a defensive change and you put someone in at third base, inevitably the very first ball of that inning is a shot to third base. You know, and it's kinda like that. When you have a weakness, it almost inevitably is always exposed.


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[Assistant] You, you might want to float a little bit more money too because he's in that perfect category.


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[Assistant] But, so he's not gonna get a huge offer to go somewhere else. No. In the grand scheme of things, what is Baker working for this year?


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[Assistant] A guy, now obviously with all of the drama that he had, you can't bring Baker in and ask him to back up Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] How good would this team feel right now if in week four, whenever Deshaun goes out, Baker Mayfield comes in and he's your back of quarterback.


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[Assistant] So I don't think you have to go all in on the 8 million to Jacoby Preset and go that route, even though that is a luxury to have if you can do it. Maybe a team like Kansas City might make sense that's already a championship caliber team and you know you don't want your season to be


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[Assistant] Decided on a late injury to your quarterback, but you can find these guys that you get in your system and keep them there for three or four years, even if you have to quote overpay. That's ideal.


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[Assistant] All of the cancellations that were going on worldwide.


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[Assistant] We're costing athletic organizations millions and millions of dollars. And I believe it was Wimbledon. I can't remember now. One of the tennis tournaments by, by just


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[Assistant] Smart planning and covering every possible base had actually taken out pandemic insurance.


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[Assistant] Which is stunning. It's stunning. And they didn't, they couldn't stage their event. So they were able to turn in their receipts from the year before.


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[Assistant] Now, I imagine paying those premiums for Wimbledon were pretty damn painful. Every month you're writing out that premium check for Pandemic Insurance.


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[Assistant] It's the same thing for flood insurance in non-flood zones down in Florida. I have friends that took it at a pretty high rate and they would say,


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[Assistant] I know I'm not in the floodplain, but hurricanes happen pretty regularly.


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[Assistant] And they took it. And when Ian came and wiped out everything five miles inland from the gulf coast,


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[Assistant] They got paid where most people did not because they didn't take the flood insurance right.


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[Assistant] Of the 32 teams have started at least one game with their backup quarterback. So to answer your question,


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[Assistant] When we had asked this question earlier, I remember proposing at the time, I think you said, no, that would never work. I'll just float it out there again. What if the NFL teams had


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[Assistant] And here's why I bring that up. It's good for the league and it's equal for all 32 teams. Nobody has an advantage. The reason I bring that up is you joke about Sunday's quarterback matchup.


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[Assistant] So, the reason I bring this up is, that's bad for the league.


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[Assistant] It's bad for fans because the product is bad. It's bad for the league because it's an exclusive window and the league makes its money, believe it or not, not so much on the regional Sundays in their regional, in their exclusive windows. That's why you see New York, Dallas, Philly,


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[Assistant] All of those big market teams playing over and over and over again on Sunday Night Football. People complain, especially when the teams are bad.


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[Assistant] You're right, but the league, what they're doing, the league is hedging their bets. They know when they put Dallas on a Sunday night, and this is proven even when Dallas is 6 and 6, when they put Dallas in the Sunday night window, or the Giants in a Sunday night window,


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[Assistant] The number is just bigger than if they put Arizona and Green Bay. Why? Two small markets without a lot of national interest except for Green Bay. But when you put a Dallas or a New York in the national window, and I've never done this but I always said I'm gonna do it, I wanna one year go through the exclusive windows


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[Assistant] Uh, Philly, San Francisco, also most of the NFC teams are in the bigger markets. If you look at where the teams are, obviously New York has too. Chicago is exclusive to the NFC. San Francisco now with Oakland being out of that market is exclusive to the NFC. Washington NFC, Dallas NFC.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't think they do, not like the Cowboys. But it's a huge market, Houston. Yeaah, it's a top 10 market now. But the reason I bring that up is, it's bad for the league.


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[Assistant] To put a game in an exclusive window with horrible quarterback play. Nobody wants to watch that.


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[Assistant] All teams get an exemption with a cap of $10 million at that position and that number can float as the cap moves up.


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[Assistant] But you have $10 million to spend that is cap exempt on a backup quarterback. And in my view, what that would do?


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[Assistant] And what we're gonna see Sunday night. Because those quarterbacks that are kind of on the fringe of, are they good enough to keep a roster spot? Well no, because they've got six years experience, we've gotta pay them more. Or a ten year veteran that's now gonna get the maximum for a league vet.


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[Assistant] The pool of backup quarterbacks is turning over because teams don't want to spend resources to keep guys around. Colt McCoy, for example, was an outlier.


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[Assistant] Cole McCoy kept getting jobs. Right. Typically that doesn't happen.


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[Assistant] It's product in the hands of guys we don't know about.


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[Assistant] You know? I mean, so it, it is tough. I think it's a problem, Bill, to your point. It's gonna change the way teams compose their roster. Yeah, it's bad that all these


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[Assistant] That's the question. It's the give and take. It's like the home run guy. Is it worth having Anthony Rizzo in your lineup, hitting 199, but giving you 40 home runs? That's it.


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[Assistant] We did. We brought up his name when Deshaun Watson was first heard.


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[Assistant] I think you're right, but I also think they did it 10 weeks too late.


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[Assistant] By the way, I think all of us were in agreement when they signed Flacco, we all said that's the right move.


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[Assistant] They could have done it as soon as they knew Deshaun Watson had the shoulder injury. We were all advocating, you gotta get a guy in here. Gotta get somebody. And I, Flacco was the guy that we, one of many that we talked about, but we were all in agreement that we would be good with that.


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[Assistant] The coverage sacks are more likely to happen when you have a quarterback that isn't a seasoned veteran.


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[Assistant] In other words, a guy that can zip through those progressions and ultimately find someone that's open. And what I've noticed, without Denzel on the field,


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[Assistant] We're not getting covered, Sacks, because there's always someone open early in the route and the good season quarterback is gonna find him and get him the football. That's why having Denzel off the field, I know he's...


