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[Assistant] He's able to get him from tight. He's able to get him. His hands are just always in place. And I'm like, pitch is inside. I'm like, he'll never get that.


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[Assistant] And he gets to barrel the bat on it and sprays it and puts it in play. I'm like, this guy's, he's tremendous just to watch. He had three hits yesterday.


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[Assistant] So he's, he's a guy, he's a guy, well, you know, we talked about it before. He took a little step back last year.


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[Assistant] Looks like he's playing better this year. Uh, him it is, is, is, is, is swinging the bat. He looks back. I didn't like that bunt early. He bumps too much, but besides that I love him. And, and because the pop, it seems like he has the pop back.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, he may not have the home runs, um, yet, but they're coming because he's getting solid contact on the ball. Uh, in general, Will Brandon, shout out to him.


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[Assistant] Coach Prine, you're the new Travis.


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[Assistant] Okay, listen, okay, listen. Here's what we're going to do. I want to put this out and I need y'all to make this go viral. I need somebody help me. Y'all help me. I would like to see Major League Baseball player, whoever you are, do this for us, right? Get the metal bats and in batting practice, we would like to see


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[Assistant] I wanna see how far you can put this baseball out of the stadium with an empty stadium with a metal bat. I'm challenging you.


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[Assistant] Okay, fair enough. When you look at Stefanski, you know, he's grown on a lot of people and I think it helps that you got two Coach of the Year awards, right?


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[Assistant] Is he respected around the league as...


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[Assistant] A person who has two coaches of the years, I would think that when you have those awards, it puts you in a different little...


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[Assistant] Echelon in the different purge. Is he viewed like that around the league?


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[Assistant] Well, I was gonna get to that in a little bit anyway. Uhm, let's talk about their fiscal policy. Like, the Bounds are doing things like,


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[Assistant] From our standpoint, that other teams aren't doing fiscally, right? They're, you know, playing a lot of upfront money, redoing contracts, renegotiating contracts.


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[Assistant] Is that something that comes from Dee Podesta? Is that something that comes from Andrew Berry? And is this something that other teams are doing? Because it seems like they're just doing mental, they're doing financial gymnastics every week with these contracts. Is this something that we might see other teams do? Or is this just specifically to the Browns?


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[Assistant] You know, when you look at the Browns roster, you look at the coach, shoot on coach of the year, you got defense player of the year, you got great defense, you look like you got everything moving in the right direction. But I'll be laughing and joking with these guys. It just seems like, yeaah, the Browns get better.


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[Assistant] But people in the division keep doing that. Yes. I mean. It's a gauntlet. It's like, is this the best division ever? Right?


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[Assistant] Listen, J.O.K., you had that right. I think you might even see people talk about J.O.K. possibly being one of the best. Mention Miles Garrett as the best defender on the team.


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[Assistant] I think his tackles for loss, I think he's going to only continue to get better. And I'm just going to double down.


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[Assistant] You gotta have it. You gotta have it. I can't, I can't do it no more. Tier 2. We can't put him on tier 3. I can't keep putting defensive players over you. We need that Deshaun Watson at least bare minimum. Like, 4,000 yards.


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[Assistant] If he's throwing right now, I got it. I'm marking it down.


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[Assistant] He might spoon feed him just the same way Flacco loved David and Joku. Okay. Chemistry like that. I'ma go with the sneaker and Judy. So I'm with you both.


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[Assistant] So what y'all saying, so what y'all saying, they died. Cause you said Deshaun gotta be in the top three. For them to be.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, listen, this is the group of people that if they ball out or play above their grade, Browns can end up in the Super Bowl. I'ma go with Nick Chubb, come back, get some, get some rec. Alright? So that, we got him out of here. Zedarius Smith! Listen bro!


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[Assistant] I was trying to get 10 sacks from you last year. He didn't give it to me, Zach. He didn't give me what I wanted. If he could get it off what he was doing and be healthy, I like that pick. I'ma go with this one. I'ma go with this guy. I had Delphid in the other one. I'ma have Grant Delphid in this one. You got paid last year, Grant, but you gotta be healthy. Yep. Four. Greg Newsome.


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[Assistant] Listen, you got, you got the skill set. We know what you can do.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, you gotta be able to be more consistent, don't be trailing people, know what you're doing. If he turns into, you know, one of those corners, they can have their own little no-fly zone like they had in Denver. And then, so that's what, four? That's four, you got one more. And then I got one more. Uhm, I'm gonna go with, this is, we haven't mentioned Big Fella.


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[Assistant] The question, the question mark tier, Elijah Moore, uh, Jack Conklin, Juan Thornhill. What's up, bro? We did not see you nowhere on the triangle. No pyramid, Juan. No mentions. Um, it said for Tillman. Well, he's not. I mean, this is projections.


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[Assistant] We don't know that. I've seen mocks where they had the brows taken a running back. Is that crazy?


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[Assistant] I'm just, it seems like they can never get them the carries. I was waiting last year to see if he can get some, some carries or something. I like his running, uh, like his style. It just, I don't know if they just want to use him on special teams. It never just quite worked out.


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[Assistant] Listen, like, I don't know what, like,


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[Assistant] You gotta think about it like this. If I'm rich and I got that much money...


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[Assistant] I will say this man, and you let me get that camera man, listen. It's something about competition man.


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[Assistant] You know, we talk about the Cavs and what they're gonna be long term and whether Mobley's gonna turn into a unicorn. All that stuff stops when the playoffs get here, right? We always, we say it. Everybody say it.


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[Assistant] Right, right. So, so yeaah, we may have been down on the Cavs, we may have been down on what they looked like during the year, but when these playoffs come, it's about getting behind your squad, cause there's nothing like


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[Assistant] A playoff atmosphere. It's now time to show. Darius Garland, who cares if you was playing like garbage during the regular season? You got a chance to right the ship. Donovan Mitchell, yea you was hurt. You got a chance. Evan Mobley.


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[Assistant] Y'all got an opportunity to come out here and win a playoff series and I don't care what nobody say. If they come out here and win a series against the magic and get an opportunity to play the Celtics, you think eh, people ain't gonna be behind them? Yea, we'll be excited. Yea, we're gonna be excited.


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[Assistant] They, I almost like it. The guard, the calf ain't supposed to win.


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[Assistant] A win, a first round playoff win is a first round playoff win. It is. Now you playing the Celtics and you ain't supposed to win that game. That's house money.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell. Bro, it's time to turn up. If you want to be known as one of those guys, the cool thing about it is, I know for a fact Donovan Mitchell can get 70.


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[Assistant] I didn't see it. I didn't see Caris Levert get 50. I didn't see Daris Garland get 50. Right? Like I didn't see Jared Allen get 20 and 20. It ain't like the Cavs don't have no talent. It's just about putting it together. So we may be down on them, but make no bones about it.


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[Assistant] G Bush is always, I'm, I'm, I'm tuned in to every game. I'm going to be rooting hard. And if they play bad, I'm going to be emotional. And if they play well, I'm still going to be emotional.


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[Assistant] I was going back and forth. This is the part of the run down I did look at. The last thing? The last thing. Hey, I said, look.


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[Assistant] I wanna come out and I like, I like the fact that it's when, it's either or. With Struz, it gives you the opportunity to spread the floor.


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[Assistant] And you need that with Darius Garland. You don't want things to be packed up. You want them to be able to drive and kick and do that. Uh, especially when you got the two bigs on the floor. Max Struz has also been showing he's a playmaker a little bit too these last couple games.


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[Assistant] But for me, I'm gonna have to go with Isaac Acora and here's the reason why. I'm gonna go with Isaac Acora because he's able...


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[Assistant] To, to erase the mismatch that you may have with Darius Scott.


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[Assistant] I just think about it like this. If they gonna run pick and roll or they wanna blitz and stuff, they gonna have Darius Garland out there, right? They gonna make sure that they gonna put him in all of the isos and do whatever they want to.


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[Assistant] But it's not that bad if you got two rim protectors and Isaac Okoro who can guard their best team's other player.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I think that he's going to be able to kick up a little intensity. He's going to be, be able to switch off on different people. And Isaac this year has shown he can hit that corner three. So for me, I'm going to go defense early. Uh, and I use strews coming off the bench with Karis Levert.


