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[Assistant] Yeaah. And I will say this, Mike. You know, when Mary Kay was on with it, we all said, hey, if DTR clears, we would play him. But Mary Kay changed my mind yesterday. Really? Yeaah, she really did because she made the point that, like, he just got battered.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco can, can play. Rest when you dead.


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[Assistant] Nah, I, I, I, I get what she's saying. I think she's right. I, I, I would give him a week off. Now, if DTR clears and he's okay, I'd play him the following week, but I, I would let Joe Flacco play. I mean, he can't, he can't have me. I think a decision has to be made today, and here's why.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco has not taken snaps in this offense period. If he's gonna start, you need to declare that today and he needs to take all of the reps. And I'm with you, Boyd. Give Joe Flacco a look


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[Assistant] You know, we talked about his numbers in the first two games last year. Yeaah. He might have some magic in that arm, just enough to get past the Rams. Look, if you could win this game and get to eight,


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[Assistant] Well next week in Jacksonville, when Jacksonville comes to town, it could be 23 degrees like it is today. Right, right, right. So, good weather for a 38 year old guy, go ahead. The Rams don't have, outside of Donald, they don't have much of a pass rush and it's going to be perfect weather.


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[Assistant] So we were having a conversation, I think this conversation was off air, wasn't it? It was.


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[Assistant] We were talking, and G brought up, we were talking about the NBA.


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[Assistant] So it was four years. So, you got to amnesty a player. Here what, here what, it had to be, oh, I didn't, contract prior to 2011, player still got paid all his money, but,


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[Assistant] If you could do that in football, would the Browns or would you and Steve Deshaun Watson knowing what you know now? This is such a, this question is such a good question. It's tough.


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[Assistant] See now, it's tough for this reason. I think it's easy if you say, if you have a do-over button.


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[Assistant] And I said, okay, I'm at a blackjack table. You know how the ebbs and flows of your hits? Sure. Changes. Of course, the strategy, yeaah. It's like you get a seven and a five.


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[Assistant] Where'd you get an 8X? So I'm all in! You get in a bus car, I'ma just tell you that. So that's what this question is. There's five years. Year one.


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[Assistant] You got a two. I'm home. That's your first card. You're two?


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[Assistant] I'm saying, because your point was a good one. Look at his last three games.


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[Assistant] He was averaging about 225 passing yards, which today is okay. I gotta say guys. Five touchdowns, one pick. The only thing. Roll the dice. Already in the game. I gotta say guys, we debated this a little already and


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[Assistant] I remember the day that the Browns traded for Deshaun Watson. I was on the air when the news broke. I went bananas. I was beyond excited. You were. I went crazy on the radio when the Browns traded for Deshaun Watson. I think...


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[Assistant] What we've seen from him the last two years,


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[Assistant] I honestly asked the question and I haven't been able to, I've gone back and forth on this since I asked you guys the question. I'm not sure what the right answer is because if next year he's inconsistent, first of all, he's got an injury we don't know how he's going to recover from. That's very true. He's had a lot of injuries in his career.


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[Assistant] When the Browns traded for him, I was excited because the player I had seen in Houston was dynamic. And we haven't seen that guy. And we haven't seen that guy at all.


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[Assistant] You see, but the argument, no I wouldn't do it for that one. I think in the end I would not amnesty him because I don't see the Browns having a good option right now without the draft pick. However, I would say that to your point of, well defense is trending in that direction, two years ago I thought


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[Assistant] And you did have to have a great quarterback to win. You're right. And Baker wasn't great. I agree with that. Baker was okay. Today Baker could suffice. See, I wouldn't want Baker still. No, I wouldn't either. Because he turns the ball over too much. But, but it's a different...


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[Assistant] I'm not 100% confident that Deshaun Watson's ever gonna be that again. And I can't believe I'm saying that, but I'm not sure. But in the end, I would not amnesty him, but I really went back and forth on it for a while.


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[Assistant] But what if, what if I do, I could sign Kirk Cousins, who's gonna be a free agent at the end of the year. Well see, boy, you would be able to. Right. Like now, to your point before, and the point that you made when I was saying I hated the deal, the point that you made was,


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[Assistant] You're right. But was, I, my argument was, that's not the only move you could make. Now in that slice of time it was. Yes. Cause quarterbacks don't fall out of the sky. Right. And he was available and they went for it. Something to be said for that, particularly for an organization that had never done that.


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[Assistant] Window. Would Baker have been good enough for a year?


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[Assistant] And then revisit the free agent window after Baker's last year to see what's available now and knowing that now you got a $30 million budget or a $40 million a year budget for a quarterback.


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[Assistant] The hump is the super. Kirk, yea, fine, and he hasn't, and there's fair criticism, but neither, Deshaun Watson doesn't want anything in the playoffs either. No he has not. And Kirk Cousins has been way better than Deshaun Watson the last two years. In our group. It's not even close. No, it's not even close.


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[Assistant] Well no he hasn't because he's hurt now too. And Kirk Cousins is playing with, was playing with an awful defense. He had it all worldwide.


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[Assistant] We know the first two years have been an abject failure dumpster fire. Period.


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[Assistant] You've got three years to make this thing a success.


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[Assistant] What will this roster look like going into the 2025 season?


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[Assistant] The window for the Browns is on the way down. It's been three years that Deshaun Watson's been hurt or has barely played. If he doesn't play well next year.


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[Assistant] Wait a second. That's unfair. Because a lot of people in this town have been screaming to fire Stefanski and I have consistently said you need consistency, don't fire the guy.


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[Assistant] So don't let me in with that. Let me ask Leroy a question about that because it's a college question, but it's the same thing philosophically. Were you one of the Michigan alum that were yelling and screaming, and I heard many of them, fire Harbaugh.


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[Assistant] You're right. Smart. They were in a Super Bowl with this defense and obviously a healthy. He's gotta be healthy, but if he's healthy.


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[Assistant] That guy is hard to get though, Leroy. There aren't that many of those guys, right? I mean, there aren't that many of those guys. I agree with you in the end, that yes, the


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[Assistant] It threw his- It's- Ended up throwing himself out of the game. He threw so much.


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[Assistant] For me, this is why the Buckeyes lost, and why they lost the last three. This is pregame.


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[Assistant] But this is what Ohio State was doing before the Michigan game.


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[Assistant] And Michigan players were punching each other in the face.


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[Assistant] This is cringeworthy. And this is, it's cringeworthy and I tell you the reason I show it is because last year on this show


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[Assistant] We're here for Showtime. Meantime, Michigan was like, we don't give a damn hell what we look like. We're bringing the fight to whoever we play. That makes me wanna vomit.


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[Assistant] Uh, we gotta do tag board. Leroy, thanks. Congratulations, in all seriousness. You guys deserve it. You've had a great year. Good luck the next three games. Iowa's gonna be a struggle, I can promise you that. Good luck, and uh, may the best team win. Hey, you can't argue it. You can't argue it.


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[Assistant] Matthew Dinkins? No, he said this year. This year. Oh, oh, okay. This year, he said. He wasn't great against the Bengals. If you brought up Baker's record, would he do well? Even with Joe! Joe was hurt.


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[Assistant] We don't have those is what he's saying. And by the way- We had Nick Chubb, he's better than Dalvin Cook. But, well, okay, keep going. Amari Cooper. Yeaah. David and Joku. You talking about the dude.


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[Assistant] He's okay, he's not, he's not, he's not as good as Dave in the joke. Is that it for the super chats? Alright, so let's summarize.


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson would not be amnestied. No, no. If you go by the panel and the poll.


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[Assistant] And I'm Jason Lloyd and just like always, we'll do headlines this week. You don't even have to watch the game. We're going to tell you who's going to win and why. Mikey.


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[Assistant] actually fit really well together because Kevin, one thing that we've learned that he really likes to do is he likes quarterbacks under center and he likes play action.


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[Assistant] And we got the numbers to back it up that it works play coming off of play action. Well, there you see the, just the formation, the pre snap formation.


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[Assistant] He's got Joe under center more than any other quarterback this year. It's only two games, but if anything, I think this is going to stay consistent or even go up. And that number, by the way, of Flacco at 48% under center is right in line with where he's been for his career.


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[Assistant] And it's just something that Kevin believes in as a head coach for that reason. And because Joe runs it so well, I don't see any reason why this can't continue. It doesn't mean they're going to win every game, but I think that the offensive performance is sustainable.


