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[Assistant] When we were 0-16 and 1-15, at least you were accumulating fantastic draft capital that will help you dig out of that hole.


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[Assistant] I know it's impossible to speculate because a 7-10, like last year's 7-10 did feel a hell of a lot better than most 7-10s because they gifted two games and they easily could have been 9-8 and they still could have been in a playoff spot.


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[Assistant] And I don't, barring an injury from Watson, let's say Watson plays the whole year and we get another seven and ten. The, the consensus of voices we've had on this show from our regular panelists to our guests that come in on a regular basis.


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[Assistant] The general consensus is a 7 and 10 with a healthy Watson and they're cleaning house. I don't think, everybody seems to think no one is safe. Yea. Would you agree?


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[Assistant] What are you saying? That it's not good enough? No, no, I think that that's a whole different story because you're making progress. The one thing you don't want to do is slide backwards and that's what we've done.


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[Assistant] They had six starters. Six rookie starters. Six rookie starters.


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[Assistant] And, and we had guys last year that were drafted high enough that we thought they might be able to crack the starting lineup.


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[Assistant] And really with the exception of Emerson on defense.


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[Assistant] Or is it they're not coaching them up to be difference makers like that?


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[Assistant] They're just drafting guys that other teams are missing or once they get them into the system, they know exactly the kind of player they want and then they're coached up to be difference makers in a Super Bowl championship lineup.


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[Assistant] One last question, this robot stuff. Does it travel or is it always shot in the same location?


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[Assistant] How are they going so high? It almost looks like they're propelled, not pushed.


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[Assistant] So here's the thing. That's a good point. You're right. We should have spent a lot more time talking about linebackers this week. But here's the problem. We are so bare of talent at the front line of attack.


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[Assistant] And, but we still should have spent more time talking about the linebackers. Now we've all said all along,


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[Assistant] For me, it's defensive line, linebacker, wide receiver. I think you're different. You want wide receiver, defensive line, linebacker. Gee agrees with me on wide receiver first. He's going back and forth. I need six people. I need six to eight.


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[Assistant] The Browns can't mess around, they gotta get all three. They do, but ultimately they do have to, all organizations make priorities in the offseason and they rank their priorities and they do it several ways. Available talent, so they're looking at the draft and the pool of players that are available at DL, wide receiver, and linebacker.


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[Assistant] They're also doing the same for, and safe players that are free agents. Safety to me, safety is a need. I'm not going to say it's not. We'd love to upgrade there, particularly now you have to.


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[Assistant] But to me, safety was fourth on my list. My list is first and foremost... I still agree, but they do need a safety.


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[Assistant] And then linebacker and then for me, wide receiver. So because the wide receiver, I think, I don't know who said it on the, on the call this morning.


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[Assistant] But if you just look at the roster and the guys that the Browns have on their roster with an LB next to their name, there's three guys on the team under contract and they're all coming off injury.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know that's the hope, but trying to duplicate that and, and, and even relying on that. No, you can't rely on it.


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[Assistant] And basically relying on tendencies and patterns and know where the ball's going.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that what if, you know, like we saw a stretch of quarterbacks, Kaepernick, RG3,


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[Assistant] Certainly Vic was the front edge of that wave and we've seen others behind him. Lamar Jackson to me is the guy that's done it most effectively. I wonder if the defense has caught up.


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[Assistant] Definitely. It almost, to me, hearing you explain it, it sounds crystal clear to me now, but I think that's what the league, that's the adjustment the league has made to try to-


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[Assistant] Well, the difference between hurt, I always, I think hurts is a, is a mobile quarterback, but he's not the guy that he's not the home run hitter. Like I think Justin Fields is, but he hasn't been able to come with the army yet. That's the


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[Assistant] he's a better passer. But what Bulls, or what G is explaining here to me, I think that, you know, we have seen somehow some way the league through some magic potion has taken away that cheat code of Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] I feel that. I think we all kind of see, he's, he's regressed. He has regressed.


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[Assistant] But there are other quarterbacks who have regressed too. But I, I know, but what he's talking about specifically, the league always catches up. Always.


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[Assistant] It caught everybody by surprise. It worked for a long stretch. And then defensive coordinator is like, we got this. We understand how to stop it. Well, with Jackson, because he was one of one. Now there are other guys that did what Lamar did, but nobody did it like he did. To me, he was a better Michael Vick, but


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[Assistant] He hasn't been killing teams with those downfield throws like he was before. Nope. But he doesn't have any receivers. I know, but I'm just talking about him. Forget about everything else. Schematically, schematically. Schematically, there's a better cheat code that the defenses have used and I wonder if that's not it.


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[Assistant] Who played better in the Super Bowl? Close. No he didn't. He was the MVP. Yes or no?


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[Assistant] How, what's their best chance of beating us? And I had said before the game, and I think most of the experts had said before the game, the reason a lot of people thought the Eagles would win the game was because their run game was so good.


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[Assistant] We can give the opportunity to Hertz to beat us, but we don't think he can. So we're going to do everything we can to take away


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[Assistant] I've never said that. I will never say that he didn't play great.


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[Assistant] Correct, but through the years, the defensive coordinators have tried to figure out what are we going to do because this is the trend.


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[Assistant] By the way, that list wasn't vastly different from MLB.com's list. No, it wasn't at all. It was extreme. Because there's really not a lot of variance when you get into the top 30. We all know who they are, it's just a matter of how you rank them.


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[Assistant] It's not even close. It's not even close. When you sent that, I'm like, is anybody gonna say Frankie? Does anybody want to make an argument?


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[Assistant] So what that, what that tells you is the gap between Frankie and all the other shortstops is greater than it is between Ramirez and all the other third basemen, but I think they're bet, they're more


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[Assistant] I think we found this when we ranked the third baseman. They're all kind of right there. They're the same. Where Frankie is an elite shortstop, I'll give you that, but I just look at the whole package. I look at the intangibles. Leadership.


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[Assistant] Even after the All-Star break, I looked at his numbers and his numbers were, he was hitting like 220. He finishes...


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[Assistant] Got red hot. Look at this, August and September. It was two different seasons. I still think the difference between the two, it's the intangibles. I just think that...


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[Assistant] Jose Ramirez is a guy who collectively makes everybody on the team better by his


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[Assistant] By the way he goes about his job, his effort. Both are top of the, top step of the dugout guys. I think you'd agree with that. Yeaah, I think Lindor's good in tangibles too. So, so he's good in that area, but I just think from my money,


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[Assistant] I'll turn the injury last year into a positive, okay? Most players in Jose's case last year, they're done.


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[Assistant] They get the surgery, they're done. He needed the surgery when the injury happened.


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[Assistant] The Guardians into the playoffs and who knows once we get there what can happen.


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[Assistant] He is selfless as a player and as a person. So when most guys hear that they've got a cracked bone in their thumb, they're like, well let's fix it.


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[Assistant] He didn't do that. He played through it. And I think, I know it's not good that he got hurt. Injuries happen. It's not like he's injury prone. But what I loved about how he handled the injury last year was we didn't even know it. We didn't know how bad it was. We knew something was wrong.


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[Assistant] No, he, he, he was still here for the COVID season, which was short. His numbers were terrible. His numbers, remember, and that was the other thing that me, to me, I know there was a big debate, should we keep him? I was never in the camp of even considering keeping Frankie Lindor.


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[Assistant] I knew there was no way, I knew he was gonna command way more money than this market would allow this team to spend on one player.


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[Assistant] I know it when I see it. The 30 million a year for one player, this, this, this organization can't do that.


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[Assistant] So it's case to case, but you would do it for some people? I would, but I'll give you example after example of teams in similar sized markets that tried it and it failed miserably.


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[Assistant] Your point about big markets are more equipped to deal with it. The Yankees just write checks to buy their way out of those holes.


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[Assistant] And they've done it too. They've signed 30 million dollar a year players that did not work out. A lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of them. And you know, you can look at the Dodgers. The Dodgers, I think, have a better track record on big money spends than the Yankees. The Red Sox have been terrible with it too. The Red Sox have had some, recently, some terrible misses. Terrible ones, yep.


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[Assistant] And we can argue all day whether or not the Dolans could spend more money. Of course they could. What I admire most about them is their fiscal responsibility. So could they have written that check? Yes, they absolutely could have written that check.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking they're going to eventually see the value in Rosario. They're going to keep them.


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[Assistant] We'll see, but when, when I hear stories like I've heard from guys that are around the team every day, how much Tito loves him and how much he appreciates what he brings to the clubhouse.


