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[Assistant] But let's be clear, he is not in the, he is not in the debate for the best player of all time. He's just not. I think you're just trying to be facetious and funny and pick somebody. When people pick Wilt Chamberlain, I'm like, okay, you picked Wilt Chamberlain, he scored 100 points. I could low-key try to see that. But here's the thing, these dudes was playing against Mikey McNuggets.


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[Assistant] No! That shit outlawed you from not even being- That's like, yea, you got traded, boo. You're done. Yea. What?! You can't-


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[Assistant] And, and, and this time, y'all gotta actually do sets. If McNuggets can do it, y'all gotta do a set on your own. I'll do it, I don't get...


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[Assistant] I told Jason, we signing Jason up. We signing Jason up and then.


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[Assistant] I think, I think he did so well, right? Poker's already good. I thought Bull did really well too. Thank you. I was like.


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[Assistant] I'll give him the flowers, like, like, when he did, when he did the song at the end. Oh god. There's a video today.


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[Assistant] My wife was like, she didn't understand any of the jokes. She just said, I just laughed because your parents were laughing. She had no context. She was just like. She don't watch the show at all? Yes, she does, but she does not understand. Like, you know how you have humor and it's sarcastic. She said, I only laughed at the curse words.


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[Assistant] The Haymaker. The bomb that was supposed to go off at the end. I seen him. He started talking about the jersey. I said, he's gonna do it. He's gonna do the joke. He's about to drop the joke.


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[Assistant] He said there was a choice. He said, look, it was a choice. If I went with it, it either shut everything down.


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[Assistant] I know he ain't say that. It's a little racy. Right, yea. It was crazy. It would have been his raciest, no pun intended, his raciest joke.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the climate was there. He was like, yeah.


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[Assistant] I had promised my mother I would never do it until she died because she made me swear that I would never do it as long as she was alive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we didn't talk for two weeks. They weren't mad at me or anything like that. It's just that there were so many memories that were buried because what I went through, they went through. And there was so much details that I had in there that they had forgotten about.


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[Assistant] And it forced those memories to resurface. And so there was a, you know, they knew it was coming, uh, but to read it and to read the details with which I wrote it, um, it was, it was a hard read for them in that regard because it reminded all of us what we had to endure and what we had to go through to ultimately end up out on the other side.


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[Assistant] And I want you to know that because as you continue to, to, to have a flourishing career.


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[Assistant] You gotta remember that there's a whole host of people that's gonna disagree with you. So what? There's nothing wrong with it. I find nothing offensive about it, nothing remotely taken aback by it. I love it. I love it when people disagree with me. It doesn't bother me at all. That's what, that's what makes the world go round.


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[Assistant] My position with LeBron James is that uhm, also when we say not giving him credit, I mean damn, how much credit do you want? The man's on a Mount Rushmore basketball.


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[Assistant] The game has existed for over 75 years and I can only think of one player that I would put ahead of him. How is that, how is that cutting him short?


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[Assistant] Now his camp would believe it's cutting him short. Rich Paul, Maverick, Carden, those guys.


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[Assistant] Cause I believe they would have beaten Hakeem the Dreamer Lajuan with Kenny Smith.


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[Assistant] You could speak to this better than me. And I said this the other day and it created an uproar. LeBron James is highly respected. Highly respected and revered.


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[Assistant] We gotta stand down all the incredible basketball ambassador role model and if you omitted the years in Dallas, you know that season in Dallas when they lost the chip and what have you, you know what, you can make a better argument for him even though it still wouldn't get him over the hump. But here's the description that I throw.


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[Assistant] LeBron James was respected and revered. Michael Jordan was feared.


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[Assistant] Um, it might have been more difficult for him defensively because you can't, I mean, you could get called for a foul for, for, for breathing on somebody. Uh, you can get tall. You can get called for a tech for passing gas for crying out loud. Uh, so it was a little bit different in today's day and age, but offensively, uh, there is no question that he would have been.


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[Assistant] Ultra dominant, ultra dominant because again, Michael Jordan's objective was to demoralize you. Like you see LeBron James and he befriends a lot of people. They get along with each other.


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[Assistant] He's a high end competitor. We all get that. We understand that 260 pounds locomotive coming at you, uh, but in the same breath gets along with everybody.


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[Assistant] Off the basketball court, I'm not even, I can't break rules by telling you the things that he would do to dudes just to get them.


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[Assistant] But definitely Mark Price. Mark Price was something special. Coming out of Georgia Tech, uh, being a point guard extraordinaire that he was, being the sniper that he was, this brother was special. Mark Price was a bad brother. Make no mistake about it. My brother, a brother from another mother, but a brother. This brother was special. And, and, and I look at,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you look at a guy like Larry Nance, I mean, he was a skywalker and we got that, but they benefited from the collective whole, the team that they had assembled with Hilo, with Price, with Dardie, with Nance and these other guys, Lenny Wilkins coaching them and what have you. They were, Ron Harper was on the squad. They were a special brand. They were a special breed collectively.


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[Assistant] Nance and Doherty benefited from that. Mark Price can stand on his own.


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[Assistant] You know how you looked and you marveled at the, the, the, the, the superb play and the greatness of a Kenny Anderson, right? When he was at Georgia Tech, remember Lethal Weapon 3, Dennis Scott, you know, Ryan Oliver and those brothers. Remember Mahmoud Abdur-Raouf, before that he was Chris Jackson. He's at LSU with Stanley Roberts and Shaquille O'Neal. You look at talent like that, right?


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[Assistant] Because he was supposed to be a Nick and the New York Knicks.


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[Assistant] And they show up to the playoff game series between Dallas and Utah, and they sit behind the benches and agitating executives from each respective team. Remember Dallas filed temporary charges against the Knicks because of Jalen Brunson.


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[Assistant] He was so disgusted with how the Knicks did business and ended up giving Donovan Mitchell to Cleveland for a deal similar to what the New York Knicks were offering. And so when you look at that and you see how Jalen Brunson is playing this year, as far as I'm concerned, he's worthy of being an all star.


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[Assistant] It's very, very sad. I'm happy for him because I love the brother. He's a great player. He's a great dude. The Cavaliers organization is lucky to have him. The city of Cleveland is lucky to have him because y'all got a great sports town there.


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[Assistant] Exactly. That's exactly the point. And it's trickled down to Leon Rose. I've known Leon Rose for over 20 years. I respect the man. He was a hell of an agent, hell of an attorney prior to that. Uhm, a good man.


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[Assistant] He gets the presidency at the garden covering, you know, hovering over the Knicks and suddenly he don't know how to talk to people. Suddenly he's hiding all the damn time. He spent last year, he did an interview in September.


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[Assistant] As the president of the franchise, how are the players ever going to be?


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[Assistant] They couldn't get because they agitated.


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[Assistant] I can't help myself. It's the city. It's the city. It's the Mecca. And you try to look past Dolan to look at the New York Knicks and you love them. But there's no question. Spike Lee is to blame. Stephen A. Smith is to blame along with various others because excuse me, our loyalty never wavers.


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[Assistant] I know that. So I made it a person because they're going to come to me and challenge my thoughts and I'm, and I tell them, listen, Jay knows this about me. You know what? We're all human beings. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna go to the garden this year, and I haven't been to one single game at Madison Square Garden, even though one of my cribs is 10 minutes away, because I know that I'm gonna cuss somebody out.


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[Assistant] Is if they advance to some conference finals or the finals, which ain't gonna happen, or ESPN forces me to. I made that very, very clear to the bosses and they understand.


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[Assistant] Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen.


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[Assistant] I was brought down to Winston-Salem State University for a tryout. A guy by the name of Harold Funny Kitt who played for Big House Gaines at Winston-Salem State was a friend of the family's and he set up a tryout for me to go see Coach Gaines. I went down there.


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[Assistant] In, um, 1989, um, and you know, coach Gaines saw me on a Sunday afternoon, put me out on the court.


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[Assistant] And I went out on the court for a few minutes, just passed the ball and stuff like that. He blew the whistle, halted practice, called me over and said, ain't you supposed to be a shooter?


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[Assistant] I don't do, I don't believe so. Uhm, I love Skip. I'm incredibly grateful to him.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't think that will ever happen. I think that we're just going in separate directions. I have aspirations beyond the world of sports. I mean, if he interviews me for his podcast or I do it for my podcast, that would be different, but us on screen together.


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[Assistant] Working together in a debate format, that's not something that I think is going to happen. I think that both of us have moved beyond that and I don't see that happening. I've got aspirations beyond the world of sports. I don't think he'll be back at ESPN. If I'm doing sports, I'll probably be here.


