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[Assistant] And, you know, Josh Naylor was saying, back in double A or triple A,


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[Assistant] Uh, the Astros affiliate, they were playing when Miles Straw was on that team and Kyle Tucker was down there.


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[Assistant] And he said they didn't even take batting practice, they had these PVC pipes and this is all they were doing. And he said they were mashing. And...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but it takes away, Eric Davis' point was you don't, you don't understand how to hit. You're not actually a good hitter, you're just trying to hit the ball out of the park. And Eric Davis was naming names. And he said Joey Gallag would still be playing in this league if he ever bothered to learn how to hit.


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[Assistant] If he could hit 270 and hit 10 to 12 home runs less a year, he played until he was 38, 39 years old.


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[Assistant] But he's out of the league already because all he ever tried to do is hit home runs. And, and so it's, it's a, it's a long conversation, uh, with a lot of parts to this whole thing. But to answer your question, gee, I don't, you know, the guys I've talked to don't think it's coming back. Like this is the way it is. And because of velocity, because the game has changed and everything else, everybody tries to hit the ball out of the park.


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[Assistant] Uh, does he earn an everyday job? So we'll see. Uh, but you know, it's, it's certainly obvious it feels like that the Guardians are going in a different direction than a lot of teams around baseball, just trying to hit the ball out of the park. They seek contact and try and build power from there.


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[Assistant] Kyle Manzardo will get there, but I don't know that he's a 30-35 homer guy.


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[Assistant] It's tough. It's, it's really tough to sit here. I mean, I was talking to Zach Myers about it today. If Junior Kamenera was still in this organization, he'd be batting third.


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[Assistant] And you know, playing right field. And now he's won a Tampa's top prospects, hits the ball over a hundred miles an hour every time he hits it.


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[Assistant] And, and that's the kind of deal that'll haunt him. Chase DeLotter, I think he has a chance, but he's not gonna start up. He's gonna start in AAA.


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[Assistant] We're not going to see him for a while. I don't know if they do have a guy who you can, who you look at right now in circle and say that guy's going to be a legitimate 30 homerun threat this summer.


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[Assistant] Again, Arya sort of falls in that all or nothing category where he's got power, but he's, some of his bat to ball skills are lacking. If he could hit the ball a little bit more consistently and take hold of that job, there's some power in there, but he's yet to really do that.


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[Assistant] Jimenez at second is fine. I think they, if ultimately they don't settle on either shortstop and they like Juan Brito best, who's who they got for Nolan Jones, Brito could be second. They could put him at second and slide Jimenez to short.


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[Assistant] Burst is pretty well covered right now with, with Naylor and eventually Manzardo.


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[Assistant] And then the outfield is just a crapshoot. It's just, it's a lot of, it's a lot of bodies. And, and that's what the spring is for, is to figure out who can play and who can't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I- Myo Straw's gotta compete for the job. Chris Velayka said that he was the first one that I can recall.


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[Assistant] An official capacity saying on the record, Miles straw has to win a job this year. He has to compete for his, for his playing time now. Whereas before that was never really the case. Estevan Florio, Ramon Laureano, Will Brennan. None of these guys are big time power hitters who can emerge as middle of the lineup bats. So it's, it's an issue.


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[Assistant] B plus A minus, these guys are on the unsung heroes, you know, they don't really...


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[Assistant] They don't have a lot of number crunching or a lot of data that you can compile. It makes them say, well, look at that. He had 15 tackles and six sacks. He had a great time. No, it's the, it's the job of just holding the line, holding the middle, anchoring it down. I thought he did exactly what they brought him here for it to be plus a minus.


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[Assistant] I'm actually a little bit higher. I would say C plus just because.


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[Assistant] I said it before, I thought that there was a lot of plays where he was the last man standing and he got him, he got him down. It may not look like a big play in the moment, but if he missed that tackle, that plays out of the gate for 30, 40 yards or maybe even a touchdown, so. But that's his job. I thought, oh well I know, and I thought he did it. And toward the end of the year, I think he did fall off a little bit, maybe it was injury or everything else. But for the first half to three quarters of the year, I thought he played alright.


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[Assistant] He's a tough dude, man. I'll give him a B, just B to B plus just because of the toughness that he showed coming back and playing on at Torren Peck. That's unbelievable to do. He, he fills a role. He's not in every down.


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[Assistant] I thought as you can see by my grades, I thought Avery Barry nailed the free agent class in totality for the most part. I thought they did a great job.


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[Assistant] I think because he's not an every down player is probably what hurts his value a little bit.


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[Assistant] GM's really show their acu on the margins. When you contract for minimal mon big time contributors. Th earning your keep. He hit on You know, most had a ton of delivered on a one year deal.


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[Assistant] B plus, I think he's the starting middle linebacker next year and switching positions may have saved his career. He looked like just a guy being on the outside two years ago, not this season, last season.


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[Assistant] Injuries force him to move in the middle and you thought, okay, maybe there's something here. They bring him back. A walk goes down again. Taki goes in the middle again and really it looks like a very formidable middle linebacker in the NFL. I expect him to be the starter there next year.


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[Assistant] And for what he was billed to be and what they got, they could, I feel like they could have got better value had they just stayed at 42 and drafted a receiver. So, he's a Jag to me, he's just a guy.


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[Assistant] I mean, to me, this is, it's a, it's a B2B plus class. Dewan Jones nailed it. That saves it. Ronnie Hickman was great as an undrafted free agent.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Tillman, Tillman showed more than Anthony Schwartz and David Bell have to this point. I think, you know, was he a home run? No, he wasn't a home run at 74. But there's enough there that I want to see more out of it. Eka didn't really get a ton of opportunities. He didn't really flash in the few that he got. That's to be determined.


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[Assistant] But overall, I, I thought that they did better. They, they hit on more than they've missed. And the misses, I don't even know are complete misses, I think we just need to see more time on them.


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[Assistant] Hopefully you could do something. That would be more of a cheaper route.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, last night, and hit that big shot, it does do a lot for your confidence, because it's letting me know that you're starting to feel yourself. Like, you know, when you get injured and you're out of the lineup and the team is having a ton of success, you sit there and you ask yourself, how do I fit in this lineup? Am I going to be that guy?


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[Assistant] And you start to doubt yourself. And it seems like you've been trying to get your groove back. Last night solidified it for me that you can make those big plays in those big moments. Yes, it was still a minute left in the game, but to be able to do that, to call off.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell, who had a mismatch, make no mistake about it. We know Donovan Mitchell probably would have scored on that play.


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[Assistant] But to call him off and go up against Alex Caruso, who by the way, I think was first team all defense last year.


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[Assistant] To spin him like a top gi- make him half this dance and hit a big shot, I think that was big. Now, my issue is with the cast because


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[Assistant] In the first half, y'all did what y'all did against the Sixers. Y'all came out so slow defensively, and in the second half, y'all gotta waste all this energy getting back on track. And I don't know why y'all, I don't know if y'all just toying with people to see how good y'all actually are. It's something that I feel like can come back and bite you. Like I said, the regular season, it's,


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[Assistant] We will say it's meaningless, but I don't want you to practice bad habits. So you got to continue to try to put together four quarters. I know Jason is sitting there like, oh Tyrus, please. Nobody cares. But still it's, it's just y'all certain a lot of energy and effort. Good news is y'all sure y'all can complete it.


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[Assistant] He came out there, gave him the first league, took somebody to the hole, got into a scuffle.


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[Assistant] Well, let me ask you this before we switch topics. This is real quick. What do you think is the Cavs Achilles heel? Is it the shooting, could it be potentially the shooting of Isaac O'Coral or is it J.B. Bickerstaff coaching in the postseason?


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[Assistant] The second best cavalier is not Kyrie Irvin, is not Donovan Mitchell. Is he honest? Is Zydrunas Ilgoskis. I don't care what nobody says. That man gave us so many great years. This man could shoot the three.


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[Assistant] Get rebounds, pass the ball. What do you want him to do? Coach? I mean, the man did every single thing. Shout out to Big Z. That's why his number's in the rafters. By the way. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I agree with that. I mean, I don't, what's the, I need to see the categories.


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[Assistant] If that three point thing is real, then yeaah, I would put him in that category, but if we going off of today, right now, I wouldn't consider him to be a franchise guy.


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[Assistant] As far as the label goes, I think the label is correct. He's a touchable untouchable.


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[Assistant] I agree, yea. LeBron in the Secret League we listen in.


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[Assistant] This goes back to uh, eleven categories is too many. You just reached with eleven. It could have been like six.