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[Assistant] It's easy to discard a guy. Like I know that Landry's talent was going down, but at some point the question should have been asked, is it worth to keep him around for his


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[Assistant] His personality, what he brings to the team in other areas. Everybody credited him for


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[Assistant] And I think he's the same kind of, same level of player.


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[Assistant] Fits the same role. Not a lot of power, good to get in the base. Go ahead, you gotta do a


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[Assistant] Is it a situation where we'll get to find out? I mean, there's probably a lot of it bats available in spring training. Are we going to see some of these kids so we can see if one of them can separate from the, from the group as a potential replacement to Rosario if they let him walk?


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[Assistant] How old is Rosario? 27? 28? I would guess 26 or 27.


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[Assistant] See, I know, I know that sometimes we get enamored by 21, 22, 23, but a lot of times in baseball, those guys never percolate. They never, they never develop. And because we've got a guy, I think, first of all, I think strength is up the middle. And I just, I want to think long term.


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[Assistant] Let's solidify that with guys like Zach just said. He's a known commodity. We know what he's gonna give us. We don't know what the kids are. I would just rather stay with the guy that you know and lock him up. I know it's not the guardian's way.


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[Assistant] I know it was a hypothetical, but you did say if Oscar Gonzalez struggles. And one of the things, obviously, that led the, are the guardians to all the success they had last year was they just kept.


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[Assistant] It's lightning in a bottle, but not when the Guardians do it. They just were bringing these guys up and they were all contributing and some of them became stars. Quan, obviously, Gonzalez seemed to be here for the long haul now, but you know well about the sophomore slump. The league now has a full book on you. They can, they, they, they know where the holes in your swing are.


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[Assistant] How concerned are you that one of these guys that was a big contributor last year, and you can start with Gonzalez and Quan and add anybody you want, are gonna take steps back this year?


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[Assistant] Well, the ones I looked at, they had, they, they had, uh, the favorites for every team. Obviously, Bieber was the favorite, but I, I, I agree with Zach and, and I'm just going on stuff. I'm not talking about, you know, I'm not even going to factor in the experience because Bieber clearly is the more experienced pitcher and he's been there, so he knows what it takes.


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[Assistant] Just the stuff, the swing and miss stuff that he has. He mentioned his curveball. He also talked about his


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[Assistant] Every pitcher is holding a Rubik's Cube in their hand for the first three years and what they're struggling with is pitch mix. How do I, when do I throw the fastball? When do I throw the curveball?


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[Assistant] He figured it out somewhere around July of last year. I was at the stadium, I talked about this, I was at the stadium for the White Sox game when he had like 16 strikeouts. Start before that he had over 15. And what I realized in that start was he was beginning to mix his pitches like a veteran. Knowing when to, overpower guys at the fastball and when to mix it up with the curveball.


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[Assistant] I always felt like in the back of his mind was cause he was a home run pick, he gave up a lot of home runs.


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[Assistant] I think that was always in the back of his mind. Pitching coaches will always tell you, you've got to take that out of your mind. It can't be living in the back of your mind. That's like a quarterback who's afraid to throw an interception. You start seeing ghosts, ghosts start materializing. And with McKenzie, when he stopped worrying about giving up home runs, he's going to give up home runs. He just is. He's that kind of pitcher.


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[Assistant] When he stops worrying about it, and he did last year, he was 11 and 11 last year with his Sub 3 ERA. He can easily.


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[Assistant] First of all, we need to tell everybody, you are the NASCAR guy in Cleveland. There's nobody in town that knows more about NASCAR than you.


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[Assistant] Now that Xfinity team will race some cup races though throughout the year.


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[Assistant] China have a national program, so called Golden Shear program. It means try to upgrade and modernize the police control system.


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[Assistant] Cisco signed a contract with the provincial security department one after the other one.


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[Assistant] In their proposal, they say very clear that we'll help you make your work more effective.


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[Assistant] Patrol car to patrol car connection, patrol car to police station connection, include the voice identification.


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[Assistant] The image identification, the fingerprints identification.


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[Assistant] Not allowed to say any products to China about the detective or crime control.


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[Assistant] We're gonna go over all this at the end of the show, but bull brought up betting.


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[Assistant] Check out bettrivers.com or download the Bett Rivers app today for the latest lines, odds, and boosts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, everybody feels better eating a built bar. Everybody that is sick right now needs to eat a built bar. You gotta just use code, uh, promo code LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN15 at built.com. Get your built bar with 15 grams of protein and you'll feel like new.


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[Assistant] I mean, don't get me wrong, I love this job, but I had five careers growing up as a kid that I was like, I can do this and then realize I cannot do this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if you guys had told me that we were going to start ranking quarterbacks this early on, I wouldn't have bet on it, but if I did bet on it, it would have been with Bet Jack. The time is now, Ohio sports fans. Sport betting is live. Download the Bet Jack app today so you'll be ready to go when all the action starts. Bet Jack, Ohio Sportsbook.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Mike, do you want to tease overtime today? Cause this was your topic. And for $4.99, all of our members, our coaches here, get overtime. And for $1.99, you get custom emojis.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's fine. So guys, I have to chime in here because we have a new sponsor and now the 12 o'clock lunch hour is sponsored by Collegracing. Collegracing, your no-fee Ohio NASCAR team. Thank you for sponsoring us guys.


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[Assistant] Which quarterback did he have to introduce himself to on the field? I think it should be him. Josh Johnson. There you go. That would be funny. Did I say, I thought I said that when we talked about it. You did.


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[Assistant] I'm here to chime in and just remind you guys at the 12 o'clock lunch hour, sponsored by Colleague Racing, Colleague Racing, your Northeast Ohio NASCAR team. And then I also here have a super chat.


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[Assistant] You gotta be ready to jump right in. I'm learning on the fly. Alright, here we go. But we have a comment from the internet. Whenever we get a comment from the internet, it's brought to you by PCC Airfoils. Looking for a job with career advancements and great benefits? PCC Airfoils is a leading manufacturer in Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] In all locations of PCC Airfoils in Eastlake, Mentor, Wycliffe, and Minerva are hiring for all positions starting at $18 and up. Plus get a full benefit package, paid time off,


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[Assistant] Anthony, you're from here and you screwed up Minerva. I know, I heard me say it and I was like, that's not how you say it.


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[Assistant] I double checked, I tweeted Johnny Stanton, it's not him. I'm glad, uh, he wanted to put a bow on the Washington, the Sean Watson QB ranking. And he said, I'm glad he's not ranked high because now he's going to come in the next season, be mad and play right. And that goes along with a lot of the,


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[Assistant] Thank you, thank you. It's true and false time, and I appreciate you for reminding me. And it's NFL Combine!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was gonna say, I trust you three. Let's go with the first question here. The first ever scouting combine was in 1982. Is that true or false?


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[Assistant] I said false. False as well. G, what you got? G's writing a whole mess here, so yea. G's got truth.


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[Assistant] Typically, the NFL Combine invites around 335 players every year. Is that true or false?


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[Assistant] You're asking the one guy who like doesn't have enough sports knowledge to be on the panel. We just gave you the answer. We gave you the answer. I didn't even, was it the kid? I don't know. The Bengals. The Bengals. Thanks.


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[Assistant] The home of the NFL combine has always been in Indianapolis.


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[Assistant] I copy and pasted this a lot. Trues across the board. Trues across the board? You guys are all wrong. Really? It was originally?


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[Assistant] So aside from the NFL scouting combine, there are 14 other regional combines. True or false?


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[Assistant] Uh, Steve Becker, I hope you get me a tiebreaker question. Aside from the specific oriented drills, there are 13 tests and evaluations conducted at the top of the combine.


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[Assistant] Alright, yeah, so let's go, and we're gonna talk about- We'll come back with Steve Becker, Steve Becker. Yeah, we're gonna talk about the Cavs, and Celtics game tonight, and I'm here to remind you one last time, the 12 o'clock hour,


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[Assistant] Lunch is the 12 o'clock lunch hour sponsored by Colleague Racing. Colleague Racing, your Northeast Ohio NASCAR team.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so thanks to Steve Becker, I have it here. And then we'll do the top five. The question is, closest to, without going over, what is the record for most bench press reps at 225 pounds at the combine?


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[Assistant] The answer is 52 for Justin Ernest. The answer is what? What's the answer? 51.


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[Assistant] Alright, you guys want to do a quick top five? Top five, here we go. So, before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, once again, if I can change the TV here.


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[Assistant] That the entire 12 o'clock lunch hour is sponsored by Colleague Racing. Colleague Racing, your Northeast Ohio NASCAR team.


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[Assistant] Number five. I'd love to be a tattoo artist. I used to draw, lost all my artistic ability by the time I got to high school. I think being a tattoo artist would be a blast.