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[Assistant] I'm my own production company. I want to produce content, scripted and unscripted stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wanna continue staying in the world of sports because I love it.


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[Assistant] I got the bestseller book right now for straight week, so I've accomplished that.


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[Assistant] I would say to you that I would love to host a late night show.


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[Assistant] I would love to be, I would love to be the modern day Arsenio Hall for lack of a better explanation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think we've seen that even though Trevor Noah did a fantastic job on Comedy Central. I think that to see a brother, a black man,


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[Assistant] From this country, hosting late night with the opportunities that I would be anxious to give to African Americans behind the cameras, writers, producers, bookers, et cetera.


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[Assistant] Um, that is something that I haven't ruled out. It's something that I want to accomplish. Um, and I intend to do so. So I would tell you that that would be my immediate answer. It's not limited to that.


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[Assistant] I would have more time. I want to do late night and, and you know what? I might, I might even get into a little acting. I must admit I'm starting to get the acting bug. Even though I've got a recurring role on the soap opera general hospital. So I'm doing a little acting. I never cared about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, but too many people have told me that I've got tremendous potential in that, in that, in that platform. So I'm giving strong consideration to it, believe it or not.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not embarrassing, but I tell you the time when Jay and I had the most laughs when, um, um, Skip Bayless was raving about Tiago Splitter.


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[Assistant] Who did it for us, uhm, give them their flowers, pay their just dues. I mean, the reality is, is that when we look at the world of talk radio, podcasting and things of that nature.


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[Assistant] How about that? Ain't gonna win no damn championship at Dallas. Let me show you that.


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[Assistant] Well listen, I think that he'll be fine. What, what, what he's got to reach the conclusion of is no one trusts him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, regardless of our disagreements and our beefs, I've never failed to recognize his greatness as a basketball player. And my issue with him has always been and will remain, nobody's better at missing work than Kyrie Irvin. I'm not talking about putting into work.


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[Assistant] If a game is at 730, how come it can't be at 735?


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[Assistant] If the game is on a Thursday, why can't it be on a Friday? If the game is at one o'clock, why can't it be seven Thursday? He's averse and allergic to capitulation because he believes his way is the right way and that anyone who disagrees with him just doesn't get it.


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[Assistant] And regardless of what evidence it has shown him, which has led to him losing out easily, easily on $150 million, easily.


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[Assistant] He's lost out $150 million, if not more. He's just a guy that is thoroughly convinced.


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[Assistant] He's not a malicious individual. He doesn't mean to hurt people or anything like that. That's not Kyrie Irvin's character. His problem is that he thinks he knows so much more than everybody else. And when he alluded to folks being peons, he meant that.


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[Assistant] And that is what continues to get him in trouble. That and an unwillingness to capitulate when you have your handout for somebody else's money. You literally want to get money from other people while being able to tell them what you will and will not do.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, there's a huge disconnect. I mean, what, the same game, uh, I think they reported, uh, Russell Westbrook had a spat with, with the head coach at halftime.


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[Assistant] The way they're contracting, the way the NBA is kind of structured, they're allowed to, to demand a trade. You know, look at the Kyrie situation. He's been bouncing around like crazy and he's had championship caliber teams and somehow he hasn't figured out he's the reason why they hadn't been able to get over him.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a huge honor first and foremost, and I had a chance to play in a locker room for seven seasons with Joe, and from the moment he stepped in, you know, it was this, before he was drafted, there was this like,


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[Assistant] Echoes of us drafting, uh, Adrian Peterson.


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[Assistant] So he comes in and he's a consummate pro from the day he walks in. You know, anytime you watch a guy handle the Ravens defense in the early 2000s, the mid 2000s with Terrell Suggs and Adelius Thomas and God knows who else they had on the edge and have him stand up to every one of those guys. That to me, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, he crossed divas the most. He did. How'd you crush it, man? You'll see the video.


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[Assistant] You know, you miss a step or you lose a step, they try to like, put you inside as a, as a nickel corner. And I thought he played well. I thought if he could really embrace this, uh, this opportunity, especially with the murders of Emerson on the outside.


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[Assistant] Who really flourishing i and being a nickel corner of being the number one cor on the outside. But most


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[Assistant] Right, unless he comes in and he just blows everyone away, but who's he gonna play in front of?


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[Assistant] Jim Schwartz will handle all of that. And if he, yeah, he will, he's like, listen, well, show me you can do it. He's going to have a no-nonsense attitude. And listen, if you don't want to play in that position.


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, you're the head coach. You're the CEO. That's why you have to be able to delegate and kind of, you know.


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[Assistant] Take care of these, these undercurrent, you know, themes that's going on throughout the locker room and making sure every guy feels confident and bought into the system because if you don't, this team, you know, again, that was our biggest gripe on Kevin Stefanski last season.


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[Assistant] Can he manage the football team? And this is part of his job responsibility. He's gotta be able to, especially the guys on the contract, especially the guys that can come in and help you that you're gonna have to rely on.


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[Assistant] Uh, again, this is, he's gonna, Kevin Suffance is gonna have to figure this out somehow, someway, and it's gonna start right now. You know, you can't wait until the season starts to figure out, you know, what guys wants and needs are. Need to figure that out right now so you can anticipate how to, how to, how to get these guys involved and how to make them feel, feel happy about showing up to work.


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[Assistant] He was the reason they lost the game towards the end by throwing an interception or back costly turnover.


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[Assistant] Of being a starter, he's shown he's able to be a starter to one of these teams that desperately need a quarterback.


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[Assistant] You know, go out and get these, these, these quick scat type of receivers. So you can run gadget plays and open and widen the field out. So you can be able to run it and use Korea or, um, uh, not Kareem hunt, but, uh, Nick Chum.


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[Assistant] To utilize these guys because you gotta, you have a tight end who is itching for really a breakout season.


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[Assistant] Uh, at a high level, as we expect them to, especially given the contract you've given Deshaun Watson and, uh, just the, the, you know, everything you poured into him this offseason.


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[Assistant] So do you guys, knowing where the Browns are right now, if, would you take the best available player or would you go for obviously, you know, a needed position?


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[Assistant] At the 43rd pick, you know, if you're the Browns, do you take the best available player?


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[Assistant] I know I'm a little biased, but you need, uh, Miles Garrett needs some help. And I figured on the other side, you can go out and make a trade if possible for one of his old weapons. Um, um, what's it from?


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[Assistant] There are guys available that can help this team. I think you have to.


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[Assistant] The Eagles are, they, they found magic in a bottle this year. I got a ride with the hot hand. All right.


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[Assistant] I need to have you keep it down. I don't know how many times I need to.


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[Assistant] Give that instruction, but you need to keep it down so you don't bother the people in the workshop.


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[Assistant] My people are very stubborn, very self-centered.


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[Assistant] Very inconsiderate people. I don't even know why you have them here in the first place.


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[Assistant] No, actually what's interesting is, uhm, so I was in the working press, but of course being radio, you don't technically have a field access immediately following the game. Well, somehow, somewhere I got swarmed into.


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[Assistant] You know, everybody moving onto the field, so you know, I hit the live button, I'm going on the field, you know, bringing people in and...


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[Assistant] That was Thursday. That was Thursday.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, well, you know, here's the crazy thing. So Tuesday night is the media night that they have us, uh, you know, that they have us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, the day for the media to go out and celebrate and, you know, just network and stuff. So it was cold at night. So, you know, I didn't realize how cold Arizona is at night. So fortunately I brought a couple of, you know, a couple of outfits like that. They had the, you know, had the turtleneck thing going. And so, uh, really, as I mentioned before last week,


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[Assistant] Oh, thank you, thank you. I mean, it's just one of those things where I just really just, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that was, that was, I think that picture was in Las Vegas, but I wore that suit Sunday, uh, you know, a day after I got in from, uh, from, uh, a day after I got into Phoenix, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] Now, now, we did have some back and forth on Sunday that, you know, kinda went, kinda went left or whatever. I had some people from the other side that were like, man, what's up with you and Ryan Clark? I said, man, I'm good on this end, but he got a little offended. I didn't care. What was he upset about? What did he get offended by? What happened? No, no, no, no, no, no. So, okay, so, so, so Ryan had made the comment, you know, that I was addressing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, talking about uh, he, you know, you know.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I tagged him, I said, hey, I got, you know, I said, shout out to my tailor, got me, you know, game day fit, got me game day ready.


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[Assistant] Ryan Clark, I'm gonna be the best dressed media person, you know, and so his, his retort was, uh, bro, I don't know. What did you got against me? I'm the only one that you, that you, you know, refer to.