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[Assistant] I've thought long and hard about Najoku. I agree with a lot of the points that you made, but I have to say Amari Cooper just because she's what drives this offense right now. And the drops have been a problem the last couple of weeks. We talked about on the YouTube show. I think it's his ribs still affecting him and just trying to protect himself on some of these hits that he knows he's going to take.


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[Assistant] Joku plays a role in that, but Amari Cooper to me plays a bigger role. They've gotta get the number one guy back involved. Hopefully Amari's ribs are to the point now where he can start putting up the numbers that he did early in the year.


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[Assistant] We got the news this week that Dewan Jones and Jed Wills are done for the year, but we've already, they've already been without them for so long that it doesn't really change anything.


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[Assistant] This unit, while it's not ideal, has figured out how to play together. The tackles are a concern, but I'm going to take the Browns just because we've seen enough out of them to know that they can get by. Now Posig wasn't on the practice field today. That's an issue.


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[Assistant] If he's missing its center, then Harris probably slides in its center and Michael Dunn maybe becomes that hybrid guy of just sort of moving around everywhere. We know the Browns like to go heavy. They like to go jumbo sets. So that's nothing new for them. They know how to adjust to this. Bill Callahan is the best offensive line coach in the country and they just figure out a way to get it done. Give me the Browns.


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[Assistant] Well first of all, I don't think either one of these is going to happen, but I do think I've dipped into Garrett's Kool-Aid a little bit because I'm going to take Joe Flacco in 350. He hasn't done it in about 4 or 5 years, but it goes back to what we talked about at the open. I really like him in this offense.


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[Assistant] And in Kevin Stefanski's system on Play Action Plays, the Browns are averaging about 8 yards per play. So if you factor that out, he threw for a 3 something last week, right there it is, 3.11 last week. That's not a far leap from 3.11 to 3.50. I'm not a huge believer.


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[Assistant] In the Bears defensively, I think the Browns can, can pile up yards in this game. And I'm just not a big fan of Justin Fields. So for that reason, give me G's Kool-Aid and give me the 350.


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[Assistant] Browns have been better at home than they have been on the road. They've had a couple lopsided wins at home.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I believe in, in this, in this offense, in, in Flacco being able to generate a couple of scoring drives. I don't think it's going to be a terribly high scoring game, but I think the Browns are going to have this put away before the last seconds.


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[Assistant] Look at that. Yeah, we did. We did have the same score. So yeah, I think they keep it rolling. It's a race to 10. We've said it all year and this gets them one step closer to playoff.


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[Assistant] The Masters program. Coach Stefanski not only in my mind being coach of the year with


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[Assistant] The quarterback injuries his scheming here with Alex van Pelt, the offensive coordinator, chattel say the receiver coach to see the Jacksonville Jaguars being this dangerous, gambling this much insured situations. This is typically a goal line type defense. So


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[Assistant] for coach the fancy to see the nuances in the Jacksonville defense and to come up with this play and look at Joe Flacco with the awesome play action past the old school boomer and size and dip the shoulder.


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[Assistant] Uh, fake here to get Jacksonville to really buy into this and for David and Joku to get that stem release like that. Jacksonville's middle linebacker and or corner blowing the coverage because of the play fake that Joe Flacco made on this.


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[Assistant] Uh, they won last night, the Cavaliers. We're going to talk about them later in the show. Busy show for you today. Quarterback reaction from the panel. What happened yesterday? They obviously, they've signed PJ Walker now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think that we may get to that in the show today. By the way, the- It's an interesting-


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[Assistant] He had no clue what that meant. I don't know what that verbal cue is out of pocket. Um, Bernie's here. Gotta ask him about Taylor Swift.


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[Assistant] I mean, can you believe this? Our quarterback, Bernie Kozar, is more famous than he's ever been. Right. At any point in his playing career, because he took a picture with Taylor.


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[Assistant] So yeah, Bernie's gonna be here. He'll tell us all about his brush with greatness. Uh, Tay-Tay.


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[Assistant] As we call her up in the newsroom. Everybody in the newsroom is a Swifty but me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so a lot to get to. Aditi is also going to join us on the program. Our first hello and good morning of the day to Mikey McNuggets, who tried to call me. My phone was on Do Not Disturb. Don't ask me how it got there. I don't even know how you do that.


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[Assistant] And I've got 2010 vision, even now I have 2010 at a distance. But up close, it's just all blurred. It'll happen Mikey, and then you'll think back of when you used to make fun of my large font, and you'll be glad that they have that feature on the font. My dad does it too, so it's alright. Does he? Yeah. Your dad just had a birthday, right? Just turned 60. Yeah, okay. So he and I are


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[Assistant] That's where I was going with this bowl. First of all, Brian, I'm glad you won. You need the money.


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[Assistant] If you're betting $1.79, that sounds like sofa money. Like you're shaking, I gotta get this bet in. What do I have? And you, that's $1.79? That's like 180 times


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[Assistant] You know, but gee, what I, what I'm looking at now is the general manager rolled us into the season woefully underprepared.


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[Assistant] Yes. That's on him. Yes. And he is not escaping that. Well, and I think...


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[Assistant] I think the general fan, look, when Watson wasn't available, and they put a quarterback out there who had never played in the NFL before,


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[Assistant] Fans quickly found out, oh, this isn't gonna work. And then when they went to PJ Walker, we're also saying, this isn't gonna work. You don't have to be informed. Just watch the games and see who they're putting out.


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[Assistant] There was all kinds of that similar speculation and I know you guys remember it. There was a fan conspiracy theory that


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[Assistant] In the Steelers game, Bakers last year, they left.


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[Assistant] Listen, if, if either of these are true.


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[Assistant] And there's no way of knowing unless they would give them truth serum and they would say, yeah, we left Baker on an island on purpose. I can't fathom that they would do that because to your point, they're not idiots. Now, when I was watching in real time, I'm yelling at the screen saying,


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[Assistant] Are they idiots? Why are they not giving him help? Who was it Hudson that was on that side?


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[Assistant] But if they- And they're playing well. I get what you're saying, but I can't allow my brain


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[Assistant] I mean, you guys probably don't even know how much I love this team. People think that I love to come up here and throw darts. I don't. That's my job.


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[Assistant] And I have to s- I have to at least say what I see.


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[Assistant] We're worse than I ever imagined. If you have a, if you have a sabotage, an internal sabotage, I just can't believe that.


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[Assistant] Now a lot of times what Mike does is he gets whispers on stories and he can't necessarily say, he can't say a source because then everybody in Cleveland is looking around like who's the mole. So a lot of times he'll talk to a lot of people and he'll develop his opinion. I do think that sometimes his opinions, his straight opinion, which that is,


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[Assistant] Is rooted in some kind of whisper within the organization.


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[Assistant] Well, gee though, there is one control in this experiment, and that is his play. Because he has played four games. Yep.


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[Assistant] Is that this guy has not been the savior that you told us he was going to be. And you told us that because of what you gave up. You gave up the 230, you gave up the three number one draft picks.


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[Assistant] That's an all-in trade. That means we're, that's Super Bowl trade. You don't make a trade like that to make the playoffs. You just made the playoffs one year earlier. This is a win, a trade to win it all. The fans are looking at his body of work and


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[Assistant] We've seen enough to know that ain't getting us to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] And so ultimately we can't fire Deshaun. Who the hell made this move?


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[Assistant] Deshaun wants to play, but we're not, you know, or no, I'm sorry. He was cleared, allegedly cleared that cleared and, and Deshaun said he couldn't play. So again, guys, the messaging on this is been terrible all over and I can understand why Florio and others in the media and even fans can be looking at this saying, what?


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[Assistant] That's why I called it yesterday, I called it Infowars. It feels now, and I can understand why Florio's come to this conclusion because I did yesterday. I said it feels now like it's your information versus the team's information.


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[Assistant] And to your point, all of the breadcrumbs that the organization has dropped have led us to think, not that bad, he's gonna be out there. Well, they ruled him out yesterday, so that's not in that day. They did, definitively ruled him out. However, we're four games into this mess. Well, they ruled him out early.