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[Assistant] I love sci-fi. I could probably write stuff. I write for D&D, but we've all seen my spelling. I couldn't afford the editor to edit my book. Well, that's a fact.


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[Assistant] Oh sorry, I write some stuff for Dungeons & Dragons with my friends, so like, I can write stuff, but we've seen my spelling.


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[Assistant] Alright, number three, blue angels pie. Oh, that's a good one. I, I have like, I'm blind. Uh, my left eye is negative six and a half, my right eye is negative five and a half. What? I get motion sickness really easily. I would love to do it. It was in my dreams as a kid.


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[Assistant] The only skill you could use is reading the kicker's hips. And like, that's the whole point. But yea, you're right. It's mostly luck.


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[Assistant] I would love to be a rockstar. I'd love to play guitar. That is the lead singer of my favorite band. That's Claudio Sanchez of Cohedon Cambria. I mean, that's some hair right there. That's amazing. He's the reason I started teaching myself how to play guitar and I just, I love guitar. I could never play at that level. What band is that? Cohedon Cambria. I've heard of them.


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[Assistant] Always messing around in April and March, Kent State always shows up to play.


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[Assistant] We haven't heard from you yet. Uhm, the timing is confusing.


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[Assistant] I thought if they was going to do something, they would have did something at the beginning what Joe was, but I just think, you know, from, from my sense.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say that they have outside people influencing them, but I think what's happening is you starting to see that they got an understanding that last year wasn't good enough. Somebody had to say,


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[Assistant] Come on guys, we not, we can't, I don't think we should go into next year with the same type thing. Right. Because everybody think it's the right move by the way.


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[Assistant] Every time. That could have saved him though. It could have. It could have been something that he said, look, well, look how great I'm doing with the kicking game. Like the return game for three, four, five years has been just.


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[Assistant] So, I look at it as a whole. To me,


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't, I don't know what I feel about the indecisiveness because I thought this was a pretty easy...


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[Assistant] We're gonna move on just like they did with Joe Woods one game afterwards. So it tells me like, okay, well, if you wouldn't have a delay like this, if you didn't have two competing interests, somebody had to say, well, I think this is okay. We can ride it out. Somebody had to be like, well, let's pivot and change because because here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Even if you have him on staff, coaches usually, organizations usually never.


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[Assistant] Just knee-jerk, for lack of a better term. And say, oh, he's available, we want you to get out. Yeah, well, I-I do- Well, it's an upgrade though. And it's a clear upgrade.


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[Assistant] You want, you want them to give them a much runway to get another job or to interview with somebody else. And so, I mean, this is awkward. This is, this is February. It's about to be March. You have the combines next week.


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[Assistant] By the way, yeah, I just, you guys, I just automatically look at it like this. Some tells me.


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[Assistant] People are being motivated inside that building. The vibe is, oh no, we only got a limited time. We better make this worth it. Cause everybody ain't gonna be back here. I don't think that defines a special thing.


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[Assistant] He had an opportunity to pick anybody on his staff to coach against the Steelers.


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[Assistant] He didn't pick Woods, he didn't pick Van Pelt even though it would have been a natural progressive because he calls the plays, right? You would have thought that Van Pelt would have called the plays because, and then his choice for coach, but it wasn't. I think Van Pelt did call the plays though in that game, didn't he?


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[Assistant] Right, that's too much. So I look at it, I mean, but you have to say, if you're a pre-free type person, you're like, well listen, this is a guy who won your playoff game.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is a fact. He did win the game. He won, he went into Pittsburgh and almost dominated him and he had to call all the, he didn't call the plays, but he was calling it, let's go for the fourth down. He was throwing the flag.


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[Assistant] Decisions were his, so I thought it was kinda odd that like, hey, this person would have been, like, out of all the people you could have chose, you chose him. Now he's gone.


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[Assistant] Are in the wind. And then there was one. You didn't shadow around everybody. Everybody gone. It's just, it's only to pass you out.


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[Assistant] And then they go get another job. And then they fail again. They fail again. Like here's the thing, come on Shady McCoy, like listen, you can talk about what you want to talk about. That man has rings.


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[Assistant] It don't like, you can say you don't like what he talking or what he putting down.


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[Assistant] All I know is he's inside a building. All I know is he's calling the place.


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[Assistant] All I know is he's doing what he's doing. At the end of the day, there's people that are less qualified, getting positions who have never called the place, who have never sniffed a call sheet, and they just give new rookie guy. Jeff Saturday came right off the set. Come on over here. Just get this. Just come get it, right? At the end of the day, the goalposts have moved so many times.


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[Assistant] For Eric being in me is crazy. And for people sitting up here talking about


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[Assistant] Why, why is it that, you know what I'm saying, he don't interview well? See, this is why I applaud LeBron James. You make sure your son get in the league. I don't care what nobody say.


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[Assistant] You make sure you pull every nepotism move you can, and they gon' draft him, and you leverage what you can to get him in the league. Cause at the end of the day, it's the haves and the haves nots. Well that's what people do. That's what people do. They use their contact. They use their contact, they use what they got, and even after Andy Reid come out and say, this man has done X, Y, and Z,


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[Assistant] Still can't get a job. People still won't give him a job. You say he, well, listen, there's all kinds, I know Rex Ryan, I know Rex Ryan can't interview good. Half the, like, what was, what was Joe Woods saying in his interview? He couldn't even tell me why he couldn't cover nobody.


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[Assistant] The proof is in the pudding. At some point in time, you just gotta say, well, I'm not trying to hire him. And if I was Eric, the enemy, I would tell you, I would give you this one, one point of advice.


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[Assistant] Go talk to Flores. Do you know what this means? You gonna have to perform twice as good.


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[Assistant] As they do for you to even be established or get a job. If he does it again, he's hired. Period. But he has no quarterback.


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[Assistant] So like you said, so now they said, think about the extremes here. You go from Patrick Mahomes and showing Patrick Mahomes what he can do and winning multiple Super Bowls. They don't, they want you to go prove it for the worst organization in the league.


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[Assistant] I gotta do it without a quarterback. I gotta do it with Dan Snyder looking at me. I gotta do it with no picks. And it's like, I've shown you my worth. You know how hard it is to get to a Super Bowl. We should know. We've had hundreds of people come try. They're all terrible.


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[Assistant] This man has done that. His bosses, his superior has told you that this man is worthy of it, but he has to go start from zero and prove it again just because, well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, here's the thing, I don't know, long term...


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[Assistant] I think Deshaun Watson's play, uh, is more comparable to, you know, conducive to making a long term push or something. I don't, Lamar Jackson is electrifying. He should get his money. I'm on record saying that.


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[Assistant] But I don't think his play style is going to lend itself to being on the field all that much.


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[Assistant] He's not as electric as Lamar Jackson, but if you look at the two, he can do some of the things that Lamar Jackson can do with his legs, but Lamar Jackson can't do at his best with, with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I don't, it's not about what the Giants will give him. Daniel Jones is on record saying that's what he want.


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[Assistant] But if Joe Burrow, so here's the, if Joe Burrow got hurt and he was really over this team, would you really say with Jamar Chase and T. Higgins, you wouldn't feel more comfortable with this


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[Assistant] Cause he not gonna be over Andrews. Yea, but he'd be my number two tight end. No, I've gotten to Joku's


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[Assistant] Lower extremity for an offensive line is like poison. Ever. Like you're not going to get the push, you're not going to get the bend, you're going to get beat on pass rush.


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[Assistant] People don't- Ethan Poachers was raided by PFF.


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[Assistant] Poachers missed a couple games, I mean, but he, but, but Ethan Poachers has a much better, uh, uh, pass block grade.


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[Assistant] By the way, by the way, uh, not to be like, Mark Cooper's grade is an 81.2.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just so you know, uh, Friar Muth, 75.5, great. Uh, David Nijoku, 73.7. So it is negligible, they're pretty much the same person. Interchangeable.


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[Assistant] And, and I want individual, uh, coaches for everybody. Guards, tackles, centers. Long snapper.


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[Assistant] I don't know why you just gave me the vegetarian vibe.


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[Assistant] Did you, did you kinda work your way into that or did you kinda, it was a lifestyle from get go?


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[Assistant] Was it a deal breaker when you met your husband? Did you say, now listen, this is the lifestyle I lead, you can leave whatever you want. Like, does he eat meat or is he adapted to it? Will you cook meat?


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[Assistant] Yep. Now we struggled over Deontay Johnson a little bit and, um,


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[Assistant] I still can't believe you caught that ball. That might have been better than Odell Beckham Jr. catch. It was insane. Like that was ridiculous. And in a big spot.