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[Assistant] Like, well, you're the only one that was talking that talk. I mean, everybody, look. I wouldn't get offended by that. I, I don't know. It's a friendly thing, you know what I'm saying? And like, Jared Bell, look, Jared Bell Saturday night, we were, the NABJ were kind of, he's introducing me to everybody like, hey, this is,


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[Assistant] No, it's true, and look, I'm not trying to be funny. Uhm, you know, when I first started, when I started covering back the Chiefs again.


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[Assistant] I was wearing polos trying to build my brand up, you know, with the name of my show, The Ship or whatever, Darren Smith and so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was, I think Bob Kendrick, the Negro League executive director here in Kansas City, told, you know, introduced me to a guy, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, over at Michael's, the name of the men's store is Michael's.


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[Assistant] He used to, he used to style Ric Flair and a few other people that came through this and the guy gave me a suit.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Chiefs, the year they won the Super Bowl, I think game three we were in Detroit.


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[Assistant] And so I'm down on the field doing my free game show with my coach and a guy that's in his Facebook sports group.


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[Assistant] Was like, you know, hey, I'm a part of this group, which he said, man, I have my own style. You know, I got my own clothing store. I like to style you. His name is Todd White. You know, so I go there, you know, following the game and he takes my measurements and, you know, come back on Friday, gives me a suit.


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[Assistant] He said, yeah, it's yours. He said, I want to sell you every week. I'm like, keep them. I was like.


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[Assistant] Well, that, that, you know, he, he does suit some of the Chiefs players. I know, uh, going into the Super Bowl, he had a suit for Eric Bienermy, Greg Lewis, and a few other players on the team as well. So, so they know, I mean, you know, they,


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[Assistant] They, they know who I, you know, who I rep and everything. And so people come in and talk about all the time and.


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[Assistant] Online everybody, you know, compliments and stuff like that. So yeaah, I'm a free walking billboard.


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[Assistant] I, look, I think, uh, I think the way it's looking for Kansas City, you guys got more.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think Jon Ross used to play, used to play with the Bengals on the futures deal in the course of the Chiefs also got the kid that they, uh, signed as a rookie free agent out of Clemson. So, you know, they're, they're going to be loaded at wide receiver. And so I can see a scenario where, yes, you will get Michael Harmon. I think.


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[Assistant] He would work well. Somebody could take somebody off the top. But I also think, cause I do follow Cleveland, uh, because of Deshaun Watson being there because of G. Bush over there.


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[Assistant] That if, if, if somehow you can get, uh, get DeAndre Hopkins out there. I mean, you know, look, relationships matter. And, and he's someone as a wide receiver that, you know, has a good relationship with, with, uh, you know, with Deshaun Watson that I think


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[Assistant] You put him alongside of Mario Cooper and maybe you get...


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[Assistant] Maybe you give them a co-harmon as well. I think, offensively, you all would be second to none.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he's had, he's had more than 300 yards. I mean, this season, I know he was injured some, but you gotta remember, look, I mean, MVS, you know, I mean, we, I like that, Jason, uh, you know, the fact that he was, um, the fact that MVS was, was a key player, you know, in the, in the championship game, but didn't do anything in the Superbowl. I mean, that's, you know, that's again,


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[Assistant] The greatness of Andy Reid and Eric Bienneme with their play calling and Patrick Mahone being able to spread the ball around. I'm taking him.


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[Assistant] Again, I mean, look, to me, honestly, you can't go wrong either way.


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[Assistant] As you, as you all were saying and I was listening before we came on.


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[Assistant] You know, if Deshaun Watson is in that lab with, uh, with Stefanski.


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[Assistant] Hopefully he's seeing, you know, he's seeing the landscape that's out here. And look, obviously people want to play with a good quarterback. You want to play.


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[Assistant] I expect them to be the Deshaun Watson or Houston. I think the offseason and.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's incredible. And it goes from car cut down to bread vege down to Andy.


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[Assistant] I mean, all that plays a significant role. So hopefully, you know, like the Chiefs have been able to do in the draft this year, they got, they got 11 picks this season coming up. I mean, in this year's draft in a couple of months.


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[Assistant] Hopefully you all can, you know, hit on, hit on some key players that can contribute right away. That's the success for the Kansas City Chiefs because you got Patrick on that new deal, on that new $500 million deal, but they, you know, but, I mean, but their draft picks are contributing early.


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[Assistant] I think Mahomes only counting his next year only like 17% against the cap. So you've got, I mean, so you got a lot of stuff that you can, that you can utilize. And really when you look at the strength of how this team played this year, where is the real weakness going in the next season?


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[Assistant] Honestly, I was someone that felt that, you know, if Andy stepped down...


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[Assistant] Eric, being in me perhaps goes right in there, but I'm of the mindset that he might not get it. And look, the fact that the coats, uh, you know, hired the office coordinator of the losing team.


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[Assistant] Versus, you know, the guy who, who, who's won two Super Bowls and just beat the guy that, you know, that you hired. I, you know.


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[Assistant] I think it says more about the league than it does be enemy, so I'm gonna just leave it at that.


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[Assistant] I interviewed Jim, I mean, Jim came over because we're friends. He came over, uh, and spoke to me on radio and I thought I might have had it on, on, uh, on my, on my


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[Assistant] the press conference from last year in Los Angeles and replayed that exact, exact question and then morphed back over into his question to the commissioner on last week and so.


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[Assistant] He's upset about it because, you know, every, he says, I guess he has the questions that a lot of people want to ask, but you know, like he said, Bill's gotta be paid.


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[Assistant] That, I mean, that, that, but you also have to have, have, have owners that...


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[Assistant] You know, he's hired a couple of African-American head coaches, you know what I mean? And he, look, he gave, he gave, uh, uh, our guy from, from New England that was using Texan, uh, come on, hand me our guy with the names, uh, uh, the defensive coordinator, the defensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] Uh, minority is a chance to be a ghost cause he done it before. So, you know, but again, if Andy, if I'm Andy Reed, why don't you got Patrick Mahomes, you know, Eagles involved.


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[Assistant] Now you're gonna try to run it back and try to win the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, but hell, let's say they do that.


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[Assistant] You know, Andy Reid's gonna wanna be the first coach to win three in a row in the Super Bowl era. Why would you leave? I mean, as long as you got Patrick Mahomes, you got a chance to keep winning. Why leave? Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, well here's the thing, cause I'm, I'm great, I'm great to leave for the day, uh, after being on Radio Row, and I just hear a name at the, at the blue light. I'm like, hold on a second, I know that name. I'm like, and so I'm looking, I'm like,


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[Assistant] I'll fix that. And here's the thing, I sent Ryan a picture on Twitter of course, but he didn't have an inbox, but I did send him a picture there. When I met him, it was my first time on Radio Row in Houston.


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[Assistant] Uh, we were a media night. So yeaah, that was where I met, uh, Simone Biles and everything and me and Ryan just took a, took a, you know, took a picture. I mean, he don't know me from the man in the moon, but yeaah, he's a great guy. Yeaah, I know him.


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[Assistant] On election day, Donald Trump and his senior campaign team were huddled at Trump Tower.


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[Assistant] But as the votes were counted in Florida, a surprise.


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[Assistant] She had been First Lady, a Senator, and Secretary of State.


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[Assistant] She conceded to an entrepreneur, reality TV star, and novice politician. The call lasted about a minute.


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[Assistant] Not long after, to the music from Harrison Ford's movie Air Force One.


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[Assistant] Over 17 months, Donald Trump had broken nearly every rule of American politics Then came the question


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[Assistant] Whether the way he had campaigned would be the way he would govern.


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[Assistant] The seeds of Donald Trump's presidency are embedded in his path to power.


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[Assistant] He redefined what it meant to be a serious presidential candidate starting with his announcement.


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[Assistant] Behind the scenes, Trump's campaign was as unconventional as his announcement.


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[Assistant] They worked 50 floors below Trump's New York penthouse.


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[Assistant] Running things behind the scenes, his son-in-law Jared Kushner.


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[Assistant] The campaign had a fundamental rule. Let Trump be Trump.


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[Assistant] In Iowa, as he was interviewed by Republican pollster Frank Luntz.


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[Assistant] He was facing off against a group of candidates Republican leaders touted as the best in a generation.


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[Assistant] Whether his tabloid past and outrageous statements would sink his campaign,


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[Assistant] On the phone with CNN, he pushed harder.


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[Assistant] While the media controversy swirled, Trump was out in the country building his base.


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[Assistant] His personal plane rolled up to hangers filled with curious onlookers, eager to see the reality TV star in person.


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[Assistant] And spoke directly to their fears and anger. At Washington. At trade deals. At immigration.


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[Assistant] Finally, his opponents had to take him seriously.