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[Assistant] Bull, Bull, initially 10 days before the game, the general manager stood in front of the media and said he's going to play. He did. So again, messaging from the team is not that serious. Day to day to me means by Saturday you could be good. That's crazy. The week is completely


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[Assistant] He circled back. He circled back. And they cleared that up with, Mary Kay cleared that up earlier this week. Because the quote that I heard was him saying, yeah, he's, he's going to be, he should be good to go. We expect him to play.


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[Assistant] Or no, he's my starting quarterback. Then he came back around later and said, you know, obviously if he's healthy, he's my starting quarterback. And then the next thing he said this week was he's out. So Bull, here's the thing though. Yes, it's been mixed.


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[Assistant] He's day-to-day. We're gonna, we're gonna take a look. Just wait and see.


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[Assistant] Then we hear that he's practicing Friday, this was before the Baltimore game, and we thought, wow.


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[Assistant] He must be good. Now, the only confusing thing to me about all of your theory is Deshaun himself did no favors for himself when he told Mary Kay Cabot on Friday before the Ravens game, I expect to play. He's the one who heard of


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[Assistant] He did, but there was already damage done. He may have been, this is part of the theory, he may have been saying, well, my coach and my general manager expected me to play, I gotta be an Ironman and I gotta play.


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[Assistant] You can see why there'd be animus. Particularly because there is some messaging that makes them and media and fans think that he's day to day. You're not day to day with him.


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[Assistant] If they, if they were told from a doctor that looked at the MRI, yeaah. This is where I think everything came off the tracks, early.


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[Assistant] And I can understand why it would be misdiagnosed. Perhaps there was swelling and they didn't see the micro tear.


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[Assistant] But the problem here is if they were operating under one set of facts.


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[Assistant] I could see why they would be putting both internal and external pressure onto Sean to get out there because they've got a doctor telling them it ain't that bad.


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[Assistant] So I can see why they might be saying things even subconsciously to the media. Oh yea, we expect, you know, in ten days from now against San Francisco, we expect he's gonna go. Because maybe that's what they were hearing from the doctor.


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[Assistant] And as we got further and further along, and then we finally, two and a half weeks later, we hear the words microtare. That took a long time for them to tell us that. And remember, the first thing we heard, no structural damage. That's right.


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[Assistant] So, so when players hear that, they know situations that they've been in. Hell, Joel Batonio had surgery and was on the field less than 14 days after surgery. So you hear that stuff and guys know, wait, no structural damage. Let's go, bro. This is the NFL. Get the hell out here. We need you.


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[Assistant] It is. And you mentioned the 03 Bucks. I covered that team. I was with, I was with that team for five years leading up to it. And even though the year they won the Super Bowl, remember John Gruden came in that season.


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[Assistant] What he did more than any other thing aside from being a rah rah cheerleader that the whole team rallied around and it was short lived. His star burned hot there and fast.


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[Assistant] But the one thing that was always evident during the four years I was there when Tony was there.


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[Assistant] There was an absolute conflict between the offense and the defense. You could hear it at practice. The guys would yell, pick it up, score some damn points, keep us on the sidelines for more than two minutes. It was real.


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[Assistant] And I remember they had some pretty vocal guys, including Warren Sapp on that defense. And Warren was not wanting to hold his tongue, nor should he. The message was, boys, we're playing at a Super Bowl level here. You gotta give us something. And then John Gruden came in.


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[Assistant] And John Gruden took that pretty bland and boring offense that was, you know, 10, 12, 14 a game. And he's all of a sudden is throwing the ball all over the yard. He's got Brad Johnson looking like an all-world quarterback. The one thing Gruden could do was get a lot out of his quarterback. Hell, look what he did with Rich Gannon in Oakland. Uhm, and he was at the end of the string then.


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[Assistant] It was incredible to me how these two factions, offense and defense, within the same team,


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[Assistant] came together once everybody started pulling on the rope. Yep. The offense suddenly loved the defense. The defense loved the offense. It was kumbaya everywhere except for Warren and Keyshawn. They never really mesh. They still don't and they don't and they're just two different personalities and that's probably always going to be that way. But other than that,


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[Assistant] It matched, and so I think the point is, and McNuggets, your question is a good one. They're not going to spill it over to the media because I don't think there's a character on the defense like the Bucs had with Warren. You know, John Lynch, Rhonda Barber, Derek Brooks, they never aired any of that, but when you would talk to Warren, you could pick up


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[Assistant] Things that he felt in between his comments and just the way he said things, you're like, oh, he is not happy with the office and it gets old.


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[Assistant] It wasn't ideal. I wouldn't call it terrible. There was weather and I do think it really, really impacted Brock. I just think this defense has more to prove. I agree with that. But you know what? It's kind of like Miami. When you look at Miami's offense and we were saying all time great, all time great, all time great.


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[Assistant] Then they just got punched in the mouth by Philly. And they didn't play well against Buffalo. No, they gave a stat that I can't remember now. Maybe you can find it, Mike. Coming into that game.


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[Assistant] The Dolphins victories were against teams that had like 6 wins and 25 losses. They played nobodies. Yeah, it was, it was okay, their offense is killing it, but they're doing it against Denver.


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[Assistant] They're doing it against teams that are not good football teams. Now they've played two good football teams. The Bills punched them in the mouth and the Eagles did too. Right. And the Browns have beaten two good teams. The Browns defense may be the defensive


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[Assistant] But, but against the Colts, they didn't play great. Not, they didn't play great. They played well below average. Even by last year's standards, they looked like last year's defense to me. They got the turnovers, so that part was great. They did, and they had the splash plays.


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[Assistant] Well, I would say this though. He's got to do it for a long time and I'm concerned that he won't be able to because of the concussions. But Denzel Ward, if he could do this for 12 or 14 years, I don't see why not. I don't think he's a Hall of Fame track. Well, he's got to do it again. He's only been in the league for what, five, this is his fifth year?


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[Assistant] We still take it better late than never. You know, in baseball bowl, the team that makes the trade deadline move in mid July is, it has beaten everyone to the punch.


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[Assistant] Because what happens, and you know this, as you get closer and closer to the deadline


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[Assistant] Is probably going to be less than what it would be for that same player on October 30th. 100%. And yeaah, right. Strike! You know the need is there. You know the need is there.


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[Assistant] It reminds me a lot of when everybody in football was saying, huh, why aren't they using Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt at the same time?


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[Assistant] And it wasn't just us, and it wasn't just local fans. You'd watch the games on local and say, man, they've got two horses.


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[Assistant] I think that maybe we'd see them together at the same time.


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[Assistant] And we never did. And the media kept asking and they kept saying, no, we've got a package, but we'd watch it was like, oh, there, or there'd be this. They were on the field for five plays and the average net on those five plays was 11 yards. Okay. Well, it seems to be working to me. It felt like they were saying, we're the Ivy leaguers here.


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[Assistant] We know. You think you don't know, but you don't.


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[Assistant] And it just, I couldn't answer that either. It felt like stubborn, digging in,


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[Assistant] With Arizona coming up next at home, you could get to six and two. When you're six and two, you're now in the conversation for home field.


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[Assistant] No, they're the 32nd in overall quarterback play no matter where you look.


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[Assistant] People that cover this sport for a living and know and would know if there were talks at least underway are saying, yeah, we're not expecting to see that.


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[Assistant] Okay, the fact that they... Jacobi played 11 games, didn't play the whole season, but still 11 games to have only six picks. 11 versus three. You can live with this defense. Yeaah. That's what, what's, what drives me mad is we had


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[Assistant] Decent backup quarterback play last year, but a terrible defense. And this year we've got a great defense and terrible backup quarterback play. Like, can't we get the


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[Assistant] Yeah, what the X factor was, it was one of the all time great individual performances by one guy on the defense who saved the day and the kicker. The kicker and the defense. Outside of that, that's an L. 98% of the time when you give up 38 points and your quarterback throws three interceptions, that's an L.


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[Assistant] He was not in the concussion protocol. Yeaah, because afterwards, Stefanski was clear, he was clear to play it was my decision.


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[Assistant] And a run game and get them back healthy for the second half of the season. And that's when you want to be playing your best football anyhow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there does have to be an adult, and I, because, what makes this situation so tricky is, it,


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[Assistant] Ended the, a quarterback who prior to that point, the fan base and really the National Football League observers felt like, wow, the Browns finally got it right at quarterback. They finally got their guy.