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[Assistant] Cause, cause they, they, they was about to offer, uh, Carolina like two or three first round picks for Brian Burns.


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[Assistant] The brown, I think the browns would try to squeeze that third one for sure.


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[Assistant] Four or five? Five? Can you even, can you even do that?


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[Assistant] I definitely think they get better. I think they can get two seconds.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would. But this is, that's a loaded question because I need to know what else is being done at the receiver position and all of those things. I need to know about other things.


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[Assistant] Two, two seconds in a reduced, wait, how much you got left on this contract? Three years. So like, money wise, we probably don't know that.


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[Assistant] Well the difference between him is because Cam Mitchell came in and played so well.


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[Assistant] And he's already been a slot. See, Gene New got, he got transferred to being a slot. So he was, it's still a learning thing. He is naturally a slot. But what the, where his value is, is that you know Denzel's going to go down. So you always got the confidence to say, I got the dude that will go out there and get us through this.


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[Assistant] My thing- Wouldn't you do it? My thing- Yes, but my thing with this is-


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[Assistant] Who's gonna trade for him? Why would you, why would, if I'm another team, why would I want Greg?


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[Assistant] If he's, if he's been for the past two years been a slack corner, they're not going to get paid. We, that's, we need a, we need a number one lockdown corner. That is what the number one thing a defense need. A number one lockdown.


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[Assistant] At the most, a third, at the most, third or fourth I see you.


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[Assistant] Would you trade a second or third for Mike Hilton?


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[Assistant] 35 million, something like that. 35 million. Nick Chubb seems like a guy that's a pretty simple guy. Don't spend his money. 35, he good.


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[Assistant] Not simple like he's a dummy. No, I know. If they gonna renegotiate his deal, it's probably gonna be incentive based.


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[Assistant] If Mo said that to me, I would come back and say, hey, you got a deal.


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[Assistant] Oh, at that point, if they, if you only offered four, Cincinnati offered me six, why wouldn't I go to Cincinnati?


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[Assistant] No, no. He said, he said that he got a contract and told the Indians that they're about to offer me this much and they didn't believe it.


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[Assistant] You can push a second. You can push a second. I gotta know where this money is. That's the...


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[Assistant] Who does the Saint, who's the Saint's tight end? Who is Miami's tight end? They don't need a tight end. They don't have anybody.


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[Assistant] The contract is the reason why, but Denzel is still. But Denzel is.


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[Assistant] Yes, corners, cause corners hold more value. You get you a number one corner.


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[Assistant] The chub thing would have been different had he rushed for 1500 yards. Oh yeaah, sure. Like, but it's, he got hers.


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[Assistant] We'll go with what I think on this one. And all the reason I'm gonna go with what I think is because I gotta see...


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[Assistant] What the other moves the Browns make at this current moment. Like how the roster currently is constructed.


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[Assistant] Like I think he can have some success. Obviously I know that they are capable of doing it. Joe Flacco did it, but right now it's so many different pieces. You know, new offensive staff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I gotta see how that work plays out and then I gotta see how he comes back from the shoulder injury, how he looks from that. I think that, you know, confidence wise, I think he'll have his confidence back because he left on such a good note knowing that he could still make plays and still win games and in crunch time get things done.


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[Assistant] I think he believes that he knows he got good playmakers now because Joe Flacco raised the play of all of these guys. So he knows that these guys are capable of making plays. The only, my biggest thing is now that there's a new coach and staff in there as far as offensive minds.


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[Assistant] I gotta see how they jail with Deshaun first, and that's why I'm at I Think right now.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, if they went out and signed Mike Evers or T Higgins, what would you say? Would that change you in any way?


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[Assistant] I agree with that, I agree with that state, but that's typically how it works. I just, I wanna go on record and say I think.


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[Assistant] I do think that, I think they gonna spend this offseason trying to figure out, you know, how to be better defensively. I think they have a really good defensive scheme, uhm, that everybody understands, but the problem is the quarterbacks for other teams, especially those veteran quarterbacks, they recognize what's coming.


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[Assistant] This year they're gonna more be more so in disguises to try to confuse it.


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[Assistant] My only concern with the pass defense, cause you know, the rush and the pass tie together.


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[Assistant] I need to know who that other defensive end is going to be next year. That's a big key piece. When we get to that. If that guy is important, if it's a guy that's coming in that's productive, I think that ultimately helps the pass defense. Because our corners are really good, especially in the first 15 yards of a play.


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[Assistant] They're really good in first 15. Like if a route is more than 15, and it's not Denzel, I get kind of concerned. But anything outside of that, I think these guys are really good. So I'm gonna say I know from that standpoint, cause I'm going on a leap of faith that that defensive end that they get opposite of Miles will be productive.


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[Assistant] My name is now Tyvis Loy because I doubt it. I doubt it. I doubt it for the simple fact, not because I doubt Nick Chubb, I doubt it because I don't think he'll play.


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[Assistant] And then when he comes back, I think he's gonna be on a pitch count, which is gonna slow him down. I just don't think he's gonna get to 1,100 yards in that next season. I think he could get to 900, 800 or something like that.


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[Assistant] But I think he'll be splitting carries and it'll take him a while to fully get back and that's going to mess up his numbers in the long run.


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[Assistant] What did Deshaun say on that podcast? We gon' throw the ball. So, we'll see.


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[Assistant] Round, yeaah, something like that. 12... Nooo! It's 17 games in the season.


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[Assistant] My question is, what position is he playing next year?


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[Assistant] Nah, cause if they traded for another top pass rusher and took a receiver in the second round, I'd be okay with that.


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[Assistant] So uhm, David Bell, thousand yards next year. No chance.


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[Assistant] You ready to pull the jersey? You ready to pull the jersey? Are you on for every home run he hits you with a jersey again?


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[Assistant] You know, well that, that's just how we are in America now, as you always were. That's, they like teaching that in class now, in schools, that you, when a shooter happens, what to do. So, it's unfortunate that that's where we at.


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[Assistant] I just hate the fact that it's just another one of those incidents where how can you go be at a place where everybody's there for the same reason. We're all there to celebrate our favorite team winning the championship.


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[Assistant] How in the midst of you're supposed to be happy does that lead to y'all shooting? I don't, that's the part that I don't understand. Like, it was, what happened that that was that bad that you thought


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[Assistant] Forget everybody around me right now. I'm mad at this guy and I want to take my frustration out on this guy or girl.


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[Assistant] What are you thinking about? Like why? Yeah, like clearly. So if you, if you know you got a temper or something like that, you gotta do a self-check and say, I can't handle being around people like that.


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[Assistant] What you think is, in the midst of trying to get that one person, you don't realize that you putting everybody else in jeopardy.


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[Assistant] So if you know you got a temper like that, or you can't handle a certain situation, or de-escalate a situation properly, then you might need to remove yourself from that, because now you're ruining moments.


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[Assistant] Things that we don't know of Kansas City. We think Kansas City have won multiple championships from here on out, but what if that's the last one?


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[Assistant] Like that's what their lasting memory will be, that our parade got shut down because of a shooting. Like that's, it's just uh, people gotta start being aware of the situations and stop ruining good moments.


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[Assistant] It seems like every time you out there having the best time of your life, something bad happens every single time. And it's, it's annoying. It's like, that's why people don't go nowhere no more. You gotta sit in the house now.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, Earl, you, you. Earl, do you not like cheese?


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[Assistant] I just don't like cheese on burgers. Like, I prefer, the less cheese, the better, right? Cheese and mac and cheese makes sense. Cheese on the chili dog. Cheese and the Philly cheese steak. But outside of that, like, it's like, why do you need to put PEDs on your food? That doesn't make any sense.


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[Assistant] J, you done know me a little, a little while now. Have I ever.


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[Assistant] You eat so good, Earl, why you putting mustard and mayo on there? Because, because the poll said you have to name two condiments. So I couldn't eat the burger dry. You could have just said,


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[Assistant] Yeah, what was his wing taste? He doesn't put sauce on his wings. I don't put sauce on my wings either. Or sauce on his ribs. So you're eating plain wings? What? Nothing on them. So if the wings are seasoned right and fried to perfection, what would you need hot sauce for?


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[Assistant] Alright, what's good UCSS? Today we are going to spotlight Sherman Jocko Maxwell. So in 1929, uh, Sherman Maxwell became the first ever black sports, uh, sportscaster.


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[Assistant] Uh, he began at 22 years old at WNJR in New Jersey throughout the 1930s, interviewed many of the biggest stars in sports. He was also the public address announcer for the Negro leagues, Newark Eagles, and would go on to become a prominent scholar on black baseball.