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[Assistant] 24 hours. And by the way, you can catch me on Odyssey Locked on Brown's podcast.


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[Assistant] Make sure y'all do that, Benny. I don't know what these dudes, I gotta take jobs. We gotta feed these people. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I've been telling people that I had a cup of coffee, I had a muffin or whatever it is you call one inning, but I was in the league. Go play with me. I was balling.


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[Assistant] He actually, to be truthful, I was looking, I was looking to do something for Jay. I think he played for two teams. I did. Now, the Long Beach Armada, they don't have, uh, uh, a hat because I was looking for it. I have, I have some hats. I was looking for it now. The other team, the other team has like, yeah, yeah, they have that, but I


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[Assistant] He's a guy, he's a guy that looks like he can, he can make a nice living in this town, right? You know, he's good with people, he's good with the media.


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[Assistant] Some people may never, may think they'll never get the opportunity to hold $20,000 in their hand, ever. They're like, you know how long I gotta work for $20,000? Man, I make like, or I'm not-


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[Assistant] What if they had, what if they had tickets for the whole series? Like the people probably, don't you get tickets for the whole series?


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't think if it was a Super Bowl, I don't think it's hard press to find anybody able to sell browse tickets. I don't think nobody will set a browse ticket.


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[Assistant] Listen, listen, hey man, listen, you get you an Uncrustable, bro, you get-


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[Assistant] So I would need, I would need bacon and sausage on there, and the eggs have to be scrambled with cheese. I don't do no runny eggs, don't have nothing dripping off my face. That's the best part.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't want no, no cell membrane on my arms. Yeah, I don't do that either, man. That's disgusting. I like that one.


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[Assistant] Gee, uh, texted me and said he woke up, there was no power in his house. And that came at, that text came at 10 57. So.


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[Assistant] They were on the baseline. I was on the sideline, but yeah, right there. Very cool. And shout out to Maddie for the seats. And then we got upgraded from wherever the seats were supposed to be to six rows. Awesome. Awesome time. Sorry, Anthony, cause they're really Anthony's tickets at first, but he had to bail out at last minute. So that kind of sucked, but.


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[Assistant] I told my buddy Eli who works for the Sixers, hey, I'm sitting really close for Yoke Kitchen. He goes, you're in for a treat. There's not another player in the NBA.


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[Assistant] Like him, which you kind of know watching, but he goes up close and personal. It's not the athleticism, it's seeing.


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[Assistant] How precise he does everything, but how dopey he is. He looks like a giant sloth who just took melatonin.


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[Assistant] It feels like playing him would be a pain in the ass. Like he's leaning on you the whole time, and he, every screen he's set,


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[Assistant] He's hitting somebody. Like he was, for a European they get sometimes the, they're not that tough tag.


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[Assistant] He's played just for the record. He's played over 70 games every year of his career. Like he's, he's played since 2015 he came to league. He's 28 years old. He played 80, 73, 75, 80, 73, 72, 77. He's played 52 games already this year.


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[Assistant] We don't have Charles yet. If you want to text him, Brad, I just sent him me another email with the link. So he should have that. But while we're waiting, we're going to get the Betjack reading. We're going to play a little NBA quiz here and hopefully Charles joins us in a minute. But first.


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[Assistant] This is an NBA quiz, but I'm looking up Karrison Burr's contract real quick just to clarify that. He has, according to SportTrack,


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[Assistant] And Laverte's 18, close to 19, but I do believe, and Jason said this on the show, so this is not, uh, breaking news, but.


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[Assistant] It's a very weak free agency class, just FYI. Alright, alright, here we go. So this is a quiz based off the first half of the NBA season.


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[Assistant] And some things that we have found. We just figured with the second half of the season starting last night, let's, let's go back and review. It should only take five minutes. I thought we'd do it quickly, but. Here we go. Uh, we're waiting on Charles so we could have a little fun with this. We're going to answer as a unit here, by the way. Okay. So he's all talking about it. We'll give an answer to the group. Group answer. Group answer. Are you guys ready? I think so. We are ready. Question number one, Steve. Take it.


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[Assistant] Which two NBA teams, and it's only two, currently have three players averaging 20 plus points per game?


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[Assistant] Put it this way, if I had to put my life money on this before I looked it up, I would have lost.


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[Assistant] Not good. No, I know, but what are they? 18 wins? Uh, NBA standings, the... Charlotte... There's another team, by the way.


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[Assistant] What about the clip? Give it to us. The Washington Wizards. Bradley Beal, Kristaps Porzingis, and Kyle Kuzma.


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[Assistant] Only three players in NBA history, and one of them is this year.


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[Assistant] Have recorded 500 plus assists and 500 plus rebounds before the all-star break. Who are they?


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[Assistant] Which team makes the fewest? And as Bull alluded to, the Cavs are 20th. They make 11.4. I'll tell you, I won't tell you what team.


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[Assistant] Lakers. Incorrect, the Lakers are 28. Damn, I knew the Lakers. It's a great guess though, they're 28.


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[Assistant] East or West? It is East, an Eastern Coppers team. It can't be Detroit. It is not Detroit. Miami? It is not Miami. They're all near the bottom. Those are all good guesses.


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[Assistant] Uh, Patrick Ewing is seven. Wait, hold on, hold on. I think you can make the case with Patrick Ewing.


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[Assistant] Isaiah. Yeah. Gotta throw Oscar in there. Oscar. John Stockton. No. No? Give me Steph Curry over John Stockton. You're putting Steve Nash over.


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[Assistant] Who is the only player to average more than that for an entire season since the ABA-MBA merger?


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[Assistant] Do you know who's an underrated all time big by the way? And not necessarily the top 10 tier, but in the grand scheme of things, Palgasol was unbelievable for a really, really, really long time.


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[Assistant] We're gonna bring on Justin. We'll talk to little guardians. If Charles joins us at any point, we'll bring Charles into the conversation. Okay.


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[Assistant] And we got Justin Lata. And real quick, I'm getting roasted on the chat for the Steve Nash take. If anyone wants to go head to head, I'll go head to head. Steve Nash is absolutely a top five point guard. We got Justin Lata now of the Guardians Lockdown Guardians podcast host. What's up Justin? How you doing man?


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[Assistant] Let's just, we gotta get to top 5. Power is a main element of this top 5 because today we are ranking the 5 best, first baseman in Major League Baseball. Power.


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[Assistant] There are some good ones still, but I do think the depth is not what it used to be, to both points.


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[Assistant] I think most of these will be similar, maybe the order a little different, but I'm curious to what you guys think. Yeaah. And we're going to start with what I thought was the hardest pick was picking number 5. 5 was tough, right? It was tough. I went with Matt Olson.


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[Assistant] We forgot one though. Hold up Brad. We forgot. What about, uh, Xavier McDaniel? Take the video.


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson won a Quincy Avers podcast yesterday. Which is now posted online. You can listen to it. Okay. And one, he said a couple things.


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[Assistant] That were interesting. We're gonna focus on one today, but we'll start with the stuff that...


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[Assistant] Got people thinking. And I tweeted it out to Sean Watson says he'll be quote, in the same area as DeAndre Hopkins this weekend on the Q podcast with Quincy Avery. Take that as you want, Brown.


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[Assistant] Or, it got brought up that Quincy was with Deshaun when Hopkins said he wants out of Arizona.


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[Assistant] And Quincy broke that news to the Sean and the Sean goes, yeah, I heard about that. I haven't talked to him yet, but.


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[Assistant] We're gonna be in the same area this weekend. Kind of hinting at the fact that he may, uh, put a little recruitment or a little nugget in his ear.


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[Assistant] That got a lot of people on Twitter talking about a possible reunion between Sean Watson and DeAndre Hopkins. You were the first one to comment on my tweet saying, let's make this happen.


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[Assistant] Do you know what receiver led the league in receiving yards this year who started the season at the age of 30? Who's that?


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[Assistant] You have the most incredible chemistry with Lady Gaga, you two. It is an incredible performance from both of you and you really do, every single second is completely believable. Your relationship, everything that you go through, how did you know that you were going to have that with her?


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[Assistant] There's no room for error in a seven game series. So if he's dribbling a ball, bringing a basketball up, and they gotta run, you know, they pick and roll, they play action, that's slow and methodical. So now in seven games, I'm looking at Joker. I see him coming up to court. And now we can do some things. I said the other night, I said, well if he's gonna bring the ball up, let's test his condition.


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[Assistant] In a seven game series, you know what you could do? You could put somebody on them and say, pick him up at, at, at the court.