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[Assistant] Miles is more valuable, but man Denzel's absence is just killing this team.


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[Assistant] And, uh, of that entire sequence and he, Phillips was on the ground and he looked at the defender and said, oh man, I think I just tore my Achilles.


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[Assistant] And he's like, what? He goes, yeah, I felt it pop. I think I tore it.


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[Assistant] And then they cut in the film to McDaniel standing over him and he said, uh,


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[Assistant] He was getting emotional, he was physically crying.


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[Assistant] And said, you know, I was balling out. And search the clip. What made me like McDaniel even more was the fact that


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[Assistant] He, the way he comforted the player in his lowest moment ever.


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[Assistant] Was really compassionate, and to your point, Leroy, it was genuine. It was real. All coaches care, but in that moment,


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[Assistant] He was saying exactly what you would want to hear from a coach.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's crazy. Uhm, the way, it works the same way as the NBA. It's weighted based on where you finished. That's why the, the Guardians had a 2% chance. Bull, uhm, 1 to 10, the likelihood that this moves the meter for the franchise long term.


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[Assistant] Well, there's examples though of guys who were undrafted out of high school and the next year were the number one overall draft.


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[Assistant] Where the number one overall pick, and I'm gonna test my memory here, it was Bryce Harper, Steven Strothberg, uuuh.


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[Assistant] There were two others, I think there was a year of four straight years where they all hit. That's rare.


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[Assistant] Manning, I think, was on his way to greatness before he broke his back. Manning was good. Swindell was a good pitcher. Swindell was the lefty. He had some good years. Mark Lewis, I don't even remember.


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[Assistant] Well, but you know what? Those picks weren't very high. No, that's true. I mean, in fact, if you go back in recent memory...


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[Assistant] Normally, all I think you do, but because the success that the Guardians have had, developing pitchers,


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[Assistant] That we're not anywhere near number one overall picks. You're right.


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[Assistant] I think that, not that they solved that Rubik's Cube, but their track record is really, really good there. This organization is picture heavy. Look at our outfield. This team needs bats, in my view.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's, we're long ways away from there. To your point of there not being a consensus number one yet, there most never is. Because if there was a consensus number one,


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[Assistant] Coach, it's interesting. It's almost the same thing he did in his professional career. He made a bet on himself. What can you tell us about his personality where that seems to be one of the overarching characteristics is that this guy has a very high self belief that he's going to get the job done.


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[Assistant] Coach, one of the things that, uh, jumps out at me, you keep using the word unique to describe Joe and you've talked about some of the characteristics. I'm interested in Joe Flacco, the leader.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is an interesting situation because it's not gonna be, you know, a situation where he plants his flag and says, I'm the de facto leader of this franchise.


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[Assistant] Because obviously Deshaun Watson is, is on the roster. How do you think he'll navigate those waters? Because obviously he's here in a, in a pinch for the moment, but who knows what happens beyond this year? How will he work in that, in that role?


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[Assistant] Hey coach, really quickly, it just came to my mind and I want, I'm curious. We've seen recently that former quarterbacks have transitioned and become head coaches in the NFL. Obviously, Doug Peterson's having some nice success, uh, having won a Super Bowl. Is, is Joe coach material in your mind?


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[Assistant] Well, coach, as we say goodbye, I want to tell you that Mikey had really set the bar high for you. He's like, you guys are going to love him. He's a great storyteller. He's a great guy for once. Mikey was right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mikey, you nailed it, man. Great, great insight on, on Joe Flacco. Yeah. And it's wonderful storyteller and it's, it's easy to see why he's had so much success. He's just, that was a big ass ring. It was a big ass ring. It was a very big ring, yes. Or bar as they call it in the business. And he's got two of them, so. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Go back to the original music. Is that Christmas music? What is it? It sounds like something from Mr. Rogers. We're gonna go back to the original. We're just trying to mix it up a little bit.


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[Assistant] Hibis is to be referred to for the rest of this segment as You Are Losing, right?


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[Assistant] That was a team record probably for the longest rush by a quarterback. But it's since been obliterated a million dollars. A couple times, yeaah.


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[Assistant] 33, that's his 33rd title on True or False.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons I thought he was bigger was, and the play was called back because of a holding penalty.


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[Assistant] They just throw the ball up deep to him. He played, to me anyhow, he looked bigger than 6-1 because he high pointed it and it's like the defensive back didn't have a prayer. That was a hell of a catch in that situation.


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[Assistant] Tony, speak to the head coach spot and what Doug Peterson has meant to this organization.


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[Assistant] Particularly coming off what was a disastrous Urban Meyer experience and how quickly they've just sort of flipped and I'm getting nasty looks from my partner here. Hey, but it didn't go well in Jacksonville and not even you can argue that time is but.


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[Assistant] What he's done, I don't think has received enough credit around the league because Lawrence was looked at as a bust. It looked like the franchise had no pathway to getting out of where they were. And now here they are in the mix for home field in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right. There was a couple of times Diurnas got blown up. Uh, Tony.


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[Assistant] You mentioned the struggle at home and the success on the road. How are you explaining that?


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[Assistant] Great stuff. Mikey, kudos to you or Steve or whoever found him and booked him. And I know he's in the family, I'm locked on, but he's tremendous.


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[Assistant] I like his style. You're right, he comes right at it. He doesn't sugarcoat anything and he's very good at his job. Very good.


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[Assistant] Like which in, in significant, which would be the more significant win in terms of their playoff chances. And that's Houston, too.


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[Assistant] When he went to San Diego, do you remember the, there was a lot of hype around all that.


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[Assistant] Frankie's system, which once was decimated, has recovered. They have some prospects.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, per year and also it's going to be multiple years. Is he coming back?


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[Assistant] I've not heard that. I've just heard rumblings that don't push him into the NFL so quickly because he's a different cat.