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[Assistant] But on the campaign trail, at some rallies, things were increasingly ugly.


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[Assistant] It wasn't long before anti-Trump protesters began to show up inside the rallies.


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[Assistant] Trump didn't just turn on the protesters. He also directed the anger at the media.


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[Assistant] NBC's Katy Tur became a frequent target after one of her reports.


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[Assistant] By July, Donald Trump headed to the GOP convention after soundly defeating the establishment candidates.


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[Assistant] He had won the nomination of a divided Republican party.


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[Assistant] Now he would see if he could apply the same strategy to winning the presidency of a divided country.


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[Assistant] Just one week later, at the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton accepted her party's nomination.


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[Assistant] Clinton's strategy was to draw on Obama's legacy and bet big on diversity.


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[Assistant] A speech by the father of a Muslim American soldier killed in combat.


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[Assistant] Virtually all the professionals expected Trump to change his tactics. To pivot.


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[Assistant] With barely 80 days before the election, Trump shook up his campaign and brought in Steve Bannon, the chairman of the right-wing website Brightpart.


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[Assistant] It was a sign Trump was doubling down.


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[Assistant] As his new campaign manager, another unconventional pick. A pollster, Kellyanne Conway, who had bad news for Trump.


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[Assistant] The next day, he appeared outside Trump Tower. To many, it seemed like his candidacy was over.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump, undaunted, then headed to the second presidential debate.


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[Assistant] Trump had a surprise of his own just before the debate was to begin.


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[Assistant] Trump had invited four women to the debate. Women who had accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. Charges the Clintons had denied.


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[Assistant] The man who had orchestrated the event, Steve Bannon.


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[Assistant] This time on the debate stage, Trump stayed on the offensive.


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[Assistant] Back out on the campaign trail, Trump's anti-establishment message continued to resonate.


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[Assistant] With time running out, Trump's chances of winning still seemed slim. But the race would be shaken up by an unlikely source. WikiLeaks.


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[Assistant] After the election, intelligence agencies would go further.


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[Assistant] Concluding that the leaks were part of a larger campaign ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin to help elect Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] Then in the final days, as Hillary Clinton struggled to hold on to her lead, another crisis.


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[Assistant] The FBI Director, James Comey, was resuming an investigation of Clinton's personal email server.


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[Assistant] In the final days of the campaign, he solidified the Republican base.


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[Assistant] And in rally after rally, he tried to win over voters in the heart of the blue wall.


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[Assistant] States a Republican hadn't won in a generation.


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[Assistant] As a candidate, he had broken all the rules. Now in the White House he promises to do the same.


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[Assistant] Witnessing first hand the casualties and the army's determination to take the city back. Battle for Iraq.


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[Assistant] You're never going to see anybody like this again. He is somebody that defied every political rule.


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[Assistant] Well, it's a kind of a democratic process, but I guess you could, there's two ways of going. You can be inclusive or you can be domineering. That's what I would do. And beat people into submission through passive aggressive humiliation. I went for the former rather than the


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, that's the best fit, but then you get to talk to these amazing people. Like normally when you go to a film festival, it's like, look at me, I'm here publicizing my mo- well, no no, I wouldn't do that, but some actresses do that.


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[Assistant] But you actually get to watch other people's work and sneak in the back way and then chat about it.


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[Assistant] That's what we've been, that's the party line.


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[Assistant] But you know, you deliberate in a villa with a pool. Oh. With, you know, a couple of glasses of rosé. And it actually happened very quickly. I think we were all...


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[Assistant] Yeah, my two little ones came, but my eldest son had exams. So he's very stoic, even though he loves film. What grade is he in? He's in, well I don't know what the equivalent is. You Americans have such a weird education system. He's in, he's now in lowest sixth in England.


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[Assistant] I know. People are telling me on Sunday it's going to be 80 degrees and I'm going, okay, so that's like 25 and people go, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I know. Have you traveled much yourself outside this studio?


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[Assistant] We are led by very stupid people.


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[Assistant] I just, you know, you've seen me, I've been all over the place, uh, you decided to stay home and that's okay.


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[Assistant] I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them.


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[Assistant] Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims.


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[Assistant] We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate.


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[Assistant] That threatens the security of the United States of America.


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[Assistant] From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.


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[Assistant] I love powder blue works for anything. Carolina blue. When you mix the red in there with that. And what's odd is the Titans kind of had those colors, but they went with a darker blue down to those were just damn those old oilers uniform and the crazy


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[Assistant] What was nuts was they were told by Major League Baseball that the Braves, they were also undergoing talks with the Braves who were likely to change their name. And then once they gave Atlanta the All-Star game like they did to Cleveland to get them to switch, Atlanta was like,


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[Assistant] And what was funny was the commissioner who was behind the scenes pulling all the levers to get the Indians and the Braves to change their names, literally when interviewed at the World Series when the Braves were at home, he said, you know, we've talked to area troops and they find this to be perfectly fine. They're ready to go.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the show. You can tell by now, there's no bull. He's, he's still out sick. We're told perhaps Thursday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you're right. Uh, bad job by you guys, so let me tell you why.


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[Assistant] Busy show today, we're gonna do the Browns offensive grade card. I know that seems a little late. We were going to do it two weeks ago when the regular season ended three weeks ago.


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[Assistant] And we got a little off track because of the Joe Woods firing. So we backtrack a little bit. We're going to give our grades on the offensive attack. Aditi's joining the program. It's been a minute since we've seen her. She's going to talk to us about the uh, about the Browns grades. I think she might even have her own grade card for us. She's also going to give us her thoughts on the NFL playoffs.


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[Assistant] I'm told that this ultimate five is going to be the most contentious.


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[Assistant] I'm the only one old enough on this panel to, I think I'm gonna have one that's off the list. I'd be surprised if you guys came up with this.


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[Assistant] It brought tears to my eyes in a joyful way. Uhm, that might give it away. We'll have that debate. So I'm looking forward to that. Okay, so this was sent to me and the message was something along the lines of


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[Assistant] They went on a 16 to 4 run. What happened?


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[Assistant] You know, be careful though. As parents, you'll find, and you might do this, you tend to pigeonhole your son or daughter into a sport.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for me it was easy because I wrestled, I definitely wasn't going to wrestle in college. I didn't want anything to do with it. I was done cutting weight and working out and all that. Uhm, so I was just, oh you're a baseball player. And it was 10, 11, 12, and that's all I ever wanted to be. But my son,


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[Assistant] We thought that he was either soccer or baseball and was being recruited as a sophomore heavily in both. Then he decides, I'm gonna run track my junior year indoor. And that was a wrap. He never played baseball again.


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[Assistant] He played soccer still because there was no track and field in the fall. There was an indoor in the winter and an outdoor in the summer. And you know, you spend money on personal hitting coaches and pitching coaches and soccer camps and all of this investment. And then all of a sudden, I think I'm going to be a track star and like that.


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[Assistant] Yours are, yours are tougher than all of mine. Jay, do you wanna go?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, Watson, they were three and three with Watson. They were under 500 for a bigger sample size. They were four and seven. It was weird. I thought their offense looked way better with Jacoby, but I think the schedule had something to do with that. They caught some real sleepers in there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you know, that's a good point. I mean, if you're looking for the silver lining here, it was the offense. All of that being said, uhm, they just weren't nearly good enough to overcome a defense that was as big a disappointment for a unit on the Browns that I can remember.


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[Assistant] In other words, we weren't talking about them coming into the season being upper half, or upper third, which would be top ten. When we would say top five, the players would correct us and say, oh no no no no.


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[Assistant] We're gonna be number one. So that's the bar set by you guys. The bar was number one. That's the defense. We'll save that for tomorrow. Offense, passing game, straight C. Uhm, and the reason it was a C was because it had a lot to do with what you said. I thought Brissette was better than


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[Assistant] The guy that we were paying $230 million to. And I know Watson had a lot of rust, but I want to see that rust knocked off after three games. And I never saw it go away. In fact, the last game of the year against Pittsburgh,


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[Assistant] I just, I just, I didn't see any progression whatsoever, which is what led to me, led me to make my statement at the end of the season. I'm getting really concerned that we'll never see that guy again. That like,


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[Assistant] Is that happening to our guy? I don't know. I think it's a fair question when we've seen six games. If it was two games after two years off, okay. We had six games. By week three, I want to see no rust. I want to see the old player starting to emerge. Never saw that guy. That's why it gets a C. And I thought if it wasn't for Brissette, if Brissette played as we thought he would,


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[Assistant] The passing game's a D, but he played far better than we thought he would.


