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[Assistant] But at the same time, like, Henry Ruggs was doing 150 miles an hour, was intoxicated, and his blood levels were double, and that was two hours after because he refused a sobriety test, so they were higher at the time of the accident, and the lady literally burned alive with her dog.


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[Assistant] So like, I understand, like, forgiveness and I understand that, but at the same time, like,


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[Assistant] His really, and I mean really stupid selfish decision killed somebody and I think it's just the unnecessary


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[Assistant] I think it was so ridiculously unnecessary because the Raiders offer black car service. I think Ubers are for free for NFL players because of trying to prevent crap like this. And it's just, it's just so heartbreaking.


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[Assistant] I think it starts with like the family members and friends of that poor woman who lost her life. Uhm, I think again, I applaud Derek Carr for his approach to it. I think he's a good person. He's reflected this on a number of times. I think with Grootin, he said like, uh, love the man, hate the sin. Like when all the stuff with like the Grooting stuff came out.


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[Assistant] But you know, Henry Ruggs is going to be held accountable and you know, there, there will be hopefully some justice in terms of that. Uhm, but either way it's, it's not going to bring this person back. And I think it's just like, it's a tragedy in every sense of the word.


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[Assistant] Like, he could come back. Like, cause it's like eight weeks, they said. So like, theoretically, he could, they could make it back from the playoffs. Like, he could come back. So, that's what I'm saying. Like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think the titans will win their division because they already have a pretty good grasp. They already swept the cults, like it's already done. And as tree said, like the other two teams are god awful. Uhm, so I think they'll have no problem winning the division unless they totally blow it. It's just a matter of like,


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[Assistant] It's gonna be, I know they got AP, they got Adrian Peterson, but it's gonna be a matter of like, the focus is gonna be on Ryan Tannehill, and while he is a very underrated QB, if that's the main focus, I think that that's had mixed results in the past, so I don't know how far they actually-


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[Assistant] He's using limewire, but the bigger thing, uhm, is, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't see that. Harrison Smith, Harrison Smith literally like had him in a choke hold like while he was on the ground and like wouldn't let him go and I was like, what's happening?


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[Assistant] Like, dude, he, like, his quote, what was that this morning that he added that quote? He said, like, he went to bed, like, went to sleep, like, what was their record? Like, four and four and woke up seven and one. I like that pretty great.


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[Assistant] He made a really nice throw too. That one touchdown throw he made was incredible.


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[Assistant] I think their D line is good and if they stop Jonathan Taylor, they do have a shot to win.


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[Assistant] I just want to say, uhm, by the way, this is, this is a little important. Uh, it's Jordan Love's first NFL start, uh, this Sunday. And if the Green Bay Packers are able to go on the road and win with Jordan Love in that amount of prep, uh, Matt LaFleur should just be gifted the coach of the year award immediately after that game.


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[Assistant] Because they literally had to adjust the playbook because they had to like slim it down significantly for Jordan Love. Like...


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[Assistant] No one? I don't think I am because it's going to be garbage. Okay, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Uh, I put out literally five videos yesterday. Uh, the one, yeah, cause we did GPS, the Aaron Rodgers, uh, four, the Aaron Rodgers vaccine predictions. I recorded the interview that came out today with the juice fan and then I did my QB audition. So yeah, check it out. Any of that stuff. Go ahead, go find it.


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[Assistant] Oh, the Cowboys got the curse this week on the spin wheel. Yeah, and guess who was number one in Perna's, uh, power rankings, and which holds the traditional curse, who released it on Wednesday. The Packers. Guess what happens as soon as he releases it, not even an hour later. Aaron Rodgers. I gave Aaron Rodgers COVID. Yep, you did.


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[Assistant] If someone sprayed an ankle, knee or elbow, you can use a bandage to support the limb.


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[Assistant] To make sure you give the right kind of support, bend the joint slightly and apply an ice pack and padding, and then a bandage to help cool and support the injury.


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[Assistant] You need to wrap it either side of the injury too, to give enough support for the whole area. We're going to demonstrate this technique on an ankle, but you could use it for an elbow or a knee.


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[Assistant] To bandage an ankle, use a roller bandage. Make sure you have the ankle raised and supported to start with. And then apply an ice pack and some padding.


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[Assistant] Using the roller bandage, start with the tail and put it to the inside of the foot and then wrap it around one and a half times just to make sure that it doesn't come off. Just gonna lift up your leg a little bit.


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[Assistant] It's important to bandage from the toes to the knee because you need to make sure that you cover from the joint before to the joint after the injury site and then just keep on going around and around.


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[Assistant] And then if you can, wrap the bandage around twice when you get to the knee, and then just pin it in place.


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[Assistant] To check circulation, squeeze the toenail for five seconds.


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[Assistant] When you let go, the colour should return within two seconds. If it doesn't, it means the bandage is too tight and you need to loosen it off and reapply it. Keep checking the circulation every ten minutes because the ankle may still swell.


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[Assistant] So remember, when you're bandaging a sprain, apply an ice pack and then cover the injury with padding.


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[Assistant] Apply a roller bandage to hold the ice pack and padding in place and to help support the injury.


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[Assistant] Check circulation every 10 minutes and keep the injury elevated. And that's how we bandage a sprain.


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[Assistant] It will usually go away after a few days, so it doesn't normally need medical attention. There are four signs of heat rash to look for. Itching.


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[Assistant] You should explain that a rash is not serious, but give them tips on how to soothe the itching and avoid getting the heat rash in the future. You can suggest they take a cold bath or shower to cool their skin and help prevent further sweating. They can also buy Calamine lotion or Hydrocortisone cream.


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[Assistant] Which will help to soothe the itching. Recommend that they wear loose clothing made of cotton as cotton doesn't trap heat as much as synthetic fibres like nylon and polyester. Tell them to drink plenty of water to stop them getting dehydrated.


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[Assistant] So remember, when treating heat rash, suggest a cold bath or shower,


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[Assistant] Use Calamine Lotion, suggest loose clothing, and drink plenty of water. And that's how you treat Heat Rush.


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[Assistant] If after performing a primary survey, you find a child who is unresponsive and not breathing normally, call for help.


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[Assistant] And do not have a speakerphone, start CPR with 5 initial rescue breaths, then 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths for 1 minute before calling for help.


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[Assistant] To give rescue breaths, open the airway by tilting the head back with one hand on the forehead and two fingers under the chin.


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[Assistant] Pickle any obstructions from their mouth to clear the airway, only if you can clearly see something. Keeping their head in this position, pinch the soft part of their nose and allow their mouth to fall open.


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[Assistant] Take a deep breath and seal your mouth around theirs. Blow steadily into their mouth, giving a rescue breath in about one second. The chest should rise.


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[Assistant] Remove your mouth from theirs and watch your chest fold.


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[Assistant] Give them 5 initial rescue breaths at about 1 breath per second, like this.


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[Assistant] To do chest compressions, kneel on the child beside their chest. Place only one hand on the center of the chest.


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[Assistant] Lean over the child with your arms straight and press down vertically one third of its depth. Release the pressure. Allow the chest to come back up without removing your hand from the chest.


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[Assistant] Repeat this to give 30 chest compressions at a rate of 100 to 120 beats per minute.


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[Assistant] This is quite fast, and to help you, you can sing Nelly the Elephant, which can help you to keep up with the pace.


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[Assistant] After 30 chest compressions, open the airway and gear them up further to rescue breaths.


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[Assistant] Continue to alternate between 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths until help arrives.


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[Assistant] If you're on your own and don't have a speakerphone, stop after 1 minute and call 999 or 112 for emergency help.


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[Assistant] If a mobile phone is not available and you have to move to get a telephone, take the child with you if you are able. Do not leave the child to look for an AED. The emergency services will bring one with them. If there is someone there who can help,


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[Assistant] If they have brought an AED, I'll simply turn it on and follow the instructions while you continue CPR. If they can help you perform CPR, you can swap over every 1-2 minutes with minimal interruptions to chest compressions.


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[Assistant] Continue CPR until emergency help arrives and takes over. The child starts to show signs of becoming responsive. They start breathing normally or opening their eyes, or you become too exhausted to continue.


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[Assistant] If they do start beating normally again, put them in the recovery position.


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[Assistant] If you come across a child that's unresponsive and not breathing normally, call for help.