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[Assistant] And you didn't really weigh in on your thoughts on it. So if you haven't seen it, there's a Michigan player that put a video on Twitter or Instagram or one and he's absolutely


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[Assistant] Stomping on the grave of the Buckeyes and on Marvin Harrison. Calling them bees. And I gotta tell ya, I was glad in that moment that that was a Michigan player and not a Buckeye.


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[Assistant] Well, in fairness, the last two years, they've lost three games. One was to the number one ranked team in Michigan. The other was to the number one ranked team.


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[Assistant] I've been wanting to mascot for years, this dude already got the whole damn suit. You know, Grinch starts with G.


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[Assistant] That's gonna happen, you know. Tim DeRueter, who used to be my defense coordinator at OU, uhm, he was at Texas A&M with Vaughn Miller, Arizona, a couple other teams.


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[Assistant] To what gives you the best chance to win. And right now, I've been a run first guy. I've been a run first guy when it was uh, you know, Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. I was a run first guy when the offensive line was healthy. But at this point,


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[Assistant] If the Browns want to get to the Super Bowl because we've been talking about just why the ceiling is, then no turnovers in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Because I think to beat one of these really good teams, you're gonna have to have a game where he plays really good.


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[Assistant] I think the readers in the browser are head and shoulders above the rest of those teams in those particular categories.


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[Assistant] Is remember Nolan Richardson and 40 Minutes of Hell? Oh yea. Remember how he used to just press you and press you and press you and eventually you just broke? When you look at the Cleveland Browns, they offer a version of that.


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[Assistant] They, they press cover you with three great corners, their win percentages in the sixties, and they order the top four win percentages in the league. In the league, you have the best pass rusher, and on top of that,


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[Assistant] You have the ability with some of the creative stuff that you do to get home, and you got linebackers like J.O.K. who are faster than anybody, the linemen can block.


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[Assistant] When you pressure somebody and you don't give up anything, on first down, they're looking to come get you.


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[Assistant] Who's getting there faster than anybody. So it's almost like a constant pressure that you always deal with. I like that analogy. By the time you're to the fourth quarter, they gonna give you something. I like that.


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[Assistant] He's undervalued. And when I say undervalued, it's not like people don't know who he is.


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[Assistant] D.K. Metcalf, he's a huge, big, strong, fast. Uhm, you look at guys like, uh, uhm, Omron St. Brown, like, like he's a guy that's jitterbugs, get through holes, do his thing. He doesn't have the straight line speed like, uh, like a CD Lamb or one of those guys. But what he does have is he has this uncanny, uh, uh, ability to just get open.


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[Assistant] Was money bags too. Think about how he has to, he ran right between three people. Like he could have, he could have been in that route a little bit differently and he would have got picked off. He could have moved to the left or right six inches or so and that ball would have got knocked out. He runs these routes, he does what he needs to do to get the ball and


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[Assistant] He just studied. And the thing I like what he said too was, what he said, it felt like


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[Assistant] We might not be able to pay him. We might not, we might have to move on from him. No, that's not, he needs to be back here next year. It just goes to show you how starved the Browns have been for receivers. We have never had receivers, bro. And this guy's had 9.85, back to back, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] Tim, when you're in the meeting rooms, right? Because you know, you've been in there with a lot of guys and a lot of different skill sets. What's the difference between the way the offensive coordinator and the quarterback talk to you about game managers and guys they cut loose?


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[Assistant] Like, what is the, is the rhetoric different? Is there a certain package of plays that you see on film? Like, no, you should have checked that out. Or, or, or do they let you throw? How does that work?


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[Assistant] I did it because of just his blocking crowds. He's going to give guys extra chances. He's helping the tackles and still getting out in the routes. Nobody else can consider.


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[Assistant] And it does not, it looks like they're not going to be able to get the division. Would you sit Joe Flacco the next two months? No. Yeaah, that's another argument. I saw your question in the know. But one game.


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[Assistant] I got, well listen, he done taught me out of my move. I had tons of them too. This is what, four?


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[Assistant] This is why we can laugh now. This is totally legal. Shout out to him and Josh Gordon. I was just like, is he in that much of a hurry to get stoned? Like you're putting it in a gas


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[Assistant] Wow! Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm going to JOK. JOK has been playing crazy. I'll go JOK too because dang, I forgot about him. He has been. He has been.


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[Assistant] I'm going to Joku, I'm with you. Uh, yeaah, Laramie, yeaah, I'm trying my best.


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[Assistant] Ole Miss, Ole Miss, Ole Miss. Oh yea, Ole Miss man, yea.


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[Assistant] So what you telling me, you need a coach of the year then, Boop? No. No, no.


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[Assistant] Like the Bears got good defense. They got a good defense. He's not playing against Bums out here. Now who have the Texans played in their last four?


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[Assistant] He's been excellent. He's been great. And I keep going back to it.


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[Assistant] Joe Woods had all of these people on his team last year.


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[Assistant] I may have fallen flat on my Nick Chubb for 2,000 yards, or my Amari Cooper for 1,600 yards, or the Run Game.


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[Assistant] But I didn't fall flat on my face. You have saved my take hold of fame credit. David and Joku, I told you he was worth the money. You just came three or four years later, but you showed


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[Assistant] I thought, I thought, I thought I would never hear that ever. Like can you imagine six months ago I said some crazy stuff.


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[Assistant] 100%. He's not looking that happy if he's not playing.


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[Assistant] I mean look, I was on the sideline for the Jets game last weekend. I will say that they, you know, they play good defense. They do play good defense. So there is that.


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[Assistant] So you're playing a different defense when you're up that much, right?


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[Assistant] But Joe Flacco is, when you say wily veteran, he is aware of this sort of thing. I mean, he was aware that Amari Cooper was within sight of hitting this number that hadn't been hit, and so,


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[Assistant] I do think that the defense is impressive.