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[Assistant] Uh, for exactly what you said. I thought situationally there was times when we should have been running the ball, and we weren't.


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[Assistant] We're a run first team. Why is it that our offense is always passing the ball more than they're running the ball when everybody in this front office will tell, you know, when you look at the roster construction, we're built to run. That's the way this team was built.


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[Assistant] Yet it's like you buy a Ferrari and now you want to use it as a four by four. You want to use it as a, as a monster truck. Uhm, you built the team, you built it to be a run team and there were times when they could have milked games away by running the ball and they weren't able to do that.


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[Assistant] So that's why it wasn't an A. Creativity, I gave them a C minus. I disagree with you, Jace. I thought, my bar for creativity offensively is Andy Reid.


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[Assistant] And here's the thing about that, guys. That's a, that's a playground play. We've, we've, you've run that. When you were eight years old, you ran that on the playground. You know, it's almost like it's so absurd. It's like the Statue of Liberty.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. This is like mind-blowing stuff. So to me, if you're grading on a hundred point scale, Andy Reid and that offense is the hundred. And I just, I see moments where


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[Assistant] Instead of saving those gadgets for those moments, they use them early and the reason they use them early is because now they've planted a seed.


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[Assistant] Here's something for you to think about later in the game that you might see again, but you may not, but you're gonna have to defend against it. You're gonna have to change what you


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[Assistant] Which is why I'm, which is why I'm a C minus on them. Like, I mean, Andy Reid's, they don't always work. The hook and ladder could have been a disaster, by the way. I was even, I was surprised that


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[Assistant] The Bengals didn't challenge that play, that it was even a catch.


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[Assistant] And I would have, I would have challenged that that was an incomplete pass because he never made a football move and I don't know that he completed the process of completing the pass.


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[Assistant] I don't either. And the last one I wanted to mention, and this is the one I've got some stats on. Consistency D minus. You touched on my main point here. This team is good enough to play with anybody. Period. Full stop.


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[Assistant] And there is no debating that. And if you want evidence, just go to the, the October 31st Halloween game when they absolutely housed Cincinnati. I understand they were playing without their best receiver. We had our second string quarterback.


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[Assistant] It was 32-13, I think was the final. Here's what I dug up.


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[Assistant] This was the first time they played their divisional rivals. And then the second time Halloween night, they scored 32 against Cincinnati. Second time they played them, they scored 10 check marks. Cincinnati on the adjustments Pittsburgh. First time they played them, they scored 29. Second time they played them 14. By the way, those were with Watson in game two,


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[Assistant] 13 points in game two, a 13-3 victory. Of course, Baltimore was playing with their dinged quarterback situation. What's stunning to me is, in each of those games, they went down 22 points.


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[Assistant] 15 points and 7 points. Second time around.


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[Assistant] Which is, I just can't understand it. I can't explain it. You know, it's like, you know a chemistry experiment goes bad when you put one piece into the puzzle that's superior to everybody. It was almost like the quandary we had with, well why is Baker better when OBJ is on there?


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[Assistant] This doesn't make sense. And, and we're in the same spot with the Kevin Stefanski offense. Why is this offense dramatically less productive with Deshaun Watson out there over Jacoby Brissette?


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[Assistant] I don't blame the corner for biting on it. I mean, it was, I thought that was the route he was running and maybe it was the route he was running and at the last second he said, you know what? No, he bit so hard on that. I'm just going to lay down here and be


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that could be the missing element because I'm fine with taking him off schedule and letting him do his thing. Right. Because I agree, at Clemson, that's what separated him from everybody else.


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[Assistant] But we haven't seen that in his brief time here in Cleveland. And we definitely saw it this time in Houston. I don't know who that receiver is, but I guess that would be their number one offensive priority is to find that guy.


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[Assistant] You've got your possession guy. You've got your hands guy. You've got your freelance route runner. You've got your, you know, precision route runner. You should, you know, you should have one. It's like a golf bag. You know, you got, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen or anybody got it. At seven years old, the last play is the last play of your life. You know, that's how it goes.


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[Assistant] It's almost identical to mine, which is very scary. I thought it was close to mine. Bull and I never agree.


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[Assistant] So let's just do it for the next two years, Aditi. Do you want, are you taking the Steelers or the Browns for the next two years moving forward?


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[Assistant] We're comparing, we're not comparing the Steelers to the Chiefs right now, we're comparing them to the Browns. And where their standard may have gone from Lombardi to 500, the Browns has been here.


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[Assistant] And here, and here, and here. And we have one year here, and then we're right back down here, and here.


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[Assistant] But that's why the Steelers always have three of those guys. Five of those guys. They recognize them and when they recognize them, guess what? They don't let them get away for less money. And the Browns historically have.


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[Assistant] And, you know, you use Jarvis Landry. There are other examples through the years of guys that they absolutely should have kept.


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[Assistant] Even if they're at the, if they're on the downside of their cycle and they're getting older and less productive, I don't care.


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[Assistant] For what Jarvis Landry ended up signing for the Saint, with the Saints for. And I understand that he was hurt. But even if he's hurt, he's still a presence in that locker room. He's still a presence at training camp. He's still helping drill the mindset into these young Perion Winfrey's.


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[Assistant] Always in the top three and I've got another one that's never in the top three. That's the easiest betting slip I'll ever fill out.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna bet on history, and in this case, unfortunately,


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[Assistant] The history is on the wrong side for the Browns. It's on the right side for the Steelers. I did actually think when Bull sat there, when they were


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[Assistant] Finally! Are you gonna admit now that I was right, Aditi? They're finally gonna finish below 500, and I actually thought...


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[Assistant] I've been on, I've been on the other side for the entire time, but he might, he might finally, you know, look, a broke clock is right twice a day. And so if you predicted enough years in a row, you're going to finally get it right. And I thought when he made that prediction, I'm like, yeah, I don't see how they finished nine and eight this year. Well, I'll be damned.


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[Assistant] They finished 9 and 8. You know why? Because they got those dogs in the locker room. They've got that culture in the trophy case. And that's why the Browns finished 7 and 10. And that's why the Steelers, who I don't think had the talent the Browns did, finished 9 and 8.


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[Assistant] Smart, yeaah. I mean, I think the long term for a quarterback is always shaky because that position historically has skyrocketed more than any other.


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[Assistant] You might win one, you might win two, maybe three. And now because you took less. But if you get greedy, you're gonna cap out at three because your team is hamstrung, there's not enough dollars to spread around. Aditi, great points, always great conversation.


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks for, uh, showing us your face for as long as you did in this episode of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. And we'll see you next week.


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[Assistant] That's a fascinating conversation. One, I'm sure we're going to have a lot this whole season. I think what's, I think ultimately it's just a knee-jerk reaction, but that's what we do.


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[Assistant] No, he didn't. Almost immediately he wasn't happy and he wanted out. And then do you remember, because Carson Palmer was independently wealthy, Carson Palmer pulled this trick.


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[Assistant] Fine. You're not gonna trade me? I quit.


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[Assistant] Well, because they knew they weren't gonna have to pay him number one quarterback money. Yeaah. Because there were quarterbacks in that draft that could have helped their team. But instead, they went with Dan, they notoriously take the cheap way out, and guys, this is going to be the new standard.


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[Assistant] His contract will be the richest.


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[Assistant] Probably most guaranteed contract, maybe even more guaranteed dollars than Watson. And the reason I just say that it's not a mix, if I was to tell you, take any player out of the discussion, if I was to tell you that three years from now,


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[Assistant] There will be a new team that breaks the record for the all-time richest contract in the NFL. Rank them 1 to 32 who those teams are most likely to be. Number 32 would be the Bengals. That's their history.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a bold take, but that's my prediction. I just think they'll franchise him for the two years and then he'll hit the open market because she's right. His agent is very, very smart. And I think Joe would take a home down discount, but I think the kind of numbers that we're talking about with Joe Burrow, I just think they're going to be numbers that we haven't seen before. Am I off on any of this, Jay?


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[Assistant] Right now, right now, you can take my homes or borough.


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[Assistant] Even with the advanced a- uh, advanced age. He's older.


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[Assistant] They don't have this Steinbrenner slush fund that they just reach into and say here's 300 million.


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[Assistant] The money that they spend on players is money that they're generating from that season's revenue.


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[Assistant] I think they can afford to pay them. It's just gonna cut into their profit. That's it. And I don't know that they're prepared to do that because to your point, that's their source of income.


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[Assistant] That means that if you have Joe Burrow, you have receivers like Anthony Schwartz. And you have receivers like, you know, fill in the blank.


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[Assistant] D- D- list receivers. Because that's what you can afford.