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[Assistant] Tell a helper to call 999 or woman to straight away, and ask sent to bring an AED.


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[Assistant] Then 30 chest compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths. Continue giving 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths until hip arise or the child starts to breathe. And that's how we perform CPR on a child.


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[Assistant] And I'm Mikey McNuggets, there's a lot of pressure on the Browns to succeed in 2024, but which players are under the most pressure?


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[Assistant] In a crucial make or break season as we get ready to talk some football as well. But we're starting Guardians today, Jay.


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[Assistant] And then the calves, the calves, there's not a lot to talk about on the positive side with the calves right now, but Jason and myself are still doing it every week on Tuesdays. A new episode will be coming out this Tuesday. And if you like sports culture, you just saw Earl the pearl in the lefties video. He does the ultimate two one six show every Thursday. So make sure you guys tune in if you want specialized content outside.


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[Assistant] And on top of our two hour daily YouTube show for the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, McNuggets. That's two for South Carolina, one for Iowa. Will it be a 2-2 split? Uh, the GOAT will reign supreme.


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[Assistant] But I'm talking about the GOAT and Dawn Staley. Clark and Iowa get revenge on LSU, but South Carolina gets the last laugh. They beat, they lost to Iowa in the Final Four this year. I think USC gets their revenge this time around.


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[Assistant] Fans is telling him to... To bust your chops. Yeaah! What's going on with y'all? Steve needs to be...


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[Assistant] I think that this series against the Magic is exactly what the Cavs needed. Now we, we criticized a lot, well I didn't, a lot of people criticized them for


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[Assistant] Silly people. Cheat or fault losing the last game against Charlotte to get the magic. But this was the perfect opponent for them because it's a confidence booster. The one place that the Cavs haven't been successful has been in the playoffs. So you get a team that doesn't have that same playoff experience and you're able to take advantage of those things. I mean we've seen


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[Assistant] This man right here has been saying all year, when they get to the playoffs, they're gonna leave.


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[Assistant] Evan open for three, they're gonna leave Isaac and Cora open for three and they gotta make them. If they make them, it'll change the entire series.


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[Assistant] It's, they're getting things done in this series that they need to be successful moving forward. I'm not saying that next, next round, cause they're going to win this series. It's over.


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[Assistant] Next round and they're going to play extremely well, but I think they'll be much better and much more experienced and it's a confidence booster. So I like what I've been seeing offensively. No, it's not perfect at all. The magic look like.


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[Assistant] They're, they're finding out that it's a totally different game. And you know, the Cavs are doing such a great job of handling the first quarter and maybe the first half.


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[Assistant] Listen, Darius has, you know how on the space jail when the Bond stars stole their talent and he had to touch the ball at the, he's starting to touch the ball again to get his talent back. You think so? Yeah, I think so.


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[Assistant] I never said a sweep, I said 4-2. I said, I thought 6. Yeaah. I just feel like for the magic.


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[Assistant] They have to build some type of momentum. You gotta get some type of win and I think it does happen in Orlando. I don't know if it goes six, it might go five. I think at this point it might go five. But I was, one thing that I was thinking about as when we was doing it, I think the Cavs did this chess move of getting this match up.


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[Assistant] Because Jamal and JB are bestest of friends.


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[Assistant] Right now, Jamal looks just like how the Cavs did, like JB last year. Struggling with adjustments, doesn't have to shoot him, all the same things that JB faced. So, this, this series, to try to, I'm going beyond here, so y'all stay with me. Does this justify


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[Assistant] That JB has gotten better as a coach by being able to overcome the same things that he was struggling with last year.


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[Assistant] I agree with that, but I'm trying to think from a front office standpoint. They tried to set him up to succeed in the best way.


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[Assistant] You know a dude who I hated playing against back in the day when he played the cast? Who? Sean Livingston.


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[Assistant] He never missed a mid-range shot when he was going to start. Great dude. I mean, he hit, he hit the most pivotal shots and the moments that you needed him to miss the most, he just rise up, boom. How long was he here? He was here two years.


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[Assistant] Man, they had some, not even like, I mean, they was good NBA players against the Cavs, man, they was unbelievable. Was it Leonardo? Leandro. Leandro. Oh, excuse me, I thought it was, is this Leandro?


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[Assistant] Oh, I give Bull a four- Bull gets a four out of ten for his apology. Four out of ten.


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[Assistant] You gotta keep it about you. You should have said this apology was about you. It was about me. You brought everybody else to do it. So 4 out of 10. But I love when you was, when you spoke about the cast, I was right there with you. The ripping of the media. You should have did that some other day.


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[Assistant] For this question, are you today? Like as of to like, are we going out there today?


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[Assistant] But right now, I got a gut feeling that Jose is just gonna turn up at some point. Yea, I think he will.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you say you didn't and you lost him, who, what person is you replacing him with?


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[Assistant] Baseball is different though. You, it ain't like football. Football, you get literally one chance to hit the big character. I don't think that's the case with baseball. For him it's going to be. I guess for him. I guess for his situation. He's got one shot.


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[Assistant] It's not like they gonna pull it off. Well, if Kyle come up here and kills it. No, they won't pull it.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness, he got me fooled. I really thought he could just because I swear after a game, he had the translator stand in this. I'm just like.


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[Assistant] He said he asked that question. He was probably younger. I think he was joking. Yeah. I don't know. Be better. He's gonna be brilliant when he's done playing. He's funny, but that's, I don't know. It's gonna be crazy for you. Weird.


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[Assistant] I had a ticket, mine was, I only bet one thing, I bet that Ryan Garcia would win by KO or TKO. Which I wish I would have just took him on the money line, I would have won.


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[Assistant] No you're not. If you ever, cause when he fought Lomachenko, I said he shouldn't have won that fight. I know you have no idea what I'm saying. But listen, he shouldn't have won the fight. Lomachenko was tearing him up at the end of that fight.


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[Assistant] But, like I say, you can't say that he hasn't tried. He's taken three different receivers. But he's gotten it wrong every time. But they're not, at least they're different.


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[Assistant] I agree, wait a minute, wait, we can't, there's only one of them that we can definitively say is done. Schwartz is done. He's done. That's it.


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[Assistant] He needs to go, I think that, not just him, whoever's in that draft room.


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[Assistant] They have- That's it. They gotta figure it out. Because they keep missing. Yes.


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[Assistant] It's not y'all, we just, we blame AB, but there are also guys who sit, I know this for a fact, it's people whose job is to sit there and scout.


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[Assistant] So they print their reports, and they say, this guy is good at this, this, and this. This guy should be a sure thing. And AB looks at it, he go looks at the tape, he sees the same things that they see. And he goes, it should translate.


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[Assistant] For some odd reason when they get here, they're missing the big key thing and I don't know what that is.


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[Assistant] This is, this is what I will say. As an organization, we haven't gotten it right.


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[Assistant] Outside of Josh Gordon, that's the only one we ever got right. No, but you know what? In the end they got that wrong. They did. Stop it. Stop it.


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[Assistant] So that was, it was like what, three people in that draft? So they could, how could you mess that up anyways? But!


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[Assistant] Historically, we just haven't been good at getting wide receivers. So if he does ever get it right, like that puts him...


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[Assistant] Above a lot of people, and I think he got, if you're in the second round this year, and this such as a heavy wide receiver class, it should be hard to miss.


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[Assistant] Because all of these wide receivers, all of the way these draft experts say it's so many of them. They're loaded at the wide receiver position. So find the one that fits something that you don't have and that's a skill set that translates.


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[Assistant] Mike, you know, you've been a manager before. What was your biggest challenge in your first year? You know, taking over a new team, uh, being a manager. Cause obviously Steven Volk is going through that this year. So what was the, be the biggest challenges?


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[Assistant] Mike, I want to, now that we're talking about hitting, I want to ask you about the Guardians hitting. You know, over the past couple of years, they haven't been really that doing well hitting, but this season, they seem to have been really good at doing that. What do you think changed, went into this off season that's helped them become a better hitting team?


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[Assistant] They win the World Series this year if they do what?


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[Assistant] Chris, I want to talk about the Guardians a little bit more. We had a discussion earlier. Do you think that Josh Naylor is the best hitter on the team over Jose right now?


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[Assistant] Chris, give me your one prospect of this draft that you say is a for sure thing. This is a can't miss guy. Who's the one prospect that you like in this whole entire draft?