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[Assistant] Despite his many accomplishments, there were many times when Maxwell was not paid for his work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's my homework. You might catch it on the Ultimate 216 Show tonight.


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[Assistant] Jason's in the witness protection program. He was the one.


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[Assistant] I was, there was, I said on the show when you picked them, I haven't been shocked by anything else at a greater degree than you picking the Browns to go to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] And you know the drill. Maybe next year. A lot to talk about today. A lot to talk about today. But first, let's get the read out of the way.


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[Assistant] Off the top so we can dive into all of our topics. Go ahead, Mikey.


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[Assistant] Cause in the text group to Ozzy said, I finally hit on one of these same gay parley, gay parlays. So congrats to him.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, the Flacco fairy tale struck midnight and it struck midnight.


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[Assistant] Eastern time on Saturday. Bull, you really wanted to kind of give an opening statement. Well, but I think you


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[Assistant] Monday off, it could potentially be our biggest day ever. Yeah. Of course, we all were predicting a win. So G, as the card carrying black member of the odd air staff said, I co-sign it.


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[Assistant] He says, he says he's hurt, he's got a stomach flu. Get well soon, G. But I can tell you this, this portion of it's not going to get better tomorrow. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Disappointed for sure, uhm, but I hadn't quite bought in to the level of craziness and hype and excitement that I think a lot of Cleveland fans had. Uhm, I had them winning in the first round and then losing in the next round anyhow, and I didn't care whether it was, I didn't care who it was to, I just felt like, unless it was Pittsburgh, uhm,


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[Assistant] I just felt like they weren't gonna go past one game anyhow. Sometimes you get hung up in the results.


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[Assistant] And I think that's what happened to us here. We were intoxicated on the results and we weren't, so,


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[Assistant] We weren't looking at the journey exactly. There were things about the journey that we wildly overlooked. Uhm, and I think we're all guilty of it.


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[Assistant] We said last week, Flacco's kill pill is the interception. It will be the fatal flaw of this team whenever this season ends. It will be because of his bugaboo, which he has never really been able to escape, and that's the interceptions.


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[Assistant] Uh, he fooled us in the regular season because he was able to do that. I think what happened with Joe, guys, is that the pressure of the moment finally got to him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he played so free and easy. He said in all the pregame interviews, this is fun. This is easy. There's no pressure. I do believe that he felt pressure, but I also believe that, and I have to give credit where credit is due. I think the Houston Texans coaching staff


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[Assistant] Uhm, so on my level of disappointment, if I have to, you know,


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[Assistant] I think I was more disappointed a couple of years ago with the Kansas City loss. No question. Because we were closer and we were at least in this game.


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[Assistant] That game. I didn't expect we would get blown out. That was a complete surprise. But I had said last week, it's not going to surprise me if the Browns lose. Uh, one other thing, uh, CJ Stroud is him. There is absolutely no question about that. Um, he plays in the big moments.


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[Assistant] You either revert to who you are or you step up a notch. Uhm, I think Joe Flacco reverted to who he was and I think CJ Stroud stepped up a notch. Uhm, tremendous, tremendous young player. I think I'm more disappointed about this, guys, than the actual loss itself. In watching this game,


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[Assistant] From a move that we made that we thought was gonna put us on this track. And it may still end up that way, but 40% of the hay is in the barn and right now it stinks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Can he resurrect that second half against Baltimore into a full season? Well the answer has to be yes. Because if he doesn't, this thing ends in a total dumpster fire disaster.


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[Assistant] But it was hard for me to watch assets that the Texans acquired through our picks beat us and now they're here and we're here. We've got Deshaun Watson for three more and I hope it has a happier ending than it feels like it's gonna have on this day.


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[Assistant] It's embarrassing. It is. That's terribly embarrassing. Look, I get this. I've learned this during the course of this show for sure.


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[Assistant] Fanbases more and more because there's so much available for them to pick and choose for what they want to consume. Yeah. Fanbases don't want to hear the truth. Well, yeah. I mean, sure. And, and I've always known that. That's the world. It is. No, it is. But politics. And I've always known that, by the way. I've always known that.


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[Assistant] And this, we proved this when we asked the question, who's the best GM in Cleveland? And the winner of that question was Jimmy Haslam. Owner. Owner. I said GM. My bad. Owner.


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[Assistant] Not individually, but I don't, I don't go there anyway, but collectively I said they've lost all credibility with me.


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[Assistant] All, any credibility they had. Uhm, and as we continue to post polls.


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[Assistant] And so, I'm sorry that they attacked you. I don't care. I don't care. I know you don't care and neither do I. Uhm, Skip Payless always used to say, I'm here to tell the truth that you don't want to hear. And a lot of people don't want to hear the truth.


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[Assistant] I get it, I know you don't, and, and you wisely shouldn't even look at it, uhm, if, if you were smart.


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[Assistant] I just think that in this day and age where we are, with so much information available,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if I, cause I, I split mine between coaches, staff, defense, flaco, everything. Uhm, I even gave injuries 10%. Because if, if you're,


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[Assistant] When the Browns had healthy tackles, their run game was very, very good.


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[Assistant] When they lost the tackles, their run game completely disappeared. And we've said this all season. When you're one dimensional, you've got one foot in the L grave. You're, you're halfway to cook.


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[Assistant] The Browns, and I know that they were able to win in the regular season that way, but the playoffs are played completely differently as we saw yesterday and earlier on Saturday. The playoffs are a different beast. And when the Browns couldn't establish a run game,


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[Assistant] The Texans, it was easy for the Texans because they knew what the Browns were gonna do and they were able to stop it.


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[Assistant] My criticism of him for a long time has been he doesn't seem, and I'm not saying he doesn't make big plays. He does at big moments. But to me, if I'm going to use a baseball analogy, he's a guy who hits a three run home run when you're down nine to one in the sixth. It doesn't do much for me in that situation. And this team, and this is an overall picture, but he's partly to blame for this. What is this team missing?


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[Assistant] It's missing fire and brimstone.


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[Assistant] And I don't, I say that because when I was watching the Rams and the Lions last night, I thought, you know, if there's any coach


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[Assistant] He is fiery. His players respond to him. He has the ultimate belief in his players.


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[Assistant] The reason he does it is because he's got a great offense!


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[Assistant] And, and look, I know that to me that Tom Landry


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[Assistant] In today's NFL, I just feel, and that's why I think Campbell and McVeigh are both so successful and their teams love them.


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[Assistant] But it put them back 10 yards and they had to punt and they, that was it. They couldn't get the ball back. I love the emotion.


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[Assistant] I know that Jim Schwartz is kind of that guy, but he's not the head coach. And his defense can rally around that, but for some reason...


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[Assistant] The big knock on Miles all along is he's not the leader type. He's not the leader type.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, when you're the best player on your team.


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[Assistant] You better learn how to lead and it better be vocal and not through your actions. I want a Ray Lewis coming through the tunnel with the antics and getting everybody on their feet. I want a Ray Lewis in the huddle on the sidelines after a 90-yard drive ripping every single guy on the defense a new one because they probably need it.


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[Assistant] And this team doesn't have that. They don't have it at the head coach. They don't have it as an offensive leader. They don't have it as a defensive leader.


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[Assistant] I thought Houston, Houston, Ryan's funny. He's not that guy, but his players love him.


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[Assistant] And I think they have players on the team that will take that leadership role.


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[Assistant] Here's my fear. Stefanski's gonna win Coach of the Year and Miles Garrett's gonna win Defensive Player of the Year. That's my fear.


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[Assistant] That's not good enough. And that might be why he's a great player on a team that's had no playoff success.


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[Assistant] I had to lead twice in this game. They talked about it briefly in the telecast and I was glad they did because it's something that I've noticed during the course of the year at times. I thought Indy used it very, very well to their advantage. We are a fly to the football defense. That's Jim Schwartz's style. I understand that.


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[Assistant] But when you get away from discipline, assignment oriented defense, this is what happens. You get gashed for huge plays and they said it on the telecast and I was glad they did.


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[Assistant] The Rams definitely used it. Now the Rams do that against everybody, but the Rams absolutely exploited this about the Browns.


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[Assistant] And then the left side of the field or the right side of the field, whichever one, is wide open. And what stunned me, and I think this might be what Miles was talking about, they didn't change it.