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[Assistant] I can't say much about the offense. Breece Hall had a very nice game in the game that we did. He had 95 rush yards, 96 receiving yards. So, but there wasn't


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[Assistant] You know, Garrett Wilson is a really nice young player and...


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[Assistant] I had such a great time talking to him. As an Ohio State guy, I'm sure you're all very familiar with him. He's a young player who's obviously had a frustrating season, not because of what he's done or how he works, but because of the quarterback situation. But he's very mature. He's very heady. He makes the most of the opportunities that he has.


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[Assistant] The Jets did get the run game going better last week, which has sort of been a problem. So, you know, obviously as the Browns tell you every week, they have to stop the run first, but.


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[Assistant] I mean nothing you're seeing out of the quarterback position is really impressive. It's just.


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[Assistant] It's get something going against that defense and remember that you're playing for something and you're playing for something very, very significant and the other guys are


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[Assistant] Playing for pride, maybe, kind of, which gets some people far and others doesn't. So...


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[Assistant] They should go out there and make that statement. Show the kind of team they are and keep their foot on the gas pedal. That's it.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think first of all, what else is Salah going to say publicly, right?


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[Assistant] About Flacco not necessarily having this monstrous year a year ago, and I think that they probably thought, we don't need to bring an almost 40 year old guy to be a mentor in the room, because that's what Aaron Rodgers is.


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[Assistant] Zack Wilson gets thrown in there before he's really fully ready. And I don't know, I think the way that, what Hackett is doing,


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[Assistant] And it's way too easy right now to say, oh, we should have done this. It's the same way Washington is saying, well, you know what? We needed to see who Sam Howell was. We had to give Sam Howell every chance. But when Sam Howell started really slumping and pressing too much a few weeks ago, we should have gotten a Jacoby Brissette.


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[Assistant] What you've seen the last two weeks makes that easy to say. But...


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[Assistant] And I think you wrote this to some degree, Jason, when you're telling everyone just enjoy the ride because this is all that it is.


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[Assistant] This is absolutely the perfect confluence of circumstances.


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[Assistant] When Joe Flacco came in, the type of offense that Kevin Stefanski likes to run, the way that Joe Flacco


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[Assistant] The perfect situation. I don't know that if the Jets call Joe Flacco a month ago, Joe Flacco is succeeding in the same way that he's succeeding right now in Cleveland with this team and this line. And I'll give you another one.


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[Assistant] Stability there. And I know that the Browns also lost their right tackle, lost their backup right tackle. Yes, obviously. But still, there has been some stability for that Browns line. The Jets haven't had any of that. So that's a big piece of it as well, I think.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying that that's fair, right? Uhm, and I think that there's a very, very interesting strong argument to be made for Micah Parsons. There's obviously a strong argument to be made for TJ Watt. I think that it will...


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[Assistant] Likely be a close race. I think that the coach of the year thing...


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[Assistant] This team never hung its head. Never, ever, ever. Not after Nick Chubb. Not after the In-N-Out with Deshaun Watson and then the final out. Just never.


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[Assistant] But I think Coach of the Year is something that you...


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[Assistant] You know, in many ways, it was Kevin Stefanski winning it that year, that COVID year, taking a team that hadn't been to the playoffs in forever. So I just think that people kind of get.


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[Assistant] Suckered into sexier storylines and for us because we live here and we've spent our careers sort of or at least the last decade of our careers in the AFC North, we know


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[Assistant] But these awards are sometimes more about sort of national cachet, and I don't know that that gets picked up quite as much, uhm, in, you know, 31 other cities.


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[Assistant] I mean that's fair, it's kinda like MVP, right? Don't, you sit here and it's...


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[Assistant] And everything that you have to upend and deal with.


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[Assistant] Every single offensive play, unless you're running a Wildcat. But basically, every single offensive play, your quarterback is touching the ball.


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[Assistant] And you rely on your quarterback for so many things, getting in and out of the right place, setting the right protection, whether it's making the proper pitch or throwing an accurate ball, whatever, all of those things to be the leader in the huddle, everything.


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[Assistant] So it's hard to look away from Brock Purdy and the way that he's playing. And I understand that he's not necessarily making the game breaking play. And he had a terrible game this past week.


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[Assistant] It's hard to look away from what Brock Purdy has done, and I also don't think that calling someone a game manager is the worst thing.


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[Assistant] Because I'll take you to what Bill Belichick was saying to us weeks and weeks ago. We were talking about Tua. It was the week that the Dolphins were playing the Patriots and I had asked Belichick


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[Assistant] When you look at Tua, what's sort of the biggest area of growth since you first saw him, and he said,


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[Assistant] And he was comparing two-headed Brady to a good point guard. And the example he used is, if your guy hits a great three at the baseline, then why are you feeding him a three at the top of the key? Keep feeding him the threes at the baseline, and that's where he'll be money. And he said, the best quarterbacks know


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[Assistant] Who to get the ball to, when to get them the ball, and where to get them the ball.


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[Assistant] Up until now, it would be hard to argue against Brock Purdy, but what Lamar did, the way that Lamar is playing, the fact that Lamar is in a brand new offense with brand new wide receivers, and yes, we can say they're talented, but there is certainly a growth curve in all of that.


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[Assistant] The way that Lamar constantly gets knocked and just keeps producing and the fact that Lamar can indeed carry his team.


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[Assistant] That he is not just a smart-headed quarterback, but he is also a game-breaker. I think right now, I'd have to go with Lamar.


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[Assistant] Summary of 18 total weeks, or is it the team that's playing the best when you want them to play the best? Is it someone who has overcome something? And in a lot of ways, Josh Allen carried a team that at one point looked like it was dead.


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[Assistant] And it was the first time in a very long time that that team said, you know what, forget the coaches, forget the fans, forget everybody. We're going to play for each other. We're going to play. You my brother, you my teammate. I'm going to go out here and go as hard as I can against, against this team for you.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it starts defensively. I mean, for the last couple of years, just last year in particular.