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[Assistant] No, he went to the T-loaf wharf. He's terrible.


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[Assistant] Yes. No, because he's been injured. But when he's healthy, he's supposed to be really good, but he's been hurt like two out of the, what, four years? So I can't really answer that. Right now I will go with Greg because I know Greg actually is going to play. So there you go. Hasn't he missed time too?


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[Assistant] Oh boy. I know what that is. I know what that North Olmston sport is.


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[Assistant] Well, if the Lakers hung a banner for an in-season tournament, can you hang a banner in the IAC Center for?


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[Assistant] Like this is not a coach's decision. This came from well above JB. However they were going to approach it. Whatever plan they had in place.


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[Assistant] The coach is the one that has to walk in the locker room and look these guys in the eyes. So he's not the one, he's the one that has to go out and answer all the questions in front of the media about it. So this is coming from above him.


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[Assistant] If they, like, there's so many layers to this. There's so much to this.


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[Assistant] They have been, they've had their eye on, they can say whatever they want.


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[Assistant] They've had their eye on Philadelphia since Embiid got hurt. We've talked about it on this show.


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[Assistant] That I had conversations with people over there, like it'd be just our luck that Philly would fall and we'd catch them in the first round. And then Joelle would be back.


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[Assistant] You can't ignore that. That's absolutely part of this. And another part of this is if they lose in the first round, regardless of the opponent, if they lose in the first round, there's a lot of people out of jobs. There's a lot of people getting cleaned out of there. You don't trade for Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you don't trade for Donovan Mitchell to lose in the first round two years in a row. So there's jobs at stake here. Like that's the bigger picture in all of this. And yeah, I don't think they want anything to do with fill your Miami. I think they wanted Orlando. And you know, of all their options, Orlando and Indiana probably were the best ones out there, the most enticing ones out there.


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[Assistant] And, and now we'll see. Like, you got what you wanted, now we'll see. But, the, the bigger picture of this is...


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[Assistant] They've never won a playoff series under Dan's ownership without Lebron.


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[Assistant] That matters to Dan Gilbert. They want to win a playoff series without LeBron. And they can say if they win, if they beat Orlando.


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[Assistant] They can say, lookit, we have made incremental progress every year. We were a play-in team, lost the play-in round, then we made the playoffs last year, lost to the Knicks, as a home advantage, lost to the Knicks in a terrible series,


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[Assistant] Now you come back this year, hey look, we won a playoff series. They can point and they can say we've made progress every single year. Now, the way that they got here feels a little


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[Assistant] Dirty? Yeah, it does. It feels a little messy and dirty.


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[Assistant] Well, you're gonna, so that's the other part of this. You're gonna play boss in one way or the other. Like, you're gonna have to get through boss.


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[Assistant] I mean, anyone would tell you winning a championship is a war of attrition. Because guys just get beat up, banged up, you lose guys, uh, the year the Cavs won the championship, the Warriors lost Bogut. You know, like that was a big loss for them when they lost them. So there's always that factor.


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[Assistant] I see both sides of it. I see, I know how important it is to this organization to win a playoff series. And I know what that, you're trying to sell Donovan Mitchell on the future.


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[Assistant] And losing in the first round is not setting on a future. I'm not sure winning a first round series and getting boat race in the second round, if that's how it goes. I'm not sure that sells them either, but I understand why they're doing this, but ultimately it feels gross. Like it's, it's.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't, I've never understood, I actually called someone yesterday, it was like, what is with this three quarters, or with another team? Like, what is the three quarters, then sitting for the fourth? Either play guys or sit...


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[Assistant] Right, so either, either you sit the guys or you play the guys. That's what I thought. This half in, half out, I've never understood that because, I mean, Mike can tell you, guys, they have to go through so much to like activate their bodies to get ready to play a game that either make them do it or don't.


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[Assistant] Indiana's in town, like, you need to, you need to play that game. You need to win that game. Thank you. You need to win that game.


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[Assistant] Well also, but no, you play Donovan against Indiana, win that game, and then you can sit him for the final game, and now you give him those extra, like he should have sat. Like that was the right call for him to sit yesterday. Get him off his knee. I talked to him. Mike, I assume we're going to talk about this on the podcast tomorrow a little bit.


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[Assistant] So I talked to, uh, Donovan after the Indiana game, and we went in depth a little bit more on his knee, because I've just been confused by the whole injury. Right. And he went through about when he heard it, how he heard it, and he said it's just tendonitis. So that needs rest. That needs rest.


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[Assistant] Yes, so win the Indiana game, get him off his feet, sit the finale, give him this full week off, and hopefully you'll see the best version of Donovan, uh, on Saturday.


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[Assistant] No, because I knew he was going to answer it anyway. Sure. So, uh, we talked about, we talked about the knee. We talked about, uh,


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[Assistant] And I just feel like, like, Max Drews to me looked pretty pissed off yesterday.


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[Assistant] One thing I'll push back on, if they, if the Cavs, cause you, at the time you had no way of knowing if you were going to be two or three. I know. So if they. So you play it like the Nets.


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[Assistant] So, let's say Cavs win, Knicks lose. And now you're the two. Yep. Had the Cavs lost in the first round to, doesn't matter, Philly, Miami, whatever.


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[Assistant] The vast majority, maybe not everybody, the vast majority of fans would be Iran. That they'll take a series win over Orlando. I get it, you take a series win.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't think it would happen in the regular season. No, but Jay, that was a dumpster fire. Oh, it was terrible. But it was the regular season and this is the playoffs and the playoffs is the only thing that matters. So I don't know necessarily what would happen in the regular season. We'll have an impact on that. But I mean, jobs are absolutely at stake in this, which goes back to... Does Kobe go too? He might.


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[Assistant] Depending on how this goes, yeaah, there's a chance that that happens for sure. Because again, if, if Donovan forces his way out, anything is possible this summer. Because that was a, that was all the chips in the center of the table trade.


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[Assistant] And if you make that trade and you have nothing to show for it, like again, the Donovan thing changes how we have this entire conversation. If Donovan's not here and this team is progressing this way, nobody's upset.


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[Assistant] Nobody's mad, but it's the Donovan piece. It's that you went out and you made this big move to bring this guy in. And by the way, I'm kind of going on two tangents here. So the Donovan piece is really what


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[Assistant] has really amped all of this up. But this is still, like Bull asked a question, he gave us on Mikey's special last week and said, what's more likely, the Cavs lose four games in the Celtics by 25 or more points, or the Cavs beat the Celtics?


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[Assistant] I took the Cavs to beat the Celtics. Oh, I would too. I don't think they're going to lose four games by 25 points. This is a really talented roster. It is. And they've done well against Boston. And if you give Donovan a week off to rest his knee, if he's back the way playing... Do you think that'll be enough?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if he's going to be 100%, but I think he was starting to turn the corner the other night and you give him a week off, I think he's going to feel pretty good by Saturday. And this is a really talented team and there's no reason that they can't get hot again. There's no reason.


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[Assistant] And the full, not to cut you off, the full schedule has been released yet, but in the first round you get multiple days off between games.


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[Assistant] The reason Kobe goes is the Donovan piece. If Donovan...


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[Assistant] If Donovan forces his way out, and I don't know if he will or not, I don't know. You have a gut, right now if you had to put chips in the table. He's out. He's gone. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But, but there is still time, I, like, again, I've said this before, I've been trying to write for a month, I'm just gonna write it. I've been trying to write.


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[Assistant] His best path forward is to sign the extension. Because it truly is. His best path forward is to sign the extension. You get the money. You get the money. I don't know why he wouldn't. If he's just done. So get the money anyway, because they're going to trade him. And when you trade him, your bird rights go with you. So he can sign the same deal elsewhere. Well, they don't have to trade him. They don't have to.


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[Assistant] They don't have to, but they have to. Because you can't let-


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[Assistant] Yeah. And now they can't. Well, yeah, but this is a little bit different because farm systems being what they are in baseball, basketball, all you have is the draft and they've traded five years of control of their draft in exchange for this guy. And they're going to, you don't have to trade them, but you have to trade them if he's not going to sign the extension.


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[Assistant] And, but his best path forward, I believe, is to sign the extension, kick the can down the road, give this one more year. If you sign an extension, you're not necessarily committing yourself to all those years in Cleveland, you're committing yourself to one more year.