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[Assistant] They hit, you know, they win 11 games, they win a playoff game on the road against their biggest rival, they put the Kansas City Chiefs damn near the brink of elimination, and you blink, and three games later,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the fact that he says he sees everything.


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[Assistant] I have said, I said it about Baker, I'll say it about any professional athlete, I'll say it about us. When you're in this situation.


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[Assistant] You cannot have thin skin and rabbit ears. You can't. Because if you go out and try to find what people are saying about you,


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[Assistant] The famous quote is, you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time. Right. What the hell does Deshaun Watson care what anybody is saying about him? Yeaah, now he was asked specifically about Brady Quinn.


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[Assistant] But I'll tell you this though, I'd be okay with blocks.


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[Assistant] But when you respond to it, you enter the fray. You come down to their level. Like, and I noticed, we talked about this on the show yesterday, Quincy, who is at Deshawn's level in his field.


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[Assistant] Right. The stable of guys that trust him with their career. This dude is accomplished. He's made it.


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[Assistant] What the hell does he care what Brady Quinn is saying about one of his guys? You know, when you respond to it, to me, you're feeding the troll.


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[Assistant] And you're inviting more of it, because by the way, when everybody else sees that you respond to one of the critics,


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[Assistant] They, they get their chest puffed up. I've seen it happen. Yeaah. He blocked me. It's like a badge of honor, or he responded to me.


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[Assistant] Like, when you do that, you tell all the other trolls, and there are millions, that even though you've got 25 followers, and even though I can't find your show on TV, internet, radio, or anywhere, now you're saying to them you matter, because you respond to them.


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[Assistant] You matter. You matter. Like, for me, Deshawn needs to just, literally, and, and, and I know that- And I didn't wanna be-


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[Assistant] No, I know you're not. You're kind of flummoxed by the whole thing. I just, if you're Deshaun Watson, here's your concern. Number one is


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[Assistant] Being a great football player. Number two is being a great football player. And all the way down through your top 10 concerns are being a great football player. If you're spending energy


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[Assistant] And wasting time, seeing everything? Do you know how much time that has to take in a day if you search your own name?


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[Assistant] You're right. You're not gonna talk me out of, talk me out of being a diehard Browns fan. I've had people try to do it. A lot of people. And I'm like, wasting your time. You're like trying to convince me that my favorite color isn't my favorite color.


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[Assistant] When somebody sees one of your comments or tweets and says, you're an idiot, like, I am so done with it.


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[Assistant] No, everything, you know, when you're in a great mood, everything tastes better. All the jokes are funnier. Your highs are higher. I get it. I understand his frustration.


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[Assistant] This guy wants to be on the football field, particularly because as we talked about, he's coming off his one good game. He wants to prove that this wasn't a fluke. This is now who I am. And he wants to prove that so badly, he was willing to go out there and try it when he knew he wasn't ready.


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[Assistant] Sure. And that's why it got brought up. And so, but here's why it's really dumb. There's no, he's here and he's not going anywhere.


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[Assistant] He's not trainable. There isn't a team in the NFL that would take on that contract right now. No one would.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would be fine. Sometimes you say, you can't ask this question. Are things good between you and the Browns? Yeah. Here's what you ask. How would you characterize your relationship right now with the Browns?


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[Assistant] Now you're gonna get some tel- he's gotta, he's gotta create his own adverbs and adjectives and he's gotta put it together. Instead of saying, yes, things are good.


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[Assistant] Put a pointed question to him. How would you characterize your relationship right now with Andrew Berry and Kevin Stefanski? And you might be able to glean something out of the way he answers it. He might say, things are fine. Okay, that's telling.


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[Assistant] But if he goes into genuinely saying, look, Kevin and I are very much on the same page here. I know y'all want us to be on opposite sides of the fence here, but we are lockstep in, in, in sync with one another. Okay, now that tells me something too.


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[Assistant] But don't ask a question that's gonna, you know it's gonna ruffle them up. You're asking them about...


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[Assistant] I just want to circle back on Bull's Point because we've talked about this a lot on the show.


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[Assistant] We feel that the temperature with the fan base and the media was set by these two things. Stefanski on Monday after the injury happened in the Titans game. And after the Saturday MRI. Yes.


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[Assistant] On Wednesday, 10 days before the Niners game, the general manager said matter of factly, he's going to play against San Francisco.


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[Assistant] Right. But why say it that way to make Watson look bad? I know. So that's where I'm going, Adidi, and I want your answer to this. What we've kind of...


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[Assistant] Alledged or come to the conclusion was that he wasn't provided cover by his coach and general manager who in their comments to the media first said


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[Assistant] That he's cleared to play and decided not to and then two days later their general manager again very matter of factly said he's playing against San Francisco in 10 days.


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[Assistant] And so I think the rift here and yesterday I called the info wars. I feel like I'm getting one set of information from the team and a different set of information from the player and that's bad optics. What I'm saying is the team should have provided the player cover so he wouldn't have to take friendly fire from Hanford Dixon.


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[Assistant] So we wouldn't have to take fire from a former quarterback and media member and Brown's fan in Brady Quinn questioning his toughness. The team did not do him any favors when they aired the wrong way. Just say, we don't know. It's week to week. We're going to continue to keep you updated as we find out information. Done. Don't say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to clear it up, and this is in Stefanski's defense, he was answering a question


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[Assistant] That he wanted to come back and clean that up a little bit, so he did. And he said, look, I mean, he's my starter, provided that he's cleared and he's healthy.


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[Assistant] So if you just listen to one of the sound bites, it can be pulled out of context, but to give it its total and full context, you have to look at it and look at both of those comments before you make any judgments.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree with that. I love how hard he runs. Look, the game came down to one play. The Colts knew that the Browns were going to run it. Everybody in the stadium knew that they were going to run it on that fourth down.


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[Assistant] And when they needed that longest yard, he was able to churn it out. And, uh, you know, I, I don't like to talk either that this guy's done. Jason says, look, he's on three wheels. He's done.


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[Assistant] I just don't see that. I don't. He still runs hard and I'm, I'm actually, what I want to see is a game where he is completely healthy, where he's the focal point of the offense because he's never been that here.


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[Assistant] All right, Aditi, I know you got a hard 220 out. Thanks for coming on. We'll see you next week. Thanks so much for having me.


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[Assistant] I thought that they might try something like that, a run on third down and then a quick get back up to the line of scrimmage, call both of those plays in the huddle and try to run it twice, uh, third and third and fourth, but it didn't work out that way, but they got the win.


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[Assistant] Well, I loved, he had 27 points. Uhm, I think he hit seven three-pointers, which is a debut record for a Cavalier.


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[Assistant] After the game was over, he did a post-game interview, uh, with Bally's, and you could sense that, and he wasn't really, he was kind of kidding, but there was some seriousness to it. Obviously the biggest shot of the game was made by Donovan Mitchell, the three, after he shook his defender, but he actually said, I was open on that play too, I wanted the shot.


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[Assistant] Interesting. My biggest takeaway was Evan Mobley, I know it's one game, you can't judge him, uh, did not make the jump.


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[Assistant] Didn't look any different from last year. Didn't look any different to me. He looked exactly like the same guy. It's one game, he had 10 points, he wasn't assertive, he wasn't screaming for the ball, he just looked like Evan Moses.


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[Assistant] I just didn't see anything different. And after Brad was in yesterday, I kinda had hopes because the franchise knows what it is too. The franchise knows they need this guy to be that guy.


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[Assistant] Now I know, for me, my big takeaway was, Struz is that guy. He can shoot the hell out of this thing. Now, here's what I'm most disappointed in.


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[Assistant] And I couldn't understand it as I'm watching, I'm like, I don't remember Cam Thomas. I think he's in his second year. I'm like, this dude off the bench, what'd he score? 35 points?


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[Assistant] No, I know he's like a microwave and he can go off, but we had no answer for this dude.


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[Assistant] So that surprised me because we're supposed to be a team that is, our vertebrae is defense.


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[Assistant] So he's like a microwave. You bring him in, you get immediate offense, but he was there the whole game and he was doing it. It was his bad shot that cost him the game. That fade away off balance three at the end that missed. I thought he could have got a better shot than that, but what really struggled, what'd they take? It was over 43s.


