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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome to another edition, a New

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Speaker 1: Year's and the twenty twenty four edition of the Bark Tank,

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Speaker 1: presented by Sugardale. My name is ANDREWS. Siciliato. Back in

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Speaker 1: the whole office dried out after one of those days,

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Speaker 1: one of those nights really, because it was a four

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Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff at Huntington bank Field yesterday Brown's lose of

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins twenty to three. There were times where the

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Speaker 1: rain stayed away, times where it was raining sideways, like

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Speaker 1: like in sheets. Almost tip of the cap, Brown's cap over.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to pick it up, but tip of

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Speaker 1: the cap to every Browns fan or ban of the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins for that matter, any one of the building in

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Speaker 1: hunting And bank Field yesterday that braved the elements. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't that cold. I mean, I think I cracked before

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Speaker 1: the game. It felt like springtime in Miami, like mid

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Speaker 1: fifties in a rain, granted without the humidity. But you

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Speaker 1: get my point. It was not the weather we thought

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Speaker 1: it was going to be. When back this past may

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Speaker 1: you get this one and you're like Browns Dolphins primetime.

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Speaker 1: A couple of days after Christmas, a couple of days

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Speaker 1: before New Year's to a camp play in the snow.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be snowing, it's gonna be freezing, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a battle for AFC playoff positioning. And that

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Speaker 1: it turned out to be Tyler Huntley and dtr and

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Speaker 1: in essence, only one team, well not in essence, only

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Speaker 1: one team fighting for a playoff spot. There the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: are still very much alive. They need some help week eighteen,

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Speaker 1: but they are certainly in the AFC wild card conversation.

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Speaker 1: One team is going to get in one more team.

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Speaker 1: Three teams are still going Denver's in the first position,

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Speaker 1: than the Dolphins in the second position, than the Bengals

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Speaker 1: in the third position. But anyway, you get the Browns

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Speaker 1: third and fourth quarterbacks from training camp from the Greenbrier

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Speaker 1: battling it out week seventeen. No nobody saw that coming,

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Speaker 1: and nobody, I mean, let's be blunts. You can't really

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Speaker 1: sugarcoat this. Saw what the Browns had out there coming.

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Speaker 1: You didn't see a situation in which story and Thompson

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Speaker 1: Robinson is trying to audition for next year, in essence,

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Speaker 1: in which the Browns are already eliminated, in which j

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Speaker 1: Okay was not there, and Greg Newsom was not there,

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Speaker 1: and Nick Chubb was not there. David Nijoku was not there,

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Speaker 1: Dwan Jones or Jed Wills or so many key pieces.

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Speaker 1: Look at the injured reserve list. It seems at times

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Speaker 1: that all the pieces are in pieces. But that's what

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Speaker 1: the Browns had in front of him, and plenty of

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Speaker 1: guys deserve some commendation. They lose twenty to three. If

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Speaker 1: I hadn't said that already, Miles Garrett should have three sacks.

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Speaker 1: He got two. I don't get that they took one

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Speaker 1: away from him. So in the first half there was

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Speaker 1: a bad snap and Tyler Huntley fell on it and

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Speaker 1: Miles fell on Huntley, and instead they say in essence

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Speaker 1: it was a busted play or cancel play, whatever it

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Speaker 1: was they called it, they took away a sack, which

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Speaker 1: I think is garbage. But Miles still does get four sacks,

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Speaker 1: so he gets to fourteen for four consecutive seasons. He's

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Speaker 1: got twelve for five consecutive seasons. He leads the NFL

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Speaker 1: in pressure rate or pressures and pass rush win rate.

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Speaker 1: Say that five times fast. Honestly, I can't you know

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna have the conversation that Joe Burrow should

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Speaker 1: be the MVP even if the Bengals don't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: because he has willed a team to the cusp of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs where so many other things have gone poorly

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Speaker 1: around the quarterback. Then should we not have the conversation

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Speaker 1: And I know the Browns are three and thirteen and

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Speaker 1: they're in the conversation for the number one overall pick,

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Speaker 1: not a playoff spot, but shouldn't we have the conversation

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Speaker 1: that Miles Garrett still deserves curious consideration for Defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year. I think so. He's up the fourteen

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Speaker 1: sacks leading the league. As I said, the Leagan pressures

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Speaker 1: as well, Miles Garrett should still be part of that conversation.

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Speaker 1: There is no clear front runner for DPOY. Like the

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Speaker 1: MVP conversation Burrow or Lamar Jackson or Saquon Barkley or

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That is a robust conversation. There are a

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Speaker 1: lot of people on TV that make a lot of

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Speaker 1: money screaming and yell and try to convince you there's

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Speaker 1: only one right answer. There are four right answers. Any

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Speaker 1: of those guys I just listed, they all deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, sometimes you don't need to scream and yell.

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Speaker 1: They all deserve the award. This is just me talking.

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Speaker 1: But for DPO, why there's no obvious answer here, Drey Endrickson,

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, I mean, there's no obvious answer, So why

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Speaker 1: not Miles Garrett. Grant Delpit nine tackles, he got to

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Speaker 1: one hundred tackle season for Grant Delpit. Good for him.