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[Assistant] It's exactly what he did. This is what Kevin Durant did when he was in Brooklyn, and you signed the contract knowing you're probably not going to play out that contract in that city, but you get your money, the team gets another year with you, and then they recoup assets when they move you on. What risk does he run if the Cavs just say, we're not trading you?


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[Assistant] Well then, I mean, he'll say okay, and he'll play out his last season and he'll walk.


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[Assistant] They could try that, but it will not end well for the Cavs. It never has. Historically, the team... It will not end well.


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[Assistant] Why Leonard won a championship in Toronto and said, see ya.


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[Assistant] I believe Brian is going to be in the NBA next year. Oh, you do? Yes. Brian is going to be in the NBA.


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[Assistant] He can't even do it for an entire postseason anymore, really. But he can pick his spots.


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[Assistant] He can't, he can't do it for a seven game series, and then do it again in a seven game series, and then do it again, or even a whatever number. No, I know what you mean. Five, four, six.


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[Assistant] But one more point on that. Boston should roll. Boston should just roll.


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[Assistant] But it's fun. Better than Boardwalk and Park Place is all four railroads.


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[Assistant] Jay? It's gonna be a rock fight. Like this is, this is not gonna be pleasing to the eye.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is two teams both of the top 10 defensively. It's going to be a defensive series.


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[Assistant] Uh, Magic do have a form number on over, I'll pick, pretty good player. Paulo Bencaro. Yeah, Paulo Bencaro. And the Cavs don't do well against height, against size. We saw that.


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[Assistant] We saw that last year in the Knicks series. The Knicks pushed him around. We've seen that. I said the Bulls put Andre Drummond in the starting lineup because the, the scouting part against the Cavs is you can push these guys, they're big, but you can push them around.


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[Assistant] One thing about it, the Magic you're gonna hear all week, they wanted to play you guys, cause if I'm their coach, if I'm Jamal Mosley, who's a Cavs former assistant, who knows this franchise very well, uh, Jamal's a great guy. I'm very happy for his success. He was in the running here for the job a few years ago.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm sure he's going to be telling them all week, those guys are going to be telling them all week, they wanted you, they wanted you, so now what are you going to do?


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[Assistant] I would say the same thing. I didn't think the Cavs were going to beat the Knicks last year, but I do think that the Cavs beat, win this series. Uh, and that's a great point. We just crushed them for 35 minutes for setting this up and now we're all thinking.


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[Assistant] The objective, there's some self preservation going on. There's people trying to protect their jobs. And I hate that part of it. And number two, the bigger objective, get Donovan Mitchell signing an extension. That's the objective of this post. They're not going to win a championship this year. I got news for you. They're not winning a title.


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[Assistant] So the objective is, how do we get Donovan Mitchell to sign to stay here? Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's just nauseating. It happens everywhere. By the way, that home run, that judge hit. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] So I was in the press box and I didn't see where it landed. I thought it was like three quarters up the bleachers or higher.


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[Assistant] And my, my oldest and my father-in-law actually had tickets to the game. So they were sitting in the bleachers. So for the last couple of innings, I walked out there and I was sitting with them for the last couple of innings and I asked my son, I'm like, where did that land? He goes, dad, it hit the, it hit,


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[Assistant] And you sold your ticket. I'm so conflicted because I say all the time, I'm as pro-capitalist as they come. Make as much money as you can. I am too.


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[Assistant] A little bit more juice behind it. I think, to me at least. I left that out, you're right. Yeah, every time you meet the Yankees, there's a little bit more juice behind it, but it is, it's only April 14th, now the 15th. You only see these guys a couple years. There is so much baseball still to go. And the ultimate grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean anything. But in the moment, sure, yeah. You feel good about these guys and we'll get to it in a minute. The pitching, whew. I'm very concerned about the pitching. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I missed the first inning. I watched a lot of that game, but I didn't see the first inning.


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[Assistant] That's unfair. And by the way, their leadoff batter is hitting 350. 360. Setting the table for these guys.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's. It's that good. That might be the best. I mean, Stanton has to stay healthy. Yeaah. Which is always a big if. What does he play? Like 100 games a year?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess. I mean, I would take Soto and Judge over any two you give me. Any two. I would too.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's funny you say that because Zach Meisel and I talked to Tristan for about 20 minutes.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Zach and I talked to him for about 20 minutes, and we haven't, Zach actually wrote a story today, I think it's out today, on just pitching the pandemic of, of these arm injuries, and Tristan was sort of the anchor to that piece, and then he and I are coming back with a piece in a couple of days. Did he make a conclusion in his piece?


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[Assistant] Possibly the pitch clock, possibly the weighted balls, possibly the sweeper slider. You know, there's so many. And when you put them all together.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, not in that piece. I mean, obviously it's a big, it's a big focus and a big push on everything.


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[Assistant] Not to mention taking away the sticky stuff. That had a big, big impact on it. Puts more pressure on. It used to be...


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[Assistant] You would hold it like an egg and you would hold it real soft when you threw it. Now these guys grip it. Oh, they're death grip. Yeaah. You throw it as hard as you can and you grip it as hard as you can. Getting back to Matrista whether or not he regrets it. He didn't say,


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[Assistant] He didn't really say, he said like, I don't want to give away the whole piece because it hasn't run yet, but he said like,


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[Assistant] You just don't know. Like you take all the information and he did have, like he consulted with an outside doctor who said have the surgery. And...


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[Assistant] He talked to other doctors who said, who said you could pitch through it.


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[Assistant] Who are the other guys? Do we know? Our guys? He, I'm sure he talked to the team doctors, yea. And they said you can go through it? Well, he said the team doctors leave it up to you.


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[Assistant] Like the team leaves it up to the pitcher. It's the pitcher's call whether you're going to have the surgery or not. And that's fair. Ultimately, yeaah. It's how it should be. It should be. Ultimately it's your decision. You take in all the information and you do it what you want.


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[Assistant] The location of the tear has to do with whether or not you can pitch through it or not. The higher up it is, the better the odds you can pitch through it. The lower it is, you gotta have the surgery. So his is higher up toward the humeral head. I'm giving away a lot of the story here. I just said I wasn't going to.


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[Assistant] And ultimately, cause I told him, I was like, if I were you, and I don't have a long term contract, I would have the surgery. Get the money.


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[Assistant] So he's still in there. It's bottom of the fourth. I don't know how many pitches he threw in that start for, uh, Columbus in his last start, but, uh, so he's probably, I mean, he's not stretched out.


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[Assistant] They're all like, they're, they're rotation. They didn't spend any money. They took a lot of heat. Boston did. I know they did. Yeah. Trading Chris sale and not spending a lot of money, but they're investing in their young pitchers. And so far, I mean, it's early, but so far it's working. But the guardians, I think by B will be okay. We mentioned it. I mentioned the other day.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and I, I mean, I said earlier a couple, last week, a couple weeks ago, I thought Bybee was the ace of the staff, just because, I, I don't, I don't know, you can count on Tristan at the rate, I hope I'm wrong, like,


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[Assistant] There are guys that have pitched, and Tanaka is the most obvious example of Yankees who pitched with a torn ligament. Aaron Nola is another one in Philly who came back throwing harder.


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[Assistant] So, but the way, I mean this is off to a rough start obviously with Tristan. And by no means are they out of the woods because he's made it back to this point.


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[Assistant] No Bieber, no Tristan. They don't have the next wave coming of Young Arms. They got here last year. Yeaah. I mean, Zevion Curry is okay, but he's not in the class of Gavin Williams and Tanner Bybee and these guys. And I mean, they're already relying on


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[Assistant] Now he's, and he's gonna be in the rotation for a while. Like, he's not going anywhere. No one's coming. So... The cavalry's here. Yeah, so I'm, I am very concerned.


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[Assistant] Uh, if Gavin Williams comes back and settles this down a little bit, if Bybee gets back into rhythm, I'll feel a little bit better.


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[Assistant] What might happen? He said it's in the back of his head, but he said when I'm on the mound, I'm not worried about my arm. I'm trying to get guys out.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, if you look at the metrics on where Tristan's at, the fastball velocity is down. Way down. Significantly. You gotta go back two years, cause he was hurt all last year. Right. Shoulder, elbow. You gotta go back to two years ago. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh, his fastball was electric. And not only that.