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[Assistant] Yeah, defense is, hell, what was he, uh, finished second in the defense of the player of the year. So I, I, I do think that what needs to be pointed out is they made the plays at the end. They needed to, really, Donovan Mitchell did. He had a pit pocket dunk and the big three of the game that gave the lead. So he was,


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[Assistant] I'm at least looking at it like this is maybe three or four more weeks. Oh it's for sure.


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[Assistant] You know what almost guarantees that it doesn't heal is use. We looked up on the AMA's official website for these kind of injuries. It specifically said, does it require surgery? And it said, not in all cases, but if you're doing overhead


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[Assistant] Our movements, lifting or throwing anything, it will not heal.


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[Assistant] When we had Tim Couch on the show, he also mentioned that he has, he had two complete tears.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean you have to wait until then to make a move. They've had a need quarterback for five weeks now. Since the Tennessee game was over.


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[Assistant] So here's where I am now, okay? I'm relaxed, I'm chilled, Bernie's told me, they're professionals, trust me they're on it.


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[Assistant] Because going into the San Francisco game felt like a funeral here. They came out and played their best game of the year.


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[Assistant] When things were falling around them in Indianapolis,


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[Assistant] It felt like, well, this is an L. I mean, their offense is getting boat-raced here by, you know, Uncle Rico.


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[Assistant] And then what, what do you know? The team never gave up. Stefanski had them galvanized as 1-4s. They made all the plays that they needed to at the right time, including the late throw, including the one yard run at the end.


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[Assistant] Let's give Stefanski his due on that. Cause a lesser coach might have lost the team in both of those games.


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[Assistant] If you had to split the percentage, like it's 50% team, 50% player, what is the split in most cases? I know it's different probably team to team, but when these conversations are had, how much voice does Deshaun have? How much voice does the team have?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, it's tough to say because I think when you look at both of these players, like in the last year, both players in the contracts, the trades that happened for them had been discussed as two of the worst trades in NFL history, considering what was given up versus what they've gotten from it. Uhm, you know, I think a lot of that, that was a big question for Russ coming into the season. What is he going to look like under Sean Payton? He's been decisively better.


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[Assistant] And the big part of this team struggles early on the season. The defense was given up ridiculous amounts of yards on the ground. They're giving up a lot of points, explosive plays and Russ and the offense were playing.


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[Assistant] You know, pick up, they're trying to catch up. And, and you know, when you're down by two scores, you have to get a little desperate there and Russ's numbers have been good. He facilitated obviously that comeback drive against the Bears and weak for there. But you know, I look at the Browns as well, just the experience with Deshaun Watson hasn't been what they've wanted it to do. And look, I think a lot of his struggles.


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[Assistant] coming in and his first game action with the Browns. He hadn't played football quite some time. It's been a while and then you factor in injuries. He's never really had a chance to get his feet underneath him. So.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know who would be in a better situation. I think overall Russ has been healthier than Deshaun has been. Uhm, you pair him up with that Browns defense right now with Miles Garrett, former Bronco, Shelby Harris, and obviously those guys on the back end of that secondary, they're playing really well with Ward and obviously Delpit, Thornhill's there, and then obviously Jeremiah Usukoromoa.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I think the biggest thing for Denver, they've made some changes right after that Miami Dolphins game. You give up over 700 yards offense in one game, you give up 70 points, you lose by 50. That's, it's embarrassing. It hasn't happened in the modern era here.


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[Assistant] And at that point, you know, you have to have gut check time. You have to have some really hard conversations. And that's what Sean Payton told us. He said that he had hard conversations with players. They've made personnel changes overall. Now a little bit of context here.


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[Assistant] When Vance Joseph was hired as the defensive coordinator this offseason, one of the things that, you know, he was asked to do was to run Vic Fangio's defense because that was what the Broncos defense was running under him, under Giro Evero last year. And the defense was having a lot of success under that. So if it's not broken, don't fix it.


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[Assistant] for the Broncos. He's bee for them. They've made so as well. Sometimes they'l three, four and the four Sanders rookie linebacker a and Alex Singleton. But m line where they were getti have Mike Purcell and D. next to Zach Allen. And t and Jonathan Cooper at out


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[Assistant] And they got rid of Randy Gregory. They got rid of Frank Clark and they've made these widespread personnel changes and they're paying off. And Justin Simmons obviously was missing some games early on in the season due to injury.


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[Assistant] He's been back. That's been part of it. So they're showing the Fangio looks, but they're calling advanced Joseph's actual defense that he has historical run. So that's been a big part of their recent success so far in the last four weeks.


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[Assistant] So after that interview had released, we, we thought that was like an off the record conversation that somehow got published, uh, but I know it wasn't. He had a couple of lattes in him as he had said, and you know, he expressed regret. He said, you know, I shouldn't have said that. He said, I talked to the players all the time about not being a distraction, not putting things out there. And here I am putting things out there and doing that.


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[Assistant] In week five, they're considering that, but you know, I think that's something you have to live with. You make that decision, you, you do something, you gotta live with the consequences of it. But Sean Payton has been in complete and total control of the entire operation.


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[Assistant] For what the Broncos do in their day to day from how practice is run from media availability from everything like that. Uh, really it's just trying to get these guys to buy in. And one thing I've talked to with various players inside the locker room.


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[Assistant] They said really after those, those losses and that the early stretch of the season, they had a gut check moment where they just said, you know what? It's just all about the guys in this locker room.


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[Assistant] We can't focus on what the media is saying locally or nationally. We can't focus on what the fan base is saying. We know what we can do. We know the potential that we have and they've kind of bonded together and they've stuck with it and it's paid off for them, but they're going to have to find a way to sustain that. They can't do it doing the same things that they have been defensively. They've been better. They've gone on the trajectory.


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[Assistant] But offensively, they've been really trying to get the run game going. It's going to be hard against Miles Garrett in that defensive line this upcoming Sunday.


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[Assistant] But he's been able to kind of work his way back into it and he, he looks good. He feels good. And I think that's one of the things we're seeing him run with the physicality he ran with previously his rookie season, going into his second season before he tore his ACL.


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[Assistant] And so now he's got that confidence, but you know, Sean Payton and the Broncos, they really trust Javante and Samaje Perrine in the two minute drill. And obviously as we've seen, Samaje emerges a little bit of a pass catching threat out of the backfield.


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[Assistant] Because teams are really trying to take away Cortland, Sutton, Jerry, Judy. And so when the defense does that, okay, dump it off to some Ajay Piran, who's demonstrated elusiveness after the catch and has been a reliable guy in their last two drives that they've had against the Buffalo Bills to come back and win. And obviously this past week against the Minnesota Vikings.


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[Assistant] So it's just a little bit of balance between them. And then Julio McLaughlin, he's just this explosive flash in the pan guy. He's not gonna get a lot of looks during a game.


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[Assistant] But when you expect him to get, you know, when he's on the field, expect him to get the football because he's so fast, can get upfield north, south, and then he can get behind a defense if there's an open hole. So he struggled the last couple of weeks though, but the run game is the big emphasis for Denver going forward. And it's opening things up for Russell Wilson and the passing offense as well.


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[Assistant] He's got the capability. He's an unknown, right? So there's a chance that, you know, yeah, he could struggle or there's a chance that he could go out there and light it up. I mean, that's how the NFL is. We've seen it. Look at Tommy Devito in New York for the first couple of weeks. He looked awful and all of a sudden he lights it up this past week. So.


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[Assistant] You can never overlook an experience in the NFL. I biggest keys is to stop t obviously Cleveland, obvi Jerome for, they got to stop the bleeding in the


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[Assistant] If they can try to limit of that Browns rushing off maybe try to pressure and


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[Assistant] I like the matchup of Amari Cooper versus Patrick Surtain. I think that's going to be must-see TV. You got Bama versus Bama. I mean, it doesn't get any bigger than that. Denver, I think the bigger question for them defensively this week.


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[Assistant] Who's going to start at safety? Is PJ Lock going to be back now that Kareem Jackson has been suspended for four games this season? Or is it going to be DeLarian Turner-Yell who has struggled when he's been placed into the lineup? To me, that's a huge key. But I think for the Broncos trying to get a pass rush on DTR, if they are stopping the run game, it's probably going to be paramount for them if they want to try to come away with a victory on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Talk about maybe like the last three weeks after that Buffalo game of three weeks, they forced 12 total takeaways in that span of three weeks against obviously you talk about the Packers, the Chiefs and the Bills. I mean, it's, it's incredible to be able to do that and it's hard to do that, but I think guys are trusting their technique. They're in position. They're rallying to the football guys are holding up, you know, a ball carry on first contact.