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[Assistant] Like, I think Jim was like, this is the hand I'm holding and I think we can win with this. And the Texans just kept saying, okay, if you're gonna buy these misdirection fakes, good luck to you, we're gonna burn you the other way. And they did it time and time and time and time again. They saw that, I think, in the Ram state.


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[Assistant] explain, it's the biggest point differential allowed home and away in the NFL since 1982.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to point any allegations. No, I don't know. Because it's pretty much impossible to cheat unless somehow you're doing the...


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[Assistant] What I'm told is impossible and that's stealing the other team's communication.


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[Assistant] But that's what we need to know. And we said that the hardest thing to carry over, it's like the bullpen in baseball. Yea. Defense doesn't always transition year to year. Good offense often times does.


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[Assistant] But I don't know what we have on defense and that's troubling because we thought that side of the ball was healthy.


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[Assistant] So that part, that side of the ball was healthy. They had been playing well. And you know, I think there is something to that. The Jets at home, okay, they're middling. They're bad. You're supposed to beat up on them.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think they had Jacksonville at home or were they on the road? They had Jacksonville at home and Lawrence was, he played, but he wasn't Lawrence and hadn't been after, even after the injury. So maybe there is something to that.


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[Assistant] Is we got cooked by a rookie in the playoffs giving up 45 points. Now I know 14 of those were not pick sixes, but my God, I don't know what we have on. And by the way, before you go, Mike, one thing that really rubbed me the wrong way and maybe I'm just being too critical. It was not a good look.


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[Assistant] For Andrew Berry to be standing at the entrance of the locker room.


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[Assistant] I get that. There's a time and place for that. I don't think after a 45, after you look like that.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this before Mike goes real quick. You guys can give an answer because we don't know what they are.


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[Assistant] Is this defense more the one that played the home games, the nine home games, or the one that played the nine road games?


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[Assistant] The defense wasn't going to stop Houston. No. And I agree with you 100%. We say all picks aren't created equal.


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[Assistant] Yes, you can't ignore the two in his stat line. You can't. It jumps out at you. However, I think you put an asterisk next to them and you say they were a result of no running game, none,


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[Assistant] I'm not saying there's a pass, I'm saying what's going on in his mind is we can't punt or we lose.


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[Assistant] Let's just say, for the sake of this discussion, that defense played up to its ability, or what we thought they would do, and it's 17-3 Browns at halftime. That changes everything.


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[Assistant] He had a lot to do with the Browns losing this game. Yes. What we're saying is what I'm saying, and I think you are too, is if you at halftime, I felt really good about our offense. I'm like, you know what? They're, they're not going to be able to stop us either. We can't really stop them, but they're not going to be able to stop us. And I felt good about that.


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[Assistant] But the defense, every time they took the field, they were getting gashed one play after another. It was almost like CJ Stroud was the 16 year vet. He looked, he just,


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[Assistant] It was so inexplicable. I spread mine out all over the place. I give him 60, I give Joe 20. I think injuries, and you know, we talked about them and we were relatively healthy, but to me, the two injuries that we didn't talk enough about during the year,


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[Assistant] And the reason we didn't was because our interior three of that offensive line had been so good that we just kept, it was, it was like smoke and mirrors.


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[Assistant] But the lack of good tackles is going to cost you at some point.


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[Assistant] And to me, it was like two flashing lights on each side of that line. They were horrible. They weren't blocking anybody. Joe had pressure in his face all day and the run game once again.


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[Assistant] At one point I stopped watching the game because it wasn't entertaining.


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[Assistant] I just starting, started watching the offensive line.


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[Assistant] He's at that age. He's at that age. And, and you know, as much as we love him and what he does, and he's still pro bowl caliber player, uh, the one thing that you have to look at when you're putting a team together is, you know, how reliable are these players?


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[Assistant] And there were a lot of players on this team that weren't available this year. Now, not all of them were age related, but there were some, some of it was age related.


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[Assistant] One of the things that Mike wanted to discuss this morning, and I'm glad that it's on the list, is we had made a big deal about playoff experience.


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[Assistant] How important it was that Joe Flacco had this mountain of playoff experience, and how because C.J. Stroud had none of it at the NFL level, even though he played in some very big games in college, that that wasn't going to translate. Do we look at that aspect of all of this differently 48 hours after the fact?


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[Assistant] There were a couple times where he had to step up in the pocket, move, but not much.


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[Assistant] I thought, even though his yards per carry weren't great, I thought Hunt came with his construction hat.


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[Assistant] He ran hard. He got the tough yards. He scored the two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Yes, he is. Because of his heart. I think it's because of his heart. You know who impressed me? Who impressed you most? I know there's time for us to talk about it later, but there was, was there one player that impressed you more than any other?


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[Assistant] Cause my- Jared, uh, uh, Jordan Love. Jordan Love was great. To me, I was already impressed with him. I was already on board. This Puka Nakua is unbelievable.


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[Assistant] The cowboys being down 27 nothing at home was, I didn't know what I was looking for.


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[Assistant] The Packers won by a huge number two. We'll come back to that. There's a lot on, on that bone. Not, not just this, but I thought in general, the playoff games, and if there's time, we'll talk about the two games today. There's only been one good game so far. And one tonight. Yeah, you're right. The playoffs in general have been pigs. The first three games were terrible. I mean, last night's game was really, really, really good. But the first three were absolutely unwatchable.


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[Assistant] Four or five, not just head coaches, but great head coaches.


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[Assistant] Well, they said yesterday, and I didn't know this to be true. I'd never seen it personally, but, uh, somebody had said it might have been Torico or someone over the weekend. No, it was, uh, Joe Buck.


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[Assistant] Said that they each have tremendous respect for one another and have had a great relationship for decades. Now, you don't hire your friends and you don't hire your family. And he ran out the only good coach he had who won him his championship, Jimmy Johnson. He ran out, he fired Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer.


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[Assistant] They're one and the same. You know what? That's a really good analogy. Although he won it in college, he was, he was great.


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[Assistant] Of all the things you can say that why the defense sucked, Rust isn't in my top 10.


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[Assistant] And I'm telling you and, and I'm really glad that they talked about it. It was Collinsworth said, you know, he's talked to over 200 receivers, running back skills players about what hit needs to be taken out of the game, the headshot or that shot.


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[Assistant] All of them say that shot has to be taken out. I'm sorry. I know you can look at a hit a million different ways to me. It's a dirty hit. It's a target hit.


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[Assistant] I know that's, they have no choice. The league has told them that's where you gotta hit guys. But that particular hit, he was targeting the knee. He couldn't hit the thigh. There was no need for him to go that low.


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[Assistant] Huge money for Peacock. 23 million. 23 million views. And we had this conversation on Friday, you and I off the air. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] We will see a time where there is no such thing as a free NFL game.


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[Assistant] Think to boxing when all the boxing matches that were worth anything were free.


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[Assistant] And then slowly but surely, you don't get any of that for free anymore. It's coming, and it's coming in our lifetime.


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[Assistant] We will pay what we need to pay to watch our game. By the way, I don't have Peacock because I don't really stream or watch much TV. I did not buy Peacock. The game to me was, I was so done with football. I'm done with football. The stock pitchers and catchers for me. I am done with it. When the Browns lose, I'm done.


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[Assistant] But Bull, he's done something, he's done a lot of things that have never been done before. Well, it's the, I mean, it's the first rookie quarterback, rookie coach, to win a playoff game. Which is amazing. They were the first, they were the first to win their division. Now they're the first to win a playoff game.


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[Assistant] And I don't think any of what we've seen with CJ Stroud is a fluke. I don't. You're right. I gotta do it a second year. I call that the cement year. The cement is poured and it's got a great foundation. Now, does somebody walk through it and mess it all up or does it, does it lock into where it is?


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[Assistant] This kid is very special. And I changed my opinion on Ryan Day over the weekend.


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[Assistant] I know that they didn't not win the championship because of C.J. Stroud. Yes. It was the defense. Clearly everybody knew that.


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[Assistant] But the fact that he couldn't win a national championship with what now is looking like the equivalent of Joe Burrow is a bit of an indictment on Ryan Day. How you gave up 18 points in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] I will rip till the end of the world as one of the worst picks ever, and I know that there's, you gotta do it for two years, and we gotta see that Bryce Young next year is still that awful, but the fact that the Carolina Panthers took a 5'10 Bryce Young over this guy?


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[Assistant] Oh, do you think they were piping sound in? I'm not so sure there wasn't some help. I've been in stadiums, by the way, where I've wondered that I'm like, I'm sitting here and it doesn't feel like this is generating that.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to give Wells credit because he said, listen, they're going to be turned up for the game. There's not a lot of buzz right now, but they're going to be turned up. I saw what the tickets were going for on the resale market. It was a joke. Yea, it was a joke. There was not the interest there.