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[Assistant] Uh, George Nieng, now I got a nice, nice roster where guys can hit threes. But I'ma go with Isaac and Cora because of his defensive presence.


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[Assistant] He, he has to immediately be like, oh, no, no, we can't do that. Uh, we, we, one of y'all gotta sit and come off the bench and listen, it's the playoffs. You can get it off. I can understand it during the season.


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[Assistant] You gotta be willing to pivot between a couple, and you might even need to, and, and, if you, if you still are stagnant and, and Struz isn't making shots, you may need to actually start Karis Levert. You may need to go, you may need to go a lot of different routes.


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[Assistant] Three or the most four important guys, mentally. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, having Morris and all that playoff experience and he's a goon, love it. You're gonna lean a lot on George Niang. He's also a soft goon.


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[Assistant] He's, he's, he's, he's the Pillsbury Goon. Like, he's not really rough on the outside, but he talk a good game. Max Struce, you talk about with Miami, been there, been to the finals, and then you got Donovan Mitchell. So those four guys,


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[Assistant] I expect to pull guys close, if Darius Garland gets spaced out, if Jared Allen is getting down on himself because he missed a rebound, or if Evan Mobley don't want to shoot the ball when he's open, and you need him to, I think those four guys will have a lot more to say. Last year against the Knicks, they didn't have those voices, except for Donovan.


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[Assistant] They finish you off early and make you look, you be the more, when you got a young team like Orlando, who ain't been there, they looking to find just any sort of, you know, good feelings. Hey, we were in it, the game was close at halftime, didn't see anybody's game in the second half. If you come out there and you put the, the bricks on them, I want to see which one of these dudes is going.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're, they're Hall of Famers. They're, they're like, it's like, you know, I like, uh, who else, who's a really good player? Uh, I like James Worthy. He's not magic or green. Eminem's. Eminem might be the best.


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[Assistant] All around rapper ever. Really? Like he's good. He's in a lot of people's top fives.


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[Assistant] He's saying no. Earl, see, they usually say, when people say Eminem's in the top five, they be like, Eminem can't be in the top five because people in the hood don't play Eminem.


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[Assistant] When was the last time you heard Eminem in the club? Do you have it?


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[Assistant] Earl the Pearl is in his place. I'm in his place, man. Tequila Fridays. We do shows and drink tequila on Fridays.


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[Assistant] This is the collector's fit. You look like an early 1990s drug plug from New York or something like that.


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[Assistant] You see, it's funny you say that because the first time I ever met McNuggets was at the pilot shooting of one of G-Buzz barbershop shows, right? When McNuggets walked in, I thought McNuggets was the dude who created the ultimate Cleveland sports show. I kid you not. Really? I kid you not.


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[Assistant] This dude been on episode 8. How long has Mike been stuck on episode 1 of Power that came out 10 years ago?


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[Assistant] Alright, so they've already, they've already restructured the deal once and me and Mike was talking about this this morning. They already owe him somewhere like nine million dollars, uh, the year after he's set to be a free agent, right?


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[Assistant] Now they've already said they're, they're somewhere like 13 million. Uh, they have like 13 million in cap space now, since the Nick Chubb restructure. They have to save some of that to go towards the rookie class, which uh, uh, equivalent to like 1 million against the cap.


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[Assistant] Right now they are set to be 17.8 million over the cap going into next year. I wouldn't touch Deshaun Watson's contract this year because to your point, eventually like you go have to pay up. Right now you're already in a situation to where you owe him money.


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[Assistant] a year after he's set to be a free agent. I think if Deshaun Watson goes out and plays very well and then stays healthy all year, I think next year you can see a restructure or even a brand new deal.


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[Assistant] You know, at one point I remember when Sean McVeigh became the hottest head coach and then you started seeing people, you know, mimic the Sean McVeigh offense, right?


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[Assistant] I think I've read articles about people mimicking the way that Andrew Barry does business as a general manager. You're starting to see other GMs kind of adapt what he's doing. I hear you and I hear you. Jay, I'm kind of in line with you. At this point, I used to think it eventually would catch up with the Browns with the salary cap.


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[Assistant] The point I'm getting at is, even if that continues to jump, I think what makes the Browns situation so unique is that you have a owner that's willing to always flip base salary into signing bonus money. And as long as you're willing to convert salary into signing bonus money, the Browns is going to always be ahead of the curve because Jimmy Aslim clearly don't mind writing a check.


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[Assistant] Every NFL team gotta deal with the same salary cap. So why is every team situation is always different? Because every owner is different. Not every owner is willing to reach in their own pocket and convert base salary to signing bonuses.


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[Assistant] Ever since Jimmy Haslam has taken over this team, I think he's always kind of let us know, you know, he's willing to spend money. The prob- I think the problem that you have is-


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[Assistant] Let's give him some benefit of the doubt, right? Because when Jimmy Hasson first took over, he was an ignorant owner. He didn't know much, right? He would always say, you know, I've talked to this person, I've talked to that person. So he's listening to whoever would hear him talk. And when he first took over, who did he bring in? Banner and Lombardi with him? You know, probably some bad moves, right?


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[Assistant] I think over his tenure of ownership, he's becoming smarter as an NFL owner, but he's still spending money.


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[Assistant] Man, I give him credit just for spending money. The one thing I can say about him and Dan Gilbert, Dan spend the bread. Now, like Jay said, it's about spending it smartly. I just feel like over the last five or six years, Jimmy has been more smarter with his money.


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[Assistant] He didn't even, wait not to cut you off, but Flacco didn't even play the last game to reach the incentives. Jimmy went in his pocket and gave him the money anyway. Respect.


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[Assistant] But he damn well better get to that parade. Wait, I gotta, I gotta go off of what Jay just said because it's funny, 2016 to Browns was 1 in 15, right? Yes. And I guarantee you, he watched everything, he probably even picked up the phone and called Dan Gilbert and got off that phone and looked at D and said, ain't no way in hell.


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[Assistant] You got the guardians at that year, they went to the world series, the cast won the championship and you coming off a 1-15. And maybe, because Jimmy said it at the moment that he took over as owner.


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[Assistant] I'm not a patient man and I'm not here for all this losing. And so to your point, maybe he looked at it like, you know what? I've got the money to spend. Let me get somebody in here. Let me get somebody in here, a la Andrew Berry, who knows what the hell he's doing with the salary cap, knows how to evaluate talent because people don't, people sleep to this point.


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[Assistant] When he was an assistant or a scout in Indy, he played a huge role in them, you know, finding Andrew Luck and Andrew Luck becoming a part of the Indianapolis Coast. So he probably looked at this like, man, I got somebody that know how to handle the salary cap. Somebody knows how to evaluate talent.


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[Assistant] Okay, if I'm gonna spend all this money, at least I know somebody, I have somebody that for the most part can spend it the right way.


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[Assistant] Man listen, Tito is a real OG, Tito is the godfather.


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[Assistant] There is no way in the world anything that the Guardians is doing right now is an indictment on Terry Francona. To your point, man, he lost his number one and number two pitchers to injury. Then you had guys like Jimenez and Kwan who really didn't play that well last year.


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[Assistant] Right, the previous year. Then you had young guys that you was counting on to, you know, kind of repeat what they did in 2022 and 23. Didn't happen. You had MLB changing damn near every rule of significance, and that was an adjustment for an old school manager. You know, a lot of things, plus it's health, right?


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[Assistant] So one of the things that excites me about Steven Vogt is he just got finished playing this game. This is a dude who knows these, uh, new MLB rules pretty well.


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[Assistant] That when you're a former player that, that recently removed from the game.


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[Assistant] You could relate to the younger players a little bit better. And not only that, Jay, plus man, there's no expectations this year. And typically when there's no expectations, we talk all the time about the Browns players hearing all the noise. The Guardians players hear the noise too. They're channeling all that noise they hear and they going out there showing us, I'll show you.


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[Assistant] So if you missed yesterday's episode of the Ultimate 216 Show, I called it Perception vs Reality.


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[Assistant] And I learned first hand that the perception of Deshaun Watson in Cleveland on social media is different from reality.