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[Assistant] Other guys are coming over to rip the ball out. I mean, they're very disciplined in that regard. Justin Simmons has been good in terms of getting interceptions, being in the right spot. Teams are going to try to throw away from Patrick Surtan a little bit. So, you know, Fabian Moreau has been a guy that was tested, had an interception on Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] You know, for them, I jus their, their decision, the their pursuit to the footbal they work on every day in


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[Assistant] That has stood out to them, but they've just got this energy and this confidence with one another. They have trust, they're communicating a lot more, and they weren't communicating much at the beginning of the season, and that's why we were seeing a lot of big plays.


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[Assistant] I think they've got the rhythm right now. They've got the formula that's working for them. And if they can find a way to stop the run, I think that they're going to be even better to close out the second half of the season, which makes I think the playoff race inside the AFC very, very interesting here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] And I was just making sure you remembered that before we start any topic, and especially one as big as today's top topic of the Browns not making move for a quarterback.


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[Assistant] I do, Jacoby Percet last season on the Cleveland Browns in 11 games, went 4-7 as a starter, completed 64% of his passes for 2,608 yards through 12 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just real quick, you mentioned the, the wins and losses in quarterback wins as a stat or not. Yeah. Just to give you the, just to end any notion that wins and losses a quarterback stat alone. Jacoby Burset, in his career.


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[Assistant] It's throwing 48 touchdowns, 23 interceptions, and 2 bump. He's essentially, on the dot, a 2-1 touchdown at turnover quarterback. 2-1, that's pretty good. His career, his career record.


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[Assistant] It's good enough. So with a 2 to 1, one sec, one sec, with a 2 to 1 touchdown to turnover ratio as a starter, he's 18 and 30 in his career. PJ Walker has 6 career touchdowns and 18 career turnovers. And he's 6 and 4.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll talk about DPJ, and as Boyle, you mentioned, they're the only team. Cleveland was the only team with a plus 500 record that traded a player away for a draft pick. We'll talk about that trade in one sec. But tonight, at 7 o'clock, guys, another edition of Behind the Glass. Myself, Anthony and Earl will be breaking down.


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[Assistant] The brown straight deadline moves, what they did, what they didn't do. We'll talk a little calves, a little more in depth and we'll get to today cause we have a prolonged period answering your fan questions and telling you guys some behind the scenes stories about Jay Crawford not being here this week. Now that changes our procedure. So make sure y'all tune in tonight at 7 PM for the next edition of behind the glass.


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[Assistant] Alright, so what time, we'll be there early. We'll figure out if he has to be at the West 6th by 11, we're going to be there early. We do have to discuss though, the one move the Browns did make. That was sending DPJ to Detroit for a 2025 sixth round pick in return. That's a key pick.


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[Assistant] It's very interesting. So Sean's best game was Tennessee. That was also DPJ's best game. He had five targets, three receptions for 50 yards.


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[Assistant] So we have talked a lot about the quarterbacks and we've talked a lot about PJ Walker here.


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[Assistant] And there have been a lot of tumultuous quarterbacks throughout the history of the Cleveland Browns as they have returned to Cleveland. So I figured real quick, we're gonna run through these quickly.


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[Assistant] Yes. Okay. And I have their career stats. This is their total career stats, not just in Cleveland. Are they all since 99? Sorry, Mike. Yea, these are all quarterbacks since 99. I excluded, I excluded the obvious ones who you would take over. Like Derek Anderson's not on here. We don't take Derek Anderson. So these are some of the ones I thought. Do you have Baker on there or not?


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[Assistant] So these are some of the, uh, the ones with a little less of a track record. We'll see how bad I guess PJ Walker and his Storch Stint here in Cleveland has fared up against how you guys view some of the other ones. So this is PJ Walker versus the Ghost of Cleveland's back.


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[Assistant] A lot of these guys have played a lot more, so just take that into consideration.


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[Assistant] Do you want their Cleveland stats as well? Yes. I'll clean his locker out for him. In Cleveland, Ty Detmer. Through four touchdowns, two interceptions.


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[Assistant] Next up, we're gonna move through these. Would you take PJ Walker or Deshaun Kaiser?


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[Assistant] We spoke about this man last week. How about PJ Walker or Brady Quinn?


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[Assistant] All right, we got three more before we move on to our next topic. What up PJ? This is one of my personal favorites for Seneca Wallace.


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[Assistant] You want his Cleveland numbers? In Cleveland. Of those 17 touchdowns, 14 came in Cleveland. Of the 29 interceptions, 23 came in Cleveland. He completed 62% of his passes.


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[Assistant] And last but not least, PJ Walker or Luke McCown?


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[Assistant] You say, what was Luke's Cleveland Stance? He was 0 for 5 as a starter, 3 touchdowns, 7 picks.


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[Assistant] I have an update for you and to read. Mary Kay Cavett just tweeted that no Browns quarterback will speak to the media today and they will address tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Whoever it will be, will be determined tomorrow, but no Brown's quarterback will speak to the media today.


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[Assistant] Something the Cardinals have done a lot throughout this season is run the read option. It's been a prominent part of their offense. Head coach Jonathan Gannon comes from Philadelphia where that had been a prominent part of their offense.


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[Assistant] And so far this season that is the one thing the Browns have struggled to stop. I went back and looked at two games in particular.


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[Assistant] This is me tracking. If you want to tell me one of them was a read option and not a design read, okay, but they scored two touchdowns off at Lamar. Both his rushing touchdowns came off a motion, a fake handoff, and Lamar scooting into the end zone against the Colts. Gardner Minshew is not known as a mobile quarterback. Torched him.


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[Assistant] Five carries, 42 yards, two touchdowns. And Arizona, if you go through and look, you watch any of their games, it's a prominent part of their offense. I only went back and tracked the Seattle game just because I knew they scored a read option touchdown in that game. And in that game, Josh Dobbs, who is no longer their quarterback,


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[Assistant] At four carries on read option plays, specifically for 43 yards and a touchdown. That's 10 and a half yards a carry. So G, Tyvis.


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[Assistant] Someone we could ask about that is Darren Urban who's been covering the Carls for 24 years now and Darren is ready to join us to end this wild debate of how to pronounce DiMarcato's first name. What's up Darren? Is it Amari Darren?


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[Assistant] I need to tell the good people of the world that tomorrow, the barbershop is back. We missed Monday's barbershop because G. Bush wasn't feeling well, but he is back in the chair and back ready to dominate the barbershop game Thursday at three to four PM. Make sure you guys tune in to the barbershop on the UCSS channel on Thursday from three to four G. We're glad to have you back my friend.


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[Assistant] We'll give you a statement and you tell me if you know that to be true. You think it could be true or you doubt that to be true.


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[Assistant] And G, you're up first. With the first ever, I know I think I doubt. Okay. The statement is...


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[Assistant] If Deshaun Watson isn't vintage Deshaun Watson again this season, the Browns will still make the playoffs. Do you know that? Do you think that? Or do you doubt that?


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[Assistant] Next up, Bull, you're gonna start with this one.


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[Assistant] Is we will still look at Dustin Hopkins as a very, very good kicker when the regular season ends. Bull, do you know we will? Do you think we will? Or do you doubt we will?


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett is going to win Defensive Player of the Year this season. Do you know that? Do you think that? Or do you doubt that?


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[Assistant] So while he's looking up time, well, Miles Garrett, when defensive player, do you know, do you think, or do you doubt?


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[Assistant] Next up, Tapas, we're gonna start with you. Kevin Stefanski is a good head coach. I know, I think, or I doubt.


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[Assistant] We got three more, maybe four if we have time, but we have three more. Ty, we're back to you.


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[Assistant] So Gigi, to answer your question, the last time a Browns quarterback threw for four touchdowns, for three touchdowns in a game was December 6th, 2020.


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[Assistant] Alright, last one. Gbush, you're gonna start us off here.


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[Assistant] Pierre Strong is the best running back on the Browns roster right now.