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[Assistant] Guys aren't chasing, like his chase rate. Especially the Yankees. His chase rate is through the floor. Yep. He can't get guys to chase anymore and they are hammering his fastball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know that he would be, I think he'd be pretty far down the list in terms of a starting option.


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[Assistant] Well, they're, I mean, Zavion Curry's gonna get the first, he'll get the longest look. And they're still obviously building him up, they gotta stretch him out. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] I mean, Bybee, for now you gotta count Mackenzie. Mackenzie, Bybee, Williams, uh, Cookie, Allen, yeaah, and then Zevion Curry. Williams is in there. Yeaah, Williams is coming, Zevion Curry is on, on deck if somebody else goes down, but uhm,


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[Assistant] I think he's low on the list of guys. One guy who's impressed me is Hunter Gaddis. I never liked him as a starter.


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[Assistant] When he started both games of the double header, I told Zach, this feels to me like, get your licks in now because Manzardo's coming. I thought they were getting ready to move on from. I mean, I have no backing on that, no knowledge of that, but the guy didn't play and then all of a sudden he shows up in both games of the double header. I kind of felt like this was, and he's like taking advantage of it.


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[Assistant] When I was there, I felt like they really were pushing for him to win that starting job in center field. They wanted, they were hoping he could. And then Freeman sort of came out of nowhere. And Tyler's had some bad luck. Like his numbers don't look great, but he's really hitting the ball. He's hit the ball hard and made some loud outs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. Yeah, but I'm, I think it's been more bad luck than... He just struck out. Like Josh Naylor got off to a terrible start last year by the numbers. They all did.


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[Assistant] Josh was hitting it really well. He just had a lot of bad luck and then you saw that flip as we got a little bit more into the season.


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[Assistant] Hopefully it's the same way. I actually really like Tyler Freeman. I think he'd be a great two hole hitter if he gets going.


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[Assistant] He made some plays. I think he'd be just as good as Short. I do too. But he's in the Robbie Alomar at second base as far as I'm concerned. Robbie's the best defensive second baseman I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you were here the day when I came back from spring training. I think I mentioned this. He's a natural left-hander. He's a lefty who taught himself to throw right-handed.


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[Assistant] Because he wanted to catch. He loved catching.


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[Assistant] He was a kid, he loved being a catcher.


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[Assistant] He taught himself to throw right handed.


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[Assistant] If you watch him, if you're at, if you're ever at the game, watch him a lot of times when they're doing infield in between innings or whatever, he'll like soccer ball flip it and he does it all with his left foot because he's, he's a natural lefty. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Well, this didn't go the way I wanted it to when Mike first told me, because I really, I say all the time that like, I just think the Browns take receivers too late and they need to widen the target and take a receiver early. So I had intended to try and take the receiver in the second round, but when I did the simulation, Jonathan Brooks was there who might be the best running back in the entire draft. And so I had to jump on that.


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[Assistant] Because just the uncertainty with Nick Chubb and the uncertainty beyond this year.


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[Assistant] And I told Mike I took the running back from USC.


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[Assistant] And I just, he played in an RPO style system. I think he would fit well here and maybe could be a long-term replacement, uhm, depending on what happens with Chubb. And then, I mean, in the third round, Brendan Rice, that's royalty right there. That's Jerry Rice's kid. So here we go again with another third round receiver for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of making fun of myself, taking a receiver in the third round for the Browns, given their lack of success. But I mean, Jerry Rice, Jerry Rice's kid.


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[Assistant] There's some genes there, at least, and there's some talent and ability there, obviously. So, I mean, that seemed like an easy one. And now, after that,


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[Assistant] And plus also I kinda had the feeling of, you're trying to just, if this is all about Deshaun and giving Deshaun as many weapons as you can, wow, then you better load up with, uh, running back a receiver. I don't know how, we talked the other day, I don't know how many rookies they actually can carry on their 53. It's not that many.


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[Assistant] Three, maybe four? Yeaah. So I just went all special teams after the first two picks.


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[Assistant] Oh, for diverse guys that can give you that diversity. Guys that can help you on special teams. Uh, Maris Leofile from Notre Dame, uh, could be a J.O.K. replacement down the road possibly. Plays like his hair's on fire, um, you know, and then beyond that. Where the hell's J.O.K.?


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[Assistant] He's in last year of his contract. You think they're gonna... Yeaah. I don't know if they're gonna pay for a linebacker. Well, typically this franchise doesn't do that. So, I just, and I'm not saying that guys, you know, I don't know if they're drafted at his replacement now, but I'm just saying, if he's in last year of his deal, I don't know if they're bringing him back, I don't know if they're gonna value a linebacker or not. They don't. Yeaah, I don't know if they're gonna pay big money.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I have no idea right now what type of deal he could command. Like I have paid zero attention to.


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[Assistant] And then the linebackers. So it's, it's, it's not even just deep Hedesta. That was explained early on to me with Schwartz's system. It's very much defensive line wreaking havoc, causing chaos on that defensive line. Heavy rotation, keep on fresh. I get that. And then the secondary and then the linebacker.


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[Assistant] Offensive tackle, guard, I, I keep saying like, you can't keep paying these guards 17 million dollars. No. Until he was getting older and you're gonna have to make choices here.


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[Assistant] So, like, my intention was a receiver in the second round, take guards, maybe tackle, because I agree, like, I don't know what's going on with Judd Wills on the fifth year option, what happens after that. DeWine, you're always going to be concerned about injuries with him because he's just so massive. So you're always going to be worried about knees, ankles, that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Yes. And like the family backgrounds on all of these guys. The detail that he goes into.


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[Assistant] And the most effective of the two. It depends on the team. It depends. If you have a, I mean, obviously if you need a quarterback, how many teams have we seen miss on first round quarterbacks because they were so desperate. It's the hardest position to forecast. Yeah. So, I mean, sometimes your need is so glaring.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it. That's how they did it. And it was unbelievable the machine that they would just crank through there because they just took the best guy. The better teams that don't have the glaring holes, and I would put the Browns in this category, can afford to draft


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[Assistant] Best available. Because you don't have that glaring need. The Browns aren't going to this draft going, oh my god, we gotta find a second receiver to pair with a Mari Cooper.


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[Assistant] And, and now you're, now you're really pigeonholing yourself into what you have to do. But there's other teams out there with holes all over the place. The Carolina Panthers, they're drafting on me. There's no question that they're looking at needs and they're drafting on needs. But the teams, it's almost like the teams at the bottom of the draft are the better teams.


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[Assistant] That are better positioned to just take the best talent that's in front of them. The Browns don't need a cornerback. Maybe they take a cornerback.


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[Assistant] Well, yes and no. I mean, if you, if you have holes at 3 or 4 different spots but you got a big time receiver, are you really going to take another big time player making receiver?


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[Assistant] And plus the NFL I think is a different beast than any other sport because there's so many more injuries.


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[Assistant] Just because, aside from quarterback, because if you have a franchise quarterback, you're not probably taking another quarterback in the first round. But aside from quarterback, unless you're the Packers, there are so many injuries.


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[Assistant] Free agency, well I've said this before, free agency is really about fixing your draft mistakes.


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[Assistant] If you draft well, you don't need free agency. Right, exactly. Because as guys move on, you've got guys to plug and play. But if you miss on your draft picks...


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[Assistant] It's the Ravens, it's the Steelers, it's the Heat, it's the Spurs. These are the teams that the GM and the head coach have been married together for X number of years.


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[Assistant] They know what they want, they know, they've done it long enough that they've made the mistakes early on. How many times have I said, you have to give guys long enough to learn from their own mistakes. That never has happened with the Browns. You make a mistake, you're out. Next guy in. They make a mistake, they're out. Next guy in.


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[Assistant] You have to give them time to learn from their mistakes. And the Browns have made mistakes. Andrew Berry's made mistakes. Kevin Stefanski's made mistakes. But they've had the time to learn from them. And the longer you do it, the better you get at it. And the Heat have a certain way that they go about doing things and they know what they look for.


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[Assistant] And, and they identify those players and they win with them. Spurs the same way with Pop and RC Buford. They've been there forever.


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[Assistant] Miami, it's Spolstra and, uh, Pat Riley obviously. They've been there forever. Baltimore, it's John Harbaugh. Been there forever.