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[Assistant] But that perception nationally is different from the reality here. I don't think Deshaun Watson no matter how well he plays unfortunately will receive any MVP votes. The NFL won't even put the man on their IG page, okay? Let alone give him any MVP votes. Evan Mobley, he's a nice guy.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna get no or, you're not gonna get no quality return on investment when it comes to Darius Garland, but for me, I think it's more likely that 2024 is Darius Garland's last year and here's why. I'm gonna take a different spin to it.


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[Assistant] They know that he, you know, he got some issues and I believe that part of reaching, helping him reach his full potential was pairing him with Omari Cooper. I find it hard to believe that you trade for him, you sign him to a new contract to, to with the growth and development part of things and Omari being a mentor, you don't sign him for a three year deal.


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[Assistant] And, and just for the let of Mario Cooper walk out the door after this year. That's, that would be my reasoning.


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[Assistant] The thing he does that irritates me, I call it the jama-rack, cause Ja does it a lot, the whole roll the ball up the court, and walk it up the court, and it seems like every time he do it, it don't work in his favor.


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[Assistant] Wasn't it Fischer that was, uh, Fischer was with the Titans for so long, he was like in three different cities with them, wasn't he?


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[Assistant] Hey Mike, is it too much to ask? I'm not sure, but didn't him and McVeigh get hired the same year?


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[Assistant] I'm going with Jay throwing a nine in and no hitter. Here's the thing, I cannot wait, you know, as this little league season goes on to critique Bull as a manager, you know, we're going to get some little league reporters on to talk about the season, to talk about what Bull is doing.


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[Assistant] So one more before we move on, Mike, because this is another biggest question as you compared the situation to Nick Tubb, another superstar player coming off a major injury. Did you get your deal restructured as well?


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[Assistant] Wait, it ain't nothing crazy. Scoop is like, you know, that's my girl. All that is is Mr. Cabot is going to have to come see Aunt. That's all.


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[Assistant] No, people think I be lying when I say there's no amount of money that you can give me to make me cut my hair off. If I cut my hair off, it'll be because I decided internally it's something I want to do. I love my hair that much.


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[Assistant] I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Somebody said, somebody had said something in the chat, I think like a couple million and I said no.


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[Assistant] All I'ma have is $250,000 and I'm not internally don't feel well, like, that ain't a good trade off.


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[Assistant] I'll have, so my hair, where they at right now, this is six years of growth.


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[Assistant] No, I feel that, but I like my hair. Like money is just, I mean, I'm not doing it. I'm just not doing it.


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[Assistant] It is opening day. We're going to spend a lot of time on baseball. We'll talk about the Cavs collapse in Los Angeles yesterday. We'll talk about the Sean Watson's comments on Kevin Stefanski, which I know has added the bull. Super excited. And we got two live reports coming to you from progressive field on the home opener. But first today's show is sponsored by better help.


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[Assistant] Make sure you check them out at betterhelp.com. Oh, it's the home opener for the guardians. Yeah. Shane Bieber will not be on the mound for the Cleveland guardians.


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[Assistant] How do you compare the excitement we should have about this team being 72 at this point in the season, surpassing every expectation, but also knowing their ace, their Cy Young candidate will not be with them for the rest of the season.


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[Assistant] Peaking of missing things, boy, obviously the Guardians will miss Shane Bieber, and I asked you yesterday.


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[Assistant] So before we move on, we'll talk Cavs in one sec. I just want to give you guys the update on the two polls we put up. We asked, would you be in favor of the Guardians signing, uh, Trevor Bauer or not? On our YouTube community poll, 700 votes, 78% said yes, they'd be in favor of signing. Not surprised, but it will not happen.


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[Assistant] So the fanbase in favor of bringing back Trevor Bauer. Uh, let's talk a little Cavs yesterday.


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[Assistant] Talk about it today after what happened yesterday. It was a catastrophic collapse versus the Clippers. 26 point lead.


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[Assistant] Turns into a two point loss. The final plays down the stretch left a lot to be desired. I feel like I've said that multiple times on multiple occasions over the last month and a half. Gee Bush, I'll start with you because your tweet kind of put it


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[Assistant] Nicely yesterday, if you want to say. But what the hell do you make of the Cavs right now if they're blowing a 26 point lead and going 1-4 on this 5 game road trip?


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[Assistant] There's just a lame duck situation for the Cavs heading to the playoffs. We all know the inevitable for JB, but this is a direct quote from Chris Fiedor's article, uh, Chris Fiedor's article following last night's game. Quote.


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[Assistant] Multiple players openly questioned the defensive strategy afterwards. They wondered why the Cavs didn't attempt to blitz the scorching call George and force someone else to play offensive hero.


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[Assistant] We have reached the point of the season where we are three games away from the playoffs.


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[Assistant] And in the locker room following a bad loss, players are now openly questioning why they did and or didn't make certain adjustments.


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[Assistant] Well, gee, yesterday, after the comeback was complete Steve Tate tag board poll, but, uh, I'm not sure you guys saw this video. Russell Westbrook was dancing and taunting the Cavs. The only one who said anything was Tristan Thompson.


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[Assistant] The skill level in the NBA has never been higher because every player has a personal trainer when they're 12 years old and they're working on individual drills, but no one plays real basketball. And part of the reason the one in Dunn's in college don't work and part of the reasons in the NBA


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[Assistant] You see less team cohesion is everyone is so individually talented and they've done things in their own respective way since they were 11, 12, 13, whenever they get these personal trainers, that it doesn't mesh in the same sense it used to. And we still have the women's game we'll talk about in a sec.


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[Assistant] South Carolina replaced four of their top six players from last year, but they played nine. They played great together. Iowa had been together for four or five years now. There's a team element that you can't replicate. And even though individual skills are at an all time high, more guys can score 20 points. The dribbling, the shooting, never been better.


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[Assistant] We're gonna bring Jay Crawford in here from Progressive Field after a quick reminder that today's show is sponsored by BetterHelp. What's the first thing you do if you're in an extra hour in the day? Go for a run, take a nap, read a book.


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[Assistant] Very impressive live shot there. Great seat for today's home opener. How you doing, Jay?


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[Assistant] On last week's Friday show, we showed you Gee Bush at Lefty's, which is the Sean Watson's new chees-cheese steak restaurant in Cleveland Heights. Earl the Pearl was also there. We'll get you the full video and the food review, I think, on Wednesday, Gee, after Rashad's done editing that all for us.


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[Assistant] But also at Lefty's that day was a taping of the QB Plugged on podcast. That's the Sean Watson and Quincy Carrier, uh, Quincy Avery, excuse me. It's their podcast. And Kevin Stefanski was a guest on the show.


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[Assistant] And Deshawn had some comments on Kevin's The Fancy that caught my eye. Let's hear it and then we'll react.


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[Assistant] Well, I thought that was about as ringing endorsement as a quarterback and give us a coach. What say you?


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[Assistant] Alright guys, you know today is the eclipse, so if you're traveling around Cleveland, make sure you guys be safe, take the necessary precautions, avoid traffic if you can, and if you look at the sun, wear the glasses, that can be dangerous. Yea, Tyvis. What is Tyvis doing by the way?


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[Assistant] In honor of the eclipse, and in case anyone knows, the eclipse is when the moon blocks the sunlight. It's gonna get dark in Cleveland. I put together a list of the ultimate five


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[Assistant] Plenty way down the line, and if I miss them, you guys can tell me what else. This is McNuggets top 5 block that I know of in Cleveland history. So this is the first top 5 we've done in a while.


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[Assistant] It is the obvious one, it is LeBron on Iguodala in the finals, the game saving game, maybe the most iconic play of LeBron's career. I don't know what is more iconic if there is one but this was arguably the greatest block in NBA history and it had to be the number one block in Cleveland history.


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[Assistant] And how much ground he tracked in the last three steps he took.


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[Assistant] To catch up to Iggy to be able to rise. Take it off the top of the block. This is the top of the block. This man's face!


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[Assistant] She's famous. I think one of the South Carolina players. South Carolina roster, Ohio, uh, Samika Walker is from Columbus and Brie Hall. Oh, Brie Hall. Brie Hall. Yeah. Brie Hall is from Dayton. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's on UG, I don't feel bad. Uh, but oh, on Friday the first game, South Carolina NC State, I'd say about 70% full. Tickets got you in for both games, so there was definitely a portion of the fan base that just wanted to see Yukon, Iowa. It's a good atmosphere, but once the Yukon, Iowa game started, the late game on Friday night,


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[Assistant] The way that went back and forth coming down to the call at the very end.