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[Assistant] And that, listen, your theory I think might have some credence to it because at home, I, I, a number of times said,


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[Assistant] Don't ask for permission. Ask for forgiveness. We are looking at a national champion in college football that had not won.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're playing the victim. Jim, you're a liar. The Michigan fans are playing the victim card.


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[Assistant] I know they are. They think they're victims. And you know what they did? It's crazy. And I think the Astros did this to an extent with their second World Series.


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[Assistant] They used it as a rallying cry. They galvanized around the fact that they got caught cheating and people were calling them cheaters. How dare you call us a cheater? I mean, I know we cheated, but we're mad now. And you know what else I'm disappointed in off the topic, but we'll get right back on it.


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[Assistant] ESPN in their build up to the national championship game, they were talking about Michigan like they were, you know,


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[Assistant] Oh, what a group. What a group of men who were, they had their character challenged and they rallied together and even after the game, they, they,


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[Assistant] Canonize them. They're cheaters. And if society is gonna take cheaters and still put the gold medal around their neck, guess what we're gonna get a lot more of? Cheaters. Cheating. We already do. We have a lot of liars.


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[Assistant] Help me with this. Maybe you guys have an answer. Because when I was watching it, I'm like, why did they just let that happen?


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[Assistant] The Texans wanted Collins on Newsom.


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[Assistant] So when they've got two white outs to the left, and Newsom is obviously covering the slot guy, who was Collins,


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[Assistant] Collins just switched places and took the outside and instead of the Browns just passing that off and letting Denzel take the outside, what they did was they said, we're gonna take you and we're gonna, we're gonna force you to play to your weakness.


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[Assistant] So funny, it's, you know what it's like, it's like when you're playing someone in checkers and they like make a move and you keep looking at it and you're like, is this a sucker move? Are they, what are they doing here? When the Browns followed Collins and knew Genu went to the outside, I'm like, well they just took our strongest player.


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[Assistant] And Genu's a good slot corner. He's good. He's not great. He's a good serviceable slot corner. When you put him on the outside against a team's best receiver, he gets undressed immediately. Yeah, he can't play good. Nico Collins was by him in four steps.


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[Assistant] He can't. And, and, and it was so stunning to me that Houston said, we're going to try this. There's no way it's going to work, but we're going to put, we're just going to have Nico switch places. And there's no way you guys are going to take the


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[Assistant] And I don't like that they made the point. I thought it looked, it looked, it was a bad look on both GNU and on Miles Garry to say, well, we didn't change up. Well, you didn't show up.


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[Assistant] I don't know how that guy is the defensive player of the year. I just don't.


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[Assistant] I've said it all along, my criticism on him.


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[Assistant] Your best player has to make his best plays in the biggest spots. That's why I've said to me, TJ's a little better, a little better.


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[Assistant] I think they're going to be, you know what, we talk about this because it's the Steelers all the time. About, well how do you fire their head coach? They make the playoffs. Well in Dallas' case it's worse because they win 12 games. And then they look nothing like the team that won 12 games.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that equity did not transfer with him to Dallas. And losing to the team, that had to hurt for Mike McCarthy.


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[Assistant] Like, how do you not get up for that game? Did they take the first game's results for granted? I know Bull in the notes said, that's crazy, there's no such thing as a trap game. I thought this, to me, this looked like a trap game. Nah, to me that's giving them an excuse.


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[Assistant] They took the bait on the trap game. So there's one thing to be a trap game and you don't take the bait. I thought it was a trap game. I was very nervous about this game and the Browns played like they thought they


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[Assistant] It's disappointing, whatever it is, whatever the reason is for the collective failure of the organization, uh, it's really disappointing. It's funny how it...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I gave serious, serious consideration and even ran this by a couple of people to picking the Texans. And everybody that I ran it by like, you're nuts. That's why I think it was a trap.


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[Assistant] Clean sweep. I mean, we always have a clean sweep. But a lot of the, a lot of the NFL experts. Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland. Yea, but there were plenty of people.


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[Assistant] I did see one guy, I think Yahoo, uh, writer, wrote a pretty good piece and explain-


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[Assistant] That I'd bet all year. There were a couple times that I picked against the Browns this year.


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[Assistant] But there were a couple times that I picked the browns, but I felt a little more comfortable than I did in this


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[Assistant] And what I'm trying to do, and it's crazy to try to do this because it's like trying to put 53 guys on the couch. Like, they've all got different reasons. They've all got different motivations for playing like ass.


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[Assistant] How a team of men that looked so galvanized.


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[Assistant] And had been through so much and had accomplished so much against the longest of odds, showed up and played like that.


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[Assistant] Look, if you score, they only scored 14 points, so that's not enough to win a playoff game.


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[Assistant] No, but if you just juxtapose this run against the one that was made four years ago. Are we getting to that next, Mike?


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[Assistant] My God, I, nobody thought that this was gonna happen. In part,


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[Assistant] Because they were never out of the last two playoff games they played. In fact, it was 7-0 before the first beer was sold.


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[Assistant] And they never trailed, and they had a huge lead. Ben Roethlisberger threw for 500 yards in that game, and they lost.


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[Assistant] Well exactly, but what I'm saying is if you, if you have a quarterback throw for 500 yards against you, it's because you have a massive lead and you're giving him whatever he wants.


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[Assistant] It was reversed. The Browns were the Texans and the Steelers were the Browns. Then they go to Kansas City.


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[Assistant] And we expected that that game was gonna be a very, very, very uphill climb. And they were never out of that game.


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[Assistant] If you knew Mahomes was gonna miss the second half. And he didn't miss the whole second half. He missed most of it. Like, I think he got hurt late in the third quarter.


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[Assistant] But, but either way, Bull, I mean that's semantics. Either way, like, if you juxtapose the two playoff experiences...


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[Assistant] That one we left, we were proud of the boys. They, they gave it at their all. They damn near beat the defending Super Bowl champions in the team that we thought was unbeatable for our team. And so if you start, like I, I chart a team's progress and


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[Assistant] Along an arc. Like, and the Brown's arc is so difficult to follow.


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[Assistant] Because it was down here forever. It had this, and then it had this, and then it got this, and then in an instant, it went down to here again. Well, did it? Does one game put it all the way down to here? So I feel a lot


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[Assistant] Because, because I just didn't think that this team was capable of that egg. And the three and six on the road, if you do that on the road every year, you're not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the overall picture, yeah, so pics, are there pixels of the picture? Yeah. I like better now? Yeah. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] But the entire picture? To me? In 2020? And who wasn't thinking this at the time?


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[Assistant] I thought in 2020, I'm like, we've got it. We've got our coach. We all thought we had our quarterback. We all thought we had our defense. We all thought this is sustainable for years.


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[Assistant] Well, the Browns defense wasn't nearly as good as it was this year. It wasn't, but you know what? We're still asking ourselves the question, what is this defense?


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[Assistant] I literally, and you know what? Everybody that knows me and on a national level was reaching out. Man, you should be excited about the future. What an effort. They damn near went into Kansas City and pulled off the


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[Assistant] And that was the narrative. I don't remember national voices saying, oh, this Browns team, that was all a fluke. There's no way they repeat it. Nobody was saying that. Everybody was saying they've got a second year coach who's only going to be better.


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[Assistant] You know what, I told my son yesterday, what's going to get me through the offseason is the second half of Baltimore.


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[Assistant] Look how long it took to get that half a football out of them.


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[Assistant] A little skewed. He was throwing, we were happy when he finally threw for 200 yards, remember? Because everything was like 190, 170, 160. We're like, what is this?


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[Assistant] Again, it's the picture. The whole picture is blurry. There's beautiful pixels in there.


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[Assistant] That's what I said. Remember he went 160, 170, 190, all these, and then he went for 221. We're like, there now, here he is. No, no, no, that's not what we need. We need 380 yard, we need CJ Stroud numbers. We need that. And here's the thing.


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[Assistant] We can, you're right, that's the greatest statement of the day. Fans can convince themselves of anything. Boy, don't we know it. We've done that. There are certain fans that are convincing themselves that he's going to be Baltimore's second half, DW, and Houston from four or five years ago, DW, and that's fine, you can do that, but the more recent body of work.


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[Assistant] And what we've seen in that leads me to believe what I would say today, exactly what I'd said the day the trade was made. We're gonna regret this. And I think we're a lot closer to regretting it. And I've had people that reached out to me after the Baltimore second half, still regret it? My answer is still yes, and here's why.