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[Assistant] And right now, Burrow is Burrow because he's throwing to, in my view, the best receiver in the league.


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[Assistant] Gee. I am told the numbers are gonna make everybody's head spin.


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[Assistant] Same. I had friends that went and they frequent Vegas regularly.


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[Assistant] And they said they were prepared to go there and be let down, but they wanted to be at a sports book for conference, for Champions Weekend.


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[Assistant] They said that it absolutely blew them away. Wow. That the feel was big time Vegas casino feel.


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[Assistant] The action was great. The mood was great. It was a great place to watch football games and make your wagers in a bull.


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[Assistant] Well, if he does, we'll do an Indian themed show. We'll bring in Indian food.


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[Assistant] Are you guys ready for Contentious Top 5 now that we got that out the way? One question, one question that I wanted to ask yesterday and I forgot. Are you going to do a practice set where you run through your material start to finish in front of a, like in front of a focus group or friends or anything?


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[Assistant] No, the Browns lost a reception this year on either 3rd or 4th down because I think it might have been Cooper or DPJ went out of bounds and then came back in and was the first to touch it. That one hurts.


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[Assistant] What is the call for that statue? We just call it statue defense. No one moves, but there's other, there's other terms that other teams.


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[Assistant] See something, grabs the flag and throws it, there's no mulligan on that. That's a flag.


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[Assistant] And you lost your quarterback? Yeah, that guy's dead. Especially when it's third and long and now you're giving them another chance. You know, they didn't get it. Now they've got another chance.


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[Assistant] Which by the way, I know nobody liked it, but...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's awfully punitive. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's terrible. Do you prefer the college pass interference, Patsy, or the NFL, the spot of the fall?


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[Assistant] I'm going to tackle my guy. It's only going to be a 15 yard catch and that's probably why.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I mean, very few balls are thrown more than 50 yards downfield. It does happen.


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[Assistant] I 1000% agree with you. I've had that agreement, that, that argument with fans who aren't Ohio State fans. They call it a Homer argument. I'm like no. No. I mean, no, I will say the Texas


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[Assistant] I've seen it on a throw once. Grown man. Real tears.


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[Assistant] I thought it was someone hijacked as a towel. I'm looking for it. I didn't see this. I was literally aghast at what Reggie Bush, I hope you can find it, what Reggie Bush tweeted about him.


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[Assistant] Because then Reggie Bush was getting piled on by people that said, oh, you mean like you came back into the game after you took this hit? Cause he was saying,


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[Assistant] You can't begin to understand how much pain is in your arm when you throw a baseball with either a torn rotator cuff, torn labrum, or torn UCL. Here it is.


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[Assistant] I don't care if the quarterback has a damn injury, it's the NFC championship, he better start throwing left effing handed, then we don't have time for boo-boos. Pat Mahomes was on one leg last week and still


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[Assistant] Can you show that one? So I thought it was the best response to Reggie's tweet. It was basically, and I think the tweet got ratioed heavily.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it should've, because- Kudos to you, Jay, for knowing what ratio it is.


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[Assistant] And Reggie, and it's really not fun to laugh at because Reggie was, I think he was concussed. He gets up, now he's going to go back down. Sleep. And yeaah, I was just surprised that, I hate it when there's, players are part of a fraternity.


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[Assistant] They're, they're part of, whether you're a former player, you know, it doesn't mean you have to approve and, and co-sign everything that's said, but if you disagree with it, it's like, it's like taking your dirty laundry from your family and airing it.


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[Assistant] Because every injury is different. And you know what? Some Reggie Bush is watching that from his living room going, yeah, man, he got his elbow hit. Get back out there. We don't know what he's feeling. And by the way, it ends up that half of his arm, the only thing holding it on was the skin.


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[Assistant] As your arm is at the apex, you run into endomic ensue. I'm sorry, that's zero to, you know, it's a hundred to zero instantly. And the ligament just isn't strong enough. It's not built to handle that kind of force.


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[Assistant] Did you hear about that, Jay? Uh-uh. You should follow this because the general consensus is that writers are going to be obsolete forever because here's what it can do. You give it four key words. Here's an example. We have examples. It's unreal Jay.


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[Assistant] This is crazy. Well, so here's the thing about this technology.


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[Assistant] With every thing it writes, it gets better. It gets smarter. And what it's done is, and here's the real problem with this technology, college students are now using this to write papers that have been submitted to Ivy League professors and they've gotten A's.


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[Assistant] If you're a fan of, and no one here is because you're all too young, but the show, uhm,


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[Assistant] Twilight Zone. Oh, I remember that. Do you remember the episode where we're all replaced by robots?


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[Assistant] But I've read extensively about this technology because it's so terrifying to me.


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[Assistant] And there's nothing good about it. I don't, I don't see anything good about it. And there are multiple companies, this GPS or whatever, they're just the first to get there, but there's hundreds more in the pipeline.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I, I, I, somehow that got lost in my text yesterday. I had a crazy day yesterday. So when I did see it this morning, you reminded me, hey, get this into Anthony. I'm like,


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[Assistant] And by the way, if you're saying, wait, wait, wait, we're Shaq. The question was posed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so my other one, uhm, I, again, I thought this was, this was pretty easy for me. I just went with the second best team in the, the best non-LeBron team in Cavaliers history was that 88-89 team.


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[Assistant] They lost to the Bulls in five on the famous shot Jordan over Elo in game five. They lost like 101-100 on the buzzer beater. But I, this team to me,


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[Assistant] It's such a shame that they, we couldn't have seen what they could have done moving forward. It really was the last year Brad Doherty was Brad Doherty. Brad started getting hurt after that. But I wanted to look, because we had the conversation yesterday about how guys today take so many games off. And I'm like, I want to go back, because that was 30 years ago. Uhm, not quite, no, 20.


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[Assistant] So I said, I want to see, like, how did they do it? So Mark Price started 75 games. He was hurt. A lot of the games that he missed, I don't know that he was ever a just take a seat. He was hurt seven games. Ron Harper, all 82. I have a question real quick. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't know exactly when. It was probably late February or March. He got a couple starts. But then in the playoffs, they just started realizing the rotation was better with hot rods starting. So they had,


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[Assistant] Ron Harper played all 82 games. Ron Harper was a beast. Uh, Sanders played all 82 or in this case, Phil Hubbard. Larry Nance played 73 games and I went and looked and there were two stretches that he was hurt. So again, I don't know that he ever had


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[Assistant] Uhm, Brad Doherty played 78 games. It was the last time he played close to a full season. Craig Elo gets honorable mention off that team.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Hot Rod Williams. I thought Hot Rod Williams was...


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[Assistant] He was just tremendous late in the year and particularly in the playoff. But that team, that was a 57 win team. They finished second.


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[Assistant] In the conference, I believe they finished second in the conference that year. But they had 57 wins. That team just had the misfortune of being


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[Assistant] The postseason almost loses my attention.


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[Assistant] Somebody brought this up. They saw our discussion yesterday and they said, well, I've got an idea and I had never heard this before. Why don't we?


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[Assistant] But now we make it more interesting and you do it like baseball does it. Give the 1 and 2's buys. 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5.


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[Assistant] You're immediately into the conference semifinals. You condense the playoffs by a month, maybe more.


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[Assistant] And now you can take in the regular season instead of having


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[Assistant] 82 games in 135 days or 140 days, whatever it comes out to. Now you can do that. You can assure that you never, I don't think you should have a back to back. I don't think that should, that's just insane. It's just craziness.


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[Assistant] It gives coaches a better opportunity to get prepared for playoff series when you're going to play the same team seven times in 13 days.


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[Assistant] I also, I, I, I do think to get rid of the seven and eight seeds, give the one and twos buys, gives them something to play for, the three plays the six, the four plays the five, and you're automatically to the conference semi-finals. And these are the teams that have a chance to win it anyhow.


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[Assistant] Uh, Earl is with us because today is January 31st and we understand that's a pretty special day to you.


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[Assistant] Well I'll tell you this, he's looking down on you with pride. Cause I know your mother's had some health issues lately. And it makes my, it...


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[Assistant] Bring so much joy to my heart when I hear you talk about not having to help take care of mom, but getting to take care of mom.


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[Assistant] And we're proud of you. You're, you know, you're a good dude, brother. Yeaah. So are you, man.


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[Assistant] Thanks. And my math is horrible. That's almost a hundred times around the globe.


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[Assistant] 2.5 million times would be 100 times around the globe.


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[Assistant] Happy birthday Pops. Happy birthday. Well done. Thank you. Very well done. Uh, you wanna wrap it up?


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[Assistant] By bringing the accusers to the debate, he put that issue front and center and forced voters out there to remember in a sense what it is that they didn't like about Hillary Clinton.