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[Assistant] Or I mean, you tweeted out, you thought it was louder than it is for some Cavs games during that last five minute sequence in the final.


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[Assistant] I agree, and that part is completely unfair, and I just think that's the bigger picture of how this whole situation unfolded. People took their anger out at Caitlyn Clark, when Caitlyn Clark has done nothing but be


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[Assistant] Who's the old NBA player that said Steph Curry couldn't play in the 90s? This happens in every sport. The older guys, the gatekeepers don't appreciate and don't want to recognize that the next generation could be next up.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, Super Chats. Uh, Trizzy T said we traded for Cinderguard last year. It did not go well.


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[Assistant] Who are we sacrificing on the pitcher's mount at the moment of totality to guarantee a World Series? Trevor Bauer?


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[Assistant] And Mud Alou says, Experience eclipse totality is incredible. It gets so cold. Earl, please take the time to experience totality at some point in your life. Astronomy rocks.


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[Assistant] Here's the funny part. For the first time ever, I was in Mike's seat Friday for the TV show. So I came out here trying to do it internal. You're my inner big nuggets. I said, hey, what do you all want to tease? G looked at me like he ain't know what the hell I was talking about.


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[Assistant] You have guys who excel at special teams, but they also contribute elsewhere. But when you have a guy who is just a special teams guy, I can't think of very many. Am I wrong?


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[Assistant] Can you just put that back up? Except for, uh, Mike McDaniel. So, start at the top. Yeah. Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl appearance. Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl appearance.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton, Super Bowl, Dan Campbell, no. I think Campbell's a little high, like, but they all have, except, and Mike McDaniel going off name pride recognition. Yea. I mean, almost all those guys have either been to, at least been to Super Bowl, if not won one. Yea. Campbell and McDaniel, I think you could put Kevin above them. Sure.


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[Assistant] No, but. No, but I'm just pointing out what they all have in common there. I think. Why does Jim get it? He ain't been in coaching since. He ain't even been in the league in however many years. I agree.


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[Assistant] So what does that have to do with you? But Mike McDaniel and Dan Campbell I don't think belong. And Matt LaFleur is probably a little bit too high on that list. In the end, these lists are stupid. I agree. It's all opinion. I agree.


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[Assistant] That's what I wanted to see. You've said for years, there's like three or four really, really good ones and three or four really, really bad ones and the rest, it's just word salad. That's right. So where is he? Is he still in the word salad?


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[Assistant] If he can get the best set of Jacoby Brissette and Baker Mayfield and Joe Flacco and Philip Walker.


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[Assistant] And Deshaun doesn't look his best. You put that on Kevin or do you put that on Deshaun?


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[Assistant] Okay. I think it's more likely to happen this year than last year. Last year there was a 0% chance he was ever getting mentioned. This year it's probably a 1% chance. Now in er, 2025...


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[Assistant] Council hasn't had a seat at the table to this point in the negotiations. This has been between Jimmy and City Hall. And I, my opinion, watching that, listening to what he had to say,


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[Assistant] This was his way of trying to crowbar counsel to the table, to have a seat at the table of negotiations, when really, I don't know that it's...


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[Assistant] Time yet for counsel to be involved in this. I don't know that it's reached that point yet, but they just want to be involved and informed in what's going on. Okay, fine. The resolution that he's trying to


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[Assistant] I guess we can talk about it. We can pull it. So this is the resolution that was passed in 1996. Okay, so you can read it there.


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[Assistant] The Haslums are well aware of the Modell Law. Right. It's how they got the Columbus Crew. That's right. So nothing Brian Casey said yesterday is revelatory in any way shape or form.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, if they, if, I, I sent the, I sent the, the language of the Modell law to a couple people yesterday and said like, you know, where are we at with this? And, and people not af, not affiliated with the Browns, not associated. Legal people? Yeaah. And people who've been involved in stadiums before, and they said,


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[Assistant] Clearly, the spirit of this law.


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[Assistant] Clearly is to keep a team within a market, within a region.


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[Assistant] Now the language, it is specific about the municipality. So if they want to take this to court, if city council really wants to fight this and take this to court,


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[Assistant] They can do that. And they can slug this out in court.


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[Assistant] And I, my only thing is like I hope it doesn't come to that. Like hopefully there's a better resolution out there because we've seen city council, the mayor and Brown's owner and a bloodbath before and nobody wins when it gets to that point. If it's better.


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[Assistant] For all, and I understand he's protecting the city of Cleveland's interest as a councilman. I get it. Fine. But if it's better for the region...


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[Assistant] To develop this 170 acres by the airport and bring mixed use to it and economic growth and development.


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[Assistant] Isn't that better for the entire area than it is to have


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[Assistant] A team that has a better alternative elsewhere and I know I'm watering this down and it's more complicated than that because there's finances involved and you gotta find a way to pay for it. I get all that. But in the grand scheme of things and the big picture of things, I'm, I'm, listen, I'm very clearly pro


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[Assistant] Dome in Brook Park. I for years said 480 and 77. Go out to 480 and 77 to do this. Well they picked the Brook Park land. Fine. But I've always been a proponent of this idea. I think this is good for the region. I think this is good for greater Cleveland.


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[Assistant] May not be good for the city of Cleveland and what this guy wants, but in totality, I think this is the better option.


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[Assistant] I don't think a business is going to go out because a football team moves 15 miles away. I don't think a bar is going to close because the team is moving 15 miles away. I don't think.


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[Assistant] You're gonna drive to Brook Park, you're gonna go to the game, you're gonna get your car, and you're gonna go home.


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[Assistant] Now, I do think that they're going to build up the area around that because that's the whole draw of this. But you're going to go to Jimmy's restaurants and you're going to go to stay at Jimmy's hotels. But I also think that development is good for the region.


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[Assistant] It's just land. It's just like the Cavs facility that they're gonna do at the clinic. It's just blight. It's just empty warehouses and parking lots. It's just run down garbage right now that they're gonna try and they're gonna put a public, a Cavs practice facility with a public component to it. That's good.


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[Assistant] But it's also, it's good for the region. It's good for everybody to have more options. To have more options and more things to do.


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[Assistant] I hear ya, and you're probably right, I just don't know what-


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[Assistant] He might have no choice! Well if he has to foot the bill for the whole thing, I don't think he'll do it.


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[Assistant] I don't think it'll happen. And that's how you wind up back in the crappy stadium on the lake.


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[Assistant] But also one thing that hasn't, we haven't really talked about at all, that if they do do this, if they do build a dome,


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[Assistant] The sticker shock that's going to come with the prices to get into that. Oh god yeaah. It's going to price out a lot of people. Of course. And PSL's are going to come back or some variation of.


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[Assistant] I was talking to a guy over the weekend who raised the season ticket prices $800 already for the lakefront. Wait and see what they're going to do to ticket prices.


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[Assistant] Rundown riverfront. Crappy waterfront.


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[Assistant] Is that a better option? How is that a better option?


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[Assistant] Nobody even looked into that. That's what I'm saying. I don't even think that they have the list yet of, I mean they'd have to tear this thing down to the bottom and start over. Really.


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[Assistant] It would, it would go to the courts. If they really want to fight this and take this to the courts, this could wind up in a court battle. But again, nothing was said yesterday that was a revelation. No.


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[Assistant] Like the Haslums are well aware of, they use that law to get the crew. One thing that I did learn, we talked about this before.


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[Assistant] What would happen, I think you mentioned, what would happen to the practice facility? Would they take the practice facility? Yes, I want to know. I asked about that, yea. No, they are staying.


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[Assistant] It is convenient to do that. It's very convenient. Yeaah. But that is not, that would not happen here. They would still, they'd keep the facility in Berea and the stadium would be in Brook Park. So there you go.


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[Assistant] On any side of this. And that's the one thing where I keep looking at the clock going, you guys gotta make decisions.


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[Assistant] It's, it's gonna happen sooner or later and, and I think we touched on this before, but if it's, if this is something that has to go to the ballot, it's a presidential election in the fall.