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[Assistant] Ask anybody, would you do that trade over again today?


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[Assistant] If you had made the decision that Baker wasn't the guy, and I have no problem with that, they are not mutually exclusive. I get that.


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[Assistant] Now, I don't think it was completely fair because we judged him on a season when the guy should not. I read a piece yesterday that Jen Latta wrote. She's the Bucks writer.


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[Assistant] The rest of the piece was how Baker came into the Tampa Bay locker room and made it his and galvanized it and won the locker room and how incredible that was coming off the heels of Tom Brady. Now look, I'm not saying they're going to beat Philly tonight.


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[Assistant] And he was judged on that season where he was injured, and I get that. And honestly, Bull, I will not kill them for the decision to move on from him. But yes, to your point. But to go where they went with the Watson move didn't make sense then. It hasn't made sense once over the last two years to me.


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[Assistant] Um, if that's possible. I think we've all gone to movies where, wow, this is awesome. An hour and 45 of just beautiful cinema. And then the lead character maybe drinks Kool-Aid and dies.


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[Assistant] or 10 or 13 after all of the injuries and all of the key pieces that we missed, that this was gonna happen.


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[Assistant] That Joe Flacco was gonna fly into town on a magic carpet and take us to places that we didn't think he could take us. A guy that we once hated and rooted against.


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[Assistant] Took us to an unbelievable place. I'll never forget the night at the stadium from the Jets. That was one of the most fun experiences I've had as a Browns fan, actually at a game. It was a blast. So all of that was great.


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[Assistant] But then, the magic bean lost its power, and just like that, the carpet lost its juice and fell to the ground and we all crashed to the ground with it. But I love the first hour and 45 minutes of the movie.


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[Assistant] There's concerns that I have coming into next year, but I will guarantee you this.


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[Assistant] On September in the first week of the season next year.


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[Assistant] I will have my brown sweatshirt on. I will have all the hope and enthusiasm in my heart that I do every year. And I will knowingly buckle up and sit down for a ride that I don't know where it's gonna take me, but history tells me it will end in disaster.


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[Assistant] So that's problematic because we need as I always say this, we need less of his decision making and more of the decision making and empowering the people that he hired to make those decisions.


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[Assistant] And after the game, don't be happy about a block. It was the Cardinal game. And the reason that's problematic. Yes. Is because...


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[Assistant] We bought into the fool's gold that you can win that way, that you can win with 45 throws and you can be 75-25 off balance on pass and run. When we know


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[Assistant] And when I heard it, I got a pit in my stomach because I literally thought to myself,


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[Assistant] That explains everything. That explains why he's in sync with the guy that he's kept regime to regime. Because he too thinks you can win.


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[Assistant] And you don't have your two best tackles.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, I don't really blame them for going pass heavy because yes, the run game was good early in the year and with each new injury to the offensive line, it just disappeared. You mean blaming them specifically for this loss?


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[Assistant] You need to go to Houston and lay an egg. Okay? Yeaah. I need to grease the skids from my backup quarterback.


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[Assistant] It was Laramie Tunsell, question for Miles Garrett, disappearance. Very funny. What I would have done as a headline was I would have taken the picture of Tunsell and the gas mask smoking up and my headline would have been Tunsell smokes Garrett. And that would have been it. Would have been your most creative headline.


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[Assistant] Listen, I also thought that, uh, I thought Stefanski was the coach of the year too.


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[Assistant] And now I have a little bit more information. And as G. Bush always says, if you don't change your mind after you have more information, you're stupid. We get it. The award has already been voted on. And I get that it's a regular season award. But after what you saw this week, it will be somewhat embarrassing.


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[Assistant] For Miles Garrett to get up at the NFL Awards dinner in Las Vegas later this year and accept the Defensive Player of the Year award. Just like I think it would be somewhat embarrassing for Kevin Stefanski to have to stand up with Ryan's in the room.


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[Assistant] Also remember the Chiefs game just before half, we had a touchdown that because of the dumbest rule in the NFL, if you fumble into the end zone and it goes out of bounds, it's a, it's a, or if you fumble into the end zone, it's a turnover.


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[Assistant] And it took seven points away from the Browns and just, I thought, really, really killed our momentum.


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[Assistant] We, it's just what I just said. We, you change your opinion with each new piece of information you get. You're stupid if you don't. You can't lock into it.


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[Assistant] I didn't think that the Browns were going to win the Super Bowl even when Deshaun Watson was playing his best football.


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[Assistant] I know. In fact, as recently as week 14 of the regular season, when we were talking about Super Bowl chances, I was the one that gave them an absurdly high 10% chance to win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] He made great passes in that game in big moments.


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[Assistant] I do think that's a different argument in, okay, should we revisit it and go play all of our starters against Cincinnati? I still don't believe that, but


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[Assistant] For whatever reason this team did lose momentum. Clearly, they had


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[Assistant] They peeked at the Jets game and they floored in the Texans game and there were 16 days of pretty much inactivity in between.


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[Assistant] That's on the coaches and the players for not staying self motivated.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just like in baseball, a guy gets a vulture win when he comes in and pitches one inning, and it's scoreless game.


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[Assistant] No, I do want to know. Where is what? Where's his QBR? Where does he rank? Deshaun Watson. It's an aggregate of all the stats put into a book. It's not the end all be all.


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[Assistant] And what the assignment was, when that's just absurd. There's no way they could. So what is his PFF or his QBR rank? 24. Okay. And you know what? I think that's about fair.


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[Assistant] Very pointed question. Are the Texans pumping in artificial crown sound? Yes or no?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Nico Collins played at Michigan, so he's used to it. So, I don't know. Uh, let me ask you this.


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[Assistant] Take us inside the mindset of a collective team, and I know that's really difficult to do.


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[Assistant] But what we're having a hard time getting our minds around today is only one guy showed up to play and that was J. Okay. Everyone else.


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[Assistant] How do you explain an entire team that was on this incredible magic carpet ride, all showing up and being completely flat?


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[Assistant] You know what? So his gimmick on the show is, he always says he's the leader of the Kool-Aid mafia. And he's been drinking the Kool-Aid and the Kool-Aid and the Kool-Aid and I've been telling him all year, you do understand that everybody that drank the Kool-Aid dies in the end.


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[Assistant] Please do and give them our best. Jonathan, congratulations to you. Good luck to your team in the next round. And, uh, we'd love to have a neon. You bring great energy to the show. So thank you, Jonathan. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Here we are in the doldrums of winter. I woke up this morning, it was one degree.


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[Assistant] That's cold. I don't know, there's one more in here that has me dying. We got, uh, Cedric Bush. Someone wants to know the hood cowboy.


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[Assistant] So what do we have? We do real quick. A fan will read in a winning ticket. Then we'll get into Brown's text and stuff. But first, the NFL regular season may have wrapped up, but there's still plenty of time to get it on the action.


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[Assistant] into $456.80 with a 13 part same game parlay from the Sacramento Kings Detroit Pistons game the other night. He had over on points, rebounds, three pointers made and steals for a number of different players. And if you have a winning ticket like so live and you turn 10 bucks into 460 bucks.


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[Assistant] Make sure you send it our way, tweet it at us, send it to us via email to be featured.


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[Assistant] It'll be called the Ultimate Same Game Parlay. Bet with us, Jay. I like that creativity. I like that. So make sure you do that. And tweet at us at Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show at myself, Mike Lucas TV, Bull G, whoever will make sure you get your winning tickets featured here on the show. Guys, the Browns and Texans played three weeks ago in week 16. It was 36-7 before garbage time touchdowns came in for the Texans.


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[Assistant] It's not a divisional matchup, but it's very rare if you go back through the last 10 years of playoff matchups that teams who have played in the last three weeks of the regular season, then matched up again in the wild card round, different.


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[Assistant] I'm just, it has happened, but it's not very common. Especially for non-division opponents.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying it doesn't happen a ton. But in a rematch scenario like this, where one team smoked the other team, Houston was missing some players, so was Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Which side has the advantage in a rematch just three weeks later? So the team that got smoked that knows, hey, what we thought worked, did it, and we got to completely change? Or is it the team that had everything work in their favor and then always to make minor tweaks?


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[Assistant] No, well he's, it's, I know it's part of the five stats tomorrow. Steve, you take 135. He hasn't thrown any interceptions under pressure, but his PFF grade's not bad.