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[Assistant] They've done a really good job of fixing that and not only did they fix it, they haven't allowed more than seven points enough in a second half of a game this year except for against Notre Dame. Notre Dame scored 14. Outside of that, they've only given up seven the entire year from every team.


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[Assistant] So if they could continue that, obviously that will help them win this game. But I think the X factor of this game is that offensive line. If that offensive line could get pushed and get to the next level and get those blocks on those linebackers, the way Trevion Henderson's been running the ball lately, I think the data helped them win this game.


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[Assistant] I believe the Buckeyes do win this game, for the simple fact that I think that defense is legit. Uhm, I think that this game is one of those games where Marvin Harrison gets going, Kyle McCourt finds his confidence early on in that game, and I think it's a lot of motivation behind it. I got the Buckeyes winning this game 21-17. 21-17, that's Tyvis Powell. Bull.


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[Assistant] And welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show here on WKYC. We are 51 hours and 30 minutes from Showtime. It's the Browns at the Rams. I'm Jay Crawford. I'm going to tell you why the biggest story coming into this game is injuries.


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[Assistant] What are we? That's got me thinking. It's got me thinking. Alright, obviously Joe Flacco is the linchpin to this game. How will he play?


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[Assistant] Fourth quarterback this year for the Cleveland Browns. We know he's got a Super Bowl. We know he's 38 years old.


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[Assistant] What's gonna have to happen for, like, let me start it this way. Would you rather be Joe Flacco starting over a DTR who's still in concussion protocol at this point? Does it look like he's gonna be able to go?


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[Assistant] Yeah Bull, I'm exactly where you are. When you look at, Channel 3 has a close up ISO version of the hit that DTR took.


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[Assistant] It's devastating. I mean, it was a lot more serious when I saw the close up.


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[Assistant] In full speed than what it looked like in real time watching it with the network camera angle. Uh, it was serious and I'm guessing that the organization made the early decision. It's going to be Joe. Give him the reps because we saw what happened before the Ravens first game.


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[Assistant] He didn't get the reps. He was, he was doing a little bit in practice, but for the most part, they were leaning towards going with Deshaun Watson. At the end of the day, it comes time to play the game. Deshaun can't go. And it was obvious to anybody watching. DTR was underprepared. I don't think they're going to let that happen again.


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[Assistant] Let's do this. Let's, because the Browns have won games this year, probably their stiffest opponent on the schedule so far, the San Francisco 49ers, with less than average quarterback play. In fact, you could say it was bad quarterback play.


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[Assistant] Where does Joe Flacco have to be on a 1 to 10?


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[Assistant] For the Browns to be able to beat this Rams team that's emerging I think as a better team than most thought they were going to be at the beginning of the season.


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[Assistant] Well, for that reason, I think you guys are way low. I think Flacco has to be at a six, maybe even a seven, and here's why. You touched on it.


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[Assistant] We got our best player on defense playing with a bad left wing. We saw what that looked like last year. Denzel Ward, the back end star of our defense and the second best player. So if you go into this game with the mindset that, hey, you know, we did it against San Francisco, put it in the hands of the defense.


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[Assistant] This offense is dynamic and we're going to talk about that next. They can come at you with two different styles and because of that, I don't think they're going to be able to hold the Rams under 20 points. So I, I just think Flacco is going to have to make plays. It's going to have to be better than a four or average. I've got them at a six, maybe even a size of seven.


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[Assistant] I think he's got to throw a couple of touchdowns, no turnovers and over 200 yards. That's about a six or a seven. How many big time throws?


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[Assistant] Well, in the course of a game, you're going to need to make probably five or six to keep drives going. Yeah. I mean, and I, he can do that. So I'm doing it against the Browns last year and we, and we too.


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[Assistant] So I think he's gonna, if we get an average Joe Flacco or a 4 or a 5, I think we're coming back 0 and 2 on our West Coast.


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[Assistant] I don't think they're, you described them as dynamic. I don't see them as dynamic. We're going to talk about that next. And the reason I say dynamic is because I think they're multifaceted. A lot of defenses you can look at them or offenses you can look at them and say, they're going to get you with the pass or they're going to get you with the run.


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[Assistant] San Francisco is a rich man's version of what the Rams are doing.


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[Assistant] Williams has proven to be a very formidable running back this year. We know about the two wide receivers in Cup and Nakua, and Stafford is a quarterback who's won a Super Bowl and is playing I think a lot better than most people think. Because of that,


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[Assistant] Which one of those two poses the bigger threat? Williams running it or Stafford throwing it?


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[Assistant] I think Williams is where you have to start with your defensive game plan. Try to make them one dimensional. Take the runaway. Yes, Stafford can beat you through the air. We've seen him do it. He's got two nice weapons there. It again to me that the reason I started the show by saying to me the biggest headline this week is injuries.


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[Assistant] Look at how much different this team looks without Denzel Ward. And I know that Miles Garrett is the heartbeat, but without Denzel Ward in the back end of that defense.


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[Assistant] Both areas suffer. Run and pass. So I, you gotta, it's a pick your poison, but I do think that the game plan defensively should start on the run.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right. This is a step up. Let's go! When guys are hurt, guys need to play bigger and pick up the slack. Alright, we're taking our first break. When we come back, Coach Tyvis with a breakdown of J-O-K.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, great stuff. Jok, playing like an all pro, pro bowl player this year. We're taking a break. When we come back, we love this segment. You gotta pick a side.


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[Assistant] No Fence Riders, when the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show comes right back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's too much hay in the barn, too much experience for me to say that now suddenly they're gonna flip the script and run more than they throw. I think they should, but I don't think they will.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jay, I'm exactly with you. 105 is a low bar. I mean, this is a running back that has proven he's averaging over five yards of carry. I think he's going to get it 20 times. He may go over 105 by himself, but I think the team will definitely go over 105. Oh, I thought it was just Kyron Williams.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm not going to give it to anybody else, I guess. Reading is hard.