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[Assistant] He has serviceable strength. He has functional strength. He has basketball functional strength.


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[Assistant] When you look at him, the difference is, when I look at the playoffs, there's a couple of things that you could do that's a little different. Like as a coach, we killed the Cavs, Joker gonna get his. But Porter Jr. in those threes was the dagger. He had 25 last night. You look at Contavious, Caldwell, Pope, 17.


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[Assistant] And, and those guys, they combine for ten, ten three-pointers.


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[Assistant] So these dudes are the ones that are killing you. Sometimes somebody's gonna say, well, if Joker gonna get 50 on two point shots and nobody else gets theirs, I'll take it.


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[Assistant] I think the closer has to be Mitchell. I think Mitchell is better equipped for it. I think he's better suited.


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[Assistant] If you keep getting this effort from Isaac Okoro, cause you look at his plus minus, his minus seven last night, two points. I'm telling you, I'm ready to cut bait. I'm done with Okoro. Two points.


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[Assistant] The problems with the Cavs of Three is this. They got four dudes with, with only, they're only good at one thing and they can't combine them like a transporter.


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[Assistant] Jenny is good in open court, gives you energy and can bounce around a little bit. He can hit open three occasionally.


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[Assistant] You got Stevenson, who's a bulldog. He gives you grit. He gives you a little defensive prowess. He's a guy that brings that attitude to a table. Isaac O'Cora can defend.


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[Assistant] Uh, he can move his feet, he's athletic. And then the last guy is Karis LaVert. He can get hot, he can shoot, he can probably get you 50 if he's on. But if he's off, he's gonna be disappearing. And all of those things, if you combine them into one player, they'd be great.


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[Assistant] They have proven it. I wanna see if JB is smart enough to understand this, right?


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[Assistant] When you watch the Cavs, you can hide a few things. They're not at the peak potential, and you're not going to be able to possibly get a three right now. So what you're looking to do is, if you're JB, you have to look at your offense and say, where are we bogging down? Where are we getting tied up?


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[Assistant] And, and when you look at, you know, your guard, Team Darius Garland,


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[Assistant] He's doing good. He's doing good when he's distributing the basketball. The problem is you have a night where Evan Mobley is really, they can't guard him down there.


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[Assistant] He was giving Joker, Joker fits the whole night. And so, JB, I would've- He dunks. He's being aggressive. I would've loved to see JB say, hey guys, here's what we're gonna do. Joker is gonna get his on an offense event, but we need to make him play defense too.


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[Assistant] Inside out, going inside out. I think the Cavs, if you're gonna have those two bigs down low, they gotta almost revert their game to the way the game was played back in the day. If you got two bigs that can move, that can score,


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[Assistant] If you don't want them to shoot all them threes, slow the pace of the game down. Make sure Mobley get a touch. Make sure Allen get a touch. Play inside outside. And I know that's not the conventional way.


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[Assistant] To me, that's the only way they're gonna be able to, to, to contend with some of these other teams


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[Assistant] Team building is another thing. When you look at the old Pistons, I got down in the YouTube time machine about a week ago looking at the way teams mix up. When you look at this, the Pistons had Adrian Dent.


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[Assistant] They took Adrian Dantley, moved him off that team. And then...


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[Assistant] Put Vinny Aguirre in. Mark Aguirre. Mark Aguirre. Vinny Johnson, Mark Aguirre. I was gonna mix them up. You know how to combine them. But then, guess what? They took off.


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[Assistant] Hey, I can't do no gentleman sweeps. No full ones. No gentleman sweeps. No. If they get embarrassed in the first round, you gotta think about it. Or if it's a close one, you go into next year and then you start, like Brad said, hey, you gotta think about spending money. You gotta think, you gotta think.


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[Assistant] I don't either. I know you got to have somebody coming off the bench. If they got the money to keep them, okay, cool, whatever, but they need a three. They have to go out and get a bona fide three. It's not going to be easy to do obviously. Yeah, because they don't have much trade trade options.


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[Assistant] Actually, to be truthful though, like, I would, you could put Luca in there too. Like, Luca-


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[Assistant] He's really, he's really pushing the envelope.


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[Assistant] And this is gonna mess with Dave, we keep going back to Joker because we can't believe it. If you was to ask a person, he got three MVPs, but if I told Brad, I'd say alright.


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[Assistant] Is Joker a top 10 big man of all time? He would be hard pressed to make.


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[Assistant] He's been, he's been misjudged. People believe, he's part of that era where everybody liked to say empty stats. All those are empty stats. Anytime you do that on the court, he was playing for teams that had no shot. Oklahoma City after Durant and everybody else left, no shot to win. He was keeping them dudes involved.


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[Assistant] What they think about him and say he gonna show up every day. He's gonna play his ass off. Every 48 minutes.


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[Assistant] Third all time in the games played. Yeaah, he was, he was an awesome player.


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[Assistant] So, Yao Ming didn't play that well. Not play that well, he didn't play that well. He was a great player too. But he was a great player. And if you say Mark Gasol, I could argue Mark Gasol and Powell Gasol, that's a very even matchup. I don't know which one I would say is better. I know Powell got to play with Kobe, he got some rings. But Mark Gasol was three time, uh, defense player of the year.


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[Assistant] You know, Justin, you know, I'm a fringe guy. You know, I'ma go to the ballpark, you know, a few times a year.


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[Assistant] Pulling them up on my ballies app as long as that lasts, who knows how that's gonna work out. Uhm, but the fringe guys, we be asking, y'all, you know, this team and a lot of baseball people be really coveting these prospects. Now, my question is,


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[Assistant] Are these prospects gonna show up in play sometime this year? Or are they just gonna sit there and be prospects or are we gonna trade them for somebody else? So, you know, these guys rave about this Espino guy. He's hurt, right?


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[Assistant] He got re-injured his eye. So he's out of here. Uh, Gavin Williams, is he going to be up this year anytime? No, probably not. I don't think so. Okay. Uh, uh, Tanner Bibi, is he a guy he's good or? I mean, he's good. Good, but I don't think there's plans for this year.


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[Assistant] Lord, you got a lot of second basements slash short stuff.


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[Assistant] Has that style been success? We talk about it in football all the time. Is it a run or is it a pass? Can you win with defense? Can you win playing baseball games, hitting the contact? Has it ever happened?


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[Assistant] First of all, this is groundbreaking what you're saying. Because we talk about this all the time. Like, what's the ceiling? How can you win? I've never heard you.


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[Assistant] Don't you have to factor in that the Rays and the Guardians have an un-proportionate amount of great pitching.


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[Assistant] This is, this is, you know, uh, Charles, this just goes to show you what type of, what type of area y'all came up in. When I grew up, we used to always watch it, and at the time, I'm about 41, so I caught you right when you was playing for, for the Knicks.


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[Assistant] And when you talk about the Knicks era, I was just like, they got 75 power forwards. They got X-Men, they got Charles Oakley, Mason, they got, you know, Charles Smith. So when you play in-


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[Assistant] Kind of explain the difference between then and now. Like, what's the biggest thing the game has changed? Uhm, and why is it that so many of the veterans is like, listen man, if I was playing right now, I'd be making $75 million and I'd be getting 30 points a game. What is the biggest difference between now and your opinion?


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[Assistant] You know, Charles, one thing that I find fascinating in taking a look at your career and even post-career, you are, uh, have a passion for cooking.


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[Assistant] Right? You, you are phenomenal on the steaks, man. When did you get into cooking and what, what got you into that and what do you think your favorite thing, your favorite dish to cook?


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[Assistant] What I wanna do, I wanna do, I can't, I can't believe it. Bad job out of us.


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[Assistant] You know, we done, we done talked about all this stuff. We didn't even get to the real deal. I need to do some name association. I'ma throw a name out at you. And you give me the first thing that comes up.


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[Assistant] You ready? Uh, let's go with, uh, Isaiah Thomas.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's good. I like that. Uh, Charles Barkley.


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[Assistant] Okay, he taking advantage, I like that. Uh, Alonzo Morning.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, that's a nice one. Uh, Magic Johnson.


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[Assistant] Mcnuggets, you just learned what it is to see two black men over the age of 55 see each other in the grocery store.


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[Assistant] It might not, but you know what I learned about the power of this television thing right here?


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[Assistant] Hey Deshaun, listen, it ain't no, listen, if you're gonna be out there, it's no harm if you pull up on your guy.


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[Assistant] Man, look, Jamar chasing the Bengals. He sat, people don't realize, he sat out a year. Jamar Chase didn't even play in the NCAAs. He sat out a year and then came back. Joe Burrow said, let me get him. Some of them throws they throwing.