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[Assistant] Steelers, Mike Tomlin, they just had a change in GM for the first time in forever. Like it's always, so you know what you're getting, you know what you're looking for. The Browns have never had that opportunity because they just keep constantly, to your point,


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[Assistant] They're constantly changing the target of what they're shooting at because everybody who comes in has their new way of doing things as their own way of doing things. And it's just, you just get stuck in the mud. So I'm excited for it.


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[Assistant] Even, but LeBron was so good, he erased it all. Like that was the thing that always, when I used to talk to teams when I was covering the NBA, was you have to have stability.


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[Assistant] Like you've gotta have this culture of stability here or you're never gonna win. But Lebron was so good that he just wiped it all away.


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[Assistant] Well no, because coaching, coaching doesn't matter to LeBron. But doesn't great coaching, he's never, you know, what if he had a Phil Jackson? I think...


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[Assistant] I would argue that the Cavs actually had two phenomenal coaches and fired them both. Fired one guy twice. Mike Brown is a phenomenal coach. He's phenomenal.


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[Assistant] And you got a bad rap. Is Tai Lu the other one for you? I think Tai Lu is a great coach. They never.


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[Assistant] They made, and I really like JB. I really like JB personally. But it just feels to me like...


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[Assistant] They made so many mistakes at the end of the championship era trying to restart this thing. They made a ton of mistakes. And they've covered a lot of them. They've done a really nice job, again, learning from your mistakes.


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[Assistant] Kobe's had time to learn from him. They've done a really nice job of developing guys on the margins and that sort of thing. Making the big trade. They've hit on all their draft picks. All of them. Yeaah. They've hit on their picks.


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[Assistant] But the one piece that they never really recovered from, to me, was firing Tai Lu.


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[Assistant] And he is a postseason coach. He's a coach, he's a coach for a veteran team. And I know this was a young team for the last couple of years. He's a coach who's going to give you the rope.


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[Assistant] During the, like they stopped the season and went and got drunk in Napa for two days. Like in the middle of the season, they said, you know what, that's enough basketball. We're going to Napa and we're going to get drunk for two days on wine and then we'll come back later and we'll restart this thing later.


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[Assistant] And, but that's what, that's what he allowed them to do. But then in the playoffs, he pulled them in and he is one of the best postseason coaches in the NBA today. I would take Ty over almost anyone. The way that he draws up ATOs, the way that he, his mind works.


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[Assistant] That's critical. And that's why the one mistake to me that this organization made, and it was, like it was ugly between Ty and Kobe that first year post-LeBron, it was ugly.


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[Assistant] I've had people say he had to go, like Ty was basically begging to get fired.


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[Assistant] But had they, like Miami didn't fire Spolster when LeBron left, had they stayed the course with the coach, I think we'd be having different conversations.


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[Assistant] You had your chance there. And he was the hot up and coming coach at the time. They paid him a ton of money. And it's funny, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he ain't going anywhere. But it's funny because like, Dan wanted Blat.


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[Assistant] Or Beeline. Beeline. I told you last week. I got a call. Beeline was bad. I got a call two weeks into training camp. He's miserable. He's regretting his decision. I'm like, we're two weeks in!


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[Assistant] But this is where I'm going with it, is like, this is what's hysterical about, like, if you really watch their moves.


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[Assistant] Dan fell in love with Blatt and wanted Blatt and Griff was like, oh my god, okay, hey Ty, can you come here and clean up the pieces when this thing implodes? And that's exactly what he did. They fire Blatt and Ty's there.


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[Assistant] Same thing here. Dan gets enamored with Beeline. Like they're hiring all of these, or they're interviewing all of these young assistant coaches, Jamal Mosley.


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[Assistant] Uh, man, there was a whole list of guys on their list, and it was all young guys. And then they go and hire John Beeline, and Kobe's like, oh my god.


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[Assistant] In the past it was weird because they had this guy here but they never listened to him. They went and hired people that wanted nothing to do with him that threw his people out of meetings. Like it was just, the whole thing was weird. I agree with you now, like he's... He's it. Yeaah. But in the past he was here and they didn't ever listen to him. I don't know.


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[Assistant] They're number 5 in hits as a team too, by the way, with 60 hits already. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So Brony tweeted out an Ohio State uniform and a Duke uniform at the same time, so. Any super chats? Yea, I got two and before we get to that I want to remind everybody that Ultimate 216 is coming this week. Earl's either gonna do it tomorrow or Sunday and he's got


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[Assistant] Some stuff cookin' for you guys, so go check out Ultimate 216 with Earl every Thursday, sometimes on Sunday too.


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[Assistant] He turned $20 into $99.45 for the Orioles Moneyline, the Rays Moneyline, and the Braves Moneyline. The Royals Moneyline was voided.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll get into this real quick before we move on. Guys, I've been told I'm a competitive person, and after all my years of playing soccer, I think that's pretty true.


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[Assistant] My competitive side is a huge fan of Monopoly Go. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's been downloaded over 150 times. It's a great twist on Monopoly. We play not on one.


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[Assistant] But on hundreds of monopoly boards, in crazy locations, building up amazing cities that bring you big money. But Anthony, what's the best part?


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[Assistant] It's messing with your friends. You can charge them on all the iconic properties, just like Classic Monopoly.


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[Assistant] But now you can also rob their vaults and get all the riches for yourself.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, we've got the quote if you want to read it here, Mike, it says, He did also go on to say that if it does move, he's open to it moving, but he'd like it to stay down-down.


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[Assistant] Alright, ready to start off guys. Donovan Mitchell. How do you guys feel about him with his injuries? Happy face, sad face.


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[Assistant] Next up, we talked about picking him over shoes possibly, but Isaac Okoro. How do we feel about Okoro?


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[Assistant] Who's next? Up next, we have Evan Mobley. How you guys feeling about Evan?


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[Assistant] I'm going yes too. I don't know. Two out of three times.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one up, Jared Allen. Big yes.


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[Assistant] It's a no from Mike, it's a yes from Tyvis, and a no from Jason.


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[Assistant] Alright, real quick, Tristan Thompson, talked about him earlier.


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[Assistant] Alright, last one, we'll get more into him later, but Sam Merrill. Just give me a quick yes or no, and we'll get into him after.


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[Assistant] Yeah, before we get back to Sam Merrill, I just want to remind you guys, uhm, my competitive side is a huge fan of Monopoly Go.


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[Assistant] That was a weird transition, I'm so sorry. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's been downloaded over 150 times. It's a great twist of Monopoly where you play at not only one, but 100 of Monopoly boards in crazy locations, building up amazing cities that bring you big money. But the best part? Messing with your friends.


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[Assistant] I can charge them rent on my iconic properties just like Classic Monopoly.


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[Assistant] But now I can also rob their vaults for riches for myself.


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[Assistant] Yeah guys, before we get into Guardians, I wanna let everybody know that actually there's a time change to the Ultimate Guardians with Zach and Bull. It will be regularly at 10am on Mondays now for the entire summer.


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[Assistant] So look for that over, you can subscribe to the channel so anytime they go live.


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[Assistant] You know that they're going live, but 10am on Mondays is gonna be the new regular Ultimate Guardians time. Look forward to that coming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, first one here comes from our Mac dog. I don't trust Darius, Mowgli, or JB to make the right adjustments. Stay with the hot hands and attack their weaknesses. Cav should have hired Kevin Ali.


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[Assistant] I'm reading that verbatim. I'm not sure what they were trying to go for that.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking we're going to talk about how bad the off-miring has been in the inner obedience here. Perfect. See you in 20 seconds. Peace.


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[Assistant] Know what I told him? Chevy gang over everything. Them foreign cars man, the maintenance on them is real.


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[Assistant] Nice Wednesday. I love the whole overcast, misty rain when the weather is decent.


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[Assistant] So, I know he's trying to move on, but I just wanted to give you your roses for actually coming out, you know, taking accountability, manning up and coming on this platform and speaking truth to light about your comments, man. Me and you have had conversations, uhm, in the past about things said and unsaid.


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[Assistant] I've learned a lot from you since I've been in this game. We had the conversation earlier today. I think that, uh, just kudos to you on that. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I think they dope. I love the white face mask. I play a lot of Madden. You got the option to go where to be white face mask on Madden. Every uniform alternate that I put the brows in, I go with the white face mask. I think, uh, it's a nod to tradition. The brown face mask was cool for why they lasted, but they really didn't pop like that.