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[Assistant] You guys are all on board and I'm just not. I'm looking at the, this is, you know, death by a million cuts on the injury front.


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[Assistant] We've got not just missing parts. We've got vital missing parts. It's on the road. The Browns haven't run one on the West Coast in a decade. They're over their last eight. I just can't see how they pull this one out. Please guys.


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[Assistant] Prove me wrong. I think they come back with a seven and five record.


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[Assistant] That is awful. Don't forget. Watch the two minute warning show. It's the Browns post game show on UCSS when the game has two minutes left.


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[Assistant] Go to the YouTube page and watch the guys break down all of the action from Sunday. For all of the guys at the UCSS Sports Show, thanks for watching. Enjoy the game and go Braz. Peace.


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[Assistant] Showing them the bronze, they look pretty good this year. Offensively, they look pretty decent. Yeaah. But like head into next season.


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[Assistant] What would you do at the running back position? Would you just go ahead and see what you got? What's up? Or would you draft somebody else? This is.


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[Assistant] No, honestly, when I started this, hated being on air, hated talking to the microphone. Really? Behind the glasses helped. I'm fine. Like, we're gonna have a great show today. And before we get into that show, I just want to remind everybody, as the weather gets colder, the NFL offers Stay Hot over on Fandle right now. New customers.


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[Assistant] That's 150 bucks if your team wins. If you've been thinking about joining FanDuel, there's absolutely no better time to get in on the action. This app is super easy to use. There's a wide range of betting options, including spreads, player props, over-unders, and more. So you guys can go visit fanduel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. FanDuel, the official partner of the NFL.


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[Assistant] He put a five-leg parlay down on the Cavaliers Magic game last night and turned $80 into $259. Nice. He had Bencherro with 15 plus points, actual two plus made threes, uh, Mitchell with four plus rebounds, Pinchero with six plus rebounds, and Garland with 15 plus points. To me, that seems


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you know, guys, the injuries are really piling up for the Browns, but everybody should be empowered to take care of themselves just like our Browns players and their loved ones during the unexpected. That's why Jace Medical offers the Jace Case. The Jace Case provides five life-saving antibiotics for emergency use and gives you a peace of mind so that you are not just hoping that you have access to medication in an emergency. Jace Medical makes sure you have the medication in hand,


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[Assistant] Jace Medical is simple. They handle everything from the online evaluation, licensed pharma,


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[Assistant] Pharmacy medical delivery and ongoing consultation. Don't get caught unprepared. You guys can get $20 off these life-saving antibiotics today from Jace Medical by using code LOCKEDON at checkout at JaceMedical.com. That is J-A-S-E medical.com.


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[Assistant] Uh, before we bring in Aditi here guys, I just want to remind everybody that we do have a Browns post-game show, so when the Jacksonville game is done, you can join McNuggets myself on the reaction, and then you'll have McNuggets, Earl, and G.


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[Assistant] For a full analysis of the game for about hour, hour and a half afterwards. Right starts at the two minute warning. You don't want to miss it. And as ZDT gets ready here, we'll bring her in here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got one more FanDuel read for you guys today because I just want to remind everybody that as the weather gets colder, the NFL's offers stay hot on FanDuel. Right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets with any winning $5 moneyline bet.


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[Assistant] That's $150 if your team wins. If you've been thinking about joining FanDuel, there's no better time to get in on the action. The app is super easy to use. There's a wide range of betting options, including spreads, player props, over-unders, and a lot more. You guys can go visit FanDuel.com slash UCSS to kick off the NFL season. FanDuel, the official partner of the NFL.


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[Assistant] So we had a G push special here for today that Mike came up with last night and unfortunately G can't make it. But if you guys haven't noticed, Amani Bates is lighting up the G League.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'd have to look that up. It was, he's got .4 out of 1.73. He's 25% three points to that percentage according to his regular season averages.


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[Assistant] Yeah, before we get Bernie in here, Earl's gonna get him out, but I just want to remind everybody should be empowered to take care of themselves and their loved ones during the unexpected. That's why Jace Medical offers the Jace Case. Jace Case provides five life-saving antibiotics for emergency use. It gives you a peace of mind so that you are not just hoping that you have access to the medication in an emergency. Jace Medical makes sure you have the medication in hand.


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[Assistant] Jace Medical is simple, they handle everything from the online evaluation to licensed pharmacy medication, every delivery, ongoing consult- consult- ca-


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[Assistant] Consultation and care. Don't get caught unprepared. You guys can get $20 off on these life saving antibiotics from Jace Medical by using the code LOCKEDON at checkout on JaceMedical.com. That is J-A-S-Medical.com.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we can get them out of the way right now. Okay. And every time we do PC, uh, every time we do Super Chats is brought to you by PCC. Are you guys looking for a job with career advancement and great benefits? PCC Aerofoils is a leading manufacturer in Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] The first one might be my favorite, Brett Watson. Tyvis is trolling. The Browns better make the playoff.


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[Assistant] Uh, JD, king of the smoke ring, having a good day here on the 7th. Uh, the LA game didn't look frantic like the other games. Was pretty happy about that.


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[Assistant] Brian Rizzo, Tyvis, who is QB1 next year for OSU? Is it somebody from the roster or a transfer portal?


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[Assistant] Alright, so the last two here both come from rmacdog. He said Cavs invested too much into Mitchell. They should not have given Darius a max deal and they should have re-signed Sexton and kept marketing. And then he asked do you guys think the Browns and the Cavs both overreach for Mitchell and Watson?


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[Assistant] Mom always told you to be punctual. Punctual on time. Busy show today. Uhm, some injury news yesterday.


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[Assistant] I gotta tell you, the level of skepticism that was flying around in the sports department upstairs yesterday, Channel 3, was off the charts. First of all, I've decided that our head coach, Kevin Stefanski, could teach a master class in propaganda and how to handle the media.