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[Assistant] That's just, that's ESP. That's like, I've been, we've been doing this pitching catch forever. Forever. He's there. I'm throwing. I'm like, there's no way you can throw this, this football there. And he throw it there and get it there.


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[Assistant] Chase knew it was coming. J isn't, J isn't worth it though.


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[Assistant] Savants, these dudes, now all of a sudden, you came, what you gonna do? Third down, what you talking about?


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[Assistant] That's a big difference. Here's what I'm going to say. Quickly, uhm, one day we was losing revenue. So nobody can name a 31 year old receiver any good. Here's what I'm going to give you. Has it ever happened?


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[Assistant] Here's what you, here's what you gotta get. And he's 30, not 31. Here's what you're getting. You need, you need to unlock other pieces of your, of your team. He unlocks Amari Cooper, now all of a sudden David and Joe Cooper is a little better in the middle.


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[Assistant] I think Hopkins is better than every option that they got available to them.


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[Assistant] Spear fishes are a term of art in the cyber world for emails that are meant to look legitimate. Someone's tried to use your password to get into your account.


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[Assistant] Please, uh, click on this link and change your password immediately.


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[Assistant] The first intrusion into the DNC, these were initially detected by the NSA who shares the information with the FBI.


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[Assistant] And those intrusions, first intrusions in 2015 were by the, uh,


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[Assistant] He rarely communicates by phone or email or anything electronic, so, uh, for them to get this kind of intelligence was pretty significant.


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[Assistant] Because of a concern over sources and methods and of concern about appearing to be too provocative.


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[Assistant] Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.


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[Assistant] Google what to make for dinner, frankly.


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[Assistant] From the start. So my parents are J- I am Jane. J-A-I-N. Look it up. It's, uhm,


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[Assistant] And so we don't necessarily need to kill animals to get everything that we need for our sustenance.


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[Assistant] My parents don't eat meat. They didn't feed me meat. They didn't cook meat in the house. When I became a certain age, they said, you were free to do whatever you would like to do. We're not going to cook that food for you, but you make your own decisions. And I just read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which is about slaughterhouses. And I'm like, yeah, I'm good.


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[Assistant] And again, look, like, it is my nature. I believe what I believe. I'm not going to force my beliefs on anybody else. You do what's right for you. But I will say this, it's a very, very healthy way of living. There are so many misconceptions about whether you get enough protein or not. I get my protein, like, you know, I'm good.


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[Assistant] I'm healthy, here I am, and uhm, I just prefer it.


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[Assistant] And like put the butternut and it's like so rich and creamy. And my daughter, for whatever reason, loves that like fake process. Oh the craft?


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[Assistant] It's just because I love cheese so much. I love Greek yogurt. Uhm, I don't eat as much ice cream as I used to, but still, like, I really love dairy and I just...


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[Assistant] And I'm very much like an Indian cook, which means like a little of this, a little of that, taste it, okay. Like I couldn't tell you it's exactly a teaspoon of cumin and exactly a teaspoon and a half of oregano. I just like to do it by whatever flavor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my husband's favorite meal that I make is taco beef, which I have never tasted, obviously. I have no idea. I just kinda like throw it in there.


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[Assistant] I couldn't stand, I couldn't stand the smell of beef. And there's still some things, like when my husband cooks sausage, not a fan of that.


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[Assistant] One more thing before we go back to uhm, to whatever it is we're talking about. Sports.


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[Assistant] Phillips, I want to call him Jacob Phillips, but it's Jacob Phillips, right?


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[Assistant] Mr. Jacob Phillips became mostly a vegetarian a year ago.


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[Assistant] And he said that he tries to, and it was kind of Jarvis Landry's influence, and he was really trying to think about what he puts in his body, and how healthy he could be, and when we talked to him about it, he said he was about like,


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[Assistant] I would almost argue if you're looking for kind of that random hybrid, like half back, half back slash full back slash tight end, like you just want that random utility.


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[Assistant] Well no, cause Fire Emote's a real tight end. I would say Connor Hayward.


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[Assistant] Cause Connor Hayward is a big body. So he could definitely be a fullback. He could definitely bruise that way. You know that he's a really good pass catcher. He can play kind of that fullback, halfback.


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[Assistant] Tight end, hybrid, whatever. I don't know that you're putting P Ryan out in space. Like yes, he's a good third down pass catcher. Go back to the Super Bowl. The Bengals had him on the field third and one and fourth and won four times instead of Joe Mixon. But I just don't know that he does. He gives you as much. If you're looking in that position for a two utility and not a two play.


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[Assistant] No, but I, okay, so first of all, Najee was hurt at the start of the year. I shouldn't have been playing. And that line took a lot to get going. I think that there was a lot of that. I think that Najee can do more in space. I think Najee is deceivingly strong. Uhm, Najee had more...


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[Assistant] Wait, you're going back, but can I just get a window into why you rated Lamarr higher than Deshaun?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Alright, I see it. So you're not, you're just kind of thinking more of like constructing the team and where the puzzle pieces fit together as opposed to just in a silo. I think this one is really hard. We could say Lamar wasn't healthy and Deshaun has had a long layoff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, sorry, I 100% would take Friar Muth as the second title.


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[Assistant] It was an absolute travesty that Fryermuth wasn't used more in the red zone. I mean, that's where he was money a year ago and you could really count on him. But these are a whole other complex conversation with who's calling the offense. We should really talk about who your coaching staff is, frankly. But yea, I definitely took Fryermuth over in Joku.


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[Assistant] And then the wide receivers, Jamar Chase 1 for sure, T Higgins 2, that one is really hard to argue with as well. And then you set up Mari and Deontay.


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[Assistant] Deontay's the type of guy that if he gets the ball in his hands, he could take it to the house.


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[Assistant] You're putting together a team, so ideally you're putting together an ideal coaching staff that best takes advantage of what players do. That's fair.


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[Assistant] Are not just caught in an offense where they run jet sweeps all the time that Steve Smith says is a very Saturday offense. I mean, you'd like to think that what is Deontay Johnson doing in an Andy Reid style offense as opposed to what he was in. If we're just talking about these players as the players that they are, then I take Deontay for sure.


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[Assistant] Well, and Pickens is, feels more reliable. He's not just making the circus catch for you, he's catching the ball. But yes, again, he's young, it's hard.


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[Assistant] Jamar Chase had those five years with Joe Burrow in his rookie year. He was in a smart offense. He had a lot of other guys around him drawing attention as well. T Higgins and Tyler Boyd and a solid run game behind Joe Mixon that he could have.


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[Assistant] Things not necessarily related to how he played on the field. And again, I think that everybody in the Steelers' hamstrung a year ago, or last year, was hamstrung by the offense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not, no, I'm just reading and I'm sitting here mentally going through my head. Is there anybody on the Bengals that I would swap in?


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[Assistant] Uh, that one's really hard to disagree with too. And again, I think this is you're looking to the coming year as opposed to saying this is what the past year gave us. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like if you're running a teacot, I'll stand next to it and turn it off.


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[Assistant] That's a no. You know what gets me is trouble is like, I'll tweet something and a week and a half later, it'll be like, can you not put this picture of our daughter on Twitter or can you not do this? And the delay makes me know that it's one of his friends that shared this.


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[Assistant] You know, it's so interesting you talk about blocking because I don't really...


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[Assistant] I probably shouldn't admit this, but there are certain people that really, really, really get off on just going after me. And it could be like, one day you go after me for X.


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[Assistant] And then the next day you go after me for why, not realizing that the day before you were trying to get me to say why, you know, like whatever it is. And, but I don't hit the block button because I don't want.


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[Assistant] Exactly. You don't have to hear their nonsense. Although like Twitter has changed in the last few months, I just don't read my timeline as much, which is sad because in the last five years, I've also had wonderful interactions on Twitter and met some great like


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[Assistant] Friends made Twitter friends. So I'm sorry that I don't read my notifications anymore. It's just the whole situation has changed. No, I don't either.


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[Assistant] I think there's a lot of, there's a way of respectfully doing something. And so I think that...


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[Assistant] When you look in the instance of let's say Howard or Kiffin,


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[Assistant] And I'm surmising here, but we all know that there are situations where it's kinda like, you're free to go look for something.


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[Assistant] And perhaps Priefer was told, you know,


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[Assistant] We're not going to necessarily hold it. You're free to go and see if there's a better fit. And perhaps that better fit hasn't happened per free for he hasn't found anything. And so while it's news publicly to everybody now that there is a separation,


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[Assistant] Perhaps this was just kind of like the respectful quiet way. He knew that there was a separation, but they were giving him time to go find something else.