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[Assistant] Everything in the Browns universe, the Browns players are talking right now. If anyone says something, we'll be talking about that. We're going to go way more in depth on the Cavs than we could in today's show. And that's seven o'clock tonight behind the glass.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we made this tour false last week before we had to shuffle around the panel because the Cavs tipped off their season on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] So we did this after Myles Garrett's superhero performance against the Colts. So we're gonna keep this. This is True or False, Myles Garrett edition. And we have some brand new music to play, courtesy of Danny English, who watches UCSS, asked if he could make some music for us. We said of course Danny, so we're gonna listen to some new music from Danny as we play True or False. Steve, hit the new track and are you guys ready? Little dramatic, little ominous, make you think a little harder.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett was the consensus number one recruit in his high school class. True or false?


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[Assistant] Jeebus says true. Bull says true. Tyvis says false. Which means one of you two, one of you three is going to be right.


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[Assistant] And the answer is, true. He was the number one consensus in this class. He was one of the three.


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[Assistant] 2 out of 3. 2 out of 3, yea. Once he said 1 out of 3, I assumed that. No, Tavis was wrong. He was the number 1 census recruit in his high school class. Question number 2. Speaking of Myles Garrett as a young pup.


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[Assistant] He broke Jadavian Clowney's SEC freshman sack record, which he still holds to the day.


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[Assistant] Bull says true, G says false. That means now one of you guys will be in the lead by yourself. And that leader in the clubhouse after two questions is Adam the Bull.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett ran a 4-5-5 40 yard dash and repped 225 pounds on the bench press 41 times at the combine. I promise you, it's either all true or all false. There's no, there's no half off. After Jay's complaints last week,


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[Assistant] Holds the fastest sack time in the NFL this season when he took down Ryan Tannehill.


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[Assistant] In 2.27 seconds in week 3, the stat courtesy of NFL's next-gen statistics.


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[Assistant] Okay, next up, Miles Garrett's older brother played in the NBA for five seasons. True or false?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there, there's picture proof. You guys are, you guys are all wrong there. I'm right. I'm safe!


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett has never scored a touchdown in his collegiate or professional career. True or false?


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[Assistant] And true for Tyvis, which means if Tyvis is right, he'll be in the lead. If Tyvis is wrong, he's in dead last. And the answer is...


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[Assistant] False. He has never scored a touchdown, which is actually kinda shocking.


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[Assistant] It's not a knock on him. Defensive touchdowns are so hard to come across.


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[Assistant] And I have an extra credit question here. Next one. Miles Garrett's favorite dinosaur is a spinosaurus.


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[Assistant] So if Tivus is right, we're all tied up at three again. And guess what?


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[Assistant] True or false, Myles' first career sack.


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[Assistant] Because if it's right- So is bull gonna go crazy and try to get the win? True, it's true. I hope it is. The answer.


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[Assistant] And Earl says it was his first snap in his first game. I remember that. We were going wild.


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[Assistant] Raptor. Velociraptor is five. Uhm, Stegosaurus. Nope, I've never heard the other two.


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[Assistant] Miles told the BCS Brian College Station Eagle at the Jurassic Park mirror in 2016 his five favorite dinosaurs, and those are the five he listed. Very good.


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[Assistant] We're gonna do PCC and we're actually gonna talk a little Cavs rap of the show here. We're gonna do a little PCC first. So we got some super chats and we have...


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[Assistant] Online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. We're going to get these super chats out the way and then we will look at our one year anniversary members and then talk a little Evan Mobley for the final minute or two here. First super chat of the day comes from Harnell Hobbly.


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[Assistant] And he said we should trade Evan Mobley and Jared Allen for Joel Embiid.


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[Assistant] I'm not trading nothing over a fifth. As for DPJ, who really cares? He can't get open or play special teams.


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[Assistant] Donnie Stewart says, I don't trust Watson or Walker. We still hope that Watson can play at elite level, but it's not looking good.


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[Assistant] Next one comes from dbdog21. Remember relationships in the NFL? They traded Dobbs just to do right by him. Petsig called and asked about Dobbs. The Browns traded him because he had an opportunity to start.


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[Assistant] Mr216 said, we should have traded Brissette for a third. How confident is anyone that the Browns will draft a good player versus Brissette improving the offense?


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[Assistant] Maddie Comico says Tyvis is either giggling or coughing. PJ said, uh, M. Bynes said, PJ said Jacoba told him.


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[Assistant] Uh, PJ said, Jacobi told him if Amari gets open throwing the ball, PJ doesn't have what it takes to consistently go through progression. Guys are open. I think we actually made a mistake and Damien Frederick pointed this out. I think Deshaun threw three touchdowns against Washington last year.


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[Assistant] We went straight to Baker. I didn't even think of Deshaun, but I think he is right. I'm pretty sure he threw three touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Against the uh, Washington commanders last season. And last one, do it for Chubb.


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[Assistant] Bull went and got stretched out at the massage parlor yesterday. Is that why he's sitting funny?


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[Assistant] But we got five minutes real quick. Just real quick, I gotta say something about...


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[Assistant] We're going to talk Cavs on overtime. We're going to talk about a lot in Behind the Glass, but with our live audience still tuning in, we got to spend just a few minutes. And real quick, I'll save my, my big overarching takeaway for tonight, but.


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[Assistant] We said yesterday, is anything you see in this game going to change the way you approach, you appear, you look at the Cavs because it's a regular season game. Bull, you said many times that nothing in the regular season matters for you. You need to see it in the postseason.


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[Assistant] I know that they had no Garland, no Allen, no LaVert yesterday. They were playing down. Imani Bates was the first player off the bench. Craig Porter Jr. came in.


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[Assistant] And did a hell of a job, but they were down to the bare moan, bare bones minimum roster of what they normally would have on a healthy day.


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[Assistant] And give Donovan Mitchell credit because he showed up in a big way and no one else did. And we have to start having an Evan Mobley conversation. But, not necessarily just Mobley. The Knicks punked the Cavs last season. Punked them. And last night,


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[Assistant] We had Jared Allen say the lights were too bright. It was the first chance just to kind of not conquer that demon, but almost stand up to the bully in a way. And instead of even pushing the bully back.


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[Assistant] Calling them fat, whatever, like whatever dumb bully insult you'd want to do. They turtled, they ran away, they put a tail between their legs, they hid, and it was disgusting to watch.


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[Assistant] We're going to continue this conversation in overtime for our members. Shout out to our three one year anniversary members again, John Zenner, Sean Walker and Shannon Nelson. We appreciate y'all. We love all of you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he just had a routine checkup. Awesome. That was this morning, so he is totally fine. Uh, he's back tomorrow. We knew he was gonna be out all week today, so. Very good. He's back tomorrow.


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[Assistant] No, he was here, he came on, uh, we talked calves, we talked around with him. Yeah, he was here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, essentially, we're halfway through the brown season. I kind of figured out players, game by game average, looked at the schedule, figured, alright, this is where they're at, at the midway point. This is where I think they could be at, at the end of the season. You guys tell me if I over-exaggerate or under-exaggerate.


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[Assistant] Uh, student logo design to make a lion logo. Nice. And they took all these student designs and they were awesome. And then they ended up paying like half a million dollars to a different company to do it. And this is what they came up with. It's trash. I'm still mad at them for that because the student design is way better, but that's besides the point. If you're looking to make money, just like Emerson stole money from us.


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[Assistant] Feel good, Joe Burrows deal with the ankle or the, the calf injury in week one. Where he has a chance to kinda go.


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[Assistant] I don't say mano e mano because obviously quarterbacks don't go against each other, but this is a chance to him to kind of plant the flag and say, all right, Lamar, I know you're in the MVP conversation. I'm going to get back there too. Do you guys still believe that Sean has that?


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[Assistant] We gotta bring in Leroy Horde here, guys. And before we do that, I wanna let the good people of the world know that tonight, Behind the Glass makes its return.


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[Assistant] Seven o'clock, I think we agreed on seven o'clock, yep, they're giving me the nod. Seven o'clock tonight, myself, Anthony and Earl, we'll be talking all things. Browns, Deshaun Watson's talking right now, so if he says anything interesting, we'll not only discuss it on the show, but we'll get a little more in-depth tonight on Behind the Glass. We'll talk a little Cavs and their West Coast road trip, which begins tonight.


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[Assistant] Some behind the scenes stories and much, much more. That is tonight behind the glass at seven o'clock. And with that.


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[Assistant] Let's welcome in Leroy Horde, our resident running back. What's up Leroy? What's up? What's up?