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[Assistant] Doug up on her own from things outside of the news conference yesterday at four. Bernie's going to be here. We're also going to talk flackle confidence. We'll break out our flackle confidence meter one to 10. Where are we that he can get the job done? All that and so much more, but we'll keep it going on the Brown's injury news. Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Amari Cooper, Elliott, day to day. This according to, uh, Kevin Stefanski yesterday. The MRI showing no structural damage on Garrett's shoulder. That's good news.


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[Assistant] It kind of feels like we'r we were last year with hi that he couldn't raise his help putting his shirt on.


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[Assistant] Are you buying that these guys are day to day and likely to play on Sunday?


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[Assistant] Even if he's limited, he's a good decoy to help the other lineman get free, but you're still going to pay attention to 95 if he's on the field.


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[Assistant] Like you said, we'll get the practice report on Wednesday and we'll see who goes. I would guess there's going to be a number of big names that I'm going to have to work and guys that don't practice.


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[Assistant] He's turned this chunk of clay into a baller.


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[Assistant] When Push came to shove, I guess the Buffalo team is pretty good. They just...


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[Assistant] It, I don't know where it started. It may have started with politics. I don't know, but Brown's nation to me was always together.


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[Assistant] We were always in it together. Always. And now if you give a dissenting opinion to another Browns fan. Oh. Where before it used to be like, well, you know, maybe you're right, we'll see. Now it's like, you're wrong. Baker started it. And then the vitriol comes out and the nails come out.


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[Assistant] We've answered the unsolvable. We figured it out. That's why I think the most stunning thing to me about how the whole thing happened is how quickly it devolved. We went from that high to always got to go like that. It was.


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[Assistant] You had to learn new playbooks and new terminology and all of that. Flacco's been with the team for a week.


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[Assistant] What percentage of the playbook do you think he'll be able to graph and will be open to him?


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[Assistant] How long did it take you to realize that there were years, there was, you know, some, some balls have to be thrown over a defender because it almost looks like to me that's a rookie that knows he has a cannon and says, by


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[Assistant] Tom Brady's statement in a vacuum. Did you think that there was something to that? That he's more right than wrong? Because a lot of veterans have come out and said, Tom Brady's exactly right, but a lot of the younger players are like,


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[Assistant] We're lucky to have you in when we get you, so thanks for coming in for sure.


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[Assistant] Mike O'Shea? The position coach isn't, doesn't have much pull on whether it's Anthony Bell or. I doubt it. Anthony Schwartz rather. Yeaah. So I, I look at it. They've become the same guy to me.


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[Assistant] Bell or Landry? You already know. Landry.


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[Assistant] Baker and change the culture. Bring him back.


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[Assistant] It was a great victory for the Browns, uh, there's always complaints that people have after every win which is, you know, we've gotten to the point now where there are people complaining about the wind not being dominant enough or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's crazy. The bottom line is Trevor Lawrence played. He didn't play a great game, but it wasn't because of the ankle. I don't, there's no way he had a high ankle sprain because he looked physically fine.


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[Assistant] I don't know. He ran a couple of times, maybe not as much, whatever, but he looked like he was close. Nobody's 100% this time of year. Got a million pack of quarterbacks going. He was fine. The Browns played really well defensively. They didn't, the Jaguars didn't score.


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[Assistant] A touch, have a touchdown drive of more than 25 yards until the fourth quarter when the Browns had kind of.


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[Assistant] You know, put things under control, even though it got nerve wracking at the end. And isn't it poetic that the game essentially ends yesterday with Joe Flacco getting a win in Cleveland. And the last time Joe Flacco got a win in Cleveland is because the Jets got an onside kick. And in this game, his next win in Cleveland is when the Browns


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[Assistant] Recovered an onside kick to not allow Jacksonville to get the ball. Uh, Flacco was very, very good in this game. The passing game leading the way, cause the Browns once vaunted running game, it sucks.


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[Assistant] And by the way, when is that ever, when's the last time the Browns had a team that next man up actually worked? It's been a long time.


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[Assistant] He makes pretty good quarterback though. By the way, when the Browns signed Joe Flacco, I think we all said, maybe not Gene, but I know the rest of us all said, let's hope he doesn't have to play.


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[Assistant] Not for back to back games, not at all. Like, it had a, we had, the Browns had a flow in the Titans game. The Browns had a good flow the second half against Baltimore. But for the most part, the offenses looked weird. And looked...


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[Assistant] Disjointed. Yes, disjointed is a perfect word. But for two weeks, this offense has had great rhythm and he's had great rhythm. He's not going to be perfect. He's 39 years old and he wasn't that good at 32. So of course he's not going to be great all the time.


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[Assistant] But the majority of the time, the last two weeks, he's made the right throw and made the right decision. And that's all you can ask. He's done, forget it, he's done way more than you could have expected. Part of that's Kevin and the game planning, no doubt about it. But Joe Flacco deserves a ton of credit. Do you give him an A? Absolutely.


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[Assistant] No, Flacco is faster running down. Like, look at the enthusiasm and the energy that Flacco has. His old ass is running down the field.


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[Assistant] Do what, if it's a strength of a team, they're gonna do it. They're not gonna change it because so far in two games, Joe Flacco has had success against the Blitz. Every team thinks they could do it better or do it a different way. Good, keep doing it. I hope they do.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Philadelphia looks terrible right now. They do, but I mean, they're still part of Dallas. Looked like the two best teams in football, right? Unbelievable. Although Baltimore, even though it was a wild game, I think Baltimore is the best team in the AFC right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Josh Allen's having a good year despite popular criticism.


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[Assistant] Mike, real quick, before you get to defense, I just wanted to mention, with FanDuel, Browns are a 3-point favorite. They open as a 3-point favorite, only against the Bears.


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[Assistant] Terrible. Terrible. The Browns played very soft on that last possession.