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[Assistant] But uhm, when you seen like, I think it was what, two seasons ago when we played the Baltimore Ravens, Deshaun Watson led us to victory and you seen him out there doing a bow and arrow with the orange pants, brown jersey, orange helmet with the white face mask, I thought that was fire. So, I like the browns uniform combinations, they finally got everything right, don't touch it no more.


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[Assistant] I do got a question for uh, for y'all both before I exit. Sure. What's your favorite bronze uniform combination?


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[Assistant] I love the orange pants. The orange pants is my favorite. I love the dark colored jerseys.


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[Assistant] No, no, like a couple years ago in Boilnotice, they had a season to where they wore the white pants, white jerseys, and this is when they had the gray face mask. Right. With the orange helmets and gray face masks. That would not look good. They wore that for 16 straight games. And that was absolutely horrible.


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[Assistant] No, they color wrestlers like the all brown without the stripes.


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[Assistant] I went 80s. I went with the brown, with the orange-brown script on the helmet, you know, kind of pay homage to the Sidenheimer day.


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[Assistant] I'ma take you behind the glass behind the glass episode coming next week, by the way, right? So we're sitting in the office and is doing this thing, putting the helmets together. He says, Mike, I got a hard time having the arms lift up your Polish boy on a helmet.


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[Assistant] Well, just like every good character arc story bowl, you have a chance of redemption today. That's right! The Browns also, as they did yesterday morning, made another giant announcement this morning that I'm going to ask you your opinion on first and a chance of redemption. You were not necessarily-


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[Assistant] It would be, it would be ironically funny, but the Browns are officially bringing back the white face masks. It is official.


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[Assistant] The logo hasn't changed. This is the debut video they tweeted out. Nick Chubb was the poster boy for the white.


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[Assistant] Thank you. What do you think of the white face mass, Earl?


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[Assistant] And especially in night games, under the bright lights, it stands out and looks phenomenal in ways that just...


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[Assistant] In ways a gray face mask or a dark face mask doesn't. It just pops. It's an aesthetic. Just like the white uniforms last year.


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[Assistant] I don't want to bring up the Steelers game, it wasn't a bad result, and obviously what happened in A-Trub was terrible, but...


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[Assistant] It looks like G Bush is here. It pops. It works. It accents the details of the rest of the uniform. And I always stand by this and G will tell you in a sec.


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[Assistant] No. I don't know what the effect in football that the white face mask will have versus a darker face mask, but it has to do something. But here's the reason Tyra Kill don't wear black shoes.


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[Assistant] The one they just showed Nick Chubb taking the handoff in a second ago. Orange pants, brown jersey, the traditional helmet with the white face mask.


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[Assistant] Yeah, have they? When's the last time they did that? Well, those were the co- NFL got into the color rush phase. Wasn't that their color rush?


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[Assistant] Now G didn't send in a helmet, so we just gave him yours, and he almost puked on air seeing it.


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[Assistant] Anthony went with Parma, White Helmet, Pink Flamingo. Mine was worse than that?


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[Assistant] Do you believe there's any credence to look good, play good though, and then we get G in here in one session? Yeah, sure. Come on, that's better than-


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[Assistant] But a traditional browns helmet with some matte coloring.


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[Assistant] You don't need the IFB today, we don't have no guests. What do you mean, oh, Zach's in the studio? Zach's coming in, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Before we get to quotes, can I just get- So I'm not a medical professional, none of us are obviously. Yes. And I listen to the-


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[Assistant] I didn't necessarily hear it that way, so, and I think that's a tweet we're going to refer to, so let me give you my thoughts first, then we'll get to the tweets and see if we come to the conclusion.


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[Assistant] There's no hinges in his release. His motion's exactly the same. He's throwing between 40 and 60 balls a day, whatever his doctor's prescribing. Right, that all sounded good. Velocity, someone asked, can you let it rip? He said, yeah, I feel good letting it rip. I heard that and I was like, that sounds like steady.


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[Assistant] Progress on a linear path towards Deshaun being ready for week one of the NFL season.


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[Assistant] Me too. So I had a very positive outcome when I listened to Deshaun.


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[Assistant] And I said, good, this is steady gradual progress towards being ready, whether it's OTA's training camp, he looks like he's on a linear progression up. And I felt very good about that.


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[Assistant] And then I saw a couple tweets, and the Tom Withers one I think is the one you're referring to. Right. Where he said he left more confused than ever. So I went back and I listened to it again. Yeah. To see if, okay, did I hear something wrong?


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[Assistant] And I'm choosing to believe that Sean on this because he's been consistent. And obviously he knows more than any of us could ever imagine in this circumstance.


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[Assistant] Nothing he said made me more confused other than when he got hurt in the first place. Whether it was Tennessee potentially-


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[Assistant] Well, he said he's on the prescribed schedule and everything on the schedule that his doctor, is it Alefante? Ella Trash, excuse me. Everything that he's asked, he's been hitting the check marks and progressing at the rate he's supposed to. So based on that,


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[Assistant] I listened twice, I didn't get the confusion other than when did the injury actually occur. So I think that's a major positive. It makes no difference, no.


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[Assistant] So I don't know if that's how you guys took it as well, but I took it as gradual steps in the right direction for Deshaun to be.


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[Assistant] August 3rd, I'm gonna be 100%, and if I'm not, it's a back- I didn't look too much into that.


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[Assistant] And he alluded to that in different parts of his press conference yesterday. He once again said there's no excuses. I fully expect to be back. And at 100% back to who I was prior to all the injuries off field stuff.


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[Assistant] Someone asked, you know, is there mental hurdles to get over? He said, no, I'm good. I mean, he's setting himself up.


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[Assistant] In the right way to have a very successful and fruitful 2024 season. He's saying all the right things. Which is...


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[Assistant] Not 100% translatable. You could say the right things and then not actually do them and not play up the standard, but you'd much rather hear him go into the season with the right mindset.


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[Assistant] He's feeling confident. He sounds confident. He knows.


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[Assistant] I do think to your point, he knows exactly what he needs to be for this team to reach their ultimate level and their ultimate destinations. There's no more question marks. It is Deshaun, if we're going to reach the Super Bowl, we're going to reach these heights that we believe this roster is capable of doing.


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[Assistant] You gotta be the guy that we thought you were. And he feels, to me at least, that he's embraced that and understands the role that he's stepping into in 2024 as a coach.


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[Assistant] I mean, you do touch a little bit of South America, but you are not.


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[Assistant] The new offensive coordinator, Tommy Reese is in there. You have a new running backs coach. The entire staff is almost flipped over, which I know we'll talk about in one session. That makes it even more pivotal for Deshaun to be in there. Cause these first two weeks, it's classroom meetings and workouts. It's lifting and meetings. Miles doesn't need that. Deshaun with the new system, it definitely is more beneficial.


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[Assistant] Now, if you take just the Dorsey playbook, the one thing I don't like from what Ken Dorsey has done in the past that I don't think is translatable, and I'll get to the things I do think are translatable in a sec, she likes to run your quarterback.


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[Assistant] And Josh Allen and Cam Newton are built differently than Deshaun Watson. You saw him up close and personal. Lefties, it is no disrespect to Deshaun, but those two, Josh Allen and Cam Newton, are freak of nature, 6'5", 250 pounds. I just feel like their bodies are more capable of taking hits, game in, game out than a guy like Deshaun, especially who's coming off.


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[Assistant] Season ending shoulder injury. So I'm not thrilled if they go in the route of running Deshaun as a legitimate weapon in the running game.


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[Assistant] More frequently than they have in the past. I don't know how you guys feel on that. I just, I just don't want, I think the risk is worth the reward on that.


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[Assistant] I agree. I don't want to take that out of his game by any means because he's an improviser and that's what he does best. The things that I do think are translatable from what Ken Dorsey did, from what Tommy Reese did at Notre Dame, from what they bring in with Deuce Staley in the running back position as the coach of that position group, into what happens next year.


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[Assistant] A vertical passing game. Like that has to be the first thing. And you go back to last season in Buffalo, or not 2023, but 2022, Josh Allen was letting the ball rip.