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[Assistant] Is that good or bad for the Browns if they're trying to get something passed because the number, the voter turnout is going to be higher. Is that, do they want higher turnout or do you want to try and slide this through like school levies do and do it in an off year? I don't know the answer to that.


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[Assistant] Well I think the older people probably would vote against


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[Assistant] And I don't even know, like, we don't even know what the proposal would be. Yea, I need to know what the proposal would be. But I just, I think that they could have a hard time getting something passed on the ballot.


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[Assistant] And that's why, that's how you wind up back on the lakefront. It's not because of...


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[Assistant] McKinsey gave him a four. The concerning part with Tristan, and it's one start. And not only like small sample size, it's his first start.


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[Assistant] You know, I remember having a conversation with Zach Meisel when Shane's Velocity dipped a couple years ago. You noticed it at the first start, you thought, uh oh. And it never went up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, some guys, they build up and can get better as the season goes. And with Tristan's elbow, you have to say, uh oh. And he typically sits around 92 and last night he was barely breaking 90.


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[Assistant] Fourth, fifth start in the majors. That's what he is.


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[Assistant] Now how big is it that they did not trade Shane Bieber? Oh yeaah. Over the winter. Extend him. We talked about that, that didn't happen. I know, but please don't do it. We talked about that over the winter that the impression I was getting was that they weren't going to move him because


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[Assistant] They didn't want to be then in a position where you're trying to find a Shane Bieber at the trade deadline and you're paying 3X the price for you got in the return for him.


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[Assistant] So, it's a good thing right now, the way this is starting out. And he pitches today. And he was phenomenal. It was the A's! But this was, yes, it was the A's and they are the Durham Bulls. But his stuff...


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[Assistant] That's it. Well, we gonna find out today.


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[Assistant] Elbow. During a workout. So he would probably need three rehab starts if they want to start that process now.


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[Assistant] So 15 days. I think last week April. Two weeks. Two weeks. I think two weeks. The three's rehab, well. Three, 15 pitches. He would have to start the rehab assignment like today. In two weeks. So it's probably three weeks. Probably, probably yeah. I mean that would be good. Have you got him back before?


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[Assistant] I really like Rokyo shorts so far, and it feels like...


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[Assistant] I said a couple years ago, it was supposed to be Gabby Arias. Like he was supposed to be the shortstop. Now it's Rokio. Now it's Rokio. Like they tried with Arias. They tried and they tried and they tried.


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[Assistant] And he basically had the second half last year after they moved on from...


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[Assistant] Uh, Rosario to give him that spot and he just couldn't grab hold of it. So now they're moving on to Rokyo. And, and...


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[Assistant] Brian's off to a good start. Like he looks comfortable at the plate. He doesn't look overwhelmed. I really like Tyler Freeman in center. Like this is working. This is great.


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[Assistant] But he's a guy that looks like he could just, he's gonna bat 280 every year of his life. Like he's just, he's not gonna hit 25 home runs, but he's a solid major league player.


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[Assistant] I take that, yeaah. A little bit of speed, little bit of speed.


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[Assistant] I'm excited to see Manzardo come up in a couple weeks. I think at some point


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[Assistant] Estevan Florial doesn't look like he's part of their plan. And part of that is because Freeman is doing such a great job in center. Eventually, I think you'll see them DFA Florial and maybe if DeLouder's ready, go get DeLouder. Give him a shot in right field.


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[Assistant] It felt, and we said this during the offseason.


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[Assistant] Everything went their way two years ago. Everything went against them last year. I don't believe, I never felt like it was that far from flipping back. They just needed a couple of answers and a couple of spots. And so far, it's very early, but so far, if Rokio works at short and Freeman works at center, those are the answers that you were looking for, that you needed.


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[Assistant] I think against right-handers, he'll probably bat third. Okay. Against lefties.


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[Assistant] He talked about it when I was out there. He talked about it during spring training that Hosey's comfortable with it. He likes the idea. I joked with him, will you bat him lead off? Like the Yankees bat judge lead off. What about batting him lead off? And he said, we're not going that far.


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[Assistant] I like the barrel control that he's got. I think there's a lot of hit and run possibilities with Klon.


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[Assistant] Uh, opening up the right side of the field. Tyler can spray it through the right side.


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[Assistant] He looks like a prototypical number two hitter to me, Tyler Freeman. And Jimenez can bat up there too.


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[Assistant] And I think a lot of people wanted Jimenez up there previously because they just didn't have a lot of options that looked like they were an ideal number two hitter.


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[Assistant] I think Freeman becau- Himmy's got more power than Freeman does, so I kinda like Freeman in the two spot, and then you sorta get into what little power you have with Jose and some of the other guys 3-4-5.


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[Assistant] It does make you vulnerable to late ending matchups to a team bringing in a lefty out of the bullpen to face your, you know, that part of lineup. But if it's your best hitters, then yeaah, they should be able to hit lefties. Your best hitters.


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[Assistant] There are managers who do like to stagger, right, left, right, left, right, and plus the rule of you have to face, what is the rule, the new rule that you have to face? Three batters. Three batters. So, I don't know.


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[Assistant] And he got, I mean the whole Loriano thing was weird. He got hit, he clearly swung at that pitch. Howie said he didn't swing. He clearly went around. And it was one of the runs that came around to score.


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[Assistant] So we'll see what they do with Castillo tonight. It's a fun one. I'm looking forward to this one.


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[Assistant] Oh. You're taking me back to a lifetime ago.


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[Assistant] Traditionally they, that's been a place where they struggled. It's another altitude type thing. Right. It hasn't been, I've seen, I've covered a lot of losses, Cavs losses in that building. I do expect them to win tonight. They should win tonight. I don't know if they're going to cover 11 and a half.


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[Assistant] But I do think they win that game. And you know, Donovan did come out, I forget, back in December it was a home game where he said like, we just gotta start winning games. And they did, they went on a tear after that. And so you know, you do expect,


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[Assistant] I know! We were talking about that yesterday. There's Denver, then Utah, Phoenix.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but just when you think, like, everything's unraveling, they tend to pull the nose up. So, I still think they can get to 50 wins. They can get 50 wins.


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[Assistant] Well then he's definitely gone. Missoula's out if they lose the second round.


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[Assistant] Right now they have to play Philly in the first round. That's not good. I would take, I would take Boston even with them being, they're better. They're the better team. Boston's the best team these days.


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[Assistant] I actually think it was smart to put them in the same bracket. I know a lot of people are upset and want it later on.


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[Assistant] But you don't, you're not assured of a meeting if you do it later on. At least you, you were almost, I guess you're never guaranteed of anything in the NCAA tournament. But you had better odds of at least getting that rematch by putting them in the same bracket.


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[Assistant] But how are you sure, how are you, what if Iowa or LSU has to go up against South Carolina in a different region? At least by putting them in the same region, you got that rematch that you otherwise just may not have had.


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[Assistant] I have ADD, like I, I, it's hard for me to like get through long articles even though I'm a writer, it's hilarious.


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[Assistant] I read an 18,000 word article from Wright Thompson on Caitlin Clark that came out.


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[Assistant] A little flabby. I mean, who am I to criticize Wright Thompson? I think parts of it, you could have tightened up a little bit. The story was phenomenal. And it goes through last year.


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[Assistant] The disappointing loss to LSU. Just Caitlin's mentality and how...


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[Assistant] Her out, her on court outbursts and the way that they've tried to dial those back in. And you saw the clip of her father telling her to shut up, get her out of the game the other day. I thought that was hysterical.


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[Assistant] It was really a concerted effort by Iowa to keep her emotions in check.


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[Assistant] And to learn to trust your teammates and then to see this come full circle in the game last night.


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[Assistant] Uh, it was just, I was into it. I really enjoyed the game last night.


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[Assistant] There was nothing in- like she's going on and on about how they crossed the line by reaching out to her estranged father who you wrote about in your book.


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[Assistant] How do they propel and continue this momentum when their biggest faces of the sport are no longer there?


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[Assistant] So at what point can they start to grow the WNBA game when they look at all of these women who


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[Assistant] I did use Jose for stance. And what I really wanted, if you ask me like, whose swing in Indian's history do I admire the most, it's Manny Ramirez. Manny had the most beautiful swing I've ever seen of anyone in a Cleveland Indians jersey.