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[Assistant] That's fair, my guess, again, and it doesn't really matter because it's done at this point and clearly the headline, the more important piece to Browns fans at least should be that the Browns are working to indeed upgrade.


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[Assistant] And not just on the field, but as we have talked about a million times, the growth and development of players is just as important and putting those players in the right spot. The growth, the development and putting the players in the right spot is just as important as getting the right players in there.


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[Assistant] I don't know that I'd make Zach the offensive coordinator. I don't know that I'd make Kevin the offensive coordinator either.


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[Assistant] Or maybe I would make Kevin the offensive coordinator because he wouldn't necessarily. Yeah. I would actually, yeah. John Harbaugh would be my head coach. Mike Tomlin would be my defensive coordinator and, uh, Kevin would be my offensive coordinator, not Zach.


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[Assistant] I mean it would be, wouldn't it? And then who would be my, who'd be my eye in the sky, my situational football, all knowing when to throw the challenge flag, when to...


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[Assistant] No, but gee, this is a, you know what? Adam's taking a great point and it's really interesting because I'm actually taught in this like long, three day long conversation with a buddy of mine who is in a front office considering changing teams and considering various jobs. And obviously I have a totally different viewpoint, but I'm giving him my input.


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[Assistant] And he's valuing it because you want that 360 degree view. And I think sometimes to Adam's point, when you're in football, you're used to being in that bubble.


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[Assistant] You're used to kind of following that same train of thought, that same idea that for your ex receiver, you need traits A, B, and C. But sometimes when you come at it,


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[Assistant] From a different POV, from a different set of experiences, from a different, you know, like I would sit here and argue and go ahead G, you can, you know, rub your head and can't believe my arrogance, but I would argue that I understand the ecosystem of a locker room.


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[Assistant] Better than a lot of scouts. Now I may not understand


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[Assistant] The hitch in somebody's throw and how impactful it is and whether it will translate on the next level or be a detriment or not. But I can talk about the way that a locker room functions, the way personalities work together. I think better than a scout who sits in a room and watches film all the time.


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[Assistant] And then goes out to a pro day. It's just a different, um,


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[Assistant] There were real cracks in the Democratic Party because of Russia hacking. You saw Democrats warring with each other, where Senator Sanders supporters railing against the Clinton supporters on the convention floor, the swelling protests. It was chaos in Philly, and it was because of these emails.


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[Assistant] It was a jarring moment, and we sat there with our jaws open. We couldn't believe that a presidential candidate was encouraging a foreign power, an adversary, to meddle in an election.


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[Assistant] You would cite material that was from what we used to call the fringe, but the fringe became the center of American political life.


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[Assistant] And some of that fringe involved Russian stories that weren't accurate.


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[Assistant] The Russian cloud was with Trump on day one at the inauguration. It's with him months later.


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[Assistant] And it will probably be with him even until the end of his presidency.


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[Assistant] Everybody started to talk about Russia. Some questions were asked. Vladimir Putin clearly enjoyed himself and he was asked these questions in the beginning of September. He gave some, well...


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[Assistant] Everybody believed that there is a special agreement, secret agreement between the elites to get Clinton elected.


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[Assistant] This is an information ecosystem that just turns democracy upside down.


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[Assistant] Anyone who questioned the drug war, anyone who questioned the alleged extrajudicial killings, anyone on Facebook who questioned that would get brutally bashed. We're protected by the constitution. We've been stripped of those protections online.


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[Assistant] They were attacks on the way I looked, the way I sounded, that I should be raped, that I should be killed. We gave it a name.


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[Assistant] Patriotic trolling. Online state-sponsored hate that is meant to silence, meant to intimidate.


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[Assistant] So this is an information ecosystem that just turns democracy upside down.


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[Assistant] Which is, take control and be responsible for what you create.


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[Assistant] Countries where institutions are weak, where corruption is rampant, these countries don't have the safeguards.


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[Assistant] And what happens when you bring everyone onto a platform and do not exercise any kind of


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[Assistant] Rules, right? If you don't implement those rules beforehand, you're going to create chaos.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when I see some people together and I see how they act, you know, I think, well, that's black. And then right in the next second, I don't even finish the thought. I'm saying, well, I've seen whites do it. I've seen other people do it. It's not just the blacks. It's everyone acts differently. It's just a different color is what hits you first.


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[Assistant] And then later, as I said, I only finished that thought before I remember back when I was like that. And I remember not, you know, everyone acts the same way. It's just your way of thinking is the difference.


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[Assistant] He won't learn to be prejudiced from us. I mean, he won't learn to discriminate between people from us. He might hear it from others, but never from us. Okay, what's it like to be married to somebody like that?


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[Assistant] And I was going to marry Sheila and I knew that for my future that I was going into the military. At first I thought, is she going to be able to handle being with all the different nationalities? And then I read the storm, read the book.


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[Assistant] Class divided, before we got married, and before I joined the army. And I said, hey, she's not gonna have any problems.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that one was a nice little addition to the corner of the man cave down here, guys, but great to be with you. And ironically, you know, I came back from fantasy camp at the end of January and


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[Assistant] I'll probably go out sometime in March, and I like to always coincide it with March Madness because then you can hop up to Vegas and take in a couple of the sports books.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe enjoy a flutter here and there. But, uh, you know, the nice thing guys is there's not too much to decide for this club this year going into camp. You got a lot of the roster already set and you know, that's a great, great thing to have with the continuity aspect of it. And now it's kind of looking at, you know, do you bring in a veteran starting pitcher for some.


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[Assistant] great power from both sides of the plate. I feel he's going to benefit not only, you know, in the middle months here in the summers, you guys well know, uh, that jet stream out to right center field at progressive field is really a haven for not only doubles, but for, you know, home runs from both sides of the plate. So we'll see how Josh adapts here on the American league side to the pitching.


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[Assistant] You know, a top 10 overall player in the league and Jose Ramirez hitting in front of him. He's going to have some options behind him, you know, whether it's a right handed starter and it's Josh Naylor or Andres Jimenez. If it's a left handed starter, you can pop Oscar Gonzalez up there. So from a balance standpoint,


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[Assistant] It helps because you got the back-to-back switch hitters in JRM and Josh Bell, but I don't feel he needs to do so much offensively or feel like he's got all that pressure to have to shoulder most of the offensive load.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Jay, first and foremost, I probably could make a comeback with the gold gloves we got in left and quad and straw and center. They could, they could run down all the fly ball outs I used to give up. So, I, I think from that standpoint, defensively, you know, you, you feel really comfortable with what Quani could do in left.


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[Assistant] for for guys and the league adjusting to them. The thing that I think might be an outlier is, is Quanny first and foremost because his approach already is putting the ball in play. Right. And as we know that the new rule changes, the lack of the shift.


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[Assistant] I think he's gonna benefit already from his mentality that he already had for just an entire season last year. With Oscar, he's so good at being able to use all parts of the field, and that's so rare for a guy with his size, his demeanor, and his offensive capabilities.


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[Assistant] For Oscar, I think the one thing I look at, if I was an opposing pitching staff going against him.


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[Assistant] I would want to try and see him have to beat me. Ironically more to the pole side because you guys know he likes to go to that right center gap. He likes to go shoot the ball the other way and get those doubles. To me, I want to crowd him in as much as possible, force him to kind of get uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] If he's able to stay disciplined and he showed that pretty well overall last year, I think the league's in trouble because that's, that's a really tough habit to break.


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[Assistant] That the club feels pretty good that if they need to dip down to AAA right away, they can do that. However,


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[Assistant] And this is an outlier for Terry Francona. He usually is not as patient with some of the younger guys. He likes to lean on the veterans. It may be taken out of his hands this year where it's just, okay, we got to ride with these guys. And, and I think, I think the silver lining here fellows is


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[Assistant] All due respect to Austin Hedges, guys, you no longer have sort of that automatic out in that eight or nine spot. You've got a guy in Z who can change a game with one swing and with straw coming on the way that he did in September and October, you feel much more comfortable being able to turn the lineup over and have some continuity top to bottom.


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[Assistant] They didn't get Tim Anderson for the last two months of the season last year, and I think he's been their heartbeat. As much as Jose is for us, Timmy A is definitely not for Chicago.


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[Assistant] And then with Detroit and Kansas City, guys, we've been really good at beating up on them the last couple of seasons and piling up those wins. Now with a balanced schedule, you don't get that luxury of playing them 19 times. So how does that affect that win total? That's why I kind of side on that 85 win mark. If they're the first one there, then I think they repeat a central champs.