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[Assistant] And Cam Newton, his entire career was much better at throwing deep balls than he was the intermediate short routes. When Deshaun was healthy in Houston, his deep ball was as good as any quarterback in football. So I want to see that open up.


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[Assistant] Assuming that Sean's healthy for week one, and I don't know how you guys feel about Nick Chubb, I don't anticipate him being on the field for week one. What scares you more if you're a defense? Jerome Ford, Deontah Forman, and Naheem Hines?


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[Assistant] Or a Mark Cooper, Jerry, Judy, Elijah Moore, and David Njoku. It's not close, so I'm looking at an offense that I think is going to be...


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[Assistant] Okay, if this guy beats me at this angle against Alex Smith, it's a sack. Right. If this guy beats me at this angle with Patty back there...


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[Assistant] He's taking two steps up and that's going to open up so many holes to the right to escape from and no one's better in the league at doing that. So I do think there is credence to that too. But I also, can you practice that or is that natural game instincts you just develop through legitimate reps against opposing? I'm not sure if you could actually work that out. Especially with the new offensive line coach. Yea, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're fun as hell. And on top of some of the numbers Bull mentioned. So they're 12 and 5 in baseball.


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[Assistant] Won the World Series. There you go. Yes. So, all of it's coming together. Now granted, it's 17 games into the season, there's a lot of baseball to play.


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[Assistant] The sustainability of the offense, it may not be at the level they're at now, but I just think overall this lineup is way better than we gave it credit for beforehand. And a couple stats I found this morning to back that up. According to Fangrass Bowl, and I know you like your advanced baseball, they qualify hard hits as anything that leaves the bat with a 95 exit below or higher.


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[Assistant] Which is, you know, not always a hit. Doesn't guarantee you're on base, but... Right. Hard hit.


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[Assistant] They were second last and the biggest last year. They have eight players this season already with double digit.


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[Assistant] Hard hit, hard hits. So 8 different players with at least 10 times they put the bat on the ball with a 95 exit view.


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[Assistant] They're on pace to triple the number of hard hits they had last season. Triple. I mean, I'm talking triple, which means once again, these aren't guaranteed to be home runs. They're not doubles. No, just making solid contact. And a lot of times they are.


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[Assistant] I was going through and looking back and at the 9 and 2 road record.


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[Assistant] On the road, they've beaten Luis Castillo, George Kirby, Pablo Lopez, and Cutter Crawford and so forth. They're not just beating up. Bad pitching. Like they've beat some really good pitchers.


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[Assistant] And not just the traditional stats, the home runs, the hits, the advanced stats back up in this lineup.


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[Assistant] It's not the Dodgers, it's not the Yankees, it's not the Braves.


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[Assistant] But it's also not one of the two or three worst lineups in baseball. And the most impressive thing last night to me, Bull. Gee. Bottom nine, you're down one. You have eight, nine, one up.


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[Assistant] But the Quan, yeaah, he had a great, he had a, he also had the error which allowed Jimenez. Yeaah, that's true. Yeaah, he booted the ball. But overall, the fact that the bottom of the lineup against the closer, and Kenley Jansen's like 700 years old, he's not enough. Yeaah, he's not what he was, but still, he came through with big hits. 8-9-1 came through when it mattered most, and it's, it's been fun as hell to watch.


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[Assistant] And no one embodies that more than Stephen Kwan this season. And I don't know if you saw this stat and I'll let you roll with this.


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[Assistant] Cleveland stats at clea underscore stats tweeted this out this morning both in major league baseball since 1930.


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[Assistant] With 18 runs and 29 hits in the first 17 games of the season. Stephen Kwan and Hank Aaron.


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[Assistant] Contact either. He's still hitting damn near 390. He leaves Major League Baseball and hits. Yea, he was three for five, two runs and a walk.


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[Assistant] Well, Caglione has seven games. Nick Kurtz has eight home runs in his last six games. We should be happy. We should be pumping this. Also, their first round pick last year, this guy Ralphie Velasquez. He has four home runs and ten RBIs in ten games. Have you seen what he looks like? He's 18 or 19. He's a tank, yeaah.


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[Assistant] He's only 18 or 19, but they have some, what appears to be, and they'll add another one with this first pick in the draft, some legitimate power coming through the pipelines in ways that I'm not quite sure the Guardians slash Indians have had in a long, long time in this franchise.


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[Assistant] But you couldn't, you literally, you literally could not put people in the stands, G. I'm telling you. They would hit that with eggs.


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[Assistant] If they're not paying attention to you, uh, exit, John Carlos Stanton with a wood bat, hit 119 exit below home run last season. That's 150 miles off the bat. If that's at the right angle.


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[Assistant] I'm curious, you mentioned he only had one, Stephans, he only had one other interview. How did the Browns identify him as the guy who was the right person to kinda change the tune of this franchise?


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[Assistant] I took from that a guy who sounded confident taking the lateral and progressive steps towards getting back to being healthy, hopefully for week one.


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[Assistant] There was some discourse afterwards whether or not everyone interpreted his words in the same way. How did you take what Deshaun said, being there in person and being able to read his body language up close?


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[Assistant] We talked about it Monday, boy, you weren't here, but Jay asked what's the difference in how much the Browns are spending this year in cash versus the next. It's like 50 to 60, but I forget the exact number. It's like 55 ish million dollars more than the second team in the NFL. I want to ask about the stadium though, Zach, cause Jason, you obviously work with Jason on the show.


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[Assistant] And we've gone back and forth what he thinks is gonna happen versus what he thinks is the ideal scenario in your mind.


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[Assistant] If the Haslums can have it their way, what do they want? And then what do you think at the end of the day will end up happening?


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[Assistant] What's a more realistic outcome? The Steelers win the AFC North or the Ravens finish in last?


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[Assistant] So we had Hayden Groven last week, and when we bring guests in studio, sometimes we want to just do a traditional interview, which we just did with Zach for 15 minutes, but we're gonna be for half an hour, figure we have some fun and-


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[Assistant] We could call it a game. I just think it's more of an exercise. So what we're going to do is a little homage to something Bill Simmons did on his podcast a couple of weeks ago. And he made a pyramid of the best receivers in football to find out where Stefan Diggs ranked on his quote unquote pyramid to see if he was worth the value that the Texans gave up for him. So I said, okay, we're not going to rank the best receivers. We're going to project the best seasons that Browns will have in 2024, but put them in a period format.


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[Assistant] So we can tweet it out as a graphic later. That makes sense. So the pyramid is more for the graphic format afterwards.


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[Assistant] Two players, and then yes, so you can call it tiers, you can call it pyramid, pyramid just looks easier on a graphic. So what we're doing, this has nothing to do with past, we are projecting the best seasons for 2024.


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[Assistant] Yes, but I'm saying, just because you had a good season last year, we don't expect them to have the same. And we'll discuss, we'll come to a conclusion, and we'll move on. But there is one player in the top tier, two players in the second, three in the third, four in the fourth, and five in the fifth. Fifteen players total.


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[Assistant] Miles was my number one and I had him a tier above everyone else regardless.


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[Assistant] Now I had my two tier two guys, for almost the exact same reason Zach presented for Denzel, I had J.O.K. Now J.O.K. had a tremendous season last year, I think in another year under Jim Schwartz.


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[Assistant] I have no reason to believe he will regress back to the player we saw in the first two seasons of his career, and I think with Jordan Hicks next to him as well.


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[Assistant] Wyatt Teller, who I am penciling in my all-pro left guard next season.


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[Assistant] I'm two of the three guys. Err, I'm one of the guys, but you mentioned Deshaun. Three, four.


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[Assistant] I have him in tier 4, I can be talked into tier 3. I think it's real close, but the 3 guys I had listed on my tier 3 were Amari.


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[Assistant] Denzel, which have already gotten named. And then in Joku, who had a monster second half of the season. I think in this new offense, which we don't exactly know what it'll look like.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine you have Ken Dorsey, Tommy Reese, Deuce Daly, Kevin Stefanski, all these minds coming together, seeing what David Njoku did in the second half of last season, seeing how important he was, not only as a blocker but as a receiver, and not trying to make him some kind of focal point in this offense, especially with Nick Chubb on


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[Assistant] Injury watch until we know when he's actually coming back. Those are my three guys. I could be talked into Deshaun over at David and Joku if Zach wants to make the case for that.