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[Assistant] But, for Clutch, I mean, I believe he's still the postseason leader for home runs, I think. So, there is no more Clutch than that. When you've hit more home runs than the postseason than anybody in the history of the game, you get my Clutch vote. I think we have all this, we have five of the same six guys, but I think we have some


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[Assistant] Uh, Stance for Jose, since I couldn't use Manny for Stance, I went with Jose because anyone that small who can hit the ball like he can, how can you not admire that and appreciate that? Plus, I want to get Jose on the list. That's exactly why I did it. But I took him off. Tommy has the longest home run in team history. He had won 500 and some odd feet into the trees.


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[Assistant] So high-key not for power. Loft is pretty self-explanatory for base running. And for approach, Albert Bell, nobody studied pitchers more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, he's, he's in a role where he's sort of front-facing for the organization now and community relations and that sort of thing. Charity softball games, that's right up his alley. And, uh, it's a shame.


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[Assistant] You know, when they moved on from him, I think they felt like he was too much into the party life at the time. He said he was in tears. Yeaah. He was heartbroken.


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[Assistant] I forgot about Bradley. Yes, yes. He could have been approached for sure. Uhm, 23? He could have had Lindor.


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[Assistant] Smile strong. Jerry Willard, I feel like back in the day, he was a backup catcher in the eighties, and I feel like he had a really awkward, wild stance. I mean, you could put Julio for the worst as well. You could put my cargo for the worst. Human rainbow leg.


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[Assistant] 17th richest owner in the NFL. I think he's higher on that or in all of sports.


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[Assistant] No, he's higher than that. I mean, Dan, Dan's fortune, his wealth exploded when he


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[Assistant] Uh, took quick in public and Jimmy's fortune just exploded by selling Pilot. So, but I don't, I guess I'm not following the question. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yanis got drifted where? Like 15. In hindsight, obviously, it was the right pick. Oh yeaah. If they took it first overall, everyone might have been fired the next day.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's gonna be hard pre- Yana saved that one. Although I think there was a couple like second- There were other late round late picks. That was intense.


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[Assistant] Mike, I've tried to make the argument this spring that I don't think the Yale Central is as bad.


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[Assistant] It's been pretty lousy, but I'm high on the Tigers even before the start. I've been high on the Tigers all off season. I thought Detroit is for real this year. I even think Kansas City is better improved. They made a couple rotation additions. I think the lineup is going to be a little bit better. Michael Garcia is already off to a power start that I think a lot of people didn't see coming.


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[Assistant] Where do you see the central division as a whole, and where do the guardians slide in on it?


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[Assistant] Mike, I'll to go a step further than that. I don't believe the guardians under this ownership will ever extend a starting pitcher again.


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[Assistant] Quite honestly, they, they tried with Clevenger, he rejected the deal. That worked out in the...


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[Assistant] They tried with Bieber, he rejected. They were putting literally the final dots on the eyes and the crossing of the T's with McKenzie last spring. He was about to sign an extension and then the terror shows up. All that gets tabled. He's never gonna see an extension from them again. Gavin Williams is a Boris client. He's not being extended.


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[Assistant] Tanner Bybee already got an extra year of service time because he finished second in the year. If they don't extend him now, they're not going to extend him. Show me the next starting pitcher that the Cleveland Guardians are going to extend on a pre-arbitration deal. I think they go into this now saying we have five years with these guys.


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[Assistant] And then we're going to trade them with two years of control left. Shane would have been traded last year had he not gotten hurt. I think this is just the approach that they have. We're going to draft these guys. We're going to develop them. We have five years with them. And then we move on and we find the next batch.


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[Assistant] Six six third base. I've followed Condon a little bit once they got the number one pick. I didn't realize he was a six six.


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[Assistant] 800 yards and 4 touchdowns. On how many carries? 149. 800 yards on 149 carries.


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[Assistant] Chud and, uh. And the weather guy. Matt. Yeah, Matt Wentz.


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[Assistant] And being able to throw the ball without no wind or no lightning or rain, nothing that's definitely key. But uhm, so I would say.


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[Assistant] If I had to pick, of course I'm going to go to the Dome in a new facility.


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[Assistant] And, and the likes and all that stuff, that's, that's gonna bring more, uh, money to the city, but it's gonna have the, the team, you know, even more excited.


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[Assistant] But you know, if they redo the stadium on LA, it's not going to be bad either because, you know, people hate coming to Cleveland and playing at that stadium. It's one of the toughest environments to play in.


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[Assistant] You know, we gonna use it to our advantage, so I get that side too, but at the end of the day, you still gotta play football. So if I had to pick, I'm choosing the dome. I would rock it with the dome, I would rock it with the new, the new lights and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] The turf, grass, whatever we pick, that's what I'm going with.


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[Assistant] You could argue he had the best and the worst batting stance. Yeah, it was fun to watch. We'll have some fun with that in a little bit. And we're going to start with Deshaun Watson after a quick word from Robin Hood. Did you know that even if you're 401k,


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[Assistant] And bowl, before we start, before we start, Anthony, please pull up the Miles straw thing I sent you. Oh, I want to show you something real, real quick. I meant to do this earlier, forgot, but there was a.


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[Assistant] I can tell you in a sec when we get to the guardians, but now let's talk a little to Sean Watson here, guys. Yesterday at the opening of his restaurant, which we will preview in full in the TV show coming up on WKYC at 1230, he made a proclamation that he'll be ready for week one of the NFL season.


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[Assistant] Here's the Sean in his own words on how his rehab going and how he is confident he'll be ready for the start of 2024. Steve, you can play.


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[Assistant] So we know Deshawn is the Browns quarterback of the future, but we're going to build the ultimate Browns quarterback here after a quick word.


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[Assistant] We're going to build the ultimate modern day Browns quarterback. You can only use a player once. So one player per attribute. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven attributes. And those attributes are Steve take tag board.


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[Assistant] Lightweight combination, arm strength, accuracy, speed, pocket awareness, leadership, and the clutch factor.


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[Assistant] Arm strength, Joe Flacco. Sounds good. Accuracy.


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[Assistant] Brian Hoyer, as a brown, had a 56% completion. Yeaah, that's gonna be too low. That's not it.


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[Assistant] As a member of the Cleveland Browns, Baker's career completion percentage 61.6. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] He completed 64% of his passes in 16 games with the Browns.


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[Assistant] Uh, 63.7. He did play more games than Berset. Okay. I might have to go with Kelly Hogan.


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[Assistant] Okay, so body, Deshaun Kaiser, arm strength, Joe Flacco, accuracy, Kelly Holcomb. By the way, this is pathetic.


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[Assistant] You wanna run through, Jay real quick, you wanna run through every quarterback that played a snap for the Browns since 99, just so you have, in case you're missing any? Oh, I'll do it quickly. Yeah, go ahead. Tim Couch, Ty Dettmer, Doug Peterson, Spurgeon Nguyen, Kelly Holcomb, Jeff Garcia, Luke McCown, Trent Dilford, Charlie Fry, Derek Anderson, Brady Quinn, Ken Dorsey, Brad Gredkowski,


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[Assistant] RG3, Cody Kessler, Deshaun Kaiser, Kevin Hogan, Tyrod Taylor, Baker Mayfield, Case Keena, Mick Mullins, Jacoby Bursette, Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco, DTR, PJ Walker, or Jeff Driscoll.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we have pocket awareness and clutch left. And just to recap what we have so far, Sean Kaiser body, Joe Flacco arm strength, Kelly Holcomb accuracy, RG3 speed, and Baker Mayfield for leadership.


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[Assistant] Okay, so before we get to, I'll go final list.


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[Assistant] I have a question, then we'll show you the fan answers. Okay. Our final Ultimate Browns quarterback. Steve, don't take your answer and export it.


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[Assistant] We have Deshaun Kaiser with the body, Joe Flacco for the arm strength, Kelly Holcomb for accuracy, Speed for RJ3, Deshaun Watson for pocket awareness, Baker Mayfield as leadership, and Tim Couch as clutch. If that team...


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[Assistant] If that quarterback was a real player in today's NFL.


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[Assistant] Where does that quarterback rank among modern day NFL quarterbacks?


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[Assistant] I did a flash poll on the YouTube chat, where does this Ultimate Browns quarterback rank in today's NFL? 37% said somewhere in the top 20.