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Speaker 1: Did it in twenty twenty two. A couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago as well. Isaiah McGuire mister livid to the backfield,

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Speaker 1: A couple of TFLs got a sack. Cam Thomas got

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Speaker 1: you knew immediately he made that tackle. He and Jordan

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Speaker 1: Hicks made a tackle right in front of the Browns

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Speaker 1: bench and as soon as denzelp hit the guy, he

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Speaker 1: immediately favored his shoulder and immediately because he was right

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Speaker 1: there by the bench, went to the sideline and that

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Speaker 1: was it for him. Those guys played well defensively, as

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Speaker 1: did MJ. Emerson. I think he had the pick that

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Speaker 1: they called back for DPI. Nathan did like the DPI

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Speaker 1: call at first when we saw the replay, though, so

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Speaker 1: if you noticed MJ had his arm around the neck

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Speaker 1: of the receiver, his left arm kind of wrapped around

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Speaker 1: his head and he used that as leverage to then

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Speaker 1: go over the other side the right shoulder and to

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Speaker 1: get that pick. Would have been his first pick though

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Speaker 1: it would have been nice now on the flip side

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Speaker 1: of that, I do think that Jalen Ramsey deserved a

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Speaker 1: flag for interfering on the fourth down with Jerry Judy

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Speaker 1: in the end zone and the Brons turned it over

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Speaker 1: on downs. They were down thirteen to three and they

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Speaker 1: chose to go for it rather than take the field

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Speaker 1: goal and to make it a one score game. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Ramsey made a great play over the top with his

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Speaker 1: right hand on a slant and he knocked the ball down.

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Speaker 1: But if you look, the rule is you can't turn

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver. I can have my hand on your

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Speaker 1: hip if I'm the dB, and I can even exert force,

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Speaker 1: that's okay, But if I turn you, In other words,

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Speaker 1: if I pull you away away from the ball and

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Speaker 1: with my outside hand or arm. That's DPI. Now it's

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Speaker 1: much different than what MJ did. MJ. It was very noticeable.

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Speaker 1: I had the arm up around the neck of the

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Speaker 1: receiver and that to go over. That's always going to

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Speaker 1: get called. Jalen Ramseys was far more subtle and it

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Speaker 1: was good coverage. But I did think he turned him.

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Speaker 1: And once you see the receiver turned, it was close.

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Speaker 1: I think you're supposed to call it. That's just me.

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Speaker 1: Jerome Ford had to leave with an ankle. It came back,

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Speaker 1: played one snap and then exited. Don't know what his

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Speaker 1: status is. Pierre Strong also had to leave the game

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Speaker 1: check for a head injuries to the rounds Wick be

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Speaker 1: very thinner running back in Baltimore, Deontay Foreman was the

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Speaker 1: last man standing. Jerry Judy, Yeah, he had a couple

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Speaker 1: of drops here. He had three drops by my count,

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Speaker 1: which tied a career high from a game Denver. But

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Speaker 1: he also had twelve receptions, which is a career high.

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Speaker 1: Remember he had eleven two weeks ago. Now he gets twelve.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Judy has established himself as a legit number one

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Speaker 1: and as the Brows looked towards twenty twenty five, as

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Speaker 1: Kevin said after the game, he's our best offensive weapon.

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Speaker 1: Now that's taking into consideration that David Njoku didn't play,

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb didn't play. All things considered, Jerry Judy is

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Speaker 1: your best offensive weapon there. And if you look at

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Speaker 1: compensation only a five at a six to Denver for

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Speaker 1: a guy that's done this this year. It's a great

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Speaker 1: deal on a number of levels. So we have one

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Speaker 1: more game left. We all thought it was going to

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Speaker 1: be Week eighteen in Baltimore at four pm Eastern type.

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Speaker 1: Now that wasn't locked in. But as you may or

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Speaker 1: and the league on Sunday Night of seventeen, as they

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Speaker 1: that game. They set the schedule. Now very often they

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Speaker 1: set it at halftime of the Week seventeen Sunday night game.

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Speaker 1: Last night, they waited until after the game because they

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Speaker 1: common sense and around the league as well, that the

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Speaker 1: That certainly does for travel. Browns have to fly out

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Speaker 1: but a chance the entire week. Instead of Stefanski speaking

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Speaker 1: on Monday, players back on Tuesday, coach talks Tuesday. It's

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Speaker 1: a different schedule week because it's now a short week.

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Speaker 1: AFC North and the Steelers can no longer win the division.

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Speaker 1: Later in the afternoon when they face the Bengals, however,

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Speaker 1: they would go the Steelers would go to Houston. Ravens win, Thus,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers can't win the North and the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: and as the sixth seed, they have to go to Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: So the game does matter for the Steelers, and it

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Speaker 1: certainly matters for the Bengals because Cincinnati needs to win

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Speaker 1: this thing. Regardless, the Bengals can get in as the

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Speaker 1: and who knows who's playing quarterback might not even be

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz might be their three. And the Dolphins play

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Speaker 1: the Jets, And as of Monday, Aaron Rodgers is still

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. He is still owing to play. So that's

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Speaker 1: why it does make sense now once you look at

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Speaker 1: it that way. These games are going to be on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Browns Saturday, everybody on the Cleveland Browns on the University

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Speaker 1: Hospitals Cleveland Browns Radio Network. Nathan Grodd and you were

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Speaker 1: truly the final game of the year in Baltimore. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the number one pick thing and where

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Speaker 1: the Brown's gonna draft. So this is not a secret.

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Speaker 1: You look at the Giants yesterday, right, the Giants held

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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick going into the game yesterday

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