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[Assistant] We're gonna move on to the next topic. Before we do that, I gotta read and a tweet to give you guys. That's gonna be a topic tomorrow, potentially, because we don't have the final details. But first,


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[Assistant] Guys, I'm going to read you a tweet real quick. This is from Hayden Grove a second ago. And then we're going to talk to Mark Cooper. We need some more clarity from what we see in practice before we make this a discussion. But Hayden Grove tweeted that James Hudson said he's going to be back at right tackle today, which could mean Duann Jones.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, here's a question I had for you guys and I'm curious to see how you guys kinda came down to the conclusion whether or not you think this yes or think this no, but


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[Assistant] Has Amari Cooper been a top 10 wide receiver in the NFL this season? Based on the 10 weeks or nine games, whatever situ, whatever number you want to use this season alone, based on circumstances, quarterback, production, who's been available and who's not. Has Amari Cooper been a top 10 receiver in the NFL this season?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got a read and we're going to move on, but I do have some poll results for you guys. We asked the chat again, if a Mark Cooper has been a top 10 receiver this year and this result.


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[Assistant] Is, I wouldn't say kinda similar to what you guys said. We had...


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[Assistant] And 0% said not even close to the top 10, so. That would be stupid. Not, of course it's close. A little closer than, uh, you guys had it, but we're gonna read, we're gonna talk a little about the running game here. If you have not already hit the like button.


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[Assistant] But the Ravens run defense is pretty good. The Browns running attack ranks top five in the league in rushing yards per game.


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[Assistant] Do you think the Browns will be able to have sustained, sustained success on the ground versus Baltimore on Sunday? Yes or no? I don't.


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[Assistant] I am not a running back, pass blocking aficionado by any means. And I don't love PFF for certain things. PS Strong grades out terribly in PFF possible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like these numbers are really bad. It's PFF. I don't do this, but he had a 26.6 pass block grade on 10 pass block attempts in Seattle. I had to pull up another tab for that. Hold on.


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[Assistant] This season, in 33 pass blocking attempts for Pierre Strong, he has an overall 47.6 grade. Okay, that's not great. And it goes, he had one game with a 75, everything else has been, eh, career hunting on the other hand.


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[Assistant] 124, uh, excuse me, 48 pass blocking opportunities according to PFF, a 67.5 pass block rate. And what about Ford?


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[Assistant] And Ford, I can pull that up for you right now actually because I opened 7 tabs here. Jerome Ford, according to PFF, has on the season 26 pass blocking attempts and a 59.3 grade.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, well, this was two weeks ago, so maybe it's changed after we look back into it. But they had the most effective running the ball behind Wyatt Teller and Jed Wills at left tackle. Wow.


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[Assistant] We're gonna go on to a bit of a new topic and a new game. It's not even a game, but more of a, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, I guess it's a big game, a guessing game, but tonight, 7 o'clock, behind the glass, myself, Earl Anthony. Not been in on anything that the Browns players have said.


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[Assistant] During today's open locker room, nothing seemed to jump off the page. We'll have a little more information on Dewan Jones, potentially moving over to left tackle. We're talking some Cavs, some behind the scenes stories, and much, much more.


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[Assistant] So make sure you guys tune in at 7 o'clock tonight for the next episode of Behind the Glass. And hit that like button, hit the subscribe button, do us a favor, it helps us out a lot. Way more than you could imagine on the backend of YouTube's algorithm. So help us out, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, tell your friends to do the same, and we appreciate you guys very, very much. Alright, so we're at the halfway point, essentially.


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[Assistant] Okay, let me go back a step. I hate the fact that there's 17 games.


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[Assistant] And then, and then we'll be back, and then I'll be happy again, you know, 18 is too many games, but whatever, 17 odd number, it annoys me that half the teams have already played nine games, half have played eight, it's not equal, whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, rant over. Here's what I did. I essentially looked at a bunch of browns, but you have 13 of these, six on offense, seven on defense. I picked a couple of stats and tried to project.


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[Assistant] Where I think this player will end the season at in either a stat or a couple of stats. So you guys have your faces in front of you. If you think the player that I named will finish with stats better than the ones you're about to see on the screen, give me a happy face. If you think it's worse,


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[Assistant] Give me the sad face. And for a couple of these, there's two or three stats on there. So give me a general. Give me an overall. Most of the offensive.


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[Assistant] So let's start with Deshaun Watson. I think by the end of 2023.


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[Assistant] About 2850 passing yards, 18 touchdowns, and 7 intercepts.


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[Assistant] He has 900 passing yards, 6 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions.


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[Assistant] Give the positive face. I'm good with that. I tried to make these as reasonable as I could. Right.


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[Assistant] I wanted to give people a legitimate expectation that's not too far out.


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[Assistant] If he's healthy, if he's second half of Arizona, and then a little better, if at minimum a little better throughout, he should eclipse those easily.


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[Assistant] And I will tell you this, I did consider injury factor a little more with Deshaun because I don't think the shoulder will ever be 100% the rest of the season. Right. Than I did with the other guys. Okay. So, next up, Jerome Ford. He currently has 425 rushing yards and two touchdowns on the season.


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[Assistant] I put this low because I think he's going to lose some carries. I kind of allude to Pierre Strong and Kareem Hunt having more so 800 yards and 5 touchdowns. That's essentially double his production from right now to the end of the season. No it's not. How many yards does he have?


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[Assistant] He averages 4 yards per carry on the season. If you take those 2 carries out, which are both 69 yard rushes, He has 105 carries this season for 287 years.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up is Kareem Hunt, who currently has 196 yards and 5 touchdowns. He ended the season with 475 and 10.


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[Assistant] Alright, what's next, Mike? Next up is Amari Cooper, who spoke about a little earlier this show. 1300 yards and 7 touchdowns. Attainable, out of the question. Should he, should he not? He's never had one.


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[Assistant] 18. So that's, uh, 12 more than he has already.


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[Assistant] I think that one is, uh, is definitely doable. I wanted to go higher, but then I thought it would've been too crazy. So no, you were right. That was the right range. Yep. All right. Next up, Elijah Moore, about 600 yards and two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] 750 and 5. Is that doable for Chief? Absolutely. Where is he right now? He's at 319 and 2 right now.


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[Assistant] For David Adjoku's career, the most yards he has had is, uh, his second year, 639. Oh jeez, that's it?


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[Assistant] All jokes aside, since the crazy burn accident, he's played the best football in his career.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's move to the defensive side of the ball, guys. This is just one stat per player here. Let's start with Myles Garrett. He's at nine and a half sacks. Will he finish with nineteen and a half?


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[Assistant] Uh, Gino Stone of the Ravensons, 6 interceptions, he's on pace for 13. It's gonna be absurd, he's never gonna keep that pace up. Can't. 13 interceptions, like right now, 6 through 9 games is impressive, and Fred Warner.


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[Assistant] Also, Fred Warner's conversation. Let's go to the next defense line for the Browns. It's a Darius Smith who has sacked in two of his last three games. He has two on the season. We finished with four and a half more for six and a half this year.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up, also in your thing about like one game can change everything, Davin Tomlinson, his career high in sacks for a season was three and a half, he had three last week, so. I thought it was two and a half last week.


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[Assistant] He did twice, but three and a half sacks was his career. He had three last week, so. And Miles Garrett should technically be credited with two of those because he forced Clayton to an up in the pocket, right? Yeah, I know. See, sometimes that's...


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[Assistant] Yes. Alright, next up though, let's talk about our boy Ogbo. Also, six and a half sacks. Currently two and a half. Same pace as, he has two and a half. He has half more than Zidarius right now, so four more for him the rest of the season. You think our boy Ogbo will get to six and a half sacks.


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[Assistant] Zidarius has been a much more effective pass rusher than Agbo. Agbo technically has more sacks right now.


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[Assistant] I have a few numbers right here, Jason. In 2024, so next season, his cap hits $57 million. The following year it's $61 million and the year after that it's $63 million.


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[Assistant] Update real quick, Mary Kay just tweeted out the pre-practice injury report.


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[Assistant] Everyone else tweeted it. Like everyone tweeted the same thing. It doesn't make sense.


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[Assistant] What's the next one? We got two more here. We're going to skip one of these just because we got to get some super chats in here. But Denzel Ward has two picks on the season. We finished the year with five.