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[Assistant] And I'm glad we've gotten to this point, because for so many years, the Browns were so bad that none of this mattered. But the Browns won.


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[Assistant] In the end, that's all that matters. Like, how many points the defense gave up? The defense is smarting right now. Miles Garrett, I know he was a little better, he still wasn't a big factor in this game.


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[Assistant] Technically it's a stupid rule. He doesn't get a sap because it was a two point conversion. Which is a dumb rule, but it is what it is. He still wasn't a big factor in this game, but it was progress from last week. You still didn't have Denzel Ward.


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[Assistant] And I thought what was huge is that I thought it was Greg Newsom's best game outside.


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[Assistant] I've ever seen him play, or at least in the last couple of years. I thought he played extremely well in this game. He got humiliated last week. He took it personally and he played his ass off this week. I thought he played very well. We saw a couple of guys we had seen nothing from recently, like Maurice Hurst.


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[Assistant] had an impact in this game and he hadn't done anything of late. So you think about this, Grant Delpitt gets hurt, Juan Thornhill's a late scratch, no Denzel Ward. I thought the defense played very well considering everything they had to deal with. Where do you give them? I give them an A minus. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Early in the year we got, we got caught up in this all-time great, obviously the Browns are not an all-time great defense. They're a very good defense that's dealing with injuries. We can't compare it to what we saw earlier in the year when they were completely healthy, right? It's different now. And you give credit to the quarterback even though you threw three picks.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars had one massive advantage that they took advantage of.


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[Assistant] Uh, Evan Ingram is an excellent tight end. The Browns had their safeties out, right? And so he was able to take it. You can't back up safeties on Evan Ingram is a tough matchup and he took advantage of that and they were able to do that. He had a monster game. But, uh, besides that, I mean, you know, nobody else on Jacksonville besides Ingram had a great game.


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[Assistant] You give back all of your good will. By the way, I was looking at the, uh, you want me to hold this mic? I was going to talk about some of the playoff tiebreakers.


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[Assistant] Why receivers will often look to the sideline to get the okay that they're not off sides or whatever. He did not do that. He claims he did or they claim he did. The referee said he didn't. Who knows? He was off sides. I don't care. Generally, I find, uh,


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[Assistant] Complaining about officials, annoying and a nuisance. Fans always complain about officials. Fans always think their team is getting screwed by the officials. Fans always say that without any facts to back it up.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett, it makes sense because as we said, the squeaky wheel gets to grease. He might get some calls go his way this week. All the best pass rushers get held all the time. He's not the only one. He's one of the best.


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[Assistant] As you said, Jay, Watt, all these guys, they get held a lot. It doesn't get called. They're not picking on Miles Garrett specifically. I think the better you are, the more likely they are to ignore the call. Exactly. Well, because you're dominating so often, it happens so often.


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[Assistant] And it's another, and let's face it, we may complain, we want more calls, but we all hate when there's flags on every play. It drives you crazy, so.


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[Assistant] Listen, the officials I think do a good job overall. It's easy for us sitting at home with high def and slow motion to say calls are bad. I think by and large they do a good job. It usually balances itself out. We all, again, you always think your team's getting screwed, but probably they're not.


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[Assistant] I'm not as bothered by a missed call as I am when they call something that didn't happen.


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[Assistant] I think replay in a perfect world, I don't know why they don't do this, the replay shouldn't be about this is reviewable and this is not.


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[Assistant] All the fans that have wanted to meet some of the guys from the show, you have to join us. It's this Thursday night, 7 to 10. We're gonna all take, we're gonna rotate being kinda on air and then schmoozing with fans throughout that time. As you said, it'll be six of us there. No Tyvis?


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[Assistant] Well, they don't have good running backs. I mean, that's, that's part of why they're not good in the running game.


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[Assistant] Why would that be troubling? They've won two of their last three games. They have?


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[Assistant] Don't do it. Yeaah. I'm fine with the way they've been splitting it up. I think right now they're a passing team because they're better at passing the ball. Joe Flacco's throwing well. Their offensive line the entire season has been better at pass blocking than run blocking. It's that simple. They've been better at it. They're doing it better. This question started with the offensive line. Their tackles can't run block.


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[Assistant] They have two tackles that can't run block and they have a mediocre running back in my opinion. So that combination leads to him throwing the ball more, right? I want to see strong more. I would like to see him more of it saying that


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[Assistant] They're a pass blocking offensive line. Yeaah. They're outside the teller, they're all better at pass blocking.


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[Assistant] Teller's a good pass blocker, but he's a better run blocker. The rest of them are all better pass blockers. Flacco's playing well. You gotta play to your strength right now. Jerome Ford's not a dynamic player. He's okay. He's fine. He's a nice player, but he's not a great back. He's not a guy you have to get carries to. I don't see that at all. So,


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[Assistant] Uh, I have no problem with the run being down a little bit the last few weeks. I did have, I did have a problem with it against Denver. That was the only game I didn't like that they didn't use the running game enough.


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[Assistant] He has done a magnificent job. The fact that this team is eight and five, beating every good team they've played with the best strength of victory of any contending team in the NFL in a season where all hell is broken loose and it's hard to predict and hard to, you know,


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[Assistant] And usually when fans complain and say their team has the most, I'm always like, nah, your team doesn't have the most. In this case, it's actually true. The Browns' injuries, and especially the key players, has been off the charts ridiculous. Almost every top player has missed time, and many have missed the whole season. It's absurd, if you told me the guys that were going to be injured,


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[Assistant] And the quarterbacks that we're going to play, and you said the Browns are going to be eight and five, I would have laughed in your face. There would have been no chance the Browns are eight and five under all these circumstances. And here they are.


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[Assistant] They could win four more games. I wouldn't be surprised if they won out. I think they'll win at least two and probably three and there's a decent chance they're gonna win four. They're gonna win ten.


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[Assistant] But what he's been able to overcome this year has just been remarkable, and he could win Coach of the Year.