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[Assistant] I don't think there was any moment in the campaign in which there was a more divergent interpretation among political professionals and members of Trump's vast and growing army of supporters.


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[Assistant] Alright, let me tell you something. When I went through the last two weeks, I don't wish it on anybody. Not my worst enemy, not even Baker Mayfield. I don't want him to ever feel as sick as I've felt. My, first of all, my house has been a house of horrors. For the last three weeks, there's been at least one member of my family that's been sick.


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[Assistant] First me, first my son, then me, then my wife. My wife is still sick, so it's not over. She's doing a lot better. She's kinda where I was a few days ago.


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[Assistant] I had over the last 12 days knives in the throat.


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[Assistant] A terrible cold, pneumonia, an ear infection, and pink eye. And that's all that I can remember right now. Plus, they took a blood test because they were a little worried I had diabetes. Fortunately, I don't have diabetes! Yay, no diabetes! At least not yet. At least not yet.


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[Assistant] I got an injection, I just got a prescription for injections, uh, that'll help me with weight loss, to curb my appetite, cause I'm in desperate time. Desperate times come from desperate measures. I've been stuck in my house, I've watched everything on TV, it's been awful. I was to the point where I was watching, I started some movie last night,


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[Assistant] They made this a movie. These idiots got paid to make this but it wasn't Anduar. I don't know what it was called. But anyway, I was sick as bleep. It was an awful couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] Thank you. And I'm happy to be back. I was sick of being in my house. I couldn't stand it another minute. I barely left out. It was crazy. Give us your Bengals thoughts.


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[Assistant] Well, first of all, I hate people that complain about referees. They didn't lose because they're freaking referees. They lost, I mean, that penalty led to them losing, but I don't know that they would have won it over time and it was a good call. It was unfortunate.


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[Assistant] You hate to see a game end that way. It was the right call, and I don't want to hear from whining fans that they missed this call and that call. And that's not just Bengals fans. Every fan base cries about officiating. It's so annoying. You have two choices. Either you think they're cheating, and if you do think they're cheating, then don't watch the games because what's the point if you think they're cheating?


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[Assistant] And if they're not cheating, then they're human beings and they're gonna get some right and some wrong. They don't hate your team, they don't hate my team.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna, you have the one minute when the call happens where you can scream and yell and act like a lunatic. I was upset, obviously, but the call was right.


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[Assistant] The loss was a crusher. My son was crying. I was bummed. It was a heartbreaker. It sucked.


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[Assistant] I thought the Bengals were winning the Super Bowl this year. It didn't happen. The Chiefs are a really good team. Uh, you know, now, politicians that talk about sports, shut the hell up. And this is not Republican or Democrat. They're equal idiots. I assume the mayor of Cincinnati is a Democrat. I don't know that he's a Democrat. I assume in Cincinnati their mayor is going to be a Democrat. He's an idiot. Sound like a complete fool.


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[Assistant] And then this guy in, in, uh, Kansas, where is he?


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[Assistant] What did he say? I missed his comment. He was just made all these comments about the bangles that were stupid. Shut up, don't be, and then make fun of the guy who, uh, uh, Joseph, Joseph Osai with the penalty. I mean, the guy's crying in the locker room. You don't need to be a douche about it when it's over. If the players want to rip the bangles, I don't care. What are your thoughts on Osai and the penalty?


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[Assistant] It's a stupid penalty. I'm not going to kill the guy. He's a young player. He made a mistake. Obviously. I love the way his teammates had his back. It's a huge mistake. He played a great game. I thought he played very well.


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[Assistant] That's fine. They can back it up. Eli Apple can't. He's the worst starter on the Bengals. Cut his ass. Get his ass out of there. Tom Brady. I don't give a rat's ass that he's retiring. I'm not calling him the goat. I hate the word goat. I'm saying the goat three times just because I want to let you know that I hate that word and good for Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] That's not the same thing. That's a ridiculous, and by the way, I think all the steroid guys should be in the Hall of Fame personally, but that's, that's another story for another day. Uh, good for Tom Brady. Goodbye. I don't want to talk about him anymore. Guess what? You're going to see him a week from Sunday.


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[Assistant] You're watching so much. I just watched one terrible thing after the next. I'll save


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[Assistant] And by the way, if it's to the point where we're debating Jacoby Brissette and Tyler Huntley, which as much as Jacoby Brissette doesn't deserve to be a Pro Bowler, deserves it a million times over Tyler Huntley, but who cares? If we're to that point, pick a guy from another position. They're not playing the game anyway, so what's the difference? It's just stupid. The whole thing is stupid.


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[Assistant] I actually like that they're doing these other events much more. I do too, but don't. That should be fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they shouldn't. They should just do the dodge ball is good and all these other events. I'll watch dodge ball. Bottom line, it's great to be back. Uh, I feel great and I'm fine and it's just good to be here because I was losing my mind. Is that all of it?


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[Assistant] Name the starters for the Pro Bowl. No backups. That's it. That's it. That's all.


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[Assistant] All right, Bull, you're up. I'm up. Let's see my grade card. Here we go. There's a report card. Uh, in-game adjustments. The Browns get a D.


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[Assistant] Uh, what can you say? I mean, I probably could have given him an F. The Browns, this was something that I thought actually Kevin Stavanski in his first season did a very good job with. I thought he was a really good adjuster.


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[Assistant] And he's gone backwards on this. And if he can't turn it around this year, well, he's gonna lose his job.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Browns seem to never be able to adjust. They were good on the first 15 plays and as soon as they went unscripted, it's like they forgot how to coach. That was a clear problem throughout the entire season that never really got better and was a big problem on both sides of the ball. In terms of maximizing talent,


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[Assistant] Uhm, that was my toughest one to come up with because I think there are really good examples of the Browns maximizing talent and I think there are good examples of the Browns of wasting talent. But ultimately I went with a B because the Browns made Jacoby Brissette


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[Assistant] Look like a good solid quarterback. And


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[Assistant] You think what Kevin, uh, and with Baker in the past, although we're just looking at this year, but Jacoby Brissette looked like a starting NFL quarterback and I don't believe he is. Uh, and I think somebody's going to get him as a starter next year and he's not going to play as well.


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[Assistant] And I think Kevin Stefanski got the best out of him. And I think in general, Kevin Stefanski has done a good job of getting, uh, taking guys who aren't great and making them better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I, I think overall Stefanski has not done a good job of controlling the locker room. There's been a lot of yapping out of the locker room that I think is a problem. The only reason I didn't go lower than a C- is because there's been no massive issues out of the locker room. Like, you've seen massive problems with other teams. There's been a lot of little nicks.


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[Assistant] A lot of little paper cuts, but nothing huge. Uh, I was debating between a C minus and a D, but because there was nothing huge, I went with C minus. And finally,


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[Assistant] I think I'm being actually generous, giving him a D. I don't think Kevin Stephans, he has much of a finger on the pulse of his team.


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[Assistant] I know he moved an office closer to the locker room to try to get a better figure on the pulse. It didn't work. So he needs, he's, this team, they're always talking about we're looking, we're evaluating, we're reevaluating. He needs to reevaluate almost everything he does. I think there's a decent coach in there with Kevin Svansky. Decent, not great, good enough.


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[Assistant] I can't remember. Can you look that up real quick? Is Shermer here three? How many years Pat Shermer was here? Whatever it was before his last year, I think it was the second year, like we had been, on the radio show, we had been, Dustin and I had been killing him. Just killing him. They did the same thing to him. Deservedly so. They did the same thing to him. And he, he, they set up a meeting with Dustin and I in his office. Yup.


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[Assistant] It was, I felt, now I felt bad, but I still ripped him just once. I felt bad when I did it, but it didn't matter. Because you gotta do what you gotta do. But, uh, it was smart. It was a smart move by him.


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[Assistant] By the way, I feel like, and this is maybe not fair. I'll have to double check this. My feeling is the fifth quarter is probably misleading. The fourth quarter. The fourth quarter is probably misleading. It's probably even worse. Garbage points. Because the Browns were blown out more than they blew teams out and scored some garbage points in those games. You're right, you're right about that.


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[Assistant] You look at the four teams that were in the, in the conference championship games, the Bengals, the Eagles.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs and the Niners. Those teams are low, yeaah. All those teams have some stars. But the way those teams are really loaded is with those second and third tier players. The good players. Guys that are never going to the hole. That most people will forget about 20 years from now.


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[Assistant] But if you bring it up and say, hey, remember that guy? Yeah, he was a hell of a player. He was a really great player.