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[Assistant] Well, against Pittsburgh, real quick, Jay, against Pittsburgh, for CJ Stroud, he had 306 yards on 16 completions. He burned them deep. Nico Collins had two catches over 45 yards. He had four passes over, uh, five passes, excuse me, over 20 yards. His yards per attempt was through the roof, but inefficient is the way to expand a bowl. He was hit a miss.


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[Assistant] Good stuff, can't wait to see how it all plays out, Mike. Yep, one more stat real quick on Stroud in clean pockets versus pressure.


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[Assistant] And clean pockets, 20 touchdowns, 70% completion. Here's the big difference, 9.2 yards per attempt. Under pressure, three touchdowns, 52% completion drops, 18%, six yards per attempt, 3.2 yards per 10, almost 35% fewer yards per 10. And those are trends that all quarterbacks will show, but that's a big difference. It's a big difference and it's


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[Assistant] And frankly, we keep talking about the difference. For rookie quarterbacks, his numbers versus pressure are phenomenal. But that's for rookies as opposed to veterans. So he's still, he's not terrible, but compared to in clean pocket, he definitely works.


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[Assistant] We got John Fanta in five minutes, but first a quick reminder that members, if you are a member of the ultimate Cleveland sports show and you could become a member on our YouTube page, click the join button. It's a buck 99 for coaches tier four 99 for starters tier.


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[Assistant] If you're any tier member, you can get texts from Jason Lloyd during the Browns Texans playoff game on Saturday. You can sign up to be a member to get those texts on our YouTube page. We'll put instructions on how to sign up for that text line, but Jason Lloyd will be texting.


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[Assistant] All our members during the Browns Texans game with some insight from Houston for the big game. Guys, five minutes before John gets here, but the injury bug has plagued the Browns all season. The only team with more players on IR this year than the Browns was Houston. And it appears the injury gods may be changing their wins and blowing in the Browns favor.


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[Assistant] Because they only have three players on the injury list right now. Cooper, who's expected to play, he sat out yesterday for rest. Tillman.


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[Assistant] And Dustin Hopkins, while the Texans...


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[Assistant] That injury list goes on and on and on. None of their starting defensive linemen have practiced yet. So, for once, do you feel like the injury?


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[Assistant] That's supposed to be Noah Brown. I didn't change that. That's a miscue on my end.


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[Assistant] Straz played 14 and a half, he got knocked out on one, but the Browns since Flacco took over, and this is the remarkable part of this whole run, they lead the NFL in turnovers.


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[Assistant] It makes no sense. They are defying laws of logic between what Flack was doing and just how they continue to win games despite handing the ball to the opponent more than any other team in the entire national football.


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[Assistant] I couldn't find the direct, but I was going to mental math against LA. His first pick was thrown to Elijah Moore. That was a deep on the fourth quarter. Definitely not on him. Jacksonville, the pick bounced off Cedric Tillman. So that's not him against Chicago. He threw three, two of them were Tillman. I don't remember what the third one was.


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[Assistant] Guys, we have a very special guest now joining us and real quick before we bring Mr. John Fanton, a quick word from Jace Medical. I know we use sports to come together, escape the crazy realities of real life, but can we just talk about


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[Assistant] He does a great job. He does a great job calling games. Let's get back to a little Brown's talk here, guys. We talked a little of Mario Cooper earlier. You guys touched on it, but he had 265 against Houston in the first matchup in week 16.


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[Assistant] Let's start with this, then we'll get into how Houston's gonna have to prepare to slow down the Brown's top target, but he hasn't practiced or played since the Houston game. Well, he's practiced, but he hasn't played since the Houston game. He hasn't practiced this week. Are you guys concerned even in the slightest?


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[Assistant] That whatever heel injury he's dealing with will hinder him come Saturday? Or is that just purely rest veteran guy? I'm not. I'm not. I have zero concern.


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[Assistant] Only other guys not practicing Tillman and Hopkins. So it looks like it'll be Riley Patterson. We talked about that yesterday. We already knew that off Tillman still in concussion protocol guys. If the Texans do put two, three help, four guys on Amari Cooper to slow them down or at least attempt to slow them down on Saturday.


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[Assistant] How confident are you guys that Elijah Moore and David Bell, on the outside, not in Joku, he doesn't count, but on the outside, whether it's Bell or Moore.


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[Assistant] Can beat guys in one-on-one coverage and be a consistent, reliable factor in the passing game for Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] We have our next guest and let's bring in Aditi Kinkabwalla after a quick word from FanDuel. The NFL regular season may have wrapped up, but there's still plenty of time to get in on the action.


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[Assistant] With FanDuel America's number one sportsbook right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets guaranteed when they place a $5 bet. That's $150 in bonus bets. Win or lose, the app is easy to use, and there are so many different ways to bet, including


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[Assistant] Live same game parlays. You can find bets in the new explorer tab. You can make a parlay in the parlay hub, which is the best and easiest way to find popular parlays and so much more. So make sure you visit Fandual.com slash UCSS to make your first bet a layup. Fandual, an official partner of the NFL. With that, let's welcome in Aditi, who has to start today's appearance.


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[Assistant] Awesome. We got Bernie Kozar in about 10 minutes. We're going to play a game of Browns playoff trivia first, but also before the game on Saturday. WKYC right here. Channel 3 has a full lineup of content. Their pregame huddle show starts at 2.30. NBC's Football Night in America starts at 3, leading you up to kickoff at 4.30. We also have


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[Assistant] Two shows on the UCSS channel on Saturday morning. New content for you guys, so make sure you guys tap into UCSS on YouTube in the morning, then WKYC in the afternoon.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, it's time for a little Browns Playoff Trivia, True or False Edition. Are you ready?


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[Assistant] Let's see who knows their Browns the best. I've won two or false two times in a row here. I'm on fire. Anthony, can you confirm our official scorekeeper? Was one of those in 2023?


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[Assistant] Question number one, true or false? By the way, where is Tyvis Olesmy? What's he doing? Tyvis is doing something with the collective yesterday and he was actually filling in for Josh Perry on the stadium in Chicago on Tuesday. Oh, that's right. We got a big opportunity, so we're really, really happy for Tyvis. Uh, true or false? The Browns have never played a postseason game in Houston before. True or false?


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[Assistant] Bull says false, Jay says false, Jay Bush either gonna be in the lead or behind to start and you are.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco has the same amount of postseason wins as the Browns do as a franchise since 1954.


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[Assistant] Whole says true, two falses, the answer and the new leader.


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[Assistant] I can tell you the exact dates if you really wanna know. Nah, I'll move on. Sorry, go ahead. Next question!


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[Assistant] Bernie Kozar is the only quarterback in Brown's history with more than 1,500 passing yards in the playoffs. True or false? That's our next guest come up in about five minutes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so. This is, I guess, 46 on, so when the franchise began, yeah.


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[Assistant] They have no merit to me. Alright, next up.


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[Assistant] Otto Graham trails Bernie Kozar on the Browns postseason passing yards list, which we already established. But Graham has more passing touchdowns than Bernie in the playoffs. True or false?


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[Assistant] Two trues and a false. G. Bush is on fire. It's false. Bernie has 15 eyes.


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[Assistant] We'll end with the relevant one. This next one we're going back. How about Brian Brennan?


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[Assistant] Currently holds the number one spot on the Browns all time list for receiving touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Perfect game going. J says false. Ball says true. The answer, Steve, let's see it. It's false.


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[Assistant] Different antibiotics that treat a long list of bacterial illnesses, including UTIs, respiratory infections, sinuses, skin infections and others.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but if you want to get all the Texans guys are a majority of them are back at practice. That's right. Uh, Noah Brown practice.


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[Assistant] Guys, we got some super chats we gotta get to here to wrap up the show. We got a decent bit today, so let me start with this first one from Taylor Summers.


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[Assistant] There are certain players, if you can shoot, you gotta roll.


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[Assistant] If you can shoot, you gotta roll on Sam Merrill. Pure shooting.


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[Assistant] One of the better pure shooters of the entire NBA. They'll find ways to get him involved. And he's played so well. He's averaged, he scored double digit points in his last four games. He's averaging 14 points over that stretch.


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[Assistant] Even when Garland and Moby and the rest of the guys come back, he's going to have a spot in the rotation if he continues to shoot threes with that volume at 43%. Sure. Next up, Michael McGee said G Bush definition of pimping today.


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[Assistant] Chad Lieb says the Browns allowed 19 touchdowns, five field goals and two safeties. 152 points off turnovers, 46 points directly on offense and special teams. 51 points off drives of 20 yards or less. 57 is the longest drive. A team is scored off of a Brown's turnover this season.