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[Assistant] Well, between, the biggest answer is between 10 and 20. Okay, so you gave... Top 10.


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[Assistant] What were the other numbers? How did it shake out? 13% top 5.


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[Assistant] Uh, next one comes from our guy, Con Haynes, body, the Sean Kaiser, arm strength, Eric Anderson, accuracy, Mayfield, speed, Watson, pocket awareness, McCown, leadership, reset, and clutch.


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[Assistant] Jay, not RJ, OtherJay at SKPMD says Body, Tim Couch, Arm Strength, Kaiser, Accuracy, Mayfield, Speed, Garcia. He says RJ3 doesn't count, but we'll give him either one. Pick your choice.


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[Assistant] Pocket awareness was Watson, so same as us. Leadership Brissette. I think leadership with Brissette was the right answer. I think it was too.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if accu- So, we switched Mayfield and Berset. We did. So, a lot of the ones we've seen switch, and he had Flacco in the clutch spot.


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[Assistant] And we got two more fans submissions I want to get to. Nathan has Tyrod Taylor as the body. Derek Anderson as arm strength. Accuracy Baker. RG3 for speed. Pocket awareness was Deshaun. Leadership Flacco and Tim Couch was his quarterback.


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[Assistant] And last one here comes from... Whenever Ant switches it, I'll tell you who the last one's from.


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[Assistant] Good exercise. I like building these things as a group here. So we're going to keep doing some, some more as we move forward. Let's talk Guardians in one sec, Jay.


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[Assistant] An IRA. Robinhood has the only IRA that gives you a 3% boost on every dollar you contribute when you subscribe to Robinhood Gold.


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[Assistant] But get this, now through April 30th, Robinhood is even boosting every single dollar you transfer in from other retirement accounts with a 3% match. That's right, no cap on the 3% match. Robinhood Gold gets you the most for your retirement.


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[Assistant] Thanks to their IRA with a 3% match, the offer is good through April 30th.


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[Assistant] We have Matt Miller from ESPN, their draft expert coming on in about 10 minutes. We'll talk more guardians in the WKYC show coming up at 1230, but Jay.


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[Assistant] How about these damn guardians, man? What a fun squad so far.


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[Assistant] Okay. It'll be awesome. We will talk more guardians off the top of our WKYC show coming up here in half an hour. Make sure you guys tune in. But right now we are thrilled to welcome in Matt Miller, ESPN draft expert analyst, guru of all things, NFL draft of the show. Matt, appreciate taking some time to hang out with us today.


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[Assistant] That was Matt Miller of ESPN Draft Expert Analyst. Make sure you guys follow him on Twitter at NFL Draft Scout.


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[Assistant] Because with eBay Motors, you're burning rubber, not cash. With all the parts you'll need at the prices you want, it's easy to make your car the MVP and bring home some huge wins. Keep your ride or die alive at ebaymotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions do apply. eBay guaranteed fit only for U.S. customers. We saw the Browns extend Jerry Judy before he stepped into the field. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we saw the Houston Texans de-extend? Shorten?


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[Assistant] I can't think of another time that's happened. If you guys can please inform me, but what'd you guys think of this contract move the Texans have kind of finagled here to fit Stefan Diggs into the fold?


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't agree with that. His cook was terrific last night.


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[Assistant] Houston converted a crazy, fourth down,


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[Assistant] Conversion in Week 18 against the Colts, which then knocked him back to the second pick.


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[Assistant] Officiate games a little bit differently it seems. We're going to talk about it with the Cavs and whether or not it's a benefit or a hurt to them.


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[Assistant] Of course it's good enough. This man threw for 4,800 yards with Brandon Cooks and Will Fuller as his top receivers a couple years ago. Let's not forget.


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[Assistant] Brown's receiving corps is already better than anything he had in that 2020 season when he led the league in passing. This is about Deshaun. This is about nobody else but Deshaun. There's no excuses because this is year three of the deal.


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[Assistant] And they already had a successful offense that they've tearing down to the studs and redoing because something to better fit him. It's all about Deshaun at this point.


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[Assistant] The entire organization really revolves around number four. So it's, it's up to him. He, he had enough talent with Amari Cooper and David Njoku and even Elijah Moore was enough to have success last year.


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[Assistant] B+. I liked it. He's an upgrade. I really liked, uh, Sioni Takitaki. I thought he would be back. I didn't think Anthony Walker would be back. Just too many injuries.


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[Assistant] I like Taki Taki in the middle though, but Jordan Hicks is better. He's a better football player. He's a veteran, good run stopper, kind of a thumper in the middle. And for that reason, you know, if he's healthy and on the field, which he has been throughout his career, it's an upgrade. So how can you, how can you downgrade it? It's a, it's a B plus.


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[Assistant] He's a player, he's underperformed in four years, but for what they gave up, which was nothing, you can't, I'd probably give it like a BB+, but we're all pretty much the same. Like G said, he's in a contract year, he's going to be motivated to have a big year, maybe they can squeeze something good out of him.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I would have liked to see more out of Pierre Strong. I think this might mean the end of Pierre Strong in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] He'll, he'll compete, Heinz will compete with Jerome Ford. He's a decent pass catcher out of the backfield. He could get some run on returns, kick returns, punt returns. That's really been a glaring need. That might be where he can contribute the most, particularly if he can turn into a decent punt returner.


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[Assistant] It's a place where they've really struggled over the last few years. They tried to jakeem grant. He couldn't even make the season healthy. So now they'll try with Heinz. It's, it is what it is. It's a, it's a second, third.


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[Assistant] Uh, on the depth chart of a running back and a return specialist.


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[Assistant] I'll give it a B. I really like that they can get an interior pass rush, something that they haven't had before. The only concern with me is he's playing against one of the best defensive tackles in the league next to him with the Jets and Quinn and Williams. He's not going to have that here. Dalvin Tomlinson is fine. There's nothing wrong with him, but he's not elite.


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[Assistant] And, and we'll see how you adjust off that. Give up a little bit in the run, but you have other guys who can stop the run. Getting some interior pass pushes is a nice bonus they haven't had before.


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[Assistant] See, he's kind of a knucklehead as far as I'm concerned, but I didn't think they could bring Joe Flacco back. I would have preferred Jacoby Brissette. I think the Browns would have preferred Brissette, but Brissette preferred New England. So they did the next best thing. They went with Winston. Uh, obviously former number one overall pick. He's had some problems with interceptions in the past.


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[Assistant] And we'll see. Hopefully he's not needed. Hopefully Deshaun stays healthy and plays well. B minus for me. Uhm, B minus for me.


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[Assistant] A minus. McDonald's Value Meal fills you up on a cheap price.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the move, I'm glad he's back. He had a problem, it seemed early on with spinning it and killing it inside the 20, but to G's point, that seemed to improve as the year went on.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's good for them because they're not a physical team. They're not a team built on physicality. So it's not like they can start playing...


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[Assistant] Bullyball and get away with it. You know, you do have guards who


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[Assistant] Like to drive in Donovan and Darius, guards who can get inside.


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[Assistant] And if you're not going to get fouled in there, you know, I don't know that that's really much of a benefit to this team. So it's going to rely more on, and they have, they've signed some good shooters, obviously in the off season. They are a team now that can make threes at a, at a high level. And if you're not going to get calls inside, then it reverts more to outside shooting. Gee, you just saw the graphic.


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[Assistant] A little bit more back to a 90's style of physicality where you can get away with a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Coaches would lose their minds because it's so subjective. Sometimes.


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[Assistant] Well it depends on your definition of hitter, but to me it's putting the bat on the ball.


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[Assistant] And in that instance, it's Kyle Manzardo. Chase DeLotter might eventually develop more power. Uh, he already has more power, but Manzardo just has a natural hitting ability. Chris Vileka, the Guardians hitting coach early in spring training this year, compared him to Wade Boggs. And Boggs is one of the best hitters ever.


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[Assistant] And I'll take the lake at his word and take Manzardo. I don't think he's gonna...


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[Assistant] Break camp with the team. I think he's probably gonna start the year in AAA for a variety of reasons, mostly because of...