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[Assistant] I do a lot of things. Hey, I'm curious, De'Quel, on an unrelated note, although I did mention Andy Reid there. Has there ever been, like, five years into the career, and you played with Andrew Luck, who was really awesome coming out of college.


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[Assistant] I have never seen a better player first five years of his career than Patrick Mahomes. I don't, I, I, I think if he stays healthy.


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[Assistant] But Mahomes five years in, in my opinion, way better than Brady five years in. And if he gets his second Super Bowl in five years, what say you as a guy who played in the league?


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[Assistant] Right, but Joe's gotta win a Super Bowl before he... As much as I love Joe, he's not in a conversation with Mahomes yet. He's in a conversation with everybody else. He's in the next tier. Yeaah. And that's a small group. Yes.


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[Assistant] Mahomes has the individual statistics, the MVPs.


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[Assistant] Think, think about that. His entire time there, outside of the one year with Kareem Hunt, he's never had a great running game. Now I thought Pacheco played nice down the stretch, but he's never had a top runner except for that one year with Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] He lost his best receiver. I know he's got Kelsey, who's a Hall of Famer, best tight end ever in my opinion, and he's phenomenal. Tyreek Hill's a top five wide receiver, he's gone, they replaced him with Juju Smith Schuster, who's a decent player, but not anywhere close to Tyreek Hill, and the offense was better this year!


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[Assistant] I do. I mean, I think the Eagles are phenomenal too. I think it's going to be a close game, great game, but I'm not betting against Patrick Mahomes. Not in this game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know what? You know why, guys, I ultimately think the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl? I'm curious all your takes on this. I feel like the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Their biggest nemesis. The Bengals are their biggest nemesis. The Bengals had beaten them three times in a row. That's why the Chiefs reacted the way they did when they won with all that trash talking. Because they had been embarrassed by the Bengals for a year. And they beat, they beat them in a tight game when the Bengals had beat them in three straight tight games. And they got pushed.


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[Assistant] If I had to bet on one of them being better in the next five years, I'd bet on Hertz over two. I would too.


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[Assistant] Agreed, but I think Hertz is better than capable at this point. He's got to prove it for more than one year. I agree with that. And De'Quil, you know, it's about the system. It's about the system. By the way, guys, listen to this. The Saints are interviewing former Browns defensive coordinator Joe Woods for their DC job. He'll work again in the league. Joey Woods, what do you think about that? You gonna call your buddies in New Orleans? Do you have any


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[Assistant] By the way, speaking of the comedy show, and I know Mike you want to promote it, and we want to promote it because it's six days from now, I was, Eddie, our man Eddie sends me a direct message and he goes, do you need some jokes for your intro at the show? Am I doing some sort of intro? You're introing him, yea.


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[Assistant] Every month til he doesn't sell out, which will never happen. Right. Uh, and then he does other rants. Right now he's touring with, uhm,


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[Assistant] I'm very excited because my son's never been to a Billy Joel concert. It's gonna be his first one. I'm going, it's me, my son, and my best friend that went, he and I have gone to a bunch of Billy Joel concerts, went together for the first time in 1986 when we were 15 years old at the garden and three of us are going together. I bought four tickets because I wanted to have a buffer seat and we're on the floor. We're beautiful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but those days, no. And my buddy, who's skinny as a rail, we're like Laurel and Hardy, he can still wear, when we, he and I went to see Billy Joel like two, three years ago at the garden, he was, he wore the concert shirt, the concert shirt from when we were 15. Oh my God.


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[Assistant] That's what I've said for years. There should be a replay official. There should be nothing that's not reviewable. Anything obvious that can be corrected right away should be corrected. I agree.


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[Assistant] I mean that, if you had to make a list of like the top five plays to sum up the Browns. That's on it.


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[Assistant] That don't work like that. Much easier to take the t-shirt off than take the suspenders off. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] By the way, I don't know if I've ever told this story on the air. I once did an inning of play-by-play in Jamestown, New York, while on the crapper.


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[Assistant] It just so happened, maybe it's the only field in America. Certainly was the only field in the New York Penn League.


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[Assistant] There was a bathroom in the press box.


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[Assistant] Two doors away from where I was doing play-by-play. And I was, my first two, I did three years of play-by-play at Batavia. The first two I was solo. Third year I had another guy. So it wasn't like I could hand it off to somebody else.


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[Assistant] This, for whatever random reason, assuming this field is still around, cause it was, when I was working there, uh, 30 years ago, it was old. Not 30 years ago, 25 years ago, it was old.


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[Assistant] They happen to have a bathroom in the press box that had a door, a window to the field.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's. So what I did was between, right before the ending, I was like, I gotta go. I opened the window in the bathroom. I, I usually used a headset mic, but what I did was I took my crowd mic that I, I would hang out this microphone on a wire that I used as a crowd mic. So you could get ambient crowd noise. Yes. Yeah. I pulled it up.


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[Assistant] I swung it two doors down to the bathroom and I did an inning on the crapper.


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[Assistant] You know, I have a box in my house of cassette tapes from my play-by-play days. Do you think you have that game? I don't know, but I should search through it.


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[Assistant] I don't see it only because in basketball more than any other sport, teams gotta take their steps usually. There's usually a progression. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Good for the Kings, they've been such a crappy franchise for so long.


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[Assistant] Okay. Did you ever, did you guys think, like, I remember thinking Kareem's record was never gonna get broken.


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[Assistant] Clay and Steph. Yea, but look at the, this dude's longevity, guys, 20 years. And what's amazing is, Kareem had one three-pointer his entire career. That's nuts.


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[Assistant] Number 20 is Patrick Ewing with 11607.


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[Assistant] So he, he's gonna end up top 20 in rebounds, he's gonna finish, what, third in assists maybe of all time, number one in scoring, top 10 in steals, I mean, what can you...


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[Assistant] Uh, greatest at their sport in a team sport. Yeah, I would put Brady one and Lebron two.


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[Assistant] Best baseball player you've ever seen. Oh gosh, man.


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[Assistant] The numbers he would have put up. I mean, he used to hit home run, he used to hit home run. There was, and, and, for a, like, we don't think of baseball players being great athletes. But he was. A superb athlete.


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[Assistant] Yeah, who knows. I always assumed because Griffey was just naturally big, his body fell apart. Which makes me think he didn't take the steroids. Because he had that first year in Cincinnati that he was still great, and then he could never stay healthy after that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And so I'm like, if he was using steroids, he probably wouldn't have gotten hurt that much.


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[Assistant] And as you said, in the west, there's so many, it's so wide open, that even if you're like the 7-8-9, so you think, maybe we can win, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much you guys talked about it yesterday, I'll do it real quick. Uh, John Adams, of course, of course, the soundtrack of the Cleveland Indians and, you know, uh, for, for what, five decades?


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[Assistant] What passed away, he, for those who don't know, I'm sure, I don't have to tell you, I'm sure 99% of our listeners know, but John was the guy who would sit at the, the tribe games and hit the drum, boom, boom, boom. And it was something that was iconic for Cleveland. One of the most iconic things about going to a sporting event in Cleveland. John missed, I believe, before the pandemic,


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[Assistant] This is mind-blowing. I met him once. He was extremely nice. Everybody that met this guy has a nice story of an interaction with him. It was trending on Twitter. A fan, like, and it's unbelievable. He'll be missed at the ballpark indulgences to his family.


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[Assistant] I have thoughts on this. Okay. I actually disagree with Rod Carew's premise, however I agree that Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.


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[Assistant] It's not the writers fault though, they're not allowed to vote for him. It's absurd that Pete Rose isn't in the Hall of Fame. Now, I have no sympathy for him. I do believe he did compromise the team because if you bet on the team, then you manage differently and you maybe use a pitcher more.


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[Assistant] And you wouldn't use him in another game. So, but ultimately, he should get in based on his career. It's ridiculous. I think the steroid guy should be in too. I'd have higher standards for those guys. If a guy's borderline is a steroid guy. Clemens Bonds, yes. Sosa, Sosa, no. See, I would still vote for Sosa. I would. I would vote for Sosa.


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[Assistant] Like to me, Andy Pettis is not a Hall of Famer, because he's a borderline Hall of Famer to begin with, and he took steroids, so he's out.


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[Assistant] Pete Rose should be in, but he's been his own worst enemy. He hasn't helped himself.


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[Assistant] Next up, we have a newcomer. He is also the first player to come to Shanghai to steal the mic. Welcome, Da Xiong!


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[Assistant] Ah, so, uh, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] You gotta think, Jay. You gotta think that, that Patrick Mahomes gave all he had in that last little effort to get there. Oh, ankle be damned.


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[Assistant] If you were San Francisco, you had to feel like you was getting the screws put to you.