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[Assistant] We're going to talk about Nico Collins tomorrow in that matchup. Yup. But, uh, definitely something to keep an eye on. EBGB says the drip is too hard G real respect real. Kevin Robinson said 2007 Brainland and, uh, Brainland Edwards and Kellan Winslow equals this year's Amari and David and Joku.


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[Assistant] Uh, Charles T says, Gbush here looking like the urban smokey the bear. Matthew Culpett wants to know, could you see the Browns using the trap game more in the run game against Houston? G Bull J thoughts on the trap game?


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[Assistant] Got two more and then one to finish off with. Two from Charles T. Said G. Bush is doing his best impression of the anime character.


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[Assistant] Alucard from Helsing? G, but I don't know if you know who that is? No. Okay. Uh, Charles, they all say it's G Bush, the swisher sweet man.


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[Assistant] And our Mac dogs question, we're gonna end with this. Guys, let me know if you agree. In my memory, Joe Flacco, Amari Cooper is as dynamic as Marvin Harrison and Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Troy Aikman and Michael Irving. They're locked in. Do you guys agree?


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on. Sorry. I don't mean to cut you off, but this from Jake Trotter literally two seconds ago. Stephanski said Ward injured his knee in practice today. Unsure if he'll be ready for Saturday. That guys, that would be a


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[Assistant] Well, it's one of those things, you know how, you know, when you go to, you know how NBA and NFL players do the walk up and they get the camera. Well, that's G. Bush. That's right. Every episode, he wants y'all to see how he dress, how he fit in.


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[Assistant] You dress like one of them, uh, African dudes that came to the US and they go to the store and they just get a fit. That's what this look like right now.


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[Assistant] This is guaranteed to hit, just play it. With the NBA? Yeaah. He loves the NBA. I said I got five on it. I think he missed it by one or two legs. It was close, it was close. The only reason it didn't hit is because the Cavs was blowing them out and Donovan Mitchell hit the bench.


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[Assistant] They have what they have. Yeah, they got the quarterback. That's what they do. So, I mean, for him to come to the NFL, first of all, he gets a ton of respect in the college ranks. A lot of players, a lot of people respect him. That is, that is true. So that's, that's a fact. Now him becoming the tight ends coach, the thing that


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[Assistant] And the thing that gets you to respect your coach is the knowledge that he has. If he tells you some stuff, you're like, man, I never thought about it like that. If he makes you better, you'll have the respect. And you know, obviously I don't think he played tight end in his career.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I think that for him, he's gonna have to, the challenge is gonna be...


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[Assistant] You gonna get in a room with David Najoku and maybe Harrison Bryant?


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[Assistant] You gotta, you gotta show these guys some things that they don't know. You know, how can they elevate their game? You'll look at their tape and say,


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[Assistant] This is some things that you can do better. And they'll look at it and be like, huh. And then you show them clips of showing them how they can get better. Show them teach tape and stuff like that. And that's when guys will respect you. I think he'll do a great job. What I do think the asset that he brings is that


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[Assistant] Says he's run, you know, kind of a pro-style offense.


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[Assistant] Coming in there and being in those meetings with Kevin Stefanski as they're game planning, now you get another guy that's called plays before. So now you got another play caller in there with another play caller. Now you can mix your things. Maybe he might see some things or know some things.


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[Assistant] And the reason that the game is also different from college and the NFL is that in college they have


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[Assistant] Also another positive about it is, he's 31 years old.


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[Assistant] He's not that far removed from the game. He can still relate to the players. He understands the stuff that they're going through because he was just in it, like not too long ago. And that you, you get a lot of response from players when they can talk to somebody that's like, oh, you get it. Like you understand, like it's opposed to going to talk to Bill Belichick. It's like,


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[Assistant] Bill, like you, it's been like what, 70 years since you put this helmet on, like you don't understand, so I think from that, that aspect, that's a really good.


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[Assistant] They, they get the best out of their players. I mean, at the end of the day, it's about building relationships. And you, like I said before, if you get a coach that teaches you things about yourself and helps you become a better player, you, you grow respect for them. Cause at the end of the day, and a lot of things that people don't understand is that how you perform dictates their job.


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[Assistant] Their job success is based off of your performance. And if you got respect for that guy, you love that guy, you'll go out there and play that hard because his family is dependent on your performance. So for me, you know, I had


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[Assistant] I had obviously my way around the league, I had a handful of coaches, but some of the coaches that stood out the most to me were, you know, Brian Snyder, who was with me in Seattle. Now he's the special teams coordinator.


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[Assistant] Really good dude. Like, was the one that was like typing, listen.


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[Assistant] 53 man roster, only way you go make this roster. Yeah, you, you might, you can might make it, but if you're not a starter, you got to be on special teams. And he was the first one as a young rookie to get me to understand how important special teams was. You know, a guy like Richard Hightower, he is not a special teams coordinator for the Chicago Bear.


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[Assistant] HT was like, the one that was like, I believe in you. You say, even the people upstairs, they don't see what I see in you. See, special teams, what you don't understand about special teams is that it teaches you how to be better at your position.


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[Assistant] You know, when you doing, when you on KOR kickoff return and you running to go get in to block somebody, guess what that is? That's middle of the field safety work. You're running and flipping your hips and backpedaling and getting ready to go in the post. So it's teaching you how to be a better football player.


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[Assistant] When I got to Seattle as a rookie, Andre Curtis, my cornerbacks coach, he was the one that was like, he was like, man, I ain't gonna lie, I didn't think he was gonna make it.


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[Assistant] But then I found out that you actually good in games. Only you perform well in games. You a gamer. Like I didn't know you was a gamer. He was like, all this time, you've been in practice, not doing nothing. You get in the game and you go crazy. So that was, yeah. Then K Rich, like my, I think K Rich and Halfley was like my two favorite DFB coaches. Halfley was with me in San Francisco. He was the first one that was like,


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[Assistant] Sunday coming around, we playing Jacksonville. About the, about the third or fourth series, I'm sitting, I just got done with special teams, I'm sitting on the sideline, he like, Ty, was you ready? And I'm like, oh, you was serious! Let's go!


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[Assistant] That was, it was just moments like that, that, you know, I really respected all my deep, my, uh, position coaches and that's the type of stuff that you can get. They get you fired up. They get you ready to go. They're the ones that's jumping around with you, celebrating with you, if they not in the box and you just. How much interaction did you have with the head coaches when it came to your job?


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[Assistant] That's gonna hurt. I'm not gonna lie to you. And that comes across the Twitter timeline of the phone that Bill Callahan has gone.


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[Assistant] After what he did this season, you know, I mean this season more than not show how important he is to this, to this staff.


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[Assistant] And if he go, man, it'll be, uh, I mean, I, I, I'm gonna be happy for it. Cause I mean, the chance to coach with your son, like that's great. That's great. Like that, I think about as a father, I get to coach with my son.


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[Assistant] Listen, I'ma tell you right now, we know how good he is because, listen, Dwyane Jones, former Buckeye.


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[Assistant] All his issues weren't on the field, it was off the field. He came in, obviously, I think Mary Kay was saying that he struggled the first day OTA. He's like... Throwing up? Yea, all of that stuff. And to think about that guy turned into what he was this season had a huge part because of Bill Callahan.


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[Assistant] Well that's not, that's not fair in that situation because why does he get to get the head coach a job where the enemy couldn't?


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[Assistant] I mean, I know the answer. Speaking of, while we on that topic, shout out to the two first head coaches that got hired that was African American, Antonio P. First of all, that's what we need to be. It need to be former players as head coaches. I agree with that. I like that.


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[Assistant] If he go to Pittsburgh, I'm sorry. No, he ain't go to Pittsburgh. He go to the Falcons, that's a wrap. They ready.


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[Assistant] My thing is this, you want to go with the child and parent route. So let me ask you this, let's say one of your kids is struggling in school. Yes. And the teacher, would you rather that teacher call you and say, hey, you know, I just want to let you know that your son.


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[Assistant] Okay, perfect. Or would you rather them say, you know what, let's, let's get on the PA. Corey Crawford is struggling in math right now.


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[Assistant] There was a market for that. The guy literally was sitting at home after a whole...


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[Assistant] God forbid, Chubb's not right next year.


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[Assistant] I think the reason that I'm looking at it from two different, like I think we're looking at, you're looking at Deshaun Watson, the player. I'm looking at the team. Like you said, when this, this trade makes the team, when you think about.


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[Assistant] They probably say yea because of the money in the draft picks.