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[Assistant] But I think he will be up sooner than later, uh, in May, certainly. And he'll be that first base D.H. with Naylor and hopefully it clicks right away for him because guys with just that natural ability to put the bat on the ball tend to have success right away.


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[Assistant] The timing was perfect for that trade. Tampa would not make that trade today. Aaron Savali for Kyle Manzardo. They wouldn't have made it in spring training last year. They caught it at just the right time. Savali was pitching really well.


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[Assistant] There wasn't a lot of pitching available in the market, and the Guardians hit it big, I think, on that trade. That's a trade the, the Rays don't miss very often on trades. Yeaah. But internally, I think that's one that they feel like.


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[Assistant] This one's gonna hurt us, but they did what they had to do to win in the moment. And they traded Nate Lowe to the Rangers. They've, the Rays have traded guys before that have gone on to have successful careers with other teams. So it wouldn't be that outlandish for it to happen again.


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[Assistant] That's what I was going to add. Would you rather do like, I mean, you're the parlay king around here. Would you rather do three to four moderate long shots? Yes. Or would you rather go 20 to 25 that are


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[Assistant] That's what I was going to end with, but I'll start with it because that's what I was thinking about this morning. Taki and now Jordan Elliott both drafted by these guys and they let them walk. And, and you know, there was a knock not that long ago. I don't know if it was a knock, but it was these guys like to hold onto their own draft picks. And, and those were the two that I thought showed something last year that


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[Assistant] Boy, they're, they're, they're developing. There's something coming on. Jordan wasn't very good two years ago. Last year, I thought he was much better. Yeah, and you hope that these guys, that the Browns didn't plant the soil, plant the seed in the soil and water it. Now someone else is going to take advantage of it. But Quentin Jefferson,


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[Assistant] It certainly is an upgrade and a pass rush over Jordan Elliott. Without a doubt. And, and they've never really had, I mean we know about the problems that they had inside two years ago. They filled it last year, they, they very much shorted it up, but they've never really had an interior pass rush.


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[Assistant] And I can't tell you how long. I mean, I go back to Gerard Warren was supposed to be that guy that provided that interior push.


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[Assistant] So this will be a different look, and for that, you know, he's been on five teams in five years, so he's bounced around a lot. Uh, but, and I was actually reading a story this morning, I think it was the New York Post did,


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[Assistant] Quentin, like, I root for the guy just based on this piece about he was very open with his battle with alcoholism and with drinking. And he's a father of four. He talked about the pressure of being in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And it's never ending and one bad day and you could be out of the league and not get back in and he didn't handle it well during COVID.


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[Assistant] And he really, his drinking got out of control and his wife sort of called him on it and said, you gotta get some help.


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[Assistant] And it was just a really well done piece on just how open and vulnerable he was to some of the struggles that come with playing in the NFL.


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[Assistant] I didn't know they were called Ithaca, but I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen a lot of dudes in underwear.


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[Assistant] Him and, I remember him and Larry, him and Larry Ogunjobi were over 90%. It was crazy how high the number of snaps that they were out on the field. So to your point, they've really increased the depth over the last, certainly over the last four or five years. They've really added to the depth on that defensive line.


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[Assistant] I've been tricked a couple times. But if you put these guys on text alert, then you know you're getting the authenticator. So, it's not that hard.


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[Assistant] Can I flip this? If you're Mike Williams, why would you want to come here right now?


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[Assistant] You're, you're probably on a one year deal. It's the Deshaun thing. But he's been hurt.


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[Assistant] And if I'm Mike Williams and I look at this receiver, and I don't think he's coming here, he was on my list when we did the exercise last week of free agency. Before the Judy trade. Yea, before the Judy trade, that was the guy that I sort of talked to. Yea, that's what I said. Yea. But now, you know, now that Judy's here, things are different, and now that he's a free agent,


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[Assistant] I don't know if, if I'm Mike Williams, why he would come here when you look at Amari Cooper and Jerry Judy, uh, and Elijah Moore. These are guys that they've invested in. He's like the 2A or the 2B, whatever he'd be, yeaah. And, and there's questions about the quarterback, his health, whether he can stay on the field.


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[Assistant] I've been texting with Zach this morning and he said the Jets too. He said the Jets and the Chiefs. If they don't get Hollywood and then possibly the Patriots after that. Well then, you can cross the Jets off the list.


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[Assistant] Why would he want that? Because how many opportunities is he really going to have to hit those incentives?


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[Assistant] I don't want them on the Steelers, it's going to make me sick. If they, if they pursue another receiver, it's going to be the Marquise Goodwin type of one year guy. Hunter Winfroni. Pick your spot, pick your spot on use.


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[Assistant] He's a great route order. Well they were also interested in Joe Flacco and we see how that turned out. They were interested in bringing back Flacco. Oh yeaah. No they weren't. Yeaah. Come on now. Hunter... I mean they saw it in header info, it's fine.


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[Assistant] I've never been to Maine. It's one of the few states I've never been to. I don't believe you. There's nothing much there.


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[Assistant] Uh, but again, I mean, I forgot when we were talking about this team moving on from its own draft picks, Harrison Bryant's another one. So it's Harrison Bryant, Taki Taki, and Jordan Ellis, who were contribu- like all three of those guys contributed to this team. It started with Richard Lacal.


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[Assistant] It was really the home road splits that was so odd and I've never gotten a good answer as to what they came up with.


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[Assistant] It was so strange how much better they were at home than they were on the road and a little bit of differential fine, but it was ridiculous how much


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[Assistant] So, and it's the same number of games, and I mean, a thousand yards more on the road than at home is nutty.


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[Assistant] So really, I think they gotta get to the root of that. In terms of the personnel and scheme, no, we just got done saying like how deep they are at all these different positions. I think, I think they're fine, of course. And you would expect a leap in year two of this system, you know, now that they know the system, now that you know where you're supposed to be and you know your responsibilities.


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[Assistant] Right? Isn't there supposed to be a leap in year two of a, of a system and a scheme, especially when you have all this continuity of most of the key guys back. Hicks and Jefferson at this point are the only new guys on the defense. You know the language now. You know your responsibilities. It should be better this year.


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[Assistant] It was most jarring to me. The speed, the Browns look so slow defensively. We talked about it before. The Titans, the Texans third string tight end is pulling away from these guys. It's like, what is going on?


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[Assistant] If you want to chalk it up to just a bad day, I tend to agree. I said at the time it was a bad day to have a bad day, but man.


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[Assistant] That's the only thing I guess if I have to say, the question I have with running it back is on that turf, that defense looks so slow. And we'll have to wait and see if that happens again and we'll determine if it was just a bad day or if there was something more to it. It's not like they've gotten any faster on the defense.


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[Assistant] But that was the most glaring. And just being on that turf, it was noticeable. And I'm sure they had other games on turf last year that aren't, that I'm not thinking of.


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[Assistant] I liked it. Cause it was different. It was different. Nothing says intimidating like an elf. Like, come on. What are we doing?


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[Assistant] But to the bigger point here, I think it does matter who the backup court, look at Deshawn's injury history, it matters.


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[Assistant] I mean, James is significantly younger than we talked about the other day. I think he fits what they want to do offensively better than Joe.


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[Assistant] I, you kinda gave me the stink eye. I'm not saying that he's... I didn't give you the stink eye. You gave me the stink eye. I'm not, I'm not saying he's gonna run for 500 yards, but...


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[Assistant] The, the thing that I, I mean, Jameis has been kind of a knucklehead in his career. Yea, but by all accounts, he's really grown up. Well, has he? Because he changed his coach's play call to get a guy a touchdown. Whoa! To get somebody a bonus? It wasn't a bonus, it was his first touchdown.


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[Assistant] His teammates love him. Of course, yes. His teammates love him. Yes, and that's the issue that I brought up with Flacco. And his teammates love Joe too. And they did. They loved him too much. Some of them loved him too much, which is why he couldn't come back. That's the premise. Like everyone keeps saying,


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[Assistant] It could just rot a locker room. This guy's betting on me. He's the one saying it too. Like it's, it's an unnecessary.


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[Assistant] Problem that you're inviting in for not a very good reason when there's other guys out there. My only issue with Jameis, yes, he's loved in the locker room and that's great, but if you're a head coach, can you trust him? I don't know what you can. Throws 30 interceptions. He's gotten better the last couple years.