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[Assistant] The power needs to be there, and I think if you look at the last, you know, 4-5 World Series participants, they obviously have that element.


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[Assistant] Uh, as far as that Yankee series go, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but boy, oh boy, did they find it convenient not to play that day and, and be able to give, uh, you know, the, that pitching staff a little extra time. That's not saying anything, but just saying, I mean, we had to, I was there at game four. I sat through the rain and the drizzle.


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[Assistant] Seemed like they could play through it, and plenty of people on the ground air in New York were like,


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[Assistant] Probably could have played, but hey, that's, that's in the path. But your, your point is, is well taken from the power aspect where


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[Assistant] I think for Cleveland and it'll be fascinating to see how the rule changes affect, you know, where offenses go as far as their creativity.


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[Assistant] I think Cleveland was a year ahead of the curve playing the way that they did offensively last year.


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[Assistant] Cause now, you're basically putting this on all 30 teams of


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[Assistant] No shifting guys, you get So you're going to entice Well, we had five dudes w year was a key part of the they have enough pitching showed that last year. No offensive first and that m


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[Assistant] I'm fascinated with the decisions on how many times you pick over, and if you're gonna go that third time and you don't get the guy out,


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[Assistant] I love the pitch clock. Uh, I'm, I'm probably a break from traditionalists. I worked fast, so it would never have affected me, but I think you're going to have the onus and the urgency much more across the board. And I think it'll produce a much more enticing and really enlivened product on the field.


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[Assistant] Uh, that, that was a tough thing to, to have to shoulder. And this is a young team still age-wise, so interested to see how they deal with it. They've got the veterans to do it, but it's easier said than done sometimes. So that, that would be my, my biggest concern.


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[Assistant] My, my guy to break out, uh, I think if you're gonna look at a, a, a Psy Young candidate,


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[Assistant] You got the makings of a guy who's got some of the best swing and miss stuff in the American league. I think he's got that opportunity to really flourish. And if you're going to pick a guy to really, you know, throw some


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[Assistant] Now we can do it in Ohio since it's legal. If you can throw some softer dollars on a guy to maybe take home the Cy Young Award, why not TMAC? He's as good a candidate as anybody.


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[Assistant] My mom and dad came and they were like, uhm, we're slightly disturbed. I was like, why? She was like, all those people came for y'all show? She was like, that's, that's a lot of people. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] You know, people will follow the Lakers, people follow the Celtics. You know, if you get a team like Golden State out there, they'll follow them. But for the most part, people followed the Bulls back in the day. Most part, people, there's only a couple teams people are really die hard about.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when you look at this move, I do say to owners, and I don't know how they're gonna go with the collective bargaining agreement or how they're gonna, you know, split up the money, but.


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[Assistant] I think the owners is just getting tired of it, bro. Like, you know, these guys came there and they said they, you know,


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[Assistant] The Nets were doing their thing. The Nets were just hanging out. We got a nice little team. We got a young head coach. They had some guys back then, Caris Laverte, D'Angelo Russell, some other people. They made the playoffs. They said, Kyrie said, you wanted to come here. Then Harden was like, yo, you guys put it together. And now all of a sudden, it's like,


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[Assistant] Oh, so now you don't want to play here. I do want to play here. No, I don't want to play here. And finally, they just say, listen, brah, get the heck up out of here.


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[Assistant] He, uh, you know, I, I just think, I'm maybe, you know, I'm the Duke of knee-jerk. I'm just saying, it just feels like that career, that little era where, where those players, they're done. Like, keep the grand.


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[Assistant] I don't think Durant, I don't think Kawhi Leonard, I don't think Kyrie Irving, I don't think Paul George, I don't think, uh, Andre Drummond's of the world. That whole era where it was the middling era, I think they're done. I don't think, I think they don't want anymore.


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[Assistant] They could get more punitive. I tell them, listen, if you want, if you are, I go by all NBA teams, like all these dudes are superstars. They be doing three, three tier trades and three, like if you're all pro, if you're first team all NBA, if you first team all NBA defense, if you all stars, right?


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[Assistant] That means you're part of the league. You have different rules and responsibilities.


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[Assistant] If you want to be traded somewhere, it's automatic to first round.


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[Assistant] If you don't have two first round picks, you might as well not even, don't inquire. That's the league rule. And I would never give them a long-term deal. If you want to move, I would put it to you. If you want to be a mercenary, all those five year max deals, they'd be able to get two year deals.


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[Assistant] Two's aren't really worth anything. Second round picks in the league, the Cavs really don't have nothing. Two's is, you can't get me in being Jay for two's.


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[Assistant] And Booker. I think they have a good chance to get out of the West. I'm an owner. If I'm an owner, I keep trying to tell people I'm 70 years old, I'm 40 now. If I'm 70 years old and I'm an owner, I don't give a damn about 12 years from now. Well that's what Illich did with the Tigers. If healthy.


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[Assistant] They had to give up Michael Bridges. That was huge. He's one of the best two-way players. And you ask- Hasn't he been suspended all year? No.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Miles Bridges. Miles Bridges. Miles Bridges. Right, right, right. So you, you look at, you, you still got Durant.


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[Assistant] Who's been injury-prone. You still got, uh, Booker just came back from injury, and Chris Paul... And De'Andre Ayton's a good player too. If Chris Paul kill you, he hit you for 20 points.


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[Assistant] And now they at least have some pieces they can roll into like next year. They had a bunch of one year dudes, right? But now you got Hachimura. Now you, now you got D'Angelo Russell, who, who's not crazy crazy, but he can give you some points. They actually have some, some movable guys they together. They got better from the perimeter, I think.


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[Assistant] The quote, I don't think the football locker room and the basketball locker room is the same.


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[Assistant] The basketball locker room, you know, they got, there's 12 dudes.


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[Assistant] They, all of them was good. All of them was all world. All of them was all county. And then it's just like, there's so many of them that got so many teams with them. Like it's like.


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[Assistant] Somebody telling Anthony Davis, hey dawg, you really did, you really did draw fam. You really that deal. Lebron, when they got Russell, he ain't got more triple W's than me. I got the most bro. Y'all is not that good. They getting amped up. A lot of voices in.


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[Assistant] DC yeaah, we got our own rulers. We can hit somebody up and be like, hold on.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sorry homeboy. Uhm, you know, I like, I like, I like what you bring to the table, but if you, you go, only way you gonna say no is you go into that camp battle and be like, it's me or Emerson because they not putting Denzel Ward inside. He make too much money.


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[Assistant] And Sean Watson, they're gonna say, look bro, you like these plays or you like these plays? He'd be like, I like some of these. We'll take some of these. I want to be in a pistol. And it's, uh, because I, you know, I'm not saying your offense is antiquated. Um, they got a nice offense. If we, if I was watching Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And the Golden Gophers, or Iowa. They got a nice Iowa playbook.


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[Assistant] You need, I'm watching these teams on Sunday. They're gonna have formations. They're gonna have multiple people in motion. I wanna see something more like that. I need that.


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[Assistant] You know, approaching this draft. I look at their division. Um, Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] They got, you just gotta deal with it. They got three receivers. Right. So they gonna be dealing, you dealing with these guys. I do think the bangle.


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[Assistant] I look at the, I look at the teams that we got. Look, Devontae Adams, they drafted him. They said, let me, go out and get me AJ Brown too.


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[Assistant] I need two of them. They said, let me go get a tight end too. Look, I got a tight end. I got, they got, I think you gotta have multiple people. What's interesting about


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[Assistant] You know, Greg, one of the reasons I like the way they're playing so much is, I don't know what the heck happened in the last couple weeks, but...


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[Assistant] Evan Moby looks like a different player. He's more aggressive. He's getting the ball. I think more in spots where he could be more effective. You know, we wanted him to shoot threes, but.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when you force somebody out further, 20, 21 feet, it's a little bit difficult because your game isn't developed to a certain extent. I think he's much more comfortable around 15 and 17. He's been getting the ball, being aggressive, dunking the ball. You know, what kind of happened? Is this a concerted effort?


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[Assistant] By JB, is it just something that his teammates are saying do it, or is this just Mobly progressing on a natural rate, uhm, on his own?


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[Assistant] He played a long time. Yeah, he did. 8,000 points. Maybe he don't even got double digits. Nah, he probably averaged.


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[Assistant] Bill Russell averaged 14 points. But he played forever.


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[Assistant] That's why, that's why Kate, this is, this is why this stuff getting ridiculous. That's before the three point line too. This is, this is, I said this before, listen, no disrespect. Bill Russell, what he did, listen, for, for African Americans and, and trying to be like living in Boston, I couldn't even imagine that, right?